We in Cascadia Wikimedians discussed offering child care for some of our
events. There are liability reasons for not having simple co-op kinds of
childcare in our jurisdiction without appropriate training and insurance,
and the same considerations might apply to Wikimania. In principle offering
childcare is something that we should do, and where the marginal cost of
offering it is reasonable like Wikimania it makes particularly good sense
to pay for quality childcare with appropriate insurance. I would encourage
WMF to mandate that future Wikimanias include the offering of a certain
number of childcare slots with appropriate funding for quality, insured
childcare.
Pine