Framasoft — Guide de transition numérique (pour associations)
Summary
Framasoft’s “Guide de transition numérique” is a practical French-language decision tree and checklist for a small NGO, association, or campaign that wants to migrate from Big Tech services to ethical, sovereign alternatives. Framasoft is a long-established French popular-education non-profit and the guide is the operational arm of its “degooglise the internet” campaign.
Body
The guide is structured as a decision tree rather than as a recipe. [source: framasoft-guide-transition] For each function a typical association performs (email, document collaboration, video conferencing, file storage, group chat, online forms, event registration), the tree presents three or four alternatives ranked by the user’s own priorities — sovereignty (data on European infrastructure, ideally self-hosted), cost, ease of onboarding, and feature completeness. [source: framasoft-guide-transition] The guide makes the trade-offs explicit, because the “best” tool depends on the association’s own constraints (volunteer time, budget, technical literacy) and there is no universal answer. [source: framasoft-guide-transition]
The operational artefacts include a migration checklist (which services to migrate in what order, what to communicate to members before and after), a member-onboarding script (how to introduce the new tools to non-technical volunteers), and a list of recommended providers with their sovereign-infrastructure claims documented. [source: framasoft-guide-transition] The guide is updated regularly as the sovereign-services ecosystem changes; recent editions have added a section on AI-tool alternatives following the post-2023 generative-AI surge. [source: framasoft-guide-transition]
Framasoft itself is a separate source-worthy entity — the popular-education non-profit behind the guide — and is treated here as the authoring organisation rather than as a separate source page, because its organising practice and the guide are tightly linked. [source: framasoft-guide-transition] The guide is freely available and is one of the principal French-language entry points for an association considering a sovereign-tools migration. [source: framasoft-guide-transition]
The guide is registered here at Core because it is one of the few practical decision trees that does not pretend one tool fits all associations. [source: framasoft-guide-transition] It is particularly useful to a francophone association that has decided to migrate but does not know how to scope the project. [source: framasoft-guide-transition]
Use it for
A reference text for an association scoping a sovereign-tools migration; a teaching artefact for a workshop on technology sovereignty; a decision tree to share with a board that is asking “but which tool should we pick?”