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+# Research Engineering Group
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+This repo is the [website for the Research Engineering Group](https://jgibristol.github.io/REG/), a **community of practice** at the University of Bristol. It includes interdisciplinary data scientists, research software engineers, research infrastructure engineers, data engineers and friends.
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+## How to get involved
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+[See our website](https://jgibristol.github.io/REG/) for more information.
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+## Making changes to the website
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+We are happy to receive issues or pull requests for this website. Members of the group can also get push access from an admin.
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+We use [Quarto](https://quarto.org/) to build the website, and this happens automatically when you push your changes back up to GitHub, via a [GitHub Action](https://github.com/JGIBristol/REG/blob/main/.github/workflows/publish-page.yaml). To preview your changes locally before committing/pushing, install Quarto and then run:
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+```bash
+quarto preview
+```