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Originally Posted by krisse View Post
Casual users have no reason to visit maemo.org, it has absolutely no content they could possibly want except perhaps some of the applications in the download section. The downloads can be syndicated though and placed on a site more suited to casual users.
Well, doh. I am saying that maemo.org is missing content for casual users, so of course they have no reason to visit maemo.org now. In my original post, I also mentioned they should probably be little bit experienced users (I called it "educated" users for a sudden lack of inspiration), who want to do more things than tablets provide by default.

In your world a causal user is somebody, who wants to just surf and write an email and use skype exactly as configure. In my world it is somebody, who would like to also install addblock, or who is interested to use another IM than google talk. Or they heard from a friend that they can attach a slash disk and they wonder how.

Originally Posted by krisse View Post
Who is turning anyone away? Casual users can use Tableteer if they want, and then go on to use Maemo.org if they become more confident with their tablet knowledge.
You are I have search google for tableteer and the nokia url redirects to os2008 user site, which is close to useless. It provides some links, but it does not provide so many answers.

On the other hand, maemo.org is too complicated at its current look and it does not create a feeling of welcoming community. Do I have to understand all these to use maemo mapper? So even, if I get confident with my tablet, I do not have anywhere to go to search for new inspiration.

Originally Posted by krisse View Post
But most casual users will stay casual users forever. They don't want to know more about the tablets, they just want them to work.
I agree that most users will remain casual foever. However, "just want them to work", is highly subjective. For some it may mean the exact content of tableterr, for some it may mean gpe and abiword and gnumeric. Even if they are going to call it tablet word and tablet excel.

Originally Posted by krisse View Post
Most casual tablet users will NEVER want to get involved with software development.
Nope. That's why we should have a site that is not only about development.

Originally Posted by krisse View Post
Where are these newbies? I check the newbie board every day and very few of them turn up. They must exist, but they very rarely post.
I would say that questions like "where is pim" or "my tablet does not want to boot" appear fairly often.

In my opinion, the maemo community should embrace even users who do not want to be developers. These people do important work to, they evangelize tablets and make more users interested into nokia tablets.
 

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