Open Stack

OH! My sincere apologies Jorge, indeed IBM does differentiate. Well heck we
can do that. :)

*Internet*
The worldwide collection of interconnected networks that use the Internet
suite of protocols and permit public access.

*internet*
In TCP/IP, a collection of interconnected networks that function as a
single, large network.



On Thu, Aug 14, 2014 at 2:03 PM, Anne Gentle <anne at openstack.org> wrote:

>
>
>
> 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,
>> >
>> > Andreas
>> > --
>> >  Andreas Jaeger aj@{suse.com,opensuse.org} Twitter/Identica: jaegerandi
>> >   SUSE LINUX Products GmbH, Maxfeldstr. 5, 90409 Nürnberg, Germany
>> >    GF: Jeff Hawn,Jennifer Guild,Felix Imendörffer,HRB16746 (AG Nürnberg)
>> >     GPG fingerprint = 93A3 365E CE47 B889 DF7F  FED1 389A 563C C272 A126
>> >
>> > _______________________________________________
>> > Openstack-docs mailing list
>> > Openstack-docs at lists.openstack.org
>> > http://lists.openstack.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openstack-docs
>> >
>> >
>> > _______________________________________________
>> > Openstack-docs mailing list
>> > Openstack-docs at lists.openstack.org
>> > http://lists.openstack.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openstack-docs
>> >
>> >
>> > _______________________________________________
>> > Openstack-docs mailing list
>> > Openstack-docs at lists.openstack.org
>> > http://lists.openstack.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openstack-docs
>>
>>
>
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://lists.openstack.org/pipermail/openstack-docs/attachments/20140814/c767f64c/attachment-0001.html>