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TTW Newsletter: October updates

Newsletter images: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1oxeNZ8tBilr7ivQHnLGRw91NHqetca4pmsiklAUu0hI/edit#slide=id.g1388ceabf92_0_0

Issue: https://github.com/alan-turing-institute/the-turing-way/issues/2761

Seasonal greetings and updates from The Turing Way Community

Hello world, how is it already November?! 🍃🍁🌿🍂

This newsletter seems to be getting longer every time I send it out! As usual, this one is packed with updates from The Turing Way community: from information about upcoming events to recent chapter updates to our guides, to recent talks and workshops… and more!

  • 📢 We are hiring a Research Project Manager, send in your application before 1 December: Apply!
  • 📚 💨 Our biannual Book Dash is happening from 14-18 November. We're excited to welcome new and returning members for a week of collaboration and coworking. Join the public sessions on GitHub training on 9 November, Data Conversations co-hosted with VU Amsterdam on 15 November and Community Share-outs on 18 November!
  • 🔥 We've concluded the Fireside chat series for the 2021-2022 season.
    Check out our Youtube playlist to watch the recordings.
    Thanks to our co-organisers and speakers, and thank you all for tuning in!

Many new chapters have been added to the guides, on topics related to machine learning model licenses, research infrastructure, sensitive data, and more.
Check out Chapters and Collaborations in Progress to learn more about these updates.

As usual, you can find more updates and opportunities in the 'Community News' and 'Opportunities in The Turing Way orbit' sections below.
To keep up to date with community events, you can also subscribe to our shared calendar here. 📅

If you're interested in keeping up in real-time, don't forget that you can always join our Slack workspace, follow the project on Twitter, or join us on Fosstodon.

Community Events

Community calls are key for The Turing Way community: they're where folks learn about each others' work, collaborate on ideas, and get inspired.

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Image used under a CC-BY 4.0 licence. DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.3332807.

Book Dash, Community Share-outs, and GitHub Training Session 📚💨

The 8th annual Book Dash will be happening from 14-18 November. We're excited to welcome newcomers and returnees for a week of collaboration and coworking! Book Dashes are an important space where our community comes together to write chapters in The Turing Way, work on new projects, do focused work, and learn from each other.
While most of our working sessions will take place online, we will continue to pilot a hybrid and hub model next week!

While Book Dash will be attended by invited participants, we will be hosting several public events listed below.

GitHub Training Session

On 9 November at 17-18 UTC/UK time (in your timezone), The Turing Way team members will host a training session for members new to GitHub.
Sign up on Eventbrite to attend.

Data Conversations: Innovation in Research

This month, VU Amsterdam's Research Data Management (RDM) Community Manager and a Book Dash committee member is hosting a Data Conversation during Book Dash week.

On 15 November at 14-15:30 UTC/UK time, this Data Conversation will feature Leighann Kimble (VU Amsterdam) and Maxine Mackintosh (Genomics England) sharing lessons learned about reproducibility in medical research and data sharing.
Find details and register.

Community Share-outs

Join us at our two Community Share-outs, which will be happening on the last day of Book Dash.
Everyone is invited – to learn more about The Turing Way project, and see what the community got up to during Book Dash!

These Community Share-out events will happen on Friday 18 November, 11:00 - 12:30 UTC/UK time (in your timezone) or 17:00 - 18:30 UTC/UK time (in your timezone).

Sign up on Eventbrite.

Recurring Community Calls ☕

All are welcome to these calls, no sign-up is needed! ✨

  • Collaboration Cafe: The next call is on 7 December, 14:00-16:00 UTC (see in your time zone).
    Feel free to drop in to meet the community, do some focused writing, or otherwise – see this HackMD for more information.
    16 November's session is replaced by the Community Shareouts during the Book Dash.
  • Core Team Coworking Calls: every Monday, 10:00 UTC (see in your time zone).
    Currently being trialled as stand-up for the core team (though all are welcome!). Find the joining link on this shared HackMD.
  • Translation and Localisation Weekly Meetings: every Tuesday at 16:00 UTC (in your time zone).
    These calls are for co-working on translation and localisation efforts across several languages, and for learning more about the work of the team.
    Join the #translation channel on Slack, and see this HackMD for joining details.
  • Office Hours: Every Friday from 12:00 - 14:00 UTC (see in your time zone).
    Drop by if you have any questions, want to do some co-working, or if you just want to say hello.
    Signing-up is not required – see this HackMD for more information.
    There won't be an office hour during the Book Dash week.

2021-2022 Fireside Chats

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49 diverse members from over 10 communities co-organised the Fireside Chats in 2021-2022.

The first round of the Fireside Chat series concluded last month! This series was started to bring together diverse perspectives and catalyse cross-community collaborations across community-oriented projects in the open science ecosystem.

Beginning with our inaugural Fireside Chat about "What is The Turing Way?" featuring co-leads Kirstie Whitaker and Malvika Sharan with Cassandra Gould van Praag, these conversations have focused on all sorts of topics related to open science: from open hardware to citizen science, open infrastructure to translation and localisation, to community building and sustainability more broadly.

Thank you so much for tuning in, co-organising, co-designing, and for being a part of these Fireside Chats with us.
All recordings are available on this Youtube playlist.

Watch a few recent recordings from recent months:

  • October: Supporting citizen and participatory science communities (video link)
  • September: Connecting open hardware to open science (video link)
  • August: Defining 'open infrastructure' in different contexts (video link)

Stay tuned for 2023! ✨

Community News

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There are lots of updates from the community from the past few months: everything from adding new collaborators to new chapters, project updates, to everything in between!

