December 12, 2024, Advisory Committee only

[Martin]

Thank you @thadguidry for the feedback regarding the proposed changes to the governance

@thadguidry

@Martin

• The latest budget version also allocated USD17,000 for the organization of a Barcamp in 2025.

Question: Do we want to redirect part of the funds allocated to the Barcamp to a project manager position? This can be discussed openly with the community.

Uh, who is the "we" in that question? You're doing it again not clarifying the hat your wearing in a question, and thus it's confusing me who is asking this question, the Advisory? or Martin the current Project Director of OpenRefine? If I'm a user, and part of the community, do I have a say or can vote somewhere on allocation of funds that OpenRefine the project holds (through it's fiscal sponsor)?

"We" as an undefined collective. As mentioned in the second sentence, this conversation needs to happen with community input. I am unsure how to phrase it yet, so we have meaningful feedback. The advisory committee plans to refine this during our call next week.

@thadguidry

Can we just put 1 or 2 developers into this "Advisory Committee"

Currently, the Advisory Committee selects its members, similar to how the committer and core development groups operate. Last week, the advisory committee discussed how to improve community representation. I expect this to take a few weeks (or months?) before a proposition emerges.

I support the idea of adopting a different model (for example, contributors voting advisory committee members and ensuring various communities are represented). This is what I tried to do here, but I never managed to get consensus around it. For now, my focus is to document how we currently operate and not introduce significant changes.