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@juergen@feddit.org to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish • 2 months ago

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

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

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@juergen@feddit.org to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish • 2 months ago
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Interesting: Docs is the result of a joint effort lead by the French 🇫🇷🥖(DINUM) and German 🇩🇪🥨 governments (ZenDiS). We are always looking for new public partners (we are currently onboarding the Netherlands 🇳🇱🧀). Feel free to reach out if you are interested in using or contributing to docs. https://docs.numerique.gouv.fr/login/ #docs #opensource #eu #europe #france #germany #netherlands #collaboration #fosdem
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    48•2 months ago

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

    • @Trihilis@ani.social
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      45•2 months ago

      While both of those are great software. Unless I’m not aware of something they aren’t cloud/network based office suites like Google docs and office 365.

      It seems this is an alternative to office software where you can work simultaneously and share documents in the same cloud/network.

      I don’t think there is an alternative to office 365 and Google docs at this point that is open source. So this seems like a great project and I’ll definitely be considering it for our company.

      • @Exceptionhandler@discuss.tchncs.de
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        21•2 months ago

        What about Collabora Online? It integrates nicely into Nextcloud, but I am not sure about pricing for business use.

        https://www.collaboraonline.com/collabora-online/

        Guide for self hosting: https://collabora-online-for-nextcloud.readthedocs.io/en/latest/install/

        • @Trihilis@ani.social
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          Thanks I’ll definitely check that out. I’ve seen some posts about it working on Synology Nas devices so that’s very interesting.

          • @CostcoFanboy@lemmy.ca
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            If you ever diverge away from proprietary Synology solution, NextCloud has 100% integration with Collabora too.

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        8•2 months ago

        There’s onlyoffice for cloud based office

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          Onlyoffice seems a little slack on the security and updates. I saw the warnings in the desktop package, have they made sure the online offerings are secure?

          • @bishbosh@lemm.ee
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            3•2 months ago

            If there are issues like this, sounds like a good goal for a country that wants to divest from US tech companies.

          • LoudWaterHombre
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            1•2 months ago

            what do you mean?

        • @bubblewrap@sh.itjust.works
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          OnlyOffice has a lot of ties with Russia/CIS. I’d personally avoid it on that basis.

          • LoudWaterHombre
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            Do you have Amy sources on that

        • @bubblewrap@sh.itjust.works
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          OnlyOffice has a lot of ties with Russia/CIS. I’d personally avoid it on that basis.

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        6•2 months ago

        There is nextcloud and others you can self host at least.

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        LibreOffice online exists. It’s not mature, but they could have invest half their time in making it so.

        Only Office is natively cloud based, with an optional offline/desktop version.

        Both are open source, if the concern is project governance, create a fork and rebrand.

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      Can either of those do collaborative editing? I usually think of that feature when I think of Google Docs

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        OnlyOffice does for sure, not sure how well it works on LibreOffice Online.

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      A lot of government programs don’t really make sense and are there just to put a name on a CV sadly. Collabora Online does exactly that and is primary licensed under Mozilla Public License.

      They could have easily expanded Collabora. But you know, can’t stamp your name on it.

      • @milicent_bystandr@lemm.ee
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        2•2 months ago

        To be fair, though a new project might not be as efficient as improving another, projects learn off each other, and sometimes it’s good to have developmental ‘competition’, and variety.

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      3•2 months ago

      Wait LibreOffice has a cloud?

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        Yes but… https://www.libreoffice.org/download/libreoffice-online/

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          2•2 months ago

          Note: The LibreOffice Online repository at TDF is temporarily frozen. Updates on this will be published on our blog and on our website.

          yeah

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