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Originally Posted by lma View Post
Also on planet.maemo.org (and usually makes it to the "main" news page), and it also gets posted on forum.meego.com.

Fully agree on MWKN, I believe everyone who is even slightly interested in Maemo and/or MeeGo should at least be aware of it. I'm not sure what more can be done though (it's already being posted pretty much everywhere it can be), any suggestions are welcome.

As for everything else, well, that's MWKN's purpose isn't it :-)
This still goes back to letting the N8x0 users who just search on Google/Bing/Yahoo/etc for new firmware for their devices know that there ARE updates available from the community. If it's buried in the forums or in a news site that has a TON of N900, Meego and generic Maemo, news you're not helping them find it. You're not even helping them know that there is a community out there to STILL support their Nokia-neglected products.

Until yesterday, I didn't even know MWKN existed. When I went there, I STILL had a hard time finding anything relevant to my device. (There's just this generic "device" section and it doesn't filter on WHICH device.) This doesn't make it particularly interesting to my sister (who has an N800 now) my friends (all with N800's as well) and other colleagues (appropriately, all with N800's--nobody I know has an N810 or N900, probably because they all jumped on-board when I did, after seeing mine. These fools. heh).

Anyway, my point is--don't treat the AVERAGE tablet owner as if they are ALL the same sort of obsessive geeks that we are. Get them the relevant information about the product they HAVE and prevent them from being forced to tolerate the torrents of irrelevant meandering discussions about N900's and Meego and Maemo news that doesn't relate to them. Some of us might not mind reading about that other stuff, But I doubt the average person will have the interest or patience to bother coming back to see if there's any new developments after a while.
 

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