Open Source Permaculture Communities – One Community Weekly Progress Update #705

One Community is demonstrating open source permaculture communities designed to show what’s possible when sustainability touches every part of daily life, from food and energy to housing, education, economics, and social architecture. As an all-volunteer team, we’re developing a self-replicating model meant to grow into a worldwide network of teacher/demonstration hubs, each one operating for “The Highest Good of All.” Nothing we create is kept behind closed doors. Every process, design, and lesson learned is open source and freely shared, so communities everywhere can regenerate their land and build a world that truly works for everyone.

• 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

OUR MAIN OPEN SOURCE HUBS

Click on each icon to be taken to the corresponding Highest Good hub page.

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 September 21, 2026 edition (#705) of our weekly progress update detailing our team’s development and accomplishments:

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HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING PROGRESS

One Community is demonstrating open source permaculture communities 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 open source permaculture communities: 7 Sustainable Village Models
    • Visit the open source portals for the first two: Earthbag Village OS Hub | Straw Bale Village OS Hub

This week, the core team continued working on the Highest Good Housing component of property research. The team reviewed the pet policy and continued research based on website criteria regarding potential property locations for the establishment of One Community. Their primary focus was assimilating additional data onto the site locations document, noting that the major challenge in locating a suitable property continues to be satisfying as many website requirements as possible related to elevation, sunny days, precipitation levels, and seasonal tourist potential. The team’s work contributes towards demonstrating open source permaculture communities. The collage below portrays the team’s efforts and achievements for the week.

Rushikesh Tubaji (Volunteer Industrial Engineer) continued contributing to Highest Good Housing by developing the single-dome labor-analysis pilot, refining quantity bases and calculation methods for foundation, flooring, openings, loft construction, wall finishes, and related construction activities. He documented when One Community reference quantities could be used directly and when 15-foot tutorial examples required recalculation for the approximately 200-square-foot dome. He added planning quantities and calculation rules where sufficient information was available and documented unresolved design-dependent quantities rather than assigning unsupported values. He also prepared the workbook for manager review by checking activity IDs, source traceability, validation fields, formulas, and potential duplicate work. The README, Productivity Library, Sources, Dome Pilot Estimate, and Housing Labor Summary tabs were updated to distinguish the methodology and quantity work that is ready for review from productivity rates, crew assumptions, and labor-hour calculations that will be developed after the estimating structure is approved. See the collage below for a snapshot of this week’s work towards demonstrating open source permaculture communities.

DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER PROGRESS

One Community is demonstrating open source permaculture communities 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 open source permaculture communities: Duplicable City Center Open Source Hub

This week, Nidish Reddy Koppula (Mechanical Engineer) continued working on the Duplicable City Center design. He completed the suggested changes to the hydraulic elevator project documentation and updated the report with additional images to improve the presentation of the design and supporting information. He also added comments for the full-size images and placed more relevant images throughout the report where needed. He finished working on the assembly steps and updated the related instructions and supporting materials. He also packaged, organized, and arranged the final deliverable files so that the report, CAD files, images, and other project materials were structured for submission and future reference. This open source Duplicable City Center project contributes to demonstrating open source permaculture communities. See the collage below for a snapshot of his work this week.

Sai Pranav Avva (Mechanical Engineer) continued developing the City Center Eco-spa Designs. He compiled the results of several mesh-dependence analyses to verify the FEA results generated in COMSOL and SolidWorks. He also assumed interview manager responsibilities, including leading the weekly meeting and coordinating the handover of duties between teammates. He reviewed a team member’s work to help complete the handoff and researched thermal blanket mechanisms for cooling the tank. This open source Duplicable City Center project contributes towards demonstrating open source permaculture communities. See the collage below for images of the work this week.

HIGHEST GOOD FOOD PROGRESS

One Community is demonstrating open source permaculture communities 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 open source permaculture communities: 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, Jay Nair (BIM Designer) continued working on the Aquapini and Walipini Planting and Harvesting documents. He compared the specifications of multiple lighting fixtures to determine the most suitable option for specific zones within Walipini 1. The evaluation focused on optimizing plant growth requirements while reducing lighting energy consumption by reviewing fixture performance, light distribution, and compatibility with the environmental needs of each zone. The findings were used to refine the greenhouse lighting energy calculator and support future fixture selection decisions. These efforts improve the stability and adaptability of shared systems, supporting the broader goal of demonstrating open source permaculture communities. See the collage below portraying the work done this week.

