Ambassadors

Software Heritage is building the universal software source code archive, that enables a wealth of applications, in the realms of academia, cultural heritage, industry and public administration. We are looking for enthusiastic organizations and individuals to volunteer as ambassadors to help grow the Software Heritage community.

Become a Software Heritage ambassador to support this effort in your area by:

presenting Software Heritage, the services it provides, and its long term mission to key persons in your area
sharing information with relevant mailing lists, venues and contacts
posting Software Heritage news on blogs and social media
identifying code hosting platforms in your area that it is urgent and important to archive
updating the Software Heritage team with your community’s feedback

Software Heritage will offer support to ambassadors by:

Sharing selected relevant material for their specific area
Providing access to the Software Heritage team
Acknowledging ambassador’s name and affiliated organization
Shipping promotional material

Here are a few examples of what ambassadors can do in each of the main areas.

Show researchers how to save and reference research software and how to cite it properly
Contact scientific journals and conferences to recommend archiving research source code in Software Heritage;
Foster Software Heritage as a pillar of Open Science in your institution and research community

Learn and promote the Software Heritage Acquisition Process (SWHAP) for archiving landmark legacy software
Connect with museums, cultural institutions, software preservation initiatives
Talk about the ongoing collaboration with UNESCO
Promote best pratices

Explain how Software Heritage provides a universal, vendor-neutral, persistent software archive, and the reference source code knowledge base for all industry compliance needs
Promote SWHIDs to ensure traceability along the supply chain, across future development and organizational changes

Show how archiving source code in Software Heritage helps public administrations become more transparent and accountable
Explain the importance of collecting, curating and sharing the public source code from public administrations worldwide
Share good practices and promote them in government fora

Meet our ambassadors

Ambassadors

Agustín Benito Bethencourt

Independent Consultant

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Industry

https://mastodon.social/@toscalix

https://www.linkedin.com/in/toscalix

https://x.com/toscalix

Contact: contact/a/toscalix.com Country of residence: Spain Languages spoken: English, Spanish Ambassador’s fields of expertise: industry,

Alexis Lebis

Assistant professor in computing, IMT Nord Europe

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Academia

HAL

https://cv.hal.science/alexislebis

https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2104-8671

Contact: alexis.lebis/a/imt-nord-europe.fr Country of residence: France Languages spoken: French Programming languages: C, C++, Java, Python,

Anna-Lena Lamprecht

Prof. Software Engineering, Univ. Potsdam

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Academia

https://www.linkedin.com/in/alamprecht/

https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1953-5606

Contact: anna-lena.lamprecht/a/uni-potsdam.de Country of residence: Germany Languages spoken: English, German Programming languages: Python, Java, R Ambassador's

Baptiste Mélès

Research Associate, CNRS

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Academia

https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5692-083X

http://baptiste.meles.free.fr/

Contact: baptiste.meles/a/univ-lorraine.fr Country of residence: France Languages spoken: English, French Programming languages: Perl, JavaScript, Python... Ambassador's

Bertrand Néron

Research Engineer Bioinformatics, Inst. Pasteur

Vertical

Academia

https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0220-0482

https://research.pasteur.fr/en/member/bertrand-neron/

Contact: bneron/a/pasteur.fr Country of residence: France Languages Spoken: English, French Programming languages: Python Ambassador's fields of

Bostjan Spetic

Head collections & research, Slovenian Computer Museum

Vertical

Culture

https://x.com/igzebedze

Contact: bostjan/a/racunalniski-muzej.si Country of residence: Slovenia Language spoken: English Programming languages: Python, Perl Ambassador's fields of

Bruno Khélifi

Staff researcher, IN2P3

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Academia

https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6876-5577

https://bkhelifi.github.io/

Vertical: Academia Contact: khelifi/a/in2p3.fr Country of residence: France Languages spoken: English, French Programming languages: Python, C++ Ambassador's

Camille Françoise

Product Manager Research and Heritage, The Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision

Vertical

Culture

https://x.com/CMFrancoise

https://mstdn.social/@CMFrancoise@mastodon.social

Contact: cfrancoise/a/beeldengeluid.nl Country of residence: Netherlands Know more about the ambassador: https://www.softwareheritage.org/2023/03/10/ambassador-camille-francoise/

Cécile Arènes

Head Research Data & Digital Humanities, Sorbonne University Library

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Academia

https://mastodon.social/@carenes

https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1839-3530

http://www.cecilearen.es/

Contact: cecile.arenes/a/sorbonne-universite.fr Country of residence: France Languages spoken: English, French, Spanish Ambassador's fields of expertise:

Flavia Marzano

President of the Scientific Committee of Ampioraggio Foundation

Vertical

Public Administration

https://www.linkedin.com/in/flaviamarzano/

https://mastodon.uno/@FlaviaMarzano

https://x.com/flavia_marzano

Contact: flavia.marzano/a/gmail.com Country of residence: Italy Languages spoken: English, Italian Ambassador's field of expertise: open

Frédéric Santos

Data analyst, CNRS

Vertical

Academia

https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1445-3871

Contact: frederic.santos/a/u-bordeaux.fr Country of residence: France Language spoken: French Programming languages: R, Julia, Bash, Emacs

Gavin Henry

CIO of TelcoSwitch

Vertical

Industry

https://www.linkedin.com/in/surevoip/

https://x.com/ghenry

Contact: ghenry/a/suretec.co.uk Country of residence: United Kingdom Know more about the ambassador: https://www.softwareheritage.org/2022/05/10/20th-ambassador-gavin-henry/

