[Openstack-docs] Internet capitalized?

Anne Gentle anne at openstack.org
Thu Aug 14 19:03:56 UTC 2014


On Thu, Aug 14, 2014 at 1:49 PM, Jorge Williams <
jorge.williams at rackspace.com> wrote:

> 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.
>
>
If IBM doesn't find reason to differentiate, I don't think we should
confuse our contributors with this nuance, sorry.


> -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,
> >
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