---
layout: cp
title: escapethe3RA Monero Observer maintenance (2024 Q3)
author: escapethe3RA
date: Jul 10, 2024
amount: 42
milestones:
  - name: July
    funds: 14
    done: 31 July 2024
    status: finished
  - name: August
    funds: 14
    done: 31 August 2024
    status: finished
  - name: September
    funds: 14
    done: 1 October 2024
    status: finished
payouts:
  - date: 5 September 2024
    amount: 28
  - date: 10 October 2024
    amount: 14
---

# What

I will continue to maintain *Monero Observer* (https://monero.observer) for the next 3 months (2024 Q3): July, August and September.

Tasks:

- Daily: search, curate, structure and post new reports/stories
- Daily: update reports, stats, changelog
- Daily/As Needed: post new *MO Community Messages*
- Daily/As Needed: post new *MO Resources* and *Blacklist* items
- Daily/As Needed: post new *MO Calendar Events*
- Weekly (Sunday): publish the *Monero Dev Activity Report*
- Weekly (Saturday): publish the *MO Artistic Saturday Top 5 Report*
- Monthly (1st): publish the *MO Blitz Report*
- As Needed: publish the *MO Cypherpunk Transmission Report*
- As Needed: housekeeping (revise and update reports)
- As Needed: engage with the community on Matrix, XMPP, emails
- As Needed: make sure the website is live and working as expected (server maintenance, billing, etc)
- Optional/bonus: publish new Monero and privacy related guides, meeting logs and summaries, add new features, improvements and website sections, start new community initiatives

# Who

escapethe3RA, I have started contributing to the Monero ecosystem in August 2021 with Monero Observer and other smaller projects:

- published 2677 x daily MO stories/reports (https://monero.observer/stories)
- published 1299 x on demand MO Community Messages (https://.monero.observer/tag/community)
- published 31 x monthly MO Blitz reports (https://monero.observer/tag/blitz)
- published 106 x weekly Monero Dev Activity Reports (https://monero.observer/tag/dev)
- published 112 x weekly MO Artistic Saturday Top 5 Reports (https://monero.observer/tag/art)
- published 56 x weekly MO XMR TA reports (https://monero.observer/tag/analysis)
- published 27 x on demand Monero Workgroup Meeting Log Summaries & uploaded 280 meeting logs to MO (https://monero.observer/tag/logs/)
- published 17 x on demand MO Cypherpunk Transmission reports (https://monero.observer/tag/CT)
- added 342 x on demand MO Resources (https://monero.observer/resources) & 18 x Blacklist items (https://monero.observer/blacklist)
- posted 385 x on demand Calendar events (https://monero.observer/tag/calendar)
- created several Monero, privacy and security related guides (https://monero.observer/tag/guides/, https://monero.observer/verify-install-update-monero-cli-wallet-linux-guide/, https://monero.observer/ultimate-guide-new-monero-contributors/, https://monero.observer/gpg-cleartext-signatures/, https://monero.observer/gpg-generate-full-keypair/, https://monero.observer/list-anon-email-service-providers/, https://monero.observer/read-monero-observer-terminal-newsboat/, https://monero.observer/monero-cli-wallet-cheat-sheet/)
- redesigned *Monero Means Money* website, donated bounty to GF (https://moneromeans.money/, https://github.com/escapethe3RA/monero-means-money/)
- started multiple MO initiatives: Community Messages, Monero Dev Activity Report, XMR TA Report, MO Artistic Saturday, and Cypherpunk Transmission  (https://monero.observer/tag/community, https://monero.observer/tag/dev/, https://monero.observer/tag/analysis, https://monero.observer/tag/art, https://monero.observer/tag/CT)
- added multiple MO sections: XMR Stats, Resources, Calendar, Blacklist (https://monero.observer/stats/, https://monero.observer/resources/, https://monero.observer/tag/calendar/, https://monero.observer/blacklist/)
- added multiple RSS feeds (https://monero.observer/rss/)
- other project improvements (https://monero.observer/changelog/)
 
# Proposal

I will work for 25 hours per week over 3 months at a rate of 0.14 XMR / hour. At ~$160 / XMR (21 daily EMA) this makes 42 XMR (0.14 * 100 * 3).