Cervantes Witness: Supporting the spanish speaking community

Since the beginning of the project, we have curated approx. 1200 post from over 150 different authors contributing in the distribution of approx. 25.000 SBD among the community.

Fighting abuse & plagiarism

We have been actively collaborating with @steemcleaners to not only fight abuse, but also to educate the people to use the platform in a way that increases visibility and votes.
At the beginning, many spanish writers didn’t even know about plagiarism. They just copy pasted texts from blogs. We are quite sure many of them didn’t have bad intentions. It is a learning process and we feel very proud to see some of those users becoming good and stable spanish content creators.

Helping newcomers

Same way @andrarchy created his channel "andrarchists" to help new people, we created the channel "hispanohablantes" to guide and support spanish speaking members. There is a boiling community up-there of people supporting each other with tips, tricks, promotion, translations, tutorials, videos, photos and fun.

Community Outgrowth

We keep promoting Steemit as much as our daily job allow us to do so. This is just a msg I sent just today to a friend who is an amazing artist. If you talk to some of our friends they will probably tell you that all we talk about since the last sommer is Steemit related.

Everything counts!

We are also working on different outgrowth initiatives always with focus on the spanish speaking community.

Future Plans

• We will keep curating spanish content as long as we have the support of curating guilds.
• We will keep moderating the spanish speaking #hispanohablantes channel in steemit.chat.
• We will keep welcoming and guiding spanish speaking newcomers.
• We will keep fighting abuse of the platform. An interesting form of abuse is copy/google translating/pasting posts which is actually difficult to detect automatically.
• We will help translating or providing translation resources for guides, faqs, tutorials and application interfaces (please, contact us if support needed).
• We will keep promoting Steemit among our network.
• We will keep communicating our plans and achievements in regular posts.

Being a witness

Becoming a witness node and providing a seed node is our way of showing our commitment to the platform by investing time and money on the setup and maintenance of the servers.

He hope, with the @cervantes witnesses to become yet another pillar of the STEEM ecosystem, in this case, the one on which the spanish community can be supported and promoted.

Witness Node Specifications.

The steemd daemon has been downloaded from the official github repository and compiled with the “low memory” flag. It is running on a high performance virtual server running on Ubuntu 16.04 LTE and physically located in a high reliable north european data center with following specifications:

• RAM: 16G
• CPU: 4
• Storage: 400GB SSD.
• Network: 1 Gbit/s NIC
• Bandwidth: 1.65 Tbit
• Juniper Routing Technology
• High-Speed Access to All Internet Uplinks
• Network Availability min. 99%
• DDoS Protection

The shared data files are stored in memory on a RAM mounted device (/dev/shm) to minimize the I/O pressure.

Running it on a virtual server will allow us if needed to up-scale the resources or setup a backup node in a matter of minutes.

Witness Parameters.

Following some recommendations, we have set the actual parameters to:

• account_creation_fee: 30.000 STEEM
• maximum_block_size: 65,536
• sbd_interest_rate: 5,000
• sbd_exchange_rate: base 0.168* SBD /quote 1.020 STEEM

(*) The price feed will be updated manually until a automatic feeding script is deployed in the node.

Seed Node.

We have as well set up a public p2p node that can be reached under the following ip and port:

Voting for @cervantes as a witness is voting for the steadily increasing spanish speaking community:

We count with you!!

Your sincerely

Pablo @pgarcgo and Manu @gargon

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