Highlands & Islands GreensJan 26

#DigitalSovereignty

➡️ France announced today it’s phasing out Teams, Zoom, etc. to be replaced with a French/European solution called Visio.

The data is hosted on @outscale

Transcripts and subtitles are also handled by French providers.

The target is set on 2027 for government agencies.

Show threadBill WoodcockJan 26
@HI_Greens

Specifically:

https://docs.numerique.gouv.fr/docs/1ef86abf-f7e0-46ce-b6c7-8be8b8af4c3d/
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Show threadHighlands & Islands GreensJan 26
@woody It's rather a shame that it's not suitable for webinars, just smaller meetings.
Show threadBill WoodcockJan 26
@HI_Greens

Have you been running it? How does it compare with Jitsi?
Show threadHighlands & Islands GreensJan 26
@woody We haven't tried it out yet, we just found out about the French gov't's plans today.
One of us tried out a conference platform called BlueJeans, which came out at the same time as Zoom and had vastly better sound, but it did not survive as far as she knows.
Show threadBill Woodcock
@HI_Greens

Yeah, Bluejeans was bought by Verizon and shut down. We've used Jitsi for the last ten years, and generally been happy with it, but it doesn't stretch to more than about 30 users very gracefully.
Jan 26 at 9:46pmWeb
Show threadGunChleocJan 27

@woody @HI_Greens If you're looking for a web conference software, take a look at BigBlueButton https://bigbluebutton.org/

It can be self-hosted

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