Here are my answers to the remaining two questions that have been put forth (apparently and ironically, one of those questions seems to have been asked by me):

In the end, the community at large will (or should) decide the fate of the Community Council. I agree with a few others here that before we rush to dissolve the council, we should allow the council to remain in place for six months to a year. Hopefully, that will help determine whether the council is redundunt under an e.V., or whether it is a useful complement.

I think that the Community Council has shown itself to be quite valuable over the years, especially behind the scenes with keeping the infrastructure alive and in negotiations with Nokia. Perhaps being more consistent in driving community initiatives that are less "behind the scenes" and more public would also help to demonstrate the Council's tangible contributions to the community.

I remember the coding competitions of years past as an example of something concrete and high-profile that helped to drive development and community participation forward in a meaningful way. I hope that we can organize another effort like this again. We should do this not only to encourage new development, but to encourage maintenance on valuable but potentially orphaned projects.

I agree with some of the responses that Opera Store would be a no-go. From what I've seen, it is my impression that this makes sense for Symbian because its user base is larger, the app signing policies are more restrictive, and a larger percentage of worthwhile applications are commercial.

We already have Open Repos and the Maemo repositories for Harmattan and Fremantle, so asking developers to upload again to Opera seems redundant.

It seems to me that most of the developers who still care about the platform have already migrated their applicatins out of Nokia store and into Open Repos/maemo repositories. But I agree that it would be a good idea to identify the remaining Nokia Store applications that are of value to the community and ask the relevant maintainers of their interest in migrating. I suspect that many will have long since moved on or are commercial entities with little interest in "giving away their stuff for free".

On that last point, there are a few commercial applications available on OpenPandora's repositories and on Symbian's independent "AppList". If there are enough commercial applications that the community is interested in, then perhaps investigating what OpenPandora or independent Symbian developers are doing to offer commercial applications might be a useful exercise.