Page 2 - Software Heritage News Today

An essential tool for research, open source software is an integral part of the culture at Inria. For years the institute has been striving for its deployment, not only in academia, but in industry as well. Time now to take a look at the training, distribution and archiving solutions developed by Inria in support of open source software.

Inria launched in 2016 to the public of the Software Heritage project. This project, initiated by Inria, aims to collect, organise, preserve and make accessible to everyone the source code of all available software. This is an issue of global importance.

Shutterstock Longyearbyen, located on the west coast of the Norwegian island of Spitsbergen in the Svalbard archipelago, is cold. It always is: The annual average temperature there is -5˚C, but between January and March that average drops to -13˚C. In July, by contrast, you can expect an almost tropical 7˚C. It has a population of under 3,000 people, a single-screen cinema that plays films on Wednesdays and Sundays, and a school whose 270 students show up for their first day in August in mit...