One CommunityActive Eco-reinvention of Our World – One Community Weekly Progress Update #692
One Community is an all-volunteer team engaged in the active eco-reinvention of our world. We develop open source, free-shared models for sustainable food, energy, housing, education, economics, and social architecture to support fulfilled living and global stewardship. Our self-replicating framework will grow into a worldwide collaboration of teacher/demonstration hubs, regenerating our planet and evolving sustainability for everyone. Everything we create is freely shared in service of “The Highest Good of All.”
- 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 June 22, 2026 edition (#692 of our weekly progress update detailing our team’s development and accomplishments:
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HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING PROGRESS
One Community is demonstrating active eco-reinvention of our world 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 and active eco-reinvention of our world: 7 Sustainable Village Models
- Visit the open source portals for the first two: Earthbag Village OS Hub | Straw Bale Village OS Hub
This week, Devendranath Chowdary Maganti (Administrative Assistant) worked on the Highest Good Network Tracker, making updates and revisions following the acceptance of the first draft by Jae. He implemented requested changes, added new features, and refined existing functionality based on feedback and project requirements. Devendranath also supported team members through training and onboarding reviews, provided feedback where needed, and helped ensure that onboarding tasks and related documentation met project expectations. In addition, he communicated with team members regarding review comments and supported administrative activities as needed. His efforts contribute to active eco-reinvention of our world by improving collaboration systems and supporting efficient project management processes. Below, you’ll find some images of this work.
Gaurang Pawar (Architectural Designer) focused on developing and refining key building sections this week while coordinating closely with Michaela’s drawings and the four-dome structure to ensure architectural accuracy. Multiple technical sections were generated directly from the SketchUp model, including a cross-section cut perpendicular to the model axis to analyze spatial relationships and a longitudinal section taken from the rear of the structure to highlight the stairs extending to the roof level supporting the active eco-reinvention of our world.
Because the initial vector exports from the 3D model contained fragmented and broken lines, significant effort was dedicated to drafting quality control. Gaurang cleaned and redrew the exported geometry to create clear, continuous, and professional linework. Once the geometry was corrected and verified against the reference drawings, the finalized sections were imported into layout space for proper scaling, formatting, and presentation. This work supports active eco-reinvention of our world through the creation of accurate and replicable architectural documentation. Review the latest updates in the images below.
Rajeshwari Bhirud (Software Engineer), working as a web designer, continued focusing on the Vermiculture Eco-Toilet Design webpage. She completed low- and high-temperature vermiculture content, updated the Operating Conditions and Schedule section, and revised Excel tables, links, formatting, and notes for smooth blog integration. She also fixed redirections in the Slider Design and Calculations section, added temperature control content, optimized images, and maintained styling consistency throughout. FEA/Analytical Calculations for the Unistrut Structure were added as a redirection from the structural layout portion of the vermiculture blog, along with supporting tables in both the webpage and the associated Excel sheet. In addition, Rajeshwari added summaries to the Step 2 document and Blog #691 for the Binary Brigade team, commented on all team members’ documents, uploaded images to the Dropbox folder, updated the Step 4 table for final review, and maintained SEO-optimized images and the team collage. Her efforts support active eco-reinvention of our world by strengthening the quality and accessibility of open-source engineering documentation. Below, you’ll find some images of this work.
Rishi Chakrapani (Mechanical Engineer) continued working on the Vermiculture Toilet. He incorporated Jae’s most recent feedback into both reports through updates to the content, formatting, and supporting details. The Bill of Materials was revised to reflect the latest information, and the CAD images were improved to provide clearer visual references within the documentation. In addition, the project files stored in Dropbox were reorganized and cleaned up to improve accessibility and make it easier to locate and manage the associated files and resources. His efforts support active eco-reinvention of our world by strengthening the quality and accessibility of open-source engineering documentation. Below, you’ll find some images of this work.
Sagar Chavan (Transportation Engineer) worked on the Earthbag Village stormwater management and rainwater harvesting documentation by reviewing the stormwater management plan, pipe layout, catch basin locations, greywater pond connections, and related drainage flow information. He reviewed the existing runoff calculation sheet and noted that one section was based on rectangular drain channel dimensions, while the Earthbag Village design uses round storm drains and subsurface perforated pipes, making that portion less directly applicable to the current design. This week’s progress advances active eco-reinvention of our world across multiple project areas.
