I think a brief style guide is a good idea. We could include it on an expanded "write for us" page (http://fedoramagazine.org/submit-an-idea-or-tip/) that includes a few editorial guidelines (what kind of articles are best for Fedora Magazine, who is the audience, who are the people to contact if you have questions, etc.). Here's an example: http://www.linuxpromagazine.com/About-Us/Write-for-Us Sentence case for titles is probably the easiest way to go. I think it also looks better in a tweet if readers click the article tweet button. Rikki Endsley | Community Evangelist Open Source and Standards (OSAS), Red Hat http://community.redhat.com/ Twitter: @redhatopen | @rikkiends ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Ryan Lerch" <rlerch@xxxxxxxxxx> > To: "Fedora Marketing team" <marketing@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > Sent: Friday, August 1, 2014 2:13:58 PM > Subject: Do we have a style guide for Fedora Magazine? Should we? > > Hi all, > > Just wondering if we should consider a brief style guide for Fedora > magazine? > > One item to cover on this would definitely be how to capitalize the > titles of our posts. Having this consistent is always a good thing. > > For the capitialization of posts, my vote is for sentence case. This > tends to be the most popular currently in online publications [1], [2]. > and in my honest opinion, it is not as harsh and shouty as the > alternative title case. Title case is also a lot harder to get > consistent, as many people have different ideas of what to capitalise. > > For example, the sentence case is simple, capitalize the first word, and > any proper nouns: > Fedora 21 will feature "Solarized" color schemes in both the Terminal > and Gedit > > and the title case (depending on who is writing it) could be: > Fedora 21 will Feature "Solarized" Color Schemes in Both The Terminal > and Gedit > or > Fedora 21 Will Feature "Solarized" Color Schemes in Both The Terminal > and Gedit > > cheers, > ryanlerch > > [1] - http://www.theverge.com/ > [2] - http://lwn.net/ > -- > marketing mailing list > marketing@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing -- marketing mailing list marketing@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing
