[Qgis-community-team] [QGIS-Developer] Community Voting Members Election Nov-Dec 2026: Schedule and Call for Nominations

[Voting Officer]

Hi Stefanos, that's a nice suggestion, thanks. I'll cc the other lists as
well so they have this extra context.

The Colombia UG was closed in 2025 and was taken into account at the last
Voting Member Election in January/February 2026.

The basis for 6 open seats this time is:

   - At the end of the last Voting Member Election, we were in balance with
   34 country-level user groups and 34 community voting members.
   - This year, Marco Serusi (QGIS staff) did an exercise to update
   contacts and current status for all the user groups. He discovered 3 user
   groups (England, Scotland, and Wales) were functionally absorbed by
   OSGeo UK. At this time OSGeo UK hasn't yet indicated if they'll maintain
   user group status.
   - We have 7 new groups in 2026: Algeria, Armenia, Cameroon, Canada,
   Croatia, Cyprus, and India.
   - In the recent AGM election, a motion passed to amend the charter to
   clarify a Community Voting Member elected to the PSC "will pause their
   voting membership for the duration of their PSC service". Two people are
   affected (Alessandro Pasotti and Régis Haubourg).
   - That gives us 38 user groups (34 - 3 + 7) and 32 community voting
   members (34 - 2), so we need 6 new members to balance.

Hopefully that all makes sense!

Cheers
John

On Thu, Nov 12, 2026 at 3:10 PM Stefanos Natsis <uclaros at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi John,
>
> Thanks for the heads up!
>
> Can you also clarify why 7 new groups result in 6 new community voting
> member seats?
> Is it the Colombia user group becoming inactive?
>
> It would be great if a summary of all events affecting the available seats
> (ie new user groups, inactive user groups, voting member joining the PSC,
> voting member voluntarily stepping down etc) was included in these
> announcements.
>
> Thanks again for your great work!
>
> Stefanos
>
> On Thu, 12 Nov 2026 at 01:58, Voting Officer via QGIS-Developer <
> qgis-developer at lists.osgeo.org> wrote:
>
>> Dear QGIS Community,
>>
>> With the addition of Algeria, Armenia, Cameroon, Canada, Croatia, Cyprus,
>> and India in 2026, we now have 38 country-level user groups. The QGIS
>> Charter <https://qgis.org/community/foundation/charter> calls for an
>> equal number of “Community Voting Members” (we have 32), so we’re kicking
>> off an election for six new voting members.
>>
>> This year’s election will aim to follow this schedule:
>>
>>    -
>>
>>    12 - 26 Nov: Call for Nominations
>>    -
>>
>>    27 Nov - 10 Dec: Voting
>>    -
>>
>>    11 - 12 Dec: Tally votes & verification of results
>>
>> **Call for Nominations**
>>
>> We invite nominations for 6 Community Voting Members. Any active QGIS
>> community member is eligible to be nominated.
>>
>> Only QGIS Committers (“any person who has been granted commit access in
>> any of the official QGIS repositories”) are eligible to make
>> nominations. This includes committers to any QGIS Git repository or
>> Transifex project.
>>
>> Before making a nomination, please confirm you’re eligible, and check
>> with the person you’re nominating to make sure they are willing.
>>
>> You can submit your nominations until **23:59 UTC on 26 November 2026**
>> here:
>>
>> https://forms.gle/h3Bd6Dhiz6v7AFuf9
>>
>> If you play an organisational role (e.g. documentation lead, translation
>> lead), kindly forward this email to your committers to ensure broad
>> participation.
>>
>> For further details, visit the QGIS community organisation page
>> <https://qgis.org/community/organisation>. If you have any questions
>> about the process, please don’t hesitate to contact me.
>>
>> Thank you for your continued engagement!
>> John
>>
>> John Bryant
>> QGIS Voting Officer
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