Do we have a style guide for Fedora Magazine? Should we?

[Rikki Endsley]

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 at redhat.com>
> To: "Fedora Marketing team" <marketing at lists.fedoraproject.org>
> 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/
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