A Better Way of Life Through Eco-Communities – One Community Weekly Progress Update #574

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One Community is dedicated to creating a better way of life through eco-communities. Our all-volunteer team is working towards sustainable approaches in food, energy, housing, education, economics, and social architecture. Our vision extends beyond individual communities; it’s about creating a model that becomes self-replicating. Our efforts are guided by the principle of doing this for “The Highest Good of All,” ensuring that everything we create is open source and freely-shared. With a focus on evolving sustainability and regenerating our planet, we aim to create a world that works for everyone.

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One Community’s physical location will forward this movement of a better way of life through eco-communities as the first of many self-replicating teacher/demonstration communities, villages, and cities to be built around the world. This is the March 18th, 2024 edition (#574) of our weekly progress update detailing our team’s development and accomplishments:

 

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HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING PROGRESS

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This week, Mithil Upadhayay (Mechanical Engineer) began working on the Vermiculture Toilet designs within the Earthbag Village (Pod 1). He addressed the design intent outlined in the Google Docs regarding separating the bottom and top chambers. The proposed solution involves implementing a parallel blade design/mechanism, as depicted in the images. These blades will remain open and can be closed when separation is required, as demonstrated. To streamline the process and minimize costs, the suggestion was to utilize or repurpose large metal oil drums instead of manufacturing separate boxes for the bottom chamber. However, further consideration is necessary to determine the optimal mounting method for these drums with the top chamber. One Community’s model for a better way of life through eco-communities includes sustainable waste processing like this. See below for some of the pictures.

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DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER PROGRESS

duplicable city center, open source city hub, laundry, dining, swimming pool, hot tub, kitchen, library, game roomOne Community is creating a better way of life through eco-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:

This week, Julio Marín Bustillos (Mechanical Engineer) completed another week working on the hub connector. He focused on setting up ANSYS on his computer, a specialized software platform designed for Finite Element Analysis (FEA). He navigated through the installation process, ensuring that all necessary components were correctly integrated into his system. Once ANSYS was up and running, Julio proceeded to import the model into the software environment, an important step in laying the foundation for the simulation. He then assigned materials to the various components of the model, considering their physical properties and behavior under different conditions. Then he started on the task of creating meshes, refining the mesh density to strike the delicate balance between computational efficiency and accuracy of results. One Community’s model for a better way of life through eco-communities includes City Center designs like this. See the pictures below for examples related to this work.

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HIGHEST GOOD FOOD PROGRESS

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This week, a core team member made further progress on the Highest Good Food Tools and Equipment document. This week they updated information on the chipper and other tractor attachments. They also continued writing detailed descriptions for individual tools and equipment within the document. They concluded the week with a phone call to the team, suggesting tasks to help them complete their work. Food production improvements are a significant part of creating a better way of life through eco-communities with One Community. See their work in the collage below.

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Charles Gooley (Web Designer) focused on the development of the Vegan Rice Recipes page, creating a variety of recipes including Baked Potato and Curried Red Lentil Soup, Brown Rice with Coconut Curried Golden Lentils, Quick BBQ Chicken and Spanish Potatoes, Baked Oatmeal, Chipotle Lime Chicken and Rice, Lemon Pepper Chicken with Orzo, Cornbread, Smoky Lentil Stuffed Sweet Potatoes, One Pot Roasted Red Pepper Pasta, Braised Beef with Ginger and Japanese-Style Brown Rice, Beef Chili with Baked Potatoes, Hearty Breakfast Skillet, Quick Salmon, Preserved Lemon & Olive Pilaf, and Vegan Potato and Corn Chowder. Placeholder images were utilized until final images become available for replacement. Diverse food menus are a significant part of how One Community is designed for creating a better way of life through eco-communities. See his work in the collage below.

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Hayley Rosario (Sustainability Research Assistant) finished updating the Highest Good Food list and wrote a summary detailing examples and methods for integrating the Highest Good Food Network (HGF) into small-scale organizations. Her summary included insights that organizations, communities, and schools might be interested in, which adopt HGF practices. She researched articles and watched instructional videos to gather examples and insights, which she then formatted and incorporated the links into her summary. Hayley documented her activities and time spent collaborating with One Community, providing a write up account of her contributions. Food improvements are a significant part of how One Community is designed for creating a better way of life through eco-communities. See below for pictures related to her work.

