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Re: Docs – Open source alternative to Notion or Outline

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Post by HumanOstrich »

Imustaskforhelp wrote: post #76
jisnsm wrote: post #48

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>Why am I starting to believe that france is now more culturally shited towards being a new super power in this multi polar world instead of USA. Because you are reading a lot of destabilisation propaganda online. I recommend you cut your news and social networks consumption a little bit. The fact that you are beginning to trust FRANCE over something that MACRON did, no less, speaks volumes.

May I clarify my comment. Trust was maybe a different word , maybe hope is the correct word ? (but doesn't everybody trust hope) But I trust the people who can make me hope for a better future by actively not submitting to those people who are actively trying to reduce my hope in better future. There is absolutely no denying that what Trump has done , has absolutely made many people really hopeless. Such levels of in…

Why do you put spaces before commas? It's unnecessary and makes your writing obnoxious to read.

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Post by atmosx »

Imustaskforhelp wrote: post #12

Why am I starting to believe that france is now more culturally shited towards being a new super power in this multi polar world instead of USA. Seriously , I never used to really think about france that much , but Emmanuel Macron correcting trump on live air really made me trust france more as a non US citizen.

Macron’s approval ratings must be below 3% by now. If he had any backbone, he’d resign immediately.

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Post by theflash666 »

crazygringo wrote: post #179

I'm intrigued by the decision to call it "Docs". In any other circumstance it would be a clear trademark infringement on Google Docs. It's literally the same product with the same name, it has an extremely similar logo and almost exactly the same typeface in its logo. But since this is a government project between France and Germany, maybe governments are allowed to ignore trademarks? Or Google wants to stay on their…

isn't "Google Docs" the trademark https://about.google/brand-resource-center/trademark-list/ ?

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Post by virdev »

jdvh wrote: post #56
rtpg wrote: post #34

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In a universe where the French government drops a perfect replacement for Notion and causes Notion to go out of business, this is still a net positive for society in the same way that things like Linux existing is a net positive for society. One should not focus on the economic sphere as the be all and end all. We can just have improvements be distributed to everyone sometimes! We can just do good things through coor…

In the short term a free open source govt alternative may be a net positive for society. I don't think it is in the long run. Government projects like these are not likely to really push the state-of-the-art forward. This project even advertises itself as a FOSS Notion alternative. Do government-sponsored clones encourage or stymie innovation? I think the latter. Every week we read in the news that the EU struggles w…

Maybe you are not building something in the sector but do you have any idea of how shitty collaborative work is for public agents ?

The possibility of data being sifoned back to the US if they use american cloud services has millions of public agents not being able to collaborate online.

Some of them try to provide on premise versions of the software but Microsoft want you so bad to pay for 365 or teams that they are willing to maintain only super old versions.

I spoke with a guy reponsible for 100k public agents who told me his only choice is to host Sharepoint 2011 (in 2025 !)

So maybe Docs is not as innovative as Notion but hey, we need as efficient as we can public servants. And we will do that by providing modern tools they can use online with their colleagues.

+ When we think of Microsoft we think about the Office Suite but in lot of cases they do the authentication with Active Directory. Go luck doing interoperability or SSO accross agencies when all of them rely on closed source code and are locked in by vendors...

We're actually solving with OIDC identity federation called ProConnect.

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Post by atmosx »

serial_dev wrote: post #77
Imustaskforhelp wrote: post #12

Why am I starting to believe that france is now more culturally shited towards being a new super power in this multi polar world instead of USA. Seriously , I never used to really think about france that much , but Emmanuel Macron correcting trump on live air really made me trust france more as a non US citizen.

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Maybe focus less on what others are doing and more on backing your own views with actions. For instance, you could just ignore this comment and the thread altogether. No one’s forcing you to read the replies, after all.

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Post by jtuple »

kjksf wrote: post #161

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There's a hosted test instance with pre-existing test account:

https://github.com/suitenumerique/docs?tab=readme-ov-file#te...

Logging in just works. Easy to try it out there.

The official French hosted instance requiring some French-specific stuff seems pretty normal. Likely specific to that instance's authentication system, not the Docs software itself.

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Post by rglullis »

zellyn wrote: post #189
bluedino wrote: post #121

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I can't think of too many apps that I use that are truly FOSS. Databases, compilers/interpreters, web servers, operating systems...but apps? (Other than gnu/bad command line tools of course)

For me: Emacs, NetNewsWire, Gimp, Inkscape, Calibre, Firefox, Chrome, occasionally VS Code, very occasionally whatever Audacity is called today. And I’m a Mac user!

To add to your list: Atril (PDF Viewer), Vokoscreen (Screen recorder), Transmission (Torrent CLient), Simple Scan (Scanner Tool), LibreOffice, Keepassxc, Thunderbird, Element Desktop, Dino, Handbrake, Beets (Music Collection Tagger/Manager), VLC, Kodi, Rhythmbox (Music Player), Syncthing

If I look at my phone, it's possible that I have more apps installed via F-Droid than through Google Play

Re: Docs – Open source alternative to Notion or Outline

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Post by theflash666 »

tommoor wrote: post #93
rtpg wrote: post #17

Having both the Notion-like UI and the real time collaboration is exciting! So much stuff has been either/or, and it made it hard for me to find a good alternative. I really appreciate how Notion is basically "what if Google Docs but you can actually organize your information". The collaborative components feel really powerful. I do kind of wish that something that was more ... Wiki-flavored would show up though. I l…

You should take a look at Outline (mentioned in the title). https://www.getoutline.com/

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