At One Community, we are open sourcing a highest good society model to transparently demonstrate how sustainability can evolve to benefit everyone. We develop integrated, sustainable approaches to food, energy, housing, education, economics, and social architecture that support fulfilled living and global stewardship. Created by an all-volunteer team, everything we build is open source and free-shared, including the complete process, so it can become self-replicating. Our goal is a global collaboration of teacher/demonstration hubs designed for “The Highest Good of All“, regenerating our planet and creating 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 February 16, 2026 edition (#674) of our weekly progress update detailing our team’s development and accomplishments:

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HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING PROGRESS

One Community is open sourcing a highest good society model through Highest Good housing that is artistic and beautiful, more affordable, more space efficient, lasts longer, DIY buildable, and constructed with healthy and sustainable materials:

• • • Learn about: Our Upcoming Crowdfunding Campaign
    • Learn about the different village models and Open Sourcing a Highest Good Society Model : 7 Sustainable Village Models
    • Visit the open source portals for the first two: Earthbag Village OS Hub | Straw Bale Village OS Hub

This week, Ajay Adithiya Kumar Elancheliyan Tamilalagi (Mechanical Engineer) continued working on the ventilation system design for the Vermiculture Toilet component of the Earthbag Village. He finalized the ventilation system design for the Earthbag Village vermicomposting toilet by extracting spatial data and clearance measurements from the CAD model. These dimensions were used to create a report section on spatial integration and maintenance access requirements. Technical contributions were integrated into the primary website content, and documentation was completed regarding dimensional constraints for the ventilation modules. Administrative tasks included migrating project documents to a new account, establishing file linking, and reorganizing project folders. The most recent Unistrut files were updated and uploaded to the project Dropbox to maintain data synchronization. Following the completion of these items, work began on the structural layout portion of the report, specifically focusing on the vermiculture unit layout and the associated Unistrut assembly analysis. His work supports open sourcing a highest good society model by improving open-source documentation for sustainable sanitation infrastructure. This work contributes to open sourcing a highest good society model by making systems easier to replicate. Below, you’ll find some images of this work.

Derrell Brown (Plumbing Designer) continued working on the Earthbag Village 4-dome home final MEP report provided for One Community Global and applied the required revisions to align the final draft with the submitted comments and expectations. He reviewed prior electrical calculations, panel schedules, and equipment selections to prepare an updated load summary for the current electrical provisions. He incorporated a one-line diagram into the documentation to illustrate the flow of electricity from the utility source to the main distribution panel and associated loads. Derrell also began developing calculations to determine the available fault current at the panel in the event of a short circuit, using the system configuration and equipment ratings to support this analysis. His work contributes to open sourcing a highest good society model by strengthening the safety and reliability of sustainable energy system documentation. The outcome supports open sourcing a highest good society model through clearly documented, open-source processes. See below for some of the pictures related to this work.

Fangting Xu (Interior Design Intern) continued working with ADA codes related to building connections for the ADA 3-dome cluster of the Earthbag Village. She prepared three floor plan options for the ADA shower room and updated the ADA Dome PDF plans based on Jae’s feedback. Fangting also calculated and drew connected path lengths to meet ADA requirements. Additionally, she revised door sizes and completed the preliminary elevation drawings for the ADA restroom, supporting open sourcing a highest good society model through inclusive and accessible design planning. This is part of our broader mission of open sourcing a highest good society model for global benefit. Review the latest updates in the images below.

Iteesha Vishalakshi Aswath (Technical Program Manager) finalized the cost analysis document for the Open Source Climate Battery Design, building on the previous version by refining cost categories, restructuring line items for clarity, and aligning all sheets with the updated project scope. Compared to the earlier document, she standardized unit definitions, revised quantity calculations, updated assumptions, and reorganized summary tables to improve traceability between detailed inputs and overall totals. She researched current price points across the United States for materials, equipment, and construction activities and included supporting references within the spreadsheet and in an offline Dropbox folder to justify selected cost values.

She incorporated all of Jae’s feedback into the final version, adjusting formatting, improving calculation logic, and refining the organization of system-level breakdowns. Iteesha also built automation across worksheets so that changes to quantities, unit costs, or assumptions automatically update linked sheets and roll up into summary sections, reducing manual updates and improving consistency. Her work supports open sourcing a highest good society model by making sustainable energy infrastructure planning more transparent and replicable. At the start of the week, she completed administrative tasks for the Reactonauts software development team, including creating team summaries and collages, preparing SEO keywords, organizing folders, adding comments, and checking for errors. This supports open sourcing a highest good society model by strengthening data-informed planning and collaboration. See below for some of the pictures related to this work.

Rishi Chakrapani (Mechanical Engineer) continued working on the Vermiculture Toilet. His work focused on developing the Unistrut report, including detailing the design procedure and structural analysis for the main chamber assembly. Rishi proofread the remainder of the report to correct formatting and content issues and updated the exploded view CAD animation to reflect the finalized assembly. All screenshots were reviewed and repositioned as needed to ensure alignment with the corresponding sections of the report. His work supports open sourcing a highest good society model by strengthening technical accuracy and documentation quality for sustainable system development. This week’s progress moves us closer to open sourcing a highest good society model. Review the latest updates in the images below.

Sai Bhuvanesh Nandipati (Mechanical Engineer) continued working on the Earthbag Village by developing content related to wastewater treatment processes for integration into the project webpage, ensuring that the technical information aligns with the intended structure and scope of the site. He also reviewed the large water storage capacity solutions section of the webpage, focusing on the technical concepts, system configurations, and design considerations associated with high-volume water storage applications. His contributions support open sourcing a highest good society model by strengthening educational content related to sustainable water infrastructure. Together, these updates advance open sourcing a highest good society model with practical and shareable solutions. See below for some of the pictures related to this work.

Vaishnav Sanjay Chavan (Intern Volunteer Architectural Project Manager) worked on the Earthbag Village by developing multiple components of the tropical atrium design, including the site plan, ground floor plan, mezzanine floor plan, and roof plan, with attention to layout coordination and consistency across drawings. Work was also carried out on the 3D model of the tropical atrium in SketchUp to represent overall form and spatial relationships. Reference drawings from Dome 4 were reviewed and used to inform design decisions and maintain alignment across plans and models. These tasks supported coordination between two-dimensional layouts and the three-dimensional representation of the project, contributing to open sourcing a highest good society model through replicable and sustainability-focused architectural planning. This work supports open sourcing a highest good society model through transparent and collaborative development. Below, you’ll find some images of this work.

DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER PROGRESS

One Community is open sourcing a highest good society model 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 and it’s function and Open Sourcing a Highest Good Society Model : Duplicable City Center Open Source Hub

This week, Ariana Virginia Gutierrez Doria Medina (Industrial Designer) continued working on the Duplicable City Center window and door framing. She focused on updating and clarifying the assembly instructions to reflect the changes that have been made, especially regarding the insulation. She made adjustments to several components to better align with the requirements of the cutting process. However, the overall appearance of the window remains consistent with the original design specifications and has not been altered. This open source Duplicable City Center project is dedicated to open sourcing a highest good society model. Please see the illustration below for more specific information.

Akhil Shesham (Mechanical Engineer) continued working on the Duplicable City Center design. He focused on identifying and listing all primary and secondary components required for the elevator system, beginning with a breakdown of major assemblies and then separating them into individual parts to better understand their functional relationships and integration requirements. After establishing the component list, attention shifted to gathering reference information from relevant sources to verify specifications, dimensions, and typical configurations for each part. The collected information was then organized to support further evaluation and comparison. Following the component identification and reference consolidation, progress moved toward developing the cost analysis framework. This included structuring the cost sheet, categorizing items by subsystem, and separating material costs from labor costs to allow clearer financial tracking. Estimated material rates were aligned with each component, and labor costs were outlined based on installation, fabrication, and assembly requirements. The analysis also considered quantity requirements and unit-level costing to support total cost estimation and comparison against the budget. Discover One Community’s open source Duplicable City Center, which is open sourcing a highest good society model. See the visuals below for a closer look.

Bevan Chiu (Mechanical Engineer) continued his work finishing the City Center Eco-spa Designs. He worked on the CAD model of the grate system intended to drain excess water after users step out of the pool. He developed a structural FEA model of the 12-inch by 12-inch plumbing access panel to evaluate performance under a 250-pound load. He also performed a cost analysis comparing different panel sizes and integrated the updated panel configurations into the CAD assembly. In addition, he researched EVA foam as a potential alternative material for the panels. This open source Duplicable City Center project is open sourcing a highest good society model. For more details, refer to the image below.

Shivarama Krishna Revanuru (Mechanical Engineer) continued working on the Duplicable City Center design. He focused on the finite element analysis of the hinge for the spa cover plate 2 and completed cost analysis and bill of materials preparation, including material selection for the assembly. He discussed the FEA results, hinge performance, spa cover plate 2 design, and cost considerations with his teammate to align on analysis assumptions and design updates. He evaluated different material options based on structural requirements, manufacturing feasibility, and cost impact. He also made minor design changes to the spa cover to meet specified requirements and ensure compatibility with the hinge and overall assembly. This open source Duplicable City Center project is open sourcing a highest good society model. The images below illustrate aspects of this work.

HIGHEST GOOD FOOD PROGRESS

One Community is open sourcing a highest good society model 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: Hoop House Hub | Aquapini & Walipini Open Source Hub
    • See what we’ll be growing and Open Sourcing a Highest Good Society Model : Gardens & Hoop Houses | Large-scale Structures | Food Forest | TA

This week, the core team continued working on the Master Tools, Equipment, and Materials/Supplies List for the Large-scale Garden, Botanical Garden, and other Highest Good Food components. They created written narratives for the table saw, drill press, portable and fixed workbenches, and the combination belt/disc sander, and replaced the existing photo for the combination belt/disc sander. Research on pocket hole jigs was added to the documentation, and a video link was included for the Japanese pull saw. New narratives were also written for the PVC scraps, pocket hole jig, and Japanese pull saw entries. The miscellaneous tool list was cross-referenced with the Master Tools, Equipment, Materials/Supplies document, which led to the addition of supplementary items to the miscellaneous TEMS list. The Highest Good Food initiative is a key component of One Community’s open source plans, focused on open sourcing a highest good society model. Below are some images showcasing this work.

Chelsea Mariah Stellmach (Project Manager) continued working on the Transition Food Self-sufficiency food and inventory tracking software plans. She reassigned team members to new tasks based on project needs and current progress, created purpose statements to define objectives and expectations, and communicated intangible work request needs to stakeholders to support task alignment. She followed up with team members to check on progress, identify blockers, and maintain shared understanding of scope and priorities. Communication focused on improving collaboration, aligning team processes, and supporting development work contributing to open sourcing a highest good society model. The following images provide a view of her contributions.

Japneet Kour (Volunteer Architect) continued contributing to the Highest Good Food initiative. This week, she added all the plants in the planter zone for the Aquapini and adjusted the frames for renders in Lumion to ensure each area reflected the intended layout. She reviewed plant placement, refined visual angles, coordinated planter spacing, and aligned the render views with the project’s design requirements, supporting work contributing to open sourcing a highest good society model. Below are the images.

Jay Nair (BIM Designer) continued developing the Aquapini and Walipini Planting and Harvesting documents. This week, he calculated the total lighting energy use for all zones in Walipini 1 with the Solawrap roof configuration by consolidating zone-specific energy calculations, verifying fixture specifications, and confirming that seasonal DLI adjustments were accurately reflected in the combined total. He reviewed data inputs for consistency, aligned the results with the standardized documentation format, and integrated the finalized total energy values into the overall lighting energy report, supporting work contributing to open sourcing a highest good society model, as shown in the images below.

Nitin Parate (Architect) continued contributing to the Aquapini and Walipini renders and layout graphics. This week, work focused on developing the axonometric drawing of the Zen Aquapini with updates to improve clarity, alignment, and overall layout while maintaining the design intent. Roof members, glazing, and structural elements were detailed and incorporated into the axonometric view. The plantation axonometric view continued to be developed to represent plant types, layers, spacing, and height variations to show the overall planting structure and layout. Different visual methods were tested to assess effectiveness, and selected approaches were applied to refine the drawings. Annotations, labels, and infographics were added to provide clear information and improve readability and understanding of the design and its components, supporting work contributing to open sourcing a highest good society model, with supporting images included below.

Shivangi Varma (Architectural Designer and Planner) continued the redesign of the Highest Good Food overall presentation. She continued adding planting and axonometric details to the Differences diagram to advance the pending graphic for the Open Source Hub page. She refined the content and visual distinctions within the diagram and tested multiple graphic and layout options to present the three structures and their features more clearly. This work supports development tasks contributing to open sourcing a highest good society model, as shown in the images below.

HIGHEST GOOD ENERGY PROGRESS

One Community is open sourcing a highest good society model 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: Solar, Hydro, and Wind
    • Explore our research into the most sustainable products and companies for saving water and energy and Open Sourcing a Highest Good Society Model : Insulation, Eco-laundry, Lightbulbs and Light Bulb Companies, Doors and Door Companies, Windows and Window Companies, Toilets, Faucets and Faucet Accessories, Urinals, and more.

This week, the core team continued contributing to the Highest Good Energy initiative. They reviewed documents related to the phases of the Highest Good Food rollout and began preparing summaries of the projected costs for each phase. They continued reviewing Earthbag Village construction documents in preparation for evaluating related work and examined the business plan financial documents to assess current figures and assumptions, supporting work contributing to open sourcing a highest good society model. Supporting images are included below.

HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION PROGRESS

One Community is open sourcing a highest good society model 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 Open Sourcing a Highest Good Society Model: 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

HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY PROGRESS

One Community is open sourcing a highest good society model 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 and sharing and Open Sourcing a Highest Good Society Model : 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 40 hours managing volunteer work reviews, handling emails, overseeing social media accounts, supporting web development, and identifying and integrating bug fixes for the Highest Good Network. The team also interviewed and onboarded new volunteer team members. Additionally, they produced and integrated the video above, which highlights how open sourcing a highest good society model serves as a foundational element of One Community’s broader mission. The following images showcase highlights of this work.

Pooja Kulkarni (UI/UX Designer) continued her work by advancing governance platform designs through refined proposal-related user flows and mid-fidelity wireframes that clarify participation, review, and decision states across the proposal lifecycle on Highest Good Network. She focused on strengthening the Governance Guidelines and Consensus Framework page by improving content hierarchy, readability, and compliance visibility, organizing lifecycle phases, core philosophy, and conflict resolution pathways into structured, scannable sections. She further refined the Quarterly Community Review experience with a structured agenda layout, time indicators, registration flow, performance snapshot metrics, and preparation materials to improve clarity and progressive disclosure. This reinforces open sourcing a highest good society model through teamwork and ongoing improvement.

In addition, she enhanced the Governance Framework Amendment proposal flow by designing a multi-phase status indicator (Discussion → Vetting → Decision), structured review states for Legal, Core Strategy, and Community Ops and clear approval, pending, and changes-requested indicators to improve transparency. She also expanded the proposal voting experience by introducing a clearly defined consensus scale, visual differentiation between vote types, progress indicators, and contextual feedback areas. Throughout all screens, she standardized layout patterns, spacing, component usage, status badges, and color logic to ensure scalability and consistency across the governance ecosystem. This work supports One Community’s efforts toward open sourcing a highest good society model; the images below highlight key aspects of her work.

Yulin Li (Graphic Designer) continued her work by contributing 20 hours of volunteer service focused on visual communication and coordination for the Highest Good Network software team. She revised infographics based on feedback to improve clarity, visual consistency, and alignment with One Community’s sustainability goals. She also prepared and published a team collaboration announcement to support transparent communication across teams. In addition, she maintained organized asset management through Dropbox and participated in weekly review discussions to support timely task completion. This work supports One Community’s efforts toward open sourcing a highest good society model; the images below highlight key aspects of her work. See the Highest Good Society page and the collage below for examples of their work.

