[wplug] Thu Jan 15, come see a talk in Pittsburgh about Sandstorm

[John Lewis]

I went, and it was awesome. I can't wait for the next mixer event which
will be Finish it Friday today at Hack Pittsburgh
http://www.hackpittsburgh.org/.

I will be finishing my shop tools manual project by having one of the
council members SFTP the tarball full of manuals off of my VPS.

I got quite a few comments about people liking WPLUG's new location at
Hack Pittsburgh while I was there.

On 01/15/2015 01:38 PM, John Lewis wrote:
> I'm coming.
>
> On 01/14/2015 05:32 PM, Asheesh Laroia wrote:
>> Hi all WPLUG people!
>>
>> Sandstorm is an open source project, and a way to run web apps as
>> containers, gloriously sandboxed from each other, and moreover an interface
>> to install them easily and allow the user to create multiple instances of a
>> web app easily.
>>
>> I'm part of the project, and one of the other contributors is giving a talk
>> tomorrow in Pittsburgh, so I wanted to share some details and express some
>> hope that WPLUG people might be able to come!
>>
>> WHEN: Thu 1/15, 6:30pm-10pm
>>
>> WHERE: ShowClix Headquarters, 650 Smithfield St., Pittsburgh, PA 15221
>>
>> WHAT: David Renshaw talks about SandstormIO! Free event w/ craft beer & 2
>> other talks, part of the "Engibeer.in" series at the ShowClix office
>>
>> RSVP: https://bit.ly/pghstorm
>>
>>
>> If you want to read a glossy page about how great Sandstorm is, and click
>> around to find details, visit: https://sandstorm.io/
>>
>> If you want to read technical details that explain it in terms you'd
>> probably find much more interesting, here is a paragraph written by me that
>> is hopefully helpful and terse:
>>
>> Sandstorm is a way to run web apps as containers, gloriously sandboxed from
>> each other, and moreover an interface to install them easily and allow the
>> user to create multiple instances of a web app easily. It intends to grow
>> features relating to:
>>
>> * sharing instances of a web app -- so that an instance of a web app is as
>> easy to share with someone else as a Google Docs link, and
>>
>> * features relating to supporting more network protocols -- so that apps
>> can safely communicate with the outside world over things like IRC, with
>> security features called the "Powerbox" ; see also
>> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File_dialog#Powerbox .
>>
>> It already has:
>>
>> * the ability to install web apps that have been ported, which already a
>> seamless process of clicking a few times within the admin interface, and
>>
>> * about 25 apps that have been ported, and
>>
>> * a solid (and ever-strengthening story) for how porting an app to
>> Sandstorm removes entire categories of vulnerabilities, by emphasizing apps
>> only exposing static HTML to logged-out users, and using a random subdomain
>> when an admin is logged in so that an attacker doesn't know where to attack
>> even if there is a vulnerability, and
>>
>> * a simple install script that you can use on a GNU/Linux server today --
>> https://github.com/sandstorm-io/sandstorm , and
>>
>> * an online demo: https://demo.sandstorm.io/ , and
>>
>> * an open source license (Apache 2.0) and growing community, and
>>
>> * an IRC channel in freenode: #sandstorm
>>
>> I hope that was not too self-promote-y -- I think it's the kind of thing
>> that WPLUG people might find interesting.
>>
>>
>> Let me know if you have any questions! And I hope people here can make time
>> to check out David's talk -- tell him "Asheesh says hi"!
>>
>> -- Asheesh.
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