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Resgrid/Core
The Open Source Computer Aided Dispatch (CAD), Personnel, Shift Management, Automatic Vehicle Location (AVL) and Emergency Management Platform that powers Resgrid.com
An open-source CAD (computer-aided dispatch) platform for fire departments, EMS, and search-and-rescue teams covering personnel management, unit/AVL tracking, duty shifts, and incident dispatch. This is the actual codebase running Resgrid's commercial hosted product, not a stripped-down demo, so it's for departments wanting to self-host a dispatch system or devs building against the Resgrid API.
It's battle-tested against real operational use (the same code runs the paid hosted version, updated every few weeks), which is a stronger signal than most self-hosted CAD alternatives get. There's a real ecosystem around it — companion repos for BigBoard (status dashboard), Relay (scanner-to-dispatch bridge), and a dedicated Dispatch web app, plus a documented API and native mobile apps, so it's not a single monolith you're stuck extending in place. Apache 2.0 licensing is permissive enough for departments or integrators to actually fork and modify without friction.
The README is pure feature-list marketing copy with zero setup instructions, architecture notes, or local dev guide — you're sent off to a separate docs site for everything substantive, so you can't judge self-hosting difficulty from the repo itself. The repo root is cluttered with four near-identical copies of the same 40+ AI-agent skill definitions under .claude, .forge, .opencode, and .agents, which is a lot of duplicated non-code weight to maintain and suggests the repo isn't being kept tidy. The language tag says JavaScript but there's a dotnet.yml CI workflow, implying a mixed .NET backend/JS frontend stack that isn't explained anywhere, which matters a lot for anyone deciding whether they can actually contribute. No visible test directory or coverage signal in what's shown, and the README leads with upsell language for paid priority support, which is fine for a business but means the free tier's maintenance priority is implicitly lower.