Re: bits from the DPL for January 2012

[Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>]

On Sat, Feb 04, 2012 at 12:51:20PM +0100, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote:
> - We got from SPI a prepaid and rechargeable credit card that we can use
>   for expenses or other kind of guarantees. Many thanks to Michael
>   Schulteiss, SPI treasurer, for his help with that.  Using it, we've
>   redeemed 10k$ of credits offered to us by Amazon, that (thanks to
>   ongoing work by Lucas Nussbaum) we're going to use to make our QA
>   rebuilds independent from the underlying computing infrastructure.

For the benefit of other people or projects who might want to set up
such a thing, what mechanism did SPI use to obtain this card?

- Josh Triplett