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HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION PROGRESS

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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:

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HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY PROGRESS

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      • Read the Highest Good society overview: Highest Good Society as part of part of creating a better way of life through eco-communities
      • Learn about the model for fulfilled living and sharing as part of part of creating a better way of life through eco-communities: A Day in the Life
      • Learn about the 4 economic models as part of part of creating a better way of life through eco-communities: RBE | For-profit | Non-profit | Entrepreneurship
      • Learn about our open source community collaboration and management software for creating a better way of life through eco-communities: The Highest Good Network

This week, the core team completed 56 hours managing One Community volunteer-work review not included above, emails, social media accounts, web development, new bug identification and bug-fix integration for the Highest Good Network software, and interviewing and getting set up new volunteer team members. We also shot and incorporated the video above that talks about creating the a better way of life through eco-communities and how creating a better way of life through eco-communities is a foundation of the bigger picture of everything One Community is doing. The pictures below show some of this work. See below for pictures related to this.

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Aaron Wang (Fundraising Assistant) continued helping researching possible funding sources for One Community. Full funding is needed to begin construction of One Community’s model for creating a better way of life through eco-communities. Aaron advanced his in-depth research into connections with Robert Downey Jr., identifying emails and LinkedIn profiles of individuals who may have links to Robert Downey Jr. and his philanthropic contributions. This targeted effort aims to improve the process of engaging with funders by nurturing relationships with pertinent individuals involved in these donations. Aaron’s detailed and strategic approach emphasizes his dedication to effective networking and establishing meaningful connections within the philanthropic sector. One Community’s model for a better way of life through eco-communities includes a huge outreach program. You can view this work in the collage below.

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Ray Lee (Graphic Designer, Video Editor) helped this week by creating images for updating our the One Community website header to celebrate and acknowledge Black History Month. One Community’s model for a better way of life through eco-communities includes honoring and celebrating key holidays like this. See the collage image below.

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Arun Chandar Ganesan (Volunteer Data Analyst And SEO And Social Media Assistant) began creating social media posts and helping further evolve our open source social media strategy. This week, he focused on creating a written tutorial on adding administrators to manage the Facebook page. Additionally, after obtaining posting access to the One Community Facebook page through Sara, Arun scheduled content from the Open Source Media Design Google Sheet and incorporated several images shared by Jae. Given Meta’s scheduling limitations of posts from 20 minutes to 29 days in advance, Arun has scheduled posts up to April 14th. One Community’s model for a better way of life through eco-communities includes developing and like this. Furthermore, he received access for website editing, which he plans to commence next week.

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ADMINISTRATION TEAM

The Administration Team’s summary, covering their work administrating and managing most of One Community’s ongoing process for creating a better way of life through eco-communities was managed by Vriddhi Misra (Admin and Marketing Assistant) and includes Alyx Parr (Senior Support Specialist), Camilla Okello (Administrative Assistant), Jiaxin Zheng (Data Analyst), Meenakshi Velayutham (Sustainability Associate), Olawunmi “Ola” Ijisesan (Administrative and Management Support), Ram Shrivatsav (Data Analyst and Admin assistant), Ratna Meena Shivakumar (Data Analyst and Admin), Ruiqi Liu (Administrative Assistant), Sneka Vetriappan (Data Analyst), T R Samarth Urs (Data Analyst), Vibhav Chimatapu (Data Analyst/Admin Assistant) and Xiaolai Li (Administrative Assistant). This week, Alyx reviewed Purva’s work on her designated page. She combed through Purva’s work, looking at each element for potential errors or inconsistencies. After reviewing Sneka’s work, she provided constructive feedback on the mistakes she noticed, highlighting areas for improvement while acknowledging Sneka’s efforts. Alyx aimed to create a supportive environment for Sneka as a new team member, encouraging her growth in the role. With Sneka engaged in her task, she moved on to her responsibilities, converting and downloading audio files for an upcoming blog post. She ensured the files were correctly formatted and met quality standards. Camilla began her week with Sunday administrative tasks before reviewing and providing feedback to other administrators while attending to her own corrections. Later, she focused on SEO assignments, adjusting and optimizing assigned blogs. Jiaxin concentrated on tasks to enhance team productivity and review processes. She reviewed SOC team reports, PR review team dry runs, reviewed admin teamwork and learned SEO tutorials. Jiaxin completed the PR review training steps and integrated feedback into the process. Meenakshi continued admin tasks, verifying the weekly summary page, tracking contributors, and creating bio announcements. She analyzed and suggested content updates for infographics and proofread social media web images for accuracy. Ola collaborated with administrative teams, provided training to new volunteers, and reviewed completed tasks. She also worked on PR reviews, organized Google Doc workspace, and provided feedback to admins. Ram focused on studying SEO, analyzing articles, and implementing strategies to boost optimization. Ratna completed training, performed weekly summary reviews, and engaged in SEO learning sessions. Ruiqi completed review processes, created collages, updated SEO keywords, and supported new admins. Sneka worked on orientation tasks, integrated keywords, edited SEO pages, and progressed through training steps. Samarth completed PR review team training, managed team members, applied SEO techniques to blog posts, and received constructive feedback. Vibhav completed administrative tasks, reviewed work, edited web pages, and engaged in SEO activities. Vriddhi oversaw OC administration for the Administration, Alpha, Blue Steel, and Badges Bugs teams, refined SEO strategies, delegated tasks, and enhanced tracking spreadsheets. Xiaolai completed weekly reports, reviewed training processes, updated web pages, and organized documents for reports. One Community’s model for a better way of life through eco-communities includes developing and maintaining huge administration team like this. You can see the work for the team in the image below.

