These past two weeks have been hectic in my life, I finally could sit down and troubleshoot the server a few days ago.
I missed 3 blocks and restarting the server to life took me some digging which was a great learning opportunity (in the worse possible moment) but a good experience.

Since then it is back only (my god linux is robust! i didn't have to restart lol)

Anyway the server is back and i am monitoring it closely. (It was memory starved increased the shm size to 24GB) it has witnessed a few blocks since restart i'm glad i solved the problem.

The BOT

@reveur ven

If you remember the original project was a community curator BOT that people could summon and earn merits by being generous.

Driven by a basic AI 3 level network assigning the BOT VP among summoners.

The BOT AI has been in hell and back, it has required a lot of human intervention because it developped only on extremes, from the excellence use that @josevasquez did to the poor use some others tried, the BOT went ignoring anything in the middle as bad... And that requiered i add another level network to balance.

I want to thank !

@stellabelle and @patrice

For their trust on the @reveur project and i am glad to inform that even thought the AI has needed tweaking, there is a thriving community that grew around the discord channel I created for help and support of the bot, and which recently started a weekly #spanish live curation project that reunites people around several curators and it creates links of humans as some are proposals that we are trying our best to support as they have future.

Our Dec 23 curation event after 3 hours live

In the background the @reveur team has advice or discussed with several small great individual projects and trying to steer then toward enhancing user adoption and retention by developing human networks.

Some of them, like @laguia organized the first steem event in @maracaibo where a known Bar and restaurant @bibas accepted steem and SBD as payment .

Others, their project was to bring hope, and promote steem like @antoniomontilva whose proposal is to save the village holiday trough a fund raiser and that count with the support of many important actors of the spanish community.

And we would like to introduce Antonio who is closely working with us to @youarehope, (a foundation based on steemit block-chain run and founded by @sircork). Because he has a longer term project that is worth their attention.

Also there is the proyect of @acostaeladio with the user: @andresbello, who has a vocation of help and steer new users in the good steemian way.

With @menez.trending we have started a small communal trading account for him to manage and the proceedings used to either finance communal projects or increase the power of the BOT.

With him we are organizing sessions on tuesdays, to help people understand the steem / SBD relation, the internal market and prepare them to venture to the exchanges by giving the basics notions (NOT investing advice or any of those schemes) the aim is to prevent all steem going to #venezuela bleeds out and remains and incentives minnows to power up or bet in the market when there are calm and clear opportunities and increase their stake.

Another use of the community trading account would be to help fundraise the @delega project which I have 70 Steem reserved for renting SP but i have not been able to use but will be done soon.

I would also like to thank all the Venezuelans that have trusted us with they donations and their support.

I have the feeling we are building a beautiful community based on mutual help, support and collaboration, sharing the load and sharing the resources to make things better.

A final mention to @mfestra and @idandy who have make great work in building and animating the community organizing the events and keeping people interested and uniting them!

Maybe we can get airtime in @steemstarnetwork for the events as a show for the spanish content, in the mean time you can find a youtube record, thanks to @moisesmcardona in his channel:

For the live curation session:

For the last trading basics session

They also have an excellent proposal for promoting steem which will be launched in january!

Something else we will be supporting in january is the revival of this Sound Festival

Well as you see this is more a community update with a witness twist than a proper all technical witness update, but what i really enjoy doing in the block-chain is creating human networks.

Discovering the humans behind the steemians and sharing! thanks @surpassinggoogle for inspiring me so much, brother I miss our long chats!

We are juggling soo many thinks community wise and i am so happy that it build around the dreamer ( @reveur) and that so many of us are looking for solutions to the root of the problem and share the views of a fairer more human economy.

Thanks and Merry CHRISTMAS!

Gracias y Feliz NAVIDAD !

Ah I almost forgot, my humble witnessing efforts have granted me position 119, if you want to help me and support my effort vote for me: https://v2.steemconnect.com/sign/account-witness-vote?witness=nnnarvaez&approve=1