Sagar also reviewed the Net-Zero Bathroom requirements and features to better understand how rainfall, rainwater catchment, storage, and water-saving fixtures support the overall village water system. He connected the calculation notes, site drainage layout, pipe network details, and bathroom water-use information to the LEED stormwater management tutorial and cost analysis documentation. This work contributes to active eco-reinvention of our world by supporting integrated water management strategies and sustainable infrastructure planning. See below for some of the pictures related to this work.
DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER PROGRESS
One Community is demonstrating active eco-reinvention of our world 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, its function, and active eco-reinvention of our world: Duplicable City Center Open Source Hub
This week, Bevan Chiu (Mechanical Engineer) continued his work finishing the City Center Eco-spa Designs. He worked on the outdoor FEA insulation sweet spot model to evaluate the effectiveness of Rockwool insulation thicknesses beyond the indoor 16-inch limit. The work included updating the geometry and mesh settings and computing the heat loss for insulation thicknesses of 20 inches, 35 inches, and 50 inches using FEA. He also began a cost-benefit analysis of the insulation options by estimating the upfront material cost of Rockwool insulation at different thicknesses and comparing these values with the corresponding conduction-related operating costs. In addition, he developed a graph to support the insulation sweet spot analysis and illustrate the relationship between insulation thickness, upfront cost, and operating cost savings. This open source Duplicable City Center project focuses on the active eco-reinvention of our world. For more details, refer to the image below.
HIGHEST GOOD FOOD PROGRESS
One Community is demonstrating active eco-reinvention of our world 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 and active eco-reinvention of our world: 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 continued working on the Master Tools, Equipment, and Materials/Supplies List for the Large-scale Garden, Botanical Garden, and other Highest Good Food components, focusing on electrical, gardening, composting, and fencing project entities. They added an exhaust fan to the spray booth to extract air and discharge it above the roof on the leeward side, directing odors away from the windows of the ASHP and WSHP work areas. They then added the GSI acronym to all entities where the TEMS would be stored. Their efforts contribute to One Community’s mission of active eco-reinvention of our world through open-source collaboration, ecologically responsible innovation, and a focus on long-term global development. The collage below portrays the team’s efforts and achievements for the week.
Chelsea Mariah Stellmach (Project Manager) continued her work on several One Community projects, including the phased rollout, kitchen inventory software build, and governance software design mockup. She completed the rollout equipment pricing for Phase 2 and collaborated with Tyson to begin equipment pricing for Phase 3. Her work included researching, documenting, and adding equipment and supply items related to beekeeping and other sustainable farming practices to support Phase 3 planning and implementation efforts. These contributions support active eco-reinvention of our world by strengthening both technical execution and design alignment across the platform. See the collage below for this week’s progress.
Jay Nair (BIM Designer) continued working on the Aquapini and Walipini Planting and Harvesting documents. He focused on creating a plant library to support the greenhouse lighting energy calculator. The work involved compiling plant-specific lighting requirements, including relevant growth and lighting parameters, and organizing the information into a structured format for use within the calculator. The plant library was built to improve consistency, reduce manual data entry, and support more accurate lighting energy calculations for greenhouse projects. These updates improve the stability and adaptability of shared systems, supporting the broader goal of active eco-reinvention of our world. See the collage below portraying the work done this week.
Prudhvi Marpina (Data Analyst) continued supporting work across Highest Good Food and Highest Good Education, Highest Good Network, marketing, and administration activities. He worked on the Food Procurement and Storage page by implementing final corrections based on feedback from Jae and Tyson, updating content, refining page elements, and making the necessary WordPress changes to prepare the page for completion. This work helps expand active eco-reinvention of our world through open-source sharing and transparency.
On the Ultimate Classroom Footer, Foundation, and Flooring Design and Engineering page, Prudhvi transferred content from the source document, designed new sections, applied formatting updates, and improved the overall page structure in WordPress. He also supported Phase 5 governance by updating action items, expanding action item descriptions, and making related updates to the Figma requirements and project documentation. This work supports One Community’s mission of active eco-reinvention of our world. See below for images showcasing his work.
