This was quite a week for us at Utopian, with a new partnership, a witness upgrade, another new hire, some amazing task requests, and another huge episode of our radio show. Let’s catch up.

In this post:

• Welcoming Rocket.Chat to VIPO
• Big witness update
• Welcoming @Suesa
• Big Tasks, Big TRs
• Build Utopian.io v2 with us!
• Our radio show is back!

Welcoming Rocket.Chat to VIPO

For the second week in a row, we have a huge addition to our VIPO (Very Important Project Owners) club: Rocket.Chat. As covered in the announcement, they are a fast-growing communication and collaboration platform that is now installed on over 180k servers and counts over 10m users worldwide as well as having an active, passionate community of over 700 developer-contributors who help Rocket.Chat’s core team of developers to constantly improve the product.

Big witness update

As covered in this announcement post, We’ve recently upgraded our server’s hardware. As part of the upgrade, our main and backup servers are located in different countries with different providers in an effort to decentralise and remove single points of failure. We also doubled the RAM on the production server. The biggest news in regards to the Utopian-io witness is that we finally have a seed node at seed.utopian.io:2001. This is something we’ve wanted to do for some time, and we are very glad to have it up and running.

Welcoming @Suesa

This was also announced in the big witness announcement post, but it deserves its own headline here: We have a new COO! @Suesa isn’t just a future mad scientist, she is a Steem powerhouse who comes to us from @steemstem. During her trial period, she has already added order and discipline and a whole bunch of Jira tasks. That’s what happens when you put the self proclaimed “scary German” in charge. We love you, @Suesa!

Big Tasks, Big TRs

We’ve had a couple of huge task requests this week. @lemouth’s incredibly ambitious idea of running a full particle physics research project on Steem is starting to take shape with a TR about Managing particle physics model information in Python. The second one, from @surpassinggoogle, is for ulogs.org, and is about creating a bot which can vote and comment but shaped for communities. Click the links for all the info!

Build Utopian.io v2 with us!

As you probably know, our development team has been hard at work in creating the base for the next Utopian.io, with features and functionalities requested by the community. If you’re a developer and want to help, visit our repo and take a look.

Utopian.io Open Source Radio Show on MSP Waves

We had another huge, huge, huge radio show this week. Following up on last week’s addition of an Anti-abuse category to Utopian, we hosted some of Steem’s biggest abuse fighters for a talk about the state of the blockchain. We had @SteemCleaners’ founder @patrice, blacklist creator (and semi-regular guest) @themarkymark, our very own Anti-abuse category manager (and also @steemflagrewards powerhouse) @iamstan, @steemcleaners and Utopian abuse fighter @Naturicia, @steemcleaners abuse fighter and witness @guiltyparties, and @helpie founder and witness @meno. The discussion was lively, to say the least.

Be sure to tune in next week at 6PM UTC on Wednesday on MSP Waves!

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It’s been a fine week of great, diverse contributions here at Utopian. We’ve had outstanding contributions in the Development, Graphics, Translations, Tutorials, Anti-abuse, and Blog categories.

Staff Picks

Introducing the steeminvite project to utopian by @pharesim [development]

Steeminvite is a tool for securely onboarding new users by adding support for claiming account tokens and creating invitation links. One of the biggest problems of the Steem blockchain has been the long wait when creating a new account. With this project, users now have an easy way to claim and create accounts for others without exposing the private keys or password of said account to anyone except the person you are creating it for!

Total payout: 153.54 STU Number of votes: 234

Steem Messenger V0.0.6 : SafeStorage, SafeSocket, last update before release ! (and many more) by @kingswisdom [development]

Steem Messenger aims to be the ultimate chat application for the Steem blockchain, and with this update they are definitely one step closer to accomplishing this! In this update @kingswisdom heavily focused on the security aspects of the application, which is of course very important. Improved socket handling, safer storage of your keys and discrete double authentication are just some of the great features that were added in this huge update - go check it out and contribute!

Total payout: 121.14 STU Number of votes: 275

UI/UX, branding and logo Design for European Financial Transparency Gateway (EFTG) by @outwork [graphics]

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The EFTG Pilot Project is a initiative by the European Financial Transparency Gateway which aims to greatly increase the transparency of capital markets using Steem technology. They have contacted Utopian to help them with logo design, visual identity, and optional UI concept. @Outwork delivered beyond expectations. He even made a simple, clickable, prototype to help developers. The very well done brand guidelines allow anyone to quickly pick the colors, text size, or graphic elements.

Total payout: 102.02 STU Number of votes: 65

The Curious Expedition - Greek Translation Part. 37 by @trumpman [translations]

The translator was able to adapt the English text into Greek with precision. This is a perfect translation, where no grammar or syntax mistakes were made. It is obvious that the translator is having fun with this project while doing high quality work. The translator even explained the process of his translation work, in great detail.

Total payout: 5.23 STU Number of votes: 168

Writing a simple Compiler on my own - Finishing Off The Grammar/Parser (part 2) [C][Flex][Bison] by @drifter1 [tutorials]

Continuing his prior work building up the compiler, @drifter1 provides a well-crafted tutorial that takes the readers onto finalizing the grammar parser part for a C compiler. With excellent visualizations, detailed code and explanation, we can’t but wait in anticipation for further tutorials in this series.

