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France will replace Microsoft Teams, Google Meet, Zoom, Webex and others with its own sovereign video conferencing application "Visio" for public officials (numerique.gouv.fr)
submitted 9 months ago by to c/technology@lemmy.world
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[–] 66 points 9 months ago* (14 children)

This is only a part of france's "LaSuite" (very original name guys), that seemingly will replace every equivalent american service.

https://lasuite.numerique.gouv.fr/

They generally work pretty well (demo on the site) and are a mix of homegrown solutions and rebrands of existing projects like matrix. All of them are open source.

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  • [–] 21 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (2 children)

    And all their videos are on Peertube!

    !lasuite@tube.numerique.gouv.fr

    Unfortunately source code is still hosted on GitHub...

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  • [–] 5 points 9 months ago (5 children)

    And the apps have docker for easy setup! I was expecting something very convoluted and not suitable for tinkerers. What's good/bad is that the the apps seem to be deployed independently. Would love to have single user for everything. Need to read a bit further to see how it's done

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  • [–] 3 points 9 months ago* (4 children)

    To have a single user with multiple services you usually use a separate oauth provider, in the french government's case that's France connect but authelia is a good self-hosted option.

    It's possible these ones have a built-in system for this though, I haven't checked.

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  • [–] 2 points 9 months ago (3 children)

    I might not have explained well. Not only a single user, but a connected one. If I'm in the chat app and want to share a file, to show automatically my cloud drive, to jump from text chat to video call video call or to have a notification on the chat app when an invite with a video call is received.

    As much as I hate MS, almost everything I do with teams and outlook alone.

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  • [–] 2 points 9 months ago (2 children)

    tbh I really don't know for this solution, but you might like nextcloud, it's exactly what you're looking for, each part of the site is connected in that way.

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  • [–] 3 points 9 months ago (1 child)

    Thanks, I used to have it. It died on me multiple times in the past (I'm sure I'm ultimately at fault) so I'm a bit wary.

    For lasuite I'm thinking about it's long term staying power in France institutions and adaption by other agencies/companies.

    There will be a big pushback by users, so the smoother the better

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  • [–] 2 points 9 months ago (2 children)

    I guess they're all cloud tools? Or is there something I can install in my laptop?

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