European campaign for Firefox advert raises ‚€48,000
Howard Lake | 10 December 2004 | News
An online campaign to raise funds for a newspaper advert promoting the open source Firefox Web browser in Europe has raised over ‚€48,000.
The income was used to publish a full-page advert in the business section of the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung in Germany on 2 December 2004. The advert was the first publicly-funded advert for open source software in Europe.
The online campaign secured donations from 2,403 people, and exceeded its target by ‚€10,000. This surplus was donated to Mozilla Europe, the European affiliate of the Mozilla Foundation.
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The European appeal follows a US campaign in October 2004 which raised over $250,000 online in 10 days to pay for an advert in the New York Times.
About Howard Lake
Howard Lake is consultant editor of UK Fundraising. He founded the site in 1994 and successfully sold it in 2022. As director of Giving X Ltd he is exploring growing giving on a massive scale.
He is the founder of Fundraising Camp and co-founder of GoodJobs.