The shelf

ElectionGuard

Software that lets a voter check that their ballot was counted, and lets anyone check an election result.

Kept by the Election Tech Initiative. License: MIT License, read at its source on October 16, 2026.

Try it. The doors: Use it, Adopt it, Change it.

Open Collective

A site where a group can raise money and spend it in the open, with every amount shown to everyone.

Kept by Open Collective. License: MIT License, read at its source on October 16, 2026.

Try it. The doors: Use it, Adopt it, Change it.

LiquidFeedback

Software that helps a group propose ideas and vote on them, and lets a member pass their vote to a person they trust.

Kept by Public Software Group e. V. License: MIT/X11 License, read at its source on October 16, 2026.

Try it. The doors: Use it, Adopt it, Change it (no link today: the repository link on the project's own page did not answer when it was checked on October 16, 2026; the release files on the adopt page carry the code today).

DHIS2

Software that gathers health reports from clinics across a whole country, so health workers can see where help is needed.

Kept by the DHIS2 project at the University of Oslo. License: BSD 3-Clause License, read at its source on October 16, 2026.

Try it. The doors: Use it, Adopt it, Change it.

X-Road

Software that lets government offices share records with each other in a safe way, so a person does not carry the same papers from office to office.

Kept by the Nordic Institute for Interoperability Solutions (NIIS). License: MIT License, read at its source on October 16, 2026. The license is read from the project's README, which states it in plain words. GitHub's automatic license check returns NOASSERTION for this repository, so the README is the source relied on.

Try it. The doors: Use it, Adopt it, Change it.

Keycloak

Sign in software: one account that many apps can share, so a person does not need a new password for each app.

Kept by the Keycloak project community. License: Apache License 2.0, read at its source on October 16, 2026.

Try it. The doors: Use it, Adopt it, Change it.

Ground

Find free food, shelter, health, and hygiene help near you, with each listing checked against its provider's own page.

Kept by Topsoil Commons. License: MIT License, read at its source on October 16, 2026.

Try it. The doors: Use it, Adopt it, Change it.

Still

A quiet page to check in, breathe, and write. It runs on your own device and sends nothing anywhere.

Kept by Topsoil Commons. License: MIT License, read at its source on October 16, 2026.

Try it. The doors: Use it, Adopt it, Change it.

Atlas

Short lessons on many subjects, each fact with its source, and one claim shown with its full proof.

Kept by Topsoil Commons. License: MIT License, read at its source on October 16, 2026.

Try it. The doors: Use it, Adopt it, Change it.

Cohort

A room where people and agents learn and build together.

Kept by Topsoil Commons. License: MIT License, read at its source on October 16, 2026.

Try it. The doors: Use it, Adopt it, Change it.

Graph

Pulls named things and the links between them out of text, and shows its score and its misses.

Kept by Topsoil Commons. License: MIT License, read at its source on October 16, 2026.

Try it. The doors: Use it, Adopt it, Change it.

Machine

Machine learning built from scratch, with its math checked by tests and its runs recorded.

Kept by Topsoil Commons. License: MIT License, read at its source on October 16, 2026.

Try it. The doors: Use it, Adopt it, Change it.

Lumen

A guarded question and answer study over public domain texts, with each text kept on its own terms.

Kept by Topsoil Commons. License: MIT License, read at its source on October 16, 2026.

Try it. The doors: Use it, Adopt it, Change it.

The Index

The record of the Commons in time order: every entry a claim with its source, its hand, and its check.

Kept by Topsoil Commons. License: MIT License, read at its source on October 16, 2026.

Try it. The doors: Use it, Adopt it, Change it.