Your path to Open Source. Ep 1: WIN-WIN via utopian.io!
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Utopian.io is giving steemians a lot to talk about, is the most growing platform on STEEM blockchain and it keeps groing not only in the number of contributions received but in the quality of the platform itself. If this is the first time you hear about it, let me briefly tell you what this is about.
Rewarding open source contributions
Yes, if you are a programmer, designer, translator, thinker... you can be rewarded if you make your posts using utopian.io instead of other STEEM platform. And with rewarded it means, if your contributions meets the rules and quality standards, you get a cool upvote from utopian bot.
But actually there are different ways to WIN-WIN, while contributing to utopian itself of the open source world, I will explain those ways below.
1. Delegating SP to @utopian-io
If you are a sleeping whale, orca, dolphin or even a sleeping minnow, or if you simply want to delegate some SP to @utopian-io account you would help their bot to grow its power and you would get a percentage in return, as they say in their website:
20% of the total contributor rewards generated goes to the Sponsors based on their delegated amount.
The more you delegate, the more you get in return. If you want to delegate some of your SP you can follow this link, click in the DELEGATE
button and follow the instructions, it is easy and secure.
2. Upvoting the contributions before the bot
This is an interesting way to earn rewards. It is based in the curation rewards system of STEEM platforms. Just upvote approved contributions before the bot upvotes them, so you will get a good curation reward from it.
I recommend you not to random-upvote, take your time to check the contributions and vote for the ones you consider add more value or you simply like the most.
Doing this you would also encourage contributors to keep their good job.
3. Contributing
This is a bit more difficult than the first and second approach. But its also more profitable.
You first need to learn what open source is, according to wikipedia this is de definition:
Open-source software (OSS) is computer software with its source code made available with a license in which the copyright holder provides the rights to study, change, and distribute the software to anyone and for any purpose.[1] Open-source software may be developed in a collaborative public manner. According to scientists who studied it, open-source software is a prominent example of open collaboration.[2] The term is often written without a hyphen as "open source software".
There is also need of the project to have a valid github repository.
These are the categories you can contribute:
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A Sub-Project is a set of new unseen features having a great impact on the project.
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Only merged Pull Requests will be accepted or Open Source projects you maintain never posted on Utopian before, forks included as long as the fork is not just a mirror of the original one. Proof of work required.
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If you use an open source web platform, app, game, etc and find a bug, you can report it via utopian.io and be rewarded for that.
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This category is meant only for providing a data analysis you have generated for an Open Source project.
You must include the results of your analyses and the reasons why you have generated them.
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This category is meant only for providing results of online social engagement, adv and similar for an Open Source project.
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Only merged Pull Requests on the official repository will be accepted or on a fork as long as long as the fork is not just a mirror of the original one. Proof of work required.
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You must provide an original and a unique editorial content of very high quality that is strongly related to the promotion and development of open-source related projects. Blogs must have a unique and consistent format.
There are some general rules but also each category has its own specific rules. Make sure to follow them.
Here is an explanatory post regarding the graphics section: How to make a GRAPHIC CONTRIBUTION at utopian.io, you can follow it as example.
Are you skilled in one of those categories and can't wait to contribute to the open-source world? Don't hesitate to do it!
4. Being a moderator
Want to go further and become part of utopian crew? You can be a moderator!
I recommend you to read this post: We Need More Moderators. Utopian Is Having One Contribution Every Minute!
Being a moderator is not so easy but is not rocket science either. You only need to be skilled in one of the categories in order to be able to judge them, of course you also need to know utopian rules pretty well, and have social skills too (in other words, don't be rude, be polite).
Do you have what it takes? ;)
As you can see, there are some ways to WIN-WIN in the utopian world. I hope this post is usefull for you and helpfull for the open-source community.
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Wonderful information! full voted ;)
You have been so supportive and awesome!
Thank you!!! I wish you a lot of success this year and all the coming years :D
Hey @fabiyamada I am @utopian-io. I have just upvoted you!
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Thankss for the info ..
i will check out delegation power...
you could also be a mod at graphics ;)
really? Well, I think I'm interested ... how can I have more info about this?
thankss grandma
On discord!:D
jaja claro
:?
graciasss
Nice informative post. I think I read that if you submit a post through Utopian they take 25% of the rewards (I know they upvote you too), is that true? I looked in your post but I didn't see anything about it.
I checked out the link to become a MOD but they were all filled up, that went fast!
Yes, well, they take 20% of author rewards to pay sponsors and moderators.
Wow it was really fast :o
I just upvoted that's so awsome! Like the information.
Thanks!
anytime!
Your contribution cannot be approved because it does not follow the Utopian Rules.
Hi @fabiyamada. I have approved your post previously, but I should have made a suggestion before. For this reason I have changed your post status to "Pending". Please excuse my mistake.
According to the blog post rules:
Blog posts category is a category that where we need good looking posts. Please, work in your post format:
You can see an example of a good fomat here.
You can contact us on Discord.
[utopian-moderator]
Hello! The image quality is not low. It was a filter to look kind of vintage with utopian cholor scheme :) that is part of my style!
You are saying I should change headings into bullets?
Thank you for the contribution. It has been approved.
You can contact us on Discord.
[utopian-moderator]