The tutor-web primary site is at http://tutor-web.net where you can find several courses, both material and drills. This is the most recent, mobile web version of the tutor-web (see also http://arxiv.org/pdf/1406.5004.pdf). There are a few more courses available (you can see them at old.tutor-web.net) but they have not been ported into the mobile web version yet.

A course consists of one or more tutorials, which again consist of lectures. The lectures can contain slides, examples, more detail or handouts - and, most importantly, drills. The content is developed by a content provider who is usually also a teacher. Other teachers are then free to use the material, either in a class-room or simply point their students at a given lecture, telling them to take drills as a remedial measure or as a further study. The students will get a grade inside the system and the instructor may or may not want to use that same grade as a partial grade in a real-world course. Of course any student can use this anywhere - the system is completely open. The only requirement is that students agree that we can use their data for research.

In recent years software development has been done mostly by hired programmers (when we have grant money), but we have also had a few volunteers.

Material is usually generated either by volunteer instructors or we have hired students to write multiple-choice drill questions (when we have grant-money).

We have been experimenting with student-generated information: The student gets credit (or SMLY) for submitting material which then gets peer-reviewed by other students (who get credit for the review). In the longer term the hope is that this may give content generation a boost, and make it more sustainable. At the moment student-generated material is only new questions, but will be extended to worked examples, links to outside information (e.g. Khan Academy to name just one) etc.

We will also allow registration of tutors within the system, but that is still on the ToDo list.

We now have two pools.

Voting is going on at askcoin.net. There are 926 coins on the list and we are in the top 5. We still need quite a few more votes to get registered! Feel free to vote or donate BTC to 1BguwZpxKUKKG88NgQWEXDgq3iqLLxFyLZ  to move the SMLY further up the list.

Excellent. I've added it to the intro here and on the tutor-web.info page.

The SMLY is up for a vote on the exchange at https://askcoin.net/votes so if you want the SMLY registered, just log into https://askcoin.net and vote for the SMLY.

Thank you!

There was a premine. The aim was to premine up to 50% of all coins, i.e. up to 25 billion coins. There was also one pre-launch test of the SMLY in one classroom. Both are described in http://tutor-web.info/smileycoin (made public before the launch) - but not the details which are given below and you can check by looking at the source code at github.

Rather than mine for a year, the premine was implemented by premining the first 1000 blocks, each with a 24 million coin reward. That gave 24 billion SMLY in the premine, well enough below the 25 billion that we could easily run the in-class tests without hitting the 25 billion limit. The in-class tests needed to have a few small miners running, but you'll see in the code that they ran with the regular rewards of 10000 SMLY (which we also needed to test, just to make sure that the switch worked).

What we did not realise was the unfortunate consequence that the coin explorer shows all the individual 24 million coin transactions. It would have been simpler to just premine a few, each e.g. with a 6 billion reward. Then the coin explorer would just show those 4 largest addresses each with 6 billion and not 1000, each with 24 million.

The net effect is the same -- the actual implementation is just unfortunate since it shows a less clear picture in the coin explorerer.

At bittrex we are told the best thing to do is to go onto twitter and tweet about how $SMLY needs to be considered by @BittrexExchange. They pick up coins largely based on tweets, hash power, length of bitcointalk thread, volume on other exchanges ...

no - I've applied at 11 exchanges. Most don't even ack the request. Some have asked for (and gotten) more info.

I think the only thing to do now is for more people to ask for a registration - they are not going to listen to just one request. So if you folks want registration, then please send in a request to your favorite exchange(s).

Better?

Thank you.

The coin explorer just opened: https://coinplorer.com/SMLY

POD done: http://proofofdev.com/project/smly-smileycoin/

The Block Explorer is expected during the weekend.
The exchanges are taking their sweet time.
The POD is moving closer and that should help with the exchanges.

Point taken.

The block explorer is coming...

Yes we do: I have not heard back from a single one of them. I'll apply at a few more today. If anyone has a contact at an exchange, then this would be a good time to check whether they can at least add the coin to their voting list.

as in proof of dev? yeah, it's almost there, we should be done as soon as I can toss in the remaining info.

OK, will do. Thanks!

Oh I see. That's fine -- all my contact details are pretty much public knowledge; I am gstefans on twitter, google+, linkedin, ... :-)

I don't know what that means:-)

But seriously, I am just in charge of the tutor-web project and can not take credit for the actual development. Although it's my pet project, I've been lucky enough to get a lot of really good people to work on it with me. This coin is something which I believe can make a big difference, so I am willing to put a fair bit of work into it -- but I don't really consider myself a professional developer.

Thanks. I've now applied for the SMLY at the following exchanges: cryptsy vircurex poloniex  C-cex  allcoin  coin-swap

Yes, it's scrypt -- sorry about the logo, none of us use windows so we didn't notice until too late:-(

The SMLY is on its way into coinplorer.com (I don't know how long they normally take).

Exchange: We will get it registered on https://www.poloniex.com -- seems pretty hassle-free, so consider that definitive. Again, I don't know how long it takes, but it is in process. EDIT: Sorry, wrong info: We only have an application in, just like cryptsy, but no promises.

Pool: Thanks for the hints. I've contacted the ones you folks have suggested -- and you can see that Asimov has already set up a pool.