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We are talking with J Ringo, the project organizer of Gridcoin, a POS-based cryptocurrency that rewards users for participating on the BOINC network. Gridcoin uses peer-to-peer technology to operate with no central authority - managing transactions, issuing money and contributing to scientific research are carried out collectively by the network. With a strong community and comprehensive branch-based development strategy, Gridcoin has been going strong for over 5 years.

Today on FOSSHub we have Thibault Duplessis who has come on to talk to us about Lila (https://github.com/ornicar/lila) - also known as (li[chess in sca]la). This powerful program includes analysis and simulations, training and practice - everything someone might need to take their chess game to the next level. Released completely open-source, you can spin up your own Lila server which will talk to an AI cluster of donated servers, and is available in over 80 languages thanks to the involved community translations. Come and listen in to see how the power of open source has made this project possible!

Welcome to another exciting episode of IdeaHub! James Sims joins us from FreedomEx, a steem-powered exchange that has recently released their open sourced condenser for all media, community and content projects that want to experiment with token distribution, with the flexibility to choose their own parameters. What does this mean for the future of decentralized social media?

Aggroed has come on to talk about Steem Smart Contracts, and the innovative side-chain project he is working on at steem-engine.com. Together with a team of developers, the steem-engine side chain has opened up a new realm of possibilities for decentralized incentivization. We are also joined by Leandro Moreira who will be talking about his Digital Video Introduction course (https://github.com/leandromoreira/digital_video_introduction) available on github, complete with interactive tasks and homework for beginners to intermediate learners, to those who just want to brush up on their vocabulary and understanding. In today's video-centric internet culture, understanding the basics is more important than ever.

PySnooper (https://github.com/cool-RR/PySnooper) developer Ram Rachum comes on to talk with us about what to do when your Python code isn't doing what you think it should be doing. Instead of sprinkling print commands throughout your enterprise's entire archaic codebase, PySnooper makes it easy to debug by adding just one line.

Nile (https://nile.shopping/), an open-source community empowerment program, has created three platforms to support groups of buyers, deliverers and shoppers, allowing each group the tools they need to connect into local markets. We will be speaking with Marco Castignoli (https://github.com/marcocastignoli) about how his project might change the way that people connect locally, market their products, search for goods to buy and how they integrate delivery gigs into their daily lives.

Elementary, an open-source operating system that replaces Windows or Mac OS, is fast, open and comes 'Pay what you want', a model becoming popular among teams in the open source software movement. Today on FOSSHub we will be speaking with Elementary developer Cassidy James Blaede (https://medium.com/@cassidyjames) about the origin, obstacles and operation of this great project!

We have two great guests on Idea Hub this week. Our first guest is Darsh Patel. He is a passionate developer who is involved in several open and closed source projects. He is currently working on a project which is taking court documents of his country of India and putting them into an Open Source format which allows them to be searched by legal professionals. He is also working on some interesting security projects which he tells us about in the show. https://github.com/darshkpatel. Frederik Madsen-Malmo is our second guest. He is an Open Source advocate and has been working hard to grow the community. He runs a very exciting project call Open Source Ideas, which helps contributors find projects to work on. His GitHub repo organizes MANY Open Source projects into categories to help contributors find the projects that best fit their interests, level, and time availability. https://github.com/open-source-ideas/open-source-ideas

We are happy to present the Volentix project, a digital asset ecosystem, that aims to put you back into the driver seat, and Edex-ui, a terminal emulator that recreates the look and feel of science fiction movies.

As the first guest we have Yabapmatt, one of the driving forces behind SteemMonsters (Splinterlands) and Steem-Engine.com. He will be discussing several projects including SCOT tokens which is an alternative to the long-awaited STEEM SMT. Daniel Pittman from Hashkings and Disregardfiat from the dLux VR/AR are our second guests, who have partnered to create an exciting new VR game that lets you grow virtual cannabis on the blockchain.

