Utopian.io Weekly - [November 30 2018] - Good Ideas
Welcome to Utopian's weekly recap of the week that was this week. We've had another busy, busy week, with new tasks, new ideas, and a new bot. Plus, we've got two awesome new folks on board! Let's talk about it!
In this post:
- Utopian Idea Hub!
- Welcoming @apshamilton and @katerinaramm!
- New Translations Questionnaire is LIVE!
- Utbot Is Listening!
- So Many Tasks!
- More About Anti-abuse's Return
- Awesome radio show episode!
Utopian Idea Hub!
We've got a new initiative brewing, and it's all about your ideas. This week, we announced the upcoming Idea Hub, a radio show that will take place in the Utopian discord server and will serve as a showcase for new ideas, with the aim of getting them off the ground with the help of our amazing community.
Welcoming @apshamilton and @katerinaramm!
As Utopian gears up for an exciting 2019, we've got a very exciting new hire to announce. Andrew Hamilton (aka @apshamilton), a lawyer and serial tech entrepreneur, is our new CFO. Andrew is a welcome addition to the Utopian management team, and we believe he will help take Utopian to new heights.
We've also added @katerinaramm as our new Visibility category CM. Katerina is someone you may have already seen all over the blockchain, as she's been lending her marketing expertise to @actifit and @steemstem. As former Visibility CM @techslut is our very busy CMO, the category is overdue for new management, and we trust Katerina is just the person to do that.
New Translations Questionnaire is LIVE!
Last week, we told you about the new questionnaire for our Translations category. That questionnaire is now live, and being used to score our translator's work. See it here by selecting "Translations" in the dropdown menu and clicking "Get Questions".
Utbot Is Listening!
@Espoem has created Utbot, a new Discord bot that "listens to blockchain operations and waits for the right trigger. Its purpose is to gather necessary information about a Utopian task request and create a consistent message for a Discord server/channel." This bot will help get the word out on Utopian task requests on Discord. And, being open source, people can use it for different triggers.
So Many Tasks!
We have a bunch of interesting TRs over in @utopian.tasks. Our own tasks this week have already been assigned, so make sure to follow both @utopian.tasks and Utopian CTO @gregory.latinier so as not to miss them when posted.
We want to highlight the latest task request by our partners at @CoinGecko. They're looking for a Ruby developer to implement public websocket API connections for Binance. With Binance's prominence in the Cryptocurrency arena, this is obviously an important API to connect to.
More About Anti-abuse's Return
In the last weekly, we announced the return of our Anti-abuse category. This week, we've got a post up with all of the information, including the most important part: The end of the Anti-abuse whitelist. If you're engaged in fighting abuse on Steem, you're welcome to join us. Please read the linked post for all the details.
Utopian.io Open Source Radio Show on MSP Waves
This week's radio show took place a short time after the announcement of cuts to Steemit Inc, which definitely made for a fascinating show. We had one of Steem's most important partners and witnesses, @blocktrades, on to talk about everything that's going on plus their future plans. We also had tutorials master @tensor on, and pulled in @rhondak to talk about everything that's going on. Past and future guest @nothingismagick chimed in with a fun rant about everything being open source.
As usual, the illustrious @techslut had the open source news, and we ended with a raffle in which @natu won the Humble Warhammer Bunde.
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