[Noisebridge-discuss] unannounced groups of non-members at Noisebridge (esp. kids)

[Simone Davalos]

Also, as the person who taught Ada how to say "fuck" for the first time, 
and who now has a small daughter, I second all of Danny's  statements 
about toning it down, and I hope someone someday has the courtesy to 
accidentally teach my small human interesting cuss words, and what 
better place than a hackerspace?  Robots (and other projects) inspire 
profanity, this we know.


Danny O'Brien wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 1, 2009 at 8:21 PM, Shannon Lee <shannon at scatter.com> wrote:
>   
>> Indeed.
>>
>> I want to additionally point out that nobody at any time has suggested that
>> anyone tone anything down due to kids; rather, there's been lots of hand
>> wringing that if kids are around, someone might theoretically be asked to
>> tone something down at some point... in theory.  Possibly.
>>
>> All the people who have kids and who are prone to bringing them around 83c
>> have chimed in on this thread to say that no special measures should be
>> taken.  We like Noisebridge and the culture around it, we bring our kids
>> around so that they can be exposed to it.
>>     
>
> Well, as Ada's dad, I haven't, but I'd like to here. Don't change
> anything, don't worry about changing anything, please don't generate
> policies for hypotheticals or classes of people who have wide
> variation in opinions and behavior.
>
> Also, I think our policy for random teachers appearing with a class of
> kids is to, in the future, publically note that this seems to happen
> more than once, and change the variable we use to store it from a
> single bit to two.
>
> d.
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