Unfortunately, the private sector has similar rules (which is why you don't
see the name of the company I work for in my postings, and why I don't use
my corporate email address on the list).

Add to that, some members of the team I manage lurk on this list.

John

At 2003-09-09 02:27 PM, Sletten Kenneth W KPWA wrote:
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>Jon noted an interesting development:
>
> > One of the Senior Editors at ComputerWorld is doing an
> > article on OpenMPE :)  His deadline is quickly approaching,
> > but he would like to talk with a few end users from the
> > community.  If you would be interested and willing to talk
> > with him today or tomorrow, please reply to me and I will
> > arrange it.
>
>I would love to talk to him...  BUT (unfortunately):  Getting
>myself quoted in print is potentially a big problem;  i.e.:
>Remember:  I'm a Federalli.  I've been quoted and interviewed
>in the 3000 NewsWire a number of times, but that's such a
>limited distribution mag that I've felt fairly safe;  plus I
>know Ron Seybold very well and he ID's me as "Chairman of
>SIGImage/SQL" or etc.  The Computerworld type would probably
>want (quite reasonably) to know where I work...  and to have
>something like, say:
>
>"Ken Sletten, a software engineer for the US Navy at the
>Naval Undersea Warfare Center in Keyport, WA, said ...".
>
>... appear in ComputerWorld would definitely be "not smart"
>on my part.  If it got noticed by anybody in my Command all
>the way back to NAVSEA in DC, then...  well, let's just say
>that would have the potential to become more than a little
>"uncomfortable";  i.e.:  We're supposed to get any public
>statements cleared by the PR flacks ahead of time;  and in
>this case even asking would probably be "not smart" on my
>part:  I might get asked:  "What are you doing on the OpenMPE
>BOD ?"...  Nope:  Not a good idea for me...  Sadly, because an
>article in Computerworld is a major opportunity to get some
>wide-spread PR.
>
>But...:  I certainly hope those of you in the private sector
>will not shrink from talking to Computerworld.  I would also
>urge you to not pull any punches:  We don't want to say
>anything to unnecessarily antagonize HP, but we want to tell
>the straight story;  IMO.
>
>Ken