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Learning Drupal

Sat, 18 Apr 2026 00:00:00 +0000

I’ll break this apart into a multi-part series soon.

Importing data in Drupal drupal

Importing data

The general workflow from original record (source_record) to AI-extracted record (extracted_entity) and finally the innovation (innovation) you find on the user-facing website is:
1. write migration.yml file
2. upload source file (json, csv, …) to web/modules/custom//source/)
3. drush migrate:import

Rolling back

This generally fails because of a malformatted migration file or typos etc in the source data, to rollback you do
1. drush migrate:stop to stop any migration process going on
2. drush migrate:reset to set the migration status to ‘idle’ (i.e. ready to import)
3. drush migrate:rollback to remove any partially imported records
Some notes on rollback: If you already have downstream content types based off of earlier imported source records, you’re prone to create duplicates when rolling back & re-importing the same sources. Your options are then:
1. drush migrate:rollback --update to only update source_record that changed in the source data (because you e.g. changed the json structure)
2. Purge all downstream content by going to (Web menu -> BACK-END -> Manage
  )
  1. Once there, filter for all content of interest, select the action ‘Delete’ from the Action drop-down and execute
  2. You might need to do this 3 times, for ‘Original Record’, ‘AI-extracted innovation record’ and ‘Innovation’
  3. After purging existing data, you can run drush migrate:import again

yaml Template for import

    uuid: 
langcode: en
status: true
dependencies:
  enforced:
    module:
      - 
id: 
class: null
field_plugin_method: null
cck_plugin_method: null
migration_tags: STI
migration_group: STI-import-group
label: 
source:
  plugin: 
  constants:
    SOURCE: 
    SOURCE_ID: 
    RECTYPE: 
  path: 
  header_offset: 0
  ids:
    - 
process:
  field_data_source: constants/SOURCE_ID # Needed so that imported records are assigned to the correct data source
  field_original_internal_id:
    plugin: skip_on_empty
    source: 
    method: row
    message: 'Row does not contain Project Symbol: skipped'
  title:
    plugin: skip_on_empty
    source: 
    method: row
    message: 'Row does not contain title: skipped'
  type:
    plugin: default_value
    default_value: source_record # leave unchanged, you're importing a 'source_record'
  field_shorter_description/value:
    -
      plugin: skip_on_empty
      source: 
      method: process
      message: 'Row does not contain short descr.'
  field_shorter_description/format:
    plugin: default_value
    default_value: full_html
  field_long_description/value:
    -
      plugin: skip_on_empty
      source: 
      method: process
      message: 'Row does not contain short descr.'
  field_long_description/format:
    plugin: default_value
    default_value: full_html
  time:
    plugin: callback
    callable: time
    unpack_source: true
    source: {  }
  field_impact_sdgs:
    - plugin: explode
      delimiter: ','
      source: 
    - plugin: callback
      callable: trim
    - plugin: preg_replace
      pattern: '\..*'
      replace: ''
    -
      # Often it is necessary to map however sdgs are named in the source data to the STI portal taxonomy
      plugin: static_map
      map:
        '1': 'Goal 1: No poverty'
        '2': 'Goal 2: Zero hunger'
        '3': 'Goal 3: Good health and well-being'
        '4': 'Goal 4: Quality education'
        '5': 'Goal 5: Gender equality'
        '6': 'Goal 6: Clean water and sanitation'
        '7': 'Goal 7: Affordable and clean energy'
        '8': 'Goal 8: Decent work and economic growth'
        '9': 'Goal 9: Industry, innovation and infrastructure'
        '10': 'Goal 10: Reduced inequalities'
        '11': 'Goal 11: Sustainable cities and communities'
        '12': 'Goal 12: Responsible consumption and production'
        '13': 'Goal 13: Climate action'
        '14': 'Goal 14: Life below water'
        '15': 'Goal 15: Life on land'
        '16': 'Goal 16: Peace, justice and strong institutions'
        '17': 'Goal 17: Partnerships for the goals'
      default_value: ''
    -
      plugin: entity_lookup
      entity_type: taxonomy_term
      ignore_case: true
      value_key: name
      bundle: impact_sdgs
  field_region:
  -
    plugin: entity_generate
    entity_type: taxonomy_term
    ignore_case: true
    value_key: name
    source: 
    bundle: countries_no_standard
  field_innovation_type:
  -
    plugin: explode
    source: 
    delimiter: '-'
  - plugin: callback
    callable: trim
  -
    plugin: entity_lookup
    entity_type: taxonomy_term
    ignore_case: true
    value_key: name
    bundle: type
  field_use_cases:
  -
    plugin: explode
    source: 
    delimiter: '-'
  - plugin: callback
    callable: trim
  -
    plugin: entity_lookup
    entity_type: taxonomy_term
    ignore_case: true
    value_key: name
    bundle: use_cases
  field_adoption_countries_ns: # this field is needed in case country names do not follow the UN/FAO - Standards
    -
      plugin: skip_on_empty
      method: process
      source: 
    -
      plugin: explode
      delimiter: '-'
    -
      plugin: entity_generate
      entity_type: taxonomy_term
      ignore_case: true
      value_key: name
      bundle: countries_no_standard
destination:
  plugin: 'entity:node'
  default_bundle: source_record
  overwrite_properties:
    - field_data_source
    - field_original_internal_id
    - field_shorter_description/value
    - field_long_description/value
migration_dependencies:
  required: {  }

The migration has 4 top-level parts:
1. The header sections id, label, etc
2. source describing the source data and its structure
3. process describing how to read, process and pass on the source data fields
4. destination describing where the data is supposed to end up. Just put:
```
plugin: 'entity:node'
default_bundle: source_record
```

Minimum fields for migration

What should you parse out from the data? What should be there? I think the list below is good for a start:

title
field_original_internal_id
field_shorter_description
field_long_description

Additional: Should be sourced from the data
- field_link
- field_owner
- field_impact_sdgs
- field_country_origin
- field_countries_adoption