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GRAPHIC DESIGN TEAM

The Graphic Design Team’s summary was managed by Ruiqi Liu (Administrative Assistant) and included Ashlesha Navale (Graphic Designer) and Nancy Mónchez (Graphic Designer). Ashlesha created nine Social Media Images focused on themes such as Cooperation-Implementing global change, Cooperation-Improving life on earth, and Cooperation-Increased peace and happiness, among others. In addition, she curated nature-based and theme-based images to complement these designs. Nancy concentrated on completing tasks for week 20, particularly refining the designs of Excel lists, and ensuring consistency in style elements to maintain unity and quality standards across the project. She continued efforts to adjust the intensity of the blue tone to meet project requirements. See the Highest Good Society pages for more on how this relates to a better way of life through eco-communities. The collage below shows some of this work.

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HIGHEST GOOD NETWORK PROGRESS

Highest Good Network® Application, improving city efficiency, creating the world we wantOne Community creating a better way of life through eco-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.

This week, a core team member worked on the Highest Good Network confirming fixes for several PRs. This included confirming the fix for a recurring issue related to working week dates. However, several PRs remained unresolved, including issues with the default setting for new or converted mentors, the implementation of editing tangible time for non-Admin/Owner roles, and PR1471 regarding the Blue Square Reason Scheduler. They identified a problem where a volunteer user failed to receive a blue square after editing their time entry multiple times. PRs 1218+532, which grants users permission to manage individual user permissions, require clarification on which permission to use. They also engaged in various other activities, including commenting on requests to improve the loading speed of the Weekly Summaries Reports page, fixing the team code dropdown list to display 15 items, addressing a request to add a popup message for invalid team codes, and providing feedback on horizontal scrolling issues on the team page. The Highest Good Network software is how we’ll be managing and objectively measuring our process for a better way of life through eco-communities throughout our social architecture, construction, production, and maintenance processes. See below for pictures related to their work.

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ALPHA SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT TEAM

The Alpha Team’s summary, covering their work on the Highest Good Network software was managed by Sucheta Mukherjee (Software Developer) and includes Chengyan Wang (Software Engineer), Gabriele Canova (Frontend Developer), Navya M (Full Stack Developer), Pratima Singh (Software Developer), Shamim Rahman (Software Engineer), and Yongjian Pan (Software Engineer). The Highest Good Network software is how we’ll be managing and objectively measuring our process for a better way of life through eco-communities throughout our social architecture, construction, production, and maintenance processes. This week, Sucheta focused on addressing a hot fix related to scroll functionality within the timelog section on PR2057 and refactored PR2006 to remove redundancy, particularly concerning password prompts upon clicking the weeklySummaryRecipient button. Additionally, modifications were made to ensure that the weeklySummaryRecipient button rendered exclusively for authorized users, following Jae’s directive, with the implementation including the storage of Jae and Sara’s email addresses as environment variables in both frontend and backend applications for user authorization checks. These tasks were successfully completed and merged into PR2061+792. Navya reviewed the Phase1 bugs document and the permission management Excel, identifying issues and requesting further details from Jae. She also conducted peer reviews for PR #2011 and PR #782, while initiating work on enabling users to change status in the dashboard page. Yongjian decided to redo PR# 842 to create a dark mode for the application due to difficulties in debugging the original PR, aiming to break it into smaller files for easier management. Gabriele, starting work from Wednesday evening due to personal reasons, faced productivity challenges but successfully completed their first pull request (#2065) after several attempts, though encountering lingering issues. Despite time constraints, they conducted pull request reviews, contributing to pull request #2016. Pratima tested various dashboard-related pull requests, providing feedback and suggestions for improvements. Shamim diligently reviewed 10 pull requests (PR#1850, PR#707, PR#1922, PR#735, PR#2010, PR#780, PR#2016, PR#2023, PR#781, PR#1987), conducting functionality tests and offering detailed feedback with accompanying screenshots and videos, particularly highlighting issues with PR#1850, PR#1922, and PR#2016. See the Highest Good Society and Highest Good Network pages for more on how this relates to a better way of life through eco-communities. View some of the team’s work in the collage below.

