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<div dir="ltr" style="margin:0px"><span style="margin:0px;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;color:black">Dear all (with a</span><span style="color: black; font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">pologies
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I'm sharing<span> </span><a href="https://docs.exbuilder.org/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" data-auth="NotApplicable" title="https://docs.exbuilder.org/" data-linkindex="0" style="margin:0px">exbuilder</a>, a framework we developed for doing reproducible
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<p><span style="margin:0px"><span style="margin:0px"><span style="margin:0px">Docker is a service that allows you to package software and applications into<span> </span></span><span style="margin:0px"><strong>containers</strong></span><span style="margin:0px"><span> </span>that
are easy to work with and easy to share with others. Containers are a natural solution to many of the issues we encounter when trying to share our research with our colleagues, the academic community, and even (especially!) our future selves. With docker,
you share not only your code, but also the applications you used to develop and run that code.</span></span></span></p>
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<p><span style="margin:0px"><span style="margin:0px"><span style="margin:0px">We created<span> </span></span><span style="margin:0px"><strong>exbuilder</strong></span><span style="margin:0px"><span> </span>to make it easy for others to learn how to use docker
containers as part of their research process. exbuilder is a<span> </span></span><span style="margin:0px"><strong>framework</strong></span><span style="margin:0px">, meaning it is designed to provide structure and a starting point for working on research with
docker containers.</span></span></span></p>
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<p><span style="margin:0px"><span style="margin:0px"><span style="margin:0px">You could use exbuilder to help you learn to use docker containers as part of your<span> </span><a href="https://docs.exbuilder.org/project-components/analyses" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" data-auth="NotApplicable" title="https://docs.exbuilder.org/project-components/analyses" data-linkindex="1" style="margin:0px">analysis
process</a><span> </span>or to<span> </span><a href="https://docs.exbuilder.org/deployment/deploy-your-web-experiment" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" data-auth="NotApplicable" title="https://docs.exbuilder.org/deployment/deploy-your-web-experiment" data-linkindex="2" style="margin:0px">deploy
your web experiments</a><span> </span>on your own server. For a quick overview, you can watch the
<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G1HZZFDgX8o&ab_channel=KathrynSchuler" title="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G1HZZFDgX8o&ab_channel=KathrynSchuler">
getting started with exbuilder</a> video. </span></span></span></p>
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<p>I hope some of you find it useful! Happy to answer questions if you have any.</p>
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<p>Yours,</p>
<p>Katie</p>
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