Attend Fireside Chats on Governance, Join a Working Group, and Stay Connected with Our Community
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As always, there are many updates to share from The Turing Way community!
☎️ Fireside Chat series has begun! Sign up to attend the upcoming ones, and catch-up on the last two parts.
📚💨 The Book Dash Planning Committee has opened a call to join them to plan the event in November 2025.
🏛️ Catch-up on the recording from the last Community Forum with updates on governance changes and working groups.
This will be the last Turing Way newsletter written by Anne! See the end of this newsletter for a small note from her. 💌
Next month, the Community Management Working Group will be taking over our monthly updates. 🌸
Please note: We are no longer affiliated to The Alan Turing Institute and hence would not be using turingway@turing.ac.uk email. Please use theturingway@gmail.com email to reach out to the project in the future.
To keep up to date with community events, you can also subscribe to our shared calendar here. 📅
If you're interested in keeping up in real-time, don't forget that you can always join our Slack workspace, follow the project on Bluesky, Twitter, or join us on Fosstodon.
Community News and Updates
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.
Fireside Chat Series has Kicked Off! Sign-up to Attend the Next One in July
This June, we re-launched our 2025 series of Fireside Chats covering different aspects of governance monthly. 🔥
Thank you so much to Neil Chue-Hong, Simon Hettrick, and Riva Quiroga, for sharing examples and expertise on governance from institutional, volunteer-led and research communities. This session was co-designed and hosted by Oscar Seip and Malvika. Thanks to Sara Villa for providing support with online facilitation.
Watch our June Fireside Chat on Youtube
Learning From Each Other's Journeys: Case Studies from Open Communities - 31 July
On 31 July, 18:00 - 19:30 UTC+1 (UK time) we will host our next Fireside Chat featuring perspectives and case studies from Aleksandra Nenadic, Chris Holdgraf, Yanina Bellini Saibene, Yo Yehudi and Arielle Bennett, representing SSI, The Turing Way, The Carpentries, Jupyter, rOpenSci, R-Ladies+, OLS (Open Life Science) and other open science/source communities.
👉 For more information about each Fireside Chat and to sign up - visit out custom Start Page.
Please share on Bluesky, Linkedin, Twitter, and Mastodon
We look forward to seeing you there!
Catch-up on our June Community Forum
In June's Community Forum, chaired by Jim Madge, we heard updates from different Working Groups. New this time were updates from Project Delivery Groups: Data Science Without Borders and Jupyter DEI projects that collaborate and contribute to The Turing Way as part of externally funded initiatives.
👉 Watch this Community Forum and Fireside Chat on Youtube
In the second part of this meeting, the first Fireside Chat took place to allow Steering Committee members to share about their personal motivation, vision and ongoing work as part of the Constitution-Level governance.
This was the final Community Forum hosted by the Turing's Project Delivery Team led by Malvika.
📣 Final Call to Apply for the Next Practitioners Hub Cohort!
The Turing Way Practitioners Hub invites UK-based organisations and small enterprises (SMEs) in data science and AI to submit Expressions of Interest for our second cohort of Experts in Residence (EiRs). As part of the InnovateUK BridgeAI, this cohort-based program helps organisations understand and adopt industry best practices in data science and AI.
📝 Apply via the Expression of Interest Form. The deadline is July 16, 2025.
From September 2025 to March 2026, the final cohort of the Practitioners Hub under the BridgeAI programme will be offered.
Bringing together practitioners across agriculture & food production, construction & manufacturing, creative industries, transportation & logistics sectors, this will provide a forum for cross-sector collaboration, knowledge exchange, and strategic partnerships to accelerate AI adoption and best practices in open source, open data, cross-sector collaboration, research reproducibility, and ethical approaches. Learn more about this call and explore case studies from previous cohorts on the Turing website.
Governance and Working Group updates
Illustration by Scriberia.
Used under a CC-BY 4.0 licence. DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.3332807.
New MyST Plugin for the Book's Pathways Feature
Since its inception in 2019, The Turing Way has grown in size with chapters that cover various aspects of data science practices, which are targeted to specific groups.
