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title: "Join the Community"
description: "Part of the Home Assistant experience is the large world-wide community of tinkerers. Join us."
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You made it here? Good job! You've been able to install Home Assistant and get a small taste of all the things that are possible.

Now that you've got that going, let's see what is next:

 - Learn about [advanced configuration](/getting-started/configuration/) using `configuration.yaml` in our bonus step of the getting started guide.
 - Join the community in [our forums] or [our chat].
 - Check out [video tutorials] on a wide range of Home Assistant related topics

You're now ready to be a part of our world-wide community of tinkerers. Welcome!

[our forums]: https://community.home-assistant.io/
[our chat]: /join-chat/
[video tutorials]: https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=home+assistant