I don't think that the in development should be involved people with less than 15 years old, because that destroyed everything that i know about the community, the otservers is just now download and run and not everyone started using a server of that kind.
The "pros" started from a evolutions server without any donations, from a carpernia, or a yourots, those servers was the boom when i started on this kind of forums, forums like OTFans, eOTFans, OTFusion, etc, they just died because the download and run servers started, there wasn't so many rl maps, just custom maps, before v.pus and anything else.
I can bet that the most experienced users started like me, just looking how to make fun with a server, i was involved on a distro developing before (At the 8.1 protocol), i was working with on my own spanish community, i make some friends playing a lot of custom servers, not looking how to buy a ps4 milking a download and run server, because we got just RL maps, developing teams like Necronia, Whi World, etc, can't get more than 100 online because we got a strong community looking just to bot on those shitty rl maps.
I'm still thinking that the ot developing should be reserved to those who already have a programming experience, or just for those 16+.
Sorry for my bad english too, i know that i got bad grammar.