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

Every 2-3 years, the French government announces that they released a brand new homemade app that will replace some bigtech because sovereignty or whatever bureaucratic bullshit communication they fancy at the moment. Then they issue a BIG contract to an IT consulting company to develop the thing, who get tons of money to send junior devs to release a buggy tool that no one will ever use because migrations cost a lot. This new app will die like the others.

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

    All this instead of just hiring a few senior devs to contribute to any of the number of existing open source projects that are already infinitely better than any new thing they will come up with.

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  • [–] 2 points 9 months ago

    the french do make some great stuff tho like cryptpad or mobilizon - the problem is usually always the same tho. it's in french and they only give half a shit about their french users, anyone else is considered an obstacle.

    heck i've been playing dofus for 20 years and the non-french community is always shafted. always.

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

    It's made by the DINUM, not an outside consulting company. And the product made by the DINUM (Tchap, France Connect …) are still in use.

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  • [–] 1 point 9 months ago (1 child)

    I doubt that there are significant development teams at the DINUM. They coordinate projects but do not build anything. On LinkedIn, here are the main skills associated with the company:

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

    Yes because the department of the DINUM that made it, the « Opérateur de produits interministériels » is only one of it's many department. I can link you multiple French article that explain it was developed by the DINUM. Please research a little bit before posting, looking for skills on LinkedIn means nothing. Also the French entrepreneurs that usually get contracts for this were very angry about it.

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