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Are you in the GitHub Arctic Code Vault?

Nick Taylor on July 16, 2020

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 scr...

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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 • 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

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 • Jul 16 '20

Itachi Uchiha • Jul 16 '20

Yes :)

Nick Taylor • 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 • 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 • Jul 16 '20

Noice!

Zen • Jul 16 '20

Our codes in arctic? 😱

Utkarsh Yadav • Jul 16 '20

Yup !

Hamza Anis • Jul 16 '20 • Edited

Here it is.

Nick Taylor • Jul 16 '20

Nice!

Lee Calcote • Jul 17 '20 • Edited

I've been badged.

Nick Taylor • Jul 17 '20

Anna Wijetunga • Jul 17 '20 • Edited

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!

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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...

Waylon Walker • Jul 16 '20

I'm in!!

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

Nick Taylor • Jul 16 '20

ogrotten • Jul 17 '20 • Edited

Hey nice profile pic 🤣

i.imgur.com/t5MvbAE.png

except dev doesn't want to embed my image 😡

Shashwat Pandey • Jul 16 '20

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

Nick Taylor • Jul 16 '20

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

Yechiel Kalmenson • Jul 16 '20

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

Yechiel K @home

@yechielk

Hey @ThePracticalDev, look what you did!

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Nick Taylor • Jul 16 '20

You're in!

Gabriel Rufino • Jul 16 '20 • Edited

Yess

Nick Taylor • Jul 16 '20

Juan F Gonzalez • Jul 16 '20

It looks like I am!

And now I'm a GH sponsor as well 😁

Nick Taylor • Jul 16 '20

Annie Taylor Chen • Jul 17 '20 • Edited

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 • Jul 17 '20 • Edited

Congrats!

Phippsy • Aug 28 '20 • Edited

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

Gautam Krishna R • Jul 17 '20 • Edited

Yep! github.com/gautamkrishnar

Abinash Panda • Jul 22 '20

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

Nick Taylor • Jul 17 '20

John Dears • Nov 19 '20 • Edited

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

Nick Taylor • Nov 19 '20

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

John Dears • Nov 19 '20

Come on. Lol.

Nick Taylor • Nov 19 '20

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/

Andreas • Jul 20 '20

Yeah! And of course with contribution to Forem 🤗💚

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.

Sebastian Korotkiewicz • Jul 19 '20 • Edited

Yes :)

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

Sarah • Jul 20 '20 • Edited

Yes :)

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

Camilo Martinez • Jul 20 '20

🤗 My NuGet Packages: ToolBox and Colorify going to 🥶

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.

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

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

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

Fabio Manganiello • Aug 10 '20 • Edited

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".

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!!!

Gonzalo Chacaltana • Jul 18 '20 • Edited

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

Jason C. McDonald • Jul 16 '20

Yep, I'm in it! That is such a cool idea. I just wish I could get some of my newer stuff in there. Ah well, they're bound to update it eventually, right?

Nick Taylor • Jul 16 '20

Arctic Code Vault 2.0 😉

Petros Demetrakopoulos • Jul 18 '20

Yeap!

One of my favorite repos (Ethairballoons) went to arctic!

Dor Shinar • Jul 16 '20

Got the cool badge too!

Nick Taylor • Jul 16 '20

Andy Delso • Aug 4 '20

Apparently my code is also important... 🤣

Bogdan Covrig • Jul 16 '20 • Edited

I am in! forem 🌱 I see you 👀

Nick Taylor • Jul 16 '20

Manuel Rodríguez-Sánchez • Jul 20 '20

Yeah!! This is the coolest thing ever! 🤩

Kirill Vasiltsov • Jul 17 '20 • Edited

Yep

Nick Taylor • Jul 17 '20

You're in!

Andrea Stagi • Jul 16 '20 • Edited

Yes ❄️🥶

Nick Taylor • Jul 16 '20

Yash Dave • Jul 16 '20

I am in! 😀 Didn't even know I was going to be till the prompt appeared.

Nick Taylor • Jul 16 '20

Awesome!

Patrick BIYAGA • Jul 17 '20 • Edited

Yea

Nick Taylor • Jul 17 '20

Yeah!

David Taylor Jr. • Jul 18 '20 • Edited

Yep, I'm in!

Antonio Falcão Jr. • Jul 17 '20

:)

Nick Taylor • Jul 17 '20 • Edited

You're in!

Alexandre Sanlim • Jul 17 '20

Nice!

Nick Taylor • Jul 17 '20

Keff • Jul 17 '20 • Edited

Yup! My library is cool ;)!

Nick Taylor • Jul 17 '20

kenabella • Jul 17 '20

BIG YES! :)

Nick Taylor • Jul 17 '20

Hammed Oyedele • Jul 17 '20

YESSSSS!!!

