Utopian.io Weekly - [November 2 2018] - The Road To Steemfest and Utopian V2

With the third Steemfest only a week away, we've got a new and improved voting bot, terrific new tasks, and an upcoming presentation. Here's everything you need to know!

In this post:

• New Voting Bot!
• Amazing Tasks!
• Come To Our Presentation at Steemfest!
• Build Utopian.io v2 with us!
• Huge radio show episode!

New Voting Bot

We've been busy working on Utopian V2, and two of this week's updates are related to this massive undertaking. The first is the launch of our new voting bot. This bot is our solution to major issues of sustainability: With more and more contributions being reviewed, and voting power a finite resource, how can we reward the best of the best? And with some categories more active than others, how can we make sure the rewards are distributed fairly? As you can read in the announcement post, our solution is to prioritize highly reviewed contributions, as well as sharing the voting power reserve pools between categories as needed. If you want the technical side, read @amosbastian's post about developing the new bot.

Amazing Tasks!

We've had some truly awesome task requests this week, and we'll highlight the two presented by members of our VIPO club.

Our friends at @byteball have a tutorial task request for Byteduino, their co-signer library for Arduino based chips. If you've got what it takes to make this tutorial, this task is still open, and the bounty is already quite significant.

Our pals at @coingecko have a task request for Ruby developers. They need help with public WebSocket API connections for Exchanges for Cryptoexchange, a rubygem that allows Ruby developers to interact with over 240+ cryptocurrency exchange market data APIs in a single library. This rubygem is used to power CoinGecko. This TR is also still open, and has a nice bounty.

Come To Our Presentation at Steemfest!

As you probably know, Steemfest 3 is next week! The celebration of all things Steem will take place in Kraków, Poland, and we'll be there! We will be part of the "Wall of dApps" expo, of course. But if you want to be the first to have a glimpse of Utopian V2, the place and time to be will be the main stage, at 10:50 on Thursday.

That's where our CEO, @elear, and our CMO, @techslut, will present the design and main features of Utopian V2, and give attendees a chance to see the future. If you miss the presentation, or have questions about it, do visit us at our booth at the expo.

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 great radio show this week, focusing on two things people love: Games and music. On the gaming side, we had one of the developers from chainbreakers.io, a strategy-RPG that runs on the Etherium blockchain using Decentraland's MANA token. On the music side, we had Dale, who develops plugins for open source synthesizer VCV Rack.

As she does every week, the excellent @techslut delivered the FOSS news. And our brand new VIPO manager @lovenfreedom won the raffle. A great time was had by all!

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

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