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The “Ways of Working” document provides an overview of how members of The Turing Way community collaborate across the three levels of governance.

For information about the members involved in the governance, including the Project Delivery Team, please refer to the documentation on governance roles.

This document offers high-level information on communication, community structures, and project management processes. For details, please refer to the Foreword, Afterword, and Community Handbook within The Turing Way book: book.the-turing-way.org/.

Communication

Below we have listed all communication channels used in The Turing Way. For details, please refer to the Communication Platforms chapters in the Community Handbook.

You can reach out to all members listed in our governance document by tagging them on GitHub issues or Pull Requests, or directly on Slack.

You can reach the The Turing Way Project Delivery Team by emailing turingway@turing.ac.uk.

Please join the fortnightly Collaboration Cafes, which are great places to discuss ideas for new contributions and to get started with making them.

Talks, presentations and recordings from different events are posted on our YouTube channel regularly.

Community Channels

Regular Community Events

Hosted all throughout the year, our recurring community calls are important and engaging spaces where you can participate in The Turing Way!

Some require signing up (📝) and some don’t (✅). All members are welcome to join these calls! ✨

Working Groups and Meetings

Group-Specific Events and Meetings

Commitments

All members, especially at the maintenance and constitution levels, commit to:

GitHub management

All members help triage open issues, review Pull Requests or address any questions raised on GitHub asynchronously. As most members do not work full time on The Turing Way, it might take some time until your query or contribution is addressed - especially if expert knowledge is needed. Don’t be afraid to nudge if they’ve not replied after a few days! :sparkling_heart:

Issues & Pull Requests

All members, especially at the maintenance and constitution levels, will:

Authorship and Contributorship in The Turing Way

Anyone who contributes to the book is considered an author in The Turing Way. The first author is always The Turing Way Community.

You don’t have to have written a chapter to be listed as an author. Substantial contributions to the running of the project, for example, adding in (or improving) documentation on how someone can contribute to The Turing Way, hosted an event, given a talk or onboarded new members to The Turing Way, all count as core contributions warranting authorship.

Contributing small amounts over a long time, and thinking about the strategy for the project also count for authorship.

The Turing Way repository is archived on Zenodo at doi: Community (2022).

Each release has its own doi, and there is a concept doi (listed above) which always renders to the latest release.

For example v0.0.1 is available at Community et al. (2019), v0.0.2 is available at Community et al. (2019) and so on.

We release a new version every 6 months or if substantial updates to existing chapters are made, such as after Book Dash events.

Authorship is cumulative. If you have been added as an author on one release, you will stay as an author on all future releases.

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

Resources

References
  1. Community, T. T. W. (2022). The Turing Way: A handbook for reproducible, ethical and collaborative research. Zenodo. 10.5281/ZENODO.3233853
  2. Community, T. T. W., Arnold, B., Bowler, L., Gibson, S., Herterich, P., Higman, R., Krystalli, A., Morley, A., O’Reilly, M., & Whitaker, K. (2019). The Turing Way: A Handbook for Reproducible Data Science. Zenodo. 10.5281/ZENODO.3233854
  3. Community, T. T. W., Arnold, B., Bowler, L., Gibson, S., Herterich, P., Higman, R., Krystalli, A., Morley, A., O’Reilly, M., & Whitaker, K. (2019). The Turing Way: A Handbook for Reproducible Data Science. Zenodo. 10.5281/ZENODO.3233892