@penguinbait, note that in the title you ask about "being informed" but then the poll is about requiring "community input". They overlap but are not the same. Being informed of everything is time consuming, but it should be more doable being aware of the topics where your input is formally requested. I think the basic unit of discussion about community topics should be this maemo.org forum at talk.maemo.org. The community council blog should be enough to highlight whethever interesting discussions in this maemo.org forum want more awareness, feedback or votes. There is one post in the blogs about the beta site going live, it was posted on 4/16 and the final design was already decided upon by that time. I have seen nothing on the blogs about sub-forums being deleted?? The maemo.org announcements should be enough to highlight the deepest topics requiring a community-wide decision. Also neither of these topics were discussed Optionally an email to everybody can be sent for crucial topics. I welcome this idea, just like I got an email to vote for council Doesn't sound that complicated to follow, if a community member wants to follow. Then there are plenty more places where discussions happen and decisions are made, but I think the own place or topics defines the audience, and that is fine. For instance the maemo-developers list or bugs.maemo.org or #maemo. The maemo-community list sounds like redundant now. Most of the people active there are active here. We clould consider closing it and we would have one redundant channel less.