In this chapter. A local OpenEMIS Core 5.7 on your laptop in about half an hour — the
docker-compose.ymlI use, the first-boot sequence, what to expect at first login, and the small handful of problems that find new readers on their first afternoon.
The shortest argument for spending an hour of your life on a local OpenEMIS is this: demo.openemis.org is fine for browsing, but you cannot break it, and a system you cannot break is a system you cannot truly learn. The moment you need to test a workflow change, write against the API, or train a new colleague who is going to misclick into every wrong corner of the screen, you need a copy of OpenEMIS that you own. This chapter gets you to that copy.
Four readers, really. Three are obvious; the fourth less so.
