July 17, 2025 Advisory Committee

Community Day-to-day project operations
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Attendees

  • Esther Jackson - Advisory Committee
  • Julie Faure Lacroix - Advisory Committee
  • Jan Ainali - Advisory Committee
  • Martin Magdinier - Project Manager
  • Rory Sawyer - Guest

Discussion

Birdaro Training

Martin received an invitation to the The Birdaro Training Program – Birdaro, which could be interesting for OpenRefine to support leaders and emerging leaders in the community.

  • Applications are due Sunday, July 20, 2025 (in 4 days)
  • 2 - 4 hours per week of class time plus up to 90 minutes of homework
  • We can invite up to three members of the project
    • Julie is preparing an application
    • Rory is interested
    • Esther is tentative
    • We may want to invite leaders from the Wikimedia OpenRefine group

Wikimedia OpenRefine Group

Esther provided an update on Creating an OpenRefine Wikimedia Group

  • The group creation is moving forward, the next step is a meeting with Mohammed and Srihari, who are interested in being the group leader
  • Esther and Rory submitted a session proposal for the Barcamp: 2025 Barcamp Session Proposal: OpenRefine & Wikimedia Communities
  • Separately, Esther and Rory prepared a Wikiconference North America proposal. They both plan to attend, regardless of whether the proposal is accepted or not.

BarCamp Status

  • 48 registrants so far
  • 4 sessions submitted in barcamp-2025
  • Martin will email all registrants around August 10 to invite them to submit sessions

Figma Status

Jan asked about the status of Figma, for which we pay a USD20/month license (full seat professional)
Martin provided background indicating that

  • We created the Figma account in 2023 during the Outreachy design internship
  • Figma was selected since it was the de facto tool for designers, and we wanted to limit the friction for new designer contributors by matching their tooling of choice.
  • OpenRefine Design System is available as a public Figma project from our documentation OpenRefine design system | OpenRefine
  • A contributing designer should be able to copy the asset to their Figma workspace when contributing to the design.
  • We can provide access to the OpenRefine Figma project to designers interested in contributing.
  • For now, the decision is to keep Figma, as we do not have a better alternative
  • Martin will move to a yearly license to reduce license cost and limit the number of transactions to process from an accounting perspective.

NLNet application

See 2025 NLnet NGI Zero Commons Fund

We are working on submitting two applications (both are still in draft):

Rory and Martin expect to have the draft ready for comment by Friday, July 18, end of the day.
We expect to receive four to five letters of support from European GLAM organizations to support our application.