One CommunityAbundance in Natural Systems – One Community Weekly Progress Update #534
Engineering abundance in natural systems is at the heart of our all-volunteer organization, One Community. Through sustainable approaches to food, energy, housing, education, for-profit and non-profit economic design, social architecture, fulfilled living, global stewardship practices, and more, we are creating a model designed to be self-replicating.
This model will serve as the foundation for a global collaboration of teacher/demonstration hubs, all done in the pursuit of “The Highest Good of All“. By creating everything as open source and free-shared, we ensure accessibility and inspire collective growth. With a focus on evolving sustainability, we are dedicated to creating a world that works for everyone while regenerating our planet.
- Here’s our project overview
- Here’s our world-change methodology
- Here’s how this becomes self-replicating
- Here’s how we are open source and free-sharing all the do-it-yourself designs
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One Community’s physical location will forward this movement as the first of many self-replicating teacher/demonstration communities, villages, and cities to be built around the world. This is the June 18th, 2023 edition (#534) of our weekly progress update detailing our team’s development and accomplishments:
Abundance in Natural Systems
One Community Progress Update #534
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ABUNDANCE IN NATURAL SYSTEMS – HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING PROGRESS
One Community is engineering abundance in natural systems 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:
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- Learn about: Our Upcoming Crowdfunding Campaign
- Learn about the different village models: 7 Sustainable Village Models
- Visit the open source portals for the first two: Earthbag Village OS Hub | Straw Bale Village OS Hub
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This week, Julia Meaney (Researcher and Assistant to Executive Director) completed her 34th week with the team. This week, Julia oversaw Amal’s progress on the Light bulb research project, addressing and responding to comments on the development Google Doc as required.
In addition, Julia completed a thorough review of the “Duplicable City Center Engineering” webpage, ensuring that the concept of abundance in natural systems was reflected in the content. She marked off content on the source Google Doc while working through it, finalized all her feedback for Chuck, and compiled it into a comprehensive Feedback PDF. Julia also addressed various minor coding and formatting issues.
Another task she accomplished was the review of Chuck’s integration of new content into the “Eco-laundry” webpage. Julia created a Feedback PDF and utilized Dropbox comments to clarify additional edits and fixes necessary throughout the page. Simultaneously, she made minor coding and formatting adjustments herself and edited various sections of the content to ensure seamless integration between the new and existing parts, while highlighting the importance of abundance in natural systems.
Lastly, Julia continued her work on the “Net-zero Bathroom and Earthbag Village Water Collection and Septic Design EDITED CONTENT FOR WEB” Google Doc, actively responding to and resolving comments as needed. ‹See images below that show‹ ‹some of this work.
Loza Ayehutsega (Civil Engineer/Assistant Civil Engineer) completed her 20th week helping, now focused on Earth Dam Design & Construction for Water Retention, Pond & Lake Creation. This week, Loza focused on the broad topic of Dam safety guidelines, specifically examining the possible failure mechanisms and their relationship to the abundance in natural systems. The work involved reporting on dam risk mitigation strategies by considering these potential failure mechanisms.
The safety of dams encompasses various disciplines, including dam owners, dam inspectors, construction sectors, authorities, and government representatives. The project involved documenting the reported possible failure mechanisms and inspection methods while also considering how an abundance in natural systems contributes to the overall stability and safety. Additional points will be included in the upcoming weeks. Take a look at the pictures below to get a glimpse of this work.
Amal Lazar (MS Mechanical Engineering) completed her 10th week helping now with the research for the Most Sustainable Lightbulbs and Light Bulb Companies: Research, Energy Savings, and More tutorial. During the week, Amal started by acknowledging feedback from her team on her previous work and research approach and transformed these insights into practical measures, making necessary adjustments and corrective actions in her work, with a focus on fostering abundance in natural systems.
