We are proud and delighted to introduce a new member to our Very Important Project Owners (VIPO) club - CoinGecko. In the unlikely case you’re not familiar, CoinGecko is one of the earliest and largest cryptocurrency ranking websites in the world, active since April 2014. They now track close to 3,000 coins from over 200 crypto exchanges, with millions of visits to their website and a multitude of applications using their free API.
With Utopian’s help, CoinGecko hopes to grow the number of contributions to their open source repository and reward their existing community of contributors. We urge all developers to go take a look.
We at Utopian believe that a collaboration with a prominent project in the cryptocurrency world such as CoinGecko can help raise awareness of Utopian’s services and greatly benefit the Steem ecosystem.
In our discussions with CoinGecko, we found them to be excited about getting more involved with Steem and Utopian, and the entire open source community. To us, that makes them a perfect fit for VIPO, as they have a significant project we’d all like to see more involved with Steem and Utopian. We are overjoyed to have them here, and look forward to this collaboration.
Project owners included in the exclusive VIPO group can add their projects to the whitelists of categories that require them, and receive professional help and guidance from our Community Managers in creating Task Requests on Utopian.io. With these resources, FOSS Project Owners can access the professional services offered by our community (such as graphic design, QA, visibility and copywriting) to help empower their project growth.
It’s been a fine week of contributions, as Steem goes back to normal in a post HF20 world. This week, we’ve got outstanding contributions from the Tutorials, Translations, Development, Blog, and Documentation categories. And the very first - and also oustanding - contribution from our brand new Antiabuse category. We’re very excited about this. Let’s dive in!
Compilers have historically been some of the most difficult projects to work on. In this tutorial series, @drifter1 provides a phased approach to building a compiler for a simplified version of C. This approach made for a very well written, beautifully explained tutorial, with many planned additions and improvements for the compiler.
This is a product of excellent team work between the translator and the moderator. As noted by the moderator, “The Curious Expedition is a difficult project with technical terminologies and gaming jargon which will require a good background knowledge”. The translator did a professional job of making sure that the translation uses the correct words to keep the information factual. The translator paid attention to detail, and used the correct terminology used.
This is @tobias-g’s first Development contribution in a few months, but it’s definitely one of the best we’ve had! In this contribution, he introduces Contest Hero, which allows users to create, manage and enter contests on Steem. It includes more than ten features so far, which is definitely extremely impressive for a single contribution. The website itself looks amazing as well, and should be very valuable for people who are interested in creating and joining contests. Keep an eye on it!
The Use-a-Thon, launched by @byteball.org several weeks ago, comes to a satisfying conclusion with this post. They round up all of the contributions from the past several weeks, and declare the winners. The post is very well written, expertly illustrated with graphics, and is just full of goodness. Reading it was a delight.
Godot is a handy open source tool that enables people who love creating games to easily create them, without going through the hassle of building the game from scratch. The project is free and easy to use. @clayjohn has been a consistent contributor in the documentation category, and this time he submitted a very cool documentation contribution for this project. The contribution is very helpful both to the PO, and to people willing to learn about the project’s source code.
Much like the Utopian Anti-abuse category, the Steem Flag Rewards Program incentivizes the anti-abuse community. Their project rewards those who are tracking and taking action against abuse. This post by @anthonyadavisii, which is an update on the state of the program, was the perfect choice for our very first staff pick. It is an example for everyone on how to use for the antiabuse category. The post is clean, thoughtful, and easy to read. It engages the reader and encourages them to get involved in anti-abuse efforts.
Total payout: 2.84 STU (not voted by Utopian yet)
Number of votes: 49
Utopian.io Post Statistics
The staff picked contributions are only a small (but exceptional) example of the mass of contributions reviewed and rewarded by Utopian.io.
Overall, the last week saw a total of 265 posts, with 239 of them rewarded through an upvote by @utopian-io.
In total, Utopian.io distributed an approximate of 12290.77 STU to contributors.
