Ask HN: How do you negotiate working on open source projects in your free time?

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I have a project that I've worked on in my free time that is in the same field as what I do at work. I'm not sure how or if I can open source it without potential issues. Has anyone else delt with this before? There is currently no company policy or precedence for this.

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I coded a plugin for use in our back-end in my sparetime. Its not industry specific or anything. Its just a GUI around an ORM that lets us spin up nice search pages quick.

I think that's the trick there.

The trick meaning to be non-industry specific?

And mostly in my free-time.

Talk to your company. If there is no policy regarding outside work, help write one.

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