Cooperatively Improving the Standard of Living – One Community Weekly Progress Update #581

One Community is committed to cooperatively improving the standard of living for all. As an all-volunteer organization, we’re dedicated to pioneering sustainable approaches to food, energy, housing, education, economics, and social architecture. Our holistic model is designed to become self-replicating, forming a global collaboration of teacher/demonstration hubs. We’re driven by the principle of doing this for “The Highest Good of All” ensuring that everything we create is open source and free-shared. Join us in our journey towards evolving sustainability, creating a world that works for everyone, and regenerating our planet.

Cooperatively Improving the Standard of Living, One Community Weekly Progress Update #581

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One Community’s physical location will forward this movement for cooperatively improving the standard of living as the first of many self-replicating teacher/demonstration communities, villages, and cities to be built around the world. This is the May 6th, 2024 edition (#581) of our weekly progress update detailing our team’s development and accomplishments:

 

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HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING PROGRESS

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This week, Loza Ayehutsega (Civil Engineer/Assistant Civil Engineer) completed another week working on the Earth Dam risk assessment and dam break hazard assessment. She edited the Dam risk assessment section by adding some missing content. In addition, Loza is working on an Emergency action plan for the embankment dam. Creating an Emergency Action Plan (EAP) for an embankment dam is crucial for ensuring the safety of nearby communities and infrastructure. Ensuring dam safety measures and preparedness are a foundation of One Community’s open source earthworks as part of cooperatively improving the standard of living. See the pictures below for examples related to this work.

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Rizwan Syed (Mechanical Engineer) also continued helping to finish the Vermiculture Toilet designs. He focused on brainstorming design ideas for directing feces from the vermiculture toilet seat into a single chamber system, categorized into the removable and processing chamber. He reviewed challenges associated with sloped walls, material availability, and chamber size to develop ideas for his preliminary design. After assessing various options and considering criteria outlined for the vermiculture toilet, Rizwan designed a preliminary CAD model of the removable chamber compartment in SolidWorks, modeling a wooden box structure for the bottom removable chamber and a similar box for the upper processing chamber. By adding a slot opening on the processing chamber, he explored a potential solution for supporting the processing chamber contents during the removable chamber’s emptying process. The vermiculture toilets and other sustainable human waste processing technologies form the basis of One Community’s open source for cooperatively improving the standard of living. Here are a few photos showing examples of his work.

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Sajal Shah (Project Manager) continued managing completion of the Highest Good Energy components. She began her work by organizing advertisements and doing research. In doing so, she has prepared a set of targeted questions tailored for the recruitment process of an electrical engineer. This work aims to fortify the infrastructure development for the Earthbag Village, Duplicable City, and Straw Bale Village projects. The Highest Good Energy is an essential component of One Community’s open source model for cooperatively improving the standard of living. See below for some of the pictures related to this work.

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DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER PROGRESS

duplicable city center, open source city hub, laundry, dining, swimming pool, hot tub, kitchen, library, game roomOne Community is cooperatively improving the standard of living 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:

This week, Nika Gavran (Industrial Designer) continued her work on the Duplicable City Center dormer window installation plans. She directed her efforts towards integrating fastener placement and size onto the primary CAD file. Nika was introduced to Mounir, another volunteer assigned to the task, who assisted her in strategizing the selection of screws and determining the appropriate quantity to be placed on various sections of the dormer window. The Duplicable City Center is a foundational part of One Community’s open source plans for cooperatively improving the standard of living. See below for some of the pictures related to this work.

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HIGHEST GOOD FOOD PROGRESS

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This week, the core team continued updating and expanding the Highest Good Food tools, equipment, materials, and supplies document by adding new items and categorizing each item. Additionally, they revised the introduction of Hayley’s school integration research document, providing clarity through edits and suggesting improvements to sentence structure and overall document layout. Highest Good food is an important part of cooperatively improving the standard of living with One Community’s open source plans. See their work in the collage below.

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Charles Gooley (Web Designer) continued to work on various recipes as part of the Transition Food Self-sufficiency Plan. He continued his work on the recipes project, focusing on transferring recipes from the vegan rice recipe page to their respective new pages and alphabetizing them accordingly. He added numerous new recipes, such as Healthy Sprout Salad, Pasta Alla Puttanesca with Chicken, Sweet Potato Jackets with Guacamole and Kidney Beans, and replaced nine placeholder images with final provided images. Highest Good food is an important part of cooperatively improving the standard of living with One Community’s open source plans. See his work in the collage below.

