Office hour notes: 2020.01.12

Attendees

• Ian Denhardt
• Jacob Weisz
• Daniel Krol
• Adam Bliss
• Kenton Varda

regrets: Lyre Calliope

Agenda

• Funding from hosting provider? (Linode, etc)
  • e.g. openfaas.com seems to be sponsored by DigitalOcean
• Governance structure?
• Is the language PR for mass transfers ready? https://github.com/sandstorm-io/sandstorm/pull/3175
  • other Prs?
• Could someone help Jake with his Python problem? (Trying to port Datasette)
• Running Sandstorm on an intel compute stick?
• What's everybody working on?
• Where to collect/track long-term notes? (Funding, governance, etc) (Dan K)
• What's dowstream of the cron api?
  • TinyTinyRss?
    • Also needs ability to expose persistent caps
    • Probably also needs a general app refresh
    • Currently uses the sandbox hole to fetch feeds
  • IFTTT ?
  • Calendaring?
  • Huginn?
  • Needs https://github.com/sandstorm-io/sandstorm/pull/3176 to be useful.
• What’s your sandstorm itch?

Notes

Funding

• Note that Cloudron.io has referral links that give people "free credits" for installing on Linode, DigitalOcean, netcup, UpCloud, and Vultr. Might be worth investigating for Sandstorm.
• Dan Krol can take point on contacting companies
• Will need entity before they're interested in paying
• Should probably put this off until we have development going

Org structure

• SFC is probably a no go short term; acquiring stuff from a business is complicated.
• Need to check in with Lyre re: opencollective.

What people are working on

Adam

• will look into GitHub actions thing
  • try to get app key and or current SPK for GitWeb Pages from Asheesh
  • post status update to list by Wednesday
• Would love to be given some structured time/project to hack on

Jacob

• trying to port Datasette
  • Will email the list with his error message
• play with TinyTinyRSS update

Ian

• Cron PR still going, questions re: testing for Kenton
• Working on OAuth demo

Kenton

• We're hoping he'll look at the cron PR
• Try to merge the mass transfer i18n pr & make a release next weekend.
• Ian wants comments on his design for persistent caps through http bridge. https://github.com/sandstorm-io/sandstorm/pull/3176

Dan K

• Trying to make/package a map application

What’s your sandstorm itch?

• Adam and Ian think it might be neat to run Perkeep in sandstorm.
• Adam: RSS (with rssbridge or something)
• Ian: public Calendars
• Dan K: Wekan imports

Platform enhancement ideas

• Standard file manager app
• "Stateless" grains that don't need to be created, just part of the app
• "Subordinate" that are owned by other grains
  • Relatedly: grains creating other sandboxes.