Free accounts for students?
avinashv: I say yes.  You could flag all accounts registered with a .edu email address and send out a confirmation email at the start of traditional semesters--i.e., September and January.  A graduate shouldn't have an email address by then.  Once it happens, drop them to the free account.  It would be really cool if you guys would just freeze the private repos and leave them there for a bit while the account exists so that people can get their data.$7/mo and $12/mo are $84/yr and $144/yr respectively.  That's money that I would rather put to rent/utilities/cable as a student.Of course, many universities allow students to keep their .edu for a fee after they graduate, but you have to imagine the number of people paying for a .edu to maintain a free GitHub account is going to be pretty small.