We love free software as well, and in 2008 we released both inkscapegallery and gimpgallery for the community of artists who use Inkscape and The Gimp as a real alternative to the proprietary ones.
We support a lot of projects who struggles to keep the world more open and more accessible to everyone.
We had a small worry anyway.
We are a microcompany, and have no one who pay attention to us, directly. It is very hard to be heard if you are that small.
But then in the late 2009 we came across this very promising Mozilla project: Mozilla Drumbeat (here's the wiki).
For sure, Mozilla Foundation has a great appeal in the world. And let's speak clear: they are probably the only success story in this sense.
I mean to common people. The only comparable example that comes in my mind is Ubuntu. But it's not that widespread.
After a short while, as our nature was to help innovating the web in a open way, we started cooperating and participating.
It's not really interesting what we are doing for them. You can figure it out by yourself, this is no advertising for us. It's great what Drumbeat could represent for the whole world.
But if we still call it "very promising" is because of you.
Yes, you. That's because every open project, every single project who needs to reach a critical mass, people have to be involved. But there's more here. You have to be a steward for the open web.
You have to spread it, help it growing, innovate it.
It will be our duty to create a community that will be that strong and that involving so that it's going to grow by itself.
It will be our delight to use all the social networking websites to spread the word as much as we can, to go beyond the website concept, and to go towards a social website approach.
But still, we're going to need you, to help it growing.
