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

[Sean DALY]

in fact I'm not suggesting it, just pointing to it :-)

Sean


On Thu, Apr 30, 2009 at 2:14 PM, Caroline Meeks
<caroline at solutiongrove.com> wrote:
> 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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