Shameera Musthafa (Data Analyst) continued working on the Highest Good Food initiative. She supported OC Administration and the PR Review Team by coordinating PR review workflows, reviewing the work of both the Admin and PR teams, and providing feedback to ensure accuracy, clarity, and consistency across all deliverables. She organized and categorized project images, created visual collages, and finalized blog-related content as part of PR review coordination, ensuring that both visual and written materials were properly curated and documented. Additionally, she contributed to the Highest Good Food report pages and related visualizations. She also managed the One Community Bluesky social media account, creating and publishing posts to help share project updates and increase outreach and engagement. In addition, she supported the hiring process by conducting interviews and evaluating candidates. This work plays a key role in demonstrating open source permaculture communities. See below for images showcasing her work.

Navya Eeshani Boyapati (Web Designer) continued working on the Highest Good Food page. She updated Task 281: Highest Good Food Page Rebuild and Task 873: Update the Tools and Equipment for Open Source Construction Page based on supervisor feedback, making the requested content, formatting, spacing, and layout corrections and reviewing the pages for additional errors and inconsistencies. She also started Task 284: Goats Page Updates by reviewing the existing page content and beginning the required updates and formatting revisions. See the collage below for a snapshot of this week’s work towards demonstrating open source permaculture communities.

Zoey Zou (Volunteer Landscape Architect) continued developing the Walipini #3 and Large-scale Aquapini projects. For Walipini #3, she revised the design based on feedback by updating materials, removing unnecessary leaf elements, refining planting and people-space details, adjusting the entrance area, shortening hanging vines to improve sunlight access, and replacing components that interfered with seating. She updated the report by refining captions and adding explanatory text between consecutive images, prepared revised renders, and created multiple draft walkthrough videos for review before final production. She also revised circulation and harvesting access by adjusting the doorway area, adding a small pathway, and modifying nearby seating, rocks, planting, and circulation to improve practical movement through the greenhouse. For the Large-scale Aquapini, she researched planting strategies, plant size, growing conditions, and planting layers, reviewed and organized the SketchUp model, replaced or adjusted plant models for more realistic scale and placement, updated materials, and continued developing productive planting and people-space areas including seating, paths, keyhole garden areas, water-edge planting, herb garden areas, and quieter gathering spaces. This work plays a key role in demonstrating open source permaculture communities. See below for images showcasing her work.

HIGHEST GOOD ENERGY PROGRESS

One Community is demonstrating open source permaculture communities 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 open source permaculture communities: 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, part of One Community’s work on open source permaculture communities. They continued reviewing the Tools: Earthbag Village and Home Tools and Equipment webpage. The team identified a number of inconsistencies on the page, including duplicate entries, typos, incorrect images, incomplete corrections, and other issues. And they added comments to each identified inconsistency so they can be addressed later. The team also began a brief review of the DIY Dam Design webpage. See the collage below for highlights of their work, contributing to One Community’s mission for open source permaculture communities.

Rohan Pariakar (Operations and Supply Chain Analyst) completed formatting adjustments to the Highest Good Energy analysis materials based on coordinator feedback and continued reviewing the report and supporting spreadsheets for consistency. He adjusted spreadsheet formatting across the phase energy analysis, including tables, category sections, totals, labels, and spacing. Rohan rechecked the phase energy calculations by comparing equipment-level requirements, category totals, daily energy totals, and equivalent full-load hours, cross-checking the Step 2, Step 3, and Step 4 totals (1,147.75, 2,594.075, and 6,642.45 kWh/day) against their category breakdowns. He reviewed the major energy-consuming categories affecting the phase totals, including heating, water heating, kitchen systems, manufacturing, the Ultimate Classroom, and Straw Bale Village, contributing to One Community’s mission of open source permaculture communities. Rohan also reconciled the solar sizing calculations by checking daily energy requirements against peak sun hours, the 75% system performance assumption, installed capacity, panel quantities, and expected daily generation. In addition, he compared the phase energy analysis with the Master Solar infrastructure model to identify outdated values and continued investigating the larger energy increase in the 100–200 person phase before finalizing its solar requirements. Finally, he reviewed report formatting and images that were not loading correctly. See the collage below for a glimpse of his work this week on open source permaculture communities.

HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION PROGRESS

One Community is demonstrating open source permaculture communities 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.

