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Originally Posted by RevdKathy View Post
I think we should get *something* going for conversation at MeeGo pronto. So I'll bite the bullet and suggest we ask Reggie to open something with just three main areas right now: community, development and devices.
The MeeGo community is currently very immature, though, and it needs to be done carefully such that the conversations don't get even further split:
  • A lot of technical discussion/brainstorming on #meego
  • Technical rants/flamewars about RPM/deb/yum/apt on meego-dev (and maybe some concretely useful stuff too about whether there's an upstream or everything gets repackaged from real upstream tarballs)
  • Community discussion on meego-community
  • Questions about how things fit in with current plans on maemo.org
  • Questions about how things fit in with current plans on moblin.org
  • Planning and content on wiki.meego.com
  • ...and then 3 separate fora

The Maemo community is a lot bigger and in many ways more sophisticated than the Moblin one. A lot of the core MeeGo team, though, are Moblin developers. The Maemo community needs, IMHO, to be careful from being seen as coming in and tipping up the apple carts.

So, yes, a forum. Yes, a good one. No, it doesn't need to be over-engineered but we can't just set up something, expect at some later point it to be integrated into meego.com and then say "oi, you lot; stop talking on mailing lists and come to this forum".
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