General purpose update for anyone loosely following the thread... a MeeGo community website meeting took place via IRC on the 24th Feb. Details can be found here and a full log here. The meeting covered numerous topics, one of which was the new MeeGo community forums. It was decided that a new vBulletin forum should be set up, based on qgil's ideas shown in post #163 quoted below, and incorporating single sign on with the other services on the site (the practicalities of how this will be done are being worked on). So referring back to the first post, pretty much option number two

I'm sure most folks reading this are already aware of all this having seen many familiar names in the logs, and also I'm sure someone who was actually present at the meeting will come an elaborate if required, because I wasn't even there But just thought I'd put this up because its a wee pet hate of mine when I'm following a thread which gets resolved somewhere else and I'm left in the dark!


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Volt- I think you're right when you suggest the MeeGo forum will attract a wider selection of users, however its probably a bit early to tell just yet. We'll have to see who shows up, and which direction the forums go in when MeeGo devices start to reach the market. There's potentially something of a paradox in that only end users who become useful contributors are likely to be welcomed with open arms, yet at the same time, any end user may become a contributor. Going back to user consultation during the development process though, seeking input from the online community is a necessary-but-not-sufficient method in any case because some of the target demographic will not be represented here or at talk.meego. But I'm waffling, and essentially you're quite right when you say the community will be a valuable resource which mustn't be neglected. And I absolutely couldn't and wouldn't argue against that

With regards to my concerns about a huge forum with many different potential tangents, I still think it is a tricky thing to get right but I have come around to the idea that its far from impossible, and having followed MeeGo on the mailing list and IRC logs I think my worries will hopefully be unfounded, because it looks like theres a good team of people there (or here!?) who can make it work. And what initially seemed to me like a very daunting prospect has been simplified enormously by qgils proposed dynamic approach where the organisation of the forum will be somewhat dictated by requirements as they arise and change. This makes a lot more sense than predefining a whole lot of stuff now, which is what I thought was going to happen (there's my pessimism and naivety coming in to play!)

In any case I hope you do find your way onto the new forum... maemo is evolving, so I can see the relevance of tmo and why you think it should stay here, but do consider its evolving into something else, something new and a probably quite a bit different. And on those grounds, to me at least, a fresh start seems like a positive move forward.

And if we're really lucky, sans mailing lists eventually. I'm totally with you on that one, I find them a right pain. But shh, the old school is probably watching!