Utopian.io Weekly - [June 29th 2018] - Increased Rewards for All, Optimized Voting Formula, Translations is Ready to Grow & More

Never stopping and never slowing down, the Utopian.io team has even more updates for you this week. What have we been up to? Optimizing the reward system, increasing your maximal rewards, working on expanding the translations category and more!

In this update:

• Increased maximum rewards across all categories
• New exponential voting formula
• Focusing on community & team conferences
• Expanding the Translations category and adding more languages with DaVinci
• Welcoming new members to the VIPO Club
• Fresh sneak-peaks at the development of the new Utopian.io frontend
• Community activities and collaborations

Do Your Best! Announcing Higher Maximal Rewards

As always, our aim is to strive for a continuous rise in the quality of contributions submitted to Utopian.io, and incentivize the community to bring impactful value to the FOSS ecosystem. To encourage you to be the best Utopian you can be, we’ve decided to raise the maximal voting power to be used across all Utopian.io categories.

Increased maximum rewards

Category	Old max vote	New max vote
suggestions	12	20
development	40	55
bug-hunting	8	13
translations	25	35
graphics	30	40
analysis	35	45
visibility	20	30
documentation	20	30
tutorials	20	30
video-tutorials	25	35
copywriting	20	30
blog	20	30
task requests	4	6

Along with the raise in maximal reward voting percentages, we’ve also optimized the voting formula used by the @utopian-io bot.

New Exponential Voting Formula

For those of you interested in the exponential formula we decided to use to calculate the final vote, we’ll present it here.

EXP_POWER = 2.1
vote = pow(score / 100.0, EXP_POWER - (score / 100.0 * (EXP_POWER - 1.0))) * max_vote

With this algorithm in place, combined with the rise in maximum rewards, we expect to see contributors striving to be their very best, and always aiming for the top.

Weekly Open Conference

Transparency, openness and collaboration are key drivers in the growth of Utopian.io. In the past, we’ve attempted to separate our bi-weekly updates to the community from our weekly team management talks. To try and get everyone at the same place at the same time to get updates and offer insight, we’ve decided to focus on our weekly Utopian.io team conferences, and invite you to join us weekly on Friday at 5PM CET (GMT+2).

As always, we are open to your input, and these weekly conferences are your chance to communicate to the entire management team of Utopian.io at once.

Translations are Expanding!

The Translations category under the management of the DaVinci initiative is a stellar success. With a team of language managers, pre-authorized translators, and under the leadership of the DaVinci team and our own @rosatravels with @jmromero, it’s really no wonder that the category instantly returned to being one of the most active on Utopian.io.

In light of this, Utopian.io and @davinci.witness will start accepting applications for translation teams for a number of additional languages. Be sure to check the blog post on the @davinci.witness blog for instructions on how to join the team.

Utopian v2 Sneak Peeks

Our development team has been hard at work creating Utopian v2 for you. With a rich feature-set and scalable backend, Utopian.io in its next form promises to be an innovative and revolutionary frontend to the Steem blockchain.

Here are a few shots of the UI as we construct what we hope will be the base of the New Open Source Economy.

Note that the project is still in development and the interface may change.

Homepage

The homepage layout has been updated to better fit with the content.

Recent contributions and task requests

You will find the most recent task requests right on the homepage. Of course, it will be easy to list other contributions and task requests.

Connect your Github account with Utopian

Submit your project to Utopian

You will be able to have your own page for a project. It will be as easy as filling a short form with basic information about your project, including visual assets.

Project page

Your page could look like this one. All information at one place will ease the navigation throughout the project contributions and finding a task request for a project will be simple.

New contribution page

In this section you may see a simplified version of what is yet to come. Don't worry, you will get full-featured editor.

Welcoming SteemApp and Hede.io to the VIPO Club!

Our exclusive list of Very Important Project Owners continues to grow, and this week we’ve added a few particularly inspiring projects.

Credits: SteemApp team

The first project team to join us this week was SteemApp - a mobile app for Steem on Android and iOS. This mobile app has been in development already, but with their interest in Utopian.io, the project owners decided to open their code to the community, and look for contributors who can join the beta testing of the product. You can read more about the project and find out how to contribute in their announcement post.

Credits: Hede team

In addition, we are proud to welcome to Utopian Hede.io, a project that aims to become a repository for dictionary and wiki-type content on the Steem blockchain, based upon personal experience on a particular topic.

The project owner reached out to the Utopian team for consultation on their project announcement, and we are excited to be part of this ambitious initiative on Steem. Additional information can be found in their announcement post.

We hope to see your contributions to these projects across all Utopian.io categories, helping them grow and flourish.

Collaboration with @sndbox

The Steem-based initiative @sndbox is collecting donations for a Steem promotional activity at The Crypto Renaissance exhibition in New York. Among others, this exhibition will include a wall dedicated to Utopian.io, and their latest post included a draft of this display.

Credits: @sndbox CC BY-NC-ND

MSP Waves Utopian.io Open Source Radio Show Wants to Give You More!

The expanded and extended two-hour show with @jedigeiss, @buckydurddle and @techslut is turning into a hit. With the audience growing and more listeners tuning in, we want to give back to you in the form of free giveaways.

What giveaways? That’s up to you! Tell us in the comments what kind of geeky, open-source-themed or educational gifts we can raffle out to our growing audience of avid Open Source radio fans - YOU.

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