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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">FYI: the Software Preservation Network has released the EaaSI
<span style="color:black;background:white">Open Source Software Sandbox to illustrate how emulated software environments can be useful for preservation.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black;background:white">Contact Seth if you have any questions (email below).
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<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">Dear Colleagues, </span><span style="font-family:-webkit-standard;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<b><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">ANNOUNCEMENT</span></b><span style="font-family:-webkit-standard;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">Today we are launching the<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span><a href="https://www.softwarepreservationnetwork.org/eaasi-sandbox/"><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#1155CC">EaaSI
Open Source Software Sandbox</span></a><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">:</span><span style="font-family:-webkit-standard;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">The sandbox provides<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><b>free, public access to emulated computer environments featuring operating systems and software from over twenty years
of open source development</b><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>including:</span><span style="font-family:-webkit-standard;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">landmark open source distributions, </span><span style="font-family:-webkit-standard"><o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:black;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo3;vertical-align:baseline">
<span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">alternatives to major proprietary software titles, </span><span style="font-family:-webkit-standard"><o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:black;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo3;vertical-align:baseline">
<span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">interfaces for the R programming language and </span><span style="font-family:-webkit-standard"><o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:black;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo3;vertical-align:baseline">
<span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">open source educational software. </span><span style="font-family:-webkit-standard"><o:p></o:p></span></li></ul>
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<span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">We’re offering the sandbox to<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><b>show how EaaSI makes access to emulation possible at the click of a button</b>. You can also review the<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span><a href="https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1ZOUr0pEtkH4_2C7oXdAIeexwhN0v0MvSN7gaVcAnUgo/edit?usp=sharing"><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#954F72">metadata
records</span></a><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black"> </span></span><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">we are sharing 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.</span><span style="font-family:-webkit-standard;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<b><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">STAY INFORMED</span></b><span style="font-family:-webkit-standard;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">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<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span><a href="https://groups.google.com/d/forum/software-preservation-network"><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#1155CC">https://groups.google.com/d/forum/software-preservation-network</span></a><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">. </span><span style="font-family:-webkit-standard;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">If you have questions for the project team, please contact the EaaSI Community Outreach Lead, Jessica Meyerson, at <jessica[at]educopia[dot]org>.</span><span style="font-family:-webkit-standard;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<b><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">MORE ABOUT EAASI</span></b><span style="font-family:-webkit-standard;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">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<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span><a href="http://eaas.uni-freiburg.de/"><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#1155CC">Emulation-as-a-Service(EaaS)</span></a><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black"> </span></span><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">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<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span><a href="https://www.softwarepreservationnetwork.org/"><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#1155CC">Software
Preservation Network</span></a><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black"> </span></span><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">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.</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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