Thanks to all people who took part in the election, both as voters and candidates.

My own take on the number of voters issue is twofold. First, a lot of people who came into contact with Maemo through the N900 has little to no information about the whole 'community thing', whatever the reason (not enough exposure, disinterest, etc). Community will always be a pyramid and it's not at all easy to grow the top section of it. An additional difficulty is the various media people use on maemo.org (some might just ignore mails as they are 'forum natives').

Second, we don't expire karma, so we might have a lot of voters in there who have moved on, but still have enough karma to appear on the lists. It would be nice (but probably quite difficult esp regarding karma formula changes) to reatroactively see just how many of the voting body is really active (say, gained at least 1 karma in the last year).

Last, but not least, those who dipped their toes in maemo.org with the N900 are quite fresh (the 3 month cutoff and the mainstream December release left a small window) so there is a good chance that the majority of voters were actually Maemo veterans.

In any case, I agree with qole that Council activity needs a higher profile if it wants to activate more people, and also with Texrat that the current forum organization combined with the raw amount of messages does not help 'community matter' visibility.