NOTE: Alpaca is 100% independent of Windows. Nowhere in the Alpaca ecosystem is Windows (or COM) needed. Please look over About Alpaca and ASCOM for an overview and to clarify confusion.
Virtually all of the discussions between users takes place on the ASCOM-Talk Users Forum. Astronomy software users with questions and problems concerning drivers use this forum for assistance. To the degree possible the regulars try to help. In addition, there is a separate forum for app and driver developers, the ASCOM Talk Developers Forum.
Each of the preceding forums have associated with them a wiki where you can find "how to" and other articles that may answer your questions. Here is the Users Wiki and here is the Developers Wiki.
All development of the ASCOM Platform, and some of the driver and toolkit developments, are being done in an open source community environment. Sources for all Platform components and some drivers reside on the GitHub server. Please use the ASCOM-Talk Developers Forum for discussions about development.
