Direct link to the main site itself;
OSQA - Free, Open Source Question & Answers System
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Re: OSQA - Free, Open Source Question & Answers System
#12Besides the fact that it does look like stackexchange, you have to keep in mind that the criteria to start a new stackexchange are quite high in terms of users/questions/traffic. So OSQA can be a good alternative to keep stackexchanges (such as http://semanticoverflow.com which lacks enough users to be restarted as part of stackexchange.com) alive which where created at a time as they were still offering private/seperate installations, due to its import ability.
Re: OSQA - Free, Open Source Question & Answers System
#13I'm a user/dabbler of OSQA, and the project is very nice. However, IMO there are several things holding the project back from greater community involvement:
1) the lack of an official GIT backed repo. 2) the current state of tickets (who's working on what, and how) is very messy. Its managed through Jira, and its just hard to see where things stand.
Re: OSQA - Free, Open Source Question & Answers System
#14A rails / mongodb project also exists for this called http://shapado.com/ Code here: https://github.com/patcito/shapado Personally I am still uncomfortable with rolling out a site that looks exactly like StackOverflow. I imagine it could be a good basis to start on though.
Maybe not rolling out for public use, but I've found OSQA perfect for internal knowledge bases. Doubles as a quick way to vote for one off things ("I'm doing a talk on HTML5, add and vote-up what you guys want me to talk about").