Building a culture of collaboration in OS communities with The Turing Way
summary
The Turing Way is an open source book-plus-community hosted on GitHub that grows from ~10 to over 250 direct contributors and now contains 134 subchapters; it uses mentored-contributions, weekly co-working calls and synchronous “book dash” sprints, labels like good first issue, the All Contributors bot, and volunteer-maintained translations into Spanish, Chinese and French. Resources (illustrations downloaded 4,000+ times, 500 newsletter subscribers) feed trainings and policy citations (EU report, Mayor of London), showing the model scales and produces reusable, citable reproducibility guidance.
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chapters (10)
- 0:00Introduction to The Turing Way
- 4:38What is The Turing Way
- 9:32Challenges in open source collaboration
- 11:37Design for inclusion in projects
- 15:07Develop guidelines for contributors
- 17:17Foster shared ownership
- 20:27Recognize all contributions
- 23:14Key lessons for collaboration
- 23:56Invest in community building
- 28:11Q&A on funding and hidden labor
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