Capturing Book Dash Participant's information in the contributors file

[malvikasharan]

Summary

• We ran a book dash from 08-12 November 2021, and we would like to capture highlights of all attendees

What needs to be done?

Please make sure that you share your feedback and experience from the last 5 days with us in this document: https://hackmd.io/@turingway/bookdash-nov2021-feedback

1. Comment below with a link to your issues and PRs
2. Comment below your details in the following format (Paul's bio/details below for example):

• All attendees should add a short bio, highlight from their work in The Turing Way (during and outside the Book Dash) and add a role "Book Dash 2021 participant"
• All mentors/planning committee members can update their bio and highlights and add a role "Book Dash Planning Committee 2021"

* Role: Book Dash 2021 participant
* GitHub id: 
* ORCID: 
* Short bio:
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* Personal highlights:
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* More information:
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* Quotes:
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### Paul Owoicho

* Role: 
  * Google Season of Doc: Technical Writer
  * Book Dash 2021 Participant
  * [OLS-2 for Turing project lead](https://github.com/alan-turing-institute/the-turing-way/tree/master/open-life-science-mentoring)(2020)
* GitHub id: [paulowoicho](http://github.com/paulowoicho)
* ORCID: TBA
* Short bio:
> I am a Technical Writer / Google Season of Docs (GSoD) Participant working to make The Turing Way consistent, sustainable, and accessible.
> I have a BSc in Software Engineering from the American University of Nigeria. Thereafter, I worked as a Research Analyst in the Fintech & Innovation Division of Guaranty Trust Bank, Nigeria and helped to drive the Bank's push to become a platform by creating innovative digital products.
> I completed a Master's in Data Science from the University of Glasgow and starting my PhD in January 2021 studying conversational information-seeking systems. I spent two years as a Research Analyst at Guaranty Trust Bank in Lagos, Nigeria helping to build innovative digital products to meet the Bank's customer objectives.

* Personal highlights:
> The Turing Way is my first foray into open source and has been a fantastic learning experience.
> Not only have I gained a deeper understanding and appreciation for how GitHub works, but I am also learning to prioritise sustainability and empowerment in the work that I do.
> Although The Turing Way is my first open source project, I thoroughly enjoyed the experience and learned a lot along the way. Before the GSoD program, I only used Github to 'store' my projects. Now, I am much more proficient at using Github for collaborative endeavours and I am more adept at working with tools such as Markdown, Jupyter Book, and Sphinx. In addition, I gained familiarity with setting up and working with web analytics software.
> You can see the full report from GSoD participation [here](https://github.com/alan-turing-institute/the-turing-way/blob/master/communications/GSOD-applications/GSoD-2020-Project-Report.md).
> The BookDash November 2020 was great! It was awesome to meet, collaborate, and share ideas with people from around the world. Beyond the Book Dash, The Turing Way is the very first open-source project I have ever worked on. The experience has been fantastic, and I intend to stick around as a contributor after the Google Season of Docs program ends. I also see myself getting involved in other open-source projects.

* Personal Quote:
> Asides technical skills, I developed a deep appreciation for what working on an open source project entails. My mentors helped me realise that the value I left behind from the GSoD program was not in the amount of work I did, but how I enabled other contributors to also do the work I was doing. As a result, I learned to contribute as a Technical Writer in a manner that was reproducible, sustainable, accessible, and inclusiv

You can also add sections on:

• What skills/knowledge have you developed through The Turing Way
• What outreach have you undertaken for The Turing Way community
  • These could be blogs, talks, tutorials, training etc...
• Do you know of any data science research/practices that have changed and improved as a result of working on The Turing Way

Who can help?

