# December 19, 2024, Advisory Committee only

**URL:** <https://forum.openrefine.org/t/december-19-2024-advisory-committee-only/1971>\
**Category:** Day-to-day project operations\
**Tags:** minute-advisory\
**Created:** [December 19, 2024, 9:56pm UTC](https://forum.openrefine.org/t/december-19-2024-advisory-committee-only/1971 "2024-12-19T21:56:22Z")\
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**Post date:** [December 19, 2024, 9:56pm UTC](https://forum.openrefine.org/t/december-19-2024-advisory-committee-only/1971/1 "2024-12-19T21:56:22Z")

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## Attendees

- Julie Faure-Lacroix - Advisory Committee (last 30 minutes)
- Jan Ainali - Advisory Committee
- Martin Magdinier - Project Manager

## Discussions

### Year End Communication

- The Year End blog post is live [In Gratitude: 2024 in Review | OpenRefine](https://openrefine.org/blog/2024/12/13/year-in-review-2024)
- Survey results are planned next
- Email campaign between Dec 20 - 23 focusing on
  - thanking people for their contribution
  - sharing links to the year-end post, the newsletter, and 2024 survey results.

- 2025 planning post to be written with Darya Projects in the new year.

### Developer Hiring

The group reviews new candidates and discusses the results of the recent interviews.

### Martin's contract renewal

With Martin's current contract ending Dec 31, 2024, and on-going conversation regarding the need (or not) for a community manager role, the group decided to reconduct the same Statement of Work with minimal changes based on the following services:

- Facilitating regular meetings (online or in-person) within the OpenRefine community and with external partners;
- Run outreach activities such as our biyearly user survey or by representing the project in events;
- Help with fundraising, including grant applications and reporting
- Manage the project budget
- Serve as direct supervisor for new hires, interns and contractors
- Liaise with Code for Science and Society, our fiscal sponsor
- Assist the advisory committee as required.

The new SOW will start on January 6th with Martin's return from vacation.

### Barcamp / Community manager discussion

The group continues [last week's conversation](https://forum.openrefine.org/t/december-12-2024-advisory-committee-only/1957) regarding what will best serve the community in 2025.

The Advisory Community will summarize its proposition and present it on the forum.

### Other items

- The governance discussion is on hold on Martin's side.
- The budget is up to date.
- Holiday break - no call on Dec 26 and Jan 2nd
- Jan 9, 2025 call will be with CS&S