Scott JensonThere is a huge untapped market of #retired technology folks. I'm curious if anyone knows of any groups the help match up tech talent with #opensource or #nonprofit organizations. Please boost for reach.
Shannon Clark@scottjenson a lot of people and orgs still assume that “older/retired” folks need help with technology vs can help others with tech. There are some mentoring groups (often broader than just tech) that might come close though not sure if any specifically have an opensource and/or nonprofit focus. I recall something close in the Chicagoland area but not sure it is still operating. And in the Bay Area (and elsewhere groups like TiE - “The Indus Entrepreneurs offer mentoring as well as investments
@scottjenson a few years ago (pre-pandemic) I worked with a colleague in the Midwest on a consulting firm that was in a similar space (our firm was named Beyond Age, my co-founder still focuses on consulting with companies selling into the older adult market. We were tracking a lot of different models of orgs and companies. But the assumption they older adults didn’t understand or use technology was still dominant.
@Rycaut Well, now that we have directors from Google in retirement, I hope that view softens a bit... ;-)
@scottjenson I’d hope so but it’s still all too common.
(My mom wrote software in the late 1960’s until largely retiring from actively writing code in the 1990’s and my grandfather first wrote code on early mainframes trying to model flight as a very early RAND Corp employee. So I never really got view that moms or grandparents couldn’t get technology but my experience was somewhat rare. But now far less so. )
Jan Schiefer@Rycaut @scottjenson These kids never stop to think who designed and built those playgrounds that they think they are the kings of. Oh well.