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#OpenSource is the "concrete" of the 21st century—an invisible layer facing a $10B annual investment gap. Our briefing on digital public goods:
🏗️ The Funding Gap
🤖 Sovereign AI
🗺️ 2030 Strategy
Read: https://shorturl.at/6KNAX
Watch: https://shorturl.at/H7WCe
#SWH10

Banner for an online event organized by OSPO Alliance On Ramp. The main title reads 'The Role of OSPOs and Public Procurement in Enhancing Corporate Strategic Autonomy' in white text on a dark blue background. On the left, a red box displays the event date: April 17 at 10:30 AM CET. In the center, there is a photo of the speaker, Boris Dolley, with his details: Head of OSPO and Sustainable IT RTE France The OSPO Alliance logo is visible in the top left corner.

🔓 Reclaiming European Strategic Autonomy through #OpenSource

Shift from "renting" commodity software to "owning" digital assets for the energy transition: Boris Dolley (Head of #OSPO at #RTE French TSO) will explain the strategy

🕒 April 17, 10:30 CEST
▶️ ospo-alliance.org/news/2026041...

💾 Et si tout le code du monde disparaissait demain ?
Roberto Di Cosmo (Software Heritage) explique pourquoi archiver l’intégralité des logiciels est devenu essentiel.
🎧👉 https://audmns.com/uOvrePf

What is the best way to identify software? Introducing SWHID Modern software is assembled from hundreds of components that organizations often did not write and do not fully control. Identifying those components reliably is becoming a legal requirement. This…

Get up to speed on the SWHID—the ISO/IEC international standard (18670) for software identification.

Ambassador @toscalix has a new 3-part guide:

1️⃣ Overview & Use Cases
2️⃣ Open Governance
3️⃣ Syntax & Format
Start here:

J'ai publié deux scripts Python (vibe codés) pour interroger HAL et Software Heritage afin de suivre dans Grist les logiciels de recherche produits par une ou plusieurs structures de recherche françaises hal.science/hal-05488422v1

Software Heritage and the long game for global infrastructure - Software Heritage With 28 billion files, Software Heritage is moving from an archive to become a digital commons infrastructure.

Software Heritage and the long game for global infrastructure www.softwareheritage.org/2026/03/24/digital-commo...

The invisible code running the world (and who pays for it) - Software Heritage The era of the “free lunch” in open source is over. As the global economy rests on an invisible layer of volunteer-led code, the foundations are beginning to crack under the weight of “maintainer fatigue.” Leaders from the EU issued a blunt warning: digital sovereignty isn’t built on software alone—it’s built on the “invisible” labor of the people who maintain it.

The invisible code running the world (and who pays for it) www.softwareheritage.org/2026/03/20/the-invisible... #OpenSource #SWH10

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The Source Code Exhibition in Paris closes March 26. It’s a rare chance to see code as a cultural relic rather than just a digital product. https://tinyurl.com/y7nwb3ex

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"We have to get past the myth that #OpenSource is free, it's not..it needs funding," Omar Mohsine (UN Office of Digital Emerging Technologies) said, adding that to reach the 2030 Sustainable Development Goals, institutional investment is crucial.

Git Remote Helpers Git can talk to anything if you write the right helper.

Nerd sniped by Bastien Guerry of @softwareheritage.org into writing about git remote helpers: nesbitt.io/2026/03/18/g...

Why you may want to put a SWHID in your next car - Software Heritage New Ambassador Wendi Urribarri on using SWHIDs to bridge the gap between open source and automotive safety regulations.

Why you may want to put a SWHID in your next car https://www.softwareheritage.org/2026/02/18/swhid-car/

Open science’s economic benefits ‘systematically underestimated’ - Bytes Europe But “unevenly” distributed costs fall on researchers, institutions and publishers that do invest, report says

Open science’s economic benefits ‘systematically underestimated’

https://www.byteseu.com/1860866/

But “unevenly” distributed costs fall on researchers, institutions and publishers that do invest, report says The adoption of open science, which aims to make research outputs and methods …

Software Heritage expands mirror network to Spain - Software Heritage Software Heritage expands its global mirror network to Spain via IMDEA Software to ensure long-term redundancy and open access.

27.8B+ source files. @IMDEA Software is establishing Spain's first Software Heritage mirror to secure the software supply chain and support #OpenScience. Read more www.softwareheritage.org/2026/02/05/software-heri...

Beyond Stargate: Open code and the AI black box - Software Heritage Experts from France, Brazil, and the UAE explore how open-source code and transparent archives provide the essential foundation for AI.

The reality check: "Sovereign #AI is just a dream" if you don't control the energy ⚡. Dr. Hakim Hacid on why power is the ultimate gatekeeper in the age of massive compute. www.softwareheritage.org/2026/03/12/beyond-starga... #Sovereignty #GreenAI #OpenSource

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Our world runs on code, but we rarely see it in the wild. Catch our 10th-anniversary exhibition at Cité des sciences in Paris before it closes March 26. Free entry. www.sourcecode-exhibition.softwareheritage.org/the-exhibition-in-paris-...

