France will replace Microsoft Teams, Google Meet, Zoom, Webex and others with its own sovereign video conferencing application "Visio" for public officials

https://lemmus.org/post/19676136

This is only a part of france’s “LaSuite” (very original name guys), that seemingly will replace every equivalent american service.

lasuite.numerique.gouv.fr

They generally work pretty well (demo on the site) and are a mix of homegrown solutions and rebrands of existing projects like matrix. All of them are open source.

LaSuite - L'espace de travail ouvert et souverain des agents de l'État

Une suite cohérente d'outils open source, sécurisés et simples d'utilisation, conçus pour aider les agents publics à créer, organiser, décider et collaborer en toute confiance.

And the apps have docker for easy setup! I was expecting something very convoluted and not suitable for tinkerers. What’s good/bad is that the the apps seem to be deployed independently. Would love to have single user for everything. Need to read a bit further to see how it’s done

To have a single user with multiple services you usually use a separate oauth provider, in the french government’s case that’s France connect but authelia is a good self-hosted option.

It’s possible these ones have a built-in system for this though, I haven’t checked.

I might not have explained well. Not only a single user, but a connected one. If I’m in the chat app and want to share a file, to show automatically my cloud drive, to jump from text chat to video call video call or to have a notification on the chat app when an invite with a video call is received.

As much as I hate MS, almost everything I do with teams and outlook alone.

tbh I really don’t know for this solution, but you might like nextcloud, it’s exactly what you’re looking for, each part of the site is connected in that way.
Nextcloud - Open source content collaboration platform

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Thanks, I used to have it. It died on me multiple times in the past (I’m sure I’m ultimately at fault) so I’m a bit wary.

For lasuite I’m thinking about it’s long term staying power in France institutions and adaption by other agencies/companies.

There will be a big pushback by users, so the smoother the better

Yeah nextcloud is a bit of a beast to manage alone. Tell you what, I’ll try selfhosting LaSuite sometime and I’ll tell you if it has it or not.