SteemSTEM Weekly Update - Week #42

This was a very behind-the-scenes busy week for everybody! Big changes have taken place, incentives for steemSTEM support have been announced, the developers team is closely working with the management for version 2 of the steemstem.io and one of (apparently) your favorite section has been realized! Interviewing the Team! This biweekly blog is shared with you in our efforts to bring the community closer together and with our goal to keep you updated about what is going behind and in front of the scenes! ### Incentives for promoting & supporting STEM —- Following our efforts for building a unique science communication on the Steem blockchain, we decided to expand into bringing more research institutes, renowned science bloggers and researchers directly on Steem. For this to be achieved, SteemSTEM needs to be economically sustainable in order for us to plan and fund our new steps. Therefore we are calling all supporters to delegate or to support in any other way they can think of. As an incentive for the extra support and a token of our appreciation, we decided to share 65% of the SteemSTEM weekly curation rewards with all the benefactors. Thank You to everyone who has already been supporting us, we are grateful to see such warm acceptance and trust from the community! For more information about how you can participate, make sure to read here — Convenient delegation links: 50 SP | 100SP | 250SP | 500SP | 1000SP — ### Changes in Management — People evolve, mature, change. So do relationships and so do teams. Ever since SteemSTEM was created by @lemouth & @justtryme90, there have been many people that have helped, joined forces and did their best in growing this community. In the process, some of them have decided to take other paths, with a slightly (or not) different direction. The current Management consists of @justtryme90, @lemouth, @mobbs, while anarchyhasnogods is no longer a member of the SteemSTEM management. Suesa remains in the team as the Head of the Honor Members. —– ### New Voting Bot in Town — You may have already noticed. What, no? Well, we have deployed a brand new voting bot! _{For you who have only just discovered that there is a voting bot and are wondering about it: For transparency reasons, our discord curation channel is open for everyone to see which articles get promoted and the weight these posts are voted with. If you still do not understand what this means, we invite you over to discord to see for yourselves!} — ### First Team Interview with @ruth-girl — This has been planned for some time, but we believe now is the right time to launch it! A community is all about its members, and we decided to bring the SteemSTEM Curators a step closer to the front; to reveal their secrets and to ask for their advice to the new and existing STEM authors! Because after all, quality and knowledge is our main goal! This time, @ruth-girl, our most experienced curator has opened her home and heart to @katerinaramm and has answered some (according to a few, too easy but nevertheless interesting) questions! Read all about it and let us know in the comments section what else you would like to learn from the next interviewee! —- ### Changes coming to steemstem.io! — Since announcing the new steemSTEM app steemstem.io, we have received very important feedback from all the community. We are working closely to improve the usability and user friendliness and we will soon plan to announce the Version 2 of the project. Stay Tuned! — ### Update on the new state-of-the-art python program by @lemouth — If you are only just hearing about this, please read the official announcement. A couple of weeks ago, @lemouth announced an exciting project and has invited developers to join the team! > The aim of this project is very simple: together with a team of developers soon to be formed, we will develop a Python version of FeynRules that anyone could run for free, without having to rely on an unaffordable framework. The project has just commenced and you can read its update here Some of the tasks requested include: - to design a command line interface (CLI). - to define a class and a bunch of functions (details on the above link) and also… a nice logo might (will) be needed! So if you are a developer or happen to know one, make sure to read and forward the above info! — ### What’s next? — Well, for starters, a new interview is being prepared. New updates about steemstem.io will follow and more will be announced in short time! —- ##### Have you voted for steemSTEM Witness? —- This concludes our weekly news update, we hope you enjoyed it and learnt something new! Make sure to follow steemstem on steemit, facebook, twitter, and instagram to always be up-to-date on our latest news and ideas. We are always on the lookout for new scientific articles from all types of authors, so even if you are not a proven researcher, but you like engaging in science yourself, be sure to reach out to us!