This week, we have three terrific contributions, from Documentation, Analysis, and Development. Two of the contributions are related to Steem, with one presenting improvements to the Kure communities Steem condenser, and the other concentrating on our own voting patterns in Utopian.

Staff Picks

Godot Documentation: Animating Thousands of Objects by @clayjohn [documentation]

Godot is a helpful open source instrument that empowers individuals who love making games to effectively make them withouthaving to create the animations from scratch. The project is free and simple to utilize. @clayjohn is a consistent contributor to this project, as well as to the Utopian documentation category. @clayjohn’s documentation skills are superb, and his content are clear and easy to understand. We were not surprised by this quality documentation effort, as his contribution usually get staff picked. Check it out if you have any interest in contributing to our Documentation category.

Total payout: 27.40 STU Number of votes: 160

Utopian-io Vote Analysis: December 2018 by @miniature-tiger [analysis]

This analysis is superbly presented, and covers multiple topics in relation to utopian-io and voting for December 2018. It is easy to see from the analysis which categories are receiving the most voting power, and which are possibly being neglected. There is also a focus on the timing of the utopian vote which concludes that this has improved in recent months. An excellent report that we definitely appreciate.

Total payout: 43.02 STU Number of votes: 230

KURE Development Update 6 - View Content and Communities, Request to Join Communities, and Approve/Deny Requests by @krnel [development]

KURE provides a network hub for people to create their own communities, concentrating on evaluating content to curate. Previously, joining a community was only possible through someone adding a user manually. With this update, a user can request to join a community, and then the staff of that community can either approve or deny that request. Other improvements, such as the ability to see the current number of users and requests to join a community, as well as updating the data when you add, delete, approve or deny users, were also imlpemented in this update. All in all this makes it a very worthy staff pick, and hopefully the site will be live soon!

Total payout: 76.06 STU Number of votes: 448

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 171 posts, with 121 of them rewarded through an upvote by @utopian-io.
• In total, Utopian.io distributed an approximate of 3018.47 STU to contributors.
• The highest payout seen on any Utopian.io contribution this week was 141.162 STU, with a total of 272 votes received from the community.
• The contribution that attracted the most engagement was TokenBB: Workbox, Service Workers and Vue., with no less than 7 comments in its comment threads.
• The average vote given by Utopian.io was worth 24.54 STU.

Category Statistics

|Category|Reviewed|Rewardable|Rewarded|Total rewards|Top contributor| |:-|:-|:-|:-|-:|:-| |translations|43|37|19|603.71 STU|@yassinebad| |bug-hunting|17|17|17|197.14 STU|@harry-heightz| |documentation|1|1|1|33.81 STU|@clayjohn| |video-tutorials|4|4|4|102.40 STU|@tensor| |development|20|20|12|508.89 STU|@emrebeyler| |blog|43|38|32|674.08 STU|@harry-heightz| |anti-abuse|4|4|4|178.17 STU|@themarkymark| |tutorials|11|10|10|179.98 STU|@pckurdu| |ideas|11|8|8|119.71 STU|@peerzadaaabid| |graphics|4|3|2|46.00 STU|@zularizal| |iamutopian|7|6|6|241.75 STU|@amosbastian| |analysis|3|3|3|127.08 STU|@miniature-tiger| |social|1|1|1|3.25 STU|@marshalllife|

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Being staff picked for Top of Utopian is a mark of excellence. Contributions included in this post have to set the bar for what we want and expect from our contributors. Sometimes, only a few contributions meet that bar. This is one of those times. We only had two staff picks this week, but these picks, from the Anti-abuse and Analysis cateogories, are both terrific.

Staff Picks

The SBD returns ? by @lostmine27 [analysis]

SBD, the Steem blockchain’s second currency, is being produced again. In this detailed analysis post, @lostmine27 crunches the numbers and examines the trends to try and determine if SBD production is likely to continue. If you have any interest in the Steem blockchain and the currencies it powers, you should definitely check this post out.

