Free to attend and open to the public, SWHAP Days will take place in Paris and online on the 19th and 20th of October 2022. 

This workshop is organized with the support of UNESCO, Inria, Inria Foundation and Lip6.

Software Heritage is an open, non profit, multi-stakeholder initiative to build the universal archive of all publicly available source code, launched by Inria in partnership with UNESCO.

The daily program includes a series of short talks, followed by a practical demonstration of the Software Heritage Acquisition Process (October 19th) and of the Software Stories (October 20th). The program of each day will end with a round-table and a discussion on the future perspectives for archiving and displaying our software heritage.

14.00 Welcome address

• Fackson Banda, Chief, Documentary Heritage Unit, UNESCO
• Anne-Catherine Fritzinger, Director of Libraries, Sorbonne University
• Fabrice Kordon, Director, LIP6
• Roberto Di Cosmo, Director, Software Heritage

Talks

• David C. Brock, Computer History Museum, Mountain View, California
• Wendy Hagenmaier, Representative, Software Preservation Network Representative & Georgia Tech
   & Jessica Farrell, Community Facilitator, Software Preservation Network
• Ronald Burkey, Founder, The Virtual AGC Project

The UNESCO SWHAP process for landmark legacy software

• Roberto Di Cosmo, Director, Software Heritage

SWHAP in action

• Laura Bussi, PhD candidate, Department of Computer Science, University of Pisa

Legacy software creator’s perspective (SWHAP)

• Carlo Montangero, Former professor of Computer Science, University of Pisa

Roundtable

• Pierre Mounier-Kuhn, CNRS, Sorbonne University & CentraleSupélec
• Baptiste Mélès, CNRS, Archives Henri-Poincaré, Université de Lorraine
• Hansen Hsu, Computer History Museum, Mountain View, California
• Moritz Feichtinger, History Department, University of Basel

14.00 Talks

• Philippe Dubois, MO5
• Heather Meeker, FOSSDA
• Ethan Gates, Software Preservation Analyst, Yale University Library and Emulation-as-a-Service Infrastructure (EaaSI)

The UNESCO Software Stories for landmark legacy software

• Katherine Thornton, Co-founder, ScienceStories.io

Software Stories in action

• Kenneth Seals-Nutt, Co-founder, ScienceStories.io

Legacy software creator’s perspective (Software Stories)

• Claude Gomez, Former CEO of Scilab Entreprises, former Senior Scientist at Inria

Roundtable

• Doron Swade, Computer Conservation Society 
• Tom Haigh, Visiting Professor of the History of Computing, Siegen University & Associate Professor, University of Wisconsin – Milwaukee
• Marc Weber, Computer History Museum, Mountain View, California
• Claire Fox, Emulation-as-a-Service Infrastructure (EaaSI)
• Bostjan Spetic, Computer History Museum Ljubliana, Slovenia

Closing remarks

• Roberto Di Cosmo, Director, Software Heritage

This hybrid event will take place on the Jussieu Campus of Sorbonne Université, and is open for attendance by a broad audience, including the general public. 

Registration is free, but mandatory: if you plan to attend, please fill out this registration form in order to receive participation and/or connection details. Due to space constraints, only a limited number of people will be able to participate in person: if you really want to come, register soon!

Please contact swpres2022@softwareheritage.org for any other inquiry.