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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It's a wiki, so when you come across something outdated or wrong, we encourage you to fix it.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

• Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ for Users) <--- start here!
  • See also FAQ for Pod Maintainers and FAQ for Developers
  • Why don't you encrypt everything in the browser?
• Known Issues and Feature Requests
• So, you want an invite?
• We need help!
• Report a bug or suggest a feature
• What's new?
• Project roadmap
• Community-supported Diaspora servers
• Meet the team
• Community Meetups
• Live discussion on our IRC channels
• Unofficial Jabber-chatroom: diaspora@conference.jabber.org
• Logos, Icons, and Visual Art - includes wallpaper, fan art, etc.
• Tools to use with Diaspora - browser add-ons, share buttons, CMS plugins, etc.
• Diaspora Lexicon
• Related and similar projects

Developer Resources

• Installing and Running Diaspora <--- click here!
• FAQ for Developers
• 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

Mobile/Third Party App developer Resources

• Android App Project
• iOS App Project
• Wordpress post plugin
• Wordpress profile plugin

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
  • Interface suggestions
  • Linked data
• Copy editing the website(s)
• Other ways to contribute

Pod Maintainer Resources

• Installing and Running Diaspora <--- click here!
• FAQ for Pod Maintainers
• How to customize the splash page
• How to set up Twitter/FB/Tumblr integration
• Paypal Subscription Button Setup
• How to Use Pagekite to Link Your Own Domain Name to a Local Network Diaspora Pod
• Diaspora Trademark Guidelines
• Diaspora Lexicon
• Various Guides & Resources (probably outdated)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

Grassroots Organizing Community Resources

• Grassroots mailing list
• Grassroots media team mailing list
• Grassroots design team mailing list
• Grassroots projects list
• Support Hashtags - #question, #bug, #feature
• Welcoming Committee

Other Resources

These are all external links.

• Diaspora bug tracker - issue and bug tracking.
• Continuous Integration
• 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 (Mailing Lists?)
  • Development discussion list - Google group for discussion of development and technical topics