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diff --git a/lib/views/help/credits.html.erb b/lib/views/help/credits.html.erb new file mode 100644 index 0000000..bc493bc --- /dev/null +++ b/lib/views/help/credits.html.erb @@ -0,0 +1,92 @@ +<% @title = "Credit where credit is due" %> + +<%= render :partial => 'sidebar' %> +<div id="left_column_flip"> + +<h1 id="credits"><%= @title%> <a href="#credits">#</a> </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&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 <%= 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>. + </ul> +</dd> + + +<div id="hash_link_padding"></div> + + +</div> |