Creating a World that Will Last – One Community Weekly Progress Update #708

One Community is focused on creating a world that will last, which means building sustainable approaches to food, energy, housing, education, economics, and social architecture that people can actually live well within. As an all-volunteer team, we’re developing a self-replicating model that will grow into a global collaboration of teacher/demonstration hubs, each built for “The Highest Good of All.” To make this kind of lasting change possible everywhere, we’re open sourcing and freely sharing our complete process, so communities anywhere can regenerate their environment and help create a world that 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 October 12, 2026 edition (#708) of our weekly progress update detailing our team’s development and accomplishments:

Creating a World that Will Last
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HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING PROGRESS

One Community is creating a world that will last 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 creating a world that will last: 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. They reviewed potential properties in central Oregon and Washington and added flooding potential to the location criteria because of the increased frequency of flooding associated with climate change. They also evaluated properties affected by snow, shorter growing seasons, and high-desert conditions while considering how changing precipitation patterns and water availability influence long-term site suitability. The images below highlight this property research supporting One Community’s work toward creating a world that will last.

Devendranath Chowdary Maganti (Data Analyst) worked on the Highest Good Housing Implementation Timeline Data Analysis Dashboard and Visualizations by developing the first dashboard draft for management feedback. He also worked on the Highest Good Education Construction and Rollout Timeline Data Analysis Dashboard and Visualizations by revising the initial timeline tracker and integrating timeline details into the Highest Good Education webpage. As part of his Administration Team work, he reviewed Pandithya’s blog, provided feedback, and followed up on requested updates. The collage below provides examples of his dashboard and administrative work contributing to creating a world that will last.

DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER PROGRESS

One Community is creating a world that will last 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 creating a world that will last: Duplicable City Center Open Source Hub

This week, Nidish Reddy Koppula (Mechanical Engineer) completed the final version of the hydraulic elevator project report for the Duplicable City Center design. He resolved and simplified core calculations, audited the consistency of engineering parameters across sections, and revised corresponding data tables and supporting documentation. In addition, Nidish updated document styling, verified the placement of technical figures, refined elevator assembly steps, and cataloged the final deliverables for formal submission. This open source Duplicable City Center project contributes towards creating a world that will last. The collage below shows his work for this week.

HIGHEST GOOD FOOD PROGRESS

One Community is creating a world that will last 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 creating a world that will last and creating a world that will last: 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 assisting with the Highest Good Food initiatives and Aquapini and Walipini Planting and Harvesting systems. Examining the scaled Walipini 1 zone plan and section drawings, he evaluated the clearances between overhead lighting fixtures and the plant canopy to inform fixture placement and lighting calculations. These spatial parameters supported ongoing refinements to the greenhouse lighting energy model. In parallel, Jay researched crop-specific far-red lighting treatment requirements to evaluate application protocols across different plant groups and guide forthcoming lighting strategy decisions. This open source Highest Good Food project contributes towards creating a world that will last. See the collage below for a snapshot of his work for the week.

Navya Eeshani Boyapati (Web Designer) worked on Task 285: Aquapini and Walipini Lighting, Shading, and Thermal Mass Research and Design Page Creation. She reviewed and organized the provided research and design content, created and formatted the webpage structure, added relevant information and images, corrected HTML formatting and spacing, optimized images for SEO using descriptive alt text, and checked the page layout and content for consistency with One Community’s website standards. The images below showcase her webpage development work toward creating a world that will last.

Shameera Musthafa (Data Analyst) supported OC Administration and the PR Review Team by coordinating PR review workflows, reviewing Admin and PR Team work, and providing feedback for accuracy, clarity, and consistency. She organized and categorized project images, created visual collages, and finalized blog-related content as part of PR review coordination. Shameera also contributed to Highest Good Food report pages and related visualizations, managed the One Community Bluesky social media account by creating and publishing project updates, and supported hiring through interviews and candidate evaluations. Images below highlight her work supporting One Community’s efforts toward creating a world that will last.

