Fundraising for Code2040

If you missed it, I (and several hundred of my colleagues) are now on a blacklist because we signed a statement saying that we disagreed with the LambdaConf functional programming conference's decision to host a white supremacist speaker.

I filed a complaint to the Internet service provider (Alchemy Communications, a partial subsidiary of Dreamhost Communications according to Alchemy's home page) for the blacklist, since its purpose is clearly to incite harassment and violence against individuals. In response, an employee of Alchemy posted my personally identifying information to 8chan, and I'm now being harassed on Twitter with tweets @-mentioning both me and the CEO of the company I work for.

From now until May 15, I'll be donating $5 to Code2040 for every harassing tweet I receive as part of this campaign. (I am the final arbiter of which tweets are harassing and are part of this campaign, for the purpose of this fundraiser.) I'll make the final donation after May 15 and post receipts. Donations will be matched quadruply by an anonymous donor who will match up to $100; bcjbcjbcj, who will match up to $250; and cbeckpdx, who will match up to $150. That means the first 20 harassing tweets (I've gotten 4 so far) will count for $20 each, the next 10 will count for $15 each, the next 20 will count for $10 each, and all remaining tweets up to May 15 will count for $5 each.

What better way to deal with white supremacist harassment than to support Black and Latin@ programmers? Let me know if you'd like to match donations as well.

Thanks to Kelly Ellis for the idea.