# Book Dash, 15 Nov 2023 - Day 3

*tags: `bookdash 2023` `Nov` `event`*

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* Link of Links: [https://ttw-book-dash-nov23.start.page/]([]https://ttw-book-dash-nov23.start.page/[])
* Date: 15 Nov 2023
* Location: London Hub (The Turing Institute) and Online
* Private - Book Dash Zoom link
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### 💻 Zoom link

[https://turing-uk.zoom.us/j/98012268423?pwd=UnZnb3RmWHFsOW5aVjlCSmRFTHF4Zz09](https://turing-uk.zoom.us/j/98012268423?pwd=UnZnb3RmWHFsOW5aVjlCSmRFTHF4Zz09)

Meeting ID: 980 1226 8423

Passcode:404450

## 👋 Welcome!

* Today's calls are scheduled for the invited participants of the next Book Dash event hosted by The Turing Way taking place from 13 to 17 Nov 2023 online.
* Please note that everyone who participates in *The Turing Way* project is expected to abide by our Code of Conduct.
* Please see more details on the project, Book Dash and logistics details (shared by email before the event) for the upcoming book dash below the notes.

## Relevant links to keep handy

* Link of links:
* [https://ttw-book-dash-nov23.start.page/]([]https://ttw-book-dash-nov23.start.page/[])
* *Note that in the weeks prior to the book dash this main link has had various iterations. This should be the correct one to save/bookmark!*
* Calendar
* Overview timetable as a Google doc spreadsheet: [https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1n4AD\_B-UGFYvtNbS1\_rsPmOeXY75IBSI0ApuY0vDRRE/edit?usp=sharing](https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1n4AD\_B-UGFYvtNbS1\_rsPmOeXY75IBSI0ApuY0vDRRE/edit?usp=sharing)

## Contributions sessions

* Shared clock: We will use browser-based shared (cuckoo) clock: [https://cuckoo.team/tw-bookdash](https://cuckoo.team/tw-bookdash) to manage our time
* Each day we will hold 3 contributions sessions and an one themed discussion/networking session where you can interact with others, continue your discussion outside development session or take a break as it's most sustainable and helpful for your participation.
* Each session will follow the Pomodoro technique that we also use for our coworking calls. See details in the coworking chapter in The TuringWay: [https://the-turing-way.netlify.app/community-handbook/coworking/coworking-motivation.html](https://the-turing-way.netlify.app/community-handbook/coworking/coworking-motivation.html)

All time provided in London Time (UTC). Please use this link to convert in your time zone: convert time:

[https://arewemeetingyet.com/london/2022-11-DD/hh:mm](https://arewemeetingyet.com/london/2022-11-DD/hh:mm) (update DD:date, hh:mm: hours:minutes)

Please take comfort breaks as needed.

### Introduction to the event

* Intro to Turing Way book dash day 📚
* GitHub resources and managing your contributions: [https://annuel2.framapad.org/p/ttw-bookdash-nov2023-github](https://annuel2.framapad.org/p/ttw-bookdash-nov2023-github)
* An onboarding breakout room for new members and people who need any refresher: [https://annuel2.framapad.org/p/ttw-bookdash-nov2023-onboarding](https://annuel2.framapad.org/p/ttw-bookdash-nov2023-onboarding)
* Feel free to propose breakout rooms if you have already identified your groups (topic, language, discussions)
* Please use this document as extensively as needed

### Groupings for breakout rooms based on onboarding notes:

We have allocated rooms based on your notes from onboarding notes: [https://pad.sfconservancy.org/p/ttw-bookdash-nov2023-onboarding](https://pad.sfconservancy.org/p/ttw-bookdash-nov2023-onboarding)

Feel free to move between the breakout rooms to identify collaborations!

