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 threadCubeThoughtsJan 26
@HI_Greens @woody Having a very quick look at the github of La suite Meet https://github.com/suitenumerique/meet it seems it's an implementation of another project called LiveKit. A recent blog post of LiveKit talks about their "Grok Voice Agent API in partnership with xAI". The beauty of FLOSS, no need to agree with the original developer!
GitHub - suitenumerique/meet: Open source video conferencing app powered by LiveKit.

Open source video conferencing app powered by LiveKit. - suitenumerique/meet

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@HI_Greens @woody Again, doesn't mean that the French gvmt implementation is bad, just that upstream, they're a open source but for profit venture capital funded (from my quick look) US based company, which thinks integration with Grok is a competitive advantage.

I would assume the French are not implementing that API!

Jan 26 at 9:58pmMoshidon