Date: Wed, 19 Nov 2014 16:53:38 -0800 From: "Chris H" <bsd-lists@bsdforge.com> To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org, Dieter BSD <dieterbsd@gmail.com> Subject: Re: comments on code-in tasks for FreeBSD Message-ID: <c6295653114d2e47a8c46feab132d278@ultimatedns.net> In-Reply-To: <CAA3ZYrAjPb9BUJXoLArSNK4Gh0vSyxc=dJhA3_WiKfUY=eFR4Q@mail.gmail.com> References: <CAA3ZYrAjPb9BUJXoLArSNK4Gh0vSyxc=dJhA3_WiKfUY=eFR4Q@mail.gmail.com>
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On Wed, 19 Nov 2014 15:08:09 -0800 Dieter BSD <dieterbsd@gmail.com> wrote > > 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. +1 --Chris > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-hackers-unsubscribe@freebsd.org"
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