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Buoy Documentation, Tutorials, and Reference Guides

Welcome to the Buoy documentation area of our wiki! These pages are filled with how-to guides, tutorials, and user manuals to help you make the most of your Buoy for your community. To learn more about Buoy, check out the Buoy project homepage.

• Have questions? See if it's answered in the FAQ!
• Found a bug? Read our helpful bug submission guidelines first.
• Have a feature request? Read our helpful feature request guidelines first.

Hi! What kind of user are you?

Community member	Website admin	Project contributor
I (want to) use Buoy on a website that someone else made for me.	I (want to) host and manage a Buoy-enabled website for my friends and community.	I (want to) make contributions to the Buoy project itself.
Start at the Buoy User Guide, or jump to a specific section: Assembling a crisis response Team Sending an alert with Buoy Using Buoy during an incident	Start at the Buoy Administration Guide, or jump to a specific section: Getting or choosing a server Installing Buoy Configuring Buoy Securing Buoy Understanding Buoy user roles and capabilities	First, check out our Contributor guidelines. Then: If you are a programmer, start at our Developer documentation. If you are a translator, start at our Translator instructions.