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 open source permaculture communities: 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

Isaiah “Isa” Hernandez (Graphic Designer) created content for the bio announcement and primarily worked on revisions to The Ultimate Classroom book. This included experimenting with point sizes for the table of contents, enhancing image quality for the cover, reorganizing pages, and determining edits for sections such as cost analysis details and site plans, all contributing to the development of open source permaculture communities. The images below provide examples of this week’s work.

HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY PROGRESS

One Community is demonstrating open source permaculture communities 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 open source permaculture communities: 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 over 37 hours of work 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 about demonstrating open source permaculture communities. The video also explores how demonstrating open source permaculture communities serves as a foundational element of One Community’s broader mission. The following images showcase their work.

Adhya Rastogi (Business Analyst) continued updating the Google Ads Campaign Tracking Spreadsheet with current campaign, ad, and performance information and added traffic and measurement columns for ongoing monitoring. She reviewed campaign and ad-level performance, automated recommendations, and bundled actions to identify relevant changes before applying them. Adhya also researched Google Search Console and Google Tag Manager setup requirements, shared findings with Jae, and awaited access and setup. She researched ChatGPT and AI-related advertising opportunities for future marketing planning. In addition, she completed SEO and AEO optimization for the Contribute, Join & Partner webpage by refining content, headings, keyword targeting, metadata, internal linking, question-based content, and search relevance while maintaining the original messaging and calls to action. She continued Reddit engagement through the PostByPurpose and One Community accounts by creating posts, commenting, and responding to recent engagement. Adhya also completed and submitted the weekly summary and pictures through Dropbox for reporting. See the collage below for highlights of her work towards demonstrating open source permaculture communities.

Anagha Sunil Bharadwaj (Legal Research and AI Policy Specialist) continued her research on perpetual purpose trusts across US jurisdictions and their practical implications. Following an evaluation of how to best structure these agreements for comprehensive coverage, she drafted the Ground Lease Agreement and the standalone Home Shares Ground Lease Agreement. Anagha then researched typical frameworks for revenue sharing agreements alongside further applications of perpetual purpose trusts—specifically focusing on the protection of intellectual property and brand assets. Using these insights, she completed the Revenue Sharing Agreement and drafted a specialized Perpetual Purpose Trust Agreement. Finally, she formatted and reviewed the comprehensive report to ensure analytical cohesion before submission. See the collage below for her week’s work, furthering One Community’s mission of demonstrating open source permaculture communities.

Devarsh Wali (Program Manager) continued supporting the weekly blog review process and Admin Team procedures. He worked on One Community’s AI Optimization and AEO Strategy, testing different blog content structures and keyword approaches to evaluate how they could support Answer Engine Optimization, search visibility and AI discoverability. He updated the strategy with implementation recommendations covering SEO, AEO, GEO, content structure, AI visibility testing, measurement and pilot planning. He also supported the weekly team review process, interviewed candidates for the Software Team and began setting up the software frontend testing environment to support future HGN testing work. The images below provide examples of this week’s work towards demonstrating open source permaculture communities.

Devendranath Chowdary Maganti (Data Analyst) continued developing the Highest Good Economics (HGE) Rollout Timeline Data Analysis Dashboard and Visualizations by integrating new content into the HGE web page and timeline tracker based on the available project documentation. He worked on the Highest Good Education Construction and Rollout Timeline Data Analysis Dashboard and Visualizations by reviewing the HGE webpage to understand the project content and create a timeline tracker. Devendranath also continued integrating new content into the Highest Good Economics webpage based on the project documentation. In addition, he worked on the Administration Team weekly blog, reviewed fellow teammates’ blogs, and made changes based on the feedback they provided on his work. See the collage below for weekly highlights of his work, demonstrating open source permaculture communities.

ADMINISTRATION TEAM

The Administration Team’s summary, which covers their work on the Highest Good Network, was managed by Devendranath Chowdary Maganti (Data Analyst), with a team consisting of Ashmita Pal (Data Analyst), Gargi Vipat (AI Engineer), Mrudhula Reddy Thummala (Administrative Assistant), Olawunmi “Ola” Ijisesan (Administrative and Management Support), Prathik Raju (Data Analyst), Sachit Varma (Business Operations & Cost Analyst), Sai Sree Dongari (Data Analyst), Shreyas Harish (Data Engineer), and Tanmay Nihal Harwani (Data Scientist). The Administration Team supports the Highest Good Network, a tool designed to track and measure progress while creating systems that support demonstrating open source permaculture communities. 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, Ashmita reviewed Basic Software Component testing documentation, tested completed PRs and reported fixes in the Dev environment, and verified dashboard, UI, responsive, and functionality changes. She also reviewed comments and Google Docs for new tasks and follow-ups, coordinated with team members on PR testing, permissions, and admin access, and reviewed One Community social media documentation, Tumblr posting instructions, moderator setup, and account requirements, supporting One Community’s mission of open source permaculture communities.

