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Dear Colleagues,


Today we are proud to launch the EaaSI Open Source Software Sandbox
<https://www.softwarepreservationnetwork.org/eaasi-sandbox/>!

The sandbox provides free, public access to emulated computer environments
featuring operating systems and software from over twenty years of open
source development including:

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   landmark open source distributions,
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   alternatives to major proprietary software titles,
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   interfaces for the R programming language and
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   open source educational software

We’re offering the sandbox to show how EaaSI makes access to emulation
possible at the click of a button. You can also review the metadata records
we are sharing via the Wikidata knowledge base to learn more about the open
software inside and to verify its accuracy.  We invite you to poke around
these fascinating legacy programs and to learn more about the capabilities
of the EaaSI system as you do.

STAY INFORMED

To receive bi-monthly EaaSI updates via newsletter and share your software
preservation successes/challenges, sign up for the Software Preservation
Network mailing list by visiting
https://groups.google.com/d/forum/software-preservation-network.

If you have questions for the project team, please contact the EaaSI
Community Outreach Lead, Jessica Meyerson, at <jessica[at]educopia[dot]org>.

MORE ABOUT EAASI

With generous support from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation and the Andrew W.
Mellon Foundation, and led by Yale University Library, the EaaSI program
builds on previous work to apply the Emulation-as-a-Service(EaaS)
<http://eaas.uni-freiburg.de/> framework for access and use of preserved
software and digital objects. The project is focused on scaling the
technological framework necessary for multiple institutions to configure,
share, and access software and configured environments. EaaSI is focused on
a distributed, community-driven architecture that sits on top of existing
digital preservation infrastructure. This directly complements existing
efforts by the Software Preservation Network
<https://www.softwarepreservationnetwork.org/> and others to address key
aspects of software preservation including legal advocacy, research about
local software preservation needs, institutional capacity building for
software preservation, collection development, professional development and
training, and workflow recommendations.


-- 
*Jessica Meyerson*
Research Program Officer | Educopia Institute <http://educopia.org/>
Software Preservation Network <https://softwarepreservationnetwork.org>
The Maintainers <http://themaintainers.org/>

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