Join The Turing Way Community Forum, Apply to attend Book Dash, and Other Updates!
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The Turing Way community is entering a new season, with many of us experiencing spring in Europe 🌸 - and we have a number of updates and actions to share with you.
- 🏛️ Join us at the upcoming Community Forum on 17 April, with important updates and follow up on our governance plans.
- 📚💨 Apply for our two-day Book Dash event taking place in May 2025 - find details and a few format updates below.
- 🔥 Watch the recording from our March Fireside Chat on Open Data Day.
We are also sharing 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. 📅
You can keep up in real-time by joining our Slack workspace. Please also follow the project on Bluesky, 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 the Community Forum on 17 April
The next Community Forum is taking place on 17 April from 14:00 to 15:30 UTC (start time in your timezone). Mark your calendar and register to attend.
- Join us: Respond via this form!
At the Community Forum in February, we discussed our efforts to operationalise the Constitution Level Governance this year, building on previous years of work at the Community and Maintenance Levels (read about the Three-Level Governance Model).
At this Community Forum, we will share important updates, including changes in The Turing Way's organisational affiliation, reflections from the first Steering Committee meeting and opportunities for building multi-organisational support towards community management. We will also invite interests in collaborating on long-term sustainability ideas, offering in-kind support, and identifying funding sources with our community members.
Applications to join our May 2025 Book Dash
Book Dash applications are now open! 🎉
The call for applications to participate in the upcoming Book Dash is open! This year's Book Dash Working Group and the Planning Committee members are bringing a two-day event for our community, take place on 20 and 21 May, with share-outs taking place on 22 May.
- Call for application: Submit your response via this form
If you've been part of our community and share our passion for collaboration to promote data science best practices or want to improve The Turing Way, this is your chance.
Apply to collaborate on your ideas for the guides, or join us as a mentor.
The application deadline to join is 20 April
With a refreshed format, this year's Book Dash will be planned and organised by the May 2025 Book Dash Planning Committee.
Have questions for them? Feel free to open an issue on the Book Dash repo or catch the Working Group members at the upcoming Collaboration Cafe on 16 April.
Please help us spread the words by sharing Bluesky post or Linkedin post.
The Dynamics of Paid vs. Unpaid Contributors in Open Source/Science: Share Your Feedback
Esther Plomp, a long-time community member, is designing a project to understand the dynamics of paid vs. unpaid contributors to an open source/science project. As part of her Software Sustainability Institute Fellowship, she will be carrying out this project in collaboration with The Turing Way, engaging and inviting contributions the community members.
To kick off discussion on this project, Esther hosted the main room during the previous Collaboration Cafe (19 March) on the ethical implications of this project in a community context.
- Join this project: As she begins the next phase of her research by sharing your feedback on issue #3833 in the GitHub repository.
Thank you, Esther, for the care and openness with which you are hosting these conversations. We look forward to learning more insights from your work!
Join the next AI Insight Chat on 10 April
The next AI Insight Chat, titled "Building Trust – The Ethical Assurance Platform for Your Business" is taking place on 10 April 2025 from 11:00 to 12:30 BST.
- Register now: Sign up via their website
Taking place online, this AI Insight Chat, hosted by Alexandra Araujo Alvarez, under the InnovateUK - BridgeAI, will showcase a Trustworthy Ethical Assurance (TEA) Platform.
Chaired by Chris Burr (Innovation & Impact Hub Lead (TRIC-DT), Senior Researcher in Trustworthy Systems at The Alan Turing Institute), the panel will feature speakers: Emily Campbell-Ratcliffe (DSIT), Ibrahim Habli (Centre for Assuring Autonomy) and Spyridon Samothrakis (BridgeAI/ The Alan Turing Institute).
The TEA platform aims to provide a structured approach to embedding fairness, explainability, and other ethical principles throughout the AI/ML lifecycle.
The event will include demo of the TEA platform in action, insights on operationalising ethical goals and strategies to effectively communicate trust to stakeholders.
This session is particularly targeted to Professionals with technical knowledge and experience in AI/ML deployment, looking to explore practical tools for embedding ethical AI.
Updates from The Turing Way Practitioners Hub Showcase Event
On 20 March, our Project Delivery Team, Malvika Sharan, Arielle Bennett and Léllé Demertzi, hosted the final showcase event at Wellcome Collections (London & online) for the 2024-25 cohort of The Turing Way Practitioners Hub, comprising of 20 companies with 40 Experts in Residence. This project is funded by InnovateUK - BridgeAI as part of the Turing's offerings.
The showcase featured engaging panels where Experts in Residence discussed how organisations, including SMEs, can leverage open source, open data, and ethical approaches to accelerate AI adoption across sectors.
