Bibliothèque de logiciels libres

L'Alliance de recherche numérique du Canada (anciennement Calcul Canada) gère des grappes HPC nationales exécutant des configurations de gestionnaire de charge de travail Slurm personnalisées et fournit des outils open source pour l'informatique scientifique. Leur pile open source alimente la recherche universitaire à travers le pays.

LibreOffice est la première suite bureautique gratuite et open source au monde. La communauté open source du Canada défend depuis longtemps l'adoption de LibreOffice, et les contributeurs canadiens participent activement au développement, à la traduction en français et aux améliorations de l'accessibilité.

The National Research Council of Canada (NRC) publishes numerous open-source tools and datasets for materials science, climate modelling, construction standards, and aerospace research. Their open-data and open-software initiatives are publicly available via the Government of Canada's open resource portal.

Statistics Canada releases open-source tools and R/Python packages for statistical analysis and data dissemination. Their tools include the Canadian Statistical Dissemination Architecture (CSDA), open microdata tools, and visualization packages used by researchers across Canada.

SageMath is a free open-source mathematics software system. The Pacific Institute for the Mathematical Sciences (PIMS), a consortium of Canadian universities, provides infrastructure and hosting for SageMath and has been a key institutional backer of open mathematical software in Canada.

OSGeo Canada (OSGeo Local Chapter) actively promotes and contributes to GeoServer and the broader open geospatial software stack. Natural Resources Canada and provincial governments use and contribute to GeoServer for publishing geospatial data through standard OGC web services.