In last week’s update, we introduced the VIPO program, along with news about the relaunch of the Translations category with the help of DaVinci initiative. This week, we have some interesting developments in ongoing projects, as well as a few new ones to announce.

In this update:

• Translations Category is Up and Running!
• New Questionnaire & Scoring System
• MSP Waves Open Source Radio Show #4
• New Staff Members & Team Activities
• Exciting new collaboration with the EU Commission

Translations Category Developments

With the collaboration with DaVinci initiative on Steem, our translations category is coming back with a bang! The DaVinci initiative have completed their first wave of reviews for language moderators and translators applicants, and we were thrilled to hear that they received and reviewed over 130 applications!

Image courtesy of pab.ink

To ensure the re-launch process of the Translation category goes smoothly, the DaVinci began the activity with an initial set of 5 languages; Chinese, German, Greek, Italian and Spanish. The community was quick to respond with their contributions and DaVinci team are already hard at work reviewing them. Keep those contributions coming in!

You can check their blog post here.

New Questionnaire & Scoring System

Our team is constantly working to ensure that the scoring system provided to the moderators is an effective tool for quantifying objective value. This past week, we’ve completed a revamped and improved questionnaire and scoring system, thanks to the work of all our CMs, @roj, @jestemkioskiem and @techslut.

What will this affect?

We expect our new questionnaire and scoring system to be more efficient and more rewarding for the contributors who prioritize quality in all aspects. We will be experimenting with an exponential vote system that will give constant high quality contributors higher votes than usual.

More details regarding this change will be announced sometime next week!

Open Source Radio Show

The Open Source Radio Show has been a great hit, attracting interesting guests and a growing audience! We’re happy to see you participate, and invite you to join us weekly on Wednesdays at 6PM UTC. This week, our guests included:

• /dev/null on MSP Waves with @jrswab
• DaVinci Team - @aboutcoolscience
• FOSS News - @techslut

You can listen to the full show here (courtesy of our wonderful show producer, @buckydurdle).

New Staff & Team Growth

Welcoming @roj and @abh12345 as Community Managers

This past week brought on some team role changes. We would like to welcome @roj as a new Community Manager for the Blog Posts category, and @abh12345 for Analysis category!

Operational Manager & PR Manager

When Utopian.io was originally incepted, most of the company functions were filled by one (superhuman) man - @elear. As time has passed, and our user numbers grew it became clear that there is need for some well-organized delegation of responsibilities.

Two new additions to the core team of Utopian.io are @espoem and @deathwing.

@espoem, who will be stepping down from his role as the CM of the Blog category, is now our new Operational Manager who will be handling nearly all managerial tasks and coordination of company activities with @elear.

@deathwing will be stepping down from his role as the CM of the Tutorials category, and will be focusing on working along @techslut in our content and marketing team as the Public Relations Manager for Utopian.io

We hope these role assignments will help make processes and communications more efficient, as well as create new avenues for the ongoing growth of Utopian.io as a company.

Moderation rewards bonus

To encourage and incentivize our moderation team, from this week onwards, every moderator who reviewed at least 5 contributions will receive an extra 30 point bonus to their weekly moderation reward payout.

Copywriting, Graphics and Visibility guidelines

These categories’ guidelines has been updated with the following.

To be eligible for rewards, contributions without an associated task request or whitelist entry should show a public and appropriate communication process between the Project Owner and the contributor, with an indisputable level of voluntary Project Owner acceptance of the work done. Contributors can initiate this communication on public channels to propose their work as long as they don’t act on behalf of, or attempt to represent Utopian.io in any way.

This means that contributions made to these categories will be considered for reward if clear, professional and public communications between the project owner and contributor can be included.

Collaboration with EU Commission

We’ve been in touch with the The Blockchain Competence Centre of the European Commission and have agreed on a collaboration between the Centre and Utopian.io. We are excited to be involved in the development of their blockchain-based ledger system, The European Financial Transparency Gateway.

For more information you can read their post here.

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The Weekly Top of Utopian is a showcase of Staff Picks from contributions made in the past week, hand-selected by our Community Managers from across all Utopian.io categories.

Staff Picks

This week we feature outstanding development contributions, informative video tutorials, a bug not easily discovered and two interesting analyses, one of which studies Steem blockchain rewards and their form. These are just some of the best contributions our Community Managers spotted on Utopian.io during the week.

