Enlightenment CVS committal
Author : inc
Project : web
Module : www
Dir : web/www/p/sponsors
Modified Files:
en-body
Log Message:
added the sponsors.
===================================================================
RCS file: /cvs/e/web/www/p/sponsors/en-body,v
retrieving revision 1.6
retrieving revision 1.7
diff -u -3 -r1.6 -r1.7
--- en-body 22 Apr 2007 17:49:09 -0000 1.6
+++ en-body 10 Jun 2007 18:32:31 -0000 1.7
@@ -4,38 +4,58 @@
<h3>Why donate?</h3>
<p>
In order to provide better services to our users, the Enlightenment
- team would like to ask that the Enlightenment user community pull
+ team would like to ask that the Enlightenment user community
+pull
together and help us raise funds for a new server. We are therefore
- requesting donations so that we may purchase our own dedicated server.
- If you would like to contribute to the Enlightenment project, but can't
+ requesting donations so that we may purchase our own dedicated
+server.
+ If you would like to contribute to the Enlightenment project, but
+can't
code, this is a great way to help out.
<br/><br/>
We would like to thank our current hosting provider,
- <a href="http://www.caosity.org"; target="_blank">the cAos Foundation</a>
+ <a href="http://www.caosity.org"; target="_blank">the cAos
+Foundation</a>
, who have generously donated access to their CVS
services.
<br/><br/>
- Long-time Enlightenment users are probably well aware of some of the
- service issues we've experienced in recent years. The CVS services
improved
- considerably with the move to our current provider, but the web site
has
- remained with SourceForge. The restrictive permissions have prevented
us
- from providing many of the services to our users that we feel are
- necessary. Services such as integrating CVS content with the website,
bug
- tracking, wiki access, and reasonable CMS services are simply too
- difficult to provide with the access levels available on SourceForge.
In
- addition, external CMS access to SourceForge has proven to be
unreliable
- and very slow. As a result, the website has gone relatively
unmaintained
- for months, much of the content has moved to edevelop.org and
get-e.org,
- and hosted copies of API documentation have not been updated to reflect
- significant changes which are documented in CVS. These issues hurt the
- projects image, discourage new users, and frustrate existing users. We
- feel a dedicated server is the best way to address these issues with
the
+ Long-time Enlightenment users are probably well aware of some of
+the
+ service issues we've experienced in recent years. The CVS
+services improved
+ considerably with the move to our current provider, but the web
+site has
+ remained with SourceForge. The restrictive permissions have
+prevented us
+ from providing many of the services to our users that we feel
+are
+ necessary. Services such as integrating CVS content with the
+website, bug
+ tracking, wiki access, and reasonable CMS services are simply
+too
+ difficult to provide with the access levels available on
+SourceForge. In
+ addition, external CMS access to SourceForge has proven to be
+unreliable
+ and very slow. As a result, the website has gone relatively
+unmaintained
+ for months, much of the content has moved to edevelop.org and
+get-e.org,
+ and hosted copies of API documentation have not been updated to
+reflect
+ significant changes which are documented in CVS. These issues
+hurt the
+ projects image, discourage new users, and frustrate existing
+users. We
+ feel a dedicated server is the best way to address these issues
+with the
level of quality expected from this project.
<br/><br/>
As a last note, we would like to extend our thanks to the people who
have already donated the current funds of $1600 to the Enlightenment
- project. Your charity has not been forgotten, and your donations will
be
+ project. Your charity has not been forgotten, and your
+donations will be
applied towards the server fund.
</p>
@@ -51,9 +71,12 @@
<input type="hidden" name="cn" value="Comments">
<input type="hidden" name="currency_code" value="USD">
- <input type="hidden" name="notify_url"
value="http://www0.get-e.org/donate/donate_ipn.php";>
- <input type="hidden" name="return"
value="http://www0.get-e.org/donate/donate_ipn.php";>
- <input type="hidden" name="cancel_return"
value="http://www0.get-e.org/donate";>
+ <input type="hidden" name="notify_url"
+value="http://www0.get-e.org/donate/donate_ipn.php";>
+ <input type="hidden" name="return"
+value="http://www0.get-e.org/donate/donate_ipn.php";>
+ <input type="hidden" name="cancel_return"
+value="http://www0.get-e.org/donate";>
<input type="hidden" name="tax" value="0">
@@ -63,12 +86,14 @@
<b>$</b><input name="amount" type="text" value=""
maxlength="5" style="padding:3px 4px 3px 4px;
-
background:url('http://www0.get-e.org/donate/images/progress_background.png');
+
+background:url('http://www0.get-e.org/donate/images/progress_background.png');
border:1px solid #b3b3b3;
font-size:14px; font-weight:bold; margin:0;
vertical-align:middle; font-family:Arial; width:50px;"/>
<input type="submit" name="submit" value="Submit"
-
style="background:url('http://www0.get-e.org/donate/images/progress_foreground.png');
+
+style="background:url('http://www0.get-e.org/donate/images/progress_foreground.png');
border:1px solid #b3b3b3; font-family:Arial;
margin:0; font-weight:bold; height:23px; font-size:14px;
vertical-align:middle; padding:0 8px;"/>
@@ -80,58 +105,69 @@
</p>
<p>
-*FIXME* Fill in sponsors. The following need to be listed:
-The community of users<br>
-2 RAD Technologies<br>
-RedHat<br>
-VA Software<br>
-Fluffy Spider Technologies<br>
-VA Linux Systems Japan<br>
-EasyDNS<br>
-Terrasoft Solutions<br>
-OSUOSL<br>
+<h2>Sponsors</h2>
+The Enlightenment would like to thank the following groups for their
+support of the project. Without their help we would not be where we are
+at today.
