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

[Ismail Sunni]

Hi John,

Thanks for the detailed explanation. Out of curiosity, since we do an
exercise on the user groups, do/will/have we do the same for the community
voting member? I read in the charter that voting members won't be removed
unless they resign or there is a motion thought (so may be not needed to do
the exercise)

Best regards

On Thu, Nov 12, 2026 at 4:29 PM Voting Officer via Qgis-voting-members <
qgis-voting-members at lists.osgeo.org> wrote:

> 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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Ismail Sunni
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