just that HiFo isn't exactly about steering. Any "direction" been already taken by those who inventend/developed mer and meego and nitdroid and cordia and... you name it. HiFo doesn't have anything it could steer anywhere to, it's about keeping maemo alive as it is. Making friends with those who spawned all those projects based on maemo doesn't hurt but still is not exactly a new perspective for maemo. Everything of maemo that HiFo is allowed to offer (and that actually makes sense to use) got already migrated to those successor projects. You maybe think HiFo will inherit the sourcecode of the closed blobs - no, Nokia will not hand out those sources, neither to HiFo nor to anybody else. And HiFo doesn't have any developer manpower at hand they could allocate to any project.

So: nothing to steer.