[Qgis-user] The case for a Europe user group ?

[Valentin Buira]

> Could the national user groups be members of the European user group?

I don't see why not, as long as a national user group is also a juridical
person it should not be an issue.

That could actually be a good kick start if some europeans user group are
willing to become members of this potential new user group

Regards,
Valentin

Le jeu. 15 janv. 2026 à 08:32, Karl Magnus Jönsson <
Karl-Magnus.Jonsson at kristianstad.se> a écrit :

> Hi all
>
> Good idea. Among your points below, I also see other EU directives to
> follow and work with such as security. But I somehow fear that it could be
> difficult to gather engagement for such an organization. Hopefully, I am
> wrong. Could the national user groups be members of the European user
> group?
>
>
>
> Kind regards
>
>
>
> *Karl-Magnus Jönsson*
>
>
>
> *Från:* QGIS-User <qgis-user-bounces at lists.osgeo.org> *För *Valentin
> Buira via QGIS-User
> *Skickat:* den 13 januari 2026 20:33
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> *Ämne:* [Qgis-user] The case for a Europe user group ?
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>
> Hi all
>
>
> Sorry for hijacking this global mailing list for a local user group topic
> (even though I seek the experience from outside Europe as well)
>
>
> As the title of this email suggests, I would like to discuss the case for
> a new QGIS Europe user group. Is there any interest ? Would it be relevant ?
>
> To me given our specificities, I would argue the response to these
> questions is yes
>
>
> In random order a mix of rationales and potential goals for a
> European user group:
>
>
> * Provides a representation for European countries that do not have a user
> group representation. At the moment only 12 out of 27 EU members have a
> QGIS user group, and if we get a broader definition of Europe [1]including
> candidates to the EU, non EFTA members, and former member we get 19 out of
> 41 have one [1] .
> * I know it sounds dreadful but the INSPIRE directive should make studies
> that use the INSPIRE data interpolate to any other countries.
> * Mutualize plugin that only vary by language and translate them to other
> european languages,  for example  "Spanish Inspire Catastral Downloader"
> and  "Italy Inspire Cadastre Downloader"
> * Lobbying (in a good way) for more open data across the EU (cf
> https://data.europa.eu/en/open-data-maturity/2025 )
> * Sovereignty, QGIS is the archetype of the geocommon. It belongs to
> everyone, for free, forever. QGIS is not rooted into any countries, and is
> not subject to any kill switches neither technical nor political.
> * QGIS it's free to use but not to develop, mutualize funding QGIS feature
> that benefits users of this potential future user group.
> * Apply for EU funds [2], if someone has any experience with it, it would
> be very welcome.
>
> Side note : I would advocate to call it Europe user group and not EU user
> group because I feel like Ukraine and other candidate countries to join EU
> should definitely be included as the Bruxelles effect make their GIS data
> converge before even joining the EU
>
>
> Regards, and in hope to see this happening.
> Valentin Buira
>
> [1]
> https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1N_727UP3XSEtGnH5SprPs76HPc8XOe0PrZ3purp7KbA/edit?usp=sharing
> [2]
> https://ec.europa.eu/info/funding-tenders/opportunities/portal/screen/support/mobile-eufame
>
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