Free Software: Tor Browser 11.5.4, Software Heritage, and More
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New Release: Tor Browser 11.5.4 (Android, Windows, macOS, Linux)
Our Android release follows our alpha branch to the ESR 102 release train. Please see the 12.0a2 blog post for details.
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Software Heritage CVS loader - Call for public review
The mission of Software Heritage is to collect, preserve and share all the publicly available source code (see https://www.softwareheritage.org for more information).
Thanks to Stefan Sperling (@stsp), Software Heritage now has a CVS loader [1] [2]. It's been deployed in our staging infrastructure [3]. We have ingested CVS origins that were listed from sourceforge [3].
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Announcing SWHAP Days in October for Landmark Legacy Software Preservation
We are very excited to announce the launch of SWHAP Days, a two-day workshop to reflect on the current state and the future of software preservation, exploring challenges and opportunities related to the collection, archival and display of our landmark legacy software.
Organized with the support of [UNESCO], [INRIA] and [LIP6], this workshop will also be the chance to learn more about the Software Heritage Acquisition Process (SWHAP) and the Software Stories presentation platform, developed with support from [UNESCO] in collaboration with the University of Pisa and the sciencestories.io team.
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Paper review: The Gamma Database Project
Last week, I read "The Gamma Database Project" for a Red Book reading group. Unlike the last paper for this group, this one was a lot more approachable in length: 19 pages.
I'm putting up some of my notes here from reading the paper. If you read through to the end, there's dessert: a quibble I have with the paper.