Zoey Zou (Landscape Architect) advanced development on the Walipini #3 and Large-scale Aquapini models within the Highest Good Food hub. Focusing on the Large-scale Aquapini, she adjusted the planting layout to introduce a distinct low-, medium-, and tall-plant height hierarchy, shifting taller species backward to maintain winter solar access while increasing overall bed density. She also transitioned plant groupings toward a natural food-forest layout rather than linear rows, upgraded harvesting pathways, modified media-bed plantings, and substituted selected plant models. Shifting to Walipini 3, Zoey calibrated rendering exposure and lighting, updated human figures, generated revised walkthrough videos, and completed the concluding perspective views. Her updates included revising the written documentation to highlight distinct tropical species, incorporate educational functions, refine descriptions of gathering spaces, and shorten figure captions. This open source Highest Good Food project contributes towards creating a world that will last. See the image below for her work.

HIGHEST GOOD ENERGY PROGRESS

One Community is creating a world that will last 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 creating a world that will last: 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 reviewing the Tools and Equipment for Open Source Construction page contributing to the Highest Good Energy initiative, part of One Community’s work. They identified items that would be better placed in different sections and added comments indicating the necessary changes. They also identified incorrect images, spelling errors, and inaccuracies in tool descriptions and commented on areas that needed correction. They completed the Materials section and continued reviewing the Tools section to identify items that would be better categorized under Equipment or Materials. They then began reviewing the DIY Dam Design & Construction page and added comments identifying areas that needed correction. See the image below for highlights of their work contributing to One Community’s mission of creating a world that will last.

Rohan Pariakar (Operations and Supply Chain Analyst) continued revising the One Community Global Highest Good Energy analysis report and its supporting spreadsheets, focusing on the presentation of phase-specific energy requirements, equipment summaries, linked tables, and visualizations for Steps 2 through 5. He added the Step 5 Energy Requirements and Equipment Breakdown section for the 100-200 person phase, including introductory text explaining the equipment-level modeling approach and the classification of equipment into Heating, Computers, Appliances, Lighting, and Machines. Rohan also incorporated the Step 5 summary table, listing individual equipment and infrastructure requirements in kWh/day, and reviewed the presentation of equipment quantities, power ratings, and daily energy requirements. He also updated the Step 5 energy-demand breakdown chart and incorporated the hours-of-usage chart with accompanying explanatory text. The revised section explains how the charts support the review of energy consumption, installed power demand, and operating time across equipment categories, while keeping the Step 5 findings subject to further validation before final generation and solar capacity requirements are established contributing to One Community’s mission of creating a world that will last.

Additionally, for Step 4, Rohan reviewed the 50-100 person equipment-level breakdown table and the associated energy-demand waterfall chart, checking their presentation within the report alongside the category-level energy, power, and usage distribution graphics. He refined the explanatory text introducing these visuals and reviewed the interpretation of the major equipment categories, including heating, machines, lighting, and appliances. He also reviewed the placement and formatting of the Step 4 summary table and linked chart to improve the organization of the phase analysis. For Steps 2, 3, and 4, he linked the corresponding summary information to the report, maintaining connections between the report content and the supporting spreadsheet data. Rohan continued making formatting adjustments to linked tables and charts, including table headings, category labels, cell colors, spacing, and the positioning of explanatory paragraphs relative to the corresponding visualizations. The collage below shows some of his work towards creating a world that will last.

HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION PROGRESS

One Community is creating a world that will last 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 creating a world that will last: 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

HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY PROGRESS

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

• • • Read the Highest Good society overview: Highest Good Society
    • Learn about the model for fulfilled living, sharing, and creating a world that will last: 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 45 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 creating a world that will last. The video also explores how creating a world that will last 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 worked on SEO optimization, Google Ads performance tracking, and analytics for the Ways to Help, Search One Community, and donation pages. Adhya also updated the Ways to Help page title and meta description, refined keyword targeting, and improved grammar, sentence structure, and readability while preserving the original content. The SEO work remains in progress, with final content corrections and checks pending. She developed a structured process for collecting, importing, and tracking Google Ads data, identified relevant performance metrics, and updated the campaign tracking spreadsheet to support ongoing analysis furthering One Community’s mission of creating a world that will last.

Additionally, Adhya completed SEO optimization for the Search One Community page, including keyword targeting, headings, metadata, content structure, and readability. She also tested both Donate buttons, identified errors redirecting visitors to an error page, corrected line spacing, and reviewed the donation page layout. After reviewing the provided feedback video, Adhya worked on the suggested revisions, identified required outbound links for both pages, and communicated the outstanding issues to Jae. She also submitted the weekly summary and pictures for reporting. See the collage below for highlights of her work towards creating a world that will last for the Highest Good Network.