Bug Report: Busy.org overwriting comment json_metadata by @mkt [bug-hunting]

@mkt has detected that Busy.org overwrites the comments json_metadata with one of its own metadata. This has an effect on other applications using the Steemit json_metadata eg. the-magic-frog. To fix this, @mkt proposes a fix in the form of a small pull request. Even though the bug may be considered minor and has escaped the eyes of other developers, it was presented in a very good format, earning it a Staff Pick status.

Total payout: 38.21 STU Number of votes: 33

- picked by @sachincool

Hitchhiker’s Guide to Substratum Node on Raspberry Pi by @microoo [tutorials]

An elegantly and cohesively written tutorial pertaining to substratum nodes on Raspberry Pi. This tutorial does a great job highlighting all components and all steps, in a very detailed and comprehensive manner, with relevant commands and screenshots. Well done!

Total payout: 80.34 STU Number of votes: 249

- picked by @mcfarhat

The Fundamentals of Zones, Microtasks and Event Loops in the Dart Programming Language - Dart Tutorial Part 3 by @tensor [video-tutorials]

This is another one of @tensor’s highly informative video tutorials. In this tutorial he covers concepts such as Zones in Dart, Microtasks, Event Queues and Microtask Queues. From an educational standpoint, @tensor also asks learners to consider what the code should do before they run it. This is an excellent practice as it gets learners to have mental imagery of what they expect to happen before it happens. This is higher order cognition and a great benefit to learners.

Total payout: 100.89 STU Number of votes: 67

- picked by @buckydurddle

Release: QUIQQER 1.1 is here by @pcsg-dev [blog]

QUIQQER is a management system and the post presents an official release news which brings lots of new features, tweaks and fixes for users and administrators. The team, @pcsg-dev, have managed to publish an excellent summary of changes, which will work as a foundation point for future posts and development.

Total payout: 82.30 STU Number of votes: 60

- picked by @espoem

Utopian.io: a steady stream of new projects supported! Repository analysis March-May 2018 by @crokkon [analysis]

The author (@crokkon) looked into the projects that Utopian has supported from the date Utopian Rules Update #11 was applied to the end of the previous month. He also looked into how many of the contributions were first to a project. What made the analysis stand out were the perfectly laid out graphs and the well positioned descriptions, with one chart surprising the Community Manager.

Total payout: 150.81 STU Number of votes: 79

- picked by @eastmael

[Steemhunt] Most asked questions from Steemhunt Newbies. by @jayplayco [blog]

The author (@jayplayco) keeps us updated with the latest news from the Steemhunt project. Steemhunt is an active project with continuously-occurring updates. This makes it challenging to choose the important ones before the information is dated.

@jayplayco has been a member of the moderation team and long before that he was actively engaged in the community. It is encouraging to see authors like him, who have found their enthusiasm for a project and helped it grow by writing supplementary materials and articles.

Total payout: 84.09 STU Number of votes: 25

- picked by @espoem

[Task Request on beginr] Documentation for each function friendly to R beginners by @dapeng [task-documentation]

This task request for documentation which contains functions that are friendly to R beginners is an exceptional example of what a good documentation task request contains.

Total payout: 16.96 STU Number of votes: 30

- picked by @ms10398

Analysis of the evolution of rewards differentiated by tokens by @lokomotion [analysis]

In this contribution, @lokomotion looked into the evolution of the rewards, split by the different STEEM tokens. He started with a well-thought infographic using a plumbing system and an explanation of each of the tokens. What made this contribution stand out was how the author split and labelled the evolution of the total rewarded tokens per month and followed these with explanations.

Finally, he looked into the most rewarded accounts and grouped them into yellow (focused on accumulating STEEM Power), purple (focused on accumulating SBDs), and green (VESTS and SBDs are almost equal) accounts.

Total payout: 139.77 STU Number of votes: 95

- picked by @eastmael

Development Update #4: Write New Post, Trending Posts and Upvote Post by @jrawsthorne [development]

With his 4th development update of his Steem TV show and movie application, @jrawsthorne once again delivers a high quality contribution. In his post he describes the great amount of work he has done, which added some very important features, bringing us even closer to a full release.

