# Partner with ETH Bucharest 2025 - Eastern Europe’s Leading Ethereum Conference and Hackathon **URL:** \ **Category:** Finalized AIPs\ **Tags:** proposal, proposal-discussions\ **Created:** [November 22, 2024, 3:10am UTC](https://forum.arbitrum.foundation/t/partner-with-eth-bucharest-2025-eastern-europe-s-leading-ethereum-conference-and-hackathon/27606 "2024-11-22T03:10:14Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 168
**Author:** ![JoJo](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex029/user_avatar/forum.arbitrum.foundation/jojo/32/2666_2.png) [@JoJo](https://forum.arbitrum.foundation/u/JoJo)\ **Post date:** [January 29, 2025, 6:19pm UTC](https://forum.arbitrum.foundation/t/partner-with-eth-bucharest-2025-eastern-europe-s-leading-ethereum-conference-and-hackathon/27606/168 "2025-01-29T18:19:42Z")
> [@paulofonseca](#): > > this wasn’t paid yet? > > the proposal passed 6 weeks ago. > > even accounting for the 2 weeks of holiday break, that’s 4 weeks of wait time for a service provider to get paid. > > the point of this new process for the Events Budget was for service providers to be paid faster so that they can execute their services on time, without having to go through an onchain vote. > > In this case, an onchain vote would have been way faster. > > We need to pay attention to these things and we need to do better. The DAO is spending a quarter of a million dollars a year to pay people to sign transactions on multisigs. We need to do way better than 6 weeks lead time to pay people. Ehy paulo gm. The organizers only completed the kyb process today, and only today we received green light from the foundation from a compliance standpoint. That said, we are onto this to have it resolved in the fastest way possible. --- _[View the full topic](https://forum.arbitrum.foundation/t/partner-with-eth-bucharest-2025-eastern-europe-s-leading-ethereum-conference-and-hackathon/27606)._