I am really thankful to the Steemit community who banded together behind me to help save the previously unprofitable steemvoter.com project through a crowdsourced fundraiser, I managed to reach an understanding with @marcgodard, where we came to a 50/50 co-ownership arrangement starting yesterday the 25th November 2016.
I like this idea better because Marc can still be involved in the community and continue operating as project developer while I handle the public facing aspects and provide ideas.
The crowdfund was made possible through community upvotes and the direct donations of the below fantastic people, who I will soon add to a private steemit.chat channel to join in on helping guide the future of steemvoter.com. Thanks everyone!
@cryptomancer 10 SBD
@merej99 10 SBD
@steemdrive 734.298 SBD
@thecryptodrive 316 SBD
@thecryptofiend 10 SBD
@craig-grant 15 SBD
@steemvoter 7.804 SBD (sent on behalf of @remlaps)
@virtualgrowth 6.668 STEEM
@pharesim 150 SBD
@exploretraveler 5 SBD
@vegascomic 100 STEEM
@mokluc 9 SBD
@richman 100 STEEM
@officialfuzzy 400 SBD
@faded-gravity 50 SBD
@vegascomic 0.010 STEEM
My first order of business as co-owner was to suggest we give away one of our 7 weekly payment votes to the @steemsports charity post organised by the @steempowertwins , @applecrisp and @theprophet0. You can read about the initiative to donate canned goods to the Holland Rescue Mission here on the SteemSports Blog.
We were proud to add a few hundred extra votes and in the region of 30$ in votes to this outreach project and look forward to the blog post by the @steempowertwins showing us the results of the donations.
I introduced @marcgodard today to a Beyond Bitcoin hangout where he got to meet @fuzzyvest and the rest of the regulars, he seemed to have a good time and felt more included in the community. We were just flies on the wall to start, but then we got pulled into the chat to speak about steemvoter.com and had some interesting conversations on how we could provide solutions for curation guilds such as those of @instructor2121 and Beyond Bitcoin, which we are considering some of the ideas we threw around and may post about it soon for community feedback.
Marc worked on a few upgrades:
- You now can click on buttons to reveal your SP and Voting power on your accounts.
- Removed cache so you can login and out of different user accounts without the previously logged in account being cached.
Shortly we will Open Source the Python bot part of the software as suggested by @pharesim, which will be available on Github.
We are not very strong on Python and hope the community will us help optimise this script for a better voting experience.
@officialfuzzy "Beyond Bitcoin"
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Look forward to providing future updates!