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| author | Christian Grothoff <christian@grothoff.org> | 2014-11-18 14:43:30 +0100 |
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| committer | Christian Grothoff <christian@grothoff.org> | 2014-11-18 14:43:30 +0100 |
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@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@ <html> <head> <meta charset="utf-8"> - <title>Taler - Taxable Anonymous Libre Electronic Reserves</title> + <title>Taler - Taxable Anonymous Libre Electronic Reserves: About us</title> <meta name="description" content=""> <!--# include file="common/header.inc" --> </head> @@ -10,48 +10,34 @@ <div class="container"> <!--# include file="common/navigation.inc" --> <!-- Jumbotron --> - <div class="jumbotron"> - <img src="images/logo-2014.png"></img> - <h1 lang="en">Electronic Payments for Libre Society!</h1> - <h1 lang="de">Elektronisches Bezahlen für eine freiheitliche Gesellschaft!</h1> - <h1 lang="fr">Paiements électroniques pour société libre!</h1> - <p class="lead">We are building Taler, a new electronic payment system for privacy and security.</p> - <!-- p><a class="btn btn-lg btn-success" href="#" role="button">Get started today</a></p --> - </div> <!-- Example row of columns --> <div class="row"> <div class="col-lg-4"> - <h2>Taxable</h2> - <p>Unlike BitCoin or cash payments, Taler ensures that governments can easily track their citizen's income and thus collect sales, value-added or income taxes. Taler is thus a currency for the mainstream economy, and not the black market.</p> - <p><a class="btn btn-primary" href="/governments" role="button">Learn More »</a></p> + <h2>Christian Grothoff</h2> + <p>Local megalomaniac. I mean, who'd create a new payment system and a new Internet?</p> </div> <div class="col-lg-4"> - <h2>Anonymous</h2> - <p>When you pay with Taler, your identity does not have to be revealed to the merchant. The bank, government and mint will also never learn how you spent your electronic money. However, you can prove that you paid in court if necessary.</p> - <p><a class="btn btn-primary" href="/citizens" role="button">Learn More »</a></p> + <h2>Julian Kirsch</h2> + <p>Hacks Linux, FreeBSD, Web sites and the deep state at leisure.</p> </div> <div class="col-lg-4"> - <h2>Libre</h2> - <p>Taler is free software implementing an open protocol. Anybody is welcome to inspect our code and integrate our reference implementation into their applications.</p> - <p><a class="btn btn-primary" href="/developers" role="button">Learn More »</a></p> + <h2>Florian Dold</h2> + <p>Is currently on probation at Microsoft.</p> </div> </div> <div class="row"> <div class="col-lg-4"> - <h2>Electronic</h2> - <p>Taler is designed to work on the Internet. Using a so-called RESTful protocol over HTTP or HTTPS, Taler is easy to integrate with existing Web applications.</p> - <p><a class="btn btn-primary" href="/merchants" role="button">Learn More »</a></p> + <h2>Sree Harsha Totakura</h2> + <p>Mostly harmless.</p> </div> <div class="col-lg-4"> - <h2>Reserves</h2> - <p>Taler operates as a reserve. This means that Taler is not a new currency with the inherent currency fluctuation risks, but instead the digital coins correspond to existing currencies, such as US Dollars, Euros or even BitCoins.</p> - <p><a class="btn btn-primary" href="/investors" role="button">Learn More »</a></p> + <h2>Benedikt Müller.</h2> + <p>Loves SEPA.</p> </div> <div class="col-lg-4"> - <h2>News</h2> - <p>We will present Taler at FOSSA in Rennes on Tuesday November 19th 2014.</p> - <p><a class="btn btn-primary" href="/news" role="button">Learn More »</a></p> + <h2>Richard M. Stallman</h2> + <p>Ethics enthusiast.</p> </div> </div> diff --git a/developers.html b/developers.html index c09cd89b..f2fddc46 100644 --- a/developers.html +++ b/developers.html @@ -11,32 +11,40 @@ <!--# include file="common/navigation.inc" --> <!-- Jumbotron --> <div class="jumbotron"> - <h1 lang="en">Electronic Payments for Libre Society!</h1> - <h1 lang="de">Elektronisches Bezahlen für eine freiheitliche Gesellschaft!</h1> - <h1 lang="fr">Paiements électroniques pour société libre!</h1> - <p class="lead">We are building Taler, a new electronic payment system for privacy and security.</p> - <!-- p><a class="btn btn-lg btn-success" href="#" role="button">Get started today</a></p --> + <h1 lang="en">Taler for Developers</h1> + <h1 lang="de">Taler für Entwickler</h1> + <h1 lang="fr"></h1> </div> <!-- Example row of columns --> <div class="row"> <div class="col-lg-4"> <h2>Libre</h2> - <p>Taler is free software implementing an open protocol. Anybody is welcome to inspect our code and integrate our reference implementation into their applications.</p> + <p>Taler is free software implementing an open protocol. Anybody is welcome to inspect our code and integrate our reference implementation into their applications. + Different components of Taler are being made available under different licenses. The Affero GPLv3+ is used for the Mint, the LGPLv3+ is used for reference + code demonstrating integration with merchant platforms, and licenses like Apache/Mozilla/GPLv3+ are used for wallets and related customer-facing software. + We are open for constructive suggestions for maximizing the adoption of this libre payment platform.</p> </div> <div class="col-lg-4"> <h2>RESTful</h2> - <p>Taler is designed to work on the Internet. Using a so-called RESTful protocol over HTTP or HTTPS, Taler is easy to integrate with existing Web applications.</p> + <p>Taler is designed to work on the Internet. To ensure that Taler payments can work with restrictive network setups, Taler uses a RESTful protocol over + HTTP or HTTPS. Taler's security does not depend upon the use of HTTPS, but obviously merchants may choose to offer HTTPS for consistency and because + it generally is better for privacy compared to HTTP. Taler uses JSON to encode structure data, making it easy to integrate Taler with existing Web + applications. Taler's protocol is documented in detail <a href="http://api.taler.net/">here</a></p> </div> </div> <div class="row"> <div class="col-lg-4"> <h2>Code</h2> - <p>.</p> + <p>Taler is currently primarily developed by a research team at Inria and TU Munich. However, contributions from anyone are welcome. + Our Git repositories can be cloned using the Git and HTTP access methods against <tt>git.taler.net</tt> with the name of the + respective repository. A list of public repositories can be found in our <a href="http://www.git.taler.net/">GitWeb</a>.</p> </div> <div class="col-lg-4"> <h2>Documentation</h2> - <p>.</p> + <p>In addition to this website, the <a href="http://www.git.taler.net/">documented code</a> + and the <a href="http://api.taler.net/">API documentation</a>, we are in the process of + preparing a comprehensive design document which will be published here soon.</p> </div> </div> diff --git a/investors.html b/investors.html index b8c6e9dd..309b8266 100644 --- a/investors.html +++ b/investors.html @@ -11,11 +11,7 @@ <!--# include file="common/navigation.inc" --> <!-- Jumbotron --> <div class="jumbotron"> - <h1 lang="en">Electronic Payments for Libre Society!</h1> - <h1 lang="de">Elektronisches Bezahlen für eine freiheitliche Gesellschaft!</h1> - <h1 lang="fr">Paiements électroniques pour société libre!</h1> - <p class="lead">We are building Taler, a new electronic payment system for privacy and security.</p> - <!-- p><a class="btn btn-lg btn-success" href="#" role="button">Get started today</a></p --> + <h1 lang="en">Invest in Taler!</h1> </div> <!-- Example row of columns --> |