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Hashbang to help expanding the coverage of the  Software Heritage archive

Software Heritage’s long term goal is to archive the publicly available source code of all software ever written.  Today, we are excited to announce that a 7th subgrant managed by Alfred P. Sloan Foundation has been awarded to Hashbang to help to expand the coverage of the  Software Heritage archive, […]

février 3, 2022

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Towards a Software Pillar for Open Science at OSEC 2022 (5/2/2022)

During the five years celebration event held on November 30th at UNESCO headquarters, software and open science were on the centre stage, with a presentation of the second french National Plan for Open Science and the UNESCO recommendation on Open Science, approved by the member states just a few days before. We are delighted […]

février 1, 2022

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The Software Heritage 5 years anniversary event page is here!

On November 30th 2021 we celebrated the fifth anniversary of Software Heritage at Unesco‘s headquarters in Paris. This was a special day, and marked the birth of the Sofware Heritage International Conference, where our growing international community came together: we had a rich program that covered the multiple facets of Sofware […]

janvier 20, 2022

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Preserving source code archive files

As announced here before, we partnered with funders around the world to provide grants for experts that are willing to engage with the long term mission of Software Heritage. Today we are delighted to share that one more subgrant has been awarded! Thanks to the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, Timothy Sample, will […]

janvier 13, 2022

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Meeting at UNESCO to celebrate five years of Software Heritage

© Inria / Photo B. Fourrier

This year 2021 we celebrate five years of continuous and passionate dedication to the Software Heritage mission, which we announced to the world on June 30th 2016: to collect, preserve and share all the available source code, for the benefit of society as a whole.  A growing international community gets […]

décembre 16, 2021

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Join the donor community, and help preserve software

Click here to become a donor! Our non-profit mission at Software Heritage is to collect, preserve forever, and make publicly available the entire body of software, in the preferred form for making modifications to it. We have started pursuing this ambitious goal 5 years ago and, since then, we have […]

décembre 7, 2021

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CEA

Les logiciels sont au cœur de l’engagement du CEA dans le transfert des connaissances de la recherche vers l’industrie. Avec la Software Heritage Foundation, nous soutenons la préservation et le partage de ces connaissances. — Alexandre Bounouh, Directeur de l’Institut List CEA

novembre 26, 2021

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Introducing our 16th and 17th ambassadors, Cécile and Océane

We are delighted to introduce our 16th and 17th ambassadors, Cécile Arènes and Océane Valencia from the Sorbonne University library. Cécile is a data librarian and Océane is an archivist and the head of the archives and records department. Sorbonne University is strongly committed to open science and the library has […]

novembre 26, 2021

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GNU/Linux System Administrator, Paris-based

Software Heritage is an ambitious nonprofit, entirely Free/Open-Source Software (FOSS) initiative that aims at collecting, organizing, preserving for the very long term, and sharing all publicly available software in source code form, together with the corresponding complete development history (e.g., from a Version Control System) where available. The Software Heritage archive […]

novembre 9, 2021

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Software Heritage is seeking a Paris-based full-time back-end developer

Software Heritage is an ambitious nonprofit, entirely Free/Open-Source Software (FOSS) initiative that aims at collecting, organizing, preserving for the very long term, and sharing all publicly available software in source code form, together with the corresponding complete development history (e.g., from a Version Control System) where available. The Software Heritage archive […]

novembre 9, 2021

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