Ghost, an open source and non-profit blogging platform ,available very soon.
Following the shutdown of Posterous
in 2012 after be acquired by Twitter, the recent acquisition of Tumblr by
Yahoo!, the Ghost project is almost in front of our PC and mobiles. For those who
have been disappointed by these recent events , Ghost will be the reconfort.
have been disappointed by these recent events , Ghost will be the reconfort.
Available in Kickstarter, Ghost has already receives £141,273 pledged of
£25,000 goal. This means as of August
2013 more or less, the software will be released by digital download to Kickstarter backers before
anyone else.
The Ghost
includes beautiful designed, customiseable
and completely Open Source. This means, Ghost allows you to write and publish
your own blog.
The project is being released
under the MIT
License (you can do whatever you want
with Ghost, and you can choose whatever license you want when you build
something with Ghost).
About the
People behind Ghost:
John O'Nolan is a founder of Ghost;
he builds websites (but mainly blogs) with WordPress since 2005. From 2009-2011
he worked as the Deputy Head of the WordPress UI Group, to design and develop
the WordPress user interface.
Hannah Wolfe is a Senior
Developer at Moo.com where she is currently working with a small team focused on a little
site called Flavors.me. Hannah has been developing WordPress sites for over 7 years and prior to
MOO , worked as a developer for a web agency, building websites (and blogs) for
large household names in the UK.