We all know about the upcoming new landing page for Utopian.io and probably with lots of new exciting features. I was gathering few questions and possible answers about Utopian, those are asked by many users around the steem community.Then I saw a frequently asked question(FAQ) on top navigation menu of the new design. So I thought it will be helpful for the utopian team if I compile those questions as frequently asked questions.
Utopian.io is the platform based on steem and listed on steem ecosystem. Utopian.io is the only platform till now that rewards open source project contributors via Steem.
It is open source project that uses steems rewarding system, to reward the contributors based on their contribution.
Anyone, Yes anyone who often contributes to open source projects or want to contribute open source projects can use utopian. Developers and project owners are also using Utopian to get help on the developement of their project.
Yes, it's completely free and an Open source project itself. Anyone with a steem account can use utopian platform and start contributing.
In utopian people post Contribution post regarding their contribution to the project, explaining how their contributions helped/will help on the overall project growth.
Open Source projects are those projects whose codebase is visible or hosted publicly. Most of the open source developers, use Git platform to host their projects and utopian-io allows full integration with github. Every contribution
post you make on utopian will be posted in the respective repository on Github.
Yes, you can. But always remember that any contribution you post will be posted as a contributional report on github.
Yes, and in fact, we encourage non-programmer like you to be dropping ideas, feature request or any problems you are facing while using an open source project. And that’s the reason why we are becoming popular every day.
We have different categories of contribution, only code category needs a coding contribution. We have thousands of non-code contributions getting very good rewards. Your ideas are more valuable for any open source project’s growth.
Utopian works on steem blockchain. Hence it pays via steem, an existing rewarding system of steem blockchain. When you post any contributions, if anybody on the platform likes it you will get upvotes,
Every contribution you make on utopian platform becomes steem content. Means anything you post on utopian will be automatically posted on your steem blokchain, it doesn’t matter whether or not it’s approved on utopian, hence post wisely.
Utopian needs a steem account. Your steem account is also your Utopian account. We use steemconnect v2 for secure log-in. We will never store any private information. You can get your steem account here.
Steemit is a social media platform where everyone gets paid for creating and curating content. It leverages a robust digital points system, called Steem, that supports real value for digital rewards through market price discovery and liquidity.
Yes, and you are most welcome. Utopian is an Open platform for any open source projects. You will be rewarded for your valuable contribution to any open source project that exists.
Please check your steemit blog after posting here.If your post is already there then you do not have to worry, we will manually add your contribution on utopian for review. If it's okay for moderator then your post will be approved anyway.
We don't have any limit. You can post as many contributions as you like until they are valuable and worthwhile for the project development.
Your contribution will be approved as soon as a moderator review it. It won’t be approved if it doesn’t follow the rules/guidelines. However, a moderator can ask to edit/remove part of the post to meet the guidelines and will be approved if you could do that.
We cannot say that. It will be coming to you anytime before the post-payout date only if your contribution worth it. It depends on various factors like type and quality of contribution, the total number of upvotes/downvotes on your contribution.So always focus on posting worthy and quality contribution with all the details and explanations about the subject. You won’t go unnoticed!!
And remember we don't encourage you to post a contribution just in seek of upvote from the bot. You will be wasting your time here.
There are many benefits of using Utopian for project owner as well as contributors.
Project owners can post an announcement regarding the development of their project.This way they can outsource their open source project from thousands of potential developers around the world and get their project done.
Contributors can contribute any open source projects and get rewarded by project owners,utopian-io bot as well as thousands of other users on the platform who likes your contributions.
Note: Please correct if I am wrong at any point.
