Unfortunately this is with many other things something we could improve on,
but comes at a cost. And while the cost itself is reasonable, it adds up.
It would be awesome if Wikimania could become a little more the volunteer
conference it is, where people do their bit of what they would like to see
happen. If you like to see childcare: great, help organise it! (for the
record: Daniel's response was very reasonable in this regard) If you like
certain topics on the programme - lets propose it! If you would enjoy
different entertainment in the evenings, here's your challenge.
In these discussions, and this is a slippery slope argument, we tend to
look at the organising team to fix things for us, while on many occasions
we can do a lot ourselves. This is a great list for such coordination, by
the way.
Best,
Lodewijk
On Fri, Jul 10, 2015 at 12:46 PM, WereSpielChequers <
werespielchequers(a)gmail.com> wrote:
I'm sure this is not a new issue, I remember it
coming up at either Gdansk
or Buenos Aires and it may not have been new then. I know from surveys and
those wikipedians I have got to know well that we underrepresent those who
currently have kids, with the "greying of the pedia" the community may not
be as unrepresentative of parents of adult children as we once were, but we
don't have many parents of young children amongst our editors. I think this
is a gap we should try to fix, I suspect that childcare for the few parents
who bring their children would be a service that only a small minority of
editors would take up, and that offering such a service in 2016 and future
Wikimanias would be something of a statement that the community wants
members who have dependent children.
Regards
Jonathan Cardy
On 9 Jul 2015, at 21:46, Ellie Young
<eyoung(a)wikimedia.org> wrote:
Sorry for the delay in responding. WMF will not be able to provide
child care
services at the venue. The Hotel can arrange for babysitters
directly with parents who need this. From registration and looking at
WMF travels, it looks like few people are bringing families. For those
that are, someone might want to put something on wiki or this mailing list
to contact other families about trip, sharing services, etc. I would be
happy to put anyone who needs babysitters at the hotel in touch with the
right person to arrange this.
Ellie
WMF Conference Coordinator
> On Jul 4, 2015, at 1:49 AM, Maarten Dammers <maarten(a)mdammers.nl>
wrote:
>
> Hi Daniel,
>
> Daniel Schwen schreef op 1-7-2015 om 20:30:
>> Hello all!
>> Will any form of child care be provided at this year's Wikimania?
OpenStreetMap's SotM apparently offered some this year (
http://openstreetmap.us/2015/03/children-at-sotmus/)
> This years Wikimedia Hackathon (
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Hackathon_2015) also had a
kindergarten. Looked like a success and I heard several parents say that
they might have brought their kids if they would have known it in advance.
Maarten
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