Getting up to speed, clear sky ahead
One year has passed after we posted our first activity report, and it is now a good time to look at what was accomplished in 2017, and give some perspective…
Raising awareness for Software Source Code preservation and access
Today, at Unesco’s headquarters in Paris, a formal partnership agreement has been signed between Unesco and Inria to establish a framework for collaboration on preserving the knowledge embedded in software source…
DISI, Università di Bologna
“Software is at the basis of most modern science. The reproducibility of scientific results and the whole concept of scientific research is deeply linked with the preservation and the study…
Computer History Museum
Software source code is a form of literature, written by humans to be read by humans as well as machines. It gives us a view into the mind of the designer, and…
Gandi
From its inception, GANDI has supported open-source projects, including notably VLC, Ubuntu, Gnome, and CaliOpen. GANDI’s primary focus is providing new, high-performance solutions for its customers while at the same time sharing the…
Visiting Chile to spread our vision
In the second week of january, we were invited to participate to the “Congreso del Futuro“, a remarkable, one of a kind event organised in Santiago de Chile once a…
INAPI
The National Institute of Industrial Property of Chile-INAPI enthusiastically supports the Software Heritage project, because in the digital age and the knowledge society, the caretaking of freely accessible databases and software…
We have come a long way, and the road ahead
We unveiled the Software Heritage initiative exactly six month ago, on June 30th, 2016. Now it seems a good time to look back at the origin of the project, where we…
Software Heritage wins best community project award at POSS 2016
This past week, the 2016 edition of the Paris Open Source Summit (aka POSS 2016) attracted more than 7’000 participants, ranging from industries to start-ups, from developer communities to researchers….
Google Code content now safely collected
A significant amount of publicly available source code is hosted on a variety of free hosting services, some of which are being phased out for various reasons. Salvaging this code before it’s…