[WIP] Agenda for TTW Core Team Meeting - 10 March

Meeting Agenda & Notes

Agenda: https://hackmd.io/RIy0un9IS6qimwy0BBWpGA?both

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• Pre-Meeting:
• 2022 review + reflection with each person
• TTW Team/WG updates
• Does this time still work for everyone in the core team (volunteer & staff)?
• Welcome back to Kirstie! + Welcome to new Turing Staff team members: Shakir, David, Bastian, Alex
• Book Dash Updates – planning for May 2023
• TTW
• Governance/Org notes
• Ways of Working – title updates: https://github.com/alan-turing-institute/the-turing-way/issues/2851
• Permissions: Keybase access
• Website, url, github organisation updates
• Turning key topics into “interest groups” -> example: RIR group and RDM group?

[WIP] Governance/Task Log [WIP]

Governance updates + next steps

• Does 10 March still work as a time for Core Team Meeting? (3 month check-in)
• 4 new additions to Turing Staff Core Team since October 2022
• Total: 29 people (16 staff + 9 volunteers)
• Making explicit requirements w/ staff and volunteers (who is not in a WG or team?)
• Book Dash dates: 22-24 May - start planning progress
• Update WoW doc
• Transition to “GOVERNANCE.md”?
• Not reflected in WoW currently: institutional partners, WG memberships
• Increasing need for Github org / splitting github repository as is
• Working Groups:
• Proposal: split “trainers & mentors” into T&M and Communications
• Are we ready to onboarding non-staff or core team to any group? What would be required in order to open these groups?
• Emerging
• Interest groups: Accessibility, Sustainability, Research Infrastructure Roles, Research Data Management, Disciplinary-specific, Labor, Maintenance
• Disciplinary-specific, computational communities, geographical focus

The Turing Way:

Check-ins�WG + Team Share-outs March 2023

https://hackmd.io/@turingway/ttw-team-note-of-notes

Infrastructure Maintainers Team: Nov 2022 - Mar 2023

Team members: Danny, Brigitta, Jim, Sarah

Core Team meeting updates

Anything to flag and/or highlight at the Core team meeting?

Translation & Localisation Team: Dec 2022 - Mar 2023

Team members: Batool, Andrea, Alejandro

Core Team meeting updates

Anything to flag and/or highlight at the Core team meeting?

Trainers & Mentors WG: Sept 2022 - Mar 2023

Team members: Alden Conner, Eirini Zormpa, Emma Karoune

Core Team meeting updates

Anything to flag and/or highlight at the Core team meeting?

Reviewers & Editors WG Team: Sept 2022 - Mar 2023

Team members: X

Core Team meeting updates

Agreement on that an active issue is an open issue that has been active (comments /actions) in the past 6 months.

Practitioners Hub Updates

Practitioners Hub Team Updates

• Expanding the capacity of The Turing Way (TTW) to drive implementation of data science practices at UK institutions and industries through ‘TTW Practitioners hub
• Improving dissemination and adoption of TTW resources and best practices across the UK data science ecosystem
• Scaling efforts to support innovative best practices in historically under engaged communities and sectors in data science.
• Diversifying partnerships with key organisations such as Genomics England, - GDDI, ONS, Digital Catapults, and eventually international organisations such as NASA, TU, Delft, VU Amsterdam, eScience Center Netherlands, 2i2c,The Carpentries, Open Life Science and MetaDocencia.
• Strengthening TTW’s position as a central hub for connection across domains to bring together best practice in data science and AI.
• Building reputation of Turing for setting national and international standards on reproducible, ethical, open and collaborative data science.

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Practitioners Hub Updates

Practitioners Hub Team Updates

• Primer document is ready to share with partners and team:
• 5 organisations have been invited to take part of the initial cohort:
• The Crick Institute (positive response, meeting scheduled for 3rd week of March
• British Antarctic Survey (positive response, we’ll meet them at AIUK)
• ONS (interested and potential meeting will happen at end of March)
• Energy Catapult (recently contacted them - waiting for their answer)
• Genomics England (Maxine will reply to our email shortly)
• A Research Associate will join the team - Recruitment in process
• Collaboration strategy under development with Digital Catapult and BridgeAI
• By the end of 2023, we aim:
• Have at least 1 case study for each partner organisation
• Evidence of these organisations collaborating and talking to each other
• Having some of them at TTW event (Bookdash/Fireside chat)
• TTW participation at some of the organisations events / collaborative opportunities
• Prove that the PH has impacted the organisation’s culture