On Tue, Mar 28, 2017 at 10:25 PM, René Dudfield <renesd@gmail.com> wrote:

Hello,

as part of the move of the pygame (pygame.org) project repository to github we received feedback that github doesn't allow children who have been given consent by their parents to participate.

This concerns Germany, and I guess Europe (but I don't know the details). Here is the report on our mailing list from someone involved in an educational organisation in Germany that teaches children python. Apparently they introduce kids to python, and even have some of them contributing to free and open source software projects they are interested in. http://archives.seul.org/pygame/users/Mar-2017/msg00164.html

Since I agree with the Python community Code of Conduct that people should not be excluded, this is an issue for us. I was wondering if anyone on the EDU-sig knows about this, or if anyone can give us guidance?

I searched for "github chldren policy": From https://help.github.com/articles/github-terms-of-service/#2-account-requirem... : You must be age 13 or older. While we are thrilled to see brilliant young

coders get excited by learning to program, we must comply with United States law. GitHub does not target our Service to children under 13, and we do not permit any Users under 13 on our Service. If we learn of any User under the age of 13, we will terminate that User’s account immediately. If you are a resident of a country outside the United States, your country’s minimum age may be older; in such a case, you are responsible for complying with your country’s laws.

You can/could somewhat sidestep the issue by locally hosting e.g. GitLab CE (and Mattermost) in Docker containers managed by Kubernetes as defined by a docker-compose.yml converted to Kubernetes resources; and tying in with an external auth provider. - https://docs.gitlab.com/ce/integration/omniauth.html#supported-providers - https://github.com/westurner/wiki/wiki/bricklayer#docker-composeyml

This is a delicate issue, and I don't think I have the ability to deal with this. Which is one of the reasons I'm asking for help.

https://github.com/contact/report-abuse https://help.github.com/articles/github-privacy-statement/ If you're a child under the age of 13, you may not have an account on

GitHub. GitHub does not knowingly collect information from or direct any of our content specifically to children under 13. If we learn or have reason to suspect that you are a user who is under the age of 13, we will unfortunately have to close your account. We don't want to discourage you from learning to code, but those are the rules. Please see our Terms of Service for information about account termination.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Children%27s_Online_Privacy_Protection_Act#Com...

If there are no solutions to pass on to this group,

https://docs.gitlab.com/omnibus/docker/#run-the-image GitLab will run on a RaspberryPi; https://about.gitlab.com/downloads/#raspberrypi2 Mattermost will not: https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/omnibus-gitlab/blob/run-docker-as-git/doc/gitl... Other cool things for local software development lab: - https://github.com/jupyterhub/kubespawner - http://doc.devpi.net/latest/ - https://wrdrd.com/docs/consulting/education-technology#readthedocs