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The Turing Way

Community Forum

�DD Month 2025

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Today’s chair: Reference

https://book.the-turing-way.org/afterword/contributors-record.html?#danny-garside

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Today’s chair:

https://book.the-turing-way.org/afterword/contributors-record.html

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The Turing Way Code of Conduct

Code of conduct: https://book.the-turing-way.org/community-handbook/coc
If you experience or witness unacceptable behaviour, or have any other concerns, please report it by contacting the project members (turingway@turing.ac.uk).
To report an issue at this event involving one of the organisers, please email Malvika (msharan@turing.ac.uk) or Arielle (abennett@turing.ac.uk)
You can also reach out to our Code of Conduct reporting facilitator Anne Lee Steele (asteele@turing.ac.uk).

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Housekeeping

We will use shared note: XXXXX
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We will using breakout rooms - please add 'S' or 'W' before of your Zoom name (rename option) to indicate your preference for 'Spoken' or 'Written' form of interactions respectively!
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Agenda

15:00 - 15:15: Opening and Welcome by Chair

15:15 - 15:25 : Breakout Discussion - Community level governance

15:25 - 15:35: Maintenance level governance: Working Group report out

15:35 - 15:45: Constitutional Level Steering Committee - Roadmap

15:45 - 15:50: 🍵 Break

15:50 - 16:15: Community Announcements

16:15 - 16:30 : Open Q&A, AOB and Closing!

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Prompt to be added

Breakout Activity

Collective Brainstorming

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Take turn sharing

Use the following prompts to guide discussions:

Prompts

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Working Group updates

Maintenance Level Governance

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Working Group Name - Speaker - TEMPLATE

Links and other announcements to look out for

🎯 Successes:

😥 Challenges:

💪 Call to action:

🎉 Celebrations:

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Book Dash - Arielle

🎯 Successes:�

Planning for a different Book Dash model for May 2025 - will be partially at CW 25 & partially online
Thank you SSI for their support of this!

😥 Challenges:

Funding changes mean we're looking at different models for Book Dash participation, activities, & support for 2025

💪 Call to action:

Interested in helping to organise the May or November 2025 Book Dash? Volunteer for the planning committee!
Take a look at the #0-book-dash-nov24 issue and PR label to help finish off Nov's work

🎉 Celebrations:

Thank you to Esther Plomp, outgoing Book Dash WG chair!
New chair: Arielle Bennett, with agreed term limit maximum of 2 years

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Translation & Localisation - Batool

🎯 Successes:

We were on temp pause Dec-January. We are resuming all localisation calls. We have onboarding call on 26th of Feb (next week).
We are reviewing mechanism (especially the transparency) by which team members take in leading roles in localisation working group (relate to the governance).

😥 Challenges:

Multi-deployment remains a challenge and we need to revisit it with the infrastructure group!

💪 Call to action:

Andrea has stepped down from co-leading the localisation working group (Thank you so much Andrea for all hard work!). Therefore, we will open a call for everyone to nominate individuals as co-lead the localisation and translation.

🎉 Celebrations:

We (Sandy and Richie) are delivering a talk at FOSS Backstage on 11 March.
I am joining Open Science retreat in SZ, it’s unconference where I will be reflecting on different topics including transdisciplinarity, localisation & translation.

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Accessibility - Liz

🎯 Successes:�

Accessibility Policy continues to be promoted, discussed, and cited!
Discussing how we might be involved with refreshed Book Dash format

😥 Challenges:

Member retention & recruitment (including for Steering Committee)
Time commitment for volunteer-led group
Funding to work more on this!

💪 Call to action:

Further embed access-centered practices across community & advocacy for allyship
Need for community-led discussion around location for access-related practices (should it be within the guide for ethics or a separate guide?)
Need for discussion about location of Accessibility Policy in guide (currently in Community Handbook)

🎉 Celebrations:

Our accessibility policy was finally merged! Over 17 reviewers, 100s of reviews over 2 year process
Liz Hare and the Working Group were awarded a High Commendation in the Hidden REF competition

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Infrastructure - Jim

🎯 Successes:�

Migration to Jupyter Book 2
PR opened to add no alt-text warnings in MyST/Jupyter Book

😥 Challenges:

Time ⏰
There are many small differences in Jupyter Book 2 that need addressing

💪 Call to action:

Please report any bugs/rendering errors you find in the new build
Ask us if you find merge conflicts that you think are related to the Jupyter Book migration

🎉 Celebrations:

Huge effort from the team to get the build working with Jupyter Book 2
We’ve have a great experience working with the Jupyter Book and MyST MD communities

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Announcing Community Management Working Group

Find detailed roadmap: https://github.com/the-turing-way/the-turing-way/issues/4014

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Community Management: Anne Lee Steele

Links and other announcements to look out for

🎯 Successes:

😥 Challenges:

💪 Call to action:

🎉 Celebrations:

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Sharing plans and roadmap for the Steering Committee

Malvika Sharan

Constitution Level Governance

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In 2023-2024, we adopted the ‘Three Institutional Levels’

2019-2021: Community Level

Subsequent years saw ramped up work at Community level

2021-2023: Maintenance Level

Subsequent years saw ramped up work at WG level

2023-2024: Constitution Level

Subsequent years will see ramped up work at Constitution level

Find detailed roadmap: https://github.com/the-turing-way/the-turing-way/issues/4014

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Find detailed roadmap: https://github.com/the-turing-way/the-turing-way/issues/4014

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Community Announcements

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Find detailed roadmap: https://github.com/the-turing-way/the-turing-way/issues/4014

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Open Q&A and AOB

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Title

Find detailed roadmap: https://github.com/the-turing-way/the-turing-way/issues/4014

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The Turing Way Project Delivery Team & Community

Senior Researcher: Open Research, The Turing Way

Malvika Sharan

Anne Lee Steele

Research Community Manager

Arielle Bennett

Research Project Manager

Léllé Demertzi

Senior Researcher: Open Source, The Turing Way Practitioners Hub

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