Nick Taylor (he/him)

Posted on Jul 16, 2020 • Updated on Aug 4, 2020

Are you in the GitHub Arctic Code Vault?

#discuss #opensource

Looks like GitHub is pushing out new contributor badges.

It looks like this.

Have you made it into the GitHub arctic code vault? ❄️ Share a screenshot!

Discussion (197)

mogwai • Jul 17 '20

For the first time in my life, I feel like I'm sitting with the cool kids at the lunch table :D

What a time to be alive.

Nick Taylor (he/him) • Jul 17 '20

Glenn Carremans • Jul 16 '20

Thanks for sharing! Didn't know about the badge

Shashwat Pandey • Jul 16 '20

Hey,
Can we still contribute to this github program.

Emilie Ma • Jul 16 '20 • Edited on Jul 16

I think this selection was taken in February 2020, but they might archive more repos later, who knows?

Bhavesh Lohana • Jul 17 '20

They might do it again later. This program already began its journey to arctic with over 21TB of repository data.

Nick Taylor (he/him) • Jul 16 '20

Itachi Uchiha • Jul 16 '20

Yes :)

Nick Taylor (he/him) • Jul 16 '20

Nice!

Anna Wijetunga • Jul 17 '20

Oh my goodness I'm so glad you wrote this - was WONDERING! Also, Nick, your responses to folks are HILARIOUS - those may be my favorite part!

Nick Taylor (he/him) • Jul 17 '20

Thanks and congrats! Here's some fried chicken care of Loki.

Anna Wijetunga • Jul 17 '20

TOO GOOD, love this!

Zen • Jul 16 '20

Wew

Nick Taylor (he/him) • Jul 16 '20

Noice!

Zen • Jul 16 '20

Our codes in arctic? 😱

Utkarsh Yadav • Jul 16 '20

Yup !

Hamza Anis • Jul 16 '20 • Edited on Jul 16

Here it is.

Nick Taylor (he/him) • Jul 16 '20

Nice!

Lee Calcote • Jul 17 '20 • Edited on Jul 17

I've been badged.

Nick Taylor (he/him) • Jul 17 '20

Karthikeyan Dhanapal • Aug 6 '20

I didn't realize the importance of the badge until my friend shared a video of this. Feels pretty good knowing that my code is going to be stored for like 1000 years 😇

This is the repo: github.com/ChintuKarthi/data_store...

Anna Wijetunga • Jul 17 '20 • Edited on Jul 17

Oh my goodness I'm so glad you wrote this - was WONDERING! Also, Nick, your responses to folks are HILARIOUS - those may be my favorite part!

dev-to-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/i/...

Shashwat Pandey • Jul 16 '20

Would like to know that can we still contribute for it.

Nick Taylor (he/him) • Jul 16 '20

No idea. Checkout github.com or a quick Google to see.

Gabriel Rufino • Jul 16 '20 • Edited on Jul 16

Yess

Nick Taylor (he/him) • Jul 16 '20

Michael Kohl • Jul 17 '20

Apparently I am. I think it orders the repositories by stars or something, so forem/forem is not on there 😢

Waylon Walker • Jul 16 '20

I'm in!!

That is so cool, thanks for pointing it out @nickytonline .

Nick Taylor (he/him) • Jul 16 '20

ogrotten • Jul 17 '20 • Edited on Jul 17

Hey nice profile pic 🤣

i.imgur.com/t5MvbAE.png

except dev doesn't want to embed my image 😡

Yechiel Kalmenson • Jul 16 '20

Yes! Including my contributions to forem/forem...

Yechiel K @home

@yechielk

Hey @ThePracticalDev, look what you did!

20:38 PM - 16 Jul 2020

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Nick Taylor (he/him) • Jul 16 '20

You're in!

Juan F Gonzalez • Jul 16 '20

It looks like I am!

And now I'm a GH sponsor as well 😁

Nick Taylor (he/him) • Jul 16 '20

Annie Taylor Chen • Jul 17 '20 • Edited on Jul 17

I thought everyone gets it, as an encouragement during the covid period... now I checked again and found it's something else, lol. No matter what, happy to get a badge! (I wonder what's in the "more" section because I won't archive that one page svelte hacker news repo....

