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# Kyle Cheng

## w/c 14 July 2025

### Rose-bud-thorn

#### 🌹

* I started writing the Motivation for Github page, and it is going well.

#### 🌱

* I learned a lot after the meeting with LL of the OSPO department.
I did not the OSPOs of different organizations are so well connected.

#### 🌵

* KW has warned me to have a mindset that is ok with receiving feedback when contributing to open source.
I agree.
I know that there will be lots of suggestions on my pull request and it will be ok.

### 🤝 Reciprocal support

#### Who did I help?

* The Turing Way

#### Who helped me?
* KW - Guidance on The Turing Way work
* LL - Introduction to OSPO and its projects

### Activities / tasks

#### What did I do?

##### The Turing Way

* Wrote and improved Motivation for GitHub page (27 hours)
* Identify source for each new page, post on GitHub (2 hours)
* Writeup github post/comment (1 hour)
* Set up local environment and building book locally (2 hours)
* Reading other sources and tutorials (3 hours)
* Talked with KW very shortly about the page so far and areas to improve on

##### Meetings

* Weekly update - KW and JK and TH (1 hour)
* GitHub issues talk - LWH and JK and TH (1 hour)
* Jupyter Collaboration Cafe (2 hours)
* OSPO Meeting - LL, TH, JK (1 hour)

#### What will I do next week?

* My available hours next week are

8, 8, 8, 8, 8

## w/c 30 June 2025

### Rose-bud-thorn

#### 🌹

* Writing my proposals onto a Google doc was a great way to organize my thoughts during our meeting.

#### 🌱

* Excited to start contributing to The Turing Way!
I posted the writeup to GitHub and we will wait for others to give the ok or suggestions.

#### 🌵

* Captioning was more difficult than I expected and could easily turn into an endless task if I wanted the captioning to be 100% perfect.

### 🤝 Reciprocal support

#### Who did I help?

* BIDS / JK
* I helped finish captioning Peter's talk
* TH
* I sent over my notes for last Friday's BIDS panel
* LWH
* Wrote a few notes for regarding Peter's talk
* Explained my work and also setting up GitHub issue templates
* The Turing Way
* I am working on improving documentation

#### Who helped me?

* KW
* Guidance on how to approach The Turing Way work, and what to post and document on GitHub.
* JK
* Taught me how to caption and how to set up my computer system for doing so.
* Captioned all of Peter's talk before me

### Activities / tasks

#### What did I do?

##### The Turing Way

* Read over documentation to identify and brainstorm improvements (15 hours)
* Set up local system, download book and install dependencies (2 hours)
* Writeup Turing Way plan doc (3 hours)
* Writeup Github post (2 hours)
* Began writing GitHub tutorials (3 hours)

###### Local build notes

* Had to install python 3.13 via deadsnakes because the jupyterbook wants ipython==9.2.0, ubuntu is still on python 3.10.12.
* Building the book takes quite long, 6 minutes, but works

##### Captioning

* Setting up computer for captioning and learn how to caption with JK (0.5 hour)
* Captioning and watching the video (3.25 hours)
* Convert to caption file, upload, summary of video, etc (0.25 hour)

##### Meetings

* Met with KW and JK and TH for weekly update (2 hours)
* Met with LWH (1 hour)
* explained my The Turing Way work and issue templates

#### What will I do next week?

* My available hours next week are 0, 0, 0, 0

***

## w/c 23 June 2025

### Rose-bud-thorn

#### 🌹
* Staffing DSUS was successful.
Shifts were well defined and the event went smoothly.

#### 🌱
* DSUS workshop was such a great event!
I met so many people and learned a lot about the data science ecosystem here on campus.


#### 🌵
* When writing pieces for a workshop event, it was a challenge to figure out what to write about.
There was a lot of information being presented.
I needed to identify the overarching theme and write about only the relevant aspects of the talk.

### 🤝 Reciprocal support

#### Who did I help?
* Helped DSUS event with staffing
* Wrote pieces for BIDS socials
* Took BIDS pictures
* Helped KW with Github PR demo

#### Who helped me?
* KW
* Guidance and direction for Turing Way Work
* DSUS help
* JK and TH
* w/ DSUS support
* LWH
* Proofread and suggested comments for pieces that I wrote
* Posted pieces that I wrote

### Activities / tasks

#### What did I do?

##### DSUS
* Supported DSUS (33.5 hours)
* Check-in, attended talks to collect content for BIDS social posts, lunch setup/cleanup, space setup/cleanup.
* PR demo for KW (1 hour)
* Write pieces covering DSUS (3.5 hours)

##### Meetings
* Met with KW and JK for weekly update (1 hour)
* Met with KW and BS and TH for Scientific Python discussion (1 hour)

#### What will I do next week?
* My available hours next week are 8, 8, 8, 8.
* Write blogpost for BIDS panel, perhaps cover DSUS as a whole
* Continue "The Turing Way" work

## w/c 16 June 2025

### Rose-bud-thorn
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