Open source
A hub for open source software and AI resources in our collection.
See also:
- All open source tools in the Civic Tech Field Guide (To filter the entire collection for open source code, just use the Open Source search filter in the directory.)
- Open source developer networks
- General purpose open source tools
- Open source supply chain
- Open source networks
- Open Source Program Offices (within governments)
Google Summer of Code
Google Summer of Code is a global, online program focused on bringing new contributors into open source software development.
goose
your local AI agent, automating engineering tasks seamlessly install goose
Agentic AI Foundation (AAIF)
The AAIF provides a neutral, open foundation to ensure this critical capability evolves transparently, collaboratively, and in ways that advance the adoption of leading open source AI projects
AGENTS.md
A simple, open format for guiding coding agents, used by over 60k open-source projects.
OpenUK Awards
OpenUK’s Awards and Honours Lists are part of a UK-focused, world leading recognition programme for open tech.
BERTopic
BERTopic is a topic modeling technique that leverages 🤗 transformers and c-TF-IDF to create dense clusters allowing for easily interpretable topics whilst keeping important words in the topic descrip...
Amazon Mining Watch
Amazon Mining Watch uses machine learning to map the scars of gold mining activities in the Amazonian countries.
Lenfest AI Collaborative and Fellowship Program
Case studies on open source, AI-developed apps built by newsrooms
OpenWallet Foundation
The Open Wallet Foundation (hosted at the Linux Foundation) brings developers, standard development organizations and academia together to facilitate global interoperability of verifiable credentials,...
Creative Commons
Creative Commons is an international nonprofit organization that empowers people to grow and sustain the thriving commons of shared knowledge and culture we need to address the world's most pressing c...
Swiss AI Initiative
The Swiss AI Initiative is operated by SNAI and the largest open science/open source effort for AI foundation models worldwide.
LaSuite.coop
La boite à outils libres, open source et modulable pour les organisations collaboratives !
ETH Zurich's LLM
ETH Zurich and EPFL will release a large language model (LLM) developed on public infrastructure. Trained on the “Alps” supercomputer at the Swiss National Supercomputing Centre (CSCS), the new LLM ma...
OSPOs for Good 2024
Annual symposium celebrating Open Source Programme Offices (OSPOs)
Software Reuse through Open Source Software in the Public Sector
A qualitative survey on Policy and Practice, by Johan Linåker, Sachiko Muto
gvSIG Desktop
A powerful, user-friendly, interoperable GIS used by thousands of users worldwide.
Offentligkod
Katalog med öppna programvaror som används av offentliga organisationer. Ett stöd för att välja ett öppet alternativ.
Free Software unit (France)
Assisting government agencies in increasing their use of Free and Open Source software and supporting their efforts to publish source code .
EU Open Source Solutions Catalogue
Repository of Open Source Solutions of Public Administrations
Pôle open source et communs numériques
Nous accompagnons les administrations pour renforcer leur utilisation de logiciels libres, soutenir leurs démarches de publication et de mutualisation de codes sources et créer des liens avec l'écosys...
Association des Développeurs et Utilisateurs de Logiciels Libres (ADULLACT)
Fondée en 2002, l'ADULLACT a pour objectifs de soutenir et coordonner l'action des Administrations et Collectivités territoriales dans le but de promouvoir, développer et maintenir un patrimoine de lo...
BlueHats
BlueHats 🧢 is a worldwide community of public servants (teachers, researchers and other government workers, etc.) who promote Free and Open Source software in, by and for the public sector.
Open Hardware Summit (OSHWA)
Since 2010, the Open Source Hardware Association, a 501(c)(3) not for profit charity, has hosted the Open Hardware Summit- a comprehensive conference for the open hardware community and the ever chang...
Docs
Docs is the result of a joint effort lead by the French 🇫🇷🥖(DINUM) and German 🇩🇪🥨 governments (ZenDiS).
LAPPIS
LAPPIS is a Brazilian Free and Open-Source Software (FOSS) lab dedicated to promoting collaboration and engagement within free and open-source communities.
NGI Innovations Catalogue
So far, the NGI has funded more than 1000 innovators with inclusive and trust-based complementary technology building blocks. Discover their solutions.
Lanka Software Foundation
Building great open source software for Sri Lanka (and beyond!)
GNU Taler
GNU Taler is a privacy-friendly online payment system that aims to make transactions fast and easy, while eliminating fraud and protecting user data by design
Open Source Journalism Conference
FOSDEM
FOSDEM is a free event for software developers to meet, share ideas and collaborate.
Software Público no Governo Digital Brasil
O Software Público Brasileiro é um tipo específico de software livre que atende às necessidades de modernização da administração pública de qualquer dos Poderes da União, dos Estados, do Distrito Fede...
Jitsi
More secure, more flexible, and completely free video conferencing
The Open Source AI Definition
The OSAID offers a standard by which community-led, open and public evaluations will be conducted to validate whether or not an AI system can be deemed Open Source AI.
HedgeDoc
HedgeDoc (formerly known as CodiMD) is an open-source, web-based, self-hosted, collaborative markdown editor.
Bundesgesetz über den Einsatz elektronischer Mittel zur Erfüllung von Behördenaufgaben (EMBAG)
Swiss law requiring government agencies disclose their source code when possible.
Free Libre Open Source Software Kosova (FLOSSK)
Free Libre Open Source Software Kosova (FLOSSK) is a non-governmental organization based in Prishtina established in 2009 in order to support, promote and develop free and open source software.
Spacetube
Spacetube is a group-to-group chat tool built on top of Matrix, a secure decentralised communication protocol.
Open Source Initiative
As steward of the Open Source Definition, we set the foundation for the open source software ecosystem.
Open Source Definition
A long-standing and heavily-cited definition of what it means for a tech project to be "open source"
Open Weights
A definition and license for open source compatible licensing of neural network weights
Civic Technology Collaboration
Swimming with the tide of international trends on the "Public Code, Public Goods" and pursuing digital democracy, moda supports civic technology and empowers open source software development.
Open Source Collective
Non-profit fiscal host promoting a healthy and sustainable open source ecosystem.
Zulip
Open source chat and collaborative software like Slack and Teams
Source Code Harmonization And Reuse in Information Technology (SHARE IT) Act
Bipartisan legislation that would require government agencies to share custom-developed source code with each other—thereby avoiding duplicative government contracts to build software.
Podlove
Podlove is a group of Wordpress plugins and allows you to self-host your podcast.
Zenodo
The OpenAIRE project, in the vanguard of the open access and open data movements in Europe was commissioned by the EC to support their nascent Open Data policy by providing a catch-all repository for...
Radicle
Radicle is a sovereign peer-to-peer network for code collaboration, built on top of Git.
Drips
A decentralized toolkit for funding your critical software dependencies.
Mattermost
Slack alternative - "The secure collaboration hub for technical teams"
Wikipedia Pageviews Analysis
A free, open source tool that displays open analytics for Wikipedia pages