The highest payout seen on any Utopian.io contribution this week was 361.117 STU, with a total of 301 votes received from the community.
Utopian empowers open source. It does this by providing tools, exposure and incentives to awesome open source projects and contributors. As Utopian’s impact grows beyond the Steem blockchain, we want to keep supporting our birthplace by creating initiatives specifically tailored to improve some of the most prominent pain points.
As a Steem Witness, Utopian aims to empower the steem blockchain by providing bespoke solutions. The anti-abuse initiative fits that bill perfectly.
Utopian Anti-Abuse
Utopian wants to spread knowledge, awareness and participation around the anti-abuse efforts being made daily by many awesome members of our beloved Steem communities. Anti-Abuse is a new category available in Utopian and its guidelines are available on https://join.utopian.io/guidelines. This is how to find them:
The Utopian anti-abuse initiative will incentivise the best abuse figthers of the Steem blockchain for providing and sharing their knowledge, projects, initiatives, analyses, ideas, tools, and more. Our aim is to make this knowledge available to everyone.
Additionally, Utopian wants to support the great work being done by abuse fighters by providing incentives for their efforts.
An Experiment
The anti-abuse initiative will run for one month as an experimental trial run. After the first month, we will take a short break of 10 days to do an internal audit and resume the improved category immediately after.
It’s important to notice that the Anti-abuse category is, for the time being, “whitelist only”. Once the trial period ends, and depending on how we choose to proceed, we may provide you with the details needed to enter the whitelist.
The Team
We couldn’t be happier to see our team growing. We want to welcome @iamstan as the new Community Manager for the Anti-abuse category. He has been absolutely amazing and incredibly fast in setting up the requirements for the category.
We also want to thank @lovenfreedom, @enforcer48, and all the people behind SteemCleaners and SteemFlagRewards for their support in setting up the guidelines and the quality questionnaire to make this new initiative a reality.
We want to give a warm welcome to the new moderators for the Anti-abuse category:
This is our first major project of our ongoing commitment to making Steem a better place for all of us. We want this blockchain to be useful, safe, and fun. Anti-abuse activities are already a major part of doing that, and we are proud and happy to support them.
With Hardfork 20 and our meetup behind us, and our mana fully restored, we are back in action. We’ve got a lot to tell you, so get ready.
In this post:
Back in business!
New hirings
Open Sourcing Science
SteemStem Comments
Task Requests Ahoy!
Build Utopian.io v2 with us!
Our radio show will be back!
Back in business!
Due to the big HF20 mana depletion, we were out of comission for a few days. But now we’re back as a fully operational ~~death star~~ open source promoting machine.
New Hirings
We are delighted to announce that @gregory.latinier has joined Utopian as our CTO. Grégory is a full stack developer, and has been instrumental in developing Busy.org. We can also reveal that @didic, who has been a moderator and contributor to our Content department, has come on board as Chief Content Officer. He is very embrassed, because he (well, me) is the one writing this post.
Open Sourcing Science
This week, @lemouth announced an incredible new project that we are proud to take part in along with SteemStem. In this project, a group of developers will create an open source, Python-based, version of FeynRules that anyone could run for free, without having to rely on the very expensive Mathematica framework. What’s FeynRules? Well, it’s complicated, so click the above link to find out!
SteemStem Comments
We’re also starting a different collaboration with our friends from @SteemStem. Starting tomorrow, any post voted by SteemStem with a voting strength above 50% will receive a steemstem comment including the utopian logo, plus an incentive to support Utopian as Witness. The text may still slightly change, but here is the preview:
Task Requests Ahoy!
One of the most intriguing devlopments coming to Steem is @steem-1up’s SMT and support of communities on the blockchain. We’ve supported 1UP from the start, and this week they had an interesting TR, looking for developers to create a loot box system for airdrops and cards. Fun! In addition to the Utopian reward, 1UP is offering 50,000 UP tokens for the Loot Box system and another 25,000 UP tokens for a well animated content reveal for the loot box.
