May 31, 2025, and beyond
novaTopFlex is an identity, a community, and an ethical channel on YouTube, all focusing predominantly on advocacy for open contributions and the elimination of closed contributions. Although the topics of interest may vary substantially through the three identities, the ideologies remain fairly similar.
novaTopFlex
novaTopFlex is the technological identity, acting as the main identity for the novaTop personality.
novaTopFlex Examples
Examples of content containing features of the novaTop identity may include:
- Documentation-based topics (from system documentation sets, including, but not limited to:)
- Ada
- Apache HTTP Server
- Bash
- Blender
- Bootstrap
- C
- CSS
- CUDA
- Crystal
- Clojure
- GLib
- GLibC
- GNU make
- D
- Django
- Docker
- Elvish
- Fish
- FFmpeg
- FLTK
- Kotlin
- Kubernetes
- J
- Jekyll
- Jinja
- Joomla
- Julia
- Java
- JavaScript
- Lua
- LaTeX
- Linux Man Pages
- Nginx
- Sphinx
- Tcl
- Tk
- Debian Policy
- Debian History
- Rust
- Ruby
- Go
- Odin
- Drupal Console (decommissioned due to drush)
- WP-CLI
- WordPress
- Zsh
- PEPs
- RFCs
- Racket
- R
- Perl
- Python
- PHP
- MySQL
- MariaDB
- PostgreSQL
- gi-docgen
- Haskell
- Haml
- HTML
- HTTP
- Qt
- UnderscoreJS
- MomentJS
- Node.js
- Content-based topics
- Videos based on system manual “man” pages
- Videos requiring access to software not preinstalled on an Ubuntu system
- Videos showcasing output from commands and pagers such as “less”
- The output of a single command
- Context-based topics
- The output of multiple commands
- The output of a chain of commands
- Successful how-to guides for videos (rare but feasible, particularly for smaller projects and videos)
geoTopFlex
geoTopFlex is the broad and obvious geographical identity, and acts as a side-identity and geospatial channel to standard novaTop content. Often independent of the primary identity, sometimes novaTop content must be contained within geoTop context for reliability.
geoTopFlex Examples
Examples of content containing features of the geoTop identity may include:
- The “Advocacy for OpenStreetMap Contribution” playlist, originally from novaTopFlex prior to the identity split
- Active live streams for polygons from OpenStreetMap data for the “novaTop QGIS Project”
- Videos of ideal “control cities” for US and state highways across the nation
- Additional videos containing data from OpenStreetMap contributors
futoTopFlex
futoTopFlex is the secret mathematics identity, and acts as a back-identity to the standard novaTop and geoTop personalities. Unless combined with novaTop aspects on video, the futoTop personality will be respected as such. Otherwise, this is the futaTop personality to avoid confusion. Normally, content combinations will not occur; however, within a novaTopFlex or geoTopFlex video, combinations may be required to occur for an extended understanding of the context.
futoTopFlex Examples
Examples of content containing features of the futoTop identity may include:
- C and C++ Mathematics Libraries
- The J Programming Language, which is mostly comprised of mathematics commands
- Mathematics features in additional languages
- System libraries requiring mathematics
- Content from OpenStreetMap containing polygons
- Delaunay Triangulation
- Voronoi Polygons
- Calculating centroids
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