Stefano Zacchiroli @zacchiro@mastodon.xyz

We now have, not 1, not 2, but 3 (!) open positions for working with us at #SoftwareHeritage, both tech- and management-profiles. Check it out and apply at: https://www.softwareheritage.org/jobs/

Thrilled to announce that, starting this week, I've joined Télécom Paris (part of Institut Polytechnique de Paris) as full professor (french title of 𝘱𝘳𝘰𝘧𝘦𝘴𝘴𝘦𝘶𝘳) of computer science, as a member of the ACES research team. (Of course I'll keep working on Software Heritage from there!) More soon…

This is it for my live coverage of the #swh5years event at @UNESCO for the 5-year anniversary of @swheritage.

If you like what we do, consider participating to our fundraising, we are looking for our first 100 donors before end of the year! https://www.softwareheritage.org/ #givingtuesday

check out the amazing portal of French public sector published source code by @_DINUM https://code.gouv.fr/ (integrated with @swheritage of course!) #swh5years

Bastien Guerry at #swh5years « @_DINUM is looking into contributing [code] to the development of @swheritage and we encourage other public administrations to do the same »

Bastien Guerry at #swh5years « @_DINUM supports @SWHeritage because we publish open source code via a variety of software forges and we want to ensure its availability »

Keith Bergelt at #swh5years « we would like to make @swheritage [content-]searchable and use it as a prior art database to defend against software patent aggression »

Keith Bergelt at #swh5years « to enable patent protection for free/#opensource software developers, we need a permanent record for every bit of code »

Keith Bergelt at #swh5years « Open Innovation Network came to @SWHeritage, because if it didn't exist, we had to create it »

the 2nd French Plan for #OpenScience defines and promotes an #opensource software policy, says @marindacos at #swh5years. See: https://www.ouvrirlascience.fr/second-national-plan-for-open-science/ ("path three") .

.@marindacos at #swh5years "#openscience is [also] a matter of principle: it's public money investment whose results should go back to the public" (echoing public money public code! https://publiccode.eu/)

P Oti-Boateng at #swh5years: « when #opensource software is used in research, it should be made available to the research community and to the public »
#OpenScience

now Peggy Oti-Boateng at #swh5years, presenting @UNESCO' Recommendation on #OpenScience, fresh off the press https://en.unesco.org/science-sustainable-future/open-science/recommendation

JF Gerbeau at #swh5years: "open access and open data are necessary for scientific reproducibility, but are not enough: software [source code] is also needed"
#openscience

.@TawfikJelassi announces at #swh5years that @UNESCO and @Inria have renewed their collaboration agreement to support @SWHeritage for the next 4 years

.@TawfikJelassi at #swh5years: "in my first meeting with @rdicosmo we talked about my first programs in binary language". Geeks are everywhere!

.@TawfikJelassi at #swh5years: "software is an unique type of object that constitutes the foundation of our digital society"

Ass. Director General of UNESCO @TawfikJelassi: "@swheritage is a major archive to enable our digital future" #swh5years

.@SWHeritage is the largest publicly available archive of software source code in the world #swh5years

.@swheritage's mission is to collect, preserve forever, and make publicly available the entire body of software, in the preferred form for making modifications to it #swh5years

.@rdicosmo at #swh5years: "open source software is precious technical and scientific knowledge", "it powers modern scientific research in all fields"

.@rdicosmo, quoting Hal Abelson, at #swh5years: "programs must be written for people to read, and only incidentally for machines to execute"