The bottom line: The Maemo Community Council represents practically nobody except a bunch of programmers, and a few power users. When you compare that group to the number of people who have bought tablets, you get basically zilch.

It is a very important council, since those programmers are in many ways the lifeblood of the tablets. However, from the point of view of a user, the council doesn't mean much, not if you're a user who just wants to read Word docs on the tablet, or one of the other typical interests of the primary tablet purchasers.

What concerns me is that any rise in influence of the Maemo Community is likely to diminish the already miniscule influence of the users. The migration of this user-centered site to the Maemo whatever may be the death knell to the tablets. We'll see if that is true. Remember all those users who were chased away because they didn't SEARCH enough? We may come to miss them, eventually.