Mastodawn

Please join me in a big round of applause for Jean-Baptiste Kempf from @videolan for his contributions to #SoftwareFreedom 👏

(Together with Raphael Barbieri I had the honour to hand over the European #SFSAward 2025 to him in the name of #Lugbz and @fsfe . )

See https://fsfe.org/news/2025/news-20251107-01.en.html

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frlan Nov 7

@kirschner @videolan @fsfe 👍

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Androcat Nov 7

@kirschner @videolan @fsfe

What is the significance of the traffic cones?

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troy_friz_zell Nov 7

@androcat @kirschner @videolan @fsfe

The app icon is a traffic cone.

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Philippe Miossec Nov 7

@troy_frizzell @androcat @kirschner @videolan @fsfe the software is born in a French school and the students use to bring back traffic cones encountered when coming back from student parties. There was some lying in the student union room and they decided to use it as the software logo and after decided to kept it.

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Philippe Miossec Nov 7

@troy_frizzell @androcat @kirschner @videolan @fsfe and the **real** reason why it has been started is even more 🤯 (don't known if it available in English somewhere online...)
Edit: found it https://prime-5.videolan.me/vlc-user/vlm_files/en/lore/videolan/history.html
"They also wanted to upgrade the VIA Centrale Réseaux network so they needed a bandwidth intensive application to justify the upgrade."

VideoLAN’s History — VLC User Documentation vlm_files documentation

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Androcat Nov 7

@pmiossec

Is it wrong to say that this is a very French way of getting things done?

@troy_frizzell @kirschner @videolan @fsfe

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troy_friz_zell Nov 7

@kirschner @videolan @fsfe

You know that meme of a huge complex system being propped up by a small bit of software that is maintained by an individual?

That meme is the video industry and VLC is that small bit of software. I literally could not do my job without it.

All of the honors should go to Kempf. All of them.

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PH7831 Nov 7

@kirschner @videolan @fsfe 👏👏👏