# Community Feedback **URL:** https://forum.openrefine.org/c/community/feedback/2.md [Latest](https://forum.openrefine.org/latest.md) · [Categories](https://forum.openrefine.org/categories.md) · [Tags](https://forum.openrefine.org/tags.md) --- ## [👋 Introductions thread!](https://forum.openrefine.org/t/introductions-thread/69)
**Author:** [@Sandra](https://forum.openrefine.org/u/Sandra)\ **Replies:** 129\ **Last updated:** [February 26, 2026, 1:24pm UTC](https://forum.openrefine.org/t/introductions-thread/69 "2026-02-26T13:24:07Z")
:handshake: :wave: Introduce yourself in this thread / topic! Who are you? How and why do you use OpenRefine? Note: you can also add information about yourself in your user profile here on the forum. Click on your user … --- ## [About the Community Feedback category](https://forum.openrefine.org/t/about-the-community-feedback-category/1)
**Author:** [@system](https://forum.openrefine.org/u/system)\ **Replies:** 0
If you have feedback (positive or negative!) on how the OpenRefine community works, including feedback on this forum, please post and discuss here --- ## [Funding opportunity: OTF FOSS Sustainability Fund](https://forum.openrefine.org/t/funding-opportunity-otf-foss-sustainability-fund/2793)
**Author:** [@Martin](https://forum.openrefine.org/u/Martin)\ **Replies:** 4\ **Last updated:** [August 7, 2026, 4:11pm UTC](https://forum.openrefine.org/t/funding-opportunity-otf-foss-sustainability-fund/2793 "2026-08-07T16:11:05Z")
Hi all, I’m preparing an application to the Open Technology Fund’s Free and Open Source Software Sustainability Fund (deadline: May 7). The proposal would focus on strengthening OpenRefine’s core infrastructure, with a… --- ## [Funding opportunity: OS4LS proposal around OpenRefine for life-science data curation](https://forum.openrefine.org/t/funding-opportunity-os4ls-proposal-around-openrefine-for-life-science-data-curation/2816)
**Author:** [@Martin](https://forum.openrefine.org/u/Martin)\ **Replies:** 2\ **Last updated:** [July 9, 2026, 9:49pm UTC](https://forum.openrefine.org/t/funding-opportunity-os4ls-proposal-around-openrefine-for-life-science-data-curation/2816 "2026-07-09T21:49:45Z")
We are preparing a Letter of Intent for the Open Source for the Life Sciences (OS4LS) funding call. OS4LS is a new program that follows from the EOSS funding program. The LOI is due on June 8, 2026. We are currently loo… --- ## [Funding opportunity: Sovereign Tech Fellowship application (community coordination and governance)](https://forum.openrefine.org/t/funding-opportunity-sovereign-tech-fellowship-application-community-coordination-and-governance/2758)
**Author:** [@Martin](https://forum.openrefine.org/u/Martin)\ **Replies:** 1\ **Last updated:** [June 8, 2026, 5:17pm UTC](https://forum.openrefine.org/t/funding-opportunity-sovereign-tech-fellowship-application-community-coordination-and-governance/2758 "2026-06-08T17:17:16Z")
Hi all, I wanted to share that we are preparing an application to the Sovereign Tech Fellowship due on April 6, 2026. The proposal would focus on supporting the community management and coordination work around OpenRef… --- ## [2026 Funding Update and Budget Direction](https://forum.openrefine.org/t/2026-funding-update-and-budget-direction/2743)
**Author:** [@Martin](https://forum.openrefine.org/u/Martin)\ **Replies:** 1\ **Last updated:** [March 6, 2026, 7:13am UTC](https://forum.openrefine.org/t/2026-funding-update-and-budget-direction/2743 "2026-03-06T07:13:01Z")
As we enter March, I wanted to provide an update on the project’s fundraising status and direction for 2026. A lot has happened since my last update in December and the discussion regarding the institutional package mode… --- ## [Funding Opportunities 2025](https://forum.openrefine.org/t/funding-opportunities-2025/2147)
