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Just installed OSQA, quite painless and straight forward. Nice job.

Next steps would be to customize it to fit with the rest of our site - for example:

  • update the CSS / look
  • integrate with our existing user authentication scheme
  • remove various options (eg. external login providers)
  • change some of the text / descriptions
  • create appropriate badges and reputation system for our needs

Is there a guide or document that helps walk through this or point in the right direction?

asked 15 Apr '10, 02:55

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Hey Parand, nice point... We've been discussing this issue a little bit around other threads here in meta, and you're right there is no documentation. There is someone working in the installation docs and the next step will be to create documentation about administrative options and module creation.

This is still a bit of a gray area for most people working on this, except for the guy who implemented the module functionality (which happens to be me), so I guess I'll have to do it myself, but the time has been sparse since we're rushing into releasing our first stable release.

But is a point taken and that have to be worked deeply so other people can start working on customizing their sites and contributing with cool modules. Anyway, I guess you can start posting specific steps while you're working at it, and I'll try to provide my best answers, which will be a good starting point to the documentation to :-)

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answered 15 Apr '10, 05:34

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In the spirit of OSQA we could start with questions (and answers) around specific customizations, and then link to each of those questions from within this question. That way the guide gets built piece by piece and users can help keep it up to date.

(15 Apr '10, 10:47) Parand
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Great comment. That's precisely it. I guess at the beginning there won't be may people able to help besides me, but with time we can gather a good amount of experts. Start asking around and I'll do my best to give you a jump start :-)

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