I am happy to be able to vote, but the fact that I have a maemo.org account is merely because I voted on a bug some time ago. I wonder how many people contribute to ITT with helping people and testing beta software who don't have a Maemo.org account. To me those are part of the community as well.

I suspect that the lack of interest and publicity around this council voting is because of the vagueness of what its powers and function are, and maybe about what the Maemo community atcually is: is it the developers? hardcore tinkerers? betatesters? Or people who like using their tablet and are passionate about them on the web?