diff --git a/HACKING.rst b/HACKING.rst
index 64a6ddc..d0ad1e3 100644
--- a/HACKING.rst
+++ b/HACKING.rst
@@ -1,11 +1,10 @@
-OpenStack Style Commandments
-============================
+OpenStack Style Guidelines
+==========================
 
 - Step 1: Read http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0008/
 - Step 2: Read http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0008/ again
 - Step 3: Read on
 
-
 General
 -------
 - Put two newlines between top-level code (funcs, classes, etc)
@@ -320,3 +319,8 @@ and how to split up commits into a series of changes, consult the
 project wiki:
 
    https://wiki.openstack.org/GitCommitMessages
+
+Futher Reading
+--------------
+
+  http://google-styleguide.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/pyguide.html
diff --git a/README.rst b/README.rst
index e333035..29d1720 100644
--- a/README.rst
+++ b/README.rst
@@ -3,6 +3,16 @@ Introduction
 
 hacking is a set of flake8 plugins that test and enforce the OpenStack Style Commandments, `HACKING.rst <HACKING.rst>`_.
 
+Origin
+======
+
+Most of the additional style guidelines that OpenStack has taken on came from
+the Google Python Style Guide.
+
+  http://google-styleguide.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/pyguide.html
+
+Since then, a few more OpenStack specific ones have been added or modified.
+
 
 Versioning
 ==========