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.

OpenHMD is a free and open-source API and drivers for immersive technology such as head-mounted displays (VR/AR). Canadian developers have been central contributors, and the project supports a wide range of VR headsets on Linux.

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.

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.

SageMath is a free open-source mathematics software system. The Pacific Institute for the Mathematical Sciences (PIMS), a consortium of Canadian universities, provides infrastructure and hosting for SageMath and has been a key institutional backer of open mathematical software in Canada.

OpenStax provides free, peer-reviewed open-source textbooks. Toronto Metropolitan University (TMU) and several other Canadian institutions are active contributors to the platform's open educational resources and have helped adapt content for Canadian curricula.

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.

TypeScript module for removing personally identifiable information from text.

Web application to link legacy user accounts to CanadaLogin.

Self-service application for managing CanadaLogin profiles.

Terraform and configuration for a platform identity provider.

CKAN extension for storing resources with cloud storage providers.

Shareable custom schema extension for CKAN, widely used in Canadian open data work.

Guidance for Ontario open data processes and practices.

Verifiable-credential directory for organizations in British Columbia.

Digital identity and Hyperledger Indy catalyst project from B.C. government.

Plugins supporting Aries Cloud Agent Python deployments.

Common single sign-on service components for B.C. government.

Blob-level caching solution for ActiveRecord models.

Cloud and desktop IDE platform with Canadian enterprise contributions.

Kubernetes-native cloud development environment with Canadian contributors and users.

AAW Vault Sidecar Injector is an open-source project or repository maintained by Statistics Canada in Canada.

Ontario Identity Prototype is an open-source project or repository maintained by Government of Ontario in Canada.

Infrastructure and policy examples for checking Oracle Cloud deployments against Government of Canada guardrails. It provides reusable guidance for teams that need to document cloud compliance controls in Oracle environments.

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.

Start-here repository for contributors and users of the Government of Canada GitHub organization. It provides orientation material, contribution links, and a lightweight entry point for finding public-sector open-source work.

Repository for oversight material related to user and workpoint technology in Government of Canada contexts. It provides a public artifact for governance discussions and review practices.

Reusable infrastructure templates and examples for accelerating Government of Canada service delivery on AWS. The repository provides cloud starter patterns for teams seeking standardized deployments.

Static site and materials for Open First Day, a Government of Canada event promoting open-by-default work. The repository provides reusable event content and advocacy material for open-source culture.

Kubernetes admission tooling that injects Kerberos sidecars into workloads that need secure authentication. It supports enterprise data-science and analytics platforms where legacy identity systems must integrate with containers.

Small Electron desktop application for working with Kubeflow environments. It provides a client-side wrapper that can make Kubeflow workflows easier for analysts or platform users to access.

Go utility that monitors Kubernetes jobs and terminates sidecars after the main job completes. It helps batch-processing workloads finish cleanly in service-mesh or sidecar-heavy environments.

Open-source extension marketplace for VS Code maintained in the Statistics Canada ecosystem. It provides infrastructure for discovering and distributing editor extensions in controlled or self-hosted environments.

Python anonymization package from Statistics Canada for privacy-protection workflows. It supports identification and treatment of sensitive information, helping analysts prepare safer datasets for sharing or processing.

Golang replacement for Kubeflow Jupyter web APIs used in the Statistics Canada platform environment. It provides service endpoints for notebook management in Kubernetes-based analytics workspaces.

R package that builds multi-compartment epidemiological models from Excel-defined model structures. It includes sensitivity-analysis and visualization tools for users modelling infectious-disease scenarios.

Collection of tools used by the Canadian Digital Service to support confidentiality, integrity and availability of applications. It includes shared security automation and reference material for operational teams.

Custom web application that integrates with IBM Verify so users can manage a CanadaLogin profile. It supports identity self-service workflows for federal digital services.

Analytics dashboards for GeoBC authorization tools, helping teams understand usage and operational patterns. The repository supports evidence-based improvements to geospatial access services.

Java repository supporting the Base Resource Management Branch product-information-management ecosystem. It provides backend components for natural-resource data and business workflows.

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.

Demonstration project for the B.C. Government OpenShift quickstart experience. It provides a sample TypeScript application and deployment path that teams can copy when starting platform work.

Open-source application that provides a web interface for documented, repeatable administrative-record linkage and deduplication. It lets analysts select data-linking methods and run them in a structured workflow.

Issue-based service desk for requesting DevOps and platform changes in the B.C. Government ecosystem. It provides transparency around support workflows and platform onboarding.

Utility repository related to Keycloak redirect handling for natural-resources applications. It supports identity integration and migration patterns for services using single sign-on.

Natural-resources ministry application repository used for managing land or resource-service workflows. It provides public code and issue history for a government service maintained under open-source practices.

Keycloak-based single sign-on assets used by B.C. Government platform services. The repository supports authentication configuration, integration examples and identity-management operations.

Verifiable-credential registry for B.C. organizations and business information. The project demonstrates digital trust infrastructure for issuing and verifying public organization credentials.

B.C. Government project for decentralized identity and Hyperledger Indy ecosystem experimentation. It supports pilots, integration work and shared components for verifiable credential services.

Common single-sign-on service repository for B.C. Government platform users. It supports self-service identity integration and access management for applications hosted on the government platform.

Web client for forestry-related digital services in British Columbia. The repository provides frontend code and patterns for interacting with natural-resource APIs and user workflows.

Authentication integration repository for B.C. natural-resources applications. It supports brokered identity patterns, helping applications connect to shared SSO providers and authorization services.