Krisse, your "Internet Tablet School" is mainly a "Maemo school" since you have been always concentrating on the software and how to make the most of it. Now, go back to your sentence above and change "tablet" by "Maemo" or if you want "Maemo compatible devices".

In the last months Ari Jaksi, Peter Schneider and myself have been talking about "going mainstream" consistently. Around the Maemo Summit you saw mainstream features announced such as cellular connectivity and high definition camera support. Add the OMAP3 support, changes in some technology selections and many deep changes in some frameworks and think of the huge amount of work they imply. Do you think Nokia would go ahead with all this if it wouldn't be convince of the worthiness of the investment? Also Nokia upgraded its sponsorship to the Linux Foundation from Silver to Gold, another signal to be read.

The paragraph above should be clear enough to show that at least Nokia thinks there is a bright future for Maemo. Then you have seen Peter around saying that the next device with Maemo inside will probably not be called "Internet Tablet" - but this is about marketing and labels, and what concerns you is in fact the Maemo platform you have been teaching about and the success in the market of the devices shipping with it.

If you still don't believe... you'll have to wait.

By the time the Maemo 5 beta SDK goes out maemo.org should be an independent site run fully by the community. If you (plural) would want, you could have time enough to prepare a school.maemo.org before the Maemo 5 final release. Let us know if the maemo.org team can help you on that.