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Is corporate hosting of private Codidact sites permitted?
I'm reviewing a number of Q&A platforms for use by our internal Software Engineering community. Our implementation of a Q&A platform would ideally be hosted internally or on a private account in the Cloud; we don't want to be sharing with the general internet. There are a number of options out there, but Codidact caught my eye as a capable player in the Q&A space. Codidact source code is in a public repo and I couldn't find anything stating that it shouldn't be used in this way, but I get the impression that this is not the intended way that the platform should be used; especially since there's no mention of a paid version of Codidact.
Would this be an acceptable use of the platform, or should I eliminate Codidact from our list of viable options?
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Welcome! Not only is it permitted, but you won't be the first to run a private instance — there's already a university using the Codidact code (QPixel) on a private network. We're building this platform not just for our own public network but for others to use too. (I recommend the develop branch rather than master; it's what we're running this network from.)
The readme and installation guide on the QPixel repository have gone through several rounds of improvements as new people set it up and bump into things that were confusing. I think it's in pretty good shape now. If you run into any problems or questions, please let us know — GitHub issues, questions on Codidact Collab (for developers and people setting up the platform), questions on the Dev Discord server, or questions here are all fine — pick whatever works for you. If you make any improvements to the code, we welcome pull requests too.
Our team is small and we don't have the bandwidth to provide a paid SaaS offering. We'd rather put that effort into improving the code. The code's open-source, so hypothetically somebody else could do that, but I'm not aware of anybody who's exploring that business so far.
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