Danielle ForéI started elementary (the open source project) as a high school student. When we were building the first versions of our desktop environment, one of our core developers was in high school and his parents accompanied him to the Ubuntu Developer Summit. How many things we have today wouldn’t exist if young people weren’t allowed to participate? The cost of not creating spaces that we can safely share with young people is too high
Paul@danirabbit I remember seeing young people at both MozFest and contributing to various parts of Firefox and Thunderbird.
They are valued for what they could do, the perspectives that they had (and led others to) and the continuity it offers a project.
What OpenSUSE is doing is really not smart on many levels. Lets hope it is not a precedent.