Anagha Sunil Bharadwaj (Legal Research and AI Policy Specialist) continued her research on perpetual purpose trusts across US jurisdictions and their practical implications. She researched how organizations document and learn from real AI errors, and wrote up three incidents from the property preservation project as internal case studies: a wrong sequence of events in a case study, weak and mislabeled sources, and eight structural gaps in the first draft legal agreements. Anagha paired these with documented outside cases, including Mata v. Avianca, to show why independent human review is needed for technical work. She then researched how organizations approve AI tools and handle shadow AI, including tool registers and fast approval paths for new requests, and how incident reporting works for AI misuse, including first hour response steps for accidental data exposure and blameless reviews, tied to the relevant NIST AI Risk Management Framework outcomes contributing to One Community’s mission of creating a world that will last.

Anagha also researched rollout and training for small nonprofits, covering signed acknowledgements, onboarding, annual refreshers, review cadence, and policy ownership. She closed the week by consolidating all research from the past two weeks into a master outline for the policy. See the collage below for her week’s work, furthering One Community’s mission of creating a world that will last for the Highest Good Network.

Devarsh Wali (Program Manager) continued supporting the weekly blog review process and Admin Team procedures. He also continued supporting Highest Good Network software development through PR testing and further work on the AI optimization report. Devarsh conducted more than 100 checks across five AI platforms, tested five additional blogs and compared how the platforms responded to different keyword and attribution updates. He fine-tuned selected keywords and attributions, reran tests to evaluate the impact of those changes, and documented the results and comparisons in the report. The images below provide examples of his week’s work towards creating a world that will last.

Sethuraman Karunanithi (Industrial Engineer) worked on the Volunteer section of the Highest Good Network (HGN) User Manual. He moved the Volunteer section of the Highest Good Network (HGN) User Manual into its own tab in the main Google Doc, so the Table of Contents tab could be kept for the table of contents. Sethuraman received Jae’s feedback on the section and applied it across the whole document. He changed the title to black, darkened the headings, and put the Key Terms in alphabetical order. Sethuraman then made the web addresses live links and turned every section reference into a link that jumps to that section. He added timer details: the timer keeps running in the background when it looks disconnected, the Pop-out timer keeps it in view, the timer stops when the computer is closed or the internet disconnects, and Chrome is the recommended browser furthering One Community’s mission of creating a world that will last.

Sethuraman also wrote a new section on using the timer properly, with a One Community Policy box stating that time should be logged daily, not saved up in large blocks, and never more than 10 hours in one day. He added what happens after warnings and after a bug report is sent, along with a new Quick Answers entry about a disconnected timer. He also left comments where icons have no hover text. Using the Demo Volunteer account, Sethuraman took new pictures of the Light Mode and Dark Mode dashboard, the notifications popup, the Welcome menu, the Bug Report and User Suggestion forms, a disconnected timer, the Change Password page, the Timelog tabs, the Add Intangible Time Entry form, the Timelog page, and the Team Locations list with names hidden. He corrected the description of the Timelog page and the Team Locations page to match what the site shows. Also, Sethuraman renumbered the section from 1 to 8 so it reads as its own document. See the collage below for this work toward creating a world that will last.

Jinglin Zhang (Graphic Designer) familiarized herself with One Community’s graphic design workflow and task requirements. She created announcement and bio images for two volunteers, Nidish Koppula and Sri Vidya Sai Thumu, and revised the images based on Jae’s feedback. Jinglin also completed the WordPress bios for both volunteers and notified Sara through their respective Google Docs. She created six social media content banners and revised the remaining social media images based on the provided feedback and requirements. See the collage below to see her work towards creating a world that will last for the Highest Good Network.

Valentina Collini (Graphic Designer) focused on creating social media images to support One Community’s outreach efforts, designing graphics that align with the organization’s visual standards and effectively communicate its mission. She also dedicated time to reviewing and refining volunteer biographies, making corrections to improve accuracy, consistency, and overall presentation contributing to One Community’s mission of creating a world that will last.

In addition, Valentina carefully checked content for errors and implemented necessary updates, helping maintain the quality of both the website and promotional materials. Her work contributed to strengthening One Community’s online presence while ensuring that volunteer profiles and related content remained clear, professional, and up to date, towards the organization’s mission of creating a world that will last. See the images below for her week’s work towards the Highest Good Network.

