[astrolx]

I think an unsung hero in making open source broadly known and adopted in France is Framasoft [https://framasoft.org/en/], a non-profit association. They have since many many years an initiative to de-google internet and provide free and hosted alternatives and resources.

[BiteCode_dev]

+1 on this, they had an amazing presence in the French community for 20 years and many of us own them our passion for FOSS.

[culi]

More people on HN seem to know of PeerTube than know of FramaSoft, the group that's building PeerTube