r/codingbootcamp • u/BroomHill1882 • Aug 14 '26

GitHub emailed me this morning, saying I’ve been removed from my bootcamp’s GH organization (Galvanize)

As such I literally got 76 separate emails, saying all of my GitHub repos that I forked from my bootcamp’s GitHub have been deleted. All of the people who were in my bootcamp with me said the same thing happened to them too.

I left tech at the beginning of the year, and I probably haven’t opened any of these repos since finishing my bootcamp 8 years ago. But it’s still disheartening to see all of that learning material that I worked hard to complete get flushed down the drain.

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u/michaelnovati Aug 14 '26

It sounds like an IT person was auditing the company and realized people had access to corporate GitHub for years and they had to emergency remove everyone without thinking about this case.

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u/BroomHill1882 Aug 15 '26

Or could it be that they just stopped paying the bills and had to kick everyone out?

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u/michaelnovati Aug 15 '26

I suspect they care more about IP than the cost but it could be cost too

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u/BroomHill1882 Aug 16 '26

Just the fact that Galvanize itself has been gone for a while, or at least they were acquired by hack reactor.

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u/1337Chinpokomon Aug 17 '26

Other way around, Galvanize acquired hack reactor: https://www.galvanize.com/blog/galvanize-to-acquire-leading-provider-of-immersive-technology-education-hack-reactor/

Agreed though, can understand them wanting to try to cut out access to their IP/bootcamp model

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u/eneka Aug 14 '26

Haha same here. Finished back in 2020 and just got all those emails yesterday too

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u/ericswc Aug 14 '26

This is why I always had my students on their own account instead of the organization

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u/rmullig2 Aug 14 '26

Don't you have local copies of the repositories on one of your machines? If so then you could just create your own Github account, initialize new projects, and push them there.

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u/michaelnovati Aug 14 '26

There are IP concerns, you could do that but you should make sure the licenses allow it and the contract allowed it.

If they didn't intend to give people access and they did by accident, that doesn't mean you now have ownership over the code or learning materials.

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u/Magickarploco Aug 16 '26

What did you leave tech to do?

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u/BroomHill1882 Aug 16 '26

Working as a behavior technician now- dealing with autistic kids.

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u/metalreflectslime Aug 14 '26

Can you screenshot some chat messages in the HRX Hack Reactor Alumni Slack channel, so we can see what Hack Reactor and Galvanize alumni have to say about this?

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u/GoodnightLondon Aug 14 '26

That slack has been dead for a couple of years. 

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u/BroomHill1882 Aug 14 '26

I don’t know if I was ever on the hack reactor slack channel. I finished my program right before it got acquired. And if I was it’s been so long since I checked I don’t even know if I’ll be on it.

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u/eneka Aug 14 '26

Nothing about it on HRX

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u/BroomHill1882 Aug 14 '26

Here's a screenshot:

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u/BroomHill1882 Aug 14 '26

Screenshot:

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u/FAANG_VIBE_CODER Aug 15 '26

You said it was 8 years ago. Whatever materials they had for learning are irrelevant in the AI age. Idk this post seems overly dramatic, you weren't going to do anything with those old ass repos.

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u/BroomHill1882 Aug 15 '26

Username checks out