Initial impressions setting up a User Group with og_panels

Wow. I really love the new panels integration. I wanted to share my quick impressions on using the new features to setup a group for BDUG.

• It would be great to be able to attach files to the group node. I created a Map tab with a single image a custom content, but since I could not upload/attach the image to the panel, or the group node, I had to attach it to a random, unrelated post.
• It would be cool to have hierarchical groups, so BDUG could be a child of the Bay Area group.
• It would be nice to be able to turn off the user image. I made a panel that contained several subject specific wikis, which is extremely cool functionality, but looks a little silly with so many little pictures of me staring out of the page. Also it would be cool to have the "Edit" link show up automatically for embedded wiki nodes, but it was easy to add in by hand.
• It would be cool to have have the panel's various edit links on the panel page, not just on the "Pages" tab.
• Some of the names are obscure for the content in the "Add Content" popup. Especially in the "Contributed modules" section. I pretty much had to just add them all to a panel to figure them out.
• "OG posts by node type or term (titles)" and "OG teasers filtered by type/term" seem to do exactly the same thing, except the first displays titles and the other teasers. Maybe they could be next to each other, and have a normalized naming string.
• I could not figure out how to get teasers of upcoming events, sorted in the same manner as the "Upcoming Events" block.

I hope some of this is helpful. This is a fantastic useful piece of technology, and has allowed me to stop maintaining a separate Drupal install for the Berkeley Users.