Re: [Fsuk-manchester] Young people & free software

[Tim Dobson]

Simon Ward wrote:
> On Sat, May 24, 2008 at 10:18:32PM +0100, Tim Dobson wrote:
> > What do people think to the formation of a group and mailing list, to
>
> Does it actually need a separate mailing list? 

I think it does.

> (Yeah, I know I argued for separate -announce and -discuss already :) )

Heh. I'm starting to come round to the idea of a premoderated announce 
list and a discussion list after you showed me those stats about average 
mails/day.
Let's move to a different thread if you want to discuss that though. :-)

> The new group could benefit from the input of many on the list, and not
> all of the concerns that apply to young people for physical meetups
> apply on a mailig list.

Totally. I agree with you completely. This mailing list could also 
benefit from everything they/we have to say too however this mailing 
list contains a lot of stuff which is mostly irrelevant.
I am not suggesting that anyone be disallowed from being on any mailing 
list, rather than it be well known that the lists have different focuses 
which, in theory, should be adhered to.

> Conversely, awereness of young people in free software can be built up
> by maintaining a strong presence.

Indeed, but this isn't going to happen overnight.
I would suggest that we are at a ceiling at the moment and are gaining 
younger people at a relatively slow rate anyway which makes me think 
that things could be improved.

> Although I support groups in schools, youth centres, etc, I feel that
> branching of completely would just exacerbate ageism.

If we have a contact with a school or youth group, and they would like 
us to do something with them, we should take it seriously and see what 
we can do.

We should not go hunting for schools or youth groups, as at the 
momement, we are too few to cover the large amount of organisations in 
the GM area.

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