On 31/10/11 at 16:51 -0400, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote: > [ Michael: look for "SPI" in the text; topic: do we have a Debian/SPI > credit card we could use? ] > > On Mon, Oct 31, 2011 at 10:11:28AM +0100, Lucas Nussbaum wrote: > > I can now confirm that we were awarded $10,000 from Amazon, to use on > > AWS. (Many thanks to everyone who made it possible!) > > Great! Have you asked if they want us to advertise this kind offer in > any way? (blog post, press release, etc.) We clearly should acknowledge > this publicly, and we might take that as a chance to attract volunteers > interesting in working on the code part.
I've been asked to write a blog post (on my personal blog) about how we use AWS for those QA tests. Of course, a pointer to that blog in DPN would be nice, but I have not been asked for it or more. I think that it's probably better to wait until we have actually done someone on AWS to announce this (it would also maximize the impact). Regarding recruiting volunteers, as I wrote, I'm OK with doing it myself since I'm also interested in learning more about cloud infrastructures from a profesional POV. > > Regarding the account set-up on Amazon AWS, I propose to use a > > cl...@qa.debian.org email alias, so that I'm out of the critical path > > (bus factor, etc). > > Full ACK. Please request also a mail archive for it readable to the > group "qa". OK > (I'm assuming here that on the mail account might transit > sensitive information; if it's not the case, that alias could also > simply redirect to debian-qa@lists.d.o.) I think that a private mail alias+archive is enough: - there could be messages such as password resets, etc. - the email will also receive some announcements about new AWS services, which could probably be considered to be SPAM. > I'd have no problem in providing such a statement. *But* I don't think > we should eagerly risk "wasting" Debian money this way. It would be nice > to ask our Amazon contacts if they can configure the account so that it > automatically stops at the 10'000$ thresholds. I'm sure they'll > understand this need of ours. I've just asked. Lucas -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-qa-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20111101072037.ga25...@xanadu.blop.info
