ursa.nz is a creative collective run by Sarah (Tūhoe) and Aidan (Arrernte), two Indigenous artists from Aotearoa and Australia. Alongside our wider kaupapa, we make free and open source software for the desktop and for Android, all licensed under the GPL.
This GitHub organisation is mostly a mirror. Our real home is our own forge, running Forgejo: forge.ursa.nz/ursa-nz. That is where the issues, the full history, and the day-to-day mahi live.
You will not find every repository here. We do not believe handing microsoft all of our FOSS code is a good idea. Some of what we make stays on our own forge, on our own whenua. What we mirror, we mirror so people can still find us.
Not everything here is a mirror. Building alongside others, or contributing to their code, sometimes means a fork and a pull request on GitHub. We meet that mahi where it lives.
You do not need a GitHub account to use anything we make. Packaged, signed builds (Flatpak, Debian, AppImage and an F-Droid repo) live at software.ursa.nz. That is the place for downloads and binaries.
- Onym: a thesaurus and dictionary for GNOME, built on WordNet. On Android too, via F-Droid.
- Lantern: an editor for Marp slide decks.
- Wātaka: a timezone-aware calendar event builder for Android, via F-Droid.
The software is free. If it helps you, you can support the mahi on Ko-fi.
we recognise sovereignty of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples across australia. we recognise Māori as Tangata Whenua of Aotearoa. sovereignty has never been ceded.