I find a ton of value in the OHwA and DSC content and maintaining a strong community presence outside of the forum and rocketchat. To suggest that anybody can do what arbitrage does hosting a livestream (attracting an audience, asking the right questions, keeping the conversation going, preparing guests, scheduling, etc) is just plain wrong. It also seems fair to assume that Numerai is no longer funding this with the expectation that the CoE would end up doing it. I’ve also been wondering how many social media content proposals should be supported by CoE, but this does gets a vote from me to get funded, contingent on the conversation of pricing that I feel needs to continue.
As I just posted in the proposal for Signals development & streams, the decision about how much to pay does matter. At this requested amount for the year, it consumes close to half (?) of the current treasury. This might unfortunately be the proposal that acts as the test grounds for how we determine a fair price to pay and how we logistically go about doing that. In that Signals content thread, I suggested somewhere between $40/hr - $60/hr marked to market at time of funding and paid post-hoc (whether on a bi-weekly or monthly basis) would be fair. I also feel the need to add that there is no intention here to “convert human beings into commodities.”
Lastly, it may make sense to separate the proposals between OHwA and DSC since I do think they’re fairly different.