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While this works great if you are using your personal computer to do work. But if you use your employer issued computer to do personal hobby project, then pleas

While this works great if you are using your personal computer to do work. But if you use your employer issued computer to do personal hobby project, then please be very careful. In 90%+ of the cases your contract with your employer have the claus saying (please review your contract to clarify) that they own copyright of all your work while you are under the contract even if it's outside of working hours or on the weekend, with a few exceptions, and using employer equipment (employer issued computer) nullify one of the biggest exceptions. IANAL but I would strongly suggest everyone to only use their employer issued computer to do work related work and move all their personal, hobby projects into their own personal computer, unless you don't care your employer owning the copyright of your personal hobby projects.

hinkley 7y ago
Advice I’ve gotten: not on company property, or with company resources (equipment, networking, technology). You want to work on your personal project before going home, bring your laptop to work with you, go to a coffee shop (off-property) and work there. That said, when I’m doing PRs for open source, it gets a bit awkward to use my work ID. If I have permission to contribute to dependencies on work time (which has definitely not always been the case), then something like this could be useful.
- fishywang 7y ago
  My personal take on open source contribution: If this is related to your work, you are getting paid for working on the contribution by your employer, then your employer should get the credit, thus you should use your work email/id. Otherwise, treat it as your personal hobby project and don't use employer resource to work on it.
  - balfirevic 7y ago
    Only "should" here is whatever arrangement you agreed to with your employer.
  - hinkley 7y ago
    I think that depends on whether you intend to walk away from those changes once you take a new job. Contributing to OSS isn’t just about fixing a problem for my company. I could do that internally. It’s about fixing a problem for everybody, including future me.
    - fishywang 7y ago
      Using your work email doesn't remove your name. Both you and your employer get the credit.
  - yarrel 7y ago
    If you're not doing it on their time, property or equipment and you're not getting overtime, no you're not.
    - fishywang 7y ago
      If all your ifs are met, then you are not getting paid for it, which is a criteria from my comment :) Also this whole discussion is about suggest against people from using employer equipment to do personal projects :)
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hinkley 7y ago

Advice I’ve gotten: not on company property, or with company resources (equipment, networking, technology). You want to work on your personal project before going home, bring your laptop to work with you, go to a coffee shop (off-property) and work there. That said, when I’m doing PRs for open source, it gets a bit awkward to use my work ID. If I have permission to contribute to dependencies on work time (which has definitely not always been the case), then something like this could be useful.

fishywang 7y ago
My personal take on open source contribution: If this is related to your work, you are getting paid for working on the contribution by your employer, then your employer should get the credit, thus you should use your work email/id. Otherwise, treat it as your personal hobby project and don't use employer resource to work on it.
- balfirevic 7y ago
  Only "should" here is whatever arrangement you agreed to with your employer.
- hinkley 7y ago
  I think that depends on whether you intend to walk away from those changes once you take a new job. Contributing to OSS isn’t just about fixing a problem for my company. I could do that internally. It’s about fixing a problem for everybody, including future me.
  - fishywang 7y ago
    Using your work email doesn't remove your name. Both you and your employer get the credit.
- yarrel 7y ago
  If you're not doing it on their time, property or equipment and you're not getting overtime, no you're not.
  - fishywang 7y ago
    If all your ifs are met, then you are not getting paid for it, which is a criteria from my comment :) Also this whole discussion is about suggest against people from using employer equipment to do personal projects :)
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