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-<% @title = "Credit where credit is due" %>
+<% @title = "Credit where credit's due" %>
<%= render :partial => 'sidebar' %>
-<h1 id="credits"><%= @title%> <a href="#credits">#</a> </h1>
+<div id="left_column_flip">
+ <h1 id="credits"><%= @title%></h1>
-<dl>
-
-<dt id="thanks">Which people made <%= site_name %>? <a href="#thanks">#</a> </dt>
-<dd>Oh, nearly everyone (and <a href="http://www.mysociety.org/helpus">maybe you too</a>)!
-<ul>
-<li>
- <a href="http://www.yrtk.org">Heather Brooke</a>
- (<a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2008/mar/29/houseofcommons.michaelmartin?gusrc=rss&amp;feed=worldnews">vampy!</a>) has
- been pushing the idea of a UK FOI archive for years now.
-</li>
-<li>
- Both Phil Rodgers and <a href="http://www.flourish.org/blog/">Francis Irving</a>
- entered it in a mySociety competition for ideas for public interest websites to build.
-</li>
-<li>
- <a href="http://www.mysociety.org/2006/09/27/the-mysociety-call-for-proposals-the-winner-and-runners-up/">It won</a>,
- and then Chris Lightfoot (<a href="http://mk.ucant.org/archives/000129.html">RIP :(</a>)
- thought up the wheeze of intercepting email responses to requests and
- automatically publishing them.
-</li>
-<li>
- Tom Steinberg got the cash to pay for the site from
- <a href="http://www.jrrt.org.uk/">a dead chocolate mogul</a> (<em>thank you!</em>) ...
-</li>
-<li>
- ... so that Francis Irving, Angie Ahl, Tommy Martin, Louise Crow, Matthew Somerville
- and Tom Steinberg could do the complex mixture of design and coding to build
- what you see today.
-</li>
-<li>
- Thanks particularly to Julian Todd (<a href="http://www.freesteel.co.uk/wpblog/">great blog!</a>),
- Francis Davey, and Etienne Pollard for using the site early on and giving
- feedback (and/or legal advice!), and also to all our other users and
- testers.
-</li>
-<li>
- The amazing team of volunteers who run the site, answer your support
- emails, maintain the database of public authorities and
- <a href="http://www.mysociety.org/2009/10/13/behind-whatdotheyknow/">so much more</a>.
- Thanks to John Cross, Ben Harris, Adam McGreggor, Alex Skene,
- Richard Taylor.
-</li>
-<li>
- Volunteers who have provided patches to the code - thanks Peter Collingbourne
- and Tony Bowden.
-</li>
-<li>
- Everyone who has helped look up FOI email addresses.
-</li>
-<li>
- We couldn't do any of this without those
- <a href="http://www.ukcod.org.uk/UKCOD_Trustees">crazy people</a> who volunteer,
- amongst many other things, to do the accounts and fill in our VAT return.
-</li>
-<li>
- Finally, all the officers and servants who have answered the many requests
- made through the site. Their diligence, patience and professionalism is
- what has actually made the information that you see here. Thank them for
- helping make Government more transparent.
-</li>
-</ul>
-You're all stars.
-</dd>
-
-<dt id="helpus">Can I help out? <a href="#helpus">#</a> </dt>
-<dd>
- <p>Yes please! We're built out of our supporters and volunteers.</p>
+ <dl>
+ <dt id="thanks">Who made WhatDoTheyKnow? <a href="#thanks">#</a> </dt>
+ <dd>Oh, nearly everyone (and <a href="http://www.mysociety.org/helpus">maybe you too</a>)!
<ul>
- <li>You can <a href="https://secure.mysociety.org/donate/">make a donation</a>. We're a registered charity.</li>
- <li>Help people find successful requests, and monitor performance of authorities, by
- <a href="/categorise/play">playing the categorisation game</a>. </li>
- <li>Find out FOI email addresses of <a href="/help/requesting#missing_body">authorities that we're missing</a>.</li>
- <li>Write a blog post about either <%= site_name %> or an interesting request that you've
- found. Post about it on a forum that you frequent. Tell friends about it.</li> <li>If you're
- a programmer, get the source code for our parent project, <a href="http://alaveteli.org">Alaveteli</a>
- and tell us about patches we can pull. It's made in Ruby on Rails.