Anna Wijetunga • Jul 17 '20

Ha ha, thank you so much, Annie, for your comment about my post and image! I knew I'd made a boo-boo so I quickly deleted and tried again - and finally got it right! Looks like my old version still appeared a few places, but hopefully, that'll peter out soon. But thanks for speaking up!!

Annie Taylor Chen • Jul 17 '20

yeah I saw that... then I deleted my comment too lol.

Nick Taylor (he/him) • Jul 17 '20 • Edited on Jul 17

Congrats!

Gautam krishna R • Jul 17 '20 • Edited on Jul 17

Yep! github.com/gautamkrishnar

Nick Taylor (he/him) • Jul 17 '20

αвιηαѕн • Jul 22 '20

😮 WoW
I made it but just a quiz app with lots of bad code.

Phippsy • Aug 28 '20 • Edited on Aug 28

I made it! All I did was remove some urls from documentation. (domains had expired, and the new owner redirected them to adult content).

Gesiane Pajarinen • Jul 17 '20

"GitHub Inc. said today it has delivered a copy of all of the open-source software code stored on its website to a data repository at the Arctic World Archive, which is a very long-term archival facility buried 250 meters deep in the permafrost of an Arctic mountain."
"(...), it will store its code in an archive called the GitHub Arctic Code Vault, which it says has been built to last for a thousand years."

siliconangle.com

WOW!!!

Fabio Manganiello • Aug 10 '20 • Edited on Aug 10

I'm there too :)

Btw, does anyone know if there's a way to see the full list of projects that have been included? As a contributor to several open-source projects, I'd like to see the full list instead of a generic "and more".

Sebastian Korotkiewicz • Jul 19 '20 • Edited on Jul 19

Yes :)

I've been awarded for this repos: doublespeakgames/adarkroom, cydrobolt/polr, miniflux/miniflux and more...

Andreas • Jul 20 '20

Yeah! And of course with contribution to Forem 🤗💚

Abdel-Raouf Abdel-Wahab • Aug 6 '20

Woow, my learning journey with Apache kafka well be documented for next generations !!
Such a great Honour :D

Desolo Sub Humus 🌎🌍 • Aug 10 '20 • Edited on Aug 10

I needed some good news. I didn't expect this good of news, though.

I'll take it - seriously, this made my day.

John Dears • Nov 19 '20 • Edited on Nov 19

But why Arctic? I couldn't understand the reason behind this naming. I am part of it too.

Nick Taylor (he/him) • Nov 19 '20

It’s because they are literally storing it in the Arctic. ❄️⛄️

John Dears • Nov 19 '20

Come on. Lol.

Nick Taylor (he/him) • Nov 19 '20

Sarah • Jul 20 '20 • Edited on Jul 20

Yes :)

Camilo Martinez • Jul 20 '20

🤗 My NuGet Packages: ToolBox and Colorify going to 🥶

Gonzalo Chacaltana • Jul 18 '20 • Edited on Jul 18

Yes, I just saw this badge on my profile. Thanks for sharing. Good job guys!

Ismael Olliver OUEDRAOGO • Aug 18 '20

I never applied for the program, wasnt even aware of it, but still i received the message :"You contributed code to the 2020 GitHub Archive Program and now have a badge for it. Thank you for being part of the program!" I find this very suspicious. I really hated it when Microsoft acquired GitHub. I wish GitHub remained fully independent; now with these data hungry companies that want to track spy and know everything what can we expect. Microsoft bought GitHub that bought in turn NPM, I really dont feel at ease with all that.

Irkan Hadi • Sep 16 '20

They gave the badge to everyone who contributed to any open source project, even if it's your own repos. But in the badge they only mention the top 3 starred repos you contributed to, so eh, it's nice to have I guess.

Vimarsh Shah • Jul 17 '20

Considering my little contribution to open source, still I got the badge :D
Most of my Repo's are related to embedded system programs (like Arduino and RPi)

Thanks for sharing, didn't know about it.

Sharon • Jul 17 '20

Really neat to be part of this!

Very cool that they're looking to preserve all this code for the next 1000 years (at least!). If anyone wants to read about it: archiveprogram.github.com/