Permaculture Community Creation – One Community Weekly Progress Update #521

Facilitating permaculture community creation is one path to a more sustainable world that will benefit us all. One Community is supporting this with open source and free-shared sustainability models designed using permaculture principles and covering food, energy, housing, education, for-profit and non-profit economic design, social architecture, fulfilled living, global stewardship practices, and more.

• Here’s our project overview
• Here’s our world-change methodology
  
• Here’s how this becomes self-replicating
• Here’s how we are open source and free-sharing all the do-it-yourself designs

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One Community’s physical location will forward this movement as the first of many self-replicating teacher/demonstration communities, villages, and cities to be built around the world. This is the March 19th, 2023 edition (#521) of our weekly progress update detailing our team’s development and accomplishments:

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PERMACULTURE COMMUNITY CREATION – HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING PROGRESS

One Community is facilitating permaculture community creation through Highest Good housing that is artistic and beautiful, more affordable, more space efficient, lasts longer, DIY buildable, and constructed with healthy and sustainable materials:

• • • Learn about: Our Upcoming Crowdfunding Campaign
    • Learn about the different village models: 7 Sustainable Village Models
    • Visit the open source portals for the first two: Earthbag Village OS Hub | Straw Bale Village OS Hub

This week the core team had conversations with the Compression Testing Team about creating a script for the video on how to make successful aircrete, and other photos and descriptions to help the next Compression Testing Team. We also met with Yiwei to discuss adding the Foundational Calculations to the solar content and responded to comments and other input. The same team member also met with the City Center Dome Hub Connector Engineering about incorporating the latest hub connector design into the dome model. 

Charles Gooley (Web Designer) also completed his 24th week helping with web design, now focused on the Solar Energy Microgrid Setup and Maintenance tutorial. The effort included sections on foundation calculations, energy demand template with time matrices, and energy demand for the Earthbag Village, Duplicable City Center, Ultimate Classroom and Straw Bale Village. Links were added to each of these along with links to the corresponding spreadsheets.

Each of these had a table of Area/Energy Demands (each linked to the spreadsheet), pie charts depicting average energy for each area, table depicting item categories/energy demands (also linked to the spreadsheet), and a pie chart illustrating the average energy demand of each item. Pictures below are related to this work, see how they relate to permaculture community creation.

The Compression Team consisting of Genesis Avila (Engineering Intern Researcher), Fatima Duenas-Esparza (Engineering Intern Researcher), and Sarah-Jean Boyd (Engineering Intern Researcher) completed their 18th weeks helping with the Aircrete and earthbag compression testing. This week the Compression Testing Team developed a list of instructions to help the next team that comes along to continue this effort with aircrete and stabilized earth. The Team also developed a script for a “how to make aircrete” video for further teams. Pictures below are related to this work, see how they relate to permaculture community creation.

Loza Ayehutsega (Civil Engineer/Assistant Civil Engineer) completed her 11th week helping review the Net-zero Bathroom and Earthbag Village water collection and storage engineering calculations and designs. This week Loza added notes to the report document. The rainwater harvesting system is described briefly with figures, additional points will be added for next week. Wastewater treatment and rainwater collection methodology were also reviewed in relation to the report topics. Different methods for rainwater collection approaches are added/presented in the report document. See below for some pictures related to this and how they relate to permaculture community creation.

Vidhi Bansal (3D Visualization Artist) completed her 7th week helping with video and AutoCAD renders for a 4-dome cluster Earthbag Village housing design. This week Vidhi worked on multiple foliage iterations with edited texture, landscape ground cover and creating a less barren and more lush landscape. She also worked on creating a variety of options of pathways, some natural and some created. Further more, she reworked the pine trees and changed them to better fit the more green landscape. The next step will be to curate the foliage right around the building, adding plants and landscaping. Check out the pictures below as examples of this work and how they relate to permaculture community creation.