Room/Theme (details)/Members/comments

* Accessibilty in data science:
* Data (Management and wrangling):
* Localisation and Translation:
* Community management:
* Individuals tackling existing issues:

## Day 3: 15 Nov 2023

[]Day lead: Esther[]

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± Themed discussion \& Networking: []Creative Writing by Jonny Writes words (at 14:00)[]

Please bring an object of your choice (either something with personal meaning to you or just something they happen to have at hand)

#### Time table and attendees

Time (all time in UTC)/ Agenda / Hosts for development and social *sessions / *Attendees

08:00 - 10:30 : Batool \& Saranjeet / Jen, Cari, Kalle, Esther, Susana
11:00 - 13:30 / Batool and Ale / Jen, Richard, Eriol, Sarah, Sara, Mike, Kalle, David S, Ceilidh, Esther, Susana
14:00 - 16:30 : Ale / []Social session Creative Writing by Jonny Writes words []💪📢 / Mike, Kalle, Jesica, David S, Ceilidh, Susana
17:00 - 19:30 : Arielle / Jesica, Alejandro, Patricia, Esther (after 18:00), María
20:00 - 21:30 : Arielle / Gigi, Jesica, Patricia, David LJ, Liz

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## Sign up

*Please add your name to this list, but remember that this is a public document, so use a pseudonym if you'd prefer, or just feel free to leave your name off.*

Name (pronouns - optional) / Institute / Twitter, Mastodon, GitHub / icebreaker: What song/music/art of any kind that you keep sharing with others!
* Saranjeet Kaur (she/her) / Research Software Alliance / GH: @SaranjeetKaur / Rangoli, Doodles
* Anne (she/her) / Alan Turing Institute / @aleesteele / Is it bad that I've been rocking out to Olivia Rodrigo?! Not at all, she's great!
* Batool Almarzouq (she/her) /
* Fran Gómez (he/him) / The Alan Turing Institute / Louis Cole (I don't even know what genre he is, it's a very eclectic mixture of jazz, rock, techno...)
* Jen Ding (she/her) / The Alan Turing Institute /
* Alexandra (she/her) The Alan Turing Institute / Music: ILOVE Jorge Drexler. I've added some of his songs into our Book Dash
* Esther, she/her / TUD /
* Kalle Westerling, he/they / The Alan Turing Institute / I swear by working to the beats of Henry Saiz (especially the Human album!)
* Arielle Bennett (she/her) / Turing / Currently obsessed with the series "Cemetery of Forgotten Books" by Carlos Ruiz Zafón
* David Sarmiento (he-him) / Turing / Getting started with Terry Pratchett books!
* Cari Hyde-Vaamonde (she/her) / King's College London / T/X: @C\_Hyde\_V / Demon Copperhead (book)
* Liz Hare she/her Dog Genetics LLC, In preparing for the playlist I listened to a bunch of Hawaiian music-- espeically love slack key gguitar -- Led Kaapana, Maunalua, Hapa....
* David Llewellyn-Jones (he/him) / The Alan Turing Institute / [https://mastodon.social/@flypig](https://mastodon.social/@flypig) / SpaceChem (computer game... does that count as art?).
* Gigi Kenneth (she/her) / Appsilon /
* Patricia Loto (she/her) /Metadocencia/twitter: @patriloto/Any song of Fito Paez

### Turing Way and Book Dash

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* Intro to The Turing Way \& the Book Dash: Intro slides for you : [https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1i1BWL4j8BmpmF32JxcB1i1xx9J\_W1bod75GFjY0pzNQ/edit#slide=id.gda155644db\_0\_1581](https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1i1BWL4j8BmpmF32JxcB1i1xx9J\_W1bod75GFjY0pzNQ/edit#slide=id.gda155644db\_0\_1581)
* Slides are available for download on Zenodo: [https://zenodo.org/records/10054798](https://zenodo.org/records/10054798)
* For returning members, only update to note is that []GitHub 'label'[] for this edition of the Book Dash is: 0-book-dash-nov23
* Onboarding calls: [https://annuel2.framapad.org/p/ttw-bookdash-nov2023-onboarding](https://annuel2.framapad.org/p/ttw-bookdash-nov2023-onboarding)
* Project repository on GitHub: [https://github.com/alan-turing-institute/the-turing-way](https://github.com/alan-turing-institute/the-turing-way)
* Book is hosted online at: [https://the-turing-way.netlify.com](https://the-turing-way.netlify.com)
* Join the mailing list to receive newsletter: [https://tinyletter.com/TuringWay](https://tinyletter.com/TuringWay)
* Follow on Twitter: @turingway - [https://twitter.com/turingway](https://twitter.com/turingway)
* Mastodon: [https://fosstodon.org/@turingway](https://fosstodon.org/@turingway)