• All book dash attendees

What happens next

• We will add your bio to the contributors.md which will be updated to the online book in the afterword of the book
• We will use this to add to our report from the event that will be added to this repository
• Finally, we will ask for your permission to give you the spotlight in one of our next newsletters

[Marta-MM]

• Role: Book Dash 2021 participant
• GitHub id: Marta-MM
• ORCID: 0000-0001-7995-3717
• Short bio: I am a teaching fellow/Research Assistant in the School of Psychology at the University of Leicester. Before moving to the UK, I earned a MSc in Social Psychology and a PhD in Cognitive and Brain Sciences. I am interested in reasoning, judgment, and decision making topics and passionate about scientific communication and outreach.

• Personal highlights: In this Book Dash (my third one!) I was invited to lead a discussion on data visualisation, which sparked a very interesting conversation. I also started a dedicated section in the book and I am looking forward to developing it!
• On November 25th, I will talk about my experience with The Turing way during one of the Leicester ReproducibiliTEA meetings!

[EstherPlomp]

@malvikasharan: I tried to find my previous bio so that I can just add the info from the current bookdash to it but I can't find it anywhere? Did the contributors from contributing institutions go to a separte file?

[malvikasharan]

@EstherPlomp it is listed in this document: https://github.com/alan-turing-institute/the-turing-way/blob/main/collaborating_projects.md

I should find a way to connect them.

[acocac]

• Role:
  • The Turing Way Translation Contributor
  • Book Dash 2021 participant
• GitHub id: acocac
• ORCID: 0000-0002-9264-1539
• Short bio:

Alejandro completed his PhD in Physical Geography at King's College London in September 2020. He is currently affiliated as a Postdoctoral Research Associate at the Alan Turing Institute working on a project aiming to build and deploy open-source toolkits and demonstrators for Environmental Data Science. He is also contributing to scivision, a generic framework for scalable image analysis led by the Turing in collaboration with the open-source community.

• Personal highlights:

I'm so glad to join the Turing Way community. I've met a large and very active community contributing to a common goal, Open, Inclusive and Collaborative Science. My participation in the Book Dash 2021 was a fantastic experience to learn, discuss, collaborate and network with a wide variety of TTW contributors. My particular contribution during the 2021 book dash was to improve the documentation of translation within the Community Handbook. The documentation summarises learnings and experiences from the Spanish Translation team relevant to future translations.

• More information:

Thanks to the TTW and the Open Life Science training programme, I'm considerably improving a prototype of online and community-driven e-book on Environmental Data Science, named the Environmental AI book.

• Quotes:

There's always hope!

[Arielle-Bennett]

• Role: Book Dash 2021 organising committee & participant
• GitHub id: Arielle-Bennett
• ORCID: 0000-0002-0154-2982
• Short bio:

Arielle is the Research Project Manager for the Tools, Practices & Systems programme at the Alan Turing Institute. Prior to this she has worked in a variety of research-adjacent roles across tech, start ups and science publishing. She is also a mentor with the Open Life Sciences programme and a 2019 Community Engagement Fellow with the Center for Scientific Collaboration and Community Engagement.

• Personal highlights:

This week we have merged a new chapter on research infrastructure roles - the people who do critical tasks to keep research going, open, reproducible, collaborative and reusable! It's great to be able to promote the visibility of roles like mine to the wider community. I am also incredibly proud of all our first attendees who have done brilliant work this week revising old chapters and writing new ones.

• More information:

The research infrastructure roles chapter is not finished! We are hoping that people will contribute overviews of more roles in this space, or share their career trajectory and background as case studies in the future.

• Quotes:

It's always a joy to work with Book Dash participants, experienced and new, to create something amazing.

