It's 2023, a new year with The Turing Way! This year has a lot in store for the project and community, and we're excited to have you with us as we continue to grow as a project and community.
- 📆 Check out our new centralised event document and add your plans for 2023 to this shared pad!
- 📝 The deadline extended to share your feedback for the Fireside Chat series - respond before 10 February!
- 🎨 A new set of illustrations released from the last year's Book Dash - share and reuse!
- 👋 Apply to the Research Application Manager (RAM) position for Data-Centric Engineering at the Turing - Apply by 12 February!
Please 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 Google calendar. 📅
To interact with us in real time, 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.
Take 5 minutes to fill out our feedback form and let us know what you'd like to see in 2023!
Please send your feedback by end of next week, 10 February using this form. We encourage you to nominate yourself as a speaker/collaborator, and would love to learn from your perspectives and ideas in the coming year.
AI-UK is the UK's national showcase of data science and artificial intelligence (AI). Hosted by The Alan Turing Institute, AI UK 2023 will be an in-depth exploration of how data science and AI can be used to solve real-world challenges.
The Turing Way will have a booth at AI-UK this year led by the core team members, Emma Karoune, Anne Lee Steele, Esther Plomp, Vicky Hellon and Eirini Zormpa. They will feature several interactive sessions to guide attendees through the project, showcase select chapters, and share more about our open ways of working. The Turing Way members, Malvika Sharan and Bea Costa Gomez are hosting a panel with Kirstie Whitaker, Monica Granados and Mark Richards in the 'Research Stage'.
Learn more about this event here, and grab your ticket -- we hope you will join us either in person or online!
Hosted by OpenUK in association with IEEE, State of the Open Con is the UK's first open technology conference.
Malvika Sharan will be speaking about "Investing in Research Infrastructure Roles for Cultural Change", and Emma Karoune and Anne Lee Steele will be organising an information booth at the conference. If you are attending, do stop by to learn more about The Turing Way project, and to meet a few members of the team!
See the schedule and register for the conference - there are some free community tickets that you can request by emailing the organisers.
📆 Check out our centralised event document to learn more about what is happening in the community.
We would love to receive ideas for events you would like to organise with The Turing Way team and suggestions for community events our community members should attend.
✨ If you are attending an event and would like to meet folks from across the community, please include that in this shared pad.
All are welcome to these calls, no sign-up is needed! ✨
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Collaboration Cafe: The next calls are on 1 & 15 February, 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.
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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 -- see this HackMD for more information.
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Community Chats: every last Friday of the month (usually), 15:00-16:00 UTC (see in your timezone). This year, we will alternate between fireside chats in a panel format and a themed community conversation. Stay tuned for our first fireside chat of the year... coming soon in February!
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Office Hours: As we plan for our 2023 community calls, we are closing our weekly office hours for now. You can always schedule time in my Calendly to chat. Thanks for bringing your questions to these calls, and for joining me (Anne) in many conversations about open science!
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.
We are delighted to welcome Shakir Laher to the Core team of The Turing Way. Shakir is the new Research Application Manager (RAM) for the Turing's AI Standards Hub and will bring expertise from their work to the project.
As always, thank you to all core team members for maintaining and nurturing The Turing Way project and community.
Read details in our Ways of Working document.
We have released the new set of illustrations on Zenodo for adding in The Turing Way chapters as well as for reuse by the broader research communities. When using any of the images, please include the following attribution with a DOI:
Used under a CC-BY 4.0 licence. DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.3332807
These have been developed by Scriberia artist Stephanie Murphy in collaboration with the Book Dash attendees from November 2022 (report).
Working groups continue to be trialled across the project, while teams continue with their ongoing work and projects.
Ongoing documentation is in this GitHub Discussion as well as done independently by each group:
- Translation and Localisation: Goodnews Sandy and Richie Moluno are working with the Translation and Localisation team through the Outreachy programme to improve localisation practices for the team. Learn more about their work in this HackMD and the #translation slack channel.
- Reviewers and Editors: The R&E team continues to address stale issues and pull requests within the project, and gather. Learn more in their GitHub Discussion or join the #reviewers-editors-wg slack channel.
- Trainers and Mentors: After archiving historical talks and workshops within the project, the T&M team are starting to build materials for use in learning courses. Learn more in this GitHub issue or the #trainers-mentors-wg.
- Maintainers: The Infrastructure/Maintainers Working Group is beginning to formalise its efforts, as documented in this issue. Join the #infrastructure slack channel to learn more.
Illustration by Scriberia. Used under a CC-BY 4.0 licence. DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.3332807.
There are plenty of ways of getting involved in The Turing Way project: see below for a couple of ideas.
Beginner-friendly ⭐
- Anything tagged good first issue or good-first-PR is a good place to start.
