What changed on bc-ai.ca.

The Vancouver AI community page opens with the room

The Vancouver AI community page now leads with a photo from Meetup #30 at the H.R. MacMillan Space Centre, showing a full room with hands in the air.

The news archive reads like one publication

Fifty canonical articles now carry complete cover art, categories, and excerpts, with permanent redirects folding seven duplicate stories into a single address each. Every article closes with three related reads and a relevant program link.

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canonical articles

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duplicates redirected

50

articles with related reading

Member profile URLs use names, not legacy handles

The member account now builds public profile URLs from each member's full name, adds a stable numeric suffix only when names collide, and stops carrying WordPress login handles into the new directory.

Public member profiles keep private email out

The member directory now fails closed when a member-entered public field contains an email address. The stored account profile stays intact, while the directory card, public profile, metadata, and structured data omit the affected field.

The MAC archive carries all thirteen Deep Dives

Mind, AI and Consciousness now has native dossiers for Deep Dives 9 through 13, a photo-led community front door, current MAC Labs, public Takeover talks, interactive experiments, and an anonymized reading index.

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numbered Deep Dives

657

public source links

Site copy drops the em dash

Public pages, metadata, and UI strings no longer use the em dash. Sentences now break with periods, commas, or colons, and a check:copy-voice guard keeps the mark from returning to first-party copy.

Homepage labels use plain language

The homepage now labels its News, public archive, and recent-photo sections directly instead of calling them field notes, the room in the open, or a gathering in frames.

July Film Club recap returns to reviewed copy

A richer July Film Club recap briefly reached production before its required source review and rendered-preview sign-off were recorded. The event page now uses the previously reviewed overview and recap again.

News and past-event photos load a lot lighter

Cover photos on the News page and the past-events grid now render through the site's image pipeline, which resizes them and serves modern WebP instead of multi-megabyte PNG originals. The largest News cover drops from about 3.3 MB to under 200 KB, and the featured photo is flagged as the priority image so it paints first.

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smaller featured News cover

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components moved to optimized images

Homepage Learn section drops the Upgrade branding

The AI Upgrade card on the homepage now uses a photo of a real BC + AI working session instead of the Upgrade program logo, and its copy says plainly that the next cohort date is not set yet. The interest-list email link stays the same.

Kris can pin the homepage's featured event

The homepage hero's "Next up in BC + AI" card used to always show whichever upcoming event was soonest. A small config file (data/featured-event.json) now lets Kris pin a specific event instead. If the pinned event has already happened, the site falls back to the automatic pick on its own and logs a build-time warning.

Communities grid: one Film Club logo, MAC card uncropped

The AI Creativity + Design card no longer reuses the Film Club artwork; it now shows its own placeholder while that group is still forming. Mind, AI, & Consciousness, Ed + AI, Data & Security, and the Vancouver AI card now show the full cover image instead of a center-cropped square that cut off the logo and title text.

The Futureproof Festival page stopped printing the member discount code

The public Futureproof Festival page no longer shows the live member discount code in plain text. The page still tells visitors a 25% member discount exists, and members get the code from their account.

Communities pages read like they were written for people, not a project plan

The Communities section and every community's detail page no longer surface internal source citations, launch-plan narration, or contact-fallback jargon. Copy about forming groups, how to connect, and each community's story now speaks directly to visitors.

New YouTube uploads now get their own page automatically

The videos catalog had not picked up a new @van_ai upload since June 16, so eight recent recordings, including the July Vancouver AI Meetup #30 talks, had no page on the site. A daily sync now finds new uploads and opens a review PR with their pages already written; the same run backfilled the eight that were missing.

Member avatars fail closed when the file is not an image

Directory cards, profiles, account previews, share images, and structured data now accept supported image media and fall back quietly when an avatar key is missing, malformed, or points at something else. Migration tools validate image bytes before staging, and the production cleanup path is bound to a reviewed snapshot instead of a loose delete command.

