[FOSS4G-Oceania] A child-friendly conference - add to/edit words ahead of publicising

[adam steer]

Hey Cameron,

Thankyou for your edits and thoughts - they’re great, and I’ve accepted
pretty much everything; and yes, I could use some work on writing more
positively! Learning never stops...

I’ve left a link to some tools I find useful for helping kids with big
events, but moved it and wrapped some more ‘here are some ideas about...’
wording around it. While you’re right, it’s not our remit to provide advice
on parenting - it is useful (IMO) for us to provide pointers which might
help parents stay aligned with the conference Code of Conduct; since much
of how we traditionally parent in Australia is not.

Cheers

Adam



On 11 August 2018 at 07:12, Cameron Shorter <cameron.shorter at gmail.com>
wrote:

> I love your work Adam. I think this parenting policy is really good, and
> very mature considering how quickly you have pulled it together.
>
> I can see it being used as a template by other conferences that follow us,
> (and hence encourage you to add a reference to it when you are done from
> our FOSS4G Cookbook so people can find it).
>
> I've added some suggestions, mainly along the lines of simplifying, using
> positive language, and stating intent rather than rules. (With complex
> systems, such as children, it is usually better to state intent and let
> people use their common sense, as you can never write enough rules to cover
> every situation).
>
> On 10/08/2018 2:26 PM, adam steer wrote:
>
> Hi movers and shakers
>
> Since we’ve more or less decided to create a child friendly conference
> rather than fund childcare, we need some words around how we expect this
> will work.
>
> I’ve cobbled something together here:
>
> https://docs.google.com/document/d/1q_S01zTDMP1TUpLQQo3O0wmnP1UmcvW3
> mPSORn4h9uc/edit#
>
> …which has commentary already from people in the Maptime Australia slack
> group; and includes suggestions from a very brief discussion on the
> foss4g-oceania-discuss list.
>
> If you want to add comments but can’t, please let me know. I’ve just
> smashed out what i think there, I’ll also go looking for any ‘lessons
> learned’ documents from people who have run ‘child friendly’ conferences in
> the past (and would appreciate hearing about any you know of).
>
> Cheers
>
> Adam
>
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