# August 27, 2026 Advisory Committee **URL:** https://forum.openrefine.org/t/august-27-2026-advisory-committee/2977 **Category:** Day-to-day project operations **Tags:** minute-advisory **Created:** [August 28, 2026, 2:54pm UTC](https://forum.openrefine.org/t/august-27-2026-advisory-committee/2977 "2026-08-28T14:54:15Z") **Posts on this page:** 1 **Page:** 1
### 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 28, 2026, 2:54pm UTC](https://forum.openrefine.org/t/august-27-2026-advisory-committee/2977/1 "2026-08-28T14:54:16Z")
## **Attendees** - Jan Ainali - Advisory Committee - Martin Magdinier - Project Manager The meeting lasted 40 min. ## **Discussions** ### Update with CS&S - Martin restored his ramp access and credit card to pay the balance for Figma and renew the Discourse license - CS&S is preparing Martin's contract amendment as discussed in [August 13, 2026 Advisory Committee](https://forum.openrefine.org/t/august-13-2026-advisory-committee/2973#p-8287-extending-3) - The Apple certificate issue is still in progress. We received the new credentials from CS&S and will test them. ### Outreach Effort Martin performed several outreach efforts this week to - Invite 2026 Github contributor to the [Community Call: OpenRefine Developer AMA (Ask Me Anything)](https://forum.openrefine.org/t/community-call-openrefine-developer-ama-ask-me-anything/2972) - Follow up with potential presenter for a community call center on reconciliation service ### Survey Status We have received 98 responses so far. Among them, four participants are interested in joining the Advisory Committee. Martin will contact them next week and will not wait for the survey to be completed. ### Next Priorities - Update blogpost regarding Wikidata reconciliation endpoint - see [PR #568](https://github.com/OpenRefine/openrefine.org/pull/568) - Prepare GitHub action for new contributors related to [Pending pull requests from new contributors](https://forum.openrefine.org/t/pending-pull-requests-from-new-contributors/2941) - Prepare the 2026 fundraising campaign.