Thank you for the info.

Regarding #4, from reading the documentation and your responses, I think I found the answers I was looking for here.  Thank you.

Is there a features suggestion area on this site/forum and/or a roadmap to see what types of enhancements are in the works?

Here's what I'm looking at:  So far, I really like this suite of products, and will likely use it as the primary foundation for my social networking.  However, ActiveSocial has a few features that would work really well that Vivo doesn't have (yet).  So, I'm trying to decide if I can use Active + Vivo to get the combined features I'm looking at.  Or, better yet, find one solution that has these features.  Once I discovered Vivo's cross categorizing, and commenting tools, I really want to go in Vivo's general direction (at least in those areas).  Here's a few of the Active features, that might be great enhancements to Vivo:

1) Social hierarchy for some of the tools.  In particular group and personal level events, blogs, etc.  It appears that the blogs & posts sort of work that way, but events at the group and personal level would be great.  This way you could show a group's events, and a simple personal event "manager" (post/edit/delete).  For a grouping tool, this is a fairly nice feature that works hand-in-hand with groups for clubs, schools, gamers, etc. so a club could schedule it's meetings for example.

2) The forum is suprisingly solid, but lacking a few key components.  In particular displaying the last poster on the list views, sub categories, and especially showing the topic one is responding to when they are posting a response).

3)  My personal problem, I'm trying to workaround: Active has a nice hierarchal setup (group AND personal level forums, events, etc.).  Vivo has an excellent points/rating/comments system connected to the user profile.   I especially love Vivo's cross categorization, site wide tools like comments/rating, etc.  The best scenario would be a hierarchal profile for groups/personal (allowing group AND personal level events, blogs, posts, etc.), coupled with Vivo's rating tools for the user profile.  That's why I asked about using Vivo's rating tools as a standalone that might be used on Active's profile.

QUESTION:

Can the events/directory thing you mentioned in your response be filtered (via URL or some other method) by user and group?  So, in that way, perhaps display a group or individual's calendar?  Even if it were housed into a separate template or something.  The concern here would be security permissions/roles (so events can be private, group only, etc.).  While I'd like a graphical calendar, I'd gladly go with something with "leveled events" whether there was a graphical calendar or not.