Thanks for the kind words
To answer a few points that were made above:
I committed to a low enough number of hours that I felt comfortable with. It's difficult to be confident I won't burn out in two years, for instance (the original request was looking for a full time coder for two years). When that committed time has been spent working on monero, I will know whether I can commit to more. Pretty likely, but I want to be conservative here.
I was surprised to see none of the current core team people step up on that offer. However, someone (can't recall who) had mentioned maybe nobody wanted to be the guinea pig for this. Maybe one of more of them will in the future. Since there's no infinite supply of monero, they'd take precedence if they wanted to have a go at it.
While predicting the future is difficult at best, I expect that when those committed hours are spent, I will continue hacking on monero in my spare time anyway, just not as much.
I had a large chunk of free time recently, and I could devote a large part of the last few days to Monero. I'd originally picked a guideline of 10 hours a week on average as something I felt was doable, but it looks like I'll be done before the six months guideline.
