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Askbotis a Python Django platform modeled on StackExchange. Documentations is availablehere.
Adhocracyis a Python based deliberation and collaborative authoring platform (some information is only in German)http://trac.adhocracy.de/
Discourse- A perfect software to use as Question and Answers Platform.
Everything that is available with StackOverflow and Quora alternatives/Clones
are available in Discourse.
Django Brainstormis a Python Django based ideation platform developed by Sunlight Labs -https://github.com/sunlightlabs/...
LampCMS:It is written in PHP and uses MongoDB as a database to achieve speed and scalability. It is licensed under LGPL-3.
Has many good features similar to StackOverflow and many similar to Quora
like following, tags, people, questions.
Shapadois a Ruby based platform similar to StackExchange (the next version 4.0 will be more Quora-like). You can download it here-shapadoatGlitoriousorshapadoat Github
QARoR- open source Questions & Answers platform for Ruby on Rails. Here is thedemoand source onGitHub. Released under MIT License.
OSQAis a Python Django based open source Q&A platform similar to StackExchange -http://www.osqa.net
Question2Answeris a PHP based platform.Easy to install and highly customizable to your needs. That made it possible to develop severalThemesandPluginsthat other StackOverflow alternatives doesn't provide.
Redditis used for Q&A in places likehttp://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit
and it's an open source Python Pylons based app. Availablehere.
ThinkUpis a PHP based platform which captures answers from streams like Twitter and Facebook. Download ithere.
Umamaois Ruby based; a more Quora-like fork of Shapado -https://github.com/umamao/umamao
The question is aboutOpenSourceQuestion & Answer applications just like Quora & StackOverflow. You are welcome to edit the wiki and add more....(more)
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Ben Werdmuller,cofounder of withknown.com & elgg.org
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Originally Answered:Is there any open source alternative to Quora?
No open source Q&A products are quite like Quora, which - as you'll know by now - runs in a very effective, near-realtime way. Most are based on StackExchange (the platform that powers sites like StackOverflow), Digg, or Yahoo Answers.
Here are a couple to start with:
OSQA (Python / Django):http://www.osqa.net/
Shapado (Ruby):http://gitorious.org/shapado
Askbot (Python / Django):http://askbot.org/doc/index.html
Question2Answer (PHP):http://www.question2answer.org/
Unfortunately, as is often the case with open source projects, they haven't concentrated much on the overall UX, so a lot of interface work is probably required.
Written Sep 21, 2010·View Upvotes
Philip Ashlock,I craft civic technology and coordinate local level open governance initiativ...
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Originally Answered:What are good open source Question and Answers platforms?
There's also a discussion of this athttp://expertnet.wikispaces.com
I've also added some redundant threads under "Related Questions" on the right, but also here:
Is there any open source alternative to Quora?
What are some open source question & answer applications like Quora?
Is there any open sourced Q&A app like Quora?
I've tried to merge everything from the other pages into:
OSQAis a Python Django based open source Q&A platform similar to StackExchange -http://www.osqa.net
Redditis used for Q&A in places likehttp://www.reddit.com/r/AskRedditand it's an open source Python Pylons based app -http://code.reddit.com/
ThinkUpis a PHP based Q&A platform which captchers answers from streams like Twitter and Facebook-http://thinkupapp.com/
Shapadois a Ruby based platform similar to StackExchange (the next version 4.0 will be more Quora-like)http://shapado.com/
Umamamois Ruby based; a more Quora-like fork of Shapado -http://github.com/umamao/shapado
Askbotis a Python Django platform modeled on StackExchange:http://askbot.org/doc/index.html
Question2Answeris a PHP based platform:http://www.question2answer.org
Adhocracyis a Python based deliberation and collaborative authoring platform (some information is only in German)http://trac.adhocracy.de/
IdeaTorrentis a PHP Drupal based ideation platform -http://www.ideatorrent.org/
Pliggis a php based ideation platform -http://pligg.com/
Django Brainstormis a Python Django based ideation platform developed by Sunlight Labs -https://github.com/sunlightlabs/...