Gargi continued as a Correction Administrator and Training Team member by reviewing submissions and providing feedback to admins in training. She also sent her AI announcement and bio work to Jae, incorporated his feedback into a testing tutorial, and documented AI image-generation processes with step-by-step instructions and quality control checklists. These testing, training, and documentation activities supported demonstrating open source permaculture communities.

Mrudhula tested the Hydro page against its source document, checked content, headings, and layout, and documented differences for correction. She also tested the HGN Phase III Social Architecture PR #4135 and PR #5386 on the Dev site, verified affected pages and features, and checked for additional issues before beginning work on the Earthbag Village page. Ola created a folder for administrative and PR team members, organized and cleared the workspace, prepared a summary report with associated images, and updated related documentation. These page testing, documentation, and workspace organization activities furthered the goal of demonstrating open source permaculture communities.

Prathik completed daily One Community volunteer time log reviews, updated Facebook and Instagram analytics, tested collaboration job listings and the Show Summaries view, and documented issues involving job links, missing listing information, and incorrect image assignments. He also scheduled Facebook and Instagram posts, reviewed weekly blog work for Sahithi and Prakrithi, completed Team Binary Brigade blog work, and provided feedback to team members. Sachit reorganized the funding matrix into separate lists for individuals and foundations, verified and updated names, titles, and organizational details, corrected outdated information, added missing contacts, resolved several open questions, and searched for contact emails. These analytics, testing, research, and administrative activities aligned with demonstrating open source permaculture communities.

Sai Sree organized review images, created collages, finalized PR Admin Team blog content, and completed frontend testing across dashboards and related pages, checking filters, charts, tooltips, styling, layouts, form interactions, and accessibility elements. She also worked on advanced documentation, reviewed training work, updated the Social Media Master Dashboard, supported Admin Team members with frontend testing and dashboard workflows, assisted with task creation, and interviewed two applicants before submitting feedback to Jae. Shreyas tested HGN Software Development dashboards (including data analysis dashboards) against reference documentation and the development environment, assigned tasks to team members requesting additional working hours, completed basic software product testing and administrative task assignment, and prepared the weekly summary report and blog write-ups for all three teams. These testing, training, and administrative activities contributed to demonstrating open source permaculture communities.

Tanmay updated existing bios, followed up on missing summaries and photographs, compiled material from different team blogs, and applied required SEO changes for the weekly blog. He also published Threads posts, updated the Social Media Master Dashboard, maintained tracking sheets and volunteer records, reviewed initial work from two new admins, provided feedback, checked titles and descriptions for inconsistencies, assigned tasks to developers, and performed final testing of merged PRs. These content management, social media, administrative, and software testing activities aligned with demonstrating open source permaculture communities. See the collage below for highlights of this week’s work.

HIGHEST GOOD NETWORK PROGRESS

One Community is demonstrating open source permaculture communities 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, management software, and open source permaculture communities: The Highest Good Network

This week, the core team continued HGN PR testing on the Main branch for the Highest Good Network, a platform demonstrating open source permaculture communities, and confirmed five PRs as fixed: HGN Questionnaire Dashboard: Frontend: Implement Dynamic Scoring & Ranking Logic; HGN Questionnaire Dashboard: Implement Additional Notes and Work Experience Section; Missing User Details when the skill filter is applied; HGN Questionnaire Dashboard: Add Search Functionality to Page; and HGN Questionnaire Dashboard: Team Member’s Skill Overview Page – Fix Dark Mode Styling Issues. Eight PRs were not fixed. The team also reported a new bug for the HGN Questionnaire Dashboard User Profile Page related to the Years of Experience display and created a new task to fix the Volunteer Hours Distribution Pie Chart data categorization issue. 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) with a team consisting of Devang Saraogi (Software Engineer), Maithili Kalkar (Software Engineer), Priyanka Ajit Mutha (Software Engineer), Rithika Pai (Software Engineer), Som Ramnani (Junior Software Engineer), Sai Sandeep (Software Engineer), and Yingshu Wang (Software Engineer). Their work supported One Community’s mission of cross-functional software development and system improvements, helping advance open source permaculture communities.

