# June 18, 2026 Advisory Committee

**URL:** <https://forum.openrefine.org/t/june-18-2026-advisory-committee/2927>\
**Category:** Day-to-day project operations\
**Tags:** minute-advisory\
**Created:** [June 19, 2026, 6:22pm UTC](https://forum.openrefine.org/t/june-18-2026-advisory-committee/2927 "2026-06-19T18:22:07Z")\
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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:** [June 19, 2026, 6:22pm UTC](https://forum.openrefine.org/t/june-18-2026-advisory-committee/2927/1 "2026-06-19T18:22:07Z")

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## Attendees

- Julie Faure Lacroix - Advisory Committee
- Jan Ainali - Advisory Committee
- Martin Magdinier - Project Manager Attendees

Any community members are welcome to attend the Advisory Committee - see [Opening Advisory Committee call to the community permanently](https://forum.openrefine.org/t/opening-advisory-committee-call-to-the-community-permanently/2029)

## Discussions

### Community Call

- July 7 session scheduled, see [Community call: OpenRefine LLM Extension Demo](https://forum.openrefine.org/t/community-call-openrefine-llm-extension-demo/2923). Martin is working on an email and a social media announcement.
- Martin and Jan are reaching out to potential Wikimedia trainers to schedule a session
- Martin is trying to get a date for the developer AMA session

### Overall Community Engagement

The group discussed reasons why the community has been less active over the last two months (fewer posts on the forum and fewer activities on GitHub).

The group recognized that the community calls are not building the same momentum as the BarCamp.

Jan and Julie volunteer to help maintain social media channels

- Jan will look to create a curated YouTube playlist
- Julie will test other engagement methods than just posting announcements on Mastodon.

### Funding

- Martin submitted OpenRefine to the [Nominate OSS for Funding — Open Source Endowment](https://endowment.dev/funding/)
- We received FLOSS/Fund
- We are waiting for the LOI submission results '

### Martin Priorities

- Martin will be off from June 23 to July 5th
- Survey finalization [Drafting the 2026 user survey](https://forum.openrefine.org/t/drafting-the-2026-user-survey/2822)
- Review and finalize [the blog post](https://github.com/OpenRefine/openrefine.org/pull/568) on reconciliation status