Ghost Busting: building node apps for the masses

An overview of the Ghost project. Delving into how we built Ghost's open source community and the specific technical challenges that node presents when trying to deliver software to a user base with varying technical know how.

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1. busting building node apps for the masses
2. Hello! My name is Hannah.
3. I’m @ErisDS on the Internet.
5. CTO Lead Developer Head Geek GitHub Wrangler Customer Support Bug Squasher Project Manager PR Merger-er-er Issue Raiser Architect Public Relations Team Lead
8. What is Ghost?
9. Just a Blogging Platform
11. Enable digital publishing for the masses
12. Audience Technical Non-Technical (Everyone in Between)
13. Written in
14. Design-led Open source Nyantocat © 2014 GitHub Inc, All rights reserved
16. Not for profit
17. Not for profit
18. Foundation
19. Foundation
20. Hosted Service
21. Free, Open Source, Non Profit & Sustainable
22. Why ?
23. Why not PHP?
24. JavaScript
25. The Socialite © 2014 GitHub Inc, All rights reserved Javascript Community & Ecosystem
26. Building Ghost (for the Masses)
27. •Embracing Open Source •Node Challenges •Balancing Choice
28. SQLite MySQL PostgreSQL JSON API Client Server Express Bookshelf & Knex Backbone Handlebars
29. Embracing Open Source
33. In the beginning...
34. closed
35. Early Prototype Labtocat © 2014 GitHub Inc, All rights reserved
36. Funding & Proof of concept
37. Kickstarter reward
38. Alpha & Beta Testers
39. Time to Build Foundations b
40. Team = Culture & Process
41. Closed Invite Only Open
42. Iterate & Improve
43. Culture & Process Championed by Team
44. Node Challenges
45. Database?
46. SQLite MySQL PostgreSQL JSON API Client Server Express Bookshelf & Knex Backbone Handlebars
47. Why not No-SQL?
48. Why ?
49. Native binaries
50. Hosting Node.js is too hard
51. One click installer now available
52. e-mail
53. Balancing Choice
54. SQLite MySQL PostgreSQL JSON API Client Server Express Bookshelf & Knex Backbone Handlebars
55. Why ?
56. Theme API
57. Getting Involved
58. So much more to do
59. Roadmap projects 0.5 Apps & Import 0.6 Multi-user & i18n 0.7 Editor & Mobile 0.8 Magazine Features 0.9 Cleanup 1.0
60. Future with Backbone?
62. Visit Ghost.org Subscribe to the dev blog: dev.ghost.org
63. TryGhost/Ghost.git Find us on GitHub
64. Freenode #ghost Join our community in IRC
67. Who you gonna call? 555-2368
68. Hannah Wolfe @ErisDS | hannah@ghost.org | dev.ghost.org