2025 is here, and it's bringing changes!
We have many updates to share in our first newsletter to kick off the year.
- 🏛️ Our Community Forum is on 21 February: sign-up to let us know you'll be there.
- 📝 Read updates about The Turing Way project and request for comments on governance processes and plans.
- 💜 Dive into our newly added Accessibility Policy that will strengthening our commitment to EDIA.
- 🗣️ Read updates from the recent events and conferences attended by The Turing Way team and community.
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.
With continued progress to operationalise the Three Levels of Governance in The Turing Way, we expect more places for involvements in The Turing Way community. After progressing Community- and Maintenance-Level work significantly over the last five years, our main focus this year will be on 'Constitution-Level' processes.
Join this year's first Community Forum to learn what we are planning, how you can get involved and where we work collectively to make The Turing Way truly community-led.
👉🏽 Sign up to let us know that you will be there.
Join the Book Dash Planning Committee for 2025!
We're calling on creative, proactive, and enthusiastic members of our community to join this year's Planning Committee for the Book Dash which will take place in May 2025.
👉🏽 Express your interest to join: https://forms.gle/EcujF2EM3jUwzpe48. The deadline is 28 February 2025.
Due to changes in funding and resourcing, the role will require a higher commitment than previous years: your input and support is essential! We would also love to hear from people who are interested in supporting the November 2025 Book Dash as well, dates for which are not yet confirmed.
You can read more about the proposal for the Book Dash in May 2025, which will take place partially at the Collaborations Workshop in Stirling, Scotland, followed by two open registration days on 20 & 21 May, with a community share out on 21 May issue #4
Have questions? Feel free to open an issue on the Book Dash repo or catch the Working Group members at the upcoming Collaboration Cafes.
As an open science project, The Turing Way needs continued funding to support positions like research community manager, project manager and senior researchers who keep the project running smoothly while ensuring that the project is led by and with the community in the right direction.
If you have used any part of The Turing Way, participated in our community spaces or have drawn inspirations from what we do, please share your story with us.
👉🏽 Share your story under the issue #4032. (You can also send an email.)
Thank you to everyone who has shared testimonials! We're so grateful for your generosity. Your stories of success and impact will help us build stronger proposals for resources and partnerships needed to ensure The Turing Way's long-term sustainability.
We are also actively documenting discussions from the different parts of our community and invite your inputs and involvement to help make informed decisions at different levels of governance.
We have outlined a proposal for involving leads of different initiatives in The Turing Way and chairs of Working Groups to join a Steering Committee, and improve processes and documentation for this level of decision-making.
👉🏽 Review and Comment under the issue #4014
We are seeking community members to join the new "Community Management Working Group (CM WG)" to provide continuity of the project and community-centered operations. Your commitment and involvement will be essential to ensuring that we can continue our project!
👉🏽 Express your interest under the issue #4033
At the Community-Level governance, we are also responding to your comments and inviting discussions on different topics. If you haven't already, check out these issues:
- Title: Should we join Bluesky?: issue # 3950
- Related issue on updating the guides to clarify our position social media platforms we use: issue #3954
- Title: Help us to archive our Slack data: issue #4042
- Title: Norms as a community around development on branches vs forks: issue #3871
- Title: Ideas for the Book Dash beyond May 2025: issue #4044
Given the ongoing threats to Equity, Diversity, Inclusion, and Accessibility (EDIA) programs and the forces working against these principles, it is crucial to reaffirm their purpose and restate our commitment to our community. EDIA frameworks and initiatives address systemic barriers and expand access for marginalised communities, often enabling them to exercise their fundamental human rights.
From the start, The Turing Way has championed the role of EDIA in fostering inclusive communities and transforming the data science and research culture to be more collaborative and equitable. As part of our mission to make data science open, reproducible, collaborative, and ethical, The Turing Way team stands firmly with the global open science community and all those striving to ensure that science and open science remains truly "open" to all.
As highlighted in the Foreword section of the book:
"Diverse members contribute to the development of The Turing Way guides, ensuring that EDIA principles are integrated into both the practices we share and the positive impact we aim for in data science."
We will continue to take proactive measures to cultivate an environment where diverse forms of knowledge, knowledge producers, and their interests can thrive.
We thank the rOpenSci Team for boldly reinforcing the mission of open science in their latest blog post.
"The open in open source and open science means more than how we share code or data. It means knocking down the barriers to participation so that it is open and accessible to all, that everyone can join in the benefits and joys of science, and removing our blinders to the humanity of those we previously missed."
We extend their invitation to all to engage with this conversation.
Our new Community Accessibility Policy, published last December, will support access-centered approach for our community members, both in their participation in the community, as well as resources they share via The Turing Way.
You can read the Accessibility Policy in our Community Handbook or on Github
This achievement culminates over two years of collaborative work, beginning in 2022. Through numerous conversations, discussions, and revisions, including those at three Book Dashes, we prioritised involving diverse perspectives from the community and moved with the speed of trust.
A huge thank you to all contributors: Alexandra Araujo Alvarez, Andrea Sanchez-Tapia, Arielle Bennett, Chi Zhang, Esther Plomp, Laurel Ascenzi, Harriet Sands, Jesica Formoso, Jim Madge, Léllé Demertzi, Malvika Sharan, Patricia Loto, Precious Onyewuchi, Richard Acton, Sara Villa, Saranjeet Kaur, Sophia Batchelor, and Tania Allard.
