Comments on: Open Sourcing Resolutions

By: Twenty-six — Matt Mullenweg

Twenty-six — Matt Mullenweg — Thu, 14 Jan 2010 17:43:32 +0000

[…] for twenty-six to be an infrastructure year, laying down the groundwork for things to come. No open source resolution like last year, but here’s what I’d like to focus on in […]

By: Karen

Karen — Sun, 25 Jan 2009 02:19:06 +0000

I always “resolve not to resolve.” You can’t break them if you don’t make them. I do, however, set goals for myself throughout each year.

You can steal that if you wish.

By: Jayson J. Phillips

Jayson J. Phillips — Tue, 13 Jan 2009 22:02:14 +0000

Here’s a resolution I’ve personally followed: Pick one physical feature about you, and on the first of every month, track its changes and the general mood of the prior month (busy launching WP 2.7, etc, etc). At the end of the year… you’ll see how much you can track your life via yourself a la rings on a tree.

I personally do that with the length of my dreads. I just informally track their length, and other features, and what was going on that month. I can actually now relate different stages in my life to the length of my hair at the time, and recall more vividly experiences from those times when I see pictures.

Cheers, and best wishes for 2009.

By: Eviwidi

Eviwidi — Tue, 13 Jan 2009 03:52:24 +0000

Hi Matt,
In 2009, please adding more exiciting theme in WP, and maybe like this blog theme..:)

Adding more widgets in WP.

Write a book about Matt and about WP.

Btw, why there are many spams in latest this several month? but fortunately in WP had Akismet.
Now in my blog there are 2.760 spam.

Good luck and have a nice day!

-Evi-

By: bravegirl

bravegirl — Mon, 12 Jan 2009 03:34:01 +0000

Create a viral marketing program promoting education and entrepreneurship for girls in developing countries including the middle east. Bring the world together, one girl at a time.

By: Twenty-Five — Matt Mullenweg

Twenty-Five — Matt Mullenweg — Sun, 11 Jan 2009 22:24:29 +0000

[…] up from the open source resolutions, here’s what I’m going to aim for this year in no particular […]

By: Kabatology

Kabatology — Sun, 11 Jan 2009 18:13:28 +0000

Easy – give this blog a face-lift

By: ektz

ektz — Sat, 10 Jan 2009 08:35:30 +0000

lol. you have a lot of options to choose from matt! when are u publishing the resolution list?

By: Becca

Becca — Sat, 10 Jan 2009 02:50:00 +0000

PS Learn Spanish

By: Becca

Becca — Sat, 10 Jan 2009 02:49:22 +0000

Keep in touch with people personally when possible. Maybe measure it at one message every month or so.

Visit me in Puebla!

Make a gallery of your best shots.

By: Roya Khosravi

Roya Khosravi — Fri, 09 Jan 2009 21:08:24 +0000

Encourage and support women who are working on open source projects. (yes we exist and tomorrow we will conquer the World)

By: JamieO

JamieO — Fri, 09 Jan 2009 14:49:49 +0000

Support (resources, connections, money, other) ambitious plugin ideas that leverage WordPress as a foundation platform to do wonderful things. Appointment scheduling, event management, CRM, etc.

By: Spamboy

Spamboy — Fri, 09 Jan 2009 03:37:52 +0000

My resolution: never go a day without respond to all of your friends who have left you comments, emails, or FaceBook posts. Keep relationships alive!

By: Mark Jaquith

Mark Jaquith — Thu, 08 Jan 2009 23:06:36 +0000

1. Let’s reinstate WordPress Wednesdays, and you have to make it to at least half of them.
2. Make WordPress capable of doing kick-ass photologs.
3. Take a week and go somewhere remote, alone or with one travel companion. Don’t bring your laptop or iPhone.

By: Erica Douglass

Erica Douglass — Thu, 08 Jan 2009 23:00:57 +0000

Hi Matt,

Resolve to change your diet in at least one memorable way. For instance, in 2007 I gave up sugar and high-fructose corn syrup cold turkey. In 2008 I became pescetarian. The diet changes are interesting and teach you a lot about yourself…and open you up to new types of food/drink!

-Erica

By: Christian Gastrell

Christian Gastrell — Thu, 08 Jan 2009 19:12:24 +0000

this will sound a bit stupid, but i really mean it xD
Finish unfinished things… start new things that will become unfinished… cycle things up.
For my desktop phrase of the year this will be:
“Recycle the unfinished status; pending is not something you can depend on.”
My english is not too good, but since you don’t speak spanish… xD (sounds better in spanish thou)

By: Julie

Julie — Thu, 08 Jan 2009 14:32:45 +0000

Print your favorite picture of another person every month and send it to that person in a picture frame. 🙂

By: Armando Soto

Armando Soto — Thu, 08 Jan 2009 14:17:18 +0000

Integration of WordPress and SugarCRM would be a great thing.

By: Fouad Masoud

Fouad Masoud — Thu, 08 Jan 2009 11:44:35 +0000

stay home doing nothing for a whole week.

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Thu, 08 Jan 2009 05:45:16 +0000

[…] open source style twist to making New Year’s resolutions, Matt Mullenweg offers “Open Sourcing Resolutions,” asking people to tell him what his resolutions should be for the new year. It’s an […]

By: Eoin Dubsky

Eoin Dubsky — Thu, 08 Jan 2009 02:06:44 +0000

Learn to play a musical instrument. (Or — if you already know how to play — teach somebody to play a song you like.) Happy New Year to you too!

By: Lorelle

Lorelle — Thu, 08 Jan 2009 00:58:05 +0000

I agree with so many, and adore Donnacha’s advice. There are some days…sigh. I might take his advice, too. hee hee.

I’d recommend slowing down rather than speeding up in your personal life, as many have also advised.

I’d also put on your list to simply and clearly clear up all GPL explanations so everyone is on the same page this year.

For many years, I’ve tucked in a note with my holiday decorations for the one thing I want to be different or achieve in my life by the time I open my decorations next year. After five years with the same message, I made it come true, so I wonder what your one thing would be, my friend.

Happy holidays and fantastic new year.

PS: Also add solve the economic crisis with open source this year, okay. 😀

By: John Myrstad

John Myrstad — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 23:27:27 +0000

1. Become a better photographer and
2. Initiate a opensource colloberation to make the ultimate photo publishing plugin for WP which includes all interesting photo publishing like zoomable images , interactive images, annotatable images etc…

By: Rosa J.C.

Rosa J.C. — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 21:58:30 +0000

Visit Spain again! And hire Samuel! 😉

By: Matt

Matt — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 21:11:17 +0000

In reply to Dr. Mike Wendell. Happy new year! :)