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. <div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Apr 29, 2009 at 8:41 AM, Sean DALY <<a href="http://sdaly.be">sdaly.be</a>@<a href="http://gmail.com">gmail.com</a>> wrote: <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> 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 <<a href="mailto:feedback@pculture.org">feedback@pculture.org</a>> Date: Wed, Apr 29, 2009 at 2:35 PM Subject: Adopt a Line of Miro Code! To: <a href="http://sdaly.be" target="_blank">sdaly.be</a>@<a href="http://gmail.com" target="_blank">gmail.com</a> 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. -- To stop receiving emails from us, click this link powered by phplist v 2.10.9, © tincan ltd _______________________________________________ Marketing mailing list <a href="mailto:Marketing@lists.sugarlabs.org">Marketing@lists.sugarlabs.org</a> <a href="http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/marketing" target="_blank">http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/marketing</a> </blockquote></div> -- Caroline Meeks Solution Grove Caroline@SolutionGrove.com 617-500-3488 - Office 505-213-3268 - Fax