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Yes Fritz, I'd say custom content is my primary interest. I have in mind that the admin would have the option of adding fields available to registrants and give them each a name. These would be in addition to the fields already offered in the core. Then the user would complete all or none of those fields and could come back any time and update their profile. They could also check which info fields they'd like displayed publicly along with their name on any posts they make anywhere on the site like forum, news, comments, etc. Some of the information they could choose to display would be dynamically generated from the db. That's it in a nutshell.
My use for this would be to allow users to add information about their various bicycles they ride, their favorite rides or trails, and special accomplishments or interests. With each bike they could upload a pic and select which is their primary bike. Then that pic would display along with their name and stats. The data that would display would come from a training log/calendar where they could log daily mileage and planned events. Maybe the mileage could be displayed to the public as a bar graph representing accomplished vs. goal mileage.
I'm not a gamer but I think some sort of user stats display and profiling might be useful on gaming sites too. I can also imagine community sites devoted to music, movies, and other sports where the members might want to display stats. It seems it would add 'stickiness' to any such site because members would return frequently to log their mileage, scores, favorites, whatever and would check to see how they stack up against others -- a little friendly competition ya know.
The module we've been talking about would be a profile module. It would work in conjunction with other modules where the data is actually input. Or maybe they're one in the same. Dunno. Lets keep talking.
I'm interested in helping with this development however I can.
I'm more of a web designer than a developer. But I have a lot of conceptual ideas. I like to say I can read PHP but I can't write it. With enough patience and brain energy, I can modify a script to make it do what I want, but so far I don't have it in me to create scripts from scratch. I just looked at the Smarty site and read some tutorials there so I think I have a slight grasp on that too. I'm pretty good with English and XHTML and CSS. So if you could use my help, put me on the dev team.