As the year draws to a close, we thought it fitting to wish you, our beloved contributors, season’s greetings. Merry Christmas, belated happy Hanukkah, happy Kwanzaa, and an excellent festivus to you all.
2018 has been an incredible year for Utopian. In this, our first full year, we’ve had rough times great times. We built this thing together with you.
We thought it fitting, with the holidays, to take some time to wish you all some things.
To our developers, we wish code that’s clean, elegant, and effective.
To our graphic designers, we wish art that’s beautiful and functional.
To our translators, we wish language that’s clear and impactful.
To our creators of tutorials in text and video, we wish explanations clearly understood.
To our analyzers we wish depth of understanding and knowledge.
To our writers of blogs, documentation, and copy, we wish texts that delivers their message with power.
To our ideators, we wish flashes of brilliance to illuminate the future.
To our bug hunters, we wish a great and fruitful hunt.
To our abuse fighters, we wish triumph in the face of darkness.
To all of our contributors, moderators, readers, and supporters, we wish the happiest of holidays. We’ll see you all in 2019, for what promises to be an incredible year.
It was another fine week of Utopian contributions. This week, we have a nice variety of staff picks, with representatives from the Development, Graphics, Translation and Blog/#iamutopian categories. This fine contributions represent the best we have, and are recommended reads for anyone who wants to contribute to Utopian.
SeaMapAndroid is an Android app dedicated to sailors, divers and anyone interested in tracking ships and boats on the sea and businesses near the ocean. The app complements the nautical maps at map.openseamap.org.
We were delighted to review the design submission by @naufal, who created a refreshing logo for the Android app. This excellent logo will help the app be better recognised by other developers and users alike. There were a few variations provided. The chosen one is clean, and while it is simple, it combines symbols of a helm, sea, and location, which fit the app’s aim well.
New Utopian Visibility CM @katerinaramm did an excellent job laying out how to create a Visibility TR. We’re very happy to have her onboard, and this contribution was unique, interesting, and important enough to be picked as the representative of the Blog/#iamutopian category, a slot usually reserved for Blog category posts.
@sunray submitted an accurate translation, showing fluency in Chinese semantics. The entire translation is so perfect, that it is essentially flawless. @sunray even left comments to the project owner regarding typos in the source string, so that the project is free from errors. With that, he went beyond his duty as a translator to make sure all users can have the best possible experience using the program.
The contribution is to a browser extension for the Steem Fantasy Premier League, aka FPL Plus. This extension is owned and maintained by @amosbastian, one of our finest community managers. The contribution contains several development efforts to improve many aspects of the UI, and a complete revamp of some features. The code is clean and very well documented which will make it easy for any external contributor to easily understand and contribute if they wish to do so.
TravelFeed is the largest travel community on the Steem Blockchain. On TravelFeed, you can discover great travel content by hundreds of independent travellers. After a lot of hard work from @jpphotography (learning everything from scratch!) their frontend is finally online! It was written in JavaScript using the React library, the Next.js framework and an Express server. The user interface and design were created by using Material-UI React components and Bootstrap 4.
Total payout: 82.52 STU
Number of votes: 164
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 158 posts, with 124 of them rewarded through an upvote by @utopian-io.
In total, Utopian.io distributed an approximate of 3750.22 STU to contributors.
The highest payout seen on any Utopian.io contribution this week was 467.147 STU, with a total of 3853 votes received from the community.
Even with the current value of Steem, our contributors and moderators have still been putting in tremendous work. We felt that effort deserves appreciation.
Therefore, effective immediately, we’re increasing Utopian’s voting percentage on contributions and caps for moderation comments alike. Contributions in all categories have received a flat raise of 15% in voting percentage, as detailed in the following table:
We feel these raises show our commitment to our amazing community of contributors and moderators. You’ve stuck by us, and we’re sticking by you. We’re all in this together.
Welcome to Utopian’s weekly recap of the week. This week, the IdeaHub joined our radio lineup, bumping it up from 1 to 2 weekly shows! Much of the action this week was behind the scenes, as CEO @elear spent the week in Israel taking meetings alongside CMO @techslut and CFO @apshamilton. But that doesn’t mean it was all quiet on the online front!
In this post:
IdeaHub debut!
DTrip Logo Task!
Amazing radio show Christmas Special!
IdeaHub Pilot!
As previously announced, this week was the debut of the Utopian IdeaHub, a new weekly show taking place in the Utopian discord server. This debut was something of a pilot episode for the show, as lessons learned from it when it comes back in the new year. In this pilot, @jedigeiss hosted two guests. @helo came in to pitch an idea for the Volentix project, and @Imacryptorick presented his idea about Steem revenue calculation in Fiat for tax purposes.
DTrip Logo Task!
