Revuo Monero maintenance (2024 Q3)

What

I will maintain Revuo Monero (https://www.revuo-xmr.com/) for the next 3 months (2024 Q3): July, August and September. There is a chance I may skip one week to tend to real life issues, in such case, next issue will just cover 2 weeks instead of 1.

Tasks:

• Daily/weekly: search, curate, structure and post new reports/stories.
• 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.)

Who

rottenwheel, I joined the Monero community some time in 2017 by jumping into IRC, attending some Workgroup meetings, volunteering at the Monero village at DEFCON 28 in 2019 (https://redlib.zaggy.nl/r/Monero/comments/cqegma/monero_village_defcon_2019_report/), participating in community events and being involved with other community-driven, smaller projects.

As a proof of work for this specific proposal, I have, since January 2022 until now, written almost 200 issues, 195 of which were published in current Revuo's self-hosted website. That does not take into account the following enhancements.

Up to this point, all efforts behind Revuo Monero's comeback after Diego "rehrar" Salazar was let go and Revuo Monero's publication was paused for a few months, include but are not limited to:

• Light/dark theme with a toggle button (mostly in CSS/HTML, minimizing the reliance in JavaScript as much as possible; site loads everything just fine in Tor browser with strict security mode on.)
• Hidden service (.onion) and I2P mirrors.
• Support and Source Code sections added.
• RSS and Support icons.
• Google fonts removed.
• Twitter and Nostr profiles set up and posting new issues every week automatically. Twitter: https://nitter.poast.org/revuoxmr; Nostr: https://primal.net/p/npub1tn8spk9zhxrctg2qym3gj8r7eq2wk6z3phrl8304wc54vt9qam4qvzw6jx

Proposal

I will publish weekly issues (4 per month) at a rate of $100 / issue. At $157.5 / XMR this makes 8 XMR (~7.6++) (100 * 4 * 3 = $1200) to be split in 3 monthly milestones. Rounding current 7.6++ XMR to 8 XMR to cover for price votatility between Work In Progress phase and progressive milestone(s) payouts.

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I think objective and trustworthy news resources like the Revuo and the Observer are very important for the community and it'd be sad to see them disappear due to lack of support.

Revuo is a very useful tool to keep up to date with the latest news in the monero community. It is concise, minimalist and elegantly structured. We appreciate the work developed by @rottenwheel and his permanent effort to improve the publication. For all these reasons I consider the proposed funding useful and desirable and I give my vote in favor.

I wanted to give this the benefit of the doubt, but I am giving it a thumbs down now. I voiced my concerns in the Monero community matrix channel. He does not respond constructively and just adds smiley reactions to my comments. https://libera.monerologs.net/monero-community/20240618#c387604

I find the proposal reasonable and sound. I appreciate the proof of work established as well as the clear and concise explanation of how the funds raised will be used. I think it's highly important to the community to continue to support high quality news publications. Objectively and subjectively, I see no reason why this proposal should not be passed.

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Requesting payment of milestone 1 of this project for the month of July and its agreed upon 4 (5 in reality) published issues found at revuo-xmr.com, 201-205.

XMR address will be sent to plowsof. Thanks.

Requesting payment of milestone 2 of this project for the month of August and its agreed upon published issues found at revuo-xmr.com, 206-208.

XMR address sent to luigi1111 and plowsof. Thanks.

Requesting payment of milestone 3 of this project for the month of August and its agreed upon published issues found at revuo-xmr.com, 209-211.

XMR address sent to luigi1111 and plowsof. Can be marked as finished/completed task afterwards.

Thanks.

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