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escapethe3RA Monero Observer maintenance (Winter 2022)

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+title: escapethe3RA Monero Observer maintenance (Winter 2022)
+author: escapethe3RA
+date: Nov 29, 2022
+amount: 39
+milestones:
+  - name: December
+    funds: 13
+    done:
+    status: unfinished
+  - name: January
+    funds: 13
+    done:
+    status: unfinished
+  - name: February
+    funds: 13
+    done:
+    status: unfinished
+payouts:
+  - date:
+    amount:
+  - date:
+    amount:
+  - date:
+    amount:
+---
+
+# What
+
+I will continue to maintain *Monero Observer* (https://monero.observer) for the next 3 months (winter 2022/23): December, January and February.
+
+Tasks:
+
+- Daily: search, curate, structure and post new reports/stories
+- Daily: update reports, stats, changelog, version control
+- 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*
+- (Bi)Weekly (Monday): 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 1494 x daily MO stories/reports (https://monero.observer/stories)
+- published 608 x on demand MO Community Messages (https://.monero.observer/tag/community)
+- published 15 x monthly MO Blitz reports (https://monero.observer/tag/blitz)
+- published 7 x weekly MO Cypherpunk Transmission reports (https://monero.observer/tag/CT)
+- published 39 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 44 x weekly MO Artistic Saturday Top 5 Reports (https://monero.observer/tag/art)
+- published 12 x on demand Monero Workgroup Meeting Log Summaries & uploaded 57 meeting logs to MO (https://monero.observer/tag/logs/)
+- added 231 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 $135 / XMR (21 daily EMA) this makes 39 XMR (0.13 * 100 * 3).