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by virdev 7mo ago
Shout out to Yjs, ProseMirror and BlockNote on which we relied to build LaSuite Docs
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by virdev 7mo ago
For sure
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by virdev 7mo ago
Spot on this is what we aimed for. Office tools were meant to be printed to be shared. Or at least exported. When you think of it it’s really bad for information security. On the plus side doing everything in the browser manipulating jsons
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by virdev 7mo ago
Lasuite Docs PM here. Awesome to see we’ve made it top the first page again! Thanks for the interest :) I’ve compiled a bunch of answers in an FAQ on this doc https://docs.numerique.gouv.fr/docs/ed2e1dbf-07a2-43bb-ae1e-
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by virdev 8mo ago
Congrats! It's a huge win that they trust it enough to roll it to all public servant (which means 2 to 5 million people if I'm correct). Kudos to @theflash666_ for building it!
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Docs Hackathon in Paris 2nd and 3rd of june(hackdays2025.fr)
3 points by virdev 1y ago|1 comments
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by virdev 1y ago
Cool tracks homebrewed by La Suite Numérique Team. Help us build the open source digital workspace. Come and be a part of a the digital autonomy revolution
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by virdev 2y ago
Cool! Let us know how it goes would love to see you in the contributors :)
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by virdev 2y ago
Hey! Docs’s PM here. IMO Notion really made an awesome job with real-time, collab features (comments, suggestions) and useful AI actions. So much, people only see databases ^^. For now we’ll be focusing on these. That’s already plenty ^^ F
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by virdev 2y ago
Hey there! Thanks for the comment. I have to disagree with you. For government and large legs it makes less and less sense to just pay for licences. If you pay per user it becomes a huge chunk of your budget AND you have no control on your
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by virdev 2y ago
Hey! The Netherlands joined recently. Let’s hope more countries follow
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by virdev 2y ago
Hey, we dedided to take an approach where we build on top of libraries like BlockNotejs, Yjs, HocusPocus but build our own wrapper around it in Django and Next.js. This allows to iterate really fast and to catter our own need (we are large
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by virdev 2y ago
> The French government agency ANCT Données et Territoires has also made significant contributions to the codebase. From the Grist-core readme : https://github.com/gristlabs/grist-core
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by virdev 2y ago
Hey! Thanks for your interest. It's directly funded by the governments. BlockNotejs (the library doing the editor bit) received some funding from NGI. And now France and Germany are sponsoring the project (and also Yjs) No plugins pla
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by virdev 2y ago
We plan on getting e2ee as we have the military are interested in using it. From what we investigated there will be some tradeoff feature wise (attribution of edits will be harder for example). Happy to receive some help on that front.
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by virdev 2y ago
Do you any idea of how much collaborative suites cost to government every year? 10's if not 100's of millions! They have millions of public servents. The investement to build Docs is a drop of water in the the ocean in comparison
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by virdev 2y ago
What's complex for most users that do not spend their days into an IDE is not seing what's your prose is going to look like and they've been use to that for a couple decade. For us it kind of made sense to support markdown +
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by virdev 2y ago
Hey! Not a developer but here are a couple pointers. As Yousef says below, the text editing bit is hard. We wanted to be build fast and BlockNotejs makes it easy, you get the block stucture, the slash command, you can style your editor and
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by virdev 2y ago
Hey! Thanks! Yes we do plan to support more languages, we want the project to be usable by the many. Translations are here : https://crowdin.com/project/lasuite-docs (just added turkish tonight ;)
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by virdev 2y ago
Hey! Yes we do, we plan to release sub-docs before the end of the month. That will allow you to create trees of docs (with as many child / grand-child as you want) all inheriting the user rights of the parent.
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by virdev 2y ago
The notes are stored in Y.doc format because we use Yjs for our collaboration server. https://docs.yjs.dev/api/y.doc
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by virdev 2y ago
Hey everyone! I'm the PM working with the Docs team. Thanks a lot for the kind words, we're as excited as you to be working on such a cool project. We didn't expect to get posted so soon on HN. We still have a lot to do in t
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by virdev 2y ago
Maybe you are not building something in the sector but do you have any idea of how shitty collaborative work is for public agents ? The possibility of data being sifoned back to the US if they use american cloud services has millions of pub
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by virdev 2y ago
> We shouldn't be afraid of governments doing cool things Yes! And you'd be surprised by the kind of talent we're able to attract. People want cool stuff to be built by the public. After all its also their money that&#x27
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by virdev 2y ago
Yes yes yes and yes Public Money Public Code!
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by virdev 2y ago
Docs actually thanks to the open source grant system we have in Europe. The hard part in a project like Docs is the text editor. We built Docs on top of [Blocknotejs]( https://www.blocknotejs.org/ ) an [NGI funded]( https:&#x
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by virdev 2y ago
I also have to disagree here. What Notion has built is amazing. When leadership tells us our job is to replace Microsoft Office. I say it's not This is Libre Office's job. While I truly admire this community’s work. If I ever get