diff --git a/docs/_static/dare_uk_funding.pdf b/docs/_static/dare_uk_funding.pdf new file mode 100644 index 0000000..91e5e53 Binary files /dev/null and b/docs/_static/dare_uk_funding.pdf differ diff --git a/docs/about/contact.md b/docs/about/contact.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..779e36d --- /dev/null +++ b/docs/about/contact.md @@ -0,0 +1,7 @@ +# Our contact information + +**Email**: + +[uktrecommunity@gmail.com](mailto:uktrecommunity@gmail.com) + +More contact information will be added here as it is created! diff --git a/docs/about/focus.md b/docs/about/focus.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..a1ccb96 --- /dev/null +++ b/docs/about/focus.md @@ -0,0 +1,62 @@ +# Our current focus + +The community has recently received funding as part of the [DARE UK Community Groups funding cycle](https://dareuk.org.uk/dare-uk-announces-funding-and-launch-of-four-community-groups/), running until March 2024. + +Our funding proposal was written collaboratively by over 15 members of the community. Thank you to all those who were involved! + +Below is a summary of what we have committed to delivering in the funding proposal. +Our current focus is on delivering the below, which is reflected in the structure, and ongoing work, of our [open community project board](https://github.com/orgs/uk-tre/projects/1/views/1). + +You can download the full funding application here - {download}`DARE UK Community Groups Funding Application - UK TRE <../_static/dare_uk_funding.pdf>` + +## Key deliverables + +### 1 Strengthening the community + +#### 1.1 Governance + +We're creating a clear governance structure for the community. +This includes updating our governing document, establishing governance principles and processes, and creating a sustainability model for the community. + +#### 1.2 Roadmap + +We're developing a roadmap to lay out key activities for the UK TRE community to thrive. +This includes identifying key activities being undertaken, or ideally to be undertaken by the community, required resources and timeframes, and current statuses. + +### 2 Enhancing outreach and engagement + +#### 2.1 Landscape review + +We're working with members of the community to develop a clear picture of the current UK TRE landscape, and ensure diverse representation across the community. +This includes current work, teams, organisations, funding opportunities, TRE definitions and implementations, impact industries and groups, and more. + +#### 2.2 Public engagement + +We're developing a public engagement activity pipeline. +This will build on work already being done in key public engagment groups like [use MY data](https://www.usemydata.org/) and [PEDRI](https://www.pedri.org.uk/). + +#### 2.3 Event and collaboration spaces + +We're enhancing our event provision and community workspaces. +This will build off our [quarterly community events](../events/index.md), and may include regular town halls, governance meetings and additional communication channels. + +### 3 Resource hub + +#### 3.1 UK TRE website + +We're developing the website to be easier to use, and contain key resources and events relevant to the UK TRE Community. +This will become the central place to find out everything happening, and created and shared, across the community! + +#### 3.2 Content generation + +We're building an open bank of resources and outputs created by the community. +These resources can be picked up and re-used across organisations, and represent the latest thinking and developments across the UK in the TRE space. + +#### 3.3 Contribution pathways + +We're developing effective contribution and engagement methods for the whole community. +This includes both technical and non technical methods of contributing and getting involved! + +## Get involved + +TBC diff --git a/docs/about/governance.md b/docs/about/governance.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..01ecef7 --- /dev/null +++ b/docs/about/governance.md @@ -0,0 +1,3 @@ +# Our governance processes + +To be added diff --git a/docs/about/index.md b/docs/about/index.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..b1cc9cf --- /dev/null +++ b/docs/about/index.md @@ -0,0 +1,31 @@ +# About the community + +```{toctree} +:maxdepth: 1 +:hidden: true + +story.md +focus.md +``` + +Please use this page to learn about the community, including our story, current focus, governance processes, people, and contact information. + +## [](story.md) + +Including how we formed, what we have done so far and where we are going. + +## [](focus.md) + +Details on the current status of the community, and what we are prioritising. + +## [](governance.md) + +Information on our ways of working, our roles and leadership, and how we make decisions. + +## [](people.md) + +Including the wide range of our membership, and who currently holds leadership positions + +## [](contact.md) + +The different ways you can get in touch with the community diff --git a/docs/about/people.md b/docs/about/people.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..09b405c --- /dev/null +++ b/docs/about/people.md @@ -0,0 +1,3 @@ +# Our people + +To be added diff --git a/docs/about/story.md b/docs/about/story.