January 16, 2025 - Advisory Call only

Attendees

  • Esther M. Jackson - Advisory Committee
  • Julie Faure-Lacroix - Advisory Committee
  • Jan Ainali - Advisory Committee
  • Martin Magdinier - Project Manager

Discussions

Developer Hiring

We have eight candidates waiting for a technical assessment. Owen and Antonin are joining the hiring committee to help with the technical aspect.

We will organize a dedicated meeting next week for the hiring committee to review candidates.

Advisory Committee recruitment

  • Esther met with one candidate. A second interview must be scheduled with the rest of the Advisory Committee.
  • Esther is working to schedule a first introduction meeting with a second candidate.
  • The group agreed to make the call open to the public.
  • Martin will prepare a blog post with the position description. The posting should take into consideration the conversation around the governance update.

BarCamp fund conversation

  • Esther opened the conversation here
  • Jan and Julie sugggested adding a deadline to the forum post is good so that we know when we can start moving.
  • Consensus: Give two more weeks for an answer.
  • Martin asked: If we do not fund the BarCamp, what activities will we support instead? In our December 12 conversation, we talked about separating the Project Manager and Community Manager roles. Which Community Manager tasks should we prioritize for the initial BarCamp funds?
  • We will continue the conversation publicly on the existing forum thread.

Fundraising and outreach activities

The group reviewed the current funding pipeline. Martin shared the following schedule for the outreach activities:

  • LJ to complete prospect research by 1/17
  • Martin to Draft email for outreach 1/17 for LJ’s review
  • Sheila produce the draft blog post presenting 2025 plan by 1/20 for LJ’s review
  • Meeting Martin - LJ 1/21
  • Publication of the blog post by 1/24
  • Martin send Outreach emails by 1/24

The group discussed different funding opportunities, including

  • Partnering with research projects that are building a meta-dataset by aggregating datasets from multiple studies.
  • Jan shared the updated Wikimedia guideline for funding
  • Julie will reach out to her network to identify funding opportunities.

Opening Advisory Committee call to the community in 2025

The committee committee will open its call for community attendance. Martin will update the invitation on the forum.