Why we decided to use Discourse? The ARK is built around open source and digital commons principles. We have explored different communication mechanisms which conform with our principles and decided to use Discourse, because we don’t want to reinvent the wheel and build an new learning ecosystem with the best tools already available. Discourse is […]
This July, Green Steps launched a new cooperation with the Creative Computing bachelor’s programme at the University of Applied Sciences St. Pölten (USTP), welcoming a group of talented students who will complete their internships with Green Steps between July 2026 and January 2027. Over the next six months, the interns will contribute to the continued […]
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Software as public infrastructure
Mid February 2026. Extremely thick snow falling on the plains of Seewinkel Nationalpark, where I go to participate in the annual conference of professional Austrian nature guides. I meet an enthusiastic biology teacher and place-based educator from a kindergarten teacher’s college with whom I share a wide range of interests covering such non-mainstream topics like […]
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May 7th – summer start – release
Did you know that May 5-7th is the start of summer according to the Chinese lunisolar calendar? Lixia (立夏) is the 7th solar term, which divides a year into 24 solar terms. Lixia begins when the Sun reaches the celestial longitude of 45° and ends when it reaches the longitude of 60° around May 21st. […]
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Spring Equinox 2026 crew call
ahoi crew 🙂 ⛵ we have a few changes to the established format of our crew calls for Spring Equinox. We introduce a new section about people & places, where we talk about current project and the quiz is extended and integrated into the presentation of new functionalities. Pls refer to below youtube timestamps and […]
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March 9 release
Fix: Allow to delete activities with bookings !1468 (merged) New: Species bulk import !1474 (merged) Fix: Don’t send digest email if total progress is zero !1473 (merged) New: Allow admins to manage mentors of commons and communities !1471 (merged) New: Species : add Mosses species type !1472 (merged) https://gitlab.com/greensteps/ark/-/releases/2026-03-09
As Green Steps ecological director, Gloria has been instrumental in developing the National Urban Park – St. Pölten – a project application facing urban residents – since June 2021. Early 2025 she left Green Steps and moved on to study gardening at the famous Langenlois gardening academy, and will contribute her practical learning to the […]
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ARK Release
https://gitlab.com/greensteps/ark/-/releases/2026-03-01 1.New: New course dashboard !1464 (merged) 2.New: Email Digest system !1425 (merged) 3.New: Show primary verified email address in user settings page !1465 (merged) 4.Fix: Allow to delete activities with bookings !1468 (merged) 5.Improvement: Localize the welcome email Novu notification !1466 (merged) 6.Improvement: Give admins permission to access everything d: Database check_user_permission function: return […]
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A new manual video is online
A new manual video has just been published!Learn how to find your ecoregion of interest and add it to the ARK. Wishing you fair winds and a safe learning journey.
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Welcome Renate Hagmann on the Steering Board
I am an economics teacher, have worked in the securities sector for a long time, and have been focusing as coordinator of GWÖ in Lower Austria on ethical business practices in the common good economy for the past seven years. My professional focus lies at the intersection of economic education and responsible business practices. I […]