The source behind, http://data.stackexchange.com

If you have any questions or would like to report bugs or submit patches, please log them on http://meta.stackoverflow.com and be sure to tag them with the data-explorer tag.

What can I do to help?

I tried to make it as easy as possible to contribute. To help out with the javascript side of things or styling, all you need is a web browser and Mercurial client. To help out with the .NET side of things you will need VS 2010 and SQL Server (express at least)

I tried to expand on this here: http://code.google.com/p/stack-exchange-data-explorer/source/browse/Readme.txt

What is the license?

We have chosen the very liberal MIT license; this means that you can take the code and use it in your own commercial project. Of course you must account for the legal side of things, so if you deploy an instance of SEDE we do not want it to look like it's a Stack site.

What kind of contributions are we hoping for?

Some areas that I think could use TLC:

# We could do a bit better with the awesome SlickGrid3 (things like sorting, better styling or cut-and-paste support and so on) # Graphs would be awesome # Bug fixes # Stuff that makes SEDE better at teaching and learning

How do I contribute?

Easy! Create a clone, anyone can do that. Make your changes on the clone. Then either respond to an existing data-explorer post on http://meta.stackoverflow.com or open a new post on Meta asking for a merge.