Drupal plugins and their use to fill different fields in the migration

entity_lookup, skip_on_empty and explode
- Example
```
field_adoption_countries_ns: # this field is needed in case country names do not follow the UN/FAO - Standards
-
  plugin: skip_on_empty
  method: process
  source: 
-
  plugin: explode
  delimiter: '-'
-
  plugin: entity_generate
  entity_type: taxonomy_term
  ignore_case: true
  value_key: name
  bundle: countries_no_standard
```
- Explanation:
  - Multiple plugins can be chained like above. The execution order is top-to-bottom. The first plugin must receive the source data column or field.
  - skip_on_empty is a sanity check. If the field/column is not filled for this row or entry, it will simply not be filled (and skipped). This avoids errors when migrating data with empty fields. You need to give it a method: (process or row)
  - explode is used if a field/column contains multiple values. In a csv file it might be that ‘|’ or ‘-’ are used as a separator for a ‘unclean’ field containing more than one value
  - entity_generate generates a new taxonomy term if no exactly matching one can be found (e.g. data uses ‘FAO’ while taxonomy expects ‘Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations’. That can either be cleaned up later by manually replacing or one uses ai-mapping logic like is done for the field_adoption_countries_ns entry. It finds the closest real taxonomy term and automatically replaces them

static_map

Example:

-
  # Often it is necessary to map however sdgs are named in the source data to the STI portal taxonomy
  plugin: static_map
  map:
    '1': 'Goal 1: No poverty'
    '2': 'Goal 2: Zero hunger'
    '3': 'Goal 3: Good health and well-being'
    '4': 'Goal 4: Quality education'
    '5': 'Goal 5: Gender equality'
    '6': 'Goal 6: Clean water and sanitation'
    '7': 'Goal 7: Affordable and clean energy'
    '8': 'Goal 8: Decent work and economic growth'
    '9': 'Goal 9: Industry, innovation and infrastructure'
    '10': 'Goal 10: Reduced inequalities'
    '11': 'Goal 11: Sustainable cities and communities'
    '12': 'Goal 12: Responsible consumption and production'
    '13': 'Goal 13: Climate action'
    '14': 'Goal 14: Life below water'
    '15': 'Goal 15: Life on land'
    '16': 'Goal 16: Peace, justice and strong institutions'
    '17': 'Goal 17: Partnerships for the goals'
  default_value: ''

Explanation: This plugin works if you can guarantee a one-to-one mapping of how data entries are written in the data source to how they are represented in the taxonomy. On the left-hand side of the colon put the way the entry is written in the data source, on the right side the way its written in the taxonomy. Right-hand side seems to ignore case, but make sure that the entries are written exactly matching to the taxonomy terms.

entity_lookup
- Example
```
field_type_of_information_manage:
  plugin: entity_lookup
  entity_type: taxonomy_term
  ignore_case: true
  value_key: name
  source: constants/RECTYPE
  bundle: source_entity_types
```
- Explanation: Fill in the corresponding term fromt he taxonomy found in the corresponding bundle. This needs to be an exact match, i.e. this step is done after static_map or using a pre-defined constant like in the example.
- to find the correct machine name for the bundle in question go to Web menu -> About -> Taxonomies -> -> . You should find the Machine name next to the title

Content workflow; Imports

This commands lists all content types’ machine names

  drush eval "print_r(array_keys(\Drupal::entityTypeManager()->getStorage('node_type')->loadMultiple()));"

Array
(
    [0] => asti_data
    [1] => definitions
    [2] => digital_asset
    [3] => extracted_entity
    [4] => initiative
    [5] => innovation
    [6] => innovation_core
    [7] => innovation_extracted_from_origin
    [8] => internal_content
    [9] => learning_resource
    [10] => organization
    [11] => source_record
    [12] => taxonomy_description
    [13] => web_page
    [14] => website_section
)

To find out which fields are available for each content type, run

drush field:info node

This will give you an idea which information should ideally already be present when importing the data
To understand what those fields are supposed to contain, you can consult the taxonomy page (Web menu -> About -> Taxonomies ->
- This will help you understand if the data source of choice has a matching taxonomy

From Original record to innovation

Web menu -> BACK-END -> manage data sources
- Search:
- Edit tag: STI portal data source (also ATIO, should the data be imported into ATIO)
- Publish (I encountered problems with the AI-enhancement if I didn’t do this)
- select if
  - can be overwritten by AI
  - allow overwriting by original record
  - allow overwriting by extracted innovation record
Web menu -> BACK-END -> Workflows for original records
- Source: (should auto-complete at this point)
- filter
- select all
- generate/update extracted innovations from original records
Web menu -> BACK-END -> Workflows for ai-extracted innovations
1. Enrich derived innovation record with AI if empty (settings allow a bit less cautious)
  - max 250, better 50 at a time (otherwise you risk a timeout error)
  - if not loading, change the ‘start’ in the url for ‘stop’: https://sti-portal-prototype.net/stiportal_dev/web/batch?id=3342&op=start -> https://sti-portal-prototype.net/stiportal_dev/web/batch?id=3342&op=stop
2. Generate/update innovation records from AI extracted records
  - to see what can go wrong & how to fix it: Error log: AI enhancement
3. Check that the innovations are displayed correctly in the website if you open your data source’s collection page

Notes

Make sure that there are no duplicates in the source data. This means whatever field is used as ‘id’ is truly unique. Good candidates are project numbers, urls or, if no alternative, the full title
‘Titles’ have a character limit

Error log: AI enhancement

Data source not found in exception list

Error:

Check action successor current_prov_id (Activity_12o35fp) from ECA VBO - Generate / update AI derived innovation records from original records (process_yoqnpd7) for event eca_vbo.execute.
- session_user (Entity user/46/wiessalla) - entity (Entity node/source_record/35689/ Corte (Poda) das folhas do coqueiro na região de Bicol)
- node (Entity node/source_record/35689/ Corte (Poda) das folhas do coqueiro na região de Bicol)
- except_providers_view (DTO) -
0 (Entity node/digital_asset/28182/Country Annual Report (CAR)) -
1 (Entity node/digital_asset/28184/Digital Agriculture Programme Priority Area (BP5) ) -
2 (Entity node/digital_asset/25260/Seeding The Future Global Food System Innovation Database and Network) -
3 (Entity node/digital_asset/19987/Technologies for African Agricultural Transformation (TAAT)) -
4 (Entity node/digital_asset/20007/World Overview of Conservation Approaches and Technologies (WOCAT)) - exception_provider (DTO "0") - exceptions_count (DTO "0") - provider_id_read (DTO "28182") - provider_id (DTO "28182") - exception_providers_list (DTO) -
0 (DTO "20007") - 1 (DTO "19987") - 2 (DTO "25260") - 3 (DTO "28184") -
4 (DTO "28182") - orig_rec (Entity node/source_record/35689/ Corte (Poda) das folhas do coqueiro na região de Bicol) - rec_sources (DTO) -
0 (Entity node/digital_asset/4/FAO Technologies and Practices for Small Agricultural Producers (TECA))
- counter (DTO "-17243") - current_prov_id (NULL) - user (Entity user/1/admin) - event (DTO)
- view (DTO) - id (string "backend2") - display_id (string "page_7") - action (DTO)
- plugin (string "eca_vbo_execute:generate_update_extracted_innovations_from_original_records")
- config (DTO) - operation_name (string "Generate / update extracted innovations from original records") - message_override (string "")
- skip_confirm (integer "0") - entity (DTO) - id (string "35689")
- label (string " Corte (Poda) das folhas do coqueiro na região de Bicol")
- type (string "node") - bundle (string "source_record") - langcode (string "en") - machine_name (string "eca_vbo.execute")

