Recap of the Kids Event Working Group Checkin Chat | Thursday 13 June 2019

Attending: @sunsand187 @michelebutcherjones @melindahelt @camikaos

Start: https://wordpress.slack.com/archives/C037W5S7X/p1560456137308000

We Covered

  1. Updates from volunteers.
  2. Discuss June and July Goals
  3. Discuss next steps.

Updates from Volunteers

Michele: Still working on the Illinois papers, getting CPR/1A recertification, and compiling all my info to Sandy.

Sandy: Finalized Boston’s Liability waiver and working through creating a handbook.

June Goal: Research Sprint

We should work as team to discover the laws that different states/countries have surrounding hosting one day kids events. As well as, the laws surrounding waivers for kids events as well.

This will help expedite camp planning for all camps around the world (eventually).

An example would be that in Florida a very specific liability waiver is needed with specific language. Thank you to @RianKinney, Esq. for digging that up for us.

While that specific waiver is needed for Florida, the need for a waiver could be looked at as an overarching need for ALL camps with kids programs. It would be good for us all to take a region near us so that we can dive into what those laws look like and formulate a general plan that would cover the bulk of those laws. This could include the need for background checks, waivers, first aid certifications, etc.

Here is a spreadsheet for all of our findings:

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1xky1PbUQD99IZj9wpgmPdfkCqXBrpDveArc9nFpBZpY/edit?usp=sharing

If you want to help here please sign up on the second tab to take a region.

Project Management Information

So I know a lot of people expressed interest but not everyone made it to todays meeting. I am sure more people will be getting involved over time. I did create a TrelloTrello Project management system using the concepts of boards and cards to organize tasks in a sane way. This is what the make.wordpress.com/marketing team uses for example: https://trello.com/b/8UGHVBu8/wp-marketing. Board so that we have some jumping off points for anyone to just dive in and start on micro pieces.https://trello.com/invite/b/GryYJ7P9/0a44a78f320c0eb04013fa193b0663ce/wordpress-kids-events-planning

End: https://wordpress.slack.com/archives/C037W5S7X/p1560457413323800

Next Actions

  1. @sunsand187 Will Document process for a new camp to vet state laws and requirements. And create the handbook structure. As well as, create spreadsheet.
  2. Team, Look over Trello and this post to stay up to date and provide feedback. https://trello.com/invite/b/GryYJ7P9/0a44a78f320c0eb04013fa193b0663ce/wordpress-kids-events-planning
  3. @michelebutcher-jones is working on state laws for Indiana, Illinois, Kentucky and Missouri

Next Meeting is Thursday, 27 June 2019, 2000 UTC/ 4pm EST. This chat will occur in the Make WordPress Community-Team SlackSlack Slack is a Collaborative Group Chat Platform https://slack.com/. The WordPress community has its own Slack Channel at https://make.wordpress.org/chat/. channel.

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