[tei-council] Last question about badges

Susan Schreibman susan.schreibman at gmail.com
Thu Feb 19 06:53:46 EST 2009


I kind of like the 'powered by' rather than 'I use' or 'we use' -- powered
by makes me think of what lies behind the screen -- the code that makes it
all happen; powered by sounds significant to me,  active in a way that a
statement like  'I use' does not

just my humble opinion

ss

On Wed, Feb 18, 2009 at 4:41 PM, Dan O'Donnell <daniel.odonnell at uleth.ca>wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> I was discussing the badges with somebody here and they made what seems
> to me to be a very sensible proposal, that I'm not sure I've heard
> before. If the point of the badge is to indicate generally that a
> project or person uses TEI, they suggested, why not simply have the
> badge say "I use [TEI Logo]" and/or "We use [TEI Logo]" instead of
> "Powered by [TEI Logo]" which may or may not be true in one or more senses.
>
> I very much like this. But my sense has been at right angles to the
> council on this all along, so let me throw it out there to be shot down.
> Is there a reason not to ask the designer:
>
> a) Increase the size of TEI logo on the button by maybe 10% so that it
> runs farther over the edge of the button
> b) Change the text to two buttons: "I use [TEI Logo]" and "We use [TEI
> Logo]"
>
> Since this is not rocket science (though getting things wrong is
> disproportionately embarrassing), let me ask for comments til next
> Monday. At that point, if I don't hear any objections, I'll get them up
> on the site.
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