# October 24, 2025 Advisory Committee **URL:** \ **Category:** Day-to-day project operations\ **Tags:** minute-advisory\ **Created:** [November 14, 2025, 8:47pm UTC](https://forum.openrefine.org/t/october-24-2025-advisory-committee/2627 "2025-11-14T20:47:12Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Page:** 1
**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:** [November 14, 2025, 8:47pm UTC](https://forum.openrefine.org/t/october-24-2025-advisory-committee/2627/1 "2025-11-14T20:47:12Z")
## Attendees - Julie Faure Lacroix - Advisory Committee - Jan Ainali - Advisory Committee - Martin Magdinier - Project Manager ## Discussions **Advisory Committee Status** Esther is planning to step down from the Advisory Committee at the end of the year. **Potential Funding Sources** Jan indicated the following web pages to identify potential funding sources: - [NLnet; Alternative funding sources](https://nlnet.nl/foundation/network.html) - [Digital Rights Funding Sources – Renewable Freedom Foundation](https://renewablefreedom.org/grants/funding-sources/) - [About Mozilla Data Collective](https://community.mozilladatacollective.com/about/) **CZI Conference** This was the last conference of this kind. A new direction is still not decided, but they lean more towards open science than open source. Martin connected with funder in open science and other project in the space around - Potential Fundraising sources. Contacts were made and follow-up will be done. Martin summarized his thoughts on the fundraising lanspace [in this post](https://forum.openrefine.org/t/funding-opportunities-2025/2147/5#p-7536-a-fragile-grant-based-model-in-2025-1) - Cooperation around [Discussion: How OpenRefine Can Support Federated Data Repositories for Open Science?](https://forum.openrefine.org/t/discussion-how-openrefine-can-support-federated-data-repositories-for-open-science/2146)