THE COLONY THAT FUELS YOUR DREAM; INDIEGOGO

There comes a time in a man's life when he needs a helping hand. Dreaming is free but achieving this dream requires push, dedication, drive and most often than not, helping hand. Out of the lot, the only external factor is the support.

It's not enough to have lived.
We should be determined to live for something.
May I suggest that it be creating joy for others,
sharing what we have for the betterment of personkind,
bringing hope to the lost and love to the lonely__Leo Buscaglia

The Utopian colony was setup with the intention of bringing dreams to reality. The community has always worked towards promoting the creation of open source projects on steemit and in a bid to spread their net across the world, a platform has been set up to provide support in form of a colony that helps individuals with creative ideas by giving them a means to fuel their dreams.

Utopian Colony is the first crowdsourcing platform to connect open source projects and contributors from all digital professions. The culmination of a year operating a successful proof-of-concept, Utopian aims to launch the open source ecosystem into a new age where all digital professionals are empowered to take part in open source innovation. Help us release an early version of Utopian Colony by Q2-2019!\

A very important aspect is knowing what this term means because you may actually have one without knowing and according to Whatis.TechTarget,

In general, open source refers to any program whose source code is made available for use or modification as users or other developers see fit. Open source software is usually developed as a public collaboration and made freely available.

Here's a simple explanation about how it works from opensource.guide

• Everybody tries the pie (use)
• The pie is a hit! They ask you for the recipe, which you provide (view)
• One friend, Alex, who’s a pastry chef, suggests reducing the sugar (modify)
• Another friend, Lisa, asks to use it for a dinner next week (distribute)

No you must not be a programmer or a computer genius, @utopian-io has created a platform called Indiegogo that is all encompassing and focused on sharing knowledge and experience. If you're a painter, writer, chef or from any other work of life, the Utopian Colony will accommodate you and encourages users to share their best tutorials, blog posts and relevant content. To achieve that, Utopian Colony will enable tipping and incentives for publishers of engaging content.

As a member of The Colony, you're in the best place to receive support for your dream but you're also in a good place to invest and support other members with concepts that catch your fancy. The colony will be a mutual helping community and this process is incentivised in many ways, including the introduction of the Bounty Exchange.

According to the Home page, it was created to incentivize contributors to perform the tasks open source projects and the community need, Utopian Colony will include an integrated bounty exchange supporting a variety of currencies.

For project owners, the bounty exchange will enable access to the power of collective financing and the crowdsourcing of development.

Here's how the Bounty Works (source)

• Anyone can support a task or a project by supercharging existing bounties.
• Our unique quality assurance process lets project owners decide what contributions meet industry standards. To ensure the solutions submitted also meet project needs, our team of reviewers is geared to support and guide them in publishing an engaging and cost-effective task bounty.

Utopian Colony is scheduled to be released no later than Q3-2019, but you can access it earlier by Q2-2019 and have the advantage of an early adopter, as well as the opportunity to be involved in the growth of Colony.

Here's How you can have early access and have one of them cool support badges from Utopy, the Utopian Mascot

• Go to Indiegogo's Home Page Here
• You can easilly log in or create an account at the top right of the homepage
• After signing up, you can back the project by following it by clicking/tapping on the heart
• Promote it on your social media channels
• To get the cool badge, you can select the "BACK IT" option and donate to a worthy cause

In My Next Article, I'll discuss how simple it is to start a campaign and get support from the Colony, as well as discuss about what Entrepreneurs can benefit from the platform, the Hackathon among other cool stuff. I hope you'll come be a part of this wonderful community and be a part of achieving someone's dream or achieve yours as well.

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