Explanation: In the example I was trying to add new AI-extracted innovations to the provider ‘TECA’ with the provider_id 4. This id was not found and not added to the exception_providers_list. The import enters an infinite loop and fails with HTTP Error 500.
Solution: For me, setting the data source’s status to ‘published’ worked

Cannot access offset of type string on string

Error:

ResponseText: The website encountered an unexpected error. Try again later.
TypeError: Cannot access offset of type string on string in Drupal\ai_automators\PluginBaseClasses\Boolean->verifyValue()
(line 94 of modules/contrib/ai/modules/ai_automators/src/PluginBaseClasses/Boolean.php).

the same error is thrown on line 110
- Explanation: Some boolean elements in the ECA (such as whether or not the field ‘overwrite existing entries by AI’ is checked in the data source settings) are apparently passed as strings through the ECA. The Boolean.php of the ai_automators plugin (web/modules/contrib/ai/modules/ai_automators/src/PluginBaseClasses/Boolean.php)

takes only arrays in line 94 and 110.

Solution: As a hotfix I forced casting every value that is not an array to an array. That seems to work for now

public function verifyValue(ContentEntityInterface $entity, $value, FieldDefinitionInterface $fieldDefinit    ion, array $automatorConfig) {
  // Has to be string boolean.
  if (!is_array($value)) { #! changed
    $value = ['value' => $value];
  }
  if (!in_array($value['value'], ['TRUE', 'FALSE', '0', '1', 0, 1])) {
    return FALSE;
  }
  // Otherwise it is ok.
  return TRUE;
}

/**
 * {@inheritDoc}
 */
public function storeValues(ContentEntityInterface $entity, array $values, FieldDefinitionInterface $field    Definition, array $automatorConfig) {
  // Transform string to boolean.
  foreach ($values as $key => $value) {
    if (!is_array($value)) { #! changed
      $value = ['value' => $value];
    }
    $values[$key] = in_array($value['value'], ['TRUE', '1', 1]) ? TRUE : FALSE;
  }
  // Then set the value.
  $entity->set($fieldDefinition->getName(), $values);
  return TRUE;
}

OpenAI API doesn’t handle strings

Error:

TypeError: OpenAI\Responses\Chat\CreateResponse::from():
Argument #1 ($attributes) must be of type array, string given,
called in /home/stiprototype/public_html/stiportal_dev/vendor/openai-php/client/src/Resources/Chat.php on line 35 in OpenAI\Responses\Chat\CreateResponse::from()
(line 46 of /home/stiprototype/public_html/stiportal_dev/vendor/openai-php/client/src/Responses/Chat/CreateResponse.php).

Explanation: Like in this error the ECA that does the AI-enrichment seems to pass a string where an array is expected
Solution:
- Changing the php code and forcing strings to array could work
- Fundamentally, the issue should be addressed in the ECA
- Changing the API from OpenAI to Anthropic avoids the issue so I did this

Examples of formatting errors when running a migration

Whitespaces and different languages

Error:


#+begin_src
4536 1 teca:field_information_resource_date:format_date: Format date plugin could not transform 'Augst
2006' using the format 'F Y'. Error: The date cannot be created from a format.
8363 1 teca:field_information_resource_date:format_date: Format date plugin could not transform '
2015' using the format 'F Y'. Error: The date cannot be created from a format.
8653 1 teca:field_information_resource_date:format_date: Format date plugin could not transform 'February
2016 ' using the format 'F Y'. Error: The date cannot be created from a format.
8707 1 teca:field_information_resource_date:format_date: Format date plugin could not transform ' April
2016 ' using the format 'F Y'. Error: The date cannot be created from a format.
2471 1 teca:field_information_resource_date:format_date: Format date plugin could not transform 'August
2015 ' using the format 'F Y'. Error: The date cannot be created from a format.
2699 1 teca:field_information_resource_date:format_date: Format date plugin could not transform 'May
2013 ' using the format 'F Y'. Error: The date cannot be created from a format.
2019 1 teca:field_information_resource_date:format_date: Format date plugin could not transform 'May
2011 ' using the format 'F Y'. Error: The date cannot be created from a format.
2466 1 teca:field_information_resource_date:format_date: Format date plugin could not transform 'March
2005 ' using the format 'F Y'. Error: The date cannot be created from a format.
2555 1 teca:field_information_resource_date:format_date: Format date plugin could not transform 'March
2018 ' using the format 'F Y'. Error: The date cannot be created from a format.
10038 1 teca:field_information_resource_date:format_date: Format date plugin could not transform 'May
2015 ' using the format 'F Y'. Error: The date cannot be created from a format.
10126 1 teca:field_information_resource_date:format_date: Format date plugin could not transform ' April
2021' using the format 'F Y'. Error: The date cannot be created from a format.
10105 1 teca:field_information_resource_date:format_date: Format date plugin could not transform 'Février
2015' using the format 'F Y'. Error: The date cannot be created from a format.
10106 1 teca:field_information_resource_date:format_date: Format date plugin could not transform 'Février
2015' using the format 'F Y'. Error: The date cannot be created from a format.

