Date: Wed, 19 Nov 2014 15:08:09 -0800 From: Dieter BSD <dieterbsd@gmail.com> To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: comments on code-in tasks for FreeBSD Message-ID: <CAA3ZYrAjPb9BUJXoLArSNK4Gh0vSyxc=dJhA3_WiKfUY=eFR4Q@mail.gmail.com>
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> I cannot even imagine a 13 year old knowing what FreeBSD is. Why not? They've probably heard of Apple and Linux. If we want to increase the number of people improving BSD we want to encourage, not discourage them. Teens may not have decades of experience and a PhD in CS, but they often have energy and interest. Let *them* decide what they want to tackle and what they don't. Remember the stories of some teacher putting an "impossible" problem on the board, and the next day some kid has solved it. There used to be a PR database with things that needed improving. But these problems were just minor little things like kernel panics, lost data, and other unimportant stuff that no one ever works on fixing. Certainly wouldn't want some kid finding a fix for a problem that wasn't shiny enough for the old folks to tackle.
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