The organizers of LambdaConf, now in its third year, describe it as “one of the largest, most diverse gatherings of functional programmers in the world”. This year, it selected Curtis Yarvin as a speaker—a man known as a founder and advocate of an ideological movement that promotes racist bigotry, and as an apologist for slavery.



Yarvin's selection as a speaker says to marginalized people that their humanity is considered merely another matter for debate. LambdaConf cannot live up to its goal of being a “friendly community of like-minded souls” when it does not protect current and potential members of that community who are vulnerable to those who would deny their humanity.



We believe that functional programming should warmly welcome those who have been systemically excluded from participating in programming communities. We strongly object to LambdaConf's actions, which are a step backwards as we work together to share functional programming with a wide audience.



April 8th, 2016





Joseph Abrahamson (LambdaConf 2015 speaker)

Andy Adams-Moran

Carlo Angiuli (Carnegie Mellon University)

Mario Aquino (co-organizer of Strange Loop, The Climate Corporation)

Morgan Astra

Lennart Augustsson

Timothy Baldridge (developer at Cognitect)

Gershom Bazerman (co-organizer Compose Conference, LambdaConf 2015 speaker)

Josh Bohde

James Brechtel

Travis Brown (Typelevel)

Kevin Burke

Harold Carr (LambdaConf 2014, 2015 speaker)

Chris C Cerami

Manuel Chakravarty (UNSW Australia; Haskell language, libraries & tools contributor)

Tim Chevalier

Kat Chuang (co-organizer Compose Conference)

Athan Clark

Alex Clemmer (Microsoft, !!Con co-founder)

Declan Conlon

Laurence E. Day (Haskell developer, Standard Chartered Bank)

Reid Draper (Helium)

Richard Eisenberg (U. of Pennsylvania, GHC implementor, LambdaConf 2015 speaker)

Mark Farrell (LambdaConf 2015 speaker)

Richard Feldman (LambdaConf 2015 speaker)

Jonathan Fischoff

Adam Foltzer (Galois; Haskell.org Committee; LambdaConf 2015 speaker)

Kenneth Foner (U. of Pennsylvania, co-organizer Hac Phi)

Phil Freeman (PureScript; speaker, LambdaConf 2014, 2015)

Harry Garrood

Gabriel Gonzalez

Austin Haas

Coda Hale

Elana Hashman

Pat Hickey (Helium)

Jenn Hillner (Cognitect)

Libby Horacek (Position Development)

John D. Hume

Juan Pedro Villa Isaza (Stack Builders)

Dan Peebles

Ranjit Jhala (University of California, San Diego; LambdaConf 2015 speaker)

Joseph Kiniry (Research Lead, Galois; CEO and Chief Scientist, Free & Fair, LambdaConf 2015 contributor)

Edward Kmett (Haskell developer, HacBoston organizer)

Geoffery S. Knauth (Lifelong Friend of GNU)

Lindsey Kuper (Intel Labs; !!Con co-founder; ICFP Steering Committee member)

Justin Leitgeb (CTO & Co-Founder, Stack Builders)

Aaron Levin (SoundCloud)

Simon Marlow (co-author of the Glasgow Haskell Compiler)

Vincent Marquez (LambdaConf 2015/2016 speaker)

Chris Martens (UC Santa Cruz)

Conor McBride (Mathematically Structured Programming group, University of Strathclyde)

Andi McClure (LambdaConf 2015 speaker)

Bartosz Milewski (keynote speaker: LambdaCon 2015, LambdaDays 2016)

Alex Miller (Organizer of Strange Loop, Clojure team at Cognitect)

Richard Minerich (co-organizer Compose Conference, NYC F# User Group)

Adriaan Moors (Scala team lead at Lightbend)

Jared Morrow (Helium)

David Nolen (Cognitect)

Liam O’Connor (UNSW Australia)

Erik Osheim (Typelevel)

Daniel Patterson (member/owner, Position Development)

Greg Pfeil (SlamData)

Isaac Potoczny-Jones (Author of Haskell Cabal, Former Haskell Prime Chair)

Prabhakar Ragde (University of Waterloo)

Tavis Rudd (Unbounce; Polyglot Software Meetup & Conference)

Miles Sabin (Underscore Consulting and Typelevel)

Tom Santero (Helium; MoonConf co-organizer)

Kyle Schmidt

Austin Seipp (Glasgow Haskell Compiler maintainer, ATX Haskell founder)

Amar Shah (LambdaConf 2016 speaker - cancelled)

Chung-chieh Shan (Indiana University; Haskell Symposium steering committee chair)

Ghadi Shayban

Satnam Singh

Aditya Siram (LambdaConf 2016 speaker)

Leon P Smith

Jon Sterling (SlamData; PhD student, Carnegie Mellon University; LambdaConf 2015 speaker)

Bodil Stokke (LambdaConf 2016 keynote speaker - cancelled)

Asumu Takikawa (Racket developer)

Patrick Thomson (Helium)

Seth Tisue (Scala team at Lightbend)

José Manuel Calderón Trilla (Galois, Inc.)

Stew O’Connor (Typelevel, speaker: Lambdaconf 2015)

David Van Horn (University of Maryland)

Malcolm Wallace (Haskell developer at Standard Chartered Bank)

John Wiegley

Brent Yorgey (Hendrix College; former Haskell core library & Haskell.org committees)



Additional Signatories:



Colin Barrett, 4/9/2016

Rob Rix (GitHub, Inc.), 04/09/16

Morgan Chen, 4/9/2016

It occurs to me that it will be helpful to begin compiling a list of confirmed SJWs , both for those who work for SJW-converged organizations and want to add to their collection as well as for those who wish to keep their organizations free of the creatures.In either case, it will be useful to know if an individual is an advocate of an ideological movement that promotes the politicization of the workplace, insists that all individuals and organizations make social justice their primary objective, and seeks to disemploy or no-platform everyone who rejects their principles or refuses to submit to their ever-shifting Narrative.Here is a useful start To this list we can add obvious SJWs such as Anita Sarkeesian, John Flynt aka Brianna Wu (SpaceKat), Jack Dorsey (Twitter), Amber Scott (Beamdog), Dee Pennyway (Beamdog).If you know others, add them in the comments and eventually we'll create a PDF that can be distributed with the SJW Attack Survival Guide.

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