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This is the best summary I could come up with:
True, the Linux Foundation events all now come with child support for young parents, but my expert guestimate is the average age is still well into the 30s.
More specifically, the Cloud Native Computing Foundations (CNCF)'s KubeCons have many tracks for people who want to learn the ins and outs of Kubernetes and other cloud-native programs.
The OSPO for Good conference proposed solutions that have been suggested before, such as hackathons, to engage young developers in open source coding.
As David Nalley, president of the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) and director of open source strategy at Amazon Web Services (AWS), said at the conference: "Getting people to maintain old code isn't easy.
… I thought if I could hold on just a bit longer, I could help maintain the focus on long term development to improve the user experience.
She also runs the LFX Mentorship program, which seeks to sponsor and train the next generation of open source developers and leaders.
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