Messages: how a French government agency broke free of IMAP
K.4.201 | Day 1 | 15:00 - 15:30 | Speakers: Sylvain Zimmer
Abstract
Messages is a project from ANCT, a French government agency that aims to bring secure and modern tools to small rural towns.
In this talk we'll introduce the MIT-licensed project and explain how the specific requirements of public servant inboxes led to a unique design, breaking free to legacy protocols like IMAP.
Speakers
Sylvain has been a developer and an entrepreneur for 20 years. His first projet was Jamendo, a Creative Commons music community. In 2012 he founded dotConferences, a series of TED-like technical conferences in Paris. In early 2025 he became a French public servant, as CTO of La Suite territoriale.
A strong free software advocate, he has created and contributed to multiple OSS projects and communities. His languages of choice are Python, Go and TypeScript.
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