Another TR we’re happy to see is one that was suggested by a Utopian moderator in response to a post looking for a logo designer. @irelandscape is looking for someone to design a logo for StemQ, the open source STEM focused Q&A system.
Build Utopian.io v2 with us!
As you probably know, our development team has been hard at work in creating the base for the next Utopian.io, with features and functionalities requested by the community. If you’re a developer and want to help, visit our repo and take a look.
Utopian.io Open Source Radio Show on MSP Waves
We did not have a show this week. But have no fear, the Open Source Radio Show will be back next week, invigorated and energized.
Be sure to tune in next week at 6PM UTC on Wednesday on MSP Waves!
This week, we present another remarkable group of entries from our contributors. This week’s entries includes contribution from the Developement, Blog, Graphics, Tutorials and Analysis categories. These contributions are indeed remarkable and you ought to have a look at them.
A unique analysis looking at Cumulative degree distribution, which ties in nicely with User Authority. Time has been taken to introduce random networks and clustered networks before. With the use of NetworkX, the analysis details how these networks are shown within Steem. This contribution was a hugely complex piece of work, and the author deserves a lot of credit for the undertaking, analysis, and presentation of the findings.
Communication between clients on a blockchain is, of course, vital. Transactions between users rely on it. With this contribution, @carsonroscoe has once again written a very interesting article where he describes how he implemented client and relay nodes for his Seed blockchain.
A second part of the cool tutorial @onepice previously started, which involves creating an HTML5 snake game based on svg and PabloJS. As old as it is, the game is never outdated. With this tutorial, the author dove in detail about how to properly build up the components. Proper and relevant screenshots were provided, illustrating the different phases and progress.
MeraSteem helps people to start business and get resources to kickstart their ideas. It is focusing on the Steem ecosystem, helping others innovate. They approached Utopian with a request to create a logo. Mrgodby was the one who delivered the best design, combining the symbols of people, the letter “M,” and rocket (launching). Furthermore, he explored multiple color combinations, finding the bright gradients of neon colors. He truly went above and beyond the requirements.
The posts in @irelandscape’s series about his evolving Q&A application just keep getting picked by our staff. They are comprehensive, well illustrated, and well written. As reported in a previously staff picked post, SteemQA is now Quearn, and it is the plarform on which he is building StemQ, an application dedicated to questions and answers in the STEM fields. We can’t wait to see where he goes, and we love reading these updates.
Total payout: 0.52 STU
Number of votes: 23
Utopian.io Post Statistics
The staff picked contributions are only a small (but exceptional) example of the mass of contributions reviewed and rewarded by Utopian.io.
Overall, the last week saw a total of 137 posts, with 116 of them rewarded through an upvote by @utopian-io.
In total, Utopian.io distributed an approximate of 3706.25 STU to contributors.
The highest payout seen on any Utopian.io contribution this week was 338.178 STU, with a total of 362 votes received from the community.
It’s been a crazy week on the Steem blockchain, and due to unforeseen consequences of the upgrade, Utopian was forced to put all operations on hold, including reviews and upvotes of scored contributions. But nothing can hold Utopian back for long! We are happy to announce that with all moderator accounts (and our own) normalized, we are back to normal operations, and eagerly await your contributions!
We would like to take this chance to apologize to the contributors whose submissions were not reviewed or voted during this downtime. It is our hope to continue supporting your contributions to open source without interruptions. If you have any specific questions, please contact us in the #help channel on the Utopian Discord server.
During this unplanned downtime, we focused more on the development of Utopian products and the growth of the company. In addition, as we’ve advanced to a top 20 ranking position as Steem witness, we’ve been investing in maintaining our server and preparing for future enhancements. You can read more about it in our witness update post.
Godot is a handy open source tool that enables people who love creating games to easily create them, without going through the hassle of building the game from scratch. The project is free and easy to use. @clayjohn has been a consistent contributor in the documentation category, and this time he submitted a very cool documentation contribution for this project. The contribution is very helpful both to the PO, and to people willing to learn about the project’s source code.
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