Nothing in particular that I haven't already been working on. Mostly I'm waiting on the Bugzilla 3.4 upgrade to really get to work improving the process there, and helping to push the bugsquad farther, but I'll also be continuing to work to push efforts on the wiki.

The council is there to help provide a push in the right direction if required and speak up if anything goes completely off the tracks. It also serves to help push the community agenda to the paid staff. The maemo.org staff are largely autonomous, however, and their effort tends to be invested wherever they thing it will help most and it's worked well for us so far.

Niels was recently selected as the team leader, so his ever-wise hand should help give more focus to the efforts.

I think the current means are fine, but they are used too infrequently and without enough consistency. More focus needs to be put on communication during the sprint period, as communication is a large part of what makes an agile process work (or not).

Council work is something I've always enjoyed. As I've said before, I like helping to make good things happen and the council is one of the best places to do that from. Watching those good things take off is an extremely rewarding experience.

My winning personality?

As a community-oriented person, facilitation has always been an area I'm effective in and enjoy. It's a relatively easy gap to fill, as it's simply a matter of knowing as many people as you can in as many areas as you can and connecting them together when they need to be connected. This being one of the core roles of the community, I hope I can help other council members excel in this area (meta-facilitation? ).

Candidly, probably not all that far. Nokia's lost a lot of ground to other platforms since 2005 (especially Android) and given up a big opportunity to be on top early thanks to hesitation and endless hedging from the dinosaurs in charge (Anssi "Don't pirate music" Vanjoki's talk at Nokia World last year is completely revealing).

I see a handset from Nokia, perhaps one or two from other manufacturers like LG that are branded as MeeGo, but bear little resemblance to it from the user perspective, perhaps a couple of netbook manufacturers half-heartedly pushing models shipping MeeGo by default and maybe some Chinese MIDs thrown in for good measure.

I'm optimistic about where it's headed, but worried about Nokia's continued inability to get behind the platform that's going to save them as a company in the long term. So, as with everything, I guess we'll see.

Diplomacy and tact have never been my strongest areas, and being on the council is a position where you have to keep your composure at all times, as your words and actions reflect on both the community and (to a certain extent, at least in perception) on Nokia.

This is one of the reasons I like council work, though. It forces you to be a better community member.