#DigitalSovereignty

[hi_greens@mastodon.scot]

#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.

[hi_greens@mastodon.scot]

Link: https://www.numerama.com/cyberguerre/2167301-la-france-veut-remplacer-microsoft-teams-et-google-meet-par-visio-un-outil-souverain-pour-les-appels-video.html

[hobo_ahoi@mastodon.social]

@HI_Greens The important thing about this program is not to be European but to be free and for everyone accessible under a FLOSS license (Even the British should have access to it 😝). And there exist already various such free video call apps. Furthermore, I couldn‘t find the „Open Source“ license applicable to Visio (EDIT: Thx for writing it below- MIT).

[wnd@fosstodon.org]

@hobo_ahoi @HI_Greens there is this https://github.com/cozy/lasuite-visio
This has MIT and Etalab-2.0.

(Peut-être il serait plus efficace de rechercher «La Suite Visio» que «Visio» tout seul...)

[hobo_ahoi@mastodon.social]

@wnd @HI_Greens Merci bien 👍

[wnd@fosstodon.org]

@hobo_ahoi @HI_Greens „Wenn ein Löwe sprechen könnte, wir könnten ihn nicht verstehen“ - Lüdwig Wittgenstein

[woody@pleroma.pch.net]

@HI_Greens

Specifically:

https://docs.numerique.gouv.fr/docs/1ef86abf-f7e0-46ce-b6c7-8be8b8af4c3d/

[alisonw@fedimon.uk]

@HI_Greens
But "Visio" has existed for years for drawing charts etc

[avirr@sfba.social]

@HI_Greens @bert_hubert

[hi_greens@mastodon.scot]

@AlisonW I remember that software too; could it just be the same name?

[hi_greens@mastodon.scot]

@woody It's rather a shame that it's not suitable for webinars, just smaller meetings.

[woody@pleroma.pch.net]

@HI_Greens

Have you been running it? How does it compare with Jitsi?

[alisonw@fedimon.uk]

@HI_Greens
Definitely is.

[equity7804@hostux.social]

@HI_Greens @woody the french state has another option for larger meetings and webinars though, it's called "Webinaire de l'État" and is based on #BigBlueButton and says it supports up to 350 people, as opposed to only 150 for Visio.
https://webinaire.numerique.gouv.fr/home

[arnoldschiller@muenchen.social]

@HI_Greens Thx - interesting https://github.com/suitenumerique/meet

[hi_greens@mastodon.scot]

@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.

[kevinrns@mstdn.social]

@HI_Greens

Everyone is dropping American software, because its tech bro fascism-ware, handcuffware, spyware, trumpware.

Get Off US Software.

Enshittificationware.

No google, no Microsoft, no Security software, no cloud, no email program.

#uspol #cdnpoli #eu #uk #au #un #linux

[msk@mastodon.xy-space.de]

@HI_Greens Congratulations!

[the_turtle@mastodon.sdf.org]

@HI_Greens different than the Microsoft graphics tool they bought years ago? That was kinda crappy but a lot of companies and governments bought it 30 years ago...

[tofugolem@mastodon.social]

@HI_Greens
Good. No one should repeat American tech companies.