I'll update here as I make progress:

http://code.google.com/p/hackerexchange/

I'm aware of the chinese solutions done in Django but after looking it over, I think I can do better.

I'll prolly write it in PHP too (gasp) so any n00b can basically rip it off and throw it unto shared hosting! ahh, gotta love opensource =)

"A clone of stackoverflow.com to be done over the course of the weekends"

Weekends plural? I thought this was only going to take 1?

And shush up about it until you have something to show, less you fall victim to this phenomenon http://sivers.org/zipit

i am having difficulty pulling the latest revision. i'd like to review the progress made in the first weekend.

LOL

Ok, so where is it smart guy? :)