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Hayley Rosario (Sustainability Research Assistant) continued helping finalize the Highest Good Food rollout plan. She completed the addition of new tools, equipment, materials, and supplies into the Highest Good Food document, including organizing images, names, and corresponding links alphabetically by category. Additionally, she reviewed portions of the Integration Program to plan tasks for the upcoming weeks. Good Housing and Highest Good food are an important part of cooperatively improving the standard of living with One Community’s open source plans. See her work in the collage below.

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HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION PROGRESS

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This week, Apoorv Pandey (Mechanical Engineer) continued helping with the engineering details for the The Ultimate Classroom part of the Highest Good Education component. He refined the title block format for the PDF review, addressing issues with several AutoCAD files that led to multiple PC crashes, finalizing the STAAD Pro files into PDF format, and exploring ways to enhance the existing straw bale design. Additionally, Apoorv worked on initiatives for sustainable building design within the state. The One Community model of combining forward-thinking education with sustainably built classrooms like this are an excellent example of cooperatively improving the standard of living with education. See the collage below for his work.

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HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY PROGRESS

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This week, the core team completed over 60 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. They also shot and incorporated the video above that talks about cooperatively improving the standard of living and how cooperatively improving the standard of living is a foundation of the bigger picture of everything One Community is doing. The pictures below show some of this work.

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Aaron Wang (Fundraising Assistant) continued his in-depth research on connections with Robert Downey Jr., collecting emails, LinkedIn profiles, and background information of individuals who may know Downey. This targeted effort is aimed at improving his ability to connect with funders by establishing relationships with key people associated with these donations. His methodical approach demonstrates his commitment to effectively networking and building meaningful connections within the philanthropic community, which helps One Community in our mission of cooperatively improving the standard of living. The following images highlight his progress for the week.

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Arun Chandar Ganesan (Volunteer Data Analyst and SEO and Social Media Assistant) continued his work related to social media scheduling for Facebook and Instagram. This week, he edited the draft of a tutorial covering the entire social media process, covering from adding admins to analyzing performance analytics. Additionally, he checked the SEO optimization of blog pages completed by other volunteers, while simultaneously updating the content strategy and developing content buckets for upcoming posts. Search engine optimization and regularly working on content are important parts of One Community‘s model for cooperatively improving the standard of living. The following images show his work for the week.

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Faisal Rasheed (Graphic Designer) made suggested changes to previous graphics to enhance clarity and ensure clear visualization. This week he recreated two essential Graphics: the “Large Group Consensus Governance Threshold Calculator” and the “Large Scale Consensus Governance Structure.” He also produced captivating graphics for “Consensus Governance with Groups,” enhancing the visual appeal of the material. Working on these graphics contributes to One Community‘s vision for cooperatively improving the standard of living. The images below show his progress for the week.

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Prashanth Gowri Shankar Uppudi (Admin and Project Manager) revised the informational content for the dashboard’s help icons to enhance user engagement and clarity. Updates included simplifying the Dashboard Overview with concise navigation instructions and emojis, clarifying the distinctions in Timesheet Management, refining the Task Timeline Overview for intuitive interaction, and streamlining the Badge Recognition System with engaging criteria descriptions. Suggestions for improving the “i” buttons focused on enhancing usability and aesthetics, proposing enhancements that improve user interaction and information accessibility. He also continued work on developing the HGN software user manual, creating reference material and drafting unstructured content for integration into the final document. Prashanth outlined key sections, including the dashboard overview, menu bar, theme toggle, timer component, navigation buttons, and profile settings. He further incorporated annotated screenshots to ensure clarity, and provided comments for review before final compilation to ensure the manual effectively guides all users through the platform’s features. Developing the HGN software user manual can help future members to work towards One Community‘s goal for cooperatively improving the standard of living. These images show the progress made this week.

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ADMINISTRATION TEAM

The Administration Team’s summary, covering their work administrating and managing most of One Community’s ongoing processes for cooperatively improving the standard of living was managed by Vriddhi Misra (Admin and Marketing Assistant) and includes Camilla Okello (Administrative Assistant), Durgeshwari Naikwade (Data Analyst), Jessica Fairbanks (Administrative Assistant), Jim Zhang (Administrative Assistant), Meenakshi Velayutham (Sustainability Associate), Olawunmi “Ola” Ijisesan (Administrative and Management Support), Rachna Malav (Data Analyst), Ram Shrivatsav (Data Analyst and Admin assistant)Ratna Meena Shivakumar (Data Analyst and Admin)Ruiqi Liu (Administrative Assistant)Sneka Vetriappan (Data Analyst)T R Samarth Urs (Data Analyst)Vibhav Chimatapu (Data Analyst/Admin Assistant), Xiaolai Li (Administrative Assistant), and Zuqi Li (Administrative Assistant and Economic Analyst). This week, Camilla worked on administrative duties while also optimizing her personal blog sites for improved visibility. Durgeshwari focused on interviewing for the Software Development Team and enhancing SEO strategies based on received feedback, alongside creating dashboard mockups and HR metrics analysis documentation. Jessica concentrated on volunteer recruitment for the Highest Good Food project, integrating reviewed ads into Volunteer Match with enhanced content.

Jim familiarized himself with administrative requirements and completed orientation tasks, including blog editing and team summary reviews. Meenakshi primarily handled admin tasks, including bio announcements and tutorial creation, along with verifying software member profiles. Ola contributed to summary reports, PR team reviews, and onboarding new volunteers, while also updating team worksheets. Rachna did her part helping with our process for cooperatively improving the standard of living as she worked on incorporating feedback into her tasks, collaborating with the SEO team, and understanding One Community’s organizational structure. Ram provided feedback and guidance to new team members, corrected previous work, and focused on training for PR review management. Ratna reviewed progress updates, took virtual interviews, and provided feedback on blogs by other team members.

Ruiqi engaged in team reviews, created collages, and contributed to SEO optimization efforts, alongside assisting in new admin training. Sneka re-edited SEO pages, addressed comments, and reviewed time log entries, ensuring accuracy and task assignments were correct. Samarth managed the PR review team, applied SEO techniques to blog posts, and reviewed fellow team members’ work. Vibhav reviewed PR teamwork, created summaries and collages, and continued on-page SEO optimization, improving blog scores. Vriddhi optimized blogs, managed OC Administration tasks, and led team members in understanding review processes and responsibilities. Xiaolai completed weekly progress updates, assisted with trainees, and organized documents, while also setting up webpages. Zuqi organized weekly summaries, updated blogs, optimized content, and familiarized herself with admin manager workflows, following her promotion. One Community’s model for cooperatively improving the standard of living includes developing and maintaining a huge administration team like this. You can see the work for the team in the image below.

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GRAPHIC DESIGN TEAM

The Graphic Design Team’s summary was managed by Zuqi Li (Administrative Assistant and Economic Analyst) and included Ashlesha Navale (Graphic Designer), Britney Robles (Graphic Designer), Jasmine Soria (Graphic Designer), Nancy Mónchez (Graphic Designer)P D Tharanga Pathirana (Graphic Designer), Shayan Afkari (Graphic Designer) and Zixi Zhang (Graphic Designer), covering their work on graphic designs for cooperatively improving the standard of living. Ashlesha worked on the creation of twenty-seven recipe images for the Graphic Design Task – Recipe Images for Site Task, along with curating nature-based and theme-based images for social media. Britney focused on producing social media images showcasing One Community’s housing options, alongside creating bio images and announcements.

Jasmine completed three graphics, incorporating feedback and initiating work on a fourth, while also organizing progress uploads. Nancy refined design concepts through layout tests, ensuring alignment with project goals. Tharanga worked on updating profiles, reviewing and enhancing announcements, and preparing for profile page updates. Shayan created bioimages and announcements, and uploaded them to the website, while also generating Facebook images. Zixi created seven social media images using Photoshop and Adobe Firefly AI, revising previous work and completing profile images and announcements. See the Highest Good Society pages for more on how this contributes to cooperatively improving the standard of living. See the collage below to view some of their work.

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HIGHEST GOOD NETWORK PROGRESS

Highest Good Network® Application, improving city efficiency, creating the world we wantOne Community is cooperatively improving the standard of living through open source Highest Good Network® software that is a web-based application for collaboration, time tracking, and objective data collection. The purpose of the Highest Good Network is to provide software for internal operations and external cooperation. It is being designed for global use in support of the different countries and communities replicating the One Community sustainable village models and related components.

