[Goal] Over 3,500 unwitting attendees of this week's #OSCON need to be warned about harasser Randi Harper (/r/KiA xpost) TL;DR: Notorious Internet troll Randi Harper is speaking this week on "anti-harassment" at a very large conference (3,500 attendees) sponsored by prominent technology companies. Let's make sure that attendees and sponsors know what O'Reilly won't tell them about one of their featured speakers by tweeting details of Randi's shenanigans to #OSCON. Perhaps next time conference organizers will properly vet their speakers to avoid embarrassment. I just wanted to remind everyone that on Thursday Randi Harper will be giving a presentation, ironically titled "Open sourcing anti-harassment tools", at O'Reilly's OSCON, a conference sponsored include IBM, PayPal, HP and other tech giants and expected to attract over 3,500 attendees. Given the fervent opposition to online harassment that I've seen from my fellow #GamerGate supporters over the past year, I'm sure that many of you as are as horrified as I am at the prospect of thousands of innocent people potentially being put in the line of fire of Randi's famously mean-spirited attacks. Although OSCON was notified of Randi's antics when news of her speaking engagement became public last month, they chose to ignore the evidence, instead of taking seriously their obligation to their attendee's well-being.  Adding insult to injury, a statement by @joshsimmons dismissed those who had raised concerns as "trolls": http://www.oscon.com/open-source-2015/public/content/2015/06/09-civil-conduct-at-oscon-and-online They followed this statement up with a fawning "interview" in their online magazine in which they didn't ask Randi a single question about her atrocious behavior: http://opensource.com/life/15/7/interview-randi-harper-online-abuse-prevention-initiative As bad as it is that OSCON refused to reconsider their invitation, or at least warn attendees of the risk they face, in an even more shocking display of callousness they have refused to provide a safe space where traumatized conference-goers can recover from any unpleasant encounters with her. Obviously the only course of action available to us in the face of this much potential suffering is to take to the #OSCON hashtag on Twitter to warn as many people as people possible of the danger they face. We may not be able to reach everyone, but if we can warn just one person and spare them a lifetime of therapy as a result, it will be well worth it. The conference starts tomorrow and runs until Friday. Detailed information including the list of sponsors, can be found at http://www.oscon.com. Details about Randi's talk can be found here: http://www.oscon.com/open- source-2015/public/schedule/speaker/180948. I suggest including the sponsors' names and logos in your tweets to let people know which companies are promoting online harassment. Here are some links to some resources about Randi's misbehavior, such as Milo's just concluded series of articles, Ralph's followup, and Stephanie Greene's series from a few months ago. Please post links to other resources, such as blogs, articles, images, etc., which you think are worth posting to the #OSCON hashtag, in the comments. http://www.breitbart.com/big-journalism/2015/06/29/harping-on-the-hypocrisy-and-lies-of-twitters-most-notorious-anti-abuse-activist-randi-harper-part-1/ http://www.breitbart.com/big-hollywood/2015/07/02/the-fact-and-fiction-of-randi-harper/ http://www.breitbart.com/big-journalism/2015/07/21/feminist-champion-randi-harper-in-her-own-words-stop-making-everything-a-gender-issue/ http://theralphretort.com/pill-popping-meth-head-randi-harper-put-on-blast-by-milo-plus-exclusive-follow-up-7021015/ http://s2b20blog.mukyou.com/hidden-face-hypocrisy-randi-harper/ http://s2b20blog.mukyou.com/the-hidden-face-of-hypocrisy-randi-harper-part-2/ http://s2b20blog.mukyou.com/the-hidden-face-of-hypocrisy-randi-harper-part-3/ http://s2b20blog.mukyou.com/blocked-silencing-public-opinion/ https://www.reddit.com/r/KotakuInAction/comments/3chxig/drama_antigg_are_claiming_that_randi_harper_never/ https://www.reddit.com/r/KotakuInAction/comments/3dkrs6/randi_is_ruining_freebsd_bring_out_the_popcorn/ https://www.reddit.com/r/KotakuInAction/comments/3da84p/sjw_antiharassment_software_developer_randi_lee/