Last call to help plan our next Book Dash, catch up on our Code for Thought podcasts, and more!
Explore The Turing Way Book and connect with us via our start page.
While things have been slowing down for the summer here with The Turing Way community, you would have thought that we would have less updates to share.
But as always - we have a lot to share with you all! See below for highlights:
📚💨 Apply to join the Book Dash planning committee and/or to host a local hub for our November Book Dash by 12 August
☎️ Join our next Onboarding Call on 28 August at 15:00 UTC+1
🎧 Catch up on our Community Forum call on 12 July and listen to our two podcasts on The Turing Way
*🏖️ In August, the team will be taking a break from hosting Collaboration Cafes and coworking.*
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. 📅
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 Updates
Apply to join our planning committee
Our Second Book Dash of 2024 will be taking place on 4-8 November 2024.
Send your details to join the Planning Committee and host a local hub.
Applications have been extended to 12 August.
Take a look at these tweets, toots, or Linkedin post to learn more.
For more information, get in touch with Anne, who will be happy to discuss additional details and opportunities with you.
Thank you for joining our Community Forum on 12 July
Thank you for joining us on Friday, 12 July for our third Community Forum of 2024.
You can now watch the recording on YouTube
Note: This video has been edited for clarity.
This forum is part of community calls hosted by The Turing Way leadership team, which serves as a platform for the community to come together, share accomplishments, and discuss community and governance-related matters.
The slide deck, notes and links from this call are on Framapad (which will be archived on GitHub): https://annuel2.framapad.org/p/TTW-Forum-23April.
Thanks to many people who organised and facilitated this call:
Susana Roman Garcia for chairing this call
Kirstie for discussing the History of The Turing Way & Emergent Strategy Principles (00:46)
Arielle for leading a discussion about the Code of Conduct (17:38)
Esther Plomp, Jim Madge, and Liz Hare for sharing updates from Working Groups (40:04)
Thank YOU (the cross-community pollinators 🐝) for joining us -- your inputs and participation are much appreciated in this community space! 💗
Save the Dates for Community Forums in 2024
Save the dates for future Community Forum calls planned for 2024:
Thursday 03 Oct (15:00 - 16:30 UK time) - In your time zone
Thursday 12 Dec (15:00 - 16:30 UK time) - In your time zone
Tune into our series with the Code for Thought podcast
To mark the five year of The Turing Way, we collaborated with Peter Schmidt, host of the Code for Thought podcast, to produce two podcasts capturing our history. Tune into these recordings!
The Turing Way was launched in 2019 during the SSI's Collaborations Workshop.
At CW2024 at the University of Warwick, UK, we had a big birthday party to celebrate the occasion.
These episodes are a two-part series on The Turing Way. Peter sat down with Kirstie, Sophia Batchelor, Patricia Herterich, and Sarah Gibson—as well as Malvika Sharan and Anne Lee Steele after CW2024 event—to record a snapshot of their experiences working with The Turing Way.
🎧 Listen to Part 1: Happy Birthday - The Turing Way Part 1
🎧 Listen to Part 2: The Turing Way Part 2: From Handbook to Community
We thank Peter for producing these podcast episodes to help us tell you our story.
OSPOs for Good 2024
The second edition of the OSPOs for Good symposium was organised on 9th and 10th July 2024 at the New York City headquarters of the United Nations.
This event gathered leaders from across the open source movement, with ambitions and strides for championing OSPOs as a global network for good.
OSPOs, or Open Source Program Offices have increasingly become a method of embedded open source ways of working and practices across organisations worldwide.
Multiple members of The Turing Way team joined the OSPOs for Good meeting, connecting across many different parts of the open ecosystem.
Malvika and Arielle from The Turing Way project delivery team were joined by Neil Chue Hong from Software Sustainability Institute and David Perez Suarez, Research Software Engineer from University College London.
During the side event What's Next for OSS held at Microsoft Office, Malvika provided speed mentoring on open source community building and moderated a panel titled "Open Source Ecosystem Enabler - Digital Public Goods for Impact" with academic stakeholder.
Hosted by Linux Foundation, The Turing Way was a content partner for this event.
We thank OpenForum Europe and OSPO++ for inviting us to participate and contribute to these events.
Catch up on CSCCE Tech Case Study
In 2023, CSCCE hosted a series of community “Tools Trials” that focused on tools commonly used for community management in open-source and open-source-supporting communities.