Total payout: 159.39 STU Number of votes: 30

- picked by @amosbastian

Introducing steemconnect4j by @hapramp [development]

SteemConnect is widely used in applications built on the Steem blockchain and because of this there are already quite a few libraries built for it in programming languages such as Python and JavaScript. Thanks to @hapramp (and @bxute) steemconnect4j finally gives the Java lovers amongst us a convenient way to use SteemConnect in their applications as well! They have even provided an example project showing you how to use it!

Total payout: 60.64 STU Number of votes: 23

- picked by @amosbastian

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 263 posts, with 162 of them rewarded through an upvote by @utopian-io.
• In total, Utopian.io distributed an approximate of 10645.58 STU to contributors.
• The highest payout seen on any Utopian.io contribution this week was 715.767 STU, with a total of 237 votes received from the community.
• The contribution that attracted the most engagement was Particle physics @ utopian-io - Objects isolation, histogramming and a first task request, with no less than 24 comments in its comment threads.
• The average vote given by Utopian.io was worth 65.71 STU.

Category Statistics

|Category|Reviewed|Rewarded|Total rewards|Top contributor| |:-|:-|:-|-:|:-| |analysis|7|5|545.89 STU|@jingis07| |documentation|1|1|61.31 STU|@antonchanning| |graphics|103|59|4170.67 STU|@tobaloidee| |development|50|43|3743.88 STU|@dapeng| |ideas|13|3|59.33 STU|@rufans| |bug-hunting|38|17|308.52 STU|@mightypanda| |tutorials|30|18|846.42 STU|@pckurdu| |video-tutorials|4|2|110.76 STU|@tensor| |social|2|2|79.11 STU|@frankremmy| |blog|5|4|624.71 STU|@pcsg-dev| |copywriting|1|1|55.42 STU|@order4adwriter|

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Our multi-talented translations Community Manager in Hong Kong, @rosatravels, is a teacher, creator, musician, pianist and swimmer. Bringing her diverse skill-set, thirst for knowledge and passion for helping others to Utopian.io and the Open Source community, Rosa is our star this week in People of Utopian.

On Github: https://github.com/rosatravels

Who are you, @rosatravels?

I am not a tech person although I can pick up a lot of computer skills easily for building my own websites. As a professional passionate teacher, I help promote Open Source work to my friends by teaching them how to use some of the Open Source Projects I find useful.

Currently, my main focus is Utopian.io and our new initiative with @davinci.witness to bring back the translations category. It’s very time-consuming, and even sleep is hard to come by nowadays. But believe it or not, I actually do a have a life outside of Utopian. I love to swim, so whenever I can and the weather allows (which is quite often in Hong Kong), I go to the nearby beach that is only a half hour walk from my home, and swim in the ocean. I also teach the Bible because it gives insights to truth and freedom we all need.

The most exciting thing that happened to me was the fulfillment of a dream (after many years of searching): learning to play piano by ear. Being involved in a piano forum with other passionate pianists around the world when internet started back in the 1990s helped a lot. The realization of that dream would not have been possible without the Internet. Amusingly enough, I never learned to play the piano professionally, and yet I now have the opportunity to teach many students online, old and young alike, to use my creative method of Color Chord Improvisation to play by ear. So when people around the world tell me that they are super excited to have found me, it gives me a lot of satisfaction as I know exactly where their struggle is in playing piano, and finally can help all students to play piano in the flow!

Another one of my passions is traveling to meet new people and discover different cultures, which is what initially brought me to Steemit.

How did your love of travel end up bringing you to Utopian?

I initially came onto the Steem blockchain in August 2017 to share my travels with the world. My hubby and I have traveled to all corners of the world and created many DVDs (when they were a popular medium) documenting our trips to Greece, Israel, Turkey, Italy, & Egypt. Our travels always brought us to these places, time and time again, so we re-visited some of these locations 3 or 4 times already, and have never gone tired from what they have to offer.

I have a hobby piano website, but I was searching for a way to share our travels and so I discovered Steemit. As you may have guessed, this is also how I picked my username @rosatravels.

But now rosa doesn’t travel anymore. Utopian took over very quickly after I joined Steemit, and I have not been able to blog much about my travels. Still stuck on the hot air balloon rides in Cappadocia.