- Join the Reviewers & Editors group in curating stale issues for projects, chapter ideas, and other work that are beginner-friendly for the community.
Chapter ideas 💡
- Contribute to a new chapter idea about on and offboarding lab members
- Along similar lines, contribute to a new chapter on creating an inclusive lab culture
- Join the discussion on reorganising the Research Data Management chapters
- Add to a new chapter on literate programming
Reviewers wanted 📚
- Approve the updated alt texts for images in the Style Guide
- Review a PR that reorganises the chapter on version control for datasets
Infrastructure questions 🛠️
- Should we use conda for dependency management?
- Help to fix a bug in rendering the book
- Give your feedback on a proposal about auto-generating a figure list
As always, you can find an ongoing record of talks and workshops on our Zenodo Community page.
- Jennifer Ding, Lena Karvovskaya, and Danny Garside spoke at TPS Coffee Chats about maintenance in different forms on 1, 8, and 15 December: data custodianship, research data management, and community care. Tweet link
- Emma Karoune and Eirini Zormpa gave a workshop about "Fair and Reproducible Research" on 25 January based on these training materials
- Jennifer Ding spoke on a panel on "Use of Open-Source in Academia" organised by Energy Catapult on 31 January.
For upcoming events, check out our new events calendar.
- Tweet by Lena Karvovskaya: https://twitter.com/LangData/status/1618643203602927616
- Toot by Paul Marrow: https://fosstodon.org/@[email protected]/109557123658477443
- Tweet by Simon Hattrick: https://twitter.com/sjh5000/status/1617547032641835008
- Toot by Esther Plomp: https://fosstodon.org/@[email protected]/109608557179542351
- Tweet by Crystal Lewis: https://twitter.com/Cghlewis/status/1613903223877767168
- Tweet by Malvika Sharan: https://twitter.com/MalvikaSharan/status/1603377840669351936
- Tweet by Emma Karoune: https://twitter.com/ekaroune/status/1502315346174296066
- Tweet by Finn Hoener: https://twitter.com/finn_hoener/status/1609856893194731521
Through its partnership with the Lloyds Register Foundation (LRF), The Alan Turing Institute has helped to establish Data Centric Engineering (DCE) as a new field of research.
The Alan Turing Institute is recruiting a Research Application Manager who will work to embed the expertise in the TPS, Turing Way, and broader open source communities, and ensure that the research outputs across the DCE programme are adopted successfully across multiple domains within academia, government, the charity sector and industry. The salary for this position starts at £49,035.
Apply by 12 February 2023: details on the job portal.
See other job opportunities to work at The Alan Turing Institute
- Job: Genomics England: Patient and Public Engagement Manager (Diverse Data)
- ⏰ Apply by 31 January
- 📍 Location: London, UK
- 🔗 Read Details
- Job: Genomics England: Open Source Manager
- ⏰ Applications are rolling
- 📍 Location: London, UK
- 🔗 Read Details
- Job: Invest in Open: Research Lead
- ⏰ Apply by 6 Feb 2023
- 📍 Location: Remote, with leadership based in EST
- 🔗 Read Details
- Job: Code for All: Strategic Partnerships Lead
- ⏰ Apply by 6 Feb 2023
- 📍 Location: Remote
- 🔗 Read Details
- Course: The Engine Room: Responsible Data Learning Programme
- ⏰ Apply by 10 Feb 2023
- 📍 Location: Remote
- 🔗 Read Details
- Job: Algorithm Watch: PR & Outreach Manager
- ⏰ Apply by 12 Feb 2023
- 📍 Location: Berlin, Germany
- 🔗 Read Details
- Volunteer Role: UKRI: Infrastructure Advisory Committee
- ⏰ Apply by 12 Feb 2023
- 📍 Location: Remote
- 🔗 Read Details
- Job: Algorithm Watch: Project Lead “Auditing Algorithms for Systemic Risks”
- ⏰ Apply by 13 Feb 2023
- 📍 Location: Berlin, Germany
- 🔗 Read Details
- Fellowship: Data Science for Social Good
- ⏰ Apply by 15 Feb
- 📍 Location: Munich, Germany (hybrid)
- 🔗 Read Details
- Funding Opportunity: Data Barometer:
- ⏰ Apply by 15 Feb
- 📍 Location: Remote, for organisations based in Global South
- 🔗 Read Details
- Job: DataKind: Head of Research
- ⏰ Applications are rolling
- 📍 Location: Remote, USA
- 🔗 Read Details
- Event: Talarify: DH-IGNITE
- ⏰ Apply by 8-10 March 2023 (Q&A sessions ongoing)
- 📍 Location: Western Cape, South Africa (hybrid)
- 🔗 Read Details
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
If you'd like to contribute to the next newsletter, please email Anne Lee Steele at [email protected]! Feel free to send her a message on Slack, or book some time in Anne's calendly to say hello.
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