# May 8, 2025 Advisory Committee

**URL:** <https://forum.openrefine.org/t/may-8-2025-advisory-committee/2286>\
**Category:** Day-to-day project operations\
**Tags:** minute-advisory\
**Created:** [May 8, 2025, 5:48pm UTC](https://forum.openrefine.org/t/may-8-2025-advisory-committee/2286 "2025-05-08T17:48:48Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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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:** [May 8, 2025, 5:48pm UTC](https://forum.openrefine.org/t/may-8-2025-advisory-committee/2286/1 "2025-05-08T17:48:48Z")

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## Attendees

- Julie Faure-Lacroix - Advisory Committee
- Esther Jackson - Advisory Committee
- Martin Magdinier - Project Manager

## Discussions

### Wikimedia group

Project is on hold. Esther will have time to work on this in June

### Quebec Event

See conversation [OpenRefine Meetup in Québec City – May 21–22](https://forum.openrefine.org/t/openrefine-meetup-in-quebec-city-may-21-22/2281)

- Martin and Rory booked their trip.
- Julie is inviting local OpenRefine users to the Wednesday event

### Funding Status

- [Research Software Maintenance Fund Application](https://forum.openrefine.org/t/funding-opportunity-seeking-ukri-eligible-partner-for-research-software-maintenance-fund-application/2233)
  - Martin is continuing outreach. So far we have not identified a lead.
  - Julie started to outreached to her network

- Martin started to draft a plan for the floss.fund.
- Martin next meeting with LJ is May 13.

### Governance

Martin provided a quick:

- [PR](https://github.com/OpenRefine/OpenRefine/pull/7023) is merged with good support from the community
- [Forum is active](https://forum.openrefine.org/t/project-maintainer-status/2185/6) on how to the Core Dev group should be managed.

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**Author:** ![ej2432](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/flex017/user_avatar/forum.openrefine.org/ej2432/32/480_2.png) [@ej2432](https://forum.openrefine.org/u/ej2432)\
**Post date:** [May 9, 2025, 4:51pm UTC](https://forum.openrefine.org/t/may-8-2025-advisory-committee/2286/2 "2025-05-09T16:51:55Z")

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Thanks for sharing, @Martin. I believe that I should also be on the attendee list, though I arrived late!

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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:** [May 9, 2025, 9:01pm UTC](https://forum.openrefine.org/t/may-8-2025-advisory-committee/2286/3 "2025-05-09T21:01:30Z")

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@ej2432 This is what happens when I copy and paste my template too quickly. This is now fixed.