Countdown to Book Dash, a new chapter on The Environmental Impact of Digital Research and watch our September Fireside Chat
🎃👻 We hope you had a spooky Halloween!👻🎃
This newsletter is a collaboration between Anne and Alex, your Community Manager and Project Manager of The Turing Way. As always, there's a lot to share from our community from September and October!
- 📚💨 The countdown for our Book Dash has alreeady started – Sign up for our public events taking place between 13 and 17 November, more below!
- 📢 A new subchapter on the Environmental Impact of Digital research is now live!
- 🔥 Watch our September Fireside Chat on YouTube on "Who is building open source AI?"
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.
On 13-17 November, we will be hosting our 10th Biannual Book Dash!
This is a special anniversary – our 10th Book Dash! Book Dashes are our primary contribution event within The Turing Way community, where people come together to work on all sorts of projects together throughout one week!
This time around, we have contributors from more than 5 countries participating on topics related to accessibility, licensing, data hazards, infrastructure, project design, translation and localisation, data feminism, research software engineering, code review, algorithmic justice and more!
We'll be hosting contribution sessions for the Americas and Asia/Pacific timezones, along with our current European/African timezones. For the first time we will be hosting some activities in Spanish.
Thank you to the Book Dash Planning Committee, who have been hard at work to plan a fun week for all!
As a part of Book Dash, we are offering a Github training session on 6 November, at 17:00 UTC. See it in your timezone.
In this workshop, co-facilitators from The Turing Way Community will introduce participants to using GitHub as a tool to support collaborative documentation-writing and knowledge sharing. They will discuss the importance of open community practices in building and maintaining collective resources, and learn about the importance of different roles in open source documentation communities like The Turing Way: including that of maintainers, reviewers, and translators.
Participants will gain hands-on experience in working collaboratively during the workshop by contributing to the The Turing Way project. A shared document will be used for collaborative note-taking, capturing feedback and learning.
The Turing Way Community Share-outs and Contributor Celebration event will be the culmination of a week of collaboration at our bi-annual Book Dash event!
On 17 November 2023, The Turing Way team is hosting two Community Share-out and Contributor Celebration sessions at 11:00 (in your time zone) and 17:00 (in your time zone) London Time (UTC). At these sessions, members of our community and Book Dash attendees will showcase their contributions to the book, share what they are working on and invite collaborations from the wider community. Sign up to join us on Eventbrite!
In between these two sessions, at 14:00-15:00 London Time (UTC) (in your time zone), The Turing Way team will being hosting its third Working Group and Collaborators Share-out, where working groups and collaborating projects share updates related to their work. If you are interested in signing up for that event, sign up here.
Everyone interested in The Turing Way project and our community is invited - please sign up to attend one, two, or all three of these sessions!
Have you partipated in a previous edition of The Turing Way Book Dash? Did you like the experience? Did you learn from it? To celebrate the 10th edition of the Book Dash we will create a celebration video and we need you!
In the following issue you will find how to contribute, with simple options such as sending us a short video or telling us how you will define the Book Dash in one word: the-turing-way/the-turing-way#3330.
If you have questions or if you would like to receive a calendar invite to be recorded on Friday 10 November, email Alexandra at aaraujo.alvarez@turing.ac.uk or contact her through Slack.
We look forward to your contributions!
A new sub-chapter on the Environmental Impact of Digital Research is now live!
This chapter was incubated at Collaborations Workshop 2023 (#CollabW23), organised by Software Sustainability Institute and first introduced by Carlos Martinez, Loic Lannelongue and others as a blog: https://software.ac.uk/blog/2023-08-15-tracking-environmental-impact-research-computing
The writing and reviewing process took months of discussion and review, involving 15+ people who co-drafted, reviewed, discussed, & published this new chapter in Github pull requests, google docs, and other platforms
Check out the chapter here: https://the-turing-way.netlify.app/ethical-research/activism/activism-env-impact
In September, we hosted a Fireside Chat on "Who is building open source AI?" on 21 September, 14:00-15:30 UTC+1. Facilitated by Jennifer Ding and Arielle Bennett, this panel featured highlights from Abinaya Mahendiran (Nunnari Labs) Marzieh Fadaee (Cohere for AI), David Gray Widder (Cornell Tech), and Mophat Okinyi (African Content Moderators Union). This Fireside Chat was organised as a part of the Open Source Initiative's Call for Defining Open Source AI. Watch the recording on Youtube.
All are welcome to these calls, no sign-up is needed! ✨
- Collaboration Cafe: The next call is TOMORROW 1 November, 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.
