Looking from inside-out-in I have to say that the exchange between Ricky's posts and his respondants points to exactly what Maemo will have to manage to do... and from a marketing perspective, this will be hard and key most for the platform's aspirations.

Whether anywhere *native* here wants to admit it or not, the mindset of interacting within this community begins and matures as the person becomes more familiar with a developer mindset. Yes, its possible to not be a developer and very much enjoy this community, I am a testimony of that. But that doesn't take away from the fact that towards anything short of a Type-A, Prosumer, you'd have some issues here, and its totally social, not technological.

That being said, my recommendation earlier that more consumer-oriented Maemo blogs be shuttled t o a portal page that is edited by an editor or two here would be benefical for that reason. Nokia will - in time - funnel more people here. They would be very smart to do so. But this community has to evolve to where developer-oriented discussions don't turn away those looking for analyst-based or consumer-based inquires.

That's more a cause of community maturity than anything else. In terms of how Nokia is positioning itself as a leader in using open source technology in an arena its not been before, they would be wise to utilize their already strong customer-facing personas to help that along.
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Not that it needs to be said (again), but those members of Maemo who have significant prominence either through time here or some aspect of community leadership position have to be very careful in responding to items like Ricky's. Whether you care or not, you speak a lot louder and a lot more effectively than Nokia. When you fly nearly off the cuff, it begs the question of why a strong brand like Nokia would allow such people leadership positions in a multi-faceted community.

Not saying that your rebukes are wrong (GA et al), but that you have to be mindful that you (as a group) carry a lot of the Nokia brand with every post that you make.

Such power endears maturity of responsibility, as well as wiser words.