No mention of Capgemini on the announcement, there’s a chance this will actually ship!
France will replace Microsoft Teams, Google Meet, Zoom, Webex and others with its own sovereign video conferencing application "Visio" for public officials
Submitted 3 weeks ago by Beep@lemmus.org to technology@lemmy.world
https://presse.economie.gouv.fr/?p=169175
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Miaou@jlai.lu 2 weeks ago
tabular@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Hope it’s public code if it’s paid with public money! Replacing it with proprietary software would be leaving one abusive relationship straight into another.
Flatfire@lemmy.ca 2 weeks ago
It is. Currently their code is published under an Apache 2.0 license. There’s links to it on the website, but the whole suite is on Github. It would be nice to see them migrate that codebase elsewhere down the line though
pineapplelover@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 weeks ago
Never heard of jitsi?
m3t00@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
sounds like something they buried 20 years ago. next msbob bobot
notsosure@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
Ouch. More to follow, so stay tuned.
lemy78@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
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jabjoe@feddit.uk 2 weeks ago
Can’t they invest in standardized SIP solutions? Linphone is already French.
eleitl@lemmy.zip 2 weeks ago
SIP is a nightmare protocol for firewalls. Time to retire it.
jabjoe@feddit.uk 2 weeks ago
It could be improve. SMB3 is far better for firewalling than SMB1/2.
A standard audio/video call protocol is great to have and SIP is everywhere already. Already supports video though this isn’t as widely used.
It could be iterated.
brsrklf@jlai.lu 2 weeks ago
Note, as far as I can tell from thos announcement, this does not cover all French public officials. There are 3 groups of them in France, state, local and health. This is specifically about state administration.
Local administrations could follow national recommendations, but it would ultimately be in the hands of locally elected representatives.
trolololol@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Well sure they don’t have to, but this makes it much easier to adopt.
0x0@lemmy.zip 2 weeks ago
ivn@jlai.lu 2 weeks ago
It’s a French common name for this.
doublenom@lemmy.ca 2 weeks ago
Still trademarked in France
poVoq@slrpnk.net 3 weeks ago
Apparently a rebranded LiveKit, which is developed by an US American company…
matlag@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
No, Visio is based on BigBlueButton, and it is to interface with Tchap, which is an internal Matrix server for France’s gov agents.