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Introducing the 3rd Software Heritage’s ambassador

We are delighted to introduce our 3rd ambassador, Malin Sandström, the Community Engagement officer for the  International Neuroinformatics Coordinating Facility (INCF). The mission of INCF is to help make neuroscience FAIR and move it towards an open, citable ecosystem.  Malin has a PhD in computational neuroscience – she did computational […]

junio 7, 2021

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Software Heritage welcomes Google Summer of Code students… again!

After welcoming Thibault Allançon, Kalpit Kothari, and Archit Agrawal as interns during Google Summer of Code 2019, the Software Heritage team is delighted to welcome two new students for this year: Kumar Shivendu et Daniele Serafini. Google Summer of Code is a global program focused on giving more student developers […]

junio 4, 2021

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Meet the second Software Heritage ambassador

Last month, we launched the ambassadors’ program with our first ambassador, Pierre Poulain. Today we are delighted to introduce Bruno Khélifi, the second Software Heritage ambassador in academia. Bruno is a physicist working at APC  in the experimental area of very-high-energy gamma-ray astrophysics, as a member of the H.E.S.S. and […]

mayo 27, 2021

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Know your software: contributing to cybersecurity through traceability

A recent executive order from the President of the United States focused on responding to cybersecurity threats has a full section dedicated to «Enhancing Software Supply Chain Security». It announces forthcoming standards, procedures, or criteria regarding in particular means for:  (x)  ensuring and attesting, to the extent practicable, to the […]

mayo 21, 2021

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Next Generation counters are up and running!

Software Heritage is archiving hundreds of millions of repositories, produced by tens of millions of developers. This amount to billions of distinct software artefacts (files, directories, revisions, releases) that need to be properly ingested in the gigantic Merkle graph that lies at the core of the archive. It is quite […]

mayo 11, 2021

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Meet the first Software Heritage ambassador

We are delighted to introduce our first ambassador, Pierre Poulain. Pierre has a PhD in physics and is a lecturer in bioinformatics at the University of Paris. He develops methods and tools for the analysis and visualisation of biological data, in particular from public databases.  Convinced that open science and […]

abril 29, 2021

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Connecting with the OCaml ecosystem

As announced here before, we received a grant from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation to support contributions from experts that want to help increase the coverage of the Software Heritage archive. After a first subgrant awarded to Cottage Labs, a second one awarded to Stefan Sperling, and a third awarded […]

abril 20, 2021

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A peek under the hood with the 2021 Roadmap

Our mission at Software Heritage is to build the long term universal source code archive, by collecting, preserving and sharing the source code of all software publicly available. This ambitious undertaking requires tackling significant technical challenges that are,  like for many global scale services used daily worldwide, hidden behind a […]

abril 8, 2021

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Towards a next generation object storage for Software Heritage

The mission of Software Heritage is to collect, preserve and share all the publicly available source code. With 10 billion source files from more than 150 million projects, the Software Heritage archive is the largest collection of source code ever created. Building the Software Heritage infrastructure is no simple feat. […]

marzo 11, 2021

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We are hiring! Join Software Heritage’s team!

Software Heritage’s mission is to collect, preserve and share the source code of all publicly available software, and in doing so, it is creating a one of a kind knowledge base about software development. We are looking for a senior back-end developer to grow our development team. The software engineer […]

febrero 1, 2021

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