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Over 700,000 pledges and counting!
A huge thanks to everyone for pledging and helping spread the word! We’ve exceeded 700,000 pledges to help set a Guinness World Record in less than a week!
Our dedicated community got to work quickly to support the effort from all corners of the globe. Some highlights include:
- Over 16,000 people have joined the “Firefox World Record” Facebook group
- Abdul Azis of Indonesia created a Facebook application
- The team from Mozilla-Mexico created a “how-to” for registering a Firefox 3/Download Day party and is furiously spreading the word!
- Mattijs De Smedt of Belgium developed a Wordpress plugin
- Ehsan Akhgari took upon himself to track pledges vs. region populations
I could go on and on about all the great work everyone is doing! Please post a comment if you’ve heard of any other cool things people are up too. We’d like to continue highlighting all the hard work.
Keep it up!
Set a Firefox World Record!
The New York Times ad…Firefox Flicks…the Firefox crop circle…Operation Firefox…you name it! The Firefox community is always up to some cool, collaborative way to declare their passion for Firefox. What better way to do this than band together to set a Guinness World Record for the most software downloaded in 24 hours?!
It’s a whole lot easier and safer than donning a beard of bees or underwater jump roping. All you have to do is download Firefox 3 when it goes live on Download Day — some time in June. In the meantime check out Download Day Headquarters and pledge to download Firefox 3. We’ll let you know when Firefox 3 goes out the door, kicking off our 24-hour attempt.
Here are some other ways you can help in the run up to Download Day:
* Get the word out; tell your friends, your neighbors, your grandma, anyone and everyone to participate in Download Day.
* Host a party to download Firefox; you provide the people and we’ll provide the party favors.
* Put a Download Day badge on your blog, profile or website.
With your help the Firefox community can go down in history! If you have any questions or ideas please drop us a line at worldrecord @ mozilla.com.
FireFox Vietnam
Firefox en España - Firefox in Spain
ESPAÑOL:
Promovamos el uso de Firefox en España! Usa este grupo para compartir tus ideas para unir fuerzas y promover el marketing de Firefox en España. Pensemos en ideas para hacer que todos los españoles usen Firefox.
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ENGLISH:
SPREAD FIREFOX FREEDOM YVELINES
"LIBERTE - EGALITE - FRATERNITE" on connait le refrain! C'est pire ailleurs? C'est certain... Ce n'est pas pour cela qu'il faille faire sans oxygène, ou le restreindre. La Vie ne se crée qu'avec lui, et la liberté dans le monde du "logiciel libre". D'autres en ont mieux parlé... Tout reste à faire... GO!
Obrigado Brasil!
Update courtesy of Ronaldo Lemos: 7,400 people attended FISL!
Mitchell Baker, Chris Hofmann, Chris Blizzard, Taras Glek, Marcio Galli and myself just wrapped up an amazing visit to Porto Alegre for FISL, Brazil’s largest open source conference. The conference drew over 6,000 people from Brazil, Argentina, Portugal, Angola and more! I wanted to extend a huge thank you to Bruno Magrani, Ronaldo Lemos, Mario Rinaldi, Clauber Stipkovic Halic, Giullermo Movia of Argentina, Felipe Gomes, Antonio Gomes, Andre Pedralho, Fernando Silveira, Marcelo Terres, Juliano Bittencourt and everyone else who helped make our experience so great!
Some of the highlights:
- We met many, many, many passionate Firefox users. In fact, 6,000 of them and not nearly enough Firefox t-shirts to go around. You can imagine the stampede!
- Our Brazilian contributors helped conduct a workshop on the various ways to get involved with Firefox and Mozilla. Despite the heat and far off location we had a great showing of people. Stay tuned for video!
- In line with the Brazilian culture, we had a great community party to thank our Brazilian contributors and get to know some new people.
- Juliano Bittencourt of the One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) project took us to a local deployment where we met students who’ve been enjoying, customizing and learning with the computers. It was pretty amazing to see OLPC project coming to life.
It was great to see all the contribution that is going on in Brazil and to meet new volunteers. Thanks for the hard work!
Alô, alô Mozilla, aquele abraço!
Editor’s Note: I’d like to share a guest post from Ronaldo Lemos and Bruno Magrani of the Center for Technology & Society at FGV Law School, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
Bruno Magrani
Next week, Mozilla will participate in the 9th Fórum Internacional do Software Livre (International Free Software Forum - FISL) in Porto Alegre, Brazil. This is the second time that Mozilla will be in Brazil on an “official” visit. This time, the group includes Mitchell Baker (Mozilla’s Chairperson), Chris Blizzard, Marcio Galli, Mary Colvig, Taras Glek and Chris Hofmann. In their visit, they will be in touch with a vibrant and growing community of free software users, developers and enthusiasts. This is a great opportunity both for Mozilla and for the Brazilian community to get together and work with Firefox and other initiatives that promote the core values of the net, including openness and freedom.
Ronaldo Lemos and I have been helping support Mozilla’s presence here in Brazil and at FISL. This is not the first time that our institution, the Center for Technology & Society at the FGV Law School in Rio de Janeiro has participated in the Forum. We’ve worked closely with FISL in the past few years and we launched the Brazilian branch of the Creative Commons project at the Forum in March 2004. This was an unforgettable event, I believe both for us, and for the more than 1,500 participants attending the launch, anxious to hear Minister Gilberto Gil, Marcelo Tas, Terry Fisher, Lawrence Lessig, Luis Nassif, André Midani, Claudio Prado, Joaquim Falcão, and so many others who care a lot about the future of the internet. A video of the launch can be watched here.
This year we are very happy to be back again at the Free Software Forum (this will be our 4th year at the event). Besides organizing/participating in a few panels, we will be there to support Mozilla´s visit the best way we can, including their workshop. We are very honored to do this, especially because we believe Mozilla will find in Brazil a place where not only we share common values, but also, put them into practice, thanks to our natural “tropicalist” mindset, and to the fact that the meaning of “openness” is very strong for us. One symbol of that is the fact that President Lula is expected at the Forum this year, and Brazil is well-known worldwide for its support of free software and free culture. Without further ado, we look forward to a great conference and Mozilla visit!
Join us for Mozilla’s first Support Day!
The Firefox Support team (support.mozilla.com, or SUMO for short) would like to invite you to our first SUMO day! This Friday, starting at 7 AM PDT, we’ll be hosting a day all about getting to know SUMO and learning how to use our site to help other Firefox users enjoy their favorite browser.
If you haven’t already, this is a great opportunity for you to get involved with Mozilla, regardless of your interests or expertise. We need people to write articles, create screenshots, correct spelling and grammar, answer people’s questions in the forum, or interact directly with Firefox users in live chat — just to name a few of the many ways you could help us out. Even if you’re just curious to learn more about the project and don’t really plan on participating, we’d be really excited to have you joining us on Friday.
Of course, we’d be even more thrilled if you stayed with us throughout the Firefox 3 launch, which is going to be an exciting event for the SUMO project. Have a look at the SUMO Day home page for more information and please pop by on Friday!