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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">I'm definitely interested, may even be
able to chat about some things, my eldest is starting primary
school this year!<br>
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On 17/01/2015 9:44 AM, Jared Ring wrote:<br>
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<div dir="ltr">Calling all parents, educators and other interested
parties!
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<div>If a group of free and open technology enthusiasts went to
playgroup, what would they talk about? What would the kids be
playing with and doing?<br>
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<div>I'd like to put forward the idea of doing a "Geek
Parenting" Mininconf at next year's LCA. I'm putting the
concept to the community at large to help define the scope
and ideals of the day in preparation for putting in a
submission when the CFP opens.</div>
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<div>I'm interested in ways to encourage an interest in
technology for my children as they grow up. I'm looking for
other like minded people to share ideas on what they do with
their kids, what works and what doesnt.</div>
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<div>Like Bdale (I think) said in Friday's keynote, in the 80s
there were books in the library you could borrow that
contained BASIC code to be typed into your C64 for fun.
Hands up how many people got the bug that way? Well, what is
the 21st century equivalent.</div>
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<div>I have been thinking about this idea for awhile and
comments Bdale made along with Thomas Sprinkmeier's talk on
training your minions yesterday gave me the extra enthusiasm
to get the ball rolling.</div>
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<div>As an aside, how awesome would it be that at a future
LCA, one of the tracks in the open hardware miniconf was
aimed at kids? And our kids went to that as part of the
partners program for that day?<br>
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<div class="gmail_signature">Cheers<br>
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Jared<br>
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