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Re: What I'd like to see in a project leader



On Mon, Dec 14, 1998 at 12:33:52PM -0500, Dale Scheetz wrote:
> On 14 Dec 1998, Rafael Laboissiere wrote:
> 
> > >>>>> "BR" == Branden Robinson <branden@ecn.purdue.edu> writes:
> > 
> >     BR> 6) Finally, though in some ways it pains me to say it, I envision
> >     BR> the project leader as being someone as old or older than myself
> >     BR> (24).
> > 
> > I would require the same thing, but that would make most of the Debian
> > developers not eligible because I am 36.  BTW, I would be very interested
> > in seeing a histogram of ages of the developers, just to see if I belong to
> > the tail of outliers or not.
> 
> Well, I suspect that I am more "in the tail" of the distribution (51 last
> June). I suspect the median age is around 24, which places you on the
> "high" side of the bell curve around that median, balancing out those
> under 20. (Just a guess, of course...with the exception of my age ;-)

And I'm almost certainly on the low end, being 17 (18 next month) :)

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