[RaoOfPhysics]

Pull requests:

• Authored:
  • Fix styling markdown chunks: Closes #2162 #2163
• Reviewed (some deeper, some minor):
  • [Review needed] Reformat outreach chapter, add images, update toc and open for review #1709 (slightly broken PR, need to make new one pointing to https://github.com/alan-turing-institute/the-turing-way/tree/outreach-chapter2/)
  • Documentation heading and text added #2165
  • Peer review chapter #2180
  • [WIP] Describe process to make regular releases via GitHub #2187
  • Update .zenodo.json with license cc-by-4.0 #2181
  • fix EU2016protection link #2156
  • Update internal links in github chapter #2158
  • create a software citation sub-chapter #2161

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Achintya Rao

• Role: Book Dash 2021 Participant
• GitHub id: RaoOfPhysics
• ORCID: 0000-0002-1628-2618
• Short bio:

Achintya is the Community Manager for the AI for Science and Government research programme at The Alan Turing Institute. He has a BSc in physics and an MA in science journalism. Prior to joining The Turing, he spent over a decade as a science communicator at CERN, the European Organization for Nuclear Research, in Geneva. He is also wrapping up a PhD in science communication from UWE Bristol.

• Personal highlights:

It was a joy helping people who had never used GitHub before file their first issues and make their first pull requests. I also familiarised myself with the structure of the book and can hopefully help other members of the community make contributions to it in the future! It was a lot of fun co-working with so many wonderful people in a shared virtual space.

• More information:

I love that the TTW repo is a place not just to contribute but also to learn, so I wasn't afraid of making mistakes in commits and pull requests. It’s helpful that so many knowledgeable members of the community are there to help!

• Personal Quote:

The Turing Way is an ideal place to gather collective knowledge from diverse experiences in data science and open research, and to learn by doing.

[Megmugure]

• Role: Book Dash 2021 participant
• GitHub id: Megmugure
• ORCID: 0000-0003-2275-2134
• Short bio:

Margaret graduated with an MSc in bioinformatics in July 2021. She is a project lead at the Bioinformatics Hub of Kenya Initiative (BHKi), a training and networking platform for aspiring and established bioinformaticians. Its goal is to empower researchers with skills and tools in open science and bioinformatics. In addition to capacity development, she is also interested in genomics and big data analysis. Margaret dabbles in writing stories too!

• Personal highlights:

This was my first time contributing to TTW! I enjoyed listening to and reading what fellow participants were working on as I made my contribution. I learnt more about GitHub and research data management as I conducted my research.

• More information:

I look forward to making more contributions to TTW soon, including but not limited to updating the documentation and metadata subsection.

• Quotes:

Creativity is intelligence having fun!

[vhellon]

• Role: Book Dash 2021 participant
• GitHub id: vhellon
• Twitter: @ vickyhellon
• Short bio:

Vicky Hellon is the Community Manager at the Alan Turing Institute for the Turing-Roche Partnership. She will be working closely with both organisations to build an engaged and sustainable community around the partnership, with a focus on supporting researchers to embrace and embed Open Science practices. She has a BSc in Biomedical Science from the University of Sheffield and previously had roles in Open Access publishing. She is passionate about supporting forward-thinking changes to the academic publishing system and engaging with researchers from a range of backgrounds.

• Personal highlights:

This was a great introduction to the Turing Way and the community. I loved seeing how collaborative everyone was and also the scale of what everyone managed to produce during the dash! I feel proud that I managed to do my first proper pull request to make a tangible contribution and navigated myself round Github to review others work too.

• More information:

I will be carrying on working on the Open Access chapter and hope to collaborate with others such as @EKaroune @Karvovskaya to potentially expand a 'publishing' chapter/section

• Quotes:

If you want to do 'community' then you can't get a better example than the Turing Way

[EstherPlomp]

Pull requests:

• Authored:
  • Research Infrastructure Roles Chapter + Case Studies #2160
• Reviewed:
  • create a software citation sub-chapter #2161
  • Reviewing and editing Open Access  #2167
  • [WIP] Describe process to make regular releases via GitHub #2187

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• Roles:
  • Book Dash February 2020 Attendee
  • Book Dash Planning Committee 2021 May, November
  • Semi regular co-working call crasher
• GitHub id: EstherPlomp
• ORCID: 0000-0003-3625-1357
• Twitter: @PhDToothFAIRy
• Short bio:

I'm a Data Steward at the Delft University of Technology, Faculty of Applied Sciences, in the Netherlands, where I support researchers with their data management and open science practices. For my PhD research, I analysed human teeth for their isotopic/chemical composition in order to say something about human mobility patterns (fields of forensics, archaeology, osteology). Next to the Turing Way I'm also involved with other teams, such as the Open Research Calendar (follow the calendar on Twitter!), IsoArcH and I was an OLS3 mentor! I'm also interested in anything related to physical samples in research, and I'm a co-chair of the Research Data Alliance Physical Samples Interest Group.

