The Turing Way:

Project, Community, and �Governance Updates

Community Share-outs - November 2022�

https://github.com/alan-turing-institute/the-turing-way, @turingway, @aleesteele, 10.5281/zenodo.6647210

Community Updates

https://github.com/alan-turing-institute/the-turing-way, @turingway, @aleesteele, 10.5281/zenodo.6647210

1. Governance Updates
1. Working Groups
2. Emergent Teams
2. Project Updates
• Fireside Chats - close of first 2021-2022 season!
• Talks & Workshops
• Project Maintenance & Review

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Emerging Governance: The Turing Way

Turing Projects

TU Delft

eScience Center NL

2i2c/Binder

Jupyter

Open Life Science

Formal Partners

References from The Turing Way:�https://the-turing-way.netlify.app/welcome,�github.com/alan-turing-institute/the-turing-way

Working Groups and Emergent Teams

References from The Turing Way:�https://the-turing-way.netlify.app/welcome,�github.com/alan-turing-institute/the-turing-way

Emergent teams & Themes (Turing staff + volunteer teams)

• Reviewers & Editors
• Trainers & Mentors
• Translation & Localisation
• Infrastructure Maintainers
• Accessibility
• Communications

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→ Review of tasks, process, questions by team members!

Governance for TTW: OLS-5

Governance�Landscape

mapping

Governance implemented within TTW

We are here.

First Core Team meeting!

Case Studies

Documentation, Feedback and Testing of models

Iterative, Long-term

Governance Task Force

https://github.com/alan-turing-institute/the-turing-way, @turingway, @aleesteele, 10.5281/zenodo.6647210

Timeline: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1YgUAeDpd7THWFW-eG9yc6_qiLzf-o1lGgrENvoa73LQ/edit

The 2021-2022 Fireside chat series was co-hosted with AutSPACEs, Open Hardware Makers, Code for Science and Society, The Carpentries,

Open Phytoliths Community, The Environmental Data Science Book, MetaDocencia, Frictionless Data, and Open Post Academics.

Thank you for joining us at The Turing Way Fireside Chats!

Co-hosted with

Community Features

https://github.com/alan-turing-institute/the-turing-way, @turingway, @aleesteele, 10.5281/zenodo.6647210

Talks & Workshops

https://github.com/alan-turing-institute/the-turing-way, @turingway, @aleesteele, 10.5281/zenodo.6647210

• ~34 talks, workshops, keynotes, and presentations given in since May 2022 Book Dash (~50 in 2021 alone)
• Trialling three new workshop/hackathon formats
• “Git Good”: Using Github → Contributing to The Turing Way (in ~2 hours!) (Thank you Hari Sood, Sophia Batchelor, Esther Plomp for developing!)
• “Research Infrastructure Roles Hackathon”: Discussions & writing case studies (Thank you to Arielle Bennett and Jennifer Ding!)
• Localisation and Translation Workshop (Thank you to Batool Almarzouq!)
• Equity in research (Thank you to Emma Karoune!)
• Intro to Fediverse & Mastodon (Thank you to Danny Garside!)
• …new events! Data Conversations! Accessibility Workshops!
• New talks: case studies, localisation

Chapter Updates (pre-Book Dash!)

https://github.com/alan-turing-institute/the-turing-way, @turingway, @aleesteele, 10.5281/zenodo.6647210

• Research Infrastructure Developers: Owain Kenway recently added a summary of the Research Infrastructure Developers' role to the Research Infrastructure Roles subchapter. Owain leads a team of RIDs at UCL - so far the only institution to host them.
• Machine Learning Model Licences: Jennifer Ding and Carlos Muñoz Ferrandis collaborated to write a sub-chapter on machine learning model licenses which includes a case study based on concerns raised through the license selection process during BigScience. Thank you to Arron Lacey, Sophia Batchelor, and Anne Lee Steele for reviewing.
• Personal Story for RSE Asia: Saranjeet Kaur added her personal story as an RSE to the Research Infrastructure Roles sub-chapter. Thank you to Kim Martin, Esther Plomp, and Malvika Sharan for reviewing.
• Sensitive Data: Over the number of few years, an extensive set of subchapters has emerged around sensitive data. There are three sections: about sensitive data, managing a sensitive data project, and working on sensitive data projects. Congratulations to Emma Karoune, Maria Eriksson and many others for co-authoring a new chapter on project design!
• Ethical Considerations when Choosing an Open Source Governance Model: Arielle Bennett added a speedblog co-written with Yo Yehudi, Gemma Turon, Declan Bays, Sarah Gibson, Stephan Druskat, Yadira Sanchez and Sophia Batchelor at Collaborations Workshop 2022, an annual workshop series hosted by the Software Sustainability Institute. This new sub-chapter is in the Guide for Ethical Research.
• Data Papers: Emma Karoune and Vicky Hellon co-wrote an article about Data Papers: describing both what they are and how to write them, available under the Publishing Different Article Types subchapter.
• Peer Review: Lena Karvovskaya added a new chapter related to peer review, making explicit a process that many researchers tend to learn through informal methods. You can find it in the Guide for Communication.

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Project Maintenance

https://github.com/alan-turing-institute/the-turing-way, @turingway, @aleesteele, 10.5281/zenodo.6647210

• Reviewing stale pull requests, issues, branches
• Reviewing promotion pack, talks
• Updating alt text for scriberia images, data visualisations
• Updating Jupyter Book (bug-fixing, version updates)
• Github actions: automating work within project
• General project audit: reviewing communication channels, tools, events
• Developing Working Groups (long term project governance)