Who are the developers behind OSQA?

3	Do you develop it on your free time? Where do you get the hardware/hosting resources from? Why did you start working on OSQA? ... This could possibly be better answered in a blog post. development meta asked 27 Apr '10, 20:08 ripper234 ♦ 3.2k●60●116●123 accept rate: 19%

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OSQA is an open source sponsored by DZone inc., currently the most active developers are all part of the DZone team, and there is one of them (me) which is on the project at full time.
The hardware resources are on the DZone datacenter. It's a rock solid company (way more than GitHub for example, if you were thinking that hosting our repo on GitHub would be safer), so you don't need to be concerned about the availability of the servers.
There's an interesting story behind it, but it will be probably best told by Rick. But I know that story is online somewhere :-P

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answered 27 Apr '10, 20:40

Hernani Cerq... ♦♦
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Why is OSQA sponsored by DZone? Is OSQA a company/ a business? Does it have business goals?

I'm interested in the full story :)

(27 Apr '10, 22:23) ripper234 ♦

Ahhh @ripper234, you seem to think we want to spend all our time writing answers to questions and telling stories, etc. DZone is developing OSQA for its own use and sharing it with others just because we want to. Nothing more complex than that.

(27 Apr '10, 22:40) rickross ♦♦

And no, OSQA is not a company, and it is not a business. You can't buy anything from OSQA and you won't have to. It is simply a DZone-sponsored open source project.

(27 Apr '10, 22:44) rickross ♦♦

@rickross, I'm just firing questions away, feel free to ignore them if you don't have time ... I won't be mad :)

(28 Apr '10, 12:13) ripper234 ♦

Check out this page to get a summary of who's hacking on OSQA. You can see that Hernâni and Jordan are doing the heavy lifting. :-)

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answered 08 May '11, 03:23

dharmatech
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I am happy to see your link, I wanted some prove that OSQA is still under development, and i have got it there.

(03 Jan, 17:17) Hanan

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