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<para>Preserving open source software for future generations</para>
<para>The world is powered by open source software. It is a hidden cornerstone of modern civilization, and the shared heritage of all humanity.</para>
<para>The GitHub Arctic Code Vault is a data repository preserved in the Arctic World Archive (AWA), a very-long-term archival facility 250 meters deep in the permafrost of an Arctic mountain.</para>
<para>We are collaborating with the Bodleian Library in Oxford, the Bibliotheca Alexandrina in Egypt, and Stanford Libraries in California to store copies of 17,000 of GitHub’s most popular and most-depended-upon projects—open source’s “greatest hits”—in their archives, in museum-quality cases, to preserve them for future generations.</para>