Get involved in the OpenRefine community
OpenRefine is made by people like you. You can help us in many ways, including the roles below.
Technical Writer
to keep our user documentation up to date and enrich it with more example
Translator
to translate OpenRefine interface in your language via Weblate.
OpenRefine expert
by answering OpenRefine-related questions in your community preferred channels (Slack, Telegram, or other form of discussion list), by monitoring social media or our forum. Help us by turn recurring bug report and feature requests and bug reports GitHub issues
Advocate & Trainer
by introducing OpenRefine to your community and by providing customed training based on your community workflow and dataset
Connect with us
Join our vibrant community of users and contributors. We listed below the platforms used by the core team, however a lot of great conversation happen directly within our user community preferred channel.
| Platform | Come here for |
|---|---|
GitHub  | GitHub is where OpenRefine code live. We maintain two main repositories: |
Forum  | After GitHub this is our main communication platform. Join our forum to ask for support when using OpenRefine, discuss OpenRefine development and check the latest community update. You can find here our archived user and development mailing list. |
Community Calls  | We are organizing bi-weekly video call where everybody is welcome to chat about OpenRefine, ask questions, share things they do with OpenRefine. It happens every two weeks on alternating times: 07:00 UTC on Friday and 15:00 UTC on Tuesday. |
Chat  | You can join us on gitter chat for real time chat. The room is not always monitored and we invite you to post on our forum if you do not receive an answer. |
Social Media    | We share project announcements, opportunities, upcoming events, on diverse social media platforms. Follow and tag #OpenRefine on LinkedIn, Twitter/X or Mastodon. |