ADMINISTRATION TEAM

The Administration Team’s summary, which covers their work on the Highest Good Network, was managed by Pandithya Reddy Dasari (Business Analyst) and includes Ashmita Pal (Data Analyst), Fnu Rukmangada (Administrative Assistant), Gargi Vipat (AI Engineer), 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 a world that will last. 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 team members’ weekly summaries and blogs, providing feedback on formatting and writing as part of the Training Team. She assigned new tasks, updated requested hours, and tested PRs related to the Collaboration page, Job Form Builder, and Profile page. She also retested older PRs and reviewed pending ones. Ruku tested Job Application and Job Posting features, identifying and documenting eight bugs related to validation, resume uploads, and filters. She worked on the HGN User’s Manual, coordinated team assignments, and reviewed volunteer training submissions. She also managed Team 20RuFOD administrative tasks, including time logs, media submissions, and WordPress content, supporting creating a world that will last.

Gargi updated the AI Image Generation tutorial based on Jae’s feedback, including revised flowcharts, tester instructions, color-coded prompts, and team-specific banner backgrounds. She continued working on the HGN User’s Manual, verified changes requested by Tatyana, and identified tooltip issues on smaller screens. She also tested user permissions for Add Task and Add Badge across different accounts. Ola organized weekly summary workspaces for the Administration and Pull Request Teams. She reviewed assigned PR tasks and introduced structured folders to improve task organization. These updates supported team coordination and tracking of assigned responsibilities, contributing to creating a world that will last.

Pandithya worked on the Administration Team blog and tested PRs #5542, #5533, #5487, #2321, and #5486 from the Job Posting and HGN Phase I Bugs documents. She verified date filters, interface behavior in light and dark modes, page titles, descriptions, and filter functionality. She also reviewed Data Analysis Dashboard documentation and evaluated training submissions from Srikanth and Ayush. Prathik completed Facebook and Instagram analytics, updated charts, and scheduled social media posts. He tested construction management dashboards and documented bugs related to financial charts and labor cost displays. He also reviewed volunteer time logs, provided training feedback, and completed weekly blog work, supporting creating a world that will last.

Sachit developed ten foundation funding profiles containing leadership details, grant amounts, contact information, and application procedures. He reviewed funding matrix scores, corrected governance assessment criteria, and proposed two weighted criteria based on funding history and alignment with One Community’s mission. He also reviewed administrator training submissions and provided feedback. Sai Sree prepared PR Admin Team blog content and image collages, updated social media records, and worked on PR documentation. She reviewed training submissions and tested permissions, community profiles, collaboration searches, tooltips, and sharing features. She also verified dark mode styling, chart readability, page loading, and interface consistency, supporting creating a world that will last.

Shreyas assigned tasks to volunteers, tested Total Org Summary dashboard features, and reviewed multiple PRs for functionality. He prepared AI training documentation covering volunteer status and global distribution sections. He also reviewed Alpha Team submissions, compiled the week 707 blog summary, and created an image collage contributing to One Community’s mission of creating a world that will last.

Tanmay updated volunteer biographies, coordinated weekly submissions, and compiled blog content with SEO updates. He prepared and published Threads posts, updated the Social Media Master Dashboard, and maintained volunteer tracking records. He also reviewed new administrator submissions, tested merged PRs, and documented issues requiring further review, supporting creating a world that will last. See the collage below for a visual summary of this week’s work and progress.

HIGHEST GOOD NETWORK PROGRESS

One Community is creating a world that will last 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 creating a world that will last: The Highest Good Network

This week, the core team continued HGN PR testing on the Main branch for the Highest Good Network, a platform creating a world that will last, and confirmed 16 PRs as fixed. They reported two new issues, confirmed fixes for Dark Mode issues on 5 pages, and identified unresolved Dark Mode issues on 6 pages. The team also assigned a new task, “Phase 1: Fix Incorrect Display of the ‘Unarchive’ Button on the Project Page,” to a volunteer. 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 Deepigha Japamony (Software Engineer), Devang Saraogi (Software Engineer), Maithili Kalkar (Software Engineer), Priyanka Ajit Mutha (Software Engineer), Som Ramnani (Junior Software Engineer), Sai Sandeep (Software Engineer), and Yingshu Wang (Software Engineer). Their work supported One Community’s mission of creating a world that will last, helping advance open source permaculture communities.

