Just an idea, but I have noticed a few very location centric threads pop up over the last couple of months which are not really wider community topics, nor are they gig announcements. From the last 2 or 3 months without looking very hard :
http://chipmusic.org/forums/topic/7332/ … anization/
http://chipmusic.org/forums/topic/7426/ … -kentucky/
http://chipmusic.org/forums/topic/7342/ … n-seattle/
http://chipmusic.org/forums/topic/5227/ … -together/
http://chipmusic.org/forums/topic/5589/ … -and-more/
http://chipmusic.org/forums/topic/6872/ … musicians/
http://chipmusic.org/forums/topic/6792/ … hip-scene/
I am sure there are more if I dig around a bit, any thoughts on collating them all to a single "regional scenes" subforum? It might help local scenes develop while keeping the rest of the forums of interest to the general readership.
Just an idea.