Re: [guadec-list] GUADEC baby friendliness level



Let me start by saying that Czech in general is incredibly children friendly, my wife and I have a 9 Month old daughter and we have so far not found any restaurant which doesn't have at least 1 baby chair available, and a lot of them even have a special childrens play area. Also in terms of public transport you can buy a special parent ticket for 30 Czech crowns, which is about 1 GBP, which allows you unlimited transport with the child until age 3.

In terms of breastfeeding I don't know if there are any laws especially protecting breastfeeding, but women do breastfeed everywhere here and nobody has ever made a fuss about my wife breastfeeding anywhere.So while I do realize not everyone is comfortable breastfeeding 'where ever and whenever' at least know that it is not a problem here in Czech.

So at least the general framework for making the conference baby friendly should be in place and I will bring it up with relevant parties that having a parenting room at the venue would be good and hopefully we can find something suitable. I mean just a room where one could sit down to feed or pump should be simple enough, but since we ideally would like to have water and a drain there for the nappy changing station too, that part might be harder to easily accommodate at the University venue.

Christian


On Wed, Apr 3, 2013 at 5:47 AM, Karen Sandler <karen gnome org> wrote:
On Tue, April 2, 2013 6:58 pm, Gil Forcada wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> Our kid is still not born (anytime soon!) but we kind of think about
> going to GUADEC, so the subject is obviously something that will matter
> for us to decide if our kid is ready for a GUADEC or not :)
>
> So things like accommodation for the three of us, proper toilets on the
> venue for changing diapers and so on would be nice.
>
> Are there going to be any other parents *with* kids there? Karen? :)

I'm not going to be bringing the baby this time, but I think this is an
important issue to address - thanks for raising it!

I feel a bit strange sharing this, but I've attended a couple of
conferences without my baby and needed to find someplace to pump, and it's
been really tough. It would be great to have some clean private space
allocated where anyone in that situation (or breastfeeding, of course) can
go if they need it.  Or at least make it known that a space would be made
available on request. I felt somewhat marginalized from the rest of the
conferences to not to mention that spending time in bathroom stalls is
really not ideal (especially when they aren't very nice or clean). We
might also want to specify that breastfeeding in the conference is welcome
for those who choose to.  Given that our percentages of women are still
pretty low (though better than they were), I doubt this impacts many women
at any given conference but it would send a nice message as a policy.

More specific to your question, AdaCamp goes out of its way to have
limited childcare services, that you can reserve in advance (for only a
small number of children). We might want to consider doing something like
that.

Additionally, we should consider providing GNOME related activities for
children, perhaps as local outreach? Getting kids interested in free
software is also an important goal.

I've heard other GNOME parents wish there was some way they could bring
their kids.

Perhaps we can discuss this at tomorrow's meeting?
karen


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