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Earlier this year on February 2nd, 2020 Jon Evans and his team of archivists took a snapshot of all active public repositories on GitHub and sent it to a decommissioned coal mine in the Svalbard archipelago where it will be stored for the next 1,000 years. On this episode, Jon chats with Jerod all about the GitHub Archive Program and how they’re preserving open source software for future generations.

Subtitle
with Jon Evans, founding director of the GitHub Archive Program
Duration
51:35
Publishing date
2020-09-04 21:00
Link
https://changelog.com/podcast/411
Contributors
  Jerod Santo
author  
Enclosures
https://chtbl.com/track/382DG4/https://cdn.changelog.com/uploads/podcast/411/the-changelog-411.mp3
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Earlier this year on February 2nd, 2020 Jon Evans and his team of archivists took a snapshot of all active public repositories on GitHub and sent it to a decommissioned coal mine in the Svalbard archipelago where it will be stored for the next 1,000 years.

On this episode, Jon chats with Jerod all about the GitHub Archive Program and how they’re preserving open source software for future generations.

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