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Dear organizers, Greetings from Colombia. We find the idea of Forest Pedagogy for our kids fascinating. Our attendance to DebConf is still not confirmed, depending on a number of factors. Your attention for this aspect has motivated us to try. A time for our kids to adjust to the activities would be essential. We are latin american parents, with small kids (2 and almost 4½ years old). We work mostly with kids technology (Sugar, etc), and our kids are used to be around us while we work. So, the closer we have our children to us, the easier it will be for both my wife and I to focus on the sprint and the conference. From the linked website, it says a Spanish language person is available upon request. This would also be invaluable for them to better adjust. Thank you for organizing all of this. Hope to see you soon! Sebastian On 02/04/15 08:08, martin f krafft wrote: > Parents, > > in trying to make DebConf15 a child-/parent-friendly conference, > we've been investigating numerous options: facilitating > self-organisation (the current default), babysitters on-site, and > even professional child-care, on- and off-site. > > One of those options requires a decision ASAP, or else they cannot > hold our tentative booking. Details follow, but the point of this > e-mail is short: please let me know ASAP if you would opt for the > following child-care offering for your kid(s): > > It's a professional child-care provider based in the vicinity of > Heidelberg who specialises in doing conference child-care > world-wide. Have a look at the following video of one of the > conferences they did: > > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dGRTguh6Nsg&list=UUk-KhACA0-yEwSs7cYVBHeA&index=14 > > Their website has a few more links at the bottom but is otherwise in > Germany only: > > http://www.hedu-natur.de/cms/website.php?id=unternehmen/kinderbetreuung/kongress.html > > These are professional child-carers with lots of experience and > references. They take kids aged 18 months and up, split into 2–3 age > groups. They collect them in the morning and spend the day outside > with them, doing activities or just running around, eat lunch with > them, and return them to the youth hostel in time for dinner. > Part-time options are not available. > > The costs for this could be borne by the conference orga, as well as > participation of around 100 €/child for the full length of the > conference. There are also sponsors interested in supporting this. > > As a parent myself, I consider this a really cool idea and I would > probably let my daughter take part. But unless we get upwards of 10 > kids for this, it won't be possible. > > So please, let me know if this would be of interest to you. Please > feel free to reply in private if you are not comfortable discussing > such topics on a public mailing list. Your information will be kept > secure. > > Also, if you know of parents not subscribed to the list, please > forward this message to them and urge them to subscribe. If we want > to make DebConf more child-/parents-friendly, we need a way to reach > out to you. > |