In last week’s update, we introduced the VIPO program, along with news about the relaunch of the Translations category with the help of DaVinci initiative. This week, we have some interesting developments in ongoing projects, as well as a few new ones to announce.

In this update:

• Translations Category is Up and Running!
• New Questionnaire & Scoring System
• MSP Waves Open Source Radio Show #4
• New Staff Members & Team Activities
• Exciting new collaboration with the EU Commission

Translations Category Developments

With the collaboration with DaVinci initiative on Steem, our translations category is coming back with a bang! The DaVinci initiative have completed their first wave of reviews for language moderators and translators applicants, and we were thrilled to hear that they received and reviewed over 130 applications!

To ensure the re-launch process of the Translation category goes smoothly, the DaVinci began the activity with an initial set of 5 languages; Chinese, German, Greek, Italian and Spanish. The community was quick to respond with their contributions and DaVinci team are already hard at work reviewing them. Keep those contributions coming in!

You can check their blog post here.

New Questionnaire & Scoring System

Our team is constantly working to ensure that the scoring system provided to the moderators is an effective tool for quantifying objective value. This past week, we’ve completed a revamped and improved questionnaire and scoring system, thanks to the work of all our CMs, @roj, @jestemkioskiem and @techslut.

What will this affect?

We expect our new questionnaire and scoring system to be more efficient and more rewarding for the contributors who prioritize quality in all aspects. We will be experimenting with an exponential vote system that will give constant high quality contributors higher votes than usual.

More details regarding this change will be announced sometime next week!

Open Source Radio Show

The Open Source Radio Show has been a great hit, attracting interesting guests and a growing audience! We’re happy to see you participate, and invite you to join us weekly on Wednesdays at 6PM UTC. This week, our guests included:

• /dev/null on MSP Waves with @jrswab
• DaVinci Team - @aboutcoolscience
• FOSS News - @techslut

You can listen to the full show here (courtesy of our wonderful show producer, @buckydurdle).

New Staff & Team Growth

Welcoming @roj and @abh12345 as Community Managers

This past week brought on some team role changes. We would like to welcome @roj as a new Community Manager for the Blog Posts category, and @abh12345 for Analysis category!

Operational Manager & PR Manager

When Utopian.io was originally incepted, most of the company functions were filled by one (superhuman) man - @elear. As time has passed, and our user numbers grew it became clear that there is need for some well-organized delegation of responsibilities.

Two new additions to the core team of Utopian.io are @espoem and @deathwing.

@espoem, who will be stepping down from his role as the CM of the Blog category, is now our new Operational Manager who will be handling nearly all managerial tasks and coordination of company activities with @elear.

@deathwing will be stepping down from his role as the CM of the Tutorials category, and will be focusing on working along @techslut in our content and marketing team as the Public Relations Manager for Utopian.io

We hope these role assignments will help make processes and communications more efficient, as well as create new avenues for the ongoing growth of Utopian.io as a company.

Moderation rewards bonus

To encourage and incentivize our moderation team, from this week onwards, every moderator who reviewed at least 5 contributions will receive an extra 30 point bonus to their weekly moderation reward payout.

Copywriting, Graphics and Visibility guidelines

These categories' guidelines has been updated with the following.

To be eligible for rewards, contributions without an associated task request or whitelist entry should show a public and appropriate communication process between the Project Owner and the contributor, with an indisputable level of voluntary Project Owner acceptance of the work done. Contributors can initiate this communication on public channels to propose their work as long as they don't act on behalf of, or attempt to represent Utopian.io in any way.

This means that contributions made to these categories will be considered for reward if clear, professional and public communications between the project owner and contributor can be included.

Collaboration with EU Commission

We’ve been in touch with the The Blockchain Competence Centre of the European Commission and have agreed on a collaboration between the Centre and Utopian.io. We are excited to be involved in the development of their blockchain-based ledger system, The European Financial Transparency Gateway.

For more information you can read their post here.

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