<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr">Hi Stefanos, that's a nice suggestion, thanks. I'll cc the other lists as well so they have this extra context.</div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr">The Colombia UG was closed in 2025 and was taken into account at the last Voting Member Election in January/February 2026.<br><div><br></div><div>The basis for 6 open seats this time is:</div><div><ul><li><span style="background-color:transparent">At the end of the last Voting Member Election, we were in balance with 34 country-level user groups and 34 community voting members.</span></li><li><span style="background-color:transparent">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 (</span><span style="background-color:transparent">England, Scotland, and Wales)</span><span style="background-color:transparent"> were functionally absorbed by OSGeo UK. At this time OSGeo UK hasn't yet indicated if they'll maintain user group status.</span></li><li><span style="background-color:transparent">We have 7 new groups in 2026: </span><span style="background-color:transparent">Algeria, Armenia, Cameroon, Canada, Croatia, Cyprus, and India.</span></li><li><span style="background-color:transparent">In the recent AGM election, </span><span style="background-color:transparent">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 (</span><span style="background-color:transparent">Alessandro Pasotti and </span><span style="background-color:transparent">Régis Haubourg).</span></li><li><span style="background-color:transparent">That gives us 38 user groups (34 - 3 + 7) and 32 community voting members (34 - 2), so we need 6 new members to balance.</span></li></ul></div><div><div><span style="background-color:transparent">Hopefully that all makes sense!</span></div><div><br></div><div>Cheers</div></div><div>John</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote gmail_quote_container"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Thu, Nov 12, 2026 at 3:10 PM Stefanos Natsis <<a href="mailto:uclaros@gmail.com">uclaros@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div>Hi John,</div><div><br></div><div>Thanks for the heads up!</div><div><br></div><div>Can you also clarify why 7 new groups result in 6 new community voting member seats?</div><div>Is it the Colombia user group becoming inactive?</div><div><br></div><div>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.</div><div><br></div><div>Thanks again for your great work!</div><div><br></div><div>Stefanos</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Thu, 12 Nov 2026 at 01:58, Voting Officer via QGIS-Developer <<a href="mailto:qgis-developer@lists.osgeo.org" target="_blank">qgis-developer@lists.osgeo.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div><span id="m_-4091201400576547057m_4363347849817876079gmail-docs-internal-guid-c9902065-7fff-3172-7179-da7199dcf5b6"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:10pt"><span style="font-size:9pt;font-family:Roboto,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Dear QGIS Community,</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:10pt"><span style="font-size:9pt;font-family:Roboto,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">With the addition of Algeria, Armenia, Cameroon, Canada, Croatia, Cyprus, and India in 2026, we now have 38 country-level user groups. The </span><a href="https://qgis.org/community/foundation/charter" style="text-decoration:none" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:9pt;font-family:Roboto,sans-serif;background-color:transparent;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">QGIS Charter</span></a><span style="font-size:9pt;font-family:Roboto,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> calls for an equal number of “Community Voting Members” (we have 32), so we’re kicking off an election for six new voting members.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:10pt"><span style="font-size:9pt;font-family:Roboto,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">This year’s election will aim to follow this schedule:</span></p><ul style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:disc;font-size:9pt;font-family:Roboto,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt" role="presentation"><span style="font-size:9pt;background-color:transparent;font-variant:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">12 - 26 Nov: Call for Nominations</span></p></li><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:disc;font-size:9pt;font-family:Roboto,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt" role="presentation"><span style="font-size:9pt;background-color:transparent;font-variant:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">27 Nov - 10 Dec: Voting</span></p></li><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:disc;font-size:9pt;font-family:Roboto,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:10pt" role="presentation"><span style="font-size:9pt;background-color:transparent;font-variant:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">11 - 12 Dec: Tally votes & verification of results</span></p></li></ul><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:10pt"><span style="font-size:9pt;font-family:Roboto,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-variant:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">**C</span><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Roboto,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-variant:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">all for </span><span style="font-size:9pt;font-family:Roboto,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-variant:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">N</span><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Roboto,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-variant:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">ominations</span><span style="font-size:9pt;font-family:Roboto,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-variant:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">**</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:10pt"><span style="font-size:9pt;font-family:Roboto,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">We invite nominations for 6 Community Voting Members. Any active QGIS community member is eligible to be nominated. </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:10pt"><span style="font-size:9pt;font-family:Roboto,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Only QGIS Committers (“</span><span style="font-size:9pt;font-family:Roboto,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-style:italic;font-variant:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">any person who has been granted commit access in any of the official QGIS repositories</span><span style="font-size:9pt;font-family:Roboto,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">”) are eligible to make nominations. This includes committers to any QGIS Git repository or Transifex project.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:10pt"><span style="font-size:9pt;font-family:Roboto,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Before making a nomination, please confirm you’re eligible, and check with the person you’re nominating to make sure they are willing. </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:10pt"><span style="font-size:9pt;font-family:Roboto,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">You can submit your nominations until </span><span style="font-size:9pt;font-family:Roboto,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-variant:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">**23:59 UTC on 26 November 2026**</span><span style="font-size:9pt;font-family:Roboto,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> here:</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;text-indent:36pt;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:10pt"><a href="https://forms.gle/h3Bd6Dhiz6v7AFuf9" style="text-decoration:none" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:9pt;font-family:Roboto,sans-serif;background-color:transparent;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">https://forms.gle/h3Bd6Dhiz6v7AFuf9</span></a></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:10pt"><span style="font-size:9pt;font-family:Roboto,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">If you play an organisational role (e.g. documentation lead, translation lead), kindly forward this email to your committers to ensure broad participation.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:10pt"><span style="font-size:9pt;font-family:Roboto,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">For further details, visit the </span><a href="https://qgis.org/community/organisation" style="text-decoration:none" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:9pt;font-family:Roboto,sans-serif;background-color:transparent;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">QGIS community organisation page</span></a><span style="font-size:9pt;font-family:Roboto,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">. If you have any questions about the process, please don’t hesitate to contact me.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:10pt"><span style="font-size:9pt;font-family:Roboto,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Thank you for your continued engagement!</span></p></span>John</div><div><br></div><div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr">John Bryant<div>QGIS Voting Officer</div></div></div></div></div>
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