After presenting at the CSCCE "Tools Trials" calls, Danny Garside and Anne Lee Steele have been working with the CSCCE team to develop a case study about how The Turing Way community uses bots to support the community.
📖 These case studies have now been released as a report: "CSCCE Tech Case Study: Using bots in GitHub to support The Turing Way community".
Submit to the Hidden REF Competition 2024
Submissions now open for the Hidden REF Competition 2024!
The Hidden REF was launched to raise awareness of the research outputs and roles that are vital to research but overlooked by traditional research evaluation. In the 2021 competition, The Turing Way was highly commended in the Practices Panel.
The deadline is 13th September 2024 - we strongly encourage you to take part in the competition if you work in research and want to raise awareness of your own work or the work of others.
Find out more here: https://hidden-ref.org/hidden-ref-competition/
Apply for the Software Sustainability Institute Fellowship
Applications for the Software Sustainability Institute (SSI) Fellowship Programme 2025 will be open from Monday 12 August to Monday 7 October 2024.
An introductory Fellowship Programme Launch Webinar will be held on Thursday 22 August, from 11:00-12:00 (BST/GMT+1).
This webinar is aimed at potential applicants and will provide an overview of the programme, insights into the application process, experiences from current Fellows, and an opportunity to have your questions answered.
For more information, visit: https://www.software.ac.uk/programmes/fellowship-programme
Recurring Community Events and Calls ☕
🏖️ In August, the team will be taking a break from hosting Collaboration Cafés and coworking.
Our recurring community calls are open and engaging spaces where you can connect with others and 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 28 August, 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 on 11 July, 15:00-16:30 UTC+1 (in your timezone). Stay tuned for more information!
✅ Collaboration Cafe: The next call is on 4 September, 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.
✅ 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.
📅 Check out our new events calendar to learn more about what is happening in the community.
✨ If you are attending an event and would like to meet folks from across the community, please include that in this pad.
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.
Talks and Workshops
Malvika Sharan moderated a panel titled "Open Source Ecosystem Enabler - Digital Public Goods for Impact" as part of the OSPO for Good's side event "What's next for OSS".
Saranjeet Kaur gave a talk on the R Development Guide at RSLondonSouthEast 2024 on 16 July.
This month, the Turing's Research Community Management team is delivering multiple workshops on GitHub for the high school students as part of the Turing's Summer Experience programme: Zenodo.
On 31st July (today) Ella Kaye and Malvika will speak at the DiveRSE talk session. Using a conversation format, they will share reflections on successes and challenges in facilitating RSE communities. Especially, they will discuss how their identities play a role and are important for their work in Equity, Diversity, Inclusion and Accessibility (EDIA).
In The Turing Way Orbit
Roles at The Turing
Research Associate – Humanities and Social Sciences in Human-AI Teaming
💰 £44,180 to £49,966/yr
🗓️ 7 August 2024
Data Scientist, Defence and Security
💰 £44,180 - £49,749/yr
🗓️ 11 August 2024
Senior Data Scientist, Defence and Security
💰 £53,021 - £60,564/yr
🗓️ 11 August 2024
Research Associate, AI Solutions for Identity Systems Fraud Detection
💰 £44,180/yr
🗓️ 31 December 2024
Jobs
Job: University of Southampton: Senior Research Software Engineer
⏰ Apply by 19 August 2024
📍 Location: Southampton, UK
💰 £44,263 - £56,021 per annum
Job: Imperial College: Senior Research Community Manager
⏰ Apply by 14 August 2024
📍 Location: London, UK
💰 £54,927 - £65,935 per annum
Job: Ford Foundation: Program Officer
⏰ Apply by 14 August 2024
📍 Location: New York, USA
💰 $165,000 - $185,000 per annum
Job: Wikimedia Foundation: Communications Manager
⏰ Rolling applications
📍 Location: Remote, based in UTC-4 or UTC-5 time zones
💰 $109,107 to US$167,569 per annum
Job: TU Delft: Data Steward
⏰ Apply by 1 September
📍 Location: Delft, Netherlands
💰 Dependent on experience
Grant: Internet Society Foundation: BOLT Grant
⏰ Apply by 6 August 2024
📍 Location: Remote, based anywhere with working hours overlapping UTC+02:00 and UTC-05:00
💰 Up to USD $300,000
For more events, subscribe to the Open Research Calendar.
Get involved + Connect with us!
You are welcome to join The Turing Way community, and learn more about the project.
Welcome Page (A great place to start!⭐)
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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