Maybe a random reward for low end nodes?
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Nearly.
Each wave gets the same size of pool, but the earlier the wave, the fewer the competitors youāll have.
Yup! Everyone teaming up to maximise participation means everyone wins, and learns along the way too.
Plus, there are more subtle things to test, learn from, and improve when we have goals like thisā¦ onboarding and UX for example!
And MaidSafe will be doing a kot of marketing work here too, so big lifting all round.
It wonāt be a linear distribution in each wave. Yes, we want to make it competitive at the top (it will pay to be at the sharp end) but we are also going to weight the distro curve to make sure that its worthwhile for everyone.
(Although, we can weed out folk that donāt bother showing up, and prompt folk that do!)
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Participants of the wave 1 will be given access automatically to the next waves or need to fill out the form again?
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If you are in the wave, you are in for the duration! The tide keeps on coming!
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Recruit meeeeeeee 
No seriously, I missed the registration for wave #1 because I am not looking at Discord that often, but I am here reading the discussions every day since 2015 (!)
So ready to help one of you to reach their recruitment targets.
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How can it already be full?! I didnāt even get to start up my new node 
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Registered People - not nodes
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Damn - now Iām nervous if Iām really in or if I made a mistakeā¦ (not hitting the final send that can be missed or so) 
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+1, looked up the form link in the discord links, clicked the link again and it was saying that message. I was rather quick to fill it in as far as I can remember and have been running nodes in the last testnets, so I hope not to miss itā¦
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Sorry to ask the obvious question to the answer that you purposely did not stateā¦ but I am going to do it anyway.
How much prep time do we have, just a ballpark if you could. There is stuff I want to do that takes time to achieve and I donāt want to start anything that will not fit in the available time.
It is hard to plan and give 100% of you donāt know the boundaries.
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You trying to give Neik a run for his money 
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Itāll be kicking of at the start of June, so all ducks in a row by then 
We can all get prepped for that; and there will be some UX niceties coming as well, to help folk get on without the need to have any command line chops.
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Haha no, my plan is to maximize my home node capability, that includes ordering a new router and upgrading my fiber to handle the traffic then misc setup improvements.
I could easily jump in tomorrow with cloud nodes, but my thought here is we are going to launch this thing once and I want sustainable, I dont think cloud will be that.
So Iād like to be as prepared as I can be.
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I need some of that in my life
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You might make your investment on all those instances back from this 
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To me, ārunning a nodeā still sounds like something beyond my understanding. Iād like to participate (I even filled in the form) but I have no idea how to get started. A guide like the one @Dimitar made to move/store omni MAID was very helpful for me. I only have a regular laptopā¦ Or perhaps itās still too early for people like me to contribute anything meaningful?
Greetings and have a nice day everybody
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Hi @Phileine totally doable, and you can practice on the, currently running, testnet.
Is your laptop windows?
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You can do it mate, I had been sitting on the sidelines of the community for years. I have no IT background but I wanted to take part in tests as it seemed the most meaningful thing to do to help the project along. I bought a raspberry Pi a few months back and Iāve increased my knowledge incrementally since then and thanks to some helpful content online, and help from good folk here on the forum Iām helping to test this network. Itās been a good experience.
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And donāt worry, we have some improved tools popping up and iterating on over the next few weeks that will really help folk not familiar or comfortable with the command line. And something that you can be walked through really easily.
We want it all as accessible as possible!
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@JimCollinson - are there any plans for a support desk function - or should we organise this ourselves?
Im thinking this would be more do-able on Discord than here - where we could have a general N00bs start here set of forums with sub forums for Win, Linux, Mac, each with pinned posts with the obvious steps first and FAQs
And maybe a phone a friend section where those who are willing to take the (tiny) security risk can get AnyDesk help as suggested by @rreive ? ^
But others who know Discord better will likely know a more elegant solution.
EDIT: ^ If this goes OK, then maybe add the relevant AnyDesk download to the binaries? Just thinking out loud - could that get wrapped into a Docker image with all you need in one place to go from
N00b to Master Node Wrangler in 60 easy Minutes <ā title of my new book 
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