Total payout: 7.18 STU Number of votes: 198

Introducing CryptoRecycling: A Covert, Concealed Approach to Reposting - @adrianobalan & @sardrt by @jaguar.force [anti-abuse]

@jaguar.force has brought us an incredible story of deceit and mistrust. A web of abuse hidden right in front of everyone. It is incredible to what lengths the abusers on steem apps will go. They find so many sneaky ways to abuse the reward pool. This post is an eye opener and kudos to @jaguar.force for the hard work! Must read to anyone who cares about the steem reward pool.

Total payout: 25.43 STU Number of votes: 191

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 102 of them rewarded through an upvote by @utopian-io.
• In total, Utopian.io distributed an approximate of 2547.95 STU to contributors.
• The highest payout seen on any Utopian.io contribution this week was 225.533 STU, with a total of 1117 votes received from the community.
• The contribution that attracted the most engagement was Introducing Heisenberg, A Python framework to play Drugwars, with no less than 39 comments in its comment threads.
• The average vote given by Utopian.io was worth 24.50 STU.

Category Statistics

|Category|Reviewed|Rewardable|Rewarded|Total rewards|Top contributor| |:-|:-|:-|:-|-:|:-| |graphics|4|4|4|53.01 STU|@zularizal| |ideas|7|5|4|78.91 STU|@mattockfs| |translations|25|25|17|548.23 STU|@nikolanikola| |bug-hunting|9|7|7|59.82 STU|@horpey| |blog|35|30|24|522.08 STU|@harry-heightz| |copywriting|3|3|3|68.63 STU|@harry-heightz| |tutorials|13|12|10|174.24 STU|@igormuba| |development|16|16|11|409.53 STU|@mcfarhat| |iamutopian|10|10|10|323.65 STU|@amosbastian| |video-tutorials|2|2|2|45.29 STU|@tensor| |anti-abuse|5|5|4|179.06 STU|@jaguar.force| |social|3|3|3|49.79 STU|@jingis07| |analysis|3|3|1|30.08 STU|@miniature-tiger|

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At long last, radio shows are now available as podcasts. We’ve been working towards that for some time, and we’re very excited to tell you all about it!

Look for us on Apple podcasts, Stitcher, or any other podcast apps. Look for Utopian Podcasts in podcast name, or for FOSSHub in episode name.

Our schedule, right now, contains 2 episodes per week. Thursdays will have that Monday’s IdeaHub, whereas Saturdays will feature that Wednesday’s FOSSHub. Episodes are likely to arrive fairly late in the day, so don’t worry if you don’t see them first thing in the morning.

If you want to add our rss feed manually to your podcatcher, that’s also quite easy. You’ll find us at https://utopian.podbean.com/feed.xml. If you like to listen to episodes on the web, our home is at https://utopian.podbean.com/. There you’ll also find show notes for each episode.

Finally, if you want a handy web player for Utopian podcasts, we’ve made a nice little hackmd page for it.

We’re very excited about this development. We believe the podcast will help us get greater exposure for open source projects and ideas on and off the Steem blockchain. Our shows are live conversations between open source experts and fans on a variety of topics with valuable insights from guests and audience. Open source is about community. These podcasts aim to give the community a place to speak and listen.

About Our Shows

FOSSHub, which has recently started its second season, is our flagship show. Host @jedigeiss, news presenter @techslut, and producer @buckydurdle talk with a variety of developers about their open source projects, and also deliver the open source news. The show airs live every Wednesday at 8PM UTC, and you can find it on Facebook, Youtube, Vimm, and on our discord server, where the conversation is happening in real time.

IdeaHub is our newer show, airing every Monday at 8PM UTC, with the same host and the same producer. Ideas category CM @knowledges is also part of the fun, as folks with new and exciting ideas for open source projects come on to talk about them, and maybe find developers to help them out with them. You’ll find it live everywhere you can find FOSSHub.

About Our Host and Crew

Our host, @jedigeiss is a developer, a banker, and a Steem veteran. He’s a member of the new steering committee aimed at creating the Steem Alliance foundation that will take over much of the managing of the blockchain from Steemit Inc.

Producer @buckydurdle is a veteran producer of both video and audio, and the CM of our Video Tutorials category. He edits the shows, runs the raffles, and makes sure everything works.

News presenter and occasional co-host @techslut is Utopian’s CMO. She’s really the boss, but she doesn’t make a big deal of it. She’s a recovering tech journalist and an open source enthusiast.

