On 23 February 2010 14:31, Ray Saintonge saintonge@telus.net wrote:
Thomas Dalton wrote:
2010/2/23 Delphine Ménard:
I can't imagine that there aren't students that are ready to do this for a price during the summer and who have done that before. I am not sure we need an "experienced day care" at all, especially if it's not "onsite".
The only issue I can see is with insurance. It would be absolutely essential that whoever organises the childcare takes out public liability insurance (that will be most of the cost, I imagine) and the insurance company may require those doing the caring to be registered or qualified or whatever (I have no idea how Poland does childcare).
You seem to be putting this in terms of how we can add to the bureaucracy. When you ask a neighbour's daughter (or son, to avoid being sexist) to come to your home to babysit while you go out for the evening do you really ask them if they have the necessary insurance policies?
You're talking like someone who has never been a parent. By way of observation, one of the problems with this issue is that most Wikimedians are young enough to never have been parents themselves, and have no experience with the practical necessities involved.
This isn't about protecting the parents, this is about protecting Wikimedia *from* the parents. If something goes wrong and a child is hurt, which is always a possibility, there is a risk that the parent will sue the WMF or WMPL or whoever for lots of money. You need to be insured against that. Most people wouldn't sue their neighbour since it is someone they know and trust but many people would sue an organisation that organised a conference they attended. That I am not a parent is completely irrelevant since I'm not saying what parents need to do, I'm saying what someone holding a public event need to do.