Slide from a deck. Title: Translation & Localisation WG - Batool
Successes: We are still regularly meeting with The Chinese Open Science Network & data umbrella. We will be delivering talk about localisation in Chinese Open Science Network in Jan. We will have monthly TTW localisation onboarding call.
Celebrations: Our talk proposal for FOSS Backstage 2025 was accepted.
Challenges: Multi-deployment remains a challenge!
Call to action: If you have any resources/tools or you know communities that are active in localisation, can you share it in https://github.com/translation-and-localisation/awesome-translation-localisation. (We would like to also link to past grants on localisation)
Slide from a deck. Title: Book Dash WG - Arielle
Successes: Trialled an amazing new meme making workshop. Other social sessions were a hit as well.
Celebrations: November Book Dash was brilliant!
Challenges: Struggled with last minute host coverage for some sessions - thank you to Kirstie and Richard who stepped in! Time for rotation on the Working Group - Esther is stepping down as chair.
Call to action: Interested in helping to organise the May 2025 Book Dash? Volunteer for the planning committee! Interested in a longer term role? We will be looking for previous committee members to join the working group
Slide from a deck. Title: Accessibility WG - Precious
Successes: November Book Dash had lots of access-related activity. Alt-text workshop on Day 1 - hosted as always! New member (Precious) started chapter on Left-handedness. Patricia reviewed Accessibility Policy.
Celebrations: Our accessibility policy was finally merged! Over 17 reviewers, 100s of reviews over 2 year process. Liz Hare and the Working Group were awarded a High Commendation in the Hidden REF competition.
Challenges: Member retention & recruitment. Time commitment for volunteer-led group. Funding to work more on this!
Call to action: Further embed access-centered practices across community. Advocacy for allyship. Need for community-led discussion around location for access-related practices (should it be within the guide for ethics or a separate guide?)
Slide from a deck. Title: Infrastructure WG - Jim
Successes: Organised our tasks on a kanban board. Split non-book things to new repositories.
Celebrations: Jupyter Book 2 alphas released. Progress building the book with the new version. Working Group were awarded a High Commendation in the Hidden REF competition
Challenges: Time. Multi-language support is difficult
Call to action: Tell us what features you would like
We're celebrating our #WorkingGroups achievements (& recognising challenges):
🌏 Translation & Localisation
📚 Book Dash
♿ Accessibility
🛠️ Infrastructure
We are so grateful for everyone who contributes to these working groups - the heart and soul of @turingway.bsky.social!
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