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It’s been a pretty huge week for Utopian contributions. We had to pick two of Development’s three staff picks to put in this post, and also had picks from Bug Hunting, Anti-abuse, Blog, and Video-tutorials. It’s a great mix of awesome contributions. Click through to all of these to see the kind of contributions we love to see.

Staff Picks

Bug on Hivemind’s following data by @emrebeyler [bug-hunting]

Hivemind is a new layer for the Steem blockchain, that allows data to be easily transmitted and communicated to users in a more efficient way. This technology was also developed to cut the cost of running a full node on the Steem blockchain. The good news is that powerful technology like this is open source and welcomes contributions, which include bug-reports in case of vulnerability. @emrebeyler found a bug with the “following data” on hivemind. The outstanding aspect of this report is the amount of detail and description included in the report. We find detailed reports especially useful, as they allow the project maintainer to quickly understand, reproduce and fix the error. There were other quality contributions made to the category this week, but this one stands out.

Total payout: 25.68 STU Number of votes: 337

1Ramp Update: Contest creation is now open for all + Winner’s Leaderboard by @bxute [development]

1Ramp is a Steem interface that showcases the best contents published. It has a very nice interface, with many fancy tools that suit almost every blogger’s need. It is interesting to know that the project has both mobile and web version. This is a development update with new features to improve the contest creation section of the 1Ramp project. This contribution has a reasonable amount of development effort with enough information on the post to describe the work done effectively. We appreciate this kind of effort.

Total payout: 49.26 STU Number of votes: 164

Flag Rewards Dev Post - SFR Ranks - Top 20 Flaggers - Dynamic Discord Updates and RShare Tracking by @anthonyadavisii [anti-abuse]

Have you heard about SteemFlagRewards? Do you like games? This is your chance to have fun while flagging and fighting abuse. @Anthonyadavisii has really put together a great project and gamified cleaning up abuse on the Steem blockchain. Read this post and join the guys at SFR fighting abuse.

Total payout: 61.30 STU Number of votes: 148

Hack WebStorm to Introspect Quasar Framework Components by @quasarframework [development]

Quasarframework is one of the coolest tools out there. It can be used to easily develop a fully responsive front-end application, PWA, SSR apps, and more. This technology is powered by Vue. This is the technology currently used to develop Utopian colony (formerly Utopian V2). This development update made coding with Quasar framework easier and smarter, with an autocomplete feature for Quasar components. We are super excited about this update and we encourage anyone passionate about using Vue to check this out.

Total payout: 78.23 STU Number of votes: 76

Steem Keychain Update - Firefox Version Now Available! by @yabapmatt [blog]

We are always delighted to see updates to major Steem dApps, and Keychain has the potential to be one of the most important ones. The post is clear, well presented, and detailes some truly impressive updates. We particularly appreciate the new Firefox version, as many open source fans prefer Mozilla’s browser over Chrome.

Total payout: 88.36 STU Number of votes: 1418

A Beginners Guide to Dart - Intro to Classes and Objects - Part Three by @tensor [video-tutorials]

Another great video tutorial by @tensor. His instructions in the area of Dart are always thorough and engaging. In this tutorial, he talks about objects and classes. He addresses class constructors, named constructors, getter functions, setter functions and fields. He finds time to address several other concepts as well.

Total payout: 32.94 STU Number of votes: 199

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 153 posts, with 107 of them rewarded through an upvote by @utopian-io.
• In total, Utopian.io distributed an approximate of 2642.02 STU to contributors.
• The highest payout seen on any Utopian.io contribution this week was 165.721 STU, with a total of 1607 votes received from the community.
• The contribution that attracted the most engagement was New Project – Steem Editor – A Vue Markdown Editor optimized for the Steem Blockchain, with no less than 27 comments in its comment threads.
• The average vote given by Utopian.io was worth 24.46 STU.

