Open Source Software Library

Advanced Analytics Workspace (AAW) is Statistics Canada's open source platform for data science and machine learning (ML) for advanced practitioners to get their work done in an unrestricted environment made by data scientists for data scientists.

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.

HOL Guard is local-first runtime control for AI agents. Installed on the machine, it can gate shell, secrets and file reads, MCP server changes, and plugin or skill installs, then route risky actions through local approvals and receipts. Apache-2.0 freeware. Maker HOL. Homepage https://hol.org/guard. Windows installer and source available. It is not a cloud gateway and not a complete prompt-injection preventer.

Koha is the world's first free and open-source integrated library system. Canadian public and academic libraries have been among its largest adopters and contributors, with Canadian companies providing support and development.

Open edX is the open-source platform powering edX and hundreds of university MOOC programs. Canadian institutions including University of Toronto, UBC, and McGill have contributed significantly to its development and deploy it for online learning.

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.

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.

QGIS is the leading free and open-source desktop GIS application. Canadian government agencies, universities, and environmental organizations are among the world's largest QGIS user communities. Natural Resources Canada, Parks Canada, and multiple provincial mapping agencies have contributed data, plugins, and development.

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.

The most popular tool for teams to coordinate mapping on OpenStreetMap. With this web application, an area of interest can be defined and divided up into smaller tasks that can be completed rapidly. It shows which areas need to be mapped and which areas need a review for quality assurance. You can see the tool in action: log into the widely used HOT Tasking Manager and start mapping. This is Free and Open Source Software. You are welcome to use the code and set up your own instance. The Tasking Manager has been initially designed and built by and for the Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team, and is nowadays used by many communities and organizations.

A high-performance network threat detection, intrusion detection, and intrusion prevention engine.

Mailmunge is a mail filter based on the Sendmail Milter filtering protocol and library. This protocol is used by both Sendmail and Postfix, allowing Mailmunge to work with either Postfix or Sendmail. Mailmunge connects the Milter protocol to a set of Perl worker processes. This lets you write your mail filtering policies in Perl, and make use of the wealth of CPAN modules available for dealing with MIME and email in general.

Remind is a sophisticated calendar and alarm program. It includes the following features: - A sophisticated scripting language and intelligent handling of exceptions and holidays. - Plain-text, PDF, PostScript and HTML output. - Timed reminders and pop-up alarms. - A friendly graphical front-end for people who don't want to learn the scripting language. - Facilities for both the Gregorian and Hebrew calendars. - Support for 12 different languages.

A production tracking platform for animation and visual-effects teams.

A multimodal journey-planning engine widely used with Canadian public transit data and open standards.

A research data repository platform used extensively by Canadian universities and research organizations.

A toolchain for producing self-hosted vector map tiles from OpenStreetMap and other open data.

A geospatial content management platform for publishing, sharing, and collaborating on maps and spatial data.