I am a firm believer that Steemit is a great platform for all bloggers. This is the reason for me powering up SP to help grow the Steeemit community, and I highly recommend others do so as well. I delegate some of that SP to help other communities. This is how I became a dolphin, and my goal is, of course, to someday become a whale. I find that using your power to help the community is as gratifying as using your skills to do so. This is what I have been doing in the past year and it has been very rewarding. Worry about the money later. Now is the time to give, give and give until the Utopian and Steemit communities get established with our communal SP.

How did you discover Utopian.io, and what made you a Utopian?

I discovered Utopian at its early stages in October when I saw people translating Utopian posts into different languages. At first, I had no idea what it was all about, but these posts kept appearing on the trending pages that I started taking notice of it.

I wanted to take part because I saw that Utopian had a grand vision to promote an Open Source Economy. I have used so many Open Source solutions for free that I felt the desire to give back to the OS Economy with my skills.

I joined Utopian.io in October for the fun of it, contributing to Utopian with whatever skills I had in an aim to help the platform grow. It was a game for me to test my skills to see whether I could reach the quality standards Utopian set. These standards helped me strive for my best in all my contributions, regardless of the potential reward.

The communal spirit in the organization is truly inspiring as we all want Utopian to go global and see it shine.

What was your relationship with Open Source before Utopian?

I started blogging in 2006, teaching piano online, which led me to build my own website and use FOSS tools to share my work. 7 Zip was the first open source project I used because I needed to zip up all my video courses for students to download.

I also started writing Kindle books and learned how to use the fantastic Calibre Open Source software to format ePub books. This led to 2 years of providing formatting services to other Kindle authors. Kindle then led me to being an online instructor at Udemy & Skillshare where I started creating valuable business courses and music courses on that platform. This is where I learned how to create fantastic audio using the Audacity Open Source software.

When my Circle of 5ths Level 1 Course went live at Udemy in 2011, it hit ‘best seller’ within a month, and until today, 7 years later, it is still my best selling course. This led to the possibility of starting my first Open Source Project on this fascinating Music Tool. I am still thinking about how to develop this project today with some friends.

How do you think Utopian affects your relationships with the Open Source community and ecosystem? How does it help you express your passion for Open Source?

I had no idea what the Open Source community and ecosystem were before I became a Utopian. I am still learning. But as I watch Utopian grow, I am very much inspired by what this Open source community can be, and the potential it has. I do a lot of local voluntary work in translation and production of tutorials to my students, so I like the opportunity to offer my skills to FOSS projects related to volunteering and education outside HK, taking my contribution global.

What made you decide to take on additional roles in the organization itself?

I used to just contribute as a user, but as I took up more responsibilities as moderators or CM to mentor contributors, I am glad for this great opportunity to help other people grow and develop their skills in translation and tutorial production.

How do you see the future of Utopian? What would you want it to be, and where would you like to see yourself in it?

The future of Utopian look bright. This small seed of initiative is going to grow into a giant tree for everyone worldwide to take shelter under. I am glad to be a part of this inspiring movement. I am also excited about Utopian.io having room for non-developers like me, who can contribute to the Open Source ecosystem in different ways.

Steem is the home for many apps aside from Utopian. Which are your favorite and why?

My favorite one is eSteem app especially the new eSteem Surfer. Next in line is Busy. Steemhunt is the new kid on the block, but I don’t know how much time I can invest there, now that I am fully involved in the DaVinci Platform.

What other Steem communities / initiatives are you part of? Any you would like to create?

I help out in Steem communities mainly by invitation or by chance. I got to know the Chinese community, serve as a Reviewer in the Smartsteem community, contribute photos to the steepshot community and I help translate the ongoing eSteem tips and updates for the Chinese community so they they know how to use the eSteem surfer and app.

Just this past week, I experienced the wildest adventure of my life - joining the DaVinci team to rebuild the translation category for Utopian.io so that we can create an international community of professional translators helping Open Source projects go global.

When I accepted the CM role at Utopian and CLM at DaVinci last Sunday night, I had no idea what I was in for. I never heard of DaVinci before this time, and suddenly on Monday morning I found myself diving deep into the ocean of the DaVinci organization. And guess what? I survived!

