Dear all Here is my overdue mail about Sandstorm.io, storm.debian.net, and how can we use it for DebConf organization (or other purposes related to Debian).
In Debian we traditionally communicate and organise events using the mailing lists, the IRC channels, and wiki pages. Sometimes we feel that other (newer) tools could help better or extend the traditional ones. It's usual that they are not easy to deploy in home servers or Debian infrastructure. Asheesh Laroia (paulprot...@debian.org) kindly deployed https://storm.debian.net which is a Sandstorm.io server, capable to deliver a lot of new web apps for us to try/use. Any Debian contributor can ask for an account there, and then, install apps and create new documents. Once a document is created, you can get a shareable link that you can send to people (debianers or not) to access the document and collaborate together (account is only needed to create the documents, not for editing them). I did that. For now, I have created for you (debconf-team and contributors) to use (if you want): Test/play with Etherpad: http://deb.li/testpad Test/play with Scrumblr: http://deb.li/testscrum Test/play with Wekan : http://deb.li/testwekan Kanban Scrumblr Board for DebConf16 http://deb.li/dc16scrum Wekan Kanban for DebConf16 http://deb.li/dc16wekan Framadate showing my dc16-contributions-howto availability http://deb.li/dc16howto The complete list of apps available is in http://sandstorm.io/apps and "installing" any of them is a matter of two clicks. Ok, now what? * If you decide to move from titanpad.com to storm.debian.net, I can create the pads: http://deb.li/dc16pad1, dc16pad2, etc (tell me how many. We may be lucky and work more comfortable than in titanpad which frequently hangs or disconnects. If we happen to bottleneck Asheesh's server, I'm sure he will be happy to handle that (happy because that means many people using Sandstorm!)) * If you want me to create new other documents (e.g. hacker slides to quickly create a presentation to a potential sponsor), just tell. * If you want to create yourselves the apps you need/want, or play around, ask for an invitation to paulprot...@debian.org or to me (hey, I'm admin yeah!). * If you don't feel like using storm.debian.net, no problem at all. I don't mind to continue working as until now (titanpad, whiteboard or whatever you choose), as long as it is free software * But if *I* have to create a new pad, it will be in storm.debian.net unless people asks me not to do it, because ** I like dogfooding, better debian.net services than *.com (even if free) ** I want to experiment with sandstorm and provide use cases/issues to Asheesh ;) ** I frequently experience titanpad's disconnections (and the underlying software is Etherpath in both sites). I would go on using deb.li shortener to make my shares look prettier. Thanks Asheesh for the maintenance of the service. I'm planning to write one or two blogposts with more details about sandstorm.io experiences, I just need some quiet spare time to finish my "I am a DD" blogpost first :s Cheers -- Laura Arjona https://wiki.debian.org/LauraArjona _______________________________________________ Debconf-team mailing list Debconf-team@lists.debconf.org http://lists.debconf.org/mailman/listinfo/debconf-team