**Author:** [@Martin](https://forum.openrefine.org/u/Martin)\ **Replies:** 5\ **Last updated:** [December 1, 2025, 8:39pm UTC](https://forum.openrefine.org/t/funding-opportunities-2025/2147 "2025-12-01T20:39:55Z")
Hello everyone, I wanted to provide a consolidated update on OpenRefine's fundraising efforts, as information has previously been available in bits and pieces through the Advisory Committee minutes (see Topics tagged mi… --- ## [How to align external grants with OpenRefine](https://forum.openrefine.org/t/how-to-align-external-grants-with-openrefine/2646)
**Author:** [@wolfgang](https://forum.openrefine.org/u/wolfgang)\ **Replies:** 2\ **Last updated:** [November 26, 2025, 10:26am UTC](https://forum.openrefine.org/t/how-to-align-external-grants-with-openrefine/2646 "2025-11-26T10:26:09Z")
Dear Martin, What is your stance on research or research infrastructure grants that would mainly secure funding for external developers? Let me present myself, I lead a group at HITS, a privately funded, not-for-profit… --- ## [2025 NLnet NGI Zero Commons Fund](https://forum.openrefine.org/t/2025-nlnet-ngi-zero-commons-fund/2381)
**Author:** [@Martin](https://forum.openrefine.org/u/Martin)\ **Replies:** 14\ **Last updated:** [November 4, 2025, 9:42pm UTC](https://forum.openrefine.org/t/2025-nlnet-ngi-zero-commons-fund/2381 "2025-11-04T21:42:55Z")
The NLnet Commons Fund supports research and development of open-source projects that advance a next-generation public-interest internet. I am exploring if we are submitting one or two separate proposals for OpenRefine a… --- ## [Funding opportunity: 2025 Digital Science Catalyst Grant](https://forum.openrefine.org/t/funding-opportunity-2025-digital-science-catalyst-grant/2574)
**Author:** [@Martin](https://forum.openrefine.org/u/Martin)\ **Replies:** 2\ **Last updated:** [October 30, 2025, 7:20pm UTC](https://forum.openrefine.org/t/funding-opportunity-2025-digital-science-catalyst-grant/2574 "2025-10-30T19:20:39Z")
We are preparing an application to the Digital Science Catalyst Grant. The proposal will be built around one of our goalposts: making OpenRefine more useful as an exploratory tool. This direction has already been discus… --- ## [Dataset of World Flags for Educational and Visualization Use](https://forum.openrefine.org/t/dataset-of-world-flags-for-educational-and-visualization-use/2297)
**Author:** [@Ellieisla](https://forum.openrefine.org/u/Ellieisla)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [May 11, 2025, 11:35am UTC](https://forum.openrefine.org/t/dataset-of-world-flags-for-educational-and-visualization-use/2297 "2025-05-11T11:35:02Z")
Hi everyone, I'm working on a side project related to global cultural and geographic data, and I wanted to share a resource that might be useful for those doing data enrichment or building visualizations. My site, allwo… --- ## [Improving Transparency: Advisory Committee's Role and Community Involvement](https://forum.openrefine.org/t/improving-transparency-advisory-committees-role-and-community-involvement/1672)
**Author:** [@abbe98](https://forum.openrefine.org/u/abbe98)\ **Replies:** 41\ **Last updated:** [March 26, 2025, 5:49pm UTC](https://forum.openrefine.org/t/improving-transparency-advisory-committees-role-and-community-involvement/1672 "2025-03-26T17:49:02Z")
A gentle reminder to the Advisory Committee that our governance outlines its responsibilities in the following way: The Advisory Committee runs the administrative aspect of the project on a day to day basis with the su… --- ## [Discussion: How OpenRefine Can Support Federated Data Repositories for Open Science?](https://forum.openrefine.org/t/discussion-how-openrefine-can-support-federated-data-repositories-for-open-science/2146)
