Utopian.io publishes the updated rules in the effort to increase the quality of our platform. We have learnt a lot during these last weeks and decided on a consensus with the Utopian Moderators to release a new update for the rules.

Every new post not respecting the rules after this announcement will be rejected.

Updated Rules https://utopian.io/rules

Blog

Here we have a great change. Please read to avoid wasting your time

You must provide an original format/s. You can’t post about news found in the web or general thoughts, unless you have a unique and consistent format. Example of a good format

Translations

Big changes here as well. Read below.

In order to submit a translation in Utopian you must have translated at least 30% of the project for medium sized projects (500-1000 strings), 10-15% for big projects (1000 and up), 100% for small projects (1 - 500).

Development

Only merged Pull Requests will be accepted or Open Source projects you maintain never posted on Utopian before, forks included as long as the fork is not just a mirror of the original one. Proof of work required.

Graphics

We reserve the right to reject a graphic contribution if we believe the work is not enough to be rewarded.

Documentation

Only merged Pull Requests on the official repository will be accepted or on a fork as long as long as the fork is not just a mirror of the original one. Proof of work required.

Link Pull Requests you have submitted on Github.

Tutorials

Machine translated tutorials will be rejected.

Never write about tutorials you have already shared before on the Steem blockchain in general.

Video Tutorials

Video Tutorials using machine voice will be rejected.

Never post video tutorials you have already shared before on the Steem blockchain in general.

Copywriting

Only merged Pull Requests will be accepted on the official repository or on a fork as long as long as the fork is not just a mirror of the original one. Proof of work required.

Link Pull Requests you have submitted on Github.

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A Special Thanks to The Moderators

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Utopian.io rewards Open Source contributors for their hard work. We have quite a few bounties available if you did not notice and many many things going on.

There is a LOT of demand regarding Content Discovery on the Steemit frontend. Many users complaining about the Trending page becoming useless. Lets fix that!

We are proposing a 100% Utopian Bot Upvote bounty for the designer/s and developer/s who can create the best working solution to fix the trending page on steemit/condenser. Plus Utopian is running quite a few development streams you could be interested in, for a total of 3K bounties to be delivered.

Steemit Trending Page

If you look at the trending page you will most likely see the same contents over and over, simply because the more SP you have the more likely you will be there. There are accounts who follow different threads, others focused on the same thread, therefore making the Trending page not appealing for readers having different interests.

Lets Fix The Trending Page

Utopian.io is running this contest to find designer/s and developer/s willing to provide a working solution to make content discovery on the trending page easier and more appealing.

The winners will receive a 100% Utopian Upvote, worth more than $300.

Utopian is for collaboration, so if you are going to work on this with more people, post one contribution only for the design and one contribution only for the development, then split the rewards and mention the people involved.

If You Win

The Utopian upvote is not about having only a big reward but it is also about going to the trending and show your work to the big Steemit community. The reward is a small portion of the benefit you are going to have on the long run if you win this contest.

Rules

• If you are willing to participate to the contest, write in the comments your profession and what you are willing to do. We want to promote collaboration.

• Only push your contribution in Utopian once the work is done. For the design means when the layout is ready, for the development when the PR is submitted. We cannot guarantee the PR will be merged but it is up to you to convince the Steemit team to do so ( @sneak could be the right guy to ask for some suggestions ).

• Once done place a comment about the work completed in this post.

Ready? GO!

3K Bounties in Total

If you have not noticed yet we have quite a few development streams and bounties in place.

The Registration Flow - 1000 Steem

We got 50K liquid Steem from Steemit inc. to create accounts directly on Utopian.

@noisy is on that for the actual account creation. @samrg472 is helping with the APIs. @nelsonm with the design.

There is a 1K Bounty just for the registration flow. Get in touch with these guys to collaborate. https://steemit.com/utopian-io/@elear/utopian-got-50k-steem-from-ned-to-create-accounts-lets-build-the-registration-1k-steem-bounty

The Utopian Chat - 500 Steem

@cryptoctopus has provided a bounty to create a chat in Utopian. This bounty is still looking for the right Dev. 500 Steem available plus an Utopian vote if you post your contribution on Utopian.

