Thread: Maemo Community Council: Why didn't you vote?
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Originally Posted by ciroip View Post
I think their role is to keep balanced the discussions and cohesive the community (and I feel they did, until now, a damn good job) and only in second instance to be a filter for reasonable request or coordination with Nokia.
It's not just "discussions" (which might seem too limited to the forums), but a wider role. My full thoughts are on the maemo-community list (expanding on one of my earlier posts in this thread):

http://lists.maemo.org/pipermail/mae...ch/003579.html

I don't know if they have any second goal, if they receive or not money, if they hope to be hired in Nokia (and honestly since they move their a** could be reasonable) and Im fine with that. Maybe something is not completely trasparent and there are some 'shade' I dont know about but I can't see a real reason to complain.
I hope we're completely transparent (if you have any questions, ask!). Some answers:
  1. None of us wants a job with Nokia (as far I know)
  2. None of us gets paid to be council members
  3. We do more work as council members than not council members - but there's no reason many of the tasks we do couldn't be done by any active community member.
  4. We have no ulterior motives: we want to make the connection between Nokia and the community as smooth as possible, so that the community flourishes and Nokia don't give up on this "open source" idea

I feel the google ads on the ITT a way to keep the comunity completely independet from Nokia (and motivate the mainteiners): I have no idea how many people visit the ITT but I suppose the council should receive part of that money for their work.
We wouldn't want it. We're not ITT owners; we're not paid by Nokia. We want to help you (and ourselves) - and that overlaps, in parts, with helping Nokia as well.

Having Nokia pay for the hosting of ITT, sponsoring the summit and so on doesn't lose any "independence" of the forum or the community.

I hope the coming sinergy with maemo.org don't change too much the balance that seem works so well: they should keep some indipendent way to make some money (google ads or maybe a Nokia sponsorship but related to something tangible and public like number or visitors, contests or whatever).
Have you seen any evidence that Nokia want to constrain or control the community, or this forum? If they did, the council would be the first up in arms!
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