Oct. 30, 2009
10:43 p.m.
Since I've never used any such service ("cloud"-based VMs), I'm not sure what the downsides would be. But it seems to be that it would be at least worth trying.
Not sure whether it's still relevant after the offers of individually donated hardware. However, if you want to look into this, feel free to set up EC2 slaves. When it comes to the point of actually having to pay money, please send a request to psf-board@python.org (make sure you don't pay anything until the request is approved). Exact processing would have to be decided, then, traditionally, it would be most simple if you could invoice the PSF (IIUC). Giving the PSF as the billing address would probably also work (check with the treasurer). Regards, Martin