Shivangi Varma (Architectural Designer and Planner) continued working on the redesign of the Highest Good Food overall presentation. She shared the final pending Open Source Hub diagrams for review, completed the 3D and render for ADA access, and finalized the ADA access diagram for the Open Source Hub page. She also completed the sun study diagrams for the Open Source Hub pages and prepared the related graphics for review as part of the remaining OSH deliverables. This work supports One Community’s mission of active eco-reinvention of our world. See below for images showcasing her work.
HIGHEST GOOD ENERGY PROGRESS
One Community is demonstrating active eco-reinvention of our world through Highest Good energy that is more sustainable, resilient, supports self-sufficiency and includes solar, wind, hydro and more:
- Learn about the open source sustainable-energy foundations and active eco-reinvention of our world: Solar, Hydro, and Wind
- Explore our research into the most sustainable products and companies for saving water and energy: Insulation, Eco-laundry, Lightbulbs and Light Bulb Companies, Doors and Door Companies, Windows and Window Companies, Toilets, Faucets and Faucet Accessories, Urinals, and more.
This week, the core team continued contributing to the Highest Good Energy initiative. They completed the review of the Food Procurement and Storage webpage and provided feedback on updates to the table of contents and the addition of links. They watched the feedback video for the Aircrete Summary document and began reviewing it with initial feedback, then started reviewing the Hot Tub Solar System Design document and noted that much of the previously provided feedback had not yet been incorporated. This work contributes to active eco-reinvention of our world, as shown in the collage below.
Shameera Musthafa (Data Analyst) continued contributing to the Highest Good Energy initiative while also supporting OC Administration and the PR Review Team by coordinating PR review workflows, checking the work of both the Admin and PR teams, and providing feedback to improve accuracy, clarity, and consistency across deliverables. As part of PR review coordination, she organized and categorized project images, created visual collages, and finalized blog-related content so the visual and written materials were properly prepared and documented. This week’s work continues active eco-reinvention of our world with focused and iterative enhancements.
Shameera also contributed to the Highest Good Energy report pages and related visualizations while managing the One Community Bluesky social media account by creating and publishing posts to share project updates and support outreach and engagement. She supported the hiring process by interviewing and evaluating candidates. She also completed end-to-end testing of the PR Review Team Admin Dashboard by validating key workflows, identifying issues, documenting results, and helping confirm that the dashboard functioned as intended. This work plays a key role in the active eco-reinvention of our world. See below for images showcasing her work.
Rohan Pariakar (Operations and Supply Chain Analyst) recently joined the team and began contributing to the Highest Good Energy initiative. He analyzed generator loading assumptions to check whether the existing energy model applied the documented reserve-margin methodology consistently, reviewing equipment power requirements, operating schedules, and daily consumption patterns for the 3–20 person phase. He recalculated generator output percentages using demand-based calculations and a 15% reserve margin, replacing manually assigned loading values where applicable, then evaluated fuel-consumption estimates against manufacturer data and developed a dynamic methodology that links fuel usage directly to generator loading conditions. Comparing generator-only and battery-assisted scenarios, Rohan assessed differences in fuel consumption, operating costs, and infrastructure requirements, and examined existing assumptions for diesel fuel pricing, generator procurement costs, battery storage, and equipment specifications to flag areas needing validation. These updates formed part of ongoing efforts focused on active eco-reinvention of our world.
Rohan also tested battery-storage assumptions against available commercial systems, explored phased expansion scenarios for larger population ranges, and reviewed the project energy infrastructure budgets across generators, battery storage, solar, and wind to clarify how renewable generation, backup generation, and grid interconnection relate and to identify information still needed to validate long-term energy and storage assumptions. These updates help scale active eco-reinvention of our world across teams and disciplines. See below for images showcasing his work.
HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION PROGRESS
One Community is demonstrating active eco-reinvention of our world 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 in designing human orchestrated eco-abundance and active eco-reinvention of our world: 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
Jung Ah “Romey” Choi (Graphic Designer) recently joined the team and began redesigning the book from the ground up to align with the PubHTML5 format and the user experience requirements. The original 2D book cover was reworked into a more realistic 3D visual concept, and the design of Chapters 1–3 was completed across 16 pages. These updates strengthen the stability and flexibility of shared systems, advancing the broader goal of active eco-reinvention of our world. See the collage below portraying the work done this week.
HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY PROGRESS
One Community is demonstrating active eco-reinvention of our world 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 and active eco-reinvention of our world: 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 42 hours managing volunteer work reviews, handling emails, overseeing social media accounts, supporting web development, and identifying and integrating bug fixes for the Highest Good Network. They also interviewed and onboarded new volunteer team members. Additionally, they produced and integrated the video above, which highlights how making an active eco-reinvention of our world serves as a foundational element of One Community’s broader mission. The following images showcase highlights of this work.
Pooja Kulkarni (UI/UX Designer) continued designing and refining multiple variations of the Highest Good Network Total Organization Governance Summary dashboard to support public reporting, executive visibility, and governance analytics. She refined the structure of the KPI section, performance trends, governance health overview, transparency record, and key initiatives section to make the dashboard easier to scan, and built hover-based popups and tooltips to explain charts, metrics, group statuses, and data points without adding too much text to the page. This work contributes to active eco-reinvention of our world; the images below highlight key aspects of her work.
Valentina Collini (Designer) continued creating designs that support no-waste world building by contributing to the One Community website, creating new biography images and announcement images for incoming volunteers. She updated the site with information for new team members, integrated their profiles and related content, and reviewed existing website content to correct errors where needed. To learn more about how this work supports active eco-reinvention of our world, visit the Highest Good Society and Highest Good Network pages. See the collage below to view her achievements this week.
ADMINISTRATION TEAM
The Administration Team’s summary, which covers their work on the Highest Good Network, was managed by Devendranath Chowdary Maganti (Data Analyst) and includes Akash Hadagali Persetti (Software Engineer), Divanshu Bakshi (Team Admin), Leo Lishin Shiu (Software Engineer), Mridul Bhushan (Volunteer Project Strategy Analyst and Team Administrator), Pranjul Garg (Business Analyst), Priyanshi Sharma (Data Analyst and Team Administrator), Sai Sree Dongari (Data Analyst), Sayantan Paul (Frontend Tester and Software Team Administrator), and Tanmay Nihal Harwani (Data Scientist). The Administration Team supports the Highest Good Network, a tool designed to track and measure progress while developing systems that contribute to demonstrating active eco-reinvention of our world. Through administrative support, documentation, testing, training, recruitment, analytics, and content management, the team helps advance this mission, aligning with One Community’s vision of building a replicable and sustainable future model.
This week, Akash completed the Admin Team training process by reviewing training videos, documentation, weekly volunteer review procedures, blog preparation requirements, image organization workflows, and summary submission processes. He gathered feedback from eight Admin Team members, addressed the comments received, completed onboarding tasks, and practiced administrative workflows according to documented requirements. Divanshu tested and published four Mastodon updates, verified bug-related pull requests, documented action items, developed a Python script to prevent duplicate image postings, and updated the Weekly Mastodon Report using archived data. These onboarding, testing, automation, and content management efforts contribute to demonstrating active eco-reinvention of our world.
Leo reviewed weekly reports from the 17LeDCC team, compiled content into a weekly blog, created collages, analyzed Facebook and Instagram data, updated dashboard insights, and scheduled social media posts. Mridul finalized Blog #691 summaries across multiple teams, reviewed formatting and guideline compliance, evaluated a trainee administrator’s work, managed Twitter/X and LinkedIn content, and completed weekend analytics tasks. These communication, analytics, and administrative coordination efforts contribute to demonstrating active eco-reinvention of our world.
Pranjul monitored volunteer timelogs, tracked activities, issued warnings, supported onboarding for a new administrator, provided operational guidance, and continued development work on the Earth Village blog. Priyanshi completed frontend QA testing and post-CSS migration validation across dashboard modules, verified charts, filters, dark mode compatibility, responsiveness, and UI stability, and documented layout improvement opportunities while confirming core functionality remained operational. These administrative, development, and quality assurance efforts contribute to demonstrating active eco-reinvention of our world.
Sai Sree organized PR review images, created collages, finalized blog-related content, completed candidate interviews, documented hiring feedback, and performed frontend testing across multiple HGN phases and dashboard modules. Sayantan managed administration responsibilities including blog reviews, peer admin feedback, warning tracking, and team guidance while testing frontend and backend pull requests related to dashboards, analytics, notifications, calendars, inventory, bidding systems, and reporting features, documenting issues and creating follow-up tasks where needed. These testing, hiring, planning, and administrative efforts contribute to demonstrating active eco-reinvention of our world.
