Not only for them, but any other non-European videoconferencing software.
    • turboSnail@piefed.europe.pubEnglish
      12·
      6 days ago

      Care to elaborate?
      I know many people who use Teams at work, and they aren’t complaining. Quite the opposite actually. Various announcements are no longer emails since they have been migrated to relevant Teams channels. This means that it’s way faster to scroll past announcements that are not particularly relevant to your work, and none of them clog up your inbox any more.

      The only real problem is CPU and RAM usage, but as long as your IT department is reasonably funded, that’s not a problem either.

        • tuhriel@discuss.tchncs.de
          1·
          21 hours ago

          Also, it always tries to open the office files within teams instead of the actual office application. The features are worse and everytime you receive a chat and want to check it, teams closes your file…great productivity

    • matlag@sh.itjust.works
      4·
      6 days ago

      Look, no offense, but had you check the github Readme, or the previous comments, as it is mentioned several times, and you would have found that it is just an integration of LiveKit in their internal communication system, called Tchap, and Tchap is just a customized non-federated Matrix server.

      No wheel reinvented.

    • smeenz@lemmy.nz
      5·
      6 days ago

      Folks, you won’t believe how yuge these discounts are. The biggliest discounts ever. Many people are saying they’ve never seen one as big as this. Also, new 500% tarrifs on anyone who doesn’t buy office365.

  • Hemingways_Shotgun@lemmy.caEnglish
    124·
    7 days ago

    I get that government use needs to be stringently tested for security, and so things take a little longer. But really, there are PLENTY of good FOSS products in existence that can be used as a base framework and a head-start to things like this.

    You don’t have to re-invent the wheel when you could easily fork Jitsi-meet and harden it/secure it to your needs in the government.

    Jitsi is one of my top 5 FOSS projects that are basically already mature enough to be used in a professional setting

  • blobjim [he/him]@hexbear.netEnglish
    4·
    7 days ago

    Seems pretty neat. Hopefully it’s somewhat simple to compile and set up. It’s kind of weird that livekit is VC funded though. Not necessarily the best, since they might have to relicense it to make investors happy at some point.

    Look at their list of investors: https://livekit.io/about

    The programmability aspect of LiveKit is cool, not that it matters much since this “meet” app is just something built on top of livekit.

  • racoon@lemmy.ml
    21·
    7 days ago

    Nota bene how the description omits the world “encryption”. Timeo Frenchmen et dona ferentes

    • Atropos@lemmy.world
      421·
      7 days ago

      I believe this was mostly about stability with 100+ meeting participants. This is second hand information though.

    • HelloRoot@lemy.lolEnglish
      161·
      7 days ago

      Have you tried selfhosting it? For me, it was unusable, despite a beefy cloud server, even for just 2 people. And thats ignoring setup complexity.

      This one is optimized and kubernetes ready, which makes it super easy. Will try out soon.

      • jim3692@discuss.online
        7·
        7 days ago

        I was hosting it 5 years ago in a 2gb or 4gb VPS. We were able to run 1440p@120hz, if not higher, streams of our games. The server didn’t seem to care much about the load.

        • HelloRoot@lemy.lolEnglish
          5·
          5 days ago

          That sounds amazing, because I tried it last year and it was like 12 fps with 2 people in a 720p videocall on a much beefier VPS.

      • CactusEcho@piefed.socialEnglish
        19·
        7 days ago

        It’s licensed under Apache license:

        Apache License 2.0 A permissive license whose main conditions require preservation of copyright and license notices. Contributors provide an express grant of patent rights. Licensed works, modifications, and larger works may be distributed under different terms and without source code.

        Permissions Commercial use Modification Distribution Patent use Private use Limitations Trademark use Liability Warranty Conditions License and copyright notice State changes

        You know that they could just fork it, right? Saying that “it’s american”, just causes FUD for opensource.

  • elucubra@sopuli.xyz
    536·
    7 days ago

    Why didn’t they pour money on Jitsi?

    European, mature, FOSS…

    I fear grift is there somewhere.

    Also, French engineering has a habit of turning sound concepts into messy overengineerd but underbuilt results.

    • matlag@sh.itjust.works
      12·
      7 days ago

      The development is quite transparent. The team is looking at reduced development and more integration, so instead of “pouring money on a project”, they tried various solutions, and picked the “best one”.

      One criteria was an integration with their internal communication system: Tchap, essentially a Matrix server. The Matrix video call group didn’t cut it because it requires ElementX, and apparently there are unresolved issue there (no idea if it’s the app itself or due to customization of their Matrix server). They ended up with Visio, that is not a “new” solution: it’s based on LiveKit.

      https://github.com/tchapgouv/tchap-product/issues/259

    • e8d79@discuss.tchncs.de
      501·
      7 days ago

      My guess would be that its because La Suite tries to replace all of Microsoft Office and having all the moving parts under your organisations control makes it easier to create a fully integrated office suite that offers the same UX throughout. Also Jitsi is owned by 8x8, a US company, which might have factored into the decision to create something new.

    • gdaofb27584@lemmy.ml
      11·
      7 days ago

      Also, French engineering has a habit of turning sound concepts into messy overengineerd but underbuilt results

      Any example ?

      • elucubra@sopuli.xyz
        1·
        5 days ago

        I’ve had several French cars, starting with an R4. That one was good, did exactly what it was designed to do. Next I had Talbot Horizon, an american (Chrysler) car with a very good diesel engine. Then I had a Peugeot 505, that had a good engine that was over complicated to the extreme, to the point that the oli overflow pipe litrelly crossed over from one side of the engine to the other, a truly brain dead design. Also the electrics in the back were literally routed under the rear light seals, so a seal failure meant that the electrical system shorted when it rained, the central locking and windows actuators had similar design flaws.

        I also had a Xara, which had several secondary ecus, which had to be progressively eliminated , until I sent the thing to the scrap yard, out of despair, despite having a sound body and engine.

        I’m in Europe, and I sometimes play the game of observing how many old cars (15+ years) I spot by nationality. Plenty of German, Spanish, Czech, Japanese and Korean. Very few Italian or French.

        My daily driver now is a 26 year old Skoda. I do all maintenance. In nearly 500.000 km, it has had zero major failures. A few minor things, starter (Bosch), two window regulators, a CV joint, and the usual, belts, clutch, brake pads… Consumables. I love how logical the engine bay is.

  • Auster@thebrainbin.org
    46·
    7 days ago

    Was worried they’d use it as a walled garden or a monitoring system. MIT license iirc allows forking, so at least if things go downhill, there are ways to mitigate it.