What is La Suite Meet?¶
La Suite Meet is an open-source video conferencing application developed by DINUM (Direction interministérielle du numérique), the French government's digital agency. It powers Visio, the official video conferencing platform deployed to all French public servants.
Built on top of LiveKit, Meet delivers Zoom-level performance — high-quality, low-latency audio and video — entirely from the browser. No plugin or client installation required.
Why Meet?¶
Most video conferencing solutions are either proprietary (Zoom, Teams, Google Meet) or open-source but difficult to self-host (Jitsi, BigBlueButton). Meet aims to be the best of both worlds:
- Production-grade quality — used at national scale by millions of French public servants
- Fully open source — MIT license, all features remain open
- Self-hostable — Docker Compose for small deployments, Kubernetes for production scale
- No vendor lock-in — you own your data, your infrastructure, your instance
Features¶
| Feature | Status |
|---|---|
| HD video and audio | ✅ Available |
| Multiple simultaneous screen sharing | ✅ Available |
| In-meeting chat | ✅ Available |
| Meeting recording | ✅ Available |
| Transcription & AI summary | ⚗️ Beta |
| Telephony / SIP integration | ✅ Available |
| Custom virtual backgrounds | ✅ Available |
| File sharing in meetings | ✅ Available |
| End-to-end encryption | 🔜 Coming soon |
| Large meetings (100+ participants) | ✅ Available |
| OIDC / SSO authentication | ✅ Available |
| Customizable branding | ✅ Available |
| Accessibility (WCAG) | ✅ Actively maintained |
| Keyboard shortcuts | ✅ Available |
| Reactions & emoji | ✅ Available |
Key technical advantages¶
Meet inherits all of LiveKit's media optimizations:
- Simulcast — clients send multiple video quality levels simultaneously; the server forwards only what each receiver can handle
- SVC codecs — VP9 and AV1 with spatial and temporal scalability
- Selective subscription — participants only receive streams they are viewing
- Speaker detection — automatic camera focus on the active speaker
- End-to-end optimizations — adaptive bitrate, packet loss recovery, jitter buffering
Known public instances¶
| URL | Operator | Access |
|---|---|---|
| visio.numerique.gouv.fr | DINUM | French central administration (ProConnect required) |
| visio.suite.anct.gouv.fr | ANCT | French territorial administration (ProConnect required) |
| visio.lasuite.coop | lasuite.coop | Open demo — accounts reset monthly |
| mosa.cloud | mosa.cloud | Dutch commercial instance |
License¶
Code is released under the MIT License by DINUM. Documentation in the docs/ directory is released under the Etalab-2.0 license.
Community¶
- Matrix: #meet-official:matrix.org
- GitHub Issues: github.com/suitenumerique/meet/issues
- Roadmap: GitHub Projects