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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.