update readme and authors

README.md

@@ -28,7 +28,7 @@ Discourse is a **Civilized Discourse Construction Kit**, an 100% open-source dis
 
 Key Discourse mission goals:
 
-- A **flattened, endlessly scrolling discussion**, avoiding the akwardness of traditionally threaded and paginated discussion, while allowing replies to be expanded in place for additional context.
+- A **flattened, endlessly scrolling discussion**, avoiding the awkardness of traditionally threaded and paginated discussion, while allowing replies to be expanded in place for additional context.
 
 - A **user trust system** that grants users additional rights to assist in moderating the forum as they participate in good faith over time. The goal is for the forum to be nearly self-moderating in the absence of any formal moderators, although excellent moderators accelerate the process greatly.
 
@@ -41,7 +41,7 @@ The Discourse team wishes to **foster an active community of contributors**, all
 This vision translates to the following functional commitments:
 
 1. Support only modern browsers on the desktop:
-  - Internet Explorer 9.0, 10.0+
+  - Internet Explorer 9.0 (may not be fully functional), 10.0+
   - Firefox 16+
   - Google Chrome 23+
   - Safari 5+
@@ -64,53 +64,42 @@ accepts contributions from the public, and we'd like you to be a part of that co
 
 Before contributing to Discourse, please:
 
-1. Review the [**VISION**](#vision) section above, which will help you understand the needs of the team, and the focus of the project,
+1. Review the [**VISION**](#vision) statement, to confirm that you understand the needs of the team and the focus of the project,
 2. Read and sign the [**Electronic Discourse Forums Contribution License Agreement**](http://discourse.org/cla), to confirm you've read and acknowledged the legal aspects of your contributions, and
 3. Dig into [**CONTRIBUTING.MD**](https://github.com/discourse/discourse/blob/master/docs/CONTRIBUTING.md), which houses all of the necessary info to:
    - submit bugs,
    - request new features, and
    - step you through the entire process of preparing your code for a Pull Request.
-4. Have a look here: http://meta.discourse.org/t/so-you-want-to-help-out-with-discourse/3823
+4. For ideas about areas of Discourse that need your assistance with, see http://meta.discourse.org/t/so-you-want-to-help-out-with-discourse/3823
 
 **We look forward to seeing your cool stuff!**
 
 ## Expertise
 
-In order to be an effective contributor, familiarize yourself with the various open source components that Discourse is built on:
+Discourse is built from the following open source components:
 
-### Languages/Frameworks
+- [Ruby on Rails](https://github.com/rails/rails) - Our back end API is a Rails app. It responds to requests RESTfully and responds in JSON.
+- [Ember.js](https://github.com/emberjs/ember.js) - Our front end is an Ember.js app that communicates with the Rails API.
+- [PostgreSQL](http://www.postgresql.org/) - Our main data store is in Postgres.
+- [Redis](http://redis.io/) - We use Redis for our job queue, rate limiting, as a cache and for transient data.
 
-1. [Ruby on Rails](https://github.com/rails/rails) - Our back end API is a Rails app. It responds to requests RESTfully and responds in JSON.
+Plus *lots* of Ruby Gems, a complete list of which is at [**SOFTWARE.MD**](https://github.com/discourse/discourse/blob/master/docs/SOFTWARE.md).
-2. [Ember.js](https://github.com/emberjs/ember.js) - Our front end interface is an Ember.js app that communicates with the Rails API.
-
-### Databases
-
-1. [PostgreSQL](http://www.postgresql.org/) - Our main data store is Postgres.
-2. [Redis](http://redis.io/) - We use Redis for our job queue, rate limiting, as a cache and for transient data.
-
-### Ruby Gems
-
-The complete list of Ruby Gems used by Discourse can be found in [**SOFTWARE.MD**](https://github.com/discourse/discourse/blob/master/docs/SOFTWARE.md).
 
 ## Versioning
 
-Discourse implements the Semantic Versioning guidelines.
+Discourse implements the [Semantic Versioning guidelines](http://semver.org/).
 
 Releases will be numbered with the following format:
 
 `<major>.<minor>.<patch>`
 
-And constructed with the following guidelines:
-
 - Breaking backward compatibility bumps the major (and resets the minor and patch)
 - New additions without breaking backward compatibility bumps the minor (and resets the patch)
 - Bug fixes and misc changes bumps the patch
 
-For more information on SemVer, please visit http://semver.org/.
-
 ## The Discourse Team
 
-The Discourse code contributors can be found in [**AUTHORS.MD**](https://github.com/discourse/discourse/blob/master/docs/AUTHORS.md). For a complete list of the many individuals that contributed to the design and implementation of Discourse, please refer to the official website.
+The original Discourse code contributors can be found in [**AUTHORS.MD**](https://github.com/discourse/discourse/blob/master/docs/AUTHORS.md). For a complete list of the many individuals that contributed to the design and implementation of Discourse, please refer to [the official Discourse website](http://www.discourse.org).
 
 ## Copyright / License
 
@@ -127,3 +116,9 @@ distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
 WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
 See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
 limitations under the License.
+
+Discourse logo and “Discourse Forum” ®, Civilized Discourse Construction Kit, Inc.
+
+## Dedication
+
+Discourse is built with [love, Internet style.](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xe1TZaElTAs)

docs/AUTHORS.md

@@ -1,19 +1,19 @@
 # The Discourse Team
 
-* Jeff Atwood - Founder, Principal Overlord, Lead Systems Design
+* Jeff Atwood - Co-Founder, PM
 
 * Robin Ward - Co-Founder, Ruby developer
 
 * Sam Saffron - Co-Founder, Ruby developer
 
-* Neil Lalonde - Ruby Developer
+* Neil Lalonde - Ruby developer
 
-* Ryan Mudryk - UI Implementation, supplemental
+### Special Thanks To
 
-### Specials Thanks To
+* Nick Sahler - Intern
 
-* Nick Sahler - UI Implementation, supplemental
+* Ryan Mudryk - CSS and HTML design implementation
 
 * Don Petersen - Ruby developer, installation scripts
 
-*For a more detailed list of the many individuals that contributed to the design and development of Discourse outside of GitHub, please refer to the official Discourse website.*
+*This is only a list of people who contributed code to Discourse at the time of public launch on February 5th, 2013. For a more detailed list of the many individuals that contributed to the design and development of Discourse outside of GitHub, please refer to [the official Discourse website](http://www.discourse.org).*