- <li>Read more about <a href="http://www.mysociety.org/helpus/">volunteering with mySociety</a>.
+ <li>
+ <a href="http://www.yrtk.org">Heather Brooke</a>
+ (<a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2008/mar/29/houseofcommons.michaelmartin?gusrc=rss&amp;feed=worldnews">vampy!</a>) has
+ been pushing the idea of a UK FOI archive for years now.
+ </li>
+ <li>
+ Both Phil Rodgers and <a href="http://www.flourish.org/blog/">Francis Irving</a>
+ entered it in a mySociety competition for ideas for public interest websites to build.
+ </li>
+ <li>
+ <a href="http://www.mysociety.org/2006/09/27/the-mysociety-call-for-proposals-the-winner-and-runners-up/">It won</a>,
+ and then Chris Lightfoot (<a href="http://mk.ucant.org/archives/000129.html">RIP :(</a>)
+ thought up the wheeze of intercepting email responses to requests and
+ automatically publishing them.
+ </li>
+ <li>
+ Tom Steinberg got the cash to pay for the site from
+ <a href="http://www.jrrt.org.uk/">a dead chocolate mogul</a> (<em>thank you!</em>) ...
+ </li>
+ <li>
+ ... so that Francis Irving, Angie Ahl, Tommy Martin, Louise Crow, Matthew Somerville
+ and Tom Steinberg could do the complex mixture of design and coding to build
+ what you see today.
+ </li>
+ <li>
+ Thanks particularly to Julian Todd (<a href="http://www.freesteel.co.uk/wpblog/">great blog!</a>),
+ Francis Davey, and Etienne Pollard for using the site early on and giving
+ feedback (and/or legal advice!), and also to all our other users and
+ testers.
+ </li>
+ <li>
+ The amazing team of volunteers who run the site, answer your support
+ emails, maintain the database of public authorities and
+ <a href="http://www.mysociety.org/2009/10/13/behind-whatdotheyknow/">so much more</a>.
+ Thanks to John Cross, Ben Harris, Adam McGreggor, Alex Skene,
+ Richard Taylor.
+ </li>
+ <li>
+ Volunteers who have provided patches to the code - thanks Peter Collingbourne
+ and Tony Bowden.
+ </li>
+ <li>
+ Everyone who has helped look up FOI email addresses.
+ </li>
+ <li>
+ We couldn't do any of this without those
+ <a href="http://www.ukcod.org.uk/UKCOD_Trustees">crazy people</a> who volunteer,
+ amongst many other things, to do the accounts and fill in our VAT return.
+ </li>
+ <li>
+ Finally, all the officers and servants who have answered the many requests
+ made through the site. Their diligence, patience and professionalism is
+ what has actually made the information that you see here. Thank them for
+ helping make Government more transparent.
+ </li>
</ul>
-</dd>
+ You're all stars.
+ </dd>
+ <dt id="helpus">Can I help out? <a href="#helpus">#</a> </dt>
+ <dd>
+ <p>Yes please! We're built out of our supporters and volunteers.</p>
+ <ul>
+ <li>You can <a href="https://secure.mysociety.org/donate/">make a donation</a>. We're a registered charity.</li>
+ <li>Help people find successful requests, and monitor performance of authorities, by
+ <a href="/categorise/play">playing the categorisation game</a>. </li>
+ <li>Find out FOI email addresses of <a href="/help/requesting#missing_body">authorities that we're missing</a>.</li>
+ <li>Write a blog post about either WhatDoTheyKnow or an interesting request that you've
+ found. Post about it on a forum that you frequent. Tell friends about it.</li> <li>If you're
+ a programmer, get the source code for our parent project, <a href="http://alaveteli.org">Alaveteli</a>
+ and tell us about patches we can pull. It's made in Ruby on Rails.
+ <li>Read more about <a href="http://www.mysociety.org/helpus/">volunteering with mySociety</a>.
+ </ul>
+ </dd>
+ </dl>
-<div id="hash_link_padding"></div>
+ <div id="hash_link_padding"></div>
+</div>