I'm not worried at all about the future of all this. From a technical viewpoint, it's a perfect fit (even if the deb2rpm move might worry us a bit :-). In fact, the whole thing right now is probably more about marketing, platform momentum, big annnouncement and showing off. IMHO Maemo 6 / Harmattan already IS MeeGo, otherwise the announced release dates wouldn't be doable. And one of the most important elements of Maemo 6, which is QT 4.6, will come to Maemo5 in the next firmware update. Intel and Nokia also have experience working together on the oFono telephony framework which may be part of Maemo 6. And it will all be open.

I also sincerely believe that the "community" is overestimating itself heavily. Just look at the signal-to-noise ratio on the community list and in this forum. Make a list of results that the work of the Community Council really did produce. What brings a platform forward are two things:

• Openness and Accessibility (so people can tinker with it and have fun in a creative way).
• Developers developers developers (to quote Steve Ballmer :-). The people writing the applications you install. There are perhaps a 100-200 people writing apps for maemo right now (see that in relation to x0'000 users here in this forum (only a few hundred posting) and x00'000 of users with N900.)

MeeGo improves both these points. The platform opens even more, gets broader support and chances increase that more application development will happen.

Communities will arise automatically from that. Many other platforms have forums where devs and users meet. This isn't that special here. What IS special is that we have Nokians posting as Nokians. And if we take good enough care of them, they will hopefully be around in the future, too