Amal also dedicated her efforts to enhancing and polishing her narratives, crafting persuasive arguments to support her proposed alternatives, always emphasizing the importance of abundance in natural systems. Additionally, she embarked on developing a new methodology to improve the ranking of companies, investing time in gathering the necessary information and organizing it in a table format, ensuring that the principles of abundance in natural systems were integrated into the evaluation criteria. Below, you’ll find some images of this work.
Vidhi Bansal (3D Visualization Artist) completed her 10th week helping with video and AutoCAD renders for a 4-dome cluster Earthbag Village housing design. This week, Vidhi focused on integrating a Tesla vehicle and solar panels into the scene, ensuring that the materials aligned with the abundance in natural systems and interacted effectively with the lighting. She also dedicated time to enhancing the textures of the solar panels to seamlessly blend with the scene, highlighting the abundance in natural systems.
Additionally, adjustments were made to the lighting settings to optimize the software’s new path tracer technology, resulting in improved image quality that reflects the abundance in natural systems. Furthermore, she obtained a Tesla charger asset and commenced the task of linking materials while ensuring compatibility with the software. Check out the pictures below as examples of this work, where you can see the abundance in natural systems integrated throughout.
Zhide Wang (Mechanical Engineer) completed his 9th week, helping again with the Net-zero Bathroom designs. This week, Zhide addressed inquiries, refined content, and incorporated Julia’s feedback in relation to Diwei’s designs. Additionally, Zhide commenced the process of familiarizing himself with aircrete, including its applications and potential, as well as acquiring knowledge on aircrete production and conducting compression tests. He also examined previous tests conducted by other teams, all while considering the importance of abundance in natural systems. Get a closer look at this work through the pictures below.
ABUNDANCE IN NATURAL SYSTEMS – DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER PROGRESS
One Community is engineering abundance in natural systems 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:
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- Learn about this building and it’s function: Duplicable City Center Open Source Hub
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This week, Charles Gooley (Web Designer) completed his 34th week helping with web design, now focused on Eco-Laundry research tutorial. The emphasis this week was on the Tables of Contents and the Resources sections, which were designed to highlight the abundance in natural systems.
There were several Tables of Contents, the main one at the start, one under the section Understanding ECO-Laundry, one under Washer Research & Application Data, one under Dryer Research & Application Data, and lastly, one under Discussion & Relation To One Community and World Change.
The task was to add anchor links from the table to their respective headings. A number of additional links were added to the Resources section. The page is ready for review. The pictures below offer a visual representation of this work.
Ranran Zhang (Architectural Designer) completed her 27th week working on the updated video for the Duplicable City Center internal and external walkthrough. This week, Ranran made modifications to the model and video based on the feedback received from the previous week. She implemented a change in the video path to show the sweeping view of the kitchen, redirecting it to go around the staircase and ascend it, instead of backing up, which subtly reflects the abundance in natural systems by capturing a more organic flow in the space.
Furthermore, she altered the material used for the countertop, freezer, and windows, selecting finishes that resonate with the abundance in natural systems. In terms of the video, Ranran then carefully selected views that showcased the outdoor area of the east building, ensuring that the design aligned with the concept of abundance in natural systems. Take a look at the images below to see some of the progress made in this work.
Julio Marín Bustillos (Mechanical Engineer) completed his 18th week helping with the City Center Dome Hub Connector Engineering. This week, Julio designed the City Center dome and traditional geodesic dome with actual dimensions, utilizing 6-inch circular beams along the frame for both cases. The objective was to conduct finite element analysis on both domes and compare key results, including displacements and maximum normal stresses, ensuring that the design aligns with the principles of abundance in natural systems.
The purpose of this analysis was to ensure that the City Center dome would outperform the traditional dome while embracing the concept of abundance in natural systems. A preliminary assessment was carried out to gain insights into the behavior of both structures, indicating that our dome is likely to experience lower maximum normal stress. The pictures below provide a glimpse of this work.