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BADGES BUGS SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT TEAM

The Badges Bugs Team’s summary this week, overseeing advancements in the Highest Good Network software, was managed by Shaofeng Li (Software Engineer). The team comprised Renan Luiz Santiago Martins César (Full-stack developer), Summit Kaushal (Backend Software Developer), Xiao Zhang (Software Engineer), and Xiaohan Meng (Software Engineer). The Highest Good Network software is how we’ll be managing and objectively measuring our process for a better way of life through eco-communities throughout our social architecture, construction, production, and maintenance processes. This week, Renan spent most of the week identifying and addressing issues with badges, focusing on testing the backend system for potential problems and understanding how to effectively test badges on their machine. He also explored the integration of intangible time into account ownership to evaluate badge visibility, persisting in troubleshooting potential badge-related issues. Xiao focused on refining their project through the development of a specialized function designed to effectively distribute hours over the span of one week, dividing the previously combined function into two distinct parts to streamline and clarify the code. Shaofeng Li engaged in various tasks for the HGN Software Development project, including discussing badge functionality, assisting teammates, reviewing pull requests, and addressing coding challenges. Efforts also included troubleshooting, setting up Postman for backend operations, and fixing bugs related to badge awarding. Xiaohan addressed an issue with the ‘Assign Badge’ permission feature, examining frontend and backend code discrepancies and debugging to resolve critical faults. She plans to conduct detailed tests to ensure system reliability. Summit reviewed necessary files and set up MongoDB to test PR 619, analyzing the codebase and identifying completed and pending tasks. After identifying a potential solution for an obstacle in part B, Summit implemented the feature and planned to initiate work on part C, acknowledging the need for further refinement. See the Highest Good Society and Highest Good Network pages for more on how this relates to a better way of life through eco-communities. Look below for pictures of the team’s work.

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BLUE STEEL SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT TEAM

The Blue Steel Team’s summary, covering their work on the Highest Good Network software, was managed by Nathan Hoffman (Software Engineer, Team Manager) and includes Alex Brandt (Full Stack Developer), Bhuvan Dama (Full stack Developer), Jingyi Jia (Software Engineer), Tzu Ning “Leo” Chueh (Software Engineer) and Yaohong Xiang (Software Engineer). The Highest Good Network software is how we’ll be managing and objectively measuring our process for a better way of life through eco-communities throughout our social architecture, construction, production, and maintenance processes. This week, Nathan encountered a white screen error on the dashboard upon logging in and worked diligently to resolve it promptly. Additionally, he reviewed Jay’s invisibility permission, noting continued non-compliance with instructions for separating permissions. Responding to Slack messages, Nathan offered assistance with coding problems and assigned tasks to team members, while also engaging in bug exploration. Meanwhile, Jingyi initiated work on the permission management system related to the badge management feature, identifying an inconsistency regarding the “see Badge” permission’s impact on user actions. To address this, Jingyi proposed and implemented a frontend solution to ensure automatic inclusion of the “seeBadges” permission whenever badge management permissions are activated for a user. Alex focused on advancing the ChatGPT summary generator by configuring the OpenAI API for front-end summaries and implementing pre-processing to remove hyperlinks from user-provided timelogs. Bhuvan spend time improving code coverage in specific components within the sharedComponents/ReportPage directory, achieving full coverage for several files and increasing coverage for others. Tzu Ning concentrated on refining the edit team code functionality in the WeeklySummariesReport.jsx file, conducting rigorous testing and adjusting permission checks to ensure a seamless user experience for Admin users. See the Highest Good Society and Highest Good Network pages for more on how this relates to a better way of life through eco-communities. The collage below shows some of this work.

