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tosh on Nov 13, 2019 | parent | context | favorite | on: GitHub Archive Program

> 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. The archive is located in a decommissioned coal mine in the Svalbard archipelago, closer to the North Pole than the Arctic Circle. GitHub will capture a snapshot of every active public repository on 02/02/2020 and preserve that data in the Arctic Code Vault.

Already__Taken on Nov 13, 2019 [–]

Hope it's water tight

Zitrax on Nov 13, 2019 | | [–]

Unlike the svalbard seed vault: https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2017/may/19/arctic-s...

dwaltrip on Nov 14, 2019 | | [–]

They should assume some water will get in (it almost certainly will) and plan around that.

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