Please let's put aside discussing n900 in this community board thread and focus on the community aspects. Will maemo be completely dismantled or will it continue as a community effort as Nokia moves on to meego? Will all of the maemo documentation, projects, etc. automatically be moved to meego?

Maybe there is no meego user forum because talk.maemo.org is going to be it.

i personally think one of the major reasons why nokia may ditch the n900 because it sold much much more than what they expected. and nokias main objective is to make money, so theyve made more money than expected so they go to the next step

I thought that as I was putting mine on tonight; no, not the bright (jaffa) orange one and no, not because of the news ;-)

Interesting news :http://jaaksi.blogspot.com/

http://wiki.meego.com/Maemo_and_Moblin_community_assets

I giggled at the comparison. Maemo has so many more things that Moblin and MG... like already released devices!

Given the switch to a fedora-based distro, how will this impact developers on debian based systems (of which there are many...)?

jaaksi says consider maemo6 a instance of MeeGo so will we see a packaging change as early as then?

Think that's a very interesting discussion as well.

What's going to happen to Maemo ?

I'm assuming that for Nokia purposes it will be dropped entirely, scrapped in favor of Moblin's code base. Then taking all that left over source code and port it to Moblin so it can benefit from Maemo's source which is already running on real devices, with real user feedback.

Maybe I'm wrong but I just do not see why somebody would want to completely port of Maemo to a fedora system if that means scrapping the existing Fedora codebase of Moblin.

Would Nokia be interested in dropping a lot of the closed source restrictions and making the maemo code which will be dead in a couple of years Opensource so projects like Mer can use them ?

And what will happen to the community nature of Maemo, will the counsel stay ? Will community members in important roles still be welcome ?

Or would it be more a system of coorperations and 'professional developers' like Apple, Google, Microsoft and Palm got ?

I reallize that on his blog Jaaksi talks about a open software platform, but will it provide the same kind of community platform that Maemo's got ?

Did you ever actually read any of my posts? How loud I was in the discussions about trying to reshape the forums so that 770 and N8X0 users could still use them easily and comfortably? How I argued (as a t.m.o. user) for keeping the email lists because others valued them? How I worried that the users of older tablets weren't prepared for the influx of n900 users and the noise they/we would make?

Apparently, despite my 'major presence' you didn't take in any of what I said.

Yeah, he's been listening. Good. In fact, this may make the N900 MORE interesting than before.