+<h3>The community of users</h3>
+<p>The users are a large part of the project without them there would
+not be much of a point to development.
+They are involved in the testing and development of Enlightenment and
+provide donations for things such as our new servers.
+</p>
+<h3><a href="http://www.micropact.com/"; title="2rad">Micropact (formerly
+2 RAD Technologies)</a></h3>
+2RAD helpd host E stuff for a while till we outgrew them<br>
+<h3><a href="http://www.redhat.com/"; title="Redhat">Redhat</a></h3>
+Red Hat helped in the early days of Enlightenment<br>
+<h3><a href="http://www.vasoftware.com/"; title="Va software">VA
+Software</a></h3>
+VA Software (formerly VA Linux) helped a lot for getting E 0.16 out and
+prototype work for E17 (EFM, Imlib2).<br>
+<h3><a href="http://www.fluffyspider.com.au/"; title="Fluffy
+Spider">Fluffy Spider Technologies</a></h3>
+FST helped by using E technology (Evas, Eet, Ecore etc.) and helping in
+development to improve it further.<br>
+<h3><a href="http://www.valinux.co.jp/"; title="Va Linux">VA Linux
+Systems Japan</a></h3>
+VA Linux Systems Japan allowed some time to be spent working on E.<br>
+
+<h3><a href="http://www.easydns.com/"; title="EasyDNS">EasyDNS</a></h3>
+EasyDNS helped us regain control over the enlightenment.org domain after
+the dev in control went MIA
+<br>
+<h3><a href="http://www.terrasoftsolutions.com/";
+title="Terrasoft">Terrasoft Solutions</a></h3>
+ Terrasoft donated money to help enlightenment achieve usability for
+their release of Yellow Dog Linux for Playstation 3
+<br>
+<h3><a href="http://osuosl.org/"; title="OSUOSL">OSUOSL</a></h3>
+OSUOSL currently hosts our 2 main servers (anoncvs and web).
+
</p><p>
*FIXME* How to donate (paypal etc.) and how to sponsor/help.
</p><p>
+
<h3>Help us spread the word!</h3>
<p>
-Place one of the following banners on your site to help us out.
+Place the following banner on your site to help us out.
</p>
-<img src="http://farm1.static.flickr.com/145/372687288_615fbdc4ca.jpg?v=0";
alt="banner"/>
+<img
+src="http://farm1.static.flickr.com/186/372687294_6826d35202.jpg?v=0";
+alt="banner"/>
<pre>
<a href="http://www.enlightenment.org/donate">
-<img
src="http://farm1.static.flickr.com/145/372687288_615fbdc4ca.jpg?v=0">
+<img
+src="http://farm1.static.flickr.com/186/372687294_6826d35202.jpg?v=0">
</a>
-
</pre>
-<img src="http://farm1.static.flickr.com/186/372687294_6826d35202.jpg?v=0";
alt="banner"/>
-<pre>
-<a href="http://www.enlightenment.org/donate">
-<img
src="http://farm1.static.flickr.com/186/372687294_6826d35202.jpg?v=0">
-</a>
-</pre>
-<img src="http://farm1.static.flickr.com/188/372687360_9b90305899.jpg?v=0";
alt="banner"/>
-<pre>
-<a href="http://www.enlightenment.org/donate">
-<img
src="http://farm1.static.flickr.com/188/372687360_9b90305899.jpg?v=0">
-
-</a>
-</pre>
-
-<img src="http://farm1.static.flickr.com/151/372687243_f980a895c1.jpg?v=0";
alt="banner"/>
-<pre>
-<a href="http://www.enlightenment.org/donate">
-<img
src="http://farm1.static.flickr.com/151/372687243_f980a895c1.jpg?v=0">
-</a>
-</pre>
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