Even if we need to add more non-developers as sources of news (through blogs and ITt threads), there is more that can be done pushing certain types of news written by developers that are interesting to end users: software releases.

Currently the news coming from garage projects are basically ignored since most people rating news seem to follow the planet only + announcements.

Looking now at Latest Items at http://maemo.org/news/ we can find

PyFinancial Calculator v0.0.3

Fuelpad 0.82 released

Note also http://maemo.org/downloads/updated/OS2008/25/ which could be also a source for news. Developers already have a field to explain what is contained in the new release. With a checkbox they could decide whether this is a release worth top go to the News page.

Note also that even in the Planet there is a decent % of posts that are not only interesting for developers. The onyl thing is that they don't get as much love as the cool novelties related with development... But YOU non-developer could change that just by going there and support the news you like.