cross-posted from: https://lemmus.org/post/19676136
France will replace Microsoft Teams, Google Meet, Zoom, Webex and others with its own sovereign video conferencing application "Visio" for public officials
9 months ago by daisykutter to c/europe
jenesaisquoi 16 points 9 months ago
They've been doing that in many sectors for a while. It's almost a tradition of theirs. For example, they're the only country despite the USA and China capable of completely domestically manufacturing a fighter jet.
stoy 12 points 9 months ago
As a Swede, I sure know that, we like to yell about building our own fighter jet, but we are completely dependent on the US for mainly the engine, but several other components.
I hope we can collaborate with France or the UK for another engine with less restrictions.
jenesaisquoi 2 points 9 months ago
Haha, collaborating with France on defence? Forget it.
You can ask them whether they'd like to take your money and allowing you to follow their orders, and they might agree to that. Might. If you ask in perfect French.
ParadeDuGrotesque 2 points 9 months ago
Rolls Royce has produced new engines for the Gripen
MartianSands 1 point 9 months ago
I gather that it seems more reasonable in french
jenesaisquoi 8 points 9 months ago
It's really called Visio, as an abbreviation of the French word visioconférence.
Ek-Hou-Van-Braai 16 points 9 months ago
Good on them, but I Wonder why they can't just build on top of something open source like Nextcloud.
It already has the majority of the Office-365 suite
Glitterkoe 6 points 9 months ago
I'd sooner see them integrate with https://cryptpad.fr/ which is another (jointly) French funded project to provide a secure collaborative office environment. I think this French Visio mostly targets (video) conferencing rather than the entire office suite.
ivn 5 points 9 months ago
There is already La Suite Docs for documents.
Glitterkoe 1 point 9 months ago
Ah, that sits at an interesting spot between collaborative Obsidian and classic Word. I only just noticed their other existing products but knew of CryptPad from earlier posts. I think it's great to see these alternatives pop up so we don't funnel ourselves into the next monopoly.
ivn 5 points 9 months ago
It's built with https://github.com/livekit/livekit
Zwuzelmaus 12 points 9 months ago
In such moments I wish our government had balls, too.
HaraldvonBlauzahn 10 points 9 months ago
I am always wondering why there is no standard for video conferencing?
We can be glad that the telephone was not invented in our times...
notsosure 9 points 9 months ago
The same movement is visible in the Netherlands. In Germany, a couple of states are going down this road, but they’re not doing enough. Which is weird, because the Germans are very concerned about data protection, yet they do not mind if their medical data is in some US cloud…
pulsewidth 9 points 9 months ago
The ongoing shitfuckery by the US in forcing their corporations to hand over sovereign-nation data hosted in other nations datacenters (CLOUD Act), amongst many of their present stupidities, is fucking amazing for IT sovereignty and open source.
I couldn't have convinced the organizations and businesses I worked with in the past to move to more than a few niche open source products for tiny userbases, which I made sure they donated to. To suggest moving to a solution outside of the Garner Magic Quadrant for that particular business need / role for anything larger than dozen users was just "objectively illogical", I couldn't have put forth a winning business case proposal in 100 years.
But now they're doing it out of spite to the US government and finally seeing the light.
There's a lot of bad things going on in the world, but this.. this is great.
zoontechnicon 7 points 9 months ago
Is it open source?
ParadeDuGrotesque 2 points 9 months ago
Yes
FreddiesLantern 5 points 9 months ago
Wholesome.
fierysparrow89 5 points 9 months ago
I expect pandemic-levels of stubbornness, pettiness and relentless bitching.
Multiplexer 1 point 9 months ago
I am pretty sure that Microsoft won't let them use the name of one of their products for this:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Visio
I just hope the rest of the project is more well-grounded than the name selection seems to have been...
whyNotSquirrel 7 points 9 months ago
In french this kind of applications are used for "Visioconférence" so I doubt they could do anything about this
Multiplexer 5 points 9 months ago
In this case it might be the biggest "Fuck You" towards Microsoft that they could think of - and I am totally into that! :-)
brachiosaurus 1 point 9 months ago
We are on lemmy, a decentralized and open source platform and people are cheering at the government for making its own sovereign video app for public officials...
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Gotta admire France for not only calling for domestic alternatives, but for consistently funding and implementing domestic alternatives.
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