## **Platform Identity**

**Fommes** is an experimental, collaborative, multilingual digital platform designed to challenge and transform gender-biased language. It uses Wagtail as a backend and Next.js as a frontend to support:

- Blogs
- Forums
- A crowd-sourced dictionary
- Development of IT tools for awareness and experimentation

The platform is designed as both a **community space** and a **toolbox** for those working to reimagine and reconstruct a language that speaks equality.

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## **Core Beliefs & Philosophical Foundations**

- **Language defines the limits of our thoughts**. Without words to express equality, we cannot create it.
- **Current inclusive language is insufficient**: it’s often long, clunky, or confusing.
- **A sustainable alternative must be efficient, elegant, and easy to use.**
- **Natural evolution is too slow**, and institutional imposition is ineffective. Instead, the solution lies in critical mass experimentation and open cultural adoption.

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## **Strategic Goals**

- Raise awareness that biased language is not just discriminatory—it’s also semantically senseless and unnecessary.
- Inspire users to explore and experiment with alternative forms that simplify communication and make it more expressive.
- Build a critical mass of contributors and linguistic inventors.

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## **Roadmap for Platform Tools**

### **Phase 1 — Foundation & Engagement**

1. **Contribution Hub**
- Add/edit terms (dictionary entries)
- Tag terms (neutral, experimental, etc.)
- Enable reviews and reactions

2. **Community Blog & Forum**
- Allow users to publish articles and discussion threads
- Markdown support + comment sections

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### **Phase 2 — Language Innovation Tools**

3. **Linguistic Sandbox**
- Paste a sentence → create and rate inclusive variants
- Optional AI suggestions (rules-based or lightweight GPT API)

4. **Inclusive Writing Assistant (Editor Plugin)**
- Inline rewrite suggestions
- Highlighting problematic phrasing
- Grammar-aware, minimal design

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### **Phase 3 — Visualization & Multilingual Depth**

5. **Multilingual Term Mapper**
- Map equivalent concepts across languages
- Display usage examples, literal vs contextual meanings

6. **Visual Data Explorer**
- Show trends, edits, top-voted terms
- Timeline and filterable categories

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### **Phase 4 — Outreach & Tool Expansion**

7. **Content Generator Toolkit**
- Templates for inclusive job descriptions, greetings, bios
- Optionally powered by AI

8. **AI + Community Co-Writing Tool**
- Rewrite paragraphs with help from AI
- Display multiple variants for community review

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## **Editorial & Ethical Line**

- Provide well-researched, contextual, accessible content
- Embrace complexity but aim for clarity and eloquence
- Zero tolerance for fake news, unverifiable, or speculative content

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## **Technical Vision**

- Built with **Wagtail**, supported by a strong open-source community
- BSD License — open and royalty-free
- Modular and scalable: supports future tool integrations
- Python-first: any tool developed in Python can be integrated
- Alpha version: in development with bugs, actively improving

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## **Community Offer & Benefits**

- Free blog & powerful CMS
- Niche relevance and shared visibility
- Peer support and skill-sharing
- A platform for collaboration, experimentation, and knowledge building
- Secure technology and commercial rights retention

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## **Long-Term Vision**

> "We cannot reach equality without a language to speak it."

Fommes is not just a CMS. It is a **laboratory of language**, built to challenge dominant forms, test alternatives, and help foster a new generation of speakers, writers, and thinkers.

With conviction, creativity, and community, we aim to answer not just what the future language might look like—but how we build it together.