Douglimar Moraes
Accepted Talks:
The Jupy Project: Bringing Native South American languages to GNU/Linux
Debian prides itself on being the “Universal Operating System”, but modern technology still imposes Portuguese or Spanish as a prerequisite for using computers in South America. This linguistic barrier accelerates the cultural erasure and silencing of diverse communities. We believe free software is the only ecosystem capable of reversing this scenario, promoting true technological sovereignty and linguistic preservation. In this talk, we present the initial stages of the Jupy Project, which aims to implement native support for Native South American languages like Kaingang, Nheengatu, Guarani, and Ticuna in Linux. Using the Lux Lenovo OS (a Debian-based distro) as a practical laboratory, we will share technical localization obstacles, such as creating glibc locales, keyboard mapping, and font rendering. Our goal is to open a transparent dialogue about our main challenges: ensuring continuous maintenance and respectfully validating interfaces with the speaking communities. We invite the global Debian community to help us build architectural solutions and upstream contribution workflows that make Linux genuinely accessible to native languages.
Age verification at the OS layer: A BoF on open standards
This BoF opens a discussion on how open source communities can engage with emerging age verification and identity API standards being developed in Brazil and elsewhere. We will explore technical challenges around interoperability, privacy-preserving design, and the role of Linux and Debian-based ecosystems in preventing vendor lock-in. The session is focused on system design and implementation perspectives, not legal or policy analysis, and aims to gather input and identify possible directions for collaboration and reference implementations.
Age verification is moving into the OS layer: Can open source still shape the standards?
Age verification and digital identity systems are increasingly being pushed into operating system-level APIs. This talk presents the Brazilian “ECA Digital” consultation as a case study of how these requirements are being translated into technical infrastructure while still under active definition, with ongoing exploration involving a public research institution (IPT) and industry actors such as Lenovo. We focus strictly on the technical dimension of emerging systems design, avoiding legal or policy discussion. The goal is to analyze implications for open source systems, particularly interoperability, privacy, and the risk of proprietary implementations becoming de facto standards.