The Turing Way invites you to submit your application via this Google form to participate in the upcoming Book Dash taking place **online from 9-13 November 2020**.

The Turing Way Book Dash is a collaborative event where you'll work with others to add to and improve The Turing Way book and become a part of its community.

Successful applicants will be able to claim **financial reimbursement to support their participation in Book Dash** as laid out in the online chapter: https://the-turing-way.netlify.app/community-handbook/bookdash.html.

There are SO many people who have the expertise that The Turing Way project can benefit from. The **skills and contributions** that we're looking for include, but are not limited to:

-  tools, methods and case studies from reproducibility in Data Science
-  science communication skills: skills in writing, editing and/or exciting interactive communications
-  project design and management skills
-  approaches and principles for collaboration in data science
-  collaboratively writing new chapters
-  reviewing others contributions or editing the current chapters  
-  updating how the book looks online (for example, website design, CSS, logos, layout)
-  documenting other contributions as illustrations or stories

**This application will likely take 30 to 60 minutes to complete.** You can see this template document with all the questions to prepare your application: https://tinyurl.com/tw-bookdash-template.

Selected participants will be invited to attend 1-2 sessions each day from the following **virtual development sessions** most compatible with your schedule (more information in section 4):

- Session 1: 08:00 - 10:30 London time (Starts in your time zone: https://arewemeetingyet.com/London/2020-11-09/08:00)
- Session 2: 11:00 - 13:30 London time (Starts in your time zone: https://arewemeetingyet.com/London/2020-11-09/11:00)
- Session 3: 14:30 - 17:00 London time (Starts in your time zone: https://arewemeetingyet.com/London/2020-11-09/14:30)
- Session 4: 17:30 - 20:00 London time (Starts in your time zone: https://arewemeetingyet.com/London/2020-11-09/17:30)

EVENT TIMELINE  (more information in section 4)

- Call for application: This form is open for submissions until the end of *** 22 October 2020 *** (Anywhere on Earth).
- Decisions on the applications: 27 October 2020.
- Pre Book Dash drop in calls: 4 November 2020
- Book Dash contribution event: 9-12 November 2020
- Book Dash community share-out: 13 November 2020

All attendees are required to follow our **Code of Conduct**: https://github.com/alan-turing-institute/the-turing-way/blob/master/CODE_OF_CONDUCT.md

For any further information, please email The Turing Way team: theturingway@gmail.com.