🍂Autumn is here, let's make our community dear!
Explore The Turing Way Book and connect with us via our start page.
Days are shorter,
leaves are turning red.
But I still get very excited
when working with The Turing Way
👀Have a look through our first Autumn edition: very interesting talks delivered by our community members, wrapping up our Governance Fireside chats, and updates form our working groups…
One thing you don’t want to miss our is our FINAL FIRESIDE CHAT on Governance, happening on the 30th October at 16:00-17:30 UTC. Details and registration here.
Enjoy… and keep the conversations coming!
“Nature has taught me that if humans don’t figure out what revolution means, nature will make the revolution despite us”
Tawana Petty
🔥 FINAL Fireside Chat Series this October! 🔥
Sign-up to attend on Thursday the 30th our session on Good Governance Practices for the Long-Term Health of Open Initiatives. This session will feature speakers from Organizational Mycology and MetaDocencia.
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We look forward to seeing you there!
The Turing Way Fireside Chat series features experts, champions and their projects from across different international communities in reproducibility, open research, ethics, collaboration and everything in between.
This series are hosted in collaboration with the Software Sustainability Institute (SSI) with a monthly edition from June through November 2025.
You can also find the recording of our previous September session on Governance frameworks, examples and resources from open source networks in our YouTube channel.
Thanks to Clare Dillon and Richard Littauer from CURIOSS, Dawn Foster from CHAOSS and Jennifer Tridgell from the University of Cambridge, for the participation on this fireside chat. Thanks to Sara Villa for providing support with online facilitation.
👉 For more information about each Fireside Chat and to sign up - visit out custom Start Page.
We have to create futures in which everyone doesn’t have to be the same kind of person
Adrienne Maree Brown
Opportunities in The Turing Way Network
📢 Save the Date: BridgeAI Adopters & Developers Event | 13 Nov 2025
Innovate UK BridgeAI, in collaboration with The Alan Turing Institute are bringing together AI developers, adopters, investors, and public sector partners for a focused, in-person event designed to spark connections and drive real-world AI adoption across the UK.
✅ Network with potential partners
✅ Join our exclusive Pitch Fest
✅ Engage with experts and funders
📅 13 November 2025
🕘 9:00 AM – 5:30 PM
📍 Central London
⏰ Applications are closing soon. To ensure a productive mix of participants, all registrations will be reviewed for alignment with the event’s goals. Spaces are limited, so please apply ASAP to secure your place.
🔗 Learn more and apply now: https://iuk-business-connect.org.uk/events/bridgeai-adopters-and-developers-event/
The Turing Way out in the world 🚀
Batool Almarzouq delivered a fantastic talk at OpenFest2025 on How "dependency theory" explains Open Science's funding crisis. This was a great view of her important work and LOTS OF FOOD FOR THOUGHT if you are working on open science. Check the slides on Zenodo
A special shout-out to Esther Plomp, who raised the vital question of why CReDIT is not enough, and how we still fall short in addressing the roots of academic inequity. Her beautiful slides are available here
Precious Onyewuchi referenced the Turing Way Accessibility Policy at the CHAOSSCon Africa event in August. Check the video here !
Her talk, “Accessibility = Consideration,” was inspired by this prior blog post https://lnkd.in/dhHYiksF.
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! ✨
✅ Collaboration Cafe: Every first and third Wednesday on the month. The next call is on 15th October, 15:00-17:00 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.
This collab cafe will also serve as ONBOARDING CALL for new people to the Turing Way, join us for an informal onboarding process to start contributing to our project!
✅ 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: second Tuesdays on the month at 4pm UK time (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.
The power of explicit, thoughtful invitation in building diversity cannot be overstated (Arielle Bennett)
The Community Management Working Group is taking over our monthly updates, please bear with us and let us know if you spot anything interesting! 🌸
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. 📅
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