> I like the blurb on staging, but I think that the *next* thing should be
> suggested further-reading links for new interested people rather than
> dumping them straight into stuff that's more of interest for seasoned
> Schemers.

Agreed. Do you think this could be done by listing the subdomain links
in such an order that things likely to interest newbies are first?

Those would be at least:

- learn/docs
- news/blog
- libs/pkgs
- events (in the future, if not already)

> My hunch would be to have "events.scheme.org" as a big calendar of past
> and future events, each getting their own subdomain to handle as they
> see fit (so the central admin burden is just managing that list). The
> front page should have a link to events, but highlight some very
> recent/current/upcoming events, ideally without any extra work from the
> main page maintainers - events.scheme.org should provide an RSS feed of
> the "current" events.

I like all of these ideas.

> I think we should have an overall "events" thing that workshops and
> other events are all part of.

So we'd have events.scheme.org. I agree that's a good idea. IMHO we
should have both singular and plural for each subdomain, with one
redirecting to the other. This would give us event.scheme.org as an
alias, and a natural subdomain foo.event.scheme.org for each event.

However, workshop.scheme.org reads very naturally. We could redirect it
to the schemeworkshop.org which already exists. In fact, we should ask
the people behind schemeworkshop.org for their opinion and to sync
things up with scheme.org so everyone agrees to the result.

workshop.event.scheme.org is quite long.

>> Link to blog (Planet Scheme); Link to a list of advocacy essays
>> [We should definitely have blog.scheme.org and/or news.scheme.org. What
>> would be a good place for essays?]
>
> I don't know. Do we want to host essays, or just link to essays others
> have published around the Web?

Can we aggregate essays first published elsewhere? Don't many of the
"Planet" sites do that?

>> Should we link to Lisp users' groups or functional programming
>> groups?]
>
> Yeah, let's spread the love and foster inclusion!

Since we won't have a large number of user groups even if we include
Lisp/FP groups, could we also feature them on events.scheme.org instead
of having a separate subdomain just for user groups?

> Ha! I'm being paid to write in Chicken as we speak (sorry, I just can't
> help gloating...)

Gloating for a good cause :)