France dumps Zoom and Teams as Europe seeks digital autonomy from the US
https://apnews.com/article/europe-digital-sovereignty-big-tech-9f5388b68a0648514cebc8d92f682060
https://apnews.com/article/europe-digital-sovereignty-big-tech-9f5388b68a0648514cebc8d92f682060
21 Comments
u_tamtam@programming.dev · 33 pts · 198d
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!
illusionist@lemmy.zip · 7 pts · 198d
There's even more open source stuff!
Batmorous@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 181d
Now if only we could get a Call of Duty Black Ops 1 Zombies open source alternative /s and hopium
reabsorbthelight@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 198d
They really should GPL it all. The US will steal it and create AWS services
Ferk@lemmy.ml · 11 pts · 198d
At least for the German one, it's essentially a rebranding of existing open source products packaged/adapted to work as a suite.
For example, for editing documents they are using Collabora online (Libreoffice-based), for chat it's Matrix, for storage Nextcloud, email & calendar from Ox Cloud, etc.
victorz@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 198d
Are they three names for the same thing or are those the three components?
u_tamtam@programming.dev · 4 pts · 198d
Those are the program names, each having a specific "blend" of projects within
klangcola@reddthat.com · 21 pts · 198d
Trust has been destroyed from the top. Trust is easy to loose and hard to gain
turbule@lemmy.ml · 17 pts · 198d
Until they cancel the French government contract with Palentir , this is a show of Fake digital sovereignty
pete_link@lemmy.ml · 3 pts · 195d
If France actually follows through with Zoom and Teams, it will be a significant step toward digital sovereignty.
iByteABit@lemmy.ml · 7 pts · 198d
Considering moving to France so I never have to use the rotting garbage that is Microsoft Teams every single day
Ferk@lemmy.ml · 7 pts · 198d
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.
Batmorous@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 181d
Not hope let's make it a trend everywhere even in the States!
clot27@lemmy.zip · 4 pts · 198d
So what are the opensource alternatives of meet and teams?
Doorknob@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 197d
Jitsi Meet would be the first one I think of.
AustralianSimon@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 197d
https://zulip.com/ is kinda cool.
TacoButtPlug@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 197d
signal
lessthanluigi@lemmy.sdf.org · 3 pts · 198d
Anon518@sh.itjust.works · 3 pts · 198d
It says they're switching to "Visio", but when I search that, I only get a "microsoft visio" product.
Flatfire@lemmy.ca · 4 pts · 198d
"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
Anon518@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 198d
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.
Flatfire@lemmy.ca · 3 pts · 198d
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