[Foundation-l] Wikimedia Youth Camp?

[Erik Moeller]

On 9/6/06, Rory Stolzenberg <rory096 at gmail.com> wrote:
> As a 15 year old myself (as of 22 minutes ago, EST)

Happy birthday! :-)

> I completely agree with
> geni.  The best thing about being a 14 year old on Wikipedia is that nobody
> treats you as inferior or different, you can just be a member of the
> community.  See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ageism.

As Andrew pointed out, a Youth Camp could be a good way for people of
the same age to hang out and have fun. That doesn't mean that they
aren't welcome at Wikimania, not at all. One other advantage of a YC
is that you can get sponsorships and help from existing Youth
Organizations all over the world.

I think we should ask the young members of the community if they are
interested in such an event. I want to wait for some further comments
in this discussion, but if there are none, I'll start a straw poll on
Meta to gauge general interest.
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Peace & Love,
Erik