October 24th, 2024, Advisory Committee

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Attendees

  • Jan Ainali - Advisory Committee
  • Esther M. Jackson - Advisory Committee
  • Antonin Delpeuch - Advisory Committee
  • Martin Magdinier - Project Manager

Discussion

Survey

Feature ranking analysis idea is ready and to be posted this week. The larger analysis can happen later. The output looks interesting and should be helpful to guide contributors towards impactful issues.

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WMSE / Commons Trainer Group

Martin to coordinate with WMSE

  • To organize a webinar to present changes so that trainers can update the training material, to be supported by the remaining ~$2.500, to be given to 1-2 people to update the English version of the WikiLearn course. Expected contents of the webinar:
    • Presentation of the changes. This section can be recorded and shared publicly.
    • Open conversation between trainers.
    • Coordination with the trainers for them to update their training material
  • For an update on the development work following the feature ranking they did.
    • They don’t aim to do further development, according to the WMSE board minutes.
    • Only two feature improvements or bug fixes since the last release
    • Potentially need a release to be compatible with 3.9 - Antonin to open an issue about it

Wikimedia Foundation grant application

  • WMF is reviewing the grant application and has reached out for administrative details.
  • We will know if we have the grant in early December.
  • Jan to see if he can fix the formatting of the grant application on Meta. Or a fixed version could be submitted to the committee. This is not a priority.

Governance changes

  • Martin intends to update the gouvernance document to make it reflect the current status quo.
    • Antonin is worried that there will be resistance to writing down the status quo in the gouvernance document because it could be seen as an attempt to anchor it
    • Martin to explain that is is documenting how things work regardless of how well-functional it is. The goal is to have a common analysis of the current situation to set the ground for future improvement.
    • Martin to introduce
  • Check out Governance Transition Calculators - worth going through the questions because it sparks interesting ideas. Jan also heard from that team recently and there is an interesting podcast related.

Developer hiring

What is the status and next steps?

  • Martin has it on his to-do list to write a job description, with the intention to make a PR on the openrefine.org repo.
  • Antonin is slightly worried that the scope is still very vague, so not sure if it will work out well as a PR.
  • Martin thinks Google Docs isn’t so much better for this purpose and a PR should work well.
  • Martin intends to do:
    • A document to describe the role first
    • Then, the job posting
  • This comes as the first priority before the governance documentation.
  • Esther wonders if there are descriptions of other roles (advisory committee, project manager) and whether they would be good first steps to write down the governance document
    • It’s mostly the blog posts recruiting for those positions
    • Position description can be complementary to the governance, similar to the policy suggested by Thad.

WikiConvention Francophone 2024

Martin’s next priorities:

After today's meeting, Martin will prioritize the following projects:

  1. Job posting
  2. Governance update
  3. Detailed survey analysis
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I must have missed the post about the Survey results. Ah, found it:
Results from the Feature Prioritization Survey 2024 - News and Announcements - OpenRefine

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