Welcome to Spread Thunderbird! You are our marketing department -- a diverse community of people tired of email overload, spam, viruses, identity theft, and software that just doesn't work. You have a vision of the 21st century of how we can better communicate and we can not let monopolies dictate what that looks like.

We'll provide the tools, but you will drive campaigns that will be rolled out here over the coming months. In that vein, Spread Thunderbird ("stb") follows the Mozilla community tradition:

• The community built Thunderbird (as it has Firefox). Over the last 10 years, thousands of individuals from around the world have invested countless hours to develop Thunderbird and the technologies it is built on. Hundreds of thousands of people already participate in Mozilla communities such as SpreadFirefox, Bugzilla, MozillaZine, and MozDev.
• The community is spreading the word about Thunderbird. Millions of people are already using Thunderbird. Thousands of websites already link to our Thunderbird page. People are deploying Thunderbird in Government, Large and Small Business, and at school.
• This site itself is a community effort, programmed and designed by volunteers using an open source community platform called Drupal.

We hope you'll bear with us as we ramp up development of this site in the coming months. In the future, Spread Thunderbird will coordinate a series of volunteer efforts to promote Thunderbird, and run campaigns to focus our community's energy on very tangible, specific goals.

This is just a beta, and there are still validation errors and bugs on the site, so make sure to let us know if something's not working right or if you have ideas for cool new features.

Register, sign in, and spread the word by adding a Thunderbird promo line to your email signature and one of our buttons to your web site (or your personal new Spread Thunderbird blog).

Each time someone clicks on your link, you'll get a point, so you'll be able to see how much impact you're making.
We highlight and publicize the ten most successful promoters in the "roll call" in the green bar on the right.

In the future, prizes and pronounced placement on the wildly popular Mozilla website will offer additional motivation to bump yourself into the top ten. We also intend to beef up our referral tracking and award points for many other things besides referrals, such as donations and active participation in one of our marketing teams.

Thanks and let's get to work!

The Spread Thunderbird team --

Jamey, Ken, Paul, Rafael, Ian