This is all coming together VERY nicely! Happy that Aris took over the reign here - thanks for that.

For point 4, about images of the featured projects. I understand …

Almost there, only missing the STAFDB info: https://new.metabolismofcities.org/projects/stafdbs/ around start date and an image and I don't have the dates for the living lab.

(Just found a redirection issue, when opening this task. I was on the community subsite, clicked on sprint, then my profile to find my task under ongoing work and then …

Great, happy to see that done! Thanks. I've added the new journal and tagged the publication now too.

I'm not the biggest fan. But I'm also not a big fan of endlessly discussing logos anymore... ;) I liked the previous one with the more abstract dots and layers. …

Hi Paul, I was out for the weekend, enjoying the last days of summer in Canada. But, I will pick this up again now and hoping to finish this up …

Ok let's pause this then for the moment. And proceed as is then!

Hey Aris,

1. Something doesn't work with that CSS code and the FEATURED PROJECTS box. As you know all this front-end stuff is not my specialty and moving away from the …

Ok here is the CSS code

background-color: #053c5e; background-image: url("data:image/svg+xml,%3Csvg xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2000/svg' width='90' height='90' viewBox='0 0 90 90'%3E%3Ccircle fill='%231f7a8c' cx='45' cy='45' r='7'/%3E%3Cg fill='%23a31621' fill-opacity='1'%3E%3Ccircle cx='0' cy='90' r='9'/%3E%3Ccircle cx='90' cy='90' r='9'/%3E%3Ccircle cx='90' …

Article published here.

I'll now continue with the data hub

Ahhh and PS I have put the image back on the homepage itself - this was overwritten initially but that wasn't intentional from my side. Or do you prefer to …

OK great to hear Aris. Okay this is what I've done:

1. The blue color was changed as requested.
2. The code you posted above is not CSS code. I would need …

Hey Paul,

Thanks it works quite nice.

A couple of things. I already have added one bg which looks quite nice. However:

• Could we change the blue from the homepage …

Okay so it turned out to be easy for Guus to fix. You should add these two lines when you paste the code (put them on the last line, before …

Okay the robots.txt is set up and excludes the user uploaded files, the contact page is provisionally set up and footer links fixed. Various

Post written up here.

I'll now write up something for the recent courses we started.

Canonical URLs were set up for library items, news, and events.

Article on new launch written up here.

OK let me start with a news article on the new website itself. Will report back when done.

We haven't created much content yet within the scope of the social media campaigns. I'll now start writing stuff because we need it to go live. You may want to …

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Ahhh great Aris, got it! I just needed to see that top part so that is now all clear, thanks. I'll get back to you after discussing this with Guus.

I will check with Guus to see if he can come up with a trick for us to always get the right pattern code so that we don't depend on …

Yes but it is very qualitative

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Okay so now the news section has been improved... there is a management section in the control panel. News can be added/edited/deleted from there. A similar news management section …

Thanks Aris. But if I'm not mistaken there is a panel on the left hand side where you can edit the details. Can you also send that? We need some …

Hey Paul, the problem is that I'm just experimenting now so there is going to be a lot of back and forth. I guess though, this "hack" will apply for …

Aris, I have a meeting with Guus this morning. Can you send a screenshot of exactly how it should look like? (the way it looks at SVG Backgrounds?) Also include …

Hi George,

Yeah that is correct at the moment, as you haven't been configured as a curator in the data portal. We'll sit down after launch to see who want …

Great, thank you! I'm not sure I have curation privileges? I get a notification that I do not have access when I clicked on the link. If this is intended, …

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I've been trying to set up something for our launch. See attached a screenshot - and here the live version.

The system loads 3 sample cities from a selected …

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Thanks Aris; the floating

s have been fixed.

Hey Aris,

Yeah I've seen that too before. I'm not totally sure how to change that. We may be able to ask Guus to help with this to sort it …

Hey Paul, small problem. The scale is somewhat off. I would like the pattern to be much more "dense". I can do that on the website but it still looks …

That looks cool Paul. There is just some

floating around in the latest news

Hey, I'll try it. Let me know whether it is possible to make many background for the homepage. Or place the same background in many different sections (for instance in …

(BTW I think you can mark this task as completed... all done!)

Hi George, just so you know I have now embedded the text in the back-end, so those with curation privileges for the Data hub can edit the text here. …

... and here the new ones

With the project section I ended up doing the opposite. It was originally set up as a grid, but most projects lack logos so it wasn't very appealing. Also the …

Spotted another thing: there are various places where HTML tags are being shown within the content. Like this:

hello this is text

It's because I've started implementing this Markdown and …

And this is what it's like now.

I'll now be looking into the project lists.

I've worked on the organization lists and individual pages. Thanks to previous work by George, there were lots of logos available but they weren't shown. Now they are, and it …

Okay the latest news and forum posts are now properly pulled in. For forum posts we actually look at the three most recent topics and then show the last message …

I'll now work on making the dynamic components (forum posts, news, etc) actually pull in the right info.

OK copy that!

Sorry I'm heading out. Will try this evening if I manage!

OK noted. I have now changed the order (#3).

