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escapethe3RA Monero Observer maintenance (Spring 2022)

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+title: escapethe3RA Monero Observer maintenance (Spring 2022)
+author: escapethe3RA
+date: February 26, 2022
+amount: 27
+milestones:
+  - name: March
+    funds: 9
+    done:
+    status: unfinished
+  - name: April
+    funds: 9
+    done:
+    status: unfinished
+  - name: May
+    funds: 9
+    done:
+    status: unfinished
+payouts:
+  - date:
+    amount:
+  - date:
+    amount:
+  - date:
+    amount:
+---
+
+# What
+
+I will continue to maintain *Monero Observer* (https://monero.observer) for the next 3 months (spring 2022): March, April and May.
+
+Tasks:
+
+- Daily: search, curate, structure and post new reports/stories
+- Daily/As Needed: post new *MO Community Messages*
+- Daily/As Needed: post new *MO Resources*
+- Daily/As Needed: post new *MO Calendar Events*
+- Weekly (Monday): publish the *MO XMR TA Report* (technical analysis Monero price report)
+- Weekly (Saturday): publish the *MO Artistic Saturday Top 5 Report*
+- Monthly: publish the *MO Blitz Report* (includes everything that happened the previous month)
+- As Needed: housekeeping (revise stories to make sure links and content is still relevant)
+- As Needed: outreach (engage with the community on Matrix, Reddit, XMPP, emails)
+- As Needed: make sure the website is live and working as expected (no 404's, domain is paid, etc)
+- Optional/bonus: add new features, improvements and website sections
+
+# Who
+
+escapethe3RA, I have started contributing to the Monero ecosystem in August 2021 with Monero Observer and other smaller projects:
+
+- published 658 x MO stories/reports (https://www.monero.observer/stories)
+- published 24 x MO XMR TA reports (https://www.monero.observer/tag/analysis)
+- published 6 x MO Blitz reports (https://www.monero.observer/tag/blitz)
+- published 150 x MO Community Messages (https://www.monero.observer/tag/community)
+- published 5 x MO Artistic Saturday Top 5 Reports (https://www.monero.observer/tag/art)
+- created several guides on GPG encryption, RSS feeds and Monero contributors (https://www.monero.observer/ultimate-guide-new-monero-contributors/, https://www.monero.observer/gpg-cleartext-signatures/, https://www.monero.observer/gpg-generate-full-keypair/)
+- redesigned *Monero Means Money* website, donated bounty to GF (https://moneromeans.money/, https://github.com/escapethe3RA/monero-means-money/)
+- added a MO Calendar section (https://www.monero.observer/tag/calendar)
+- started MO Community Messages and MO Artistic Saturday initiatives (https://www.monero.observer/tag/community, https://www.monero.observer/tag/art)
+- added a MO Resources section (https://www.monero.observer/resources)
+- added multiple RSS feeds (https://www.monero.observer/rss)
+- other project improvements (https://www.monero.observer/changelog)
+ 
+# Proposal
+
+Work for 25 hours per week over 3 months at a rate of 0.09 XMR / hour. At $160 / XMR (21 daily EMA) this makes 27 XMR (0.09 * 100 * 3).
+