As Stskeeps says, Nokia have expressed interest in allowing us to do this at a management level; and have explained the technical approach we'd take:

http://lists.maemo.org/pipermail/mae...il/018816.html

Basically, the plan is as follows - and anyone in the community can help with this:

1. Community: develop "opt-in" package which promotes a "community-updates" component in Extras to SSU-status when installed.
2. maemo.org: add "community-updates" component to Extras.
3. Community: build new hildon-application-manager and osso-software-version-rx* packages. Upload to community-updates.
4. Community: install opt-in package and test upgrades.
5. Nokia: ship final SSU which includes the opt-in package, giving all users the community updates without having to opt-in.

Given this concrete plan has evolved over the past few weeks, this is now in a position to be actually enacted. I'd like to see some extra volunteers on this (promotion, packaging, testing) rather than "the usual suspects": this is a perfect opportunity to get involved at a high-level in the Maemo community quickly, without lots of technical skill necessary.