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CODECRAFTERS SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT TEAM

The Code Crafters Team’s summary, covering their work on the Highest Good Network software, was managed by Anirudh Ghildiyal (Software Engineer) and includes Anirudh Dutt (Software Developer), Ramya Ramasamy (Software Engineer), Nahiyan Ahmed (Full Stack Software Developer), Shantanu Kumar (Software Developer), Shengjie Mao (Software Engineer), Sophie Lei (Software Engineer), Weiyao Li (Software Engineer) and Tapan Pathak (Software Engineer). The Highest Good Network software is how we’ll be managing and objectively measuring our process for a better way of life through eco-communities throughout our social architecture, construction, production, and maintenance processes. Anirudh D continued working on his tasks for the week, focusing on creating a permissions constants file in the frontend utils to avoid hardcoding permissions. He also collaborated with Diego on a new task, addressing issues stemming from development branches. Anirudh G compiled his weekly work, submitted summaries and pictures to Dropbox, reviewed feedback on raised PRs, persisted in resolving a persistent bug despite encountering new challenges, and held the weekly standup, ensuring teammates’ work met expectations. Nahiyan completed two PRs, one adding an eye icon to the password input and another addressing UI issues on the Badge Development page. Ramya focused on PR reviews and refining unit test cases. Shantanu reviewed pull requests and debug issues related to resource loading failures in the repository. Shengjie shifted focus to working on a unit test file for a different component, revising code based on feedback, and seeking guidance from teammates proficient in unit testing. Sophie addressed GitHub issue #2005 regarding mobile responsiveness in the tasks contributed section, implementing dynamic styling adjustments, and revamping the mobile table component. Tapan resolved compilation failures in PR 2031, addressed UI issues, and analyzed code for pagination UI. Weiyao transitioned to the Development team, familiarizing himself with React/Redux methods and selecting a task aimed at disabling buttons for users without appropriate permissions. See the Highest Good Society and Highest Good Network pages for more on how this relates to a better way of life through eco-communities. The collage below shows some of this work.

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EXPRESSERS SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT TEAM

The Expressers Team’s summary, covering their work on the Highest Good Network software, was managed by Ruiqi Liu (Administrative Assistant) and includes Aishwarya Kalkundrikar (Full Stack Software Developer), Ilya Flaks (Software Engineer), Kevin Hinh (Software Engineer), Shereen Punnassery (Full Stack Software Engineer), Tareq Mia (Software Engineer), Demi Zayas (Full Stack Software Engineer) and Mohammad Abbas (Software Engineer). The Highest Good Network software is how we’ll be managing and objectively measuring our process for a better way of life through eco-communities throughout our social architecture, construction, production, and maintenance processes. Aishwarya focused on completing the remaining frontend files and finished the creation of backend files, developing a reducer file to manage state effectively, and crafting backend functions with requisite routes in controller and router files. Demi resumed work on Phase 2 WBS Bugs line item 5 “Login” after focusing on larger tasks, reviewing the Phase 2 WBS, and expanding the list of minor bugs to ensure thorough inspection of current assignments. Additionally, she worked on the records modal for the default view of the tools list. Ilya focused on the “4.5.4 Add routing, controllers for Log Tool request” task of Phase II, reviewing routes, controllers, and database structure to identify discrepancies and proposing solutions, including adjusting the Tool Item schema. Kevin addressed a critical bug in the BMDashboard timelog component, rectifying issues with websocket communication and exploring methods to efficiently update individual member timers. Mohammad resolved critical bugs and enhanced user interface elements, including sorting titles and adding project headings on WBS pages. Shereen completed unit testing for the TimeEntryHistory component, resolving issues related to passing edit entries to the component. Tareq focused on tasks related to the Team Locations map component, ensuring the map fit within the viewport without requiring scrolling, creating a table for the component, styling it, and populating it with preliminary data. See the Highest Good Society and Highest Good Network pages for more on how this relates to a better way of life through eco-communities. The collage below shows some of this work.

