--000000000000f994d805825af115 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" I don't see what we gain by imposing this rule (16 or over) and we do stand to lose a lot (up and coming teen programmers whose skills could be honed and tempered, and whose contributions could make a substantial difference to KDE). On Wed, Feb 20, 2019 at 11:04 AM Boudewijn Rempt wrote: > There's the > https://kde.modular.im/_matrix/consent?h=6fc7fefb99181b28ffdf2be32225ead05a8cd6c148da23482edbcc4b08ce7ddd&u=boud > page you need to agree to before one can join. And it asks people to > confirm that they're older than 16. > > Why do we have this condition? There are plenty of reasons why we would > need people younger than 16 to be able to chat with people in the KDE > community. We've had contributors and even people giving presentations at > Akademy who were younger than 16. > > -- > https://www.krita.org --000000000000f994d805825af115 Content-Type: text/html; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable

I don't see what we gain by imposing this rule (16 or = over) and we do stand to lose a lot (up and coming teen programmers whose s= kills could be honed and tempered, and whose contributions could make a sub= stantial difference to KDE).

On Wed, Feb 20, 2019 at 11:04 AM Boudewijn Re= mpt <boud@valdyas.org> wrote:=

There's the= https://kde.modular.im/_matrix/consent?h=3D6fc7fefb991= 81b28ffdf2be32225ead05a8cd6c148da23482edbcc4b08ce7ddd&u=3Dboud page= you need to agree to before one can join. And it asks people to confirm th= at they're older than 16.

Why do we have this condition? There are plenty of reasons why we would nee= d people younger than 16 to be able to chat with people in the KDE communit= y. We've had contributors and even people giving presentations at Akade= my who were younger than 16.

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