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Date: Wed, 20 Mar 2013 21:03:15 -0400
From: Chip Childers <chip.childers@sungard.com>
To: cloudstack-marketing@incubator.apache.org
Subject: Re: press release draft
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On Wed, Mar 20, 2013 at 05:15:43PM -0500, Joe Brockmeier wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 20, 2013, at 05:08 PM, Giles Sirett wrote:
> > Joe
> > That looks near perfect.
> > 
> > My only disagreement is referring to our beloved VP as "Childers". I did
> > this deliberately . I know That's the accepted way (I'm always "sirett"
> > on  our releases) but I think use of first name gives a much more
> > community feel.
> 
> Community feel isn't relevant for a press release. Any release should
> follow AP Style, which is to reference people by last name on second and
> later references. I'm pretty sure that's the standard for all Apache
> releases. 

Agreed - AP Style should be the guideline here.