Total payout: 5.47 STU Number of votes: 95

CM Report in Translation - Interviews with our Language Moderators by @rosatravels [blog]

The #iamutopian posts have been a great addition to our Blog category in the past few weeks, and @rosatravels has been the clear MVP of the category. Her posts reflect research and serious thoughts, and now show some wonderful communications with the rest of the Translations category. She has also been working on her writing in English, and it really shows. This post highlights some of our Language Moderators, and let us all know them a bit better.

Total payout: 72.70 STU Number of votes: 82

Spam: Eat It Or Clean It Up With Me? by @lovenfreedom [anti-abuse]

Spam, along with many other types of abuse, is prevalent on the platform. If you’re looking for other ways to determine what spam is, @lovenfreedom’s contribution clearly defines spam on Steem dApps. Her post is another example for whitelisted authors to check out for the abuse category. Speaking of Whitelisted anti-abuse contributors: The Anti-abuse category trial is only a month. We need your excellent contributions. Now is the time to write your posts. We have a little more than 3 weeks left.

Total payout: 12.69 STU Number of votes: 148

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 270 posts, with 247 of them rewarded through an upvote by @utopian-io.
• In total, Utopian.io distributed an approximate of 5197.56 STU to contributors.
• The highest payout seen on any Utopian.io contribution this week was 243.569 STU, with a total of 277 votes received from the community.
• The contribution that attracted the most engagement was Managing particle physics model information in Python, with no less than 10 comments in its comment threads.
• The average vote given by Utopian.io was worth 64.97 STU.

Category Statistics

|Category|Reviewed|Rewarded|Total rewards|Top contributor| |:-|:-|:-|-:|:-| |graphics|20|20|442.64 STU|@zularizal| |tutorials|26|23|140.09 STU|@anonym0us| |translations|112|109|2236.81 STU|@yasminafly| |copywriting|6|6|175.15 STU|@harry-heightz| |development|46|41|1033.68 STU|@dapeng| |analysis|5|5|84.09 STU|@paulag| |documentation|5|5|112.65 STU|@cryptoctopus| |ideas|8|3|31.71 STU|@ckole| |iamutopian|8|8|355.11 STU|@rosatravels| |anti-abuse|3|3|182.18 STU|@anthonyadavisii| |blog|21|16|395.34 STU|@actifit| |social|3|3|0.00 STU|@jingis07| |video-tutorials|1|1|0.00 STU|@dlux-io|

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The Utopian-io witness is continuing to evolve and improve. This post will cover some of our recent efforts in that regard, both on the technical front and on the community side of things.

Our Team

As Utopian continues to evolve and grow, our team is growing as well.

@elear - CEO. Ideator and founder of Utopian. A developer with over 10 years of experience in building complex web applications, Diego is the tireless machine managing the expansion of Utopian.

@gregory.latinier - CTO. With over 11 years of experience in building innovative products, known for his awesome work on SteemConnect and Busy.org, Gregory makes sure the development of Utopian v2 proceeds smoothly and coordinates our whole development team. Gregory is also about to release a pool of tasks that we will offer as bounties to our community of contributors.

@techslut - CMO. Expert in marketing and content, Ilana is the all-in, factotum, pink angel growing connections and awareness around Utopian.

@didic - CCO. Recently added to our team, expert editor, copywriter and translator, Didi manages the Utopian contents. These include our publications and the quality standards expected from the community.

@Suesa - COO. Recently added to our team, Suesa is doing amazing work in keeping the tasks well organised and prioritised. She’s making sure the operations across all the organisation proceed smoothly.

@knowledges. -Community Management. Knowledges is without a doubt one of the most committed community members we have had since the early days of Utopian. He is now responsible for the review process and customer care.

@ms10398 and @icaro. Our passionate developers, working daily to bring utopian v2 to the public while maintaining all our tools.

We would like to thank @helo for his help maintaining the witness. Consider voting for @helo witness.

The Tech

We’ve recently upgraded our server’s hardware. As part of the upgrade, our main and backup servers are located in different countries with different providers in an effort to decentralise and remove single points of failure. We also doubled the RAM on the production server.The main server has 120G of RAM and a 200GB SSD. The backup server has 64GB RAM and a 200GB SSD.

The biggest news in regards to the Utopian-io witness is that we finally have a seed node at seed.utopian.io:2001. This is something we’ve wanted to do for some time, and we are very glad to have it up and running. Much like the backup server, the seed server also has 64GB RAM and a 200GB SSD.

Progress since last update

With the mission of running hackathons on a monthly basis, Utopian ran its first successful hackathon, bringing more awesome projects to the Steem community. Read more here.

We’re supporting the new SteemCommunity Organization, and the efforts to improve HardFork testing so that the blockchain won’t have a repeat of the downtime caused by HF20. We are currently involved with @kevinwong and @trafalgar’s work to gather information and feedback from the community on improving Steem’s economics

We’ve also been very active on the community side. We’ve recently launched our new Anti-abuse category to help make Steem a better place.

