Allow `Student` affiliation similar to `Independent`

[dims]

Folks,

Looking at for example https://k8s.devstats.cncf.io/d/8/company-statistics-by-repository-group?orgId=1

there is a Independent catch all for folks who do not have or want to disclose their affiliation. Could we add a Student similarly?

• Do we want them to just say Student instead of their Company?
• Do we want to allow them to specify which educational institution they are part of?

[lukaszgryglicki]

I'm open to discussions, but some time ago (rather a long time ago) we decided that Students count as Independent and many University affiliations were assigned to Independent "account".

[dims]

thanks @lukaszgryglicki - hoping the k8s sig-contribex will follow up on this.

[lukaszgryglicki]

Sure, the problem will be to distinguish now which ones of those Independent are actually students.

[dims]

yep exactly @lukaszgryglicki

[caniszczyk]

Are you just trying to count the # of students in the CNCF ecosystem, Dims?

What's the end goal so we can figure out how to implement this.

I know via https://openprofile.dev/profile students can add an affiliation for being part of their university.

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yep exactly @lukaszgryglicki https://github.com/lukaszgryglicki

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[dims]

@caniszczyk this came out of this discussion thread - https://kubernetes.slack.com/archives/C1TU9EB9S/p1708364463655079

cc @nimbinatus