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.