Hello and welcome to Goonswarm Federation!
I hope you're as excited to join us as we are to see you here.

If you have any questions, address them to Bittey Blackmoon or Ralos Emiris.
We're here to make sure everything goes as smooth as possible.

First of all, let's set up your goonfleet.com accounts.
Note that this is mandatory for all members.

1. If you have a https://goonfleet.com account, go there and log. Make sure you tick 'remember me', at least for now.
   Note that if you have an existing account, you MUST use it, even if you no longer own the character it's named after.
   We take this very seriously and you can get yourself kicked and blacklisted if you attempt to make a second account.

2. Go to https://auth.goonfleet.com/ - You might want to bookmark this.
   You will see different options whether you logged in in step 1 or not:
   2.a. If you're logged in, choose [ I need to reset my groups or change my corp/alliance registration. ]
   2.b. Otherwise, choose [ I am registering under a GSF Member Corp or I am an Ally. ]

3. Go to https://goonfleet.com and log in if you haven't.

4. Go back go https://auth.goonfleet.com/ and choose [ I need to view, add or remove APIs. ]
   Add APIs for all of your accounts until you can see all your characters on the list on the bottom.

5. Go back go https://auth.goonfleet.com/ and choose [ I need to set up a new external services password. ]
   5.a. If you've just registered, you'll need to set up an ESA password, which will be used for jabber and mumble amongst other things.
   5.b. If you're a returning member, check if everything is synced and you should be good to go.

6. Set up Jabber and Mumble:
   6.1. Get Pidgin from https://pidgin.im/
   6.2. Domain: goonfleet.com
   6.3. Username: your forum name with underscores, lower case
   6.4. Password: your ESA password
   6.5. https://wiki.goonfleet.com/Jabber#Pidgin
   6.6. Don't forget to get the smiley pack (with menu disabled)
   6.7. https://wiki.goonfleet.com/Mumble
       Your mumble username is: TICKER - Character Name
       The password is your ESA password.

If you're having a hard time following the guide, check out this video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tFYU6nY6JrM&t=1m40s (Many thanks to Tunesmith X)
After 1:40, or if you don't care about the forums part, 3:10

That is all you'll have to do for now. You should have your own subforums, jabber room and mumble channel set up and ready to go.
I probably don't have to tell you this, but you'll want to keep a close eye on The War Room (https://goonfleet.com/index.php/forum/78-the-war-room/), important announcements and doctrines can be found there.

You'll want to read the alliance rules: https://wiki.goonfleet.com/Rules
There are also many Special Interest Groups within GSF to choose from:
https://wiki.goonfleet.com/Internal_Organizations#Special_Interest_Groups