From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Zack Piper Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Is it possible for a 14 year old in the UK to be able to contribute to Emacs? Date: Thu, 12 Mar 2015 21:14:04 +0000 Message-ID: <20150312211404.GA23795@apertron.net> References: <20150312111214.GA531@apertron.net> <20150312205000.GA19134@apertron.net> <94295291-4FE2-4ECE-A30B-72DC5577CC65@seanallred.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1426194889 23164 80.91.229.3 (12 Mar 2015 21:14:49 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 12 Mar 2015 21:14:49 +0000 (UTC) To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Mar 12 22:14:38 2015 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1YWARA-0004bL-JY for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 12 Mar 2015 22:14:36 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:34016 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YWAR9-000437-PU for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 12 Mar 2015 17:14:35 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:33736) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YWAQx-000432-QC for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 12 Mar 2015 17:14:24 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YWAQt-0008VL-O1 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 12 Mar 2015 17:14:23 -0400 Original-Received: from apertron.net ([94.23.236.101]:60262) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YWAQt-0008UO-I8 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 12 Mar 2015 17:14:19 -0400 Original-Received: from apertron.net (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by apertron.net (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 9E3265FD71 for ; Thu, 12 Mar 2015 21:14:10 +0000 (UTC) Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <94295291-4FE2-4ECE-A30B-72DC5577CC65@seanallred.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.23 (2014-03-12) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 94.23.236.101 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:183835 Archived-At: On Thu, Mar 12, 2015 at 03:56:51PM -0500, Sean Allred wrote: > On Mar 12, 2015, at 3:50 PM, Zack Piper wrote: > >> No, but I think we will need your parent's signature on the > >> copyright papers. > >=20 > > I see. I'll try and convince them. Thanks! >=20 > It=E2=80=99ll be important to your parents that they understand what=E2= =80=99s going on (and what isn=E2=80=99t going on) when you contribute co= de to FSF projects (e.g. Emacs). Try to anticipate the questions they=E2=80= =99ll ask: >=20 > - who owns your work, what obligations you have (or don=E2=80=99t have)= after contributing > - how you may (or may not) be held liable for what you write > - etc. >=20 > They=E2=80=99re important questions any concerned and attentive parent = would ask. >=20 > Best of luck, > -Sean I'll keep that in mind. In the meantime I will help out with other things (bugs, etc. As stated in other messages in this thread). Until I feel the "time is right" for when I want to submit the papers. --=20 Zack Piper http://apertron.net