We are delighted to introduce our 7th ambassador, Anna-Lena Lamprecht, an assistant Professor of Software Technology at the Department of Information and Computing Sciences, at Utrecht University, in the Netherlands.  Anna-Lena conducts research at the interface of research software engineering and applied formal methods, currently focusing on FAIR software and automated exploration of computational workflows. […]

We are delighted to introduce our 6th ambassador, Gerard Coen, Project Manager at Data Archiving and Networked Services (DANS), the Dutch National Centre of Expertise and Repository for Research Data, that has a long standing interest in the relationship between software and data, and has been a proud sponsor of Software Heritage since its inception.  […]

On June 30, 2016, after almost two years of preparatory work, we opened up to the world the Software Heritage website unveiling to the world our long-term mission to collect, preserve and make easily available the source code of all software publicly available. Today, we are celebrating five years of continuous and passionate dedication to […]

Our community continues to grow: meet our fifth ambassador, Mohammad Akhlaghi, a Big Data Astronomer at the Instituto de Astrofisica de Canarias (IAC), in Spain. The IAC is a nationally-funded research center that runs two high-profile international observatories in the world.  Mohammad is highly committed to making research results more reproducible and contributes to this […]

We are delighted to introduce our fourth ambassador, Vicky Rampin, librarian for research data management and reproducibility at New York University, and an advocate for open scholarship. Her background in computer science and library as well as in information science, inspires her to support research of all levels and disciplines. Her main research interests are […]

We are delighted to celebrate the International Archives Day. Launched on June 9th 2007, this day turned into a whole week in 2019 and is meant to remind all of us of the importance of archives for keeping the memories of our society. Software Heritage contributes to this mission building the long-term universal source code […]

We are delighted to introduce our 3rd ambassador, Malin Sandström, the Community Engagement officer for the  International Neuroinformatics Coordinating Facility (INCF). The mission of INCF is to help make neuroscience FAIR and move it towards an open, citable ecosystem.  Malin has a PhD in computational neuroscience – she did computational modelling of the olfactory system […]

Last month, we launched the ambassadors’ program with our first ambassador, Pierre Poulain. Today we are delighted to introduce Bruno Khélifi, the second Software Heritage ambassador in academia. Bruno is a physicist working at APC  in the experimental area of very-high-energy gamma-ray astrophysics, as a member of the H.E.S.S. and CTA collaborations. With the CTA […]

We are delighted to introduce our first ambassador, Pierre Poulain. Pierre has a PhD in physics and is a lecturer in bioinformatics at the University of Paris. He develops methods and tools for the analysis and visualisation of biological data, in particular from public databases.  Convinced that open science and especially open source is a […]