This week we had one of the busiest developers on the Steem blockchain, Holger. He lives in Germany and collaborates with creative minds around the world. There is so much content in this interview, from Steem Basic Income to Steem Monsters, that it is hard to keep track of all the innovation he is involved with. To make things easy here is a list of links to some of the projects @holger80 talked about with @jedigeiss: - https://nextcolony.io/- https://github.com/holgern/- https://beempy.com/drugwars/@self-track/drugwars-finally-in-profit- https://steemrewarding.com/- https://github.com/holgern/steemengine- https://app.steemconnect.com/authorize/@rewarding- https://busy.org/@holger80/automation-of-steem-basic-income You can vote for @holger80's Steem witness here - https://v2.steemconnect.com/sign/account-witness-vote?witness=holger80&approve=1

On this episode of IdeaHub we had the good fortune of hosting Canadian super programmer @helo. He brought two interesting perspectives. As a developer, he talked about some of the very interesting projects he is involved in, such as Magic Frog and Volentix. Then it was on to community building, as he spoke to us about some very exciting projects that he has seen both as a moderator for the Development category of Utopian, and as a member of the larger Open Source community.

This week's episode was somewhat Steem focused, as both projects are related to the blockchain.  First we had one of the world's finest in the blockchain field, and a true pioneer in fighting abuse: @TheMarkyMark. He is always extremely well informed and lives on blockchains. We talked about his work in blockchain blacklists, as well as his new radio show on MSP Waves, Marky On The Air. You can check that show on the MSP Waves Discord at 1AM UTC each Wed. Our second guest was @mcfarhat, owner of Actifit, one of the most exciting projects in the blockchain space. Actifit has recently made their own token, AFIT, available on Steem-Engine.com, which means it can be traded for Steem/SBD. Hear all about Actifit and how to be rewarded for fitness!

The show had two great projects this week: Our first guests were @markegiles and @disregardfiat, talking to us about new ideas for their project dlux.io. This is a very exciting VR and AR blockchain project that allows users to easily create virtual environments in their builder and have others come in and interact! Our second guest was [@DiggnDeeper](https://steemit.com/@diggndeeper.com), who shared with us an idea about connecting OpenBazaar with the STEEM blockchain. This will make it possible to use Steem and SBD on the OpenBazaar platform. A very interesting idea that has potential to be a win-win situation for both platforms.

This week, we had two excellent guests. The first was Sorbonne acting professor and dark matter scientist @lemouth. This is a man on the cutting edge of science, and you want to listen to see how you can help! Our second guest came all the way from rural Florida - @ecoinstant. He currently has a task request on Utopian.io to help integrate Beam into his data searching project. There is a great need for better search tools for the Steem blockchain. @ecoinstant is working on it!

Major Steem power @surpassinggoogle was our guest, talking with Jan about two of his projects: ulogs.org and steemgigs.org@surpassinggoogle is a Steem veteran, active in many communities, and has even launched his own token. 

Our first @elear talking about the current progress of the Utopian crowdfunding campaign, difficulties along the way and all other things that are currently keeping the staff busy at Utopian Headquarters. As a second guest we were delighted to welcome @yabapmatt, one of the most productive developers around. He is the technical head behind SteemMonsters, Keychain and has also launched - together with @aggroed and @harpagon - the new SteemEngine tool, that allows you to create your own tokens based on the Steem Blockchain.

Our main guest this episode was @ecoinstant, talking about a project he already started: steemlogs.info. Following that, Utopian CEO Diego Pucci visited to talk about the ongoing Utopian Indiegogo campaign. 

On this episode we had @fingersik, pitching an idea to us that could help archives and libraries around the globe. Fingersik is a computer scientist out of the Czech Republic and joined Steem in April 2017.  @sorin.cristescu then stopped by to talk about his work with European Financial Transparency Gateway - https://eftg.eu/

Our main guest was Utopian's CEO @elear (Diego). He talked about Utopian's Indiegogo campaign. Our second guest was the amazing @helo. @helo talks about his work as a full-time blockchain worker and his exciting work at Volentix. 0:15 Diego - Utopian0:45 Helo - Volentix