# October 31, 2025 Advisory Committee

**URL:** <https://forum.openrefine.org/t/october-31-2025-advisory-committee/2628>\
**Category:** Day-to-day project operations\
**Tags:** minute-advisory\
**Created:** [November 14, 2025, 8:47pm UTC](https://forum.openrefine.org/t/october-31-2025-advisory-committee/2628 "2025-11-14T20:47:59Z")\
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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:** [November 14, 2025, 8:47pm UTC](https://forum.openrefine.org/t/october-31-2025-advisory-committee/2628/1 "2025-11-14T20:47:59Z")

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## Attendees

- Jan Ainali - Advisory Committee
- Martin Magdinier - Project Manager

Meeting started at half past the hour and lasted 30 minutes.

## Discussions

**Fundraising update**

- FLOSS/Fund award update. CS&S is working to get the receive the funds.
- Martin posted this community update: [Funding Opportunities 2025 - #5 by Martin](https://forum.openrefine.org/t/funding-opportunities-2025/2147/5)
- Martin prepared two PR to update the website with progress merged
  - [Oct 30 funding update by magdmartin · Pull Request #492 · OpenRefine/openrefine.org · GitHub](https://github.com/OpenRefine/openrefine.org/pull/492) regarding the FLOSS/fund update and new fundraising goal
  - [add catalyst grant application by magdmartin · Pull Request #493 · OpenRefine/openrefine.org · GitHub](https://github.com/OpenRefine/openrefine.org/pull/493) regarding Catalyst Grant status

- Martin is doing outreach following CZI conference to do
  - Gates
  - Wellcome
  - Sloan
  - Renaissance
  - Mellon won’t likely fund us.

- We are not applying to the Prototype fund

**Cometdata**  
Following CS&S conference Martin joined the [https://www.cometadata.org/](https://www.cometadata.org/) call this week to understand how they approach reconciliation and PID management.