Navigating Open Source
summary
Ghost is a NodeJS blogging platform funded as a nonprofit with a hosted product Ghost Pro and a Kickstarter launch strategy that stays closed, runs an invite-only private GitHub until public launch, then opens a history of 1,000 issues. Initial team of eight turns a prototype (Express, nodeunit, mocker, should, grunt, Travis, JSLint) into working software, adopts Ember for admin, switches to Trello and monthly releases, and grants commit rights to trusted community members — and it scales.
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chapters (18)
- 0:00Intro
- 1:00What is Ghost
- 1:48Ghost Foundation
- 2:43What is Open Source
- 4:55The Ghost Story
- 7:28Taking Stock
- 10:45Express
- 13:10Public Launch
- 17:02Challenges of Open Source
- 22:10Responding to People
- 30:17Managing Open Source
- 32:12Attracting new contributors
- 33:17Being an open source project
- 33:46Improving engagement
- 35:30Commit rights
- 37:10Communication
- 37:36Open Source Development
- 38:24Get Involved
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