On 05-14, 8:32 AM, "ietf-request@xxxxxxxx" <ietf-request@xxxxxxxx> wrote: > Date: Sat, 14 May 2022 10:30:45 -0500 > From: Mary B <mary.h.barnes@xxxxxxxxx> > Subject: Re: Are IETF meeting fees exclusionary? (Was: Registration > open for IETF 114) > > IETF is now offering childcare which is great. That is indeed great! FWIW, from 2001-2008 I think my then-employer would have asked me to start participating in IETF if I had been willing and able to travel to the meetings, but I was not because we had small children (born in 1998, 2001, and 2005). So I'm glad to hear the IETF now offers child care, that sounds like a helpful step forward. If that had been available and known to me or my boss, I might have been able to start back then. My kids are now old enough it's no longer a problem, which was a key prerequisite for me to start coming in 2016. -Jake
