the Google doc about opensource.harvard.edu was deleted

[pdurbin]

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?"

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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 2017-0​7​​-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
6​1​ ​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:

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[pdurbin]

Meh. I simply removed the link to the google doc in 2fa70c7 when I was simplifying the README. Closing.