PERMACULTURE COMMUNITY CREATION – DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER PROGRESS

One Community is facilitating permaculture community creation through a Duplicable and Sustainable City Center that is LEED Platinum certified/Sustainable, can feed 200 people at a time, provide laundry for over 300 people, is beautiful, spacious, and saves resources, money, and space:

• • • Learn about this building and it’s function: Duplicable City Center Open Source Hub

This week, the core team continued reviewing the latest Duplicable City Center SketchUp file for accuracy. We checked/compared the basement, first, and second floors of the Dining Dome with the latest AutoCad file. We added nine items to be corrected in the Dining Dome 3D SketchUp model. The same team member also continued working with “Murphy Bed Assembly Instructions” document, resolving a lot of comments where feedback had been integrated and generating requested images for different sections of the Murphy bed. See below for some of this work and how they relate to permaculture community creation. 

The core team also continued working with a new member of the team on what’s needed for the complete Duplicable City Center cabinetry. This week’s work involved refining the WBS for the Duplicable City Center, then collecting all information relating to the design of the library and basement areas which include dimensions, design standards, images from the models and examples of similar objects. This information will then be used to create design briefing documents for the objects that need to be designed. The week also involved a first draft of the design for the tree shaped bookshelf. See related pictures below and how they relate to permaculture community creation.

Jieying “Mercy” Cai (Sustainability and Climate Policy Researcher) completed her 26th week volunteering, now focused on the City Center Eco-spa designs. This week Mercy 1) filled in the columns for non-chlorine shocks and enzyme-based treatment and completed the hot tub sanitizer information table, 2) wrote short descriptions of websites listed in the reference, 3) reviewed the non-recyclables page, and 4) edited the bullet points of advantages and disadvantages of biguanides to make them into sentences. See below for some pictures related to this work and how they relate to permaculture community creation.

Ranran Zhang (Architectural Designer) completed her 14th week working on the updated video for the Duplicable City Center internal and external walkthrough. This week, Ranran communicated with Yuxi about the video tour, for example, the views and the angles of the video which need to be presented. She also fixed a wall in the residential dome. In addition, she updated the Lumion file according to modified parts and selected three views that needed to be rendered.

All of these views are in the residential dome, which shows the furniture layout of the rooms. Through these views, she wanted to show the assembled recycled furniture designed for this building as well. See below for some pictures of this work and how this relates to permaculture community creation.

Julio E. Marin Bustillos (Mechanical Engineer) completed his 5th week helping with the City Center Dome Hub Connector Engineering. This week Julio came up with a hub connector design to implement into the current assembly for traditional geodesic domes. He prepared to make sub-assemblies to utilize in the whole assembly and provided a model without nodes to Yiwei so she can start working on making the nodes hollow to connect the connectors. Pictures of some of this work are below, see how they relate to permaculture community creation.

Yiwei He (Mechanical Engineer) completed her 2nd week helping with the City Center Dome Hub Connector Engineering. This week Yiwei finished editing the solar hardware content and started editing the foundational calculation portion for the solar option for energy. Yiwei also worked on modeling the model without connectors on Solidworks Simulation and troubleshooting the failure. She additionally downloaded SketchUp and deleted all the outside buildings and furniture to have a smaller file size for Julio to work with. Pictures of some of this work are below, see how they relate to permaculture community creation.

PERMACULTURE COMMUNITY CREATION – HIGHEST GOOD FOOD PROGRESS

One Community is facilitating permaculture community creation through Highest Good food that is more diverse, more nutritious, locally grown and sustainable, and part of our open source botanical garden model to support and share bio-diversity:

• • • Learn about the structures: Hoop House Hub | Aquapini & Walipini Open Source Hub
    • See what we’ll be growing: Gardens & Hoop Houses | Large-scale Structures | Food Forest | TA

This week the core team also worked more one the Transition Food Self-sufficiency Plan. This week we completed the work on the Master Food Costs. While working with the Master Shopping List, we noticed the information that was being imported from the Master Food Costs was a combination of being inaccurate, misaligned in cells, or missing links. We added any missing information and corrected any inaccurate or misplaced information in the Master Food Costs. We then resumed the work on the Master Shopping List to make sure all costs are correct and calculations are working correctly. See below for pictures related to this and how they relate to permaculture community creation.

