Open Source Software Library

Anubis is a firewall utility for web servers that "weighs the souls" of HTTP requests to prevent AI and bot traffic from taking up the bandwidth of small organizations. Anubis has seen adoption in a number of open source projects where it is being used to protect source repositories.

rc-servers reimplements all Robocraft servers to make the defunct game playable again. The project is fully self-hostable and does not require any game client modifications. After the shutdown of FreeJam, the British game studio behind Robocraft, and inspired by the Stop Killing Games movement, the OpenJam project was founded in Ottawa to keep their games running.

Canadian research networks including CANARIE and provincial NREN members such as ORION and BCNET are major contributors to open-source network authentication and AAI infrastructure. Their contributions to FreeRADIUS and eduroam infrastructure enable secure network access for millions of students and researchers.

CANARIE manages the Canadian Access Federation (CAF), which provides open-source Shibboleth identity federation infrastructure enabling single sign-on for over 300 Canadian universities, colleges, and research institutions. Their open tools and configuration guides are publicly available.

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.

CanAssist at the University of Victoria develops open-source assistive technology tools and custom software for people with disabilities. Their free toolbox includes communication aids, alternative input interfaces, and educational software freely available to Canadians.

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.

Developed by the National Research Council of Canada, the NRC Word-Emotion Association Lexicon (EmoLex) is a widely-cited open linguistic resource mapping words to emotions and sentiments. It is freely available for research and has been used in thousands of NLP studies worldwide.

Maple Linux is a Canadian maintained, Debian based distro. It ships with Cinnamon DE for an easy transition for Windows users, and includes additional security and privacy enhancements out of box. Learn more at maplelinux.ca

A modern and accessible web application that allows users to link legacy pai to their GC Sign in account. Built with a React front-end using the GC Design System, and a supporting FastAPI back-end API that integrates with the IBM Verify SaaS (IdP) to handle login, logout and profile updates.