[Linux-aus] i before e

Brent Wallis brent.wallis at gmail.com
Tue Mar 21 07:42:02 UTC 2006


Andrew wrote:

>
> I don't expect the Linux Community's members to be perfect. I would
> /prefer/
> that _Linux Australia_ is not portrayed as an organisation that cannot
> spell. It's not hard to run a spell checker over a press release or
> official
> communique before sending it out. That's just good practice (and I may
> well
> have spelled that wrong).



Whether we like it or not poor spelling (god know I am the worst BTW.. :-)
does give a bad impression.
B ut as someone pointed out....peer review is a keystone of FOSS, and so it
should be here.

Could I suggest that all Press releases be passed through a formal check by
2 other heads before they get into the wild?
I thought that was what the Wiki was for.

Rgds
BW
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