The Arctic Code Vault starts production and your open source projects are being archived

In 2019, GitHub launched the GitHub Archive Program and the GitHub Arctic Code Vault to preserve open-source software for future generations, aiming to store this code in an archive designed to last a thousand years. The Arctic Code Vault has now entered production, having captured a snapshot on February 2, 2020, of all active public repositories that met specific criteria, such as recent commits and star counts. Alongside the vault, GitHub created a guide to provide context, detailing software's nature, open source principles, and technical instructions for unpacking the archive, which is open to community contributions for improvement. An advisory board comprising experts in various fields was formed to enhance the archive's value, focusing on visualization, metadata, and redundancy, with plans to distribute fractional deposits globally to major archives. The official deposit of the Arctic Code Vault in the Arctic World Archive is scheduled for spring, with further discussions about the project's significance planned at an event in May 2020.

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