Wow. I'm less than a week here on steemit and feel like I've gone down a rabbit hole. A happy, exciting place to be for sure. Your project adds tremendous value to the platform and I will be looking for ways to contribute to utopian.io.
Sincere thanks for what you are doing and I agree with other commenters' suggestions of giving us laypeople some tips/direction as to how we can best help and contribute. Any quick tips?
hi @beauknows, welcome to SteemIt! Not sure if you're asking about contributing to the Utopian project itself or using Utopian to post about contributions to other open source projects (it's very "meta", i know).
For some tips on contributing to open source projects, my first tip is that it's really a lot of work to make meaningful contributions. So I wouldn't do it just because you want to post on Utopian.io (even though I think that's happening a lot right now due to the bot's large upvote) but because you're really interested in contributing to a project and would probably have contributed anyway without Steem or Utopian.
Generally open source projects are software development oriented, so it's a lot easier to contribute if you're a software developer. But even if you're not there are still ways to contribute and add value. You can provide ideas, test the software for bugs, create graphics, promote the project, etc. You'll find all of these are contribution categories on Utopian.
I noticed from your profile that you're interested in chess, so perhaps you could search on github for some popular, open-source chess projects that perhaps you could lend some of your expertise to. Again - it's a lot of work to provide meaningful contributions, so i would only do it if you find something you really want to work on.
Anyway, hope that helps - let me know if I misunderstood your question. Good luck with your 100 day steemit challenge!
Fantastic response and thanks so much for your clarifications! This does help a lot. So much to take in here and trying very hard to mix my naive enthusiasm with as you say meaningful contributions. I do have a background in web dev, graphics etc. in addition to chess, so will continue to follow to see if i can pitch in somehow.
Meta indeed!
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