Office hour notes: 2020.08.18

Sandstorm Office Hours

Tuesday 18 August 2020 at 9pm eastern, 8pm central

Video link: https://meet.jit.si/sandstorm-officehours

Dial-in: +1.512.402.2718 PIN: 2507 5754 58#

Previous meeting notes.

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Attendees

• Adam
• Ian
• Dan K
• Troy
• Jake

Agenda

• Introductions
• What's everyone working on?
• matrix again (system / driver grains?)

Notes

• Introductions
  • Troy's been using sandstorm for 2+ years. No public packages yet, but soon. Programs in many languages, especially python. Happy to help with django, but probably not core development or meteor. Runs 3 sandstorm servers: 1 personal, 1 community, 1 corporate.
• What's everyone working on?
  • Troy: Hoping to take django-sandstorm further. Has postgres working instead of mysql. Has some integration of django auth inside pkgdef.capnp . Wants to have apps store stuff in encrypted at rest, using sqlcipher.
  • Ian: TTRSS stuff landed. Need to decide when to turn off the hack. Found a bunch of apps which were sideloading scripts; adding ContentSecurityPolicy (possibly with reporting) to block images and stuff. A little work on calendar. Looking at formalizing rolling hashes (perkeep).
  • Jake: Looking at microTodo, microWiki, microTube.
  • Dan K: Not much to share. Still trying to understand meteor.
  • Adam : hacking on matrix. Incoming requests through a short domain now working (apache + mod_proxy); outgoing requests soon to use Ian's powerbox proxy; then hopefully federation profo-of-concept.
• Matrix / other social stuff
  • ActivityPub: reach out to chris lemmer webber?
    • System grain / Driver grain? Ian thinks you could do most of this today. Some open questions:
      • How to receive http rather than other tcp traffic
      • Ian can find time to sketch out his idea.
      • Request TCP access? would the grain have to keep a wakelock to listen for the request? Can sandstorm startup?

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