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Project names #30

Closed awfrancisco closed 7 years ago

awfrancisco commented 9 years ago

Guidance on capitalization and general constructions of project names. For instance, do we prefer "openFOIA" or "OpenFEC."

jameshupp commented 9 years ago

We should probably distinguish between choices we get to make by our lonesome and choices made with a partner agency. Seems worth an extra sentence to carve out time for respecting the partner's style when it's a project for them.

awfrancisco commented 9 years ago

Yeah. This is a tricky guidance. Obviously, if a partner agency has a set name we should go with it, but if we're involved in the branding, what are our capitalization guidelines and other naming conventions? Would we let an agency do something super governmental like The Consolidated Office of Lawn Mower Operators and Technicians? Would we object to Silicon Vally naming conventions like Mowr? This is a larger branding style question that might need to include ideas from project leads.

For now, we could just add specific guidance on 18F project names that are non-obvious.

nicoleslaw commented 8 years ago

@awfrancisco Do we have a list of project names somewhere? Happy to incorporate them into the guide.

awfrancisco commented 8 years ago

I think Mel made a list as part of her Dashboard work, but we'll have to dig up that link. Beyond a list of the correct way to write current projects (which I think is a good MVP), I think we should also add some guidance for when 18F teams name their own projects. But that could be a separate issue.

kategarklavs commented 7 years ago

10/19/16 -- In Specific Words and Phrases, we could add a Projects subsection (how we treat product/project names).

kategarklavs commented 7 years ago

As discussed during our 10/19 meeting, we'll (as a guild) create a list this week of project/product capitalizations and review at our next meeting.

emileighoutlaw commented 7 years ago

This feels like it might find a better home in the 18F site. Passing off to @coreycaitlin