Joerg,

not every question or remark is a personal attach against you
chill-out
you did a tremendous job with the repositories and only for that you deserve recognition from the community (and any N900 user, for that matter)

why should i have to check whatever document?
wouldn't it have made sense for TheDead1440 to formulate it clearly right from the beginning?

why do you think I feel attacked or whatever. You asked what's the story about the red button, and instead of thedead1440 I answered and gave as good an explanation with refrences as I could. I did this instead of waiting for thedead to answer, since this particular sentence in OP been suggested by me. So it's me who should have formulated clearly from beginning - I hope I fixed that with my last post.

/j

No ambivalence here. We spent much time on the task as during the past 12 months Nokia left the building, all our infra was migrated twice and was left in semi-broken state, we had to sort purchase and shipping of servers, to drum up an infrastructure team, to negotiate unsettled business with increasingly sparse Nokia contacts, to overcome legal difficulties, resignations of councillors and directors and non-cooperation of the previous board.

All of the above has now settled, and the past weeks things are pretty quiet. This is good, and it's now time again for a fresh body to devote it's time to fun, productive things that weren't possible this past term mostly due to organizational and time problems.

As a first step I propose that the next council resurrects the highly successful maemo coding competition that we (and I admit I have a great part of responsibility for this) failed to host during 2013.

Why not let the current council remain in since nobody's really stepping forward. The transition from Nokia funded community to open community could not have been an easy one; it seems to be still going on to be honest.

Once the dust has truly settled, then bring back the competitions and the stability to hand off to a fresh council that doesn't have to backtrack and possibly lose traction.

Just a thought.

A fair comment.
However, the fact non of the current council are stepping up for this term may indicate why this isn't best for the community.

If nobody steps up this will happen anyway as it will keep getting postponed without a minimum of 4 candidates.

Ideally council could do with a mix of new and old members to freshen things up but keep in touch with recent goings on.

Remember most of the current council members do a lot of other important stuff for the community, like CSSU contributions, sysops and admins etc and the last year or so has not been easy.

The Nokia transition is to be mainly handled by BoD and it's still on going as you say. However connections with Nokia are getting thin and I have not heard much activity recently.

So please I do urge motivated community members to help keep us going.

Do we have any data available regarding how many users are qualified to sit for this election, not counting people who have been alienated by problems of the past?

I'm very concerned

Well here last years. As you can see due to broken infra there is a link to 2012 data.

http://wiki.maemo.org/Community_Coun...ble_candidates

As I am not on the list I suppose I'm not eligible candidate.

a karma of 344 should be enougj

Why not? - from your TMO posts and thanks alone, you have a Karma of 344! Check it out in your maemo.org profile (not TMO).
You need to link both accounts before that counts though.