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7 community-driven Sandstorm presentations in 2015

By Jade Wang - 17 Dec 2015

As 2015 comes to a close, I’d love to give a big shout-out to the members of the Sandstorm community who have spoken about Sandstorm. Here’s a YouTube playlist of the ones that we have videos of:

• Jack Singleton, author of HackerSlides and lead dev on SandForms, spoke at Chaos Communication Camp, and organized a Sandstorm booth at the Digital Rights in Libraries Conference.
• Audrey Tang, author of EtherCalc, gave a lightning talk at Ignite Open Data and also created a Chinese version of the speaker kit.
• Jon Spriggs spoke about Sandstorm at Oggcamp.
• Jeff Mendoza gave a lightning talk at GopherCon.
• James Cyrus, host of GeekblogTV, produced this tutorial on installing Sandstorm on your Digital Ocean droplet
• Jake Weisz, who packaged many apps and is super helpful in answering community questions on sandstorm-dev, spoke at the Chicago GNU/Linux Users Group as well as Open Source Open Mic.
• Deb Nicholson and Chris Webber (of MediaGoblin) gave a Sandstorm demo during their FOSDEM talk (Sandstorm demo starts at 24:57).

I made this list based on the page on the wiki. If you also gave a talk about Sandstorm this year and are just now adding yourself to the wiki, drop me a line at community@sandstorm.io, and I’ll update the post to include you. A huge thanks to everyone who has given a talk, as well as the folks in the brigade who show up everywhere on Hacker News, reddit, and request coverage of Sandstorm on the Linux Action Show. I heart all of you. If any of you happen to live in or travel through the SF Bay Area, you should share your work at a Sandstorm meetup or at least drop by.

Here are some ways to get involved in the community:

• Start a local Sandstorm meetup and spread the love: drop a line to community@sandstorm.io and let me know where you are.

• Give a Sandstorm talk at a local meetup or hackerspace or your work place: check out this speaker kit, and add your talk to the list.

• Subscribe to the shiny new Sandstorm YouTube channel

Stay tuned for App Market highlights of 2015!