# March 6, 2025 - Advisory Committee Call with CS&S

**URL:** <https://forum.openrefine.org/t/march-6-2025-advisory-committee-call-with-cs-s/2133>\
**Category:** Day-to-day project operations\
**Tags:** minute-advisory\
**Created:** [March 7, 2025, 2:57pm UTC](https://forum.openrefine.org/t/march-6-2025-advisory-committee-call-with-cs-s/2133 "2025-03-07T14:57:59Z")\
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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:** [March 7, 2025, 2:57pm UTC](https://forum.openrefine.org/t/march-6-2025-advisory-committee-call-with-cs-s/2133/1 "2025-03-07T14:57:59Z")

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## Attendees

- Esther Jackson - Advisory Committee
- Jan Ainali - Advisory Committee
- Julie Faure-Lacroix - Advisory Committee
- Noël Davey - Director of Finance CS&S
- Linda Green - Director of Fiscal Sponsorship CS&S
- Danielle Robinson - Executive Director CS&S
- Martin Magdinier - Project Manager

## Discussions

### Varia

- CS&S is moving to Asana to communicate with its sponsor project.
- Rory Sawyer is onboarded.

### Advisory Committee Recruitment Progress

- The Advisory Committee received no new candidacy.
- CS&S indicated we should allow more time than you think you will need
- The Advisory Committee listed what they are trying to find in terms of expertise:
  - Product and tech knowledge
  - Good coverage of users
  - Community-management-thinking in the committee would also be helpful

- Martin suggested posting a message on the forum for the community to recommend members.
- CS&S is happy to provide support by reviewing the form, if OR team would like

### Fundraising

- Martin presented the progress made recently [based on last week's report](https://forum.openrefine.org/t/february-26-2025-advisory-committee-only/2127#p-6338-martins-outreach-progress-3) to the Advisory Committee.
- CS&S presented their update on different conversations with potential funders.
- The Advisory Committee started a conversation to create an OpenRefine Wikimedia Group see: [Creating an OpenRefine Wikimedia Group](https://forum.openrefine.org/t/creating-an-openrefine-wikimedia-group/2132)
- The group discussed the opportunity to retain LJ for more hours.
  - We need to determine which fund will cover this expense: EOSS-5 or the OpenRefine unrestricted fund.
  - This will be discussed next week. LJ, Danielle, and Martin will have a call on Monday, March 10, followed by the Advisory Committee meeting on Thursday.