I feel that we are now surfing on the beginning wave as the translation activity goes live today, June 17th. For the past week, we dedicated 24 hours (or possibly more) each day as we went through 133 applicants for 20 different languages. The first wave includes only 5 languages (Greek, Italian, Spanish, Chinese, German) with 5 Language Moderators and 15 Translators on board. If I had known such a result was expected from us, I might have been too scared to even accept this role. Sometimes, ignorance is bliss. Just take the challenge and flow with it. It is great fun watching the resurrection of translations on Utopian.io today and knowing I have a role in it.

This last one isn’t really a Steem initiative, but one that could help me personally if created. My hubby loves to eat at home, so I try to find ways to put different dishes on the table without repeating the same thing every day. Luckily for me, whatever I put on the table, he loves to eat. I try to be more creative in searching for new recipes, but I still feel I lack the makings of a good cook

Can Utopian help? Maybe we need to create an Open Source Utopian Restaurant!

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We at Utopian.io would like to keep you well updated on our weekly progress in improving and developing Utopian.io for you. We’re happy to share all the latest Utopian news and updates.

In this update:

• The VIPO Program
• Translations Category Developments
• Utopian.io V2 Sneak Peek
• Utopian.io Innovation Trail updates, Community Activities and more…

The VIPO Program

Open Source Project owners have a hard time finding contributors to their projects, nor can they perform all the functions necessary for a project to become a success. Project Owners aren’t bug hunters, marketers or copywriters, nor should they be.

In an aim to make these FREE services provided by Utopian.io and its community of global talent easier to access, we’ve created the Very Important Project Owners Club. Members of the VIPO Club get exclusive access to a growing set of tools, services and professionals to aid their efforts on Utopian.io.

We received dozens of applications for membership in the VIPO and the number is growing. Seeing project owners engage with our Community Managers and with each other on Discord is a sign that this service is more than necessary in the Open Source ecosystem.

Translations Category Developments

The DaVinci collaboration

Utopian.io has collaborated with the DaVinci initiative on Steem to support the translation of Open Source projects. We have put up a new front-end specifically for this, which can be found at https://davinci.utopian.io. This last week, we also implemented the back-end features to support the site.

A lot of work went into creating quality questionnaires and defining the guidelines and policies for the translations workflow. In the last week, the Utopian.io core team worked closely with the DaVinci initiative to finalize the collaboration the framework in which this program will work.

Welcome @rosatravels and @jmromero!

We have a new community manager for the Translations category, @rosatravels, who is now working in liason with the DaVinci initiative. Together with @jmromero will be interacting with the Utopian.io community and ensuring smooth operations in the Translations category.

Utopian.io V2 Previews

Our team is working hard to bring the next iteration of Utopian.io to you. This week, we have some more sneak peeks into the new Utopian V2 front-end that’s currently being developed!

• Adding your project to Utopian.io

• Home page showcasing projects and recent contributions

• Showcasing popular projects

Community Activities and More

Open Source Radio Show

The Open Source Radio Show has been going smoothly and many valuable insights were shared over the last two weeks. Due to its success and a need for more interaction within it, we have decided to expand it to 2 hours, up from the original 1 hour timeframe.

To catch up with what’s happening, read the last pre-show announcement.

Utopian.io Edu Series: Development

The @utopian.edu account published yet another informative video tutorial and this time it’s about submitting high quality contributions in the Developments category.

View the video tutorial: Utopian.io Edu Tutorial Series: Submitting Excellent Development Contributions

Utopian.io Innovation Trail: Integrated IBM Watson

The Utopian.io developer team has been busy implementing and fine-tuning the IBM Watson AI code for the Utopian.io Innovation Trail. The trail is now smarter and more accurate at filtering potential posts.

In addition the max vote for @steemstem has been increased to a 30% relative vote!!

People of Utopian - imwatsi & knowledges

The last two weeks saw the release of two editions of our People of Utopian publication, featuring two of our own Community Managers.

People of Utopian #3: @imwatsi - a creative writer, passionate about content, Open Source, and the monetization of attention through cryptocurrencies

People of Utopian #4: @knowledges - a 24-year-old Computer Engineer in Nigeria, @curie community curator, and an autodidact with an endless thirst for knowledge in software, hardware and conceptual development of technological solutions

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The Weekly Top of Utopian is a showcase of Staff Picks from contributions made in the past week, hand-selected by our Community Managers from across all Utopian.io categories.

