The recently formed Digistan France has launched a francophone community portal for digital standards, called "Les Standards Numériques". Digistan France is the first regional workgroup of the Digital Standards Organization, and a milestone in the growth of the new grassroots standardization movement represented by Digistan.
Digistan France and Les Standards Numériques are the joint work of Ars Asperta, an independent consulting firm focusing on open standards and open source software related strategies for corporate and governmental organizations, and Esoma, the European Software Market Association. The LesStandardsNumeriques community has become rapidly active on open standards issues in France.
