SCaLE7x: A Conference for Families

herlo — Tue, 27 Jan 2009 21:31:05 +0000

Here’s a conversation I had regarding SCaLE’s policy toward bringing children.

So this brings to my mind. What can we do to entertain children at a booth besides the OLPCs?

herlo	I asked a couple days back about kids at scale and pricing or whatever. I forgot to take #scale-chat of ignore, what is the rules on children?	13:49
Gareth	Kids are definitely allowed to attend.	13:49
herlo	sure, and I think it’s encouraged no?	13:50
Gareth	We generally dont charge for them if they’re under 16 or so.	13:50
Gareth	Definitely!	13:50
herlo	cool, that’s what I was after	13:50
Gareth	We had quite a few last year….they all seemed to have a good time.	13:50
herlo	the Fedorans will be sporting a few young’ns around is all	13:50
Gareth	Good to hear!	13:50
lcafiero	+1 Gareth	13:50
herlo	yeah, we have the wii lined up to be used all day if they get bored	13:50
herlo	I’m sure we’ll have other activities for them. I plan on bringing scissors and some fedora media boxes for them to build	13:52
lcafiero	Orv_work may want to do something with this, press-wise. Some of the other events — especially Linux World — are kid unfriendly, and it doesn’t allow those of us with kids to attend.	13:52
herlo	maybe we should also bring some skulladay.com pages too, that’ll entertain them	13:52
Gareth	yeah. he wrote something up last year too…I’m sure he’ll write something up this year.	13:52
herlo	we’ll watch for it	13:53

I think that it’d be fun to have kids come around and make stuff at our booth. There are tons of good things on make.com and other places for kids.

What do you guys think?

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