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Subject:    Re: kde.modular.im: "I am at least 16 years old. "
From:       Valorie Zimmerman <valorie.zimmerman () gmail ! com>
Date:       2019-02-20 23:36:54
Message-ID: CACpu025BAUhCwHuZEEMc+JZ5_o5Lv-aery224DMDzCqY2TqScQ () mail ! gmail ! com
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I have to agree. We want youngsters to be involved in all aspects of the
KDE community, not just GCi. Kids will still join and just lie about being
16, but why make them do that?

I don't think we gain anything and lose an aspect of friendliness and
openness that we've always had. Many of our best contributors began before
age 16. I want that to continue -- and younger people are more likely to
use Matrix than some of us who are set in our IRC habits.

Valorie

On Wed, Feb 20, 2019 at 2:33 PM Krešimir Čohar <kcohar@gmail.com> wrote:

> 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"><div>I have to agree. We want youngsters to be involved in all aspects \
of the KDE community, not just GCi. Kids will still join and just lie about being 16, \
but why make them do that?  </div><div><br></div><div>I don&#39;t think we gain \
anything and lose an aspect of friendliness and openness that we&#39;ve always had. \
Many of our best contributors began before age 16. I want that to continue -- and \
younger people are more likely to use Matrix than some of us who are set in our IRC \
habits.</div><div><br></div><div>Valorie</div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div \
dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Wed, Feb 20, 2019 at 2:33 PM Krešimir Čohar &lt;<a \
href="mailto:kcohar@gmail.com">kcohar@gmail.com</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"><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" target="_blank">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> </blockquote></div><br \
clear="all"><div><br></div>-- <br><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature"><a \
href="http://about.me/valoriez" \
target="_blank">http://about.me/valoriez</a><br><br><br></div></div>



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