January 22, 2026 Advisory Committee

Attendees

  • Julie Faure Lacroix - Advisory Committee
  • Jan Ainali - Advisory Committee
  • Rory Sawyer - Developer & Contributor Engagement
  • Martin Magdinier - Project Manager

Discussions

Birdaro - Extension Developer Update

Rory presented his update and shared the document for review. AC will review by the next meeting

Review of AI-generated PR and issues

Martin provided the rational to close #506 #514 and #517
Rory update to How do you deal with AI generated PRs?

Debian package update

Following last week conversaiton we received clarification regarding usage in OpenRefine in Debian 2025 - #3 by apo
We will not renew the budget for the Debian package support for the following reasons:

  • It is difficult to justify the budget if we can’t explain the number of users
  • We have little control over how OpenRefine is a Debian package; they are only packages' major version and not patches.
  • Focusing on the Docker version may be more beneficial to the community as another way to easily install OpenRefine.

2026 goals

Martin shared the following update regarding the community

  • OpenRefine will not participate in GSoC in 2026
  • We want to run the 2-year survey
  • We want to run a new barcamp and need to decide on the format.
  • We want to continue recruitment for the AC.
  • Martin will close the 2025 fundraising campaign and publish a post-mortem.
  • Martin will prepare the EOSS-5 final report by Feb 27.

Budget discussion

Discussion without Rory.
Martin presented different scenarios for the 2026 budget. Conversation will continue by email with Esther and CS&S.