ADMINISTRATION TEAM

The Administration Team’s summary, which covers their work on the Highest Good Network, was managed by Prudhvi Marpina (Data Analyst) and includes Anusha Gali (Software Engineer), Ashutosh Mishra (Software Engineer), Keerthana Chitturi (System Administrator), Divanshu Bakshi (Team Admin), Hemanth Sai Venkata Srinivasa Kumar Nidamanuru (Administrative Assistant), Leo Lishin Shiu (Software Engineer), Manish Kanuri (Data Scientist), Mridul Bhushan (Volunteer Project Strategy Analyst and Team Administrator), Neeharika Kamireddy (Data Analyst), Olawunmi “Ola” Ijisesan (Administrative and Management Support), Priyanshi Sharma (Data Analyst and Team Administrator), Rachna Malav (Data Analyst), Rajeshwari Bhirud (Administrator), Rishitha Adepu (Administrator), Sayantan Paul (Frontend Tester and Software Team Administrator), Shameera Musthafa (Data Analyst), Shreya Shetty (Data Analyst), and Sudarshan Raju Chintalapati Venkata (Data Analyst). The Administration Team supports the Highest Good Network, a tool designed to track and measure progress while developing systems that contribute to open sourcing a highest good society model. Through administrative support, documentation, testing, training, recruiting, 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, Anusha reviewed and tested frontend and backend pull requests across HighestGoodNetworkApp and HGNRest, approving or requesting changes where UI defects, setup issues, or functionality gaps were identified, while also supporting administrative workflows by reviewing submissions, creating image collages, editing summaries, updating tracking documents, and providing blog feedback. Ashutosh completed Dev Dynasty team reporting, conducted UI testing, prepared Pinecone ingestion documentation, tested updated endpoints, integrated backend updates, and improved similarity search validation using FAISS-based proof-of-concept testing. Divanshu published Mastodon updates, extracted engagement metrics using Python automation, updated dashboards, documented bugs and feature action items, and supported product ownership coordination. Keerthana reviewed summaries for formatting and accuracy, updated Step 2 and Step 4 tracking, compiled and validated the weekly blog, and assigned action items for follow-up. Together, these efforts support open sourcing a highest good society model.

Leo compiled and formatted team summaries and validated analytics data alignment for extraction workflows, while Manish completed frontend pull request testing, reviewed blog reporting accuracy, identified inactive pull requests requiring follow-up, and coordinated team task progress. Mridul managed X platform posting continuity, completed reporting updates, validated team summaries for publication readiness, and supported onboarding evaluation processes. This supports open sourcing a highest good society model by strengthening data-informed planning and collaboration.

Neeharika assigned and tracked development tasks, tested pull requests, verified corrected PDFs, reviewed administrative work, and conducted interviews to support team growth. Ola analyzed Pinterest engagement metrics to optimize posting schedules and organized documentation storage structures for administration teams. Priyanshi conducted detailed dashboard testing across financial and equipment tracking components, identifying chart rendering, visibility, and dark mode usability issues and documenting them for resolution. Rachna reviewed ongoing tasks, emails, and SEO content while monitoring hiring coordination availability. Rajeshwari continued administrative blog responsibilities while testing dashboards and analytics routes, documenting errors, and tracking system behavior. These efforts contribute to open sourcing a highest good society model.

Rishitha managed weekly blog compilation, SEO optimization, bio updates, Threads engagement, and dashboard data updates using Python scripts and Excel workflows. Sayantan prepared Team Skye summaries, tested and validated multiple dashboards and application modules, identified UI and analytics issues, documented tasks, and improved backend testing workflows using Postman while supporting administrator training. Shameera supported PR review management, administrative content checks, and analytical review of the Highest Good Energy report to strengthen understanding of reporting insights. These steps help scale open sourcing a highest good society model for communities worldwide.

Shreya created Aircrete dataset visualizations, analyzed Google Ads performance declines, reviewed onboarding materials, and supported documentation workflows. Sudarshan managed Alpha Software Team blog content, applied SEO updates, tested analytics and questionnaire dashboards, documented bugs, created improvement tasks, and supported feature updates across the system. To learn more about how this work supports open sourcing a highest good society model, visit the Highest Good Society and Highest Good Network pages. Highlights of the team’s contributions are shown in the collage below.

HIGHEST GOOD NETWORK PROGRESS

One Community is open sourcing a highest good society model through open source Highest Good Network^® software that is a web-based application for collaboration, time tracking, and objective data collection. The purpose of the Highest Good Network is to provide software for internal operations and external cooperation. It is being designed for global use in support of the different countries and communities replicating the One Community sustainable village models and related components.

• Learn about our open source community collaboration and management software and Open Sourcing a Highest Good Society Model : The Highest Good Network

This week, the core team tested Highest Good Network pull requests and confirmed 11 as fixed. This effort highlights One Community’s commitment to reinventing the sustainability industry.

The following were not fixed: issues related to the Global Distribution Map, incorrect or inconsistent project count display, dark mode visibility problems, incomplete LiveJournal integration, missing implementation of the Truth Social auto-poster frontend component, incomplete Mastodon auto-poster functionality, and errors in the assignment of Atoms earned by students. In addition, multiple PRs could not be tested due to the absence of data on the Main branch, including fixes for crashes when typing on the Member Group Check-In page for Timelogger, visibility and log update errors in the Phase 2 Tool and Equipment Daily Activity Log, dark mode styling issues on the Update Tool or Equipment Status page, ascending and descending date sorting functionality on the Events Database Design page, and added filters and navigation improvements on the Tools page. This work strengthens One Community’s mission of demonstrating open sourcing a highest good society model. See the Highest Good Society and The Highest Good Network pages, and the collage below, for an overview of the team’s contributions.

ALPHA SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT TEAM

The Alpha Software Team, working on the Highest Good Network software, was managed by Lin Khant Htel (Frontend Software Developer), The team includes Linh Huynh (Software Engineer), Som Ramnani (Software Engineer), Sheetal Mangate (Software Engineer) and Casstiel Pi (Software Engineer). The Highest Good Network software is a key part of sustainable and free-shared eco-solutions, We are helping track and measure progress toward open sourcing a highest good society model. The software supports social architecture, construction, production, and maintenance processes that contribute to the open source project and resilient ecosystems. Designed to be portable and scalable, the Highest Good Network software is well suited for off-grid and sustainable living communities. This project reflects One Community’s open source commitment to open sourcing a highest good society model.

Lin reviewed PR #1804, examined the code, tested the endpoints using Postman, and confirmed that the returned data matched expectations, then reviewed weekly summaries, photos, and videos submitted by Alpha team members and carried out management duties for the Alpha Team, supporting efforts related to open sourcing a highest good society model. Linh completed the Material Usage Insights and Visual Indicators feature for the BM Dashboard across both frontend and backend repositories. He implemented the Stock Health indicator column with threshold-based color logic, added the usage percentage progress bar with tooltip explanations, and integrated a summary panel displaying total materials, low stock percentage, over-usage percentage, and items on hold. Linh also verified correct rendering in light and dark mode, ensured responsive layout behavior, and confirmed edge cases such as zero purchases and decimal formatting were handled correctly. He implemented reusable calculation utilities for usage percentage, stock ratio, stock health classification, and summary metrics, created multiple API endpoints for material insights, integrated the router into the existing BM Dashboard routing structure, ensured consistent response formatting, wrote Jest unit tests, corrected a threshold-related test expectation, resolved a pre-commit hook issue related to commit message format, and confirmed all tests passed locally with the feature functioning end-to-end, contributing to open sourcing a highest good society model.

Som revisited PR #4215 to update styling changes related to badge components. He deleted the badge.module.css file that had been created in the global styles folder and removed its import from BadgeReport.css, after which the revised styles were not applied to the BadgeImage component and required investigation. He refactored the BadgeSpan component to support CSS Modules when using conditional suffixes, separated the base badge class from the modifier suffix class, normalized the suffix, and applied the modifier class only when it existed in Badge.module.css to prevent invalid class names and ensure styles applied correctly, in alignment with open sourcing a highest good society model. Sheetal focused on addressing the issue raised by Anushi regarding the inability to create a developer app on Reddit. She investigated the change from the previously working process, examined possible causes, identified prerequisites required to create a developer account, analyzed potential updates or additional requirements affecting app creation, and worked toward determining a resolution, supporting open sourcing a highest good society model.

Casstiel created a handoff note for the task of adding the new multi-select filter feature, outlining implementation status, completed frontend work, partial backend logic, identified issues, pending fixes, architectural decisions, and known blockers related to branch dependencies. He described attempted solutions, design considerations, and areas requiring further development or testing, and claimed a new task to add a supplier filter and an “All Suppliers” option to the On-Time Delivery graph, created a local branch, and analyzed the existing codebase. See the Highest Good Society and Highest Good Network pages for more on how we are contributing to open sourcing a highest good society model. See the collage below to view the team’s work.

BINARY BRIGADE SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT TEAM

The Binary Brigade Team, presenting their work on the Highest Good Network software, was managed by Amalesh Arivanan (Software Engineer) and included Sourabh Bagde (Software Developer), Sumedh Kumar (Full-Stack Developer), Roshini Seelamsetty (Software Engineer), Ramsundar Konety Govindarajan (Software Engineer),  Harsha Rudhraraju (Software Engineer), and Taariq Mansurie (Full-Stack Developer). The Highest Good Network software is our tool for managing and objectively measuring progress, ensuring that all contributions are tracked and aligned with our mission, and for modeling open sourcing a highest good society model. It supports social architecture, construction, production, and maintenance processes that contribute to open-source projects and resilient, sustainable ecosystems.

This week, Sumedh worked on PR-4306 by resolving merge conflicts, attempting improvements to the existing chart module, documenting that API constraints blocked the intended customization, and replacing the “Most Frequent Keywords” network diagram with a D3-based implementation to gain control over the layout and interactions, improve clarity of keyword relationships, and ensure the visualization behaves responsively across screen sizes. Sourabh completed Plurk backend support for immediate posting and diagnostics by adding a direct Plurk posting endpoint that bypasses scheduling, adding a diagnostics endpoint to verify OAuth authentication and return connected account details, troubleshooting an “Invalid token” issue by identifying mismatched OAuth credentials, regenerating the correct access token and secret for the same Plurk application, updating environment variables, restarting the backend, and validating successful authentication and posting via Postman. This work helps demonstrate open sourcing a highest good society model in measurable and practical ways.

Ramsundar fixed a LessonsLearntChart crash caused by the frontend calling incorrect endpoints and expecting a different response structure by updating the API endpoint usage to match the backend, aligning field names and response handling to the backend format, adding defensive checks to avoid operating on undefined data, adding user-facing error messaging when requests fail, and submitting the changes as PR 4845,  he also resolved an urgent Teams dropdown filtering issue where teams with PR review data were excluded because the dropdown sourced teams only from UserProfile and not from PR Review Insights, spending about two hours resolving merge conflicts and pushing the fix with approval to log the hours this week. Together, these updates advance open sourcing a highest good society model with practical and shareable solutions.

Roshni reviewed PR 2037 and PR 1991 by testing PR 2037 locally with both services running and observing the graph page load with filters but remain stuck on “Getting data…,” testing PR 1991 by running npm test ownerMessageController with all tests passing, and started the Total Org Reports date filter change by creating the feature branch to default the date filter to Previous Week, analyzing WeeklySummariesReport.jsx and ViewReportByDate.jsx to identify the active-tab logic and sessionStorage default behavior, and reviewing the related documentation while awaiting a response to a clarification sent to Jae. These refinements improve usability and accessibility, supporting open sourcing a highest good society model.

Harshavarma identified that the chart is still using mock data due to incomplete backend fetching, validated that the backend-to-frontend data pipeline is not connected by inspecting reducers, actions, and endpoint configuration in a local branch, refined dark mode styling for filters and improved page responsiveness, and updated filter handling for last 4 months, 6 months, and full year selections by validating date calculations, confirming the required aggregation behavior, and ensuring the chart updates immediately when filter options change, with remaining work focused on integrating real API responses, removing mock data, adding loading and error states, and testing empty or partial dataset cases. Amalesh addressed multiple Phase 1 UI and mobile issues by working on PR4548 bug items, fixing Badge Management landing page dark mode text visibility issues tied to PR3940 and PR1676, correcting Total Org Summary mobile layout problems tied to PR4138 where graph text was clipped and labels overlapped, and fixing the Leaderboard mobile usability issue tied to PR4268 by restoring horizontal scrolling so the full table remains accessible on small screens. See the Highest Good Society and Highest Good Network pages for more information on how this works, open sourcing a highest good society model. The collage below shows images of their work.

CODE CRAFTERS SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT TEAM

The Code Crafters Team, covering their work on the Highest Good Network software, was managed by Vivek Chandra Bengaluru Suresh (Software Engineer) and includes Akshith Kumar Reddy Balappagari Gnaneswara (Full-Stack Developer), Bhanu Anish Akkineni (Software Engineer), Chaitanya Swaroop Kumar Allu (Software Engineer), Shreya Padaganur (Software Engineer), and Sphurthy Satish (Software Engineer). The Highest Good Network software coordinates social, economic, and infrastructure systems to objectively measure progress toward open sourcing a Highest Good Society model.

Akshith worked on Phase 6 Kitchen Inventory Management by creating backend API endpoints to add and retrieve orders and suppliers. He implemented all required endpoints for the Supplier and Order models, including get all suppliers, get supplier by ID, create supplier, update supplier, and delete supplier. For the get supplier by ID endpoint, he added statistics that display the total number of orders and the average delivery days for completed orders. He also implemented endpoints to get all orders, get order by ID, create a new order using a supplier ID, update an order, and delete an order. The update order endpoint recalculates the total amount when changes are made to quantity or price per item. He raised a pull request for this task. This supports open sourcing a Highest Good Society model by fostering transparent, collaborative, and data-driven approaches to global well-being.

Bhanu completed the implementation of the Ingredients tab and its associated item cards on the Inventory page, adding dynamic functionality to the metric cards so that their values are automatically calculated and updated based on the current inventory data. After finalizing these changes, he raised a pull request to merge the feature branch into the development branch. He then proceeded to implement the remaining tabs of the Inventory page using sample data, ensuring the page is fully functional and that each tab correctly displays items according to its respective category and dataset. These efforts support One Community’s mission of open sourcing a Highest Good Society model through collaborative and scalable solutions.

Chaitanya focused on completing and stabilizing the Email Announcement System for the MailChimp replacement project within the Highest Good Network application. He expanded backend quality by adding unit tests across emailService, emailSendingService, emailProcessor, emailBatchService, and emailTemplateService, added 26 comprehensive tests for emailTemplateController covering all major handlers including authentication and error scenarios, and rewrote emailController.spec.js with 49 tests validating send, resend, retry, subscription, and recovery flows, all of which pass and meet linting standards. He resolved a production-only “Ready for Review” dropdown issue by identifying a conflict between position: fixed elements and overflow: hidden containers and implementing a Reactstrap Portal solution to fix z-index and clipping behavior, while also correcting transparency and click-through issues and maintaining Dark Mode compatibility across screen sizes. This ongoing work supports open sourcing a highest good society model by improving transparency across systems and processes.

Shreya worked on implementing the required functionality for the User State Indicator system and made measurable progress on the related GitHub issue, reaching out to colleagues for clarification where needed. She identified and resolved a blocking runtime error in the Weekly Summary module, restoring core functionality, and continued cleanup while validating User State rendering and permission handling across edge cases. She verified GitHub push permissions, confirmed access was not the issue, pulled the latest remote changes by stashing local updates and rebasing, and resolved merge conflicts while attempting to synchronize branches. These efforts support One Community’s mission of open sourcing a Highest Good Society model through transparent, collaborative, and replicable solutions.

Sphurthy worked on a UI/UX task addressing excess vertical spacing between filter labels and their corresponding dropdown fields in the Search Filters section on the All Events page of the development community portal. The issue involved larger-than-intended spacing between the labels Branches, Themes, and Categories and their respective dropdown components, resulting in a layout that appeared stretched and less compact compared to the Figma design specifications. The objective was to align the spacing with the tighter values defined in the design to ensure visual consistency and improved layout balance. This task focused solely on front-end styling and layout adjustments, with no impact on functionality, and aimed to improve overall visual alignment and readability within the filter panel. This initiative advances our mission of open sourcing a Highest Good society model through collaborative, transparent, and global systems innovation.

Vivek communicated the transition of management responsibilities to Sphurty, informing the team that she will assume the manager role starting next week. He transferred all relevant responsibilities and provided the necessary context to support continuity. He addressed and resolved several comments on GitHub and responded to related queries. As this was his final week, he did not take on any new tasks or assignments. These efforts help move One Community closer to open sourcing a Highest Good Society model, with visual examples of this work presented below.

