The Azimuth Climate Data Backup Project is backing up 40 terabytes of US government climate data and copying it to a number of locations, to protect it from all possible threats.
It's going well! Our Kickstarter campaign ended on January 31st and the money has recently reached us. Our original goal was $5000. We got $20,427 of donations, and after Kickstarter took its cut we received $18,590.96.
Soon I'll tell you what our project has actually been doing — lots of good news. Right here I just want to give a huge "thank you!" to all 627 people who contributed money on Kickstarter.
I recently sent out thank you notes to everyone, updating them on our progress and asking if they wanted their names listed. The blanks in the following list represent people who either didn't reply, didn't want their names listed, or backed out and decided not to give money. I'll list people in chronological order: first contributors first.
Only 12 people backed out; the vast majority of blanks on this list are people who haven't replied to my email. I noticed some interesting but obvious patterns. For example, people who contributed later are less likely to have answered my email. People who contributed more money were more likely to answer my email.
The magnitude of contributions ranged from $2000 to $1. A few people offered to help in other ways. The response was international — this was really heartwarming! People from the US were more likely than others to ask not to be listed.
But instead of continuing to list statistical patterns, let me just thank everyone who contributed. Here's the list! (I'll keep updating this list on the Azimuth blog, but not here.)
Daniel Estrada
Ahmed Amer
Saeed Masroor
Jodi Kaplan
John Wehrle
Bob Calder
Andrea Borgia
L Gardner
Uche Eke
Keith Warner
Dean Kalahan
James Benson
Dianne Hackborn
Walter Hahn
Thomas Savarino
Noah Friedman
Eric Willisson
Jeffrey Gilmore
John Bennett
Glenn McDavid
Brian Turner
Peter Bagaric
Martin Dahl Nielsen
Broc Stenman
Gabriel Scherer
Roice Nelson
Felipe Pait
Kenneth Hertz
Luis Bruno
Andrew Lottmann
Alex Morse
Mads Bach Villadsen
Noam Zeilberger
Buffy Lyon
Josh Wilcox
Danny Borg
Krishna Bhogaonker
Harald Tveit Alvestrand
Tarek A. Hijaz, MD
Jouni Pohjola
Chavdar Petkov
Markus Jöbstl
Bjørn Borud
Sarah G
William Straub
Frank Harper
Carsten Führmann
Rick Angel
Drew Armstrong
Jesimpson
Valeria de Paiva
Ron Prater
David Tanzer
Rafael Laguna
Miguel Esteves dos Santos
Sophie Dennison-Gibby
Randy Drexler
Peter Haggstrom
Jerzy Micha? Pawlak
Santini Basra
Jenny Meyer
John Iskra
Bruce Jones
M?ris Ozols
Everett Rubel
Mike D
Manik Uppal
Todd Trimble
Federer Fanatic
Forrest Samuel, Harmos Consulting
Annie Wynn
Norman and Marcia Dresner
Daniel Mattingly
James W. Crosby
Jennifer Booth
Greg Randolph
Dave and Karen Deeter
Sarah Truebe
Jeffrey Salfen
Birian Abelson
Logan McDonald
Brian Truebe
Jon Leland
Sarah Lim
James Turnbull
John Huerta
Katie Mandel Bruce
Bethany Summer
Anna Gladstone
Naom Hart
Aaron Riley
Giampiero Campa
Julie A. Sylvia
Pace Willisson
Bangskij
Peter Herschberg
Alaistair Farrugia
Conor Hennessy
Stephanie Mohr
Torinthiel
Lincoln Muri
Anet Ferwerda
Hanna
Michelle Lee Guiney
Ben Doherty
Trace Hagemann
Ryan Mannion
Penni and Terry O'Hearn
Brian Bassham
Caitlin Murphy
John Verran
Susan
Alexander Hawson
Fabrizio Mafessoni
Anita Phagan
Nicolas Acuña
Niklas Brunberg
Adam Luptak
V. Lazaro Zamora
Branford Werner
Niklas Starck Westerberg
Luca Zenti and Marta Veneziano
Ilja Preuß
Christopher Flint
George Read
Courtney Leigh
Katharina Spoerri
Daniel Risse
Hanna
Charles-Etienne Jamme
rhackman41
Jeff Leggett
RKBookman
Aaron Paul
Mike Metzler
Patrick Leiser
Melinda
Ryan Vaughn
Kent Crispin
Michael Teague
Ben
Fabian Bach
Steven Canning
Betsy McCall
John Rees
Mary Peters
Shane Claridge
Thomas Negovan
Tom Grace
Justin Jones
Jason Mitchell
Josh Weber
Rebecca Lynne Hanginger
Kirby
Dawn Conniff
Michael T. Astolfi
Kristeva
Erik
Keith Uber
Elaine Mazerolle
Matthieu Walraet
Linda Penfold
Lujia Liu
Keith
Samar Tareem
Henrik Almén
Michael Deakin
Erin Bassett
James Crook
Junior Eluhu
Dan Laufer
Carl
Robert Solovay
Silica Magazine
Leonard Saers
Alfredo Arroyo García
Larry Yu
John Behemonth
Eric Humphrey
Øystein Risan Borgersen
David Anderson Bell III
Ole-Morten Duesend
Adam North and Gabrielle Falquero
Robert Biegler
Qu Wenhao
Steffen Dittmar
Shanna Germain
Adam Blinkinsop
John WS Marvin (Dread Unicorn Games)
Bill Carter
Darth Chronis
Lawrence Stewart
Gareth Hodges
Colin Backhurst
Christopher Metzger
Rachel Gumper
Mariah Thompson
Falk Alexander Glade
Johnathan Salter
Maggie Unkefer
Shawna Maryanovich
Wilhelm Fitzpatrick
Dylan "ExoByte" Mayo
Lynda Lee
Scott Carpenter
Charles D, Payet
Vince Rostkowski
Tim Brown
Raven Daegmorgan
Zak Brueckner
Christian Page
Adi Shavit
Steven Greenberg
Chuck Lunney
Adriel Bustamente
Natasha Anicich
Bram De Bie
Edward L
Gray Detrick
Robert
Sarah Russell
Sam Leavin
Abilash Pulicken
Isabel Olondriz
James Pierce
James Morrison
April Daniels
José Tremblay Champagne
Chris Edmonds
Hans & Maria Cummings
Bart Gasiewiski
Andy Chamard
Andrew Jackson
Christopher Wright
ichimonji10
Alan Stern
Alison W
Dag Henrik Bråtane
Martin Nilsson
William Schrade