Category Statistics

|Category|Reviewed|Rewardable|Rewarded|Total rewards|Top contributor| |:-|:-|:-|:-|-:|:-| |translations|32|31|22|616.43 STU|@scienceangel| |bug-hunting|9|8|8|81.70 STU|@emrebeyler| |tutorials|13|12|12|191.37 STU|@igormuba| |blog|46|38|31|596.97 STU|@actifit| |iamutopian|12|11|10|310.91 STU|@katerinaramm| |social|2|2|2|42.80 STU|@jingis07| |anti-abuse|2|1|1|50.23 STU|@anthonyadavisii| |development|23|22|11|547.70 STU|@raycoms| |graphics|2|2|2|37.14 STU|@tebriz| |video-tutorials|1|1|1|28.20 STU|@tensor| |analysis|2|2|2|61.45 STU|@lostmine27| |ideas|6|3|3|67.44 STU|@blockchainstudio|

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We at Utopian strive to bring our support to as many quality contributions as possible, by utilizing the stake we hold in the Steem blockchain (currently over 3.6M SP) to incentivize contributions to awesome open source projects. With this update we are giving you the opportunity to participate in the creation and distribution of these incentives.

Following @utopian.trail upvotes

Our beloved Development Community Manager and awesome Pythonist @amosbastian has just released a new bot, working under the account @utopian.trail, that will do the following:

• 1. Check the reviewed contributions with a score equal or higher than 60/100 across all the categories
• 1. Give the contributions which qualify an upvote, as soon as possible, with the same voting weight the main @utopian-io account will use
• 1. @utopian.trail will always vote before the main @utopian-io account does

By creating @utopian.trail, Utopian wants to enable more Steem stakeholders to actively participate in the incentives distribution. Utopian holds significant voting power on the Steem blockchain, but that alone will never be enough to scale our support for the open source ecosystem. This is where you come in now.

Learn more ways to build open source software via Utopian by creating bounties and tips. Get in touch with us on http://discord.utopian.io

Thanks to this simple but effective @utopian.trail bot, you can now follow the @utopian.trail account and manually or automatically upvote high quality Utopian contributions before they are upvoted by the main @utopian-io account. This will assure you excellent curation rewards.

Thanks to the way the Steem blockchain operates, every time you upvote a contribution, not only are you contributing to the open source mission, you are also generating curation rewards for yourself. By upvoting before the main @utopian-io account does, you are accessing even more of those.

It is important to note that not every contribution with a score equal or higher than 60/100 will be upvoted by @utopian-io. However, we expect the majority of them will. We do this to enable a wider distribution of incentives to deserving contributions. By following the @utopian.trail you can rest assured that your vote will always go to contributions that are of high quality, as well as helping the growth of the Steem blockchain directly and indirectly.

How to predict @utopian-io upvotes by following @utopian.trail

You can manually check which contributions are upvoted by @utopian.trail, and have not yet been upvoted, by @utopian-io looking at https://steemd.com/@utopian.trail. You can also use one of the tools to automate your votes:

Steemvoter

• Login or signup on https://beta.steemvoter.com
• Visit https://beta.steemvoter.com/streams/edit
• Enter Upvotes in the dropdown “Upvote On”
• In “Target Account” enter utopian.trail
• Select the voting power you want to use

Steemrewarding

• Login or signup on https://steemrewarding.com/
• Visit https://beta.steemvoter.com/streams/edit
• Visit https://steemrewarding.com/new_trail_rule
• Enter utopian.trail in vote to follow (must not be empty!)

On Steemrewarding, you can set all sort of options, including specific tags. For example, if you would like to incentivize only development contributions, you may enter the tag development in the field include_tags. To know all our available categories visit https://utopian.io

Steemauto

• Login or signup on https://steemauto.com/
• Authorize steemauto https://steemconnect.com/authorize/@steemauto
• Visit https://steemauto.com/dash.php?i=1&trail=utopian.trail
• Click on “Follow”
• Click on Settings

By clicking on “Settings” you can also change the voting power reserved for the trail, which by default is 50%.

More enhancements to the voting behaviour

In order to incentivize as many quality contributions as possible, our main voting bot has been enhanced to:

• Also consider the age of the contribution in the post, in order to give quality contributions a better chance to get upvoted when they are nearing the payout window.
• Reduce the voting power reserved for external initiatives, which is going back to Utopian contributions across all categories.
• Reduce the voting power reserved for the #iamutopian category, which is used by our reviewers and community managers. The voting power reserve will be spread to all contributions in all categories. A special thanks to our review team, opting to lower their rewards to support more awesome contributors.