Tanmay created weekly blogs and collages, reviewed summaries and media submissions, evaluated screening blogs, participated in orientations for new administrative responsibilities, supported social media posting on Threads, updated the Social Media Master Dashboard, and maintained volunteer tracker records. These administrative, documentation, and coordination activities contribute to demonstrating active eco-reinvention of our world. See the collage below for highlights of this week’s work.
HIGHEST GOOD NETWORK PROGRESS
One Community is demonstrating active eco-reinvention of our world 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 our open source community collaboration and management software: The Highest Good Network
This week, the core team continued testing Highest Good Network pull requests on the main branch, confirming that 15 PRs were fixed and identifying 11 PRs that were not fixed. They were not able to test several PRs due to a lack of data on the main branch, including Fix Lesson List Filter Change Not Updating Results (PR 4698), Phase 3 Activity Registration – Make it so users can actually register for activities (PR 2152 and PR 5138), BMDashboard – Fix Daily Logging Button Links (PR 4362), and Phase 6 Kitchen Inventory Management – Create database models and backend API endpoints for transplanting and harvesting events (PR 2097). In addition to testing, they created a new task for the Phase 2 Summary Dashboard, which involves copying four buttons created in Action Item 3 and placing them in the financials category, with the button text corresponding to the appropriate backend. These updates formed part of ongoing efforts focused on active eco-reinvention of our world. See the collage below to view the team’s work.
ALPHA SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT TEAM
The Alpha Team’s summary, covering their work on the Highest Good Network, was managed by Lin Khant Htel (Frontend Software Developer) and Pranjul Garg (Business Analyst) with a team consisting of Casstiel Pi (Software Engineer), Maithili Kalkar (Software Engineer), Sai Sandeep (Software Engineer), Som Ramnani (Junior Software Engineer) and Yingshu Wang (Software Engineer) supporting One Community’s mission of cross-functional software development and system improvements. This work advance the team’s objectives, ensuring that all completed tasks directly contribute to the active eco-reinvention of our world.
Casstiel worked on the Weekly Project Summary task by correcting the target URL, reviewing the component structure, and implementing modifications including project labels, expand and collapse controls, comparison toggle features, section badges, empty-state messaging, and interface updates for dark and light modes. Maithili continued development on the Pinterest Auto Poster feature by creating frontend components following the established platform design patterns. These technical updates advance the team’s objectives, ensuring that all completed tasks directly contribute to the active eco-reinvention of our world.
Sai updated pull request 4385 to correct navigation redirection errors on the Log Issues and View Issues pages, and modified pull request 4537 to add resource filtering by project and tool name, filter selection persistence, reset options, and light and dark mode style updates. Som resolved merge conflicts across pull requests #5163, #4987, and #5189 to preserve filtering, pagination, list view, and export features, and updated tests to match component changes. These efforts support active eco-reinvention of our world by enhancing clarity and accessibility.
Yingshu investigated Task 1191 regarding profile hours updates causing page jumps by reproducing the issue across local and development environments, documenting observations to support further analysis, and submitting the findings to the development channel. Yingshu also reviewed Task 1190 by analyzing historical pull requests, evaluating chart comparison requirements, creating a development branch, and beginning implementation work for date selection controls within the Contributors Report interface. See the Highest Good Society and the Highest Good Network pages to learn more about how this work supports the active eco-reinvention of our world. The collage below offers a visual representation of the team’s work for the week.
BINARY BRIGADE SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT TEAM
The Binary Brigade Team, which presented their work on the Highest Good Network software, was managed by Roshini Seelamsetty (Software Engineer) and included Manoj Puttaswamy (Software Engineer). The Highest Good Network software is our tool for managing and objectively measuring progress, ensuring that all contributions are tracked and aligned with our mission of demonstrating active eco-reinvention of our world. It supports social architecture, construction, production, and maintenance processes that contribute to open-source projects and resilient, sustainable ecosystems.
