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Welcome to the Codidact wiki!

This project was created to coordinate and keep track of current efforts by a group of (mostly unsatisfied) users of Stack Overflow and the Stack Exchange Network to develop an alternative to these platforms.

The group first gathered on 2019-10-16 over an off-site online chat system. Our preliminary focus is to come up with a plan on how this idea can be achieved best, and to gather enough able hands to make it possible.

This wiki will be updated regularly as we define more aspects, technical or otherwise, that are required to succeed in this endeavor. This homepage will be consistently updated to provide accurate and up-to-date resources about the project.

This very wiki page is still a draft and is subject to change.

• Functional requirements: MVP

The Elevator Pitch

Our goal is to build an open-source platform for community-driven Q&A sites similar to Stack Exchange's, including the ability to import content (per the CC-BY-SA license) from SE both initially and on an ongoing basis. We'll fund it by seeking donations, not by paywalls, and work with individual communities that want to join us. (Something about centralized vs. decentralized goes here.)

Project TODO list:

• Come up with a creative, modern name.

• Decide on whether to use a frontend framework and if so, which one.

• Decide on site structure, i.e our own approach to a Q&A system.

• Assign a technical lead and agree on a set of architectural and code style guidelines in written form.

• Settle on a license for the software.

• Coordinate everyone's general attributions and roles, and begin development.

• Decide on the community management approach.

• Decide on which site(s) to replicate first.