Rebecca Miller (Chef) completed her 6th week helping with the Transition Food Self-sufficiency Plan. Rebecca worked more on editing recipes in the Google document to be transferred to the spreadsheet. She is working hard to ensure each recipe has metric and imperial measurements. Rebecca is also making sure the ingredients used reflect the master ingredient list to ensure ingredients are readily available and cross utilized. See below for some pictures related to this and how they relate to permaculture community creation.

PERMACULTURE COMMUNITY CREATION – HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION PROGRESS

One Community is facilitating permaculture community creation through Highest Good education that is for all ages, applicable in any environment, adaptable to individual needs, far exceeds traditional education standards, and more fun for both the teachers and the students. This component of One Community is about 95% complete with only the Open Source School Licensing and Ultimate Classroom construction and assembly details remaining to be finished. We’ll report on the final two elements to be finished as we develop them.

With over 8 years of work invested in the process, the sections below are all complete until we move onto the property and continue the development and open sourcing process with teachers and students – a development process that is built directly into the structure of the education program and everything else we’re creating too:

• Program Overview: Education Open Source Hub
• How the components work together: How to use the Education for Life Program
  
• Lesson Plans for Life – Lesson Plans How-to
• Foundations of Outstanding Leaders, Teachers, and Communicators
• Curriculum for Life
• Teaching Strategies for Life
• Learning Tools and Toys for Life
• Evaluation and Evolution

PERMACULTURE COMMUNITY CREATION – HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY PROGRESS

One Community facilitating permaculture community creation through a Highest Good society approach to living that is founded on fulfilled living, the study of meeting human needs, Community, and making a difference in the world:

• • • Read the Highest Good society overview: Highest Good Society
    • Learn about the model for fulfilled living and sharing: A Day in the Life
    • Learn about the 4 economic models: RBE | For-profit | Non-profit | Entrepreneurship
    • Learn about our open source community collaboration and management software: The Highest Good Network

This week the core team completed 21 hours managing One Community volunteer-work review not included above, emails, social media accounts, web development, new bug identification and bug fix integration for the Highest Good Network software, and interviewing and getting set up new volunteer team members. Pictures below show some of this, see how they relate to permaculture community creation.

Yiyun Tan (Management Dashboard Team Leader) completed her 46th week helping with the Highest Good Network software. This week Yiyun worked on the URGENT BUG #1. She raised a PR for adding the 4th tab on weekly summaries part as “three weeks ago” and will rework on her PR per reviews and figure out how to count “total submitted” correctly as her next PR. Additionally, she helped the team on Slack with problem solving, resolved merge conflicts, and logged new bugs. Pictures of some of this work are below, see how they relate to permaculture community creation.

Yan Xu (Software Development Engineer) completed her 32nd week helping with the Highest Good Network software. Yan this week worked on the delete button for the summary management page. Now it is possible to delete a specific summary group by id from the table of the summary group, she set up the onclick function for the frontend, created the controller and router for the backend, and refined the code. In the past, Yan implemented the full stack with just Axios, now she upgraded to React Redux, which will make the request more quickly.

She also found a bug in the frontend caused by the CSS file that changed the report admin. Yan then pushed the first PR for this new summary management page, which is a frontend demo without any onclick functions. See pictures below for some of this work and how they relate to permaculture community creation.

Alan Lee Sing Chan Yau (Software Engineer) completed his 19th week helping with the Highest Good Network software. This week Alan worked on a bug that is happening in the projects page. This bug was happening when we open a new folder, and then we open a subfolder, and then close and reopen the first folder we opened and we cannot see the contents of the subfolder anymore, but it shows an open folder icon. The other bug happens in a similar way when clicking on the edit button of a subtask of a subfolder, and the editing options will still show after we close the parent folder.

