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Who created OSQA and how did it come about? |
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Mike Chen and Sailing Cai from China first wrote their CNProg as a Chinese-language clone of stackoverflow - the best ever online Qestion & Answer site for the English-speaking programmers - and posted source code on google code some time in May 2009. By July 2009 CNProg user interface has been translated into English (Evgeny Fadeev) and Spanish (Bruno Sarlo and Adolfo Fitoria) and the code moved to github. Interest in the CNProg project was strong, and the code was forked dozens of times by others - many of whom made improvements in their separate versions. In December 2009 Rick Ross noticed that there were many separate efforts and lines of progress in CNProg. Together with Evgeny Fadeev and Mike Chen, he established OSQA (Open Source Question and Answer) as a project to help organize and coordinate the various independent forks into a new mainstream version.
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Let me disagree. Stackoverflow is not a forum. Edited
(23 Aug '11, 19:00)
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The first Alpha version of CNProg was finished during new year holidays one year ago. Actually from the start(end of Dec 08), we've opened our source at Google Code. I initiated this project for Chinese community and never thought about it would make a bang :) |
