Attendees
- Esther Jackson - Advisory Committee
- Jan Ainali - Advisory Committee
- Martin Magdinier - Project Manager
This was a 30-minutes meeting.
The August 28 meeting will be asynchronous.
Discussions
Fundraising
Before the Advisory Committee meeting, Martin worked with LJ to prepare a year-end fundraising campaign. Martin presented the draft plan for review and discussion:
- We propose to update the Give to OpenRefine | OpenRefine with a fundraising target and updated message regarding the campaign.
- We want to invite the community to check for
- Employee matching program
- Co-fundraise opportunity with other organizations.
- We want to use the Barcamp to start the giving campaign. Martin will propose a session.
Feedback from the AC
- We will need to provide more details on how the cofundraise would be achieved.
- It may be best to do it via strategic outreach instead of putting it into a general call.
The group discussed the type of reward we can offer to incite donations
- The group unanimously ruled out the option where donation gives specific access to the team or event.
- The group identified
- Merchandising using https://fourthwall.com/
- Social recognition via
- Updating OpenRefine Backers | OpenRefine
- Mention on social media
- Regular (monthly ?) blogpost update
Next Steps
- Identify the type of merchandising for each tier.
- Update messaging to turn the donate page into a campaign
Barcamp status
- 87 Participants registered
- 6 Sessions proposed
- Martin is doing outreach to key contributors that didn't registered yet and attendees to propose a session.
- We will run a test Zoom session on Monday, August 25, to get comfortable using Zoom.