This week, Lin managed the team summary and reviewed PR #5238 by examining the code and running tests locally, while checking Alpha team members’ weekly summaries, photos, and videos and sharing pending pull requests for team review. Devang moved into Development Team work, fixed the Total Org Summary default date-filter issue, verified Current Week, Previous Week, and custom date ranges, and submitted frontend PR #5557 with testing evidence. He also started the deactivated-volunteers time-filter bug, created the Devang_fix_deactivated_volunteers_time_filter branch, configured the frontend against the local backend, and requested Owner access after Admin and Volunteer accounts failed to reproduce the historical mismatch, with plans to move to other assigned work if access is delayed. He completed a re-review of backend PR #2312, running all 15 relevant tests, checking Team Stats behavior against the PR base, and leaving a Request Changes comment on logic outside the stated scope.

Maithili wrote test suites for the Instagram post scheduler, token refresh service, and Graph API services, fixed a NoSQL injection issue with a validated ObjectId helper, addressed a log injection issue with a sanitization helper, resolved code style flags, debugged test failures tied to mocking and fixture errors, refactored shared logic across the Instagram, Reddit, and Slashdot post composers, renamed a component to remove a naming conflict, and split Instagram list rendering into smaller components. Priyanka fixed User Management table issues covering role editing, save behavior, and unneeded API requests, added regression tests, ran focused tests and lint checks, and confirmed saved values across User Management, Profile, and the People Report, contributing to One Community’s mission of open source permaculture communities.

Rithika continued the Event Popularity Analytics work, extracted shared backend helpers to remove duplicated code and clear the SonarQube Quality Gate, resolved a frontend lockfile conflict while keeping Node 20 compatibility, verified 332 test files and 2,262 tests, and flagged remaining CSS duplication along with two out-of-scope frontend issues furthering One Community’s mission of open source permaculture communities.

Sai improved PR #5548 by adjusting Volunteer Trends chart labels, spacing, increments, margins, and date-picker styling for light and dark modes, and opened PR #5553 to fix doughnut chart positioning and styling. Som addressed review feedback on PR #5545 by improving reducer tests and mocked failure handling, and worked on PR #4215 by resolving merge conflicts, keeping featured-badge functionality intact, aligning permissions across desktop and mobile, adding validation and sorting, guarding against overlapping actions, and adding regression tests for saving, retries, permissions, exports, and concurrent actions contributing to One Community’s mission of open source permaculture communities.

Yingshu updated the Volunteer Time confirmation modal so it stays locked during saving and cannot be closed through buttons, the Escape key, or backdrop clicks, preventing early scroll-state clearing. The modal structure was also simplified and regression coverage was added, with 19 related tests, ESLint checks, Git diff checks, and the production build all passing. These efforts support open source permaculture communities by enhancing clarity and accessibility. See the collage below for highlights of this week’s work.

BINARY BRIGADE SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT TEAM

The Team Binary Brigade’s summary, covering their work on the Highest Good Network, was managed by Roshini Seelamsetty (Software Engineer) and Prathik Raju (Data Analyst), with a team consisting of Aditya Krishnamurthi (Software Engineer), Amaan Syed (Volunteer Software Engineer), Dhruv Topiwala (Full Stack Software Engineer), Mahitha Pasupuleti (Software Engineer), and Ruthwik Hosadurga Madhusudhana (Software Engineer) supporting One Community’s mission of cross-functional software development and system improvements. This work advances the team’s objectives, ensuring that all completed tasks directly contribute to demonstrating open source permaculture communities.

This week, Aditya investigated and fixed an issue where Blue Square email CC recipients were not displayed in the user interface despite being stored in the database, identifying a missing field in a MongoDB aggregation projection, updating the backend response, validating the fix, and raising PR #2353, in support of demonstrating open source permaculture communities. Amaan worked on multiple frontend and backend pull requests by resolving merge conflicts, updating dark mode styling, validating dashboard functionality, integrating backend data, improving responsive chart behavior, and verifying application behavior across light and dark modes. His work included updates to Material Daily Activities, Resource Management Dashboard, Weekly Project Summary Project Status cards, Daily Equipment Log, Issue Chart responsiveness, and Material Summary Usage Trend layouts, contributing to demonstrating open source permaculture communities.