To make navigation of this ever growing book easier, a ‘Pathways’ feature was introduced, co-created in stages involving collaboration with the Alan Turing Institute's Research Engineering Group, and as part of a Google Summer of Code project. Developed as a Python package, it was designed to improve content discovery (pathways) by preventing users (personas) from being overwhelmed with information that may not be immediately relevant.
Since the book now utilises MyST and JupyterBook2 infrastructure, a MyST plugin was developed to implement the Pathways feature for simplifying the build process, while keeping it maintainable and reusable by other MyST and JupyterBook users!
We thank Jim Madge for his work, in both previously supporting the maintenance of the Python package, and developing the MyST plugin.
👉 Learn more about the Pathways feature in the Community Handbook
New blogpost about Accessibility
Precious Onyewuchi, Community Manager of the Data Science Without Borders project is a member of the Accessibility Working Group and Book Dash Planning Committee.
Precious recently wrote a post "The Ripple Effect: Accessibility in Everyday Life" for her personal blog, capturing her experience working with the Accessibility Working Group and thoughts from working in community spaces.
Apply to Join the Book Dash Planning Committee for November 2025
Interested in becoming more involved in The Turing Way Book Dash? Join the Book Dash Planning Committee for planning and co-hosting the event November 2025!
Members of the Book Dash Planning Committee are crucial in supporting a diverse, productive, and engaging Book Dash for everyone!
Applications are open until 11 July
Opportunities in The Turing Way Network
Apply to JupyterCon 2025
This year, JupyterCon will be taking place in San Diego, California from 3-6 November 2025.
The Jupyter ecosystem has transformed data science, scientific research, and education. It has shaped the way a generation of developers and scientists develop their workflows.
JupyterCon 2025 will bring together data scientists, business analysts, scientists, educators, developers, core Project contributors, designers, and tool creators for a three-day, in-person event to learn and connect about all things Jupyter.
We have been a big fan of the Jupyter ecosystem for a long time -- JupyterBook remains the backbone of The Turing Way project.
👉 Submit your proposal by 13 July
Join London Data Week
London Data Week is back - from 7 to 12 July!
Events are organised across London by partners from different sectors and organisations, all united by a mission to use data to improve the lives of Londoners, in a more collaborative, open and inclusive way.
👉 To register and view the lineup of events, check out https://londondataweek.org/ldw25-events/
Fill out Superbloom's User Research Survey
Design research firm Superbloom is running a survey of users across multiple programming language ecosystems on behalf of the OpenSSF and are looking for individuals to participate in 45-60 mins remote, user research session to explore and learn about your understanding of the security, safety and integrity of software artifacts in their open source software supply chains.
Learn more about the project on Github.
Superbloom offers accessibility/disability support, and will pay $25 USD/per hour via Tremendous.com (or a local equivalent).
👉 To apply, fill out their private, self-hosted form.
Upcoming events
📅 Check out our new events calendar to learn more about what is happening in the community.
Recurring Community Events and Calls ☕
Hosted all throughout the month, our recurring community calls are important and engaging spaces where you can learn more about The Turing Way!
Some require sign-ups (📝) and some don't (✅), but absolutely all are welcome to these calls! ✨
📝 Onboarding calls: The next call is on 30 July, 15:00-16:00 UTC+1 (in your timezone). These calls are hosted every two months, join us to connect with other new members of the community and learn more about the project! Sign-ups are open.
📝 Community forums: The next call is being planned for September, 15:00-16:30 UTC+1 (in your timezone). Stay tuned for more information and date confirmation in a next newsletter.
✅ Collaboration Cafe: The next call is on 16 July, 14:00-16:00 UTC+1 (see in your time zone). Feel free to drop in to meet the community, do some focused writing, or otherwise -- more information on Etherpad.
✅ Community Management Working Group: every Tuesday, 10:00 UTC+1 (see in your time zone). Join the #community-management channel on Slack for more.
✅ Translation and Localisation Weekly Meetings: every other Wednesday at 14:30 UTC+1 (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. Join the #translation channel on Slack for more.
