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Back in 2015 Gratipay hosted it’s second ever retreat; the idea was a full weekend of hacking and building with all of our normally-remote members of the team.
by clone1018 9y ago
Back in 2015 Gratipay hosted it’s second ever retreat; the idea was a full weekend of hacking and building with all of our normally-remote members of the team. The thing you need to know about Chad is he is exceptional at bringing people together and spreading his passion. I arrived a bit early to the retreat and was tasked by Chad to cook dinner. It sounded easy enough; I need to make dinner for 10 or so people, something easy like sandwiches would work right? That was when Chad brought out the giant oven-sized dutch oven, I couldn’t believe we would be making so much food for 10 people! I was peeling potatoes for hours! Turns out that night we fed over 50 amazing people from Chad’s life. All of his friends, neighbors, churchgoers, family, peers, and even random people he had inspired at the local pub.
And every time I hung out with Chad it was like this, people from all over the world, in all sorts of backgrounds and difficulties made it a point to be Chad’s friend.
Chad, you may think you didn’t get to change the world with Gratipay, but you did, you are the catalyst that will change the world for the better. Thank you.
- dorfsmay 9y agoThanks for confirming something I suspected. During the crisis a few years ago, everything I read about him seems to point that he is a reasonable person and coming from the right place, with the right intention. I had a major issue how people ganged up on him. There were lists circulated at the time calling people to block anybody who was following him on twitter etc... (got blocked by several people because of this, took me a while to figure out why).
- bitL 9y agoIt's pretty common to see psychopaths gang up on people threatening their ways, such as pure altruists. Heck, the whole mankind history is about it. Don't be surprised if that was the reason he was targeted.
- stillkicking 9y agoChad linking to Geek Feminism Wiki to explain the "Gittip Crisis" is a testament to how effective the disinformation was, as that page repeats the lies used to whip up the crowd against him in the first place, including misrepresenting discussion on this very site: >Shortly thereafter, Chad Whitacre, the founder of gittip, responded positively to (CW: Hacker News) a comment on Hacker News calling gittip "a joke dominated by professional victims" because women use it. Actual comment: >Yelling on Twitter and demonizing men for existing is not "promoting empathy and equality". Begging for legal money for your civil lawsuit is not "sustainable crowd funding" (hint: what is she being sued for? it doesn't say.). Sorry Gittip, but your site has turned into a joke dominated by professional victims. It was never about women, and always about how "women in tech" is a glaringly obvious smokescreen to funnel money from real contributors to posers and grievance mongers. A gold star if you can guess which notorious "women in tech" activist this was about.
- whit537 9y agoDeep breath, man. I've finally reached a place where I can let others tell their side of that story without feeling threatened by it. I worked hard to get to this point! Don't you go internalizing bad feelings on my behalf! :)
- chx 9y agohttps://medium.com/@jwisser/i-resent-you-f264182d5fcd https://medium.com/@jwisser/i-resent-you-f264182d5fcd
- zeveb 9y agoI just visited the wiki page in question … wow, that's an extraordinarily toxic take on a situation.
- whit537 9y agoYou're a dork, clone1018. You're making me tear up over here! :~) xoxo
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- colindean 9y agoI'll never forget the retreat!