I would like to initiate a discussion on the representative roles of the Maemo Council and Maemo e.V.

Background:

On the olden times, when Nokia ruled all things Maemo, the community had the Council as its representative to deal with Nokia, to voice the concerns of the community and ask for changes/updates/whatever.

The division of labour was clear; Nokia owned everything, dictated everything and could not be held responsible for anything. All that community and Council could do was to speak out their mind.

This all changed when Nokia decided to drop Maemo. Few worthy members of the community managed to negotiate with Nokia that the community might be allowed to keep the legacy.
For that to succeed, there has to be a corporate entity that is responsible for the upkeep and administration; it is not possible in the eyes of law anywhere in the world to have a "nameless community of individual people" to be such an entity.

Hence the Hildon Foundation was created; to be the corporate entity to own the Maemo name, own and operate the servers and software to run Maemo infrastructure and govern everything that we had been given by Nokia.

Current state of affairs:

Later it was found out that for many reasons the U.S. based foundation was problematic entity to hold this position, mainly for reasons of operating costs, rigidity of U.S. law concerning foundations and the fact that Maemo infrastructure is based in Germany.
The idea of moving all the responsibility to a Geman based registered association (e.V. = Eingetragener Verein) was born.

Now, a registered association is like a hobby club or association; it is formed by named real individuals a members, it can elect its members to governing positions and be responsible as collective entity of real and immaterial assets.
Hence, the Maemo e.V. can operate as the real owner of Maemo in all senses of a corporate body under the EU laws.

Now the problematic entity is the old Maemo Council; The Council consists of people elected to the office among the community, by community. But the community here defined is not a legal body; the electorate and the councillors are defined as "Maemo users having Maemo account (same as Garage account AFAIK?)"

Now the problem with this is that "people with Maemo Account" is not a group of real people, the only requirement for being in that group is having a valid email address, there is no check of identity, multiple accounts or anything.
Hence this group of users cannot be directly included as members of the Maemo e.V.

Currently the Maemo e.V. is finalizing membership application process, so that all members of Maemo Community who want to participate in the future of Maemo are invited to join in the organization as members.

Possible solutions:

There are few possibilities to address. I would like to hear the opinions of people on the correct course to progress with.

1.) The things continue as they are currently: There is a separate Maemo Council that has no real power or responsibility.
The Maemo Council would be a voice of "The people that are mildly intrested in Maemo but not enough to be members".
In this scenario the Council would behave towards Maemo e.V. like it used to when Nokia was still owner of Maemo.

2.) The Maemo Council election rules are changed so that the electorate is members of Maemo e.V.
The Maemo Council would operate inside Maemo e.V. and have real power and responsibility to act.

3.) The Maemo Council is disbanded as unnecessary element in the current state of affairs.