The best thing about our community is that it is made of all kinds of people, from all walks of life.

I was thinking it would be nice, to profile our user community, at least anyone that wants to participate in the community, not as a mandatory thing, people could choose not to participate.

To gather information about how the can help the community, perhaps some of this information is already on maemo.org, but I thinking if we expanded on it, the council could use this information to better tap the people with certain expertise, hold meeting and get help to get things done, from system administration, to web development, to marketing, to usability and ergonomic experts.

Additionally if the community had access to this information we could also gather the resources to better complete our own projects, by being better able to find the appropriate people interested in helping out on projects.

I think you get the general idea, perhaps a page to pop up on login, or just gathered through the maemo.org profile?

So what do you think?

I'd be glad to participate and supply my information. To get succinct results consistent in character and content it would perhaps be best to add questions to the profile.

Some of this can be done at http://garage.maemo.org by using the Skills Profile. Likewise, the http://maemo.org profile displays some of that info as well. But, we can do it here, if you'd like (although, this is another one of those "should be on the wiki" things for me).

Tim