As of February 2025, this repository has been archived and combined with the original bookdash repository

The Turing Way Book Dashes

You can read more about the book dash in our community handbook.

Hybrid Book Dash Events in 2022

Report with links and resources:

• Book Dash May 2022
• Book Dash November 2022

Online Book Dash Event in 2020 and 2021

Report with links and resources:

• Book Dash November 2020
• Book Dash May 2021
• Book Dash November 2021

In-person Book Dash Event in May 2020

• Reports of the February 2020 book dash events summarising the participants, contributions during the event and feedback.
• Presentation with the introduction to the project and book dash used at this event is available on Zenodo: https://zenodo.org/record/3676553. Cite as:

Malvika Sharan. (2020, February). The Turing Way Book Dash (Version 1). The Turing Way. Zenodo. http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3676553

In the organisers_files-2020 folder you can find the following materials:

• HackMD templates:

  • Pre-dash calls
  • Book dash notes
  • Pluses and deltas

• Notes from the pre-dash drop in calls

• Notes from the main book dash event

• Feedback given by the participants: Pluses and Deltas

• Rubrics listing our current selection criteria

• Logistics and plans shared with the participants.

• GitHub issue with the checklist for planning.

Book Dash Events in 2019

• Reports of the Manchester and London book dash events summarising the participants, contributions during the event and feedback.

In the organisers_files-2019 folder you can find the following materials:

• A folder of presentations (in pdf format and linked below).
  • Introduction to Manchester book dash on 17 May 2019 by Rachael Ainsworth (also on Zenodo).
  • Introduction to London book dash on 28 May 2019 by Rachael Ainsworth (also on Zenodo).
• Communications and application form to send out before the book dash.
  • These are specific to the Manchester and London workshops in May 2019, but can easily be adapted.
  • There is also the selection criteria we used to evaluate the applications and the decision emails we sent to accept or not accept participants.
• A HackMD template to copy and paste into a HackMD for note-taking during the event.
• A pluses and deltas template to copy and paste into a HackMD to get feedback from participants.
• Records of pluses and delats feedback from the Manchester and London book dash events.