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Inb4 MS sues them for using Visio as their product name.
Visio is a common french term for videoconferencing. Maybe it’ll get struck down as long as it doesn’t include diagramming?
Also, will French law allow a service or trade mark on a common term?
Exactly what went through my head
I though WHY? would you call your product that when its already and established brand. I get that its a great name but its been used for years
The Github repo is called “meet”. So maybe they named it Meet then thought, “Oh no, Google will sue us, let’s choose a different name like… Visio!”
They should really call it Visio Zoom Meet for Teams that Excel.
As in Google Meet?
I see you chose violence with that naming suggestion. My head hurts now.
The only thing weird about this is that more countries aren’t doing it.
Powered by LiveKit
Apparently it’s AI coded? Or maybe not?
What does powered by mean when LiveKit is about AI agents?
Are we letting AI agents meet instead of ourselves?
The linked LiveKit website and linked LiveKit blog post seem completely disconnected. I don’t get it.
Why why why not just use Jitsi ?
People contribute to FSF to support programmers to make important Libre products like this one and give it away , seems so wasteful for a government to fund a whole new different effort
Because it’s all a waste of dev time, over the past year the french government made all kink of foss tools instead of helping out pre-existing projects.
I’m in constant face palm mode with them. Remember their collaborative suite? remember their e2e messenger?
Of course you don’t. Because they are irrelevant! Even within french public services.
Having used both Jitsi and LiveKit, I get it. Jitsi is great if you use it as it is, but if you want to integrate video conferencing into your own solution and customize everything, LiveKit is the logical choice. (I think it is also much newer then Jitsi, which used to be the only choice.)
If they wanted to integrate a finished product, I would expect them to use Matrix over Jitsi, because it seems to have seen some use in France already.
Also, I think Matrix integrated LiveKit for video over their existing Jitsi integration, so… the ecosystem seems to flock around LiveKit anyway. So maybe the’ll contribute to LiveKit if they find issues with it, and everyone benefits from that.
Following their link to LiveKit’s blog, it seems LiveKit provides a real-time communication stack with adaptive video encoding. So they’re using it to handle multiple video streams over connections of varying quality. I don’t think it’s mainly about AI, even though that’s LiveKit’s focus.
There are lots of ML models that relate to frame generation (you may have heard of Nvidia DLSS) so the “AI” might not be LLM slop, it might be an actual good application of ML like reducing bandwidth by halving the framerate and interpolating on the client.
I wouldn’t call such things agents though. They’re not acting autonomously or out-of-process.
Just because it integrates with AI tools doesn’t mean it’s coded by AI.
The AI agents are for taking notes and making transcript.
Is it available for other European citizens?
It seems to be an open source application that anyone can host on a server.