Alan was able to fix both problems by the end of the week, and he was able to raise a PR. There is a bug that is still in the projects page, and it happens when we click the all button and it is supposed to open all folders and subfolders. But this is not happening, and there are some subfolders that are left unopened. Pictures below show some of this work, see how they relate to permaculture community creation.

 

Kaixiang “Kevin” Gu (Fullstack Software Developer) completed his 19th week helping with the Highest Good Network software. In this week, Kaixiang continued work on making intangible hours editable. There was an issue that the volunteering hours sometimes will show negative numbers when the user manually edits hours, edits time logs or toggles tangibility. Kaixiang found a solution to make all the negative numbers turn into zero. Pictures below show some of this work, see how they relate to permaculture community creation.

 

Jianjun Luo (Software Engineer) completed her 16th week helping with the Highest Good Network software. This week Jianjun fixed the wrong variable used in the report page and the bug that more pages were initialized than the content takes. Then she started working on the performance enhancement task which combines three main sub tasks proposed by the senior developer. She checked the duplicated instances of the component and tried to simplify the process. Pictures below show some of this work, see how they relate to permaculture community creation.

 

Johny dos Santos Anastacio (Software Engineer) completed his 14th week helping with the Highest Good Network software. Johny this week finished the task “Make the subtasks in a WBS create a new folder”, he chose to split the task in two, now it is possible to show all the tasks in the same folder. Johny also helped Filipe with his task and is now studying ways to improve the application and to make the application faster. Pictures below show some of this work, see how they relate to permaculture community creation.

Raul Effting. (Jr. Front-End Web Developer) completed his 10th week helping with the Highest Good Network software. This week, Raul continuously reviewed and approved PRs. Frontend PRs 690, 657, and 632 were approved. He also worked on “Finish the Team Reports Backend Functionality” and Pedro’s PR 641 was debugged and a big conflict was found. Time was spent trying to discover how to get it fixed using the already-created code. It was successful. All teams are already being displayed on the reports page. Also, Natália and Nicolle were mentored. Check out the pictures below as examples of this work and how they relate to permaculture community creation.

Filipe Santos de Oliveira (Full Stack Developer) completed his 7th week helping with the Highest Good Network software. During this last week, Filipe worked to implement the loading-skelton component from the react-loading-skeleton library and the associated CSS styles from the skeleton.css file that is located in the same library. For ‘<import Skeleton from ‘react-loading-skeleton’>’ and ‘<import ‘react-loading-skeleton/dist/skeleton.css’>’ the skeleton component provides a visual placeholder for content that is being loaded asynchronously. The import ‘react-loading-skeleton/dist/skeleton.css’ line imports the CSS file that is required to style the Skeleton component.

This file contains the necessary styles for the Skeleton component to look and behave as expected. For ‘<tbody> {isLoading ? ( <Skeleton height={90} width={1010} count={10} /> ) : ( renderTeamsList() )} </tbody>’ the code checks whether the isLoading variable is true or false. If it is true, the code displays a Skeleton component, which is a visual placeholder that indicates that data is being loaded. The Skeleton component takes three props: height, width, and count, which specify the height and width of the skeleton component and the number of skeleton components to render. If isLoading is false, the code calls the renderTeamsList function, which presumably returns a list of teams as JSX elements.

These elements are then rendered inside a tbody element. Overall, this code provides a way to display a list of teams in a React component with a loading indicator. When isLoading is true, the user sees a placeholder instead of the actual content. When isLoading is false, the user sees the actual content. See below pictures as examples of this work and how they relate to permaculture community creation.

Prabhjot Singh (Fullstack Software Engineer) also completed his 6th week helping with the Highest Good Network software. This week Prabh worked on his PR, reviewed 3 PRs, and worked on a new PR. The new PR is still in the works. Prabh experimented with a horizontal scrollbar on tasks, but it was a bad experience, and he also worked on the second option. He researched HTML Tables, because our app makes use of tables, and is creating different tables for better mobile display. See below pictures as examples of this work and how they relate to permaculture community creation.

