Moray Allan <mo...@sermisy.org> writes: > There's been some discussion elsewhere about how young people's > experience of computers has changed over the years, and how this might > interact with our success in recruiting young people into Debian. I > would estimate that the conversation focused on 16-20 year-olds, as it > started after someone pointed to the graph of developers' claimed ages > at > http://people.debian.org/~spaillard/developers-age-histogramm/devs-age-histo.2013-01-01.png
I joined Debian when I was a teenager, half a lifetime ago for me. Then, it was easy: you generated a PGP key (gnupg did not yet exist) and emailed it to Bruce Perens, and he gave you an account. Now, it seems to be a long and comparatively difficult process that involves demonstrating a relatively high level of technical competence. I wonder whether young people find this intimidating. (I didn't see the other discussion, so I don't know whether this point has been raised before. Apologies if I'm rehashing a point.) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-project-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/87sj5ghaj9....@blp.benpfaff.org
