Why Linux isn't attracting young developers

[Robyn Bergeron]

Other than geographical locations - not really.

On Wed, Apr 21, 2010 at 9:46 AM, Leigh Cantrell Day <lday at redhat.com> wrote:
> Is there any demographic data available that accurately depicts the
> Fedora community, beyond the maintainer group?
>
> thx,
> leigh
>
>
> Jan Wildeboer wrote:
>> The *real* problem however is that young people hardly see any benefit in
>> becoming a develoiper. With universities that effectively are microsoft gold
>> resellers, with twitter, Facebook, Apple telling them that it still all is
>> AOL' 95, why should they care?
>>
>> ;-)
>>
>> Jan
>>
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: marketing-bounces at lists.fedoraproject.org
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>> To: For discussions about marketing and expanding the Fedora user base
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>> Sent: Wed Apr 21 12:07:17 2010
>> Subject: Why Linux isn't attracting young developers
>>
>>
>>  Though this seems to be a very specific article, it is still valid, and
>> the most interesting is actually the replies its having.
>>
>> http://linux.slashdot.org/story/10/04/18/1557220/Why-Linux-Is-Not-Attracting-Young-Developers
>>
>>  In case someone wants to check it out, I recommend it. And yes, this is
>> deeply related and a good source for Marketing people 8)
>>
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