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