France Is Building Its Own Google Workspace – With Django

[ChrisArchitect]

Related previously:

France Aiming to Replace Zoom, Google Meet, Microsoft Teams, etc

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46767668

[boltzmann-brain]

god, out of all the technologies of yesteryear, why Django?

[Nextgrid]

To be fair, the problems it's trying to solve are also from "yesteryear" and do not require some groundbreaking new tech. But out of interest what would you pick instead?

[shlip]

And yet, the project is hosted on MS github... So much for sovereignty :facepalm

So what happens to the 500,000+ users when Trump tells MS to nuke the repo/infra ?

[boltzmann-brain]

that isn't much of a problem - git repositories can be re-hosted somewhere else. carrying the bug tracker over is another issue entirely.