- The Collaboration Cafe on 15 November is cancelled due to Book Dash!
- Translation and Localisation Weekly Meetings: every second Thursdays at 14:00 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.
- Infrastructure Monthly Meetings: every second Thursday of the month, at 16:00 UTC (in your time zone). These calls are for co-working on infrastructure support, and for learning more about the work of the team.
- Accessibility Monthly Meetings: every second Monday of the month, at 17:00 UTC (in your time zone)
- Fireside Chats: The series has ended for 2023 – but we'll be bringing it back in 2024!
The Practitioners Hub has been organising knowledge exchange and training activities as well as working on the co-creation of case studies with Experts in Residence from British Antarctic Survey, Genomics England, Digihaul, Energy Systems Catapult and Office of National Statistics. Learn more about the Experts in Residence
The EiRs have received training on the following topics:
- Stakeholder and mapping engagement
- User Journey Mapping and individual coaching sessions led by Fruto
- Open Leadership Practices
- Pedagogy of technical teaching
- Skills and knowledge Gap Analysis
- Systems Thinking workshop led by Digital Catapult
In our last two months working together we will be working on 'Product Strategy and Road Mapping' led by Superbloom.
We will be launching the Expert's case studies on 11 December 2023. More details to come!
The Turing Way Practitioners Hub work is supported by Innovate UK BridgeAI.
- Danny Garside and Anne Lee Steele gave a talk at the CSCCE Open-Source Tools Trial 1 on 30 August. Zenodo link
- Eirini Zormpa attended RSEConf23 on 5-7 September
- Jennifer Ding and Pen-Yuan Hsing gave a talk on 19 September 2023. Zenodo link
- Emma Karoune and Cassandra Goud Van Praag lead a workshop at The Hidden REF Festival on 21 September 2023.Zenodo link
- Arielle Bennett and Malvika Sharan gave a keynote talk at the CU Data Science Symposium on 6 October 2023. Zenodo link
- Alexandra Araujo Alvarez gave a talk about The Turing Way Practitioners Hub for the Programme Management Turing's Intitute team on 17 October 2023. Zenodo link
- Anne Lee Steele, Eirini Zormpa, and Emma Karoune gave a GitHub workshop for PhD students at the Turing on 19 October 2023. Zenodo link
- Esther Plomp, Danny Garside and Anne Lee Steele gave a workshop at Big Team Science on 25 October.
- Batool Almarzouq and Joel Nitta gave a talk at Big Team Science on 24 October.
- Emma Karoune gave a talk at "Open and Engaged 2023" at the British Library on 30 October
- Malvika Sharan gave keynotes at the OpenFest Sheffield Showcase and the un-deRSE23 - Unconference for Research Software Engineering in Germany in September 2023.
- She gave a keynote on 'do no harm' in open research communities and co-led a workshop on Software Citation at International Research Software Funders Workshop in Montreal.
- She also gave talks at the University of Derby Open Access Week event on 25 October and at the Fourth Carnegie Mellon University Open Science Symposium on 3 November 2023.
- Toot by David Llewellyn-Jones. Link to toot
- Tweet by Karolina Minch. Link to tweet
- Tweet by Bruno Rodrigues. Link to tweet
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- Tweet by Thùy Vy T Nguyễn. Link to tweet
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Visit The Alan Turing career page to access more opportunities.
- Job: The Crick: Trainee HPC Engineer
- ⏰ Apply by 5 November
- 📍 Location: London, UK
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- Job: EMBL-EBI: Open Science Information Specialist
- ⏰ Apply by 12 November
- 📍 Location: Hinxton, UK
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- Job: 2i2c: Open Source Infrastructure Engineer
- ⏰ Applications roling
- 📍 Location: Remote
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- Job: 2i2c: Open Source Infrastructure Engineer
- ⏰ Applications roling
- 📍 Location: Remote
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- Job: OpenReview: Technical Support Manager
- ⏰ Applications rolling
- 📍 Location: USA-Remote
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- Job: The Health Foundation: Research Manager
- ⏰ Apply by 22 November
- 📍 Location: London
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You are welcome to join The Turing Way community, and learn more about the project.
- Start page (This is a great place to start!⭐)
- About the project
- The Turing Way book
- HackMD Intro Page
- GitHub repository
- Slack Workspace
- Mastodon profile
- YouTube Channel
- Twitter profile
If you'd like to contribute to the next newsletter, please email Anne Lee Steele at asteele@turing.ac.uk! Feel free to send her a message on Slack, or book some time in on Anne's calendly to say hello.
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