Open Source: The connective tissue of Open Science
Research software shouldn’t expire when a grant ends. Sayeed Choudhury on how Carnegie Mellon’s OSPO is building the ‘connective tissue’ to turn lab code into lasting community products.
How free CDs built an open source movement
Meet our new Ambassador, Warren Camilleri: bridging open source across Malta, Europe, and beyond—from 2000s Ubuntu CDs to EU digital policy.
Software Heritage at UN Open Source Week 2026
For the first time, there’s proof of how the world’s governments engage with open source. A recap of Software Heritage at UN Open Source Week 2026 and the global launch of the Public Code Observatory.
The world’s first government open source insights report launches at UN Open Source Week
The first State of Public Code report offers a global, evidence-based view of how governments use and contribute to open-source software.
No science without source: Collecting, preserving and sharing software in a risky world
Addressing an audience on research ethics, Roberto Di Cosmo reframed the conversation around data altruism by crossing out «data» to focus on a deeper issue: the shared commons of software code itself.
From dependence to resilience: Digital sovereignty for software
Roberto Di Cosmo returned to the University of Pisa — where he studied in the 1980s — to make the case that Europe’s digital sovereignty debate is missing its most critical pillar: software. A talk on fragility, dependency, and why resilience is not the same thing as control.
Building software to support researchers
Computational pathology researcher and Software Heritage Ambassador Esha Nasir explains why the traditional PDF is obsolete and how Research Software Engineers (RSEs) help secure open science.
Archiving 900 million lines of the OIN Linux System Table
Beyond the license: Software Heritage and OIN have archived 900M lines of the Linux System Table. Discover how permanent code preservation creates a prior art shield against patent aggression and digital link rot.
One Year of SWHID as the ISO/IEC 18670 International Standard
Agustín Benito Bethencourt discusses the implementation of SWHID in modern development and the move toward evidence-based compliance.
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Back-End Developer About Software Heritage Software Heritage is a universal archive of software source code, aiming to collect, preserve for the very long term, and share all publicly available source…