<div dir="auto"><div>This is a gentle reminder that the voting will close tonight.<div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Thanks for voting</div><div dir="auto">Cheers Marco </div><br><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Thu, 7 Feb 2019, 14:03 Marco Bernasocchi, <<a href="mailto:marco@qgis.org">marco@qgis.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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<p><b style="font-weight:normal" id="m_-547009865678306408docs-internal-guid-e5ef0ad4-7fff-5a3d-5247-2891e91f7e1f"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;white-space:pre-wrap">Dear QGIS Community</span><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;white-space:pre-wrap">
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</span><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;white-space:pre-wrap">we invite you to elect your favorite community voting members. </span><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;white-space:pre-wrap">
</span><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;white-space:pre-wrap">One community voting member is appointed in tandem with each QGIS Country User Group Voting Member.</span><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;white-space:pre-wrap">
</span><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;white-space:pre-wrap">Due cancellation of two groups and the addition of three groups, this year there is only one spot up for vote.</span><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;white-space:pre-wrap">
</span><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;white-space:pre-wrap">The purpose of the voting members is to elect the board (ex PSC) and to collectively make decisions related to QGIS governance where needed.</span><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;white-space:pre-wrap">
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</span><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;white-space:pre-wrap">Please note that in my call for nominations I mistakenly wrote that incoming community voting members will be selected based on the number of nominations they receive, whereas in the form I correctly wrote that we would start a ballot. </span><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;white-space:pre-wrap">
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</span><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;white-space:pre-wrap">Please read the instructions carefully and establish your eligibility to vote which I repeat here for your convenience:</span><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;white-space:pre-wrap">
</span><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;white-space:pre-wrap">"Only community members with commit rights to an official QGIS git repository or with write access in transifex are eligible to vote nominees”</span><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;white-space:pre-wrap"></span><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;white-space:pre-wrap"></span></b></p>
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<p><b style="font-weight:normal" id="m_-547009865678306408docs-internal-guid-e5ef0ad4-7fff-5a3d-5247-2891e91f7e1f"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;white-space:pre-wrap">Voting will close on Wednesday 13 February 2019.
</span><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;white-space:pre-wrap">The voting form is here:</span><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;white-space:pre-wrap">
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<p><b style="font-weight:normal" id="m_-547009865678306408docs-internal-guid-e5ef0ad4-7fff-5a3d-5247-2891e91f7e1f"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;white-space:pre-wrap">If you have any questions about the voting process please do not hesitate to contact me</span><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;white-space:pre-wrap">
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Marco Bernasocchi
QGIS.org Co-chair
<a class="m_-547009865678306408moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://berna.io" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">http://berna.io</a></pre>
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