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title: 'Itemized proposed spend for RustcContributor::new and ::grow programs.'

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# Itemized proposed spend for RustcContributor::new and ::grow programs.


### RustcContributor::new
- 3 to 4 mentors
- ~~1 program manager~~
- 30ish participants in each cohort
- occurs 2x per year, Spring & Fall
- pernos.co accounts for each @$600/yr**
- total possible coins for a year*

| Program  | Zoom mo/yr | Pernos.co | Compute | Coins | Total /yr. |
| -------- | ---------- | --------  | --------| ----- | ---------- |
| ::new    |  $45/$540  | $1200     | unknown | $530  | $2270      |

### RustcContributor::grow
- 1 instructor/mentor
- ~~1 program manager~~
- 20ish participants
- occurs 5x per year
- pernos.co accounts for instructors and me @$600/yr**

| Program  | Zoom mo/yr  | Pernos.co | Compute | Coins | Total /yr. |
| -------- | ----------- | --------- | --------| ----- | ---------- |
| ::grow   |   $30/$360  | $2400**   | unknown | $530  | $3290      |



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``*`` Combining purchase of coins for ::new and ::grow might drop the total cost
Coin Vendor
https://www.gs-jj.com/challenge-coins/Custom-Challenge-Coins

| Qty (pc)   |  1.5''   |   2''    |  2.5''   |   3''    |
| --------   | -------- | -------- | -------- | -------- |
| 50 to 99   | $4.03    | $4.83    | $6.04    | $7.62    |
| 100 to 299 | $2.47    | $2.94    | $4.11    | $5.29    |
| 300 to 399 | $2.10    | $2.56    | $3.29    | $5.20    |



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``**`` Following a discussion with Felix Klock, I discovered that I misunderstood two key pieces of information in determining the cost of persnos.co. First, I was mistaken about the pricing model. Second and more importantly, I didn't consider the structure of accounts in the Foundation's compute infrastructure. Instructors can be setup with Admin rights over cohort members accounts and therefore submit ```rr``` traces to pernos.co on behalf of students. So the accounts capable of submitting an unlimited uploads to pernos.co need only be held by instructors and me. This new understanding or the pricing model and the compute account structure is reflected in these new totals. This compute account structure was validated with Oli as they are setting up the compute accounts at AWS.











