ALFALFA, the Arecibo Legacy Fast ALFA Survey, is a two-pass
drift scan spectral line survey intended to cover 7000 square degrees of
high galactic latitude sky visible from Arecibo, with nearly 8
times the sensitivity and 4 times the angular resolution of HIPASS. Because
of its wide areal coverage and spectrophotometric accuracy, ALFALFA will provide
a legacy dataset for the astronomical community at large, serving as the
basis for numerous studies of the local extragalactic Universe. Begun in February
2005, ALFALFA is now in its second year of scheduling as AO project A2010.
In this talk, I will review the progress of ALFALFA observations, data analysis,
software tools, data product development and educational activities as well as
give a brief overview of some of the most exciting science results to date.