Since maemo-community (and the other maemo-* mailing lists) is down, the IRC meeting helped clarify the use cases and confirmed that maemo.nokia.com will be the primary end-user and developer reference site, with maemo.org being the community and for more adventurous end-users.

I outlined my ideas from the meeting here:

http://lists.maemo.org/pipermail/mae...er/000955.html

...and have produced a mockup. Key features:

Small links
And I mean pervasive. The overall outline and top-bar should be present on *.maemo.org sites. I've used the term 'Add-ons' rather than 'Downloads', because things added to the tablet'll be coming through Application Manager rather than directly downloaded. "Extras" is nice, but too general at the top-level.

Big links
These are to guide people who end-up here from Google or maemo.nokia.com. High-level, simple English. They'll go to the level 1 pages the same as the pervasive links at the top.

Swarming
The formatting of the portlets capturing this swarm information is sub-optimal, but Inkscape ain't the best for doing DTP. Hopefully, you can get the gist and look past the over-simplified detail.

The portlets correspond to the easy-to-use buttons above, + an about box + news & events. Content is syndicated from a VARIETY of sources, weighted by activity/newness/etc. and sorted into the buckets. For example, the "latest community activity" is showing threads from maemo-users, maemo-community and pages which have been recently changed a few times in Category: Users and Category: Community in the wiki.

Similarly, latest developer activity aggregates content from -developers and Category: Development in the wiki.

These lists should be better styled, possibly including dates - and maybe even mini-icons as bullet points to represent the source of the information.

Anyway, this is close to what's in my head at the moment. If nothing else, hopefully it'll inspire some discussion.