Date: Fri, 02 Apr 1999 00:49:27 -0800 From: David Greenman <dg@root.com> To: Nocturne <dpilgrim@uswest.net> Cc: freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Feeling old Message-ID: <199904020849.AAA01314@implode.root.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 01 Apr 1999 18:50:59 PST." <37043093.E1801A18@uswest.net>
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>For as long as I've been involved with computers, I've been told (in >essence) that only the young folks fresh out of college are capable of >writing great software. As if technological senility sets in by the >time you're 25. Then I see pictures of the core team and other well- >known members of the FreeBSD community and get confused. Then I see >all the young faces of the various groups in my area and begin to feel >old and even more confused. Does anyone really know the average age >of the core team and said peripheral contributors? I know the age >thing has been hashed endlessly, but each time the question has never >really been answered IMO. I'm 31. Jordan is a few years older. About 90% of the core team is in the 30-45 range. I think John Polstra is the oldest, but I don't know his exact age (somewhere in the mid 40s). I'd guess the average age of contributors is around 25-30 due to a large number of college aged people skewing the average downward a bit. I don't recall ever feeling technologically senile. :-) -DG David Greenman Co-founder/Principal Architect, The FreeBSD Project To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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