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

[Caroline Meeks]

This is pretty interesting.

I'd hate to put a bunch of energy in and fail though.  We are on a good
string of successes.  Should we keep this idea till we have a bigger user
base?  If my kid was using Sugar I might do this, but as a casual visitor
trying it I probably wouldn't.



On Wed, Apr 29, 2009 at 8:41 AM, Sean DALY <sdaly.be at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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