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> On May 23, 2015, at 2:46 PM, Tom Fifield <tom at openstack.org> wrote:
> 
> For sure, I'm just thinking though...
> 
> This guide is actually quite useful to the Application Developer audience we've been mooting recently. In fact, one of the first things many would do after getting their credentials set is acquire and upload an image.
> 
> Sticking an "admin" label on it might make it more difficult to find for these folks.
> 

Great point. One of our discussions was about dropping the self-sorting-persona-by-job-title naming. Plus articles rather than guides. On my phone so can't go into much depth but u think this instance is a great point about how we need to rethink audiences as first sort.

> 
> Regards,
> 
> 
> Tom
> 
>> On 23/05/15 11:54, Anne Gentle wrote:
>> 
>> 
>> 
>>> On May 23, 2015, at 11:46 AM, Tom Fifield <tom at openstack.org> wrote:
>>> 
>>> As in "OpenStack Admin User Guide" (http://docs.openstack.org/user-guide-admin/ ) ?
>> 
>> There is a consolidation effort during the migration that seems relevant.
>> 
>> 
>>> 
>>>> On 23/05/15 06:45, Anne Gentle wrote:
>>>> Based on the discussion, sounds like it should become a chapter in the
>>>> larger admin guide.
>>>> 
>>>> Anne
>>>> 
>>>> On Fri, May 22, 2015 at 7:29 PM, Bernd Bausch <berndbausch at gmail.com
>>>> <mailto:berndbausch at gmail.com>> wrote:
>>>> 
>>>>    The term "virtual machine images" has the advantage of being quite
>>>>    specific,
>>>>    and, as Adrien points out, the disadvantage of simply being wrong.
>>>>    The term
>>>>    "cloud images guide" sounds a bit vague and unspecific. "cloud ready
>>>>    images
>>>>    guide" is better.
>>>>    Does the word "guide" has to come at the end, or do we need this word at
>>>>    all?
>>>> 
>>>>    Here is my mouthful: "Creating and managing images for your
>>>>    OpenStack cloud"
>>>> 
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>>>> 
>>>>    From: Lana Brindley [mailto:openstack at lanabrindley.com
>>>>    <mailto:openstack at lanabrindley.com>]
>>>>    Sent: Saturday, May 23, 2015 3:51 AM
>>>>    To: openstack-docs
>>>>    Subject: [OpenStack-docs] Renaming Virtual Machine Image Guide
>>>> 
>>>>    Hi team,
>>>> 
>>>>    Adrien has approached me at Summit to discuss renaming the Virtual
>>>>    Machine
>>>>    Image Guide to something more appropriate, probably something like
>>>>    the Cloud
>>>>    Image Guide. He originally proposed this
>>>>    in https://bugs.launchpad.net/openstack-manuals/+bug/1438597 and I
>>>>    said I
>>>>    wanted to have more discussion about it before we made a decision.
>>>> 
>>>>    Can you please reply to this email and let me know if you approve of
>>>>    changing the name of the guide and, if so, what you think it should be
>>>>    called? The main argument I can see is that the word ‘cloud’ is a
>>>>    broader
>>>>    definition than the word ‘virtual machine’ and we need to be a
>>>>    little more
>>>>    generic.
>>>> 
>>>>    Looking forward to hearing your thoughts.
>>>> 
>>>>    Lana
>>>> 
>>>>    Lana Brindley
>>>>    Technical Writer
>>>>    Rackspace Cloud Builders Australia
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> 
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