Meanwhile, at library conferences for coders--
FYI- -------- Forwarded Message -------- Subject: c4l Child Care Options - Register Today Date: Tue, 26 Jan 2016 19:19:16 UT From: code4lib@concentra-cms.com Reply-To: code4lib@concentra-cms.com To: ailanthus@riseup.net Hello Kate Krauss, If you are planning to use the on site childcare during the 2016 Code4lib conference, you will need to sign up by January 31st. The childcare provider we are working with has asked for ample advanced notice to ensure that we secure the right number of childcare staff for each day of the conference. CHILD CARE REGISTRATION: To register please log on at Child Care Registration. For more information about the child care offered at the confernce please visit Childcare at code4lib 2016. Sincerely, Jenn Cummings & Kathy Azevedo 2016 Code4Lib Conference Planners | CONCENTRA – CMS | code4lib@concentra-cms.com | www.code4lib.org
Kate wrote:
Hello Kate Krauss, If you are planning to use the on site childcare during the 2016 Code4lib conference, you will need to sign up by January 31st. The childcare provider we are working with has asked for ample advanced notice to ensure that we secure the right number of childcare staff for each day of the conference.
This is great to see -- and increasingly common! HOPE is doing this, various usability-related events have started doing this, and IFF/CTF has considered doing it as well. I wonder if event most organizers just don't see it as a need, or if they can't get the logistics figured out. best, Griffin -- “We have to create; it is the only thing louder than destruction.” ~ Andrea Gibson
On Tue, Jan 26, 2016 at 04:48:19PM -0500, Griffin Boyce wrote:
Kate wrote:
Hello Kate Krauss, If you are planning to use the on site childcare during the 2016 Code4lib conference, you will need to sign up by January 31st. The childcare provider we are working with has asked for ample advanced notice to ensure that we secure the right number of childcare staff for each day of the conference.
This is great to see -- and increasingly common! HOPE is doing this, various usability-related events have started doing this, and IFF/CTF has considered doing it as well. I wonder if event most organizers just don't see it as a need, or if they can't get the logistics figured out.
Having dealt with this in the past as an event organizer, one major issue is that, depending on the jurisdiction, the insurance/liability implications can range from "throw a little money at it" (i.e. easy) to "all conference organizers have to get the super-duper 'works with children' background check" (i.e. ~impossible). - Ian
Ian Goldberg wrote:
Having dealt with this in the past as an event organizer, one major issue is that, depending on the jurisdiction, the insurance/liability implications can range from "throw a little money at it" (i.e. easy) to "all conference organizers have to get the super-duper 'works with children' background check" (i.e. ~impossible).
Yeah. I went to a usability event in SF a couple of years ago that provided childcare for people who needed it. They took the approach of contracting with a service (who'd hired people and done background checks already). It's possible to pay for babysitting services from a proper service, but for like a conference with hundreds of people, the insurance/liability requirements seem difficult to navigate. ~Griffin
Ah, good point. But this would be a good problem to nail down and solve. These folks have--this group has conferences all over the US so they likely have wisdom to impart in the future. I remembered at 32C3 (read a study somewhere and then saw it in action) that lack of childcare is actually one thing keeping *women* from attending hacker conferences. Katie Ian Goldberg:
On Tue, Jan 26, 2016 at 04:48:19PM -0500, Griffin Boyce wrote:
Kate wrote:
Hello Kate Krauss, If you are planning to use the on site childcare during the 2016 Code4lib conference, you will need to sign up by January 31st. The childcare provider we are working with has asked for ample advanced notice to ensure that we secure the right number of childcare staff for each day of the conference.
This is great to see -- and increasingly common! HOPE is doing this, various usability-related events have started doing this, and IFF/CTF has considered doing it as well. I wonder if event most organizers just don't see it as a need, or if they can't get the logistics figured out.
Having dealt with this in the past as an event organizer, one major issue is that, depending on the jurisdiction, the insurance/liability implications can range from "throw a little money at it" (i.e. easy) to "all conference organizers have to get the super-duper 'works with children' background check" (i.e. ~impossible).
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On Wed, Jan 27, 2016 at 11:50 AM, Kate <ailanthus@riseup.net> wrote:
I remembered at 32C3 (read a study somewhere and then saw it in action) that lack of childcare is actually one thing keeping *women* from attending hacker conferences.
And me. I stopped going to about two hacker conns and three academic conferences each year when my kid was born. (Honestly, I'm not sure I'd go back to most of them. But that's another topic.) -- Nick
My people!! Kate:
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-------- Forwarded Message -------- Subject: c4l Child Care Options - Register Today Date: Tue, 26 Jan 2016 19:19:16 UT From: code4lib@concentra-cms.com Reply-To: code4lib@concentra-cms.com To: ailanthus@riseup.net
Hello Kate Krauss, If you are planning to use the on site childcare during the 2016 Code4lib conference, you will need to sign up by January 31st. The childcare provider we are working with has asked for ample advanced notice to ensure that we secure the right number of childcare staff for each day of the conference. CHILD CARE REGISTRATION: To register please log on at Child Care Registration. For more information about the child care offered at the confernce please visit Childcare at code4lib 2016.
Sincerely, Jenn Cummings & Kathy Azevedo 2016 Code4Lib Conference Planners | CONCENTRA – CMS | code4lib@concentra-cms.com | www.code4lib.org
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