With the holidays approaching, we’ve had less activity on the tasks front. However, @arval had an interesting one late in the week for designers in the audience. DTrip, the Steem based dApp for travelers, is looking for a new logo. Check out all the details in @arval’s post
Utopian.io Open Source Radio Show on MSP Waves
This week’s radio show was the last before the show takes a break to reload during the holidays. Appropriately, it was a festive Christmas special, with a plethora of guests and an avalanche of raffles. Think we’re exaggerating? Check this out:
@Raycoms came on to talk about minecolonies. @aggroed showed up to discuss plans for decentralized SteemMonsters tournaments. @themarkymark talked about hopes for a more efficient Steem. @nothingismagic surprised us all by announcing Quasar 1.0. @didic gave a small preview of the upcoming Utopian guidelines. @therealwolf discussed his upcoming Steem Apps project. And, just when we thought the show was done, @punqtured arrived to talk about the new Byteball airdrop draw bot.
Packed doesn’t begin to describe this show. After every one of the guests, producer @buckydurddle ran a raffle. Games and books were won by happy members of the audience.
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It’s been another impressive week of contributions to Utopian’s various categories. This week, we’re highlighting excellent selections from the Translations, Ideas, Blog, Tutorials, and Video Tutorials categories. Check them out!
This is an Ideas contribution meant to improve the Steem blockchain. The author did not just share the overview of the idea. Instead, he went into great detail describing how it could be implemented, its usecases and its advantages if integrated. The contribution is well thought out, and this is the sort of effort we would like to see on the ideas category.
@aafeng’s translation was perfectly accurate. The sentences are fluent in all the strings. The translator even highlighted some of the source strings that were difficult to translate. He showed us how he tried to understand the underlying programming concepts by running a demo code to get accurate translation.
According to the moderator, @trumpan’s execution of this translation was flawless. The post about the translation is filled with humour and is very engaging. Both of the translation posts selected this week are excellent examples of what we want to see.
Video Tutorials MVP @tensor presents us with a new course. This is the first in a series of an advanced Flutter project. @tensor uses the Utopian Rocks Mobile application as the basis of this project. He tells us that we will be able to expand upon the code and feature list of this application. This tutorial get us started with the systematic and deliberate steps we have seen in many of @tensor’s other tutorials.
The author of this tutorial provides us with an innovative concept that he recently introduced, allowing the creation of tokens on the Steem blockchain. In this tutorial, he leads a well-written, easy to follow, step by step guide to help you create your own token, transfer funds, and sync blocks for every user with a balance. This, along with other community based work, can represent the foundation of how tokens will function on Steem. It can potentially serve as an alternative to Steemit Inc’s implementation. Make sure to have a look at the tutorial if you’re interested in tokens. Whether you want to create them or challenge the concepts he refers to.
This post details a massive update to @1Ramp’s platforms on Android and the web, with the creation of #WeAreOne, a dedicated space for communities. The post is detailed, engaging, and very well illustrated with screenshots. This is an impressive update, and one we look forward to seeing evolve.
Total payout: 55.42 STU
Number of votes: 355
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 139 posts, with 125 of them rewarded through an upvote by @utopian-io.
In total, Utopian.io distributed an approximate of 3389.54 STU to contributors.
The highest payout seen on any Utopian.io contribution this week was 118.496 STU, with a total of 282 votes received from the community.
The contribution that attracted the most engagement was Ideas For Improving DTube, with no less than 100 comments in its comment threads.
The average vote given by Utopian.io was worth 26.90 STU.
Welcome to Utopian’s weekly recap of the week. This week, we have started to publicly seek investment to take Utopian to the next level. We also had awesome tasks and an amazing radio show. Let’s talk about it!
In this post:
Seeking Investment!
EFTG Tasks!
Utopian V2 Tasks!
Awesome radio show episode!
Seeking Investment
This week, we published a post announcing that we are officially seeking investors. This is a big step in any startup’s trajectory, which we intend to use to bring Utopian V2 to fruition and go beyond it.
EFTG Tasks
We had three tasks this week from our friends at the European Commission’s Blockchain Competence Center. All three tasks are about their private Steem blockchain, and you should definitely check them out:
As has been the case every week for a while now, our CTO @gregory.latinier has published our own tasks on the road to Utopian V2. This week, we’re looking for developers to add tags to our Articles Module and create a project preview card.
And Even More Tasks
As we do pretty much every week, we recommend that you visit @utopian.tasks often to see what we have in store. This week, we have posts from @finallynetwork, @inertia, and @surpassinggoogle waiting for you. Check it all out.
Utopian.io Open Source Radio Show on MSP Waves
This week’s radio show was awesome. Our first guest was Kevin Owocki from Gitcoin, a decentralized application built on the Ethereum Blockchain with a mission similar to our own. We have a feeling we’ll be talking to him quite a bit. Our second guest was @punqtured from @byteball, who shared thoughts and plans for the their awesome platform. These were great conversations.
As usual, the illustrious @techslut had the open source news, and we had two awesome raffles. The first had a Humble Bundle of O’Reilly Devops books, and a surprise addition of 2 SteemMonsters card packs donated by @themarkymark. The second was an surprise raffle following @punqtured’s donation of a GB of Byteball.
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