❤️ October newsletter - And then they were two!
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Leaves from the vine,
falling so slow.
Like fragile tiny shells,
drifting in the foam… - Uncle Iroh
It’s two months until 2025 ends, and for us at the Turing Way, it has been such a great year with different forms of growth, and experiences!
📣 🔔 Important Announcement!!! 🔔 📣
Over the past few months we have been discussing how to improve how we give access to The Turing Way's GitHub repositories. We have arrived at a system which is simpler, more manageable, and more secure.
In short, we'll remove individuals as "external contributors", and instead manage access through teams, where each team will have appropriate permissions.
To read a detailed version of this announcement, follow through the decision making process, and contribute to the discussion, please find the rest of the details on GitHub.
We wanted to create awareness prior to the change.
What will happen next?
(Until 17th Nov) We will circulate this in our Slack channels and next newsletter
We have opened the #repository-access-migration channel in Slack for people to report problems or unexpected loss of access
(Until 17th Nov) Working groups, and other teams, will confirm their groups membership in #repository-access-migration
(W/C 17th Nov) GitHub teams will be updated
(W/C 17th Nov) External contributors will be removed
(W/C 17th Nov) Default membership role set to "read"
(W/C 24th Nov) #repository-access-migration will be monitored, and changes made in response to problems or missing assignments
Thank you for sticking with us through these changes!
“I will not say: do not weep; for not all tears are an evil.”
Gandalf
🌯 Fireside Chats Wrapped! 🌯
👀 Last week we wrapped up our Governance Fireside Chats series, co-organised with the Software Sustainability Institute, such a bittersweet moment!
With around a hundred participants around all our calls, this series has been a tremendous success and has highlighted the importance of governance in open communities.
We not only have learnt from Governance in The Turing Way, but also, and most importantly from other amazing communities like SSI, rOpenSci, 2i2c, OLS, CSID Network, ORCA, Engine Room, Breathing Room, R-Ladies+, Programming Historian, Organizational Mycology, CHAOSS, CURIOSS and Open Source Research and Metadocencia.
We have exchanged views, listened to one another, engaged in provoking discussions and created inspiring thoughts to keep creating agency and equity for everyone, so we can all work on a better version of ourselves and our work.
We thank all the speakers, the participants and the organisers of this series for these amazing months, and we are looking forward to work on all the materials and notes from this experience to work on a Governance chapter.
And if you missed this series... don't worry! You can still catch up with our Youtube playlist! :)
“Forth and fear no darkness. Arise, arise riders of Theoden.”
King Theoden
🔥 The Turing Way Book Dash is this Month! 🔥
The Turing Way November 2025 Book Dash holds on the 10th - 14th of this month!
If you didn’t get a chance to sign up before the applications closed, there’s still a way to be a part of the event. Come join the share-out sessions, and interact with participants, and the rest of the community.
Sign up for the share-out session!
The Turing Way out in the world 🚀
Esther Plomp proposed a session on Contributing to the Turing Way - and the importance of institutional support to the National Open Science Festival, which was presented by Neha Moopen. It was a brilliant presentation, and you can check out the slides on Zenodo!
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 19th November, 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. 📅
Get involved + Connect with us!
You are welcome to join The Turing Way community, and learn more about the project.
If you'd like to contribute to the next newsletter, please contact the Community Management Working group on Github or Slack! Email theturingway@gmail.com for more information.
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