- Find space allows children to be welcomed
- Include nurse parents and families in the space [1]
- Turn the environment more welcoming with decorations [1]
- Having childcare available during the hackathon
- Extra room for childcare [2]
- Find the people/regulations for the childcare in your country
- Allow participants to go back home
- Make the event more open to family commitments [2,3]
[1] Hope, Alexis, et al. "Hackathons as participatory design: iterating feminist utopias." Proceedings of the 2019 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems. 2019.
[2] Anslow, Craig, et al. "Datathons: an experience report of data hackathons for data science education." Proceedings of the 47th ACM Technical Symposium on Computing Science Education. 2016.
[3] Paganini, Lavínia, et al. "Promoting game jams and hackathons as more women-inclusive environments for informal learning." 2021 IEEE Frontiers in Education Conference (FIE). IEEE, 2021.