Hacksession 16th Feb

[rwood-97]

Zoom link for the recurring meeting.

Organisation checklist:

• [x] Create a new issue with the date of the hack session and copy this checklist. This issue will document the full session. Assing issue to the person organising that month.
• [x] Book Turing meeting room.
• [x] Advertise the session (use the email template below) by sending a calendar invite to the following channels:
  • [x] REG slack channels
  • [x] Enrichment student's Slack channels.
  • [x] #open-source-hacksessions
  • [x] Any other channel of interest.
• [x] Send reminders to Slack channels the week of the event.
• [x] Run the event
• [x] Collect contributions to the session in the issue relevant to the session.
• [x] Update the main page with new contributions https://github.com/alan-turing-institute/research-engineering-group/wiki/Open-source-hacksessions

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Template email/slackchannel:

Hello [placeholder],

REG runs monthly sessions where we come together and contribute to upstream open-source repositories. The idea is to fence off time dedicated to contributing upstream and to do it together for joy and sociality. We hope to give back to many of the tools we use and learn about new packages by helping them out. Everyone is welcome to come and work on something they want to contribute to or join an effort someone else has already started.

The next session is happening on [placeholder date] and you are all invited. We start at 2 pm [placeholder room] and hybrid. Come by and contribute to your >favourite open-source project or team up with someone else! We'll discuss what everyone is working on in #open-source-hacksessions.

You can see the outcome of previous hack sessions in here.

We will be there all Friday afternoon, join us for some or all of it.

[rwood-97]

Jim Madge did some bits and pieces for The Turing Way:

• https://github.com/the-turing-way/the-turing-way/pull/3531
• https://github.com/the-turing-way/the-turing-way/pull/3519
• https://ttw-rtd.readthedocs.io/en/latest/# (trying out building the book on readthedocs)
• https://github.com/the-turing-way/pathways/pull/10

Kat and Jon worked on the handbook:

• https://github.com/alan-turing-institute/REG-handbook/pull/139
• https://github.com/alan-turing-institute/REG-handbook/pull/136

I did a PR to llama-index:

• https://github.com/run-llama/llama_index/pull/10980