xa vs General Service

The XA-Speakers app is rooted in community, purposefully designed to fill a deeply felt need. It acts as the mobile extension of the esteemed xa-speakers.org website, providing you with invaluable recordings from a variety of 12-step programs like Alcoholics Anonymous and Narcotics Anonymous. Key Features: - Community-Powered Library: Access a comprehensive archive of talks from 12-step conventions and events, filtered to your unique needs and interests. - Offline Listening: We understand life’s unpredictabilities. That's why you can download talks to your device and listen offline, making support accessible anytime, anywhere. - Your Journey, Remembered: The app keeps track of your downloads and listening progress, allowing you to pick up right where you left off—all without sharing that data externally. - Privacy by Design: Your listening activity is yours alone. The app does not report back to the website, and all downloads occur anonymously, because your privacy is our priority. - User-Focused Interface: Navigate effortlessly through our platform, thanks to a design focused on meeting community needs, whether you’re new to recovery or a long-time attendee of 12-step programs. The XA-Speakers app is built on the principle of community support, offering a personalized experience tailored to your journey toward sobriety. Here, everything is designed to be about you, for you, and only for you.

Alcoholics Anonymous is a worldwide group that started in 1935 with the sole purpose of alcoholics helping other alcoholics get and maintain sobriety. This General Service App provides a single platform for both A.A. officers and A.A. members to upload and consume information respectively, about the service aspects of A.A. as a whole. Currently, A.A. members must navigate to thousands of independently operated websites, newsletters, emails, and/or attend multiple business meetings throughout the U.S. and Canada, where A.A. officers upload or communicate information about A.A. service. This reality is a time-consuming and confusing way to understand “what is happening in A.A.”. If widely adopted, this app has the potential to provide A.A. service information in a single, easy to understand location, rather than disparate websites, newsletters, emails and business meetings. Each District and Area Chair can either: A. Post their news, events and resources to the generalservice.app website, similar to a social media interface, with three posting options: a. News for Announcements & Events; b. Business for proposals and discussion topics; and c. Resource for where to find more information. B. Work with the app developer to either generate an automated feed of posts that populates their page from an external website. Additional functionality includes: • Screen shots include user posts with “call to action” buttons, where users can click to find more information, or “Add to Calendar” for events. • Each post has start and end dates, which automatically disappear when the date expires. Stories can be re-ordered within each section to accommodate District and Area Chair’s priorities. • Users opt-in their phone’s location services to auto-populate their correct District and Area’s hexagonal location stored in an Excel sheet, maintained by the developer. • Color is used throughout to differentiate District vs. Area vs. General Service Office (all U.S. & Canada) service levels. Active beta testing is ongoing in the San Francisco Bay Area Districts and California Northern Coastal Area, with more regions to be added post go-live in the Apple App Store.