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xiphon part-time coding

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xiphon-part-time-4.md

+---
+layout: fr
+title: xiphon part-time coding (3 months)
+author: xiphon
+date: 16 Apr 2020
+amount: 371
+milestones:
+  - name: May
+    funds: 33% (123 XMR)
+    done:
+    status: unfinished
+  - name: June
+    funds: 33% (123 XMR)
+    done:
+    status: unfinished
+  - name: July
+    funds: 33% (125 XMR)
+    done:
+    status: unfinished
+payouts:
+  - date:
+    amount:
+  - date:
+    amount:
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+    amount:
+---
+
+# What
+
+Would love to prolong my part time Monero coding for another 3 months.  
+
+There are some specific tasks i would like to work on first.
+
+* Add Socks5 support in Monero GUI Advanced mode (remote node only).  
+  Tails, Whonix or any system with restricted network access (through socks proxy).  
+* Portable mode for Monero GUI.  
+  USB stick with Monero GUI. Right now there is no way to quickly access your monero on another PC except manually copying the wallet files and installing Monero GUI there.  
+  Use Monero GUI without leaving a trace on the PC.  
+* Docker Monero GUI Linux static build. Includes finishing CMake integration first.  
+  Provides an easy way (it's literally a one step process) to build Monero GUI from sources.  
+  Also might be used for Monero GUI reproducible builds in the future.
+
+As usual will be working on Monero Core and Monero GUI code:
+* Inspecting and implementing ongoing feature requests
+* Submitting bug fixes
+* New functionality
+* Code review
+* Putting my efforts where it is appropriate
+
+# Who
+
+I'm Xiphon, active contributor to Monero Core and Monero GUI since July 2018.  
+
+My previous CCS proposals: 
+* https://repo.getmonero.org/monero-project/ccs-proposals/merge_requests/99
+* https://repo.getmonero.org/monero-project/ccs-proposals/merge_requests/55
+* https://repo.getmonero.org/monero-project/ccs-proposals/merge_requests/122
+
+During the recent 30h/week proposal i implemented:
+* Improved automatic public node selection algorithm used in Simple mode (`---bootstrap-daemon-address auto`)  
+  https://github.com/monero-project/monero/pull/6357  
+  Introduced a scoring system for automatically discovered public nodes, penalizing failing nodes and prioritizing the stable ones.  
+  Please see the linked Github pull request for technical details.  
+* Monero GUI one-click update downloading and verification  
+  https://github.com/monero-project/monero-gui/pull/2832  
+  https://github.com/monero-project/monero-gui/pull/2824  
+  https://github.com/monero-project/monero-gui/pull/2819  
+  Verifies update binary using `shasum`-compatible (SHA256 algo) output signed by two maintainers.  
+  Downloads both required files from getmonero.org:  
+  * `hashes.txt` - signed `shasum` output generated by a maintainer
+  * `hashes.txt.sig` - detached signature of `hashes.txt` generated by another maintainer
+
+  Hardcoded @binaryFate, @fluffypony, @luigi1111 public keys.  
+  Update verification requires using any 2 of them.
+* Reduced Monero daemon startup time *(Work in progress)*  
+  https://github.com/monero-project/monero/pull/6443  
+  https://github.com/monero-project/monero/pull/6468  
+  It takes quite a long time to just start the daemon, sometimes it takes up to ~90 seconds on my test machines.  
+  Plan to significantly reduce the daemon startup time.
+
+Submitted numerous bug fixes and improvements to both Monero GUI and Monero Core repositories.
+
+I strongly encourage you to visit the following Github links to see the amount of work done by me, its quality and importance for the Monero Project.
+
+Please check the following links to inspect my Monero-related activity:  
+- Monero Core - https://github.com/monero-project/monero/pulls?q=is%3Apr+author%3Axiphon
+- Monero GUI - https://github.com/monero-project/monero-gui/pulls?q=is%3Apr+author%3Axiphon
+
+# Proposal
+
+Looking forward to coding and accomplishing mentioned and ongoing tasks and issues. Implementing new code/functionality that will be needed. Investigating bug reports and submitting bug fixes, fixing build and compilations errors/warnings/etc. Would like to inspect and complete/fix/address issues and feature requests that are reasonably desired and/or worth to spend time on. Improving GUI, fixing UI/UX issues, implementing design changes.
+
+Dedicate 30 hours per week to Monero Project, at 55 USD/hour rate for a total of 371 XMR. XMR/USD rate is based on the 14-day moving average exponential on Kraken from 15 Apr 2020, which is approximately 53.40 XMR/USD.