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Subject: Expanding the universe
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Hi ~USERNAME,
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Thanks for joining cosmic.voyage and making it such an awesome
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place right out of the gate. I've been thrilled waking up each day
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to the new stories. We have so much fun chatting about
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possibilities in IRC, too. It's an inspiration to write more,
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which I really appreciate.
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Let's keep this momentum going, okay? Everyone is fairly engaged
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so far, but I know that as the shiny paint begins to dull some of
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our writers will slip away or visit less often. (That's totally
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okay! I can't wait for the surprise visits we'll get from our
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infrequent writers in the months ahead.) But while we still have
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the energy and plenty of resources let's attract some new people
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too.
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Our system load is rarely over 0.01, even with the people that sit
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in tmux and IRC. This may be a tiny instance, but it doesn't take
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much to run text stories. I think we can scale quite a bit before
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processing or bandwidth looks problematic.
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If you know other people who like to write, invite them along with
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us on the journey. While some technical skill is required to use
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the system, that should be part of the selling point, not
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a detriment. Part of our experience is using these primitive tools
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and it's a very simple gateway for new *nix users to get their
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feet wet.
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Over the holiday I plan on recording some tutorials that will walk
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users through all the steps necessary to create an account, add
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a ship, send a long message, add a ship description, and so on.
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Once they're ready I'll share the links out over email. In the
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meantime, I encourage you to help be ambassadors to new people as
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you've already been doing.
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I've gotten so lucky with the crews that have taken the cosmic
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voyage so far. You're all brilliant, creative, and kind. Let's
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keep that up and invite more!
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In case you joined in the beginning when things were a little more
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ad-hoc, here's our current process for becoming a new user:
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1. pick a username
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2. send me a ssh pubkey
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That's it! I'll add the user to the system using that pubkey. Once
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they're in, the welcome email should tell them how to do all the
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next stuff, like creating a ship and logging messages.
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We've got 23 users as of this email. Let's see if we can get that
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over 50. :D
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Bon voyage,
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tomasino
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