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
