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* Github Arctic Code Vault Contributor * Absolutely no idea what it was for * Sounds cool

• Svalbard archipeligo in Norway
• GitHub using a decommissioned coal mine

* Mainted by Arctic World Archive

• Deep underground in the permafrost layer

* Basicaly ground frozen for 2 or more years

• Last year 1000's of critical repos

* bitcoin, linux, rust, python * The most important code

• Stored on silver halide film

* Last over 1000 years

• So that brings us to now

* The vault is being expanded

• Arctic circle archive only one part

* Very important part * Super long term storage

• Archival Program works in 8 layers

* Github * Every push/issue/pr to github distributed across data centers * In case of damage to one center * While still mainting quick acess * GH Torrent * Initially used bittorrent * Now only through http * Basically an externally controlled github mirror * Snapshots available by hour, day, month * Queryable through Big Query * GH Archive * Similiar to GH Torrent * Slower rate of update * Longer storage * Internet Archive * Wayback machine crawls githubs public repos * Copying reps/issues/prs/wiki's etc * Stored on hard drives in san fransico and other * Accesable through git and https * Software Heritage Foundation * Archives public repos on Github * Bodleian Library * Quicker updating Arctic Vault redundancy * Only covers 10,000 most starred repos * On film used in vault. * Arctic World Archive * Project Silica * Aims to archive all public repos for the next 10,0000 years * On Quartz glass platters