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REG Open Source Service Area

We are part of the Research Engineering Group at the Alan Turing Institute. Our goal is to make the Turing a better open source citizen — both by contributing to the wider ecosystem and by helping Turing researchers and engineers adopt good open source practices.

What we do

Hacksessions

Monthly hacksessions where we come together to contribute to open source projects. We’ve made contributions to projects ranging from matplotlib and HuggingFace Transformers to Julia, OCaml, and Rust packages. Sessions run every third Friday of the month, 2–5pm.

OSPO-like activities

We handle the institute-level open source housekeeping: archiving stale repositories, chasing missing licences, improving policy and guidance, and supporting teams in open-sourcing their work.

Contributions & stats

We develop and set up tooling to track open source contributions flowing in and out of the Turing — who’s contributing to what, and how healthy our open source footprint is. We use tools like GrimoireLab and our own GitHub-Analyzer tool to analyse contribution data.

Events & community

We support the Turing in engaging with the wider open source community through a variety of conferences and community groups, such as FOSDEM and CURIOSS.

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All our work is tracked publicly in this repository’s issues and project board.