DEV DYNASTY SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT TEAM

The Dev Dynasty Team’s summary, covering their work on the Highest Good Network software, was managed by Deekshith Kumar Singirikonda (Developer) and includes Adithya Cherukuri (Volunteer Software Engineer), Aditya Gambhir (Software Engineer), Neeraj Kondaveeti (Software Engineer), Sai Shravan Neelamsetty (Software Engineer), Sriamsh Reddy (Software Engineer) and Vikas Meneni (Software Engineer). The Highest Good Network software is how we’ll manage and objectively measure our processes for open sourcing a better world for us all through our social architecture, construction, production, and maintenance processes. This progress supports One Community in open sourcing a highest good society model.

LUCKY STAR SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT TEAM

The Lucky Star Team’s summary, covering their work on the Highest Good Network, was managed by Hemanth Sai Venkata Srinivasa Kumar Nidamanuru (Administrative Assistant) and Sohail Uddin Syed (Software Engineer), who coordinated the weekly development reporting and ensured all technical updates were properly documented. The team includes contributions from Aryan Rachala (Software Engineer), Chirag Bellara (Software Engineer), Shravya Kudlu (Software Development Engineer), Veda Bellam (Software Engineer), Venkataramanan Venkateswaran (Software Engineer), and Vinay Krishna (Software Engineer). Their work supports One Community’s goal of open sourcing a highest good society model through cross-functional software development and ongoing system improvements.

This week, Aryan worked on HGN Software Development, focusing on Phase 3, which involved standardizing the format of the Time and Duration columns on the used resources page. He implemented consistent formatting across table and list views, as well as responsive and mobile layouts. He tested display behavior across multiple browsers, screen sizes, and breakpoints, including pagination, sorting, and filtering scenarios. He added fallback handling for empty or ambiguous time values and ensured that exported and dynamically refreshed data maintained the correct format. He verified accessibility for tooltips and semantic markup and made minor adjustments to prevent layout shifts when duration values varied. This work supports open Sourcing a highest good society model by ensuring consistent data presentation and reliable user experience across the platform.

Chirag completed the addition of time zone support to the events calendar in the community portal. He updated the code to detect the user’s time zone and adjust the event dates and times accordingly, checked in all related changes, and created pull request 4839. He also worked on fixing the “All Events” button functionality on the Events page and is continuing to finalize that update before checking in the remaining changes. These feature enhancements contribute to open sourcing a highest good society model by improving event accuracy and overall platform usability.

Shravya worked on resolving merge conflicts across her active branches and addressed review comments on multiple pull requests by updating code changes and aligning them with requested revisions. She refined UI and functional updates based on feedback to ensure consistency with existing components and project standards. She also reviewed the requirements for an upcoming feature and began analyzing the modifications needed to support additional functionality related to PR 4335, including identifying impacted components and planning the necessary updates to integrate the changes properly. These development updates support open sourcing a highest good society model by strengthening system stability and feature consistency across the platform.

Sohail addressed a data mismatch where the Mentor count in the Reports Total Org Summary displayed 82 while the dashboard’s 0 hrs Total Members showed 41. He investigated the discrepancy and identified that the dashboard logic counted users whose weeklyCommittedHours were strictly equal to zero in the frontend code, while the Reports query counted users with the role set to Mentor and filtered by createdDate. He traced the frontend implementation to confirm that the 41-member count represented active users with exactly zero committed hours regardless of role. To align the logic, he updated the mentor aggregation pipeline in overviewReportHelper.js by replacing the role-based match condition with a filter for weeklyCommittedHours equal to zero and removing the createdDate constraint. He also added comments clarifying that the mentors field name remains for backward compatibility but now reflects users with zero committed hours and documented the connection to the frontend logic to support future maintenance. This backend correction supports Open Sourcing a Highest Good Society Model by ensuring accurate reporting and consistent data interpretation across the platform.

Veda worked on multiple updates within the HGN Software Development project across analytics and dashboard features. She modified the PR Review Team Analytics Dashboard by updating the color scheme for PR numbers inside the circles in the Confirming Promotions frontend and resolved merge conflicts related to Promotion Eligibility by correcting color coding issues in the Promotion Eligibility table. In addition, she contributed to the Listing and Bidding Dashboard by creating a donut chart titled Sentiment Breakdown and enhanced the Job Posting Page Analytics by building a donut chart that displays the breakdown of applicant sources. She pulled the latest development changes, resolved merge conflicts, addressed errors affecting functionality, pushed revised updates to the respective branches, and prepared the related pull requests for review and merge. These analytics and dashboard enhancements align with open sourcing a highest good society model by improving visibility, usability, and reporting consistency across the platform.

Venkataramanan worked on resolving multiple frontend and backend issues across the HighestGoodNetworkApp and HGNRest repositories. He fixed user activation and deactivation issues by updating the relevant helper logic, removed duplicate code in the CP login test file, and resolved a problem where the Weekly Summaries Report page was not loading by updating the report and toggle components. He also implemented fixes for the weekly summaries replace functionality in the backend, corrected the formatted report bar color in the reports page, and addressed styling issues in User Management and Team Member Tasks, along with adding log statements to investigate email-related errors. These system improvements contribute to open sourcing a highest good society model by enhancing platform reliability and maintainability.

MOONFALL SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT TEAM

The Moonfall Team’s summary, which covers their work on the Highest Good Network, was managed by Uha Kruthi (Software Engineer) and includes Aayush Shetty (Software Engineer), Alisha Walunj (Software Engineer), Sai Krishna (Software Engineer), Sai Teja Kaasoju (Software Engineer), Sudheesh Thuralkalmakki Dharmappa Gowda (Full Stack Developer), and Mani Shashank Marneni (Software Engineer). Their efforts support One Community by advancing the mission of open sourcing a highest good society model through open-source collaboration, ecologically responsible innovation, and holistic global progress.

This week, Alisha refactored the delete action and configured edit routing for Inventory Types by implementing update-by-ID and type-based logic, and enhanced the Purchase Request form with inline validation, mandatory field enforcement, contextual helper guidance, and controlled submit behavior before raising pull requests for both updates. Mani advanced the PR Team Analytics Dashboard by verifying data consistency for the Top 20 Most Popular PRs, integrating an Insights Panel with filter-aware state binding so metrics recalculate dynamically across time ranges, optimizing layout responsiveness, and implementing null-state handling to prevent dashboard instability. These achievements further demonstrate the value of open sourcing a highest good society model through collaborative effort.

Sai Krishna implemented the Update History modal within the Consumables page, enabling display of updated user details, old and new values, and timestamps with refresh, close, and scroll functionality, completed frontend and backend updates with testing, and initiated requirement analysis and code updates for selectable and editable Equipment fields. This work contributes to open sourcing a highest good society model by strengthening the reliability, maintainability, and reuse of shared open-source infrastructure. Sai Teja improved PR Analytics route-level error handling by enhancing the NotFoundPage component to detect dashboard-specific failures and present a contextual message with a fallback link to the Reports Dashboard, followed by scenario-based validation to ensure stable routing behavior.

Sudheesh resolved dark mode chart visibility issues by eliminating ghost rendering when datasets are empty, implemented authenticated routing to secure the tools page, refined page-level access control logic, and addressed pull request test issues within the Student Profile Educational Progress view to stabilize validation readiness. Aayush worked on Phase 3 tasks, addressing page scrolling behavior when dropdown menus are active, reviewed requirements, and examined the relevant code for the Participation and Calendar pages, analyzed the affected user interface components, tested the interaction locally to validate the issue, and prepared the groundwork for implementing a consistent fix across pages. Visit the Highest Good Society and Highest Good Network pages for more on how this work supports open sourcing a highest good society model through open-source development and globally accessible resources. The collage below demonstrates the team’s work and accomplishments for the week:

REACTONAUTS SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT TEAM

The Reactonauts team summary was managed by Diya Wadhwani (Software Developer) and Divanshu Bakshi (Product Manager), and it includes Aseem Deshmukh (Software Developer), Namitha Vijaykumar Pawar (Software Engineer), Sayali Sable (Software Engineer), Guna Pranith Reddy Cheelam (Software Developer), Peterson Rodrigues dos Santos (Full-Stack Developer), Siva Putti (Software Engineer), Sri Satya Venkatasai Siri Sudheeksha Vavila (Software Engineer), and Suparshwa Patil (Software Engineer). This week, Diya managed the weekly summary process and team coordination in support of open sourcing a highest good society model by tracking task progress and deadlines, following up with members who were overdue or near limits, reviewing daily logs for clarity and proper time logging, confirming summary and image submissions for the end-of-week report, posting status updates and individual follow-ups in slack, drafting the combined summary, improving the blue squares history list to sort assignments with the latest first and fixing time date formatting issues for both manual and cron-based weekly assignments in PR 2030, and resolving a production user-creation blocker by gating a development-only name check to run only in development in PR 4799.

Aseem worked across multiple pull requests and branches to address chart visibility and merge-related issues in support of open sourcing a highest good society model by resolving conflicts in PR 4354, identifying a planned versus actual costs chart issue that appeared after merging the development branch into her feature branch, raising the issue in the coding-problems channel, debugging PR 4659 after testers reported missing charts in the development environment, confirming local visibility on her branch, and tracing the issue to changes introduced in weeklyprojectsummary.jsx from another merged branch while documenting findings with screenshots. Namitha tested light and dark theme updates across HGN dashboards to verify visibility, consistency, and regressions aligned with open sourcing a highest good society model, reviewed text, icons, and layout behavior during theme switching, updated styling based on QA feedback to address accessibility and edge cases, and contributed fixes to theme colors and responsive layout behavior for the HGN skills dashboard in PR 4796.

Guna continued refining the listings home page frontend by working through additional review comments for PR 3999 in the HighestGoodNetwork app, focusing on improving fixes for image GET request errors and ensuring the updated tab headings function as expected. Alongside this, progress continued on the Phase 3 re-engagement Strategies task aligned with open sourcing a highest good society model, with ongoing investigation into the “Page not Found” issue occurring in the Dev environment for the community portal activity log attendance route. The work remains focused on identifying what is preventing the page from loading and applying the required fixes so the page becomes accessible and can support the intended follow-up and rescheduling functionality. Satya worked on dark mode styles for the HGN skills page and attempted to resolve issues in the related pull request, then addressed missing user details when applying skill filters on the HGN questionnaire dashboard by reviewing related files and pull requests and continuing investigation while encountering errors.

Suparshwa completed pending tasks for review that support open sourcing a highest good society model, including implementing an authentication system for access control, developing video ingestion for media uploads and processing, and creating database structures to support storage and retrieval, with tasks validated for basic functionality and submitted through the review workflow. Peterson improved the total org summary page by updating dropdown menu styling in dark theme, using a consistent black background with white hover text in PR 4089 to address readability and visual consistency.

Sayali worked on code reviews and testing across frontend and backend pull requests aligned with open sourcing a highest good society model, approving multiple items including fixes for dark mode charts, API endpoints, data models, event sorting, UI tooltips, filters, exports, and resource usage views, requesting changes where UI elements, filters, permission handling, dark mode styling, and backend API errors were identified, and noting technical blockers related to missing backend branches and Node version incompatibilities that prevented testing of certain items.

Siva resolved issues in team management, permissions, and event time display in support of open sourcing a highest good society model by fixing defects in the create new team workflow in PR 3658, conditionally hiding the delete task option based on permissions in PR 3685, and aligning event time display with user timezones while resolving merge conflicts in PR 4633. Below is the picture collage of the work done by the reactonauts team.

SKYE SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT TEAM

The Skye Team’s summary, covering their work on the Highest Good Network, was managed by Sayantan Paul (Frontend Tester and Software Team Administrator) and Anthony Weathers (Software Engineer). The team includes Marcus Yi (Software Engineer) and Swathi Angadi (Software Engineer). The Highest Good Network software enables open sourcing a highest good society model by objectively tracking and managing progress across social architecture, construction, production, and maintenance processes, leveraging transparent, scalable systems designed to cultivate shared learning and resilient ecosystems.

This week Marcus worked on the X auto poster while the Facebook implementation was under review. He followed the same structural pattern used for the Mastodon and Truth Social posting features that had already been merged into the development branch, maintaining consistency across platforms and supporting future scalability. Marcus completed the work that made direct posting and scheduled posting from the user interface functional for X, with OAuth integration still pending to enable direct, authenticated user account connections. This progress reflects continued momentum in advancing open sourcing a highest good society model through open, collaborative development.

Anthony collaborated with another manager to troubleshoot automated emails that were not triggering, identifying misaligned production testing conditions and an undefined variable introduced by recent changes, and applied a fix. He then resumed the Blue Square warning tracker task, confirmed missing production values with the team, and restored the required data to resolve the issue preventing removal buttons from appearing. Anthony also enhanced permission change logs by enabling logging through User Management role changes and corrected dark mode CSS issues affecting logs and star icons. In addition, he requested a PR re-review, responded to another PR, and refined PR#3917 by preserving key functionality while removing scope overreach. This effort drives open sourcing a highest good society model through consistent, actionable development practices.

Swathi implemented the required changes to enable users to navigate directly to the summary section of a selected reviewer. She updated the interface so that the Save button is accessible from the bottom corner of the page without requiring users to scroll to the end of the page. She also improved the page layout to ensure it is responsive across different screen sizes and raised a pull request for these updates. By addressing these challenges, the Skye team’s work reinforces long-term stability in stewardship tracking features and promotes open sourcing a highest good society model by strengthening scalable, transparent systems within the broader Highest Good Network (HGN) infrastructure. See the Highest Good Society and Highest Good Network pages for more on how this contribution furthers the open sourcing a highest good society model as part of One Community’s goals by cultivating transparent, collaborative innovation within the Highest Good Network open source hub. See the collage below for the team’s work.

SOFTWARE PR REVIEW TEAM A-N

The PR Review Team’s summary for members with names starting A–N, managed by Neeharika Kamireddy (Data Analyst), highlights their contributions to the Highest Good Network software. This platform forms the foundation for measuring our results in open sourcing a highest good society model. Active team members included Abdelmounaim Lallouache (Software Developer), Carl Bebli (Software Developer), Julia Ha (Software Engineer), Maithili Kalkar (Software Engineer), and Nathan Hoffman (Software Engineer). They supported the project by reviewing all pull requests shared this week. Learn more about how the Highest Good Network tracks progress toward open sourcing a highest good society model in the Highest Good Network open source hub. The collage below showcases a compilation of this team’s work.

SOFTWARE PR REVIEW TEAM O-Z

The PR Review Team’s summary for members with names starting with O–Z was managed by Shameera Musthafa (Data Analyst). The Highest Good Network is a foundation for measuring our results in open sourcing a highest good society model. This week’s active members of this team were Rohan Rastogi (Software Engineer), Sundar Machani (Software Engineer), and Yiyun Tan (Software Engineer). They reviewed all the Highest Good Network PRs (Pull Requests) shared in this week’s update. Learn more about how the Highest Good Network open-source hub measures progress towards our goal of open sourcing a highest good society model. The collage below shows a compilation of the work from this team.

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HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING PROGRESS

One Community is reinventing the sustainability industry 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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This week, Derrell Brown (Plumbing Designer) continued working on the Earthbag Village 4-dome home final MEP report provided for One Community, applying the required revisions to align the final draft with submitted comments and project expectations. He reviewed prior electrical calculations, panel schedules, and equipment selections to prepare an updated load summary for the current electrical provisions. Derrell verified that the panel shown in the 4-Dome-Home plans required upsizing to account for the addition of electric vehicle charging stations and confirmed the impact of this load on the overall service capacity. He examined the selected EV charger specifications to establish an assumed connected load and assessed how this affected existing circuit allocations. Based on these findings, he began rebuilding the panel schedule to reflect the required increase in capacity, transitioning the design from a 30-position panel to a 42-position panel while maintaining alignment with the project’s electrical layout and load assumptions. His updates contribute to reinventing the sustainability industry by improving infrastructure readiness and long-term system scalability. See below for some of the pictures related to this work.

Fangting Xu (Interior Design Intern) continued working with ADA codes related to building connections for the ADA 3-dome cluster of the Earthbag Village. Fangting coordinated with Baraka on his work and his logging issue. She also coordinated with Hakan and Jae about the task hours. Fangting mainly worked on drawing construction documents for the 3-dome cluster ADA projects, updating the ADA shower based on Jae’s feedback, and checking the compliance of the ADA restroom. She also shared her feedback on the ADA shower and restroom with Jae, supporting reinventing the sustainability industry through inclusive and code-compliant design documentation. Review the latest updates in the images below.

