This June, we hosted our 11th Book Dash with The Turing Way! As always, there are tons of updates to share from our community.
- ☎️ Join our next Community Forum on 12 July at 15:00 UTC+1 and Onboarding Call on 28 August
- 📚💨 Check out the exciting updates from Book Dash - we are accepting applications for our next local hub
- 📺 Watch back the videos for the June's Fireside Chat and Community Share-outs
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.
Illustration by Scriberia showing community as a garden and members as gardeners. Used under a CC-BY 4.0 licence. DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.3332807.
On 12 July, we are hosting our Community Forums.
This is part of a series of community calls that bring together members of The Turing Way community - including people who have not yet contributed to the project!
Modelled off a political town hall event, this online session is an opportunity to better understand activities across the project, our governance process and how decisions are made. Our aim is to leverage the expertise across our community, and we explicitly invite you to review our processes and recommend improvements.
We expect that the calls will be a mix of celebration, feedback, and opportunities to build connections with other organisations and initiatives around the world.
Join our next Community Forum on 11 July (in your time zone).
As always, it was an exciting week full of collaborations, conversations and community with The Turing Way.
This week, we had over 35 participants participate in 20 sessions, 2 share-outs, and 1 Fireside Chat throughout the week. Participants worked on 77 issues (resolving 34!) and 46 pull requests (completing 30)!
Participants worked on all sorts of topics, ranging from how to host drop-in sessions, to updating our infrastructure, to publishing licenses, updating infrastructure, and more.
Catch up on our recordings for the Community Share-outs on Youtube.
Currently, the Book Dash Planning Committee is hard at work compiling our report from the event, which will be released soon. Stay tuned!
Save the date!
It's already time to start planning for our November 2024 Book Dash, which will take place between 4 & 8 November.
Applications are already out to join our Planning Committee for the November 2024 Book Dash, as well as to host a local hub.
Applications are due by 1 August
Take a look at these tweets and toots for more information about supporting the Book Dash event. For more information, get in touch with Anne (asteele@turing.ac.uk), who will be happy to discuss additional details and opportunities with you. For more information, get in touch with Anne, who will be happy to discuss additional details and opportunities with you.
👉 Apply to join the Planning Committee for November 2024
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Watch recording from our June Fireside Chat: "Making things Accessible in Data Science"
This Fireside Chat discussed practices and principles in accessibility.
With the support of the Society of RSE Events & Initiatives Grant, this event was organised by Liz Hare, and chaired alongside Tania Allard, featuring the perspectives of Lynn Kirabo. Unfortunately, Chris was not able to join - but we hope to welcome him at another opportunity.
Thank you for joining this conversation!
We are excited to share that the Foreword section is finally live! ✨
Reviewed and finally pushed, this chapter is more than a year in the making. It includes information about our emerging governance, tips and tricks for navigating the project, descriptions by project co-lead and founder Kirstie, as well as co-lead Malvika on topics related to emergent strategy and digital commons.
This section, started in 2021 and a work in progress. The project delivery team is still being reviewed. If you'd like to do any debugging with us, please feel free to make an issue or pull request!
Hosted all throughout the month, our recurring community calls are important and engaging spaces where you can learn more about The Turing Way!
Some require sign-ups (📝) and some don't (✅), but absolutely all are welcome to these calls! ✨
- 📝 Onboarding calls: The next call is on 28 August, 15:00-16:00 UTC+1 (in your timezone). These calls are hosted every two months, join us to connect with other new members of the community and learn more about the project. Sign-up here!
- 📝 Community forums: The next call is on 12 July, 15:00-16:30 UTC+1 (in your timezone). Registration is open. Two more calls in the series will take place on 03 October and 12 December.
- ✅ Collaboration Cafe: The next call is on 17 July, 15:00-17:00 UTC+1 (see in your time zone). Feel free to drop in to meet the community, do some focused writing, or otherwise -- more information on Etherpad.
- ✅ Translation and Localisation Weekly Meetings: every other Wednesday at 14:30 UTC+1 (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 for more.
- ✅ Infrastructure Monthly Meetings: every second Thursday of the month, at 16:00 UTC+1 (in your time zone). These calls are for co-working on infrastructure support, and for learning more about the work of the team. Join the #infrastructure channel on Slack for more.
