[sf-lug] Thu 6/18: Join me at Sandstorm meetup & learn about app permissions and self-hosted web apps

[Asheesh Laroia]

I know it's bad form to reply to myself, but Jeff Mendoza just wrote a blog
post that explains Sandstorm way better than I did. Quoth him:

'I've become intrigued with Sandstorm lately. The way I like to think of
it, is a "Mobile OS" for your cloud server. Imagine if running a server was
as easy as using your phone. Want a new app? Click a button. No installing
and configuring databases or web servers. No fiddling with startup scripts
or cli options. It just works. You can run any number of Sandstorm apps and
not worry about things like conflicting version dependencies. The magic is
based on containerization technology built into the Linux kernel. The same
tech that is very much abuzz in other contexts, but it's not too important
how it works, just that it does.'

-- http://jlm.name/2015/06/10/running-sandstorm-on-google-compute-engine/

On Thu, Jun 11, 2015 at 1:03 PM, Asheesh Laroia <asheesh at sandstorm.io>
wrote:

> Hi SF-LUG peeps,
>
> TL;DR: If you are interested in open source web apps, you should join me
> at the Sandstorm meetup next Thursday & learn about an open source project
> that makes open source web apps easier to run and more secure.
> http://www.meetup.com/Sandstorm-SF-Bay-Area/events/223113702/
>
> (If you can't make it to the event, sign up there to receive notifications
> of other events.)
>
>
> Sandstorm is an open source package manager for web apps, and it runs on
> Linux systems. It makes it easy to start up Etherpad (or any other packaged
> app) with a click. You can read more + try the demo here:
> https://sandstorm.io/
>
> Security-wise, it takes the Google Docs sharing model and applies it to
> entire app instances, resulting in web apps that are private by default,
> insulating you from app bugs. Usability-wise, it takes 120 seconds to
> install and automatically updates itself.
>
> I'm on the Sandstorm team, and we have a meetup at 6 PM in SF on Thu 6/18:
> http://www.meetup.com/Sandstorm-SF-Bay-Area/events/223113702/
>
> This meetup features a talk about the Sandstorm app permissions & sharing
> model (which for security nerds, is based on object-capability security) by
> David Renshaw. There are also and a hands-on session to see how to install
> Sandstorm on a server, and a hands-on session on how to package apps for
> it. Any web app that runs on Linux can work on Sandstorm.
>
> P.S. More on our security hardening of apps here:
> https://github.com/sandstorm-io/sandstorm/wiki/Security-Practices-Overview
>
> P.P.S. I'm also sending a note like this to BALUG-Talk; semi-sorry if you
> see it twice.
>
> P.P.P.S. Sorry for the startup-tastic .io domain name. It really is free,
> open source software, despite the domain name in the Indian Ocean.
>
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