Mid-November is my guess too. I think the Maemo team just wants more installable apps ready by its release.

Here are the apps that are ready:

1. Bluetooth keyboard plugin
2. Game: Snake
3. X Terminal Emulator
4. Application Installer package converter
5. Dropbear SSH client and server
6. Irssi IRC client
7. Plucker Viewer
8. GPE PIM suite
9. GPE-mini-browser
10. GAIM internet messenger
11. ScummVM
12. X-Chat
13. GPE-sudoku