services among GUADEC attendees. 1-2 interested people would not be
worth the hassle.
Jiri
Stormy Peters píše v Čt 04. 04. 2013 v 12:02 -0600:
> The Grace Hopper Women in Computing conference does an awesome job of
> child care. But even with several thousand people attending their
> conference, I don't think I saw more than 15 kids in the day care
> place at any given time. That said, GNOME is a very different
> community and I see a lot more significant others and families there
> than I do at any other conference except perhaps OSCON.
>
>
> Some thoughts on daycare based on Grace Hopper's: (I used the Grace
> Hopper day care one year for my son who was 4 years old at the time.)
> 1. It's free to attendees and paid for by a sponsor, i.e. it's one of
> the sponsorship package options and the sponsor gets recognition for
> it and gives enough to cover the costs.
> 2. It's outsourced. The conference provided a room which included
> bathroom and kitchen facilities and a company that specialized in
> child care of this sort flew with all their stuff, hired staff and
> took care of it.
> 3. Hours. The hours were awesome. You could drop your kid(s) off
> anytime between 7am and 11pm - any time there was any conference
> activity going on. I was able to use this to attend one of the evening
> parties. (I do not think anyone left their kid there all that time.
> You could drop them off for a few hours in the morning, pick them up
> for the afternoon and then drop them back off at night. It was
> completely flexible.)
> 4. Fun. My son *loved* it. They had games, activities, food, movies,
> blankets and pillows for nap and night time. Other kids. Several years
> later he still talks about it occasionally.
> 5. Camaraderie. I met a few women I probably never would have met
> because we saw each other every day at the day care center and
> chatted. Still work with one of them.
> 6. Professional. The staff was very professional, very on top of day
> care policies and rules and very caring. My son had a problem one day
> and they some how tracked me down to my conference room.
>
>
> My thoughts on whether we should offer day care or not ... it's great
> if people are planning on bringing their families. However, most
> people that travel have some sort of existing arrangement for their
> kids when they travel. So I don't think there will ever be tons of
> people taking advantage of it every time.
>
>
> Stormy
>
>
>
>
> On Wed, Apr 3, 2013 at 7:17 AM, meg ford <megford gnome org> wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 3, 2013 at 7:10 AM, Karen Sandler
> <karen gnome org> wrote:
>
> On Wed, April 3, 2013 3:56 am, Alexandre Franke wrote:
> > On Wed, Apr 3, 2013 at 5:58 AM, meg ford
> <megford gnome org> wrote:
> >> The Art Institute of Chicago has a nice private
> space that contains a
> >> chair
> >> for breastfeeding/pumping and a changing table.
> It's in an area that's
> >> accessible to both parents, so either parent can do
> feeding and
> >> changing. It
> >> would be nice if we had a space like that set aside
> at conferences.
> >
> > I feel silly for asking this but I honestly have no
> clue: when you say
> > a chair for breastfeeding/pumping, do you mean a
> special chair that
> > has been designed for that purpose, or do you just
> mean that there was
> > a regular chair (in an area) dedicated to these
> tasks?
>
>
> It's not silly to ask, until recently I didn't know
> anything about this. I
> don't know what they had at the Art Institute of
> Chicago but we're just
> talking about a regular chair in a clean and private
> place, preferably a
> comfortable chair if possible.
>
>
> Yeah, it's not silly to ask, and I do just mean a regular,
> comfortable chair. The space just came to mind as a public
> place with nice simple accommodations for parents.
>
>
> Meg
>
>
> karen
>
> >
> > --
> > Alexandre Franke
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