[Openstack-docs] Internet capitalized?

Jorge Williams jorge.williams at rackspace.com
Thu Aug 14 18:49:10 UTC 2014


This is how I understand it...

The Internet : is the network  we use to access twitter…etc.
An internet : is an interconnected network — the biggest of which is the Internet.

-jOrGe W.


On Aug 14, 2014, at 1:36 PM, Anne Gentle <anne at openstack.org> wrote:

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> On Thu, Aug 14, 2014 at 1:35 PM, Matt Kassawara <mkassawara at gmail.com> wrote:
> I think we should capitalize it, but at the end of the day it probably doesn't matter as long as we're consistent. :)
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> P.S. - Can you add it to the conventions?
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> Since we have a valid reference (IBM), I don't want to keep adding to our conventions -- do you know how long that'll get? :)
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> On Thu, Aug 14, 2014 at 1:00 PM, Andreas Jaeger <aj at suse.com> wrote:
> Diane asked in one review how to capitalize Internet, she noticed that
> we're not consistent.
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> Looking at the Operations Guide (following O'Reilly conventions) and the
> IBM Style Guide (pointing to
> http://www-01.ibm.com/software/globalization/terminology/i.html), I
> choose to capitalize it and send a patch:
> https://review.openstack.org/#/c/114279/
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> If you have strong arguments for not capitalizing it, please speak up,
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> Andreas
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