This New Open-Source Alternative to Google Docs and Notion Is Backed by France and Germany
Docs is an web-based collaborative text editor that is the result of a joint effort led by the French 🇫🇷🥖 (DINUM) and German 🇩🇪🥨 governments (ZenDiS).
It's a good alternative to popular services like Notion, Google Docs and Outline.
The platform offers real-time collaboration capabilities, a sleek minimalist interface, and all the essential features you could possibly need.
Best of all, Docs is open-source on GitHub and can be self-hosted, making it a viable option for local agencies and companies.
You can test Docs on your browser by visiting this page:
impress-preprod.beta.numerique…
using the login:
email: test.docs@yopmail.com
password: I'd<3ToTestDocs
howtogeek.com/docs-alternative…
You can also volunteer to help translating Docs to other languages here: crowdin.com/project/lasuite-do…
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This New Open-Source Alternative to Google Docs and Notion Is Backed by France and Germany
Real-time editing and collaboration, with a European twist.Corbin Davenport (How-To Geek)
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Tobias Ernst hat dies geteilt.
testman
Als Antwort auf All Europeans 🇪🇺 • • •opendesk.eu/
gitlab.opencode.de/bmi/opendes…
Die Office und Collaboration Suite für die Öffentliche Verwaltung | openDesk
openDeskAll Europeans 🇪🇺 hat dies geteilt.
Tobias Ernst
Als Antwort auf testman • •mögen das
All Europeans 🇪🇺, kopimi, May Likes Toronto und Shane Rogers mögen das.
Morten Juhl-Johansen hat dies geteilt.
testman
Als Antwort auf Tobias Ernst • • •OpenDesk is a project that aims to connect / integrate various FOSS projects that could be useful for public administration or any other office.
Docs is a FOSS note-taking platform, which does seem useful for offices.
So hopefully OpenDesk decides to integrate that as well.
Tobias Ernst mag das.
All Europeans 🇪🇺
Als Antwort auf Tobias Ernst • • •Morten Juhl-Johansen
Als Antwort auf Tobias Ernst • • •qeef
Als Antwort auf All Europeans 🇪🇺 • • •All Europeans 🇪🇺 hat dies geteilt.
ArneBab
Als Antwort auf All Europeans 🇪🇺 • • •While you’re at it, have a look at CryptPad: that provides privacy by design and is AGPL-Licensed, so it is free and stays free:
cryptpad.org/
And its flaship instance is hosted in France:
cryptpad.fr/
#freesoftware
CryptPad.org
cryptpad.orgTobias Ernst mag das.
manuelcaeiro ☕
Als Antwort auf All Europeans 🇪🇺 • • •No thank you.
werru2955
Als Antwort auf All Europeans 🇪🇺 • • •The editor looks pretty nice too.
Björn 🇪🇺
Als Antwort auf All Europeans 🇪🇺 • • •Alex P Roe
Als Antwort auf All Europeans 🇪🇺 • • •Anthony Rabine
Als Antwort auf All Europeans 🇪🇺 • • •Gerhard Pfau
Als Antwort auf All Europeans 🇪🇺 • • •Jonathan Hartley
Als Antwort auf All Europeans 🇪🇺 • • •David Revoy
Als Antwort auf All Europeans 🇪🇺 • • •The illustrations you posted contained obvious issues a designer would never make for such a simple design (circled in red) so it looked synthetic and ai gen and a tool like thehive.ai/demos returned a 1.0 ai_generated which is a strong indice of confidence the media was AI generated... Did you generated your illustrations with AI gen?
Hive | Enterprise AI Solutions
thehive.aiAll Europeans 🇪🇺
Als Antwort auf David Revoy • • •@davidrevoy
We got the image from their website, we haven't edited it 🙂
All Europeans 🇪🇺
Als Antwort auf All Europeans 🇪🇺 • • •There is a video from #FOSDEM where the representatives of ZenDis (German Center for Digital Sovereignty) 🇩🇪 and DINUM (French Interministerial Digital Directorate) 🇫🇷 talk about the project.
- Making Workspaces Work Together (And Across Borders):
fosdem.org/2025/schedule/event…
Alexander Smolianitski, the head of OS products at ZenDis, also participated in two other sessions where he presented the software developed on the German side:
- Note-Worthy Collaboration: Co-developing a Note-Taking Application:
fosdem.org/2025/schedule/event…
- openDesk on openCode: Developing a Secure Office Suite and SDLC:
fosdem.org/2025/schedule/event…
All videos are available for download.
#europeanalternatives #opensource
FOSDEM 2025 - Making Workspaces Work Together (And Across Borders)
fosdem.orgAndré Polykanine
Als Antwort auf All Europeans 🇪🇺 • • •Florian
Als Antwort auf All Europeans 🇪🇺 • • •All Europeans 🇪🇺
Als Antwort auf Florian • • •@zersiax
Maybe @zendis could give us an idea? :)