Once we get to where it is easy to turn panels off and on, then we can consider those things that aren't normally put in a portal system. It would be silly to get bogged down for weeks integrating/bugtesting things that do not show up on the front page of a site for 95% of the people who would use it.
There's a photo gallery modification in the 6.0 beta forum that you might be interested in. The memberlist is in the beta forum for 6.1
