On 04/22/2013 07:14 AM, Kevin Krammer wrote:
On Monday, 2013-04-22, James Tyrer wrote:
On 04/20/2013 08:20 PM, Duncan wrote:
Well, a lot of freedomware is originally written by "kids" in college.
When they graduate and get a family and a job... often times they quit
contributing so much as they simply don't have the time any more, and the
next generation of college kids takes their place.
That is puzzling. If KDE is made up of college students. What would
they have against someone that had served their 4 years?
Well, I think the original assessment wasn't that accurate :)
Actually, like what I occasionally say, it was acerbic humor and irony.
While a lot of contributors are students due to their enormous availability of
time, most projects are lead, mentored or at least reviewed by more
experienced people.
This is basically one of the main incentives for people to contribute to FOSS
projects, the possibility to learn from people with way more experience in
some domain.
That can be the same domain, e.g. young software engineer learning from a
senior engineer, but also across domains, e.g. a software engineer (even a
senior one) learning from a localization expert or interaction designer.
Yet, I get the impression that most of the work is done by people that
are not professionally (college) trained as engineers.
--
James Tyrer
Linux (mostly) From Scratch
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