Yes he is, and no he is not. He is upgrading the Minimalist theme heavily to add many features the current one is lacking, and make it an even better alternative to the full theme for tablets. Then he will offer *both* a politically correct maemo.org-like theme and a dark one. Andrew, who is not part of Nokia or the maemo community council, has been working with Reggie on this. He's been very open throughout the design process, and he's doing it now, and he's doing it *on* talk.maemo.org...
penguinbait: The Minimalist theme has always been designed for a super fast loading version of the site. Its main purpose is for fast browsing over data connection. It is not to provde a dark color scheme the only reason it has a dark color scheme to begin with is because that is what itT has at the time.