GM 33.1: gm.studio dev.fund August and September

Author:

Defi Beats

Proposal date:

September 15 2022

Summary:

Paying the gm.studio dev.fund for August (retroactive) and September. A full 6 month proposal will follow this one to encompass October - March

What has been completed in this period:

• Twitter sales bot support for new contracts
• Catharsis contract, config, landing page, etc.
• Processing renderer and infrastructure
• New captcha/anti-bot system

What is still to do in this period:

• Live rendering engine
• Provide videos of Catharsis renders
• Integrate Catharsis explorer tool into page

Core team salaries

Moving forward, core team salaries will be denominated in USDC at the following rates:

• Senior Developer = $125/hr
• Junior Developer = $65/hr

Willyham (senior) : 10 hours/week = 40 hours = 5,000 USDC Bhish (senior): 10 hours/week = 40 hours = 5,000 USDC cxkoda(senior): = 5 hours/week = 20 hours = 2,500 USDC

Funding for infrastructure costs, promotions, carbon offsetting, deployments, dev tooling = 1,000 USDC month

INFRA COST BREAKDOWN

| Component | August | September (est) | | --- | --- | --- | | AWS | 258.43 | 410 | | Heroku | 189 | 300 | | PlanetScale | 29 | 29 | | GitHub | 64 | 64 | | Pinata | 53 | 50 | | Carbon offset | 1000 | 1000 |

ONE OFF CHARGES

(August) Lewis building out the processing renderer = 1,400 USDC

(September) Butler - Motion Graphics Animation Work for Catharsis = $4,770 USDC

TOTALS

August = 14,900 USDC

September = 18,270 USDC

Total Payout = 33,170 USDC

Sponsors:

Defi Beats, Willyham