Every month I set some goals for myself for The Lunduke Journal.

During May... I hit my goals for articles and for growing the subscriber base (both for free and paid subscribers). Feel pretty solid about all of it. And I wanted to fully launch the video portion of The Lunduke Journal. Feel good about that too.

The only goal that I haven't yet achieved is:

"Schedule and fund attending one conference."

But I'm SUPER close to hitting that goal. Got two conferences on the schedule, and am just short of funding the travel expenses. But, hey, there's an hour or two left in the month. Maybe one or two more Founding Members will join up and make it happen. 😎😉

Now, looking ahead to June, I have some very different goals in mind. Here they are.

1) Don't say the word "Subscriber" so much. 🤣

Because of the various goals I set for myself for May... I ended up needing to talk about subscriptions WAY TOO MUCH. lol! In June I'd like to use that word... almost never. Here and there is cool, but otherwise... no subscription pushes and drives. 😉 In fact, I'm setting a firm limit: no articles or shows focusing on subscriptions. For the whole month.

2) Lots of games!

I've already talked about this a bit, but June is going to have a bunch of game stuff happening. During the month I want to add many games to the BBS (already in progress), and launch the Lunduke Journal Shell system with some games. And, hopefully, release Lunduke's Quest (though that one I won't give myself a hard time if I slips... getting that game right is a big deal for me, personally.)

3) Release my current book, and release a monthly Lunduke Journal PDF

I made very little progress on editing "Linux Sucks: The Book" during May. Time to make that a priority and get that work done (I'm terrible at editing... it's my Achilles heel). I'm also setting a goal for finally starting to publish a monthly PDF archive of Lunduke Journal articles published during a given month. Something I want to have for myself for archival purposes.

4) Live events!

Hold the second part of LundukeFest. Founding Member hangouts. Do more live streams in general. Keep moving on attending conferences.

So, there you go! Outside of the standard "write articles, record podcasts" regular weekly work, those are my high level goals for June! I like 'em. These feel good to me.

Now. Since May isn't over for another hour or two... and my "don't say subscribe so much" goal doesn't kick in until the clock strikes midnight...

Somebody go and become a Founding Member subscriber so I can meet that "Schedule and fund attending one conference" goal for May! 🤣