[Board] Is there an age limit to join OSGeo?

[Jody Garnett]

I wonder if the google code in program has any guidance. OSGeo does have an
outreach mandate so it would be good to figure out how to work with all
ages.

I wonder if we could ask GeoForAll for assistance? Some of our partners in
this program may have valuable experience and be willing to meet with us?

OSGeo can hire legal advice of course, perhaps when we have sorted out
specific questions to ask.

On Tue, Nov 27, 2018 at 12:17 PM María Arias de Reyna <delawen at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Hi,
>
> Forwarding a question from Vicky. I'm not sure if we have faced this
> problem before.
>
> This is not a children focused community. It is not something children
> can't see, either. There is no explicit violence or sex they shouldn't see.
>
> But what about teenage vandalism? Should we be prepared? Should we
> accommodate our community? Maybe they can participate only through mentors?
> What if we discuss something not appropriate for children?
>
> And the most important thing : are we going to fall into some legal
> problem if we allow them to participate?
>
> I removed some examples Vicky, I hope that's fine. Don't want to link to
> personal pages of under aged members 😊
>
>
> ---------- Forwarded message ---------
> From: Vicky Vergara <vicky at georepublic.de>
> Date: mar., 27 nov. 2018 18:26
> Subject: Is there an age limit to join OSGeo?
> To: María Arias de Reyna <delawen at gmail.com>
>
>
> Hi María
>
> We are on the GCI program and there is a task (I did not design that task)
> that asks (under aged) students to register on the wiki.
>
> The student registration summary can be found here:
> https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Google_Code_In_2018_Foundation_Tasks
>
> I also wonder how much can you trust a 13 - 17 y.o person being able to
> edit the OSGeo wiki pages. Is there someone that monitors all the changes
> that happen on the wiki?, will they post in the future something
> inappropriate just because they can? I dont feel that we have the man power
> to monitor if they do travesuras on the wiki.
>
> So I m curios if that can get OSGeo into legal trouble because of their
> age.
>
> Regards
> Vicky
>
>
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