November 7, 2025 Advisory Committee with CS&S

Attendees

  • OpenRefine: Jan, Martin, Julie
  • CS&S: Danielle, Linda

Discussions

Advisory Committee Status
The Advisory Committee informed CS&S regarding Esther decision (see [ADD LINK]
The group discussed potential candiate to replace her. Martin will reach out to them.

Birdaro Update

  • The first half of the program is completed; the schedule is changing now. The second phase includes writing a playbook, starting in a Google Doc (final place to decide on later). The program is really useful and ends in December.

Fundraising update

  • Application status
    • FLOSS/fund - awarded
    • Catalyst Grant - no
    • NLNET - no - Martin to follow up. Funding rounds every second month (next one is 1 Dec)
  • Outreach campaign:
    • Martin sent and scheduled community outreach (email and social media)
    • Martin is currently reaching out to funder we have relationship with. This is mostly followup from CZI Open Science conference
    • Sloan ask us to send a LOI
    • Martin identified 21 organizations to reach out to discuss the Institutional Support Package