Digital Editor, Mars Review of Books

Digital Editor for the Mars Review of Books

March 10, 2022

Reward: $4,500 USD

ID: B0115

Grantee(s): ~randem-wishes

Champion(s): ~librex-dozryc

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Overview

The Mars Review of Books is a magazine in print and on Urbit. The first issue will be published in early May. The second issue will be published in September.

Responsibilities

The Digital Editor will be responsible for:

  • Managing the star on which the Review will be hosted, ensuring uptime, and ensuring it projects onto the legacy internet through Studio

  • Onboarding contributors and readers of the the magazine (planets will be provided)

  • Acting as web manager for the clearweb site

  • Formatting the text of the magazine for Urbit's notebooks, and working with an in-house designer to translate that text smoothly into an Adobe InDesign file, which will then be handed off to the printers of the print magazine

  • Listing and overseeing the sale of NFT art produced by the magazine's in-house cartoonist

  • Aiding with community management

Compensation

$1500 per month for three months of work, with possibility of extension and increased compensation after the initial period of three months.

Month 1 deliverable: Mars Review group is successfully hosted on Urbit and contributors are onboarded

Month 2 deliverable: Mars Review is published on Urbit, and successfully project onto clearweb through Studio. Articles are successfully passed off to print designer for publication. NFTs are listed.

Month 3: Mars Review group remains active, online. In this month the digital editor will move more toward a role of community management.

In general, this bounty is probably best thought of as a 10-hour-a-week freelance job, in which the above tasks, and other unknown but related tasks, will come up and require attention form the Digital Editor as necessary.