At the moment I only know about Utopian.io since yesterday when I talked about it with . I asked him about how Utopian.io would look like and if there will be an auctioning system. But instead of giving me an answer, he asked me to write an article about it.
Although I don't know if I'm familiar with all important elements of Utopian.io, I will do that now and explain what I specifically mean with an auctioning system for the platform.
Auctioning systems can have many forms and usually their specific shape depends on the content of the auctions and what interests the sides involved have.
Utopian.io intends to help open source web projects by rewarding users with upvotes for their work. The upvotes will come from an account specifically designed to upvote these projects, but of course other users can give upvotes the same way.
This means that so far the auction element on Utopian.io is intended to be implicit.
At the moment, users publish tasks for open source projects and then they get a vote for it. Before receiving it, this vote has for the users a random value. An explicit auctioning system would make this variable known and open the perspective that not only users can offer their work, but auctioneers too can become active and request tasks while fitting them with a specific price (or upvote) they are willing to pay. For users who do the task this would be equal to contract work.
An auctioning system can be very detailed and offer specialized solutions for every kind of task including all kinds of specifications that go beyond the intended open source character of the proposed platform. Theoretically, it is possible to extend the system to also rewarding scientific tasks or go into the classic commercial direction.
Although extending such a system seems very interesting, this would also be very complex and it would go far beyond what Utopian.io is supposed to accomplish. Therefore at least for the moment, only basic auctioning features will be considered.
A) The Offer Of Tasks By Users
Of course whole projects can be added, but it seems easier and better assessable if the projects are limited to partial tasks like translating Wikipedia articles or programming new features for steemit add-ons.
B) The Request Of Tasks By Users
This feature should be strictly limited to trusted users, whales and 3rd parties who pay to prove their sincereness.
While the looks and the functionality of this auctioning system's basic structure is very simple, it still needs mechanisms that ensure its functionality. Here are some of them:
Overall, trust between the managers and the users is paramount. Only when that is given, an auctioning system for Utopian.io can be successful.
PS: I don't know what this "Github project (eg. Wordpress/Wordpress)" exactly means. I hope I have used the correct repository.