• Personal highlights:

Thanks to the Turing Way I really learned how to work collaboratively using GitHub. The book dash in February 2020 was a great kick start to actually practice and directly apply these skills, which now allows me to contribute more confidently to other projects as well! I primarily contributed to the Reproducible Research Chapter, to the Research Data Management section, and to the Research Infrastructure Roles. I reviewed existing content and I'm working on adding a section on Data Management Plans and how to handle personal data. I also made a The Turing Way poster that I presented during a conference. I hope to pay it forward and facilitate others in learning how to work with GitHub through The Turing Way or The Carpentries workshops. I'm very grateful to be part of this great and inclusive community!

• More information:

I think scientific research should be accessible to anyone that would like to learn and contribute.
I'm hoping to bring together specialists from my research field to establish guidelines for isotopic data from human remains and guidelines for how to handle and document physical samples.
I'm a co-chair of the Research Data Alliance group Physical Samples and Collections in the Research Data Ecosystem IG.
Please do get in touch if you work with physical samples and would like to get involved!
I'm part of the Open Research Calendar Team.
This is a calendar that you can use to stay up to date with open research events, or add your own events to in order to increase visibility.
Visit us at the Open Research Calendar Website or follow the calendar on Twitter!

• Quote:

Being a part of the organising committee for the online Book Dashes was an exciting opportunity for me to look behind the organisation scenes and to be a part of an amazing team. The BookDashes themselves are absolutely amazing, especially the discussions and the 'show and tell' sessions!

[malvikasharan]

I have updated the Contributors Record with the above listed participants already.

@Karvovskaya, should I list your name under the TU Delft section as well? https://the-turing-way.netlify.app/afterword/contributors-record.html#delft-university-of-technology-faculty-of-applied-sciences

[Karvovskaya]

Role: Book Dash 2021 participant
GitHub id: karvovskaya
Twitter: @ LangData
ORCID: 0000-0001-7777-5603

Short bio:
Lena Karvovskaya is the Community Manager for Research Data Management and Open Science at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam (VU Amsterdam). She works with support staff and researchers to facilitate the organizational change towards reproducible and transparent research culture.

Personal highlights:
I've been excited about the Turing Way for a long time. I am so happy and grateful that I could take part in the book dash. The wonderful team made me feel that every second of my time there was very well spent. With some help, I managed to do with my first proper pull request! Yay! I loved our interactions, our pomodoro sprints, the sharing of personal stuff. A special highlight was an opportunity to work with an artist to visualize my ideas. I feel proud that I contributed to this amazing project.

More information:
I will be carrying on working on the Peer Review chapter and hope to collaborate with @vhellon @EstherPlomp and other participants

Quotes:
Brené Brown: “There is no innovation and creativity without failure. Period.”

[reshamas]

### Reshama Shaikh

* Role: 
  * Data Umbrella:  Executive Director
  * Aqaba Consulting: Statistician / Data Scientist
  * New York City PyLadies Organizer
  * Book Dash 2021 Participant
* GitHub id: [reshamas](http://github.com/reshamas)
* ORCID: [0000-0003-4162-4453](https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4162-4453)
* Short bio:
> Reshama Shaikh is the Executive Director of [Data Umbrella](https://www.dataumbrella.org). She is also on the Triage Team for [scikit-learn](https://github.com/scikit-learn/scikit-learn) and an organizer for [NYC PyLadies](https://www.meetup.com/NYC-PyLadies/).

