monero-ccs-proposals/escapethe3ra-monero-observer-maintenance-summer-2022.md

layout	title	author	date	amount	milestones	payouts
cp	escapethe3RA Monero Observer maintenance (Summer 2022)	escapethe3RA	May 29, 2022	36	name funds done status June 12 30 June 2022 finished name funds done status July 12 31 July 2022 finished name funds done status August 12 31 August 2022 finished	date amount 4 August 2022 24 date amount 26 September 2022 12

What

I will continue to maintain Monero Observer (https://monero.observer) for the next 3 months (summer 2022): June, July and August.

Tasks:

• Daily: search, curate, structure and post new reports/stories
• Daily: update stats, changelog, version control
• 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
• Weekly (Sunday): publish the Monero Dev Activity Report
• Monthly (1st): 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 (server maintenance, billing, etc)
• Optional/bonus: publish new Monero and privacy related guides, meeting 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 975 x daily MO stories/reports (https://www.monero.observer/stories)
• published 37 x weekly MO XMR TA reports (https://www.monero.observer/tag/analysis)
• published 12 x weekly Monero Dev Activity Reports (https://www.monero.observer/tag/dev)
• published 18 x weekly MO Artistic Saturday Top 5 Reports (https://www.monero.observer/tag/art)
• published 9 x monthly MO Blitz reports (https://www.monero.observer/tag/blitz)
• published 294 x MO Community Messages (https://www.monero.observer/tag/community)
• published 4 x Monero Workgroup Meeting Log Summaries (https://monero.observer/tag/logs/)
• 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://www.monero.observer/ultimate-guide-new-monero-contributors/, https://www.monero.observer/gpg-cleartext-signatures/, https://www.monero.observer/gpg-generate-full-keypair/, https://monero.observer/list-anon-email-service-providers/, https://monero.observer/read-monero-observer-terminal-newsboat/)
• redesigned Monero Means Money website, donated bounty to GF (https://moneromeans.money/, https://github.com/escapethe3RA/monero-means-money/)
• started MO Community Messages, Monero Dev Activity Report and MO Artistic Saturday initiatives (https://www.monero.observer/tag/community, https://monero.observer/tag/dev/, https://www.monero.observer/tag/art)
• added a MO Resources section (https://www.monero.observer/resources)
• added a MO Calendar section (https://www.monero.observer/tag/calendar)
• added multiple RSS feeds (https://www.monero.observer/rss)
• started self-hosting a terminal-based git server containing the MO UI source code (https://monero.observer/monero-observer-self-hosted-git-server/)
• created a hidden service for MO (https://monero.observer/monero-observer-new-server-hidden-service/)
• other project improvements (https://www.monero.observer/changelog)

Proposal

I will work for 25 hours per week over 3 months at a rate of 0.12 XMR / hour. At $130 / XMR (21 daily EMA) this makes 36 XMR (0.12 * 100 * 3).

Note: After this period, Monero Observer will turn 1, marking 365 days of uninterrupted daily Monero news reporting. Thanks for being a loyal reader and supporter, I am very proud to be part of the best community out there.