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Join us for a free online webinar on March 10 at 10 am CET to discuss the intersection of @SWHeritage & the future of reproducible research. scienceouverte.edu.umontpellier.fr/en/agenda/webinaire-ecod...
#OpenScience

Benoît Chauvet: The Mozilla sherpa safeguarding the web - Software Heritage As our newest Ambassador, Mozilla engineer Benoît Chauvet applies his unique “sherpa” perspective to safeguarding the open web.

Mozilla engineer and marathoner Benoît Chauvet joins as our latest Ambassador, applying a "sherpa" perspective to the task of preserving the global commons of software source code.🏃‍♂️🌐 www.softwareheritage.org/2026/03/06/benoit-chauve...

Morane Gruenpeter shared her #deRSE26 keynote slides on #DigitalSovereignty and the mission of Software Heritage to preserve this vital intellectual heritage. https://zenodo.org/records/18848442

Morane Gruenpeter is speaking tomorrow at #deRSE2026 about why archiving source code matters as much as the data itself. It’s about keeping science reproducible, not just "open." https://tinyurl.com/5kt7ehvh

Melissa Harrison on how #EuropePMC applies POSI to sustainability:

• Moving to open-first code with documentation for reuse
• Preserving software via @softwareheritage.org

POSI shapes our funder engagement and long-term planning, and is embedded in our next funding application.

#POSIv2

Webinaire // Software Heritage & reproductibilité – EcoDor

#Webinaire prochain rendez-vous #EcoDoR le mardi 10 mars (11h - 12h) : « Le projet Software Heritage et la gestion des logiciels de recherche "présenté par Simon Delamare et Sabrina Granger
#OpenScience #Logiciel @softwareheritage.org
atelier-ecodor.edu.umontpellier.fr/agenda/webin...

Why you may want to put a SWHID in your next car - Software Heritage New Ambassador Wendi Urribarri on using SWHIDs to bridge the gap between open source and automotive safety regulations.

Road safety is a software problem. Wendi Urribarri joins the Software Heritage Ambassador program to align # OpenSource innovation with the rigid demands of industrial regulation. 🚗 https://www.softwareheritage.org/2026/02/18/swhid-car/

Software Heritage will be at #IDCC26 Feb. 16-18. Don’t miss Sabrina Granger & Morane Gruenpeter with a poster: "Being Future Ready: Software Heritage, a Resilient Infrastructure." dcc.ac.uk/events/idcc26/accepted-s...

Call for 2026 papers!

Nordic Perspectives on Open Science invites manuscripts that will undergo formal peer review, but also welcomes less formal submissions that aim to inform and develop the Open Science community. Visit our website to read the full announcement.

#openscience

open science is returning science to its true essence

Il archive le code source de TOUS les logiciels libres. Voici pourquoi. Sans logiciel, pas de science moderne ! Mais jusqu'à récemment, le précieux code source des logiciels libres utilisés dans la science pouvait disparaitre sans qu'on y prenne garde : oublié sur un…

REPLAY - "Sauver les logiciels ?"

Il y a 10 ans, une équipe d'ingénieurs et de chercheurs lançait un projet : sauvegarder le code source des logiciels libres. Retour sur cette aventure humaine et technique avec Roberto Di Cosmo, fondateur de @softwareheritage.org.

"Without software, there is no modern science." 🔬
Roberto Di Cosmo joined Grand Labo (FR 🇫🇷) to discuss defeating digital erasure.
Until recently, the vital code behind scientific research was easily lost, abandoned on old drives or deleted by mistake, threatening reproducibility. #OpenScience

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"Open source is about giving back," says Manuel Carro, Director of IMDEA Software. Hosting a Software Heritage mirror is a commitment to the #AI & #OpenScience communities. www.softwareheritage.org/2026/02/05/software-heri...

Stefano Zacchiroli présente Software Heritage et les structures de graphe sous-jacentes ainsi que les nombreux enjeux que la maintenance de telles archives au LIP ENS de Lyon

Stefano Zacchiroli présente Software Heritage et les structures de graphe sous-jacentes ainsi que les nombreux enjeux que la maintenance de telles archives au LIP ENS de Lyon

Stefano Zacchiroli présente Software Heritage et les structures de graphe sous-jacentes ainsi que les nombreux enjeux que la maintenance de telles archives au LIP ENS de Lyon

Stefano Zacchiroli présente Software Heritage et les structures de graphe sous-jacentes ainsi que les nombreux enjeux que la maintenance de telles archives au LIP ENS de Lyon

[Science ouverte]
Merci au laboratoire LIP de nous avoir invité ce jour au séminaire de Stefano Zacchiroli (Télécom Paris) cofondateur et CSO de @softwareheritage.org
L'équipe de la BDL s'implique pour accompagner la communauté @ensdelyon.bsky.social sur ce thème !
#SWH #openscience #opensource

Source Code Exhibition posters

Rivulet in the Source Code exhibition catalog

Me showing Rivulet to two others

Rivulet poster

Highlight of my time in Paris was this wonderful Source Code exhibition by @softwareheritage.org at @unesco.org, including my Rivulet language, Lingdong’s wenyan-lang, source code of ELIZA, and obfuscated code by Adrian Cable. Code is culture!