I appreciate the responses but I am sad to see this thread. Not because it argues to wind down maemo.org. But because of what it doesn't say and because it seems aimed to head off a community vote on its future.

For some time now, we have been discussing the future of maemo.org. I have participated in many of the discussions and have indicated that I will personally support the continuation of maemo.org as a community governed open source community for maemo-based and derived software. I saw the role of Council as facilitating community consideration and framing the debate; not deciding the future. Most recently, it appeared that would involve a referendum vote during the next election, which I even took the time earlier today to explain to a community member why the vote should include the "winding down" option even though I disagree with it.

http://talk.maemo.org/showpost.php?p...&postcount=512

I had asked a week ago for help from Council members to do this. A community vote, it seems, is objectionable to Qole. This thread was started, which does not even attempt to explain its context. Here is the response from him just now when asked about a community vote:

"What exactly do you expect to gain from a vote?

I doubt you'll get the full council behind your idea of creating an independent maemo.org, especially with the end date still so far away, so you won't be able go to Nokia and say, "We, the council, are in agreement to ask you to give us control of maemo.org" and if you want to have a vote so you can say, "The majority of the community wants Nokia to give us control of maemo.org" that still will have no more influence than if you were to go to Quim or Peter with a well-thought-out plan and say, "there are a few of us in the Maemo community who would like to try to run maemo.org after Nokia stops funding the maemo.org infrastructure, and here's how we plan to do it."

[By the way, the indication of the issue - "give us control of maemo.org" is wrong.]

Let the community decide its future. And do it in a way that is fair. Let's have a vote.