0:00:01.400,0:00:04.300 This tutorial shows how to use the community forum of the 0:00:05.000,0:00:07.000 Open Source Circular Economy Days. 0:00:07.200,0:00:15.300 First you create an account by clicking here on the "sign up"-button on the top right. 0:00:16.000,0:00:20.100 You can sign up with Facebook and Twitter, but other options are also available. 0:00:20.400,0:00:23.500 Facebook is the quickest but all the other options work as well. 0:00:24.200,0:00:27.100 For this video I already created a fresh account. 0:00:27.400,0:00:29.300 The first thing I will to show you is how to post a comment. 0:00:31.000,0:00:37.100 I find a topic I want to comment on, for example this one: 0:00:37.400,0:00:39.400 "is there a video tutorial for the forum?". 0:00:40.100,0:00:43.200 "Hi, I wonder if there is a Video Tutorial helping people to make 0:00:43.500,0:00:45.100 first steps on the forum?" 0:00:45.400,0:00:49.000 And now I click on "reply" here or here, it doesn't matter where. 0:00:49.300,0:01:00.100 A dialogue open and I type: "I'm on it. Will post in a few minutes." 0:01:00.400,0:01:08.300 And now I click here on "reply", and you see: your comment is posted. 0:01:09.000,0:01:13.120 The next thing I will show you is, how you can create your own topic. 0:01:13.420,0:01:17.400 First you need to find a suitable category for your topic. 0:01:18.100,0:01:23.400 When you are in that category, you click here on the top right on "new topic". 0:01:24.100,0:01:26.100 This will make this dialogue appear. 0:01:26.300,0:01:38.300 The first thing you write is a headline: "How Do I Edit Topics On The Forum?" 0:01:39.000,0:01:48.100 After that you can enter a body text: „here are some basic things about 0:01:48.400,0:02:00.300 editing topics and comments on the OSCEdays community forum.“ 0:02:01.000,0:02:07.300 And now I click here on "create topic". This will create your topic. 0:02:08.000,0:02:13.300 I now want to show to you that you can re-open and edit your topic 0:02:14.000,0:02:17.300 to put in or take out information at any time. 0:02:18.000,0:02:20.300 This is also true for comments. Knowing this may take away some pressure. 0:02:21.000,0:02:26.300 you re-open or edit your comment by clicking on the little pen icon under it. 0:02:27.000,0:02:33.000 I do this, and I erase this little dot here to show that it's possible. 0:02:33.300,0:02:38.000 Now I will enter a some more information: 0:02:38.300,0:02:51.500 "For Big Headlines Put A # In Front Of Your Headline". 0:02:52.200,0:02:55.300 On the right hand side you have a preview field that shows 0:02:56.000,0:02:59.000 how your topic will look like in the end. 0:02:59.300,0:03:03.500 And because I put this little Hash in front of this text it is much bigger. 0:03:04.200,0:03:09.100 It is now a large headline, the largest headline avaiblable. 0:03:09.400,0:03:16.150 "For Smaller Headlines Make It ## Two" 0:03:16.450,0:03:19.100 and you see it's a smaller headline. 0:03:19.400,0:03:30.300 This works with up to six of these #, for six different headline sizes. 0:03:31.000,0:03:35.500 I will now show you a little bit more. 0:03:36.200,0:03:45.500 "It is possible to add bold text and links by using the edit bar." 0:03:46.200,0:03:51.500 Here you have an "edit bar" for a variety of options to design your text. 0:03:52.200,0:03:59.100 If I mark this text and click on the "bold"- button the result is that I get a bold text. 0:03:59.400,0:04:04.000 When I mark the link text and click on the chain symbol here 0:04:04.300,0:04:11.100 a dialogue opens that allows me to enter a link, for example: oscedays.org. 0:04:11.400,0:04:17.200 I click on "ok" and it is automatically turned into a link. 0:04:17.500,0:04:30.270 What else is possible? Here you can create bullet points. 0:04:30.570,0:04:37.300 How do you add images? Via drag&drop. 0:04:38.000,0:04:40.500 Here I have a little image on my screen. 0:04:41.200,0:04:48.390 Just take it, pull it into your topic, drop it and it becomes part of the topic. 0:04:49.090,0:04:58.150 Again: drag the image, pull it into your topic, drop it and here it is. 0:04:58.450,0:05:03.000 Once it's uploaded, it’s part of your topic. 0:05:03.300,0:05:08.120 Now click save edit. It's really that simple. 0:05:08.420,0:05:11.300 I will add more information to this topic later on. 0:05:12.000,0:05:15.000 If you use the forum and you encounter a specific question, 0:05:15.300,0:05:19.120 search for this topic here in the "How to use this platform?"-category. 0:05:19.420,0:05:22.300 Maybe you will find an answer to a less common problem as well. 0:05:23.000,0:05:28.300 At the end of this video I will give you an overview of the parts of the forum 0:05:29.000,0:05:34.000 to give you an idea where to find and where to post what. 0:05:34.300,0:05:37.360 You see the four main parts of the forum. 0:05:38.060,0:05:41.300 The upper part with the green categories is for content and for collaboration 0:05:42.000,0:05:45.300 on open source circular economy problems and solutions. 0:05:46.000,0:05:51.300 There are categrories like: materials, packaging and transport, energy, food, etc. 0:05:52.000,0:05:58.450 The second part is about meta-information on the platform and the community. 0:05:59.150,0:06:01.100 You have categories like event organization 0:06:01.400,0:06:05.300 with all kinds of useful information on how to set up a local event or community. 0:06:06.000,0:06:10.270 You also have the "how to use the platform"-category we just used. 0:06:10.570,0:06:14.500 The third part is for local teams. 0:06:15.200,0:06:19.300 People can use this space to organize events and meetings etc. in their city. 0:06:20.000,0:06:24.300 It is related to community organization. 0:06:25.000,0:06:29.300 If there is no category for your city yet, use the "new city"-category here on top 0:06:30.000,0:06:34.300 and an admin of the forum will create a category for your city as soon as possible. 0:06:35.000,0:06:38.180 And here at the bottom is the last part. 0:06:38.480,0:06:42.350 This is where the global coordination of the OSCEdays project happens. 0:06:43.050,0:06:47.120 You are always invited to contribute to the discussions taking place here. 0:06:47.420,0:06:50.100 This is the end of this short tutorial. 0:06:50.400,0:06:53.400 One last thing before I go: after you entered the forum 0:06:54.100,0:06:58.200 you can get rid of the welcome message by clicking on this x 0:06:58.500,0:07:01.000 so you have a better view on the screen. 0:07:01.300,0:07:04.000 I'm really looking forward to read your contributions. Bye bye.