[tei-council] Last question about badges

[Peter Boot]

To me, 'powered by' seems exclusive. It would be strange to have two 
'powered by'-buttons. But 'We use TEI', 'We use Cocoon', 'We use MySQL' 
could very well go together.

Which is why I have a slight preference for 'We use'.

Peter

Susan Schreibman schreef:
> 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
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> 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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