Re: What role does the Maemo Community Council's play?
 

Nokia has to put Maemo at full speed to be the most attractive platform for mobile computers. Attractive for users and developers, at least.

Quite often this means lots of innovation and polishing around open source components, and the whole community benefits from it. But quite often this also means compromises with transparency, open development and legacy support.

This is why Mer has an opportunity to complement Maemo, since their objectives are also complementary.

But none of this is directly related to the Council so please start a new thread if you want to discuss this further. :)