Dhruv worked on Badge Statistics tasks by updating frontend and backend branches, moving the Badge Statistics chart to the Badge Assignment tab, addressing dark mode compatibility, updating chart and legend visibility, fixing dropdown hover behavior, and addressing SonarQube and code coverage issues related to Blue Square triggers and template updates, work that supports demonstrating open source permaculture communities. Mahitha worked on the Kitchen Inventory dashboard by updating layouts, operational indicators, inventory metric cards, sustainability sections, stock health displays, upcoming harvest sections, responsive styling, dark mode compatibility, and dashboard data consistency, contributing to demonstrating open source permaculture communities.

Roshini completed backend and frontend work related to the Total Org Summary dashboard by addressing issues that prevented Task Completed data from populating in dashboard summary cards and graphs, reviewing data retrieval and aggregation behavior, and raising frontend and backend pull requests for the fix. She also continued work on formatting updates for the Weekly Summaries submission page by reviewing layout spacing and alignment issues and implementing related updates, in support of demonstrating open source permaculture communities. Ruthwik worked on PR #5511, addressing timer functionality issues, and updated PR #5354 by resolving merge conflicts and improving dark mode behavior for rental tracking charts, date pickers, legends, and related components. This work advances the demonstration of open source permaculture communities. The collage below offers a visual representation of the team’s work for the week.

DEV DYNASTY SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT TEAM

This week, Team Dev Dynasty’s summary, covering their work on the Highest Good Network software, was managed by Mrudhula Reddy Thummala (Administrative Assistant) and Aditya Dubey (Software Engineer), with a team consisting of Akshay Viswanath (Software Engineer), Amaresh Chaudhary Nara (Software Engineer), Ansh Shah (Software Engineer), Bosu Babu Bade (Software Developer), Linlin Fan (Software Engineer), Gayatri Sawant (Software Engineer), Mahathi Ganimisetti (Data Analyst), Shreevaths Karawal Satish Rao (Software Engineer), Shreyas Battula (Software Engineer), Sireesha Kunchala (Software Engineer), and Yuxuan Wang (Software Engineer). The Highest Good Network software helps teams coordinate resources, track project progress, manage operations, and improve efficiency across construction, maintenance, production, and community systems, supporting long-term sustainability goals while developing open source permaculture communities.

Mrudhula tested the Hydro page document by reading through the source document and comparing it against the web page section by section, checking text, headings, and layout, and noting each difference so it could be corrected. She also tested the “HGN Phase III: Social Architecture” pull request (PR #4135) and PR #5386 on the dev site, going through the affected pages and features to confirm they worked as each pull request described and checking for other side effects, including console errors. After finishing the testing, she began the Earthbag Village page by reviewing its material and setting up the work to continue in the coming week, in support of open source permaculture communities.

Amaresh addressed reviewer feedback on the Promotion Eligibility endpoint (PR #2347) by wrapping the team-membership update in an awaited bulkWrite and adding a reviewerId index to close a race condition, built the “Review for This Week” and “Process Promotions” frontend (PR #5569) with a weekly grading modal, an inline-editable Required PRs field, and a placement-preview confirmation modal, and resolved 13 SonarCloud issues, steady progress towards open source permaculture communities.

Ansh tested badge assignment and upgrade functionality, fixed the 10,000-hour Stewardship badge with a corrected ranking and image URL, added an information tooltip to the Reports Page Notification checkbox (PR #5573), and tested the job-title mismatch warning (PR #5544) and Promotion Eligibility table styling (PR #5546). Bosu restored the Education Portal TaskTimer to the actual student dashboard (PR #4432), paired it with backend PR #1916 to confirm the timer requests returned HTTP 200, and completed his manager responsibilities reviewing the team’s weekly summaries and time logs, in service of open source permaculture communities.

Aditya continued the Application and Job Posting work by answering review feedback on PRs #5538 and #5544, adding accessible tooltips (PRs #5537 and #5536), extending question numbering to follow list position (PR #5541), fixing the job description sanitizer (PR #2344), and resolving the FAQ placement conflict (PR #5473), with PRs #5464 and #5484 merged. Gayatri advanced Task 1857 by replacing task-comment user impersonation with JWT-verified requestor data, adding role validation and an ownership-checked delete endpoint, writing 15 passing controller tests, live-testing the APIs with student and educator accounts, and connecting the TaskDetails page to the real comment endpoints. Linlin addressed PRs #5493, #5517, #5524, and #5525 by fixing review-screen state synchronization and mobile responsiveness, conditional header rendering, People Report task and project limits, bio qualification criteria, and filter behavior, all in support of open source permaculture communities.

