Reggie is the administrator of talk.maemo.org in the very same way he was the administrator of ITT. afaik the council has never attempted to appoint an administrator, and if you look at the Moderators thread you will find some council members asking for permissions just like anybody else.

What Reggie and Nokia have negotiated is that Nokia assumes the hosting costs (no ads in talk.maemo.org) and funds a certain amount of hours from Reggie, that he invests in administrative tasks, or whatever he feels like doing. We haven't ever discussed about content or moderation rules dictated by Nokia and that would have been a horrible idea. Remember that ITT merged with maemo.org at the same time that maemo.org was handled to the community, and actually that merge was an important part of the equation to have a community driven maemo.org.