Rodrigo Dias

Physics PhD candidate, researcher at Instituto de Pesquisas Tecnológicas de São Paulo (IPT) and contributor to Lenovo LUX OS, a Debian-based distribution.

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.