ALFMar 16
Brian Greenberg 

🇫🇷 The French government is sending a message about digital independence by ditching Microsoft Teams and Zoom for its own platform, Visio. This move is not about a lack of features but a calculated push for digital sovereignty. By 2027, every government department in France will communicate via this sovereign stack, ensuring that sensitive data remains subject to European law. The shift addresses a growing concern that relying on foreign cloud giants creates a strategic vulnerability. France is opting for an open-source architecture built on Django and React, hosted on the domestic Outscale cloud. This infrastructure removes the risk of external service disruptions while fostering a local tech ecosystem.

🧠 The Visio platform integrates with Tchap, a secure messaging app based on the Matrix protocol.
⚡ French startup Pyannote provides the AI backbone for meeting transcripts and speaker identification.
🎓 The administration expects to save millions in annual licensing fees by using in-house software.
🔍 Data remains strictly within French jurisdiction to bypass foreign data access laws.

https://itsfoss.com/news/france-ditches-microsoft-teams-and-zoom/
#France #TechHistory #DigitalSovereignty #OpenSource #security #privacy #cloud #infosec #cybersecurity #FOSS

France Just Created Its Own Open Source Alternative to Microsoft Teams and Zoom

Not only for them, but any other non-European videoconferencing software.

It's FOSS
Feb 10 at 3:09amWeb
Show threadMurray GM - PaperpostsFeb 10
@brian_greenberg that’s great, but don’t MS already have a product called Visio - which if a deliberate decision by the french, makes this even better.
Show threadblueorangeblueFeb 10

@brian_greenberg @Paperposts no, Ms Visio was rebranded Copilot for Shapes in January

Anyway good work by the French Govt when the UK establishment cannot even contemplate leaving twitter.

Show threadJdeBPFeb 10

@Paperposts

The thing is open source, and the github repository calls it LaSuite Meet in the README.

https://github.com/suitenumerique/meet

However, in the code itself, the application appears to have been called Visio for months.

The French apparently haven't yet cottoned on that they still have a significant unreliable external dependency by hosting everything on Microsoft GitHub.

@brian_greenberg @WiteWulf
#LaSuite #GitHub #Microsoft #France #LaSuiteMeet #Visio

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

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

GitHub
Show threadHugh FergusonFeb 10
@brian_greenberg I hope the Canadian govt adopts something like this. Their dependence on Microsoft is SCARY
Show threadSomeAnoTooterFeb 10
@brian_greenberg the millions saved sold be reinvested into making the software even better and that faster, so that no one even thinks about switching back. Also in this way, if every country develops a different niche of software, they can all profit from the other once.
You could dream.
Show threadSebastian Feb 10

Auf sowas werden wir lange warten können, eine Mischung aus Korruption Unwillen was neues oder anderes zu lernen und Bequemlichkeit steht dem im Weg.

@brian_greenberg

Show threadSobriétéFeb 10

@brian_greenberg

Intéressant. Au-delà de la souveraineté, cette démarche rejoint aussi des enjeux de sobriété numérique.

Centraliser l'infrastructure sur un cloud domestique, c'est potentiellement réduire les redondances et optimiser les ressources. Mais ça reste à vérifier : open-source ne signifie pas automatiquement sobre.

La vraie question : cette infrastructure sera-t-elle dimensionnée au juste besoin ou reproduira-t-elle la logique de surcapacité des clouds US ?

Show threadDźwiedziuFeb 10

@sobriete
Your post has it's language set to EN.

@brian_greenberg

Show threadDźwiedziuFeb 10

@brian_greenberg
> French startup Pyannote provides the AI backbone for meeting transcripts and speaker identification.

Calling voice recognition and transcription “AI” is still dancing to what 'murican wanketeers are playing.

Show threadFrançois @JuraFeb 10
@brian_greenberg oh no, they’ll miss the Copilot integration 😂
Show threadChris HayesFeb 10
@brian_greenberg savings millions while investing in your local tech ecosystem? Sounds like a pretty good deal.
Show threadMoisés Pinto MuyalFeb 10

@brian_greenberg

(1)> Una de las muchas bendiciones que el Sr. Trump ha aportado a la humanidad ha sido liberarnos de la idea que Estados Unidos era la cúspide.

Las empresas estadounidenses solo están para atender a los Estados Unidos y a sus ciudadanos (es la Doctrina Monroe llevada a sus últimas consecuencias), no al resto del planeta. Se acabaron la multinacionales USA para siempre.
No somos el patio trasero de nadie, y mucho menos de Estados Unidos.

Show threadMoisés Pinto MuyalFeb 10

@brian_greenberg

(2)> Si pretende decir que Estados Unidos ha hecho mucho por el planeta: SE LO AGRADECEMOS, es lo correcto, pero no lo halagaremos ni le recordaremos que todo el planeta ha contribuido enormemente al bienestar económico de los ciudadanos estadounidenses, a pesar de su insufrible comportamiento debido a su falta de educación, tacto y escaso o nulo refinamiento. La mayoría son toscos patanes que no saben estar en una mesa; parecen seres agrestes provenientes de remotas aldeas.

Show threadMoisés Pinto MuyalFeb 10

@brian_greenberg

(3)> El mundo EXIGE políticas equitativas, no las dictadas por los ricos —cuyos métodos para adquirir tal riqueza son un misterio— o por matones de clase baja con la capacidad física, no mental, de pulsar el botón de las armas nucleares. Dado que casi todos los países ya poseen armas nucleares disuasorias, tal arsenal es de poca o ninguna utilidad.

Show threadMoisés Pinto MuyalFeb 10

@brian_greenberg

(4)> En 2030, máximo en 2035, dentro de sólo cuatro o nueve años, China será la única superpotencia mundial, le guste o no a Estados Unidos; sus opiniones o lo que puedan decir son absolutamente irrelevantes para el resto de la HUMANIDAD.

Show threadoatmealFeb 10

@brian_greenberg pyannote is also open source but I wish they’d get of #GitHub for all of these projects. It’s counterintuitive allowing #Microsoft to manage the infrastructure you’re trying the leave.

https://github.com/pyannote

pyannote

Speaker Intelligence Platform for developers. pyannote has 48 repositories available. Follow their code on GitHub.

GitHub
Show threadZło To 🏴‍☠️ ᵗʰʳᵉᵉᶠᶦᵈᵈʸFeb 10
@brian_greenberg #grapheneOS just escaped from France to escape persecution for full encryption
Show threadHaelwenn /элвэн/ Feb 10
@brian_greenberg Sovereign stack?

No it's not, Visio is a layer of paint on top of LiveKit: https://github.com/suitenumerique/meet
GitHub - suitenumerique/meet: Open source video conferencing app powered by LiveKit.

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

GitHub
Show threadAngelinaFeb 10
@brian_greenberg Let us recall that it was this same government that, in circa 2018, decided to entrust the entirety of health data for the French to American companies.
It is also this same government that currently lets an Australian company take control of all the French hospitals.
Show threadAtreidesFeb 10
@brian_greenberg
No not in the App Store…
Show threadmillennial fulcrumMar 16

@brian_greenberg very good!

looking forward also to the new French sovereign process and diagram making software that I expect they will name Teams, for symmetry