PR#125: Fix terms that needn't be capitalized - Fedora-Council/council-docs

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#125 Fix terms that needn't be capitalized

Closed 3 years ago by mattdm. Opened 3 years ago by semioticrobotic.

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Fix terms that needn't be capitalized

Bryan Behrenshausen • 3 years ago

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project/modules/ROOT/pages/join.adoc

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		`== What is Fedora?`

		`- The Fedora project is a community of people working together to build a Free and Open Source software platform: link:https://getfedora.org[the Fedora Operating System], and its various editions.`
		`+ The Fedora project is a community of people working together to build a free and open source software platform: link:https://getfedora.org[the Fedora Operating System], and its various editions.`
		`You can learn more about Fedora, our mission, our four foundations, our leadership, our current objectives, and how we are organised using the pages linked to in the left hand sidebar.`

		`If you are looking to contribute and already have an idea of how and what to do, go ahead and get started!`

semioticrobotic commented 3 years ago

In this sentence, I believe the terms "free" and "open source" need not be capitalized.

mattdm commented 3 years ago

I'm not so sure about this. We capitalize "Free" to indicate that we mean "Free Software", which has a sense different from "free as no-cost". Likewise, Open Source means that we specifically follow the Open Source definition. You can see that the OSI capitalizes it here: https://opensource.org/faq#osd

mattdm commented 3 years ago

It might be useful to make these links where we explain, possibly instead of capitalization. We really should have a style guide for this!

semioticrobotic commented 3 years ago

Makes sense to me! (I have no strong feeling about this, incidentally. I simply needed to find a sample documentation issue to address as a "live example" during a workshop. Feel free to close this issue without additional discussion.)

mattdm commented 3 years ago

Yep :)

I do think we should write that style guide, though!