We at Software Heritage strongly believe that software is a cultural artifact that shapes our world and affects our lives in countless ways. We are thrilled to share an article by our ambassador Simon Phipps, who shares this belief and advocates for the importance of Open Source in preserving software as a part of the […]
We are delighted to introduce our 6th ambassador this year: Max Kalik! Based in San Francisco, USA, Max is a software engineer at Triumph Labs who is skilled in solving technical and user problems across all stages of product creation. Over the past four years, he has focused on mobile development for iOS, where he […]
We are delighted to welcome our fifth ambassador this year: Harish Pillay! Harish is an electrical and computer engineer; he leads the Community Architecture and Leadership in Red Hat Asia Pacific. In 2016, he was elected for a three-year mandate into the Internet Society Board of Trustees. His introduction to internetworking was on the ARPANET […]
On February 7th, 2023, the Software Heritage community convened at the UNESCO headquarters in Paris, France, following the 2023 Symposium to exchange ideas. The gathering included team members, ambassadors, grantees, partners, and contributors, who engaged in discussions on the latest evolution of the Software Heritage archive and collaborated on various aspects of its mission. In […]
We are delighted to welcome our fourth ambassador this year: Maxence Azzouz-Thuderoz! Maxence Azzouz-Thuderoz is a data scientist specialising in AI and natural language processing. He joined FIZ Karlsruhe – Leibniz Institute to develop core components of the European Open Science Cloud, after many years as a natural language processing engineer in the industry. Leibniz […]
We are delighted to welcome our third ambassador this year: Simon Phipps! Simon is a computer engineer who has had a long career in the computer industry working on networking, operating systems, standards and latterly Open Source. He was twice President of the Open Source Initiative (OSI) — the non-profit organisation that acts as steward […]
We are delighted to introduce our second ambassador in 2023, Camille Françoise. Camille Françoise is Open Culture/GLAM Advocate & Project manager at the Nederlands Instituut voor Beeld en Geluid. She worked in several digital departments of museums in France and abroad. In 2021, she joined Creative Commons as the Open Culture manager. As part of […]
We are delighted to introduce our first ambassador in 2023, Violaine Louvet. Violaine is a research engineer in scientific computing. She works at the Jean Kuntzmann Laboratory, a research unit dedicated to applied mathematics after being the director of the Grenoble Alpes Research Scientific Computing and Data Infrastructure. She contributes to the French Committee for […]
As we enter 2023, we publish, as usual, our annual report on the past year. We are excited to announce that this is now available as a → standalone document ←, making it easier to grasp the breadth of the mission, follow the progress made and share it with a broader audience. In 2022, we […]
We are delighted to introduce our 23rd ambassador, Gilmary Gallon, senior research and innovation associate. After an education orientated toward the pharmaceutical industry and a PhD in Chemistry and physicochemistry of bio-based materials intended for health application, Gilmary Gallon shifted away from academia to the world of private research and development. Nevertheless, his experience in […]