Explanation:
1. Some entries don’t follow the general formatting of ‘F Y’ (written month in English and Year)
2. Some entries have trailing or leading whitespaces. In this particular case the trim function of Drupal migrate didn’t remove them, because they are non-standard whitespaces
3. Some Month names are written in French
Solution: In this case it was only a handful of entries and I fixed them manually. In general this should be flagged to whoever was/is curating the original data

Gemini API changed

this seems to be the case quite often

Drupal stuck looking for a broken twig files

Error:

2285210   05/Nov 12:55   php      Error      Twig\Error\LoaderError: Template ".html.twig" is not defined. in
                                        Twig\Loader\ChainLoader->getCacheKey() (line 38 of
                                        /var/www/html/web/themes/custom/fao/templates/block/block--views.h


                                        tml.twig

This manifested itself in completely blocking all DB operations (cim, cex, cr) and resulting in Drupal not being able to serve the site anymore

Explanation: Whenever Drupal renders anything — even an admin page, a Drush command, or a cron job — it loads the theme registry: A huge PHP array mapping every template name to the file that implements it. That registry is stored in the cache_discovery table and rebuilt whenever:
- You clear caches (drush cr)
- You export/import config (drush cex / cim)
- You install or update modules/themes

So even Drush CLI commands (which don’t render HTML) still invoke the theme system during bootstrapping.

Solution:

Remove the offending file and rebuild the cache

rm /var/www/html/web/themes/custom/fao/templates/block/block--views.html.twig

drush cr

In the future drush theme:debug could point out those errors before loading the theme into the cache

How to change taxonomy terms drupal

Web menu -> Structure -> Taxonomy ->

Custom Taxonomy

Structure -> Taxonomy -> Create vocabulary
Add terms manually one by one
- Faster alternative (deactivated): Extend -> Taxonomy Manager
  1. Install
  2. Structure -> Taxonomy Manager -> -> paste \n - separated list
  3. Structure -> Content types -> original record -> create new fields
  4. Structure -> Content types -> ai-extracted record -> create new fields
  5. Structure -> Content types -> innovation -> create new fields
  6. Change ECA; add the new

Installing custom modules drupal

The default location for custom modules is web/modules/custom/
The minimum set of files is
- .info.yml : Metadata and description of the module dependencies. What is the module?
- .libraries.yml : Describes location of css/js and other library files. Lists other plugin dependencies.
- .module (php syntax): Optional. Adds a php hook (function) controlling when and how the library will be activated
Additionally, you might have a css and js folder in the module structure providing custom code and styling
The steps to activate your module are
1. Install all necessary dependencies using composer require and drush en
2. Create/write your module file structure and put it in modules/custom
3. drush en -y
If your module is changing the behavior of other custom modules you should add it in the dependencies: field there. E.g. if you change theming, just add your module to your custom themes .libraries.yml file

Project structure

A minimal working example project structure could be:

web/modules/custom/sti_leaflet/
├── js/
│   └── custom_cluster_icons.js
├── sti_leaflet.info.yml
├── sti_leaflet.libraries.yml
└── sti_leaflet.module

Additional you might need
- /css → Custom styling
- /js → JavaScript behaviors or logic
- /templates → Twig overrides
- /src → PHP classes (services, plugins, controllers, etc.)

Setting up a new server instance

Now, all user-changed drupal code (mostly js, twg, yml and php/module) is now on FAO’s github repository. ‘Main’ is currently tracking our ‘review’ server.

Server roles

Server Name	Role	Hosted
test	playground; obsolete	private
dev	staging ground for changes made trough gui	private
review	mirrors production, test for changes pulled from dev	gcloud
production	user-facing, pulls only from review	gcloud

Steps to get new server instance

Precondition is that the necessary tech stack is installed (php, drupal, etc). Here a link to a [[][shell.nix development environment]]

# Get upstream config
git clone git@github.com:valeriapesce/ATIO-KB-harvesting-IRD.git
# Get the non-tracked files (images, etc)
./sync.sh @review: fao-sti-portal
# Install dependencies speciefied in composer.lock
composer install --no-interaction --prefer-dist
# Run the server
vendor/bin/drush serve 127.0.0.1:5050

sync.sh file

Under development, will be added to the github repo

  #!/usr/bin/env bash
#
# Safely sync environment-specific Drupal config and file directories
# from one local Drupal root to another.
#
# Usage:
#   ./sync.sh /path/to/source/drupal/root /path/to/target/drupal/root
#

set -euo pipefail

if [[ $# -ne 2 ]]; then
  echo "Usage: $0 /path/to/source/drupal/root /path/to/target/drupal/root"
  exit 1
fi

SRC=$(realpath "$1")
DST=$(realpath "$2")

if [[ ! -d "$SRC/web/sites" ]]; then
  echo "Error: Source Drupal root '$SRC' does not appear to contain web/sites/"
  exit 1
fi

mkdir -p "$DST"

echo ">>> Syncing from:"
echo "    $SRC"
echo ">>> To:"
echo "    $DST"
echo

# Explicit file list (relative to Drupal root)
FILES=(
  "web/sites/config_UayHOzMAbX_oN-5FQkTXdB6Ot6tWDOFLY6ljN5FFOQ0bKajw9MX6UFRsu0IsRTqQ-C9vQ4_kng/sync/key.key.anthropic_atiokb.yml"
  "web/sites/config_UayHOzMAbX_oN-5FQkTXdB6Ot6tWDOFLY6ljN5FFOQ0bKajw9MX6UFRsu0IsRTqQ-C9vQ4_kng/sync/key.key.google_ai.yml"
  "web/sites/config_UayHOzMAbX_oN-5FQkTXdB6Ot6tWDOFLY6ljN5FFOQ0bKajw9MX6UFRsu0IsRTqQ-C9vQ4_kng/sync/key.key.milvus_zilliz.yml"
  "web/sites/config_UayHOzMAbX_oN-5FQkTXdB6Ot6tWDOFLY6ljN5FFOQ0bKajw9MX6UFRsu0IsRTqQ-C9vQ4_kng/sync/key.key.openai_api_key.yml"
)

# Directory patterns
DIRS=(
  "web/sites/*/*settings*.php"
  "web/sites/*/*services*.yml"
  "web/sites/*/files"
  "web/sites/*/public"
  "web/sites/*/private"
  "web/sites/*/files-public"
  "web/sites/*/files-private"
)

echo ">>> Starting sync..."
echo

# Copy individual files (if missing)
for relpath in "${FILES[@]}"; do
  src="$SRC/$relpath"
  dst="$DST/$relpath"
  if [[ -f "$src" ]]; then
    mkdir -p "$(dirname "$dst")"
    if [[ ! -f "$dst" ]]; then
      echo "Copying file: $relpath"
      rsync -a "$src" "$dst"
    else
      echo "Skipping (already exists): $relpath"
    fi
  else
    echo "Missing source file: $relpath"
  fi
done

# Copy directories and pattern-matched files
for pattern in "${DIRS[@]}"; do
  for path in "$SRC"/$pattern; do
    if [[ -e "$path" ]]; then
      relpath="${path#$SRC/}"
      src="$path"
      dst="$DST/$relpath"
      mkdir -p "$(dirname "$dst")"
      echo "Syncing: $relpath"
      rsync -a --ignore-existing "$src" "$dst"
    fi
  done
done

echo
echo ">>> Sync complete!"

