All the teaching materials on this site (text, video, and audio) are always available for your use, no matter where you may be in the world or what your schedule may be like. There is absolutely nothing wrong with never getting more involved than simply accessing the materials on this site as you see fit.
For anyone who does want to get involved with a group of like-minded individuals also interested in these same things, however, this site does formally run a community of sorts.
Our community has its own GroupMe group chat where I post meeting info and recording info every week, as well as other general announcements. I also cross-post on a couple other platforms, to give people a choice as to how they participate:
- The Signal group chat is for international folks (GroupMe only works in the US) and folks who prefer only communicating with open-source E2EE apps. We settled on Signal instead of WhatsApp or Telegram or WeChat or what have you due to Signal’s excellent privacy features.
- The Discord group chat is for people who already basically live in Discord, and would rather participate that way.
You can join as many or as few of these as you want. Since I do cross-post announcements and such, the choice is really up to you. Many people do participate across multiple different platforms, so you don’t have to only pick one.
Here are the invite links: