Hi, I work at Nokia for maemo and the Internet Tablet projects. I have recently blogged about feedback and communication between Nokia and the community: http://desdeamericaconamor.org/blog/node/373

Some thoughts after reading this thread.

- I agree we have to improve our communications with the community. Ideas are welcome (please keep reading).

- "Silence" is a tough accusation though. In the maemo.org context @nokia.com people are discussing with users and developers regularly.

- I guess the "silence" accusation comes from the fact that nobody is answering officially as Nokia in ITT discussions. I'm really not sure if Nokia members should commit to be active here, in an independent (and successful, and pretty cool) forum. Does anybody expect answers from Mozilla, OOo, Ubuntu, (etc) developers out of their own channels of feedback and discussion?

- If you want to know/influence the plans for maemo and the Nokia Internet Tablets your main reference is http://maemo.org/intro/roadmap.html . You hit that roadmap after going through the process suggested there: filing enhancement requests or proposals on wiki pages at maemo.org and communicating them to the maemo mailing lists.

- Let's agree that not every ITT contributor can/will go happily through that process even if her idea is good and feasible. But let's also agree that we can't compromise to be active in all the discussions happening out of our official channels. The role of the senior contributors or the highly interested is very relevant: they can pick interesting ideas in i.e. ITT, develop and push them into our process.