>Reshama is a statistician/data scientist with skills in Python, R and SAS. She earned her M.S. in statistics from Rutgers University.  She earned her M.B.A. from NYU Stern School of Business where she studied strategy, business analytics and technology management.  

* Personal highlights:
>

* Personal Quote:
>

[EKaroune]

Added into my existing one so this can be copied and pasted in please.

• Role:

  • Core Contributor
  • Book Dash November 2020, May and November 2021 Attendee
  • Book Dash Planning Committee May and November 2021

• GitHub id: EKaroune

• ORCID: 0000-0002-6576-6053

• Short bio:
  I'm a Research Associate and Community Manager of DECOVID at The Alan Turing Institute. I’m also a post-doctoral researcher working in the field of Environmental Archaeology and Palaeoecology. I have a PhD in Palaeoecology from the Institute of Archaeology, University College London. I am leading a project to improve the FAIRness of phytolith data. I am also working on a project with Historic England concerning the development of novel methodologies in phytolith research for application to British Archaeological remains.

• Personal highlights:

I have really enjoyed working in such a collaborative way during the Book Dash. I have had interesting discussions concerning the accessibility of The Turing way, collaboration, communication and research in general with other contributors.
I have further developed my Github skills by working in collaboration with @paulowoicho, @malvikasharan and @KirstieJane to develop a chapter on 'Getting started on Github'.
This improvement in my skills will really benefit my own personal research to develop my own collaborative working groups and teach others how to use these research tools.
At the May 2021 Book Dash, I enjoyed mentoring new contributors contributions, reviewing pull requests and helping to run sessions during the Book Dash. It was great to work collaboratively to improve and publish a new chapter on 'Communicating with wider audiences' in the Guide for Communication.
I've been the lead author and organiser of the academic authorship chapter.
At the November 2021 Book Dash, I have been hosting sessions and helping to review pull requests #2160, #1919 and #2167. I've also worked with @MariaEriksson to plan and start writing an overview about sensitive data.

• More information:

I try to work as openly as possible and a large part of my current research is developing easy and accessible to all collaborative and open ways of working. I am also working hard to bring together specialists in my field into a working group for Open Science so that we can work collaboratively towards subject-specific FAIR guidelines for phytolith data.

• Quotes:

Such a great week! Supportive collaborative environment to produce some really quality contributions to this wonderful project.

[BatoolMM]

On-site Talk in Malaga:

The Turing Way : Four Selfish reasons to work openly

The title is inspired from Markowetz, F. Five selfish reasons to work reproducibly. Genome Biol 16, 274 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1186/s13059-015-0850-7

Issue:

• Improving the Translation of the TW #2166

Pull requests:

• [ready for review] Improve the documentation for the translation  #2202

with @AndreaSanchezTapia and @acocac

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Roles:

• Book Dash Planning Committee 2021 May, November

GitHub ID: BatoolMM
ORCID: 0000-0002-3905-2751
Twitter: @batool664
Short bio:

I'm is a computational biologist affiliated with KAIMRC in Saudi Arabia and an honorary research fellow at the University of Liverpool. I'm also an RWeekly member and part of the R-Ladies Global committee. As an advocate for Open Science and its role in improving scientific and economic outputs in the Middle east, I recently established an Open Science Community in Saudi Arabia (OSCSA). OSCSA aims to create significant value towards Saudi Arabia's Vision 2030, which focus on enhancing knowledge and improving equal access to education in the Kingdom.

Personal highlights:

Although this week was hectic, homeless twice while looking for a hotel in a foreign country but looking back it was a fascinating week. I'm always grateful to be part of such a community - in the past week, I was inspired by everyone's work and very thankful for the Book Dash Planning Committee who are always patient with me. I was also so lucky to work with the wonderful @AndreaSanchezTapia and @acocac on a new workflow for the translation.

Quotes:

Being part of The Turing Way community not only nourish my skills but miraculously treat my anxiety and depression. I always feel grateful for being here.

