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The Turing Way's 2023 Year in Review

Celebrating 5 Years of The Turing Way!

As we bid farewell to 2023, we're thrilled to mark the completion of five incredible years with The Turing Way community. Join us in reminiscing about the noteworthy moments that made this past year truly exceptional.

Let's review the year 2023, month by month, to spotlight the significant milestones we have achieved together with our community members.

As always, we extend our heartfelt gratitude to each of you for your contributions to the significant achievements and growth of The Turing Way. Your unwavering support has been instrumental in shaping our community and disseminating data science best practices through The Turing Way handbook. We sincerely appreciate your efforts and look forward to seeing you again in 2024 after yet another eventful year together!

"Thanks for Contributing to The Turing Way" is written at the top. The garden has a toolshed, with bushes. There is a pond that contains ones and zeroes, like binary code. The phrase "thanks" is drawn on a flower label, that is stuck into a flower pot.

Monthly Highlights: A Recap of The Turing Way's 2023 Journey

  • January: We kicked off the year with a call for feedback on our Fireside Chats, and introduced a new centralised event document. We also published a new set of illustrations co-created with you in 2022.
  • February: Alexandra Araujo Alvarez, the new Research Project Manager, joined the team to launch The Turing Way Practitioners Hub. We also launched our start page sharing ways for the community to get involved.
  • March: Our first Fireside Chat of the year, titled Community Care in Times of Digital Burnout, co-hosted with fellows of OLS (previously Open Life Science). Our community members also presented The Turing Way at FOSS Backstage, Open Data Day, MozFest and State of OpenCon UK. Additionally, we showcased our work at the AI-UK showcase in London.

Photo of The Turing Way team members at AIUK in London on the 21 March. There are 18 people from the Alan Turing Institute in the picture, some sitting on a couch and some standing in front of The Turing Way stand
Picture of The Turing Way team and the Tools, Practices and Systems researchers from AI-UK's Turing Way exhibition booth.

  • April: Our community members presented a talk on different pathways of The Turing Way at CSV, conf,v7 in Argentina. In London, our community members hosted speakers from Posit and Warwick University. We formalised our collaboration with the Environmental Data Science Book, with project leads joining the Core Team.
  • May: Many of us attended SSI's Collaboration Workshop - CW23 and led a workshop on research infrastructure roles. A first draft on the environmental impact of digital research was collaboratively written, which won the best project award for CW23 Hack Day. We organised our 9th Book Dash with local hubs in Amsterdam and London. We hosted a Fireside Chat, Implementing Open Science at Scale co-chaired by NASA's Transform to Open Science (TOPS) program.
  • June: We joined Google Season of Code 2023 with a project on providing curated chapters for different users - which has since been completed and published.
    Another Fireside Chat, Perspectives on Sustainability and Research was co-hosted with the Environmental Data Science Book and the Netherlands eScience Center. Infrastructure Working Group was formalised with monthly meetings and inclusion in the Core Team.

Alt: An illustration about hybrid collaboration that shows a group of people joining a meeting, some co-located in a meeting room, some joining online from different countries to discuss something that allows them to add their expertise as jigsaw puzzle
Illustration of hybrid collaboration by Scriberia for The Turing Way community, shared under the CC-BY 4.0 License on Zenodo. DOI 10.5281/zenodo.3332807.

A still from video where The Turing Way infrastructure team made The Turing Way GitHub organisation live. The picture shows happy faced of Sara, Anna, Brigitta, Jim and Danny in a Zoom meeting
Watch the recording from when the Infrastructure Working Group moved The Turing Way to its own organisation

  • October: Our Translation and Localisation Working Group collaborated with us to craft a compelling funding proposal for the Digital Infrastructure Insight Fund, which although did not get funded, provides a strong foundation for future proposals. We celebrated Open Access Week and presented about The Turing Way at University of Derby, CU Denver Data Science and Big Team Science. The chapter on the environmental impact of digital research was published under the chapter on activism.
  • November: We hosted our 10th Book Dash with new members in our Book Dash committee and 35 attendees who worked across 34 issues and 42 pull requests on topics including data hazards, project management, data feminism, academic-industry collaborations, mental health, accessibility, and beyond. The Turing Way was represented at NASA headquarters and the White House EEOB during the NASA-TOPS panel in Washington DC.
  • December: We concluded the first cohort of The Turing Way Practitioners Hub, with our Experts in Residence publishing a series of Case Studies capturing the state of open practices across different sectors.

Alt: Screenshot of zoom calls from Book Dash featuring attendees from two share out calls that took place on the last day of Book Dash week - some have funny background, some are showing jazz hands - and everyone is smiling
Screenshots combined from the Community Share-Out calls, hosted on 17 November 2023 - the last day of the Book Dash week.

In 2023, we delivered a whopping 75+ talks and workshops worldwide, a substantial increase from previous years that demonstrates the numerous projects and collaborations happening in our incredible community. Although we haven't spotlighted individuals or all the talks in this newsletter, we encourage you to explore the diverse insights and contributions published in our previous newsletters.

Your collective dedication has made these achievements possible, and we're excited to build on this momentum in the coming year.

Reflecting on a Remarkable 2023 and Anticipating an Exciting 2024!

hand-drawn image of "Happy Holidays from all of us at The Turing Way" written in red, with piles of snow written on the letters. There are cartoon figures of people making snowmen and sledding down a hill, with 0's and 1's falling-imitating snow

Dear The Turing Way Community,

As we bid farewell to 2023, we're filled with gratitude and want to take a moment to express our heartfelt thanks to each one of you.

We are continually humbled by the global footprint that The Turing Way has acquired over the years. Thank you for your enthusiastic participation in Book Dashes, Fireside Chats, Collaboration Cafés and various trainings and workshops throughout this year. Your active involvement on GitHub, co-writing and co-creating chapters in our guides, as well as representing The Turing Way in collective spaces and conferences have truly been instrumental in enhancing visibility and supporting the participation of our vibrant, international community.

In 2023, we built on existing collaborations and explored new ones through discussions, events, chapters, sub-projects and new formats around emerging themes within the community. Our governance work continued to develop with close collaboration with the Core Team, ongoing important work of the Translation and Localisation working group and the further formalisation of Infrastructure and Accessibility Working Groups.

These past years have been a testament to our collective commitment to learning, growing, and sustaining our work in promoting and supporting a culture of open, reproducible, ethical, and collaborative data science. We're eagerly looking forward to what 2024 has in store for our project and community.

We send our best wishes to you for the new year and wish you all a restful and joyful holiday season.

See you in 2024!

The Turing Way Team ✨

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