Tianjue Wang (Software Developer) completed her 6th week helping with the Highest Good Network software. This week Tianjue worked on fixing bugs of the app and developing new features. The task Tianjue spotted and tried to fix was that the red bell sometimes didn’t work properly. By reading code and locating why clicking on the red bell will break the page, Tianjue added one condition for when the old task is empty.

She also prevented reloading the page before all the needed actions were ended and this solved the problem. What’s more, she designed the look for a new feature of the app and will keep working on this next week. Pictures below are related to this work, see how they relate to permaculture community creation.

Jinchao Feng (Software Engineer) completed his 4th week helping with the Highest Good Network software. This week Jinchao worked on fixing bugs in the user management component where making someone inactive from their profile page wasn’t being reflected in the Team Management page. He analyzed codes in both HGNRest and HGNApp and raised two PRs to solve bugs #3 and #4.

After raising PRs, he started working on function #6 under the user profile component: Create a way for all classes but volunteer to make themselves invisible to the teams they are on. He checked through the codes to find the best method for the problem. Pictures of some of this work are below, see how they relate to permaculture community creation.

Sav Costabile (Web Developer) completed his 4th week helping with the Highest Good Network software. This week, Sav started his first week on the dev team working on addressing phase I bugs for the project. He tackled the User Profile Component bug # 12 as well as the Report Component bug #6. The User Profile bug addressed the issue of setting a maximum amount of hours for the weekly committed input for the volunteering time tab on the profile page.

After spending awhile trying to push their first PR to GitHub (due to not realizing that they were not officially on the GitHub repo yet) they started working on the second bug. The Report Component bug addressed a behavior relating to the default time log tab shown to volunteers upon logging in. They found a couple of issues relating to the bug and remedies for most and are currently waiting on clarification from the bug reporter. See below for related pictures and how they relate to permaculture community creation.

Angelina Truong (Full Stack Software Developer) completed her 3rd week helping with the Highest Good Network software. This week, Angelina reviewed a request PR #695 checking the responsive functionality of the UI in mobile display. She also started her first week in code development. She raised a PR #709 allows the dashboard of the application to have the same width regardless of the screen size changes which will enhance the user experience. She then started working on a new feature that will allow a manager role or above to be able to submit a weekly summary report for other users. This feature is a work-in-progress. See below for this work and how it relates to permaculture community creation.

Harlley Bastos (Full Stack Developer) completed his 3rd week helping with the Highest Good Network software. This week Harlley reviewed and fixed all the PRs of both Frontend and Backend Development related to the new timer feature. The pictures below share some of this developing work, see how they relate to permaculture community creation. 

Vanel Nwaba (Software Developer) completed his 3rd week helping with the Highest Good Network software. This week Vanel continued working on the New timer Functionality (Debugging, testing and cleaning code) based on the #271 PR for back and #653 PR for the front. Some actions made were cleaning the old timer implementation code, debugging and fixing errors in the existing code, and full testing to detect and fix unexpected behaviors. See below for this work and how it relates to permaculture community creation.

The Highest Good Network software PR Review team also worked to test all of the above PRs and find any bugs they could within those PRs and the software as a whole. This week’s active members of this team and how many weeks they’ve been with us are as follows: Crystal Song (Software Engineer) completed her 3rd week, Jailson Sanches (Software Developer) completed his 3rd week, Jay Kang (Web Development Volunteer) completed his 3rd week, Lucas Emanuel Souza Silva (Software Developer) completed his 4th week.

Meenakshi Pavithran (Software Egineer) completed her 4th week, Natália Favaro Cavicchioli (Full-stack Developer) completed her 1st week, Nicolle Coelho (Software Engineer) completed her 1st week, Vitor Adriel (Software Engineer) completed his 4th week, and Xinyu Jiang (Software Engineer) completed her 6th week. The collage below shows some of the work from this team, see how they relate to permaculture community creation.

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