Yiwei He (Mechanical Engineer) completed her 15th week helping with the City Center Dome Hub Connector Engineering. This week, Yiwei dedicated her efforts to resolving a simulation problem involving frames and connectors, focusing on how abundance in natural systems could inform innovative solutions. She reviewed previous research to gather insights and ideas that could potentially contribute to the resolution.
She also helped with the Aircrete plans, meeting with the core team to revise the overall usage of cylinders, discussing strategies and refining approaches. Additionally, Yiwei began the process of creating spreadsheets to streamline and organize the relevant data. See some of this work in the pictures below.
ABUNDANCE IN NATURAL SYSTEMS – HIGHEST GOOD FOOD PROGRESS
One Community is engineering abundance in natural systems 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:
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- Learn about the structures: Hoop House Hub | Aquapini & Walipini Open Source Hub
- See what we’ll be growing: Gardens & Hoop Houses | Large-scale Structures | Food Forest | TA
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This week the core team continued to work on the Transition Food Self-sufficiency Plan, emphasizing the importance of abundance in natural systems. This week we worked on the Loose Measurements column in the Shopping List and completed those calculations. We then began adding Absolute Reference markers to the calculations in the Shopping List and did so for the first two columns. We also imported FWC and FWD to the Master Recipe Template See below for pictures related to this.
The core team also reviewed the open source Chicken coop designs. This week we reviewed a video on standing seam roofing and provided comments and edits on pages 73-116 of the Chicken document. The chapters covered various aspects of construction, including chicken coop entry door construction, enclosures under roof sides, installation of upper studs and framing for ventilation fans, roof covering, and roof frame construction. These areas of construction demonstrate the importance of understanding the abundance in natural systems to create durable and effective structures. See pictures below that are related to this.
ABUNDANCE IN NATURAL SYSTEMS – HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION PROGRESS
One Community is engineering abundance in natural systems throughh 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: 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 Education: All Subjects | All Learning Levels | Any Age – Click image for the open source hub
ABUNDANCE IN NATURAL SYSTEMS – HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY PROGRESS
One Community is engineering abundance in natural systems 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:
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- Read the Highest Good society overview: 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
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This week the core team completed 48 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, all while striving to integrate the principles of abundance in natural systems.. Pictures below show some of this work.
Another core team member began verification of all the modifications made to the working Highest Good Network software. She created a test user and subsequently updated another test account, ensuring that both accounts were assigned to the same team, project, and task for testing purposes, reflecting the concept of abundance in natural systems.
She also confirmed the resolution of four identified issues, while three problems remained unresolved. Additionally, she determined that one particular test would require reevaluation in the following week. See images below for examples of this work in progress.
Yiyun Tan (Management Dashboard Team Leader) completed her 58th week helping with the Highest Good Network software. This week, Yiyun dedicated the majority of her time to creating a comprehensive tutorial on re-enabling the ESLint with Prettier and reviewing the newly implemented timer functionalities.
In addition to these tasks, she actively assisted the team on Slack, providing support for problem-solving, bug reporting, and maintaining the existing tutorials as per her regular responsibilities. Below, you’ll find pictures highlighting the development of this work, which subtly integrates the principle of abundance in natural systems.
Kaixiang “Kevin” Gu (Fullstack Software Developer) completed his 30th week helping with the Highest Good Network software. This week, Kaixiang focused on the backend side of the submit for review button, aiming to find a suitable solution for storing the button status property across all existing tasks.
Since the button’s rendering is dependent on backend data, this presented a challenge, much like understanding the abundance in natural systems where various elements interact dynamically.. Additionally, Kaixiang conducted final reviews for three PRs. Pictures below show some of this work-in-progress.
Jianjun Luo (Software Engineer) completed her 29th week helping with the Highest Good Network software. This week, Jianjun addressed a bug related to the ‘change user status’ permission on the user profile page, ensuring that the editing ability can now be efficiently managed through the permission management page.
