Attendees
- Jan Ainali - Advisory Committee
- Martin Magdinier - Project Manager
The meeting lasted 30 minutes instead of an hour.
Discussions
Governance
Martin provided an update on the progress made regarding the governance update see
- Forum Improving Transparency: Advisory Committee's Role and Community Involvement - #40 by Martin
- Pull Request 2024 governance update by magdmartin · Pull Request #7023 · OpenRefine/OpenRefine · GitHub
Martin brought up the governance provisions for the Core Dev Group, noting that we may soon have no active members. However, some newly active contributors (Sunil and Rory, among others) will need further onboarding. The group agreed that it is essential for the developer community to self-organize, and this conversation should continue on the forum. Rory's onboarding and path to the Core Dev Group are a great starting point for this discussion.
Rory's contract
We are approaching the end of Rory's probationary period (March 31st, 2025). Martin is getting feedback from various stakeholders on whether they are comfortable renewing his contract. Jan's feedbacks are kept private from the public minutes.
Funding Status
Martin shared the two forum posts he made last week regarding the funding status
- Discussion: How OpenRefine Can Support Federated Data Repositories for Open Science?
- Funding Opportunities - Q2 2025
We are still waiting for the Superbloom proposal. Martin sent a follow-up today.
Martin's priorities list
Jan and Martin agreed to the following priority list
- Keep the conversation engaged around the governance update
- Prepare a forum post to poll interest for a virtual barcamp
- Prepare the goal post page with a focus on formatting and cleaning based on
- Use the goal post for the funding application with a priority on Futo and floss.fund applications.
Varia
- Esther, Jan, and Antoine are working on it Wikimedia Group
- AC members are taking the lead of the Advisory Recruitment: