Like the other two respondents have said, I think it's extremely important to have links to the community right there, at the top, easy to get to.
Forums, Wiki, Mailing List.
Putting that all the way at the bottom, making people new to our particular distribution hunt when they're already probably have their Anger Knob turned up to 11...it's pragmatically untenable, unacceptable.
Look at Debian. People love Debian. They HATE their website.
Ever try to download a simple installer image? It's best to already be bald - you'll cry less when trying to pull out your hair.
It's the reverse here. Easy to find and install the distro. Effin' difficult to find basic feedback and discussion forums.
To hell with the people already using this stuff and trolling the mailing list page and/or forums like cats trying to find a new place to pee!
You want developers. You want interested parties. You want convertible users - one big step is making sure they have easy access to the community to answer their dumb questions, to bring up issues that don't make it to the PITA mailing list, to be encouraged and nurtured and dragged into our little vortex.
I'd replace "Conferences" with "Community" and do exactly that with nice, simple links.
I mean, hell...if you can't immediately find the Wiki and notice a problem on there, how are you going to get people to fix it?
I digress a tiny bit:
it's a wiki, you can change it! hint hint
That damnable wiki scares the hell out of me. For one, it's...well, it's a MESS! The to-do stuff is outdated.
Pages point to other pages which point to stubs and...I'd be appreciative if the Heavy Movers who know it inside and out took a couple hours a day, or week, or weekday...whatever...and just cleaned it up.
Give me the worst, bastardized translation from German to English and I'll make it read a lot better, fine...or maybe point pages the right way or kill-dead outdated stuff...but there's a lot of work that experienced people are gonna have to do in order to get this thing back in shape for us n00bs to be efficient.
I put it on a back burner, though I'd love to jump in. But it's a cluster.
Just my thoughts on the matter - please don't mistake my enthusiasm for being blindly critical.