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by andyferris 464 days ago
Not a Docs question, but I recently came across Grist and I see that Grist is actually listed as a project under la Suite Numerique. On the other hand, Grist Labs (getgrist.com/about) claim to be the developers, are based in the US (NYC), and I couldn't see any mention any EU collaboration on their website. What is the connection here? How does it differ from the governance and funding model of Docs?

I love that you guys are building a suite of next-gen tools rather than just recreating LibreOffice. Seems really smart to me!
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sylvinus 464 days ago
AFAIK, there are lots of contributions from developers in the French government to the Grist open source repository. We also deploy it, we have instances running in various government agencies.

For Docs, we bootstrapped the repository ourselves on top of Django, Next.js, BlockNote.js, Y.js and many others. We welcome contributions!

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vviers 464 days ago
Yes, there are lots of PR listed here : https://github.com/gristlabs/grist-core/pulls?q=is%3Apr+labe...
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virdev 464 days ago
> The French government agency ANCT Données et Territoires has also made significant contributions to the codebase.

From the Grist-core readme : https://github.com/gristlabs/grist-core

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