- ✅ Accessibility Monthly Meetings: every second Monday of the month, at 17:00 UTC+1 (in your time zone). These calls are for planning monthly sprints and co-working on access-related chapters and upcoming guide. Join the #accessibility channel on Slack for more.
📅 Check out our new events calendar to learn more about what is happening in the community.
✨ If you are attending an event and would like to meet folks from across the community, please include that in this pad.
It's been a busy few months of talks by and with community leaders. As always, you can find an ongoing record in our Zenodo Community page.
- Anne participated in a panel on "Repair, Care, X" at AIES Edinburgh's event "AI as the Broken Machine" in Edinburgh on 7 June.
- Kirstie and Malvika joined the CZI meeting in Boston, USA that took place between 10 and 14 June.
- Kirstie spoke at the panel "AI and Open Science", discussing the potential of emerging technology in fostering transparent, accessible, and collaborative research practices.
- Malvika held a showcase session on The Turing Way and a Birds of Feather session discussing how open science community can work towards a shared vision for the global open science community.
- Malvika gave a talk at UCL hosted by the London Interdisciplinary Doctoral Programme as part of the Student Employability Seminar on 17 May.
- Susana Roman Garcia and Anne hosted the June onboarding call on 26 June.
This year, members of The Turing Way community are re-joining London Data Week as organisers and conveners!
- Jennifer Ding, who has convened many AI-related discussions is a co-founder of London Data Week, hosting for the second year running.
- Arielle Bennett is hosting a special TPS Coffee Chat with CHAOSS's Dawn Foster titled "Improve Your Open Source Project Health with Chaos" at 14:30 - 15:30 BST on 4 July. The event is remote - all are welcome!
- Emma Karoune will be facilitating a workshop on "Empowering People in Data: Exploring Skills and Building Community" in-person in London at 9:30 BST on 5 July.
This year is bringing together folks from University of the Arts London, Greater London Authority, King's College, DataKind, Open Data Institute (ODI), British Council, Nesta, Civic AI Observatory, and more to deliver a citywide festival data to learn, create, discuss and explore how to use data to shape London for the better!
👉 Learn more on the event website.
The Turing Way team will be joining OpenFest 2024, hosted by the University of Sheffield.
The year's theme is "Towards an Open Research Culture: Establishing, Embedding and Facilitating the Culture/s and Practice/s of Open Research".
To what extent, and in what ways, is the future of research culture open? What practices are and will be central in establishing and embedding a culture of research openness? What factors impede efforts to achieve an open research culture, and how best can researchers and other professionals address these? Our online symposium aims to create space for colleagues across the UK and internationally to explore these and related ideas.
👉 Learn more on the event website.
Research Associate, Humanities and Social Sciences in Human-AI Teaming
- ⏰ Apply by 7 August 2024
- 📍 Location: London, United Kingdom
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Skills Officer - Data Study group
- ⏰ Apply by 9 July 2024
- 📍 Location: London, United Kingdom
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Skills Officer - BridgeAI
- ⏰ Apply by 9 July 2024
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Research Assistant, AI for Public Services
- ⏰ Apply by 14 July 2024
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Research Assistant, Humanities and Social Sciences in AI
- ⏰ Apply by 14 July 2024
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- Job: TU Delft: TDCC-NES Community Coordinator
- ⏰ Apply by 7 August 2024
- 📍 Location: Delft, Netherlands
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- Job: Royal Society: Senior Schools Engagement Officer
- ⏰ Apply by 26 July 2024
- 📍 Location: London, UK
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- Job: British Library: Digital Curator
- ⏰ Apply by 21 July 2024
- 📍 Location: London, UK
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- Job: OPeNDAP: Senior Software Developer
- ⏰ Apply by 15 July 2024
- 📍 Location: Remote/On-Site (Butte, MT)
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- Job: Royal Society: Senior Policy Adviser
- ⏰ Apply by 10 July 2024
- 📍 Location: London, UK
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- Job: Kumu: Senior Software Engineer
- ⏰ Ongoing
- 📍 Location: Remote
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- Job: Ford Foundation: Program Officer
- ⏰ Ongoing
- 📍 Location: New York, USA
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- Job: Several Vacancies at Uppsala University
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- 📍 Location: Uppsala, Sweden
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For more events, subscribe to the Open Research Calendar.
You are welcome to join The Turing Way community, and learn more about the project.
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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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