Re: SPI credit cards for regular billing, specifically AWS costs

2018-03-17 Thread Hilmar Lapp
> On Feb 15, 2018, at 10:04 AM, Michael Schultheiss > wrote: > >> What would be ideal from our point of view as an >> SPI member project, would be to have use of an >> SPI credit card for our AWS billing. >> >> This would likely also reduce the burden on the SPI >> treasurer by avoiding the cu

Re: SPI credit cards for regular billing, specifically AWS costs

2018-02-26 Thread Matthew Ahrens
On Thu, Feb 15, 2018 at 8:51 AM, Peter Cock wrote: > Does this mean none of the other SPI projects currently pay for > AWS at the moment? > > OpenZFS also uses AWS, it would be great to be able to bill directly with SPI rather than doing receipts / reimbursement. --matt _

Re: SPI credit cards for regular billing, specifically AWS costs

2018-02-24 Thread Neil McGovern
On Thu, Feb 15, 2018 at 04:51:03PM +, Peter Cock wrote: > If anyone has recently been successful in received AWS credits > for running infrastructure for a non-profit or open source project, > I'd be interested to learn more. > I've recently done this for the GNOME Foundation, it's fairly str

Re: SPI credit cards for regular billing, specifically AWS costs

2018-02-16 Thread Wichert Akkerman
> On 16 Feb 2018, at 14:58, Philip Balister wrote: > > On 02/16/2018 08:48 AM, Peter Cock wrote: >> On Fri, Feb 16, 2018 at 1:37 PM, Martin Michlmayr wrote: >>> * Peter Cock [2018-02-15 16:51]: Does this mean none of the other SPI projects currently pay for AWS at the moment? >>> >

Re: SPI credit cards for regular billing, specifically AWS costs

2018-02-16 Thread Philip Balister
On 02/16/2018 08:48 AM, Peter Cock wrote: > On Fri, Feb 16, 2018 at 1:37 PM, Martin Michlmayr wrote: >> * Peter Cock [2018-02-15 16:51]: >>> Does this mean none of the other SPI projects currently pay for >>> AWS at the moment? >> >> I'm not aware of any. >> > > Thank you Martin, > > That is us

Re: SPI credit cards for regular billing, specifically AWS costs

2018-02-16 Thread Peter Cock
On Fri, Feb 16, 2018 at 1:37 PM, Martin Michlmayr wrote: > * Peter Cock [2018-02-15 16:51]: >> Does this mean none of the other SPI projects currently pay for >> AWS at the moment? > > I'm not aware of any. > Thank you Martin, That is useful to know, even if not the answer I was hoping for. Pe

Re: SPI credit cards for regular billing, specifically AWS costs

2018-02-16 Thread Martin Michlmayr
* Peter Cock [2018-02-15 16:51]: > Does this mean none of the other SPI projects currently pay for > AWS at the moment? I'm not aware of any. -- Martin Michlmayr http://www.cyrius.com/ ___ Spi-general mailing list Spi-general@lists.spi-inc.org http://

Re: SPI credit cards for regular billing, specifically AWS costs

2018-02-15 Thread Peter Cock
On Thu, Feb 15, 2018 at 3:13 PM, Martin Michlmayr wrote: > * Peter Cock [2018-02-07 09:59]: >> Are any of the other SPI projects in a similar position with AWS >> billing? > > BTW, another SPI project applied received $5000/year Azure credits > through Microsoft for Nonprofits recently. (Although

Re: SPI credit cards for regular billing, specifically AWS costs

2018-02-15 Thread Martin Michlmayr
* Peter Cock [2018-02-07 09:59]: > Are any of the other SPI projects in a similar position with AWS > billing? BTW, another SPI project applied received $5000/year Azure credits through Microsoft for Nonprofits recently. (Although looking at the web site now, I think it's $5000 per legal org so a

Re: SPI credit cards for regular billing, specifically AWS costs

2018-02-15 Thread Michael Schultheiss
Peter Cock wrote: > Dear SPI, > > I am the current treasurer and SPI liaison for the > Open Bioinformatics Foundation. One of our major > ongoing costs is hosting fees for the Amazon cloud > computing platform (Amazon web services, AWS), > where we currently run several servers including > our own

SPI credit cards for regular billing, specifically AWS costs

2018-02-07 Thread Peter Cock
Dear SPI, I am the current treasurer and SPI liaison for the Open Bioinformatics Foundation. One of our major ongoing costs is hosting fees for the Amazon cloud computing platform (Amazon web services, AWS), where we currently run several servers including our own mailman instance. Paying for AWS