Staff Picks

This week we feature excellent tutorials, blogs, logo designs and analyses. These are some of the best contributions our Community Managers spotted on Utopian.io during the week.

Asynchronous Structures in the Dart Programming Language - Dart Tutorial Part 1 by @tensor [Video Tutorials]

We kick things off with yet another great video tutorial by one of our top contributors, @tensor. In this contribution, he provides Part 1 of a multipart series on asynchronous programming with Dart. As with @tensor’s other tutorials, this is thorough and presented in a pace that makes it easy for learners to follow. This tutorial covers: Await and Async, Future Object, Streams (both Broadcast and Single Subscription), Await For, Listeners and Sinks.

Total payout: 84.17 STU Number of votes: 44

- picked by @buckydurddle

Enhancement of Libot Adventure by @ckole [Suggestions]

This is a great suggestion made to enhance Libot Adventure game by @ckole. The idea shared is very useful and well thought out, and if the developer decides to implement this, it will improve the project greatly.

Total payout: 29.23 STU Number of votes: 9

- picked by @knowledges

How I created a basic Gatsby + Bulma starter template by @the-dragon [Blogs]

Although the blog post introduced a simple starter template for Gatsby with Bulma integration which, as it was explained to the author, could not be rewarded with the maximal upvote, it is worth being highlighted. Its structure is clear, the text is easy to read and the author created clean and pretty visual assets capturing the relevant code parts. It proves that images with code do not need to be boring and bland, and that the text does not need to be complex to be of high quality.

Total payout: 27.10 STU Number of votes: 27

- picked by @espoem

Part 5: Build a CSS-in-JS React App with Styled Components and Priceline Design System by @creatrixity [Tutorials]

Another entry in the series of creating react apps, with a focus here on infinite scrolling, a key component in any web/app solutions, as well as route-based filtering. The author does a great job at detailing the required technologies, components, and the relevant code/screenshots.

Total payout: 79.48 STU Number of votes: 163

- picked by @mcfarhat

Particle physics - Exercise 1b (Reconstructed event filtering, remembering C++ and VIM) by @effofex [Blogs]

This is one in @lemouth’s series of exercises and topics related to particle physics. The author is one of the few participants of the exercises and we can see that he is able to describe the whole process of preparation and the covered topic in great detail, as well as the relevant coding section.

Total payout: 125.64 STU Number of votes: 365

- picked by @espoem

@utopian-io: Approval/Vote Analysis - 18th - 24th May 2018 by @abh12345 [Analysis]

Asher (@abh12345) has been producing this weekly Utopian analysis on a consistent basis. It details the number of contributions and their types, as well as the success and failure rates of each. The level of dedication and consistency portrayed by @abh12345 is a shining example.

Total payout: 125.53 STU Number of votes: 108

- picked by @eastmael

Responsive Logo Designs for LTD ( Let’s Dev Together ) by @podanrj [Graphics]

@podanrj made high quality, responsive logo designs, with great detail about the creation process included in the contribution. Variations of use cases abound, such as in icons, favicons, banners; and screenshots of implementations were presented as well. Overall, this was an excellent graphics contribution!

Total payout: 158.53 STU Number of votes: 58

- picked by @andrejcibik

Random Cat BlockPress module creation tutorial… by @antonchanning [Documentation]

@antonchanning contributed various module documentation for BlockPress, a javascript/jquery content management system that uses various blockchains for backend storage, loaded via ajax modules. The contribution also includes updates to other documentation files.

Total payout: 69.36 STU Number of votes: 20

- picked by @ms10398

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 263 posts, with 163 of them rewarded through an upvote by @utopian-io.
• In total, Utopian.io distributed an approximate of 10956.73 STU to contributors.
• The highest payout seen on any Utopian.io contribution this week was 193.515 STU, with a total of 172 votes received from the community.
• The contribution that attracted the most engagement was Particle physics - Exercise 1b (Reconstructed event filtering, remembering C++ and VIM), with no less than 18 comments in its comment threads.
• The average vote given by Utopian.io was worth 67.22 STU.

