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What I would like to see is a better for development compared with the one here in maemo.org. Currently there is only one section called Development and the description for it is:

Discussion and support about official and community supported developer tools.
So theory it's not a place to ask something like "how do I access the the camera with Qt". Currently this should probably done in Forum Nokia. But especially the Maemo section is rather quiet compared to maemo.org. Yes, there is a dev mailing list, but I personally prefer forums.

I would like very much like to see better support for devs in MeeGo forum. I also think the development sections should be divided by framework and language. For example:

-Development
--Qt
---C++
---Python

Yet at the same time, I'm don't wont to see it become a devs only forum. That would most likely lead to plenty of apps with ingenious code, but with useless UI. I think devs need feedback from end-users and a forum is a really good place to get that.

However, I don't like the fact that here we have only one section called Applications (and Games) which has threads about apps available in Extras mixed with all kind of other threads ranging from app requests to complaints about the inbuilt apps of N900. What I have seen in some other forums is that there is a separate section for all the apps and if some app proves popular (read: the thread becomes really long), it will get it's own subsection. I think this would be a great idea to implement in MeeGo forum.

In other words, I think a better support for devs would be great, but at the same time non-devs community members should not be forgotten.