Mahalakshmi resolved four frontend defects across PRs #5558, #5560, #5564, and #5565, fixing the service worker path and dark-mode email icon, adding dark mode to the bulk actions modal, restoring the Help Request Feedback Modal, and letting Core Team members submit help requests with refreshed team membership data. Mahathi investigated the Total Construction Summary blank-screen issue, added focused regression tests, improved the Distribution of Labor Hours chart layout, labels, tooltips, and dark mode, and separated a pre-existing Paid Labor Cost issue for independent follow-up. Shreevaths worked on PR #1834 by resolving backend merge conflicts, combining overlapping student-task features, fixing a router naming collision, adding role-based access control, correcting timestamp and status validation, and improving invalid-ID and duplicate-assignment handling, in service of open source permaculture communities.

Shreyas improved User Profile team creation so new teams appear and can be assigned immediately, restricted Quick Setup team assignment to active teams with validation, improved dark-mode readability, and raised a new PR. Sireesha fixed bid submission errors on the bidOverview page (PRs #4073, #4272, #4109, and backend PR #1853) by correcting the API URL, separating fetch and submission error state, adding inline error styling and submit-button disabling, updating tests, resolving merge conflicts, and repairing build errors. Yuxuan completed the “Post Now” missing-environment-variable fix and opened a pull request, then finished the “Hours by Team Member” visualization fixes on the Projects Reports page, resolving merge conflicts while keeping the newer Tasks table implementation, in support of open source permaculture communities. See below for pictures of Team Dev Dynasty’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 Anthony Weathers (Software Engineer), with a team consisting of Jaden Wong (Software Engineer), Ken Zou (Software Engineer), Purav Patel (Software Engineer), and Swathi Angadi (Software Engineer), supporting One Community’s mission of cross-functional software development and system improvements. This work advances the team’s objectives, ensuring that completed tasks directly contribute to open source permaculture communities.

This week, Anthony continued work on PR #3600 by resolving merge conflicts, restoring previously affected functionality, updating related merges and requesting additional reviews. He also investigated warning tracker and Blue Square issues, reviewed possible permission-related causes and updated HGNForm layouts to reduce excess whitespace while seeking clarification on smaller-screen radio button behavior. Jaden completed PR #5514 for the HGN Questionnaire Dashboard community members list by replacing a hard-coded endpoint, moving filtering and sorting to the client, improving error handling, removing unavailable score functionality and validating the changes with ESLint and a full Vite build, furthering One Community’s mission of open source permaculture communities.

Ken completed Bluesky auto-poster fixes in PR #5513, including routing, icon path and component regression updates. He also created PR #5518 to add independent loading spinners to the Projects, People and Teams cards on the Reports page, updated related tests and investigated User Management search behavior. Purav worked on Dependabot cleanup across HighestGoodNetworkApp and HGNRest, creating frontend dependency update PRs and preparing 12 backend Dependabot PRs for merge. He also addressed Netlify and lockfile issues, reviewed more than 22 backend dependency PRs and over 100 security alerts, and verified the prepared backend updates with all 158 Jest suites passing supporting open source permaculture communities.

Swathi tested application functionality and fixed missing dark mode updates in the Manage Edit Range modals. She also created database test data through the frontend after the initial approach did not provide suitable data, reviewed database setup documentation and continued preparing the data needed for further validation, advancing One Community’s mission of open source permaculture communities. Check the image collage below that provides a visual overview of the Skye Team’s work for the week.

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 software is a foundation for measuring our results in open source permaculture communities. This week’s active members of this team were Carl Bebli (Software Developer), Deepigha Japamony (Software Engineer), Hemanth Varupula (Software Developer), Isha Pawar (Software Engineer), Mahika Kakkad (Software Engineer), and Mallikharjuna Abhiram Mulpuri (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 towards demonstrating open source permaculture communities. 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 software is a foundation for measuring our results in open source permaculture communities. This week’s active members of this team were Shreya Shailesh Bandodkar (Software Engineer), Shubham Jakhete (Software Engineer), Sundar Machani (Software Engineer), and Yiyun Tan (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 open source permaculture communities. The collage below shows a compilation of the work from this team.

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