Additionally, she promptly resolved a minor issue with the data-tip bug in the WBS detail table and conducted a thorough review of a PR concerning the improvement of the people report. Furthermore, Jianjun initiated an investigation into enhancing the performance of the team member task component, drawing inspiration from the abundance in natural systems where efficiency and adaptability are key. Pictures below are related to this work.
Raul Effting (Jr. Front-End Web Developer) completed his 23rd week helping with the Highest Good Network software while contributing to the concept of abundance in natural systems. This week, Raul successfully resolved a critical bug where the timer, when resumed after a pause, no longer added an extra five minutes.
Additionally, Raul tackled another bug related to loading delays, implementing necessary changes in both the frontend and backend branches to ensure seamless functionality with Nida. Furthermore, he made valuable contributions by merging two new pull requests related to the timer and invested time in resolving issues pertaining to the API connection. Below are some images related to this work.
Aishwarya Kalkundrikar (Full Stack Software Developer) completed her 21st week helping with the Highest Good Network software engineering abundance in natural systems. This week, Aishwarya contributed to the project by addressing a request from Jae to prevent Sangam from receiving email notifications for weekly summaries. Aishwarya began by thoroughly examining the front-end code in order to identify the root cause of the issue. During the debugging process, an unintended consequence occurred, resulting in the delivery of email notifications three times.
After a PR by someone else was reverted the notification system is currently back to sending emails twice. In addition to the front end, Aishwarya also conducted a comprehensive review of the backend code. Specifically, she focused on optimizing the email-sending function to ensure only one email is sent. Although her efforts towards engineering abundance in natural systems have not yet yielded the desired outcome, Aishwarya remains committed to resolving this matter and is continuing to work on finding a successful solution. Pictures below show some of this work.
Lucas Emanuel Souza Silva (Software Developer) completed his 17th week helping with the Highest Good Network software engineering abundance in natural systems. This week, Lucas completed the “task dismiss” feature, enhancing task functionality by enabling the dismissal of tasks without triggering a full page reload. He also dedicated time to resolving a bug that prevented non-owners and administrators from viewing their assigned tasks, successfully rectifying the issue.
Additionally, Lucas successfully addressed task 84, addressing the bug related to the red bell icon. The changes implemented ensure that the red bell icon disappears after the user has reviewed the relevant updates. Furthermore, Lucas accomplished task 162, which involved fixing the behavior of the Tasks tab for users other than volunteers. As per the task requirements, when volunteers have no tasks assigned, the main tab automatically switches to the Time Log tab. Pictures of some of this work are below.
Jinchao Feng (Software Engineer) completed his 16th week helping with the Highest Good Network software engineering abundance in natural systems. This week, Jinchao took on various development tasks and made notable contributions to the team’s projects. One of Jinchao’s primary focuses was addressing bugs in the teammembertask component following the launch of a new timer function.
By developing a hotfix, Jinchao successfully resolved the issues and ensured the smooth functioning of the component. In addition to bug fixes, Jinchao dedicated efforts to enhance the efficiency of the timeLog component.
This involved raising two pull requests (PRs) aimed at fixing bugs related to the task/project field of the timeEntry component. These PRs not only addressed the bugs but also optimized the timeLog component by eliminating redundant backend requests and refactoring the backend logic. Consequently, this optimization resulted in reduced communication costs between the backend and the database, further improving the overall efficiency of the timeLog component. Please refer to the pictures below.
Yongjian Pan (React.js/MongoDB Full Stack Software Developer) completed his 12th week helping with the Highest Good Network software engineering abundance in natural systems. This week, Yongjian implemented changes to the dashboard’s header based on Jae’s suggestion, replacing the toggle button with sun and moon icons. He successfully ensured the proper functionality of these toggling icons across various pages, guaranteeing consistent user experience.
