Virgile Deville

Senior Product Manager — Open Source & Digital Commons

I'm a product manager who builds open source collaboration software. Most of my work sits at the intersection of civic tech, public infrastructure, and digital commons — software built in the open, for the public good.

LaSuite Docs

My main focus these days is LaSuite Docs, a collaborative text editor and knowledge base I lead as an Entrepreneur of General Interest (EIG) at DINUM, the French government's digital agency. The idea: break content free from rigid formatting and get it ready for the AI age — built entirely open source, for public officials.

It hit #1 on Hacker News in March 2025 (1,952 votes) and has since crossed 17k stars on GitHub.

I teach "Introduction to Digital Commons and Public Policy" at Sciences Po Paris.

I also co-founded Code for France and launched the We Make Commons campaign, both pushing open source and digital commons further into public life.

Open Source Politics

I co-founded Open Source Politics, the leading integrator of Decidim, an open-source civic participation platform. It was sold to GoVocal, the category's worldwide leader, in 2026.

Product coaching

Before LaSuite Docs, I spent 2 years as a Product Coach in DINUM's Open Source Program Office (OSPO), helping steer the product and communities of: