Every week is a busy week for us here at Utopian.io, and this one has seen some amazing announcement for us and for open source on the Steem blockchain. This week's summary includes new partnerships, ongoing projects and a few surprises for you. 

**In this post:**

* Utopian.io Mini-Hackathon Date Announcement
* Welcoming DTube to Utopian.io
* Steem Monsters Game Jam in collaboration with Utopian.io
* Be Part of Utopian.io v2!
* New Additions to Our Team
* Utopian.io Open Source Radio Show on MSP Waves
 
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## Steem Monsters game jam in collaboration with @utopian!
Are you a game developer? Here's your chance to become part of Steem history and join an exclusive Game Jam by Steem Monsters in collaboration with Utopian.

During the Jam, you will have a week to create your own Steem Monsters themed game working alone or in teams. Of course, there are tempting bounties to tempt you to join.
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Any platform works - game maker, godot, unity, unreal, rpgmaker. The winner of the Game Jam will win a LEGENDARY GOLD FOIL! Second and Third Place will get 200 and 100 sbd respectively, all in addition to Utopian.io support for open source games submitted for review. 

Itching to start designing already? Read all the details in [Steem Monsters' announcement](https://steemit.com/steemmonsters/@steemmonsters/steem-monsters-usd1-000-game-jam-invitational-in-collaboration-with-utopian-io-steemgg-and-blocktrades).

## DTube Goes Open Source with Utopian.io
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DTube, one of the fastest growing DApps on the Steem blockchain, has released version 0.8 of its platform. With this version, DTube is now fully open source. And you know what that means: As they detail in their [announcement](https://steemit.com/dtube/@heimindanger/dtube-0-8-the-grand-upgrade-is-finally-here-dtv-dtalk-vip-system-etc), you can now develop for DTube with Utopian! 

It's exciting to see this great platform go open source, and we look forward to taking part in the development and promotion of this important project.

## Save The Date! The First International Utopian.io Mini-Hackathon
A major announcement about the Utopian.io mini-hackathon is coming next week, but for now, we can tell you that the hackathon will take place on the **weekend of September 20th**. 

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Follow the [Fundition.io campaign](https://fundition.io/#!/@steemstem/ffdnxgdga) for all the details, and don't forget to support us there with your heartpower!

## Meet Our New Team Members!

We are proud and excited to welcome two new members to the Utopian.io core team: @didic and @gregory.latinier, both experienced professionals in their field.

Joining the Development team, @gregory.latinier brings over a decade of experience in developing complex systems. Previously a moderator in the Development category, Gregory also brings vast experience with Steem-based applications from his work with busy.org and SteemConnect.

The new members of the content team, @didic, is a brilliant content writer and editor with decades of experience in journalism, blogging, translating and editing. In addition to creating and editing content for all Utopian.io channels, Didi will be assisting as moderator in both the Blogs and Visibility categories.

## Build Utopian.io v2 with us!
As you probably know, our development team has been hard at work in creating the base for the next Utopian.io, with features and functionalities requested by the community. Now, we welcome you to take part. Submit your development contributions to the [GitHub](https://github.com/utopian-io/v2.utopian.io) and [Firebase](https://github.com/utopian-io/firebase.utopian) repositories!
 
If you are not a developer - you can still help! We are still accepting applications for the Utopian v2 closed beta, and will gradually onboard more applicants. Visit [beta.utopian.io/](http://beta.utopian.io/) to read more and sign up.

## Utopian.io Open Source Radio Show on MSP Waves

Our awesome radio show is growing in audience, and it's a beautiful thing to see (and hear, mostly). This week we hosted DTube creator @heimindanger, who surprised us and the audience by announcing the release of DTube 0.8 as an open source project (as detailed earlier in this very post). 

We next had top 20 witness @drakos, to talk to us about what being a witness entails. He was joined by fellow witness @themarkymark, coming in from the audience, who added further insights. As always, it was fascinating and informative, with irregular breaks for laughing and chatting with the audience.

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We also raffled off codes for two games on Humble Bundle, and caught up with some news from the Open Source world.

Be sure to tune in text week at 6PM UTC on Wednesday on MSP Waves!

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## First Time Contributing in [Utopian.io](https://join.utopian.io/)?

<a href="https://join.utopian.io/guidelines">Learn how to contribute on our website</a>

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