2009-01-01 Thursday - New Year Goals

1. Spend more time contributing to Open Source projects



2. Publish more articles and white papers



3. Donate my services to a selected non-profit



4. Fund a selected entrepreneur through Kiva.org ("Kiva's mission is to connect people through lending for the sake of alleviating poverty")



5. Complete the book I started in 2008 for Packt Publishing



6. Attend QCON 2009 (in San Francisco?) [my 2nd]



7. Read Dean Wampler's upcoming book on Scala



8. Make a trip to Asia to scout out possible locations and engineers



9. Add 100 new professional connections to my LinkedIn network - currently at 169



10. Add a new conference to attend for my own professional development