[Marketing] Fwd: Adopt a Line of Miro Code!

[Sean DALY]

In the USA thirty years ago the highways in my state were bordered
with grass full of litter and garbage, and nobody wanted to finance
cleaning up the mess.

So the Adopt-a-Highway program was born: a company would adopt a mile
with an open-ended commitment and get a little sign at the begiining
of the mile: "This mile adopted by Joe's Hardware Store"

now Miro is trying this model... virtually

Sean


---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Nicholas Reville <feedback at pculture.org>
Date: Wed, Apr 29, 2009 at 2:35 PM
Subject: Adopt a Line of Miro Code!
To: sdaly.be at gmail.com






Dear Miro Supporter,

While we are hard at work on Miro 2.1, I have something very important
to ask from you. Over the past few months, we've seen the number of
Miro users triple with the release of Miro 2.0. But at the same time,
the foundations that fund non-profit organizations like ours have seen
their endowments drop dramatically as the stock market has declined.
Miro is facing a very serious budget challenge this year but we want
to use this moment to permanently turn our funding model on its head.

I want to ask you to support a little piece of Miro by adopting a line
of our open-source code. This has never been done before! The 'source
code' is what makes Miro run, there are about 46,258 lines of it; if
you can take on just one line of this code, together we can continue
growing Miro and building a better, more open media world.

To make this possible, we have created the all-new and very cute Miro
Adoption Center, where you can adopt a line of code for just $4 a
month. When you adopt, you'll get: an official adoption page, a cute
image of your line of code (watch it grow over the year), badges for
your blog or website, and your name will be listed in the 'about' box
in every copy of Miro (more than 5 million a year and growing).

Can you take a moment to adopt a little piece of Miro?

This might be the most important thing we have ever asked from you.
Please give it a try!

Sincerely,

nicholas
miro co-founder

p.s. If you have any questions about what source code is or how the
adoptions work, check out the Adoption Center and the Adoption FAQ.

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