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TuringDataStories: An open community creating “Data Stories”: A mix of open data, code, narrative 💬, visuals 📊📈 and knowledge 🧠 to help understand the world around us.
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Launch the project #109

Closed crangelsmith closed 2 years ago

crangelsmith commented 3 years ago

Summary

We should decide when to officially launch our project (which means to start making noise about it).

What needs to be done?

Any date in mind for this?

Who can help?

@kevinxufs @crangelsmith @samvanstroud @DavidBeavan

Please feel free to add any other tasks that we must do before the launch.

Updates

Decided to officially launch our the 16th December. We'll do all the posting on out usual meeting that day.

DavidBeavan commented 3 years ago

A potential blocker on launch: we need to seek ethical approval for our story, or understand if we are exempt for some reason. My reading is that all projects need ethical approval (before starting really). Having engaged in the process recently elsewhere, we must follow proper process.

DavidBeavan commented 3 years ago

Can someone sound out #ethics-advisory-group on Slack and see? But I think all projects need ethical approval, and particularly those involving data collected from people, like the initial story

crangelsmith commented 3 years ago

Thanks @DavidBeavan for bringing this up! Would this mean that we need to get approval from the Turing each time a story gets published? This sounds unsustainable. Something that would make more sense to me is that the review process of the story include some ethical considerations in line with the ones of the Turing and we apply for ethical approval once for the general scope of the project and the ethical guidelines.

DavidBeavan commented 3 years ago

Would this mean that we need to get approval from the Turing each time a story gets published? This sounds unsustainable.

I agree, and some institutions only require ethical approval for project with data from or on human subjects. We must check, though, the Turing is super responsible and rightfully so. For now, though, we should reach out. I can, but it would have to be next week

crangelsmith commented 3 years ago

I agree, and some institutions only require ethical approval for project with data from or on human subjects. We must check, though, the Turing is super responsible and rightfully so. For now, though, we should reach out. I can, but it would have to be next week

Thanks @DavidBeavan I agree with you. Let's emphasise that we are only using open data in this project (and for the foreseeable future), so the data probably already passed an ethical approval before publishing.

As today is my last day before the break I'm trying to finish up all work related things and I don't have time to follow this up this week, but if you post on the slack next week I'll keep an eye on it as well.

samvanstroud commented 3 years ago

Thanks for flagging this David. I link to a first draft of contributor text : https://github.com/alan-turing-institute/TuringDataStories/issues/90#issuecomment-743165581

crangelsmith commented 3 years ago

Draft for a launch twitter thread

crangelsmith commented 3 years ago

Now that we have EAG approval we must discuss again when to do our official launch. Let's discuss this on the meeting of 12 of May.

samvanstroud commented 3 years ago

We might want a more pretty domain ready for the launch:

crangelsmith commented 2 years ago

We can say that the project has been launched, even if it was a soft one. I will close this issue.