June 6, 2025 Advisory Committee

Attendees

  • Jan Ainali - Advisory Committee
  • Martin Magdinier - Project Manager

Discussions

BarCamp

Martin walked Jan through the PR, presenting the registration page for the BarCamp: Announce OpenRefine 2025 Barcamp by magdmartin · Pull Request #465 · OpenRefine/openrefine.org · GitHub

Once it is merged, the next steps for Martin are

  • Configure the forum to allow participants to submit session ideas.
  • Start the outreach campaign.

Funding

Martin worked with Jan to merge outstanding PRs to update the funding page

  • EOSS-5 no-cost extension was approved (#463)
  • We submitted the Expression of Interest for the Research Software Maintenance Fund (#462)
  • Martin received an update from Superbloom regarding the OTF proposal that the proposal is still under review.

Martin will work next on the following items

  • Prepare the application for the floss.fund
  • Follow up with previous outreach emails sent
  • Start new outreach campaign based on the Program Officer identified by LJ

Other items

Martin and Jan reviewed the status of the following initiatives

  • Clarification on the goal post usage. Martin will update the documentation based on feedback received through May.
  • Relationship between Wikimedia and OpenRefine. Jan and Martin reviewed the status of the Wikimedia OpenRefine group and what they can cover. We would like to have a session during the barcamp to discuss how it can move forward.