Title: Getting started
### Quick start with ESME

1. Go to our [test installation of ESME](http://esmecloudserverapache.dickhirsch.staxapps.net/) or [create your *own ESME installation*](/docs/install/esme-installation-guides.html).
1. *Log on* there using your OpenID identifier or  sign up as a new user to test the application.
1. *Happy social messaging!*

### Expand your ESME experience

* Check out the different [client applications](/docs/clients/apache-esme-clients.html)
 available and tested for ESME. 
* Don't miss the features for actions
* Check out the different means to integrate and interface with ESME


### You are a developer

* You can [check out the ESME source](http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/esme/trunk/)
* You can contribute patches to the ESME Core via [JIRA](https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/ESME)
* You can develop your own clients using ESME's [APIs](/docs/apis/api.html)
* You can collaborate on the [ESME mailing lists](/index.html)

### You are a potential user

* You can check out our [test installation of ESME](http://esmecloudserverapache.dickhirsch.staxapps.net/) 
* You can [install ESME in your own environment](/docs/install/esme-installation-guides.html)