  • Learn about this open source community collaboration and management software and how it is being used for objectively documenting and measuring our processes for cooperatively improving the standard of living: The Highest Good Network

This week, the core team continued their work on the Highest Good Network PRs testing, confirming the fixed PRs. This included PR2089, which addressed the Assign Badges permission function, PR2043, which added protected routes to safeguard access to WBS components, PR1852, which fixed an incorrect End date on the Reports page, and PR# 802, which addressed the issue of missing icons related to badges on the Weekly Summaries Reports page. However, she encountered unresolved issues with PRs related to user management functionalities, specifically regarding the “Other Links” to “User Management” option and the permission to add/remove users from projects. Additionally, they identified formatting issues with the Weekly Summaries submission page in PR2084. Beyond PR testing, the core team also documented issues with submitting Weekly Summary Reports for others and encountering a white screen while navigating through certain admin functions, recording related videos and documenting the issues for further review and resolution. See the Highest Good Society and Highest Good Network pages for more on how this relates to cooperatively improving the standard of living. The collage below shows some of their work.

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ALPHA SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT TEAM

The Alpha Team’s summary, covering their work on the Highest Good Network software was managed by Sucheta Mukherjee (Software Developer) and includes Anand Seshadri (Software Engineer), Gayathridevi Chithambaram (Full Stack Developer), Jordy Corporan (Software Engineer), and Lin Khant Htel (Frontend Software Developer). The Highest Good Network software is how we’ll be managing and objectively measuring our process for cooperatively improving the standard of living across our social architecture, construction, production, and maintenance processes. This week, Anand worked on Dark Mode Modals change in the Reports page. He began by studying the documentation on themes, layouts, state variables, and implementation details for the Dark Mode feature, authored by Nahiyan. Drawing insights from the implementation of Dark Mode on other pages like the Dashboard and Report, Anand then focused on implementing the feature for the Add Lost Time modal. He completed this task by incorporating conditional color rendering based on the selected radio button, referencing PR 2128 and PR 2105 for guidance.

Jordy did his part helping with this software’s function for cooperatively improving the standard of living as he expanded his proficiency in unit testing, focusing particularly on Jest while developing tests for the notification controller. He reviewed pull requests related to testing strategies, examining PR#921, PR#912, and PR#2210. Additionally, he finalized the unit tests for the notification controller and created PR#925, covering more than five methods, ensuring that the code was clean and readable. Sucheta’s primary focus was on learning and understanding the useReducer hook in React, which is extensively utilized in the HGN app. The process involved comprehending the separation and maintenance of each part, including constants, reducer functions, and actions within our web application. A key task was the implementation of a filter function to retrieve projects related to a specific user based on their first and last names, with further work planned for early next week.

Gayathridevi improved the design of the Projects/People/Teams page for narrow screens, ensuring search results are immediately visible without scrolling down. Lin reviewed 9 pull requests and approved 7 of them on the HGN GitHub repository. He also continued to expand his understanding of codebases, file structures, and components throughout the week. See the Highest Good Society and Highest Good Network pages for more on how this relates to cooperatively improving the standard of living. View some of the team’s work in the collage below.

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BADGES BUGS SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT TEAM

The Badges Bugs Team’s summary overseeing advancements in the Highest Good Network software was managed by Shaofeng Li (Software Engineer) and includes Renan Luiz Santiago Martins César (Full-stack developer)Summit Kaushal (Backend Software Developer), Xiao Zhang (Software Engineer), and Xiaohan Meng (Software Engineer). The Highest Good Network software is how we’ll be managing and objectively measuring our process for cooperatively improving the standard of living through our social architecture, construction, production, and maintenance processes. This week, Shaofeng worked on HGN Software Development tasks, such as submitting the weekly summary and images, reviewing team members’ reports, had a meeting with Xiao about Azure platform badges, organizing a team meeting to monitor progress, following up on testing with Xiaohan and Renan, and assigning Xiao a new task for badge management on Azure. Summit did his part helping with this software’s function for cooperatively improving the standard of living as he managed the Monday meeting and debugged code, resolving a data discrepancy and implementing a potential solution. Even though there was a data duplication issue and zeros were added to saved tangible hours, Summit ultimately corrected the duplication problem and updated a database function for accurate data. However, further testing revealed the function update wasn’t effective, so it was abandoned, leading Summit to continue debugging. After final tests, a test guide was made for the PR, and the PR was submitted with an issue regarding dates also addressed.

