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As you probably know, I've been heavily involved in Codidact for the last year. (Co-didact: learning together.) We're building an open-source platform that supports Q&A and other types of knowledge-sharing, and hosting a network of communities where the members of the communities, not corporate shareholders, make the decisions that affect them. We're in the process of incorporating as a non-profit organization; there are no shareholders. We have small, growing communities for topics ranging from software development to Judaism to cooking to -- new this week and off to an active start -- code golf, competitive programming. I'm excited to be helping to lead this project, specifically as the community lead.
CMX, an organization for community-building and community management, just opened voting for its annual awards, and I'm delighted that both Codidact and I, personally, have been nominated. Codidact is nominated as a community in the "product and ideation" category, and I am nominated as an individual in the non-profit category. (I hope those links work for other people; they require a login and I don't want to create a second account to test, which might look suspicious.)
You have to create an account on their site in order to see all the nominees and to vote. I understand requiring it to vote, but I'm surprised the nominees are behind that wall. For what it's worth, I've had an account there for a couple months (created one to attend a virtual conference they held), and it hasn't been spammy.
There are a dozen and a half categories and a lot of interesting-looking nominees, so I'll need some time to review before casting all of my votes. Fortunately, voting is open for about a month.
I don't know what CMX's reach is, but I'm hoping these nominations will bring Codidact some more participants and maybe even some developers. I think we're doing some great stuff with a tiny team. There is always more I want to do; it is the nature of things.
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