While this is quite understandable, and by no means can we blame you personally for it, it leaves the community talking to the same wall to which we've been speaking for years.

Discussions outside the bunker, in the community, with people like ragnar and vitaly are things of the past, and that's a shame. We understood they couldn't give us inside information, and sometimes they argued points other community members didn't like, but just having them participate in the community, as community members, was positive and invigorating. Even the rare technical pointers and tidbits igor dropped on occasion were wonderful.

We're regressing toward communication levels approximating early-Texrat Maemo times. A sentence or two from Peter on the occasion of a new firmware update and sporadic "Just wait, MeeGo's coming!" messages from you aren't sufficient.

Nokia's gone head down, full speed on MeeGo work, but the next big thing is always what leaves this community standing outside, trying to catch a glimpse of something, anything happening beyond the shuttered windows.

MeeGo is still too much in the shadows, running silent and deep. Nokia dropped Elephanta as too small a step and rushed Fremantle out to hold everyone over during the wait for Harmattan, but these repeated waits for the next big, double-secret thing have worn the community's goodwill thin in a growing number of spots.

Openness, community integration, and increased communication are coming with MeeGo, I know, but they've been promise for some time. And yes, part of the pain of open source development is the public seeing those early, raw ingredients out on the countertop and then suffer the wait for the eventual feast. However, with MeeGo consisting of a string of big, future reveals, and Maemo not clearly showing how much life it has left, there's a large information deficit crying out to be filled.

It's not your place, qgil, I know. Heck, by definition it's not a task for one person, but Nokia needs to open up. Please, redouble your efforts to get the Maemo MeeGo division involved in the community. Thank you.