Call for application for the Book Dash, plans for community share-out event and more updates about our fabulous community!
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Hello Turing Way friends!
This month has been busy! Here is what we have been up to:
- 📢 Call for application is open for the upcoming Book Dash, the application deadline is 22 October 2020. Participation support grants will be available for the attendees.
- 🌍 Hacktoberfest contributions are welcome. Help us fix bugs and translate our README.md files in your language. Thanks, Sophia Batchelor and Paul Owoicho for facilitating these contributions.
- 📖 We have developed a tutorial on creating Jupyter Book with The Turing Way. Thanks, Martina G. Vilas, Sarah Gibson and Chris Holdgraf for your contributions.
- 🗓 We are planning a community share-out event on 13 November 2020. Have an idea to make this event truly inclusive for you? Connect with us.
See you at one of the community meetings soon!
Find more details on these topics below 👇
Community meetings
Call for application for the upcoming Book Dash
We invite you to submit your application until 22 October to participate in the upcoming Book Dash taking place online from 9 to 13 November 2020. Here is our application form. The Turing Way Book Dash is a collaborative event where you’ll work with others to add to and improve The Turing Way book. Successful applicants will be able to claim financial reimbursement to support their participation as laid out in the online chapter. You can also read the report from our last Book Dash.
Collaboration Café
The second Collaboration Café of this month is 21 October 2020 from 15:00 - 17:00 BST (see in your time zone). If you are planning to send your application for the Book Dash, this will be a good chance to get your questions answered by one of the team members. Please sign up to let us know that you will join: https://hackmd.io/@turingway/collaboration-cafe.
- Save the dates for November: 4 November (in your time zone) and 18 November (in your time zone).
Weekly Coworking Calls:
We host two coworking calls (1 hour each) every week. Bookmark this document, and sign up to join one or multiple of these sessions this month: https://hackmd.io/@turingway/coworking-call.
- Dates in October: 22, 26 and 29 from 11:00 - 12:00 London time (first meeting in your time zone)
- Additional slot in Latin American time: 28 October, 15:00 - 16:00 London (first meeting in your time zone)
- Dates in November: 2, 5, 16 and 19 from 11:00 - 12:00 London time (first meeting in your time zone)
News from the community
README file is available in multiple languages
The Turing Way announces the newly translated README files in Dutch, Italian, Spanish and Portuguese
Thanks to our Hacktoberfest contributors for translating and reviewing The Turing Way README.md file in multiple languages. The file has been translated into Dutch (by Esther Plomp and Stefan Janssen), Italian (by Angelo Varlotta and Luca Bertinetto), Spanish (by Camila Rangel-Smith, Reina Camacho Toro and Laura Acion) and Portuguese (by Romero Silva and Gustavo Becelli do Nacimento), which are available in our GitHub repository. Translation in more languages including French, German, Indonesian and Turkish is ongoing with the help of different contributors (see GitHub issue #1335).
Tutorial on creating Jupyter Book with The Turing Way
Malvika Sharan, Martina Vilas and Sarah Gibson have put together a tutorial on creating Jupyter Book using chapters from The Turing Way. This tutorial was developed and launched at the JupyterCon 2020, and is available on GitHub under a CC-BY 4.0 and MIT license. The tutorial is written in Jupyter Notebooks, which are paired with introductory videos available in this YouTube playlist. Thanks to Chris Holdgraf and Kirstie Whitaker for supporting this project and contributing introductory videos for the tutorial. Check out this tutorial, and share your feedback.
Martina quote tweeted Kirstie’s tweet about their Jupyter Book tutorial at JupyterCon 2020
Contributors record for collaborating organisations
Last month, we announced the publication of our Contributors Record online in the Afterword section of The Turing Way. As described in our acknowledgement chapter, we want to use this document to also highlight collaborative efforts made by our contributors with the help of their organisations. Thanks to Carlos Martinez Oritz and Mateusz Kuzak, we have added the first entry about the Netherlands eScience Center under the Collaborating Organisation section. If you have participated in The Turing Way with the support of your organisation, we invite you to expand this section by adding your details.
Contributor in focus: Paul Owoicho
We are delighted to introduce our Google Season of Doc (GSoD) intern, Paul Owoicho. Paul has a BSc in Software Engineering from the American University of Nigeria, and an MSc in Data Science from the University of Glasgow. He will be working with us for the next few months in the role of a technical writer, providing editorial support in the project. Together with Neha Moopen, he is participating in Open Life science with a project to embed accessibility in The Turing Way guide, where he will receive training and mentorship on Open Science and community skills (project detail).
In his words:
The Turing Way is my first foray into open source and has been a fantastic learning experience. Not only have I gained a deeper understanding and appreciation for how GitHub works, but I am also learning to prioritise sustainability and empowerment in the work that I do. I am also super grateful for the opportunity to work with people (who I may not have met otherwise) from around the world.
Read more about him in our Contributors Record online.
