give people some insight on what to expect from communication channels

[peterkaminski]

from robok:

suggestion:
recommend sentences to the effect of:
We use a few communication platforms to promote the exchange of ideas and information that have different engagement rhytyms. You can join some or all of them:

Mailing list [instructions]
CSC is the name of our Mattermost, which is a slack-like chat plaftorm [link]
Long form discussion forum [instructions/link to Discourse]
point being to give people some insight on what to expect