Join our March Fireside Chat, Learn more about our shift to JupyterBook 2, and Catch-up on Community updates from this month!
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With 2025 now in full swing, we have many updates to share from The Turing Way community!
- π₯ Join our first Fireside Chat of 2025 on 6 March on the topic of "Nurturing Open Science in Challenging Economic and Political times"
- ππ¨ Apply for the Book Dash Planning Committee and get involved with an evolving year for our bi-annual contribution event
- π οΈ Learn more about our upgrade to JupyterBook v2 thanks to the Infrastructure Working Group
- π£οΈ Catch up on our Community Forum recordings, upcoming events, opportunities, and more!
As usual, you can find more updates and opportunities in the 'Community News' and 'Opportunities in The Turing Way orbit' sections below.
To keep up to date with community events, you can also subscribe to our shared calendar here. π
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 Twitter, or join us on Fosstodon.
Community News and Events
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.
Join our Fireside Chat on 6 March
As part of Open Data Day, we're hosting a Fireside Chat on 6 March titled: "Nurturing Open Science in Challenging Economic and Political times", at 14:00-15:30 BT/UTC. Chaired by Esther Plomp (University of Aruba - Aruba), this panel will feature insights from Andrea Gomez (ARcenso - Argentina), Anelda van der Walt (Talarify - South Africa), Pen-Yuan Hsing (MammelWeb - UK), and Shern Tee (The Turing Way/LAMMPS - Australia).
In this discussion, our panel of experts will discuss how the current political and economic landscape has shaped evolving practices in research and academia, impacting their communities and their own roles, highlighting what steps they are taking to stay resilient.
Panellists will shed light on how their roles in their communities ensure that open science initiatives are sustained for the long term. While recognising the ongoing financial and political challenges in a changing research landscape, the panel will also share optimism and hopes for the future, focusing on the still growing global momentum for open science and its transformative potential to change research processes.
Join us to hear how the open science movement is overcoming financial and political hurdles as they continue to shape the future of research!
ππ½ Sign up to join us on 6 March.
Applications to join the 2025 Book Dash Planning Committee have been extended!
Join the Book Dash Planning Committee for 2025!
This is our final call for creative, proactive, and enthusiastic members of our community to join this year's Planning Committee for the Book Dash. Read more about the proposal for the May 2025 Book Dash in issue #4.
ππ½ Express your interest to join: https://forms.gle/EcujF2EM3jUwzpe48. The deadline has been extended to 7 March 2025.
Have questions? Feel free to open an issue on the Book Dash repo or catch the Working Group members at the upcoming Collaboration Cafe.
Join our March 2025 Onboarding Call
As always, our bi-monthly (every two months) onboarding call will be hosted on 26 March at 15:00 UK time.
Join us for an informal presentation and discussion, and learn how to get involved with our community project.
ππ½ Sign up on google forms: https://forms.gle/THBW42msBiWAcwHK9
Join our final Practitioners Hub event on 20 MARCH
π Online, 10:00-16:00 UTC, 20 March 2025 As the second cohort of the Practitioners Hub draws to a close, join us to network and hear from the Experts in Residence about their journey over the past six months and the innovations and implementation of open, ethical and responsible AI and data science for SMEs, as sparked by the Practitioners Hub.
ππ½ Register to secure your spot by 5th March 2025.
Catch-up on our February Community Forum
On February 21, we hosted our first Community Forum of 2025, hosted by Esther Plomp.
At this Community Forum, we discussed governance updates such as our constitutional level steering committee, shared working group updates from across the project, and engaged in collective brainstorming around the uses and applications The Turing Way resources.
πΊ Catch-up on the recording from this Community Forum on Youtube
Community and Governance-Related Discussions: We want YOUR input!
As a reminder, we invite your input, reviews, and comments on the following governance discussions (documented on Github):
- Share your testimony to support our sustainability as a project (issue #4032). (You can also send an email).
- Review and Comment on our Constitution-level Roadmap (issue #4014)
- Express your interest in joining the Community Management Working Group (issue #4033)
We also invite your input into community-level discussions related to a variety of topics within the community:
- Title: Should we join Bluesky?: issue # 3950 - Related issue on updating the guides to clarify our position social media platforms we use: issue #3954
- Title: Help us to archive our Slack data: issue #4042
- Title: Norms as a community around development on branches vs forks: issue #3871
- Title: Ideas for the Book Dash beyond May 2025: issue #4044
The Turing Way is now running on JupyterBook 2!
Since December 2024, the Infrastructure Working Group has been working to upgrade The Turing Way guide's infrastructure to JupyterBook 2. And recently, they merged a PR completing the upgrade!
JupyterBook been the backbone of the book since the beginning. This upgrade involves a number of large shifts in the underlying infrastructure as well as visually affecting the user experience.
As said by Danny on our community Slack:
This is alpha software, and so there is going to be some extra work in making this work, but we see this as an important way of supporting an upstream project.
Read more about the change on the JupyterBook website, and read more about the upgrade on this pull request and this issue.
Thank you to the Infrastructure Working Group, namely Sarah Gibson, Danny Garside, Jim Madge and Brigitta SipΕcz - co-chairs of the Working Group for spearheading this work!
Community feeds
π Check out our new 2025 events calendar to learn more about what is happening in the community.
β¨ If you are attending an event and would like to meet folks from across the community, please include that in this pad.
Recurring Community Events and Calls β
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 (π) and some don't (β ), but absolutely all are welcome to these calls! β¨
- π Community forums: The next call is planned for April 2025 - more information will be released soon.
- π Onboarding calls: 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-up for our next call on 26 March
- β Collaboration Cafe: The next call is on 5 March, 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.
- β Coworking Calls: every Monday, 10:00 UTC+1 (see in your time zone). Find the joining link on this shared Etherpad.
- β 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.
- β 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.
- β 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.
Opportunities in The Turing Way Orbit
- Fellowship: British Academy: Open Data Editor Pilot
- β° Apply by 18 March 2025
- π Location: UK
- π Read Details
- Job: techUK: Head - AI and Data
- β° Rolling Applications
- π Location: London, UK
- π Read Details
- Job: McKinsey: Next Generation Women Leaders Europe
- β° Apply by 26 March 2025
- π Location: London, UK
- π Read Details
- Funding: UCL: Data Empowered Societies Small Grants Call 2024-2025
- β° Apply by 14 March 2025
- π Location: London, UK
- π Read Details
- Job: Our Future Health: Various jobs
- β° Rolling Applications
- π Location: London, UK
- π Read Details
- Job: Our Future Health: Various jobs
- β° Rolling Applications
- π Location: London, UK
- π Read Details
Get involved + Connect with us!
You are welcome to join The Turing Way community, and learn more about the project.
- About the project
- The Turing Way book
- HackMD Intro Page
- GitHub repository
- Slack Workspace
- Mastodon profile
- YouTube Channel
- Twitter profile
- Bluesky profile
If you'd like to contribute to the next newsletter, please email Anne Lee Steele at asteele@turing.ac.uk! Feel free to send her a message on Slack, or book some time in on Anne's calendly to say hello.
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