Cheers qgil, that looks like an excellent idea and seems the way forward. And please yes, replace the mailing list with the forum.. I can only speak for myself but i'm not having much fun keeping up with both!

Gadgety, good call on bringing up xda-dev, I was thinking about doing the same thing. If talk.meego really does target all users of all meego devices, I think a lot could be learned from there and adopting the device specific subforum idea which Reggie and Millhouse mentioned. Its not without its flaws (e.g. some projects developed over at xda start for only one device and then users of other devices get linked across to the other forums, there is a lot of noise too) but still is by and large a usable and productive place despite its huge number of users. But for the time being, I think qgil has hit the nail on the head and we should focus on what is productive for now and consider structure (of say, device/vendor specific subfora) when the need arises for it.

Only thing I would add to qgils sections; a mechanism by which new forums can be proposed or structure/direction discussed. I guess maybe this comes under community in the list? Ought to have an explicit presence there anyway IMHO, if only a sticky!