[hackerspaces] Children in hackerspaces.

[Sean Bonner]

We allow kids in Crash Space as long as they are with a parent and are
supervised, and the parents take responsibility.

Done.

-s


On Tue, Jan 26, 2010 at 12:22 PM, Nick Farr (hackerspaces.org)
<nick at hackerspaces.org> wrote:
> Two questions:
>
> 1) How old were you when you got involved in hacking?
> 2) How many of you actually have kids?
>
> I'm guessing that most of you were somehow hacking on something well
> before you turned 18.  I'm also guessing most of you don't have kids.
>
> That we're sacrificing not only the future of Hacking in general, but
> THE FUTURE for *insurance reasons* strikes me as a horrendous FAIL.
> This is the same kind of thinking that led people to believe it was
> far too risky to build a Hackerspace at all.
>
> Can we perhaps have a discussion of ways we could possibly accommodate
> kids, of perhaps engaging our communities, parents, and others younger
> than we who could benefit from the Hackerspaces?  Could we point at
> some success stories?
>
> That this conversation ended this way signals to me that Hackerspaces
> have peaked, and that it's all downhill from here.
>
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>
> On Tue, Jan 26, 2010 at 14:20, webmind <webmind at puscii.nl> wrote:
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>> Serendipity Seraph wrote:
>>> But what exactly is a minor?  I know some 7 year olds who can hack rings
>>> around me in certain domains and are at least as little accident prone.
>>>   Then I know some dear grown up geeks that I wouldn't want to see
>>> moving around much away from their domain of expertise without
>>> supervision.   :)   At the very least a lot of teenage hackers should
>>> not be a big issue.
>>
>> The idea that I'm getting that it's purely a legal issue. So a minor
>> would be anyone who has his own responsibility. I believe that for most
>> countries to be atleast 18 or up, in the Netherlands it would be 16 or
>> 18 I think.
>>
>> But as you point out, it doesn't say anything about the capabilities of
>> the person at hand.
>>
>> Personally I would care less about legal responsibility issues, atleast
>> in this country, and look more at the practical side if you can think
>> someone can handle the equipment you provide them access to.
>>
>> w.
>>
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