Comments on: Why companies should let employees represent them http://www.openlogic.com/blogs/2008/04/why-companies-should-let-employees-represent-them/ Open Source Governance, Scanning, Support, and Cloud Wed, 01 Feb 2012 20:00:35 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Timothy Jones http://www.openlogic.com/blogs/2008/04/why-companies-should-let-employees-represent-them/comment-page-1/#comment-98875 Timothy Jones Tue, 15 Apr 2008 01:34:01 +0000 http://www.openlogic.com/blogs/2008/04/why-companies-should-let-employees-represent-them/#comment-98875 I have a regular day-job at a company that isn't particularly clueful or enthusiastic about open source, but I can tell you that I *choose* to interact with the community with my own personal email address and NOT my corporate address. The reasons are mostly so that 1) I don't have to suffer through inquisitions at work, if they happen to stumble across the corporate name being used for something they don't understand 2) If I ever leave, I want credit/feedback etc to come back to me, and that is out of the question if I do stuff under the email they give me. 3) They just don't get opensource to begin with. The community is better off without them. I have a regular day-job at a company that isn’t particularly clueful or enthusiastic about open source, but I can tell you that I *choose* to interact with the community with my own personal email address and NOT my corporate address.

The reasons are mostly so that
1) I don’t have to suffer through inquisitions at work, if they happen to stumble across the corporate name being used for something they don’t understand
2) If I ever leave, I want credit/feedback etc to come back to me, and that is out of the question if I do stuff under the email they give me.
3) They just don’t get opensource to begin with. The community is better off without them.

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