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List:       kde-community
Subject:    Re: kde.modular.im: "I am at least 16 years old. "
From:       Krešimir Čohar <kcohar () gmail ! com>
Date:       2019-02-20 22:33:12
Message-ID: CABnAy3f6AGT35FDGXwPvkPCbs45ZG9c_PNAx96XU_ZAYM_aP2w () mail ! gmail ! com
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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 <boud@valdyas.org> 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


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<div dir="ltr">I don&#39;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).</div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Wed, Feb \
20, 2019 at 11:04 AM Boudewijn Rempt &lt;<a \
href="mailto:boud@valdyas.org">boud@valdyas.org</a>&gt; wrote:<br></div><blockquote \
class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid \
rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">There&#39;s the <a \
href="https://kde.modular.im/_matrix/consent?h=6fc7fefb99181b28ffdf2be32225ead05a8cd6c148da23482edbcc4b08ce7ddd&amp;u=boud" \
rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://kde.modular.im/_matrix/consent?h=6fc7fefb99181b28ffdf2be32225ead05a8cd6c148da23482edbcc4b08ce7ddd&amp;u=boud</a> \
page you need to agree to before one can join. And it asks people to confirm that \
they&#39;re older than 16. <br> <br>
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&#39;ve had \
contributors and even people giving presentations at Akademy who were younger than \
16.<br> <br>
-- <br>
<a href="https://www.krita.org" rel="noreferrer" \
target="_blank">https://www.krita.org</a></blockquote></div>



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