About and FAQ explain why the rooms matter

BC + AI's public story now connects the people in the room, recurring participation, professional capability, regional proof, and a nonprofit public voice. Five strategic FAQ answers come from the same typed source as the page's structured data, and Comox Valley now appears as an active chapter backed by its three public events.

Member profiles recover their missing history

A 2022 WordPress export now fills blank member bios, locations, organizations, roles, and photos without overwriting newer edits. The quality gate follows the public profile response instead of assuming every known name renders cleanly.

Member migration confidence gets hard gates

Thin public profiles, broken member routes, and profile-save regressions now have dedicated checks instead of depending on a human spot-check after the damage is visible.

Old member profile links now land on the new directory

Bookmarks and search results pointing at old member profile pages now get a native handoff: 191 known people route directly to their profiles, including case-sensitive usernames, while unmatched history lands on the member directory. The old `/my-account` path reaches the native account route too.

Volunteer and speaker doors move onto bc-ai.ca

Volunteer and speaker interest now have focused pages and forms inside the site, backed by the existing operations databases and clear email fallbacks when the form integration is unavailable.

The site gets a clearer front door

The homepage now carries the approved tagline and a direct Start here path, while About, Membership, Communities, the footer, and share metadata use one consistent association name and newcomer route.

Member directory shows photos and reads cleanly

Member profile photos now appear on the directory cards, not just individual profile pages; longer bios keep their paragraph breaks instead of running together; and the member grid holds a stable order instead of reshuffling on every visit.

Futureproof Festival gets one public voice

BC + AI now pins the festival name, international positioning, presenter line, program vocabulary, hashtag, confirmed partners, and member benefit to one exact Futureproof Festival merge.

The MAC Takeover starts talking back

The Mind, AI & Consciousness hub now carries eight public recordings from the February 2026 MAC Takeover, from the full gathering to focused talks on consciousness, intimacy, perception, land, and community.

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public recordings

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YouTube iframes before click

The AI Ethical Futures Lab becomes a public field note

The July AI Ethical Futures Lab recap brings six months of civic AI work into one feature, connecting the community reading guide, local-first infrastructure, disability access, the Economy of Wisdom, Morten Rand-Hendriksen's literacy thread, and Futureproof Festival.

The July Vancouver AI meetup gets a full landing page

The July 29 community meetup now has a dedicated, responsive page featuring Dave Olson, Dorothy Pang, host Kris Krüg, all six campaign graphics, practical venue details, and direct Luma ticket links.

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campaign graphics included

2

featured guest profiles

Vancouver AI Build Night gets a permanent home

A builder-first event page turns Vancouver AI's hackathon history into a repeatable one-evening format: one local problem, teams of one to three, a protected build sprint, and ninety-second working demos.

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historic builds featured

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recognition categories

Eight Vancouver AI galleries came back into the light

The native archive recovered eight curated meetup galleries, restored the missing February 2025 gathering, and repaired old date-slug redirects so the photos and their credits have a stable public home again.

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galleries restored

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curated photographs

The August meetup route came back from migration limbo

The August 26 Vancouver AI meetup now has a native event page again, with its own canonical, structured event data, sitemap entry, and a migration guard that will complain if a priority route quietly turns into a 404.

The event sync stopped eating its own homework

The Luma source-of-truth pass picked up the August 13 AI Film Club, corrected five rest-of-year Ethical Futures Lab dates, and refreshed event covers without flattening the hand-edited stories already living on the site.

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new public event

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Ethical Futures Lab dates corrected

July Film Club gets the full photo treatment

The July AI Film Club event now has a native recap page with a 20-photo highlights gallery and a tagged, filterable archive of all 155 delivered photographs, each credited to Michelle Diamond.

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highlights on the event page

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credited photos in the full gallery

The changelog learned to keep itself honest

The public operator log now separates curated story freshness from generated git activity, leaves changelog-only housekeeping out of the heatmap, and uses a draft bot PR to catch up after `main` moves.

RAP proof gets sharper and more human

The Responsible AI Professional page now gives Cohort 1 proof more visual weight, links the strongest consent-safe graduate names to public profiles, keeps the capstone videos intact, and prepares instructor cards for approved local portraits.