Hey Aris, we actually need it in CSS format and not in downloaded SVG ~ uh oh!! I have attached a video with more details. Do you mind trying that …

Hey Paul, thanks.

I don't want to change the logos, I want to use them as a picture for the project page. But this could be a lot of experimentation …

Haha OK great Aris! I'll try these few and let's see how it comes out!

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Changes 1./ and 2./ have been applied.

Ok here are my favourite ones using our Editorial Style Guide

Check the design hub for our design info.

Those headers themselves were designed (colors, logo, background pattern) by Carlos. For the background patterns he used SVG Backgrounds. However I suggest …

Wow this is freaking cool.

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Perhaps I can try. Are the credentials in the vault?

Ok cool.

Thanks again Guus and thanks Paul as well.

For 3/ not 100% convinced but it is more logical. For 4/ let me try to experiment. Do you know …

Hey Kim, where did you do the logo. If you can send me the file, perhaps I can work int.

Very cool logo Aris!!

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Ok done. Don't hesitate to provide feedback.

Thanks Guus for the changes indeed.

I will now take these additional changes further as we can't demand more from Guus at this point.

The homepage is coming along very …

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Hi Guus, that looks really nice.

Some additional comments but which are not necessarily up to you to fix.

1/ We need to have a consistent logo. So far, the …

OK great.

I made the changes you asked for.

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Hi Carolin,

This was now changed up. As discussed before, we generally want to be using some sort of an integrated section on our website instead of the generic back-end, …

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Hey Carolin, just a note here. You wrote:

... and the Community Portal, as this is separated in the current draft, but I feel like it belongs together

With the …

Hey Carolin, just checking to see if you'd be able to pick this up again today? If not maybe someone else can help? Would be really nice to sort this …

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Anybody able to look into this today by any chance?? We should try to have this sorted before going live...

Looks great Aris - thanks!!

Ok I just made the one for policy makers. Will upload it now.

Hey Guus, no diverging messages so far (also sent an email). In case I receive anything within an hour I'll let you know else, free to move forward!

You're right, I'll write an email now. Thanks to you Guus!!

Sounds good to me, thanks Aris.

I don't know if people are reading these messages though but I'm gonna leave that to you. Whatever is here tomorrow morning I will …

Hehe, absolutely fair enough. We had the same issue for the logo and it was an impossible task.

What I propose is a hybrid. Last time we needed someone to …

Aris I don't mind implementing your changes, but I can see this turning into a permanent discussion because everyone has an opinion. For example, you said: "I much prefer the …

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Okay I have now activated all the project links in the top nav and in the footer -- if there is a project website, it will take you there, if …

I am not sure if there is a text already... Aris?? As for the logo this is also temporary stuff and also not sure if there is another version. Taking …

Great George, thanks a lot! We're prepping the final structure itself for the data portal, so while doing that we'll put this text in place. Thanks!!

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I wrote this up as a temporary placeholder or at least a starting point for that section:

"The Metabolism of Cities Data Hub serves as a central repository for a …

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This was done and the pages now look better -- at least they can look good enough if we have all info present. See here for the features.

Note that …

The following things can now be further improved and will show on the individual project pages:

• If any reference spaces (e.g. a city) is linked then it will show as …

OK let's see - this indeed is confusing stuff with no immediately easy solution. Some thoughts:

• For starters I would suggest that we have a project that we keep with …

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Oh, perfect. Thanks Paul! Hadn't seen your response as I was typing.

Next issue: We have the project called Online courses where I remember we went back and forth about renaming this away from the MOOC - I'm actually fine with MOOC …

Done!

It just means those little text boxes aren't editable anymore without diving into the code, but I can't imagine we change it very frequently, so it should work just …

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Paul, Thanks! no problem.

@Paul, the Multimedia page is quite text heavy on the top. How easily could you move the text under the respective boxes? See edit hack, where I'm hoping that the …

Yeah perfect, good point, let's make sure we do that.

I absolutely understand. That's the sensible way to go. If we communicate, as we have previously done that there are several phases/parts of this and that we build them in …

Well this is mostly the technical stuff of making sure that the pages that you can access from here start looking properly polished. I want to properly load in any …

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Okay so the more I go into getting our data portal up and running, the more rabbit holes appear. There are just many bits and pieces and it takes time …

What is it that you are doing here? Perhaps I can help with copy pasting info, since I usually visit the older sites anyway to gather info.

Working hand in hand - fantastic! :)

Nice. Thanks!

Great stuff Carolin, thanks for this! Note that I'm also busy with polishing the project pages, especially of those that don't have an own website. See here. So this …

Sure Carolin -- done!

This is all starting to look quite magnificent. Thanks to the both for all the work on this already!!

These look nice! Aris, I think when Paul was speaking of the other two, he meant the MOOC and the UM for policy makers courses. I wasn't sure if you …

Great stuff Aris, thanks!! The ones that are there are the ones that matter most for now, so great. When we start with the other ones we can add them …

I can't really add them because there no course at this stage

Ok there are all done here (https://www.canva.com/design/DAEFXLNksnc/rrJq2e-qmcokLTt34ja8yA/edit#).

