That seems a bit territorial, doesn't it?

MeeGo is the successor to Maemo. In a few months, Maemo will (probably) not exist any more as a community project, any more than GNOME 1 was in 2001... sure, some people were still building GTK+ 1.x apps until quite recently, even, but all of the work was going into GNOME 2.x. And in a short time, it'll be GNOME 3.x.

Similarly, while Maemo may continue to exist as a supported platform on some devices for a few more years, I don't expect any active development or community enablement to happen with it after the end of the year - thus, my question, what is the impact of MeeGo on Maemo? Where is my energy (and the energy of others) best spent in the coming months?

It may be that the energy can be best spent in Maemo, but honestly I've had fewer & fewer volunteers interested in Maemo tasks since the MeeGo announcement - either they're waiting for the MeeGo UX to release, or they're afraid that any work will soon be obsolete.

Ignoring the phenomenon and pretending that there are lots of people flooding to Maemo since the MeeGo announcement would be ignoring the elephant in the room, and I'm not in the habit of doing that.

Cheers,
Dave.