Yes i agree with you on a lot of what you said especially the "Everyone can help" bit but i feel more needs to be done to get people more involved with helping the Council by explaining more about how people can actually help and some guidelines on the format of help that is beneficial for this community to address the main problems.

Things that are important would be to point out the failures or the area's that Nokia are failing and how to go about this.

Meego is not getting explained properly in terms of what Nokia will and will not do getting it to the N900 and if Nokia are failing then the correct route to bolster reasons why the N900 does need further development software wise.

If the council is to gain respect as a team then it must prove to the community what issues are being dealt with and the procedures being used.
Let the people know how important a role the Council has and why it needs input from the community members.