This week, Lin managed and reviewed the team summary covering Deepigha, Devang, Maithili, Priyanka, Sai Sandeep, Som Ramnani, and Yingshu Wang, reviewed PR #5238 by examining the code and running tests locally, and checked Alpha team members’ weekly summaries, photos, and videos while sharing pending pull requests for review. Deepigha developed PR #5638 to separate the Back and Logout actions on the Listing and Bidding dashboard, updating navigation history, adding logout confirmation behavior, and applying light and dark mode styling, and she reviewed 10 pull requests on the HighestGoodNetwork platform, approving 7 and requesting changes on 3 based on validation, functionality, and dark mode issues. Devang worked on frontend PR #4602 and backend PR #1968 for Event Participation Analytics, improving event retrieval, filtering, pagination, sorting, validation, Redux integration, and the calendar and card/list views, and he added backend tests, restricted unnecessary attendee profile information, and added a Demo Data indicator and reusable tooltip for simulated analytics, supporting the goal of Creating a World that Will Last.

Maithili improved the Instagram autoposter token refresh by limiting refreshes to tokens nearing expiry, adding timeouts and response validation, aligning the Graph API version, and preventing sensitive information from appearing in logs, and she updated the scheduled job and Jest tests and prepared setup documentation covering Meta configuration, token management, Cloudinary, environment variables, local testing, and troubleshooting. Priyanka created pull requests to prevent duplicate entries and preserve added records on the PR Grading screen and to add distinct section colors to the Total Org Summary in light mode, dark mode, and PDF output, and she added tests for all-time and active country counts beside the Global Volunteer Network map while awaiting clarification on differences from the existing Team Locations count. Sai refined PR #5476 by aligning column headers with their content, implemented a calendar component for loss tracking in PR #5606, and updated PR #5583 to prevent keyword bubbles from overlapping contributing to One Community’s mission of creating a world that will last.

Som resolved development branch conflicts in PR #4585 while preserving comment sorting, voting, and Helpful feedback functionality, expanded tests for sorting, vote behavior, and selection persistence, added accessible selected states, limited each comment to one active vote per session, and memoized comment sorting. Yingshu improved the Volunteer Time workflow by preventing delayed requests from updating unmounted components, restarting scroll animations, and retaining outdated scroll data after users leave the page, and she added regression tests for delayed responses, with 22 related tests, ESLint checks, Git diff checks, and the production build passing furthering One Community’s mission of creating a world that will last. Two of her work sessions were recorded as intangible time because of issues during the project update, and supporting explanations were included in the submitted screenshots.

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), Shreya Shailesh Bandodkar (Software Engineer) and Shubham Jakhete (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 creating a world that will last.

This week, Aditya resolved a merge conflict on a backend pull request branch by merging development into the branch, preserving the appropriate conflicting code in overviewReportHelper.js, and pushing the changes. He also investigated incorrect pie chart totals in the Volunteer Status section of the Total Org Summary dashboard, identified duplicate counting of new members, and proposed a fix for team lead confirmation, in support of creating a world that will last. Amaan worked on frontend development, backend integration, and follow-up fixes across multiple HGN tasks. He updated Student Groups functionality with API-backed persistence, implemented group creation, editing, deletion, and membership management, and integrated Student Group selection into Assign Atoms, Task Submissions grading, and Announcements. He also improved announcement targeting and authorization, addressed date and time-zone calculation issues in the Total Construction Summary, fixed responsive layout and chart resizing issues in the Material Summary, and verified functionality across light and dark modes, work that supports creating a world that will last.

Dhruv worked on developing the Tumblr auto-poster for the team’s social media posting tools and addressed review comments for the weekly auto-reply email functionality in backend PR #2346. He implemented the Tumblr composer, OAuth2 authentication flow, encrypted token storage, post publishing, scheduled posting, and retry functionality. He also improved the email function by introducing atomic database updates, preventing duplicate processing, handling email failures, and adding unit and integration tests, in support of creating a world that will last. Mahitha worked on the Garden Management and Orchard Management pages in the Highest Good Network application. She replaced browser-based alert and confirmation popups with in-page UI components, investigated issues with the Mark as Received and Cancel Order actions, and improved orchard inventory, order management, planting schedules, and order status transitions. She also developed and updated unit tests for page elements and interactions, work that supports creating a world that will last.

