Project52 : A New Beginning
Today, maybe yesterday, Anton saved my sorry hide, and probably many of ours, by announcing that Project52 has been moved to start on March 17, 2010 to go through March 17, 2011:
"A New Beginning February 24th, 2010Can you believe that it's nearly March already? As you can see, we're finally starting to make some visible progress around here when it comes to Project 52. I hope that the lack of updates on this site hasn't gotten in the way of you and your writing.
A Fresh StartAs the captain of this leaky boat, I consider it my duty to steer us in a more productive direction. I've decided to re-boot the project with a new launch date of March 17th -- St. Patrick's Day. I feel that we got off to a very unorganized start. This is due in part to the number of people that discovered the project after January 1st had already come and gone. Also, a lack of preparedness (in the amount of interest that was shown) brought the logistics of managing this machine to a crawl.
Again, just to be clear: our new dates will be from March17th, 2010 to March 17th, 2011. Please note that on your calendars.So, for those of you already (and still) participating -- thank you for your patience. We're nearly ready to provide the inspiration and data that you've been asking for. If you've already got nine (or more) entries live on your site, then you are already leading the pack in your habits. But from what I've seen, there are still a lot of you who have signed up that have already stopped writing. Consider this a second chance to begin again. We would love to have you back in the fold!"
Yay! Two days ago, I declared my Project52 February Fail since I was so busy the last four weeks and dropped off the face of the Project52 planet, I am glad for a new start three weeks from now.
Now, if I account myself as smart, I will pre-write the first few weeks of entries and get them queued to go starting March 17, 2010.
Once again, I hereby pledge to write more about Mobile user experience, Mobile and Web application building, etc.
Thanks, Anton, et al, for all your hard work. Y'all rock.
alex.combas
Pre-written posts! Thats gotta be cheating somehow :)
tgpo said:
So if we're still going strong from January 1, does that mean we still end on January 1, 2011, or are we all now ending March 17, 2011?
Black Phoebe :: Ms. Jen
Hi Alex - Ha! One week in January, I had three post that would have qualified as articles and in February, I have not had one (that I can remember). Are you coming to SXSW this year?
Hi TGPO - Francis Berriman brought this up on the Google Groups mailing list for Project52, as she has been faithfully blogging since Jan 1st.
I think that the spirit of Project52 is to get us all back to posting one informative (however we define that) long form blog post per week for a year. So, if you start the year on Jan 1 to Jan 1, then great.
I think Anton and Co. reset the date because all of their spare time has been in setting up the website and systems thereof rather than writing.
Do go read the mailing list for more info as it evolved.
;o)