First Sandstorm SF Project Night - Newcomers Welcome

Join us to learn about, talk about, install, and hack on Sandstorm & personal server apps!

Sandstorm is the easiest way you've ever seen to install web apps like Etherpad, GitLab, WordPress and Wave on a Linux server. Sandstorm looks like a usability project, but is secretly a security project. It's a whole new take on running your own server.

If you haven't yet, you should try the demo at https://demo.sandstorm.io/

Project nights are unstructured chances for Sandstorm developers & users to work together, mentor each other, connect socially, teach, learn, or do whatever else it is Sandstorm users & developers want to do together.

Our project nights are great ways to build the Sandstorm & server self-hosting community, by allowing people to meet and interact in whatever way they find most beneficial.

Food: SF Wraps (http://www.yelp.com/biz/sf-wraps-san-francisco) (middle eastern). Contact us with dietary restrictions.

Event sponsor: Thoughtworks! Huge thanks to them, and to Jack Singleton for making that happen.

This "Project Night" is the first event in the Sandstorm SF Bay Area meetup. We'll:

• Learn from each other -- core developers, app authors, and total newcomers will be in attendance.

• Share info about apps we like and apps we wrote!

• Get help making apps, or installing Sandstorm, etc.

Event format:

6:00 PM
Food arrives; people arrive and socialize.

6:20 PM
Brief talk by Asheesh Laroia (Sandstorm core dev) introducing what Sandstorm is, how it works, and the event structure.

6:30 - 8:30 PM
Hang out & chat at topic interest tables, including: "New to Sandstorm", "Hacker Slides & other apps", "Anything"

8:30 PM
Informal wrap-up, asking people to share something they learned at the event.

9:00 PM
Close the doors. (Perhaps there'll be an after-party!)

Things to bring: a wireless-enabled laptop and power cord.

Things you'll get: Sandstorm stickers!

Things to read: Our Code of Conduct, https://github.com/sandstorm-io/sandstorm/wiki/Code-of-Conduct