GM 6.1 : gm.studio core dev.fund (3/23/22-4/23/22)

Author:

Ze_Boubs

Proposal date:

March 23, 2022

Summary:

One-month retainer to fund studio costs (3/23/22-4/23/22)

For background, please see funding proposal for last month.

Specific goals for the next month:

• Implement contract/web features to support the next confirmed drop 🙌
• Implement better metrics and monitoring so that we can ensure the services are functioning correctly.
• Implement gallery and collection overview pages

Things which we’re specifically not targeting due to time constraints:

• Changes to the current submission process

The funding for the team for last month is unchanged. However, we will request less money for our contractor fund, as we still have remaining funds from last month.

Existing structure is funding for 1 lead (Willyham), 1 contract dev (cxkoda) and 1 web dev (bhosh) on a part-time basis. This month, we will also add Coelacanth for 15 hours total (not weekly), to provide contract development, review, and audits.

Willyham: ~20 hours per week

Bhosh: ~10 hours per week

cxkoda: ~10 hours per week

Coelacanth: 15 hours total

We are also proposing funding to compensate devs specifically for the "crunch" time around a drop (we learnt from last time that devs need to be online pretty much all weekend to deal with issues as they arise).

Breakdown of costs :

• Core team (salary based on the outlined hours at the rate of 100$/hour): ~6.5 ETH

• Drop fund (crunch time around the drop): 1.5 ETH

• Contractor fund (one time contributors): 0 ETH - We previously asked for 2 ETH and have only allocated 0.5. We do not expect to exceed the remaining 1.5 ETH this month.

• Operations and deployment (infrastructure and smart contract deployment): 0.5 ETH - Note, gas prices are currently low, but we’d rather request the amount which we’ve needed in the past to avoid falling short. We may not need another request for this in the next proposal if we have enough spare.

• Total request: 8.5 ETH, sent to the studio multisig: https://etherscan.io/address/0x16485319Aa0aD7a4E68176FBaadA235c92ACae2E

Unspent funds leaning in Studio multisig: 2 ETH

Sponsors:

Ze_Boubs, cxkoda, willyham