Here is my naive and inevitably unpopular few cents...

I haven't seen much consideration of the purpose of the meego versus maemo forums. My perception of this issue is probably very different, and perhaps ill-informed, but for the foreseeable future at least (and perhaps indefinitely), the meego community focus is almost exclusively on development. Versus here, where we have accumulated a lot of end users. When you consider the direction meego is going in (as in, multiple devices, potentially quite different UIs.. a 'base' OS for a wide variety of platforms and form factors) I would consider it absolutely disastrous to try and implement an all encompassing forum which caters for novice end users of individual devices. I cant see how it could possibly become anything other than a big mess. Meego faces significant enough challenges; multiple architectures, radically varying use cases, licensing/openness stuff, etc. These are big issues, and for the time being, this bread and butter stuff needs to be done.

So who reckons its a good idea to bring 30,000+ Maemo users to the party... many of whom are inactive, potentially uninterested end users who (I'm sorry, this comes across harsh) wont yet have any productive input towards the new project.

If Meego takes off, we're going to see it on phones, netbooks, probably slate PC's and even in cars. Exposure to a huge number of end users. Now lets put all of those users in the same place where the development stuff happens

I think the brief for the new forum/community needs to be carefully considered, because I fear it wont be compatible with what tmo has become. Dont get me wrong, I like this place, and I love the ethos, but something like this wouldn't work with meego, if meego becomes what the blokes from Intel and Nokia want it to. So far, this forum and its members have resulted from 4 (main) hardware models, and a handful of OS revisions (dont get me wrong, its much more than that now, but I'm stating what Nokia gave us). So imagine what it would look like if you had dozens of devices.. which vary (potentially) significantly in terms of form factor, interface and architecture, and the resultant many tens/hundreds of thousands of users which would appear with their irrelevant hardware related issues, should meego go mainstream.

I'm sorry, I am a pessimist, and I would like to be proved wrong!

I do think meego should have a forum, definitely. But I consider it a very separate entity, and so I don't think that forum should be modeled particularly closely on this one, and I absolutely don't think it should be merged.

Sorry for cynicism, and for being off topic.

*happyblob crawls back under rock*