Utopian.io Weekly - Translations are Going Great, Scoring Optimized, Exciting Collaborations & More [June 22nd 2018]

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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.

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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:

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

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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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Important take-away for moderators: If you moderate four development posts, you 'll get 16 STU, and if you have moderated five, you will get 50 STU.

i wish the best

Interesting will post some tasks as well :)

Great job @espoem. I am sure he will do a great job as operational manager. Always having an eye for the details and putting a lot of effort into every single step regarding the community will do utopian-io a great step forward. Wish all new team members the best in their new role!

espoem can unit test entire applications with a single assert.

Thank you very much, @jayplayco. I really appreciate it.

espoem can solve the Towers of Hanoi in one move.

now you tell me how to solve it in only one move :D

Congratulation @abh12345 on the job. I am sure you will no doubt shine brightly for them, and find through analysis where they can find room for improvement or areas on steemit that could benefit from their improvements.

So, what does the community manager for analysis entail, and when bashadow says job, does that mean you actually get compensated, or it is more of a volunteer job. :) And then, does this become your real job, since it sounds like you were basically living off of STEEM earnings. If I'm prying I apologize. I'm just curious about how these things work, and utopian-io specifically, since I haven't quite figured out what they do. I just keep hearing from you and others about how important they are. :)

Oh, and this happens to be comment No. 4,000 for me. Does that mean a party?

4000 already!

It is a job yes, scoring, reviewing, encouraging new contributors, building relationships with existing contributors, and working with the team to try and take the category and project forward.

And yes, there is rembursement for all mods and CMs - dependant on workload. I hope I can have a positive impact,l and with living off the STEEM, it's come at the right time for me.

Utopian-io is doing best job for open source platform proven once again. Best wishes to all

Thank you for the support.

You are always welcome.

So, I wondered, why @supersteemian is not open-source? 😄

Our developers have their own vote for closed source but I was in favour of open source for sure but now I am working on a open source project which would change something wait ;)

It's not about any front-end to steemit but thought to use Steem smt and use steem block chain.

Very great news...
Will always support these translation projects...
And waiting for the announcement of Indonesian translators...

Thanks & have a great day! 😀☕❤

Thank you for your support! :)
We will add more languages for sure!

Excellent very good job @espoem congratulations

The phrase 'dead ringer' refers to someone who sits behind espoem in a movie theater and forgets to turn their cell phone off.