This week, Roshini worked on fixing issues in the Blue Square Stats dashboard. She completed work on the Blue Square Stats donut chart by removing zero-value categories from the display, implementing dynamic updates for categories when data becomes available, improving text label placement and visibility for better readability, and adding hover functionality to provide segment information during user interaction. She also investigated and continued working on an issue affecting Blue Square data filtering in the Teams and Blue Square’s dashboard, where weekly filters and specific custom date ranges were displaying incorrect counts or no data. Her work focused on analyzing the filtering and date range calculation logic to identify the cause of inconsistent Blue Square statistics and reporting across dashboard views furthering One Community’s mission of demonstrating active eco-reinvention of our world through improved platform functionality.
Manoj worked on the BM Dashboard component of the Highest Good Network project, focusing on inventory-related enhancements, dark mode improvements, and task visibility issues. He created a new standalone Units of Measurement page within the BM Dashboard, including the required navigation structure, integration with existing inventory categories, and routing updates to make the page accessible throughout the application. He also addressed calendar UI issues in dark mode, resolving display and styling inconsistencies that affected usability. In addition, he fixed several dark mode bugs across inventory pages, including issues related to component styling, text visibility, and theme consistency, ensuring that inventory interfaces displayed correctly under dark mode settings. This week’s progress advances active eco-reinvention of our world across multiple project areas.
Alongside these improvements, he began working on a task visibility issue where member tasks become hidden when the teams toggle is enabled. This work involved investigating the current filtering and visibility logic, analyzing how team-based controls interact with task rendering, identifying conditions that cause tasks to be excluded from view, and implementing initial changes toward ensuring that member tasks remain visible when appropriate contributing to One Community’s mission of demonstrating active eco-reinvention of our world. See the Highest Good Society and the Highest Good Network pages for more on how this supports demonstrating active eco-reinvention of our world. Highlights of the team’s contributions are shown in the collage below.
DEV DYNASTY SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT TEAM
The Dev Dynasty Team’s summary, covering their work on the Highest Good Network software, was managed by Rithika Pai (Software Engineer). The team includes Saurabh Jayant Dipte (Software Engineer). The Highest Good Network software helps manage and objectively measure processes by demonstrating active eco-reinvention of our world through social architecture, construction, production, and maintenance systems.
This week, Saurabh worked on PR #4511 to provide a hotfix. Previous changes had introduced errors on the main screen that affected the dark mode implementation across the webpage. Saurabh created a new pull request to address the dark mode issue. He also continued work on PR #4511, which required resolving merge conflicts and fixing errors related to missing imports and exports, including a missing prop in the ItemsTable component and a missing styles import that had been causing the materials list page to crash. Saurabh identified that an inline unit input field on the inventory types page lacked proper validation and replaced it with a dropdown sourced from the existing list of valid units. After merging in the latest changes from the development branch, he resolved a duplicate prop issue introduced during the merge and addressed SonarCloud warnings related to missing prop-type validation on the ItemsTable component. He also worked through environment issues affecting local development, including WSL storage and dependency installation problems, before retesting the fixes and pushing the updated code for review. This work supports One Community’s mission of demonstrating active eco-reinvention of our world.
Rithika worked on PR #4227 (Task Comments Frontend) and PR #4162 (Event Participation Analytics Landing Page). For PR #4227, she rebased the branch onto development and fixed dark mode styling issues flagged in review, including missing dark mode classes on the chart card, progress card, and progress bar elements. For PR #4162, she rebased the branch onto development through several rounds of conflicts, merging in new dashboard components while preserving more mature functionality that had been independently added to development in the meantime, such as PDF export and an organizer dropdown. She resolved all SonarQube issues flagged on the PR, including unused imports, nested ternary expressions, array index keys, duplicate CSS selectors, and contrast ratio failures, and confirmed the page renders correctly in both light and dark mode across all sub-pages. These ongoing improvements align with the organization’s focus on demonstrating active eco-reinvention of our world through open-source software development. See below for some of the pictures.
LUCKY STAR SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT TEAM
The Lucky Star Team’s summary, covering their work on the Highest Good Network, was managed by Divanshu Bakshi (Data Analyst), and Sohail Uddin Syed (Software Engineer). The team includes contributions from Veda Bellam (Software Engineer), Sphurthy Satish (Software Engineer), Mahitha (Software Engineer), Akshith Kumar Reddy Balappagari Gnaneswara (Software Engineer – Full Stack) and Shravya Kudlu (Software Development Engineer). Their work supports One Community’s mission of no-waste world building through cross-functional software development and ongoing system improvements.
