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I'd love to have an easier way to get involved in some open source project for improving my skills, enhancing my CV, etc. My main challenge is being overwhelmed with information and I can't seem to find a good place to get started on any project.
I would like more users to register my side project ( http://getmousetrack.com ), but I can't seem to convert anyone who visits the project site. At this point, I think I would pay for some service that gives me honest feedback on my landing page and maybe suggest ways to improve conversion rates.
You should have a few bullet points highlighting what Mousetrack does and why it's useful.
You should remove the registration process from the video, because everyone knows what registering an account is and how to do it. It currently takes up almost 50% of the video itself.
It's really hard to see what's going on in the video because I can't full-screen the video, and the text is quite small when highlighting and copying the script.
Probably not worth solving, certainly not something I would solve myself but... I'm up late all the time working. True nightowl you could say. The earliest I'd go to bed is 6am. I sleep during the day and wake up around noon at the latest. I don't lack sleep, this schedule works for me. Point is, I'm up late and I'm sure there are others like me. I get hungry often. I don't cook. Few places if any are open. Those tha…
I would like more users to register my side project ( http://getmousetrack.com ), but I can't seem to convert anyone who visits the project site. At this point, I think I would pay for some service that gives me honest feedback on my landing page and maybe suggest ways to improve conversion rates.
Add some text that explains what I'm looking at, what it costs, and why it's better than similar offerings.
I'd love to have an easier way to get involved in some open source project for improving my skills, enhancing my CV, etc. My main challenge is being overwhelmed with information and I can't seem to find a good place to get started on any project.
Not to sound trite, but I don't think the reasons you enumerated for contributing to a project would give most people enough incentive to spend the energy figuring out how to contribute to most projects. Find the project that makes you go "yeah!" and you'll find it much easier to get acclimated to whatever it is, because you'll really want to understand how it works.
I'd love to have an easier way to get involved in some open source project for improving my skills, enhancing my CV, etc. My main challenge is being overwhelmed with information and I can't seem to find a good place to get started on any project.
Not to sound trite, but I don't think the reasons you enumerated for contributing to a project would give most people enough incentive to spend the energy figuring out how to contribute to most projects. Find the project that makes you go "yeah!" and you'll find it much easier to get acclimated to whatever it is, because you'll really want to understand how it works.
I want to bet against myself; to put down money that I will complete a task, so that the only way to get my money back is to finish what I start.
For example, I want to teach myself machine learning but find it hard to concentrate and stick through an online program. I would go to this site, put down "$80" as a bet, "a certificate of completion email for "Machine Learning 101" from stanford.edu" as proof, and "December 30" as a deadline.
The website then bills my credit card for $80, and only refunds that amount back if a moderator receives the certificate of completion email from stanford.edu, verifying that I did complete the task. If the website moderator doesn't get the proof by the deadline, I don't get my money back.
The task could be anything, but the proof would have to be very difficult to fake, and would require some effort on the part of the website moderator to enforce.
I would love to make this service/website myself, as it would help people and be profitable, the only issue is that /I/ want to use the service as well, and by its very nature someone else would have to run it for it to work for me.
I have a hard time getting myself to do things and stick to them. I want to bet against myself; to put down money that I will complete a task, so that the only way to get my money back is to finish what I start. For example, I want to teach myself machine learning but find it hard to concentrate and stick through an online program. I would go to this site, put down "$80" as a bet, "a certificate of completion email f…
I have a hard time getting myself to do things and stick to them. I want to bet against myself; to put down money that I will complete a task, so that the only way to get my money back is to finish what I start. For example, I want to teach myself machine learning but find it hard to concentrate and stick through an online program. I would go to this site, put down "$80" as a bet, "a certificate of completion email f…
Something kind of close is www.beeminder.com where you can pick a goal, keep track of your progress, and have an auto-forfeit sum of money. It doesn't have verification built in, but it's part way there.
From that site I found this[1], which appears to be the closest existing service. The only problems are:
1. Bad site design.
2. Focused on exercising.
3. You have to choose who the money goes to. This could easily be an excuse to not complete the task, as giving up results in someone else benefiting.
4. No third party that judges whether or not you completed the task. You have to find someone yourself (they recommend family members and friends).
#4 is the biggest problem for me. The crux of the service is that you can't back out on a whim, so having a strict, default third party is essential.
I'd love to have an easier way to get involved in some open source project for improving my skills, enhancing my CV, etc. My main challenge is being overwhelmed with information and I can't seem to find a good place to get started on any project.
- GitHub, Google Code, Bitbucket, SourceForge, CodePlex, ...
- Google Summer of Code, Undergraduate Capstone Open Source Projects, OpenHatch, ...
Getting involved in open source is easy, there's way too many projects that die or go unmaintained because there's no one to help. I have a few projects that could use contributors, but I assume you want to get involved in an active, serious, and popular open source project. Whatever project you're interested in, subscribe to their mailing list (won't hurt to introduce yourself), join their IRC channel, look at their open issues, grep the source for TODOs, look for something to improve, and submit your patch.