Nick Taylor • Jul 17 '20

Somyaranjan Rout • Jul 17 '20

Feeling Different 👨🏻‍💻✌️

Nick Taylor • Jul 17 '20

Utkarsh Yadav • Jul 16 '20

Got mine too.

Christina Gorton • Jul 16 '20

Yes! Just saw I was added.

Nick Taylor • Jul 16 '20

Tanguy Andreani • Jul 17 '20

I’m in it but I don’t know what it means, I think if you’re selected, your projects with minimum 1 star are archived.

Kamlesh Silag • Jul 17 '20

I'm in :)

Lazar Nikolov • Jul 17 '20 • Edited

What?!?! I've built this tiny AppCenter Serilog adapter and it got into the Arctic Code Vault! This is super cool! 😃

Nick Taylor • Jul 17 '20

Dana Ottaviani • Jul 16 '20

I did! 🎉

Thanks for pointing it out.

Nick Taylor • Jul 16 '20

Kamlesh Silag • Jul 17 '20

I'm in :)

Nick Taylor • Jul 17 '20

Benjamin Trent • Jul 17 '20

OH SNAP!

Nick Taylor • Jul 17 '20

Nishant Mittal • Jul 17 '20

Looks like that

Nick Taylor • Jul 17 '20

Irkan Hadi • Sep 16 '20

Oh wow, I forgot about the Arctic Vault thing.

Nice

Nick Taylor • Sep 16 '20

Niko Heikkilä • Jul 17 '20

I did! And I even contributed to Forem. 💪

Nick Taylor • Jul 17 '20

🌱

Lisa Sy

@lisasy

@ludwiczakpawel @nickytonline @bendhalpern @forem 👁🌱👁

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Transient • Jul 16 '20

Wow, surprisingly I have!

Nick Taylor • Jul 16 '20

Jason F • Jul 17 '20

Heyyyy!!! Didn't know this was a thing. Thanks!

Nick Taylor • Jul 17 '20

Stephanie Handsteiner • Jul 17 '20 • Edited

My static GitHub page is in the arctic now. 😂

Nick Taylor • Jul 17 '20

Nice!

Stephanie Morillo • Jul 17 '20 • Edited

I am!

Nick Taylor • Jul 17 '20

Theofanis Despoudis • Jul 17 '20 • Edited

Yes!

Nick Taylor • Jul 17 '20

Carlos Magno • Jul 17 '20

Yeah :)

Luis Bonilla • Jul 17 '20

Welcome to the Artic Code Club!

Nick Taylor • Jul 17 '20

First rule of Arctic Code Club... we do not talk about Arctic Code Club! 😉

Awelle • Jul 17 '20

Im in too😎

Nick Taylor • Jul 17 '20

Omar White • Jul 17 '20 • Edited

Hey I made it in, feels pretty cool! 😊

Nick Taylor • Jul 17 '20

Shannon Crabill • Jul 16 '20

To my surprise, I am!

I wonder what the and more repos are though.

🤔

Nick Taylor • Jul 16 '20 • Edited

What are these "and more repos"...

Chen Hui Jing • Jul 16 '20

Made it :)

Nick Taylor • Jul 16 '20

You're in!

Médéric Burlet • Jul 17 '20

Yes sir~

Nick Taylor • Jul 17 '20 • Edited

Congrats and you get fried chicken too!

Anjan Kumar • Jul 17 '20

Hey, I also get the badge

Nick Taylor • Jul 17 '20

Nice!

Dmitry Pavlov • Jul 17 '20

Nick Taylor • Jul 17 '20

Noice!

Sergey Romanenko • Jul 17 '20

Yes! I am there ))

Jake Varness • Jul 19 '20

I am!! Woop woooooop!

Sunil Aleti • Jul 18 '20

Yess !!

Premkumar • Jul 18 '20 • Edited

Yes!

Gift Egwuenu • Jul 16 '20 • Edited

Oh I found this on mine as well! Super cool.

Nick Taylor • Jul 16 '20

That's awesome! 🔥

James Allen • Jul 17 '20

Who knew fixing the grammar in a README.md would result in badge!.. I'm in!

Nick Taylor • Jul 17 '20

Just a friendly reminder folks...

nickytonline image

Any contribution to Open Source is valuable

Nick Taylor (he/him) ・ Jan 22 '19 ・ 2 min read

#opensource #gatsby #react #career

Deepak Vishwakarma • Jul 25 '20 • Edited

It feels good i don't know why

Brian Christner • Jul 20 '20 • Edited

Really cool to have my code & spelling mistakes forever encapsulated in ice

Pranav Baburaj • May 24 '21

I contributed to a repository in the GitHub arctic code vault, but I didn't get the badge. I was too late

Sadra Yahyapour • Jul 17 '20 • Edited

I also have this badge on my profile. Great ;)

BannerBomb • Aug 14 '20 • Edited

I'm apart of it.

