What if you spin it as a PR opportunity for the company, and ask to be able to use the code you write as the basis for explanatory tutorials, without giving away any company-specific trade secrets, and give credit to the company for contributing the code? Could be a win-win for everyone involved. You get to blaze the path for other eLearning developers, the client company gets to be seen as open and contributing back to the community, they get their name out in the blogopshere a bit with a positive spin.
But get that in writing, otherwise I'd say you'll have to do the project, then write whatever tutorials you want to do from scratch. Depends on the company of course and how willing they'd be to do something like that, most large companies I've dealt with are simply too beuracratic to ever deviate from the standard agreements the lawyers drafted up. It often doesn't matter what your argument is, the lawyers wrote an agreement and that's the only one they'll ever get you to sign. Doug On Wed, Jun 11, 2008 at 3:02 PM, Amy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > --- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com <flexcoders%40yahoogroups.com>, > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > Amy - that would be a breach of confidentiality in the legal and > business world. You can not share information like that when a > company is paying you to develop/code that information, unless it is > specifically called out in any agreements. I suspect that the company > looking to hire you for this project is also looking to obtain a > competitive advantage, so....your sharing of information outside of > the employing company would be counter to their desired end game.... > > eLearning isn't usually about competitive advantages. I suspect that > the whole work for hire thing is because they also _do_ have some > business critical code that they contract out. But in general the > only reason businesses care _how_ eLearning is coded is based on how > that affects code. > > The eLearning community, however, is waiting with bated breath for > Flex example code that will allow people to get their heads around > how, for instance, they can present pages of data driven content with > a coherent navigational structure. It's been almost a year since > Authorware's EOD was announced, and people need something else they > can do to with this type of content. And if I retain the freedom to > post generic code that doesn't reveal the specific business practices > of the client, I'm in a better position to help people move forward. > > The ideal would be for Adobe to step forward and provide some example > code or assist community leaders in doing so, but so far we've gotten > loads of lip service from various parties but no actual help. So the > ownership of the code isn't so much an issue for me personally, but > more for the eLearning community that would like to use this tool but > so far has been stymied by lack of a clearly documented path on how > to do so. > > -Amy > > >