Roshini worked on resolving merge conflicts and addressing reviewer feedback across multiple pull requests, including PRs #5567, #2181, #5199, and #5477, in support of creating a world that will last. Shreya worked on testing and improving the HGN Questionnaire Dashboard and HGN Help flow by validating help request submissions, community member search and filtering, skill scores, profile navigation, API responses, and pagination behavior. She reviewed PR #5631 for community member pagination, reviewed the profile-name fix in PR #2386, and implemented the profile skill tabs fix in PR #5637, adding regression tests and verifying the changes, work that supports creating a world that will last. Shubham worked on frontend PR #5593 and backend PR #2373 for post scheduling, addressing reviewer feedback and improving posting reliability. He implemented delivery states, atomic post claiming, idempotency keys, upload timeouts, and safeguards against duplicate posting. He also improved frontend error handling for failed scheduled posts, updated editing behavior, added regression tests, and revised both pull request descriptions with required permissions and testing instructions, in support of creating a world that will last. The collage below offers a visual representation of the team’s work for the week.

DEV DYNASTY SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT TEAM

The Dev Dynasty Team’s summary, covering their work on the Highest Good Network, was managed by Aadit Trivedi (Volunteer Software Engineer and Software Team Administrator) with a team consisting of Akshay Viswanath (Software Engineer), Ansh Shah (Software Engineer), Bosu Babu Bade (Software Developer), Gayatri Sawant (Software Engineer), Hemanth Varupula (Software Developer), Isha Pawar (Software Engineer), Linlin Fan (Software Engineer), Mahalakshmi Mahadevan (Volunteer Software Engineer), Mahathi Ganimisetti (Data Analyst), Shreevaths Karawal Satish Rao (Software Engineer), Shreyas Battula (Software Engineer), and Yuxuan Wang (Software Engineer), supporting One Community’s mission of cross-functional software development and system improvements. This week, Akshay’s backend fix for the Task Completed chart date filter was merged, and he addressed reviewer feedback on the Total Org Summary chart pull request, keeping the donut center text inside the ring at all screen widths, fixing small slices showing 0%, and showing N/A instead of NaN when there is no earlier data. He fixed several dark mode issues on the pull request he took over, restored the strict skills filter match on the backend Skills Overview pull request, and opened pull requests to restore the Reset Password button for authorized users and to show who added, edited, or deleted a volunteer’s time logs. Ansh tested PR #5623 for the Volunteer Hours Distribution, PR #5622 for the attendance page, PR #5614 for the Issue Log submission flow, and PR #5476 for Team Member Tasks, where he identified task names compressing and wrapping vertically, contributing to creating a world that will last.

Bosu completed the Phase 1 task adding an optional reason when an account is changed from Rehireable to Not Rehireable, storing it on the profile, showing it on hover with an orange indicator, and clearing it when the user is changed back, with frontend tests passing 20 of 20 and backend tests 11 of 11, and opened frontend PR #5633 with its backend pull request. Gayatri fixed several Total Org Summary issues ahead of launch: she added the missing Weekly Committed Hours data in backend PR #2388 and corrected the hour ranges in PR #5623, replaced a hard-coded Mentors count with a shared live calculation in PR #5452, kept deactivated and paused volunteers’ hours in the organization totals in backend PR #2389, and aligned the Active Teams card and Team Stats on one definition in PR #5634, work that supports creating a world that will last.

Hemanth worked on the vertical spacing dropdown pull request, adding the backend paths, fixing a 404 error, and reducing the dropdown spacing, and tested it in light and dark modes. Isha confirmed that PRs #4227 and #4162 were already included in development, completed attendance and no-show tracking in PR #5622 and backend PR #1911, replaced mock data with live APIs in the Event Popularity Analytics PRs #4514 and #1941, addressed reviewer feedback on PR #5597, and resolved merge conflicts and duplicate routes in the PR Grading PRs #5414 and #2286. Linlin worked on PRs #5477, #5491, #5493, #5504, and #5517, adding inline grading summaries with mobile scrolling, standardizing the project table header, stabilizing the header layout, and improving the mobile menu position, advancing creating a world that will last.

