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The Software Sustainability Institute will present the workshop “Boost your research reproducibility with Binder” by Sarah Gibson, The Turing Way, as part of the Research Software Camp on research accessibility. The workshop will take place on the week of 1 March 2021. 

If you are looking for an easy way to share your code with others, without worrying about the computational environment they're running or installing a long list of requirements, then Binder might be the solution for you. Binder allows you to share your software with others in the form of a single clickable link, improving accessibility for users and removing the need for you to worry about supporting lots of different platforms.

During this free workshop we will discuss reproducible computing environments and why they're important, show examples of others’ projects in mybinder.org and help you learn how to prepare a binder-ready project. At the end of the workshop you will be able to take some of your own content (in a R or Jupyter Notebook, or scripts that can be run in the terminal) and prepare it so that it can be used by others on mybinder.org.

This workshop is for people who are:

• Interested in software best practices.
• Interested in reproducibility, containers, Docker or continuous integration.
• Already familiar with R Markdown or Jupyter Notebooks.
• Looking to communicate their research more effectively and make their research software more accessible.

Although the workshop is free, we ask participants to register well in advance as spaces are limited. Registration will open next week. 

This is one of the three live sessions that we are hosting as part of the Research Software Camp on research accessibility, running from Monday 22 February to 5 March 2021. A series of resources, ranging from social media campaigns and discussion forums to blog posts and guides, will accompany the pre-recorded and live sessions throughout the two weeks. We welcome anyone involved with research and research software from all career stages to attend this session, and take part in social media and website activities.

About The Turing Way

The Turing Way is a handbook to support students, their supervisors, funders and journal editors in ensuring that reproducible data science is "too easy not to do". It is openly developed and any and all questions, comments and recommendations are welcome at their Github repository or gitter chat room. Their interdisciplinary team includes, but is not limited to, data scientists, research software engineers and librarians.

About the Research Software Camps

The SSI runs free online Research Software Camps twice a year over the course of two weeks. Each Camp will focus on introducing and exploring a topic around research software, thus starting discussions among various research communities.