Office hour notes: 2020.03.08

Sandstorm Office Hours

Sunday 8 March 2020 at 2pm est, 1pm central

Video link: https://meet.jit.si/sandstorm-officehours

Dial-in: +1.512.402.2718 PIN: 2507 5754 58#

Previous meeting notes.

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Attendees

• Lyre (listening and typing because too much background noise.)
• Jacob (listening only, voice hurts)
• Adam Bliss
• Dan Krol
• Zack
• Ian Denhardt (late)

Agenda

• New People
• Meeting scheduling.
• What is everyone working on?
• Creating a mid-term roadmap / goals for the next few months

Notes

Meeting Scheduling

Should we keep this Tuesday/Sunday cadence in upcoming months?

• Maybe this should be a question we should put on the mailing list as well for feedback.

What are we working on?

Luke Mackenzie

• I am working on updating the WordPress port. It is far more complex than I had imagined so progress is slow. I have had 2 calls with Jan Jambor for some pointers but he has indicated that he won't have any more time to help me with this. I would appreciate some scheduled IRC time with someone to answer some questions.

Dan K

• Slower than usual because I have to focus more on finding freelancing gigs. I'll try to get a start on the per-user disk quota thing in the admin this week though.

Jacob Weisz

• Reviewing Docs PRs and the like.
• Looking at vagrant-spk 1.1 goals.
• Been sick, haven't made progress on app packaging help.

Lyre Calliope

• We have a fiscal host! Open Source Collective has agreed to host us via Open Collective. Which means we can begin fundraising soon.
• Next steps are to tighten up contributor onboarding, and coming up with a budget, governance which means, making decisions on how we will make decisions, and then planning+executing a fundraising campaign based on the budget.
• I'll work on a loose timeline for this this week.

Zack

• Working on Weblate
• Working on Jupyter
• Updating some docs
• trying to get rust-capnp to generate docstrings

Ian Denhardt

• Contract stuff mostly done
• A few small cleanup patches
• Looking at:
  • Powerbox requests from the server
  • Making spk dev use capnproto

Mid-term Roadmap/Goals

It would be great to have a list of priorities that we want to invest time and resources into, and also ways to systematically track it.

Lyre started a thread to discuss priorities 2ish months ago. Ian outlined some ideas.

(Lyre's dream is to one day be a big shot Product Manager btw)

Jacob wants to work on self-hosting experience. Lots of low hanging fruit with high impact. Per user disk use, (other examples?)

• https://github.com/sandstorm-io/sandstorm/milestone/17

We can work towards defining some milestones and then document them on the github wiki, where the contributor documentation is.

Work on the github wiki:

• Turn the home page into a resource for people to be able to dive in.

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