[tei-council] Last question about badges

[James Cummings]

I realise that no one wants any more suggestions, but why not 'Site 
uses' rather than 'powered by' or 'I/We use'.  Saying the site uses TEI 
is vague and impersonal enough for those who I/We might not be appropriate.

Just a thought as it occurs to me, feel free to ignore.

-James

Pierazzo, Elena wrote:
> I think that "I use" will be better than "powered by", even is perhaps it doesn't convey all the meaning Lou was suggesting. I think that, being more understated, that will enourage people to use it.
> I also agree with James suggestions.
> Elena
> 
> ________________________________________
> From: tei-council-bounces at lists.village.Virginia.EDU [tei-council-bounces at lists.village.Virginia.EDU] On Behalf Of Gabriel Bodard [gabriel.bodard at kcl.ac.uk]
> Sent: 19 February 2009 14:52
> To: Lou Burnard
> Cc: TEI Council
> Subject: Re: [tei-council] Last question about badges
> 
> 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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