How France’s education ministry built an open-source file-share platform for 400K users

There has been a certain amount of scaremongering among those watching
Europe’s burgeoning “Digital Sovereignty” movement. Yes, there will be
pitfalls and mistakes made along the way. The move is being made with
great reluctance, with grudging acceptance of the fact that the USA is
no longer an entirely reliable partner either politically or
economically.

Here
<https://www.computerworld.com/article/4187951/how-frances-education-ministry-built-an-open-source-file-share-platform-for-400k-users.html>
is one remarkable success story: an open-source file-sharing platform
that is currently serving around 400,000 users, offering them up to
100GB of storage per user. And look at the budget: a limit of €10 per
user per year. And just three staff members handling it all.

In terms of comparison to USA-based proprietary offerings, Benoît
Piédallu, national project manager for digital services at the French
Ministry of National Education, said

     “They are very happy to use it. They don’t make a comparison to
     Google Drive or OneDrive…, it’s just working.”

However,

    The Collabora-based office application suite has been less
    well-received, in part because its interface is unfamiliar to many
    users. “When they want to edit documents, work on a [spreadsheet]
    or something like that, they want it to be exactly like they are
    used to — if they have Microsoft Office, they want [it] to work
    the same, to have the same options,” he said.

I guess this is where Euro-Office comes in ...