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Welcome to the Sandstorm wiki!

Roadmap

The Sandstorm community has been working on a revival, and our coordination is taking place in a few different places. We need to spend some time to clearly represent the state of things here and on our website. Generally speaking, we'd love for you to join. The project can use all the help it can get from interested people.

A few key things to note: Kenton, the originator of the Sandstorm project, has handed off the project to members of the community. We're taking it from here, and the site for the community project is now sandstorm.org.

• Our blog is a good place to get up to date with major events.
• Our Mastodon is a good place to stay up to date with minor events.
• Mailing list and Matrix for support, app development news, etc. Note that we have both a User group and a Developer group.
• Office Hours - We virtually meet every week, and we take notes on our meetings. Join our mailing list or Matrix to find out how to attend.
• Milestones - a high level overview of our upcoming high level goals, each of which can contain multiple Github Issues.
  • As of May 2024, our roadmap is not well reflected in this list of Milestones. For now, connect with our community.

Resources

Various resources for users and developers

For most things: See external documentation website

• docs.sandstorm.io contains documentation on how to use, develop apps for, or administer Sandstorm.
• To edit the docs, submit pull requests to the docs folder in the main Sandstorm repo. Preview docs changes by running mkdocs on your computer. Read the docs on the docs for more info.

How to contribute to Sandstorm core

• Pull Request - Code Review Procedure explains our approach to code ownership & review.
• Giving credit to other open source projects explains our approach to OSS license compliance for Sandstorm core.
• English language style guide explains how we capitalize, etc., with the text that a Sandstorm user sees.
• Using the Vagrantfile explains how to use Sandstorm in a virtual machine.

Resources on the Sandstorm community

• Speaker Kit - Lightning Talk - Give a lightning talk near you, and help others learn about Sandstorm!
• Testing a Sandstorm app or Sandstorm itself: Advice on how to test an app and give advice to make it even better.
• Code of Conduct, currently just for the Sandstorm SF Bay Meetup group.
• Sandstorm Talks that people have already given.
• Meetup event checklist for making sure a Meetup event page has everything it needs.
• Places to give a talk, a list of conferences and events where you can become more famous by talking about Sandstorm.
• How to approve/review apps for the app market - notes on what to look at when doing an app review.

Other resources

• Security non-issues: A partial list of security issues that have not affected Sandstorm. (NOTE that this is not a statement that Sandstorm is infallible! Read more within the page.)
• Spring 2015 Sandstorm Usability Research: The goal of the Spring 2015 Sandstorm Usability Research effort is to take apps in the Sandstorm app list and make sure they truly serve people's needs.
• Contributing to external projects: A quick guide for what to do, copyright-wise, for Sandstorm people to contribute to external open source projects.
• Responding to common questions: A quick guide for e.g. people who look at Sandstorm's Twitter account
• Manual testing for Sandstorm apps: A list of things to try when testing specific Sandstorm apps
• Sandstorm public services monitoring: Information for the Sandstorm team about our public services and how they are monitored.