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Is there an open source platform that allows a developer to quickly build a Q&A site? For example, was StackOverflow built from the ground up or did it leverage an existing platform?
As far as I know Stackoverflow was built from scratch using .net
Here is a presentation at Google that explains the ideas behind stack overflow
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NWHfY_lvKIQ
There was a person on SO some time ago who wrote a question, asking a similar question and answered it saying that he had built something like SO and made it open source - it was/is called Stacked.
http://ra-ajax.org/stacked-an-open-source-implementation-of-stackoverflow-com.blog
There is open source Q&A platform available at http://www.osqa.net/ Its look and feel is pretty similar to stackexchange sites.
In their own words:
OSQA is the free, open source Q&A system you've been waiting for. Your
OSQA site is more than just an FAQ page, it is a full-featured Q&A
community. Users earn points and badges for useful participation, and
everyone in the community wins.
SO was built from scratch in .net. The guys have discussed releasing the SO code as open source, but have not come to a decision yet. (see here https://stackoverflow.com/questions/7335/the-stackoverflow-source-code and here https://stackoverflow.fogbugz.com/default.asp?W4331).
There are various open source copies around you could look at. Ankur mentioned one. There is also cnprog (here http://code.google.com/p/cnprog/)
DotNetNuke is great. It has a whole lot of modules that could be used or adapted to do a Q&A. And since it is ubiquitous, there are lots of resources (including SO) where you can get help.
There is an open source Q&A platform that looks quite promising, and it's called Shapado. There's a paid version as well, but the code, which is built in ruby, mongomapper and mongodb, is available on Gitorious:
https://gitorious.org/shapado
It lacks, however, some of the richer features of Stack Overflow that enable reputation building and surfacing of best content. Which you can, no doubt, build yourself.
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I am looking into creating a simplified version of a CRM without having to reinvent the wheel on some of the base functionality.
Would you please recommend an open source CRM product that I could use?
NOTE: I would be interested in solutions with PHP or Java.
Have you looked at SugarCRM? It's pretty mature so it might not meet your "simplified" qualifier, but if I were in your shoes I'd probably consider starting there. It started life as an open-source project and there is still a "community edition".
Consider, however, that I have little familiarity with CRM in specific, so I can't comment one way or another on the quality of SugarCRM. Good luck.
For me VTECRM 4 is the best! It's based on sugar and vtiger crm and it's easy to use. You can download it and customize. It's based on php - mysql and it's free. dowload link: http://code.google.com/p/vtecrm/source/checkout
If you want a simplifed CRM, SugarCRM is NOT the place to start.
Have a look at Tine2.0. It has a demo online, it's built with PHP and ExtJS (so it feels like a desktop application) and is very easy to modify, and has a sizable community behind it (though the owner had the "vision" to split it by language, so unless you read German well, you'll have to use Google translate most of the time)
It doesn't do Gantt charts, but it does tagging.
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Is there a decent website or service out there where developers can propose a new idea for an open source project (regardless of language) and have the community vote it up / down, form teams, and do everything that precedes writing the first line of code?
There is the SomeBodyMakeThis reddit. Also, project sites like SourceForge allow you to create a project which is in the "planning" stage. Often, this is used by people who think they have a good idea and want somebody else to make it for them.
Kind of like Kickstarter (for funding), SourceForge (for hosting), or an IdeaStorm (for brainstorming and community feedback)? The Apache Foundation, or the Horde project (for incubating a plethora of related projects)? It really depends on to what your idea relates. Try joining one of the relevant extant open-source communities and sounding off on your idea.
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I'm looking for recommendations on an open source toolset for WYSIWYG HTML/CSS design. What you have you found to be valuable in your work?
I briefly used Bluefish while in college, which has similar features to Dreamweaver.
Wikipedia has a good list here.
Windows
Web Applications - Microsoft Visual
Web Developer Express 2010 (Not Open Source, but powerful for large applications)
Web-Sites and Microsites - Intype +
FileZilla (Not Open Source, but faster alternatives)
Notepad++ is a quick alternative too,
that has various plugins (like FTP, [Open Source])
Mac
TextMate & Coda (I hear these are cool and sleak)
Dreamweaver equivalent for Linux
asked a similar question and my answer is still the same, aptana is cross platform. Also please note the concept that WSYWIG is not generally what you get, you may also want to look into jsfiddle.net as it is a great tool for testing concepts in a functional environment.
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I'm in the process of setting up a new website which would greatly benefit from having user-forums.
Since I already have user accounts, and profile details, stored away it seems that I'd benefit from choosing an open-source forum package which I could modify so that logins were tested against my existing database.
Right now all my site is Perl-based, and looking around I don't see many great Perl forums - the only obvious one I could find which is featureful is yabb - but that is written to authenticate against flat files and to be frank the code is nasty.
If I need to use a PHP solution then so be it, but first are there any simple forums that are written in perl that you'd suggest? I'd expect to have different forum-groups and nominate particular users as moderators. More than that I don't need, just basic threading and an attractive appearance.
Really simple forums are often really insecure forums. If you're determined to use perl, a major web forum doesn't come to mind, and if your competent in security I'd say roll your own. You could even release it to the open source community to help people like you. I know there are several great PHP ones out there that aren't so insecure an rather well developed.
I seem to remember that Drupal had a reasonable fit as a module.
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It's great to find all those little snippets of code on the Web for your current needs, but is there anything better than getting whole application source code at once and reading it like a book?
There's no better way to learn positive and negative aspects of various architecture solutions.
That's why I was trying to find some known/big websites with its source code published, but haven't found anything more than I knew already ( http://code.reddit.com/browser )
Do you know anything more?
PS. Just being curious - have you heard about any unofficial big web site source code leak?
Wikipedia's source code (MediaWiki) can be found at http://www.mediawiki.org/
The most relevant parts are
"phase3" (the core code; this strange name is because it was rewritten a couple of times)
extensions (Wikipedia uses several of them; which ones can be seen at Special:Version)
Additionally, here is a very detailed explanation of Wikipedia's whole architecture: Wikipedia: Site internals, configuration, code examples and management issues.
You can check out SlashCode, which is the code behind Slashdot and any other sites that use that as a CMS / blogging solution. http://www.slashcode.com
Browsing through the SourceForge repositories is just what you want.
There are tons of well-known, high-quality applications, like Hibernate to give one massive example.
And all the source code is right there :)
http://www.koders.com/
HTH
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