[tei-council] Last question about badges

[Gabriel Bodard]

I also very much agree that "powered by" is more serious and more 
indiciative of what we mean than "we use". The very fact that we can't 
decide between the wording "I use" or "we use" makes me nervous...

G

Lou Burnard a écrit :
> The other way to read "powered by" is with reference to an intellectual 
> rather than an engineering context -- kind of "empowered by". Our site 
> is the way it is because we think TEI.
> 
> Susan Schreibman wrote:
>> 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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