@fergish technically non devs have been globally connecting nodes for about a month 
Continuing the discussion from Running a publicly available crust node within a private LAN:
A huge thank you! to everyone who is obviously putting a lot of “blood, sweat, and tears” into building the world’s future network. You are an inspiration for all and stories will continue to be told about your special team for a very long time.
At least in my community the word is spreading fast and there is much anticipation.