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GIT-R-DONE SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT TEAM

The Git-R-Done Team’s summary, covering their work on the Highest Good Network software, was managed by Ruiqi Liu (Administrative Assistant) and includes Chris Chen (Software Engineer Intern), Miguelcloid Reniva (Software Developer), Rhea Wu (Software Engineer), and Shuhua Liu (Full-Stack Developer). The Highest Good Network software is how we’ll be managing and objectively measuring our process for a better way of life through eco-communities throughout our social architecture, construction, production, and maintenance processes. Chris developed a React component tailored for updating the status of tools or equipment within a building management dashboard. This component efficiently fetches tool details from an API, displaying them in read-only fields while allowing users to input updates through a dynamic form. Miguel concentrated on enhancing the user interface by implementing a feature to expand divs on dropdown toggle, troubleshooting logic functionality, and seeking clarification on the role of the ‘x’ button in item deletion. Rhea progressed the most recent pull request regarding Issue Schema and New Issue Routing, making necessary adjustments based on feedback and planning to test functions and undertake new tasks for project development. Shuhua addressed bugs causing crashes on the development site with a hotfix pull request and advanced the task of adding manager icons by streamlining the MongoDB pipeline and establishing backend routes and controllers for efficient data retrieval. See the Highest Good Society and Highest Good Network pages for more on how this relates to a better way of life through eco-communities. The collage below shows some of this work.

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MOONFALL’S SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT TEAM

Moonfall Team’s summary, covering their work on the Highest Good Network software, was managed by Navneeth Krishna (Software Engineer) and includes Abdelmounaim “Abdel” Lallouache (Software Developer), Cheng-Yun Chuang (Software Engineer), Haoji Bian (Software Engineer), Jiadong Zhang (Software Engineer), Lu Wang (Software Engineer) and Malav Patel (Software developer). The Highest Good Network software is how we’ll be managing and objectively measuring our process for a better way of life through eco-communities throughout our social architecture, construction, production, and maintenance processes. Abdelmounaim completed testing on the new Blue Square scheduler and submitted pull requests #2051 and #796. Additionally, he addressed a bug in the scheduler explanation modal that occurred when the number of requests was undefined, submitting a pull request for it, #2055. He also submitted pull request #2056 to resolve an issue where the “thank you” message was not displayed when selecting the home country option on the profile initial setup page. Cheng-Yun focused on tracing the code for the delete function and reproduced the error that occurs when a user was removed from the whole website. Haoji completed performance optimization in the image loading process within the user interface of the application. The modification was applied so that images are now loaded only after a button is clicked to trigger a popup, rather than preloading all images at once. Jiadong spent this week working on updating the badge on the dashboard. He undertook the task of refactoring this portion of the project, enhancing its readability and overall maintainability. Lu focused on debugging and enhancing test coverage for critical components, including the AddTaskModal, EditTaskModal, and ImportModal files. Malav developed the DELETE_TIME_ENTRY_OWN feature and HGN software. He did additional changes to develop the feature into the code and push the changes into new branch. Navneeth reviewed suggestions related to the implementation of the task “Add google doc link to weekly summaries email Admins get.” He proposed necessary code updates and requested validation from the reviewer for the modifications made in the pull request. He also reviewed pull request 1588 which included a detailed inspection of an UI implementation in the User Profile when saving changes. See the Highest Good Society and Highest Good Network pages for more on how this relates to a better way of life through eco-communities. Look below for a collage of their work.

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REACTONAUTS’ SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT TEAM

Reactonauts’ Team’s summary, covering their work on the Highest Good Network software, was managed by Masasa Thapelo (Software Engineer) and includes Changhao Li (Software Engineer), Peterson Rodrigues (Full-Stack MERN Stack Developer), Shiwani Rajagopalan (Software Engineer), Vikram Badhan (Software Engineer), Yi Feng (Full-Stack Software Engineer) and Yixiao Jiang (Software Engineer). The Highest Good Network software is how we’ll be managing and objectively measuring our process for a better way of life through eco-communities throughout our social architecture, construction, production, and maintenance processes. Changhao continued developing unit tests for TimeEntryForm, resolving errors and attending the weekly meeting to report progress. Additionally, Changhao addressed async function call warnings in unit test files and requested more time to verify tests written by previous developers. Masasa, helping with this as part of part of creating a better way of life through eco-communities, managed the summary and weekly meeting, alongside working on adding permissions features to the user management page. Peterson focused on finalizing the implementation of team filters for administrators, team leads, and owners, essential for overseeing all users of the HGN software. Shiwani tackled four tasks, including leaderboard time-off indicator follow-up and unit tests for UserPermissionPopup, UserRoleTab, and RolePermissions. She made significant contributions such as creating a new function to calculate future time-off indicators, modifying test cases, expanding test coverage, and incorporating additional test cases for various functionalities. Vikram concentrated on unit testing for WeeklySummaryOptions.jsx and ToggleSwitchContainer.jsx, ensuring functionality and reliability. He also participated in pull request reviews. Yi continued his contributions to the codebase, focusing primarily on a high-priority task and submitted two pull requests, numbered PR 2070 and PR 2071. Yixiao resolved several issues, including pull request approvals, test case problems, and finalizing unit tests. See the Highest Good Society and Highest Good Network pages for more on how this relates to a better way of life through eco-communities. Look below for pictures of this work.