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public profile links added

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capstone videos preserved

Volunteer and speaker sign-ups get real front doors

Two new pages, /volunteer and /speakers, replace the old detour through Notion forms. Each one pairs plain-language community copy with a form whose submissions land directly in the association's existing volunteer and speaker pipelines, and the contact page now routes people to both lanes.

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new sign-up pages

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form fields feeding existing pipelines

Wild Salmon page gets a cleaner feedback path

The Wild Salmon Program page now has route-specific metadata coverage, live Simon Haworth and Life Sciences & AI source links, a direct Contact feedback CTA, and tighter accessible labels for dense interactive controls.

3

tracked get-involved links

0

stale member-directory links

News and video shares get branded social cards

News and video pages stop advertising raw cover photos or YouTube thumbnails as large social cards, so Next can inject the existing route-local Open Graph generators, and Privacy/Terms pick up matching section OG wrappers so share previews stay on-brand and audit-sized.

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detail routes defer to opengraph-image convention

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legal OG wrappers added

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metadata audit priority paths extended

RAP certification page shows the proof

The Responsible AI Professional certification page now carries Cohort 1 proof: named graduate testimonials, outcome bullets, and three capstone walkthrough videos from graduates who chose to share their work publicly.

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graduate videos embedded

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named testimonials added

Queue-to-swarm work lands with secret-contract guardrails

The July 10 swarm moved from planning into repo receipts: a Varlock environment contract landed, the remaining-work Lane 1 plan and hygiene fixes merged, and the changelog activity graph caught up to the new mainline truth.

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July 10 first-parent commits (pending merge pre-counted)

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tracked activity commits

Changelog activity catches the July 9 merge stack

The public changelog activity graph and smoke expectations advanced to match first-parent origin/main history after the audit-remediation and setup merges, including the July 9 sync commit itself.

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activity updates tracked

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pending merge pre-counted

Wild Salmon becomes a polished program page

The Wild Salmon Program page moved from separate experimental widgets into a cohesive chaptered experience with route-specific metadata, stronger source attribution, redesigned theory, migration, returnee, pilot, and coalition modules, a clearer feedback path, and device-agnostic hero interaction copy.

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modules integrated

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feedback path added

Vancouver AI event pages get share-ready

The Vancouver AI event archive picked up a source-backed audit, richer event-page social previews, static share images for audited meetup pages, and recap enrichment for the May, April, January, and September meetup pages.

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event social images

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recap pages enriched

The annual gathering speaks to members

The Futureproof Festival page now reads as the BC + AI members' annual gathering. It leads with belonging, hands members a code for 25% off every ticket type, and turns non-members toward joining.

Member code

25% off every ticket type

$250

student pass

RAP pricing and cohorts get current

The Responsible AI Professional certification page now points to the August 7 and September 18 online cohorts, shows the $1,500 CAD standard and $950 CAD member pricing model, and uses the approved RAP ecosystem graphic.

$950 CAD

member RAP registration

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active RAP Luma cohort links

Changelog catches its own receipts

The native visual changelog now carries the July 5-7 backfill, tighter compact stats, clearer generated-activity cues, and direct PR receipts for the closeout pass.

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first-parent commits tracked

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July 7 receipts

Luma sync keeps event facts current

The July 7 Luma sync kept the public catalog at 82 events, moved AI Film Club to 375 Water St, refreshed RAP description blocks, and flagged the protected Film Club body copy for manual reconciliation instead of auto-overwriting it.

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public Luma events

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protected page flagged

Changelog gallery image crash gets fixed

The public changelog now allows R2 photo-gallery thumbnails through Next/Image, covering the gallery image path used by recent meetup recap entries.

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R2 path allowlisted

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/changelog smoke status

June meetup recap gets more receipts

The Vancouver AI Meetup #30 recap now carries grounded links, Michelle Diamond photo callouts, corrected name/caption metadata, and cleaner speaker and program context.

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recap lines expanded

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visible name/caption fixes

Launch story moves through the guarded path

The launch story entered the News migration catalog through the Notion sync, then got stable R2-hosted media and a guard that blocks committed `__LOCAL__:` news images.

