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layout: cp
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title: Monero Observer news website
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author: escapethe3RA
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date: August 23, 2021
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amount: 15.99
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milestones:
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- name: September
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funds: 5.33
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done: 30 September 2021
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status: finished
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- name: October
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funds: 5.33
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done: 31 October 2021
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status: finished
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- name: November
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funds: 5.33
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done: 30 November 2021
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status: finished
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payouts:
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- date: 15 October 2021
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amount: 5.33
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- date: 16 November 2021
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amount: 5.33
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- date: 15 December 2021
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amount: 5.33
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# WHAT
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I will maintain **Monero Observer**[^1] for the next 3 months (autumn 2021): September, October and November.
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Essentially:
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- DAILY: search, curate, structure and post new content (CHANGELOG available: https://www.monero.observer/changelog/)
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- AS NEEDED: housekeeping (revise stories to make sure links and content is still relevant)
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- AS NEEDED: outreach (engage with the community mainly via email to encourage participation and get new stories/tips faster)
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- AS NEEDED: make sure the website is live and working as expected (no 404's, domain is paid, etc)
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- WEEKLY: publish Monero XMR TA Report, a weekly XMR technical analysis report (reference: https://www.monero.observer/tag/analysis/)
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- MONTHLY: publish Monero Observer Blitz, a monthly report that includes everything that happened the previous month (reference: https://www.monero.observer/tag/blitz/)
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- (BONUS, OPTIONAL) AS NEEDED: publish Monero & privacy/opsec-related guides (reference: https://www.monero.observer/tag/guides/)
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# WHO
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Myself: escapethe3RA, a Monero enthusiast, a private citizen.
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# WHY
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I strongly believe that the Monero community would benefit from the existence of the Monero Observer, both right now and in the long run.
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While there are a few other places where people can get news and stories from around the Monero community, I am proposing a slightly different and more efficient approach.
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Here are some of my thoughts:
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- we need a dedicated Monero-only news website that is being run by someone in our community, privately
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- the general writing style should resemble a journalistic approach, based on facts and as little opinion as possible
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- clean, minimalist interface, no bloat, few images
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- references/sources should never be absent from each post; furthermore the author should seek to prioritize privacy-respecting platforms and thus share the links to those if possible (ie. invidio.us instead of youtube.com, nitter.net instead of twitter.com)
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- readers must be allowed unrestricted access to the stories, privately via tor (zero Javascript, no cookies, no tracking or any kind of analytics service, no pop-ups, no newsletters, no CDN, no captchas, no ads whatsoever)
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- smaller stories should also be covered whenever possible, in order to support and encourage community participation in a decentralized way, the Monero way (individual bloggers, small time alt platform video and guide makers, tiny merchants)
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- search engine juice should be allowed to flow to every site in the community and disabled (rel=nofollow) for big tech sites (in the references/src links)
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- advertising should be approached very conservatively and human-to-human contact should be prioritized whenever possible (think: email still works, word of mouth will never die, if you build something they will come so have a strong foundation ready;)
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- stay away from mainstream centralized social media if possible; RSS should be encouraged, it's still the best (IMHO); potentially add decentralized social accounts (ie. federation) in the future
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There's more, but I believe these notes should suffice for now.
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I have already taken the liberty to dedicate my past couple of weeks to this project: find a voice and well defined structure for the content, design the website, research and write the posts, add reference links and deploy.
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You can visit the website and get a glimpse of my work so far. Before I continue with the project in this direction I need the community's feedback and approval. If you think this would be useful, comment and support my proposal. Thoughts, constructive criticism and discussions are encouraged.
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If you wish to contact me you can do so by sending me an email (address on the website's about page, PGP key available for sensitive content).
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# MILESTONES
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The work hours that I have already put in this month will **not** be counted towards this proposal. First of all I wanted to know approximately how many hours I'd need to put in beforehand and secondly I wanted to show up with a PoC.
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I am proposing to maintain Monero Observer for the next three months of autumn: September, October and November at a rate of $15/hour, 80 hours a month. The total is 15.99 XMR at the rate 1 XMR == $225 (~10% buffer from current Kraken price).
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Thus, there will be three milestones, 5.33 XMR each, paid on the last day of each month: 30 September, 31 October, 30 November.
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If all goes well and the community finds the project useful we can discuss 2022 plans.
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Thanks for reading!
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Ta-ta,
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**escapethe3RA**
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[^1]: https://monero.observer
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