Re: [silk] Linguistics query

2014-06-04 Thread Ramakrishna Reddy
On Wed, Jun 4, 2014 at 7:21 AM, Udhay Shankar N ud...@pobox.com wrote: Idly wondering, and I thought the folks here might have some insight: Does the alphabet used by any Indian language have the concept of upper and lower case? (for the purposes of this query, let us explicitly exclude the

[silk] Employee-Employee agreement for open source activity

2014-06-04 Thread Biju Chacko
Hi, A colleague wants to start an open source project and wanted to make sure our employer is ok with it. I was wondering if anyone here could point me to some templates or other resources for this kind of agreement. A quick google didn't get me anything useful. -- b

Re: [silk] Employee-Employee agreement for open source activity

2014-06-04 Thread Sankarshan Mukhopadhyay
On Wed, Jun 4, 2014 at 1:08 PM, Biju Chacko biju.cha...@gmail.com wrote: A colleague wants to start an open source project and wanted to make sure our employer is ok with it. What does the phrase is ok with it mean in this context? -- sankarshan mukhopadhyay https://twitter.com/#!/sankarshan

Re: [silk] Employee-Employee agreement for open source activity

2014-06-04 Thread harry
Your colleague must have an employment contract which has a clause indicating all work done for the organization is work for hire etc - and that covers work done related to the office. If this states that the company owns rights to code written during work timings -and while pursuing a task

[silk] Employee-Employee agreement for open source activity

2014-06-04 Thread Sudhakar Chandra
I don't have a template or resources I can point to. But some things both employer and employee should consider before embarking on this: 1. Is this a brand new, from the ground up project or the open sourcing of something the company had that was previously closed? The former is marginally less

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Re: [silk] Employee-Employee agreement for open source activity

2014-06-04 Thread Biju Chacko
On Wed, Jun 4, 2014 at 1:25 PM, Sudhakar Chandra tha...@gmail.com wrote: I don't have a template or resources I can point to. But some things both employer and employee should consider before embarking on this: 1. Is this a brand new, from the ground up project or the open sourcing of

Re: [silk] Employee-Employee agreement for open source activity

2014-06-04 Thread Biju Chacko
On Wed, Jun 4, 2014 at 1:15 PM, Sankarshan Mukhopadhyay sankarshan.mukhopadh...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Jun 4, 2014 at 1:08 PM, Biju Chacko biju.cha...@gmail.com wrote: A colleague wants to start an open source project and wanted to make sure our employer is ok with it. What does the phrase

Re: [silk] Employee-Employee agreement for open source activity

2014-06-04 Thread Badri Natarajan
The contract states that approval needs to be obtained on a case by case basis. The concern seems to be less about the IP issues and more about potential conflict of interest and misuse of company time and resources. -- b It's not quite my specialty (it used to be once upon a time),

Re: [silk] Linguistics query

2014-06-04 Thread SS
On Wed, 2014-06-04 at 07:21 +0530, Udhay Shankar N wrote: Idly wondering, and I thought the folks here might have some insight: Does the alphabet used by any Indian language have the concept of upper and lower case? (for the purposes of this query, let us explicitly exclude the Roman alphabet)