Another thing that I greatly desired to accomplish (and mostly failed to do) during my terms on Council was to make the "engaged users" segment of this community a more important part of the community's "core". It always frustrated me that the decision makers often chose to marginalise the forum users because they were too many, too unruly, too... unmanagable. By doing the important business on the mailing lists and IRC instead of the forums, it kept the noise down, but at the expense of losing a huge pool of resources.
I signed up for the community mailing list in order to nominate myself last spring. I subsequently signed up to the developer list in order to be able to watch the traffic there as part of my job as council member. It is probably worth the while of anyone who would like to participate in the decision-making processes of maemo.org (while it lasts) to subscribe to the mailing lists, too.