For my own part, I believe you've been doing an excellent job. Nokia's thrown us a lot of curveballs over the two years since Maemo Reconstructed was started and you have to roll with them as best you can. The TI drivers ended up taking much longer than expected, Mer ended up being a much larger undertaking than expected, and things were all, generally, more difficult than any of us would've believed going into it. We all learn as we go along, and things rarely meet expectations in software (why does everything in Maemo always come back to managing expectations? . . .), but I've see some amazing progress so far.

Hell, there's an argument to be made for just how fantastic a job you've done given that MeeGo seems to fulfill many of the goals of Maemo Reconstructed, Mer and the distmaster position (whether you or any of us had a strong influence on that, I have no idea, though).

So, to summarize, thanks for digging in doing all of the dirty work and doing your damndest to help encourage and coach other people to help to it, too. It's a tough job shifting the direction of a ship as big as Nokia's, but I think you've done admirably so far.

As for places to improve:

It's become especially tough to follow all of the information flowing around the Maemo Community these days, and, as always, communication is still key. I don't think a few self-congratulatory blog posts about progress would go amiss. As we can already see from some responses here, perception is a large factor and it will always suffer if things are visible enough (trust me, I know, I've been playing a facilitation role for nearly 2 years ). Some summarizing of both major and minor progress would make it easier for everybody to track and to appreciate that activity is, in fact, taking place, whether or not they set out to find it.

Proper management of expectations is always important. It's something that we've all tripped on with Mer, and something that I don't think will be an issue in the future, as, well, now we know.