**Author:** [@Martin](https://forum.openrefine.org/u/Martin)\ **Replies:** 2\ **Last updated:** [March 20, 2025, 3:32pm UTC](https://forum.openrefine.org/t/discussion-how-openrefine-can-support-federated-data-repositories-for-open-science/2146 "2025-03-20T15:32:16Z")
Exploring OpenRefine’s Role in Research Data Repositories Research data repositories and platforms for sharing datasets are becoming increasingly important. We would like to open a discussion on how OpenRefine can add va… --- ## [Reallocating Barcamp funds towards Project Manager position in 2025](https://forum.openrefine.org/t/reallocating-barcamp-funds-towards-project-manager-position-in-2025/2021)
**Author:** [@ej2432](https://forum.openrefine.org/u/ej2432)\ **Replies:** 7\ **Last updated:** [January 31, 2025, 4:28pm UTC](https://forum.openrefine.org/t/reallocating-barcamp-funds-towards-project-manager-position-in-2025/2021 "2025-01-31T16:28:43Z")
Community feedback requested by: January 30, 2025 In December 2024, the Advisory Committee brainstormed how we can most effectively use our existing funding in 2025. As @Martin has shared on this forum, funding applicat… --- ## [OpenRefine in the Fediverse](https://forum.openrefine.org/t/openrefine-in-the-fediverse/810)
**Author:** [@antonin\_d](https://forum.openrefine.org/u/antonin_d)\ **Replies:** 21\ **Last updated:** [November 30, 2024, 8:56am UTC](https://forum.openrefine.org/t/openrefine-in-the-fediverse/810 "2024-11-30T08:56:02Z")
I would like to propose to improve our social media presence with a Mastodon account. Mastodon is part of the so-called “Fediverse”, a federated social media platform, which is also open source. A lot of open source proj… --- ## [Improving the onboarding process for new contributors](https://forum.openrefine.org/t/improving-the-onboarding-process-for-new-contributors/882)
**Author:** [@antonin\_d](https://forum.openrefine.org/u/antonin_d)\ **Replies:** 12\ **Last updated:** [November 27, 2024, 3:37pm UTC](https://forum.openrefine.org/t/improving-the-onboarding-process-for-new-contributors/882 "2024-11-27T15:37:15Z")
Hi all, For a long time, I have been inviting people to the OpenRefine GitHub organization on my own initiative: for people who had made a few successful pull requests, people who were involved in some particular coordi… --- ## [Governance transitions: useful talk by VM Brasseur at SeaGL](https://forum.openrefine.org/t/governance-transitions-useful-talk-by-vm-brasseur-at-seagl/1883)
**Author:** [@antonin\_d](https://forum.openrefine.org/u/antonin_d)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [November 12, 2024, 6:38pm UTC](https://forum.openrefine.org/t/governance-transitions-useful-talk-by-vm-brasseur-at-seagl/1883 "2024-11-12T18:38:49Z")
I found the following talk by Vicky Brasseur really useful and relevant to our situation: The abstract of the talk (at the SeaGL conference) can be found here: Open Source Governance By Example :: SeaGL 202… --- ## [Grant Opportunity: Wikimedia Community Fund:](https://forum.openrefine.org/t/grant-opportunity-wikimedia-community-fund/1728)
