(sorry for the duplicate post, the other one disappeared) I wrote a tweet after Gophercon about making a resolution to write more blog posts. I used the hashtag #GopherResolution with the hope that other people might pick up the idea and run with it. So far, however, only one other person has used the tag.
There are studies on the effects of making public promises (resolutions) to act that indicate it is generally effective in getting you to stick to those resolutions (at least more so than ones you don't announce). However, it occurred to me that most resolutions fail because they're too vague. There's an acronym called SMART that says your goals should be Specific, Measurable, Achievable, Realistic, and Time-based. The "measurable" one is the interesting one, and where I think we can leverage software to help us. My idea is to make a website where gophers can make specific resolutions to contribute to the community, and the website can then track those resolutions over time. For example, a resolution to write blog posts could be tracked by consuming an RSS Feed. A resolution to contribute to a particular project could track PRs, issues, etc. The website could track streaks over time if we give a time box for each contribution (write a blog post every 2 weeks, or contribute to one open source project every month). With dashboards showing top contributors, etc, it could effectively game-ify community involvement. Of course, all of this would take a significant amount of work to code, but it seems very doable, if enough people would actually participate. Thoughts? Is this something you'd be interested in? Do you think it would be valuable to build? -Nate -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "golang-nuts" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to golang-nuts+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
