Welcome to episode 8 of the **Utopian Open Source Radio.** This episode was aired live on Wednesday, July 25th thanks to the [MSP Waves network](http://mspwaves.com/). @jedigeiss and @techslut shook the airwaves to give us another great Open Source show. You can check out the full show at the end of this post. 

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<br>Remember this face. This is your host, @jedigeiss. He is the Open Source Radio face and comes all the way from Germany.   The overheated and sometimes nude, @techslut keeps us informed with Open Source news. We had two special guests this week: @punqtured and @holger80. 

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## Show Timeline
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0:00 - Introductions with @jedigeiss
0:11 Open source News
0:30 @punqtured interview
0:39 Bucky shows up on a motorcycle sounding oddly drunk-ish
1:11 More Open Source News
1:18 @holger80 interview
1:48 Bucky shows up on a ferry sober-ish

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## Open Source News

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<br>In our Open Source News segment @techslut brought us several great new pieces. 
 


* Kokoon modular housing [Pink Link](https://www.metsawood.com/global/news-media/references/Pages/Kokoon-modular-housing.aspx?cid=pr-kokoon-en)

* Free, open source office suite LibreOffice arrives in the Microsoft Store -- with a price tag [Pink Link](https://betanews.com/2018/07/23/libreoffice-microsoft-store/)

* Open source code worth $600m contributed to Apache [Pink Link](https://www.itweb.co.za/content/KA3Ww7dl35J7rydZ)

* Open source project allows data transfer among Google, Microsoft, Twitter, Facebook [Pink Link](https://www.techrepublic.com/article/open-source-project-allows-data-transfer-among-google-microsoft-twitter-facebook/)

* Introducing Data Transfer Project: an open source platform promoting universal data portability [Pink Link](https://opensource.googleblog.com/2018/07/introducing-data-transfer-project.html)

* SteemSTEM & Utopian.io Meetup in Italy - Utopian.io Team Accommodation & Mini-Hackathon [Pink Link](https://steemit.com/fundition-ffdnxgdga/@steemstem/steemstem-and-utopian-io-meetup-in-italy-utopian-io-team-accommodation-and-mini-hackathon)

* STEEM BOUNTY How to build a Private Steem Blockchain. European Financial Transparency Gateway[Pink Link](https://steemit.com/utopian-io/@utopian.tasks/how-to-build-a-private-steem-blockchain-european-financial-transparency-gateway-steem-bounty)

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@techslut published a post this week with many excellent news pieces which you may enjoy. [You can find the link here.](https://steemit.com/tech/@techslut/open-source-news-digest-by-utopian-io-11-18-07-2016-blockchain-phones-batman-ninja-solar-panels-the-human-brain-project-and-more)

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## Utopian Content


@jedigeiss and @techslut tell us about exciting new Utopian content. This week's Utopian highlights can be found in the publication [Top of Utopian](https://steemit.com/utopian-io/@utopian-io/weekly-top-of-utopian-io-july-19-25)

You can also read the latest [People of Utopian #9 - @amosbastian](https://steemit.com/utopian-io/@utopian-io/people-of-utopian-9-amosbastian).

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## Special Guests

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Our first guest this week is @punqtured, of the Byteball project. The Steem Blockchain has been atwitter about their Airdrop for all Steemians, based on the reputation value. @punqtured tells us all about ByteBall, their airdrop and their future plans.
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<br>The second guest is the Steem witness @holger80. He talks about his Steem Module for Python called Beem. Excellent interview as he shares his insights.  <br>








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## Raffle Time!

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This week we had two giveaways provided by utopian.io: A course to help improve your social skills and another web development course. The two lucky winners of our raffle were @scipio and @sneakin. Congrats!!!

Our wonderful Open Source raffle bot was created by our Utopian friend @jestemkioskiem. The raffle bot is Open Source can be found on this Github Repo - https://github.com/Jestemkioskiem/discord-raffle-bot

You can read up on the bot here - https://steemit.com/utopian-io/@jestemkioskiem/discord-raffle-bot-update-0-2


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## The Show
You can watch all of Episode 8 right here:

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