The Barcamp and survey significantly shifted my focus over the last three months. I am planning to resume my work on this project in August.
Here is an update on my progress. I used the
to indicate completed items;
where no progress has been made;
for work in progress.
My updates are in italics.
July 25 progress
I plan to deploy the three playbooks in five phases.
1. Quick wins (March and April): I will draft PRs and submit them for review for the following section:
- Restructure the website for pages that require little consensus:
- OpenRefine Ecosystem. A first version is available; the discussion continues in #325
- OpenRefine History
- Who use OpenRefine
- What's new (and release note) - not started, see What's new pages and release note - we have 4 different pages!
- Code of Conduct Contributor Guide. The committee is dormant. I haven't started this section.
- Advisory Committee Contributor Guide. drafted here when we onboarded new member in January 2024.
- Operation Manual: The draft is complete and I am using it regularly. I started to work on a branch locally I need to publish it.
2. Clarify OpenRefine Mission, Vision, and Value (April to June) See Working with Bocoup to Clarify OpenRefine Mission, Vision, and Values and Feedback Request on OpenRefine's Draft Vision, Mission, Values. We should have results by end of August.
3. Based on the new mission and vision (Summer 2024)
- Update project roles and governance. Priority will be given to the developer pathways and discussion started here Improving the onboarding process for new contributors and linked conversation
- the Project roadmap was discussed at the Barcamp; I will work on goal posts approach as discussed here OpenRefine 2024 Barcamp: Strategizing OpenRefine Roadmap
- Social Conduct. not started
I didn't start the following yet:
- 4. Update or create the contributor guide
- 5. I complete the operation manual separately