Perhaps my reservations were unfounded or at least premature, looking at what has been put here. I absolutely do agree that an ideal solution would be one place with everyone present. I do still think however that hitting that sweet spot will be a massive challenge, and so maintain that it should be very carefully considered. I wasn't really sure that it was possible, but if Millhouse is to be believed (the Ubuntu community I'm not familiar with, but it looks something like what we want!) I guess I was being overly negative, so I'll take your word on it

I am however still far from convinced that tmo should turn into meego; for reasons stated previously I consider meego a whole new ball game and really believe that maemo ought to stay here and meego over there, even if there is some overlap. As suggested, if the N900 becomes a valid target for meego it should certainly have a presence on a meego forum. People who keep maemo on their device have tmo and people who advance with meego (primarily, I suspect, power users and hackers for the first year or so at least) have the meego community. This is my two cents and again, I'm fully ready to be proven wrong! I suspect what it comes down to is a semantic misunderstanding whereby I am thinking of meego as a new thing while others consider it (probably correctly?) as the next maemo thing.

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A little reply to Volt- I didn't phrase my post very eloquently and gave the wrong impression. Usability is the focus of my university studies this year and is my primary area of interest. I will advocate as much as anyone that UCD is not a frivolous luxury but an absolute necessity today. But IMO consulting thousands of users en masse when all those users only represent one section of the target demographic is of limited practical benefit (potentially counterproductive); I would expect things to be done differently... and so my ideas were not incompatible with a decent user consultation process. I really couldn't agree more with your view that users need to be part of (or preferably, central to) the develoment of the project.