By Asheesh Laroia - 27 Feb 2015
Have you been wanting to give a Sandstorm lightning talk, but haven’t found time to put together slides? To make that easier, I made a speaker kit!
It has slides, notes, and advice so you can give a talk that explains the “what” and “why” of Sandstorm, and for showcasing an app of your choice on the Sandstorm Demo.
Anywhere there’s a local software meetup, or Linux users group, or tech group within your company or university, there are people who want to learn about Sandstorm.
For a programming meetup, attendees would be especially interested if you demo Sandstorm with an app on their platform. For a Node meetup, think EtherCalc. For Python (or data scientists!), think IPython Notebook. For Ruby, GitLab. For Rust, Acronymy. For Meteor, Telescope. (Check out the Sandstorm app list if you need more ideas!)
If you work with physicists or mathematicians, show them ShareLaTeX.
If you attend a tech conference, a Linux users group or other open source-oriented meetup, they’ll be captivated by the why and what of Sandstorm: easy web app self-hosting, with no config files or environment variables.
The speaker kit will get you started, and if you want practice, or coaching, or help promoting your talk, I’d love to hear from you. I also want to send you stickers! Write me an email at community@sandstorm.io!
And thanks to all the people who worked on the “Intro to Meteor” Speaker Kit – Alice Yu, Cesar Chen, Miroslav Hibler, Robert Dickert, and others – for writing a clear, inviting document that inspired me.