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by paulproteus 11y ago
Hi Scott! I think this is interesting for two reasons: 1. Open source web apps often struggle to maintain a "Try it" server. The interesting thing here is that Sandstorm (through our package ecosystem and demo server) makes that e
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by paulproteus 11y ago
True! https://github.com/ether/ether.github.com/pull/21
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by paulproteus 11y ago
One other possibly-cool thing is that any open source web app, when packaged for Sandstorm, can get a "Try it now" button of your own. That's what I explain at https://blog.sandstorm.io/news/2015-02-06-ap
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by paulproteus 11y ago
Thanks for taking an interest! I personally wrote the code behind Sandstorm's "appdemo" feature, which is what the "Try it now" button links to, from the Etherpad front page. Etherpad itself is not written by me; it
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Show HN: Sandstorm-powered “Try a demo” on Etherpad front page(etherpad.org)
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by paulproteus 12y ago
Here's how: * Backend: Due to Linux network namespaces, the app can't communicate with the network (except over "sandstorm-http-bridge" which allows it to respond to inbound HTTP requests). * Frontend: Due to Content-Sec
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by paulproteus 12y ago
It's not currently possible to run arbitrary Docker containers through Sandstorm, since we prefer app packages (we call them SPKs) to be: * Self-contained -- if the app needs MySQL, bundle it; * Able to run with external network access
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by paulproteus 12y ago
Here's my own summary, which if you like it, I can try harder to make sure becomes more prominent somewhere: Sandstorm is a way to run web apps as containers, gloriously sandboxed from each other, and moreover a web interface to instal
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by paulproteus 12y ago
I agree -- the current WordPress package needs work. Thank you for trying it and looking into it! Community-wise, one thing we're going to need, as Sandstorm grows, is an ecosystem of app package maintainers. Part of what we're ho
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by paulproteus 12y ago
I'm at FOSDEM! I'm on #fosdem and #sandstorm on freenode -- my nick is paulproteus. Also I work on+for Sandstorm.
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by paulproteus 13y ago
Hey begriffs! I'm a volunteer with OpenHatch, which egor83 mentions below -- a non-profit to help people get involved in open source. At our Open Source Comes to Campus events, we aim to find great projects to connect newcomers with. (
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by paulproteus 13y ago
Oh, also, w/r/t OpenBadges, we haven't gotten around to it, but are vaguely enthusiastic. A very reasonable thing would be to think about the various ways people are learning open source-related skills, and make a badge site,
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by paulproteus 13y ago
For those interested in the technical details, here are some changes we made to better-handle the traffic spike: * Remove some of the MySQL-specific query syntax to make faceted search at openhatch.org/search/ work nicely. A goal
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by paulproteus 13y ago
Blahah, your http://solvers.io initiative seems super cool! We've found over the years that having one specific task for new contributors to complete makes a huge difference in attracting that next contributor. See http:
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by paulproteus 13y ago
If Tuffy doesn't look good on OS X or Windows, then we should look into switching to something that is readable and nice to look at. Thanks for saying so! I filed https://openhatch.org/bugs/issue926 so we don&#x27
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by paulproteus 13y ago
perlgeek, thanks for signing up! That's something we just got an email about earlier in the month, though no one has filed a bug to formally request it yet. I just took a moment to do that: https://openhatch.org/bugs&#x
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by paulproteus 13y ago
Hi there! So glad you're excited about that. We're really excited about that, too, and if you join the IRC channel, we'll do our best to connect you with a project. Additionally, I wrote this: http://opensource-usa
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by paulproteus 13y ago
Yes, we just had some site problems; they seem fixed now, and additionally, I pushed a front page redesign some contributors had been working on for the past month! : D (I'm one of the original people who started OpenHatch and on the b
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by paulproteus 14y ago
First of all, kudos to you for thinking about contributing to bigger projects, and open source ones at that! Projects with large codebases always take some time to figure out. Therefore, it's wise to start with a bug that a more experienced
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Short key IDs in PGP are vulnerable (and so is --refresh-keys)(asheesh.org)
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by paulproteus 15y ago
Jesse, you and I chatted briefly at PyCon. I'm Asheesh, that person who gave that PyCon talk about outreach. You (and this Python Mentors program) totally rock. It's hard to even name all the things the program gets right.
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How Vidalia and GIMP found new contributors, just by asking people to build it(blog.lydiapintscher.de)
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The way top level domains worked, in the good old days(jonpos.tel)
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by paulproteus 17y ago
It is automatic -- it crawls projects' bug trackers. That way, projects can mark bugs as "good for newcomers" without us forcing them to use new tools. Having said that, the site does give projects a space to write about ways people can get
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by paulproteus 17y ago
(I'm the submitter.) It turns out there are hundreds of open source projects where the maintainers mark bugs as good for new contributors. So here you can browse them. The projects range from well-known like the Python language and Firefox
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OpenHatch: Browse open source for ways you can contribute (or add your project)(openhatch.org)
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Cosmetic carbon copy: the opposite of blind carbon copy(ietfng.org)
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Bite-size bugs, and how they can make it easier to contribute to open source(openhatch.org)
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by paulproteus 17y ago
I and some friends began a startup to make getting involved easier. We're building an open source involvement engine, helping people showcase their contributions to open source and find new opportunities. One thing I'm particularly happy wi