<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=us-ascii"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div apple-content-edited="true" class=""><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;">Dear QGIS Users (with apologies for cross posting)
</span></div><div apple-content-edited="true" class=""><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;"><br class=""></span></div><div apple-content-edited="true" class=""><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;">As you may be aware, we are in transition to the creation of a non profit organisation. If you would like to know more about this, please see my recent blog post on the QGIS blog : </span><a href="http://blog.qgis.org/2015/11/03/introducing-the-qgis-board/" class="">http://blog.qgis.org/2015/11/03/introducing-the-qgis-board/</a></div><div apple-content-edited="true" class=""><br class=""></div><div apple-content-edited="true" class="">As part of the board formation process we will be allocating one voting member to each country QGIS user group around the world. We have set up a simple form to create a registry of all QGIS user groups and I would like to ask you to register your *group* here <a href="http://goo.gl/forms/1UCzt6Otyn" class="">http://goo.gl/forms/1UCzt6Otyn</a></div><div apple-content-edited="true" class=""><br class=""></div><div apple-content-edited="true" class="">Please note this form is **not intended for individual members** - only the representative of each group should fill it in. Also please note that we will be posting the details provided on on this form on our website and may disseminate it in other ways. We will also be sending regular emails to the country representatives.</div><div apple-content-edited="true" class=""><br class=""></div><div apple-content-edited="true" class="">Recognised country representatives will be entitled to vote on issues raised during out annual general meeting (we expect the first of which to be held in May 2016) such as annual budget plans and so on.</div><div apple-content-edited="true" class=""><br class=""></div><div apple-content-edited="true" class=""><br class=""></div><div apple-content-edited="true" class="">If you have any questions or concerns about this process, please do not hesitate to contact me - either on or off list.</div><div apple-content-edited="true" class=""><span style="line-height: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; widows: auto;"><br class=""></span></div><div apple-content-edited="true" class=""><span style="line-height: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; widows: auto;"><br class=""></span></div><div apple-content-edited="true" class=""><span style="line-height: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; widows: auto;">With thanks,</span></div><div apple-content-edited="true" class=""><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;"><br class=""></span></div>
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<span><img height="60" width="60" apple-inline="yes" id="4824D4EF-B009-4EA0-84B3-4EED8B209DBA" apple-width="yes" apple-height="yes" src="cid:DDEF9B12-67C3-4498-BD7D-EC3563CC35A4" class=""></span><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div class=""><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><br class=""></div><div class="">Tim Sutton</div><div class="">QGIS Project Chair</div><div class=""><a href="mailto:tim@qgis.org" class="">tim@qgis.org</a></div><div class=""><br class=""></div></div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;"><br class="Apple-interchange-newline">
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