Giacomo Lorenzetti

Research Software Engineer at CEFCA

Vertical

Academia

https://www.cefca.es/cefca_en/team

Contact: glorenzetti/a/cefca.es Country of residence: Spain Languages spoken: English, Italian Ambassador's field of expertise: reproducible

Harish Pillay

Leader of the Community Architecture and Leadership in Red Hat Asia Pacific

Vertical

Industry

https://mstdn.social/@harishpillay@floss.social

https://sg.linkedin.com/in/harishpillay

https://harishpillay.com/

Contact: h.pillay/a/ieee.org Country of residence: Singapore Language spoken: English Ambassador's projects selection: https://github.com/harishpillay Know more about

Italo Vignoli

Founding member of The Document Foundation and the LibreOffice project, the Chairman Emeritus of Ass

Vertical

Public Administration

https://www.linkedin.com/in/italovignoli/

https://x.com/italovignoli

Contact: italo/a/vignoli.org Country of residence: Italy Languages spoken: English, Italian Know more about the ambassador:

Jaime Arias

Research Engineer, CNRS

Vertical

Academia

https://www.linkedin.com/in/jaimeariasalmeida/

https://x.com/himiteins

https://www.jaime-arias.fr

Contact: arias/a/lipn.univ-paris13.fr Country of residence: France Languages spoken: English, French, Spanish Programming languages: Ocaml, C++,

Joenio Marques da Costa

Research Software Engineer, Gustave Eiffel University

Vertical

Academia

https://www.linkedin.com/in/joenio/

https://mstdn.social/@joenio@mastodon.social

https://x.com/joenio

https://joenio.me/about/

Contact: joenio/a/joenio.me Country of residence: France Languages spoken: English, Portuguese Programming languages: Perl, Python, Ruby,

Julien Caugant

Assistant librarian at Aix Marseille University Library

Vertical

Academia

https://x.com/jcaugant_pro

Contact: julien.caugant/a/univ-amu.fr Country of residence: France Language spoken: English, French Programming language: Python Ambassador's field of

Linda Angulo-Lopez

Project Officer for Data Management and Enhancement in International Relations, Inrae

Vertical

Academia

https://www.linkedin.com/in/lindangulopez/

Contact: angulo.linda/a/gmail.com Country of residence: France Languages spoken: Afrikaans, English, French Programming languages: PHP, JS,

Malin Sandström

Senior Research Officer, Swedish Research Council

Vertical

Academia

https://www.linkedin.com/in/malinsandstrom/

https://x.com/msandstr

https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8464-2494

Contact: malin.sandstrom/a/vr.se Country of residence: Sweden Languages spoken: English, Swedish Ambassador's fields of expertise: computational

Max Kalik

Software Engineer, Triumph Labs

Vertical

Industry

http://linkedin.com/in/maxkalik

http://medium.com/@maxkalik

https://www.maxkalik.com/

Contact: maxkalik/a/gmail.com Language spoken: English Ambassador's project selection: https://github.com/maxkalik Know more about the ambassador: https://www.softwareheritage.org/2023/05/03/ambassador-max-kalik/

Maxence Azzouz-Thuderoz

Data scientist in AI and natural language processing, FIZ Karlsruhe - Leibniz Institute

Vertical

Academia

https://www.fiz-karlsruhe.de/de/forschung/lebenslauf-und-publikationen-maxence-azzouz-thuderoz

Contact: maxence.azzouz-thuderoz/a/fiz-karlsruhe.de Country of residence: Germany Languages spoken: English, French Programming languages: Python, Julia Ambassador's fields

Mohammad Akhlaghi

Staff researcher, CEFCA

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Academia

https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1710-6613

https://akhlaghi.org

Contact: mohammad/a/akhlaghi.org Country of residence: Spain Language spoken: English, Persian Programming languages: C, Shell/Bash, Make Ambassador's

Océane Valencia

Head of the archives and records department, Sorbonne University library

Vertical

Academia

https://twitter.com/Vacleia

https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4864-3358

Contact: Oceane.Valencia/a/scd.upmc.fr Country of residence: France Languages spoken: English, French Know more about the ambassador:

Pierre Poulain

Associate professor in Bioinformatics, Université Paris Cité

Vertical

Academia

https://www.linkedin.com/in/pierrepo/

https://x.com/pierrepo

https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4177-3619

Contact: pierre.poulain/a/u-paris.fr Country of residence: France Languages spoken: English, French Know more about the ambassador:

Sandrine Layrisse

System and network administrator, CNRS

Vertical

Academia

https://www.math.u-bordeaux.fr/~slayriss/

Contact: sandrine.layrisse/a/math.cnrs.fr Country of residence: France Language spoken: French Ambassador's fields of expertise: digital services

Simon Phipps

Computer engineer, independant consultant

Vertical

Culture

https://www.flickr.com/photos/webmink/

https://linkedin.com/in/webmink/

http://twitter.com/webmink

Contact: Webmink/a/opensource.org Languages spoken: English Ambassador's fields of expertise: open-source community strategy and governance,

Violaine Louvet

Research Engineer, Grenoble Alpes University

Vertical

Academia

https://fr.linkedin.com/in/violaine-louvet-336a6295

https://louvet.perso.math.cnrs.fr/

Contact: violaine.louvet/a/univ-grenoble-alpes.fr Country of residence: France Languages spoken: English, French Programming languages: Python, C++, Fortran Ambassador's