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Hello from the desk at home- writing lessons

Zs
hello,

Well, I suppose one of the good things about being stuck at home without a virus is that I can at last log on to this forum during the day again.


My company asked us, some time ago, to prepare personal resilience plans so I've plenty to do here. They have now asked as many of us as possible to work from home and whilst I do have to go in to fix broken electrical things, have skype meetings and access stuff on the company computer, I'm not doing too badly - Day 2 in the small Zs House. I have the rotring pens out and am drawing a switch cabinet in the old fashioned way. 


Anyway,  I'm going to be preparing really basic electrical lessons for some of our younger engineers and the generally curious.  I already have about 15 students and various managers keep phoning to say can you put Joe on the list please.  It seems to be something they've been needing for a while.


So, I have no doubt that I am going to be asking you to check my basic understanding of things and not least to check my maths for me.  To this day that is still not very good.


But I have a question for you about copyright.  If you were to be emailing colleagues with information (which might not even be correct but I hope it will be), and in effect producing a basic introduction to electrical theory.  Would you do anything to protect it?  In my opinion it will belong to the company because I am being paid by them while I sit at home.  Our department who deals with that are, as you can imagine rather busy and on skeleton staff.  My other concern is that loads of the examples will be utter plagiarism.  So ought I to give citations?


I remember JP producing some really helpful information which he shared with his I&T team.  Eventually I started to see it on the web as the work of others.  Even one post of it on here from a claimed author.  I smiled only yesterday when looking for a copy of table I1 from the on site guide and up came JPs document in the images.


I would appreciate any advice or experiences on that.  


in the mean time, seeing as it is on the company public web site you might like to see what on earth Zs has been up to for all this time. I was a touch reluctant to do this article for them because as many of you know, I don't subscribe to Women's networks.  It was the news of protests and arrests elsewhere in the world that made me sit up and think how lucky we are in the UK so I agreed.  this should be a link to a recent  thingumy. I did also wonder whether to chuckle or sob  when I realised I am now officially, the token oldie ?.


 https://awe.co.uk/case-study/salli/


Good to be back,

Zs

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    Long time no read.


    I'd suggest you redraw any key diagrams from text books or whatever rather than nick them, - and have a 'further reading for reference ' list at the back.

    Most images on wikipedia are fair game though, and have a copyright page associated.


    For ccts I tend to mis use the schematic editors from  LT spice or microcap (both free) for anything that cannot be done within the office suite.


    Without the authors permission, strictly, you should not be quoting more than a very small amount, and then saying  - as per this diagram from datasheet (ref 1) or whatever.


    Words are cheap and there are very few fully original ones, even the ones uttered to describe the realisation of impending failure, so it is much easier to defend ' when XYZ occurs then ABC can be a problem' - even if someone else has said it verbatim, it may just be chance.


    It is also unwise to be too revealing of information that could only have come from your employment, unless they give you the OK in advance.  (So it may be OK to say unlike Amazon AWE have one product, but the delivery is much faster to anywhere on the planet, ' cos we all know that, but more details than that might put you on a naughty list.)


    Now you are thinking about this you know why mapj1, and my other alter egos in other places pop up on the internet, but with minimal links to each other or to my full name.


    But I'd suggest that the risk of anything more than a stern warning is not so great, so do not be put off (and some web authors are delighted to be quoted).

    But you surely know some of this,  or someone with a very similar name has already written at least one  book on decorating walls I think.
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    Long time no read.


    I'd suggest you redraw any key diagrams from text books or whatever rather than nick them, - and have a 'further reading for reference ' list at the back.

    Most images on wikipedia are fair game though, and have a copyright page associated.


    For ccts I tend to mis use the schematic editors from  LT spice or microcap (both free) for anything that cannot be done within the office suite.


    Without the authors permission, strictly, you should not be quoting more than a very small amount, and then saying  - as per this diagram from datasheet (ref 1) or whatever.


    Words are cheap and there are very few fully original ones, even the ones uttered to describe the realisation of impending failure, so it is much easier to defend ' when XYZ occurs then ABC can be a problem' - even if someone else has said it verbatim, it may just be chance.


    It is also unwise to be too revealing of information that could only have come from your employment, unless they give you the OK in advance.  (So it may be OK to say unlike Amazon AWE have one product, but the delivery is much faster to anywhere on the planet, ' cos we all know that, but more details than that might put you on a naughty list.)


    Now you are thinking about this you know why mapj1, and my other alter egos in other places pop up on the internet, but with minimal links to each other or to my full name.


    But I'd suggest that the risk of anything more than a stern warning is not so great, so do not be put off (and some web authors are delighted to be quoted).

    But you surely know some of this,  or someone with a very similar name has already written at least one  book on decorating walls I think.
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