Nathan Dyer3d ago

Aaron Swartz joined the RSS working group when he was 13. At 15 he became a foundational member of Creative Commons. He was working on precursors to markdown at 16.

We should not be locking young people out of our communities and keeping them away from digital tools that can open doors for them, expand their knowledge, sharpen their skills, and help them grow into well-rounded adults.

Show threadDerek Martin
@nathandyer What young people lack in experience, they more than make up for with passion and amount of free time available to pursue those passions
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Show threadRuud Steltenpool2d ago
@lo_fye @nathandyer That lacking experience is actually at least partly a good thing. Less expert-blindness, less copying other folks, less having slowly learned to accept unacceptable things, etc. can have advantages.