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 Setting up the Discord Bot
 ======================================
 
-I run the Discord boy from my laptop. It requires the discord Python
+I run the Discord bot from my laptop. It requires the discord Python
 module available in PyPi and installable like:
 
     $ pip3 install discord
 
-I don't have details on how I set up my own Discord bot and/or invited
-it to my server but I hope you'll add to this file as you do this and
-figure out what needs to happen.
+Setting up the Bot
+=====================================
+
+The documentation for the `discord` python package
+(https://discordpy.readthedocs.io/en/latest/discord.html) does a good
+job explaining how to set up a Discord bot with your server. Follow
+the steps there, with one important exception:
+
+1. On the "Bot" tab in the discord application configuration page you
+need to enable both "Privileged Gateway Intents."  This allows the bot
+to see who is present and active in the channel.
+
+Finally, you need to copy your bot'ss Token (also found on the "Bot" tab)
+into coldcallbot.py. Pass it as the argument to `ccb.run()`.
+
+
 
 Using the Cold Call Bot
 ======================================
@@ -31,7 +44,7 @@ Daily Process
 
 You need to start the bot from the laptop each day. I do that by:
 
-  $ ./coldcallboy.py
+  $ ./coldcallbot.py
 
 The bot will run in the terminal, print out data as it works including
 detailed weights as it goes, and it will record data into files in the