Qt Champions 2025

This page is currently being used for the Qt Champions 2025 nominations.

The Nomination Process

The nomination process is public. To nominate a community member, please fill in the table down below.

We’ll keep the nominations open until 23rd December 2025 and then ask the current Qt Lifetime Champions to evaluate the nominees.

The categories for nomination are:

• Community Builder
• Content Creator
• Quality Assurer
• Developer
• Fixer
• Ambassador
• Rookie of the year
• Maverick

Each category may or may not have a Qt Champion in a given year. The number of Qt Champions is limited. Being nominated does not automatically bring a title, but is a recognition in itself.

We know we have very talented Qt Champions out there! You can nominate multiple people for a category, only Rookie of the year and Maverick are strictly limited to one Champion per year. You can nominate any member of the community, including yourself.

Name/Username	Title category	Reason for nomination
Mitch Curtis	Developer	Mitch could be nominated in several categories. He could have just as well have been nominated in all of the categories (except "Rookie of the Year" :D). He is active in participating in various discussions in mailing lists, and one of the moderators of the Qt discord server. In addition to being a great developer, he has been helping out with creating content for various learning courses , fixing bugs, doing great reviews and many other impactful things (such as being maintainer of Qt Quick Controls). This all in despite of living in a "unfavorable timezone" (Australia), which can sometimes be challenging in terms of communication with R&D offices in Europe.
Petr Mironychev	Developer	Creator and maintainer of QodeAssist https://github.com/Palm1r/QodeAssist - an open-source AI-powered coding assistant for Qt Creator that brings modern AI capabilities to the Qt development ecosystem. Continuously evolving with advanced chat, intelligent tool execution, deep reasoning capabilities, and Qt Creator integration.
Adam Sowa	Developer	I wasn’t sure which category fits Przemek best - because the truth is, he’s simply one of the finest Qt developers on the planet. And that’s not an opinion. It’s backed by the highest score ever recorded in the official Qt certification exams (as of 2025). For the record, the second-highest score is also his. Combine that with his Qt conference talks, published articles, and key contributions to bringing TaskTree into Qt’s core modules, and it’s clear: he absolutely deserves to be nominated.
Alexandra Betouni	Community Builder	I would like to nominate Alexandra Betouni for the Qt Champion 2025 title in the Community Builder category. Already recognized as a Qt Champion 2024, Alexandra has continued to expand her impact throughout 2024–2025. She has been an exceptional advocate for Qt, actively promoting the framework across Europe through her talks, the events her company has organized, and numerous community activities. She has introduced Qt to local C++ user groups, helping bridge communities and attract new developers into the Qt ecosystem. Her contributions extend well beyond speaking engagements. She has volunteered at the Qt Contributors Summit, served as a judge for the QtAthon, and created educational content and courses for Qt Academy, supporting learners at all levels. She also contributed to the popular open source drinks initiative by inventing its name, which has since become a fun and memorable part of Qt community gatherings. Through her energy, initiative, and dedication to connecting people, Alexandra has made a remarkable impact on the Qt community and truly represents the spirit of a Qt Champion – Community Builder.
Lukas Kosinski	Content Creator	Lukas has been a visible force behind Qt over the past year and more. As the CEO of Somco Software (Formerly Scythe Studio), he and his team are Qt Champions to the core. Lukas has spoken on numerous Qt webinars as not only a Qt expert, but an expert in the medical industry. Lukas has also created our Qt Academy Medical Learning Track which has been extremely well received by our customers and users. Somco Software was a sponsor of QtWS 2025 and Lukas and his team showcased stunning demos at their booth. If you look at Lukas' LinkedIn, he is constantly promoting and educating his audience on Qt. Also, being a key services partner, the majority of Somco projects are built with Qt. Lukas has also been authoring competitive collateral pitching Qt against our biggest competitors like Flutter and Android and not just proclaiming that Qt is better, he is proving it. For the reasons above, Lukas Kosinski, CEO of Somco Software is a perfect choice to be recognized as a Qt Champion 2025

Criteria for Qt Champions

• Community Builder
  • Being a forum maintainer / helping people on forums
  • Managing mailing lists / helping on the mailing lists
  • Helping Qt newcomers find their way around the project
  • Running Qt study groups
  • Running local Qt meetups
• Content Creator
  • Finding, writing and sharing use-cases of Qt in unexpected places
  • Creating video material of Qt (demos, guides, other material)
  • Authoring articles and even books
  • Fixing documentation issues
  • Creating examples and snippets
  • Being a wiki gardener / editor
• Quality Assurer
  • Bug triager
  • Being in the bug squad
  • Verifying and closing bugs
  • Help in package testing
  • Help in unit testing
  • Being in the community beta testing program
• Developer
  • Providing new features for Qt
  • Create stunning Qt applications
  • Share Qt application creation knowledge
• Fixer
  • Fixing bugs in Qt
  • Providing patches to Qt
• Ambassador
  • Spread the Qt word in blogs, social media, videoblogs
  • Find and help newcomers to Qt
  • Working to bring Qt to students
  • Present Qt at events
• Rookie of the Year
  • First code commit during the past year
  • Active and positive contribution to the Qt project
• Maverick
  • Has made a significant impact on the project
  • Might not have always followed the rules to the point, but gets the job done

What is expected of a Qt Champion

A Qt Champion is there to show what the Qt Community is best at.

The Qt Champion is friendly and has shown active participation with the Qt project.

Limited time only

Once you are given the title of Qt Champion, you will hold the title for a year.

If you achieve the title for three years, you will be entitled for a lifetime title. If you are so committed to the project, you need to be recognised beyond a normal Qt Champion title.

But I get paid to do this! / What if we are a company?

Yes, some of us are paid to work on Qt by our employers. Mostly on the code base, but also testing, documentation and other essential work goes on in the project. Some of the people who do get paid to work on the project do so above and beyond the normal limits of their day jobs (coding all day and helping newcomers in their free time, for example). We need metrics to find these people and provide them with a Qt Champion title too.

Tools to help figure this out

To find the top non-Qt-company contributors in a repo:

git log --since=2025-01-01 | grep Author | grep -v qt.io | sort | uniq -c | sort -n