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 We (all volunteers) are building a better Google Hangout scheduler tool for people who want to find study partners and learn web development together by screen sharing and talking code/talking about what they've built/working through coding exercises together. This application is built in flask, a light-weight web framework for python. Anyone can contribute to this open-sourced project.
 
 ##Background
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 [http://www.codebuddies.org](http://www.codebuddies.org)
 
 ##Installation