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The Official Diaspora Wiki

Welcome!

Looking for information about Diaspora? This is the official community-maintained repository of information and documentation for end users, developers, pod maintainers, and contributors.

It's a wiki, so when you come across something outdated or wrong, we encourage you to fix it. As long as you're logged in to your Github account, feel free to click that "Edit Page" button anywhere on the site.

General Resources

• So, you want an invite?
• We need help!
• Report a bug
• Frequently Asked Questions
  • General
  • About aspects
• What's new?
• Project roadmap
• Community-supported Diaspora servers
• Meet the team
• Community Meetups
• Live discussion on our IRC channel #diaspora/FreeNode
• Unofficial Jabber-chatroom: diaspora@conference.jabber.org
• Related and similar projects

Developer Resources

• Installing and Running Diaspora <--- click here!
• Contributor License Agreement - Sign Here!
• Report a bug
• Work on a bug
• How to contribute with Git
• Adding your favorite service to Diaspora
• Diaspora's federation protocol and Diaspora's message semantics
• Live discussions on our IRC channel #diaspora-dev/FreeNode

Contributor Resources

• Report a bug
• Contributor License Agreement - Sign Here!
• How to contribute UI translations
• Understanding Diaspora
  • An Introduction to the Diaspora Source
  • Message passing in Diaspora
• Conceptual stuff (mostly unoffical)
  • Encryption
  • Client-server-model
  • Security Architecture Proposal
  • Interface suggestions
• Other ways to contribute

Pod Maintainer Resources

• Installing and Running Diaspora <--- click here!
• How to customize the splash page
• How to set up Twitter/FB/Tumblr integration
• Diaspora Trademark Guidelines
• joindiaspora.com Production Setup
• Various Guides & Resources (probably outdated)
  • Installing on Ubuntu Apache - Using Apache as opposed to Thin webserver
  • Installing on CentOS/Fedora - Compiling Ruby and Rubygems and getting MySQL and git from non-standard repositories.
  • init script for diaspora - a first attempt at an init script for starting and stopping the thin server

Other Resources

These are all external links.

• Diaspora bug tracker - issue and bug tracking.
• Continuos Integration - please don't press that "Build now" button.
• isitoktoupdatemydiaspora.tk
• 99translations.com - the service we use to help translate Diaspora
• Pivotal Tracker project - what the core team is working on in the next few weeks
• Discussion list - Google group for discussion of non-technical topics
• Development discussion list - Google group for discussion of development and technical topics
• Questions & answers - The StackOverflow clone for Diaspora