Family Zone 👪
Running a Minecraft server for your kids
If you have young kids, you might not want them playing Minecraft on public servers with strangers. This talk describes my experience in running my own Minecraft server for my kids and their friends, using different clients (Minecraft Bedrock on tablet and Minecraft Java on desktop) and how to give every player a "safe space" where others cannot blow up the creations you've spend days on creating them. The target audience of this talk is not the kids playing, but the parents that try to run the Minecraft server.
How hard can it be to run a Minecraft server? Turns out it is a lot like hacking in the 90's where you find obscure tutorials at forums that tell you to install random software and push random buttons. This talk presents my lessons learned from running a Minecraft server for my kids and their friends. We'll deal with different software for running a Minecraft server, the hardware selection, how to deal with bedrock clients, how to implement proper backups, how to ensure that creations are not destroyed, how to allow kids to easily switch between survival and creative mode without making them operators.
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| Language | English |
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Meet The Parents is a FamilyZone activity: Just getting to know the other parents (and maybe kids). Bring your beverage of choice and come hang out for a bit so you know who's who. This workshop is TLP:RED Note: FamilyZone content, to be held in front of FamilyZone Workshop tent tonight, friday 21:00.
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| 7/23/22 |
Using Splunk to analyze your Whatsapp chat data. Find out who was sending the most messages, who was chatting in the middle of the night, or how many chats you will recieve in the future. In this workshop we will make fun graphs using your own whatsapp data from one chat. We will start with extracting your whatsapp data en import it into the provided Splunk server.
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| 7/23/22 |
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| 7/24/22 |
Launching water bottle rockets can be lots of fun. For your safety and ours this workshop includes an experienced teacher able to explain this to us like we're five. Ofcourse even water bottles can create havoc coming down, so we will walk to a safe location nearby.
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| 7/25/22 |
Give kids some balloons, pumps and instructions (on cards) an happy chaos is ensured. Did you ever want to make you own balloon animal? This is your chance. I will bring the balloons, pumps and instruction cards you do the rest. 90 minutes of fun and some chaos? Are you an adult and want an actual workshop? Come to balloon folding for adults. Are you an adult and know how to do this, I could sure use some help to survive the chaos ;)
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| 7/25/22 |
You know those people that take a balloon, inflate it and after some twisting, turning, and some squicky noises they end up with a balloon creature that makes kids really happy? You could be one! Because, belloon folding isn't that hard, actually. I have the balloons, instructions and will actually try to teach during this workshop as well. Are you a kid and want to just have fun, come to balloon folding for kids. Are you an adult and know how to do this, I could sure use some help to survive ...
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| 7/25/22 |
Kids will learn to do basic coding en electronics with Microbit pocket-sized computers .
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