Relevant resources
Papers and manuscripts
- Yasemin Turkyilmaz-van der Velden, Nicolas Dintzner, Marta Teperek, (2020, September). Reproducibility Starts from You Today. PATTER, 1(6). doi: 10.1016/j.patter.2020.100099
- Kirstie J. Whitaker, Olivia Guest, (2020, October), #bropenscience is broken science. The Psychologist. November 2020Vol.33 (pp.34-37)
- Kirstie Whitaker shared a Tweet thread with a background on how this article was developed by the authors.
Podcast recommendation
Listen to The Turing Podcast's recent episode: "Reproducible Data science: How hard can it be?". In this episode, Ed Chalstrey was joined by Kirstie Whitaker and Sarah Gibson for a discussion about the reproducibility of scientific research, why this is such an important topic and what The Alan Turing Institute is doing to promote best practices in reproducible data science.
Sarah Gibson Tweeted about the Turing Podcast episode where Ed invited her and Kirstie to talk about the reproducibility of scientific research.
Upcoming and past events
Community share-out event on 13 November 2020
On the last day of the Book Dash event, 13 November, we will host community share-out events, which will be a series of open calls to celebrate contributions made by our community members. These contributions won’t only include the content developed by our Book Dash attendees, but each of you is invited to join us on the day to showcase your work in The Turing Way and get to know each other. More information will be shared on the GitHub repository - follow issue #1450 for updates. Your comments and suggestions are very welcome to help us make this event truly inclusive and useful for you.
The Turing Way at JupyterCon 2020
The JupyterCon 2020 conference took place online from 5 to 17 October 2020 (see event page). The Turing Way participated in its tutorial track from 5 to 9 October with "Create Jupyter Book with The Turing Way". Several members attended the main conference, which featured talks on Jupyter software, standards, community and governance. These talks were live-streamed and hopefully will be made available soon on their YouTube channel. On 17 October 2020, Kirstie Whitaker and Malvika Sharan hosted a sprint on The Turing Way, details for which are available on this HackMD document. Thanks to Peter Oxley, Reshama Shaikh, Mariam Ahmed, Martina G. Vilas, Veronika Cheplygina and Esther Plomp for joining us online for coworking and coffee breaks.
Kirstie Whitaker presented the sprint plan for The Turing Way at the JupyterCon 2020, Tweet from @turingway.
More from our friends and community members
Register for the Ally Skills workshops
The Open Life Science team members will offer virtual Ally Skills workshops on 4 December 2020. Participants of this workshop will learn about and practice simple daily techniques to make their workplace and communities more inclusive. Two training sessions are scheduled to accommodate participants in different time zones. Read more about the workshop in this blog post.
- Workshop 1: 09:00 UTC - 12:00 UTC Check your time - Register on Eventbrite
- Workshop 2: 17:00 UTC - 20:00 UTC Check your time - Register on Eventbrite.
Software Sustainability Institute Fellowship 2021
Applications for the Software Sustainability Institute’s Fellowship Programme 2021 will open on Monday 7 December 2020. The Fellowship Programme provides funding for individuals who want to improve how research software is done in their domains and/or area of work. Each Fellow will be allocated £3,000 to spend over 15 months beginning 1 May 2021. The funding is flexible to support activities that are beneficial to both the Fellow and the Institute. Sign up for updates and to be notified when registration opens: https://software.ac.uk/news/ssi-fellowship-programme-2021.
Acknowledgements and celebrations
Hacktoberfest 2020 facilitator: Sophia Batchelor
Sophia Batchelor's Tweet inviting new open source contributors to contribute The Turing Way as a part of Hacktoberfest
Sophia Batchelor has been facilitating this year’s Hacktoberfest contributions with the support of Paul Owoicho and Malvika Sharan. In addition to the README.md translations, we have received many Pull Requests from first-time contributors on our GitHub repository who are helping fix small bugs in our files. With two more weeks to go, we have created more issues that can be taken up by Hacktoberfest contributors, see here. She has also collaborated on the project’s Twitter account to share updates about Hacktoberfest contributions.
Presentation at Live MEEG 2020: Martina G. Vilas
Thanks to Martina G. Vilas for presenting The Turing Way at Live MEEG 2020 conference on good scientific practices in EEG and MEG research. You can see her talk on Zenodo: http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4075439.
The Alan Turing Spotlight Series interview: Louise Bowler
Louise Bowler, a Research Data Scientist and a core contributor of The Turing Way, was recently interviewed as a part of the Turing Spotlight Series. In this post, she discussed her career including her current involvement in the DECOVID project, which aims to address research questions using clinical data about patient care during the COVID-19 pandemic. She lists Docker and Jupyter Book with an example of The Turing Way as two of her favorite software. Read the complete post on The Alan Turing Institute’s website.
Online mentions
1. Chris Holdgraf’s Tweet about the Zero to Binder guide maintained by The Turing Way team. 2. Aleksandra Lazic’s Tweet about the illustration of The Turing Way recommendation on ‘Nice and Readable code’ by Scriberia. 3. Reshama Shaikh’s Tweet about her Pull Request merged in The Turing Way during her participation at the JupyterCon 2020 Sprint. 4. Peter Oxley’s Tweet about his interaction with The Turing Way project and team during the JupyterCon 2020 sprint. 5. The Alan Turing institute’s Tweet highlighting The Turing Way project’s impact report highlighting Kirstie’s work on research reproducibility.
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