escapethe3RA Monero Observer maintenance (2023 Q4)
What
I will continue to maintain Monero Observer (https://monero.observer) for the next 3 months (2023 Q4): October, November and December.
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
- 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, 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 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 1926 x daily MO stories/reports (https://monero.observer/stories)
- published 960 x on demand MO Community Messages (https://.monero.observer/tag/community)
- published 22 x monthly MO Blitz reports (https://monero.observer/tag/blitz)
- published 67 x weekly Monero Dev Activity Reports (https://monero.observer/tag/dev)
- published 56 x weekly MO XMR TA reports (https://monero.observer/tag/analysis)
- published 72 x weekly MO Artistic Saturday Top 5 Reports (https://monero.observer/tag/art)
- published 21 x on demand Monero Workgroup Meeting Log Summaries & uploaded 100 meeting logs to MO (https://monero.observer/tag/logs/)
- published 16 x on demand MO Cypherpunk Transmission reports (https://monero.observer/tag/CT)
- added 295 x on demand MO Resources (https://monero.observer/resources)
- 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 MO Community Messages, Monero Dev Activity Report, XMR TA Report, MO Artistic Saturday, and Cypherpunk Transmission initiatives (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 MO XMR Stats section (https://monero.observer/stats/)
- added MO Resources section (https://monero.observer/resources/)
- added MO Calendar section (https://monero.observer/tag/calendar/)
- added MO Blacklist section (https://monero.observer/blacklist/)
- added multiple RSS feeds (https://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://monero.observer/changelog/)
Proposal
I will work for 25 hours per week over 3 months at a rate of 0.13 XMR / hour. At $150 / XMR (21 daily EMA) this makes 39 XMR (0.13 * 100 * 3).
Merge request reports
Activity
Community meeting to discuss CCS proposals will be tomorrow https://github.com/monero-project/meta/issues/906
Monero observer has hit the ground running after returning from vacation and has already been pumping out news stories at full capacity for week(s) now. A warm welcome! Moving forward, my only concern is for your well-being, hopefully we can avoid long-term exhaustion this time around. Wishing you continued success!
October 2023 Update (M1)
Here's an overview of my work for the past month:
- MO reports: +92
- MO Community Messages: +55 (https://www.monero.observer/tag/community)
- MO Calendar events: +18 (https://www.monero.observer/tag/calendar)
- MO Resources: +10/-2 (https://monero.observer/resources/)
- MO Blacklist: +1 (https://monero.observer/blacklist/)
- Monero Dev Activity Reports: +5 (Weeks: 39-43: https://www.monero.observer/tag/dev/)
- MO Artistic Saturday Top 5 reports: +4 (Weeks: 40-43: https://www.monero.observer/tag/art)
- Meeting Logs & Summary Reports: +13 Logs, +2 Summaries (https://monero.observer/meeting-log-summary-monero-research-lab-meeting-4-october-2023/, https://monero.observer/meeting-log-summary-seraphis-wallet-workgroup-meeting-9-october-2023/)
- added new stat to menu bar (Monero latest version), updated PGP key (expiration date), minor layout fixes
All other modifications are on the Changelog page (https://monero.observer/changelog).
Edited by escapethe3RAmentioned in commit 8e326085
November/December 2023 Update (M2+3)
Here's an overview of my work for the past 2 months:
- MO reports: +110
- MO Community Messages: +70 (https://www.monero.observer/tag/community)
- MO Calendar events: +29 (https://www.monero.observer/tag/calendar)
- MO Resources: +3 (https://monero.observer/resources/)
- MO Blacklist: +1 (https://monero.observer/blacklist/)
- MO Blitz reports: +2 (https://monero.observer/monero-observer-blitz-november-2023/, https://monero.observer/monero-observer-blitz-december-2023/)
- Monero Dev Activity Reports: +9 (Weeks: 44-52: https://www.monero.observer/tag/dev/)
- MO Artistic Saturday Top 5 reports: +9 (Weeks: 44-52: https://www.monero.observer/tag/art)
- Meeting Logs & Summary Reports: +28 Logs, +1 Summary (https://monero.observer/meeting-log-summary-monero-community-workgroup-meeting-11-november-2023/)
- published CT-017: Rethinking the Monero CCS: A cypherpunk proposal (https://monero.observer/cypherpunk-transmission-017-rethinking-monero-ccs-cypherpunk-proposal/)
- added new Meeting Summaries RSS feed (https://monero.observer/monero-observer-meeting-summaries-rss-feed), new community message type ([LFF] - Looking for Funding), minor CSS fixes
All other modifications are on the Changelog page (https://monero.observer/changelog).
Edited by escapethe3RA