Hi Guus, thanks for that!! Ok many great things already there. Starting from the top

(note we will have to figure out the logo situation) I like the picture (the …

@Paul, unfortunately, we don't have logos for all the project sites, so for now I'm using screenshots. Before I take the screenshot of the community hub, could you please change …

I was trying to do that, but assumed that there is already some text around it somewhere. As for the logo, I could only find the white one, but would …

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Looks great Aris!!!

(BTW maybe we should use the exact same photo for the English course, so that it's clear that it's the same course, just a different language)

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Nevermind, I did it all by myself (thanks to Paul's programming I must assume)! Yay :D

Ok how about this?

Ramiro, I gave you the wrong link, the events can be anything that is published in our Community Hub, so this is the right link.

The English instruction video was also uploaded.

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As I'm trying to polish the project site (because I think it would be nice to make a social media post about it), I'm going through all of our 23 …

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Access should now be fixed

Ok will do. I don't have access to the page though :)

Perfect Aris!! Yeah that should work fine. Maybe the text can be somewhat bigger because if we show it as a smallish thumbnail you won't see it well?

And could …

Hey Paul would something like this work?

Yay, cool! The students will like that :) It is gonna look super nice!

Aris I made some improvements to the homepage based on your suggestions.

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Okay this was now embedded. The option was added underneath the layers, as an extra section, so that people can upload "general" photos that aren't necessarily linked to a single …

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Hi Ramiro,

The list with events is linked to the events published on our website. See here. In general we want to promote events that we organize, but if …

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Paul, The event is in relation to personal production (e.g. Chinese seminar) or other event from others sites.(?)

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Hey Kim, I've added the URL at the top. You can right click > copy URL to use it in the text etc.

It's also possible to configure something that …

Good point Kim, I'll add that. We can later auto-shorten them as well, I believe there are APIs for that, but let's start with just pulling in the link. Stay …

This is very cool! One thing I would add when creating a post from our existing content is to include the url of that item in the "Load new post" …

This is AWESOME! Will do a test now

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Good idea Aris, but indeed right now we don't have the information yet -- plus we are still figuring out how exactly to show this. But it is a …

Indeed and there is a balance to what has been uploaded for the city. Perhaps, it could be an abstract Sankey (if we don't have sufficient data) that, a bit …

Definitely a nice idea! Perhaps the Sankey could replace the city image at the top eventually and/or the infrastructure could be on the currently empty map. A lot can be …

Heya that looks really nice. At this stage we don't have a lot of datasets that could be visualised but ideally in this "city dashboard" homepage" it would be nice …

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Ideas/tips I believe that regions should be taken into account, including those shared by several countries, territories which want to become independent and belong to two countries (e.g. The Aland …

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This is muy suggestions, I find the use of neutral and third person titles for propaganda interesting. However, a language with specific guidelines that urge the collaborator to commit to …

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Noted Carolin, good input. We have to see a bit how exactly the post-uploading workflow is best presented. I'll soon also show "publication" which isn't really necessarily the same as …

Oh good, I'm glad it is useful!

I forgot to mention that I was thinking for the community portal part that we could adjust the tabs that we currently have …

Superb stuff Carolin!! This is very useful for us to now move ahead with this and set things up. Structure looks clear and seems sensible to me. Expect progress tomorrow …

Alright, so I've been thinking this over, drafting some things and made some notes (in D4.3). Generally, the question is what should be included in the data hub. Is it …

he can set it up tomorrow and I can make it functional on Sunday

Yeah that works for me!

For the slides it's just a matter of adding a logo somewhere, but that's a side detail. The main thing is that the course website is very plain and if …

Hey Paul, if I understand well, what you want is something (an image) that we will use here? I'm not sure to get where you want to put this on …

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Sure. no worries.

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Hey Kim,

It is very nice to hear another voice for our voice recordings!! Thanks a lot for the structure and showing us how to do so with Airtable.

Something …

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Thanks for the input Paul! I'm working on this now and hope to soon have some suggestions.

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OK great. Given our crazy tight deadline this may be an option early morning tomorrow, so he can set it up tomorrow and I can make it functional on Sunday. …

Yes you're right. I mean, perhaps the easiest would be once we have all the ideas, to briefly chat with Guus on this while showing some examples (for instance via …

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Great stuff Aris! I'm a big fan of your overview and your ideas also sound very good. I don't yet know if this is specific enough for Guus to set …

Thanks Carolin.

My vote is: green is nice for COMPLETED, gives a warm and fuzzy feeling inside when seeing green all over.

Color for open ones I would say: not …

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The homepage is the first contact for people to the entire MoC ecosystem. That means that they (very different people ranging from students, researchers, policy makers, etc.) need to understand …

Great you'll be working on this Carolin! A few notes and thoughts from my side:

• I would say also take into account our current data state of affairs which is: …

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I want to try and have a go at this and build on our previous ideas, discussions and understanding. I also think that we took notes of this somewhere when …

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That structure is here

Hi George, sorry for the late reply! You are totally right, once dates are added things become a lot more logical. What's nice about airtable is that you can group …

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