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The end of Pepper&Carrot and my next project

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David Revoy's involvement in FOSS is almost a blessing. He has drawn this comic, Pepper and Carrot, using free software like Krita. But that's only the surface level of his contribution to FOSS.

He has pioneered a collaborative approach to comic translation in an industry where most publishers respond to volunteer translators with legal threats. (See [1] for the dominant sentiment among conventional comic publishers.)

Dozens of FOSS projects owe wonderful illustrations and mascots to David Revoy, including all of the initiatives by Framasoft (a French association focusing on software freedom). They are characters for communities to rally around, and can make these charitable initiatives and software projects feel more approachable to non-technical people. The open source app Mobilizon has cute cartoon foxes for instance[2], which you can even have as your online profile picture[3]!

Add to that a myriad of educational videos and blog posts about both art in general and doing art with open source software and you can perhaps see how passionate David Revoy is. Well, so concludes my little accolade to him on HN! I wish him the best of luck with his new comic.

[1]: https://www.koreatimes.co.kr/www/culture/2022/03/199_314538....

[2]: https://joinmobilizon.org/

[3]: https://www.peppercarrot.com/extras/html/2020_mobilizon-gene...

i'm drawn to FOSS by my values, and David really is out there living his values. we have a number of people in this space who strive for that same ideal -- and i appreciate them all -- but it really is too easy to get bogged down in the low level stuff. David is so important to this space because ironically enough, he escapes the last 'S' in that acronym: he shows us a world in which FOSS can be so much more than "just" software.

David Revoy has been making fantastic Krita tutorial videos on his Youtube and is an artist that promotes and teaches a lot of art-related opensource/Linux things in addition to doing the regular comics.

https://www.youtube.com/@DavidRevoy/videos

In the spirit of FOSS, he also publishes his video on peertube: https://peertube.touhoppai.moe/a/shichimi/video-channels

Disclaimer: I manage this Peertube instance and used to mirror, with his agreement, those channels as mirrors, and he's now managing them directly.

Correct me if I'm wrong, but if I was on a different peertube instance, there'd be no way to discover his videos aside from word-of-mouth? As in, peertube has no global search, right?

Discoverability is indeed lacking in Peertube, as for global search, what looks the most like it is https://sepiasearch.org/

There is offering from the creators of Peertube I believe: https://sepiasearch.org/. I think instances have to be added manually into the index, and tbh I don't use it much and so I'm not sure of the quality. But it sort of covers what you're asking for, at least kinda.

Glad to hear he's finishing it, not just stopping. I've definitely enjoyed this series, it's very wholesome.

I really enjoyed his Chaos and Evolutions videos he released long ago.

This seems to be a minor refocus rather than a new project. Is he set on the name, "Mini Fantasy Theater"?

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