Let me give my personal opinion here. I view the Council as the one who represents the community. When there are qualms, restlessness, and/or unsureness, they are the ones who gets the facts, contact the correct people, and convey them back to the community. What the current council has failed to do is just about that -- communicate.

How hard is it really to contact X-Fade for example? I pinged him earlier this morning and notified him about timoph's thread and minutes later he was there on the thread replying.

mairas (of Nokia) has mentioned that he has attended *every* council meeting, and yet how did it happen that nothing was conveyed?

Reading through the "Ask the Council" thread, I'm surprised to see that this Plan B idea originally came from the Council. The idea was left in that thread and nothing was posted anywhere else. Imagine how confused I was when I got this email from the council:

I never responded to that email since I wanted to get more info. I think I got the clarification I needed.

Anyway, please be careful using "we" or "us" on your posts since you might not be really representing what the majority wants. How can anyone be really sure "what the community wants" if the community was never asked nor informed? This is probably the best time to do these things. I hope the current council can facilitate this task and at least post something in the Council blog so everything is black and white. I think the future direction of Maemo.org, with all the options discussed. I'm sure not everyone will be happy with the results but hey, we need to hear the voice of majority of the community and not just from 5 folks.

Oh and please, technically I'm part of Nemein. I don't get instructions from Nokia. I do my job to make this forum run smoothly since it was moved from Internet Tablet Talk (technically from day 1).