It’s been a while since our last witness Update but this was certainly not because of lack of news. Behind the scenes we worked steadily to grow our small community and launch some projects. However, we realized that we need to do a better job at communicating our progress. Having good ideas or good intentions are not enough if nobody knows about it. Below there is a list of projects launched or supported by us.

The projects:

@itastem This is a sub-community supported by @steemstem that incentivizes the creation of scientific content in the italian language. The @davinci.witness builded a small voting trail composed by all the accounts of our projects and by the account of the witness to provide additional votes and support for the italian scientific community. All posts are curated manually and for transparency all votes are casted from a public room in our discord server.
@davinci.polyglot The objective of this project is to foster interaction between users of different nationalities, too often language is a barrier to interaction and by offering a service of manual translation in the following languages: Italian, English and Spanish. This will enable users to reach wider audiences. So far we have published 23 translations in Italian, English and Spanish generating 22 SBD commissions for our translators and the original authors.
@davinci.times This project facilitates the dissemination of scientific news. A team of writers creates excerpts from the most recent scientific news, linking back to the source. Moreover, everyday they hand-pick a scientific post published on steemit and that uses the #steemstem tag. We vote the selected posts with our small trail and we try to increase the exposure of the original authors by mentioning them in our posts. So far this project has distributed 80 SBD to the scientific editors and voted 37 users.
@davinci.art Is a new project that aims at promoting the release of art to the public domain. Copyright infringement is a considerable issue especially here on steemit. Users often “steal” images from websites or magazines because they don’t know how to draw or don’t have the time to do it. With our service we are trying to create a win-win situation: we are trying to facilitate interaction between artists and commissioners incentivizing the release of the images to the public domain by offering great rates, more details can be found on the following Link.

We currently rank #104 in the witness list. Despite our modest account we already managed to distribute a total of 102 SBD to our collaborators but obviously a better position will unlock the resources to do more. We feel the need to thank all the users that are supporting us through their work, all our collaborators for their encouragement and delegations and other communities like @steemstem that are making the difference for hundreds of users and for us as well. We are currently working on a whitepaper to clarify the organization of our witness and to share with you how we structure the distribution of roles and rewards within our small community.

If you wish to help us you can do so in different ways:

1. Vote for @davinci.witness as witness
2. Vote our post from @davinci.witness @davinci.polyglot @davinci.times or @davinci.art
3. If you are fluent in some languages you can candidate yourself to work as a translator, feel free to join our group discord
4. If you are an artist you can join our team and help us create images for the public domain

There are more projects under the hood but we will uncover them in due time, for now we will focus on making the current project self-sustaining.

Thank you for your attention

The blockchainers:

@aboutcoolscience @alexzicky @cheftony