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| If you are new to shell services, you might want to take a look at the [:Howto:Howtos]. There are some articles there about usage of common programs. Also, it might be a good idea to look at the ["FAQ"]. | If you are new to shell services, you might want to take a look at the [[Howto|Howtos]]. There are some articles there about usage of common programs. Also, it might be a good idea to look at the [[FAQ]]. |
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| If you have a question about how to use any of the programs or something like that, feel free to ask in the ["Info/IRC"] channel. As a user, you are expected to hang around on IRC from time to time. If there is another user in need of help, or someone trying to sign up, you are very welcome to try and help them also. Since you already have an account, you probably know how the signup process works etc. | If you have a question about how to use any of the programs or something like that, feel free to ask in the [[Info/IRC|chat]]. As a user, you are expected to hang around in the chat (IRC) from time to time. If there is another user in need of help, or someone trying to sign up, you are very welcome to try and help them. Since you already have an account, you probably know how the signup process works and what you can do with the account etc. |
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| If you want +v on IRC, access to member-only pages on the wiki (only one currenly), your own MySQL DB, email account at @blinkenshell.org or something like that, ask ["Independence"]. | If you log in to the signup program you will now have some new options. You can enable auto-voice for IRC, set up a MySQL database and vouch for new members. Subscribe to Planet Blinkenshells newsfeeds: [[http://planet.blinkenshell.org/atom.xml|Atom Feed]] or [[http://planet.blinkenshell.org/rss20.xml|RSS Feed]]. |
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| Since Blinkenshell is a free service, it's important with an active community and any help with running this thing is greatly appreciated. If you want to help out or show your appreciation of Blinkenshell, there is a few things you can do: | Since Blinkenshell is a free service, it's important with an active community and that everyone tries to help out best they can. If you want to help and show your appreciation of Blinkenshell, there are a few things you can do: |
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| * Help other users or visitors on IRC or in other ways. If you active on IRC, help out users, and act maturely you might get +o on IRC. | * Talking to and vouching new users: [[Info/Approve]] * Help other users or visitors in the chat, try to answer their questions. If you are active on IRC, help out users, and act maturely you might get +o on IRC. |
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| * Make a donation! Money, hardware, hosting etc is greatly appreciated. Users donating might get extra privileges like increased Quota, ability to run bots or servers etc if they want to. | * Spread the word. Put links to Blinkenshell on your website, blog or forum signature. Tell your friends about Blinkenshell. * Make a donation! Money, hardware, hosting etc is greatly appreciated. [[Info/Donations]]. |
Member of Blinkenshell
Congratulations, you are now a member of Blinkenshell! Your account is activated, and you can start using it right away.
If you are new to shell services, you might want to take a look at the Howtos. There are some articles there about usage of common programs. Also, it might be a good idea to look at the FAQ.
If you have a question about how to use any of the programs or something like that, feel free to ask in the chat. As a user, you are expected to hang around in the chat (IRC) from time to time. If there is another user in need of help, or someone trying to sign up, you are very welcome to try and help them. Since you already have an account, you probably know how the signup process works and what you can do with the account etc.
If you log in to the signup program you will now have some new options. You can enable auto-voice for IRC, set up a MySQL database and vouch for new members.
Subscribe to Planet Blinkenshells newsfeeds: Atom Feed or RSS Feed.
Helping out
Since Blinkenshell is a free service, it's important with an active community and that everyone tries to help out best they can. If you want to help and show your appreciation of Blinkenshell, there are a few things you can do:
Talking to and vouching new users: Info/Approve
- Help other users or visitors in the chat, try to answer their questions. If you are active on IRC, help out users, and act maturely you might get +o on IRC.
- Add content to this wiki. Add a simple Howto, add an entry to the FAQ, do some translations to other languages etc.
- Spread the word. Put links to Blinkenshell on your website, blog or forum signature. Tell your friends about Blinkenshell.
Make a donation! Money, hardware, hosting etc is greatly appreciated. Info/Donations.