Iteesha Vishalakshi Aswath (Technical Program Manager) completed the comprehensive cost analysis document for the open source Climate Battery Design by finalizing all worksheets and ensuring alignment across categories. She researched current market price points across the United States for major materials, equipment, and construction inputs, and incorporated reference links within the document to support assumptions and cost selections. Iteesha defined quantities, units, cost breakdown structures, and source notes for each system component, and validated that totals and subtotals were aligned with project scope. This work supports reinventing the sustainability industry through open-source, replicable solutions.

Iteesha also built automation using formulas across sheets so that updates to quantities, unit costs, or assumptions automatically populate summary sections and roll up into overall project totals, thereby maintaining consistency. She concluded work with the general contractor on the Cost Estimate and Construction Planning and Tracking Templates, incorporating layout adjustments and workflow updates to align with construction sequencing and budgeting needs. Her work supports reinventing the sustainability industry by making cost modeling more transparent, repeatable, and accessible for open-source construction. See below for some of the pictures related to this work.

Kaustubh Kadam (Construction Engineering and Management Professional) continued working on the Highest Good Housing project at One Community. He focused on learning the basics of construction estimating by reviewing the estimating template and focusing on how to organize quantities in the correct sections. He spent time reading and interpreting the plan set to better understand the scope and how plan information translates into estimate line items. Kaustubh also completed a rough quantification of doors from the floor plans and documented the counts for use in the estimate. His efforts support reinventing the sustainability industry by strengthening scalable construction planning processes. See below for some of the pictures related to this work.

Malhar Solanki (Mechanical Engineer) continued working on the Vermiculture Toilet component of the Earthbag Village. He updated pricing for alternative materials for the Unistrut, solar holders, and waste dumping components. During the weekly mechanical team meeting, he and his team recalculated the strength criterion and further validated calculations. Malhar updated the factor of safety based on revised weight requirements and addressed FEA issues related to the updated safety factor. Formulas and values in the report were revised accordingly, contributing to reinventing the sustainability industry through improved engineering reliability and cost-driven optimization. Review the latest updates in the images below.

Rishi Chakrapani (Mechanical Engineer) continued working on the Vermiculture Toilet. He performed FEA on the slider plate located beneath the main vermiculture chamber to evaluate its structural integrity in relation to the surrounding structure. Updates were also made to the Bill of Materials and related reports to reflect added fixtures in the CAD designs, ensuring alignment between the models, documentation, and listed components. Rishi’s verification work supports reinventing the sustainability industry by strengthening open-source design readiness and accuracy. Review the latest updates in the images below.

DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER PROGRESS

One Community is reinventing the sustainability industry 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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This week, Ariana Virginia Gutierrez Doria Medina (Industrial Designer) continued working on the Duplicable City Center window and door framing. She focused on evaluating and comparing different cutting configurations to optimize material utilization, improve overall efficiency, and reduce material waste while supporting cost control. The work involved assessing multiple layout options to understand how part orientation and cut placement affected material usage and production efficiency. Several cutting arrangements were examined to identify configurations that balanced practical fabrication constraints with cost efficiency. Pricing information from different suppliers was reviewed and compared to understand how material costs and vendor options influenced the overall budget. This open source Duplicable City Center project is dedicated to reinventing the sustainability industry. Please see the collage below for more specific information.

Bevan Chiu (Mechanical Engineer) continued his work on finishing the City Center Eco-spa Designs. He worked on researching alternative sustainable solutions for plumbing access panels, focusing on concepts that balance durability, material efficiency, and environmental considerations. He explored dry hatch doors commonly used in marine applications as a reference and developed an initial CAD concept. The proposed panel design consists of a recycled HDPE sheet as the top surface, a 6061 aluminum sheet as the bottom layer, a compression latch handle for secure locking, a piano hinge, and shims to introduce a slight slope for drainage control. Bevan prepared an initial written comparison of the different access panel solutions considered for the final report. He also began developing a CAD model for a grate-based drainage system intended to manage water runoff from the pool, with the grates positioned along the pool perimeter at the ends of the access panels. This open source Duplicable City Center project is currently reinventing the sustainability industry. For more details, refer to the image below.

Sandesh Kumawat (Mechanical Engineer) continued developing the City Center Eco-spa Designs. He focused on reviewing and refining the thermal validation workflow for the spa project by analyzing previous simulation results and preparing improved modeling methods. He conducted a detailed review of earlier thermal reports to identify gaps between predicted behavior and expected real-world performance, with particular attention to possible thermal leakage paths and areas where insulation thickness or placement may require adjustment. This evaluation helped clarify the modifications needed before finalizing the thermal design assumptions. These efforts support reinventing the sustainability industry by improving clarity, quality, and repeatability.

In parallel, Sandesh continued developing the thermal simulation setup in HyperMesh, working toward a reliable method for extracting steady-state thermal results that accurately represent long-term heat retention in the spa assembly. This effort also supports structural analysis by ensuring that temperature distributions used in FEA reflect realistic operating conditions, improving the consistency between thermal modeling and structural behavior predictions. Discover One Community’s open source Duplicable City Center, which is reinventing the sustainability industry. See the visuals below for a closer look.

Shivarama Krishna Revanuru (Mechanical Engineer) continued working on the Duplicable City Center design. He focused on analysis and design support activities related to the spa cover project, with primary attention on finite element analysis of the hinge for spa cover plate 2 to evaluate structural behavior under expected loading conditions. Alongside the analysis work, a cost analysis was prepared, and a Bill of Materials was developed, including the identification and selection of appropriate materials based on performance, availability, and cost considerations. Discussions were held with a teammate to align on assumptions, boundary conditions, and results from the FEA, as well as to review cost-related inputs and material choices to ensure consistency across the design. Based on spa requirements and feedback from these discussions, minor modifications were made to the spa cover design to address fit, functionality, and material suitability while maintaining alignment with analysis results and cost targets. This open source Duplicable City Center project is reinventing the sustainability industry. The images below illustrate aspects of this work.

HIGHEST GOOD FOOD PROGRESS

One Community is reinventing the sustainability industry 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 Reinventing the Sustainability Industry: Hoop House Hub | Aquapini & Walipini Open Source Hub
    • See what we’ll be growing: Gardens & Hoop Houses | Large-scale Structures | Food Forest | TA

This week, the core team continued working on the Master Tools, Equipment, and Materials and Supplies List for the Large-scale Garden, Botanical Garden, and other Highest Good Food components. They created written narratives for the table saw, drill press, portable and fixed workbenches, and the combination belt/disc sander, and replaced the existing photo for the combination belt/disc sander. Research on pocket hole jigs was added to the documentation, a video link was included for the Japanese pull saw, and new narratives were written for the PVC scraps, pocket hole jig, and Japanese pull saw entries. The miscellaneous tool list was cross-referenced with the Master Tools, Equipment, Materials/Supplies document, which led to the addition of supplementary items to the miscellaneous TEMS list. The Highest Good Food initiative is a key component of One Community’s open source plans, focused on reinventing the sustainability industry. Below are some images showcasing this work.

Chelsea Mariah Stellmach (Project Manager) continued working on the Transition Food Self-sufficiency food and inventory tracking software plans. She clarified developer tasks related to calendars and other features by asking targeted questions about the purpose and intended functionality of specific items to ensure shared understanding. Chelsea also followed up with developers to check on progress and identify any blockers affecting task completion. Communication focused on confirming scope and alignment across development work supporting reinventing the sustainability industry. The following images provide a view of her contributions.

Japneet Kour (Volunteer Architect) continued contributing to the Highest Good Food initiative. This week, she reviewed the Aquapini files, organized the SketchUp model, and clarified the steps required for the current stage of work by documenting adjustments needed within the model. The focus was on aligning the structure and layout with established project expectations and maintaining consistency across files, supporting ongoing work related to reinventing the sustainability industry, as shown in the images below.

Jay Nair (BIM Designer) continued developing the Aquapini and Walipini Planting and Harvesting documents. This week, he outlined the procedures for the lighting energy use calculator for the greenhouse project by defining calculation steps, identifying required input data, and organizing the logic needed to determine lighting energy consumption. The documented procedures provide a structured basis for evaluating greenhouse lighting energy use and contribute to ongoing work related to reinventing the sustainability industry, as shown in the images below.

Nitin Parate (Architect) continued contributing to the Aquapini and Walipini renders and layout graphics. This week, work focused on developing the axonometric drawing of the Zen Aquapini by refining clarity, alignment, and overall layout while maintaining the original design intent. Additional details such as roof members, glazing, and structural elements were incorporated into the axonometric view to improve visual accuracy. Plantation detailing was added to illustrate plant types, layering, spacing, and height differences, and multiple visual approaches were tested to evaluate presentation effectiveness. Annotations, labels, and infographics were integrated to improve readability and support clear communication of the design. The Highest Good Food initiative is a key part of One Community’s open source platform, promoting ongoing work related to reinventing the sustainability industry, with supporting images included below.

Shivangi Varma (Architectural Designer and Planner) continued the redesign of the Highest Good Food overall presentation, She refined the Differences diagram for the open source Hub page by adding detailed comparisons of the Aquapini, Walipini, and Zenipini structure types. Shivangi also embedded the finalized Highest Good Food Infrastructure masterplan render across the highest good food, planting and harvesting, and open source hub pages to ensure consistency and alignment of visual references. This work supports ongoing efforts connected to reinventing the sustainability industry, with supporting images included below.

HIGHEST GOOD ENERGY PROGRESS

One Community is reinventing the sustainability industry 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 Reinventing the Sustainability Industry: Solar, Hydro, and Wind
    • Explore our research into the most sustainable products and companies for saving water and energy: Insulation, Eco-laundry, Lightbulbs and Light Bulb Companies, Doors and Door Companies, Windows and Window Companies, Toilets, Faucets and Faucet Accessories, Urinals, and more.

This week, the core team continued contributing to the Highest Good Energy initiative. They reviewed and provided feedback on graphics related to sustainable insulation, paints, urinals, windows, and lightbulbs to confirm consistency with established project requirements. They coordinated and organized meetings with Vaishnav and Michaela to discuss construction documents and related project details, and met with each individually to address specific questions and items. Construction documents were reviewed to support understanding of document structure and content, and the materials outlining the phases of Highest Good Food implementation were examined to assess alignment with current planning and documentation. The Highest Good Energy initiative plays a leading role in One Community’s open source platform and contributes to ongoing efforts supporting reinventing the sustainability industry. The following images provide a view of their contributions.

HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION PROGRESS

One Community is reinventing the sustainability industry 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 and Reinventing the Sustainability Industry: Education Open Source Hub
• How the components work together in designing human orchestrated eco-abundance: 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

HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY PROGRESS

One Community is reinventing the sustainability industry 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 and sharing and Reinventing the Sustainability Industry: 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 39 hours managing volunteer work reviews, handling emails, overseeing social media accounts, supporting web development, and identifying and integrating bug fixes for the Highest Good Network. The team also interviewed and onboarded new volunteer team members. Additionally, they produced and integrated the video above, which highlights how reinventing the sustainability industry serves as a foundational element of One Community’s broader mission. The following images showcase highlights of this work.

Pooja Kulkarni (UI/UX Designer) continued her work by advancing governance platform designs through refined proposal-related user flows and mid-fidelity wireframes that clarify participation, review, and decision states across the proposal lifecycle on Highest Good Network. She focused on improving status indicators, timelines, authorship details, and action cues to make proposals easier to scan and understand. She further refined voting and review interfaces to support structured feedback, consistent terminology, and clearer hierarchy, while standardizing layout, spacing, and component usage to ensure the system can scale across proposal types. This work supports One Community’s efforts toward reinventing the sustainability industry;. The images below highlight key aspects of her work.

Yagna Reddy Badvel (Data Analyst and Team Administrator) continued to complete routine administrative and tracking tasks to support ongoing project workflows on Highest Good Network. He reviewed team submissions for accuracy and consistency, provided feedback where needed, updated tracking records, and verified that documentation and media requirements were met. He also organized project materials, supported coordination efforts, and ensured systems and processes remained aligned with current project standards. This work supports One Community’s efforts toward reinventing the sustainability industry. The images below show some of his work.

Yulin Li (Graphic Designer) continued to contribute 20 hours of volunteer service focused on visual communication and coordination. She updated infographics based on feedback to improve clarity, visual consistency, and alignment with project standards. She also prepared and published a team collaboration announcement for the Highest Good Network software team to support transparent communication, maintained organized asset management through Dropbox, and participated in weekly review discussions to support timely task completion. This work supports One Community’s efforts toward reinventing the sustainability industry. See the Highest Good Society pages and the collage below for examples of their work.

ADMINISTRATION TEAM

The Administration Team’s summary, which covers their work on the Highest Good Network, was managed by Prudhvi Marpina (Data Analyst) and includes Anusha Gali (Software Engineer), Ashutosh Mishra (Software Engineer), Keerthana Chitturi (System Administrator), Divanshu Bakshi (Team Admin), Leo Lishin Shiu (Software Engineer), Manish Kanuri (Data Scientist), Mridul Bhushan (Volunteer Project Strategy Analyst and Team Administrator), Neeharika Kamireddy (Data Analyst), Olawunmi “Ola” Ijisesan (Administrative and Management Support), Priyanshi Sharma (Data Analyst and Team Administrator), Rachna Malav (Data Analyst), Rajeshwari Bhirud (Administrator), Rishitha Adepu (Administrator), Sayantan Paul (Frontend Tester and Software Team Administrator), Shameera Musthafa (Data Analyst), Shreya Shetty (Data Analyst), and Sudarshan Raju Chintalapati Venkata (Data Analyst). The Administration Team supports the Highest Good Network, a tool designed to track and measure progress while developing systems that contribute to reinventing the sustainability industry. Through administrative support, documentation, testing, training, recruiting, 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, Anusha reviewed and tested 30 pull requests across HighestGoodNetworkApp and HGNRest, approving or merging several and documenting issues related to UI defects, dark mode, version mismatches, and environment constraints. Also covered HGN administrative responsibilities by reviewing submissions, creating image collages, editing summaries, maintaining tracking documents, and providing structured feedback on blog posts. This work contributes to the mission of reinventing the sustainability industry by making replication easier for others.

Ashutosh developed Pinecone file ingestion documentation, including a user help guide, code explanations, and pipeline setup instructions, and built a Python-based ingestion pipeline with supporting UI components. He completed partial refactoring, added structured comments, prepared a demo and exit documentation, and performed time log administration reviews. Divanshu reviewed and posted four Mastodon updates following formatting standards and extracted engagement data using Python scripts to update the social media dashboard. He identified bugs and action items, supported product ownership activities, and coordinated backlog prioritization with stakeholders and developers. Keerthana reviewed team member summaries for accuracy and formatting and updated Step 2 and Step 4 tracking documents for consistency. She compiled and validated the weekly blog and added follow-up action items to the Phase 3 document. Together, these efforts support reinventing the sustainability industry.

Leo compiled and formatted weekly summaries for the 17LeDCC team with collages and scheduled Facebook and Instagram posts using Meta Business Suite. He also configured a Meta Developer system user and validated Graph API data retrieval using the Graph API Explorer. Manish tested multiple pull requests to verify expected behavior and identify visible issues based on stated requirements. He reviewed Phase 1 documentation to identify outdated or inactive PRs and shared a summary document with Jae for follow-up. This is part of our broader mission of reinventing the sustainability industry.

Mridul reviewed task assignments and PR dashboard items, followed up with contributors on progress, and tested selected pull requests in the development environment. He also verified updated PDFs submitted by admins and completed weekly administrative responsibilities. Neeharika reviewed task assignments and PR dashboard items, followed up with contributors on progress, and tested selected pull requests in the development environment. She verified updated admin PDFs against corrected versions and completed weekly admin duties. This coordinated administrative and publishing work advances reinventing the sustainability industry.

Ola updated the social media schedule, resized images to required dimensions, and processed CSV data into Excel for documentation. She also cleared Google Workspace files and reset task tables for PR and admin teams. Priyanshi performed page-by-page testing of Phase 2 dashboards, validating charts, filters, and tab visibility across light and dark modes. She documented multiple functional and usability issues in the testing sheet to support continued tracking and resolution. Rachna reviewed emails, comments, and existing tasks while exploring One Community webpages and SEO-related content. Rajeshwari tested PR dashboards and application/job pages, documenting bugs and test cases in Excel tracking sheets. She contributed to Blog #672, provided feedback on team documents, updated SEO keywords, and managed blog-related images and tables. These efforts support reinventing the sustainability industry.

