# The Turing Way - Three Level of Decision Making

The Turing Way, three level decision Making bases his model from [FOSS Governance](https://wiki.p2pfoundation.net/Three_Levels_of_FOSS_Governance).

The three level of decision making are interelated and feed each other continiuosly. It complies with [*The Turing Way* Code of Conduct](https://the-turing-way.netlify.app/community-handbook/coc):

### **1. Community Level**:

This level encompasses all members of *The Turing Way* community, both longstanding and new. Members may have made handbook contributions, participated in working groups, or simply engaged as community users/followers through our Slack, social media, newsletter, etc.

* Decisions and activities undertaken by Community Level members:
* GitHub: Initiate an issue, commit a PR, and request reviews; edit and review existing content.
* Join and invite new individuals to community meetings such as Collaborations Cafe and Co-working sessions.
* Present about *The Turing Way* at a conference (following *The Turing Way* Communications pack).
* Initiate a conversation or pose a question in *The Turing Way* community channels.
* Suggest content for The Turing Way Newsletter.
* Apply to participate in the bi-annual Turing Way Book Dashes.
* Propose and co-organise a [Fireside Chat](https://the-turing-way.netlify.app/community-handbook/fireside-chat.html) by adding your topic idea in [The Turing Way Events & Conferences calendar](https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1lWCWKAAXSlluo5d78LAjoMS9dfDxB27Y7Fb_wGI9B6Q/edit#gid=513475183). ---- a better idea would be to create form
* Propose the launch of a new working group ---- Link to a form.

USE THIS MIRO board: https://miro.com/app/board/uXjVMnA6G50=/?share_link_id=810801549803



:::info
Notes from the meeting:

* Can we create a leadership team at the Constitutional level?
* Can we have an external advisory group that sits outside of the triangle, but with a dotted line to the constitutional level?
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### **2. Maintainer Level**:
This level includes two types of members.

* [*The Turing Way* Working Groups](https://hackmd.io/@aleesteele/SyxRDBath)
Small groups of people that work together on a focus topic, theme, or type of work. Examples of *The Turing Way* working groups are: Translation and localisation (link to their Github welcome page), Infrastructure (link), Accessibility (link)

* [*The Turing Way* Delivery Staff](https://hackmd.io/@KirstieJane/turing-way-turing-inst):
Staff paid 100% FTE by The Alan Turing Institute whose responsibilities include delivering and maintaining work within *The Turing Way*. By 2023, those include: Research Community Manager, Anne Lee Steele and Research Project Manager, Alexandra Araujo Alvarez.

* Decisions that **Collective Choice or Maintainer Level** members make:
* Who represent the working groups and with which type of roles (leads, co-leads, secretary).
* When to host the working group meetings and recurrence of the meetings.
* How to organise the responsibilities within each working group
* Which conferences to participate/apply
* Which funding organisations and calls to apply
* Suggest changes for discussion if the project is not goint in the right direction (How? - Core meeting calls?)
* Everything related to the Fireside Chat
* Facilitate the creation of a new working group
* When to escalate a dispute within a Working Group

### **3. Constitutional-level**: Malvika and Kirstie (Project Leads)

Within this level rely all the strategic decisions and big project changes (in Direction, Governance, funding, etc).

- interaction with Turing people / strategy
- they own the final decision
- Transparency of budget
- They decide the direction of the community
- - We make explicit that this is a model for 2024-2025 and our aspiration is to build even more power from the Institute to the community. A transitional Governance
- Include a Advisory group
- Process whereby the co-chairs of the working gourps have an accountability meeting to represent their level
- Leadership team would be Co-chairs and working group leads
- Each working group will have policy documentation in place to make decision, and payment options (if they apply)
- Advisory group could help in recommending funding options

Notes/feedback:
- MS: the future looks different, where people have different roles and its more circular / parallel power of different groups
- Constitutional level will include 2 levels with project leads and project steering committee.
- KW: who will be part of the steering committee?
- MS, it will be a selected group or (in the future) elected people who are nominated/
- They should be responsible for policy, better transparency, build
- KW: imagines that this section (steering committee) becomes a wg/maintainers. The relationship with The Turing makes it challenging as they external committee will not be able to bring resources
- AB: advisory group about the direction without power decision as the funding is still coming from The Turing. Suggest to include an advisory committee, selected and elected.
- Level of decision making that this advisory group might have
- MS: What is power within TTW? Where is the community power? Project leaders align with the direction or where the community is going? MS and KW are deciding on who to recruit/hire
- ALS: acknowledgement of power - explictly document the different type of power - the aspiration that we want to have. The type of powers that are there for the community itself, to push the community in a different way. Document the different sort of powers.
- within the WG we need to invite them to be part of strategic decisions
- What types of power exists currently?
- Level of autonomy from each governance level
- Interaction between the Community and the external world

Kirstie suggestion:
- We make explicit that this is a model for 2024-2025 and our aspiration is to build even more power from the Institute to the community. A transitional Governance
- Include a Advisory group
- Process whereby the co-chairs of the working gourps have an accountability meeting to represent their level
- Leadership team would be Co-chairs and working group leads
- Each working group will have policy documentation in place to make decision, and payment options (if they apply)
- Advisory group could help in recommending funding options

Questions from ALS:
- There are different types of funding applications
- Separate institutions that have time allocated from their full time jobs
- Individuals applying for separate funding that requires
- Co-optation: The Turing Institute – 
- Provocation: Acknowledgement of power and ongoing points of co-optation
- RCM & RPM roles: what role do they play