Additionally, Yongjian addressed the issue of light and dark mode state persistence after a page refresh, ensuring that the chosen mode remained consistent throughout the user’s browsing session. See the images below for a look at this work.
Yihan Liu (Software Engineer) completed her 11th week helping with the Highest Good Network software engineering abundance in natural systems. This week, Yihan focused on rectifying the text in the information modal on the projects page. By consolidating all the ol elements in ProjectInfoModal.jsx into a dedicated class and applying a padding-left property to this class in projects.css, she successfully resolved the problem.
Subsequently, Yihan submitted PR#898 to implement the changes. Additionally, she conducted reviews of PR#901 and PR#891. PR#891 performed as intended, whereas during testing on an Owner type account, a new warning emerged in PR#901. ‹See the pictures‹ below related to this work.
Abdelmounaim “Abdel” Lallouache (Software Developer) completed his 10th week helping with the Highest Good Network software engineering abundance in natural systems. This week, Abdelmounaim made several updates to the system. On the backend, Abdelmounaim updated the task model by adding a new property called “followUpPercentageDeadline” to indicate when a user was followed up with. Correspondingly, Abdelmounaim modified the setFollowUp controller to handle this new property.
Moving to the frontend, Abdelmounaim introduced the checkWhoNeedsFollowUp function, which identifies users requiring follow-up. Additionally, Abdelmounaim made necessary adjustments to the handleCheckboxFollowUp, handleFollowUp, and task reducer to support the new “followUpPercentageDeadline” property. The pictures below are related to this work.
Lucile Tronczyk (Full Stack Software Developer) completed her 8th week helping with the Highest Good Network software engineering abundance in natural systems. This week, Lucile focused on implementing the requested additions to the “confirmation improvements to people report.” The Pull Request has been completed and is now ready for merging.
It involves removing the “Hours Logged This Week” section for inactive users, centering the remaining sections, adding the User’s Title below their name, and incorporating a “Rehireable” section that can be toggled. These modifications are essential for ensuring the visual correctness of the report when a work confirmation is requested and a screenshot is taken.
Additionally, she worked on a bug related to making a user inactive and then editing their blue squares. Specifically, when logged in as an Admin, accessing a user’s profile, deactivating them by clicking the green dot next to their name, and subsequently attempting to delete a blue square, an alert message would appear. Ideally, the same behavior as deleting a blue square for an active user should occur, without triggering the alert. The pictures below relate to this.
Vishvesh Sheoran (Artificial Intelligence Specialist) completed his 8th week helping with the Highest Good Network software engineering abundance in natural systems. This week, Vishvesh Sheoran focused on implementing the proposed action plan for predictive analytics within the HGN (Highest Good Network) web app. He researched and evaluated suitable tools such as RapidMiner for data cleaning, model development, and deployment. He actively responded to comments, providing detailed explanations and examples to aid in decision-making. See pictures below showing his efforts.
Alexander G Huerta (Software Engineer) complete his 7th week helping with the Highest Good Network software engineering abundance in natural systems. This week, Alexander focused his efforts on the Weekly Summary Component. Recognizing the impact of chatGPT and other AI text completion tools on the creation and submission of weekly summary reports, Alexander introducing updates to the summary form’s placeholder text and added 2 new check boxes to ensure the summary’s quality, such as a prompt to review the summary. These alterations mark the beginning of a series of incremental modifications.
Furthermore, Alexander meticulously outlined his upcoming tasks for this component, establishing a clear roadmap for the following weeks. Among the proposed changes, a key enhancement involves the integration of a button that triggers a modal containing the current prompt, featuring a convenient copy button. Ultimately, the goal is to seamlessly incorporate AI directly into this component. The images below show this progress.
