Improved user profiles on g.d.o - what do you want to see?

regarding the events - this could be as simple as a filter of types of pages people have created. I was thinking about this on the way home and I'm not really sure how the events would really connect to a calendar. maybe just the main drupal events calendar, or the calendar for the group the event belongs to.

if we ever had a 'class' content type on g.d.o, then it would be cool to have a similar filter. (i will be playing around with classes this summer, that is why i am thinking about them. more on that in a few months!)

this has me thinking... (and i apologize if i conflate d.o and g.d.o too much for this thread)...

about the back & forth relationship between d.o & g.d.o

on d.o: i always look at people's profiles where it says 'i did this' 'i did that,' and i remember wondering for a very long time how people managed to, or knew how to, contribute & participate. It might be helpful to people who are new to see some sort of 'how did they know how to do that?' button near whatever type of contribution the user was receiving credit for

maybe lots of little links would be hard to maintain - if that were the case, then even just some sort of link from the profile page that says something like 'this person is really involved in drupal - how can you do that too?' (except not in so many words! :) )

from g.d.o: i do always wind up clicking 'profile on master site' to see what people have done in drupal.

on d.o: maybe it would be nice to have d.o profile link back to the groups page, so you can see how the people who have the most d.o participation probably also have a lot of g.d.o participation. That might exist, but maybe I am missing it.

on g.d.o:
so for example, if you saw that someone organized events, you could go to a page that had stuff about drupal events in general, links to the drupalcamp organizing kits, types of events people organize, event organizing groups...you know, just things that would help people get oriented.

on d.o:
and if you saw that someone had written documentation, then that page would point to the docs team, talks about different ways of contributing documentation, what documentation is & why it is cool, etc

on d.o:
similarly for 'i contributed modules' & 'i contributed patches' & 'i contributed core patches' -- any sort of overview of what that means, what the process is for how that happens, how people can learn the skills they need to do that too - would be awesome & i would totally help write it.

i am sure it this content is already in 10 places on g.d.o & d.o - and more a matter of connecting the dots for newcomers. could be as simple, too, as finding the page that talks about all the ways that a person can volunteer with drupal. the d.o 'contribute' page is a start - but if that page is an overview page for people who are brand-new to drupal - people who have participated for a while might not go look there, so maybe they need to know that the 'contribute' page is for everyone.

oh - and one more idea: ability to bump certain groups up, or rearrange them by activity. maybe you could have 5 favorite groups. (i belong to dozens of groups) if you vote a group as a favorite the administrator gets karma points or something. Favorite is not necessarily the same as 'active' - though close. Some of my favorite Drupal topics are not particularly active groups: yet.

Then your 5 favorite could show a view of recent activity (in the event that you belong to 5 super active groups and want to make them all 'sticky' to the top of the list.) But then also you could sort your groups by how active they are, or how many times you have posted into them.