The Ceylon Computer Science Institute (C2SI) conducts research in various domains, including security, artificial intelligence, mobile applications, cloud computing, and software tools. Our research aims to create computing solutions by identifying low-cost methodologies and strategies that promote sustainability. Currently, C2SI is at a pivotal stage in its evolution, having secured high donor confidence, as evidenced by multiple foreign-funded projects. The institute focuses on developing sustainable computing solutions that leverage low-cost computing and communication technologies, particularly for developing and emerging regions worldwide. We have developed several affordable and sustainable ICT solutions, with a special focus on the needs of the developing world. These solutions are briefly described in the projects section.
The Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI) is a global collaboration of Assyriologists, museum curators, and historians working together to make the world’s earliest written records accessible online. CDLI focuses on cuneiform inscriptions dating back to the very beginning of writing around 3350 BC. Today, more than 500,000 such artifacts are held in museums and private collections worldwide, and CDLI has already digitally catalogued over 350,000 of them, helping researchers and the public explore humanity’s oldest written heritage.
EMBL-EBI is a global centre for biological data, developing and maintaining open data resources and open-source software that support life science research worldwide. Our services are used daily by researchers across academia, healthcare, and industry, and span genomics, transcriptomics, metagenomics, molecular interactions, chemistry, and functional annotation.
The Global Alliance for Genomics and Health (GA4GH) was formed to help accelerate the potential of genomic medicine to advance human health. It brings together over 400 leading genome institutes and centers with IT industry leaders to create global standards and tools for the secure, privacy respecting and interoperable sharing of Genomic data.
GNU is an operating system consisting entirely of free software, meaning it respects users’ freedom. The GNU operating system consists of GNU packages, which are programs released by the GNU Project, as well as free software released by third parties. The development of GNU made it possible to use a computer without relying on software that restricts or undermines user freedom. The GNU Project is the collective organization of maintainers and developers, webmasters, translators, and other contributors who develop and maintain more than 400 programs that together form the GNU operating system.
JBoss Community is a community of open source projects. The community hosts a diverse set of projects that are written in various programming languages. The primary language is Java, however there are also projects that are written in Go, Rust, Ruby, PHP, Node and other languages.
Joplin is a note-taking app designed with strong security and privacy in mind. It features end-to-end encryption (E2EE), ensuring the notes remain protected during synchronization. Users can store notes locally or sync them via trusted services like Nextcloud, Dropbox, or self-hosted servers, retaining full data ownership.
KolibriOS is a tiny open-source graphical operating system for x86 (and compatible) architecture computers, developed and maintained by the KolibriOS Project Team. It contains a monolithic kernel that runs in 32-bit protected mode and supports full preemptive multitasking.
LibreHealth is the foundation of a worldwide ecosystem of open source Health IT innovation and is a place where people can come together to build tools that enhance the quality of healthcare around the world.
When working with different technologies and developers of different programming languages, the productivity of the entire team worsens due to the lack of interoperability and communication between them. If the developers need two technologies which are written in different programming languages, for instance, a C/C++ library called from NodeJS, the team usually needs to port to one of the two languages or write a wrapper around them. Maintaining a port of a library or the plumbing code is frequently error-prone, time-consuming, and does not add any value to the final product.
The Metasploit Framework is both a penetration testing system and a development platform for creating security tools and exploits. The framework is used by network security professionals to perform penetration tests, system administrators to verify patch installations, product vendors to perform regression testing, and security researchers world-wide. The framework is written in the Ruby programming language and includes components written in C, many flavors of Assembly, Python, Powershell, PHP, and other languages.
Neutralinojs is a lightweight and portable desktop application development framework. It lets you develop lightweight cross-platform desktop applications using JavaScript, HTML, and CSS. You can extend Neutralinojs with any programming language (via extensions IPC) and use Neutralinojs as a part of any source file (via child processes IPC).
The Open Genome Informatics group represents an umbrella organization consisting of several open source and open access genomics and bioinformatics projects worldwide. Our goals are to develop and maintain a collection of sustainable software tools for managing, analyzing, visualizing, storing, and disseminating genomic data.
Qubes OS is a security- and privacy-focused free-and-open-source operating system that provides a safer platform for communications, information management, and general computing.
The Ruby organization collects mentors and students working on the Ruby language (MRI), the Ruby packaging system (Bundler, RubyGems, and RubyGems.org), and other Ruby projects. Any Ruby OSS project is eligible to be included in the Ruby GSOC organization.
Submitty is an open source programming assignment submission system with secure and automated testing and grading, efficient manual TA/instructor grading, and additional tools for overall course management and communication between students and instructional staff. Submitty was launched by the Rensselaer Center for Open Source Software (RCOS) in 2014.
Libreswan implements the IKE and IPsec standards for VPN. These standards have been created and are still maintained at the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) in the IPsecME Working Group. Libreswan is used as a remote access VPN as well as site-to-site and cloud encryption.
Tiled is a 2D engine-agnostic level editor for games. Its primary feature is to edit different types of tile maps, but it also supports free image placement as well as powerful ways to annotate levels with extra information used by the game. Tiled focuses on general flexibility while trying to stay intuitive.
Wikimedia strives to bring about a world in which every single human being can freely share in the sum of all knowledge; through various projects, chapters, and the support structure of the non-profit Wikimedia Foundation. Wikimedia officially supports 13 projects, including Wikipedia, the seventh most popular site on the internet. Wikipedia receives over 20 billion global page views every month and is available in over 300 languages. The tech behind it ensures that our projects are fast, reliable, and open to all. We design and build the open-source technology that powers Wikimedia projects from hosting Wikipedia to creating edit-checking artificial intelligence (AI). Community volunteers and Foundation technologists collaborate on MediaWiki, which makes sharing free knowledge possible. Read more about Wikimedia on our homepage: https://wikimediafoundation.org/
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