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

[Matthew Hughes]

I went as well to this as well as the one last year. It was as good as
promised. Went for the talk, drank the beer, the pizza was a nice bonus.
The mentioned that they were hiring but not in an annoying way. Not often
do you get a room full of geeks talking about geek stuff. I would recommend
the next engibeering event. I unfortunately have a previous engagement
Friday.
On Jan 16, 2015 12:35 AM, "John Lewis" <oflameo2 at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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