The Google group is a public mailing list that anyone can join to ask questions about / discuss Jsonnet. We also use the list for release announcements and other relevant communications to Jsonnet users.
The #jsonnet channel on Kubernetes Slack is for discussion around the use of Jsonnet with Kubernetes.
There is also an IRC channel: #jsonnet on the freenode network (chat.freenode.net).
There is a Jsonnet tag on Stack Overflow.
All Jsonnet implementations are licensed under the Apache 2.0 license.
You're welcome to contribute to Jsonnet via Github and do share your plans with us even if you're at an early stage. If it's your first time submitting a pull request, a bot will ask you to sign either the Google individual or corporate contributor license agreement (CLA). CLAs are a common requirement when patching open source software projects owned by large companies.