Forem: Felipe Ribeiro

Open Xanadu

Felipe Ribeiro — Tue, 09 Dec 2025 18:51:14 +0000

A real open access document collaborative editing collaborative real-time editors require the pre-visualization of links contents and neural network through documents for the improvement of inter-document analysis.

Although current applications like Google Docs, Dokie.li, and Hypothes.is allow for commenting, it is not enough to support semantic web ontological vocabulary control and other advanced features required for the most simple open science procedures like repetition avoidance.

To solve this, Vannevar Bush wrote in 1945 the article 'As We May Think' (in free audiobook here) where he described the Memex that inspired the invention of hypertext itself.

Memex's multiple documents simultaneous editing was mostly forgotten since the Association for Computing Machines (ACM) decided to leave the Project Xanadu Theodor "Ted" Nelson original open standards out of the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) Hypertext Editing System (HES) standards, probably due to its "Xanadu Original 17 Rules".

We can now rejoice that since early this year we have the Project Xanadu back with its xUniverse-D6 Parallel Universe which is already developing the OpenXanadu in GitHub as a free libre open source software (FLOSS). Pelase help this imprescindible initiative that will be useful for countless life-saving legal and academic fields.

Open Source Culture

Felipe Ribeiro — Mon, 22 Sep 2025 12:21:55 +0000

Open Source Culture is an wikipedagogy open educational resource (OER) that presents a timeline database of an historiography of the open source https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_source free culture movement.

It was collaboratively developed through several years teaching with the United Nations International Chidren Fund (UNICEF) Apprentice School Neighborhood program, that helped bringing the Wiki Movement to Latin America, in endangered communities and universities alike, meanwhile developing with the international open source movement countless festivals, congresses, cultural centers, and makerspace fablabs. Its open science research is a work in progress that is being developed with the help of countless people from all walks of life for more than two decades.

It was compiled for a masterclass in the University of Saints Andrew Bernard and Chaytan (UFABC) WikiLab organized by Critical Theory SeedBag program and Tecnhopolitics Institute that developed the Internet Regulation Civil Framework.

It already assisted in several open justice policymaking works in the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), Internet Governance Forum (IGF), International Telecommunications Union (ITU), World Summit on Information Society (WSIS), and many other of the most respected international institutions with the purpose of providing evidential data based proof that the open source movement is a common heritage of humanity that must be safeguarded by the United Nations United Nations Education Science Culture Organization (UNESCO) World Heritage Convention (WHC) because it diligently fulfill the its selection criterias (i) to represent a masterpiece of human creative genius; (ii) to exhibit an important interchange of human values; (iii) to bear a unique and exceptional testimony to our planetary civilizational cultural tradition; (iv) to be an outstanding example of a type of technological ensemble which illustrates the significant stage of human history since the twentieth century up to today; (vi) to be directly and tangibly associated with historical events of our living traditions and ideas that saved countless lives which inspires artistic and literary works of outstanding universal significance worldwide.

You can read it in my United Nations Academia.edu Profile.

Open Ethics

Felipe Ribeiro — Tue, 02 Sep 2025 02:27:03 +0000

Open ethics is the most important field for secure operations development (DevSecOps) according to my experience as a policymaker in the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), International Telecommunications Union (ITU) World Summit on Information Society (WSIS), United Nations Education Science Culture Organization (UNESCO) Universities Twinning and Networking (UNITWIN) Cybernetics Chair, International Association for Ontology and its Applications (IAOA), Open Data Institute (ODI), Creative Commons (CC), Wikimedia Movement, and Free Libre Open Source Software (FLOSS) Movement.

It is becoming a buzz, not only in the high commissariats of us from the Internet Governance Forum (IGF), but also as the best solution for the problems appearing concerning machine learning (ML) and artificial intelligence (AI) data regulation by respected projects like the Open Data Initiative (ODI) and the Open Ethics AI.

The idea of an open source culture itself can be traced as the genesis of open ethics, in the seminal texts of the Free Software Foundation (FSF) like 'FLOSS and FOSS' which founded the juridical study of open licenses, open standards, and open file formats.

But open ethics truly got traction with the Ethical Source movement that developed the Contributor Covenant, which was the first open source code of conduct for communities to allow forks like the Canonical Ubuntu Code of Conduct. Without it we wouldn't have made possible the growth of online projects to the size it is now, and there would be no Forem Dev at all because everyone would be fighting.

Apart from the urgent ethical licenses, like the First Do No Harm Hippocratical License we also have the technological pledges that require us to publicly promote universal values, most in compliance with the 'Universal Declaration of the Human Rights (UDHR)'. The one I find more useful are the Tech Pledge and Pledge No Hate in Tech, that invite us developers to assume our role in the corporate social responsibility (CSR) of our projects, but there are a lot of others concerning specific issues of security, operability, and development.

The Building Humane Tech project is asking for those who can to share humane technology examples with them to map this important ecosystem further, so please help if you can.

Do you have any recommendations of open ethics tools, methodologies, pledges, websites, or databases?

Open Search Engine

Felipe Ribeiro — Sat, 23 Aug 2025 15:18:42 +0000

For more than a decade I use Ecosia as my default search engine in my computer and mobile and have never found it missing to other options like Google or DuckDuckGo.

The main reason for my decision is the fact that at least 80% of Ecosia profits are donated to verified tree planting projects, so that it have planted over 218 million trees worldwide as of 2025 and offsets around 45.000 metric tons of CO² annually. Ecosia also runs its search engine servers powered by 100% renewable energy, leveraging solar and wind power assets, which drastically reduce the carbon emissions associated with its query processing to sort of 20% of Google's. Through its business method, I have already planted thousands of trees and saved an immense amount of electric energy.

From the features found in DuckDuckGo algorithm, the current standards in web search privacy, Ecosia only lacks its privacy tools, The Onion Ring (TOR) network integration, and complete absence of internet protocol (IP) address retention since it anonymizes them after seven days. Both engines avoid user profiling, block third-party trackers, and do not sell data, balancing privacy with sustainability.

This makes Ecosia the only fully compliant search engine to my works with my works for the United Nations Office for Sustainable Development (UNOSD) Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), which are required open standards for all organizations in the United Nations Global Compact for businesses because of its practical benefits for sustainable DevOps, green logistics, and overall operational carbon footprint calculation reduction.

My early works in the United Nations Children Education Fund (UNICEF) OldNet Internet Literacy Program with endangered communities led me to master searches so to use the least computation for sustainability so that do not forget that if you search between " " you ask search engines to look after the exact phrase and if you use - before a term you exclude it from results.

Do you have any suggestion for me to improve my web searches?

Open DevSecOps

Felipe Ribeiro — Mon, 18 Aug 2025 00:59:46 +0000

I'm currently operating and developing on an International Business Machines (IBM) LeNovo ThinkPad in a GNU Not GNU (GNU) / Free Libre UNipleXed Information X11 Computing System (Linux) XForms Common Environment (XFCE) based Ubuntu (Xubuntu) distro with only free libre open source software (FLOSS) under combined open source licenses and ethical source licenses, specially Creative Commons Attributive Non-Commercial Share-Alike(https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0), the Do No Harm Hippocratical License and the Contributor Covenant.

I use a Fairphone mobile but am following the development of the Liberux.

Do you have any recommendations for me to improve my setting?