La Suite numérique is a open source WIP office suite developped by french and german governments to replace proprietary office suite. Theyre self-hosteable but i found the official install instructions unclear to follow, and they have only instructions to install one app at a time. So i’ve used helmfile and did a one-command install myself.
Have fun
open wource
Look I know it’s fun to make fun of the French…
Dang it, fixed
Did they homemake everything ?
No NextCloud, no OnlyOffice ?
Yes NextCloud. No OnlyOffice it seems. On the Netherlands produced production focused fork https://github.com/MinBZK/mijn-bureau-infra
No, most of it is existing FOSS rebranded.
What did they use ?
“The flagship client app, Element, was still very new and we decided to use that as a base for our client app across Android, iOS and web,” explains Ploquin.
Looks like so
Thank you for posting this, your timing is impeccable. My work wants to go down the 360 road…
Mention to them that libreoffice is free and open source.
Here’s an alternative: https://www.opendesk.eu/en No guarantees though. But it looks nice.
I’m not affiliated with opendesk in any of way
I’ve also been looking at this as an alternative! I need to make a proposal for my boss with our objectives and how the different options compare.
Dont get your hopes too high… storage bewteen docs and drive isnt shared for instance
Acronyms, initialisms, abbreviations, contractions, and other phrases which expand to something larger, that I’ve seen in this thread:
Fewer Letters More Letters CGNAT Carrier-Grade NAT DNS Domain Name Service/System HTTP Hypertext Transfer Protocol, the Web HTTPS HTTP over SSL IP Internet Protocol NAS Network-Attached Storage NAT Network Address Translation Plex Brand of media server package SBC Single-Board Computer SSD Solid State Drive mass storage SSH Secure Shell for remote terminal access SSL Secure Sockets Layer, for transparent encryption TCP Transmission Control Protocol, most often over IP UDP User Datagram Protocol, for real-time communications VPN Virtual Private Network VPS Virtual Private Server (opposed to shared hosting) nginx Popular HTTP server
15 acronyms in this thread; the most compressed thread commented on today has 7 acronyms.
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Why not just use Nextcloud instead of this broken toolset?
Because indépendance
From whom/what?
Outside companies ? If you rely on nextcloud and they do a minio/elasticsearch/whatever things that were open source until they weren’t?
How do you think any of the products in OP are different?
Développed by french (and German) governments. Not private companies.
They’re FOSS, just like Nextcloud. Based on software developed by other companies.
Broken how ?
I mean it’s a bunch of different open source tools that don’t have any sort of integration.
