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
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Ambassadors
Agustín Benito Bethencourt
Independent Consultant
Vertical
Industry
https://mastodon.social/@toscalix
https://www.linkedin.com/in/toscalix
https://x.com/toscalix
Agustín (toscalix) a découvert le Logiciel Libre lors de ses études à
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Alexis Lebis
Assistant professor in computing, IMT Nord Europe
Vertical
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,
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Anna-Lena Lamprecht
Prof. Software Engineering, Univ. Potsdam
Vertical
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
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Baptiste Mélès
Research Associate, CNRS
Vertical
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...
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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
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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
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Bruno Khélifi
Staff researcher, IN2P3
Vertical
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++
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Camille Françoise
Program Manager & Policy Advisor
Vertical
Culture
https://x.com/CMFrancoise
https://mastodon.social/@CMFrancoise
Contact: camille.m.francoise@gmail.com
Country of residence: Netherlands
Know more about the ambassador: https://www.softwareheritage.org/2023/03/10/ambassador-camille-francoise/
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Cécile Arènes
Head Research Data & Digital Humanities, Sorbonne University Library
Vertical
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:
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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
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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
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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/
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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
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Harish Pillay
Leader of the Community Architecture and Leadership in Red Hat Asia Pacific
Vertical
Industry
https://floss.social/@harishpillay
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
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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
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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++,
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Joenio Marques da Costa
Research Software Engineer, Gustave Eiffel University
Vertical
Academia
https://www.linkedin.com/in/joenio/
https://mastodon.social/@joenio
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,
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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
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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,
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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
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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/
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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
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Mohammad Akhlaghi
Staff researcher, CEFCA
Vertical
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
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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:
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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:
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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
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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,
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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
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Wendy Hagenmaier
Head of Software Preservation and Emulation, Yale University
Vertical
Culture
https://www.linkedin.com/in/wendy-hagenmaier/
Contact: wendy.hagenmaier/a/yale.edu
Country of residence: United States
Language spoken: English
Ambassador's fields of expertise: librarianship,
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Becoming an Ambassador
Interested in becoming a Software Heritage ambassador?
Please tell us a bit about yourself and your interest in the mission of Software Heritage.
Notice: if the contact form below does not work for you, send your inquiry to info@softwareheritage.org
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Anciens ambassadeurs
Ambassadors
Gerard Coen
Marketing Manager at NIAS
https://pure.knaw.nl/portal/en/persons/gerry-coen
Gerry works for the Dutch Royal Academy of Arts and Sciences (KNAW)
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Vicky Rampin
Librarian data management and reproducibility at New York University
https://vicky.rampin.org/
Vicky Rampin is the Librarian for Research Data Management and Reproducibility at
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Borut Kumperscak
Technology specialist at Slovenian computer museum
Borut is a founding member of Computer museum society in Ljubljana, where
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Neal Fultz
Principal data scientist of NJNM consulting
https://nfultz.github.io/
Neal is the principal data scientist of njnm consulting (a boutique analytics
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Maria-Chiara Prodi
artistic coordinator, deputy director at the Opéra Comique, Paris
Maria Chiara Prodi works as artistic coordinator at Opéra Comique, in Paris.
In
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Dare Pejić
programme coordinator and producer at Ljubljana’s Ljudmila Art and Science Laboratory
Telegram
@alunir
Dare Pejić has been a freelance producer in new media & digital
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Gilmary Gallon
Senior Research and Innovation Associate
After an education orientated toward the pharmaceutical industry and a PhD in
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