All activity and community members in The Turing Way should align with and uphold our guiding principles: inclusion, transparency, and empowerment. You will also find useful background context on the philosophical underpinnings for the Turing Way and it’s Guiding Principles in Embracing Digital Commons and Emergence as The Turing Way’s Strategy.
Empowerment¶
The project is deliberately structured to encourage agency and create opportunities and pathways for people to make autonomous decisions about how and when to participate, as long as they align with our other values, Code of Conduct and Contributing Guidelines. We aim to maximize the amount of agency that the community members hold and minimize the authority of the highest governance levels.
Transparency¶
We commit to the approach “As open as possible, as closed as necessary”. We design our processes and activities to be open and transparent, and review as needed. Making information transparent is necessary to allow the community to engage, particularly with project processes. Furthermore, a commitment to documenting decisions and outcomes ensures that those with authority remain accountable.
There are, of course, some instances where openness is not appropriate. In order to make people feel safe and confident, or to comply with legal obligations, it might be necessary to protect information. For example, the process for dealing with a Code of Conduct violation report is open and transparent to the community, but the details of any particular report may not be.
Inclusion¶
We are intentionally inclusive. We don’t only reject discrimination, we believe in inclusion by design. We believe inclusion means actively pushing to involve a greater diversity of voices and backgrounds in The Turing Way. Furthermore, when we say diversity, we mean a broad range of characteristics that people may hold, and which may introduce barriers to participation. This is formally laid out in our accessibility policy. We recognize and value the benefits of a diverse community and believe a more welcoming and inclusive community will, beyond being a moral good, produce a better book.