July 24, 2025 Advisory Committee

Apologies for the delay in posting. I was off last week and am catching up on my to-do list.

Attendees

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

No call scheduled for July 31

Discussions

Discourse

We will move to yearly billing (USD600/year). Martin will do it the week of August 5th.

Birdaro status

Julie provided an updated on the Birdaro application

  • Application review begins: July 21, 2025
  • Preliminary decision notifications: By July 31, 2025

Funding

Related to Funding Opportunities 2025

  • NLNet Martin and Rory will finish the writing today and advise the group and Letter of Support partner when it is ready for review. We will leave it open for review until Sunday.
  • The John Templeton Foundation: OFI is due August 15. There is no alignment between their funding area and the OpenRefine project.
  • Pathways to Enable Open-Source Ecosystems (POSE) We can aim for the September 2 submission deadline. We will review in early August whether to apply or not.
  • The Catalyst Grant will open in August, focusing on data visualization and solutions to help researchers automate data analysis.
  • Martin should follow up on the introduction we received from the Mellon Foundation.

BarCamp

  • 57 registrants so far
  • 4 sessions submitted in barcamp-2025
  • Martin will focus his effort on the barcamp in August