OpenRefine's packaging for MacOS and Windows could be improved in many ways, and we are looking for help in this front. We are looking for proposals from prospective contractors to improve the install experience of OpenRefine on MacOS and/or Windows.

tl;dr We consider moving OpenRefine's mailing lists and Gitter to a web-based Discourse forum, and invite your feedback.

Every two years, OpenRefine holds an extensive survey among its users. Our fifth edition was live in April-May 2022. No less than 207 people participated, which breaks our record of 2020 when we received 178 responses.

This year, OpenRefine is very happy to participate in Outreachy again, an internship program in open source and open science initiated and run by the Software Freedom Conservancy.

OpenRefine’s advisory committee is growing! We are warmly welcoming Jan Ainali as a new member. OpenRefine’s advisory committee runs the administrative side of the project on a day to day basis.

OpenRefine’s advisory committee is happy to welcome Sandra Fauconnier as OpenRefine’s project director. This is a part time position, funded by an Essential Open Source Software for Science grant awarded by the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative.

OpenRefine is seeking a new member for its Advisory Committee (unpaid position).

OpenRefine is developing features for Structured Data on Wikimedia Commons and welcomes new members to its team!

OpenRefine is seeking a Part-time Project Director (paid position).

OpenRefine is seeking a Junior Developer - Structured Data on Wikimedia Commons additions to OpenRefine's codebase (paid contractor position).