> I'm not competing, partly because I don't want to be up at 6AM, and partly because I like it better as a relaxed 15-30 minutes where I learn some new stuff ab

> I'm not competing, partly because I don't want to be up at 6AM, and partly because I like it better as a relaxed 15-30 minutes where I learn some new stuff about the environment I'm working with (for example, one year I used CMake to build, just to get some experience with it). Maybe I'm misunderstanding something, but this doesn't seem very exceptional. To me this seems to be 100% within the spirit of the project. I didn't even know there were competitive aspects in place.