Rishitha served as weekly content administrator by compiling blogs, applying SEO optimization, and managing bio updates and follow-ups. She maintained social media engagement on Threads and updated dashboards and volunteer tracking data. Sayantan prepared the Team Skye summary, reviewed and tested numerous pull requests across dashboards, workflows, and UI components, and documented approvals and pending issues. He tracked bugs and features, updated tasks, and provided detailed feedback on multiple functional areas. Shameera completed PR Review Team blog tasks and supported administrative activities, including reviewing another admin’s work. She progressed through Level 1 product testing tutorials and supported hiring by scheduling and conducting one interview. This momentum accelerates reinventing the sustainability industry through consistent iteration and transparency.

Shreya cleaned and structured the Aircrete dataset and created graphs to support analysis for the Highest Good Housing initiative. She also created admin collages, reviewed Google Ads campaigns, and documented campaign updates in the weekly tracker. Sudarshan managed Alpha Software Team blog content, applied SEO updates, and created visual collages while reviewing analytics and questionnaire dashboards. He tested multiple pull requests, documented issues, added tasks, and supported bug fixes and feature improvements across the system. To learn more about how this work supports reinventing the sustainability industry, visit the Highest Good Society and Highest Good Network pages. Highlights of the team’s contributions are shown in the collage below.

HIGHEST GOOD NETWORK PROGRESS

One Community is reinventing the sustainability industry through open source Highest Good Network^® software that is a web-based application for collaboration, time tracking, and objective data collection. The purpose of the Highest Good Network is to provide software for internal operations and external cooperation. It is being designed for global use in support of the different countries and communities replicating the One Community sustainable village models and related components.

• Learn about our open source community collaboration and management software: The Highest Good Network

This week, the core team tested Highest Good Network pull requests and confirmed 10 as fixed. This effort highlights One Community’s commitment to reinventing the sustainability industry.

The following were not fixed: issues with the listing and bidding dashboard bar graphs, missing or unclear metric definitions using info icons on the activity attendance page, the user skill radar chart not displaying on the HGN questionnaire dashboard frontend, dark mode and UI issues for grouped bar graphs related to injury severity, the absence of a bar graph showing project risk profiles, incorrect placement and backend text alignment of four buttons in the Phase 2 summary dashboard financials category, and incomplete work on the FAQ section of the job application listing page. This supports reinventing the sustainability industry by strengthening open, data-informed decision-making.

In addition, multiple PRs could not be tested due to the absence of data on the Main branch, including the Phase 4 report export and download feature, the material usage chart on the BM dashboard materials page, fixes for page crash issues on the equipment list page, resolution of page errors when clicking lesson elements with dark mode support, optimization of charts for dark mode on the BM dashboard issues breakdown, addition of dark mode styles to the building and inventory management dashboard, the horizontal bar chart for the material stock out risk indicator, and the lesson data export functionality. This work strengthens One Community’s mission of reinventing the sustainability industry. See the Highest Good Society and The Highest Good Network pages, and the collage below, for an overview of the team’s contributions.

ALPHA SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT TEAM

The Alpha Software Team, working on the Highest Good Network software, was managed by Lin Khant Htel (Frontend Software Developer). The team includes Casstiel Pi (Software Engineer). The Highest Good Network software is a key part of sustainable and free-shared eco-solutions. We are helping track and measure progress toward reinventing the sustainability industry. The software supports social architecture, construction, production, and maintenance processes that contribute to the open source project and resilient ecosystems. Designed to be portable and scalable, the Highest Good Network software is well suited for off-grid and sustainable living communities. This project reflects One Community’s open source commitment to reinventing the sustainability industry.

This week, Lin reviewed PR #1804 by examining the code, testing the endpoints using Postman, and confirming that the returned data matched expectations, as well as reviewing and checking the weekly summaries, photos, and videos submitted by Alpha team members and handling Alpha Team management responsibilities. Casstiel continued work on adding a new card for the issue chart related to material consumption, completing the feature and testing it on a local server to verify that the implementation worked as intended. The pull request was reviewed for merging. He also notified the management team about a reassignment request for the multi-select filter feature because the task required more time than anticipated and unresolved repeating errors continued to cause the application to break. See the Highest Good Society and Highest Good Network pages for more on how we are reinventing the sustainability industry. See the collage below to view the team’s work.

BINARY BRIGADE SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT TEAM

The Binary Brigade Team, presenting their work on the Highest Good Network software, was managed by Amalesh Arivanan (Software Engineer) and included Sourabh Bagde (Software Developer), Sumedh Kumar (Full-Stack Developer), Harsha Rudhraraju (Software Engineer), and Taariq Mansurie (Full-Stack Developer). The Highest Good Network software is our tool for managing and objectively measuring progress, ensuring that all contributions are tracked and aligned with our mission, and for modeling, where we are reinventing the sustainability industry. It supports social architecture, construction, production, and maintenance processes that contribute to open-source projects and resilient, sustainable ecosystems.

This week, Sourabh improved the Plurk auto-poster by making the posting timezone configurable via an environment variable with a default fallback and wiring the configured timezone into the scheduler and Plurk routes. He updated posting so base64 image attachments are converted into URLs before submission and ensured the same conversion happens during cron execution. He extended the scheduled post schema to store retry count, last error, and posting time; added a failed status flag, updated the cron job to record successful posts, increment retry counters on failures, and stop retrying after a fixed limit. He added endpoints to list scheduled posts with filtering and pagination and to requeue failed posts, adjusted the scheduler to retain posted records instead of removing them, and enforced Plurk content length limits and attachment rules during scheduling and posting. This reinforces reinventing the sustainability industry through collaboration and continuous improvement.

Amalesh worked on “Phase 1 Bugs: Fix PR4268” by fixing the mobile Leaderboard horizontal scroll issue that prevented full table visibility. He reviewed related PRs 3495 and 3607 to align the approach with prior changes, updated the Leaderboard so it scrolls horizontally on small screens without breaking the desktop layout, tested behavior across mobile and larger viewports, documented results with screenshots and videos using required naming conventions, tracked time with the HGN timer, and completed onboarding steps needed to maintain access to project tools and documentation. This strengthens the foundation for reinventing the sustainability industry through free-sharing and open standards.

Harshavarma implemented y-axis data label mapping and refined chart configuration so tool names and labels render correctly in the analytics view. He debugged a rendering failure by checking the data structure, axis keys, and render conditions to restore the chart output. He added dark mode support so that the axis labels, legends, grid lines, and data points remain readable within the approved palette. He improved responsiveness on very small screens by adjusting spacing, font sizing, and layout behavior to reduce overlap, reviewed resizing behavior across breakpoints to confirm the chart adapts smoothly, captured reference screenshots to document issues and fixes, and ran basic regression checks to confirm the new labels and custom y-axis mapping did not break existing chart behavior while continuing to address remaining rendering edge cases before preparing the work for review. These efforts strengthen reinventing the sustainability industry by improving clarity, quality, and repeatability.

Sumedh worked on PR4656 by resolving major merge conflicts, addressing pull request comments, fixing SonarQube findings, refactoring large logic blocks into smaller reusable components to improve maintainability, and updating UI behavior to show clear visual feedback when equipment data updates without abrupt page refreshes. He also began work on PR4306 by starting merge conflict resolution and addressing review comments to prepare the changes for further integration. This supports reinventing the sustainability industry by strengthening open, data-informed decision-making.

Taariq focused on two key areas. He continued work on the archived projects feature, including undo and unarchive functionality, resolving remaining issues, validating behavior, and clearing all tests before preparing the code for submission. He also finalized the filter color feature, addressing post-merge conflicts by resolving branch issues, restoring broken functionality, and ensuring consistency across the codebase. See the Highest Good Society and Highest Good Network pages for more information on how this works, where we are reinventing the sustainability industry. The collage below shows images of their work.

BLUE STEEL SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT TEAM

The Blue Steel Software Team, working on the Highest Good Network software, was managed by Divanshu Bakshi (Product Manager) and includes Linh Huynh (Software Engineer) and Som Ramnani (Software Engineer). This week Linh worked on both frontend and backend tasks for the material usage insights and visual indicators feature for the BM dashboard. Reinventing the sustainability industry was reflected in the way Linh refined the pull request description for the materials page enhancements on the frontend, aligning it with task requirements and team format, clarifying the main changes section for easier review, and preparing a structured pull request description for the material insights APIs on the backend, detailing new calculation utilities, handlers, and routing changes while linking the backend work to the corresponding frontend pull request. He then shifted focus to quality assurance by setting up the Jest test suite structure for the Material Insights Controller, mocking the building material model, drafting test cases for usage percentage, stock ratio, and stock health classification including edge cases, and scaffolding API endpoint tests for success and error paths with plans for additional coverage.

Som resolved merge conflicts in PR #4215 caused by updates from the main branch by addressing issues in BadgeReport.jsx, BadgeSummaryPreview.jsx, BadgeSummaryViz.js, and yarn.lock, corrected the BadgeReport.module.css import to fix styling inconsistencies, updated CSS module imports, verified component rendering without regressions, resolved merge conflicts in PR #4428 by replacing the previous date input with ReactDatePicker to block past dates and integrate with existing filters while maintaining validation and formatting, updated PR images, verified all changes from the main branch were merged, and reinforced the goal of reinventing the sustainability industry through stable, testable, and maintainable feature delivery. Supporting images of the related work are provided below.

CODE CRAFTERS SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT TEAM

The Code Crafters Team, covering their work on the Highest Good Network software, was managed by Vivek Chandra Bengaluru Suresh (Software Engineer) and includes Ajay Naidu (Software Engineer), Akshith Kumar Reddy Balappagari Gnaneswara (Full-Stack Developer), Bhanu Anish Akkineni (Software Engineer), Chaitanya Swaroop Kumar Allu (Software Engineer), Shreya Padaganur (Software Engineer), and Sphurthy Satish (Software Engineer). The Highest Good Network software coordinates social, construction, production, and maintenance systems to objectively measure progress toward reinventing the sustainability industry.

This week, Ajay refactored the Community Portal events search to enable live filtering with debouncing, ensuring results update dynamically as users type. He improved pagination behavior by resetting it when search criteria change and verified accuracy across event titles, locations, and organizers. The update also addressed code quality and linting issues by simplifying conditional rendering and resolving SonarQube warnings, with validation completed through Husky and ESLint pre-commit checks to ensure consistent behavior across edge cases and UI states. Ajay completed required updates on a related task, verified navigation and feature functionality, and marked it ready for merge. He also reviewed multiple pull requests, confirmed navigation between referenced pages, ensured stability across common user flows, and provided approvals to support the review process. These efforts support One Community’s mission of reinventing the sustainability industry through scalable and user-focused solutions.

Akshith worked on Phase 3 tasks by adding navigation from the Activity menu to the Event Database Design page and implementing event icons for event names on the Activity List page. The work focused on UI updates, including displaying relevant icons in event details when an event is selected and enabling proper page navigation. He also began Phase 6 Kitchen Inventory Management by creating backend API endpoints to add and retrieve orders and suppliers, implementing the supplier controller, and validating the initial functionality. This supports reinventing the sustainability industry by strengthening comprehensive, sustainable, and data-informed global decision-making.

Bhanu worked on implementing the Ingredients section of the Kitchen and Inventory portal by developing the Ingredients tab along with its supporting UI components. He designed and built the Kitchen and Inventory item card to display detailed information for each item, including name, type, onsite status, storage location, present quantity, monthly supply, expiry date, harvest date, and available actions such as update and restock. The item card was developed as a reusable component to ensure consistency across the inventory while supporting multiple item types. Additionally, he implemented the preserved item alert feature, which identifies and highlights ingredient items with longer shelf life based on defined criteria, improving visibility and tracking of preserved inventory within the system. These efforts support One Community’s mission of reinventing the sustainability industry through scalable and user-focused solutions.

Chaitanya enhanced validation and submission workflows for the Material and Reusable Purchase Request forms in the Highest Good Network. He added Joi-based client-side validation with real-time inline errors, prevented invalid submissions, and improved UX with loading states, disabled submit behavior, success toasts, and a post-submit success modal. Chaitanya also integrated robust frontend error handling for backend validation, network, and server errors. On the backend, he updated the bmPurchaseMaterials API to return structured validation responses. Additionally, Chaitanya fixed a dark mode dropdown styling issue and resolved failing unit tests in bmMaterialsController. This supports reinventing the sustainability industry by strengthening comprehensive, sustainable, and data-informed global decision-making.

Shreya completed a full codebase review and clean installation to establish a reliable development baseline, confirming that while core scaffolding exists, several features remain incomplete, including catalog reordering, multi-select user state handling, date management, permissions gating, and unfinished UI elements. She prioritized implementing the remaining backend logic, with frontend state management and UI completion planned next, and identified the need for additional time to complete the work. Shreya also resolved a crash and a blocking runtime error in the Weekly Summary view, restoring core functionality, verified User State data flow and permissions across Weekly Summary and Dashboard Tasks, and continued debugging persistent rendering and edge-case permission issues. Progress was further impacted by source control constraints requiring remote branch integration before pushing changes, along with ongoing build and environment-related issues under investigation. These efforts support One Community’s mission of reinventing the sustainability industry through scalable and user-focused solutions.

Sphurthy addressed a UI/UX consistency issue on the All Events page of the community portal by updating the Search Filters dropdowns (Branches, Themes, and Categories) to match the Figma design, changing rounded corners to rectangular edges through border-radius styling adjustments while preserving existing functionality. This initiative advances our mission of reinventing the sustainability industry through sustainable, global reinvention.

Vivek implemented new frontend code for previously resolved tasks, successfully displaying most required elements while additional refinements remain in progress. He raised both frontend and backend pull requests for review and spent time investigating failing lint checks on the seeders pull request, focusing on identifying configuration-related root causes. Work is ongoing to resolve the GitHub lint issues, with corrective updates being prepared to ensure compliant code can be pushed once the issue is fixed. These efforts help move One Community closer to reinventing the sustainability industry, with visual examples of this work presented below.

DEV DYNASTY SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT TEAM

The Dev Dynasty Team’s summary, covering their work on the Highest Good Network software, was managed by Deekshith Kumar Singirikonda (Developer) and includes Adithya Cherukuri (Volunteer Software Engineer), Neeraj Kondaveeti (Software Engineer), Sai Shravan Neelamsetty (Software Engineer), Sriamsh Reddy (Software Engineer) and Vikas Meneni (Software Engineer). The Highest Good Network software is how we’ll manage and objectively measure our processes for open sourcing a better world for us all through our social architecture, construction, production, and maintenance processes. This progress supports One Community in reinventing the sustainability industry.

This week Adithya worked on the HGN Software Development project by refining search and enhanced filtering options for the Materials Table, testing responsive behavior across screen sizes, adjusting Bootstrap layouts, updating color properties for dark mode compliance, evaluating filtering performance on full datasets, ensuring filtering logic operated on transformed arrays, updating field retrieval for multiple data points, and preparing the weekly summary and image reviews. Deekshith worked on backend architecture and optimization by organizing Express routers under defined base paths, implementing global middleware for selective access control, defining a Mongoose model for horizontal bar dataset storage, and configuring response compression to improve network performance and consistency. This work supports reinventing the sustainability industry through open-source, replicable solutions.

Neeraj enhanced the Collaboration job listings experience by implementing a Clear All Filters feature, ensuring pagination reset, maintaining light and dark mode consistency, validating changes locally, managing repository workflows, addressing unrelated CI issues, and beginning work on a role detail preview modal aligned with design and accessibility standards. Shravan addressed multiple PR review issues in the One Community Global email management system by resolving sending state errors, updating modal behavior, improving cache handling and refresh logic, fixing layout and alignment issues, correcting CSS usage, enhancing hover effects, adjusting button layouts, resolving formatting and linting problems, and pushing completed fixes while continuing work on remaining items. The outcome supports reinventing the sustainability industry through documented, DIY-ready progress.

