On 7 Dec 2005, at 11:09, Heather Nagey wrote:
Interesting info there. A couple of things are possibly skewing
perceptions of the average age of the community - youngsters likely
can't afford to go to conferences so you probably wouldn't see them
there, and I wonder how many of them have the dedication to wade
through and participate in this list?
I know for a fact we have some younger coders, one I know of is 15,
so that takes your crown Andre :)
This isn't to say we don't want more. We always want more, of any
age, we are not ageist or sexist. I was teaching my 9 year old
daughter to code in Rev on the train recently - she was intrigued
with the possibility of making the CEO into a flying pig that
circled the window (I was testing Arcade Engine at the time).
Yeah - Rev shines at doing this, and is a great platform for
educationalists.
However though there are always bright young exceptions, the danger
of the current strategy is that we do not attract and will tend to
loose the best of the 18-25 year olds. It is my experience that
despite the initial attraction, these young(ish) devlopers are
motivated (via various pressures) to move on to "more serious" (read
open source) coding platforms - this is where they gain there "geek
points".
Rev is great for learning and teaching, it is great for rapidly
deploying cross platform commercial solutions for small businesses.
But it also has a firm place in rapidly developing, testing and
deploying open source projects that are cool - largely because of the
ease of creating rich cross platform clients that can put AJAX style
interfaces to shame, also because of the rich media support. For that
we need to attract the best young designers and keep / rebuild the
bridge to those open source coders on Linux that are moving on to the
stage of trying to get their usability and design up to commercial
grade standards.
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