I don’t put a lot of value in New Year’s resolutions. I think they mostly fail in a short amount of time for a variety of reasons. Also, this TED Talk by Derek Sivers has stuck in my mind as a reason to set goals and not tell others about them. It is easy to get excited about our personal goals and share them. I suggest thinking about why you are sharing your goals and share when you feel like it may help you obtain them.

My life strategy is to treat each day as a gift of a new beginning. Every day I have a chance to make improvements in my health, treat others better, learn something new, and much more. It is so much less pressure to spread out my personal continuous improvement equally throughout the year.

I was excited to take part in the Birds of a Feather Discussions/Un-Conference at Drupal Camp Asheville this year. Ever since being a part of the Charlotte Drupal Drive-in, I have had a big heart for any opportunities to allow more voices to get involved in the conversation. This unconference did not disappoint!

The event ran from 1PM-5PM following lunch, which was provided by the Drupal Camp via generous sponsors. The event began by everyone listing topics they wanted to cover. The group voted on what they most wanted to cover in the afternoon by show of hands. This informal voting guided the order of topics. We tried to limit topics to 15-30 minutes, but due to interest in each topic, they ran for an hour or more each!

I had the pleasure of presenting on contributing to open source at the 2017-07-12 CharDUG meetup. It was a blast and I was so pleased that the group wanted to start having a monthly code sprint session. This will give attendees the opportunity to learn more about contributing and to push along their favorite Drupal projects! Look for that on the CharDUG meetup page soon!

You will find my slide deck below.