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+title = "2024-09-09 CodeRefinery workshop practical information"
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+subject = "CodeRefinery workshop starts tomorrow - practical information"
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+Dear {first_name},
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+The CodeRefinery workshop starts tomorrow, Tuesday September 10th at 9:00 Central European Summer Time (CEST, Oslo) / 10:00 EEST (Helsinki)!
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+We expect a dynamic and exciting workshop and very much look forward to it.
+This is all you need for the full workshop experience tomorrow:
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+1) A web-browser to follow the workshop lectures via Twitch (no account needed):
+- https://twitch.tv/coderefinery
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+2) A second web-browser window to edit the document to ask questions during the workshop:
+- https://notes.coderefinery.org/workshop-2024-september
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+3) A user account on GitHub for doing the exercises
+- https://coderefinery.github.io/installation/github/
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+4) If you participate as a team, we recommend that you reserve a physical or video room for your team to work together during the exercises of the first workshop week.
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+5) OPTIONAL: if you want to run Git from your computer, please install required software before the workshop:
+- https://coderefinery.github.io/installation/
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+Schedule and lecture material:
+- https://coderefinery.github.io/2024-09-10-workshop/#schedule (in your local time zone)
+- Each day we will take a break for lunch, which we have done our best to schedule at a time that will work for most locations as we are across multiple time zones.
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+If you have any questions, please write to support@coderefinery.org or reply to me.
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+Kind regards,
+CodeRefinery team