French government to ditch US's Teams and Zoom for 'sovereign control'
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France announced that it will roll out the Visio platform across all government departments by 2027.

France announced that it will roll out the Visio platform across all government departments by 2027.

  • flyos@jlai.luEnglish
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    1 month ago

    Actually, there’s also an official Jitsi server (called Webconf). And there’s another Big Blue Button one. I think Visio has features not available in Jitsi though, like AI-produced transcript of the call.

    • Derpgon@programming.devEnglish
      3·
      1 month ago

      It is actually not hard to extend the software. I, for example, set up automatic uploading of cal recordings to a Peertube instance.

      • flyos@jlai.luEnglish
        2·
        1 month ago

        I guess. There must be a reason for them turning to something else than Jitsi given they already had that running (and the French service responsible for that, DINUM, is surprisingly extremely open-source friendly for a state service), but I don’t know which one.

        • Derpgon@programming.devEnglish
          1·
          1 month ago

          It is always either that the license is not permissive enough, too many changes are required that upstream wouldn’t merge and its would be hard to keep rebased, showing the world that they can be absolutely independent, or not having enough experience and experts for given stack. Maybe I missed some reasons, but that’d be all I think of.

          Either way, if it’s open sourced our company might switch.