Sriamsh completed final testing and raised a pull request for the Project Risk Profile task, enhanced the BM Dashboard Issues Chart with improved tooltips and dynamic insights, resolved label overlap and layout performance issues, and verified behavior across filters, themes, and devices. Vikas completed Deliverable 2 for the Kitchen Inventory Management project by building the Orders and Purchase Orders landing page with summary cards, navigation, search, sorting, detailed order views, responsive layouts, and theme support, raised a pull request with documentation, and reviewed high-priority pull requests related to event analytics and attendance tracking by evaluating functionality, identifying blockers, documenting issues, and outlining next steps. See the Highest Good Society and Highest Good Network pages for more on how this relates to our mission of reinventing the sustainability industry. Explore some of the team’s work in the collage below.

LUCKY STAR SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT TEAM

The Lucky Star Team’s summary, covering their work on the Highest Good Network, was managed by Keerthana Chitturi (System Administrator) and Sohail Uddin Syed (Software Engineer). The team includes contributions from Abhinav Tharamel Baiju (Software Engineer), Aryan Rachala (Software Engineer), Chirag Bellara (Software Engineer), Shravya Kudlu (Software Development Engineer), Venkataramanan Venkateswaran (Software Engineer) and Vinay Krishna (Software Engineer). Their work supports One Community’s goal of reinventing the sustainability industry through cross-functional software development and ongoing system improvements.

This week, Abhinav completed frontend development for the Processing page within the Kitchen Inventory Management module under Phase 6 by building interface sections for canning, dehydration, freeze-drying, and cellar storage. He also created a landing page for the Processing module and implemented dark mode functionality. This work contributes to reinventing the sustainability industry. Aryan worked on Phase 3 of HGN Software Development by standardizing the Date and Time/Duration columns on the Used Resources page. He reviewed the existing implementation to identify inconsistencies, clarified that the Time/Duration field represents elapsed duration, applied a consistent HH:mm:ss display format, aligned the Date column for readability, and updated labeling and tooltip text to ensure consistent interpretation across views. This work contributes to the mission of reinventing the sustainability industry.

Chirag completed the pull request for adding icons to the Calendar view by checking in related changes and creating pull request 4790. He also worked on timezone-based display of events in the calendar and incorporated recent Calendar screen updates to prevent merge conflicts. This work supports reinventing the sustainability industry. Shravya resolved merge conflicts for tasks 1753 and 4129 and addressed related review comments. She also worked on task 3921 by fixing UI responsiveness and theming issues in both dark and light modes, worked on task 4768 in resource management by incorporating color theme updates, and addressed merge conflicts for task 3926 while identifying blockers affecting completion. This work contributes to reinventing the sustainability industry.

Sohail resolved a data mismatch between the Active Volunteers count in the Total Org Summary report and the HGN Totals value on the Dashboard Leaderboard by aligning filtering logic across queries so the counts matched correctly. He also investigated cron job execution issues and added logging to identify why the summary job was not running as expected, determining that some functions referenced incorrect weekly data and adjusting the logic accordingly. This work contributes to reinventing the sustainability industry. Venkataramanan resolved frontend styling and usability issues across multiple pages including User Management, Team Member Tasks, and timers by correcting layout and alignment inconsistencies and improving CSS structure. He also added targeted backend logging to support investigation of an email delivery issue and merged multiple pull requests across frontend and backend repositories. This work supports reinventing the sustainability industry.

Vinay worked on the Team Analytics Dashboard by adding functionality and user acknowledgment to the Promotion Eligibility section related to pull request 3851. He implemented visible responses for the “Review for This Week” and “Process Promotions” buttons, added loading and disabled states after interaction, and verified consistent behavior in both light and dark modes. This work supports the mission of reinventing the sustainability industry. See the Highest Good Society and Highest Good Network pages to learn more about how this work supports reinventing the sustainability industry. See the collage below highlighting the team’s work for the week.

MOONFALL SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT TEAM

The Moonfall Team’s summary, which covers their work on the Highest Good Network, was managed by Uha Kruthi (Software Engineer) and includes Aayush Shetty (Software Engineer), Alisha Walunj (Software Engineer), Sai Krishna (Software Engineer), Sudheesh Thuralkalmakki Dharmappa Gowda (Full-Stack Developer), and Mani Shashank Marneni (Software Engineer). Their efforts support One Community by advancing the mission of reinventing the sustainability industry through open-source collaboration, ecologically responsible innovation, and holistic global progress.

This week, Uha worked on improving filter usability and clarity within the chart interface by adding Select All and Clear All options for Issue Type and Year filters to support faster bulk selection, grouping related issue types under a single logical category with tooltip explanations to improve discoverability, displaying a compact active filter summary above the chart to provide immediate visibility into applied filters, and refining spacing and scroll behavior within the multi-select dropdown to improve navigation and layout consistency. Sai worked on creating and integrating an Update History modal component into the Item List view, so the Update History button opens a functional modal, structuring the modal to align with the existing Update View design and implementing a responsive, sortable table prepared to display update timestamps, user details, changed fields, and old-to-new values, along with scroll handling, refresh and close controls, and styling updates to ensure consistency and dark mode support. This is part of our broader mission of reinventing the sustainability industry.

Sudheesh worked on Phase 1 bug fixes by reviewing PR 2850 requirements, analyzing the existing codebase to integrate dark mode behavior, implementing frontend updates and CSS changes for consistent dark mode styling, and investigating a backend error triggered by specific button interactions by analyzing page flow and backend interactions to determine the required implementation changes. This work contributes to reinventing the sustainability industry by strengthening the reliability, maintainability, and reuse of shared open-source infrastructure.

Alisha worked on resolving issues with edit and delete actions for inventory types by reviewing requirements, validating reported behavior, identifying relevant frontend and backend files, configuring popup modals, implementing delete functionality across inventory types using a reusable delete-by-ID pattern, fixing controller and router export mismatches, aligning backend CRUD operations, wiring frontend-backend delete actions, resolving issues with passing item IDs through nested components, adding toast notifications for user feedback, and ensuring inventory data was refetched to keep the UI state consistent. Aayush worked on Phase 2 issues by addressing the Create New Team page display issue through handling empty task states, adding loaders for members, pushing changes and creating pull requests with documentation, and improving field dependency and selection flows by fixing missing tool and equipment name scenarios, validating changes locally, and submitting updates through pull requests. This supports reinventing the sustainability industry by strengthening open, data-informed decision-making.

Mani worked on adding an Insights Panel to the PR Team Analytics Dashboard by auditing request parameters, identifying issues with duration-based filtering, correcting backend service logic to ensure pull request data is filtered correctly by time intervals, updating frontend dependencies to trigger API calls on duration changes, and adding a visual loading indicator to reflect data-fetching states. Visit the Highest Good Society and Highest Good Network pages for more on how this work supports reinventing the sustainability industry through open-source development and globally accessible resources. The collage below portrays the team’s work and accomplishments for the week:

REACTONAUTS SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT TEAM

The Reactonauts team summary was managed by Diya Wadhwani (Software Developer) and Iteesha Vishalakshi Aswath (Technical Program Manager), and it includes Aseem Deshmukh (Software Developer), Namitha Vijaykumar Pawar (Software Engineer), Peterson Rodrigues dos Santos (Full-Stack Developer), Siva Putti (Software Engineer), Sri Satya Venkatasai Siri Sudheeksha Vavila (Software Engineer), and Suparshwa Patil (Software Engineer). The Highest Good Network software helps manage and objectively measure progress by focusing on reinventing the sustainability industry. It supports social architecture, construction, production, and maintenance processes to build sustainable and thriving ecosystems.

This week, Aseem worked across multiple branches and pull requests by resolving merge conflicts in PR4354 related to the planned versus actual costs chart visibility issue, identifying that the problem surfaced only after merging the development branch, and raising the concern for broader visibility. She also worked on debugging a chart visibility issue reported by testers in PR4659, confirming correct behavior locally, tracing the root cause to changes merged into development from another branch, and documenting findings with supporting evidence. This work strengthens the foundation for reinventing the sustainability industry through free-sharing and open standards.

Diya handled Reactonauts team management by reviewing task progress and deadlines, following up on overdue items, checking daily logs for clarity and proper time tracking, confirming submission of summaries and images, drafting the combined weekly summary, and posting status updates. She also worked on updating the Blue Squares history list to correctly order assignments, fixing time and date formatting issues for both manual and cron-based assignments in PR2030, and resolving a production user creation blocker by restricting a development-only name check to development mode in PR4799. The progress made this week contributes to our long-term goal of reinventing the sustainability industry.

Namitha tested theme updates across light and dark modes on HGN dashboards to ensure visibility, consistency, and lack of regressions, refined styling based on QA feedback to improve accessibility, and contributed to PR4796 with theme color fixes and responsive layout improvements for the HGN Skills Dashboard. Peterson improved the Total Org Summary page in PR4089 by correcting dark theme dropdown styling so background and hover states remain readable and visually consistent. This work supports reinventing the sustainability industry through open source software.

Siva resolved issues across team management, permissions, and event time display by fixing the Create New Team workflow under Other Links in PR3658, hiding the Delete Task option for unauthorized users through updated permission checks in PR3685, and updating the event time standardization feature to correctly reflect user timezones in PR4633. Sudheeksha worked on implementing dark mode styles for the HGN Skills page, troubleshooting issues in the related pull request, and then shifted focus to the HGN Questionnaire Dashboard to address missing user details when applying the skill filter. She also worked on reviewing and updating related files while encountering and investigating errors. This work plays an important role in reinventing the sustainability industry through coordinated, real-world implementation.

Suparshwa Patil completed and submitted pending tasks by implementing an authentication system, developing video ingestion functionality, creating supporting database structures, validating basic functionality, and preparing all work for review within the established workflow. See the Highest Good Network and Highest Good Society pages to learn more about how this work supports reinventing the sustainability industry. Below is the picture collage of the work done by the Reactonauts team towards reinventing the sustainability industry.

SKYE SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT TEAM

The Skye Team’s summary, covering their work on the Highest Good Network, was managed by Sayantan Paul (Frontend Tester and Software Team Administrator) and Anthony Weathers (Software Engineer). The team includes Marcus Yi (Software Engineer) and Swathi Angadi (Software Engineer). The Highest Good Network software supports reinventing the sustainability industry by objectively tracking and managing progress across social architecture, construction, production, and maintenance processes, using transparent, scalable systems designed for shared improvement and resilient ecosystems.

This week Marcus continued addressing issues identified in an open pull request by resolving reviewer feedback and fixing leftover errors. He worked through reviewer comments in sequence, focusing primarily on required database-related changes while also addressing other requested updates across the codebase. All identified fixes were completed and pushed, placing the pull request in a state ready for re‑evaluation. It is now pending follow‑up reviews by the original reviewers to verify that the requested changes meet expectations and that no further modifications are required before approval. This progress reflects continued momentum in reinventing the sustainability industry through open, collaborative development.

Swathi dedicated the majority of her time resolving merge conflicts, addressing a security issue, and correcting test cases that were failing in the pull request. She also resolved a routing issue on the PR Team Analytics page that had been affecting navigation behavior. In addition, she began improving the usability of the PR Review Analytics page by identifying areas that required clearer interactions and a more effective layout flow. This effort facilitates reinventing the sustainability industry through consistent, actionable development practices.

Anthony rechecked the Blue Square warning buttons on the User Profile after being informed they were still missing and verified whether the related warnings that existed in the database had the correct values, in order to rule out data issues. He then focused on work for PR#3600, implementing change log creation for role changes made through User Management and noting that certain data was being retained after changes were saved. After wiring the required route to support change log creation, Anthony proceeded to resolve merge conflicts and began investigating issues raised in a new review on the PR. By addressing these challenges, the Skye team’s work reinforces long-term stability in stewardship tracking features and helps reinventing the sustainability industry by strengthening scalable, transparent systems within the broader Highest Good Network (HGN) infrastructure. See the Highest Good Society and Highest Good Network pages for more on how this contribution sustains reinventing the sustainability industry as part of One Community’s goals by encouraging transparent, collaborative innovation within the Highest Good Network open source hub. See the collage below for the team’s work.

SOFTWARE PR REVIEW TEAM A-N

The PR Review Team’s summary for members with names starting A–N, managed by Neeharika Kamireddy (Data Analyst), highlights their contributions to the Highest Good Network software. This platform forms the foundation for measuring our results in reinventing the sustainability industry. Active team members included Abdelmounaim Lallouache (Software Developer), Carl Bebli (Software Developer), Julia Ha (Software Engineer), Maithili Kalkar (Software Engineer), and Nathan Hoffman (Software Engineer). They supported the project by reviewing all pull requests shared this week. Learn more about how the Highest Good Network tracks progress toward reinventing the sustainability industry in the Highest Good Network open source hub. The collage below showcases a compilation of this team’s work.

SOFTWARE PR REVIEW TEAM O-Z

The PR Review Team’s summary for members with names starting with O–Z was managed by Shameera Musthafa (Data Analyst). The Highest Good Network is a foundation for measuring our results in reinventing the sustainability industry. This week’s active members of this team were Rohan Rastogi (Software Engineer), Roshini Seelamsetty (Software Engineer), Sai Teja Kaasoju (Software Engineer), Sayali Sable (Software Engineer), Sundar Machani (Software Engineer), and Yiyun Tan (Software Engineer). They reviewed all the Highest Good Network PRs (Pull Requests) shared in this week’s update. Learn more about how the Highest Good Network open source hub measures progress towards our goal of reinventing the sustainability industry. The collage below shows a compilation of the work from this team.

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Japneet is an architectural designer with experience in sustainable design, climate-responsive architecture, and interdisciplinary project development. She has demonstrated strong capability in creating detailed 3D models, developing environmentally informed design solutions, and producing high-quality visualizations that support complex, sustainability-driven initiatives. Her work reflects a commitment to integrating functionality with environmental performance through research-based design and technical documentation. As a member of the One Community team, Japneet has completed the 3D model, climate-based design, renders, and walkthrough for aquapini and walipini #1 – Frost-Free Arid Zone Desert House, and is currently developing the 3D model and functional and environmental design elements for aquapini and walipini #3 – Tropical House.

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One Community welcomes Anusha Gali to the Highest Good Software Development Team as our newest Volunteer/Consultant!

Anusha has pursued a Master of Science in Information Systems at Northeastern University and brings over three years of experience in software engineering and quality assurance. She specializes in test automation, frontend and backend validation, API testing, defect tracking, and debugging distributed systems. Her technical experience includes working with Java, JavaScript, React, Node.js, SQL, Selenium, and REST APIs in Agile environments on large-scale applications. As a member of the One Community team, Anusha has helped improve the quality and stability of the Highest Good Network (HGN) application through structured testing and pull request validation. She reviews pull requests, executes functional UI test cases, identifies defects, documents reproducible issues, and verifies fixes across multiple features and environments.

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At One Community, we are advancing comprehensive and sustainable global reinvention through open source systems that integrate food, energy, housing, education, economics, social architecture, and global stewardship practices. Developed entirely by an all-volunteer team, our work is designed to be freely shared and self-replicating, supporting the creation of teacher/demonstration hubs worldwide. By evolving sustainability and prioritizing fulfilled living, we aim to regenerate our planet and help create a world that works for everyone, always for The Highest Good of All.

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HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING PROGRESS

One Community is advancing comprehensive and sustainable global reinvention 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 comprehensive and sustainable global reinvention: 7 Sustainable Village Models
    • Visit the open source portals for the first two: Earthbag Village OS Hub | Straw Bale Village OS Hub

This week, Ajay Adithiya Kumar Elancheliyan Tamilalagi (Mechanical Engineer) continued working on the ventilation system design for the Vermiculture Toilet component of the Earthbag Village. He worked on multiple components of the project, beginning with cross‑checking data for the HVAC report and re‑evaluating the HVAC simulations to confirm the accuracy of results, while also updating the ventilation system design and verifying the vermiculture volume and loading calculations. He completed additional simulations for the Unistruct assembly, finalized the results, and submitted the report for review. He also finished the FEA work for the alternative configuration, ensuring the analysis supported design reliability. This work contributes to a comprehensive and sustainable global reinvention by strengthening open, data-driven infrastructure solutions. Below, you’ll find some images of this work.

