Hello 
I'm Anas Adelopo, a product and graphics designer. I'm based in Nigeria 
. I'm currently a college student studying Veterinary medicine in Nigeria.
I've never gotten to work on open source projects before. I'm looking for ways to refine my skills by contributing to open source.
Cheers.
Hello Anas, welcome to OpenRefine.
Hello everyone, I'm Pamela Uzodimma; a Product designer and UX Researcher with 3years experience. I was introduced by @Lydiaofficial Im happy to connect with everyone. Moreover, I'm here to learn, contribute and grow.
Go OpenSource!!
Welcome to OpenRefine, Pamela. It's nice to have you here.
Hi All, My name is Matt. I've checked out OpenRefine a few times over the last 5 years or so but digging in deeper at this point.
I'm a data professional but also have some hobby projects I feel OpenRefine can help me with as I learn more here.
Thanks!
Welcome @mbucken. Let us know if there’s anything we can help with to get you started!
Hi! I'm Zoe, I'm the new lead designer for OpenRefine! Here's the announcement, can't wait to get to know you all. Here I am on twitter/x too.
That's why i love the combination of prose and code in R Markdown and other notebook formats.
If one can take notes for each of the operations in OR and export the whole history including notes as a markdown file. I can imagine that would be helpful. Even more if one can import those markdown!
Welcome onboard @zoecooper ! I'm looking forward to working with you.
@Phu maybe we can continue this discussion in a separate thread and keep this one for introductions, no?
Hello all!
I'm Megan, a digital humanities librarian/archivist. Open Refine has been a huge help with metadata remediation for my organization following a DAM migration. I'm also having (too much?) fun using the reconciliation options to create datasets for visualizations and general metadata nerdery.
Hi, I'm John and I work in motion picture postproduction. During pandemic I had time to seek out ways to improve my ability to consolidate and analyse the very messy data that we receive from film and TV production and the editing process. By some extreme good fortune I found OpenRefine and it has transformed my life. In the distant past I was a developer so I just love the simplicity and straightforward documentation of GREL. I have no use for wikidata or reconciliation (yet) but I frequently 'cross' correlate my projects in many different ways, as well as making complex mathematical computations and syntax adjustments. I use the XML parsing tools extensively, and if I ever need to sift through an SQL database, I prefer to export the tables as JSON and then bring into OpenRefine where facets allow me to make proper sense of it. The developers are always very responsive and give good feedback, even for my less-good ideas 
Hello everyone ,
I am Redeem Grimm, a Java Software Engineer and an Active Opensource contributor at ODK-X. ODK-X is a suite of tools that allows users to collect, manage, and visualize data in challenging environments. Openrefine is a powerful tool that enables users to clean, transform, and enrich data from various sources. I see a lot of similarities between ODK-X and Openrefine, such as their focus on data quality, usability, and scalability.
I am interested in learning more about Openrefine and how it can be integrated with ODK-X to provide a better data management experience for users. I am also eager to contribute to the development and improvement of Openrefine as part of the GSoC program. I look forward to working with the Openrefine community and mentors. Thank you for this opportunity! 
@jquartel welcome to the forum, and thank you for creating bug and feature requests on Github 
Welcome @Redeem_Grimm, and thank you for your enthusiasm!
You can read more about the 2024 GSoC program here GSoC 2024 Contributor Application Period. It also contains links to our documentation to make your first contribution.
I would definitely be interested in knowing more about how ODK-X users use OpenRefine.
Thank you @Martin
There are many ways OpenRefine is of great use to ODK-X users;
1. Data Cleaning and Transformation
2. Exploring and Understanding Data
3. Linking Data Across Surveys
Just to name a few use cases
Hello everyone, I am a 2nd year undergraduate student at delhi university having knowledge in Java and frontend basically html, css and Java script . I am super excited and interested in starting my journey in open source programs.
I hope I will be able to contribute in a better way and learning and developing my skills with the guidance of mentors.
@Komal Welcome to OpenRefine, you can get started by looking at current issues here: Issues · OpenRefine/OpenRefine · GitHub
Hi All! I am Amruta. I work as a Software Developer in India. I started my journey in open-source recently and fortunate enough to have stumbled upon OpenRefine.
I am a curious learner and the OpenRefine community has been incredibly helpful and kind in nurturing my curiosity, providing a great foundation for my open-source journey.
Looking forward to contribute more to this amazing project!
Hello! I'm Max Ziff and I work with Charles Faulhaber on the PhiloBiblon project, a bibliographic database of (primarily) medieval Spanish manuscripts: https://bancroft.berkeley.edu/philobiblon/. We're moving that data to a wikibase instance; our target is FactGrid (FactGrid). We have been using OR as a key part of our workflow, but we are currently quite hampered by difficulty in creating a new project using the same schema as an old one, which we can do by hand but is laborious. We would love to be able to take an existing project (schema and all) and replace the underlying data with new data. Does anyone else have a workflow pattern like ours? In any case, I'm looking forward to meeting you all!