Xiao researched Microsoft Azure to prepare for removing incorrectly assigned badges by studying technical resources and crafting an effective plan to reassign them efficiently while maintaining the badge system’s integrity. He identified badges needing correction and strategized a way to implement changes without disrupting ongoing projects. Xiaohan began testing the ‘X hours X week streak’ badges by reviewing Renan’s PR901 to verify feature functionality, familiarizing herself with his backend code, and testing the 30-hour and 40-hour badges to ensure proper automatic assignment across scenarios. See the Highest Good Society and Highest Good Network pages for more on how this relates to cooperatively improving the standard of living. View some of the team’s work in the collage below.

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BINARY BRIGADE SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT TEAM

The Binary Brigade Team’s summary overseeing advancements in the Highest Good Network software was managed by Tapan Pathak (Software Engineer) and includes Aaryaneil Nimbalkar (Software Developer) and Huijie Liu (Software Engineer). The Highest Good Network software is how we’ll be managing and objectively measuring our process for cooperatively improving the standard of living through our social architecture, construction, production, and maintenance processes. This week, Aaryaneil undertook reviews of PRs #2224, #925, #916, #2205, #913, #2193, #921, #920, and #2219 while initiating their learning process on unit testing and writing unit tests for VolunteeringTimeTab/VolunteeringTimeTab.jsx.

Huijie focused on resolving the bug concerning inconsistencies in logged time between the “timelog” and “profile” pages, noting shared sources of inaccuracy and bugs within the controller code for the editing time entry operation. Tapan did his part helping with this software’s function for cooperatively improving the standard of living as he reviewed teammates’ previous week summaries, time logs, photos, and videos, providing feedback and completing all managerial tasks. He ran the weekly meeting, gathering updates and ensuring necessary resources. Tapan addressed the task of fixing the timelogs tab, progressing to approximately 80% completion after analyzing the codebase and initiating changes. He compiled his weekly summary, documented work through videos and photos, and organized a new folder in Dropbox for the team’s pictures, selecting the best images of each member. See the Highest Good Society and Highest Good Network pages for more on how this relates to cooperatively improving the standard of living. View some of the team’s work in the collage below.

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BLUE STEEL SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT TEAM

The Blue Steel Team’s summary, presenting their work on the Highest Good Network software was managed by Jingyi Jia (Software Engineer), and includes Nathan Hoffman (Software Engineer, Team Manager), Parth Rasu Jangid (Software Developer), Tzu Ning “Leo” Chueh (Software Engineer), and Xiao Wang (Software Engineer). The Highest Good Network software is how we’ll be managing and objectively measuring our process for cooperatively improving the standard of living across our social architecture, construction, production, and maintenance processes. This week, Nathan assisted with Postman troubleshooting on Slack, searched for Postman documentation, responded to Slack messages, and addressed various issues, including creating a PR to update createInitialPermissions.js with desired permissions for default roles. He also completed PRs for separating editTimeEntry into smaller permissions. Jingyi Jia did her part helping with this software’s function for cooperatively improving the standard of living as she submitted a pull request for task 59 on the Highest Good Network App and worked on the “toggleTangibleTimeSelf” permission management. She then started working on the “readyForReview” permission, developing new logic due to its dependence on user roles.

Xiao submitted two time entries related to a white screen issue caused by deleted tasks and data. He refactored the project controller for getUserProjects on the backend and initiated changes to the Projects component on the frontend to clarify its logic. Xiao also continued refactoring Project-related components for better functionality. Parth completed four PR reviews and focused on refining the unit test for the forgotPwdController.js of the HGNRest repository. He engaged in discussions with Abi from the unit-testing team and tested an additional function, preparing to seek review before submitting a PR. Tzu Ning addressed several linting issues in the project’s codebase, resolved path errors for missing image assets, reordered imports to align with project conventions, and used Prettier and eslint –fix to ensure code consistency. See the Highest Good Society and Highest Good Network pages for more on how this contributes to cooperatively improving the standard of living. See below to view their work.

