I’ll echo what Mantis and Vulkan have already said, welcome.
Further to your comment about communications and the note I added to Mantis’ Google Doc, let me point you to our own communication AIPs - AIP-142 and AIP-175.
A little back-story:
ApeComms is an informal working group that grew organically via a bunch of active contributors looking to solve the issue of the communications vacuum. While our original AIP was supported by almost 90% of the community (unique wallets), it was voted down in the last 48 hours by larger token holders (the challenge with all DAOs).
I think reading both AIPs and their respective comments may help you get a sense of the community beyond speed-reading all 196 AIPs 
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Feel free to DM me or anyone on the ApeComms team – we’d be happy to help you get up to speed or at the very least, give you our own POVs.
(Obviously you can reach out to any active community member in the DAO to get their own POV too).
Cheers,
SSP 