escapethe3ra-monero-observer-2024-q2.md

layout: cp
title: escapethe3RA Monero Observer maintenance (2024 Q2)
author: escapethe3RA
date: Apr 11, 2024
amount: 48
milestones:
  - name: April
    funds: 16
    done: 2 May 2024
    status: finished
  - name: May
    funds: 16
    done: 1 June 2024
    status: finished
  - name: June
    funds: 16
    done: 1 July 2024
    status: finished
payouts:
  - date: 18 May 2024
    amount: 16
  - date: 17 June 2024
    amount: 16
  - date: 16 July 2024
    amount: 16

What

I will continue to maintain Monero Observer (https://monero.observer) for the next 3 months (2024 Q2): April, May and June.

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/As Needed: publish the MO Cypherpunk Transmission Report
• Monthly (1st): publish the MO Blitz Report
• As Needed: housekeeping (revise and update reports)
• As Needed: outreach (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 2438 x daily MO stories/reports (https://monero.observer/stories)
• published 1181 x on demand MO Community Messages (https://.monero.observer/tag/community)
• published 28 x monthly MO Blitz reports (https://monero.observer/tag/blitz)
• published 93 x weekly Monero Dev Activity Reports (https://monero.observer/tag/dev)
• published 98 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 25 x on demand Monero Workgroup Meeting Log Summaries & uploaded 235 meeting logs to MO (https://monero.observer/tag/logs/)
• published 17 x on demand MO Cypherpunk Transmission reports (https://monero.observer/tag/CT)
• added 320 x on demand MO Resources (https://monero.observer/resources) & 16 x Blacklist items (https://monero.observer/blacklist)
• posted 336 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 0.16 XMR / hour. At $127 / XMR (21 daily EMA) this makes 48 XMR (0.16 * 100 * 3).