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Notion draft synced

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local image refs repaired

Operator docs catch the awkward edges

The July 6 docs wave recorded the live `new.bc-ai.ca` 200/Cloudflare/Vercel state, stopped overclaiming a volatile cache header, loosened owner-directed workflow rules, and kept the planetarium origin-story proof block draft-only behind its approval gates.

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subdomain recheck status

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draft proof blocks wired public

Membership page moves the action up

The Membership page hero now uses a lobby collaboration photo, and the seat picker now appears before the 25% savings explainer.

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hero image replaced

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seat paths moved higher

Launch story media restored

The Next.js launch story now uses stable R2-hosted images for the cover, social metadata, and inline proof points instead of unresolved local image sentinels.

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local image refs repaired

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catalog guard added

Membership page adds community voices

The Membership page now includes a public spotlight section with real members and builders from the video archive, giving the conversion page human proof without publishing private feedback quotes.

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public spotlight cards

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private quotes published

Membership page becomes the front door

The Membership page now leads with real room photography, a sharper proximity-first pitch, 25% member savings, synced seat cards, and direct paths into individual, student, micro-pack, and team membership.

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member discount story added

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seat paths surfaced

Membership page loses the seat-flow diagram

The Membership page now skips the large seat-flow Sankey section and moves visitors from the intro straight into the paid member seat options.

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diagram section removed

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signup links preserved in local smoke checks

Animation Accelerator gains a Tiny Ghost production timeline

The Field Guide now includes a responsive five-step visual timeline that maps Tiny Ghost artwork to story scope, reference voice, consistency, review, and release checkpoints.

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timeline checkpoints

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mapped Tiny Ghost visuals

Animation Accelerator adds a Reference Pool Builder

The Field Guide now includes a client-only builder for character, world/place, style, motion/performance, culture/language, and avoid/do-not-want reference notes.

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reference slots

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saved user inputs

Animation Accelerator adds a Voice Performance Planner

The Field Guide now includes a client-only voice-first planner for line beats, distance, mood, acting direction, emphasis, and performance notes.

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voice-planning inputs

0

audio uploads

Animation Accelerator adds a WIP Triage Board

The Field Guide now includes a client-only triage board for story clarity, character consistency, shot complexity, audio/performance, bump-out risk, and smallest shippable version.

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review dimensions

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manual triage choices

Animation Accelerator adds a credit reality check

The Field Guide now includes a client-only planning widget for estimating shot attempts, re-roll pressure, production hours, tool-cost assumptions, and a written stop rule.

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planning inputs

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saved user inputs

Animation Accelerator glossary gets learner modes

The Field Guide glossary widget now opens as a dictionary with A-Z filtering, while the production-stage map remains available as a secondary mode.

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glossary modes

A-Z

dictionary filter

Animation Accelerator glossary reads more like a dictionary

The Field Guide glossary now has an alphabetized static fallback derived from the canonical term data, with stable anchors for deep links.

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canonical glossary source

stable

term anchors

Tiny Ghost visuals join the Animation Accelerator Field Guide

The Field Guide now has a curated set of public-safe Tiny Ghost workflow visuals copied into the Next.js app and exposed through a typed asset map.

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public-safe visuals imported

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typed asset map

Communities gets a native section

The site now has native Communities routes, including a landing page, data-driven community profiles, header navigation, sitemap coverage, and cleaned-up legacy redirects.

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native section

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community profiles

Past-event pages get their missing details back

Fixed a timezone-boundary bug where evening events' Luma catalog date landed a day after the event's actual local date, so several past-event pages were missing their event-details box. Fixing the date match also revealed two events that had quietly split into duplicate pages; those now correctly show as one.

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event pages regained their details box

2

duplicate pages merged into one

Light surfaces get safer contrast

The light-theme canvas tokens and Wild Salmon returnee journey panel were adjusted so important text and cards keep better contrast.