Derrell Brown (Plumbing Designer) continued working on the Earthbag Village 4-dome home final MEP report provided for One Community and applied required revisions to align the final draft with the submitted comments and expectations. Updates focused on adjusting technical language, clarifying assumptions, and refining calculations where feedback identified gaps or inconsistencies. In parallel, he began preparatory work for updating the electrical plan to account for potential EV charging provisions within the 4-Dome-Home. This effort included evaluating the existing electrical panel and connected loads to determine available capacity, reviewing the original circuit layout to assess feasible charger locations and routing constraints, and referencing applicable requirements within NEC Article 625 to understand code limitations related to EV supply equipment, branch circuits, and load considerations, supporting a comprehensive and sustainable global reinvention through infrastructure planning. See below for some of the pictures related to this work.

Iteesha Vishalakshi Aswath (Technical Program Manager) continued work on the Open Source Climate Battery Design cost analysis by revising and updating cost inputs across the Tubing Materials, Excavation and Soil Backfill, Insulation, Fans and Airflow, and Controls and Sensors sections. She also reviewed and provided feedback on the Highest Good Energy Report to prepare it for publication, and examined the associated Energy and Roadway Infrastructure cost analysis spreadsheet to verify calculations and referenced data. In addition, Iteesha developed automation within the Cost Estimate and Construction Planning and Tracking Templates, adding visual charts and automated Gantt charts to improve tracking and usability in the open source version. These efforts support a comprehensive and sustainable global reinvention by enabling scalable planning and transparent cost modeling. See below for some of the pictures related to this work.

Kaustubh Kadam (Construction Engineering and Management Professional) continued working on the Highest Good Housing project at One Community corrected errors in the Project Details and Project Totals sections of the template. He also worked with Iteesha to improve the Gantt chart approach by setting up the required Google Sheets logic and adding a small working example directly in the sheet to show how it functions. In addition, Kaustubh added more cost sheets as reference examples in case they are needed for estimating or validation needs, contributing to a comprehensive and sustainable global reinvention through improved construction planning tools. See below for some of the pictures related to this work.

Malhar Solanki (Mechanical Engineer) continued working on the Vermiculture Toilet component of the Earthbag Village. He worked on a standard operating procedure for the assembly process and the waste dumping mechanism. He assisted with repeated FEA model verification for various materials and loading conditions. He added material property and strength data to the Unistrut assembly section of the report, created the Bill of Materials for fasteners, and wrote a new report section documenting these updates. He also checked task progress for Rishi and Ajay and prepared a consolidated progress summary, reinforcing a comprehensive and sustainable global reinvention through structured documentation and verification. Review the latest updates in the images below.

Rishi Chakrapani (Mechanical Engineer) continued working on the Vermiculture Toilet. His work focused on the main unistrut chamber structure, including performing FEA to verify that it could withstand the specified loading conditions. The analysis was used to confirm load assumptions and support the structural design. Additional effort was spent checking that the remaining reports were complete and making updates to the Bill of Materials, followed by review and signoff to confirm accuracy and alignment with the finalized designs. This work supports a comprehensive and sustainable global reinvention by validating structural integrity and build readiness. Review the latest updates in the images below.

Sai Bhuvanesh Nandipati (Mechanical Engineer) continued working on the Earthbag Village by introducing a turbulence model into the sheet flow simulation and completed the transient numerical run in ANSYS Fluent. He reviewed solver behavior and confirmed that the simulation progressed to completion under the defined time-step and boundary condition settings. Following completion of the run, he identified post-processing tasks required to extract results and generate graphical outputs, including velocity fields and volume fraction visualizations, for use in web-based presentation. In parallel, he prepared a detailed, week-by-week technical report documenting his progress to date, including analytical background, numerical setup, solver behavior, and simulation status to date, contributing to a comprehensive and sustainable global reinvention through transparent, data-backed environmental analysis. See below for some of the pictures related to this work.

DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER PROGRESS

One Community is advancing comprehensive and sustainable global reinvention 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 and it’s function and comprehensive and sustainable global reinvention: Duplicable City Center Open Source Hub

This week, Ariana Virginia Gutierrez Doria Medina (Industrial Designer) continued working on the Duplicable City Center window and door framing by working on improving the 3D CAD design, which will serve as the basis for cost estimation, cut/planning, and assembly instructions. Based on input from project leads, the model was updated to include an insulation frame using one and a half layers of material to achieve an overall thickness of 11 inches. The design was also revised to adjust wood dimensions to reflect the actual sizes of the materials being used, ensuring better alignment between the digital model and physical components. This open source Duplicable City Center project is dedicated to advancing comprehensive and sustainable global reinvention. Please see the illustration below for more specific information.

Bevan Chiu (Mechanical Engineer) continued his work finishing the City Center Eco-spa Designs. He worked on incorporating the joist structure into the CAD model, defining how the current pressure-treated lumber joists attach to the outer cinderblocks and the concrete layer of the tub. He evaluated aluminum joists as a possible alternative material. Bevan researched sustainable options for the plumbing access panel, focusing on recycled plastic lumber and recycled HDPE as candidate materials, while also considering the incorporation of aluminum joists in the panel understructure. Initial hand calculations were performed for the plumbing access panel under a stepping load, and the calculator allowed material properties and assumptions to be adjusted for comparison purposes. This week’s results move us closer to comprehensive and sustainable global reinvention.

Bevan also researched applicable building code requirements related to floor joist spans and joist spacing to inform the structural layout. He identified a requirement for the deck surface to slope and reviewed practical methods for achieving this slope in the panel design. This open source Duplicable City Center project is currently advancing comprehensive and sustainable global reinvention. For more details, refer to the image below.

Sandesh Kumawat (Mechanical Engineer) continued developing the City Center Eco-spa Designs. He focused on completing the structural validation phase by finalizing the full-assembly finite element simulation that integrates the upper Unistrut shell with the reinforced cinder block foundation. He analyzed the complete hybrid model under a combined worst-case loading scenario that included bolt pretension, hydrostatic pressure, and bather loads, confirming stable and realistic load transfer across steel, cork, and masonry interfaces. The results show well-managed stress levels throughout the assembly, with the steel frame primarily operating in a safe 27 MPa range and an absolute maximum principal stress of approximately 13.98 MPa localized at reinforced joint regions, keeping all components well below material failure limits. Together, these updates advance comprehensive and sustainable global reinvention with practical, shareable solutions.

Global deformation remained minimal, with a peak displacement of only about 0.72 mm under full water load, demonstrating the high stiffness of the foundation interface. A key insight from this iteration was the interaction between load cases, where bather loads on the seating surfaces partially counteract hydrostatic pressure, reducing overall shell stress compared to the water-only condition. The final solution was achieved using a refined, high-density mesh that ensured numerical stability and contact convergence, and the results confirm a robust factor of safety exceeding typical residential spa requirements, indicating the design is structurally validated and ready for the next integration steps. Discover One Community’s open source Duplicable City Center, which is dedicated to advancing comprehensive and sustainable global reinvention. See the visuals below for a closer look.

Shivarama Krishna Revanuru (Mechanical Engineer) continued working on the Duplicable City Center design. He involved performing finite element analysis on the carabiner and the pull handle to evaluate structural behavior under the defined loading conditions, along with a cost analysis to support material selection decisions. Material options were compared based on availability, mechanical properties, and estimated cost to align with design and budget constraints. Discussions were held with a teammate to review the FEA approach, assumptions, boundary conditions, and results, as well as to align on the cost analysis methodology and material choices. Based on these discussions, updates were made to the material selection to better match performance and cost requirements. In addition, minor design changes were made to the spa cover to align the geometry and features with updated spa requirements and functional constraints. This open source Duplicable City Center project is advancing comprehensive and sustainable global reinvention. The images below illustrate aspects of this work.

HIGHEST GOOD FOOD PROGRESS

One Community is advancing comprehensive and sustainable global reinvention 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 comprehensive and sustainable global reinvention: Hoop House Hub | Aquapini & Walipini Open Source Hub
    • See what we’ll be growing: Gardens & Hoop Houses | Large-scale Structures | Food Forest | TA

This week, the core team continued working on the Master Tools, Equipment, and Materials and Supplies List for the Large-scale Garden, Botanical Garden, and other Highest Good Food components. The photo inclusions were updated for the shop documents and designated recent tool additions for the Automotive Shop (ASHP), General Storage & Inventory (GSI), Metal Shop (MSHP), and Wood Shop (WSHP) documents. These additions included vice grips, a table saw, a drill press, portable and fixed workbenches, and a combination belt/disc sander. The cross-referencing process between the Master Document and the Shop Documents was initiated to support accurate alignment between the two sets of documents. The Highest Good Food initiative is a key component of One Community’s open source plans, focused on advancing comprehensive and sustainable global reinvention and exemplifying the organization’s commitment through innovative design and implementation. Below are some images showcasing this work.

Chelsea Mariah Stellmach (Project Manager) continued working on the Transition Food Self-sufficiency food and inventory tracking software plans. She coordinated and tracked assignments related to the creation of backend API endpoints to add and retrieve orders and suppliers, working with developers Julia, Bhanu, Akshith, and Abhinav. She monitored task status and alignment across contributors and reviewed ongoing progress through GitHub activity and Dropbox demos to ensure work items were moving forward according to current expectations and timelines. Throughout the week, she focused on identifying and resolving blockers as they arose, coordinating with team members to address questions and align next steps, with the goal of maintaining steady progress and avoiding disruptions to the software development workflow. As an essential aspect of One Community’s open source goals, the Highest Good Food initiative supports advancing comprehensive and sustainable global reinvention. The following images provide a view of her contributions.

Japneet Kour (Volunteer Architect) continued contributing to the Highest Good Food initiative. This week, she reviewed the Word document for the Walipini 3 Tropical House project, verifying that all image and render captions were accurate and corresponded correctly to the visuals. She also checked the write-up to ensure it matched the content of the project and reflected the intended information, making adjustments where necessary to maintain consistency and clarity throughout the document. The Highest Good Food initiative is a key part of One Community’s open source platform, focused on sustainable and participatory development while supporting comprehensive and sustainable global reinvention. Visual examples from her work are presented below.

Jay Nair (BIM Designer) continued developing the Aquapini and Walipini Planting and Harvesting documents. This week, he worked on compiling the lighting electrical calculation data for the Greenhouse Walipini to support the development of software intended to automate similar calculations for other greenhouses. The task involved organizing calculation inputs, outputs, and assumptions into a structured format, ensuring the information is clear, consistent, and suitable for use in a standardized digital tool. The Highest Good Food initiative is a key part of One Community’s open-source platform, focused on sustainable and participatory development and advancing comprehensive and sustainable global reinvention. See below for pictures related to this work.

Nitin Parate (Architect) continued contributing to the Aquapini and Walipini renders and layout graphics. The work focused on developing the axonometric drawing of the Zen Aquapini. Updates were made to improve clarity, alignment, and overall layout while maintaining the design intent. Attention was given to detailing roof members, glazing, and structural elements, and this information was incorporated into the axonometric view. Detailing of the plantation axonometric view is ongoing to clearly represent plant types, layers, spacing, and height variations, helping to show the overall planting structure and layout. Different visual methods were tested to assess effectiveness, and selected approaches were applied to refine the drawings. Annotations, labels, and infographics were added to provide clear information and improve readability and understanding of the design and its components. The Highest Good Food initiative is a key part of One Community’s open source platform, promoting regenerative and participatory development while advancing comprehensive and sustainable global reinvention. Images below showcase his contributions.

Pallavi Deshmukh (Software Engineer) continued working on the Aquapini and Walipini Planting and Harvesting web details. She developed new content for blog 671 and collaborated with teammates by incorporating their suggestions and feedback to maintain clarity and consistency in the final version. She continued adding Walipini 1 content based on Gayatri Pandkar’s work, making updates in response to feedback from Jae, including editing and incorporating revised images. She also added a table of contents for the Zenipini section to improve structure and navigation. In addition, Jae assigned her a new web page focused on integrating all related content for the Aquahaven Southwest Area web design, and she began organizing and preparing the materials needed for this integration work. She completed five interviews and provided the required details. The Highest Good Food project integrates advancing comprehensive and sustainable global reinvention into a larger vision of regenerative living. Her contributions are highlighted in the collage below.

Shivangi Varma (Architectural Designer and Planner) continued the redesign of the Highest Good Food overall presentation, currently focused on the Aquapini and Walipini masterplan render. She began incorporating the masterplan render into the Highest Good Food pages and continued editing the axonometric graphics for the Differences diagram for the Open Source Hub page. She started detailing Zenipini features, began developing the Walipini axonometric, and added features and clarified details to differentiate the three structures. The Highest Good Food initiative plays a leading role in One Community’s open source platform by promoting sustainable and participatory development, focused on advancing comprehensive and sustainable global reinvention. Below are visuals highlighting this work.

HIGHEST GOOD ENERGY PROGRESS

One Community is advancing comprehensive and sustainable global reinvention 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 comprehensive and sustainable global reinvention: Solar, Hydro, and Wind
    • Explore our research into the most sustainable products and companies for saving water and energy: Insulation, Eco-laundry, Lightbulbs and Light Bulb Companies, Doors and Door Companies, Windows and Window Companies, Toilets, Faucets and Faucet Accessories, Urinals, and more.

This week, the core team continued contributing to the Highest Good Energy initiative. The core team spent several hours reviewing Michaela’s templates, materials related to the Earthbag Village, and content associated with the Tropical Atrium pages to better understand existing formats and reference materials in preparation for upcoming meetings. The core team also completed an additional review of the business plan along with related financial documents. The Highest Good Energy initiative plays a leading role in One Community’s open source platform by promoting sustainable and participatory development, focused on advancing comprehensive and sustainable global reinvention. Below are images related to this project.

HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION PROGRESS

One Community is advancing comprehensive and sustainable global reinvention 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 comprehensive and sustainable global reinvention: 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

HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY PROGRESS

One Community is advancing comprehensive and sustainable global reinvention 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 and sharing and comprehensive and sustainable global reinvention: A Day in the Life
    • Learn about the 4 economic models: RBE | For-profit | Non-profit | Entrepreneurship
    • Learn about our open source community collaboration and management software: The Highest Good Network

This week, the core team completed over 37 hours managing volunteer work reviews, handling emails, overseeing social media accounts, supporting web development, and identifying and integrating bug fixes for the Highest Good Network. The team also interviewed and onboarded new volunteer team members. Additionally, they produced and integrated the video above, which highlights how comprehensive and sustainable global reinvention serve as a foundational element of One Community’s broader mission. The following images showcase highlights of this work.

Jaiwanth Reddy Adavalli (Project Manager) continued developing the Job Applicants page and key components of the Highest Good Network. He tested multiple pull requests of components in various parts of the HGN Software. He created action items for the PR Dashboard. Jaiwanth tracked updates in software team management documents to support task management. As a member of the pull request review team, he reviewed submissions from the volunteer team assigned to him.This work supports One Community’s commitment to comprehensive and sustainable global reinvention. The images below highlight his contributions.

Rajrajeshwari Gangadhar Sangolli (Data Analyst) continued working on Google Ads management and strategy evolution of the Highest Good Network. She assisted Shreya in rechecking her work during a meeting, provided comments, and requested specific changes. She worked with Shreya to explain assigned tasks, relevant focus areas, and navigation of the Google Ads interface, including an overview of key performance indicators, goals, and objectives, and shared reference materials for study. She met with Pooja to discuss phase progress and spent time working on Deliverable 2. These steps help scale comprehensive and sustainable global reinvention for communities worldwide.

Rajrajeshwari further clarified the ad workflow for Shreya, covering the process, interface, and creation of ads, campaigns, and ad groups, applied Google recommendations, and shared certification resources. She added Deliverable 2 to the Phase 5 tracking sheet and made edits as required. She reviewed project documentation to understand her scope of contribution and phase goals in preparation for future discussions. She also worked on Deliverable 3 by developing the concept and formatting it for inclusion in the document. This project supports One Community’s commitment to demonstrating comprehensive and sustainable global reinvention. The images below highlight key aspects of her work.

Yagna Reddy Badvel (Data Analyst and Team Administrator) continued working on the Summary Dashboards and Weekly Report page on the Highest Good Network. He reviewed and maintained the Phase 2 “Materials, Equipment, Tools, and Project Tracking System” tab by correcting task categorization, dropdown usage, priorities, formatting issues, links, and filters to keep the sheet accurate and consistent. He also completed weekly admin responsibilities by reviewing team submissions, providing feedback, verifying media and tracking requirements, optimizing and uploading images to WordPress with proper SEO and formatting, and conducting admin reviews for multiple volunteers to ensure alignment with current admin standards and overall workflow consistency. This work supports One Community’s commitment to comprehensive and sustainable global reinvention. The images below highlight his contributions.

