The disscussion on here is getting very interesting and a joy to read sometimes even if it is a headache to get over, good posts everyone !.

One thing i do want to point out is while we are facing this closedown situation even by the fact it has been brought up and talked about is going to make people think, oh this community is going down i had better find what i want eslewhere, opinion.

When you have got the answers to what this community IS going to facilitate will be the first step forward that people need to know and relate too instead of a dying community making people have negative thoughts regarding Maemo.org.

You all seem to think membership fee is not the way to go but i say that to have a community as big as this one used to be prior to Nokia changes, it will need a dedicated few to keep this going with a reason to do the work needed for it's future.

No better reason than to be paid for your work and IF we had a paid council team rather than a voluntary one, they would be all that more willing to put time and effort into being an actual council that could be available for the members needs etc.

I know from personal experiance that "voluntary organisations" can only florish with paid team/staff members instead of voluntary working for free, the reason i feel that we need a paid council.

Ok now the question is how do we get the funds together to actually pay this team?, what about the million or so downloads per whatever, can anything become of this as this is a lot of downloading going on, such as OVI store charging for downloads?.

My main point is volunteers feel hassled if there workload get's too much where as being paid to do a job makes a person think in a different way alltogether.