Should the Maemo Community Council manage a "Community Fund"?
The recent Elopocalypse (from which we're all still reeling) created a lot of uncertainly about the future of maemo.org and its infrastructure in Nokia's accounting books. Quite a lot of discussion has been taking place about what we, as a community, could do if Nokia decides to pull the plug on the funding. In particular, it has been suggested that the council could manage a fund to support maemo.org: [...] a number of people have been pushing that the As Quim Gil has pointed out on more than one occassion (and I believe the council concurs with this opinion), if changes are coming here, they're not likely to come without warning. So if we do end up needing to pay for the infrastructure, we're likely to have plenty of time to figure out how. Still, given Nokia was unlikely to pay for maemo.org forever (Microsoft partnership or no) alternative funding strategy planning is probably a good idea.