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..19399c7 --- /dev/null +++ b/docs/about/story.md @@ -0,0 +1,3 @@ +# Our story + +To be added diff --git a/docs/index.md b/docs/index.md index 977402b..de8f023 100644 --- a/docs/index.md +++ b/docs/index.md @@ -7,7 +7,7 @@ Newcastle Commitment events/index background/index -structure/index +about/index ``` ```{admonition} UK-TRE March 2024 meeting @@ -39,6 +39,6 @@ Find out more about the UK-TRE community, and how to join us :Mailing list: https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/wa-jisc.exe?SUBED1=UK-TRE-COMM&A=1 :Slack channel: https://uktrecommunity.slack.com/ -## [](structure/index) +## [](about/index) - More detail on how the community is structured and governed diff --git a/docs/structure/community-management.md b/docs/structure/community-management.md deleted file mode 100644 index fc51392..0000000 --- a/docs/structure/community-management.md +++ /dev/null @@ -1,36 +0,0 @@ -# Community Management & Engagement - -## Summary - -- The Trusted Research Environment (TRE) Community Management and Engagement arm of the UK TRE Community aims to foster collaboration and facilitate the sharing and distribution of innovative ideas to support the success of all participants. -- We steer the wider group in alignment with the principles of the [Newcastle Commitment](https://github.com/uk-tre/website/blob/main/docs/newcastle-commitment/index.md), working together to create a more secure, robust, and capable infrastructure, leading to enhanced research outcomes. -- We operate as a volunteer-based, community-driven initiative under the umbrella of the DARE UK Community Group relying on the expertise and resources contributed by our members from UK universities, research institutions, and other relevant bodies. - -## Focus Areas - -1. Outreach and Engagement - - Identify stakeholders and interested parties by exploring the roles and resource required in designing, planning, building, and maintaining Trusted Research Environments. - - Periodically review the wider TRE landscape to build a community which represents the whole of the UK and all those potentially affected by the policies and frameworks intended to guide the development of a harmonised TRE design. - - Send representatives to external events and build out our presence beyond our own community. -2. Supporting Collaboration - - Facilitate consensus-building and collaboration among community members by maintaining open communication spaces, such as a Slack channel and Jisc mailing list. - - Host quarterly half-day events to facilitate knowledge sharing, problem solving, and networking. - - Identify and run additional events for the community on a needs basis, or when ad hoc opportunities arise - - Foster the development of smaller working groups within the community to address specific time-bound objectives. -3. Outputs - - Generate and distribute ideas, innovations, and best practices for building and maintaining trusted research environments in the community GitHub repository, HackMD, and ReadTheDocs. - - Ensure community resources are open, reproducible, attributed and up to date - -## Roles and Responsibilities - -- Members are expected to actively participate in group discussions, share expertise and insights, propose ideas, and collaborate on initiatives. -- Members are expected to commit best endeavours to completing actions for the benefit of the group as time and professional bandwidth allows. -- Decisions within the group will be made collaboratively, with input from all members. Consensus-building and open dialogue will be encouraged to ensure inclusivity and transparency. - -## Duration - -- This group will operate indefinitely; however, smaller working groups may be formed to address specific objectives within defined time frames. - -## Get involved - -Email Hari (hsood@turing.ac.uk) if you would like to be part of this working group! diff --git a/docs/structure/funding-sustainability.md b/docs/structure/funding-sustainability.md deleted file mode 100644 index 93cb7c7..0000000 --- a/docs/structure/funding-sustainability.md +++ /dev/null @@ -1,27 +0,0 @@ -# Funding & Sustainability - -## Summary - -- The Funding & Sustainability working group aims to collect and share knwoledge and best practices around how to sustainably fund trusted research infrastructure. This includes making available costing models and use cases that serve as a reference. -- We operate as a volunteer-based, community-driven initiative under the umbrella of the UK TRE Community Group relying on the expertise and resources contributed by our members from UK universities, research institutions, and other relevant bodies. - -## Focus areas - -1. Establish the UK TRE Community position on sustainable funding: through a position paper on behalf of the UK TRE Community Group towards sustained funding over adequate time horizons for TRE (software) engineering efforts and open source components supporting them -2. Costing models: collect use cases and offer reference costing model(s) or benchmark(s). The WG will put together a comprehensive list of costings (at line item level), scenarios and considerations drawn from the WGs members' experience and the wider Community Group -3. Charging and cost recovery models: the WG will start with existing experiences of different charging models (e.g. data access charges) and how they work in their specific environments, to try and bring this together as a reference knowledge base for the Community Group to draw on. - -## Roles and responsibilites - -- Members are expected to actively participate in group discussions, share expertise and insights, propose ideas, and collaborate on initiatives. -- Members are expected to commit best endeavours to completing actions for the