This week, Veda worked on enhancements to the Highest Good Network application’s job posting and application workflows, supporting the active eco-reinvention of our world through improved platform processes. She implemented permission updates for creating different question sets, refined frontend functionality for permission requests, resolved merge conflicts, addressed code review feedback, updated UI and backend components, and continued work on the job application listing page by resolving backend and user interface issues while integrating changes across branches. Sphurthy focused on resolving merge conflicts and quality gate issues across multiple pull requests, preparing pull requests for merge and reviewer evaluation, and creating testing and hotfix demonstration videos to support validation. Sohail completed tasks 1164 and 1020 by raising their pull requests, consolidated remaining open pull requests before account closure, fixed issues preventing access to the PR grading screen in development by resolving routing, API parameter, and response mismatch problems, coordinated a final meeting with the admin team, and investigated issues affecting the promotional eligibility page in development.
Shravya resolved merge conflicts, addressed reviewer comments across multiple pull requests in both the Highest Good Network app and HGN rest repositories, resolved a sonar qube blocker, updated eight pull requests for re-review or merge, and completed the kitchen inventory feature for review, contributing to the active eco-reinvention of our world through system improvements. Mahitha tested multiple frontend and backend pull requests, approved PRs after validating expected functionality, reported issues requiring fixes in others, submitted PR #2251 to improve email validation and user profile update handling, documented testing instructions, and began work on PRs #2691 and #1110 related to profile badges. Akshith worked on multiple UI and UX enhancements by addressing review comments, refactoring implementations, resolving merge conflicts, updating pagination for the activity list, improving event card numeric indicators, adding event icons to activity list page event names, and aligning event card styling and layout changes with the latest development codebase. To learn more about how this work supports creating a complete sustainability strategy, visit the Highest Good Society and the Highest Good Network pages. Below is the collage showcasing the Lucky Star team’s work for the week.
REACTONAUTS SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT TEAM
The Reactonauts team summary, which covers their work on the Highest Good Network, was managed by Diya Wadhwani (Software Developer), Divanshu Bakshi (Data Analyst), and Amaresh Chaudhary Nara (Software Engineer), and includes Aseem Deshmukh (Software Developer). This work supports active eco-reinvention of our world by strengthening the systems, processes, and collaborative tools needed to make sustainable living more accessible and replicable worldwide.
This week, Amaresh worked across five pull requests in the HGN codebase, supporting the active eco-reinvention of our world through code quality, security, and platform improvements. In PR #1927, he resolved backend merge conflicts, removed obsolete functions, and aligned the branch with the development codebase. In PR #4476, he resolved frontend merge conflicts, fixed a blank page issue, added loading, error, and no-data states, applied dark mode styling to d3 charts, resolved stylelint issues, improved tab text wrapping, and updated tooltip behavior. In PR #2256, he implemented two backend API endpoints for the building management dashboard to retrieve the longest open building issues and the most expensive injury issues with project and date filters. In PR #4608, he built the corresponding frontend views with horizontal bar charts, project filters, date range selection, dynamic axis scaling, label truncation, fallback issue labels, and resolved sonar cloud issues.
Aseem resolved a development merge conflict in the actualbarchart.module.css file on the aseem-cost-planned vs actual branch, verified the changes, and merged the latest updates from the development branch, contributing to the active eco-reinvention of our world through improved cost-tracking reliability. Diya continued the blue square system overhaul by fixing the resend blue square emails only for last week function in PR #2250, correcting model references, field names, projections, helper functions, and validating the email flow locally. She implemented the monday grace period for weekly summary submissions in frontend PR #5345, allowing eligible monday submissions to be saved for the previous week while updating blue square status and warning records. She also resolved weekly sunday cron failures by moving weekly company summary email inside the sunday execution guard and updated delete blue square after year to archive expired infringements for active users while cleaning up inactive user records. To learn more about how this work supports creating a complete sustainability strategy, visit the Highest Good Society and the Highest Good Network pages. Below is the collage showcasing the Reactonauts team’s work for the week.
