<div dir="ltr"><div>> <span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:11pt">Could the national user groups be members of the European user group?</span></div><div><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:11pt"><br></span></div><div><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:11pt">I don't see why not, as long as a national user group is also a </span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:11pt"></span>juridical person <span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:11pt">it should not be an issue.<br><br></span></div><div><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:11pt">That could actually be a good kick start if some europeans user group are willing to become members of this potential new user group<br><br></span></div><div><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:11pt">Regards,</span></div><div><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:11pt">Valentin</span></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote gmail_quote_container"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">Le jeu. 15 janv. 2026 à 08:32, Karl Magnus Jönsson <<a href="mailto:Karl-Magnus.Jonsson@kristianstad.se">Karl-Magnus.Jonsson@kristianstad.se</a>> a écrit :<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 class="msg-7495106758320227537">
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11pt">Hi all<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:11pt">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?
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<b>För </b>Valentin Buira via QGIS-User<br>
<b>Skickat:</b> den 13 januari 2026 20:33<br>
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<b>Ämne:</b> [Qgis-user] The case for a Europe user group ?<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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Sorry for hijacking this global mailing list for a local user group topic (even though I seek the experience from outside Europe as well) <u></u><u></u></p>
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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 ?<br>
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To me given our specificities, I would argue the response to these questions is yes<u></u><u></u></p>
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In random order a mix of rationales and potential goals for a European user group:<u></u><u></u></p>
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* 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] .<br>
* I know it sounds dreadful but the INSPIRE directive should make studies that use the INSPIRE data interpolate to any other countries.<br>
* 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"<br>
* Lobbying (in a good way) for more open data across the EU (cf <a href="https://data.europa.eu/en/open-data-maturity/2025" target="_blank">https://data.europa.eu/en/open-data-maturity/2025</a> )<br>
* 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. <br>
* QGIS it's free to use but not to develop, mutualize funding QGIS feature that benefits users of this potential future user group. <br>
* Apply for EU funds [2], if someone has any experience with it, it would be very welcome.<br>
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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<u></u><u></u></p>
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Regards, and in hope to see this happening.<br>
Valentin Buira<br>
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[1] <a href="https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1N_727UP3XSEtGnH5SprPs76HPc8XOe0PrZ3purp7KbA/edit?usp=sharing" target="_blank">
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1N_727UP3XSEtGnH5SprPs76HPc8XOe0PrZ3purp7KbA/edit?usp=sharing</a><br>
[2] <a href="https://ec.europa.eu/info/funding-tenders/opportunities/portal/screen/support/mobile-eufame" target="_blank">https://ec.europa.eu/info/funding-tenders/opportunities/portal/screen/support/mobile-eufame</a><u></u><u></u></p>
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