I had to add this, since there still is a bug in the script

mv sites/default/files/files/* sites/default/files
mv sites/default/files/files/.* sites/default/files

VS Code configuration to connect to gcloud

There are a couple of ways to edit your ~/.ssh/config file so that the Remote Explorer in VSCode connects to your google cloud instance.

Direct editing using the google cloud sdk

gcloud compute config-ssh

This command writes host entries to your local ~/.ssh/config like:

Host my-instance.us-central1-a.my-project
    HostName 34.72.x.x
    IdentityFile ~/.ssh/google_compute_engine #this file exists after connecting to the vm the first time
    User my-username
    CheckHostIP no
    StrictHostKeyChecking no

So you can just `ssh my-instance.us-central1-a.my-project` directly without remembering zones or IPs. See: https://cloud.google.com/sdk/gcloud/reference/compute/config-ssh

Using a Proxy Command in the ssh config

TUNNEL_PORT=2222
VM_NAME=drupal-vm
PROJECT=fao-sti-review
ZONE=europe-west1-b

Host $VM_NAME
  User 
  IdentityFile ~/.ssh/google_compute_engine
  ProxyCommand gcloud compute start-iap-tunnel %h 22 --listen-on-stdin --project=$PROJECT --zone=$ZONE

See: https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/590957/ssh-config-to-start-session-with-google-cloud-compute-instance?utm_source=chatgpt.com

Opening a tunnel and specifying the tunnel’s port on localhost

If you specify your ssh connection in the config like:

Host drupal-fao
  User 
  HostName localhost
  IdentityFile /home/local user name>/.ssh/google_compute_engine
  Port 2222
  ForwardAgent yes

Then you can open the tunnel like this:

TUNNEL_PORT=2222
VM_NAME=drupal-vm
PROJECT=fao-sti-review
ZONE=europe-west1-b

gcloud compute start-iap-tunnel "$VM_NAME" 22 \
  --local-host-port=localhost:$TUNNEL_PORT \
  --project="$PROJECT" \
  --zone="$ZONE" \
  --quiet

Afterwards you can connect through vscode and ssh drupal-fao works automatically

Set up new instance

Prepare mysql

CREATE USER 'drupal_user'@'localhost' IDENTIFIED BY <password as in settings.php>;
GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON drupal.* TO 'drupal_user'@'localhost';
FLUSH PRIVILEGES;
CREATE DATABASE drupal;

Get the code

git clone git@github.com:un-fao/fao-sti-portal.git

Get the files

sync.sh fao-review:/var/www/html/ ./sti-portal-fao #replace fao-review with whatever is in your .ssh/config

Get the DB

# Get the latest DB dump here: https://console.cloud.google.com/storage/browser/fao-sti-review-backups;tab=objects?q=search&referrer=search&project=fao-sti-review&prefix=&forceOnObjectsSortingFiltering=false
mysql -u drupal_user -p drupal < ~/Downloads/.sql

Finish

vendor/bin/drush cr
vendor/bin/drush serve 127.0.0.1:8080

Styling

New view display

Task: Change the layout of the popup cards in the leaflet map view. (Remove the image).

Steps to solve:

Create a View Mode

langcode: en
status: true
dependencies:
  module:
    - node
id: node.map_teaser
label: 'Map teaser'
description: 'Used for Leaflet popups.'
targetEntityType: node
cache: true