The Utopian Chrome And Firefox Plugin - 1000 Steem

We are also working with @stoodkev on an implementation for Utopian in Github, using a Chrome and Firefox extension. 1000 Steem available for this bounty. @stoodkev is also pretty busy on the Utopian Bot, so lets join!

Better Bot - 500 Steem

We keep improving the Utopian Bot over and over again. @stoodkev, @scipio and @jedigeiss are on it, trying to bring this also to life: https://steemit.com/utopian-io/@scipio/how-to-solve-spam-on-steem-introducing-userauthority

What Else is Going on?

• @dougkarr is working on the Utopian Video that we will use on the Kickstarter campaign and to promote Utopian outside Steemit

• @nelsonm is redesigning the entire platform and creating the mockups for Utopian V2 and the presentational material for the Kickstarter campaign

• We are working with @thecryptodrive on a better management for delivering rewards to delegators and moderators. A bounty will be soon available

Thanks to @Freedom

With our surprise @Freedom sent 5000 SBD that will help us a lot for the bounties and for marketing Utopian outside Steemit.

Utopian Community-Driven Witness

We are made of developers, system administrators, entrepreneurs, artists, content creators, thinkers. We embrace every nationality, mindset and belief.

Utopian.io is the first Community-Driven Witness. Every decision will be taken as per the consensus of the entire community using our public Discord server and soon via a public voting system.

• Go here: https://steemit.com/~witnesses
• Scroll to the bottom
• Write utopian-io and vote or set utopian-io as a proxy
• Use Steem Connect for Voting Utopian as a Witness
• Or Use Steem Connect for proxying your vote to Utopian Witness

A Special Thanks to The Sponsors

A Special Thanks to The Moderators

@espoem @jefpatat @arie.steem @ruah @themanualbot @stoodkev @favcau @deveerei @mcfarhat @mooncryption @cnts @shreyasgune @knowledges @zeartul @lykkejay

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Hello I am Utopian.io. I am NO ONE. I am EVERYONE.

I am the first and only Community-Driven Witness made up by a community of Geeks, Entrepreneurs, Dreamers, Artists and YOU.

About Utopian

Utopian.io is the first platform in the world rewarding Open Source contributors and it is doing that with Steem thanks to the Utopian Bot powered by almost 4 MILLION STEEM POWER that upvotes every single contribution submitted in the platform.

Utopian.io is fully decentralised, supported by the Utopian Sponsors, managed by the Utopian Moderators and moved entirely by the community will.

Every decision is taken with the consensus of the community on our Discord server and soon via a public voting system.

We are made of developers, system administrators, entrepreneurs, artists, content creators, thinkers. We embrace every nationality, mindset and belief.

Utopian.io Rewards You For Working On Projects From Which The Entire Community Benefits Immediately In a Pure Meritocratic, Democratic, Decentralised Way So To Fast-Forward The Creation Of Ground-Breaking Technologies For The Evolution Of The Entire Humanity.

Join The Movement!

Join the Utopian movement to make a better World and to bring Steem to unseen levels! We are on Discord. Start contributing to Open Source projects on Utopian.io right away!

What Utopian is Doing for Steem

Utopian.io is growing the Steem ecosystem by a 1000% rate. We convinced Closed Source Steem projects to become Open Source and we helped the growth of existing Open Source projects by letting them have:

• More Developers contributing
• More Beta Testers
• More Translators
• More Graphic Designers
• More Content Creators
• More Ideas and Suggestions

Utopian.io has generated more than 2000 CONTRIBUTIONS in less than 2 months for Steem based projects, growing now at a 100% rate every single day.

The First Community-Driven Witness

Utopian.io is the first Community-Driven Witness. Every decision will be taken as per the consensus of the entire community using our public Discord server and soon via a public voting system.

This is a totally new concept in Steem and we believe this is the only approach to go.

