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 * You have to have a registered account at Shellsnet ( the IRC-network where our chat channel is located, website here: http://www.shellsnet.org/ . Registered with Nickserv that is, not registered on their wiki! )
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 1. Add your name on the list of interrested users here: ["Users"]
 1. Hang around in the IRC-channel for some time (about a week) and try to get and know us. You have to be somewhat active, stats is available here so you can see how active you are: http://shell.blinkenlights.se/rhea/~blinkenbot/ If there is no conversation at the moment, start one yourself, someone is probably listening. If you find that no one is online when you are, try sending an email to JohanMarcusson instead.
 1. Send me a pm and I'll ask you some questions about you, your intentions with the shell and so on. If you answer in a good way, you will be given an activasion code.
 1. Use the activasion code to login to the signup program. Here you will validate your email and phone (SMS) aswell as aswering some more questions and doing a quiz.
 1. When you're done with all that, I'll review the application and manually create an account if everything looks allright.
Please read all the relevant information on this webpage so you know what this type of service this is before you start applying for an account.
 1. Join our IRC-channel #blinkenshell @ irc.shellsnet.org . Register your nickname with the nickserv bot on shellsnet.
 1. Create an account on this wiki. Use your preferred nickname as account name.
 1. Go to the page ["Info/Login"] (you have log in with your wiki account to view this page) and follow the instructions to log on to the shell server. This will allow you to run the shell signup program, there are 4 steps in this program that you have to complete.
 1. Before you can finish the last step in the signup program, I will check the info you have submitted. If you have failed to signup on shellsnet or something like that, you can't proceed.
 1. Hang around in the IRC-channel for some time (a couple of days) and try to get and know us. You have to be somewhat active, stats is available here so you can see how active you are: http://shell.blinkenlights.se/rhea/~blinkenbot/ If you find that no one is online when you are, try sending an email to JohanMarcusson instead.
 1. You can now complete the last step in the signup program, the SMS activasion.
 1. When you're done with all that, I'll review your application and manually create an account if everything looks allright.
Please read all the relevant information on this webpage (especially rules) so you know what this type of service this is before you start applying for an account.

Feel free to ask us in the chat channel if you have any questions about the service.
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Signup

First of all, there are a couple of requirements you have to fulfill before signing up:

  • An email address that you check regularily and are going to keep for a while, preferably an ISP-mail. If you don't have one, you can get one with the shell.
  • Access to a mobile phone or other device with SMS-capability.
  • You have to be able to speak English.

Next, follow these steps:

  1. Join our IRC-channel #blinkenshell @ irc.shellsnet.org . Register your nickname with the nickserv bot on shellsnet.
  2. Create an account on this wiki. Use your preferred nickname as account name.
  3. Go to the page ["Info/Login"] (you have log in with your wiki account to view this page) and follow the instructions to log on to the shell server. This will allow you to run the shell signup program, there are 4 steps in this program that you have to complete.
  4. Before you can finish the last step in the signup program, I will check the info you have submitted. If you have failed to signup on shellsnet or something like that, you can't proceed.
  5. Hang around in the IRC-channel for some time (a couple of days) and try to get and know us. You have to be somewhat active, stats is available here so you can see how active you are: http://shell.blinkenlights.se/rhea/~blinkenbot/ If you find that no one is online when you are, try sending an email to JohanMarcusson instead.

  6. You can now complete the last step in the signup program, the SMS activasion.
  7. When you're done with all that, I'll review your application and manually create an account if everything looks allright.

Please read all the relevant information on this webpage (especially rules) so you know what this type of service this is before you start applying for an account.

Feel free to ask us in the chat channel if you have any questions about the service.