A panel with Clare Dillon (CURIOSS), Agata Ferretti (IBM's AI Alliance), and Elena Samuylova (Evidently AI) also shared academic and industry networks and tech resources for upskilling organisations in AI. The overall event highlighted impactful collaborations in digital consulting, transportation, creative industries, architecture, health policy, public service innovations, and more. These case studies, demonstrating the Hub's promotion of open practices, collaborative networks, and responsible AI for organisations of all sizes, will be shared on Zenodo.
Recordings will be available on our YouTube channel, and an expression of interest for the upcoming cohort will be announced soon. Watch this space!
Watch Recording from Open Data Day's Fireside Chat
As part of Open Data Day, we hosted 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 featured 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).
Watch recorded video on YouTube
Community and Governance-Related Discussions: We need YOUR input!
We continue to 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: Updating our 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
Community feeds
📅 Check out our new 2025 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.
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! ✨
- 📝 Community forums: The next call is planned on 17 April 2025 - details have been shared in this newsletter.
- 📝 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 28 May
- ✅ Collaboration Cafe: The next call is on 16 April, 15:00-17:00 London time(see in your time zone). Feel free to drop in to meet the community, do some focused writing, or otherwise -- more information on Etherpad.
- ✅ Coworking Calls: This call is open for maintainers of The Turing Way resources, hosted every Monday, 11:00 - 12:00 London time (see in your time zone). Find the joining link on this shared Etherpad.
- ✅ Translation and Localisation Weekly Meetings: 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 to find out their next meeting.
- ✅ Infrastructure Monthly Meetings: every second Tuesday of the month, at 16:00 London (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 Mondays of the month, at 17:00 London time (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
csv,conf,v9 Talk Proposal: Apply before 27 April
csv,conf,v9 this year will be held in Bologna, Italy on Sep 10-11, 2025.
This year's topic is Data for Communities, which means recognising that data doesn’t just belong in servers or spreadsheets; it belongs in the hands of people.
This event will explore how community groups, civic organisations, and local advocates can use open data to identify pressing issues, build trust through transparency, and create lasting, positive change.
The call for proposals are open and can be submitted using this Google Form. The deadline for submission is 27 April.
Speakers receive free passes to the event, and we are working on a financial aide sponsorship budget for travel costs.
For questions email csv-conf-coord@googlegroups.com.
rOpenSci Champions Program 2025 In Spanish: Apply before 30 April
The call for applications to be part of rOpenSci's new cohort of their 2025 Program is now open! And for the first time it will be in Spanish!
The program seeks to identify, recognize and reward people who are leaders in an open science community, research software engineering and the R programming community.
This year’s program is focused on people from Latin America and for the first time will be conducted entirely in Spanish. The main goal is to foster sustainable research software as a pillar of Open Science in Latin America through capacity and community building.
Find out more in their call for applications, open until Wednesday, April 30, 2025.
Open Science Fair: Accelerating Open Science through Collaboration
The fifth edition of OSFair will be held from 15th to 17th September 2025 at the CERN Science Gateway in Geneva, Switzerland, hosted by the CERN Open Science Office and co-organised with OpenAIRE.
This year’s Open Science Fair will explore how diverse forms of collaboration can accelerate discovery, enhance knowledge accessibility, and create a more transparent and equitable research ecosystem. By fostering open and inclusive cooperation across continents, we can build a stronger, more connected scientific community.
The call for proposals are open and can be submitted using this Google Form.
The deadline for submission in 30 April.
Jobs and Other Opportunities
- Job: Community Hub Manager, The National Archives
- ⏰ Deadline: 6 April
- 📍 Location: London/Hybrid
- 🔗 Read Details
- Job: Participant and Public Involvement Officer
- ⏰ Deadline not listed
- 📍 Location: London/Hybrid
- 🔗 Read Details
- Job: Senior Public Involvement & Engagement Manager, DARE UK
- ⏰ Deadline not listed
- 📍 Location: London/Hybrid
- 🔗 Read Details
- Job: Interoperability Project Lead, DANS
- ⏰ Deadline: 13 April
- 📍 Location: Netherlands
- 🔗 Read Details
- Job: Senior UX/UI Product Designer, Benetech
- ⏰ Deadline not listed
- 📍 Location: Remote - Palo Alto
- 🔗 Read Details
- Volunteer role: Observe a Wellcome funding advisory committee
- ⏰ Deadline: 14 April
- 📍 Location: Online
- 🔗 Read Details
- Award nomination: AI for Good Impact Awards
- ⏰ Deadline: 15 May
- 🔗 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
- Start Page
- GitHub Organisation
- Slack Workspace
- YouTube Channel
- Mastodon profile
- Bluesky profile
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