I sometimes do quick patches of things that get in my way. Sometimes I do pull requests on github. Sometimes (usually?) I don't. And I use AWS, Google, Drop Box and Github to hold things for me in the face of (yet another) hard drive crash.

I like git well enough. Github seems nice. What is this gamification of which you speak? I'm not saying that it isn't staring me in the face, but I'm probably looking right past it.