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Update bitcoin-for-press.html #146

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sunnankar commented Apr 20, 2013

A general disclaimer about the open-source nature of Bitcoin and how no particular Potential Interviewee is an 'official spokeperson', etc.

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A general disclaimer about the open-source nature of Bitcoin and how no particular Potential Interviewee is an 'official spokeperson', etc.

jgarzik commented Apr 20, 2013

ACK

jgarzik commented Apr 20, 2013

One of the common journalist misconceptions I get is "bitcoin is a company", not really understanding the nature of open source projects.

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Add a disclaimer for interviewees (thanks Trace Mayer) (fixes #146)
This fix allows journalists to better understand the open-source nature of Bitcoin
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saivann commented Apr 20, 2013

Here is a proof for what @jgarzik says : http://youtu.be/ixlNjhknwrE?t=3m

Very good one. The disclairmer is well written. I only think we might be able to integrate this better in the website. I've pushed a branch that only shows :

"Please note there is no official Bitcoin organization or spokespeople. Read more"

And when journalists click on "Read more", they get the rest of the disclaimer, with a smaller font-size and a consistant text-align value. I think that this will allow journalists to notice and read the disclairmer properly. Just let me know if that sounds good and I will merge it.

https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin.org/tree/disclaimer

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sunnankar commented Apr 20, 2013

"Please note Bitcoin is an open-source project so there is neither an official Bitcoin organization nor spokespeople or anyone who can act with authority. Read more."

Cleaned up the grammar. I think the click to reveal more, like the FAQs, is a great idea.

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saivann commented Apr 20, 2013

A bit too long, it ends up on two lines. How about this one?
Please note Bitcoin is an open-source project so there is no spokespeople who can speak with authority.

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sunnankar commented Apr 20, 2013

Will this fit?

Bitcoin has neither an official organization, individuals with authority nor spokespeople. Read more.

The open-source project nature can be discussed in the full answer.

saivann added a commit that referenced this pull request Apr 20, 2013

Add a disclaimer for interviewees (thanks Trace Mayer) (fixes #146)
This fix allows journalists to better understand the open-source nature of Bitcoin
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saivann commented Apr 20, 2013

That's perfect, I merged the local branch.

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jl2012 pushed a commit to jl2012/bitcoin.org that referenced this pull request Apr 5, 2016

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