Create a Entity View Display

langcode: en
status: true
dependencies:
  config:
    - core.entity_view_mode.node.map_teaser
    - field.field.node.innovation.ai_automator_status
    - field.field.node.innovation.body
    - field.field.node.innovation.field_actual_users
    - field.field.node.innovation.field_adoptability_dimensions
    - field.field.node.innovation.field_adoption_description
    - field.field.node.innovation.field_adoption_level
    - field.field.node.innovation.field_afs_stf_areas
    - field.field.node.innovation.field_ai_stamp
    - field.field.node.innovation.field_allow_ai_update
    - field.field.node.innovation.field_allow_ai_update_if_empty
    - field.field.node.innovation.field_allow_overwr_if_empty
    - field.field.node.innovation.field_allow_overwriting_by_origi
    - field.field.node.innovation.field_areas_of_expertise
    - field.field.node.innovation.field_areas_of_need
    - field.field.node.innovation.field_atio_innovation_category
    - field.field.node.innovation.field_atio_kb_source
    - field.field.node.innovation.field_award_year
    - field.field.node.innovation.field_bib_citation_of_pub
    - field.field.node.innovation.field_challenges_addressed
    - field.field.node.innovation.field_city
    - field.field.node.innovation.field_collection
    - field.field.node.innovation.field_countries_adoption
    - field.field.node.innovation.field_country_origin
    - field.field.node.innovation.field_curation_notes
    - field.field.node.innovation.field_data_source
    - field.field.node.innovation.field_description_markup
    - field.field.node.innovation.field_display_mode
    - field.field.node.innovation.field_entity_creation_mode
    - field.field.node.innovation.field_environmental_impact
    - field.field.node.innovation.field_ffs_type
    - field.field.node.innovation.field_grassroot_partner
    - field.field.node.innovation.field_grassroots_innovation_narr
    - field.field.node.innovation.field_human_impact
    - field.field.node.innovation.field_identifying_feature
    - field.field.node.innovation.field_if_grassroots
    - field.field.node.innovation.field_impact_sdgs
    - field.field.node.innovation.field_inclusion_and_representati
    - field.field.node.innovation.field_info_on_partial_editing
    - field.field.node.innovation.field_information_resource_date
    - field.field.node.innovation.field_innovation_domain
    - field.field.node.innovation.field_innovation_stage
    - field.field.node.innovation.field_innovation_type
    - field.field.node.innovation.field_innovative_elements_narrat
    - field.field.node.innovation.field_innovative_features
    - field.field.node.innovation.field_investment_type
    - field.field.node.innovation.field_languages
    - field.field.node.innovation.field_long_term_beneficiaries
    - field.field.node.innovation.field_original_descr_markup
    - field.field.node.innovation.field_original_extracted_innovat
    - field.field.node.innovation.field_owner
    - field.field.node.innovation.field_partners
    - field.field.node.innovation.field_prospective_users
    - field.field.node.innovation.field_readiness_description
    - field.field.node.innovation.field_readiness_level
    - field.field.node.innovation.field_record_long_metadata
    - field.field.node.innovation.field_record_metadata
    - field.field.node.innovation.field_record_status
    - field.field.node.innovation.field_region
    - field.field.node.innovation.field_related_innovation_core
    - field.field.node.innovation.field_scaling_level_idia
    - field.field.node.innovation.field_shorter_description
    - field.field.node.innovation.field_sponsors
    - field.field.node.innovation.field_start_date
    - field.field.node.innovation.field_start_year
    - field.field.node.innovation.field_state
    - field.field.node.innovation.field_stf_development_status
    - field.field.node.innovation.field_stf_level_of_recognition
    - field.field.node.innovation.field_stf_organization_size
    - field.field.node.innovation.field_stf_organization_type
    - field.field.node.innovation.field_thematic_area
    - field.field.node.innovation.field_title_instructions
    - field.field.node.innovation.field_url_s
    - field.field.node.innovation.field_use_case_image
    - field.field.node.innovation.field_use_cases
    - field.field.node.innovation.field_use_cases_description
    - node.type.innovation
  module:
    - text
id: node.innovation.map_teaser
targetEntityType: node
bundle: innovation
mode: map_teaser
content:
  field_ai_disclaimer:
    type: markup
    label: hidden
    settings: {  }
    third_party_settings: {  }
    weight: 2
    region: content
  field_country_origin:
    type: entity_reference_label
    label: above
    settings:
      link: true
    third_party_settings: {  }
    weight: 2
    region: content
  field_data_source:
    type: entity_reference_label
    label: above
    settings:
      link: true
    third_party_settings: {  }
    weight: 3
    region: content
  field_shorter_description:
    type: text_default
    label: above
    settings: {  }
    third_party_settings: {  }
    weight: 1
    region: content
  title:
    type: string
    label: above
    settings:
      link_to_entity: false
    third_party_settings: {  }
    weight: 0
    region: content
hidden:
  ai_automator_status: true
  body: true
  content_moderation_control: true
  created: true
  field_actual_users: true
  field_adoptability_dimensions: true
  field_adoption_description: true
  field_adoption_level: true
  field_afs_stf_areas: true
  field_ai_stamp: true
  field_allow_ai_update: true
  field_allow_ai_update_if_empty: true
  field_allow_overwr_if_empty: true
  field_allow_overwriting_by_origi: true
  field_areas_of_expertise: true
  field_areas_of_need: true
  field_atio_innovation_category: true
  field_atio_kb_source: true
  field_award_year: true
  field_bib_citation_of_pub: true
  field_challenges_addressed: true
  field_city: true
  field_collection: true
  field_countries_adoption: true
  field_curation_notes: true
  field_description_markup: true
  field_display_mode: true
  field_entity_creation_mode: true
  field_environmental_impact: true
  field_ffs_type: true
  field_grassroot_partner: true
  field_grassroots_innovation_narr: true
  field_human_impact: true
  field_identifying_feature: true
  field_if_grassroots: true
  field_impact_sdgs: true
  field_inclusion_and_representati: true
  field_info_on_partial_editing: true
  field_information_resource_date: true
  field_innovation_domain: true
  field_innovation_stage: true
  field_innovation_type: true
  field_innovative_elements_narrat: true
  field_innovative_features: true
  field_investment_type: true
  field_languages: true
  field_long_term_beneficiaries: true
  field_original_descr_markup: true
  field_original_extracted_innovat: true
  field_owner: true
  field_partners: true
  field_prospective_users: true
  field_readiness_description: true
  field_readiness_level: true
  field_record_long_metadata: true
  field_record_metadata: true
  field_record_status: true
  field_region: true
  field_related_innovation_core: true
  field_scaling_level_idia: true
  field_sponsors: true
  field_start_date: true
  field_start_year: true
  field_state: true
  field_stf_development_status: true
  field_stf_level_of_recognition: true
  field_stf_organization_size: true
  field_stf_organization_type: true
  field_thematic_area: true
  field_title_instructions: true
  field_url_s: true
  field_use_case_image: true
  field_use_cases: true
  field_use_cases_description: true
  field_variant: true
  langcode: true
  links: true
  search_api_excerpt: true
  synonyms: true
  uid: true

Manage the content display (admin/structure/types/manage/innovation/display/)
- If you imported working configs like above not needed
- Check that under tab default, your new display is checked under Custom display settings (all the way at the bottom of the page)

Apply a corresponding twig template, in this case: /var/www/html/web/themes/custom/fao/templates/content/node--innovation--map-teaser.html.twig

         {#
/**
 * @file
 * Default theme implementation to display a node.
 *
 * Available variables:
 * - node: The node entity with limited access to object properties and methods.
 *   Only method names starting with "get", "has", or "is" and a few common
 *   methods such as "id", "label", and "bundle" are available. For example:
 *   - node.getCreatedTime() will return the node creation timestamp.
 *   - node.hasField('field_example') returns TRUE if the node bundle includes
 *     field_example. (This does not indicate the presence of a value in this
 *     field.)
 *   - node.isPublished() will return whether the node is published or not.
 *   Calling other methods, such as node.delete(), will result in an exception.
 *   See \Drupal\node\Entity\Node for a full list of public properties and
 *   methods for the node object.
 * - label: (optional) The title of the node.
 * - content: All node items. Use {{ content }} to print them all,
 *   or print a subset such as {{ content.field_example }}. Use
 *   {{ content|without('field_example') }} to temporarily suppress the printing
 *   of a given child element.
 * - author_picture: The node author user entity, rendered using the "compact"
 *   view mode.
 * - metadata: Metadata for this node.
 * - date: (optional) Themed creation date field.
 * - author_name: (optional) Themed author name field.
 * - url: Direct URL of the current node.
 * - display_submitted: Whether submission information should be displayed.
 * - attributes: HTML attributes for the containing element.
 *   The attributes.class element may contain one or more of the following
 *   classes:
 *   - node: The current template type (also known as a "theming hook").
 *   - node--type-[type]: The current node type. For example, if the node is an
 *     "Article" it would result in "node--type-article". Note that the machine
 *     name will often be in a short form of the human readable label.
 *   - node--view-mode-[view_mode]: The View Mode of the node; for example, a
 *     teaser would result in: "node--view-mode-teaser", and
 *     full: "node--view-mode-full".
 *   The following are controlled through the node publishing options.
 *   - node--promoted: Appears on nodes promoted to the front page.
 *   - node--sticky: Appears on nodes ordered above other non-sticky nodes in
 *     teaser listings.
 *   - node--unpublished: Appears on unpublished nodes visible only to site
 *     admins.
 * - title_attributes: Same as attributes, except applied to the main title
 *   tag that appears in the template.
 * - content_attributes: Same as attributes, except applied to the main
 *   content tag that appears in the template.
 * - author_attributes: Same as attributes, except applied to the author of
 *   the node tag that appears in the template.
 * - title_prefix: Additional output populated by modules, intended to be
 *   displayed in front of the main title tag that appears in the template.
 * - title_suffix: Additional output populated by modules, intended to be
 *   displayed after the main title tag that appears in the template.
 * - view_mode: View mode; for example, "teaser" or "full".
 * - teaser: Flag for the teaser state. Will be true if view_mode is 'teaser'.
 * - page: Flag for the full page state. Will be true if view_mode is 'full'.
 *
 * @see template_preprocess_node()
 *
 * @ingroup themeable
 */
#}
{% set classes = [
  'card',
  'card-events'
]
%}

