Open Source Software Library

Mattermost is an open-source, self-hostable online chat service with file sharing, search, and integrations. Designed as an alternative to Slack, it was founded by a Canadian-led team and is widely used by enterprises and governments for secure communications.

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.

Web components for the Government of Canada Design System.

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.

The AIA is a questionnaire designed to help you assess and mitigate the impacts associated with deploying an automated decision system. The AIA helps identify the impact level of your automation project under the Directive on Automated Decision-Making. Completion and release of an AIA is required by the Directive.

This project was designed to integrate with Statistic Canada’s The Zone platform. In The Zone, users can create individual workspaces with Kubeflow Notebooks. To persist their work, users can attach volumes to their notebooks. These volumes are not automatically deleted when a notebook is deleted. Users are free to move them or to reuse them. As a result, over time, users tend to amass several unused volumes. These volumes sit on the cloud and result in unnecessary costs. The purpose of this project is to design an automatic system that detects these unused volumes and safely removes them, reducing unnecessary expenditure. Despite being primarily designed for Statistics Canada, this project strongly values open-source practices. The codebase is available for public use and the entire development process is documented on the issues page. The volume cleaner was designed to have as little coupling as possible so it can easily integrate into projects outside Statistics Canada. Using open-source and being open-source was an important development philosophy.

Web components and packages for building Ontario government digital services.

Ready-to-use integration kit for Ontario Design System applications.

BC Sans (2.0) is an open-source "living" typeface developed for government to improve the readability and delivery of digital services. It was designed to support special characters and syllabics found in Indigenous Languages in B.C.

The B.C. Design System gives design and software development teams the building blocks to deliver intuitive, accessible digital services.

Design system and React components for Shopify admin experiences.

Orekit is a low level space dynamics library written in Java. Orekit is designed to be easily used in very different contexts, from quick studies up to critical operations. As a library, Orekit provides basic elements (orbits, dates, attitude, frames, ...) and various algorithms to handle them (conversions, propagations, pointing, events detection, orbit determination ...).

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.

GC Design System Tokens are the smallest building blocks of the design system. They represent design decisions for basic elements like colour, typography, and spacing, creating a curated set of options that we base our designs on. Tokens replace hard-coded values with variables that can be reused throughout the entire code base which makes it easier to maintain and update any code. Our tokens help us create a consistent visual experience that meets the Government of Canada requirements. They also improve communication between design and development by establishing a shared language.

CSS Shortcuts is a CSS utility framework built to match GC Design System (GCDS) styles and Canada.ca standards. It provides predefined CSS utility classes that apply core design elements, like colours, spacing, and typography, to your HTML. The classes align with our GCDS design tokens for consistency and ease of use.

The Seed Planning and Registry (SPAR) is the Ministry of Forests' online tree seed registry. It allows users to: Order seeds or seedlings, request cone and seed processing, and seed testing Enter and update information about their seedlots, orchards, and parent trees Generate reports about seedling requests, and the seedlot inventory SPAR supports reforestation, forest and ecosystem rehabilitation and wildfire recovery. It's also designed around Climate Based Seed Transfer (CBST) to help forests adapt to climate change. SPAR guides users through the selection of suitable seedlots using the transfer rules found in the Chief Forester’s Standards for Seed Use.

An Indy Tails Server is file server that is designed to receive, store and serve Hyperledger Indy Tails files. Indy tails files are generated by an issuer of Indy AnonCred verifiable credentials when a Revocation Registry is created and must be published to a location accessible by all holders that receive a credential referenced in that Revocation Registry. The generated file is static, it does not change, and the credential holders use the tails file to produce a zero-knowledge proof of non-revocation about their credential and include it when responding to a proof request with a proof that includes claims from a revocable credential. If you are new to Indy AnonCreds Revocation, please review this document to understand how Indy revocation works, and where tails files fit in. An Indy Tails Server is a customized file server that makes it easy for AnonCred Issuers to publish tails files and for holders to access those tails files. A tails file does not have to be published to an Indy Tails Server, they can be published anywhere as long as there exists a URL accessible to all holders to access the tails file. If holders are mobile iOS or Android apps, the URL must use SSL (e.g. must be https:) due to the restrictions in those OS's. Support for publishing tails files to an Indy Tails Server is built into Aries Cloud Agent Python.

GGIRCS is a tool designed to modernize the annual reporting and verification of greenhouse gas industrial emissions. This project is a fulfillment to meet the requirements of the BC government initiatives including Climate Strategy, Clean Growth and CleanBC, part of the Greenhouse Gas Industrial Reporting and Control Act [GGIRCA].

Design System Distribution Kit is an open-source project or repository maintained by Government of Ontario in Canada.

Design System is an open-source civic technology project or repository maintained by City of Montréal.

Government of Canada digital playbook content covering accessibility, service design, collaboration, data and open standards. It acts as a reusable guide for public servants building user-centred digital services.

Static site repository for stories and insights about the design of Canada.ca. The content is useful for teams studying public-sector UX decisions, service patterns, and Canada.ca publishing practices.

Archived source for the Canada.ca Digital Transformation Office blog. It remains useful as a public record of service-design practices, transformation updates, and web publishing patterns.

Metadata-driven tool for designing and executing statistical data-editing processes with Banff. It gives statistical programs a more automated way to organize editing steps, parameters, and reproducible processing.

Companion documentation for Veterans Affairs Canada’s Find Benefits and Services product. It captures product context, research and operating guidance that can be reused by service teams.

Starter-app based prototype for simplifying privacy statements in government services. It explores how plain-language content and service design can make privacy notices easier to understand.

Public repository for opportunities to participate in CDS-facilitated user research. It supports transparent recruitment and helps teams publish research activities in a reusable format.

Guidelines for designing, documenting and operating APIs in the B.C. Government. The repository gives teams a shared reference for consistent, reusable and developer-friendly public-sector APIs.

A virtual classroom platform designed for online teaching, presentations, breakout rooms, and collaboration.

A script-based solid modelling application for creating precise parametric 3D designs.

A federated photo-sharing platform designed as an open alternative to centralized social networks.

An offline-first learning platform designed for communities with limited internet access.

A web-based survey platform for designing questionnaires and collecting responses.

A desktop publishing application for professional page layout and print production.

A vector graphics editor for illustrations, diagrams, logos, and print design.

An image editor for photo retouching, composition, drawing, and graphic design.

A parametric 3D CAD application for engineering and product design.

An electronic design automation suite for schematics and printed circuit boards.

An application for creating electrical diagrams and technical schematics.

An interior design application for arranging furniture and previewing homes in 3D.

A vector-based 2D animation application for producing film-quality animation.

A collaborative password manager designed for teams and organizations.

A modern VPN protocol and implementation designed for simplicity, speed, and strong cryptography.

A distributed wide-column database designed for scalability and high availability.

A column-oriented database designed for fast analytical queries at scale.

A horizontally scalable log aggregation system designed to integrate with Grafana.

A statistical analysis application designed as an open alternative to proprietary statistics packages.

Accessible Vue-based web mapping platform designed for Government of Canada geospatial applications.

Inclusive React component and design-system work for Service Canada digital product teams.

City of Edmonton web application designed to improve discovery of social benefit programs.