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# Developer Guide

The purpose of this guide is to get you started in OpenCATS development.

### Quick start

The easier way to get started is to fork the project, download the source code and run the product using the Test environment provisioned by Docker.

#### Prerequisites

* Git
* Docker 1.12+

\### Forking OpenCATS repository

#### Downloading OpenCATS

#### Using docker environment for development

### References

#### Technical vision

<https://github.com/opencats/OpenCATS/wiki/Technical-vision>

#### Design documents

<https://github.com/opencats/OpenCATS/wiki/Software-design-documents>


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