Xiao Tan (Software Engineer) completed her 7th week helping with the Highest Good Network software engineering abundance in natural systems. This week, Xiao devoted her attention to resolving the issue (PRIORITY LOW) identified by Jae, which involved creating Shadow Consistency for the Dashboard (PR878). Xiao worked on the code, ensuring that all tests were successfully passed to meet the desired outcome. Additionally, she dedicated time to enhance the user experience by making styling modifications to the search name feature on the Badge Management page. Xiao pushed these changes to the same PR for further review and collaboration.
In another task (PRIORITY LOW), she successfully implemented the rounding of hour numbers to two digits by incorporating the “toFixed(2)” function into both the timeEntryController.js file for the hoursLogged variable and the userHelper.js file for the timeSpent variable. She followed the link provided by Aishwarya to access the required environment variables for enabling Gmail API, which was essential for conducting thorough testing. Lastly, Xiao reviewed PR898, PR890, and PR899. See images supporting this below.
Edwin Estuardo Lau Mack (Software Engineer) completed his 6th week, helping with the Highest Good Network software engineering abundance in natural systems. This week, Edwin dedicated his efforts to reviewing pull requests (PRs) and advancing the development of the HGN application as a member of the Dev Team, primarily focusing on Frontend functionality. Alongside reviewing multiple PRs, Edwin implemented the “seeAllReports” permission functionality by creating a new permission, initializing it as the default for Administrator and Owner users, and adding it to the permission management tab.
Additionally, Edwin made changes to the Frontend functionality, modifying the rendering of the Reports tab in the header based on the user’s permissions. Users with the “seeAllReports” permission can view all tabs under Reports, users with the “seeWeeklySummaryReports” permission can only access the Weekly Summaries Report tab, and users without either of these permissions cannot see the Reports option in the header.
Furthermore, Edwin addressed a previous bug within the same component, preventing users without permission from accessing the weekly summaries report by manually altering the URL. Throughout the week, Edwin also reviewed a total of 7 PRs: #401, #826, #883, #890, #898, #903, and #904. Images showing this progress are below.
Sneha M Madle (Software Engineer) completed their 6th week helping with the Highest Good Network software. This week, Sneha began by reviewing the HGN Bug list and addressing the unresolved bugs. She proceeded to estimate the required effort for each bug. Of particular importance was the high-priority bug involving the addition of an information modal to the permission page.
To tackle this, an in-depth examination of role permissions was conducted to identify the necessary code modifications. Consideration was given to utilizing InfoModal, Modal, or Project Modal for the pop-up. Upon determining the appropriate approach, the individual implemented the required code changes. Subsequently, extensive testing of the alterations was performed locally. Finally, a pull request was submitted to initiate the review process. The pictures below show this work.
Xiao Wang (Software Engineer) completed his 6th week helping with the Highest Good Network software. This week, Xiao submitted two PR requests. The first request, PR #398, addresses the issue of a slow response time for the GET request to ‘…/dashboard/leaderboard/org/data’. This PR focuses on fixing the aggregate pipeline logic, as explained in the comments within the file, and streamlining the integration of a second time-consuming query.
The second request, PR #905 at front end, was accompanied by PR #402 at the back end. These PRs consolidate all the GET requests related to user tasks, specifically those sent to /TimeEntry/user/${userId}/${fromDate}/${toDate}, into a single POST request sent to TimeEntry/users. The POST request’s body includes all the necessary user IDs. Additionally, a video summarizing the changes has been uploaded to Dropbox. See supporting images below.
Yubo Sun (Full Stack Software Developer) completed his 6th week helping with the Highest Good Network software. This week, Yubo focused on frontend work, particularly on PR #860. This PR required changes to rectify a misunderstanding of the desired outcome and also aimed to compensate for missed commitments from the previous week.
Yubo reviewed PR #826 but did not achieve a successful outcome like other reviewers on GitHub, so the result was shared on Slack. For PR #860, Yubo chose to refactor the entire component into smaller components, incorporating edit permissions and resulting in different rendered views. This involved addressing warnings and fixing bugs that arose from the refactoring process.
