From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Karl Fogel 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: Mon, 16 Mar 2015 14:34:57 -0500 Message-ID: <87d248lori.fsf@red-bean.com> References: <20150312111214.GA531@apertron.net> Reply-To: Karl Fogel NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1426534528 8037 80.91.229.3 (16 Mar 2015 19:35:28 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 16 Mar 2015 19:35:28 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Zack Piper Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Mar 16 20:35:15 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 1YXanB-0007fx-FC for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 16 Mar 2015 20:35:13 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:51346 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YXanA-0001OG-O4 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 16 Mar 2015 15:35:12 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:40558) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YXan3-0001KW-Ar for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 16 Mar 2015 15:35:09 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YXamy-0001oC-V1 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 16 Mar 2015 15:35:05 -0400 Original-Received: from mail-ie0-x230.google.com ([2607:f8b0:4001:c03::230]:35800) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YXamy-0001o0-Ql for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 16 Mar 2015 15:35:00 -0400 Original-Received: by ieclw3 with SMTP id lw3so180583200iec.2 for ; Mon, 16 Mar 2015 12:35:00 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=sender:from:to:cc:subject:references:reply-to:date:in-reply-to :message-id:user-agent:mime-version:content-type; bh=q2yEUWZfEDGi/9yAAWUOFyvwJD7em+Zm2e53XN7v4ww=; b=MUgkykD3G7xX5s9p0527AmxjI6Wvbwu2YbjxFm9V9xbZ/hSm3XbOyuoATcQK4bznh/ 2dRCQoI6OWsV3YiKZO/clHD//t0wfdcuQV9k5lOx2fy3KPHOAFkYpXUaZJ83WUM0IPbR 4l9xDmp1zHGIKArvm+ffhGi004nYM6PAfQ2q7poAWEYPtOX6Nckdo12rafLBVorlvFfZ fmivD9FtpU7SKMUo1hnnVfJEhzJqyCgmLjL8VpK+CLiXyAYVIpGa8zLyNo1qvq6uTipQ jRA4NZhT6TZUI/878ta5jzuNARGgx/RhrjAREBnYbhI8p/mnRm6VlLg3s8jRYKbX6VZB PJDw== X-Received: by 10.107.9.88 with SMTP id j85mr100320567ioi.60.1426534499934; Mon, 16 Mar 2015 12:34:59 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: from floss (24-148-35-36.c3-0.grn-ubr1.chi-grn.il.cable.rcn.com. [24.148.35.36]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPSA id l6sm7322291igv.8.2015.03.16.12.34.58 (version=TLSv1.2 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 bits=128/128); Mon, 16 Mar 2015 12:34:59 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <20150312111214.GA531@apertron.net> (Zack Piper's message of "Thu, 12 Mar 2015 11:12:14 +0000") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/25.0.50 (gnu/linux) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Error: Malformed IPv6 address (bad octet value). X-Received-From: 2607:f8b0:4001:c03::230 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:183923 Archived-At: Zack Piper writes: >I'm curious as to what GNU (and Emacs developers) feel about a 14 year >old (such as my self) being able to contribute to the Emacs project. Hi, Zack. Not only is it fine, it's not even the first time it's happend! :-) See the story at the beginning of this chapter: http://producingoss.com/en/communications.html#you-are-what-you-write Best, -Karl