SKYE SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT TEAM
The Skye Team’s summary, covering their work on the Highest Good Network, was managed by Sayantan Paul (Frontend Tester and Software Team Administrator) and Anthony Weathers (Software Engineer). The team includes Jaden Wong (Software Engineer), Nirali Patel (Full Stack Developer), Peterson Rodrigues dos Santos (Full-Stack Developer) and Swathi Angadi (Software Engineer). Demonstration of active eco-reinvention of our world is a service commitment of the Highest Good Network software which is accomplished by objectively tracking and managing progress across social architecture, construction, production, and maintenance processes, utilizing transparent, scalable systems that strengthen accountability, coordination, and resilient ecosystems.
This week, Anthony resolved merge conflicts for PR #5146 and PR #2167, allowing both PRs to be merged. He also addressed most of the Sonar issues identified in PR #5340 while resolving a merge conflict and removing commented code that was no longer in use. Jaden worked on five pull requests across the Highest Good Network application. For PR #4274, he extracted JSX blocks into module-level components to resolve a SonarQube cognitive complexity issue in the Most Frequent Keywords widget and added PropTypes for the new components. For PR #4846, Jaden fixed unused imports, accessibility issues, and missing PropTypes across multiple components. For PR #5107, he built the Garden Management landing page with dashboard metric cards, calendar grids with functional add-event modals, dark mode support, and responsive design. For PR #4124, he fixed village dropdown navigation, dark mode styling, and empty-state handling on the LBDashboard bidding page. For PR #4785, Jaden resolved a case-sensitive import issue causing Linux CI failures, fixed a WCAG contrast issue, and addressed reviewer feedback for the wishlist feature. These updates contribute to active eco-reinvention of our world by improving platform functionality, code quality, and the reliability of collaborative tools within the Highest Good Network.
Nirali implemented backend APIs for Volunteer Hours Reporting to support team and project reporting. Her work included calculating committed volunteer hours from task estimated hours, aggregating data across related WBS items, teams, and projects, and adding date-range filtering based on task start and due dates. These APIs provide support for volunteer, team, and project hours reports and establish the backend foundation for date-based reporting functionality. Peterson resolved conflicts in a pull request that fixes a bug on the Projects page related to project search results. The update adds a message to inform users when no matching projects are found, replacing the previous behavior where the table became empty with no feedback displayed. He resolved the conflicts to keep the pull request updated and ready for testing and future merging. This progress helps advancing active eco-reinvention of our world through small impactful actions leading to larger, lasting changes in ecosystems and social systems.
Swathi spent most of her time fixing SonarQube issues and resolving a yarn file issue. After completing the fixes and raising a pull request, she began work on the Application/Job Posting task to address PR #4500 related to the Referral Link Requirement. She reviewed changes from two pull requests, identified missing code, examined the existing implementation, analyzed the expected functionality based on the requirements, and spent time understanding the code flow and implementation details in preparation for development. Demonstrating active eco-reinvention of our world through such collaborative development is a reflection of the progress being made by the members of this team. See the Highest Good Society and the Highest Good Network pages to learn more about how this work supports no-waste world building through our open source hub. See the collage below for the team’s work.
SOFTWARE PR REVIEW TEAM A-N
The PR Review Team’s summary for members with names starting with A–N was managed by Sai Sree Dongari (Data Analyst). The Highest Good Network is a foundation for measuring our results in demonstrating active eco-reinvention of our world. This week’s active members of this team were Abhishek Raghuraman (Software Engineer), Amaan Syed (Volunteer Software Engineer), Carl Bebli (Software Developer), Deepigha Japamony (Software Engineer), Divya Sai Nagabhairu (Software Engineer), Handika Harianto Ew Jong (Full Stack Software Developer), Hemanth Nidamanuru (Administrative Assistant), Ken Zou (Software Engineer), Mahathi (Data Analyst), and Nathan Hoffman (Software Engineer). They reviewed all Highest Good Network PRs shared in this week’s update. Learn more about how the Highest Good Network open source hub measures progress toward demonstrating active eco-reinvention of our world. The collage below shows a compilation of this team’s work.
SOFTWARE PR REVIEW TEAM O-Z
The PR Review Team’s summary for members with names starting with O–Z was managed by Shameera Musthafa (Data Analyst). The Highest Good Network is a foundation for measuring our results in active eco-reinvention of our world. This week’s active members of this team were Purav Patel (Software Engineer) and Sundar Machani (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 open-source hub measures progress towards our goal of active eco-reinvention of our world. The collage below shows a compilation of the work from this team.
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