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 < [email protected]> 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 <[email protected]> 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 <[email protected]> > 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 > >> > >> > >> _______________________________________________ > >> Wikimania-l mailing list > >> [email protected] > >> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimania-l > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Wikimania-l mailing list > > [email protected] > > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimania-l > > _______________________________________________ > Wikimania-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimania-l >
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