My top two tips here are:

Slightly aside, as a third option:

I have a young daughter and a full-time job, so I get maybe 15min of serious private "thinking time" per day. This is nowhere near enough for me to make significant progress on my dozens of pet projects. I've often thought about a project model where I blurt out one-page specifications or summaries of what I'd love to see written, and offer a small money or bounty bounty to entice some person such as yourself to write up the initial implementation. A "want ad" for a small learning project. I could write them myself, I want to write them myself, I know exactly what I'd write if I had the time, but I don't have time. I'd rather give someone else the idea (and an incentive), than to let the idea wither away on the vine.

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In reply to Re: Selecting a project for Learning by halley
in thread Selecting a project for Learning by Coplan

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