**Author:** [@Martin](https://forum.openrefine.org/u/Martin)\ **Replies:** 18\ **Last updated:** [November 5, 2024, 9:19pm UTC](https://forum.openrefine.org/t/grant-opportunity-wikimedia-community-fund/1728 "2024-11-05T21:19:29Z")
The advisory committee, with the help of @Martin, is exploring a potential grant application to the Grants:Programs/Wikimedia Community Fund/General Support Fund - Meta . Application are due September 30, 2024. @Martin … --- ## [GitHub Discussions: the right tool to communicate with new code contributors?](https://forum.openrefine.org/t/github-discussions-the-right-tool-to-communicate-with-new-code-contributors/1843)
**Author:** [@antonin\_d](https://forum.openrefine.org/u/antonin_d)\ **Replies:** 9\ **Last updated:** [October 27, 2024, 5:07pm UTC](https://forum.openrefine.org/t/github-discussions-the-right-tool-to-communicate-with-new-code-contributors/1843 "2024-10-27T17:07:18Z")
One of the things I would like to improve before I leave is the process for onboarding new contributors. One part of this is when/how to give greater accesses to people (to tag issues and assign people, to review / merge… --- ## [Export templates feature is awesome](https://forum.openrefine.org/t/export-templates-feature-is-awesome/797)
**Author:** [@olea](https://forum.openrefine.org/u/olea)\ **Replies:** 3\ **Last updated:** [October 3, 2024, 8:25am UTC](https://forum.openrefine.org/t/export-templates-feature-is-awesome/797 "2024-10-03T08:25:23Z")
Just came here to give a BIG KUDOS to the team: I found the exporting templates system and it saved me the day. This is awesome. THANKS! --- ## [Grant Opportunity: NGI Zero Commons Fund](https://forum.openrefine.org/t/grant-opportunity-ngi-zero-commons-fund/1787)
**Author:** [@Martin](https://forum.openrefine.org/u/Martin)\ **Replies:** 1\ **Last updated:** [September 18, 2024, 1:01pm UTC](https://forum.openrefine.org/t/grant-opportunity-ngi-zero-commons-fund/1787 "2024-09-18T13:01:15Z")
The advisory committee, with the help of @Martin, is exploring a potential grant application to the NLnet; NGI Zero Commons Fund . Applications are due October 1st, 2024, 12:00 CEST. @Martin reached out to the program of… --- ## [Requesting Feedback: Documenting OpenRefine Community Handbooks](https://forum.openrefine.org/t/requesting-feedback-documenting-openrefine-community-handbooks/1224)
**Author:** [@Martin](https://forum.openrefine.org/u/Martin)\ **Replies:** 11\ **Last updated:** [July 25, 2024, 9:56pm UTC](https://forum.openrefine.org/t/requesting-feedback-documenting-openrefine-community-handbooks/1224 "2024-07-25T21:56:35Z")
I am following up on my earlier post regarding creating contributor pathways and an organization handbook. I have been enrolled in the CSCCE Community Playbook workshop for two weeks now, and I wanted to share my progres… --- ## [Grant opportunity from Wikimedia Deutschland / Arcadia](https://forum.openrefine.org/t/grant-opportunity-from-wikimedia-deutschland-arcadia/1435)
**Author:** [@antonin\_d](https://forum.openrefine.org/u/antonin_d)\ **Replies:** 8\ **Last updated:** [July 15, 2024, 12:08pm UTC](https://forum.openrefine.org/t/grant-opportunity-from-wikimedia-deutschland-arcadia/1435 "2024-07-15T12:08:23Z")
There is a spontaneous funding opportunity from Wikimedia Deutschland: This call was noticed in the Wikibase Stakeholder Group, which OpenRefine is part of, and we are coordinating there how to respond to this opportun… --- ## [Organizing an OpenRefine BarCamp](https://forum.openrefine.org/t/organizing-an-openrefine-barcamp/179)
**Author:** [@antonin\_d](https://forum.openrefine.org/u/antonin_d)\ **Replies:** 39\ **Last updated:** [June 4, 2024, 1:26am UTC](https://forum.openrefine.org/t/organizing-an-openrefine-barcamp/179 "2024-06-04T01:26:22Z")
Hi all! For a while, I have been toying with the idea of organizing an in-person event centered around OpenRefine. The goal would be gather a wide range of users, contributors and other interested people together for a … --- ## [Grant opportunity: 2024 Open Technology Fund](https://forum.openrefine.org/t/grant-opportunity-2024-open-technology-fund/1451)
