Please let's create a new thread about this "open testing" and let's move these posts there.

See my links above: http://wiki.meego.com/Quality_Assurance_Team + http://wiki.meego.com/MeeGo_Release_Creation

Those willing to test the platform and the open source apps can jump on the train of permanent testing if they wish, like the users that most of the time are using beta/unstable releases in their own laptops.

Nokia proprietary apps will be a different story. We have seen that you can't mix open source and commercial ways of working. Testing in more focused and controlled environments (like Nokia Pilots) might make more sense in this case.