Building Digital Workplace Solutions on top of Foundational Libraries (BlockNote and Yjs)
AW1.120 | Day 1 | 16:00 - 16:25 | Speakers: Virgile Deville, Yousef El-Dardiry
Abstract
In 2024 France and Germany signed an agreement to cooperate on building an open source digital workspace. As part of this collaboration, DINUM (France), ZenDiS (Germany) and MinBZK collaborated on building a modern Open Source Document editing product (Docs) on top of modern
As part of this, they collaborated with the existing open source libraries: BlockNote and Yjs.
This talk will share our joint experience in financing core features such as exports, comments, edit attribution, and suggestions. We'll explain: - What the collaboration looked like in practice - How funding core libraries can help you build your own Sovereign solutions efficiently - Challenges and differences between funding libraries and Application-Level solutions - Broader ecosystem benefits
Speakers
Virgile Deville is an entrepreneur in Civic Tech. He co-founded Open Source Politics, the main integrator of Decidim, an open-source citizen participation platform. Since 2023, he has been assisting the Interministerial Directorate for Digital Affairs (DINUM) with its open-source support programs and heads the Docs product, a collaborative text editor that is part of LaSuite. He teaches "Introduction to Digital Commons and Public Policy" at Sciences Po Paris.
Maintainer of BlockNote. We're building a new text editing layer for the open web. Excited about local-first and future of programming concepts.
Previously, cofounded Relive (mobile app for running / hiking / cycling with 20M+ users world-wide).
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