Projects from France

Aleph Cloud is a decentralized SuperCloud that provides compute, storage, and frontend hosting on independent infrastructure. It enables projects to run high-availability backends and verifiable, censorship-resistant frontends, acting as a resilient alternative or backup to centralized clouds like AWS or Cloudflare. Aleph Cloud is used by Web3 and also web2 companies, DeFi, and AI projects to improve resilience, decentralization, and trust, with pay-as-you-go usage and blockchain-native integrations.

API Platform is a full-stack framework built on Symfony for rapidly creating REST and GraphQL APIs with automatic OpenAPI documentation and schema generation. Created by Les-Tilleuls.coop in France, it supports JSON-LD, Hydra, and JSON:API standards.

Privacy Impact Assessment tool published by the French data protection authority for GDPR compliance.

Python toolbox for accessing and processing Copernicus Marine Environment Monitoring Service data.

Observable analysis and active response engine used by European CERTs for automated threat analysis.

Repository of analyzers and responders for the Cortex observable analysis engine used by European CERTs.

CryptPad is an open-source, end-to-end encrypted collaborative office suite built in JavaScript. It offers real-time editing of documents, spreadsheets, presentations, and more with zero-knowledge encryption ensuring that neither the server nor any third party can access the content.

Python currency converter using historical exchange rate data from the European Central Bank.

Dolibarr is a modular open-source ERP and CRM platform for small businesses, associations, and freelancers, born in France. It covers invoicing, contacts, orders, inventory, HR, and accounting in a single self-hostable application with an active third-party module marketplace.

Python framework for searching and downloading Earth observation data from Copernicus and other providers.

Funkwhale is a federated, open-source audio streaming and sharing platform originating from France. Built with Django and ActivityPub, it lets communities host music, podcast, and audio libraries that interconnect across the Fediverse, prioritizing user ownership over centralized streaming.

Docs is an open-source collaborative documentation and wiki platform developed by France's DINUM as part of La Suite numérique, the French government's digital sovereignty workspace. It supports real-time co-editing, version history, comments, export to PDF/ODT/Word, and an AI assistant. Used by 500,000+ public agents.

LemonLDAP::NG is a mature, open-source Web SSO and access management platform trusted by French government ministries since 2004. It supports CAS, SAML, and OpenID Connect federation, multi-factor authentication via TOTP, WebAuthn, and email MFA, and integrates with LDAP, databases, and NoSQL backends.

Mobilizon is a free, federated event and group management platform built by Framasoft in France. Based on ActivityPub, it enables organizations and communities to publish events and coordinate members without surveillance-driven social networks, connecting across the Fediverse.

Open source multimodal journey planning engine powering European public transport services.

Open source collaborative meeting scheduling tool developed at CERN.

Open source model for computing noise maps implementing EU Environmental Noise Directive methods.

REST API for the Open Food Facts folksonomy engine for tagging food products.

Mobile application for scanning and contributing to the food products database with EU Nutri-Score support.

Database, API and web interface for the collaborative food products database with EU nutrition labeling support.

OpenCTI is an open-source Cyber Threat Intelligence platform developed by Filigran in France. It structures threat data using STIX 2 standards with MITRE ATT&CK integration, enabling security teams to manage and share intelligence on adversaries, campaigns, and indicators of compromise.

Java library for space dynamics and orbital mechanics developed with ESA support.

PeerTube is a free, federated, and decentralized video hosting platform developed by Framasoft in Lyon. Built on ActivityPub and WebTorrent, it allows anyone to host their own video server that interconnects across the Fediverse, providing a privacy-respecting alternative to centralized platforms.

ESA scientific library providing basic tools for research in interplanetary trajectory design.

Qisutu is a European free and open-source ticketing, helpdesk and service desk platform with customer and agent portals, workflow automation, SLA management, reporting, a knowledge base and an integrated CMDB. It supports eleven languages and can be operated on an organizations own infrastructure or professionally hosted. Qisutu is designed for data sovereignty, extensibility and professional support operations.

Machine learning prediction service for Open Food Facts product categorization and quality checks.

scikit-learn is the leading Python library for machine learning, offering a consistent API for classification, regression, clustering, and dimensionality reduction. Originally developed at INRIA, the French national research institute, it is the foundational ML toolkit for the Python data science ecosystem.

ESA Sentinel Application Platform engine for processing Earth observation data.

SquashTM is an open-core test management solution that centralises all testing activities, from requirements to execution results. It lets teams build a structured, reusable test repository, manage campaigns across manual, automated, and exploratory testing, and maintain full traceability between requirements and test coverage. Agnostic by design, it integrates with GitLab, OpenProject (Q1 2027), Jira, Jenkins and other CI/CD tools, supporting Agile, V-model, and hybrid methodologies. On-premise or cloud.

Strapi is the leading open-source headless CMS built by Strapi SAS in Paris. Its community edition (MIT) provides a customizable content API with a self-hosted admin panel supporting REST and GraphQL, enabling developers to structure and deliver content to any frontend without vendor lock-in.

Currency exchange rates library supporting ECB and other European central bank providers.

Symfony is a high-performance PHP framework and set of reusable components for building web applications and APIs. Created in France by Fabien Potencier in 2004, it powers major platforms including Drupal, eZ Platform, and Magento. MIT-licensed with a disciplined release cycle, semantic versioning, and long-term support versions.

Compliant and accessible cookie consent banner with built-in support for hundreds of services.

Python toolbox for processing and analysing air traffic data from Eurocontrol and OpenSky.

Rust library for managing transit data with NeTEx and GTFS support.

VLC is a free, open-source, cross-platform multimedia player maintained by VideoLAN, a French non-profit. It plays virtually any audio or video format without additional codecs, runs on all major platforms, and is widely regarded as the world's most used media player.

Vship is a GPU-accelerated library for computing perceptual video quality metrics, SSIMULACRA2, Butteraugli, and CVVDP, significantly faster than CPU-based tools. It supports Vulkan, CUDA, and HIP, and ships with FFVship, a CLI for encoder developers who want faster, more accurate quality tuning than PSNR, SSIM, or VMAF provide.

XWiki is a second-generation open-source wiki platform built in Java, enabling organizations to build intranets, knowledge bases, digital workplaces, and custom collaborative solutions. It offers structured data, extensions, scripting, and full data sovereignty with self-hosted or cloud deployment.