Sandstorm Talks

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This page archives information about (mostly) past talks that were about, or mentioned, Sandstorm.

Sep 2014

• St. Louis, MO, USA. Friday 19 September. David Renshaw at StrangeLoop. Cap'n Proto and Rust: Type Systems for Sharing
  • Video
  • Slides
  • Estimated attendees: 200

Jan 2015

• Pittsburgh, PA, USA. Thu January 15. David Renshaw at ShowClix Engibeering.
  • Estimated attendees: 50

Feb 2015

• Brussels, Belgium. Sun February 1. Deb Nicholson & Chris Webber at FOSDEM. Can Distros Make The Link? Let's Package the Customizable, Free Software Web of the Future!
  • Video: http://ftp.osuosl.org/pub/fosdem//2015/devroom-distributions/can_distros_make_the_link%3f_lets_package_the_customizable,_free_software_web_of_the_future!_.mp4
  • See the Sandstorm demo starting at 24:57.
  • Estimated attendees: 100.

Mar 2015

• Taipei, Taiwan. March 19. Audrey Tang at Ignite Open Data
  • Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pgwrp8fuW1k&t=15s
  • Slides: https://www.dropbox.com/s/z29l6hqucp0r04b/08_au_Sandstorm-and-OpenDocument.pdf?dl=0
  • Estimated attendees: 120.

Apr 2015

• San Francisco, CA, USA. Fri April 24. Jack Singleton at ThoughtWorks

  • Estimated attendees: 10
  • Showed off https://demo.sandstorm.io
  • Gave overview of the Hacker Slides codebase

• Chicago, IL, USA. Sat April 25. Jake Weisz at Chicago GNU/Linux Users Group.

  • Video available upon request from Jake.
  • Estimated attendees: 10.

July 2015

• Denver, CO, USA. Fri July 10. Jeff Mendoza at GopherCon
  • 5 min lightning talk
  • Video
  • Estimated attendees: 100

Sep 2015

• Chicago, IL, USA. Wed September 3. Jake Weisz at Open Source Open Mic.
  • Slide content available
  • Estimated attendees: 50.

Nov 2015

• Liverpool, UK. Sun November 1. Jon Spriggs at OggCamp
  • 30 minute talk
  • Video on YouTube
  • Estimated attendees: 50
  • Notes: Off-the-cuff talk with very little preparation. Gave a brief overview of how Sandstorm works, how to install it and how adding applications works. Q&A.
  • Feedback via Joind.in
• Taipei, Taiwan. Mon November 30. Audrey Tang at Workshop: Identity, Privacy and Freedom
  • 20 minutes talk
  • Video on YouTube
  • Slides: On Freedom Zero
  • Estimated attendees: 100
  • Notes: Prepared the talk with help from EFF's Seth Schoen, a co-panelist at the workshop.

Jan 2016

• Paris, France, Thu Jan 18. Audrey Tang at Nuit des idées à Paris
  • 20 minute talk followed by dialogue with Blaise Aguera y Arcas
  • Slides: Le monde d’après-demain
  • Video on YouTube — (Live Demo of Sandstorm at 7h24m00s)
  • Text Transcript on the paragraph about Sandstorm
  • Estimated attendees: 7000
  • Notes: Sandstorm is introduced in slide 6, followed by a live demo of apps.sandstorm.io

Feb 2016

• Eau Claire, WI, USA. Tues, February 16th. Daniel Kraft at Chippewa Valley Developer Group
  • 2-3 Hour Demo with discussion
  • Estimated attendees: 40
  • Slides to come

June 2016

• Brussels, Belgium Paul-Olivier Dehaye at Data Harvest/European Investigative Journalism Conference
  • 1 Hour hands-on demo
  • "Build a newsroom": imagine collaboration across media houses, what does the IT side look like?
  • Started with one etherpad, then a second (to explain grains vs apps), then shared one of the grains with people in the room through a public link. Asked them to add their email to that page, so I could invite them later more easily when explaining the collaborative model to other grains. Added a Rocket Chat grain and started sharing that. Then Davros. All this took more or less 30 minutes, answering questions and assisting. Then, let them try out stuff and drive the thing.
  • Estimated attendees: 30
  • Laptops open: 15

October 2017

• Sichuan, China Audrey Tang at GNOME.Asia Summit 2017
  • 5 minutes pre-recorded lighting talk: "Freedom Zero"
  • Video on YouTube