Tchap, the French administration federation: past, present and future
summary
Tchap is a French government Matrix deployment: a fork of Element with 17 home servers (one per ministry plus local and external nodes), a closed federation that allows limited external users, and a native directory of civil servant emails. It reports ~500,000 accounts, 242,000 monthly active users, ~6.5M messages/month (7M in July during the Olympics), added WebRTC one‑to‑one encrypted calls and live location on French maps, served crisis use with no cyberattacks, and struggles with user friction, open‑source funding, and ministry vendor lock‑in.
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chapters (13)
- 0:00Introduction to Tchap
- 1:05Tchap in the French government
- 2:01The origins and choice of Matrix
- 2:58Architecture and design choices
- 3:46Specific features and structure
- 5:15Usage statistics and growth
- 7:08Product roadmap and updates
- 8:16Success during the Olympics
- 9:21Challenges in product and adoption
- 11:04Funding and open source issues
- 12:34Future aspirations
- 13:38Federation and collaboration
- 15:11Q&A and concluding remarks
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