# Improving Transparency: Advisory Committee's Role and Community Involvement **URL:** \ **Category:** Community Feedback\ **Created:** [July 26, 2024, 8:40am UTC](https://forum.openrefine.org/t/improving-transparency-advisory-committees-role-and-community-involvement/1672 "2024-07-26T08:40:54Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 7
**Author:** ![antonin\_d](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/flex017/user_avatar/forum.openrefine.org/antonin_d/32/32_2.png) [@antonin\_d](https://forum.openrefine.org/u/antonin_d)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2024, 6:51am UTC](https://forum.openrefine.org/t/improving-transparency-advisory-committees-role-and-community-involvement/1672/7 "2024-07-27T06:51:35Z")
I think our governance is, broadly speaking, a big mess, and I have been wanting to work on fixing that for some time, for instance with this attempt: > [@Improving the onboarding process for new contributors](https://forum.openrefine.org/t/improving-the-onboarding-process-for-new-contributors/882/5): > > I think it could be good to actually use the processes written in the gouvernance document, making them actually fit the practices. That would sort of "automate" the integration of people in a sense, by giving people clear pathways. Here is an example of what it could look like, inspired from other communities I have interacted with. It might look a little "over the top" because it's very formal compared to how we currently operate, but given the right tooling I think it could actually work wel… It feels like maybe there is enough interest in this topic to draft something new there? --- _[View the full topic](https://forum.openrefine.org/t/improving-transparency-advisory-committees-role-and-community-involvement/1672)._