Thread: MeeGo forum? (maemo.org round)
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2010-02-18 , 15:53
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Originally Posted by pelago View Post
I don't know which forum software to recommend, but I definitely don't think you should just rename talk.maemo.org to something on meego.com. MeeGo is only relevant from the next device onwards, so users of older tablets (and N900, arguably), shouldn't be "absorbed" by meego.com.

Yes, it would be a shame that meego.com wouldn't instantly gain a community, and people will have to separately register, but I don't think moving this forum to meego.com is as uncontroversial a decision as it was when this was moved from internettabletalk.com.
Except that, assuming the mentioned Maemo5/Maemo6 compatibility comes to pass, then there will be "MeeGo" apps being discussed on the MeeGo site that install and run just fine on our Maemo5 N900 devices, so we discuss those apps on t.m.o as well? Same app, two discussions, two communities?

At some point existing N900 (ie. t.m.o. members) may be interested to learn about any MeeGo ports to N900 - where will those discussions take place, meego.com or t.m.o.? Probably the former, so the t.m.o. members need to be registered and visiting both forums to remain up to date on the latest developments.

It may not be ideal to begin with, but repositioning t.m.o. as the MeeGo forum is possibly the easiest/quickest solution with the least aggravation for the 30,000 members. Rearrange the t.m.o forums a bit, create some new MeeGo forums and bobs your uncle.

Or leave t.m.o. here as it stands today, and everyone interested in the future of Maemo/Moblin/MeeGo will go there. United we stand, divided...