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Koha ILS

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HLT (New Zealand), major Canadian contributions via Biblibre & ByWater 1999 Various, National GPL-3.0 v24.05

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.

#library #ILS #cataloging #circulation
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Pidgin

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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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dwave-cloud-client

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D-Wave Quantum 2017 Burnaby, British Columbia Apache-2.0

Client library for accessing D-Wave cloud solvers.

#quantum #cloud #client
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Active Merchant

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Shopify 2006 Ottawa, Ontario MIT

Ruby payment abstraction library used by ecommerce applications.

#payments #ruby #ecommerce
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Bootsnap

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Shopify 2017 Ottawa, Ontario MIT

Ruby boot-time optimizer and cache library.

#ruby #performance
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Draggable

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Shopify 2017 Ottawa, Ontario MIT

Drag-and-drop JavaScript library.

#javascript #drag-and-drop
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