Similar to the Witnessses Exposed series that @clains used to do, the Reports from the Witnesses aims to provide the community with a summary of what all the witnesses have been up to. Every week, I plan to collect all of the reports from the individual witnesses and assemble them into a single aggregated report.

The details here are a summary (paraphrased by me), based on what I found in the individual reports. If you are interested in reading everything the witnesses have been up to - including many details that are left out of this summarized report, please click on the links to view their full reports.

Witnesses can continue posting their posts to the witness-category and/or witness-update tags, and I will assemble everything I find there. If I miss any reports, just let me know and I will correct it. If you have any issues with the summary that I wrote for your report, please let me know and I will do my best to address your concerns.

So without further ado, I bring you the second edition of 'Reports from the Witnesses'!

Reports from the Witnesses 2016-11-28

@clayop - Witness Position #7

Updated my witness node to v0.16.0rc3 while having a backup node in v0.15.0
Made the case that witnesses need to reduce feed price discount
Working on alternative GUI part, with help of @fabien and @ekitcho
Read the Full Report (11/26/2016)

Earlier Report:

Ready to test and implement hardfork 16
Conversations with people regarding Steem integration to Wordpress
SBD pegging: Increased buying price to $0.98 and selling price to $1.00
Read the Full Report (11/21/2016)

@abit - Witness Position #9

Code review and testing for hard fork
Reduced voting on the interest rate from 15% to 12%
No change made on the price feed offset/bias (remain -0.1%)
Updates to witness votes
Spent time on curation
Read the Full Report (11/25/2016)

@smooth.witness - Witness Position #10

Will be upgrading my witness to the upcoming 0.16 fork assuming no technical problems are discovered before December 6
Reduced SBD interest rate (APR) setting from 13 to 9%
Made case for gradual reduction of APR instead of abruptly changing to 0
Made case for continued price discount to reduce debt load
Internal market maker bot has performed well with no downtime. People are finding the internal market much more useful now.
After the fork, despite the 80% reduction in witness pay, plans to continue sponsoring existing projects (steemcleaners, busy, and the food/cooking contest, others on a case-by-case basis) on existing terms until at least the end of the year. Will continue to cover the difference with outside funds.
Read the Full Report (11/28/2016)

Earlier Report:

Reduced SBD APR to 13% from 15%
Liquidated several thousand SBD from SBD stability fund to reduce any short term trading premium on SBD
Made the case for witnesses continuing to discount their price feeds
Update to internal market maker bot, helping to provide liquidity on the internal SBD/STEEM exchange
Read the Full Report (11/21/2016)

@klye - Witness Position #26

steem.global is now a Daily 0.001 STEEM Faucet to help spread STEEM and it's blogchain!
Experimenting Running STEEM v0.16.0
Still working on a STEEM/SBD provably fair dice site
Continuing work on the Streemit project
Read the Full Report (11/25/2016)

@bitcoiner - Witness Position #43

Posted about the launch of the "Welcome to Steemit" page
Paid out more than 500 SP to all the participants on my recent free Steem Power Giveaway
Upgraded servers to the 0.16.0 release candidate 3
Will continue to spend time on the Steemit.com codebase
Will monitor steemd nodes with the new 0.16.0 release candidate
Will continue with @timcliff's wish list and trying to implement some of the items there
Will continue being active on Steemit, Steemit Chat, and GitHub
Discussed changes that have been worked on and are now live on Steemit.com
Reminder: The Steemit.com codebase is open source, anyone can submit changes to it!
Read the Full Report (11/25/2016)

@dragosroua - Witness Position #52

Updates to Steem Witness Toolbox
Made the case for the account creation fee to be pegged to the dollar
Read the Full Report (11/26/2016)

Earlier Report:

Supports hardfork 16
Updates to seed node server
Advocating Steemit at the Vertical Open Connect Blockchain events
Coaching new members
Several Steemit related posts
Updates to Zentasktic
Purchased domains for steem.city, steem.one and steem.supply
Read the Full Report (11/21/2016)

@bacchist - Witness Position #54

Working to revive the RobinHoodWhale project
Preparing for the Hardfork
Stated concerns with the reduction in power down time, and sheer number of major changes all at once
Overall supports the Hardfork though
SBD Interest Rate: Unchanged at 15%
SBD Discount: Unchanged at No Discount
Read the Full Report (11/21/2016)

@timcliff - Witness Position #64

Supports the upcoming 0.16.0 hardfork
Announcement that the "Welcome to Steemit" page is now live
Update on @the.masses project
Involvement in GitHub discussions about feature additions and glitch reports
New project "Reports of the Witnesses"
Partnered with @pharesim and the Steemit dev team to create a $300 SBD Bounty to develop a back-end search engine using ElasticSearch
Created a Witness Voting Guide
Price Discount lowered to 8%
Registration fee set to 50 STEEM
Reduced this from 15% down to 12%
Read the Full Report (11/26/2016)

@bola - Witness Position #99

First witness update! :)
Updated to v0.16.0
Will be updating price feed automatically every 2-3 hours
Read the Full Report (11/24/2016)

Some Notes:

Many witnesses do not report every week, and prefer to only report when they have updates.
I recommend that you include communication as one of your criteria for evaluating witnesses, but keep in mind - it is not the only criteria. There are some witnesses that prefer to work "behind the scenes", and do not do much as far as reports.
For witnesses that are not currently posting any reports, I would encourage you to provide the community with at least some insight into what you are currently working on :)
Historic Reports from the Witnesses can be found here:
/created/reportsfromthewitnesses
For help determining which witnesses to vote for, check out the:
Witness Voting Guide

Remember to vote for witnesses here:
https://steemit.com/~witnesses