Category Statistics

|Category|Reviewed|Rewarded|Total rewards|Top contributor| |:-|:-|:-|-:|:-| |video-tutorials|8|5|369.19 STU|@sargoon| |graphics|73|64|5029.16 STU|@zularizal| |development|50|38|3414.02 STU|@pcsg-dev| |documentation|4|3|164.06 STU|@kit.andres| |bug-hunting|51|18|338.72 STU|@alan-walker| |blog|10|5|243.05 STU|@revo| |ideas|15|5|110.26 STU|@olamatto| |tutorials|41|19|978.73 STU|@team2dev| |analysis|3|3|287.91 STU|@abh12345|

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One of the first to join Utopian.io in its youth, @knowledges is a 24-year-old Computer Engineer in Nigeria, @curie community curator, and an autodidact with an endless thirst for knowledge in software, hardware and conceptual development of technological solutions.

On Github: https://github.com/onozasi

How did you discover Utopian.io, and what made you a Utopian?

I discovered steemit long before the birth of utopian. I was still familiarising myself with writing good blog posts, and trying to get more readers to see my publication by advertising my content across different discord channels. I could see a lot of bias when it comes to rewarding quality content on the blockchain. To be able to get more visibility, one has to be a whale, have whale friends or be forced to use bid bots, which I personally believe to be very harmful to the Steem blockchain. One of my ways of dealing with that was getting involved with the @curie initiative as a community curator. I still believe this initiative is a great service to the community of newcomers to the blockchain.

Then, I discovered Utopian.io and become one of its first adopters. I read about utopian while going through some articles on the steem blockchain, and it’s day I will never forget. I dived into the utopian discord channel immediately after reading the article. I met very few contributors there at first, but as their number grew, so did my understanding of how utopian works.

What really made me want to take part was Utopian’s mission and vision to reward open source contributions. I found this really fascinating.

What experiences do you think shaped your presence on the blockchain?

When I first signed up for steemit, it felt like I was standing in the middle of a desert with no clue on what direction to go. While still exploring the community, I joined a lot of discord channel to seek for more knowledge on how the community functions. Gradually, I started to make some friends and it was really interesting because I got to learn new things from them, and how to improve.

A big shout out to @inquiringtimes who helped in proofreading most of my articles before I published them. I was able to start writing better articles with her help.

The most interesting and inspiring part of it is that we have never met before but she took her time to guide and make me understand the ethics of the community. This influenced me a great deal in my participation on the blockchain and in Utopian.

How do you think Utopian affects your relationships with the Open Source community and ecosystem? How does it help you express your passion for Open Source?

I must confess that utopian is one of the greatest thing that ever happened to me and the open source community in general. I was not engaged with the open source world in my work or life, but with the birth of utopian, my love for it began to grow enormously. I began to familiarise myself with the open source world and tried to contribute as much as my skills would allow me. Utopian has helped me learn new things which have affected me positively in many significant ways.

With the birth of utopian, I started a new project (which is currently under heavy development). This project is aimed to incentivise great article writers and people to post about what they have professional passion about. I believe that as long as we have people posting about things they truly have passion about, we will create a new repository for great articles and written content on the blockchain.

What made you decide to take on additional roles in the organization itself?

I decided to take on additional roles in Utopian and become part of the team because I strongly support and believe in the mission and vision of the organization. The company had helped me personally so much and in so many ways, so taking on more roles allows me to express my love, support and gratitude to Utopian for having such a positive impact on me and others.

In all honesty, I am no different from other contributors. I just happen to be in a position where I represent them, help and guide them to do what is beneficial to the projects they contribute to, and to them personally. It is my hope that this way I can contribute to them having the same experience with Utopian as I have - one of learning and growing.

How do you see the future of Utopian? What would you want it to be, and where would you like to see yourself in it?

I see utopian as a big gift to the open source world. Though we are still very young, I believe in the potential of the vision and organization.

Utopian started about 9 months ago and today it’s one of the most successful communities on the Steem blockchain. With the current cure team, I believe utopian is destined to keep growing stronger because it has some really dedicated individuals that aim to see the success of the project. Every core member sees the project as if it is their own, and they handle it with great respect and care. I strongly believe that if we keep this up, utopian will be the next big thing that happened to the internet.

My role may change as the organization evolves, which ever dimension it takes, I still wish to be a part of it and play a major role in it.

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