Yesterday I released the Announcements feature in Utopian.io that allows project owners to crowdsource their Open Source projects by requesting for specific tasks to be completed by contributors. Read the article
Contributors get rewarded for completing the task by the project owner, the Utopian Community and the Utopian Bot that is powered by 800K Steem Power.
This is my first announcement I am writing using Utopian.io for enhancing the Utopian Bot (funny right?). Utopian.io is in fact an Open Source project and I use Utopian.io itself to contribute to it and to look for contributors. In this way i can test if the platform works well and if it brings real value for project owners.
The Utopian Bot
I presented the Utopian Bot few days ago. Read the intro article.
The Utopian Bot is now powered by 800K Steem Power and it is meant to be a meritocratic bot that only votes high the best contributions.
While this is working quite well, I believe there is room for enhancements.
An Idea from @stoodkev
https://utopian.io/utopian-io/@stoodkev/preserving-utopian-bot-voting-power
@stoodkev proposed to apply moving averages and to weight the bot power based on the category the contribution has been submitted to.
I want to try this out.
Bot Does not Understand Announcements Yet
Announcements are new to the platform and the bot does not know anything about them so I am expecting weird votes. Would be great to fix this as well.
Source Code
The source code for the bot is here and it is very rough. Excuse me for the bad coding style. There is room for improvements here as well. https://github.com/utopian-io/api.utopian.io/blob/master/utopian-bot.js
If you want to contribute please make your Pull Requests on Github and then write about them using Utopian, under the category development for the repository utopian-io/api.utopian.io. Put the links of your pull requests in the Utopian contribution and also paste the Utopian contribution url down here in the comments for me to notice that and give you a nice vote :)
Please come to Discord for chatting about how to enhance the bot together: https://discord.gg/Pc8HG9x
What is Utopian.io?
Watch this video tutorial by @flauwy https://steemit.com/steem-help/@flauwy/steemy-ep-33-utopian-io-develop-open-source-tools-and-earn-steem
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I second moving averages. Not a super smart metric, but you can apply it to do some interesting things.
Right @katamori !
Hi @elear! Is utopian limited only for tech guys looking for projects and contributors? how about students asking for technical help in crowdsourcing technical projects? Thank you for your feedback!
Hello @themanualbot why don't you join us on Discord to chat about this? https://discord.gg/Pc8HG9x
Thank you for the contribution. It has been approved. Looking forward to many future contributions.
[utopian-moderator]
Hey @elear I am @utopian-io. I have just super-voted you at 72% Power!
Achievements
-Good amount of information. Thank you!
-Votes on this contribution are going well. Nice!
-You are generating more rewards than average for this category. Super!
-Seems like you contribute quite often. AMAZING!
Up-vote this comment to grow my power and help Open Source contributions like this one.
This is a very good initiative and as a beta tester for the new version of busy.org I can say that there are some great people helping to make the user experience better for everyone and I hope we can all support it in our own ways.
Hello @utopian.io,
I'm always glad whenever I come across your posts because I know you will always bring value. The basic idea of having an open source reward mechanism for open source technologies is intrisically amazing.
Now on the issue at hand,
I have always been interested in the idea of AI. And thats what bots are essentially. They try to connect the dots and cross the t's just to make conclusions that will help to promote the desired aim.
I'm currently learning how to code and develop bots. So I'll be very happy to contribute to the utopian.io bot as soon as I'm ready. Perhaps it will be one of my first projects.
Keep doing good @elear.
@nairadaddy!
I would love that @nairadaddy and I am big fun of AI !
Hello @elear
I personally appreciate your onerous effort towards continuous improvement of the bot and the entire utopian.io platform. This is worthy of support.
Special thanks to those who have supported so far and the moderators whose policing roles have lead to high quality of posts being submitted for approval.
By calling attention of programmers through this call, I deeply believe you will be answered in thousands.
@eurogee
Thank you so much @eurogee ! We are trying our best
Its good for development open source.
@elear can i translation ini bahasa this your post?
@dodybireuen we are stopping this possibility in Utopian and only allowing translations of Open Source projects not posts, but thank you very much for your proposal!
thanks you @elear, I will look for another contribution to open source
wow this is great..i will try it..thanks for this amazing post!
I'm really proud to be one of the sponsors of this project. :)
Thank you so much @javybar and I am proud to have you there!
@elear I really like utopian.io. This is a great idea what can be done with steem blockchain. It probably would be a good idea to apply AI technic to your bot to improve work. He could learn from the moderators that give manual feedback and then automate more of the moderation work that will probably be needed when the platform grows...(i have no doubt it will). I'm thinking all the time that I would like to start a similar platform for 3D Printing Designs like those on Thingiverse.com ... there also many People contribute free designs that others can then print on their 3D Printer. But I scared to start as it requires more time to finish it than I currently have available.
Amazing ideas @drmake !
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i have a progrmer and he is a project untun project minnow nanggroe steemit community, and he who made a bot program in our community .. he is @binjeeclick .. https://discord.gg/7cgkwtS
apologize for being annoying but I am just a new person learning about node.js, not a programmer.
peace,..
Rolling Out Legal Weed Comes With a High Price Tag for Canada $546 million
33 minutes ago
g8418 25 in news
Enforcing Canada’s new legalized marijuana comes with a high price tag.
The federal government will spend C$546 million ($426 million) over the next five years to implement its new cannabis laws, according to the latest budget forecast. Agencies such as Heath Canada and the Royal Canadian Mounted Police will receive a portion of the funds to license, inspect and enforce the new rules. A “cost recovery scheme” will also be implemented to reduce the overall spending on the initiative, according to the document.
The country is aiming to legalize recreational pot before next July, and would be the first major economy to do so. The plan has led to ballooning values in Canada’s nascent marijuana industry, with Can accord Genuity Group Inc. estimating sales could reach C$6 billion annually by 2021. While the federal government will regulate the production of marijuana, Canada’s provinces will set up sales and distribution regimes. Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has proposed a tax of C$1 per gram on sales of marijuana, with the money being split between the federal and provincial governments.
source: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-10-26/rolling-out-legal-weed-comes-with-a-high-price-tag-for-canada
Great works, I wish you success