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diff --git a/lib/views/help/credits.html.erb b/lib/views/help/credits.html.erb index bc493bc..dc034c3 100644 --- a/lib/views/help/credits.html.erb +++ b/lib/views/help/credits.html.erb @@ -1,92 +1,59 @@ -<% @title = "Credit where credit is due" %> +<% @title = "Credit where credit’s due" %> <%= render :partial => 'sidebar' %> -<div id="left_column_flip"> +<div id="left_column_flip" class="left_column_flip"> +<h1 id="credits"><%= @title %> <a href="#credits">#</a> </h1> -<h1 id="credits"><%= @title%> <a href="#credits">#</a> </h1> +<p>Alaveteli, the software that powers <%= site_name %>, is a project of <a href="https://www.mysociety.org">mySociety</a>, a UK organisation. mySociety builds websites that empower citizens to hold authorities to account. And this is one of those sites.</p> <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. +<dt id="development">Development <a href="#development">#</a></dt> +<dd> + Hearty cheers to <a href="http://alaveteli.org/">Alaveteli</a>’s many <a href="https://github.com/mysociety/alaveteli/graphs/contributors">contributors</a>.</p> </dd> -<dt id="helpus">Can I help out? <a href="#helpus">#</a> </dt> +<dt id="helpus">How to help <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> + <dt id="volunteer">Become a volunteer <a href="#volunteer">#</a></dt> + <dd> + <p>If you have a passion for transparency, a great deal of patience, and a bit of spare time, consider becoming one of <%= site_name %>'s volunteer admin team. Work includes user support, helping to resolve legal issues, and shaping the site’s direction, and is primarily managed via email.</p> + <p>In the first instance, <%= link_to 'get in touch', help_contact_path %>.</p> + </dd> + + <dt id="donate">Make a donation <a href="#donate">#</a></dt> + <dd> + <p>mySociety, Alaveteli's parent organisation, is a charity. WhatDoTheyKnow, our most-visited Alaveteli site, costs thousands of pounds each year, for overheads such as servers, maintenance and development.</p> + + <p>Your contributions, however small, really help. <a href="https://www.mysociety.org/donate/">Donate here</a>.</p> + </dd> + + <dt id="classification">Sort things out <a href="#classification">#</a></dt> + <dd> + <p>Admin can be fun! Help people find successful requests, and monitor performance of authorities, by <a href="<%= categorise_play_path %>">playing the categorisation game</a>.</p> + + <p>Or be a dear, and find out FOI email addresses of <a href="<%= help_requesting_path(:anchor => 'missing_bodies') %>">authorities that we're missing</a>.</p> + </dd> + + <dt id="promote">Spread the word <a href="#promote">#</a></dt> + <dd> + <p>We don’t have a massive marketing budget, so word of mouth really helps.</p> + <ul> + <li>Write a blog post about <%= site_name %>, or an interesting request that you've found.</li> + <li>Post about the site, and what you can do with it, on a forum that you frequent.</li> + <li>Tell friends about it.</li> + <li>Let your local newspaper or community magazine know how useful we are.</li> + <li>Give a talk.</li> + <li><%= mail_to 'hello@mysociety.org', 'Ask us for leaflets', :encode => "javascript" %> to leave in your local library or coffee shop.</li> + </ul> + </dd> </dd> + <dt id="code">Improve our code <a href="#code">#</a></dt> + <dd> + <p>Seen something that could work better? If you're a programmer, <a href="https://github.com/mysociety/alaveteli/">get the source code</a> for our parent project, <a href="http://alaveteli.org/">Alaveteli</a> and send us a pull request. <%= site_name %> is coded in <a href="http://rubyonrails.org/">Ruby on Rails</a>.</p> + </dd> +</dl> <div id="hash_link_padding"></div> - -</div> +</div>
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