Spring Updates from The Turing Way Community 🌱
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Hello Turing Way friends!
🌻 Spring is in the air, and so is community energy. We’re so excited to invite you to join the first Turing Way Book Dash of 2026!
This month, we’re also sharing highlights from our March Community Forum, an update on our Collaboration Café schedule, and a reminder of how to find and connect with our working groups.
As always, thank you for being part of this journey with us!
Applications are open for The Turing Way Book Dash: 18 & 19 May 2026!
The Turing Way Book Dash is a collaborative event where you'll work with others to add to and improve The Turing Way book and become a part of its community. Read details about the Book Dash in The Turing Way Community Handbook.
Every edition of the Book Dash, something quietly remarkable happens: old friends, colleagues, and people who have never met sit down together (virtually, in-person, across time zones, across career stages) and make magic happen. And applications for the May 2026 edition are now open!
Key dates:
Application deadline: 27 April 2026
Decisions communicated: 5 May 2026
Onboarding and GitHub skill-up calls: week of 11 May 2026
Book Dash: 18 & 19 May 2026 (online), 20 May 2026 (in-person, Netherlands)
Community share-outs: 22 May 2026
The application takes 15–30 minutes. You can draft your answers using this template before you submit.
The deadline is 27 April 2026 (midnight, anywhere on Earth).
👉 Apply here for the online sessions
👉 Apply here for the in-person day in the Netherlands
Questions? Join us at Collaboration Cafe on 15 April for an open Q&A (14:00–16:00 UTC), or email turingway@gmail.com.
Join our Collaboration Café in its new time!
Our Collaboration Café has moved to a new time slot! Starting now, you can join us on the first and third Wednesday of each month, 14:00–16:00 UTC.
This change came out of a community conversation about making the space more accessible across time zones. You can read the full discussion and share your thoughts here.
We hope to see you there — bring your work, your questions, or just your curiosity! ☕
Thank you for your participation at the Community Forum!
Our March Community Forum brought together wonderful folks from across The Turing Way community. Here are a few highlights from the session:
Welcome Oscar Seip: Oscar Seip has been working with The Turing Way for a while now and joined the newly proposed Funding and Sustainability WG as co-chair. WELCOME!!
Thank you Léllé Demertzi: Léllé has been representing the Community Management Working Group at the Steering Committee and is now stepping down from that role — thank you so much for your dedication!
We also had lighting talks from some of the current and previous Software Sustainability Institute fellows, all involved with The Turing Way for their fellowship plans. This year we celebrated that several contributors of The Turing Way have become 2026 SSI fellows, and that will be collaborating with The Turing Way for their fellowship projects: https://www.software.ac.uk/fellowship-programme/our-fellows. Congratulations to Anne Lee Steele, Johanna Bayer, Andre Piza, Cassandra Gould van Praag, Precious Onyewuchi and Sara Villa for their fellowships!
Thank you to everyone who joined and contributed — these conversations are what make this community so special.
The Turing Way Team
The Turing Way out in the world 🚀
FOSDEM Energy! 🚀🚀🚀
We had members of the Turing Way present at the FOSDEM event, with talks by community members between 31 January and 1 February:
Introducing Jupyter Book 2: Next-generation Tools for Creating Computational Narratives — Angus Hollands
Self-Raising Lazarus: All Contributors and how Open Source can Rise Again — Jim Madge
Building Open and Reproducible AI Practices for LMICs (and Beyond) — Precious Onyewuchi
When Do Working Groups Meet? 📅
Wondering when The Turing Way working groups get together?
The best place to check is our open community calendar, where all working group meetings and community events are listed.
You can find more information in our welcome page (getting updated!) or via the Community Handbook.
Whether you're a current member or curious about getting involved, the calendar is your go-to for staying in the loop!
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!
✅ Collaboration Cafe: Every first and third Wednesday on the month. The next call is on April 15, 14:00-16:00 UK time. Feel free to drop in to meet the community, do some focused work, or otherwise.
✅ Community Management Working Group: every Tuesday, 14:00 UK time.
✅ Funding and Sustainability Meetings: every second Friday on the month, at 15:00 UK time.
✅ Infrastructure Maintainers Monthly Meetings: every second Tuesday of the month, at 16:00 UK time.
✅ Accessibility Monthly Meetings: every second Monday of the month, at 15:00 UK time.
Get involved! Contribute to The Turing Way!
Last year we evolved into a community-led governance model: to ensure the project remains sustainable and impactful, we have established several Working Groups dedicated to its ongoing maintenance and growth.
Are you passionate about open science, reproducible research, or community building? We invite you to join us!
How to get involved:
Explore: Check out our Working Groups (currently under development).
Connect: Express your interest via this short onboarding form.
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.
Did you miss the last newsletters? Check them out here.
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.