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36 lines
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tilde.club
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This is the set of code and utilities for running and managing the
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tilde.club server.
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# What is tilde.club?
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- [http://tilde.club](http://tilde.club) is one unmodified unix server on the Internet
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- Several hundred people have accounts
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- It was launched at the end of September 2014
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- Tilde.Club is *also* an emerging, mutually supportive community of <del>dozens</del> <del>hundreds</del> thousands of people launching similar servers.
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- These people enjoy working in the tool-rich, very social Unix programming environment.
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- Many of these people want to help new users use these open, free tools to empower themselves.
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- Even new users who are scared of command-lines.
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- Especially new users who want to learn but don't like being laughed at.
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- _We won't laugh at you because we know how hard it is to learn about technology._
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- _If this is confusing we will try to help._
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- [Here is the story of how tilde.club started](https://medium.com/message/tilde-club-i-had-a-couple-drinks-and-woke-up-with-1-000-nerds-a8904f0a2ebf). Basically, one person had a few too many drinks and launched a cheap computer in the cloud. Github user @ftrain is the initiator and de-facto coordinator until he burns out.
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- [Here is the FAQ](http://tilde.club/~faq/) which is being developed here at this GitHub repository.
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- No particular entity controls tilde.club. It's emerging as sort of an open, basically free mini-Internet for people who need some refuge from the regular Internet. It was founded with the rule, "no drama," a rule directly inspired by the Mary J. Blige song "No More Drama." So far there's only been a little drama. It's only been three weeks, though. If we're honest with ourselves there is going to be drama.
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It's all moving very fast.
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# Help Wanted
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Tilde.club is moving very quickly and is 100% volunteer led.
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## 1. optimal: pull requests and bug reports
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- There is a lot of great work going on around config, FAQ, basic docs.
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- Jump in if you want. Literally everyone here said "I am ready to help, what can I do."
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- We need non-coders (writers, editors, communicators, artists, project managers) as much as we need tech folks.
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- Most of the coding work is done for us by the Unix operating system. We're celebrating that.
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- A lot of the basic docs are in the [wiki](https://github.com/tildeclub/tilde.club/wiki) which you (yes, you) can edit.
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## 2. suboptimal: open ended feature requests and broad discussion
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- We love philosophy, just not in our issue tracker!
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