This was really popular last week, I was really impressed with how many hardworking hobbyist type people we have here. It got me motivated to do some of my own things.
As a reminder, this thread is for anyone working on personal projects to share their progress, and hold themselves somewhat accountable to a group of peers. We can coordinate weekly standup type meetings if their is interest.
Post your project, your progress from last week, and what you hope to accomplish this week.
Also naming the thread. Tinker Tuesday or taskmaster Tuesday, or something else? I switched the thread to Tuesday instead of Monday because the culture war thread refreshes on Monday.
Jump in the discussion.
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I'm planning to coach a rec sports team at my local college. The sport is underwater hockey. Its real and it's awesome, look it up.
Anyways I made some good progress on getting ready for the semester. Mostly that meant getting through the bureaucracy of the university. I attended the mandatory class, and got some of the forms filled out. But I also got to the more interesting part of writing some basic coaching plans and figuring out goals for the coming season. I .mostly want to make sure the club survives, it's in a rough spot from COVID. The kids who found underwater hockey before COVID are mostly graduated or about to graduate. So we desperately need a bumper crop of new people to try out. I'm hoping for just two good players that want to keep the sport going. And only one of them needs to stay around and be willing to do extra paperwork so the club won't collapse next year.
Try to host as many events as you can that aren't games. For the college crowd, social proof and social esteem are big motivators.
For a bunch of both good and bad reasons, my Fraternity had to do an inordinate amount of paperwork all of the time. We never had a shortage of volunteers because there was a shared attitude that paperwork being done led to awesome parties which led to awesome things happening at parties (fill in the blanks on your own).
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