We are delighted to introduce our second ambassador in 2023, Camille Françoise. Camille Françoise is Open Culture/GLAM Advocate & Project manager at the Nederlands Instituut voor Beeld en Geluid. She worked in several digital departments of museums in France and abroad. In 2021, she joined Creative Commons as the Open Culture manager. As part of […]
We are delighted to introduce our first ambassador in 2023, Violaine Louvet. Violaine is a research engineer in scientific computing. She works at the Jean Kuntzmann Laboratory, a research unit dedicated to applied mathematics after being the director of the Grenoble Alpes Research Scientific Computing and Data Infrastructure. She contributes to the French Committee for […]
As we enter 2023, we publish, as usual, our annual report on the past year. We are excited to announce that this is now available as a → standalone document ←, making it easier to grasp the breadth of the mission, follow the progress made and share it with a broader audience. In 2022, we […]
We are delighted to announce that Software Heritage development and operations are now done on our own GitLab instance. It will improve our workflow and enable easier contributions from all interested in preserving software history. Thanks to the efforts of our sysadmin team, helped by Open Tech Strategies, we were able to smoothly transition from […]
The long term mission of Software Heritage is to collect, preserve, and share all publicly available software in source code form, serving a variety of needs ranging from cultural heritage to industry and research. On November 2021 we celebrated 5 years since the public unveiling in June 2016 and renewed the agreement with UNESCO. At the end of 2022 the Software Heritage archive […]
We are delighted to introduce our 23rd ambassador, Gilmary Gallon, senior research and innovation associate. After an education orientated toward the pharmaceutical industry and a PhD in Chemistry and physicochemistry of bio-based materials intended for health application, Gilmary Gallon shifted away from academia to the world of private research and development. Nevertheless, his experience in […]
We are delighted to introduce our 22nd ambassador, Joenio Marques da Costa. Joenio is a research Software Engineer at LISIS, a social science research laboratory. He works as a backend developer on the CorTexT platform and Risis Core Facility (RCF) project, and in a more general way, he strives to ensure the sustainability of the […]
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 where available. We are very excited to announce the launch of SWHAP Days, a two-day workshop […]
Community/users new web page A new community/users page dedicated to Software Heritage users is now available on the website. On this page, you will find all the resources available to provide SWH users with help and support. On this occasion, we have introduced new user-oriented communication channels, as presented below. User-dedicated communication channels: swh-users mailing […]
We are delighted to introduce our 21st ambassador, Julien Caugant, from Aix Marseille University library. Since 2010 Julien Caugant has been the assistant librarian at Aix-Marseille University. At the library, within the Open Science team, he supports faculty, researchers and students in the dissemination of their research productions via HAL, the french academic open repository. […]
