France, Germany and The Netherlands are co-developing an open source suite of collaborative components for their government employees. La suite numérique is the French version, Opendesk is the German, and Mijn Bureau is the Dutch. I find that pretty amazing and I wouldn't have hoped for anything better!
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“Europe is the American tech sector’s biggest market after the United States itself. It all depends on trust. Trust requires dialogue,” Smith said.
Trust has been destroyed from the top. Trust is easy to loose and hard to gain
Until they cancel the French government contract with Palentir , this is a show of Fake digital sovereignty
So what are the opensource alternatives of meet and teams?
Considering moving to France so I never have to use the rotting garbage that is Microsoft Teams every single day
This just applies to the French government, unless you land a public job it's likely you'd still have to deal with that shit.
Still, it's good news and lets hope it sets a trend.
It says they're switching to "Visio", but when I search that, I only get a "microsoft visio" product.
"Visio" is their internally developed video conferencing platform. It's part of their "La Suite Numerique" suite of software, most of which is open source in large capacity
Ok, “La Suite Numerique” turns up the result:
I was able to translate the main site with Firefox, but the docs aren't translating. They have a language selection in the top right, but it doesn't work. I guess it's very focused on the French audience only for now.
I wouldn't expect that to change. Their primary intention is in building out a suite of tools for use within their own government institutions, rather than a wider audience. If you're interested in self hosting though, the Github documentation is pretty much all in English
Visio, a homegrown service.
Here's the repo:
Some idiot really not only named that the same as an existing product but a well known Microsoft one?
Do you stop using !meta@sopuli.xyz due to Meta the company?
The word meta predates the company rebrand by decades (first known use 1988). The company is named after the word.
Visio is a totally different situation.
Visio is a latin word, that's centuries older than , Microsoft: https://www.latin-is-simple.com/en/vocabulary/noun/17254/
Visio is short for the French word "visio-conférence" and already used as slang for video calls by the French.
But those Companies gave HUNDREDS of MILLIONS of Dollars to Trump! How DARE these Beautiful Companies LOSE money Like this!
Trump just signed an Executive Order saying that France wasn’t allowed to do this.
The sad thing is, you don’t know if that’s true or if I just made that up.
Did Zoom Communications, Inc. bribe Trump? This one flew under my radar, and unfortunately anything I try to search is swamped by news about France's government ditching Zoom.
I see there are various instances being developed. I personally think Mosa.cloud looks very promising.
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