Purpose (Mission) To represent the Maemo Community's best interests to Nokia, and to act as a community conduit for Nokia-generated information.
Communication Open communication is one of the core values of the Community Council, both to serve as an example to Nokia and because it's the right thing to do. All communication is open by default. * All Community Council oriented conversation will happen either on the maemo-community mailing list, or over IRC in #maemo. * Community and Council issues will be distilled and summarized in the Council blog (which is also syndicated to Planet). * If you use Twitter, Community Council tweets can be followed using the hashtag #m.occ. * Council members' tasks will be allocated the same as maemo.org staff, Nokia community liaisons and community members' committments through the sprint process.
Council Work In addition to being committed community members (and all that entails), some of the specific responsibilities of the council include: * Facilitation: making sure that one portion of the community knows what is going on in another * Chairing the maemo.org sprint meetings, and representing the community * Hiring of maemo.org staff * Pushing to expand the community through organic growth * Being able to speak authoritatively on behalf of the community when Nokia need a question answering (such as "would it be good if we did x & y" or "do you think Nokia should sponsor another summit") * Backup mentors for the Google Summer of Code participation. This process seems to me to be counter-productive to