gaining_access.md

-CADES-CONDO Access
+# CADES-CONDO Access
  
-First go here
-https://cades.slack.com/signup
-This is for support, if you are running OSX I suggest going to the app store and downloading the slack app.  Leave it open while you are running on cades.  I am available on it as @epd
+If you are running OSX I suggest going to the app store and downloading the slack app.  Leave it open while you are running on cades.  I am available on it as @epd
 
-Then go Here, your account name should match your ucams id:
-https://xcams.ornl.gov/xcams/groups/cades-cnms/
 
-Then go here:
-https://code.ornl.gov/CNMS/CNMS_Computing_Resources/wikis/home
+## Make yourself a [slack account](https://cades.slack.com)
+If you're going to run on CADES log in to it and see what is happening in the general channel.  This can save you a great deal of time. 
 
-Let me know if you have any problems.
+It's available as a web app, via the OSX appstore, ios and android. You wouldn't leave an experiment running in the lab, or food on a hot stove and leave with no way to be contacted, you shouldn't do it on CADES-CONDO either.
 
+*  Any current trouble will be discussed there in real time.  
+*  Trouble that you cause large enough to impact other users will also be discussed there.  
+*  Get slack for your phone.  
+
+
+## Get an XCAMS id, your account name should match your UCAMS id:
+[XCAMS id and request for cades-cnms access](https://xcams.ornl.gov/xcams/groups/cades-cnms/)
+
+### You will be informed by email when you are granted access
+
+[Go back to CADES](CADES)
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