Yes, the proposal of $30/hour work is for compensating long term volunteering developers for work that they are going to do from August 1st and up to 6 months from then. Rob will most likely be the one that approves the final payouts and if the work submitted are in fact resonable for the requested time.

Writing a paper for a theoretical way of implementing something to Gridcoin is not what I think is worth this. @dangermouse77 hasn't done any work prior for the Gridcoin community and hasn't shown what he's capable of, unlike the developers that has been working without payment for several months.

If he submits this theory to the community I think it could be possible to give out some kind of compensation after the implementation of it to the code, if it's something worth adding.

Besides, adding this "GPU" program to Gridcoin will only improve @dangermouse77's program, so he will be the one that benefits from this deal, being able to tap in to the many users that runs Gridcoin.