stoked to see y’all!!
there isn’t a listener option for the live session, though you could sign up and just not participate, if that’d be most comfortable! happy to support folks how they’d like 
the sessions will be recorded and made available for purchase through Music Hackspace, though – unsure what the cost will be, so more details to follow!
oh! good q. not imperative – knowing how to connect your norns to maiden is the real baseline requirement, so that we wouldn’t have to spend workshop time working through connectivity trouble. i’ll still be doing an overview of how to add samples to norns, but without much room in the schedule to touch on individual troubles getting a connection established between norns and a computer. so long as you’re able to connect via ethernet to attend, you’ll be good!
hope this helps clarify, but please let me know if i can help with anything else 