hmmmm torture....
There's no penalty and no failure, except that which one's self imposes. While completion of a project is the aim, the real spirit behind it is for 30 days...
To challenge one's self
To commit to a project
To believe in one's self
To overcome obstacles
To endure setbacks
To persist
To share in the experience
To achieve
I think that anyone who gives it their all for 30 days, even if they don't complete their project 100%, will experience all of these during the dev process. So by it's nature everyone succeeds.
(But of course we can still rib the losers!!!)
j/k
I am in the process right now of trying to set up something to help all of us reach our goals. Perhaps a thread or a blog where we try to check-in every few days (or daily), to report our progresss, share our successes/frustrations. I was thinking of some sort of Dev Diary, or journal, where people can express there thoughts. Even if it's something like, "I tried to work on the project today, got bogged down on such and such, drifted off to the forums, watched some videos. Not sure how to figure this part out".
I don't really know yet just trying to come up with ideas. It would be nice to have a record of the experience, from the perspective of all the participants. If anyone has some thoughts on what we can do, please feel free to share.