[Openstack-docs] Internet capitalized?

Ryan Moats rmoats at us.ibm.com
Thu Aug 14 18:55:24 UTC 2014


+1

Ryan Moats (regXboi)

Jorge Williams <jorge.williams at rackspace.com> wrote on 08/14/2014 01:49:10
PM:

> From: Jorge Williams <jorge.williams at rackspace.com>
> To: Anne Gentle <anne at openstack.org>
> Cc: Andreas Jaeger <aj at suse.com>, "openstack-
> docs at lists.openstack.org" <openstack-docs at lists.openstack.org>
> Date: 08/14/2014 01:49 PM
> Subject: Re: [Openstack-docs] Internet capitalized?
>
> 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:
>
> >
> >
> >
> > 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. :)
> >
> > P.S. - Can you add it to the conventions?
> >
> > 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? :)
> >
> >
> >
> > 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.
> >
> > 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/
> >
> > If you have strong arguments for not capitalizing it, please speak up,
> >
> > Andreas
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