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During the fifth anniversary of Software Heritage, we have unveiled Software Stories, a novel approach to present the history of landmark software projects, making it accessible to a wide range of software enthusiasts without any technical background. The Software Stories project is a joint collaboration with the sciencestories.io team and […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
We are delighted to introduce our 15th ambassador, Sandrine Layrisse, System and network administrator at the Bordeaux Mathematics Institute (IMB – CNRS, Bordeaux INP and Université de Bordeaux. Her involvement in the Online Platform for Mathematics (Plateforme en ligne pour les mathématiques (PLM) team is enabling the new PLM services […]
Software Heritage’s long term goal is to archive the publicly available source code of all software ever written. Today, we’re excited to announce that a third grant managed by NLNet has been awarded to Octobus to help expand the coverage of the Software Heritage archive, by developing new listers and […]
We are delighted to introduce our 14th ambassador, Dare Pejić, producer in new media & digital arts. As a programme coordinator and producer at Ljubljana’s Ljudmila Art and Science Laboratory, he conceived and organized Algopolis, the very first live coding festival in Slovenia. Dare’s master’s thesis at UNESCO chair for […]
The mission of Software Heritage is to collect, preserve and share all the publicly available source code. With over 11 billion source files from more than 160 million projects, the Software Heritage archive is the largest collection of source code ever created. Building the Software Heritage infrastructure is challenging. This […]
We are delighted to introduce our 13th ambassador, Jaime Arias, CNRS research engineer working at the Laboratoire d’Informatique de Paris Nord (LIPN). Jaime is an advocate of replicable research and open-source software. Among some of his missions, he is in charge of the development of scientific tools for the research […]
We are delighted to introduce our 12th ambassador, Maria Chiara Prodi. Maria Chiara is the artistic coordinator and deputy director of the production at the Opéra Comique, in Paris. She is also strongly engaged in several networks for civic participation. “I have been struggling with rare opera scores for the […]
