Attendees
- Jan Ainali - Advisory Committee
- Antonin Delpeuch - Advisory Committee
- Martin Magdinier - Project Manager
Discussion
WikiConvention francophone
WikiConvention francophone (WCFR) will take place in Quebec City Nov 2 - 3. It would take a budget of ~USD500 to USD600 for Martin to attend (3-hour train ride from where he lives). There will be quite some coverage of Wikimedia Commons and we know of OpenRefine advocates who will be there too. The trip is approved.
Survey
Survey: this is the last week to answer. Martin has posted reminders in various places.
- Announcing the 2024 OpenRefine User Survey! - #3 by Martin
- Jan has posted it in a Swedish data journalism group with 3,000 members and added a comment about the closing date.
- Antonin has requested it to be included in the weekly GIJN bulletin, but hasn’t heard back from them so doesn’t know if it will be included or not, and if so when.
- Martin will create a pull request to stop the notification in the tool, unpin messages, and so on (see #358 for reference).
Governance Update
Martin has scheduled three calls to discuss the proposed changes with the community: OpenRefine community meetup - #22 by Martin
We don’t know who will attend. They are open to the community for answer questions and discuss governance.
The group discussed how to proceed with the roll-out plan. In the draft governance proposal,, Martin initially proposed starting to form the contributor group to vote on the governance in October. The group agreed that starting on vote now will be forcing the governance approval and we need to give more time to for core member to provide feedback. Antonin agrees that there isn’t a ton of enthusiasm around the current proposal, so it might be a bit too early to go for a vote yet. The group acknowledges that it takes time for community members to provide meaningful answers on the forum on that topic and that a few days of delays between answers are totally normal.
The proposal is to revisit the process to get the governance approved to give more time to the community for feedback before we move to a vote. Depending on feedback, we may postpone the deadline or reconsider how the new governance model is to be approved.
Wikimedia Community Fund grant application
Martin walked through the Advisory Committee on the draft proposal. It’s about 75% done, but there are still writing improvements to be made and putting more ideas together in some parts.
The group reviewed the application and commented directly on the document DRAFT [English] [Public] General Support Fund application form (v3.0).