What Utopian Will Keep Doing For Steem:

• Bringing new Developers and professions to this platform.
• Bringing more investors willing to reward their contributors via Steem.
• Increasing the value of Steem.
• Giving to every user the power to decide by having a fully transparent and democratic approach.

Utopian Witness Server

Utopian.io is running a top-notch virtualised machine, upgradable in the blink of an eye with the following specs:

• 32 GB/12 CPUs
• 320GB SSD disk
• 7 TB transfer

The current server is able to manage the required work to be in the top 20 Witnesses. If more will be required the upgrade is almost instantaneous.

Why Voting For Utopian Witness

Simply because we use the generated Steem to reward you and your contributions to Open Source projects, that are the backbone for the tech evolution/revolution of the entire humanity for the better! Convinced?

Vote For My Witness, Lets GROW TOGETHER!

• Go here: https://steemit.com/~witnesses
• Scroll to the bottom
• Write utopian-io and vote or set utopian-io as a proxy

A Special Thanks to The Sponsors

A Special Thanks to The Moderators

@espoem @jefpatat @arie.steem @ruah @themanualbot @stoodkev @favcau @deveerei @mcfarhat @mooncryption @cnts @shreyasgune @knowledges @zeartul @lykkejay

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Utopian.io is the first platform rewarding Open Source contributors and it is doing that with Steem.

Utopian started exactly 2 months ago and today we reached the big number:

We need your feedback. Please read and comment!

2000 Contributions

In 2 months Utopian.io was able to generate an incredible amount of contributions being promoted only on Steemit. Utopian.io took a while before having traction so actually this number has been generated in a much shorter time than 2 months that is the entire lifespan of the project.

But We Have A Problem!

Utopian.io is not funded by anyone and survives thanks to the sponsors who have delegated SP, thanks to the founders investing in the project from their own pocket and thanks to Steemit inc. that has donated 50K liquid Steem in order for Utopian.io to be able to create Steem accounts directly on the platform.

The thing is, we need more funds to let this platform go global. As every other project on the Steem blockchain most of the traction comes from inside Steemit but when big competitors appear you easily get kicked in the *.

We Need To React!

Utopian.io is the FIRST platform in the World rewarding Open Source contributors but other similar platforms are taking this merit because they have the big bucks and use those to get promoted. Want an example:

• Gitcoin Joins ConsenSys, Announces Pilot Projects: https://media.consensys.net/gitcoin-joins-consensys-announces-pilot-projects-f5a0955de9d6

• FundRequest: (got more than 700K USD) https://fundrequest.io/

It is time for Utopian.io to go to the outside world and since we are not ready for an ICO and waiting for the SMT we must find other tools to get A. Traction outside Steemit B. Funds.

Going To KickStarter

This is why we came up with the idea Utopian.io could be presented on KickStarter.com by proposing the Utopian Version 2 on which we are working on.

We believe Utopian.io is the perfect example of a project that will work well on Kickstarter for the message it brings.

We Need Your Feedback

Doing a Kickstarter campaign is much more than hitting a button to submit a post. We need to work on the gigs and find appealing gigs that Kickstarters will likely want.

What Do You Think? Which Gigs could be interesting?

Some suggestions:

• Placements on Utopian for project maintainers of Open Source startups
• Sponsorship in the platform in various forms
• Merchandising?

We are working with @stellabelle thinking about the gigs, because they do make a difference.

Do You Have Experience with KickStarter Campaigns?

If you have experience in running a successful Kickstarter campaign get in touch with us: https://discord.gg/Pc8HG9x

If We Win The Campaign

If we win the campaign the funds will be partially moved into Steem and partially used to run aggressive marketing campaigns.

A Special Thanks to The Sponsors

A Special Thanks to The Moderators

@espoem @jefpatat @arie.steem @ruah @themanualbot @stoodkev @favcau @deveerei @mcfarhat @mooncryption @cnts @shreyasgune @knowledges @zeartul @lykkejay

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Utopian.io rewards Open Source contributors with Steem using a bot that is powered by almost 4 MILLION SP.

