I'm also all for 3 - Council is obsolete in current state of affairs, and in fact, may even act as a problem for Community (all too known power disputes).

If necessary, Council could act as volounteer's Community relation team for Board (aka gathering ideas, problems, etc., from various scattered places Community participate in, like TMO, IRC channels, whatever - that Board may not have time to read - and forwarding it to Board), but for that, we don't need people elected by voting.

Anyway, whatever you do, make it clear who have deciding and governing power, and who doesn't. I don't think anyone want to see power disputes, EVER.

/Estel

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And to be absolutely honest, IMO Council doesn't ring positive bells in Community, even since time looong before Nokia officially dropped support for Maemo. I remember discussions "do we really need Council, it's absent, ineffective, and sad" from even before I've entered this Community, and various creative people would have *much* to say about Council and "respect" it awakes (qwerty's "love letter" comes to mind),

That said even though I was Councilor myself - I don't think Council *ever* did a good job at what it was supposed to be, and thinks only gone from 'bad' to 'terrible' with advent of Council<->Board power disputes. For sure, I won't miss Council.

/Estel