the Google doc about opensource.harvard.edu was deleted
pdurbin opened this issue · comments
The Google doc linked in the README had gone missing:
% grep doc]: README.md
[Google doc]: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1CSWV9VxHfJj_ahArNYTsCAG0D8OtSfZhrCwpNiIKWQw/edit?usp=sharing
Since I'm 99% sure I created it with my g.harvard account, I tried to recover it through official channels (INC04903768 and RT338775) which ended with "A support case was opened with Google, but it looks like the file was deleted long enough ago that we can't restore it."
Weird. It occurred to me to check the Wayback Machine and there's a single copy from 2019 at https://web.archive.org/web/20190507141816/https://docs.google.com/document/d/1CSWV9VxHfJj_ahArNYTsCAG0D8OtSfZhrCwpNiIKWQw/edit?usp=sharing
It has a weird popup in Dutch I think but I was able to grab some HTML at save.html.txt and copy what I could out of it.
It turns out it's not a very long doc! I'll copy below what I see.
It's a bummer that the URL to the doc is dead because Cool URIs don't change, but what can you do. 🤷
Maybe I'll just create a Markdown file to put in this repo. Safer. And we'll have all the nice features of git that way.
There are no comments in the text I recovered but I recall some comments related to #27. From my email (which further confirms it was a g.harvard doc) I found "Can we hold regular open-source advocacy events for students, staff, and alumni?"
A text dump from the 2019 doc:
opensource.harvard.edu: What if Harvard showed the world how much we contribute to open source?
As of 2017-07-30, an informal poll indicates that 15 Harvard repos on GitHub have at least 19
stars and there is a combined total of 1310 stars across 48 repos:
192 https://github.com/IQSS/dataverse
184 https://github.com/openscholar/openscholar
170 https://github.com/amekkawi/excel4node
115 https://github.com/HBRGTech/daisy
85 https://github.com/harvard-lil/perma
81 https://github.com/HarvardPL/shill
77 https://github.com/cga-harvard/cga-worldmap
74 https://github.com/refinery-platform/refinery-platform
61 https://github.com/berkmancenter/mediacloud
50 https://github.com/IQSS/Zelig
44 https://github.com/berkmancenter/tagteam
37 https://github.com/harvard-lts/fits
24 https://github.com/cga-harvard/HHypermap
23 https://github.com/IQSS/TwoRavens
22 https://github.com/Harvard-Open-Data-Project/harvard-open-data-project.github.io
19 https://github.com/IQSS/redmine2github
The popularity of these repos demonstrates how much Harvard is contributing to open source
and that it may be a good time to launch a website at http://opensource.harvard.edu to highlight
these achievements and bring the Harvard open source community together.
Obviously, plenty of organizations contribute more open source to the world than Harvard does.
Google, for example, recently started highlighting their open source projects at
https://opensource.google.com/projects and here's a screenshot that we can draw on for
inspiration:
Meh. I simply removed the link to the google doc in 2fa70c7 when I was simplifying the README. Closing.