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:::{profile} Patricia Herterich
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roles: |
    Project Delivery Team Member (2019 - 2020);
    Book Dash Participant (2022);
    Book Dash Organising Committee member (May 2025)
github: pherterich
orcid: 0000-0002-4542-9906
bio: |
    Patricia Herterich is an information professional and Open Science enthusiast.
    She is a Software Sustainability Fellow 2019 and currently OLS's Associate Director for Finance and Operations.
    She holds a MA in Library and Information Science from Humboldt University of Berlin, Germany (2013) and has over ten years of experience in research data management working at CERN’s Scientific Information Service and Higher Education institutions in the UK.
highlights: |
    Reminding myself of my technical skills and how I love proper GitHub workflows. Thank you for trusting me with the facilitation of a discussion session on leadership and the wonderful input from everyone. It was great coming back and contributing to the Turing Way.

    I loved facilitating the Scavenger Hunt. It's great to see that you can build connections in virtual events.
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    I moved my share outs from crafting to taking care of plants. And talking about bread. Also, I have too many Moomin themed items.
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:::{profile} Paul Owoicho
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roles: |
    Project Delivery Team Member (2020);
    Google Season of Doc 2020: Technical Writer (2020);
    Book Dash Participant (2020)
github: paulowoicho
bio: |
    I am a Technical Writer / Google Season of Docs (GSoD) Participant working to make The Turing Way consistent, sustainable, and accessible.
    I have a BSc in Software Engineering from the American University of Nigeria. Thereafter, I worked as a Research Analyst in the Fintech & Innovation Division of Guaranty Trust Bank, Nigeria and helped to drive the Bank's push to become a platform by creating innovative digital products.
    I completed a Master's in Data Science from the University of Glasgow and starting my PhD in January 2021 studying conversational information-seeking systems. I spent two years as a Research Analyst at Guaranty Trust Bank in Lagos, Nigeria helping to build innovative digital products to meet the Bank's customer objectives.
highlights: |
    The Turing Way is my first foray into open source and has been a fantastic learning experience.
    Not only have I gained a deeper understanding and appreciation for how GitHub works, but I am also learning to prioritise sustainability and empowerment in the work that I do.
    Although The Turing Way is my first open source project, I thoroughly enjoyed the experience and learned a lot along the way. Before the GSoD program, I only used Github to 'store' my projects. Now, I am much more proficient at using Github for collaborative endeavours and I am more adept at working with tools such as {term}`Markdown`, Jupyter Book, and Sphinx. In addition, I gained familiarity with setting up and working with web analytics software.
    You can see the full report from [GSoD participation](https://github.com/the-turing-way/the-turing-way/blob/main/communications/GSOD-applications/GSoD-2020-Project-Report.md).
    The BookDash November 2020 was great! It was awesome to meet, collaborate, and share ideas with people from around the world. Beyond the Book Dash, The Turing Way is the very first open-source project I have ever worked on. The experience has been fantastic, and I intend to stick around as a contributor after the Google Season of Docs program ends. I also see myself getting involved in other open-source projects.
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    Aside from technical skills, I developed a deep appreciation for what working on an open source project entails. My mentors helped me realise that the value I left behind from the GSoD program was not in the amount of work I did, but how I enabled other contributors to also do the work I was doing. As a result, I learned to contribute as a Technical Writer in a manner that was reproducible, sustainable, accessible, and inclusive.
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:::{profile} Philippe Rocca-Serra
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roles: |
    FAIR-Cookbook Representative;
    Book Dash Participant (2020)
github: proccaserra
orcid: 0000-0001-9853-5668
bio: |
    Philippe Rocca-Serra received a PhD in Molecular Biology from the University of Bordeaux, moving to the field of bioinformatics upon joining the Microarray Informatics Team at the EMBL-EBI, Cambridge. There, working at establishing ArrayExpress, he became an active member of several standardisation efforts aimed at promoting the vision for open data and open science. As part of several EU projects in toxicogenomics and nutrigenomics, he coordinated the development of the ISA project [1], which now continues at the University of Oxford e-Research Centre.
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