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public surface files adjusted

1

a11y baseline refreshed

Animation Accelerator Field Guide gets a clearer front door

The public Animation Accelerator resource page now introduces the Field Guide more directly, with clearer shelf cards, updated resource links, and matching social-card metadata.

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Field Guide route

5

resource cards tightened

Membership profile completion gets a safer path

Post-checkout membership now points new members toward profile completion, with additive contact/profile fields and a read-only Stripe, Neon, and Notion reconciliation audit.

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optional profile fields

0

production backfills run

The About page lost the blob map

The fake province-node map came off the About page and was replaced with a cleaner regional rooms panel.

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regional rooms

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fake map nodes

bc-ai.ca is now the Next.js site

The apex domain moved to the new Next.js app. WordPress stays available for uploads and admin workflows, but the public front door is now the redesigned site.

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first-parent commits tracked

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active shipping days

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July 3 commits

Event social cards handle WebP heroes safely

Past-event Open Graph images now fall back to a designed static background when an event hero uses WebP, avoiding broken social-card renders.

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OG image fallback

A public changelog comes home

The old WordPress visual changelog was retired from the public surface. The new version is a native Next.js operator log with curated story weeks, git activity, receipts, and freshness checks.

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backfilled story weeks

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freshness guard

Futureproof Festival gets a public home

The Futureproof Festival presence landed on the new site so the festival signal has a real route and receipt instead of living as a loose launch note.

Cutover day hardening lands in one huge push

Redirect coverage, launch smoke, Search Console verification, branded 404, partner cards, directory gating, social cards, accessibility fixes, and post-flip repo hygiene all landed around the domain flip.

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first-parent commits on July 2

Wild Salmon Program published as an interactive white paper

The Wild Salmon Program now has its own living Next.js surface, with stakeholder constellations, lifecycle journey, returnee flows, pilot scenario tools, and launch attribution.

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interactive program microsite

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decision tools

Native membership bridge moves into launch posture

Membership checkout, staging prices, billing portal behavior, activation emails, idempotency, and launch gates were staged and hardened before the domain flip.

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July 1 commits

Membership sandbox and Stripe truth get tightened

The Phase 3 membership sandbox brought up DB/login pieces, inventoried WordPress system dependencies, fixed Stripe renewal boundaries, and re-greened coverage.

Vancouver AI Meetup #30 gallery becomes a real artifact

The Meetup #30 gallery shipped with bespoke captions, tags, a filter UI, and pipeline docs so event memory becomes easier to browse and reuse.

Pre-flip performance and redirect debt comes down

Slug-gap redirects, GA performance, route-count baselines, and coverage floors were tightened while the migration plan was corrected to match actual Phase 3 readiness.

Events, videos, news, and public memory caught up

Newly public Luma events, May Vancouver AI recordings, Film Club galleries, recaps, speaker spotlights, and native News cleanup landed across the site.

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June Film Club photos processed

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May Vancouver AI videos added

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June 17 commits

The first visual changelog shipped

The WordPress page got a GitHub-style activity heatmap, readable week-by-week highlights, and a generated update flow from the internal rollout ledger.

Next.js migration plan and native News rendering land

The migration plan, inert prep tooling, News native-render module, certification CTA fix, and event image performance work moved the new site closer to cutover.

Performance, training pages, and trust signals tightened

Event images got lighter, cache behavior improved, certification pages sharpened, and visible bugs around buttons, metadata, and post rendering were cleaned up.

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June 8 commits

3

training pathways clarified

Vancouver AI, News, and program pathways become shareable

Vancouver AI got a canonical home, native News articles got deeper repair, certifications became easier to find, and ecosystem stories gained stronger public routes.

Homepage discovery, directory gates, and MAC continuity take shape

The early rebuild added homepage discovery polish, gated directory groundwork, reduced-motion policy, MAC continuity, Luma/event safety, and May Film Club video updates.

The real Next.js rebuild begins

The first serious wave rebuilt the site shell, shipped MAC deep-dive pages, added event archive paths, analytics, smoke tests, News, Videos, OG scaffolding, RSS, and image host controls.

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rebuild start

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first-day commits