Francommunautés Virtuelles is Now Closed (…) ?

I am in shock. I have been working for the last few weeks on a new project of mine to develop something cool for the francophone community in Vancouver and as I was browsing around for some potential partners and polishing my invite list for the main launch event that will be on November 8 (yes, you can put that in your agenda already), I found this:

It reads like this:

The Francommunautés virtuelles program, which was created to encourage the growth of French-language Web applications, content and services, concluded on March 31, 2008. An archived version of the Francommunautés virtuelles Web site is available at: http://www.collectionscanada.gc.ca/webarchives/.

I have to admit that I was not aware of the existence of such program. All I can say is that the idea of building websites has changed dramatically in the last few years and I am very disappointed to hear about the lack of enthusiasm & support of francophone communities in web development, contents and online services. It should come as no surprise for everyone that most sites for francophones living outside Quebec are poorly built and they are built in such a way that it serves organizations more so than the actual French people living in these communities. This is a shame as there is no better way to network francophones in each community than using the Internet to get it done. I promise that I will do my best to change this. It might only be a pinprick (for now) but it is the only way things could change. Stay tuned for the launch (beta) of francouver.ca in the next few months.

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