Spreading Firefox in Europe
I don’t know if you’re serious, Asa, but this is a fantastic idea. I’m not sure what kind of prize you can give to a whole country (a new gas pipeline?) or who exactly we would give it to, but a contest for the first European country to cross the 50% mark could potentially get us a ton of publicity here in Europe. I can totally see the Czech press writing about this and vaunting our not entirely ridiculous 36.6%. I don’t think that most people realize how exceptionally successful Firefox has been in Europe, and this could help greatly to get the word out.
Perhaps the best kind of prize would be virtual: a congratulatory banner on mozilla.com for a week or something. I’m not really in a position to be more than a cheerleader for this (though we could help with Czech press contacts) but I hope someone who is will pick up the ball and run with this.
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That’s a fantastic suggestion Matt. “This week, your free Firefox download is brought to you by the country of [Slovenia/Finland].” We’ll noodle on this, but thanks.
Comment by Paul Kim — 7/18/2007 @ 12:23 am
I am spreading FF as hard as I can, pushing FF to everyone I know. Only few Opera guys resisted so far (and good for them
… Go go go Firefox in Czech Rep.
Comment by Josef Sábl — 7/18/2007 @ 11:28 am
The Netherlands would never win that… We’ve got a lot of open source contributors, but very few users
Comment by Vincent — 7/18/2007 @ 1:01 pm
I think that at the very least a celebration would be in order. I’ve sugested it on spread firefox. But I don’t think one forum post by one user will be enough to get the process going. Lend a hand please.
http://www.spreadfirefox.com/node/28308
lp
U5K0
Comment by U5K0 — 9/12/2007 @ 6:18 pm