#### Contribution Session (time block 1, 8:00 - 10:30) Host - Batool

Time (UTC) / Suggested agenda

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08:00 - 08:10 / Kick-off, check-ins

08:10 - 08:30 / Introductions, Icebreakers \& mixers

08:30 - 09:00 / Onboarding and resource - preparing for the Book Dash

09:00 - 09:10 / Break

09:10 - 09:45 / First Pomodoro :tomato:

09:45 - 09:55 / Quick report out

09:55 - 10:30 / Second Pomodoro :tomato:

10:30 - 10:30 / Optional Discussion and follow ups

Notes: Name / Comment / Insights and report out

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#### Contribution Session (time block 2 - 11:00 - 13:30) - Esther

Time (UTC) / Suggested agenda

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11:00 - 11:10 / Kick-off, check-ins

11:10 - 11:30 / Introductions, Icebreakers \& mixers

11:30 - 12:00 / Onboarding and resource - preparing for the Book Dash

12:00 - 12:10 / Break

12:10 - 12:45 / First Pomodoro :tomato:

12:45 - 12:55 / Quick report out

12:55 - 13:25 / Second Pomodoro :tomato:

13:25 - 13:30 / Optional Discussion and follow ups

HackMD:

Questions for discussion:

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Notes: Name / Comments / Notes

* Fran Gómez (he/him) / The Alan Turing Institute / Louis Cole (I don't even know what genre he is, it's a very eclectic mixture of jazz, rock, techno...)
* Kalle Westerling, he/they / The Alan Turing Institute / I swear by working to the beats of Henry Saiz (especially the Human album!)
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* Alexandra
* Esther (she,her) / Delft / worked on a small PR for open educational resources, reviewed by Kalle: [https://github.com/the-turing-way/the-turing-way/pull/3412](https://github.com/the-turing-way/the-turing-way/pull/3412)
* Anne - working on this 'working group' share-out: [https://hackmd.io/IrmPPgn3QCaosH\_5AAG3Ig](https://hackmd.io/IrmPPgn3QCaosH\_5AAG3Ig)
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* Sarah Gibson
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* Cari

#### Social Session (time block 3, 14:00 - 15:30) - Host - Ale

[]Creative Writing Jonny writes words[]

Our social session today at 14:00 (Time Block 3) is a Creative Writing workshop! Please bring an object of your choice (either something with personal meaning to you or just something they happen to have at hand)

Time (UTC) / Suggested agenda

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Notes: Name / Comment / Insights and report out

* Anne - excited to write!!
* Sarah Gibson
* Arielle Bennett - so excited to write!
* David
* Cari
* Alex
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**Notes \& experiments**

Dynamic 1:

- Introductions, what are we working on, object we brought

- Unstructured/free writing for 2 minutes

- Prompted writing session 1

- Prompted writing session 2

- Think about object

Dynamic 2: Free writing

No prompt:

- David:

Bisbiseo chaos language busy worth donde que frio cold paseo oriantacion keyboard. Sopa de palabras multilingual

Prompted:

Sarah, prompted free writing:

* If clouds could talk they'd tell us how it feels to be so full of data, engorged and bursting, from deep galaxies to cats in hats, endless strings of 1's and 0's, binaries. Memory overflow.
* If clouds could talk they'd tell us how it feels to be trapped under the weight of the world's infrastructure, streaming songs, saving docs, computing unknown edges of the universe. So much work, so much traffic, moving all the time.
* hello sarah - i love this<3 +1

Anne (prompted free writing 1)

if clouds could talk

they'd tell us how

it feels to have

humans call their

black boxes, whirring,

stored somewhere

in Iceland, in Virginia, in Hall

instead of

looking up--

my guess is, maybe,

not good

(prompted free writing 2 - responding to Sarah's poem!)

if clouds of other kinds could talk

maybe they would say

that they in fact

weren't

black boxes at all, but

in fact infinity rooms

to be explored,

shared,

stored

and maybe they would say,

instead of looking up, we might

also look around

and see the clouds that hold us up

like atlas \& the world

and not only look down

Long prompted: love!<3

Let at wall an an a form of well the at for

this twat wild fall mist

Symposium of meaningless practices to keep us professinally useless.

