Hi everyone, I'm Virgil, I work at the Flint Government on a project that's called
Lasfitte, a collaborative workspace for public agents to replace Microsoft and it's all
open source, you can find it on GitHub.
So I just say that, it's only published MIT, it's using first libraries for the Arts
of nature guys are doing, thank you for open sensing all that because we wouldn't have
figured out the Cerditsy part and the cool editor, like Blacknotes doing and for the stuff
around, we just use framework so we don't take too much tricks because we need to ship
fast, so don't go react next, kind of like boring stack but it works for us, so we have
a bunch of apps, one not taking up, that uses Blacknotes and YGS for the editor part, fail
sharing a video conference that just made New York Times first page two days ago because
they are sending it to all public agents in the central states, animal clients that use
spot postfix and the YGS chatbot that uses Versailles decay and you can just choose
your LMA plug.
So this is the application I'm working on, could have wrote the declarations of the
right of the situation, on the season of the Cerditsy, this is actually the home page of the
government website, I'm pretty happy, I was a lot to do that, so you might wonder where
I'm here, this is not really local first, there is a Django server and people connect
to it over the web and it's not actually running on your computer, but we are actually
running the direct message of the public agent is running on Matrix, which is probably the
largest matrix instance of the world, it has 400,000 public agents connecting to it
every month and it's kind of decentralized, it's ministry, it's on server and they're all
connected through gateway and also we work for a year and a half, we've been working with
youself and Kevin from Blackmail to YGS and every time we meet with them they want to
take us to local first meetup, so we started, we started, say okay maybe we can look at
this and try to understand a little bit better, so you might wonder who wants local first
in the government, you might guess the army, so the army is actually deploying its own
lastweeds, they need to work offline, you know, on the ground, it will be, we are not doing
that, they are just having their own lastweeds, on their own private network, not connected
to this internet, but that's it, so why didn't we do local first, well, they did
gave us the mission to build lastweeds three years ago, so we had to put public agents in
production, like really quickly, and this still feels really cool, but a bit experimental
still, so maybe we can like start putting some stuff in local first, but we had to deliver
really fast, so that's why we used the boring start to build fast to allow for iteration
to scale quite quickly on Kubernetes, and to focus on usability, because we have like normal
public agents who don't come to first them, that uses this, so you know, the average person
sitting in an office, but we have the army, like saying you need to do end-to-end encryption
otherwise we won't be able to use you for kind of like sensitive communication, so we try
to do our back end as dumb as possible, not too much in the post-greSQL, and do as many
future clients' side, for example, export, so that we can, Indian move to Italy, my biggest
first, yeah, my biggest fear about local first is usability, like matrix at first, it was
a nightmare for public agents, and we have flatty Golot, and we have still people saying hey
lost my keys, okay, so it's tough, so what I'm here actually to present is that we are
really put a lot, we are not very innovative, the tech will give you that to you guys, but
we are doing a lot of effort in doing good UX, and I'm actually reassured by the model
collective, it seems to be doing a really cool job thinking about the UX, we've done an
accessible, and I'm done, but this is it, you can be used it