👋 Introductions thread!

[khushi]

Hello everyone! My name is Khushi Tayal. I am a 3rd year undergraduate student at Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur. I am an open source enthusiast and excited to contribute to OpenRefine projects.

[Omotayo1990]

Hi Everyone.
I’m Omotayo, a UX/UI Designer based in Nigeria.
I look forward to contributing to the OpenRefine project as an Outreachy applicant and learning from the community.

[Ahlysnn]

Hi, I’m Adetayo Oluwatunmise, a UI/UX Designer from Nigeria. I am an outreachy contributor and would love to contribute to the Open Refine Project.
I’m so excited and I’m looking forward to learning new and insightful things from the community and the mentors and also to making meaningful contributions to the project.

[Ololade]

Hello, I’m Ololade, a UI/UX Designer and Outreachy contributor. I’m excited and looking forward to making meaningful contributions to the User Experience of Open Refine Interface and also gain experience in open source projects.

[Tanishka]

Hey everyone! I’m Tanishka, an Outreachy applicant. I’m interested in contributing to the “Improve design workflows and communications” project of OpenRefine. How can I get started?

[antonin_d]

Welcome to the project! Please see the specific instructions for Outreachy design applicants here:

Welcome and guidelines to the Outreachy UX design internship applicants

Dear all, Thank you for your interest in the UX internship so far. We have now developed a more formal strategy how to handle all applications. Please refer to this guide below and try to follow it before making your final contributions. 1) Make sure you’re registered as an interested applicant on the Outreachy dashboard, so far we only have 2 official expressions of interest there. 2) Make sure to get acquainted with OpenRefine before beginning the contribution process. Check out the docu…

[Lydiaofficial]

Welcome Tanishka
The best way to get started is by going through the thread the mentor just shared and getting acquainted and familiar with OpenRefine .

[Amandla]

Hi, i am Jennifer, an Outreachy applicant, i’m exicted to be here

[Ebere]

@Amandla, you are very much welcome. You can go through the thread to get started and to also get acquainted and familiar with Openrefine

[Isi_Irabor]

Hi, My name is Isi Irabor, an outreachy applicant. I am just familiarizing myself with open refine. Nice to meet you all

[Ebere]

@Isi_Irabor you are welcome. Go through the first issues posted for outreachy applicants and make your contributions. Looking forward to working with you.

[busola_falope]

Hey everyone! I’m Busola, an Outreachy applicant. I’m interested in contributing to the “Improve design workflows and communications” project of OpenRefine as a UIUX designer. I am just familiarizing myself with open refine. Nice to meet you all

[Ebere]

@busola_falope you are welcome. Try foing through the first issues and raising an issue in github. Goodluck to us all

[i-am-rita]

Hi everyone! I am Rita, a Frontend Developer and an Outreachy applicant.
I am interested in contributing to the “improving OpenRefine’s reconciliation UI” project of OpenRefine and hopefully get selected as an intern.
I have read the guideline for developers from @antonin_d , I’ve also been able to install Openrefine and have it running locally. Now, I am going through the issues on Github to find a good first issue.
I would appreciate any help from the mentors in getting a good first issue.

cc: @antonin_d

[antonin_d]

Hi @i-am-rita, welcome to the project!

I would appreciate any help from the mentors in getting a good first issue.

Which sort of help do you need for that?
As I mentioned in the instructions for developer applicants, we cannot pick the issue for you, as we do not know which areas of OpenRefine you are familiar with and what your interests are.

The best I can do is randomly select an issue that has the tag “good first issue” and is not assigned to anyone yet. But I think you could do that on your own - and it would not be a great strategy in the first place, since you would likely end up working on a problem that you cannot relate to very well.

[i-am-rita]

That’s true @antonin_d .

I would go ahead and keep searching for a good first issue that i can work on.

I would like to know if I can also suggest UI changes in some areas of OpenRefine UI.

[antonin_d]

You can! Feel free to open issues about those.

[i-am-rita]

Done,

Padding of buttons, alignment of input field and increase of font-sizes for texts/urls to be entered in input fields.

I look forward to your review and thoughts on the issues raised.

[Lan_Li]

Greetings! I am a fourth-year phd student from the University of Illinois Urbana Champaign. I’ve been studying on OpenRefine for years, mainly about reproducibility, transparency and reusability. Please feel free to find the papers scholar. It is so nice to see that we now have this group and a good place to help share, document and categorize questions.

[Antoine2711]

Hi here!

I’m an OpenRefine user since 2017. Not long after using the tool to push data to Wikidata, I felt compelled to come and contribute to OpenRefine in order to make it a better tool, as there were at that time a lot of bugs that prevented to really appreciate OR.

Like @jfaurel and @timtom, I’m from Québec, near Montréal.

I learned to contribute to GitHub on open source software with OR, and I still have a lot to learn!

Unfortunately, I do not use OpenRefine in my work much, so I don’t have a lot of time to contribute to it in the last year.

Regards,
Antoine Beaubien
antoine2711