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diff --git a/web/faq.cgi b/web/faq.cgi
index 928c49834..4e3ce614e 100755
--- a/web/faq.cgi
+++ b/web/faq.cgi
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@
# Copyright (c) 2006 UK Citizens Online Democracy. All rights reserved.
# Email: matthew@mysociety.org. WWW: http://www.mysociety.org
#
-# $Id: faq.cgi,v 1.30 2008-05-13 12:39:17 matthew Exp $
+# $Id: faq.cgi,v 1.31 2008-05-15 16:09:52 matthew Exp $
use strict;
use Standard -db;
@@ -15,7 +15,11 @@ use Standard -db;
sub main {
my $q = shift;
print Page::header($q, title=>_('FAQ'));
- print faq($q);
+ if ($q->{site} eq 'emptyhomes') {
+ print emptyhomes_faq($q);
+ } else {
+ print faq($q);
+ }
print Page::footer($q);
}
Page::do_fastcgi(\&main);
@@ -130,3 +134,73 @@ Let us know if we’ve missed anyone.'))
return $out;
}
+sub emptyhomes_faq {
+ my $q = shift;
+ my $out = $q->h1('Frequently Asked Questions');
+ $out .= $q->dl(
+ $q->dt('What is this site for?'),
+ $q->dd('This site is to help provide a public record of
+empty properties in Great Britain. It expands upon our telephone hotline
+for empty homes in the London area, and allows local authorities, related
+organisations and the public to view reported empty homes and update
+their status, and report new empty properties.'),
+ $q->dt(_('How do I use the site?')),
+ $q->dd(_('After entering a postcode or location, you are presented
+with a map of that area. You can view problems already reported in that area,
+or report ones of your own simply by clicking on the map at the location of
+the problem.')),
+ $q->dt('Is it free?'),
+ $q->dd('The site is free to use, yes. The Empty Homes Agency is
+a registered charity, though, so if you want to make a contribution,
+please do.'),
+ $q->dt(_('Do you remove silly or illegal content?')),
+ $q->dd(_('We reserve the right to remove any reports or updates
+which we consider to be inappropriate.')),
+ );
+ $out .= $q->h2(_('Privacy Questions'));
+ $out .= $q->dl(
+ $q->dt('Who gets to see my email address?'),
+ $q->dd('If you submit an empty property, your details are obviously provided to us.
+Your name is displayed upon the site if you let us, but not your email address;
+similarly with updates. We will never give or sell your email address to
+anyone else, unless we are obliged to by law.'),
+ $q->dt('Will you send nasty, brutish spam to my email address?'),
+ $q->dd('Never. We\'ll only ever send you emails in relation to your
+problem. You can opt in to receive emails about updates to a particular
+problem.')
+ );
+ $out .= $q->h2(_('Organisation Questions'));
+ $out .= $q->dl(
+ $q->dt('Who built this site?'),
+ $q->dd('This site was built by <a href="http://www.mysociety.org/">mySociety</a>.
+mySociety is the project of a registered charity which has grown out of the community of
+volunteers who built sites like <a href="http://www.theyworkforyou.com/">TheyWorkForYou</a>.
+mySociety&rsquo;s primary mission is to build Internet projects which give people simple, tangible
+benefits in the civic and community aspects of their lives. Our first project
+was <a href="http://www.writetothem.com/">WriteToThem</a>, where you can write to any of your
+elected representatives, for free.
+<a href="https://secure.mysociety.org/donate/">Donate to mySociety</a>'),
+ $q->dt(_('Where&rsquo;s the "source code" to this site?')),
+ $q->dd(_('The software behind this site is open source, and available
+to you mainly under the GNU Affero GPL software license. You can <a
+href="https://secure.mysociety.org/cvstrac/dir?d=mysociety">download the
+source code</a> (look under &lsquo;bci&rsquo;) and help us develop it.
+You&rsquo;re welcome to use it in your own projects, although you must also
+make available the source code to any such projects.')),
+ $q->dt(_('People build things, not organisations. Who <em>actually</em> built it?')),
+ $q->dd(_('This adaptation of FixMyStreet was written by Matthew Somerville.
+Thanks go to
+<a href="http://www.ordnancesurvey.co.uk">Ordnance Survey</a> (for the maps,
+UK postcodes, and UK addresses &ndash; data &copy; Crown copyright, all
+rights reserved, Ministry of Justice 100037819&nbsp;2008),
+Yahoo! for their BSD-licensed JavaScript libraries, the entire free software
+community (this particular project was brought to you by Perl, PostgreSQL,
+and the number 161.290) and <a
+href="http://www.easynet.net/publicsector/">Easynet</a> (who kindly host all
+our servers).
+
+Let us know if we&rsquo;ve missed anyone.'))
+ );
+ return $out;
+}
+