# January 8, 2026 Advisory Committee with CS&S

**URL:** <https://forum.openrefine.org/t/january-8-2026-advisory-committee-with-cs-s/2708>\
**Category:** Day-to-day project operations\
**Tags:** minute-advisory\
**Created:** [January 15, 2026, 12:53am UTC](https://forum.openrefine.org/t/january-8-2026-advisory-committee-with-cs-s/2708 "2026-01-15T00:53:45Z")\
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**Author:** ![Martin](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/flex017/user_avatar/forum.openrefine.org/martin/32/7_2.png) [@Martin](https://forum.openrefine.org/u/Martin)\
**Post date:** [January 15, 2026, 12:53am UTC](https://forum.openrefine.org/t/january-8-2026-advisory-committee-with-cs-s/2708/1 "2026-01-15T00:53:45Z")

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## Attendees

- CS&S: Linda, Danielle
- OpenRefine: Jan, Martin, Julie, Esther

No AC meeting on the week of December 22 and 29, 2025

## Discussions

### Advisory Committee Status

Following [December 19, 2025 Advisory Committee](https://forum.openrefine.org/t/december-19-2025-advisory-committee/2707/1) CS&S agreed for Esther to stay on the AC while attending only the monthly call.

### Annual Review

Both Martin's and Rory's annual reviews happened earlier this week, prior to this meeting. The group discusses key findings, including:

- Rory will join the weekly AC call starting the January 15th call.
- We discussed reviewing the position names for Rory and Martin to better reflect their role.

### Fundraising status

- [Funding Opportunity: 2025 Sloan Letter of Interest](https://forum.openrefine.org/t/funding-opportunity-2025-sloan-letter-of-interest/2643) was submitted
- Martin will prepare an update on the 2025 fundraising campaign.
- Martin have conversation with the Gates Foundation and Wikimedia Deutschland scheduled in January
- We received new feedback regarding the [Exploring an Institutional Package Model](https://forum.openrefine.org/t/exploring-an-institutional-package-model/2642)
- Martin will prepare an updated financial project for the AC to review