Contributing to The Turing Way - and the importance of institutional support
Plomp, Esther; Moopen, Neha; Wilczyńska, Aleksandra; Bartholdy, Bjørn Peare; Riemslagh, Fenne; A, Sreenithya
- Publisher
- Zenodo
- Language
- en
Abstract
The Turing Way is a book and community on reproducible, ethical and inclusive data science, spanning multiple disciplines and fields. The Turing Way forms a space where people from various backgrounds can come together as a community to exchange ideas and best practices around reproducible data science. These discussions and practices are then documented and shared in the book, promoting alignment of best practices and encouraging broader use (by at least 5000 users of the book on a weekly basis). For many Dutch researchers, The Turing Way is the ‘go to standard’ to improve the reproducibility of their research, and some institutes/research groups are already implementing these practices into their own working procedures. During this workshop you will be introduced to The Turing Way, and we will demonstrate how you can contribute your knowledge and expertise to the community and handbook! We will go over the contribution process in a practical manner, ensuring that you will be a contributor by the end of the session. To close the session, we will briefly discuss the importance of institutional support for university staff to contribute to resources such as The Turing Way. Without dedicated time or resources to contribute to these materials we risk that these Open Science projects become outdated and are no longer viable to maintain in the long term.
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Contributing to the Turing Way and the importance of institutional support /20251024 Contributors: Esther Plomp Neha Moopen Fenne Riemslagh Aleksandra Wilczynska Bjorn Bartholdy Sreenithya Avadakkam Carlos Martinez Lena Karvovskaya NPOS Accelerate Open Science Template https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4529129
Agenda ~10-15 min Intro The Turing Way + Case study: Coding Cafes ~35 min Activity! Contributing ~5-10 min Wrap up and next steps Goal: Contribute to The Turing Way!
The Turing Way A book Open Source project Global community Culture of collaboration @turingway, CC-BY 4.0 https://book.the-turing-way.org/
TNW-Tracking repository @turingway, CC-BY 4.0
The Turing Way Guides Reproducibility Communication Collaboration Project design Ethical research Community handbook @turingway, CC-BY 4.0
Pathways for Collaboration Develop & share Share resources Review and update Maintain & improve Make it global Share best practices @turingway, CC-BY 4.0
programming café /noun/ - a welcoming and inclusive space to connect people, share knowledge and support researchers in their coding journeys N what is a PROGRAMIN G CAFÉ
Organizers: Utrecht Digital Competence Center Running since: September 2022 as Programming Cafe | October 2017 - February 2019 as R Cafe. Meetings: Monthly Focus: (FAIR) Software & Data Website: https://www.uu.nl/en/research/r esearch-data-management/wor kshops/programming-cafe UTRECHT UNIVERSITY PROGRAMMING CAFÉ introducing our COMMUNITIES
Organizers: Bjørn Bartholdy, Selin Kubilay, Aleks Wilczynska Running since: November 2021 Meetings: Monthly Focus: R, FAIR data/software Website: bit.ly/tud-rcafe TU DELFT R CAFÉ A introducing our COMMUNITIES
Contribution time! 1. Let’s make teams of 3-4 people with 1 GitHub expert in each team. ○Make a line across the room based on GitHub experience. 2. Orient yourself & pick the topic you want to contribute to. ○Coding Cafe page or something else from The Turing Way. 3. One person opens a GitHub issue. 4. If you have time, suggest a solution as well or even make a pull request. 5. Ask one of us for help if you get stuck!
Wrap up
Book Dash November @turingway, CC-BY 4.0 Read more here: https://the-turing-way.netlify.app/community-handbook/bookdash.html – Bringing together people from many different backgrounds and skills – Making data science meaningful for the wider community –Book Dash Dutch Hub : November 14th, 09:30-15:30 @Utrecht University Library –
S ANY OTHER QUESTIONS, COMMENTS, CATERING IDEAS :) UNIQUE WAYS TO REACH OUT TO THE COMMUNITY TOPICS YOU'D LIKE TO SEE AT A FUTURE CAFE
Funding proposal? – The Turing Way was planning to apply for TDCC-NES funding - but we didn’t get through the process :( We need institutional support to keep initiatives going! What can we do to ensure recognition for contributions to these projects/communities, and ensure that sufficient time is available for people to work on this?
Stickies! – What are your ideas for after this session to contribute to The Turing Way and/or the Coding Cafes? – Do you know of any funding sources available to support these initiatives?
Thank You! Next steps: - Write up your stickies! - Join The Turing Way Slack! - Round up your contribution? - The Turing Way Book Dash in Utrecht! ○November 13th, 09:30 - 15:30 Images used in this talk have been co-developed by Scriberia and The Turing Way community, shared under CC-BY 4.0. https://doi.org/10.5281/zeno do.3332807
