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Discover open-source software founded or developed in Canada — from academic projects to government tools and community initiatives.

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Vanilla Forums

Featured Web & Internet
Mark O'Sullivan 2005 Montreal, Quebec GPL-2.0 v3.x

Vanilla Forums is an open-source community forum software designed for ease of use and extensibility. Founded in Montreal, it powers thousands of community platforms worldwide, with a strong plugin ecosystem and modern design.

#forum #community #discussion #web
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LibreOffice

Other
The Document Foundation (with major Canadian contributors) 2010 National, National MPL-2.0 v24.8

LibreOffice is the world's leading free and open-source office suite. Canada's open-source community has long championed LibreOffice adoption, and Canadian contributors actively participate in development, translation into French, and accessibility improvements.

#office #word processor #spreadsheet #presentation
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Aegir Hosting System

Web & Internet
Aegir Project (Montreal community) 2007 Montreal, Quebec GPL-2.0 v3.x

Aegir is an open-source hosting system for Drupal websites, created and maintained largely by Montreal-based developers. It enables sysadmins to provision, migrate, and manage large numbers of Drupal sites from a single control panel.

#hosting #Drupal #web #CMS #server
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Pidgin

Communication
Mark Spencer, Canadian community contributions 1997 Various, National GPL-2.0 v2.14.x

Pidgin is a free and open-source multi-protocol instant messaging client. Canadian open-source developers have long been contributors to Pidgin and its underlying libpurple library, which supports dozens of chat protocols.

#messaging #IM #chat #communication
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