Utopian.io Weekly - [October 5 2018] - Hardforked!

With Hardfork 20 and our meetup behind us, and our mana fully restored, we are back in action. We’ve got a lot to tell you, so get ready.

In this post:

Back in business!
New hirings
Open Sourcing Science
SteemStem Comments
Task Requests Ahoy!
Build Utopian.io v2 with us!
Our radio show will be back!

Back in business!

Due to the big HF20 mana depletion, we were out of comission for a few days. But now we’re back as a fully operational ~~death star~~ open source promoting machine.

New Hirings

We are delighted to announce that @gregory.latinier has joined Utopian as our CTO. Grégory is a full stack developer, and has been instrumental in developing Busy.org. We can also reveal that @didic, who has been a moderator and contributor to our Content department, has come on board as Chief Content Officer. He is very embrassed, because he (well, me) is the one writing this post.

Open Sourcing Science

This week, @lemouth announced an incredible new project that we are proud to take part in along with SteemStem. In this project, a group of developers will create an open source, Python-based, version of FeynRules that anyone could run for free, without having to rely on the very expensive Mathematica framework. What’s FeynRules? Well, it’s complicated, so click the above link to find out!

SteemStem Comments

We’re also starting a different collaboration with our friends from @SteemStem. Starting tomorrow, any post voted by SteemStem with a voting strength above 50% will receive a steemstem comment including the utopian logo, plus an incentive to support Utopian as Witness. The text may still slightly change, but here is the preview:

Task Requests Ahoy!

One of the most intriguing devlopments coming to Steem is @steem-1up’s SMT and support of communities on the blockchain. We’ve supported 1UP from the start, and this week they had an interesting TR, looking for developers to create a loot box system for airdrops and cards. Fun! In addition to the Utopian reward, 1UP is offering 50,000 UP tokens for the Loot Box system and another 25,000 UP tokens for a well animated content reveal for the loot box.

Another TR we’re happy to see is one that was suggested by a Utopian moderator in response to a post looking for a logo designer. @irelandscape is looking for someone to design a logo for StemQ, the open source STEM focused Q&A system.

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.