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Navigating Open Source

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November 07, 2014
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Navigating Open Source

Discover how Ghost are building a community and shipping code in the open.

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Hannah Wolfe

November 07, 2014
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Transcript

  1. NAVIGATING OPEN SOURCE A Ghost Story

  2. NAVIGATING OPEN SOURCE Tweet Me! Hannah Wolfe | @ErisDS

  3. None
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  8. Not for profit Money © 2014 Aaron Patterson, Flickr MADE

    FOR LOVE

  9. Sustainable

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  11. BECOMING OPEN SOURCE

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  15. PROTOTYPING Labtocat © 2014 GitHub Inc, All rights reserved Making

    software choices
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  17. PLAN Time to

  18. THE TRANSITION

  19. CLOSED INVITE ONLY OPEN

  20. TOOLS & PROCESS

  21. DOCUMENTATION & GUIDELINES

  22. LAUNCH DAY 14th October 2013

  23. MADNESS

  24. BEING OPEN SOURCE

  25. CHALLENGES

  26. Coping with the DETRACTORS

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  28. Cap Attack © 2014 Okay Yaramanoglu, Flickr

  29. “welcome” “hi” “thank you”

  30. MANAGING User demand

  31. SHIPPING

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  33. EBB & flow

  34. HOW OPEN IS OPEN?

  35. DISCUSSIONS Out in the open

  36. COMMUNITY Commit Rights

  37. COMMUNICATING Long term product vision

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  39. GET INVOLVED

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  41. VISIT GHOST.ORG Subscribe to the development blog: dev.ghost.org

  42. TRYGHOST/GHOST Find us on GitHub

  43. FREENODE #ghost Join our community in IRC

  44. THANK YOU Hannah Wolfe | @ErisDS