As I've said elsewhere, I agree with RevdKathy that most people will come here because they looked for an answer on Google and these forums came up on the top of their list.

For instance, if you wanted to know how to use SSH on your new N900, you'd go to google and type "ssh N900" and your first hit would be talk.maemo.org. In fact, there are so many hits here that Google groups the hits from t.m.o as a bunch, with a "more results from talk.maemo.org >>" link.

At the top left of every page is an "intro" button, and Quim Gil is going to be focusing on this page in the November sprint. I think that button is the single most important button for "newbies" because it will be there every time when they click through from Google to get an answer.