Community Firefox ad in The New York Times
The Mozilla Foundation plans to run a full-page Firefox ad in The New York Times soon after the launch of Firefox 1.0. Spread Firefox is asking for donations to fund the ad and expenses related to the 1.0 launch.
All donors' names will be included in the ad. In addition to creating an incentive to donate, this strengthens the ad by showing that it was paid for by a large community rather than a corporation. (Why don't more political and non-profit ads do the same thing?)
I donated today. If ten readers donate through my donation link, I will be listed as a Community Champion instead of just a donor.
October 19th, 2004 at 5:49 am
They don’t accept PayPal :(
October 19th, 2004 at 5:49 am
can we use a domain as a name? or is that even a good idea?
October 19th, 2004 at 5:52 am
“Individual, verifiable names only. Company names, URLs and false names will be removed.”
bahh humbug..
October 19th, 2004 at 6:14 am
Dennis: It says on the form that they do accept paypal, never tried it though. I paid by visa :)
October 19th, 2004 at 7:21 am
one down ;)
October 19th, 2004 at 8:09 am
Heh, sneaky, that PayPal option wasn’t there, when I checked before.
But anyway, I donated $10 (student), through Jesse’s link! :)
October 19th, 2004 at 8:25 am
I donated $10(student) via Jesse’s link, hehe
October 19th, 2004 at 9:57 am
Same, Student fee via Jesse’s link :)
October 19th, 2004 at 10:16 am
Also donated $10 as a student.
Wish I could donate more but, well, as a student…
Anyway, a nice feature of this whole campaign would be having your donation include (even if it meant increasing price by $5US) the edition in which the full page ad is printed. I live in Canada and while some major places like the Public Library receive copies of the NYT it would be nice to have my own.
Any ideas?
October 21st, 2004 at 11:01 pm
I’ve just donated via your link.
October 25th, 2004 at 9:54 pm
Cool, I just donated through your link.
Firefox and bookmarklets just seem to save the day!
October 29th, 2004 at 12:10 am
And another.
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