Phone functionality is also crucial for me (I don't need tablet-only device, I got my lightweight notebook [not netbook] for that), but to even talk about that, we need to settle financing things first

BTW, phone functionality was first thing i asked in CordiaTAB thread, and it was confirmed that HSPA module via miniPCIE allow that, with proper software.

If we want to keep Maemo/Hildon UI live, we should find a way to enable it to run on other open devices, or devices that are not locked. Since Nokia has stated that they would not release new Maemo/Meego device, we should try to find a new hardware.

This device may be a good choice:
http://en.miui.com/
it's based on CyanogenMod's work.
http://www.cyanogenmod.com/

Maybe we could rebuild the Maemo user experience on Android/Meego OS Core, which may enable it for further development?

@Koh

WRONG!!

We need to add the MIUI interface to Maemo/MeeGo core... then we'd see adoption. Not the other way around.

Strange thread. The conclusion seem to be that the end is definitely not coming anytime soon, and there is no consensus what so ever about what to do next.

I think this thread was made purely for feedback to see if it was worth taking this forum to another place when Nokia bail out.

If the forum is left for free running then it will always be popular especially the history it has already made.

As for going back to ITT = no way it should ever comsider that choice as others have said this is a MOBILE PHONE community not just tablets.

This thread is way to early and i wish the commitee were half as active as the answers coming on this thread !.

Reggie would be stir crazy to shut this lot down !!!.

I think we've found out that there is still a lot of life yet in this 'dying' community.

PS: You two are absolutely absolutists...

This community is active for the devices it deals with so if we bring in other devices other than Nokia then you will have a real thriving community BUT the moderators would be VERY active hahaha because the jelousy would be high among for instance the iphone and Nokia mobs .

MeeGo and Maemo has a place on just about everything with a free bootloader .

PS Nokia might well be a company of the past soon !.

I think that the forum is not actually an issue (it's relatively easy to move).
The real problem is the rest of the infrastructure (build system and repositories, especially for the distribution rights of the closed bits).

Yes that is an obvious problem but i still feel there should be no talk of shutting down this forum when as you said it is easy to move, let's face it Nokia are NOT the beggining and end of everything.

It could be a whole lot more interesting if split into sections for each manufacturers devices, it would be the one and only forum to come too for just about anything for any device.

Would need a lot of work though from its commitee and moderators .

I would prefer debian, which probably requires more work, but has a wider community to recruit developers (no pouching, since there is no conflicting project interest), and also there it is not controlled by large corporations.

Some will argue meego is open, but there are different aspects to openness than purely source code. Meego is controlled by corporations, which really make decisions through Meego Technical Steering Group.

Imagine the following situation, MTSG decides to move to armvXXX, and makes appropriate platform changes that may be incompatible with existing devices.

I think running cordia hd or similar project exclusively on meego is a dangerous proposition, instead I would like to suggest debian either as a primary, or secondary platform.

You can say this is politics, but since the big ones choose to form Steering Groups to preserve their own interests, there is a very good reason to preserve its own interests.

Besides having this based on meego, will enable poaching of developers. The people from the 770 days know what I am talking about.

There are some people out there who are famous for:

• WANTFIXES,
• fixed in XXXX,
• and differentiation remarks
• obsoleted hardware