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diff --git a/app/views/help/credits.sr.rhtml b/app/views/help/credits.sr.rhtml deleted file mode 100644 index ce7b5f123..000000000 --- a/app/views/help/credits.sr.rhtml +++ /dev/null @@ -1,90 +0,0 @@ -<% @title = "Credit where credit is due" %> - -<%= render :partial => 'sidebar' %> - -<h1 id="credits"><%= @title%> <a href="#credits">#</a> </h1> - -<dl> - -<dt id="thanks">Which people 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> - <a href="http://www.yrtk.org">Heather Brooke</a> - (<a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2008/mar/29/houseofcommons.michaelmartin?gusrc=rss&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> - <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> - - -<div id="hash_link_padding"></div> - - |