Hmm, and what of https://cryptpad.fr/
Though they also seem to be on github https://github.com/cryptpad/cryptpad
France's homegrown open source online office suite
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Re: France's homegrown open source online office suite
#22Great, but why on GitHub? That doesn't seem very souverain to me
I wait for frenchhub, in french only, no english translation, nothing. Typical french. Greetings from you EU neighbor.
Re: France's homegrown open source online office suite
#23Makes sense, using an office suite hosted by a hostile power isn't a very smart longterm strategy.
Politicians in the EU are complicit to say the least. And I hope they'll prove me wrong.
Re: France's homegrown open source online office suite
#24Great, but why on GitHub? That doesn't seem very souverain to me
The project benefits from the visibilityband community of GitHub and GitHub is completely replaceable with European hosted or self-hostable options should something untoward happen.
Re: France's homegrown open source online office suite
#25For those unaware, this is likely in response to the current US political crisis in which the US might decide at any point spike the prices or stop offering licenses on Microsoft etc products.
Its part of La Suite which began planning in 2023. This is clearly marked in the linked README. Don't bring /r/politics level misinfo and speculation here.
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#26Okay this is nowhere near an "Office suite". It is a cloud collaboration suite with a glorified markdown editor and with some extra utilities around. Almost nobody buys stuff like Google Docs and Microsoft Office for this reason.
From my experience using open-source collaboration groupware like Nextcloud, their solutions written in dynamic programming languages like PHP and Python are always woefully slow. Only thing that got somewhere near of the commercial offering is OwnCloud's Infinity Scale (OCIS) which is written in Go. It is no surprise since OwnCloud is indeed running an open-core business and you cannot use their binaries in businesses. OpenCloud is the "open-source" fork but they are already in legal trouble with OwnCloud due to industrial espionage claims.
If European governments are serious, the amount of money they _guarantee_ should be in the degree of tens of billions of Euros. Not fun 10k hackaton projects. The money should be secured immediately that cannot be touched by the upcoming governments. It should increase taxes. Independence has a price. We as Europeans should be ready to pay it. And yes it will probably cause whatever current party to lose elections, independence has a price. It is high.
Re: France's homegrown open source online office suite
#27Great, but why on GitHub? That doesn't seem very souverain to me
Cause that's where the traction is. The beauty of git is that it's inherently distributed, github is just a clone like any other.
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#28Very nice. You (at least I) would not think of France as having a good Open Source presence, but they do. Over the years I have heard of many good Open Source Projects coming out of France. I sometimes wonder if it is because of French vs English Language were you hardly hear of their projects in English speaking Countries.
I think an unsung hero in making open source broadly known and adopted in France is Framasoft [ https://framasoft.org/en/ ], a non-profit association. They have since many many years an initiative to de-google internet and provide free and hosted alternatives and resources.
+1 on this, they had an amazing presence in the French community for 20 years and many of us own them our passion for FOSS.
Re: France's homegrown open source online office suite
#29Office suite, cool! Looks Inside It's a Django app.
Re: France's homegrown open source online office suite
#30I would not be surprised if American PACs adopted this out of concern that US based office suites are politically compromised.