FamilyZone

__NOT TOC__ This page is part of the Team:Family of WHY2025. Feel free to look around.

WHY2025 is a "DIY" hacker event, organized by volunteers and everyone who visits. If you want to help and make the FamilyZone awesome, please join the team or organize a project. If you want to help at the event, please participate as an angel

What is Family Zone

At WHY2025 you’ll be camping, visiting the other villages, meeting people, enjoying the food from the food trucks and the drinks from the bar. Additionally, a full conference programme is offered with various topics like information security, surveillance and/or anti-surveillance, free software, art and much more. These talks and workshops are presented in large tents all around the area.

All of this sounds very nice, and would be very interesting to you, but what about your family? Instead of dumping them in the pancake village and having to roll them back home at the end of the event, let us introduce you to the Family Zone: A field that is dedicated to families with kids, containing a things like a sandpit, a ball pit, bouncy castles, kid workshops or even professional childcare!

On this field, you can camp with your family. It will be the quietest field in the entire campground (until 07:00, when it might become the loudest field…). Your kids can play with all the other kids and the entire atmosphere is very friendly and helpful.

WHY2025 is a community driven event, and so is Family Zone. Got a great idea that will make Family Zone the best place for you and your young ones? Let’s make it happen! For example: at SHA2017 one parent brought up the idea of “Inflatable Fun Land” which turned out to be an enormous success and these inflatable animals are currently still being played with by kids all over Europe, and at MCH2022, one parent organized a huge pizza baking workshop, and the Italian Embassy dropped by to teach us their secrets to making the best pizza dough.

Villages

Yes, FamilyZone can cater a limited amount of Villages that align with our goal to create a family/kid friendly event. Please add your Village to the list here and reach out at the mailinglist or one of our team meetings so we can plan accordingly.

To Day Care or Not To Day Care

The FamilyZone field is not a day care. Do not leave your child unattended.

On the other hand, there's always that talk we _really_ want to go to, or that volunteering shift that is really importand - without our toddler. For this use-case, Team:Family aims to arrange professional daycare. More information, such as how to sign your kids up, will be made available! If this is important to you, reach out and let us know. This might change how we organize daycare.

There will be water (and maybe lemonade), but food is not provided so please bring your own food for your children. There is a refrigerator where you can keep your baby food. Please note: this refrigerator is ONLY for baby food etc. For your own food, you can obviously bring your own or use the food trucks (they're going to be awesome!) or the super market.

We hope to have great weather! But remember that your child needs special care when it's warm and sunny, since they will be outside most of the day. So make sure you use a water-resistant sunscreen with a high spf, reapply it often, and provide fresh fruits and food for your child. We'll make sure there is plenty to drink.

Since children and their caretakers need their rest, the field should be quiet after 21.00.

Angels

Yes, your kid is already an angel :-) But now he/she can also earn the shirt! We're doing inventory of what Angel shifts are suitable for kids. We'll update this area with more details as we get updates from the teams. If you're with a team and think we're missing info about potential kid-shifts, please let us know.