✅ Infrastructure Monthly Meetings: every second Tuesday of the month, at 16:00 UTC+1 (in your time zone). These calls are for co-working on infrastructure support, and for learning more about the work of the team. Join the #infrastructure channel on Slack for more.
✅ Accessibility Monthly Meetings: every second Monday of the month, at 17:00 UTC+1 (in your time zone). These calls are for planning monthly sprints and co-working on access-related chapters and upcoming guide. Join the #accessibility channel on Slack for more.
It's been a busy few months of talks by and with community leaders. As always, you can find an ongoing record in our Zenodo Community page.
Previous Events
The Turing Way at Collaborations Workshop (CW) 2025
The CW 2025 took place in Stirling, Scotland from 13 to 15 May this year. Several community members attended the event in person and online, with contributions to various sessions and workshops.
Kirstie gave a remote keynote about "The Future of Research Software", presenting a range of values and qualities organised as 'A to Z' covering accessibility to zeitgeist.
👉 Watch Kirstie's keynote on YouTube and view the slides on Zenodo
Hosted by Anita Banerji, Malvika also spoke at a panel on the importance of EDIA for the future of RSE communities along with Ella Kaye, Pauline Karega and Eli Chadwick.
👉 Watch the full panel on YouTube
Emma, Alexandra Araujo Alvarez, Lelle, Arielle, Malvika, Anne and others organised a workshop and hosted a hack day project on 14 and 15 May (Zenodo) (details shared in the previous newsletter).
Overview of Talks and Workshops: March-June 2025
Batool Almarzouq and Goodnews Sandy spoke about “Right-to-Left, Left-to-Right: Rethinking Multilingual Design” at FOSS Backstage, citing their work translating and localising The Turing Way on 11 March
Anne gave a talk about Community Management at Open NeuroSeeds on 29 April 2025
Malvika gave a keynote titled Community-Driven Development and Adoption of Data Science and AI at the Summer School hosted by ML-Labs in Dublin on 10 June. (slides on Zenodo).
Malvika joined as a panelist to speak about open science for society at the EMBL’s Science and Society Conference themed "In Science we Trust", that took place in Heidelberg on 17 June.
Arielle Bennett attended the OSPOs for Good event on 18 June during the UN Open Source Week 2025 in New York.
Malvika attended “The Open Dividend: Building an AI openness strategy to unlock the UK’s AI potential” report launch event by Demos on 23 June 2025 - Jen Ding is one the contributors of this report.
Neha Moopen and Lena Karvovskaya gave a talk about Community Led Resources at National Onboarding Day for new colleagues in Research Software Training and Support and in Data Interoperability Suppo on 26 June: Program
On 27 June, Kirstie presented a panel at the National Workshop on Data Science Education at Berkeley's College of Computing, Data Science and Society, spotlighted how Jupyter is powering the future of accessible, collaborative data science.
Emma Karoune and Malvika presented a poster at the Metascience Conference about their work from Professionalising Data Science Roles on 31 and 1 July. Read the Policy Briefing and other outputs on the project website.
Pen-Yuan Hsing spoke at a panel at the MetaScience Conference on 2 July, where he presented a short talk titled "Avoiding 'open capture' — Lessons in epistemic diversity from open research for metaresearch". (slides on Zenodo).
So long, and thanks for all the fish (and community)!
It's hard to believe that this is my last time writing The Turing Way newsletter!
It's even harder to summarise three years of stewarding The Turing Way as Research Community Manager, other than to say that it's been a joy and a privilege to steward this wonderful community. As we continue to advocate for culture change in data science and research - I know this starts with nurturing an inclusive and accessible community from the ground up.
With this being said, I'm really excited to pass on this important community management work to the Community Management Working Group, a fantastic group of people who will be taking over this newsletter from here on out. I can’t wait to see what comes next.
If you're interested in joining, join the #community-management channel on slack to get started.
Please stay in touch! You'll find me over at www.aleesteele.com (or on Slack, of course).
Warmly,
Anne
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