# August 21, 2025 Advisory Committee

**URL:** <https://forum.openrefine.org/t/august-21-2025-advisory-committee/2506>\
**Category:** Day-to-day project operations\
**Tags:** minute-advisory\
**Created:** [August 27, 2025, 1:46am UTC](https://forum.openrefine.org/t/august-21-2025-advisory-committee/2506 "2025-08-27T01:46:46Z")\
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**Author:** ![Martin](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/flex017/user_avatar/forum.openrefine.org/martin/32/7_2.png) [@Martin](https://forum.openrefine.org/u/Martin)\
**Post date:** [August 27, 2025, 1:46am UTC](https://forum.openrefine.org/t/august-21-2025-advisory-committee/2506/1 "2025-08-27T01:46:46Z")

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## 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](https://openrefine.org/donate) 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/](https://fourthwall.com/)
  - Social recognition via
    - Updating [OpenRefine Backers | OpenRefine](https://openrefine.org/backers)
    - 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.