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!
They really should GPL it all. The US will steal it and create AWS services
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.
Are they three names for the same thing or are those the three components?
Those are the program names, each having a specific “blend” of projects within
Until they cancel the French government contract with Palentir , this is a show of Fake digital sovereignty
If France actually follows through with Zoom and Teams, it will be a significant step toward digital sovereignty.
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.
