Dear friends of the Turing Way,
we're so happy to announce that we have successfully launched our handbook at the Collaborations Workshop. Special thanks to Richard Gilham, Dan Hobley, Robin Long, and Sarah Stewart who joined Kirstie and our new team member Rachael Ainsworth in improving The Turing Way on the hackday. In addition to the core chapters the team wrote over the last months, they contributed:
- a new chapter on software risk assessment
- a new chapter on code review
- several improvements to layout and style and helped us improving our contribution guidelines.
Building on their fabulous contributions, we would like to use the next months to further improve the book and thus invite you to join us for one of our book dashes. A book dash is a one day collaborative event where you'll work with others to add to and improve the Turing Way book.
We're going to host you for dinner the night before, and give you the opportunity to promote any projects that you're working in that evening, and then hopefully we'll have an intense 9 to 5 day working on the book.
There are SO many people who have expertise that the Turing Way can benefit from. The skills we're looking for include, but are not limited to:
- sci comm skills: skills in writing, editing and/or exciting interactive communications
- great examples and case studies of reproducible research
- writing new chapters (either from the wish list or beyond)
- editing the current chapters
- updating how the book looks online (css, logos, layout etc)
Successful applicants will receive travel and accommodation to attend one of our book dashes as laid out in the agenda below:
Day 1
- 6:30pm Arrive at dinner venue
- 7:00pm Dinner
- 8:30pm Lightning talks
- 9:00pm Drinks and networking
- 10:30pm Go home (get some sleep)
Day 2
- 8:30am Arrive at dashing venue
- 9:00am Intro to the book dash
- 9:30am Team forming and brain storming
- 10:30am Coffee break
- 11:00am Group working
- 12:30pm Lunch
- 1:30pm Group working, coffee available at 3pm
- 4:00pm Celebrate successes (group share outs)
- 5:00pm Close
We will host one book dash in Manchester on 16 and 17 May and another one in London on 27 and 28 May 2019. Our application form is open for submissions until 18 April 2019 and we will invite successful applicants by the 26 April 2019. Please don't be put off by the application, this is just to make sure we get a diverse set of participants.
- Kirstie and Patricia will be at the inaugural meeting of the UK network of Open Research Working Groups at Aston University, Birmingham on 11 April 2019.
- Kirstie and Alex will be at the csv,conf in Portland, Oregon on 8 and 9 May 2019.
Thank you for reading, and we look forward to your contributions!
The Turing Way project team https://github.com/alan-turing-institute/the-turing-way