Jeel Patel • Aug 9 '20

I've recently joined github in June, Can I earn my badge on/after 02/02/2021?

AtOmXpLuS • Aug 4 '20

🙈🙉🙊

yonas • Jul 30 '20

I am surprised this came up in my profile

krishna kakade • Jul 17 '20

I am also in

0xkoji • Jul 17 '20

yup!

Niraj Nandish • Jul 17 '20

Look ma I made it to the Arctic Vault, I'm famous.

Rahul Jain • Jul 17 '20

Oh Yes 🤓! Github is becoming more interesting than ever!!

Ted Ngeene • Jul 17 '20

Just got mine today, anyone care to explain what it is?

Vinoth Vino 👨🏼‍💻 • Jul 17 '20 • Edited

I am also a GitHub Arctic Code Vault Contributor.
)

Pacharapol Withayasakpunt • Jul 17 '20

Finally, by first badge! 😂

Daniel Lintott • Jul 16 '20 • Edited

It would seem my code made it in too!

Nick Taylor • Jul 16 '20

Nice, you're in!

Sai Krishna • Jul 17 '20

Yuppiiieee

Raymond • Jul 16 '20

Intresting I have no idea how I got this
do I have to have a frequently viewed piece of code?

Raymond • Jul 16 '20

I have no idea how devs image uploads work.

Yunus Gaziev • Jul 17 '20 • Edited

Yes

Rene Padillo 🇵🇭 • Jul 17 '20

yes. I'm happy to be part of this ♥️

Anshul Chaudhary • Jul 16 '20

Yeah!!

Deepanshu Prajapati • Jul 17 '20 • Edited

thanks @github

Jesus Gonzalez • Jul 17 '20 • Edited

My code will be at the North Pole. that must be celebrated. =)

Manish Soni • Jul 17 '20

yes I also got the same.

Shashwat Pandey • Jul 17 '20

Okay,
Thanks for the response.

Alex Janke • Jul 17 '20

Ayyyy, it apparently even counts contributions. Also highly interested in seeing when you run out of reaction gifs ;D

Nick Taylor • Jul 17 '20

Still got GIFs!

Swastik Baranwal • Jul 17 '20

Yes

Swastik Baranwal

@delta2315

I am also a @github Arctic Code Contributor!! github.com/Delta456

#github #contributor #code #arctic

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Rupok Chowdhury Protik • Jul 17 '20

Yeah. Seems like I'm in :)

Djason Irvinton SYLVAINCE • Jul 17 '20

ArcticCodeVaultContributor

Rohith Gilla • Jul 17 '20

Yes I am ❄️

Kyle Boe • Jul 17 '20

Look mom! I made it!

Bennett(he/him) • Jul 17 '20

Ooh yeah we did

Bhavesh Lohana • Jul 17 '20

Yes! I didn't even know about it until yesterday.

Keagan Van Rooyen • Jul 17 '20 • Edited

Am I one of the cool kids now?😂

Krypton | Madhusudan Babar • Jul 18 '20

Yay 🙃

Jesse M. Holmes • Jul 21 '20

I feel like this deserves a "bruh …" because I haven't spent much time with GitHub lately.

kris • Jul 18 '20 • Edited

me too

pasindu p konghawaththa • Jul 18 '20

x

limusina10 • Jul 18 '20

Yes ;)

Kesava Karri • Jul 18 '20 • Edited

Yayy

Kesava Karri • Jul 18 '20

Yayy
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Victor Aremu • Jul 18 '20 • Edited

Me too! 😹

Esdexca Dex Devlon • Jul 21 '20

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Leo Giovanetti • Jul 18 '20 • Edited

Such a weird feeling, I’m sure it’s a good thing but can’t really see how is it going to help future generations 🤔

freebot • Jul 27 '20 • Edited

Yes, I am 👍🏻

Deepak Vishwakarma • Jul 25 '20

i don't know why it feels nice

Brian Christner • Jul 20 '20

Awesome to have my code and spelling mistakes forever frozen in the arctic tundra.

Amoh - Gyebi Godwin • Jul 19 '20

They hit the nail right on the head, Ninja-Preview will soon met its EOL.

Praveen Raghuvanshi • Jul 23 '20

Hurray!!!

Achala Dissanayake • Jul 19 '20 • Edited

GG

Gesiane Pajarinen • Jul 17 '20

Just got it:

Shiva Basava P • Jul 30 '20 • Edited

Thanks for sharing, Even I've got one :) !
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