Dear Steemians,
I have been a back-up witness for almost a year now. When I first applied to be a witness I mentioned that I wanted to "take part in the ongoing discussion about the future of Steemit". My motivation was, and still is, to represent my voters and followers so that their voices are heard on the "Witness Round-Table". But as you all know, you need to have some basic developers skills to become a witness and run your own node, so I decided to learn and it has been a very rewarding experience so far, with the help of some known witnesses I have managed to run my own node and some python scripts.
Now, I have also created some services that I think are useful, there are a lot of new users now so I wanted to make a quick summary of them and their current status:
Steemiobot Twitter: it tweets Spanish posts to give extra exposure to the growing Spanish community on Steemit.
Steemiobot Telegram: Its a telegram channel were you can receive Spanish posts directly to your phone.
SteemFund: A P2P lending system for Steemians. The first loan was made as a test and has been fully paid back. I believe that a reputation based P2P lending system has a lot of potential, the problem I have found is that running all of the loan payments and the website manually can be a lot of work. If anyone with some basic python and coding ability wants to help me out with it, I am more than glad to share the rewards of the 
Voting & Community Building: I have been a long time supporter of building different communities on Steemit. I think one of the best ways to on-board users is by letting them know they can be successful too. In this sense I have been voting on post under the #spanish and #venezuela tags. I think Steemit has a lot of growth potential in Latin America.
If you like my work, please show your support by voting for my witness
