The Future of Sandstorm's Powerbox UI by Sandstorm Dev Drew - Newcomers Welcome

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On Tuesday, January 19th, we are fortunate to have Sandstorm Developer Drew Fisher flying into Boston to give a talk about the future of Sandstorm and Sandstorm's Powerbox UI. Have you ever heard security best practices resulting in a delightful user experience? I know it sounds impossible, but Drew will show us how he's pulling it off with Sandstorm and Powerbox.

Rough schedule

6:30 PM
Doors open, people arrive, and socialize. Pizza will be provided by our sponsor, Meta Innovation Consulting Group (https://www.meta-icg.com), but please feel free to bring your own food as well.

6:45 PM
Talk: The future of Sandstorm and its Powerbox UI by Drew Fisher which will cover how Powerbox works, how it makes Sandstorm more usable and more secure, and how it's essential to the future of Sandstorm.

7:15 PM
Drew will open up the floor to Q&A.

7:30 PM
Networking/Socializing

8:00 PM
Wrap-up

Things you'll get: Sandstorm stickers!

More about Capability-based Usable Security and the Powerbox
https://docs.sandstorm.io/en/latest/using/security-practices/#capability-based-usable-security

More about the Speaker
Drew Fisher is an all around technology enthusiast who likes to play (http://web.mit.edu/puzzle/www/) and write puzzlehunts (http://puzzle.berkeley.edu/), fiddle with servers, bike, play board games, and enjoy eating delicious foods! He's currently a developer at Sandstorm, where he can be found building out the future which includes Powerbox. Prior to Sandstorm, Drew was building secure, private, and user-friendly collaboration tools at AeroFS, and before that, his MS work at UC Berkeley focused on security and human-computer interaction under Dave Wagner (http://www.cs.berkeley.edu/~daw/).

If you want to find out more about Drew, check out his website:
http://zarvox.org/

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