Please join me in helping making the Python community better by supporting the Ada Initiative.

Last year, the Python community raised $10,000 for the Ada Initiative. This year I am betting we can beat that record and raise $20,000! Carl Meyer, Alex Gaynor, Jim Meyer, and I are pledging to match up to $10,000 in donations from the Python community; please join us in donating!

Update: Minutes after we annonunced this, Jim Meyer offered an additional $2,500, bringing the match total to $10,000! Thanks, Jim!

I believe deeply in the importance of gender equality, yet I work in open source, a community with shockingly few women. The Ada Initiative is working together with people like me to bring more women into open source - and we’re succeeding. That’s why I’m challenging the Python community to help me raise $10,000: I’ll match any donations from the Python community to the Ada Initiative up to a maximum of $5,000.