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1. input_+1F[view] [source] 2026-02-03 19:18:53
>>AareyB+(OP)
Worth pointing out: France is not adopting existing open source software, they're building their own software and releasing it under the MIT licence. Most of it (or all of it?) is Django backend + React frontend (using a custom-built UI kit).

Home page for the entire suite (in French) with some screenshots: https://lasuite.numerique.gouv.fr/

Code bases are on GitHub and they use English there: https://github.com/suitenumerique/

Dev handbook (in English): https://suitenumerique.gitbook.io/handbook

Not French and I can't say I personally tried deploying any of them, but I've been admiring their efforts from afar for a while now.

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2. quadri+XL[view] [source] 2026-02-03 19:49:11
>>input_+1F
Gotta give them props for all the English. I know that can't have been easy.

Now they just need to change the name so it's not so obviously French, and invite collaboration from the other large EU countries. I wonder how many Dutch or German will think of "La Suite Numerique" as an EU-wide office suite.

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3. latexr+a01[view] [source] 2026-02-03 20:53:46
>>quadri+XL
> Gotta give them props for all the English. I know that can't have been easy.

Why not? Plenty of French people speak English at a native level.

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4. phito+wj1[view] [source] 2026-02-03 22:36:07
>>latexr+a01
As a francophone, I can tell you that the vast majority doesn't.
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5. eloisa+rm1[view] [source] 2026-02-03 22:50:56
>>phito+wj1
Among software developers, the vast majority does.
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6. phito+G13[view] [source] 2026-02-04 12:15:52
>>eloisa+rm1
definitely not at a native level...
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7. latexr+gu3[view] [source] 2026-02-04 15:05:42
>>phito+G13
Why are you nitpicking this? Are all French people incompetent laggards at speaking English? No, definitely not. There’s nothing about being French which makes you incapable of typing English text and maybe even *gasp* using a spell and grammar checker. The GitHub org shows seven people, is it so hard to believe they’re not absolute dolts at English? Why are you hell bent on insulting yourself?

https://github.com/orgs/suitenumerique/people

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