diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 0021b90..17955ee 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -14,13 +14,15 @@ virtualenv -p python3 venv
 source venv/bin/activate
 ```
 
-- Install the dependencies : 
+- Install the dependencies: 
 
 ```
 pip install -r requirements.txt
 ```
 
-- Configure `GITHUB_USER` and `GITHUB_TOKEN` in settings.py
+- (optional) Configure `GITHUB_USER` and `GITHUB_TOKEN` in `/app/settings.py`. This is currently only required to:
+	- override Github's unregistered user API limitation during app catalog update which prevents from updating more than about 10 entries) via `appcatalog.py`
+	- perform some maintenance watch tasks via `maintenancePing.py`
 
 - Init the database :
 
@@ -34,3 +36,5 @@ pip install -r requirements.txt
 ```
 ./manage.py update
 ```
+
+Note: script files located at `app/scripts/` are meant to be executed via `cron`. Therefore for local development purpose they can be triggered manually.