We at Software Heritage strongly believe that software is a cultural artifact that shapes our world and affects our lives in countless ways. We are thrilled to share an article by our ambassador Simon Phipps, who shares this belief and advocates for the importance of Open Source in preserving software as a part of the […]

We are delighted to introduce our 6th ambassador this year: Max Kalik! Based in San Francisco, USA, Max is a software engineer at Triumph Labs who is skilled in solving technical and user problems across all stages of product creation. Over the past four years, he has focused on mobile development for iOS, where he […]

We are delighted to welcome our fifth ambassador this year: Harish Pillay! Harish is an electrical and computer engineer; he leads the Community Architecture and Leadership in Red Hat Asia Pacific. In 2016, he was elected for a three-year mandate into the Internet Society Board of Trustees. His introduction to internetworking was on the ARPANET […]

On February 7th, 2023, the Software Heritage community convened at the UNESCO headquarters in Paris, France, following the 2023 Symposium to exchange ideas. The gathering included team members, ambassadors, grantees, partners, and contributors, who engaged in discussions on the latest evolution of the Software Heritage archive and collaborated on various aspects of its mission. In […]

Software Heritage is participating in a new national research and innovation program on cybersecurity launched on Friday, March 31st, 2023, at the Cyber Campus in Paris. Funded under the National Cybersecurity Strategy and operated by Inria for the academic community, this program at the Cyber Campus aims to strengthen research and skills transfer efforts and […]

We are delighted to welcome our fourth ambassador this year: Maxence Azzouz-Thuderoz! Maxence Azzouz-Thuderoz is a data scientist specialising in AI and natural language processing. He joined FIZ Karlsruhe – Leibniz Institute to develop core components of the European Open Science Cloud, after many years as a natural language processing engineer in the industry. Leibniz […]

We are delighted to announce that the SWHID deposit for Research Software on HAL and Software Heritage is available on all HAL instances since January 2023. Thanks to a close collaboration between the CCSD, IES-INRIA and the Software Heritage team. The SWHID deposit is an addition to the already existing research software deposit as a […]

We are delighted to welcome our third ambassador this year: Simon Phipps! Simon is a computer engineer who has had a long career in the computer industry working on networking, operating systems, standards and latterly Open Source. He was twice President of the Open Source Initiative (OSI) — the non-profit organisation that acts as steward […]

We are pleased to share that a research software workshop will be held as part of the RDA P20 plenary in Gothenburg and online, on Friday, March 24th. The workshop is organized by partners from the two European projects FAIR-IMPACT and FAIRCORE4OSC; Software Heritage is a partner in the projects to increase recognition of research […]

We are thrilled to announce that the Software Heritage symposium and summit webpage is now live! If you were not able to attend this exciting event on February 7th, 2023, you can still access the wealth of knowledge and insights shared by our expert speakers. Voices from the Software Heritage Symposium and Summit Representatives of […]