Randomly thinking about it more from the MeeGo side, perhaps we shouldn't count on a high degree of integration.

MeeGo is going to support multiple x86 and ARM based devices from a wide range of OEMs. Nokia provides most of the ARM based code, and is also a device manufacturer. We are used to Maemo being an integrated software stack from low level all the way up to UX. But if you read Nokia's software strategy paper, MeeGo is just the OS - it doesn't include the UI and other elements of the software or the CPU. So MeeGo is going to be similar to Android in the respect that there may be a lot of other software on top of it (some proprietary) that is going to vary from device to device and manufacturer to manufacturer.

If you are a "benevolent dictator" at meego.com responsible for the success of MeeGo OS, are you going to want to spend a lot of time dealing with stuff other than the OS? I think not. You will say to people, we will provide the best OS we can, and you the OEMs provide the best devices you can using it.

On the community front, are you going to want a lot of people from t.m.o (or elsewhere) talking about their issues, many of which are not about the OS itself, on meego.com talking about those non-OS issues. Probably not. What is the benefit for doing so when you have a multi-layered ecosystem. And what will you say to the other manufacturers using MeeGo, bring your forums too and we will have a rainbow coalition of people talking about their interests. I doubt it. You will want the technical people that can help the OS and that's it. Of course, this is conjecture and I don't know what Meego wants.

Now back to maemo.org, Nokia's MeeGo devices are going to have Ovi and presumably use a Maemo derived UI on them. Are there going to be issues to be discussed about the Nokia MeeGo devices' UI and Ovi that are similar to many of those discussed now on t.m.o? Yes. Will we try to get MeeGo to run on N900 and Maemo apps to run on MeeGo? Yes. So there will be reasons for discussion on t.m.o. that are unique to Nokia meego devices and not other devices or Meego itself? Yes.

It's not that we shouldn't try to integrate and do everything we can to work with MeeGo. We should. But with the Android like structure and business model for MeeGo, I wonder if it will ultimately make sense to everyone involved to do so. I am not necessarily despondent for the future of maemo.org in any event. Maemo.org grew up around one or two maemo devices at a time, there should be more Nokia MeeGo devices and software in the future and plenty for maemo.org to do.