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How does element14 influence which projects you work on?

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  1. Do element14 contests and road tests influence which projects you work on?
  2. Do element14 projects reduce the number of other projects you work on?
  3. Do element14 discussions and blogs inspire or influence some of your projects?
  4. What observations, likes and dislikes do you have about the mix of project themes on element14?
    1. are they too technical? not technical enough? too onerous? not a good fit for your situation?
  5. Would you like to participate more but encounter obstacles?
  6. Do you find the prizes are a significant/sufficient incentive to blog about your projects?

To kick off the discussion, in my case, element14 does have some influence on my projects, but often it is more about influencing which projects get published than about which projects I tackle.

I always have multiple projects on the go or in the pipeline, but when an element14 contest is announced I often investigate if one of my projects can be adapted to fit the rules.

This can alter the priority of a project or even its objectives. Sometimes just thinking about contest themes, spawns a new project idea that goes in the queue.

Often an element14 project includes a subsystem that is useful in some other project in my queue.

Working on element14 projects always incurs a lot more documentation and blogging effort than private projects.

I like the contest / deadline format in the sense that it provides incentive to complete projects quickly.

Some of the other blogs on element14 definitely inspire new projects to be placed in my project queue.

I find that if I have no use for the prize, I am much less likely to participate, but the prize is not usually the main motive for participating in a contest.

Rarely, but once in a while, the prize is the primary reason.

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    1. Do element14z contests and road tests influence which projects you work on?
      1. Not quite, but they are good motivation to explore ideas (or technology) that maybe I failed to find an "excuse" to use or build before.
    2. Do element14 projects reduce the number of other projects you work on?
      1. Well, if I decide to participate on a project on Element 14 there's a chance that I'd need to pause one of my own projects. But it's not like I have a consistent project schedule for my own stuff, so even without E14 projects in between, there's no guarantee that I would have finished them any sooner or would have completed more of them.
    3. Do element14 discussions and blogs inspire or influence some of your projects?
      1. So far no, but I can see some projects or blogs potentially inspiring me or influencing me down the road.
    4. What observations, likes and dislikes do you have about the mix of project themes on element14? 
      1. So far they seem pretty alright to me, although I just started paying attention to the projects after last year's Halloween event.
    5. Would you like to participate more but encounter obstacles?
      1. Would love to, but time is the biggest obstacle for me. I can absolutely allocate time for projects or RTs here and there, but I definitely can't participate in as many projects as I would like to. Otherwise I'd be participating in basically all of them!
    6. Do you find the prizes are a significant/sufficient incentive to blog about your projects?
      1. For the most of it, yes! Although there's a chance that I'll be posting about my projects even if they don't win me prizes.
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    1. Do element14z contests and road tests influence which projects you work on?
      1. Not quite, but they are good motivation to explore ideas (or technology) that maybe I failed to find an "excuse" to use or build before.
    2. Do element14 projects reduce the number of other projects you work on?
      1. Well, if I decide to participate on a project on Element 14 there's a chance that I'd need to pause one of my own projects. But it's not like I have a consistent project schedule for my own stuff, so even without E14 projects in between, there's no guarantee that I would have finished them any sooner or would have completed more of them.
    3. Do element14 discussions and blogs inspire or influence some of your projects?
      1. So far no, but I can see some projects or blogs potentially inspiring me or influencing me down the road.
    4. What observations, likes and dislikes do you have about the mix of project themes on element14? 
      1. So far they seem pretty alright to me, although I just started paying attention to the projects after last year's Halloween event.
    5. Would you like to participate more but encounter obstacles?
      1. Would love to, but time is the biggest obstacle for me. I can absolutely allocate time for projects or RTs here and there, but I definitely can't participate in as many projects as I would like to. Otherwise I'd be participating in basically all of them!
    6. Do you find the prizes are a significant/sufficient incentive to blog about your projects?
      1. For the most of it, yes! Although there's a chance that I'll be posting about my projects even if they don't win me prizes.
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