{{ attach_library('fao/maps') }}

{{ attributes.addClass(classes) }}>
  {{ title_prefix }}
  {{ title_suffix }}
  {#  #}
    {# {{ content.field_use_case_image }} #}
  {# 
 #}
  
    
    {{ node.field_innovation_type.0.entity.name.value }}
    
    {{ url }}" class="title-link">{{ node.title.value }}
    
      
        {% if content.field_country_origin|render|trim %}
          
          {{ content.field_country_origin }}
        {% endif %}
        {{ node.getCreatedTime()|date('d/m/Y') }}
      
    

    
      {{ content.field_shorter_description }}
    
    
      {{ content.field_innovation_type }}
      {{ content.field_use_cases }}
      {% if sdgs %}
      
        {% for sdg in sdgs %}
          {{ sdg.url }}" class="sdg-small text-white text-decoration-none {{ sdg.class }}">
        {% endfor %}
      
      {% endif %}

    
    {{ content.field_data_source }}



{#
  Custom template for Innovation nodes in Map teaser view mode.

{% set classes = ['card-events', 'card-map-popup'] %}


  
    {{ label }}
  

  
    {{ content.field_shorter_description }}
    {{ content.field_innovation_type }}
    {{ content.field_use_cases }}
  
 #}

Fine-tune what elements are shown on the card, by moving items to the ‘Field’ section at admin/structure/types/manage/innovation/display/

Explanation:

Drupal styling goes through a couple of steps: The content display determines which elements are displayed, and twig then styles those elements
it seems twig can also override this behavior and automatically display certain elements even if they’re not selected in the content display

Make search bar scrollable

Can e.g. be achieved by this:

.view-filters {
    max-height: 100vh;
    overflow-y: auto;
    position: sticky;
    top: 0;
    padding-right: 10px;
    overflow-x: hidden;
}

Apache config

Maintaining two drupal installs and resulting sites requires to set up some wiring in apache, in order to have two meaningful addresses.

Path resolution

configure /etc/apache2/sites-enabled/000-default.conf
every drupal root needs to have its own Directory

    
  # The ServerName directive sets the request scheme, hostname and port that
  # the server uses to identify itself. This is used when creating
  # redirection URLs. In the context of virtual hosts, the ServerName
  # specifies what hostname must appear in the request's Host: header to
  # match this virtual host. For the default virtual host (this file) this
  # value is not decisive as it is used as a last resort host regardless.
  # However, you must set it for any further virtual host explicitly.
  #ServerName www.example.com

  ServerAdmin webmaster@localhost
  DocumentRoot /var/www/html/sti-portal/web

     
         Options FollowSymLinks MultiViews
         AllowOverride None
         Require all granted
     

     
        Options FollowSymLinks MultiViews
        AllowOverride All
        Require all granted
     

     
        Options FollowSymLinks MultiViews
        AllowOverride All
        Require all granted
     

     # The path after alias is the path relative to root that will be accessible
     Alias /network /var/www/html/sti-social/html
     
        Options FollowSymLinks MultiViews
        AllowOverride All
        Require all granted
     

  # Available loglevels: trace8, ..., trace1, debug, info, notice, warn,
  # error, crit, alert, emerg.
  # It is also possible to configure the loglevel for particular
  # modules, e.g.
  #LogLevel info ssl:warn

  ErrorLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/error.log
  CustomLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/access.log combined

  # For most configuration files from conf-available/, which are
  # enabled or disabled at a global level, it is possible to
  # include a line for only one particular virtual host. For example the
  # following line enables the CGI configuration for this host only
  # after it has been globally disabled with "a2disconf".
  #Include conf-available/serve-cgi-bin.conf

Inststall Drupal Page

sudo -u www-data vendor/bin/drush --root=html --uri="http://localhost/network" cr

Add a custom block

Create the block under /admin/structure/block-content
Add a block instance under /block/add/hero_submit_idea
Find the block to set under /admin/structure/block

For version 13 you need php3.8-fhm

curl -fsSL https://packages.sury.org/php/apt.gpg | sudo gpg --dearmor -o /etc/apt/keyrings/sury-php.gpg
echo "deb [signed-by=/etc/apt/keyrings/sury-php.gpg] https://packages.sury.org/php/ $(lsb_release -sc) main" | sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/sury-php.list
sudo apt update
sudo apt install -y php8.3-fpm libapache2-mod-fcgid php8.3-xml php8.3-mysql php8.3-gd php8.3-mbstring php8.3-intl php8.3-curl
sudo a2enmod proxy_fcgi setenvif php8.3-fpm
sudo a2disconf php8.2-fpm 2>/dev/null || true
sudo systemctl enable --now php8.3-fpm
sudo systemctl restart php8.3-fpm
sudo systemctl restart apache2

Set up the site & DB

sudo -u www-data vendor/bin/drush --root=html --sites-subdir=default -y site:install social   --db-url='mysql://social:social@127.0.0.1:3306/social'

