Governance Roles

Governance in The Turing Way occur across three institutional levels as discussed in the governance chapter.

This document provides details about the governance roles and members collaborating across all levels of governance in The Turing Way.

This document also lists the members of the project delivery team, who support community management, maintenance of The Turing Way resources and delivery of the project goals.

For overview of how members of The Turing Way community collaborate across these three levels of governance, please refer to the Ways of Working documentation.

Project Delivery Team¶

Participation and Engagement at the Community Level¶

At the Community level, participation is compromised of the everyday actions and decisions made by all community members as they participate in the community and contribute to the book. Expectations and responsibilities for all members, including Code of Conduct, Contributing Guidelines and Acknowledgements, have been provided and maintained in The Turing Way Community Handbook.

All contributors to The Turing Way are listed as Contributors in the README file and invited to optionally share narrative details in the contributors.md.

Information from these base files is also published as the Contributors Record in the afterwards of the book.

Please refer to the Foreword of the book to learn about different kinds of community roles.

Maintenance Level Roles¶

At the “Maintenance” level, different groups of people come together to work on and promote specific areas and initiatives in the project, as well as defining or changing processes to make community level participation easier. Please read Ways of Working document for community structure, commitments and resources used by members at the maintenance level.

Members participating in different Working Groups and projects carried out in The Turing Way are listed below.

Representation at Constitution Level Steering Committee¶

“Constitutional-level” participation in the Steering Committee by community leaders allow the development, approval and establishment of Working Group and project-related norms that affect the entire project, community and their sustainability.

Please read Ways of Working document for community structure, commitments and resources used by members at maintenance level, which also apply to constitution level. Specific governance documentation and processes for this level will be developed with the founding members of the Steering Committee in 2025.

Chairs or a designated representative of the following Working Groups (WGs) join the Steering Committee at this level:

• Community Management Working Group
• Infrastructure Working Group
• Book Dash Working Group
• Accessibility Working Group
• Translation and Localisation Working Group

Leads or designated representatives of the Delivery Groups for the following projects within The Turing Way also serve on the Steering Committee for accountability:

• The Turing Way Practitioners Hub, a Turing Way project under the Innovate UK BridgeAI initiative that engages with industries in sharing and adopting best practices for data science and AI.
• Software Sustainability Institute Fellows Projects, that are defined to be conducted in collaboration with The Turing Way project delivery or community members.
• JupyterHub -The Turing Way Project: A CZI-funded project in collaboration with Organizational Mycology to reinvigorate community practices within JupyterHub and share generalisable findings with the wide community via The Turing Way.
• Data Science Without Borders (DSWB), a Wellcome Trust-funded project that leverages The Turing Way for adopting and sharing best practices with the DSWB community.

Previous Contributors to the Maintenance Level¶

The following people are no longer involved in the maintenance level of the project (although they remain very valuable members of the community!) You can request contact information through the project members above, or tag them in the GitHub issues and Pull Requests so others can answer if the folks you’re looking for are not around.

Recognising All Contributors¶

Our barrier for entry to participate in The Turing Way is very low.

The Turing Way uses the emoji-key to recognise everyone who contributes to the project.

If you have contributed in any of the ways above then please ask one of the collaborators in The Turing Way to use the all contributors bot :robot: to add you to the list.

For details on how we acknowledge different contributions made in The Turing Way, please read the chapter on Acknowledging Contributors in the Community Handbook.

Thank you for contributing substantially to the Turing Way! We value your thoughtful participation and contributions to The Turing Way! :hibiscus::sunflower::rocket::star2: