escapethe3RA Monero Observer maintenance (3 months)

What

I will continue to maintain Monero Observer (https://monero.observer) for the next 3 months (winter 21/2022): December, January and February.

Tasks:

• Daily: search, curate, structure and post new reports/stories
• Daily/As Needed: post new MO Community Messages
• Weekly: publish the MO XMR TA Report (technical analysis Monero price 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: add new features, improvements and website sections

Who

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

• published 356 MO stories (https://www.monero.observer/stories)
• published 11 MO XMR TA reports (https://www.monero.observer/tag/analysis)
• published 3 MO Blitz reports (https://www.monero.observer/tag/blitz)
• 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/)
• started MO Community Messages initiative (https://www.monero.observer/tag/community)
• other project improvements (https://www.monero.observer/changelog)

Proposal

I will work for 25 hours per week over 3 months at a rate of 0.07 XMR / hour. At $220 / XMR (10% buffer) this makes 21 XMR (0.07 * 100 * 3).