Load in old db

zcat /home/tristan/db.sql.gz | vendor/bin/drush --root=html sqlc

Configure apache

  cat /etc/apache2/sites-enabled/000-default.conf

        # The ServerName directive sets the request scheme, hostname and port that
        # the server uses to identify itself. This is used when creating
        # redirection URLs. In the context of virtual hosts, the ServerName
        # specifies what hostname must appear in the request's Host: header to
        # match this virtual host. For the default virtual host (this file) this
        # value is not decisive as it is used as a last resort host regardless.
        # However, you must set it for any further virtual host explicitly.
        #ServerName www.example.com

        ServerAdmin webmaster@localhost
        DocumentRoot /var/www/html/sti-portal/web

    
        Options FollowSymLinks MultiViews
        AllowOverride All
        Require all granted
    

    Alias /network /var/www/html/sti-social/html
    
        Options FollowSymLinks MultiViews
        AllowOverride All
        Require all granted
    

        # Available loglevels: trace8, ..., trace1, debug, info, notice, warn,
        # error, crit, alert, emerg.
        # It is also possible to configure the loglevel for particular
        # modules, e.g.
        #LogLevel info ssl:warn

        ErrorLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/error.log
        CustomLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/access.log combined

        # For most configuration files from conf-available/, which are
        # enabled or disabled at a global level, it is possible to
        # include a line for only one particular virtual host. For example the
        # following line enables the CGI configuration for this host only
        # after it has been globally disabled with "a2disconf".
        #Include conf-available/serve-cgi-bin.conf
        # Make Drupal think the original request was HTTPS externally.
        
        RequestHeader set X-Forwarded-Proto "https"
        RequestHeader set X-Forwarded-Port "443"
        RequestHeader set X-Forwarded-Host "sti-portal.edge.faofao.org"



check config with apachectl configtest


enable with sudo systemctl restart apache2


Kiautschou str 6
Solution

adding kdePackages.akonadi-calendar to my config and re-loading plasma (systemctl --user restart plasma-plasmashell.service) solved the issue

Resources

commented on github: https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/issues/344025




KDE Digital Clock
Thu, 25 Sep 2025 00:00:00 +0200
Problem

Using KDE Plasma 6.4.4 on NixOS my Nextcloud calendars that are synced to contact are no longer displayed in the KDE Digital Clock widget even after enabling ‘Calendar Events’ and selecting my calendars of interest
This used to work fine and broke with a recent update

Solution

adding kdePackages.akonadi-calendar to my config and re-loading plasma (systemctl --user restart plasma-plasmashell.service) solved the issue

Resources

commented on github: https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/issues/344025



A/I from the viewpoint of digital sovereignty
Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000
When I think about the story of the end of Autistici/Inventati my central question is concerning the inactivity of Italian and European politics on the issue. Many values that are defended by both institutions combine in this matter: National and European sovereignty. The future of the European market. The Creation of a future perspective for our youth.
From this point of view A/I is first and foremost an Italian, an European tech project. A project that does not only preach values of participation and digital emancipation, but has made them the foundation of all their activities since the beginning. Decisions are made democratically by the collective and the central idea was that everyone would learn to understand the technology used. This approach resulted in manuals and guides that teach the reader concepts of hosting and the technical structure of the internet.
Why is it so shocking that we have not heard anything from our political representatives in Rome and Brussels?
The EU is far behind the US and China when it comes to the digital economic powerhouses of the world. We find ourselves in a situation in which we realized that our digital space is practically exclusively being controlled by the US Big Tech companies. Effectively those are monopolies that have used values like free market capitalism and democracy only to maneuver themselves into their absolutist position of power. Europe is struggling with both: we have few companies that are economically relevant enough to even make a dnet in fields like digital communication, networks, trade, entertainment, hardware and office software. One of the central pillars of US-american softpower in the last 30 years has been to render the western hemisphere utterly dependant on US tech, transformining national into international monopolies. This has developed into one the central threats to our pluralistic democracy: Any discourse in the digital space does not take place on democratically goverened platforms but in the private rooms of Mark Zuckerberg, Elon Musk and Liang Rubo.
Today, digital discourse is practically the same as public discourse and it follows the rules enforced by those companies. We witness the consequences for decades now, but increasingly so since the US decided to turn towards authoritarianism. US and Russian interests now largely overlap when Europe’s future is concerned resulting in the uniform propaganda-slop that follows these well-known dimensions: the western world is doomed, our dedication to human rights, empathy and democracy have weakened us politically and economically to the point that we can’t even survive yearly immigration on the scale of less than one percent of our population. This digital age, now AI age, requires autocracy and the dictate of the patriarchy. These narratives work and we see it in the political direction of pracitcally all EU nations. It’s handy that this division of our population and nations serves our global competitors so much. Divide and conquer, a weak Europe that finally lets reign oligarchs and autocrats freely.
So what could be a way out of this stuck situation? The path to a solution highlights why it is so shocking that our politicians have not recognized the value of A/I and remain silent instead of defending democratic European digital projects. To make it short: the way out is emancipation. A/I is expression of this emancipation, a self-help group filling the gap that insufficient digital public policies have created. Today we witness a digital space based on passive consumption, human convenience, distraction and entertainment. A space that hinders critical thinking and furthers separation. A space in which the majority of public discourse is taking place. Even though those facts are known for a long time now, we fail to prepare our children for this world. Digital education in our schools is limited to encourage children to buy an iPad or a Chromebook on which they then learn to use Microsoft Office products. You really have to realize this: the concept for digital education is to use specific products of specific US companies. Learned helplessness from day one. If, however, we want an independent digital economony and a self-determined digital space, we must not educate ‘users’. We need generations for whom algorithms aren’t black magic and computers black boxes. Who are not users but architects, not only of content, but crucially of infrastructure, of spaces. People who are used not only to technical structures but specifically understand the impact on our society, our discourse and our independence. People who create a digital infrastructure that represents our values, not those of US-monopolies.
Achieving this requires a confrontation with the foundations of digital technologies from day one, not only with finished apps and products. We need to understand that apps can’t only be used but also be adapted and built. We need to educate our youth in using the means of digital production, not only in using its final products.
This is what A/I understood 25 years ago and what we need to defend: Italians, Europeans who dare to construct and control the infrastructure of our digital spaces. Who dare to make our values the basis of the education of others and in the creation of digital services. Who are one of many both in the market as well in the democratic discourse, not one for all.
I am deeply disappointet by our representatives and their confused so-called digital strategies, that are passive instead of active, who kowtow to our big brother the US. It is not about constructing a digital space in the image of the US-controlled monopolized one, whith the only distinction to put European billionaires in charge. It is about truly emancipating ourselves and educate a population who is able to shape the digital space to their ideas.

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