Err.. I'm not completly sure that's true. From what I've read on NITDroid it seems the only reliance on Maemo is for certain closed components that NITDroid still uses. And that reliance is decreasing as the team working on Meego continues to advance. For example, NITDroid got the cellular radio working (not for voice calls yet) because of the work being done on ofono for the vanilla Meego project on N900.

So it's more like NITDroid is dependent on the hardware (n800,n810, and N900) rather than the maemo OS.

My own personal viewpoint is that maemo.org is a dying project. Partially due to the noise to signal ratio. It gets tiring, I've stopped responding to most threads where people don't understand the idea of search. Heck I'm toying with just using the "LET ME GOOGLE THAT FOR YOU" approach. The NITdroid threads themselves were full of people asking the same bloody questions over and over.

Partially due to the fact that it's called maemo when maemo is declared a dead-end by Nokia. So in the future things will move to the Meego forums, or increasingly offsite to major projects like NITDroid as maemo is replaced with NITdroid installs or vanilla Meego installs.

While I believe that may have been true in the past. I think anyone who's actually interested in testing Meego or helping out with the project would be on Meego forums, IRC, mailing lists. Not on these forums anymore.