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Introductions

  • AB Adam Bliss @abliss
    • SW Eng
    • interested in sandstorm's support for decentralization
    • a few months of time available
  • DC @dckc (see below)
  • LC - Lyre C. @CaptainCalliope
    • saw indigogo campaign
    • been doing tech security work for activisits, non-profits; esp. those targeted by the state
      • working out of Boston
    • mostly non-technical work: workshops, threat-modelling
    • frustrated with lack of good tools
      • signal - yay!
      • everything else needs to be rewritten for decentralization
    • did some work with Mozilla
    • ... code for Boston (code for America)
    • favorite thing: facilitating teamwork
    • object capabilities brought me back here
  • Jacob Weisz @ocdtrekkie
    • interested / running since alpha
    • was griping on G+ about a security model for installing apps and Kenton said "I'm working on that"
    • hobby programmer; VB .NET / PHP
    • day job: IT for a municipality; heavily Windows
  • Daniel Krol
  • C crab (AMS)
    • using sandstorm since 2017 - rocket.chat, wikis, ...
    • played with packaging apps
    • updating gitweb app
  • Ian Denhardt @zenhack
    • found out through asheesh
    • done quite a bit of work at the core level
    • ported an IRC bouncer
    • developed docker-spk
    • have PR out for cron API

Hi, I'm Dan Connolly

Tim McCormack

chatted with DC before 1630Z

  • self-hosted
  • interested in supporting maintenance: Dec 9 to sandstorm-dev
  • interested in Jitsi :)
  • TZ: America/New_York

IRC Bouncer

DC: works?

ID: somewhat unrelaible; using matrix bridge

backups

Docs maintenance, organization

  • wiki?
    • esp. for stuff like backups where sandstorm doesn't natively support it and users know better than core devs what works for them
    • dogfood? we're not there yet
    • github wiki +1 +1
  • get KV out of critical path for doc PRs?
    • mkdocs
    • JW interested to help

Cron PR

ref pull/3172

  • some test work could be useful
  • Adam offers to try to run the test suite by Fri

Funding Brainstorm

  • Questions:
    • How do we collect money?
    • How do we allocate money?
  • Tools and models

Sandstorm for Independent Web Dev, ecosystem funding

  • donate button for apps
    • things are different now; now is a better time?
    • payment processor?
      • github sponsorship or
      • FUNDING.md / DONATE.md convention
      • manifest thingy +1 +1
        • a la keybase integration
      • a link.
        • UX - minimum friction
        • can we evolve to something more integrated?
        • yes, using a union
  • address limited motivation for updates?
    • e.g. firefly 3
  • funding packager vs. funding original app

Corporate Sponsorships

  • Adam: worked at a place that had on-premise needs
  • suspect a donation would be easier to get thru $ENTERPRISE than sales contract
  • an organization with good governance could attract considerable corporate sponsorship
  • LC: this is a feature of the open collective model
    • e.g. Samsung Labs funds things via the open collective
  • Perkeep used open collective for a long time
  • Open Source Collective 501(c)(6)
  • Software Freedom Conservancy, Inc. is a 501(c)(3)
    • Ian offers to ask around about process for sponsoring sandstorm

Weekend session w/Kenton

  • organizer?
    • JW offers to ask Kenton about 1p Dec 5
    • LC offers to do some organization
    • stay tuned to sandstorm-dev , #sandstorm IRC
  • time?
    • Jan 5: +1, +1
      • 1pm Chicago +1, +1 +1
  • place?
    • jitsi? +1
    • dial-in is useful
  • agenda?
    • Cron PR? (see above)
    • Open Collective
    • docs, web site updates delegation
    • automation github -> web site

Not discussed

Blog fodder? (not discussed)

  • what's new in core dev?
  • testamonials?

nix + sandstorm (not discussed)

from my ocaps wish-list:

nix + sandstorm = <3

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