Hello Turing Way friends!
Have you had a great summer? At The Turing Way we've been both busy and on haitus, but we're really excited to be back for the autumn.
Keep reading for information about our online "Collaboration Cafes" that start tomorrow, celebrate our funding extension and some fantastic new jobs for some of our team members, re-use the beautiful artwork from our Book Dash 📚💨💨 events, and watch one of Kirstie's talks about the project from PyData London.
You are cordially invited to join Kirstie and the team for a two hour remote collaboration call on the 1st and 3rd Wednesdays of the month.
We're calling these events online Collaboration Cafes. The goal is to build some personal connections between busy people around the world, support you in figuring out how you can contribute to The Turing Way, and have some fun building the book and community together 💖.
You can think of them as capturing and sharing the energy of the May book dashes 📚💨💨 without the travel and long time commitment. We've written up a longer description in the project repository if you want to learn more.
The first one is tomorrow, 4 September, at 3pm UK time (find your local time here). Don't worry if you can't make the whole two hours, you can join for as long as you'd like, and there will be lots of opportunities for you to join us in future calls. Check out the schedule to add future dates to your calendar.
We're delighted that The Turing Way has been awarded another round of funding from Tools, Practices and Systems branch of the AI for Science and Government programme at the Turing. 🎉 ✨ 💃 🕺 🚀 🌟 🙌
You can read the application in our GitHub repository and we'll have more information in the coming months. We'd love for you to help shape the future of the project, so please get in touch with any comments or ideas.
Congratulations to three of the core Turing Way team members who have started new jobs this summer.
- Rachael Ainsworth is now the Research Software Community Manager for the Software Sustainability Institute, based in Manchester.
- Rosie Higman is the Research Data Manager for the University of Sheffield Library.
- Patricia Herterich has joined Digital Curation to work on the FAIRsFAIR (Fostering Fair Data Practices in Europe) project in Edinburgh. You could get her off to a great start by filling in this FAIR Policy and Practice Survey before 20 September 2019.
We're so proud of all the Turing Way community members, and these roles in particular are incredibly important to the success of our goal of making "reproducible research too easy not to do". Congratulations Rachael, Patricia and Rosie! Well done 💖 😻 🌈
The beautiful artwork that Matt from Scriberia created at our May events is now available for your use and re-use on Zenodo: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3332807.
Everything is CC-BY licenced and available in jpg and svg format.
We'd love to know which ones you like the best, and to receive any pictures of them in action in your own presentations.
If you adapt any of them (for example by changing the colours) please send us a copy so we can add it to the repository to make it available for others in the future.
One of Kirstie's tasks now that it's September is to update the GitHub repository with lots of the great talks and presentations that happened over the summer.
For now, if you're interested, you can watch her opening keynote at PyData London on YouTube and download the slides from zenodo.
Thank you for reading this newsletter and for being part of our community. We look forward to seeing you soon, IRL or online.
- Rachael Ainsworth will present The Turing Way at the Open Science Fair 2019 in Porto, Portugal, September 16-18 as a poster and during the demo sessions.
- Sarah Gibson will run a Build a BinderHub workshop (in two parts) at the Fourth Conference of Research Software Engineering (RSEConUK) on 17-19 September. She'll also share her experiences as an operator for Binder on the panel discussion "RSE Worldwide: Sharing across borders".
- The Zoom call Collaboration Cafes will be on the 1st and 3rd Wednesdays of the month.
- We're always around to chat in our online Gitter room. Come and say hello if you're bored 😉
❤️ The Turing Way project team