[hackerspaces] Another registry?

Al Jigong Billings albill at openbuddha.com
Thu Feb 9 00:41:50 CET 2012


On 2/8/12 3:38 PM, Moritz Bartl wrote:
> On 09.02.2012 00:15, Doug Philips wrote:
>> How many hackerspaces have kids (lets say < 18 for the sake of picking
>> a semi-arbitrary number) as members?
> In Germany, I'd say most of them do. And I would bet the percentage of
> kids with parents being members goes towards zero.
>
At least in America, the liability issues around having minors as
unsupervised members is potentially high.

I've seen quite a few classes involving under 18 people (at my
hackerspace and others) but usually they are fairly supervised by at
least a couple of legal adults.

Al


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