We hope many more stakeholders will participate in our great mission of empowering open source. If you have any questions, get in touch on our Discord server: http://discord.utopian.io

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This week, a couple of categories that haven’t had a staff pick for a while step up with some terrific contributions. We’ve got amazing picks from Anti-abuse and Video-tutorials, as well as Documentation and Blog. Check them out!

Staff Picks

Update: fpl (0.6.1) now has a user guide and contribution guidelines! by @amosbastian [documentation]

@amosbastian continues to improve his Fantasy Premier League, focusing on Documentation. This week, he’s added a user guide and contribution guidelines to the application, making it significantly more usable. As the review comment states: “The contribution adds great value to the project.” We love great code here in Utopian, but we also greatly appreciate anything that adds usability.

Total payout: 30.27 STU Number of votes: 81

Fixing an App with a Deprecated Library and API - Weather App Part 5 by @tensor [video-tutorials]

This video tutorial by tutorial hall of famer @tensor deals with a painful issue for open source software: What do you do with software that is no longer being supported by its maintainers. As the review comment says: “Project owners and organizations are always discontinuing their support for various aspects of their projects.” We appreciate @tensor taking the time to address how the community can work around this issue. This is an excellent tutorial, and a fine example of best practices.

Total payout: 29.25 STU Number of votes: 415

Proof.ink - Proven immutable data - File hashes stored on the Steem blockchain by @roelandp [blog]

For the second week in a row, the Blog category’s staff pick is from @roelandp. This time, the founder of SteemFest has created Proof.ink, a way to store file hashes directly on the Steem blockchain. This means of knowing a file has not been tampered with can have many uses, and the way Roeland tells the story of coming up with it makes the post personal and engaging. We hope to see more from him, and hope to see others deliver their innovations in such an engaging manner.

Total payout: 186.38 STU Number of votes: 636

Abuse Series: For Profit Promotions by @enforcer48 [anti-abuse]

Wow. @enforcer48 has produced one of the best reads yet for the Anti-abuse category. He uses a little humor and a funny anecdote to teach about a new tool that tracks bid bot use. The tool is a useful way to catch those who abuse the Steem promotional services. Read this post and add a new tool to track bid bot use on the blockchain.

Total payout: 58.18 STU Number of votes: 138

Phishing Warning by @steemcleaners [anti-abuse]

Phishing is raising its ugly head on Steem once again, and SteemCleaners wants to warn everyone about the phishers trying to steal your STEEM. Share this information with your friends and your enemies. As the review comment said: “Phishing is one of the top abuse we need to minimize on the platform. It has a tendency of creating domino effect that we shouldn’t allow to happen.”

Total payout: 82.55 STU Number of votes: 531

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 165 posts, with 103 of them rewarded through an upvote by @utopian-io.
• In total, Utopian.io distributed an approximate of 2496.24 STU to contributors.
• The highest payout seen on any Utopian.io contribution this week was 186.378 STU, with a total of 636 votes received from the community.
• The contribution that attracted the most engagement was Steemauto v2 - Development progress, with no less than 7 comments in its comment threads.
• The average vote given by Utopian.io was worth 24.00 STU.

Category Statistics

|Category|Reviewed|Rewardable|Rewarded|Total rewards|Top contributor| |:-|:-|:-|:-|-:|:-| |translations|42|38|20|592.89 STU|@nikolanikola| |blog|36|30|25|469.51 STU|@harry-heightz| |tutorials|15|11|9|125.34 STU|@steempytutorials| |development|29|25|11|395.11 STU|@emrebeyler| |bug-hunting|9|8|8|83.87 STU|@stmdev| |documentation|2|1|1|37.28 STU|@amosbastian| |video-tutorials|4|4|4|115.22 STU|@tensor| |ideas|9|8|8|63.39 STU|@blockchainstudio| |social|3|3|2|35.43 STU|@jingis07| |iamutopian|9|9|9|341.34 STU|@rosatravels| |analysis|2|2|2|68.69 STU|@dalz| |anti-abuse|3|3|3|137.80 STU|@enforcer48|

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