mobilizon VS tech-community-slacks

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...

It seems like Mobilizon is trying to be only events (and then connect to other stuff with ActivityPub), and Bonpfire is more a social network + events (which is what you are looking for?). I have no idea how mature they are/where they have apps, though.

2. [Chicago Tech Community Events](https://chitechcommunityevents.softr.app/)

The first is a list of all the tech/engineering orgs in Chicago I maintain. Many are still on meetup, but not all. Unfortunately there's not one calendar to find everything. The second is an attempt to make a calendar of Chicago tech events, but it's not perfect. I don't run it but I highly recommend it.

I do recommend joining local community slacks/Discords. There's a good one for slacks [here](https://github.com/thisdot/tech-community-slacks), e.g. for Chicago there's the [Chicago Tech Slack](https://join.slack.com/t/chicago-tech/shared_invite/zt-1cb3m...), but you'll need to explore around.

Layoffs.fyi has crowd-sourced layoff lists from different companies. Here's a lost of slack communities in tech: https://github.com/thisdot/tech-community-slacks

https://elpha.com/companies https://github.com/ladyleet/tech-community-slacks (can narrow down by region/framework/interest/etc.) + would suggest to post to the Women In Tech slack too (womxnintechto.slack.com) Let me know if I can be of help at all.

Here's a list of slack groups someone maintains: https://github.com/ladyleet/tech-community-slacks

I'd also google " slack" or " slack". You could also look for discords, I hear discord is hot right now and several communities I follow have moved to it from slack.