Mahalakshmi improved the Total Construction Summary dashboard, fixing the Rental Tracking filters, percentages, project names, and dark mode in PR #5599, and rebuilding the page’s formatting work from the current development branch in PR #5636, where she removed duplicate Financials charts and fixed the Global Distribution map and Loss Tracking display in dark mode. Mahathi resolved Supplier Performance project lookup issues, improved the Planned vs Actual Cost and Cost Variance Trend charts, and wrote 27 Jest tests reaching full coverage of the related backend controllers. Shreevaths fixed several notification bell issues in PR #3932, so alerts stay dismissed, show only the logged-in user’s own hours, goals, and tasks, avoid false alerts while data loads, and count only tangible time toward committed hours. These fixes contribute to creating a world that will last.

Shreyas fixed a team regression, trailing white space in team search, and Quality Gate issues, and audited the HGN Email Announcement backend, identifying a possible race condition where emails are queued before the database transaction commits. Yuxuan completed follow-up fixes to the Hours by Team Member visualization on the Projects Reports page with all related tests passing, and began the Phase 1 task to fix the View NEW AI Prompt notification. Their work supports creating a world that will last. The collage below offers a visual representation of the 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 Anthony Weathers (Software Engineer), with a team consisting of Ken Zou (Software Engineer), Jaden Wong (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 and supports One Community’s work toward creating a world that will last.

This week, Anthony continued addressing review feedback for PR #5588 and PR #2369 related to the warning tracker hotfix. He resolved issues affecting tracker editing and deletion when no information modal existed, connected information modal deletion to tracker deletion to prevent leftover records, corrected dark mode styling for the warning tracker list and dashboard user section and added frontend and backend validation based on review feedback. He also updated related tests to restore passing results and met with Ken to discuss task handovers and following up when pull requests require reviews or re reviews. Ken worked on fixing the Volunteer Hours Distribution pie chart by updating the frontend to display volunteer counts by hour range while retaining total hours in the chart center. He corrected the Actual Hours Worked legend labels and tooltips, updated the backend categorization logic to return all six required hour ranges and revised the percentage calculation to represent volunteers with logged hours relative to the active volunteer population. Their work further supported creating a world that will last.

Jaden fixed a Collaboration jobs page issue where the Show Summaries view could direct users to a placeholder jobs.example.com link. He added validation that falls back to the internal job application page when an external link is missing, malformed or uses a placeholder host, replaced an array lookup with a Set to resolve a SonarQube maintainability finding and verified the changes through ESLint and all 18 Collaboration tests. He also improved the pull request documentation and corrected the testing route instructions furthering One Community’s mission of creating a world that will last.

Purav took over the Job Application Listing Page and collaboration ads creation work from frontend PR #4307 and backend PR #1872 by rebuilding the features on the latest development branches. After encountering Husky and lint staged memory failures during the older branch merge, he created clean branches, selectively ported the required changes and opened backend PR #2385 and frontend PR #5629. He also fixed category filtering, Dropbox image rendering, listing overflow, navigation and protected route access, refined dark mode and TinyMCE styling, addressed Sonar reliability findings and approximately 77 additional code smell issues, corrected CI Prettier failures and aligned backend upload MIME handling with the frontend implementation. These efforts continued advancing creating a world that will last.

Swathi continued fixing the Edit to Reorder button by rewriting the outdated Collaboration page implementation to align with the current codebase. She made the required changes, tested the functionality and documented the results with screenshots and videos while waiting for confirmation on whether package.json and yarn.lock should be included in the next push. She also continued resolving SonarQube issues identified in the PR Team Analytics Dark Mode pull request. This work contributed to creating a world that will last. Check the image collage below for 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 is a foundation for measuring our results in creating a world that will last. This week’s active members of this team were Aadit Trivedi (Software Quality Assurance & Team Coordinator), Aakash Vidiyala (Software Engineer), Aarya Amit Shah (Software Engineer), Aditya Varun Dhayapulay (Software Engineer), Alekya Jogini (Software Engineer), Carl Bebli (Software Developer), Mallikharjuna Abhiram Mulpuri (Software Engineer), Manav Kheni (Software Developer), Nathan Hoffman (Software Engineer), and Niket Pathak (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 creating a world that will last. 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 creating a world that will last. This week’s active members of this team were Prajwal Gangadhar Melinamane (Software Engineer), Rahul Rubugunday (Software Engineer), Richa Sapre (Software Engineer), Sai Manojna Velagala (Software Engineer), Snehita Kandula (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 creating a world that will last. The collage below shows a compilation of the work from this team.

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