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["Francis J. Lacoste" <francis.lacoste@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On February 24, 2010, Brad Crittenden wrote:
> On Feb 24, 2010, at 11:34 , Julian Edwards wrote:
> > On Wednesday 24 February 2010 16:21:55 Brad Crittenden wrote:
> >> Aaron you have access to ec2 but you choose not to use it.  Hopefully
> >> your objections will be addressed if we can begin to utilize the shared
> >> billing Amazon now offers or move our testing to an internal cloud. 
> >> Until then you'll either have to use your own resources or refuse to
> >> land branches for our community contributors.
> > 
> > One of the reasons that I don't use ec2 myself is because I don't want to
> > run up routine expenses that I have the hassle of claiming every month.
> 
> It's a trivial point, but one way I handle the annoyance claiming expenses
> is to only do it once per quarter.  When I get the billing statement from
> Amazon I mark the email with a flag and when I have three flagged emails I
> take ten minutes to fill out the expense report.
> 

This month, Amazon added a shared billing feature. Claire Davis is working on 
getting us to use this. So stay tuned...

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Francis J. Lacoste
francis.lacoste@xxxxxxxxxxxxx

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