My reply to this question is as late as it is off-topic to the real subject of this thread. But there is an answer to Qole's question that needs to be noted here, even though further discussion, if any, should take place elsewhere:

The prospects for a phone with a native OS based on GNU/Linux are not as good as we would like. But as long as it's possible to run something like Easy Debian (thank you again and again, Qole) on Android phones, I plan to have it in my pocket.

That doesn't help with the task at hand: plotting a course for the maemo community through the murky future. But I think it should be understood that some of what originally brought this community together may survive the devices.