The Turing Way is hiring a Research Project Manager

This role will join the Tools, Practices and Systems research programme at the Alan Turing Institute, to support work the newly funded Practitioner Hub.
The position holder will work with the programme’s scientific leadership, The Turing Way core team and staff, as well as the wider project community, to coordinate each research project from concept to implementation.
The Project Manager will work with the Programme Manager to coordinate the delivery of strong project governance, and with the Community Manager on operational tasks.
With the HR team, they will manage recruitment and contract-related responsibilities.
You will need a CV and Cover Letter to submit your application.
See details on the Turing's job portal.

Award Winner for OpenUK 2022

The Turing Way has been nominated for the Open UK 2022 awards under the category of "Belonging".
Learn more on the OpenUK website.
Thank you!

VU Amsterdam: new TTW collaborator!

Chapters and Collaborations in Progress

Book Dash Report

A bunch of new chapters have been added to The Turing Way over the past few months, related to a wide variety of ongoing and emergent topics across data science and open research.
Congratulations to the writers and reviewers that made it happen!

Have an idea for collaborations or a chapter? Connect with us on Slack, at a community call, or comment directly on an issue or PR!

Infrastructure and Maintenance Updates

Maintaining a massive repository like The Turing Way takes a lot of digital caretaking 🤗✨

Danny Garside, a project maintainer, recently updated our version of JupyterBook and has been compiling and working on bugs within the project, as documented in this issue.
Thank you so much for your caretaking and maintenance work of The Turing Way, Danny!

Alden Conner, a core team member, recently refreshed and standardised our promotion pack. Together with Sarah Gibson, a core member and project maintainer, she has also been working to update the GitHub Issue templates.
Learn more in this project board.
Thank you, Alden and Sarah, for making it easier to talk about and contribute to The Turing Way!

Working Group Updates

The third core team meeting was held on 6 December 2022.
Working Groups were initiated during this time, and are being trialled across the project.
Ongoing documentation is in this GitHub Discussion as well as done independently by each group:

  • Reviewers and Editors: The R&E team has been working to address stale issues within the project.
    Learn more in their GitHub Discussion.
  • Mentors and Trainers: The M&T team have been working to archive historical talks and workshops within the project.
    Learn more in this GitHub issue.
  • Maintainers: An Infrastructure/Maintainers Working Group is beginning to formalise its efforts, as documented in this issue.

These groups are currently closed to the wider community as we trial what support could look like for them.
Thank you all for your hard work in supporting and maintaining The Turing Way project!

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Talks and Workshops

It has been a busy few months of talks by and with community leaders.
As always, you can find an ongoing record on our Zenodo Community page.

  • Danny Garside and Malvika Sharan gave a talk about sharing responsibility for reproducibility at Big Team Science. Slides.
  • Arielle Bennett, Jennifer Ding, and Anne Lee Steele organised a hackathon on research infrastructure roles at Big Team Science. Slides.
  • Emma Karoune, Jennifer Ding, and Anne Lee Steele delivered a workshop on open research and equity at Genomics England's conference on 19 October. Slides.
  • Sophia Batchelor and Emma Karoune gave a workshop to the 2022 cohort of Turing enrichment students on 11 October. Slides.
  • Eirini Zormpa and Anne Lee Steele gave a talk about The Turing Way at King College's DRIVE-Health CDT on 4 October. Slides
  • Sophia Batchelor gave a talk at the University of Leeds’s ReproducibiliTea on 22 September 2022. Slides.
  • Arielle Bennett hosted a Turing Way booth at the CZIOpenSci conference on 20 September 2022.
  • Lightning talk at the Code for All Summit about The Turing Way on 19 September 2022, Anne Lee Steele on “Community-led Best Practices for Data Science”. Slides. Recording.
  • Malvika Sharan, Eirini Zormpa and Arron Lacey delivered a two-day in-person workshop for the Connections Workshop series at the Alan Turing Institute on 76 and 17 September. Slides
  • Jennifer Ding and Anne Lee Steele gave a lightning talk at Mozilla’s Building Trustworthy AI Working Group meeting on 15 September.
  • Anne Lee Steele gave a keynote about her experiences with open research at RSECon Asia-Australia 2022 on 14 September. Slides. Recording
  • Asma Kacem and Melissa Black gave a talk on the globalisation of open source at ReadtheDocs on 13 September. Slides.
  • Hari Sood gave an introduction to The Turing Way at an AIM-RSF meeting at the Alan Turing Institute on 1 September.
  • Andrea Sánchez-Tapia and Malvika Sharan gave a talk on talk for the MetaDocencia Governance Series on intersectionality in governance with live interpretation in English and Spanish on 31 August. Slides.

Tweets, Toots & mentions

Thank you to all for sharing _The Turing Way_within your communities, and repurposing these materials for your use.
This is exactly what we are all about!

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In The Turing Way Orbit

Opportunities

  • Alan Turing Institute:
  • Alan Turing Institute: Research Project Manager, Foundational AI
  • Mozilla: Data Futures Lab
  • University of Sheffield: Research Data Manager
  • TU Delft: Skills4EOSC Training Coordinator
  • Mozilla: Creative Media Awards
  • INCF: Project Manager
  • Mozilla: Africa Innovation Mradi - In Real Life (IRL) Fund
  • NHS: Digital Fellowships
  • Code for Science and Society: Digital Infrastructure Incubator
  • Open Collective: Senior UX Designer
  • US Research Software Sustainability Institute

For more events, subscribe to the Open Research Calendar.

Get involved + Connect with us!

You are welcome to join The Turing Way community, and learn more about the project.
We host Community Co-working calls on Mondays, Collaboration Cafes every first and third Wednesdays, Office Hours every Friday and Fireside chats monthly.

If you'd like to contribute to the next newsletter, please email Anne Lee Steele at asteele@turing.ac.uk! Feel free to send me a message on Slack, or book some time in on my calendly to say hello.

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