> I think that offers a good combination of "Making scheme.org a good
> first stop for newbies", "Not putting pressure on the maintainers of
> scheme.org to keep tutorials and introductions up to date" and "Not
> making seasoned schemers looking for some reference information have to
> scroll too far down the page".

I tried adding a "Start here" section at the top of
<https://www.staging.scheme.org> but it has only two links for now. The
page looks a bit weird having subsections with so few links.

> Yep, the Scheme Workshop is a major event, so can have its own subdomain
> - which events.scheme.org links to, of course!
>
> I'd suggest:
>
>   - event[s].scheme.org is the canonical page where Scheme events can be
> found.
>   - [subdomain].event[s].scheme.org is available to anybody who's hosting
> a Scheme event to apply for a nice URL, if they want it.
>   - workshop.scheme.org is basically schemeworkshop.org
>   - Each workshop group is welcome to use schemeworkshop.org/YEAR or
> {some prefix as domain names can't start with
> digits}YEAR.workshop.scheme.org or workshop-YEAR.events.scheme.org or
> whatever, that's up to them
>   - But it all gets mentioned on event[s].scheme.org and, automatically,
> currently pertinent ones get hoisted up to scheme.org itself.
>
> In general, any event that is part of a series is likely to want a Web
> site for the event in general as well as for any given instance of the
> event, and I don't think we need to standardise how they handle that, as
> long as there's a URL for each actual instance we can put on
> events.scheme.org, and if there's a URL for the "series" as a whole we
> can have a "regular events" section on the events page for those too.

LGTM!

> If they're groups that have a meetup, then that should go on events - a
> weekly meetup group might indeed have a URL for the weekly meetup and
> not URLs for the individual instances, a case for the "regular events"
> section!

Good idea. The events.scheme.org front page could have a "Regular
events" section at the top or bottom.

> There's also groups that are IRC channels, mailing lists, Usenet groups,
> subreddits, etc that aren't in any way "events" because they're always
> there and should probably just be listed under something else ("social"?).

Oh, you're conflating virtual groups with face-to-face groups. I guess
the latter do have their own virtual spaces also.

The staging frontpage now has a "Community" section linking to mailing
lists and events. Could add IRC, Reddit, newsgroup, and the like.

Should we have "chat.scheme.org" or "irc.scheme.org" for real-time chats
(currently IRC and Discord)? It would be fun if the IRC ports at this
subdomain could be made to redirect to Freenode somehow (I presume most
Scheme channels are on that network; we could also run a Scheme IRC
server but that would probably be overkill and done more for hack value
than actually being useful.)

It's worth pondering how to link to Reddit and Discord which are
commercial (mostly ad-driven?) services that probably track their users.

What's the easiest way to read usenet newsgroups nowadays? Are there any
good web-based alternatives to Google Groups?