**Author:** [@Martin](https://forum.openrefine.org/u/Martin)\ **Replies:** 8\ **Last updated:** [May 7, 2024, 5:32pm UTC](https://forum.openrefine.org/t/grant-opportunity-2024-open-technology-fund/1451 "2024-05-07T17:32:29Z")
I found a call for proposal from Free and Open Source Software Sustainability Fund | OTF, which aims to support the long-term maintenance of established FOSS projects and the communities that sustain them. The submission… --- ## [OpenRefine.org email addresses](https://forum.openrefine.org/t/openrefine-org-email-addresses/1460)
**Author:** [@antonin\_d](https://forum.openrefine.org/u/antonin_d)\ **Replies:** 2\ **Last updated:** [April 25, 2024, 6:26pm UTC](https://forum.openrefine.org/t/openrefine-org-email-addresses/1460 "2024-04-25T18:26:53Z")
In last week's advisory committee meeting was raised the question (I think from @jfaurel ) of whether we already have a policy for who should get "@openrefine.org" email addresses. I don't remember us having one, so here… --- ## [Upcoming financing option for OpenRefine](https://forum.openrefine.org/t/upcoming-financing-option-for-openrefine/989)
**Author:** [@Martin](https://forum.openrefine.org/u/Martin)\ **Replies:** 15\ **Last updated:** [April 4, 2024, 8:35pm UTC](https://forum.openrefine.org/t/upcoming-financing-option-for-openrefine/989 "2024-04-04T20:35:32Z")
Hello everyone, I am starting this thread to discuss the upcoming financing option for OpenRefine. In 2019, OpenRefine began exploring a new sustainability model by seeking grants and corporate sponsorships. Four years… --- ## [Process for coordinating grant applications](https://forum.openrefine.org/t/process-for-coordinating-grant-applications/1379)
**Author:** [@antonin\_d](https://forum.openrefine.org/u/antonin_d)\ **Replies:** 4\ **Last updated:** [March 16, 2024, 2:47am UTC](https://forum.openrefine.org/t/process-for-coordinating-grant-applications/1379 "2024-03-16T02:47:16Z")
As a follow-up to the DEF application, I'd like to open a discussion about what should be our expected process to applying for grants. @tfmorris and @abbe98 would have liked to be put in the loop about it and did not app… --- ## [Creating a directory of trainers](https://forum.openrefine.org/t/creating-a-directory-of-trainers/1269)
**Author:** [@antonin\_d](https://forum.openrefine.org/u/antonin_d)\ **Replies:** 10\ **Last updated:** [February 21, 2024, 6:22pm UTC](https://forum.openrefine.org/t/creating-a-directory-of-trainers/1269 "2024-02-21T18:22:49Z")
We regularly get requests of trainers for OpenRefine workshops, to be given on various areas of the tool, for specific audiences. Would it be worth maintaining a directory of trainers to help with that? I could imagine … --- ## [OpenRefine 2032 ... what direction does OpenRefine want to go?](https://forum.openrefine.org/t/openrefine-2032-what-direction-does-openrefine-want-to-go/272)
**Author:** [@Sandra](https://forum.openrefine.org/u/Sandra)\ **Replies:** 9\ **Last updated:** [October 21, 2023, 10:11am UTC](https://forum.openrefine.org/t/openrefine-2032-what-direction-does-openrefine-want-to-go/272 "2023-10-21T10:11:51Z")
Which kind of work, which features, which direction will OpenRefine prioritize, going forward? Which use cases and communities will the tool serve in the next 10 years? I’ll be bold… I want to propose an OpenRefine stra… [Next page](https://forum.openrefine.org/c/community/feedback/2.md?page=1)