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SKYE’S SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT TEAM

Skye’s summary, covering their work on the Highest Good Network software, was managed by Luis Arevalo (Front End Developer) and includes Jiarong Li (Software Engineer), John Mumbi (Developer), Roberto Contreras (Software Developer) and Yao Wang (Software Engineer). The Highest Good Network software is how we’ll be managing and objectively measuring our process for a better way of life through eco-communities throughout our social architecture, construction, production, and maintenance processes. Jiarong’s focus was on the HGN Software Development project, specifically on updating the WeeklySummariesReport.jsx from a class component to a function component. John addressed changes outlined in PR 1908 by incorporating requested modifications to a component displaying the count of users with zero weekly hours, resolving merge conflicts, and advancing the PR to its final review stage. Luis focused on reviewing his old PRs to ensure their successful merging. Specifically, he reviewed PR 596, which addressed a delay issue when adding projects via the projects tab, and identified a missing save button when adjusting user profiles, promptly notifying Roberto and initiating a hotfix. Roberto addressed issues on the user profile page, including crashes and white screen errors, by diagnosing errors, creating solution pull requests, and implementing optional chaining to fix undefined array iterations. Additionally, he tackled a hotfix involving scrambled task logic in the user profile tasks section, correcting sorting and filtering issues and adding a missing “save changes” button. Yao improved the loading speed of the user profile interface by removing unnecessary components on the front-end pages. See the Highest Good Society and Highest Good Network pages for more on how this relates to a better way of life through eco-communities. See the collage below for some of their work.

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SOFTWARE PR REVIEW TEAM A-L

The PR Review Team’s summary covering their work on the Highest Good Network software was managed by Olawunmi “Ola” Ijisesan (Administrative and Management Support), Jiaxin Zheng (Data Analyst), T R Samarth Urs (Data Analyst). The Highest Good Network software is a foundation of what we’ll be using to measure our results of a better way of life through eco-communities. This week’s active members of this team were: Aaron Persaud (Software Developer), Abi Liu (Software Engineer), Dhairya Mehta (Software Engineer), Heena Dhanani (Web Developer), Hetvi Patel (Full Stack Developer), KaiKane Lacno (Software Developer and Team Manager), Kurtis Ivey (Software Engineer), Lin Khant Htel (Frontend Software Developer). They reviewed all the Highest Good Network PRs (Pull Requests) shared in this week’s update. Learn more about how the Highest Good Network will measure and assist in a better way of life through eco-communities in the Highest Good Network open source hub. The collage below shows a compilation of the work from this team.

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SOFTWARE PR REVIEW TEAM M-Z

The PR Review Team’s summary covering their work on the Highest Good Network software was managed by Olawunmi Ijisesan (Administrative and Management Support), Samarth Urs (Administrative Assistant and Data Analyst) and Jiaxin Zheng (Data Analyst). The Highest Good Network software is a foundation of what we’ll be using to measure our results of a better way of life through eco-communities. This week’s active members of this team were: Meet Padhiar (Software Engineer), Mengtian Chen (Software Engineer), Mingqian Chen (Software Engineer), Olga Yudkin (Software Engineer), Priyanka Sharma (Software Engineer), Raj Nada (Software Developer), Sameer Deshpande (Software Engineer), Sanket Kaware (Full stack developer), Sarthak Jaiswal (Full Stack Developer), Tim Kent (Full Stack Software Engineer), Xiaoyu Chen (Software Engineer) and Zijie “Cyril” Yu (Software Engineer). They reviewed all the Highest Good Network PRs (Pull Requests) shared in this week’s update. Learn more about how the Highest Good Network will measure and assist in a better way of life through eco-communities in the Highest Good Network open source hub. The collage below shows a compilation of the work from this team.

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