Last but not least our VIPO is growing with relevant projects bringing more awesome publications and developers to the blockchain.

CoinGecko is now a VIPO. Read more here

Rocket.chat is now a VIPO. Read more here

To Sum Up:

While some of Utopian’s activities can and will happen beyond the Steem blockchain, this is our home. We are committed to helping Steem grow and improve, and that is going to remain a central part of our activities.

If you like what you are doing, please consider: Voting for Utopian Witness

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We are proud and delighted to introduce a new member to our Very Important Project Owners (VIPO) club - Rocket.Chat.

While they are known on Steem as the engine behind Steem.chat, Rocket.Chat is a fast-growing communication and collaboration platform that is now installed on over 180k servers and counts over 10m users worldwide as well as having an active, passionate community of over 700 developer-contributors who help Rocket.Chat’s core team of developers to constantly improve the product. Rocket.Chat’s long-term vision is to replace email with a real-time federated communications platform and offer services to enable businesses to be built using Rocket.Chat, which can already be self-hosted or installed on cloud.

With 124 Github repositories, and over 20,000 stars in their main repository, Rocket.Chat is a true force in the Open Source world, and one that we are very happy to collaborate with.

With Utopian’s help, Rocket.Chat hopes to reward their large and active community of contributors.

We at Utopian believe that a collaboration with a prominent project in the open source world such as Rocket.Chat can greatly benefit the Steem ecosystem.

We are very excited about bringing such a project into the VIPO club, as we feel this is the sort of collaboration that can create a truly virtuous circle benefitting both sides, as well as the users of and contributors to both platforms. We can’t wait to see their first task request.

Project owners included in the exclusive VIPO group can add their projects to the whitelists of categories that require them, and receive professional help and guidance from our Community Managers in creating Task Requests on Utopian.io. With these resources, FOSS Project Owners can access the professional services offered by our community (such as graphic design, QA, visibility and copywriting) to help empower their project growth.

A special thanks to @gtg for helping moving this collaboration forward.

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Utopian is continuing to expand, and we are now looking to hire a part time dedicated manager for our VIPO (Very Important Project Owners) club.

This position will put you in the intersection of social and tech, working with some of the best developers around to facilitate their work with Utopian as we help promote their open source projects.

While still a young company, Utopian is expanding and growing, and we expect the VIPO club to expand exponentially. This is, currently, a part time job, but it may well grow with time.

We are looking for someone with some tech skills and knowledge, as well as a proven facility with social interactions. A “Speaker to developers” person who can help them communicate their needs from Utopian and the community as a whole.

We are currently offering 500 Steem, with potential bonuses for bringing in new, suitable, members to the VIPO club.

As Utopian is entirely internet based, work will be done from your home, and we set no geographical limits on your location.

All submissions should include a CV or a link to Linkedin and be sent to management@utopian.io. The Deadline for applications is Monday the 22nd October.

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This was a big week for us at Utopian, with a new partnership, a new category, a new hire and a huge episode of our radio show. Let’s catch up.

In this post:

• Welcoming Coingecko to VIPO
• Anti-abuse category launched
• MSP Waves Partnership
• Welcoming @knowledges
• Build Utopian.io v2 with us!
• Our radio show is back!

Welcoming CoinGecko to VIPO

This week, we announced a major new member of our VIPO (Very Important Project Owners) club: CoinGecko. They are among the earliest and largest cryptocurrency ranking websites in the world, active since April 2014. With our help, they hopes to grow the number of contributions to their open source repository and reward their existing community of contributors.

Anti-abuse category launched

Another huge announcement this week was the launch of Utopian’s Anti-abuse category. With veteran abuse fighter (and really good dude) @iamstan as Category Manager, we believe this team will make Steem a better, safer place.

Welcoming @knowledges

We continue to expand, and this week we are so glad to announce the hiring of @knowledges as Community Managers Manager, or Super Community Manager. We still need to figure out the title, but the job is clear: This veteran Utopian, creator of @knacksteem.org, will work with our community managers to make their work smoother and better. We’re very happy with this key addition.

MSP Waves Partnership

We are delighted to announce that we have become supporters of the @MSP-Waves Broadcast Network. They’ve been kind enough to host our radio show from the start, and we are rewarding that kindness, as well as helping them grow in their mission to support Steem based radio, with a weekly 50% upvote. Read the post

Build Utopian.io v2 with us!

As you probably know, our development team has been hard at work in creating the base for the next Utopian.io, with features and functionalities requested by the community. If you’re a developer and want to help, visit our repo and take a look.

Utopian.io Open Source Radio Show on MSP Waves

After taking last week off, our radio show returned with a supersized, supercharged megashow this week. It was all about Hardfork 20, and the aftermath, with a host of witnesses - @pharesim, @reggaemuffin, @helo, @therealwolf, and @themarkymark - and Steemit’s own @relativityboy. The discussion was passionate, sometimes heated, and always interesting.

Be sure to tune in next week at 6PM UTC on Wednesday on MSP Waves!

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