The Turing Way Fireside Chat Series: Governance
A joint event by The Turing Way and Software Sustainability Institute
The Turing Way and Software Sustainability Institute have teamed up to design and host a series of conversations on "governance" with researchers, contributors and leaders in open science. This event is for everyone who wants to engage with the decision-making at any or all levels and make those processes transparent, collaborative, and sustainable.
We're thrilled to relaunch our Fireside Chat series in 2025, partnering with the Software Sustainability Institute! From June through November, we will be exploring diverse themes of governance in research and open science. Expect insightful conversations with community leaders, researchers, and practitioners, with space for collective discussion, learning and dialogue.
Previous calls in the series:
- Part 1 (19 June): Learn about the ongoing Governance work in The Turing Way - featuring members of the Steering Committee: Anne Lee Steele, Batool Almarzouq, Jim Made, Kirstie Whitaker, Léllé Demertzi, Liz Hare, Malvika Sharan
- Part 2 (30 June): Why does community matter in research and open science? - featuring Neil Chue-Hong (SSI), Simon Heetrick (SSI and HiddenREF) and Riva Quiroga (R-Ladies+, Programming Historian)
Title: Learning from Each Other's Journeys: Case studies from communities (on 31 July 2025). This session will feature speakers from communities like SSI/UK Training network, The Carpentries, rLadies, OLS, The Turing Way and Jupyter.
Title: Exploring Distributed, Collaborative and Decentralised Governance Models - 28 August
This session will feature speakers from The Climate Sensitive Infectious Disease Network (CSID Network), Open Research Community Accelerator (ORCA) and The Engine Room.
Title: Governance frameworks, examples and resources from open source networks - 25 September
This session will feature speakers from CURIOSS, CHAOSS and Open Source Research.
Title: Good Governance Practices for the Long-Term Health of Open Initiatives - 30 October
This session will feature speakers from Organizational Mycology and MetaDocencia.
Whether you're a long-time contributor or new to our community, we look forward to seeing you there!