\section{Summary}
The alert stream is non-proprietary and will be (some of) the first data from Gaia Summer 2014. We have planned an extensive follow-up program for classifying large numbers of transients: e.g. 10,000 SNe Ia over the whole sky. The alerts will be published one to two days after the event was initially detected (most of this time is due to the time taken for the data to be down linked from the satellite and processed). The alerts will be preliminarily classified using random forest classifiers based on the Gaia photometry and lowres spectra with additional cross match information from existing surveys. These classifications should improve after the first few months of ground based followup and retraining of the Bayesian classifiers.  The alerts will be published in the VO format. For more information visit: http://www.ast.cam.ac.uk/ioa/wikis/gsawgwiki.