On 16/05/2019 18:32, Dominik George wrote: > Hi, > >> Further to the comments by nik on the Salsa vs Github thread. >> >> Am I right in thinking that you can be _any_ age to contribute to >> projects hosted on Salsa and contribute to the Debian project in >> general? > Yes. This results from the fact that in Debian, noone cares whether you are > old, young, male, female, trans,...,... No questions ask, as long as you > abide by the rules. > >> Granted there is probably a minimal age for practicality reasons. > As head of Teckids, the heade of the free software (and Debian centric) youth > organisation, I can say that we have seen and worked with contributors as > young as 10. > > Thank you for taking this topic serious :)! > > -nik
Great stuff, convincing local youth workers etc that anyone 10+ can just join regardless of age, could be a problem (here it is partly down to safeguarding ), I will stick to promotion via the South Devon Tech Jam (which I help run). This is open to any age, never a problem and in fact there is a lot of intergenerational contact too without a problem. While safeguarding is important (working with children in the UK it is something that is really pushed ) we can keep people safe through good education on how to conduct themselves and what to, and not to share online. Does Debian have any specific advice on this?, in relation to services such as salsa, irc and mailing lists, if so, it may be worth making access to this more prominent. I am probably over thinking stuff here. However if this comes up while talking to people who work with children and young people then It is handy to have answers. Nice thing about the free software community it is truly inclusive, something a lot of the offline world could learn from (and fail to grasp fully). But that is the 'hacker (original meaning , ESR' ) way of doing things. No problem about taking this seriously, I can now push the tools that help and not hinder this effort. Paul -- Paul Sutton http://www.zleap.net https://www.linkedin.com/in/zleap/ gnupg : 7D6D B682 F351 8D08 1893 1E16 F086 5537 D066 302D