Preamble
novaTopFlex shall begin 2026 with preparations for the planned activities and events from 2025 for the summer of 2026, and every action should work toward an ultimate goal of activities across the board. By enforcing novaTop etiquette across numerous communities–and perhaps even types of communities–the novaTop Identity can successfully achieve a more desirable future, although significant pushback can also be anticipated.
Principles of novaTopFlex
The Principles of novaTopFlex shall include the possible approaches to provide for and promote anticapitalist preferences and ideologies. The novaTop, geoTop, and futoTop communities shall provide content and context in opposition to capitalism and corporate powers, while remaining supportive of the public-private dichotomy whenever privacy is expected and preferred for safety reasons rather than for control. While society often expects privacy to correlate with “safety,” the idea that privacy is preferred over publicity is actually a form of “control,” so novaTopFlex ideologies shall be mapped logically and even physically. Unfortunately, novaTopFlex is unable to create a physical map out of logical maps and mapping, and physical maps require the individual and the community to know the official private addresses of the people in question. Therefore, the map shall remain logical and shall prefer precise, rather than approximate, locations.
In an effort to promote the novaTop, geoTop, and futoTop causes, novaTopFlex shall establish a distinction between “personal” information and “private” information, wherein the most sensitive types of information, including all obviously personally identifiable information (PII), shall be classified as “private” while personal accounts shall refer to public accounts which follow internet etiquette boundaries while utilizing first- and second-person pronouns. The novaTop rule for photography is always consent-based, never fear-based nor based on gossip or other types of rumors that may result. However, consent is not possible for non-human beings, as only humans are capable of having feelings and judgment. Also, novaTopFlex shall keep common courtesy in and avoid photography with inappropriate or otherwise sensitive or vulnerable subjects, whether based on development or other dimensions of life. The Three Identities shall always respect cultural and diverse differences, while also respecting the possibility that individuals and groups may be exhausted, busy, more privately oriented, or otherwise less comfortable with being featured.
Personally identifiable information (PII) does not apply to all types of information that require the first and/or second person. Standard rules for protecting personally identifiable information (PII) shall always apply, and when adding new contact information (info) to the contact card, novaTopFlex shall wait until a “sufficient” amount of time has passed, preferring to meet up in neutral locations based on an approximate location prior to identifying precise locations. Even with the closest connections to novaTopFlex personally, the novaTop identity believes that all tracking is stalking and that communication is also stalking regardless of intent unless and until proven, mutually, to be otherwise.
novaTopFlex believes that every individual and community that the Three Identities shall meet in 2026 shall be invited into the “novaTop Community,” “geoTop Community,” or “futoTop Community,” based on topics of interest. Typically, the technology community will be identified in areas nearer technical hub communities, while the geography and mathematics communities will likely be located in a significantly more dispersed area. The novaTop Identity, the geoTop Identity, and the futoTop Identity are three (3) distinct identities, with the following notable differences:
| novaTop | Technology, including Linux, BSD, and Solaris systems; additional UNIX-like topics of interest; computer science, programming, and related topics regardless of operating system and/or system kernel |
| geoTop | Geography, including roads and highways; modern cultural traits; select historical cultural traits; and names of locations relative to one another for educational, documentary, scientific, and/or artistic purposes |
| futoTop | Topics not covered in the novaTop and geoTop communities, including, but not limited to mathematics, history, culture, society, calendars of events, font editing, activism, and advocacy novaTopFlex shall only refer to topics accessible to the general public without legal restriction, so no regulated topics shall ever be discussed. Additional topics to avoid are fashion, beauty, and gaming, unless requested by the individuals within the community. |
Under novaTopFlex social rules, “the Commons” shall refer to the combined aggregate of common interest groups from the novaTop, geoTop, and futoTop divisions, while numerous different divisions shall be kept track of elsewhere. The target zones–Boston, Philadelphia, New York, Chicago, Minneapolis-St. Paul–deserve unique divisions derived from the Commons, with more localized interest groups assigned on a county-by-county basis. The Commons within the more localized groups shall also be divided into three divisions, again derived from the novaTop, geoTop, and futoTop Identities based on common interests.
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