No transaction is done. Actually little changes are done: the URL and the theme. The rest stays just the same. Believe it or not.

The big change is actually happening in maemo.org, going from the one and only official website for Maemo to a purely community driven site. Believe it or not. Probably easier to believe when you see maemo.nokia.com popping up for end users and Forum Nokia gathering all the official deliveries for developers.

What I fail to see is the relation between your question and the Council, but since this thread is to clarify things I thought it would be worth answering.