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We are very happy to announce that the European Commission is funding the ELFA consortium to build a local-first, end-to-end encrypted workspace suite. Core tools include documents, spreadsheets, email, calendar, chat, video calls, and more!
Gathering 12 partners for at least 3 years, towards a suite composed of 16 apps!
@nextgraph @ironcalc @blocknote @AnanasTeknik @ontola @xwiki @CryptPad @uradotdesign @danubetech @xrhf and @nlnet who will soon offer sub-granting.
@elfa
> European Commission is funding the ELFA consortium to build a local-first, end-to-end encrypted workspace suite
I was going to point out this sounds like @CryptPad but I see they're involved ; )
FYI NextCloud already has most of the listed features. If it's not E2EE, it would be a huge contribution to add that to it. Would be great if services running your suite interoperated with NC.
@nextgraph @ironcalc @blocknote @AnanasTeknik @ontola @xwiki @uradotdesign @danubetech @xrhf @nlnet
@strypey Yes we are fully aware theat NextCloud is a very mature solution. We have to see exactly how we could interoperate with it, and how we could help bring true E2EE on the collaborative editing in NextCloud. WE will hopefully be in touch with them soon. Interoperability with existing tools and platofrms is in our mission statement.
@elfa @nextgraph @ironcalc @blocknote @AnanasTeknik @ontola @xwiki @uradotdesign @danubetech @xrhf @nlnet Will it be built from scratch? Or upon @CryptPad and OnlyOffice existing projects?
@nextgraph @ironcalc @blocknote @AnanasTeknik @ontola @xwiki @CryptPad @uradotdesign @danubetech @xrhf @nlnet @elfa cool ! How does this work out with #ZenDiS opendesk ? Seems veeeeeery similar
@jan Indeed, there are some similarities in the set of apps. It is a similar case as with other existing Suites : they lack for now some important features: federation, end-to-end encryption, local-first and CRDTs. And we will be very happy to work with them to provide them access to those features. ELFA is an open platform looking for interoperability and convergence with other solutions. We talked with ZenDiS during FOSDEM last week. Let's see how we could make this collaboration happen :)
