Utopian Weekly - [July 6th 2018] - Our First Meetup, Tips, Translations, Giveaways and more

It has been an exciting week at Utopian.io! While development of Utopian v2.0 is still ongoing, we are optimizing and refining workflows, internal documents and processes as well as organizing community events, giveaways and more.

In this update:

New public guidelines for tips
New policy for account suspension
Utopian trail script upgrades
Utopian meetup announcement
First giveaways in Utopian.io Open Source Radio Show on MSP Waves

Utopian.io Comment Tipping Guidelines

Insightful and detailed comments are an integral part of the success of any online community. At Utopian, we wish to encourage our community to invest time in detailed, insightful and helpful comments on contributions submitted to Utopian. The category Community Managers are tasked with the duty of finding and rewarding such comments through tips. In an aim to increase the number of comments tipped, we’ve created a guide explaining how you can increase your chances of earning a comment tip. This document includes, in addition to tips, a number of examples of previously tipped comments.

For now, this document is available in a GitHub repository, but will be included in the documentation on the future frontend of Utopian v2.0.

Account Suspension Policy

When policies are violated and users are harmful for the community, their accounts can and should be suspended. To ensure everyone is treated equally in cases where an account suspension is necessary, we’ve worked out a set of policies to serve you and the Utopian team in understanding and managing the process.

Unfortunately, Utopian has faced numerous cases of contributors not respecting moderators’ decisions, and using illegitimate ways to bypass account suspension. This issue is one of those addressed. It is important to note that we have always taken the issue of abuse attempts very seriously. Though it is our hope that situations where these guidelines will be used are very few, it is still important for us to have these policies in place.

The document can be found in a dedicated GitHub repository.

Second Round of Applications to the Translations Category

Watching the Translations category flourish under the management of the DaVinci team is simply astonishing. This week, from July 1st to July 5th, the second round of applications for translators and new language moderators was run. Promising candidates were discovered for Polish, Slovenian, Dutch and Arabic, as well as new translators for the existing groups were found, so the translation team will soon grow to cover even more of the languages spoken worldwide, and moderators to join enhancing selected projects with their work.

You can expect an announcement from the DaVinci team very soon on their blog at @davinci.witness.

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Utopian Meetup Announcement

The most exciting news this week is our planned “company retreat” (meetup, mini-hackathon or however you with to call it). Obviously, the Utopian core team want to meet the Utopian moderators, collaborators and community members so we’re not only inviting you, but also hoping to crowdfund the expenses for participating team members. The Utopian meetup will take place in Italy in late September, following the SteemSTEM meetup in Florence.

This is the first opportunity for everyone to meet most of the Utopian team at one place and we hope to meet you all in Italy!

You can find all information in the Utopian meetup announcement.

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Utopian.io Open Source Radio Show Giveaways

As our listener crowd continues to grow, we are happy to announce that the first Utopian sponsored raffle took place during the show this week. Two exciting prizes were awarded to two lucky winners who proposed some… colorful ideas to participate.

The first raffle prize, a Udemy course of his choice, was awarded to our own @knowledges who can now pick how to expand his, well, knowledges. We believe that a new skill is the best gift to give, so we hope to include similar educational giveaways in future raffles too.

The second raffle prize for the show was a Humble Bundle Cybersecurity Software collection and was awarded by our raffle bot to @lemouth who politely declined his prize. This prize will be raffled out again on the show next week, along with other gifts and surprises we’re preparing have for you.

Got ideas for cool giveaways you’d like to see raffled out? Let us know! And don’t forget to tune in for your weekly fix of Open Source content, interviews, news and of course - awesome giveaways on the Utopian.io Open Source Radio Show on MSP Waves on Wednesdays at 6 PM UTC.

Utopian Innovation Trail Optimization

Due to unreliable responses from the Steem nodes, we’ve had some issues with our Innovation Trail. Some of the posts that we believed were upvoted missed their votes due to timeouts from the nodes. Our developer team resolved the issue, and the Utopian trail is up and running again. If you spot any malfunction or issues with the Innovation Trail initiative of Utopian, please get in touch with our team on our Discord channel.

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