Additionally, Yubo discovered a pre-existing warning indicating improper handling of input data types and intends to open another PR to address it, with the final solution still pending. Yubo also worked on Task 149, focusing on understanding the correct usage of backend APIs related to adding professional links to the Profile page. The pictures below relate to and show some of this work.
Yu-Wei Hsu (Software Engineer) completed his 6th week helping with the Highest Good Network software. This week, Yu-Wei focused on resolving a critical issue related to the permissions management of user profile links. They addressed the bug, utilizing their technical expertise and problem-solving skills to identify and rectify the underlying problem.
In addition to bug fixing, they took proactive steps to apply for an owner account, demonstrating their commitment to taking on additional responsibilities within the project. By actively addressing the issue and seeking ownership, they showcased their dedication to ensuring smooth operations and effective management of user profiles. See below for some pictures related to this.
Papia Sharmin (Full Stack Developer) completed her 5th week helping with the Highest Good Network software engineering abundance in natural systems. This week, Papia focused on an app-related task. Her main accomplishment was creating a toggle button for the team task tab and leaderboard tab. This feature allows users to switch between viewing only their own team members or seeing all team members. The toggle functionality is restricted to the Owner, Admin, and Core Team classes, as these users have permission to access information on all team members. Additionally, Papia performed code reviews for PR #866 and #867 on the frontend. She provided valuable suggestions for changes in PR #867.
Nida Zaki (Software Engineer) completed her 4th week helping with the Highest Good Network software engineering abundance in natural systems. This week, Nida conducted research on implementing the addition of a popstate event Listener and utilizing local storage to incorporate the necessary changes. She also performed lint fixes by running prettier on all relevant files to ensure consistent code formatting. Furthermore, efforts were made to address the build failure in the pull request created for the task, specifically focusing on enabling the Weekly Summaries page to remain on the same summary tab when refreshed.
Additionally, Nida successfully resolved test case issues related to default tab selection. Lastly, she dedicated time to comprehending the workflow of a new timer that was causing the text editor to become disabled when the timer initiated. The pictures below are examples of this work.
Lawrence Chua (Full Stack Software Developer) completed his 3rd week helping with the Highest Good Network software engineering abundance in natural systems. This week, Lawrence tackled an issue related to rare occurrences where a blue square would be incorrectly reassigned to the user from whom it was removed, leading to multiple emails being sent by the mailer system. To resolve this issue, Lawrence dedicated time to studying the backend codebase, investigating the root cause and understanding the underlying mechanisms contributing to the problem.
Despite diligently logging the mailer system, Lawrence was unable to diagnose the issue within the given timeframe. Additionally, Lawrence performed a re-review of PR #850 and provided the necessary approval for the pull request. See the images below to get a look at some of this work.
The Highest Good Network software PR Review team also worked towards engineering abundance in natural systems and to test all of the above PRs and find any bugs they could within those PRs and the software as a whole. This week’s active members of this team and how many weeks they’ve been with us are as follows: Anish Pandita (Software Engineer) completed his 17th week, Eduardo Horta (Software Engineer) completed his 5th week, Kurtis Ivey (Full Stack Developer) completed his 1st week, Leon Zhuang (Software Engineer) completed his 1st week, Maham Almizan Khan (Software Engineer) completed her 1st week.
Nathan Hoffman (Software Engineer) completed his 5th week, Olga Yudkin (Software Engineer) completed her 2nd week, “Sola” Olusola Akinbode (Full Stack Software Developer) completed his 4th week, Steve Paalz (Software Developer) completed his 4th week, Xiaoyu Chen (Software Engineer) completed her 5th week, Yufei Zhang (Software Engineer) completed her 3rd week, and Zubing Guo (Software Engineer) completed her 1st week. The collage below shows a compilation of the work from this team. ‹
Ray Lee (Digital Creator) also helped create additional background graphics for our announcements. See below for some examples.
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