Consider adding a "karma points" section

[BYK]

Find a sensible formula to calculate a dynamically changing "karma point" and show this on the badge to better indicate the activity of that specific user.

[emres]

Sounds interesting. This is a nice concept but finding the optimum solution that satisfies most of the developers can prove to be a little bit difficult.

[BYK]

This may include commit frequency, issue activity of the user, issue activity of the user's repositories, number of repo watchers and if possible comment activity of the user. Actually I cannot think about anything else right now. Any ideas?

[emres]

Maybe keeping things as simple as possible is the way to go. On the other hand, if you like to dream of complexity, how about metrics such as "average time the developer took to fix issues on his most populer (forked / followed) project", "average time of fixing an issue on his least popular project (showing he never neglects his poorer children ;-)" And to make things even more complex: give us the ability to select one of the pre-defined metrics, as well as a dead simple API to calculate the ones we may come up in the future, how about that? (OK, just joking)

[BYK]

Hah! Very interesting metric ideas. Meditate on this, I will.

[emres]

Maybe we should start a new project and call it GitHub über-data-mining Tool (and start running crazy experiments to understand and analyze developers working via Github) ;-) (Looking at how this discussion proceeds, this may be its final destionation).

[BYK]

May be you can fork it and start that project =D Or may be we'll create something using Scala and use that as our backend service provider. Who knows?

[killthekitten]

Such widget can be very accurate since all this watching, starring, forking and following features were introduced.