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CODE CRAFTERS SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT TEAM

The Code Crafters Team’s summary, covering their work on the Highest Good Network software, was managed by Anirudh Ghildiyal (Software Engineer) and includes Anirudh Dutt (Software Engineer)Ramya Ramasamy (Software Engineer)Meet Padhiar (Software Engineer)Weiyao Li (Software Engineer) and Xiaoyu Chen (Software Engineer). The Highest Good Network software is how we’ll be managing and objectively measuring our process for cooperatively improving the standard of living through our social architecture, construction, production, and maintenance processes. This week, Xiaoyu focused on unit testing, ensuring the success of error catches for various functions like getInfo, addInfo, deleteInfo, and updateInfo, as well as handling scenarios involving duplicate info names and cache management. She encountered challenges with 400 errors in the Information Controller but successfully modified the addInfo function to address them.

Additionally, Xiaoyu resolved a 200 status issue in the Get Information function and fixed potential issues with the setCache function. Meanwhile, Anirudh did his part helping with this software’s function for cooperatively improving the standard of living as he submitted login controller unit tests for review and resolved merge conflicts for older PRs, including completely redoing the End Date display task and creating new branches and PRs for it. He also worked on creating a new user feature, reading the system design document for managing user permissions, and updating existing code to meet new requirements, albeit facing challenges with JavaScript grammar problems and testing issues that require further attention. See the Highest Good Society and Highest Good Network pages for more on how this relates to cooperatively improving the standard of living. The collage below shows some of this work.

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DEV DYNASTY SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT TEAM

The Dev Dynasty Team’s summary, covering their work on the Highest Good Network software, was managed by Nahiyan Ahmed (Full Stack Software Developer) and includes Harsh Bodgal (Software Engineer), and Mingqian Chen (Software Engineer). The Highest Good Network software is how we’ll measure cooperatively improving the standard of living as we’re developing our social architecture, construction, production, and maintenance processes. Harsh contributed to the code review process by providing insights and feedback on multiple Pull Requests, including #2205, #2210, #2212, #2213, #2214, #2219, #2220, #2222, #2223, and #2225, with some PRs subsequently marked “DO NOT Review” after his review. Mingqian addressed the discrepancy issue in PR 2215 and applied to join Diego’s unit testing team, currently awaiting approval while also working on prerequisites (PR 803, 804, and 805) for the team.

Nahiyan completed PR 2219, focusing on implementing a dark mode for dashboard modals, addressing models within the header, time entry modal, Tasks and Timelogs area, weekly summaries, badge, and leaderboard components to ensure consistency across modal instances within these components. See the Highest Good Society and Highest Good Network pages for more on how this relates to cooperatively improving the standard of living. The collage below shows some of this work.

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EXPRESSERS SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT TEAM

The Expressers Team’s summary, covering their work on the Highest Good Network software, was managed by Christy Guo (Software Engineer) and includes Ilya Flaks (Software Engineer), KyoSook Shin (Software Engineer), Mohammad Abbas (Software Engineer), and Tareq Mia (Software Engineer). The Highest Good Network software is how we’ll be managing and objectively measuring our process for cooperatively improving the standard of living across our social architecture, construction, production, and maintenance processes. Christy reviewed documentation and refined test cases for the team controller, with a focus on improving both unit and integration tests. She also initiated follow-up pull requests to address inconsistencies across various tabs, updating unit tests and integration tests in the teamController file and pushing them for review.

Ilya resolved merge conflicts for PRs #2193 and #913, as well as Yixiao’s PR #2038, before delving into the “4.5.4 Add routing, controllers for Log Tool request” task. He reviewed frontend code by Miguel Reniva, creating a new branch to incorporate selected elements while enhancing functionality to filter tool types based on selected projects and actions. Additionally, Ilya explored dropdown component options to display human-readable codes within table cells, ultimately selecting the “react-select” library for its versatility and user-friendly interface. KyoSook did her part helping with this software’s function for cooperatively improving the standard of living as she reviewed and approved several pull requests, including those focused on unit tests, page rendering alignment, and filtering options. Mohammad implemented the “Show Hours on Badge” task. Tareq focused on publishing his PR for the map component table feature, encountering issues with compatibility with the app’s dark mode, which he addressed before resuming work on the Reusables Single Update feature. See the Highest Good Society and Highest Good Network pages for more on how this relates to cooperatively improving the standard of living. The collage below shows some of this work.

