Initial 36c3 supplies request proposal
What up guys? It's rehrar with another CCS proposal, but this time it's not about me. We're talking about the big C3 conference.
For those who don't know, the Chaos Communication Congress is the biggest hacker convention in Europe. Monero has had a presence there for the past several years, with last year being the pinnacle. The Monero ecosystem teamed up with RIAT to put on the Critical Decentralisation Cluster (CDC). A cluster is similar to a village in Defcon, which is just a space outlined for a group of likeminded people where they can control their own content beyond that of the conference proper.
Last year, the CDC was a major success, with our cluster being one of only three available stages where talks took place, as well as hosting several smaller FOSS and FOSS-friendly projects. Check out https://decentral.community to see who was present (but hurry, this site will be updated with new info soon). My (rehrar) summary of last year's conference can be found here.
For the past several weeks, the community has started to come together again, as the CDC is confirmed to return this year. We've had meeting in the #monero-ccc IRC channel, we've set up a project on Monero's Taiga instance, and are working out volunteers, budgeting, and other information of spreadsheets.
It's come time to start to raise money for this effort, and we've decided to do it in a somewhat interesting way. Last year, there were a few businesses and organizations that donated a LOT of money to make the cluster happen. These same organizations (and more) seem to want to help again this year, but we would like them to do it as a part of the Monero community via the CCS.
One of Monero's biggest strengths (and the reason we are the only named non-Bitcoin cryptocurrency presence at the conference, similar to Defcon) is our grassroots nature. We want the Monero community to help make this happen. All individuals and sponsors will be pointed to the CCS to make this year's cluster a reality.
I cannot stress enough just how important this is. Monero is beginning to solidify itself in these hacker ethos spaces, and one day in the future we will be a known, common, and perhaps even necessary fixture in it (as most of us already believe we are).
We are asking for 560 XMR to make this happen. Our budget can be viewed on this Google Sheet. (yeah yeah, google. Save the flak. We're working on it.) WARNING! Because it is Google, use a private or incognito window to open it unless you don't mind a Google related identity leaking.
The 560 XMR was reached by rounding up the 27,455.26 Euros displayed in the sheet to 28,000 (as a practical buffer), and converting on a price point of 55.34EUR/XMR (Kraken at time of writing) leading to 505.963136971449 XMR. Lastly, we add a 10% price buffer and round to the nearest 10 for 560.
We are requesting that this XMR be released immediately to a 2/3 multisig wallet, whose keys will be held by Matthias (parasew), myself, and the last held by binaryFate. This is so any large, but time sensitive purchases can be made quickly, and without continual pestering of the Core Team.
Any questions or concerns can be raised on this MR, or at our weekly C3 meetings.
Thanks everyone. I hope we can all make this happen!
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Hey everyone, Great to be again at the conference. I support this proposal. This brings a lot of good things to monero and the community. Amazing work you all have been doing keep it up. I have been studying and my time has extremely reduced in the community but I'm here with you guys supporting and I know I will be back soon.
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Hello everyone, sorry for the extreme lateness of the update. We are requesting the immediate release of the last payout.
The invoices for 36C3 were submitted to Plowsof and Core for approval. There's been no issue taken with what we've submitted.
36C3 was obviously a big success. We have a big playlist that includes the livestreams and each individual talk on the Monero Community YouTube channel which can be found here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xu_QH6oi7oA&list=PLsSYUeVwrHBn07zTBg7fGHRW5Kn_Z3FJL
As many of you are aware, C3 has not been an in-person conference since 2019 due to covid, and this (2023) is the first year that it will be held in-person again. The eagle-eyed among you may have seen that the price of XMR has tripled since the request was opened. You will be pleased to know that the excess money doesn't go to reimbursement for 2019 expenses will be going directly to fund the Critical Decentralisation Cluster for 37C3! That's right, we're going back this year. Hope to see you all there.
I support the left over funds (after the 23005.12EUR is settled) being used for this new event. My only ask is that invoices are provided to show what these CCS funds would be paying for.
My understanding of this proposal is that some expenses where known/estimated, then 50% was handed over upfront. invoices have been provided for the outstanding amounts and will be paid eventually.
Feels logical to me to do the same again, OR, if there are large invoices covering 100% of the remaining funds already e.g. Venue cost, then 100% upfront would make sense. The events team would ideally sign off on this. (who hold meetings every(?) Saturday).
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