Alpha Next

What is it?
Are you interested in the future of App.net? Have you got ideas (social, technical or financial) or time or skills that you're willing to share? In short are you in a position to do something about the abrupt shift in App.net's fortunes?

The public Patter room Alpha Next is the place you need to be if you want to be involved.

A much briefer summary: "Focusing on improving the Alpha web client."

How did it start?
@matigo did the obvious thing and said: "A [Public Patter room to discuss the evolution of Alpha has been set up. Come join the conversation. Everybody who wants to see this community grow, thrive, and be more awesome is invited!" (See this post.)

How can I join in?

 * 1) Go to the Alpha Next public Patter room (it's channel number 51447),
 * 2) Authorise it using your App.net login.
 * 3) Don't forget to subscribe - to remember where to go back to the next time.
 * 4) Contribute.

Associated Patter rooms

 * ADN Vision - "Focusing on replicating the App.net API." (Direct link.)
 * The ADN Vision page at this Wiki.

Roll your own Alpha

 * Setting up your Alpha clone - LINUX
 * Lasar Liepins (@lasar) wrote this guide to getting your personal Alpha clone running on a Linux server


 * Setting up your Alpha clone - MAC
 * Neil (@neilco) wrote this guide to getting your personal Alpha clone running on a Mac OSX machine

Footnotes (or WHY did this start?)
@dalton posted "App.net State of the Union" to the App.net Blog on May 6 2014. A stark indicator of the company's financial state, it prompted some users to see this as an opportunity to advance App.net beyond the scope of the original founders, @dalton and @berg.