🍂The Turing Way November newsletter is here!
Explore The Turing Way Book and connect with us via our start page.
👀Have a look through our final Autumn edition and don’t want to miss our is our last COMMUNITY FORUM of 2025, happening on the 10th December at 14:00-16:30 UTC. Details and registration here
“Purpose is your bouncer”
Priya Parker
🗼 FINAL Community Forum of the year! 🏙️
Register here to attend the last TURING WAY COMMUNITY FORUM of 2025. Happening the 10th of December at 14h UTC.
We will be sharing some news regarding some of our processes and ASKING FOR YOUR VIEWS AND FEEDBACK!
Community Forums bring together members of The Turing Way community - including people who have not yet contributed to the project. Modelled off a political town hall event, these online sessions are an opportunity to better understand activities across the project and how decisions are made.
Our aim is to leverage the expertise across our community, and we explicitly invite you to review our processes and recommend improvements. These calls are a mix of celebration, feedback, and opportunities to build connections with other organisations and initiatives around the world.
🤔COMMUNITY INPUT WANTED!
During this Community Forum, we will also discuss the outcome of this Discussion, in which we are considering shifting our traditional Collab Café slot to one hour earlier! Pitch in in the GH discussion!
📎Register here to attend the December Community Forum: https://us06web.zoom.us/meeting/register/zLhhPWjsSJSC5DT7vqW5sg#/registration
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We look forward to seeing you there!
"Change is uncomfortable and hard as hell. When leaders expect others to change without participating + holding themselves accountable - it's almost impossible. When leaders show up and model the vulnerability required for transformation change - it's often unstoppable"
Brené Brown
Opportunities in The Turing Way Network
📢 Save the Date: BridgeAI Event | 8 Dec 2025
The Alan Turing Institute and BridgeAI invite you to the launch of the national consultation of the next version of the AI Skills for Business Competency Framework.
This interactive session will help participants deepen their understanding of the essential AI capabilities required across roles and sectors, and explore how the Framework can guide skills development, workforce planning, and responsible AI adoption.
Since its launch in May 2024, the Framework been adopted across public, private and government organisations in the UK. It sets out the high-level competencies required to ensure the safe and responsible introduction of AI to organisations from the general workforce, through to AI specialists and leadership.
This 90 minute session will offer practical insights and opportunities to engage with experts from Innovate UK, the Department for Science, Innovation and Technology (DSIT), FutureDotNow and other leading organisations shaping the future of AI skills.
📅 Monday 8 December 2025 (virtual)
⏰Time: 11:00 - 12.30
Link to register: https://iuk-business-connect.org.uk/events/ai-skills-for-business-competency-framework-national-consultation-launch-webinar/
The Turing Way November Book Dash wrapped up!
The last Book Dash of the year took place from the 10th to the 13th of November, with our public Shareouts happening on the 14th November.
This year we had 2 local hubs: one in Aruba and another one in the Netherlands which left the participants with appetite for another dash next year! 🥳
We also hosted our virtual sessions as usual, with over 20 participants and lots of issues and PRs worked on during the week! Final report will be fully available soon 😃
The Turing Way out in the world 🚀
Léllé Demertzi spoke in the panel 'Intedisciplinary Inquiry and Collaborative Experimentation: Lessons from the AI&Arts Interest Group' on 8th November at the Berlin Science Week. She highlighted the potential role of open source as a new kind of social tool for non-hierarchical, decentralised participatory, communal projects.
Sara Villa participated on a panel on Software Sustainability and Fundraising as part of Crick Institute BioImage Analysis Symposium 2025.
“It was very refreshing to have a vibrant conversation with the developers and researchers in the room, as well as introduce funding and community focus to the discussion.
We didn't solve the world, but it was great to find shared views about my experiences with communities like The Turing Way Open Life Science and RCM Cooperative, while also other embracing some other challenging ones!”
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 3th December, 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! 🌸
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