[FOSS4G-Oceania-discuss] Making FOSS4G SotM Oceania child friendly

[adam steer]

Thanks Claire,

good point about a private pumping space; and a WWVP ticket (or cohort of
people who have one). I think we’ll encourage people to jump on this list
and make arrangements informally.

Would a slack channel for conf-parents help?
…or a whatsapp group (maybe not so great to expose phone numbers)?
…or anything else?

Document outlining expectations is in the works, will circulate soon!

Cheers

Adam

On 19 July 2018 at 14:49, <Claire.Trenham at csiro.au> wrote:

> Kid-friendly sounds great to me. Might stop the big humans being boring
> all the time too ;-)
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> One note on breast-feeding, if you have any mums of infants attending, try
> to ensure there is an actual room available for pumping etc, not just the
> chill space which might not be private enough.
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> While informal childcare is legally not a go, it might not hurt to collect
> a list of people with Working with Children clearance (though obviously
> only Victorian clearance would be valid for formal arrangements), and ask
> if they’re happy to be “safe people” that kids can be left with in the
> event than a parent really is needed in a session and they really can’t be.
> You sort of covered this in “networking with other parents”, but there may
> be others who can also help out and have state confirmation that they’re
> okay.
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> I love the idea of kids being welcome. It’s good experience for them in
> learning how adults operate, and it’s good for adults to remember our work
> isn’t the only thing in the world :)
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> cheers
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> Claire
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> *From:* FOSS4G-Oceania-Discuss [mailto:foss4g-oceania-
> discuss-bounces at lists.osgeo.org] *On Behalf Of *adam steer
> *Sent:* Thursday, 19 July 2018 2:08 PM
> *To:* foss4g-oceania-discuss at lists.osgeo.org
> *Subject:* [FOSS4G-Oceania-discuss] Making FOSS4G SotM Oceania child
> friendly
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> Hi all
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> The FOSS4G SotM Oceania committee has been to-and-fro-ing about childcare
> at the conference for a while now. A consensus is forming around the idea
> of a child friendly conference, rather than organising formal childcare.
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> We have some ideas about how this might look. I may be bringing an 8 and
> nearly 10 year old along, and to me this means:
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> - I haven’t submitted a talk (I have submitted a workshop).
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> - I expect that when I go to sessions I’ll bring my little fellas, take a
> place someplace near a convenient exit, and expect to have to run out at
> some point - because I don’t expect them to sit still for 1.5 hours at a
> time
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> - network with other parents ahead of the conference to make some informal
> arrangements if I *really* need uninterrupted time
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> - chip in to the Good Mojo fund to help cover costs of catering for two
> hungry boys.
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> it also means that as a community we need to:
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> - accept small people into the community, be respectful toward them (ie
> don’t just run them over or ignore them if they try to engage you). This is
> important - small humans are still humans, and how we interact with them
> shapes how they will interact with the world in future!
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> - accept minor shuffling around if parents and small humans need to make a
> quick exit from a session (this is actually normal, I’ve *never* attended a
> conference where even grown ups don’t silently and effortlessly shuffle
> between sessions - and grown ups are often quite disruptive when doing so)
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> - be OK with the fact that mums with smaller humans need to be breastfed.
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> - provide an ‘escape space’ if possible, a room for parents and their
> small humans to escape the buzz.
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> In short, gracefully accept the presence of our future community leaders;
> and help show them how to create an inclusive and accepting space.
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> What do you, as a community, think? What compromises do you think are
> OK/not OK in order to help parents turn up and participate?
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> Is branding the conference as a ‘bring your small humans and we will work
> it out’ event going to work for you?
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> There are heaps of very strong views about how small humans and big humans
> should interact. This page: http://www.awareparenting.com/english.
> htm#principles <http://www.awareparenting.com/english.htm> exposes much
> of my own approach (with formal training in developmental psychology and
> neuroscience, this completely resonates) - and why I think a
> small-human-friendly approach *can* work.
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> Still, it’s just one view out of potentially a couple hundred attendees.
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> Cheers
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> Adam
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