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

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layout: cp
title: escapethe3RA Monero Observer maintenance (Spring 2022)
author: escapethe3RA
date: February 26, 2022
amount: 27
milestones:
  - name: March
    funds: 9
    done: 31 March 2022
    status: finished
  - name: April
    funds: 9
    done: 30 April 2022
    status: finished
  - name: May
    funds: 9
    done: 31 May 2022
    status: finished
payouts:
  - date: 17 April 2022
    amount: 9
  - date: 19 May 2022
    amount: 9
  - date: 29 June 2022
    amount: 9
---

# What

I will continue to maintain *Monero Observer* (https://monero.observer) for the next 3 months (spring 2022): March, April and May.

Tasks:

- Daily: search, curate, structure and post new reports/stories
- 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*
- 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/bonus: add new features, improvements and website sections

# Who

escapethe3RA, I have started contributing to the Monero ecosystem in August 2021 with Monero Observer and other smaller projects:

- published 658 x MO stories/reports (https://www.monero.observer/stories)
- published 24 x MO XMR TA reports (https://www.monero.observer/tag/analysis)
- published 6 x MO Blitz reports (https://www.monero.observer/tag/blitz)
- published 150 x MO Community Messages (https://www.monero.observer/tag/community)
- published 5 x MO Artistic Saturday Top 5 Reports (https://www.monero.observer/tag/art)
- 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/)
- added a MO Calendar section (https://www.monero.observer/tag/calendar)
- started MO Community Messages and MO Artistic Saturday initiatives (https://www.monero.observer/tag/community, https://www.monero.observer/tag/art)
- added a MO Resources section (https://www.monero.observer/resources)
- added multiple RSS feeds (https://www.monero.observer/rss)
- other project improvements (https://www.monero.observer/changelog)
 
# Proposal

Work for 25 hours per week over 3 months at a rate of 0.09 XMR / hour. At $160 / XMR (21 daily EMA) this makes 27 XMR (0.09 * 100 * 3).