There’s some overlap with the work @derrek is doing on OPEN : Developer marketing: starter repos, tutorials, partnerships, oh my!
I had read through Derrek’s socket before submitting mine. I got the sense that Derrek was more focused on the frontend/ app developer’s experience than the node operator experience, but perhaps there’s something I’m missing 
@derrek please let me know what you think regarding overlap, definitely don’t want to double up efforts where it’s not necessary.
Is there value in doing a reduced value socket this month to get this moving? Could there be research + planning done that will set us up for success once testnet launches? It seems there’s support for this initiative, so if there’s a reduced scope/value of this socket for February, and we can increase the scope/value once we have testnet online, that would seem valuable to me.
I’m very open to this - I actually started the process of creating my own node by walking through the OPERATE A NODE documentation and started my own node install script/ README on Github that outlines some of the gaps I’ve noticed so far: GitHub - westbrook-ai/pokt-node-setup: Scripts to make the POKT node setup process easier.
If it would be beneficial for me to continue down that path so I can provide specific feedback to the protocol team about gaps so that they can work to ensure they’re addressed in Shannon materials, I’m happy to do that. The main reason I started getting myself a node ready is for self-education and so that I can test out any changes that come up during the testnet rollout and help supplement materials as much as possible.