We invite you to read The Turing Way Accessibility Policy, and we hope it serves as a valuable resource for promoting inclusive approaches in The Turing Way and other open science communities.
Title: Data Readiness for AI Date and Time: Wednesday 26 February 2025, 11:00AM – 12:30PM GMT Format: Online via Zoom
👉🏽 Register to secure your spot
Successful AI applications depend on having high-quality and appropriately sized data. But what does data readiness really mean across different sectors? What are the possibilities, barriers and approaches to improve data access? The next session under the InnovateUK BridgeAI programmes's AI Insight Chat Series will tackle these crucial questions.
Our expert panel will provide valuable insights, and an interactive discussion will allow you to share ideas and pose questions.
We are proud to be a project and community that collaborates across different institutions and groups, where practices and infrastructure are often reused (cloned), reproduced (forked) and customised for the needs of different communities in our orbit.
This open source way of working has been crucial for our growth and sustainability as a project, and we are proud to welcome NHS-R Way, who have been highlighted as our collaborator in the Community Handbook. We thank Zoë Turner, Senior Data Scientist, who as our primary contact advocates for The Turing Way and best practices in the NHS-R community.
Thanks Zoë, for also sharing a beautiful testimonial highlighting this collaboration.
If you would like to be listed or to collaborate with our team, please get in touch!
This year, members of The Turing Way team returned to Paris (France) and Brussels (Belgium) to join open source conversations and represent The Turing Way community.
Malvika attended the Software Heritage Summit in Paris, focused on cybersecurity, AI transparency, and open science. A highlight was tech talks on tools leveraging Software Heritage's infrastructure to address challenges like "One Day Vulnerability" and build Code Commons that can benefit the broader research and scientific community.
She then attended the EU Open Source Policy Summit hosted by Open Forum Europe in Brussels on 31 January. Panels and talks at this event focused on both open source innovation and regulatory guardrails to ensure positive impact of tech on society. A specific highlight was on public and private funding for boosting economy, collaboration, community-centered approach and infrastructure sustainability,
FOSDEM 2025 Opening Talk from the speaker perspective. Source: Wikipedia, by RichiH.
FOSDEM'S Open Research Devroom this year was organised by a group of incredible volunteers that included Jim Madge and Anne Lee Steele. This was one of 80 tracks at the big community-organised conference of FOSDEM, which featured 1000+ speakers including Turing Way members Anna Zanchetta, David Salvador-Jasin, David Llewellyn-Jones, Tim Hobson, Pamela Wochner, Sam Greenbury, Debs Udoh, Arielle Bennett, Malvika Sharan and many more from our community. Recording from their talks will be made available on the FOSDEM webpage.
📅 Check out our new 2025 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.
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! ✨
- 📝 Community forums: The next call is on 21 February, 15:00-16:30 UTC+1 (in your timezone). Sign-up information is shared above in this newsletter.
- 📝 Onboarding calls: 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-ups for our March onboarding call will be announced in the next newsletter.
- ✅ Collaboration Cafe: The next call is on 20 November, 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.
- ✅ Coworking Calls: every Monday, 10:00 UTC+1 (see in your time zone). Find the joining link on this shared 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 Tuesday 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.
- Renee Ng, Goodnews Sandy and Anne Lee Steele led our bi-monthly onboarding call on 29 January.
- Jim Madge and Anne were part of the Open Research Devroom organising team in FOSDEM.
- Lelle Demertzi gave a talk about Open Source for Responsible AI in Architecture, highlighting The Turing Way and Practitioners Hub on 31 January for the AI and Architechture Summit 2024.
- Malvika Sharan gave a talk in FOSDEM titled "Applying the Do No Harm Principle to Open* Practices and Technology" on 1 February, and hosted a BoF discussion session under the same title on 2 February. Zenodo.
- Job: CSID Network: Head of Operations
- ⏰ Apply by 3 March 2025
- 📍 Location: Remote
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- Job: CSID Network: Head of Membership & Outreach
- ⏰ Apply by 3 March 2025
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- Job: Mozilla: Head of Community Engagement
- ⏰ Rolling applications
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- Job: Arcadia: Project Scientist
- ⏰ Apply by 21 February 2025
- 📍 Location: Emeryville, California, USA
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- Job: Open Knowledge Foundation: Senior Dev
- ⏰ Apply by 14 February 2025
- 📍 Location: Remote
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- Collaboration: Open Knowledge Foundation: Open Data Editor Pilot
- ⏰ Apply by 10 February 2025
- 📍 Location: Remote
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- Fellowship: British Academy: Open Data Editor Pilot
- ⏰ Apply by 18 March 2025
- 📍 Location: UK
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- Job: Academic Transfer: Project Manager
- ⏰ Apply by 11 February 2025
- 📍 Location: Rotterdam, the Netherlands
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- Event: Responsible Research in Action: Project Manager
- ⏰ Apply by 9 February 2025
- 📍 Location: Berlin, Germany
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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.
- About the project
- The Turing Way book
- HackMD Intro Page
- GitHub repository
- Slack Workspace
- Mastodon profile
- YouTube Channel
- Twitter profile
- Bluesky 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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