Our goal is to enable communities of shared interests to come together and manage for themselves how they pool, share, and teach their collective knowledge. Questions and answers are central, but Codidact is more than just Q&A. We'll learn from our experiences on other platforms, both the positive lessons and the negative ones, and do our best to build a platform that puts communities first and focuses on quality. See The Codidact Vision for more elaboration.

To do this, we'll build an open-source platform and host an instance of it for interested communities. On our instance, content will always be free and never hidden behind paywalls or subscription fees. We'll seek donations to fund that instance, and we are incorporated as a non-profit community interest company to guarantee that community interests, not shareholders' financial goals, govern our activities.

Every community is different and needs vary. One size does not fit all, so our platform will be highly customizable. We will work with individual communities that want to join to learn what they need and help them create it.

We aspire to create software that is as accessible as possible, including localization.

We have a code of conduct that applies to this project and to the Codidact instance that we host.

If you are here because you want to — or currently do — use Codidact rather than being part of the team that's building the platform, you might want to sign up for our announcements mailing list. Send email to [email protected]. The system will reply with a confirmation message; reply to that to complete your subscription.

We'll send email to the announcement list when there are major milestones, including new communities. You can also follow us on Twitter: @CodidactQA.

• Requirements
• Functional specification

For actual development:

• GitHub
• Co-Design CSS framework

We are currently using the QPixel software, which is written in Ruby on Rails.

We have a Discord server for casual chat. Please bring conversations that require broader input to Codidact Meta.

We share many goals and some people with another project you might want to know about: TopAnswers.

You can see the project TODO on Trello. Please note that we are no longer actively adding new things to this list - this card tells you where issues now belong/are stored.