benefit of the group as time and professional bandwidth allows. -- Decisions within the group will be made collaboratively, with input from all members. Consensus-building and open dialogue will be encouraged to ensure inclusivity and transparency. - -## Duration and organisation - -- This working group will operate indefinetely, although it may reassess its focus on a rolling basis and after delivery of initial outputs -- The WG meets every three weeks on Friday afternoon from 13:00 - 14:00. - -## Get involved - -Email Fergus (Fergus.McDonald@dareuk.org.uk) if you would like to be part of this working group! diff --git a/docs/structure/index.md b/docs/structure/index.md deleted file mode 100644 index 588258f..0000000 --- a/docs/structure/index.md +++ /dev/null @@ -1,38 +0,0 @@ -# Community structure - -```{toctree} -:maxdepth: 1 -:hidden: true - -community-management.md -open-source-open-standards.md -funding-sustainability.md -information-governance.md -``` - -The community is currently entirely volunteer-driven, with no formally allocated time or resources for anyone. -As the community grows and develops, we may need to think about more robust infrastructure concerning its operation and governance. - -Currently, there are two main focuses of the community: - -1. Quarterly community events -2. Community Working Groups - -## Quarterly Community Events - -These started with the inaugural community meeting at RSE Con 22 in September 2022. -Subsequent online meetings have taken place in December 2022, March 2023 and July 2023. - -More detail on these events, and their write-ups, can be found in [the events section](../events/index.md) - -## Working groups - -As well as hosting quarterly events, the community has established 4 working groups to tackle key TRE issues collaboratively. -These working groups are self organised, and aim to make progress on their respective focus areas between community events. - -The four working groups are: - -- [**Open Source & Open Standards**](./open-source-open-standards.md): Promoting open standards and open source TRE infrastructure -- [**Community Management & Engagement**](./community-management.md): running this group effectively, and engaging all relevant stakeholders -- [**Funding & Sustainability**](./funding-sustainability.md): Exploring funding models and operation models to enable long-term sustainability and realisation of TRE infrastructure -- [**Information Governance**](./information-governance.md): Managing information governance requirements within TRE infrastructure, and moving towards standardisation diff --git a/docs/structure/information-governance.md b/docs/structure/information-governance.md deleted file mode 100644 index 8ce28f0..0000000 --- a/docs/structure/information-governance.md +++ /dev/null @@ -1 +0,0 @@ -# Information Governance diff --git a/docs/structure/open-source-open-standards.md b/docs/structure/open-source-open-standards.md deleted file mode 100644 index c5ca06b..0000000 --- a/docs/structure/open-source-open-standards.md +++ /dev/null @@ -1,34 +0,0 @@ -# Open Source and Open Standards - -## Summary - -The open-source and open-standards TRE working group promotes the development and use of open standards and open infrastructure for secure environments. - -This includes supporting the community in developing and maintaining open-standards, and providing a forum for open-source TRE contributors to meet and share ideas, in-line with the principles of the [Newcastle Commitment](https://github.com/uk-tre/website/blob/main/docs/newcastle-commitment/index.md). - -## Focus Areas - -1. Liaising with DARE and relevant DARE funded projects - - DARE are funding multiple relevant projects. Several of those projects already have members in this WG, and we will ensure a two-way flow of information between the projects and the wider TRE community. -2. Produce recommendations for open standards - - DARE are overseeing the creation of open-standards for TRE architectures and federation. - This WG will contribute to the governance of those standards, ensuring they represent the needs of the TRE community. -3. Promote the use of open standards and open infrastructure - - In line with the Newcastle Commitment this WG will promote the use of open standards and open infrastructure, and will maintain a list of open-source TRE projects. -4. Encourage the sharing of information and experiences with other projects working on open-source and open-standards beyond TREs. - - Open standards and open infrastructure may be relatively new to the TRE field, but have been very successful in other areas. - We can learn from other examples of open development when forming our own standards and infrastructure. - -## Roles and Responsibilities - -- Members are expected to actively participate in group discussions, share expertise and insights, propose ideas, and collaborate on initiatives. -- Members are expected to commit best endeavours to completing actions for the benefit of the group as time and professional bandwidth allows. -- Decisions within the group will be made collaboratively, with input from all members. Consensus-building and open dialogue will be encouraged to ensure inclusivity and transparency. - -## Duration - -- This group will operate indefinitely; however, smaller working groups may be formed to address specific objectives within defined time frames. - -## Get involved - -Email Simon (spli@dundee.ac.uk) if you would like to be part of this working group!