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GIT-R-DONE SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT TEAM

The Git-R-Done Team’s summary, covering their work on the Highest Good Network software, was managed by Hiral Soni (Full Stack Developer) and includes Chris Chen (Software Engineer Intern), Nidhi Galgali (Software Developer), Rhea Wu (Software Engineer), and Sushmitha Prathap (Software Developer). The Highest Good Network software is how we’ll be managing and objectively measuring our process for cooperatively improving the standard of living across our social architecture, construction, production, and maintenance processes. This week, Chris addressed the issue of “Update Equipment” pull requests on the BMDashboard for phase 2 development, creating necessary JSX and CSS files, adding routing, and configuring URL handling for equipment updates. The frontend changes were encapsulated in a pull request targeting the development branch directly, requiring no backend modifications. Although the page fetches and displays equipment data correctly, updates made on the page do not change database entries yet due to backend limitations.

Chris also resolved UI issues, improving readability and the user interface by replacing input tags with div elements for read-only fields. Hiral focused on formatting the profile page, updating the design for the status component in the basic information section and improving the design of the team table in the absence of a team assignment for the user. Nidhi developed a test suite to validate button presence based on the count of blue squares, addressing prior errors stemming from improper mocking of components and useState. Rhea did her part helping with this software’s function for cooperatively improving the standard of living as she concentrated on testing the buildingIssue task, updating the codebase by updating the route’s endpoint for the Issue router, and enhancing her skills through tutorials and articles. Sushmitha joined the Advanced testing team, familiarizing herself with team resources and beginning work on a lesson task, which she transitioned upon encountering an existing pull request. She continued learning by completing video materials and initiated unit testing for the project controller, contributing to collaborative efforts by reviewing pull request submissions. See the Highest Good Society and Highest Good Network pages for more on how this relates to cooperatively improving the standard of living. See the collage below for the team’s work this week.

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MOONFALL’S SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT TEAM

Moonfall Team’s summary, covering their work on the Highest Good Network software, was managed by Lu Wang (Software Engineer) and includes Abdelmounaim “Abdel” Lallouache (Software Developer), Haoji Bian (Software Engineer), Imran Issa (Software Developer), Jiadong Zhang (Software Engineer) and Malav Patel (Software developer). The Highest Good Network software is how we’ll be managing and objectively measuring our process for cooperatively improving the standard of living throughout our social architecture, construction, production, and maintenance processes. Abdelmounaim adjusted the blue square scheduler to restrict users to scheduling only four blue squares, refined the taskboard table’s styling for optimal display on small screens, and took part in peer review sessions..

Haoji made progress in improving application efficiency and resolving pull requests for the pics project, handling management tasks and implementing optimizations to reduce loading time for fetching profile images by 80%. Iven implemented a multi-select component in the frontend, added team codes to user data for filtering in the backend, and worked on populating team names into the team member data and building corresponding option lists and filtering functions. Jiadong did his part helping with this software’s function for cooperatively improving the standard of living as he replaced badges on the dashboard, addressed pull request comments, implemented debugging enhancements, and refactored existing APIs with additional exception-handling mechanisms to improve code robustness. Malav focused on fixing bugs in the DELETE_TIME_ENTRY_OTHERS feature and HGN software development, making changes to restrict volunteer permissions. See the Highest Good Society and Highest Good Network pages for more on how this relates to cooperatively improving the standard of living. Look below for a collage of their work.

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REACTONAUTS’ SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT TEAM

Reactonauts’ Team’s summary, covering their work on the Highest Good Network software, was managed by Masasa Thapelo (Software Engineer) and includes Changhao Li (Software Engineer), Dhairya Mehta (Software Engineer), Hetvi Patel (Full stack Developer), Hoang Pham (Software Developer), Peterson Rodrigues (Full-Stack MERN Stack Developer) and Vikram Badhan (Software Engineer). The Highest Good Network software is how we’ll be managing and objectively measuring our process for cooperatively improving the standard of living throughout our social architecture, construction, production, and maintenance processes. Changhao focused on unit test development for timeentry.jsx, rectifying previous tests and adding new ones for edge cases, as well as creating the weekly team pic folder and reporting progress in the team meeting. Dhairya resolved the “Fix Projects find user function” task by identifying and addressing underlying issues, initiating the development of a sort and search function to streamline user assignment processes within the project section. Hetvi focused on developing a unit test suite for ‘reportsController.js’, defining test cases, reviewing functionality, and resolving errors encountered during testing.

