France and Germany, in joint collaboration, have developed a Google Docs alternative - and its awesome! (Netherlands are currently onboarded)

Just checked the part about self-hosting. While it's probably possible to handle things with a less heavy approach, their only "easy to use" example right now is to have a full-blown kubernetes cluster at hand or run locally in the source directory. That's a bit much.

Surprised they didn't go with cryptpad - aren't they already French?

We should actually use an opensource, decentralized and private alternative instead of relying on another centralized service

See Fileverse for example: https://fileverse.io/

What was wrong with libre?

Calligra and LibreOffice already exist though. I am not against this in principle but couldn’t they have invested in an existing FOSS project?

Yes, that's excellent. We need our own Google suite. Fingers crossed so that it may come eventually.

As someone in and from the US, good. Private companies are far to prevalent in public institutions all over the world. Something as basic and fundamental as word processing should not be controlled by a small select few huge international companies.

Really glad to see the EU adopt more open source software as a way to combat the centralized control some of the american software companies have over the space.

Pretty good project, but is it the future to have mainly web apps?

Really cool. I tried to sign up but you have to be part of an officially recognized organization in France and input their registration number as part of the process.

Nice. Where is the source, on github (I didn't see it but I only skimmed)? Federated? Self-hostable?

What does this do over what the collabora tools in Nextcloud do?

Nice, DINUM is doing a lot so great to see go beyond with supra national collaboration!

I'm using NextCloud (Germany and international open source community) hosted on Webo (Slovenia) with data centers in Germany and Helsinki (so I bet on Hetzner). I'm happy with it but I'll keep on eye on https://github.com/suitenumerique/docs

Is this just for EU citisens or can Americans like me use it?

Is there a German-hosted instance? The URL https://docs.numerique.gouv.fr/login/ is making me wanna barf and no way I'm clicking it to risk seeing more Fr*nch.

No America's club

Now explain this to EU based corporations, which in my opinion needs to be the focus on making the change. They drive the economy. All major assets in software income are being routed to American firms through their licenses.

I love the docs ability to create databases from my docs. That would be super useful for work and research activities.

It's just for the French civil service, right?

Yeah, it is called Word. Works on all computers, is free to use the web based version, and is the world standard.

ZenDiS is awesome by the way.

We already have kDrive you get 1TB storage for only 2€ a month, it's based in Switzerland

It looks closer to the markdown style of formatting though, and I doubt it has page formatting, or other more advanced formatting, or extensions, or a large selection of fonts. Honestly, even though docs has pageless formatting now, most people don't use it when they should, making everything unnecessary harder to read, so this will be better in that regard at least. This is probably good enough for 95% of what people use Docs for, but I wouldn't call it a replacement.

I haven't used it because I don't have a French government account, so correct me if I'm wrong about any of that.

Edit: it looks like it only has 1 font and no page formatting

and why so?

Thats great

Can the UK get some of that?

If I can copy and paste with thought having to install the offline plugin, then I'm in.