The responsibility in managing such a big amount of SP is huge and we are constantly improving the bot to avoid either giving too much or giving too little. The change we just made is a complete new bot written from scratch, having different mechanisms than the one we had so far, that were not working well 100% of the time.

The Bot Now Follows The Human Input

• The Utopian Bot now votes after at least 6 hours the post has been submitted and reviewed by a moderator, in order for the post to gain enough visibility and votes.
• The bot calculates the weights used by every single human vote and uses those averages to decide its own voting weight.

Removed Penalisation For Automated Votes

• The bot does not penalise any longer bots but exclude the votes of automated bots from the weight calculation, therefore nulling the amount of rewards received from those bots when calculating the voting weight.

The Bot Has Now A 35% Maximum Cap

• The bot never votes over 35% in a single vote. We will increase this cap once the quality of the posts in Utopian has reached the required status to get higher compensation.

The Bot Never Wastes More Than 20% VP

• The Bot calculates the total amount of contributions on each category that must be voted and assigns a weight pool to them. Based on the weight calculated and the pool, the final score will be generated.

We Want To Help Small Accounts

• The Bot increases a little bit the voting weight for:

Accounts with less than 500 followers Your first contribution on the platform

We Want You To Contribute Often

• The bot gives a bit more the more you contribute with quality contributions.

The Bot is Open Source https://github.com/utopian-io/api.utopian.io/blob/master/utopian-bot.js

Avoiding The Flagging War At Any Cost

There is a flagging war around and Utopian is not interested in participating. We are doing our best to keep the rewards reasonable and trying to respect and grow the ecosystem in every single action we do. We will keep doing our best, we will keep moderating our platform and increasing its quality.

A Special Thanks to The Sponsors

A Special Thanks to The Moderators

@espoem @jefpatat @arie.steem @ruah @themanualbot @stoodkev @favcau @deveerei @mcfarhat @mooncryption @cnts @shreyasgune @knowledges @zeartul

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#2/2017

Utopian.io presents this week’s most interesting open source projects and the best contributions from our community.

Top Projects

### Steemauto.com | Curation Trail, Fanbase, Scheduled Posts, … Development of : Steemauto.com

SteemApps Introducing the ‘steem apps’ site I created. Development of : SteemApps

SteemPlus 1.7.1 I used your contributions on Utopian[…] Development of : SteemPlus

Top Newcomers

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@yabapmatt Curation Reward Estimation Tool The Curation Reward Estimation Tool!

@emrebeyler Development of: Community Bot A welcome bot for local communities

@noisy Steem Projects How to achieve scalability without worrying about quality of data

@samrg472 Steem Dunk The Special Surprise has Arrived: We will now Vote on Your Content

Top 10 Contributions

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1. Utopian Bot Update: Major changes ^{by @stoodkev}

2. Adding some margin codes to make the alignment better. and make the looks finer in the eyes of the viewer. ^{by @ruah}

3. Steem Dunk is now Open Source - Automated Curation Platform - Hosted version is FREE for EVERYONE ^{by @samrg472}

4. Sub-Project | OhSteem: A Logic Game (Design/Github/Roadmap) ^{by @deveerei}

5. Charity revolutionized - Earn reward SMT Token by Donating ^{by @tarekadam}

6. Steem Bot Tracker Update 5 - Pre-Vote Group Info & Bid Validation ^{by @yabapmatt}

7. Added text search ordered by relevance score for Utopian ^{by @sirrius}

8. Design of the authorize page and add revoke tokens ^{by @gregory.latinier}

9. Updating Icons in Github - Multiple Sizes - OhSteem ^{by @deveerei}

10. Save Drafts to Store ^{by @eastmael}

A Special Thanks to The Sponsors

A Special Thanks to The Moderators

@espoem @jefpatat @arie.steem @ruah @themanualbot @stoodkev @favcau @deveerei @mcfarhat @mooncryption @cnts @shreyasgune @knowledges

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### Author Bio I am @dontstopmenow, a crypto enthusiast and Blockchain lover. Worldwide traveler who wants to make the world a better place. Steemit curator and Chef with international experience.

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