2013/5/12 AtKaaZ <atk...@gmail.com> > How do you put yourself into that mood so that you're happy/willing to > program? What motivates you to do it?
When it comes to work projects, I am personally motivated by building something useful and making a good living out of it. The process of programming is fairly interesting to me, but not all of the time. When it comes to open source, I almost always work on something because I am * Really annoyed or infuriated by something * Really interested in something So, have an enemy [1]. This is how ClojureWerkz and http://clojure-doc.org were started: I was really unhappy about the state of some libraries and the attitude towards documentation in the Clojure community. As time goes, seeing how other people use your projects becomes another important reason to continue working on OSS. Finally, there aren't many ways to get your name known in the technical community if you are not based in an area with an active technology community (Bay area, NYC, London, Berlin, etc) and did not attend a fancy school. Open source and other side-projects is pretty much the only way. 1. http://gettingreal.37signals.com/ch02_Have_an_Enemy.php -- MK http://github.com/michaelklishin http://twitter.com/michaelklishin -- -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Clojure" group. To post to this group, send email to clojure@googlegroups.com Note that posts from new members are moderated - please be patient with your first post. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to clojure+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/clojure?hl=en --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Clojure" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to clojure+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