Hoang resolved header display issues and implemented functionality for higher roles to manage time on behalf of lower roles. Masasa did his part helping with this software’s function for cooperatively improving the standard of living as he managed the weekly summary and hosted group meetings. Peterson identified and documented a bug in the HGN app, fixed conflicts in backend pull requests, and merged them into the development branch. Vikram worked on unit testing for the WeeklySummaryOptions.jsx and ToggleSwitchContainer.jsx files, implementing various test cases to ensure functionality and reliability, alongside participating in pull request reviews and contributing to pull requests. See the Highest Good Society and Highest Good Network pages for more on how this relates to cooperatively improving the standard of living. Look below for pictures of this work.

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SKYE’S SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT TEAM

Skye’s summary, covering their work on the Highest Good Network software, was managed by Luis Arevalo (Front End Developer) and includes Abi Liu (Software Engineer), Clemar Nunes (Web Developer), Jiarong Li (Software Engineer) and Yao Wang (Software Engineer). The Highest Good Network software is how we’ll be managing and objectively measuring our process for cooperatively improving the standard of living throughout our social architecture, construction, production, and maintenance processes. Abi hosted peer programming sessions with Parth, Luis, and Christy, where he provided mentorship on unit testing best practices and assisted in resolving any issues they encountered. Additionally, he completed the implementation of integration tests for the WBS Controller.

Clemar implemented a reminder feature to prompt users to save changes in the Permissions Management page. Jiarong focused on enhancing the HGN Software Development’s User Management Page by enabling the columns to be editable by the Owner. Luis did his part helping with this software’s function for cooperatively improving the standard of living as he completed work on the getPermission controller, resolved merge conflicts on his previous PR, and had it merged by Jae. Yao developed a new feature for the BlueSquare button that displays information when the mouse hovers over it. Yao also completed the coding for a feature that sends emails to the owner and manager when the “deactivate” action is triggered. See the Highest Good Society and Highest Good Network pages for more on how this relates to cooperatively improving the standard of living. See the collage below for some of their work.

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SOFTWARE PR REVIEW TEAM A-L

The PR Review Team’s summaries for team members’ names starting with A-L and covering their work on the Highest Good Network software was managed by Vibhav Chimatapu (Data Analyst/Admin Assistant). The Highest Good Network software is a foundation of what we’ll be using to measure our results as we’re cooperatively improving the standard of living. This week’s active members of this team were: Carl Bebli (Software Engineer), Carlos Gomez (Full-stack Software Developer), Dikshita Kejriwal (Software Engineer), KaiKane Lacno (Software Developer and Team Manager), Kaushik Malikireddy (Full-stack Developer Intern) and Kurtis Ivey (Software Engineer). They reviewed all the Highest Good Network PRs (Pull Requests) shared in this week’s update. Learn more about how the Highest Good Network will measure and assist in cooperatively improving the standard of living in the Highest Good Network open source hub. The collage below shows a compilation of the work from this team.

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The PR Review Team’s summaries for team members’ names starting with M-Z and covering their work on the Highest Good Network software was managed by Olawunmi Ijisesan (Administrative and Management Support) and Samarth Urs (Administrative Assistant and Data Analyst). The Highest Good Network software is a foundation of what we’ll be using to measure our results of cooperatively improving the standard of living. This week’s active members of this team were: Gowtham Dongari (Software Engineer), Min Sun (Software Engineer), Mohamed Sharif (Software Engineer), Olga Yudkin (Software Engineer), Ramakrishna Aruva (Software Engineer), Ramya Ramasamy (Full Stack Developer), Shigeki Furukawa (Frontend Developer), Shivani Adusumilli (Software Engineer) Sichun Wang(Software Engineer), Tim Kent (Full Stack Software Engineer), Yiyun Tan (Software Engineer), Youyou Zhang (Software Developer) and Zijie Yu (Software Engineer). They reviewed all the Highest Good Network PRs (Pull Requests) shared in this week’s update. Learn more about how the Highest Good Network will measure and assist in cooperatively improving the standard of living in the Highest Good Network open source hub. The collage below shows a compilation of the work from this team.

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