Despite the health crisis we have been experiencing since March 2020, Software Heritage pursues its mission of collecting, preserving and sharing software source code, which started many years ago and was unveiled to the public on June 30th 2016. Expanding the archive: a collective effort The archive is growing steadily, counting now over 11 billion […]
This year 2021 we celebrate five years of continuous and passionate dedication to the Software Heritage mission, which we announced to the world on June 30th 2016: to collect, preserve and share all the available source code, for the benefit of society as a whole. A growing international community gets together for the 5 years […]
About Held on November 30th 2021 at the UNESCO headquarters and at the Inria research center. Software is all around us: it powers our industry, fuels innovation, supports scientific research and lies at the heart of our societies. The Software Heritage project, launched in 2016 by Inria (France), aims at collecting, preserving, and making readily available […]
Click here to become a donor! Our non-profit mission at Software Heritage is to collect, preserve forever, and make publicly available the entire body of software, in the preferred form for making modifications to it. We have started pursuing this ambitious goal 5 years ago and, since then, we have already assembled the largest publicly […]
We are delighted to introduce our 15th ambassador, Sandrine Layrisse, System and network administrator at the Bordeaux Mathematics Institute (IMB – CNRS, Bordeaux INP and Université de Bordeaux. Her involvement in the Online Platform for Mathematics (Plateforme en ligne pour les mathématiques (PLM) team is enabling the new PLM services to move towards the provision […]
We are delighted to introduce our 14th ambassador, Dare Pejić, producer in new media & digital arts. As a programme coordinator and producer at Ljubljana’s Ljudmila Art and Science Laboratory, he conceived and organized Algopolis, the very first live coding festival in Slovenia. Dare’s master’s thesis at UNESCO chair for cultural policies and arts management […]
We are delighted to introduce our 13th ambassador, Jaime Arias, CNRS research engineer working at the Laboratoire d’Informatique de Paris Nord (LIPN). Jaime is an advocate of replicable research and open-source software. Among some of his missions, he is in charge of the development of scientific tools for the research team LoVe (Logique et Vérification) […]
We are delighted to introduce our 12th ambassador, Maria Chiara Prodi. Maria Chiara is the artistic coordinator and deputy director of the production at the Opéra Comique, in Paris. She is also strongly engaged in several networks for civic participation. “I have been struggling with rare opera scores for the past 15 years, that’s why […]
Our community keeps growing and we are delighted to introduce our 11th ambassador, Alexis Lebis, lecturer in artificial intelligence at the Center for Digital Systems (CERI SN) of Institut Mines Télécom Lille Douai. Alexis’s research is mainly focused on Decision Making (DM) and Knowledge Engineering (KE), especially applied to Technology Enhanced Learning (T.E.L.). He is […]
We are delighted to introduce our 8th ambassador, Neal Fultz, principal data scientist of njnm consulting, a staff statistician for the UCLA Social Sciences division. He has authored a number of Python, R, and Java libraries, and adopted several other orphaned open source projects. Neal says that “Software Heritage is more than just an archive […]
