The users on this forum are quite different than those on HowardForums, I would venture to say most members here probably wouldn't welcome them with open arms and many over there view this forum as being way too techy and geeky. As the maemo users community grows it is to be expected that there will be splinters. As others have noted this is a very developer oriented site so lets see how this changes over time. Howard Forums is probably the biggest English language forum for mobile phone users and as such since the N900 is a phone there is probably a good reason for them to have a subsection for phone fanatics who happen to use maemo. I will be over there (I still frequent the s60 sub subforum) hopefully providing a helping hand to users who have questions and don't want to join a brand new forum.