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This tool is part of a WIP complete suite of tools for public agents called "La suite numérique".

https://lasuite.numerique.gouv.fr

Ah this makes sense, I was going to comment that "docs" was not really a suitable name.

What is the correct full name then? lasuite docs (judging from the logo, that seem to be the brand part)? docs numerique (from the URL)?

numerique.gouv is like digital.gov. Kind of a whole ministry.

La Suite Docs is better yes.

adding to this, it seems to me like most of the projects are yet to be open sourced. the github currently has docs and their video conferencing tool (which also looks great): https://github.com/suitenumerique

All the projects are already open sourced actually, but admittedly all don't have documentation as good as docs or meet. Still a wip :)

Cool! Are they under a different GitHub org? I couldn't find grist or tchap

The open-source project Grist Core (https://github.com/gristlabs/grist-core) is developed in the United States, with contributions from some French gov tech team.

Tchap is based on Matrix and Element, https://github.com/element-hq

Some of the projects are on this org https://github.com/numerique-gouv/ but there are way more projects that the suite numerique there

Tchap looks neat as a Slack alternative, but it seems like it's still only for government workers.

We use Mattermost at work, and apart from the mobile app being a bit shit, and search being kind of useless, it's easily as good as Slack. In some ways it's better, e.g. you can use proper Markdown in messages instead of Slack's Mrkdwn abomination that doesn't even allow links.

I wish they would improve search though; it's kind of a critical feature in a company.

? I put Slack into non-rich-text-editor mode and use standard markdown link syntax dozens of times a day

Well maybe they've added that in the past 2 years but certainly 2 years ago you could only add links using rich text mode.

search is the #1 feature I use in our corporate slack (huge, huge instance).

without search it's useless.

It has search, it's just very basic. Only searches for exactly what you put etc.

I remember Slack's search being equally crap when I last used it a couple of years ago.

sounds exactly like slacks search, except slack also doesn't find exactly what you put in sometimes... (think the indexing isn't very fast because sometime a day old message is impossible to search for)

slack search has been awesome for me. if you want exact search, put it into quotation marks.

Tchap is just Element/Matrix with some gov specific features.

That said, calling the video conferencing capability "Visio" is à la banane.

"Visio" is French slang for a videoconference meeting. Open to suggestions for a project name that better reflects its purpose and vision.

I love the effort that is going on here. I'm just curious about some of the efforts taken here. The Docs seems like a good approach to just build it, but really wondering what the motivation behind building another video chat platform was instead of using and improving rather mature OSS solutions like Jitsi.

Visio is a Microsoft Office app: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/visio/flowchar...

How about "Vidja" -- the .fr domain seems to be available, the top google hit is for an IKEA floor lamp, and it is generally a silly English mispronunciation of "video" (you kids and yer vidja games...) :)

This is awesome!

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