Term: 1 January 2023 - 31 March 2023

This Treasury Proposal is an extension of our current maintenance & support contract with the Polkadot Ecosystem. The extension of the maintenance & support contract covers term: 1 January 2023 until 31 March 2023.

* [Current report that account for maintenance & support contract activities](https://github.com/polkascan/social-contract/blob/master/polkadot/treasury-proposal-008-report-2023Q1.md)

[Polkascan Foundation](https://polkascan.org) is a not-for-profit infrastructure service provider and maintainer of Polkadot ecosystem open source software, such as the Polkascan Explorer and Python libraries. The Python libraries were initially funded by Web3 Foundation grants, they have a generalized nature, suitable for adoption by any Python-based project in the broader Polkadot ecosystem. 

At the time of writing [213 Github repositories](https://github.com/polkascan/py-substrate-interface/network/dependents?package_id=UGFja2FnZS04OTc2NTczNTM%3D) are depending on our libraries.


Previous activity reports can be found here:

* [October 2020](https://github.com/polkascan/social-contract/blob/master/polkadot/treasury-proposal-008-report-202010.md)
* [November 2020](https://github.com/polkascan/social-contract/blob/master/polkadot/treasury-proposal-008-report-202011.md)
* [December 2020](https://github.com/polkascan/social-contract/blob/master/polkadot/treasury-proposal-008-report-202012.md)
* [January 2021](https://github.com/polkascan/social-contract/blob/master/polkadot/treasury-proposal-008-report-202101.md)
* [February 2021](https://github.com/polkascan/social-contract/blob/master/polkadot/treasury-proposal-008-report-202102.md)
* [March 2021](https://github.com/polkascan/social-contract/blob/master/polkadot/treasury-proposal-008-report-202103.md)
* [April 2021](https://github.com/polkascan/social-contract/blob/master/polkadot/treasury-proposal-008-report-202104.md)
* [May 2021](https://github.com/polkascan/social-contract/blob/master/polkadot/treasury-proposal-008-report-202105.md)
* [June 2021](https://github.com/polkascan/social-contract/blob/master/polkadot/treasury-proposal-008-report-202106.md)
* [July 2021](https://github.com/polkascan/social-contract/blob/master/polkadot/treasury-proposal-008-report-202107.md)
* [August 2021](https://github.com/polkascan/social-contract/blob/master/polkadot/treasury-proposal-008-report-202108.md)
* [September 2021](https://github.com/polkascan/social-contract/blob/master/polkadot/treasury-proposal-008-report-202109.md)
* [Quarter 4 2021](https://github.com/polkascan/social-contract/blob/master/polkadot/treasury-proposal-008-report-2021Q4.md)
* [Quarter 1 2022](https://github.com/polkascan/social-contract/blob/master/polkadot/treasury-proposal-008-report-2022Q1.md)
* [Quarter 2 2022](https://github.com/polkascan/social-contract/blob/master/polkadot/treasury-proposal-008-report-2022Q2.md)
* [Quarter 3 2022](https://github.com/polkascan/social-contract/blob/master/polkadot/treasury-proposal-008-report-2022Q3.md)
* [Quarter 4 2022](https://github.com/polkascan/social-contract/blob/master/polkadot/treasury-proposal-008-report-2022Q4.md)
* [Quarter 1 2023](https://github.com/polkascan/social-contract/blob/master/polkadot/treasury-proposal-008-report-2023Q1.md)

Links and further details:

* [The Social Contract Mechanism](https://github.com/polkascan/social-contract/blob/master/README.md)
* [The Social Contract for Maintenance & Support of Python Libraries](https://github.com/polkascan/social-contract/blob/master/polkadot/social-contract-002.md)
* [Business Plan](https://polkascan.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/Business-Plan-Polkascan-Foundation-v20220218.1030.pdf)

We will be available to answer the Polkadot Council's questions.

Approve a proposal. At a later time, the proposal will be allocated to the beneficiary
and the original deposit will be returned.

May only be called from `T::ApproveOrigin`.

# <weight>
- Complexity: O(1).
- DbReads: `Proposals`, `Approvals`
- DbWrite: `Approvals`
# </weight>

:

- This Treasury Proposal is an extension of the maintenance & support contract with the Polkadot Ecosystem for the term of 1 January 2023 until 31 March 2023.
- Polkascan Foundation is an open source software provider for the Polkadot ecosystem.
- 213 Github repositories are depending on the Python libraries.
- Previous activity reports can be found on Github.
- Business plan available on Polkascan website.
- Questions can be directed to Polkadot Council.

#409 Continuation of Maintenance & Support for Python Libraries