Industrial nothing-making eating the world.

It's free what we need, anarchy.

Object Story:

- Branch: I used to be bigger, I think, taller,more complex. I remember roots, leaves, limbs, don't I?

I breathed, sort of, and grew fruits. Grey squirrels all around me, foxes hiding.

What am I now? I'm just a piece, yet I'm me.

No leaves, no roots, no trunk. Is the rest of me still me or is it them now?

Babet is all it took,left me lying around. And then a saw, so small, such quick work.

No self without funciton, can I still be?

I remain between between beings, not a tree, not a branch anymore; nothing else yet.

What do I want to be? The knife thinks I will like making babies laugh, I may try. But what my shape will be I will need to decide.

Force me and I will break, listne and I will flourish

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a friend shared this poem in response to the ones about clouds:

i was told a tale about

two clouds

one air, one metal

each lined with silver

one blows winds of change

the other rides them

they may never meet

but they will always

dance together

in their own kind

of blue sky!

#### Contribution Session (time block 4, 17:00 - 19:30) - Host - Arielle

Time (UTC) / Suggested agenda

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17:00 - 17:10 / Kick-off, check-ins

17:10 - 17:30 / Introductions, Icebreakers \& mixers

17:30 - 18:00 / Onboarding and resource - preparing for the Book Dash

18:00 - 18:10 / Break

18:10 - 18:45 / First Pomodoro :tomato:

18:45 - 18:55 / Quick report out

18:55 - 19:30 / Second Pomodoro :tomato:

19:30 - 19:30 / Optional Discussion and follow ups

Notes: Name / Comment / Insights and report out / What's your favourite season \& seasonal activity?

* Alexandra / working on the Governance contributions methods / Summer - go to the beach and read there while
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* Arielle / working on data feminism section / Autumn - long walks in beautiful leaves, cosy hot chocolates, and baking
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* Cari / working on Ai in judicial decision-making / Summer - just walk around and feel warm
* María / Working on improvements for the translation chapters / Spring if I'm in the city, Summer to go hiking in the patagonia
* David L-J / Starting on "code review" section today / The bit between the seasons when everything is changing (especially summer -> autumn and winter -> spring)
* Anne / drafting documentation for our share-outs on friday! / really enjoyed the writing session earlier / sunny winter days - ski-touring up a mountain, solo or with friends!
* Alejandro /chat with Maria about some history/background of the Spanish translation team + review open-hardware PR and other PRs / spring [bye bye horrible winter], walks along blooming trees
* Kalle / working on content for project management methodologies \& frameworks / anything warm, whether that be southern winter or northern summer + spending time on a beach or cliff with a clear view of the ocean
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* Esther / reading all the PRs opened by Sophia on inclusive events! / Bring back summer please.
* Patricia/ reviewing the WIP Inclusive Events Communications Subsection#3327/autumm
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#### Contribution Session (time block 5, 20:00 - 22:00) - Host - Arielle

Time (UTC) / Suggested agenda

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20:00 - 20:10 / Kick-off, check-ins

20:10 - 20:30 / Introductions, Icebreakers \& mixers

20:30 - 21:00 / Second Pomodoro :tomato:

21:00 - 21:10 / Break

21:10 - 21:30 / Second Pomodoro :tomato:

21:30 - 22:00 / Optional Discussion and folmantleotes: Name / Comment / Insights and report out / What's your favourite season \& seasonal activity?

* Liz, summer, water, swim, flowat, fresh produce
* Jesica Formoso / Continue to review the inclusive events PR / Spring
* David L-J / Continuing on "code review" section / The bit between the seasons when everything is changing (especially summer -> autumn and winter -> spring), long walks in the rain.
* Gigi/continue working on Data Feminism chapter/harmattan season [it's a West African thing :) ], harmattan = christmas = christmas shopping
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