[AndreaSanchezTapia]

Issue:

• Improving the Translation of the TW #2166

Pull request:

• Improving the Translation of the TW #2166

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• Role: Book Dash 2021 participant
• GitHub id: AndreaSanchezTapia
• ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3521-4338
• Short bio: Andrea (she/her) is a Colombian ecologist with a a background in Biodiversity Informatics and Plant Ecology. She was based for more than a decade in Rio de Janeiro, where she earned a MSc in Ecology and a PhD in Botany, working in vegetation ecology and nurturing a growing interest in learning and teaching about Open Science, Reproducibility in academic and non-academic communities. She has been saved countless times by R communities of practice and is a member of R-Ladies, a Certified Carpentries Instructor, and part of Forwards, the R Foundation taskforce for diversity, equity, and inclusion.

• Personal highlights:
  I joined forces with Batool and Alejandro to help rethink the workflows for deploying translated versions of The Turing Way and working with them was amazing! The task is a little bit daunting, but we are on the right way. I was thinking mostly about what to do with the Spanish translation branch (Spoiler: don't rebase!) and checking the workflow and requirements when new language teams start to translate a new language in Crowdin, using Portuguese as an example. I loved the illustration session, the two thematic conversations I could join, the abundant note-taking.

• More information:
  I will continue participating in this transition from transifex to crowdin and I will document the new language steps, including some translation standards, rules for each language--for example, the use of inclusive language according to the rules of each but taking care of not breaking screen reader accessibility.

• Quotes:

No task is impossible if you have a community behind it.

[leoank]

Issue:

• Reproducible analysis pipelines chapter #2171

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• Role: Book Dash 2021 participant
• GitHub id: @leoank
• ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7686-7335
• Short bio:

Ankur is a research associate at the department of genetics, University of Cambridge. He is trying to create shareable and reproducible software infrastructure for building the next generation of life sciences research platforms by leveraging advances in modern cloud technology. He is always happy to talk about the challenges and opportunities that these distributed systems present. Apart from computers, he is also interested in synthetic biology. One can often find him at related events and seminars around Cambridge.

• Personal highlights:

I want to thank the organisers for allowing me to join the book dash. I also want to congratulate them for creating such a friendly community around the Turing Way project. I worked on a chapter with the working title of "Reproducible analysis pipelines". I had wonderful conversations about the topic with fellow participants and @KirstieJane . I also reached out to some of the leaders in the field. I'll soon be interviewing them to add their experiences as case studies. All my interactions with the Turing Way community helped me to achieve a better understanding of the topic. I also feel more confident in writing and I am now thinking of starting my blog!

• More Information

I'll continue to keep working on the chapter and submit a PR as soon as possible. I am also thinking of improving some technical aspects of the book. I'll hopefully get around doing these soon as well.

• Quotes:

May the force be with "The Turing Way"

[JessicaS11]

• Role: Book Dash 2021 participant
• GitHub id: @JessicaS11
• ORCID: https://www.orcid.org/0000-0002-3421-4459
• Short bio:

Jessica is a glaciologist, open*(science, software, source) enthusiast, remote sensor, and lifelong lover of snow, winter, and the outdoors. She is currently a Research Assistant Professor at the University of New Hampshire (US), where she works on glaciological research, research-enabling open-source software projects, and climate justice and diversity, equity, and inclusion initiatives. She is the lead developer and maintainer for the icepyx library and regularly helps run Hackweeks with the University of Washington's eScience Institute.

• Personal highlights:

I was thrilled when I first discovered The Turing Way and delighted to have the opportunity to contribute during the Nov 2021 Book Dash after attending Collaboration Cafes for about a year. I ended up working on a few different projects with multiple collaborators, but I think the highlight of the whole experience was brainstorming a visualization and then watching the Scriberia artist bring our idea to life!

• More information:

I'll keep working away to get together a PR.

• Quotes: