Email is the main way we communicate to organise expo. It is essentially obligatory to participate in this. Joining the email list does not commit you to come, it's just a mailing list.
Sign up to get emails here: lists.wookware.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/expo". -This is a new email system created in 2018 so if you think you are already on the list but you joined +This is a new email list created in 2018 (moved outside Cambridge University) so if you think you are already on the list but you joined before 2018, and you haven't been getting many emails recently, you are probably on the wrong list. -So visit that webpage and sign up to the new expo list (hosted on wookware.org not on the university). +So visit that webpage and sign up to the new expo list.
You will be sent email requesting confirmation, to prevent others from gratuitously subscribing you. This is a private list, which means that the list of members is not available to non-members.
The email list is old-school: text only, no fancy formatting and only small file attachments allowed.
Once you have signed up, you can also choose whether or not to be visible to the other people on the list. To see the other members of the list ("subscribers" to the list) look at the roster. (A link to this roster is at the bottom of your sign-in page.) +
For more ephemeral and real-time communications we have a set of channels 'LoserExpo' on Matrix. There is the main Expo channel, which everyone should join, and a set of others for Training, Finance, Meetings, Surveying, Website nerding, Gear, Food, Objectives, Mentorship, etc. Anyone can add more if need be.
+ +There are lots of ways to use Matrix, but for most people the simplest is to use Element (as a phone app, a website, or a desktop app). Join LoserExpo
+Normally you will get sent an invite after signing up to the mailing list. That"s a somewhat generic-looking mail from element.io "wookey has invited you to a space".
+ +For those with old-school tendencies, the IRC channel we have had for a couple of decades '#expo', (now on libera.org), is bridged to the 'Expo' matrix room so it can be used from IRC too.
+ +If using an older client that does not understand spaces you can get to all the channels directly, but if you just join LoserExpo, as above, you should get all of these automatically: +