ADMINISTRATION TEAM

The Administration Team’s summary, which covers their work on the Highest Good Network, was managed by Prudhvi Marpina (Data Analyst) and includes Anusha Gali (Software Engineer), Ashutosh Mishra (Software Engineer), Keerthana Chitturi (System Administrator), Leo Lishin Shiu (Software Engineer), Manish Kanuri (Data Scientist), Mridul Bhushan (Volunteer Project Strategy Analyst and Team Administrator), Neeharika Kamireddy (Data Analyst), Olawunmi “Ola” Ijisesan (Administrative and Management Support), Priyanshi Sharma (Data Analyst and Team Administrator), Rachna Malav (Data Analyst), Rajeshwari Bhirud (Administrator), Sayantan Paul (Frontend Tester and Software Team Administrator), Shreya Shetty (Data Analyst), and Sudarshan Raju Chintalapati Venkata (Data Analyst). The Administration Team supports the Highest Good Network, a tool designed to track and measure progress while developing systems that contribute to advancing comprehensive and sustainable global reinvention. Through administrative support, documentation, testing, training, recruiting, 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, Anusha completed Level 2 software testing and QA by reviewing and testing 30 frontend and backend pull requests, approving several and issuing change requests for UI issues, functionality gaps, setup problems, and incomplete fixes. She also covered administrative responsibilities by reviewing submissions, creating image collages, editing summaries and image attributes, updating tracking documents, and providing structured feedback on blog content. These efforts strengthen comprehensive and sustainable global reinvention by improving clarity, quality, and repeatability.

Ashutosh finalized the chatbot framework by defining the class model, testing the MD-based pipeline endpoint, and developing test case scenarios. He completed design documentation for document ingestion into Pinecone, evaluated vector database configurations for scalability and security, and reviewed weekly contributions for Team Dev Dynasty. Keerthana reviewed team summaries for accuracy, formatting, and completeness, and updated Step 2 and Step 4 tracking documents to reflect current progress. She prepared the weekly blog, reviewed Manish’s admin work, and added Phase 3 action items for developer follow-up. Together, these efforts support advancing comprehensive and sustainable global reinvention.

Leo compiled and formatted weekly summaries from 17 LeDCC members and created visual collages to document contributions. He scheduled Instagram and Facebook posts, analyzed Meta performance data, and researched Meta Graph API integration for improved analytics automation. Manish conducted development testing and validation by verifying UI behavior, data displays, and user interactions across light and dark modes. He tested multiple pull requests, documented observations, and confirmed stability of updated components in the development environment. Mridul reviewed and validated individual and team summaries for Weekly Progress Update #671 and supported WordPress blog preparation. He tested multiple HGN documentation and frontend pull requests, updated Twitter/X analytics dashboards, and scheduled social media content. This coordinated administrative and publishing work advances comprehensive and sustainable global reinvention.

Neeharika reviewed software team management documents, followed up on assigned tasks, and tested pull requests in the development environment. She also verified fixed PDFs against updated versions and reviewed admin work submitted by three team members. Ola trained a new team member on PR review processes and managed weekly social media scheduling and analytics tracking. She organized administrative workspaces, prepared visual content, and updated reports and documentation. Priyanshi continued Phase 2 page-by-page testing by reviewing dashboard sections, validating bar graph rendering, and testing filter behavior. She documented issues related to missing tabs and nonfunctional date filters to support follow-up tracking. Rachna reviewed emails, comments, and previously assigned tasks while exploring One Community webpages. She also reviewed SEO-related pages and did not contribute to hiring activities this week. This work helps advancing comprehensive and sustainable global reinvention.

Rajeshwari tested multiple application endpoints and PR dashboard routes, documenting bugs related to data visualization and dark-mode styling. She also supported administration by reviewing summaries, updating WordPress blog content, maintaining SEO keywords, and organizing team collages. Sayantan tested merged pull requests across multiple HGN pages, identifying dark mode issues, missing icons, and filter behavior problems. He logged bugs, suggested usability improvements, and continued local testing of application features. This work contributes to comprehensive and sustainable global reinvention by making replication easier.

Shreya completed training on Google Search Ads analysis, campaign structure, keyword performance, and optimization practices. She reviewed tracking documents, analyzed KPIs, and began preparation for Google Search Ads certification. Sudarshan managed Alpha Software Team blog updates, applied SEO changes, and created visual collages. He reviewed multiple pull requests, documented issues, and created tasks to address bugs and improve system functionality. To learn more about how this work supports advancing comprehensive and sustainable global reinvention, visit the Highest Good Society and Highest Good Network pages. Highlights of the team’s contributions are shown in the collage below.

GRAPHIC DESIGN TEAM

The Graphic Design Team, working on the Highest Good Society, was managed by Manish Kanuri (Data Scientist). The team includes Qinyi Liu (Graphic Designer) and Yulin Li (Graphic Designer). who focused this week on creating graphic designs that support comprehensive and sustainable global reinvention.

This week, Yulin contributed to comprehensive and sustainable global reinvention by focusing on visual communication and coordination tasks. She created and updated infographics based on feedback to improve clarity, visual consistency, and alignment with One Community’s sustainability goals. Yulin also prepared and published a collaboration announcement for the Highest Good Network software team to support transparent communication. See the Highest Good Society pages and the collage below for examples of their work.

HIGHEST GOOD NETWORK PROGRESS

One Community is advancing comprehensive and sustainable global reinvention through open source Highest Good Network^® software that is a web-based application for collaboration, time tracking, and objective data collection. The purpose of the Highest Good Network is to provide software for internal operations and external cooperation. It is being designed for global use in support of the different countries and communities replicating the One Community sustainable village models and related components.

• Learn about our open source community collaboration and management software and comprehensive and sustainable global reinvention: The Highest Good Network

This week, the core team tested Highest Good Network pull requests and confirmed 9 as fixed. This effort highlights One Community’s commitment demonstrating comprehensive and sustainable global reinvention.

The following PRs were not fixed: the Phase 4 Analytics Insights Widget frontend, fixes and improvements to application functionality on phones, the issue with the Resource Usage Overview page not loading, and the Phase 4 Support Team frontend. They were also not able to test 11 merged PRs because there was no data available on the Main branch, which prevented verification of expected behavior and results. This work strengthens One Community’s mission of demonstrating comprehensive and sustainable global reinvention. See the Highest Good Society and The Highest Good Network pages, and the collage below, for an overview of the team’s contributions.

ALPHA SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT TEAM

The Alpha Software Team, working on the Highest Good Network software, was managed by Lin Khant Htel (Frontend Software Developer), who currently serves as the team’s sole member. The Highest Good Network software is a key part of sustainable and free-shared eco-solutions, helping track and measure progress toward advancing comprehensive and sustainable global reinvention. The software supports social architecture, construction, production, and maintenance processes that contribute to the open source project and resilient ecosystems. Designed to be portable and scalable, the Highest Good Network software is well suited for off-grid and sustainable living communities. This project reflects One Community’s open source commitment to advancing comprehensive and sustainable global reinvention.

This week, Lin reviewed PR #1746, checked the code, tested it on a local machine, and confirmed that all tests passed, then reviewed and checked the weekly summaries, photos, and videos submitted by Alpha team members and handled management duties for the Alpha Team. Work continued toward resolving the existing task related to the multi-select filter solutions. See the Highest Good Society and Highest Good Network pages for more on how this contributed to advancing comprehensive and sustainable global reinvention. See the collage below to view the team’s work.

BINARY BRIGADE SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT TEAM

The Binary Brigade Team, presenting their work on the Highest Good Network software, was managed by Amalesh Arivanan (Software Engineer) and included Sourabh Bagde (Software Developer), Harsha Rudhraraju (Software Engineer), and Nikhil Routh (Software Engineer). The Highest Good Network software is our tool for managing and objectively measuring progress, ensuring that all contributions are tracked and aligned with our mission, and for modeling and advancing comprehensive and sustainable global reinvention. It supports social architecture, construction, production, and maintenance processes that contribute to open-source projects and resilient, sustainable ecosystems.

This week, Sourabh reviewed PR 4287 and PR 1862, along with Debadyuti’s notes, to confirm the Plurk integration status. He verified that PR 1862 already supports scheduling and deleting Plurk posts on the backend, with final validation currently blocked by the lack of access to live Plurk API credentials. He also revisited PR 4146 to map the completed frontend scheduling flow to the backend endpoints, noting a gap in aligning deletion workflows with existing Mastodon scheduling patterns. Sourabh completed the Plurk setup by creating a test Plurk account, registering a development application as a third-party website integration, generating OAuth credentials, and updating environment validation so the backend checks for required OAuth variables at startup. The outcome supports comprehensive and sustainable global reinvention through documented, DIY-ready progress. He modified the scheduled post schema and controller to add a UUID-based postid, extended platform support to include Plurk while preserving existing scheduling and metadata fields, and added Express routes to (1) post immediately to Plurk, (2) create a scheduled Plurk post, and (3) delete a scheduled Plurk post. He implemented request validation that returns 400 for invalid inputs, 404 for missing scheduled items, passes upstream Plurk API errors, and returns 500 for server failures. He also added timezone-aware date and time validation to enforce accepted scheduler formats, while normalizing stored scheduled date/time values to the America/Chicago timezone to match cron parser requirements. This is part of our broader mission of comprehensive and sustainable global reinvention.

Amalesh worked on “Total Org Summary – Fix PR 4138” by correcting two mobile layout defects in the Total Org Summary graph. These fixes prevented graph text from being clipped and separated overlapping indicators and labels, so values remain readable on smaller screens. He tested and documented the fix with screenshots and videos using the required naming conventions, tracked time in the HGN timer, and completed required onboarding steps for ongoing tool access. These steps help scale comprehensive and sustainable global reinvention for communities worldwide. Harsha investigated the raw HTML appearing in job summaries by creating a local branch and tracing the issue to backend job records containing embedded HTML rather than a frontend rendering defect. He removed the affected records from the Job table and replaced them with clean, consistently formatted content to stabilize rendering. Harsha added dark mode styling for the job summaries section so text, backgrounds, and interactive controls meet the approved palette in both themes, adjusted layout structure, spacing, and text wrapping to improve responsiveness on smaller laptops and tablets, verified consistent display in light and dark modes, ran regression checks to confirm other job views and filters were not impacted by the data cleanup, and prepared a pull request that includes both the backend data changes and the dark mode and responsive UI updates, with notes describing the root cause and fix. This momentum accelerates comprehensive and sustainable global reinvention through consistent iteration and transparency.

And Nikhil completed the handover by reviewing and closing all pull requests under their ownership, auditing the remaining CSS-to–module CSS migration pull requests to confirm review status and documentation coverage, and coordinating with the team to finalize ownership transitions and confirm that no outstanding tasks or review items remained under their scope. See the Highest Good Society and Highest Good Network pages for more information on how this works in advancing comprehensive and sustainable global reinvention. The collage below shows images of their work.

BLUE STEEL SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT TEAM

The Blue Steel Software Team, working on the Highest Good Network software, was managed by Sheetal Mangate (Software Engineer) and includes Linh Huynh (Software Engineer), Som Ramnani (Software Engineer). This week Som worked on PR #4215 to address merge conflicts introduced by recent updates from the main branch while resolving issues related to selecting featured badges and saving changes, with conflicts affecting BadgeReport.jsx, BadgeSummaryPreview.jsx, BadgeSummaryViz.js, and yarn.lock. As part of advancing comprehensive and sustainable global reinvention, he focused on a BadgeReport.module.css import that caused styling inconsistencies across badge-related components, and he updated CSS module imports and verified that affected components rendered correctly while preserving existing behavior.

Linh focused on the backend implementation for the Material Usage Insights and Visual Indicators feature in the BM Dashboard by building APIs and calculation logic to support inventory health and usage analysis, advancing comprehensive and sustainable global reinvention, This included pure calculation utilities for usage percentage, stock ratio, stock health status, and formatted numeric outputs with handling for missing or zero purchase data, backend handlers that combined raw material data with calculated metrics such as stock health labels, colors, and usage percentages, and summary metric calculations for total materials, low stock counts and percentages, over-usage counts and percentages, and items on hold, along with multiple API endpoints to fetch insights for all materials, by project, summary metrics globally and by project, critical or low stock items, high usage items, and detailed material views, while integrating routes into the BM Dashboard routing structure, ensuring related project and item type data population, and standardizing API responses with success flags, data payloads, and timestamps, with work tracked in a backend branch through a work-in-progress pull request.

Sheetal managed this week’s summary and worked on integrating Auth0Provider with the existing routing setup, confirming that app-level wrapping functions as expected while route-level wrapping of the Announcement component results in Auth0 remaining in a loading state, and she continued investigating the cause to support component-level Auth0Provider usage without disrupting application flow, while also resolving merge conflicts by reviewing local branch changes, comparing modified files, and determining which updates to merge to maintain consistency with the shared codebase, supporting scalable platform foundations that align with data transparency and tooling needs used towards advancing comprehensive and sustainable global reinvention. Supporting images of the related work are provided below.

CODE CRAFTERS SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT TEAM

The Code Crafters Team, covering their work on the Highest Good Network software, was managed by Sphurthy Satish (Software Engineer) and includes Ajay Naidu (Software Engineer), Akshith Kumar Reddy Balappagari Gnaneswara (Software Engineer – Full Stack), and Shreya Padaganur (Software Engineer). The Highest Good Network software coordinates social, construction, production, and maintenance systems to objectively measure progress toward comprehensive and sustainable global reinvention.

This week, Ajay fixed an issue that caused the events search bar to return no results for both new and existing events, restoring expected filtering and improving navigation on the events page. He refined the search experience by correcting input and icon styling, optimizing the action triggered by the search icon, and verifying that results update based on user input. To address dark mode inconsistencies, adjustments were made to align colors, backgrounds, and typography with theme variables and ensure that inputs, dropdowns, and labels meet contrast expectations. Ajay also reviewed areas flagged by reviewers, corrected edge cases where styles were not applied, and confirmed that hover, focus, and disabled states render as intended. In addition, merge conflicts related to these updates were resolved, and layout and spacing were validated to remain stable when switching themes. Local checks across common user flows confirmed that search behavior, visual states, and theme handling integrate with current components without regressions. These efforts reflect One Community’s goal of developing comprehensive and sustainable global reinvention.

Akshith worked on Phase 3 improvement tasks, including adding fuzzy search and typo tolerance for event searches, implementing typo tolerance for type and location searches in the activity list, fixing radio button and checkbox alignment mismatches, and updating date selection in the search filter. He created a new utility function to handle typos in search queries and updated the community portal date filter to display events based on the selected date. He also made UI adjustments to align buttons and checkboxes according to the Figma design specifications. The progress shown here reflects continued advancement toward advancing comprehensive and sustainable global reinvention through coordinated social architecture supported by documented actions. This supports comprehensive and sustainable global reinvention by strengthening open, data-informed decision-making.

Shreya worked on the assigned user state indicator task, implementing frontend components and continuing development of related UI functionality, including button behavior. Time was spent reviewing and understanding the existing frontend and backend flow to ensure alignment with the current system design. Several frontend elements and partial functionality have been implemented; however, progress has been impacted by ongoing frontend–backend integration issues, including Node-related problems, which have prevented successful connectivity and testing for approximately two weeks. As a result, the implemented changes cannot yet be fully validated. Initial integration efforts are still in progress, and investigation into the blocking issue is ongoing. Due to these continued integration challenges, reassignment to an alternative task is being considered if needed. The progress demonstrated reflects ongoing advancement toward comprehensive and sustainable global reinvention through coordinated, well-documented social architecture.

Sphurthy fixed a font color and styling issue in the Search Filters section on the All Events page to better align with the Figma design. Previously, section headings such as Branches, Themes, and Categories appeared darker and bolder than the selectable filter text, whereas the intended design required headings to be lighter and selectable text to be more prominent. Updates were made in the CPDashboard.module.css file to correct the visual hierarchy. This is part of our broader mission of comprehensive and sustainable global reinvention.

Filter headings now use a lighter gray color with normal font weight, while select inputs and option text use a darker color with medium font weight. Dark mode styles were also added to ensure consistent appearance across themes. Additionally, radio button alignment issues in the date filter section were fixed, ensuring the Tomorrow and This Weekend options display correctly without overlap or misalignment. These efforts help move One Community closer to developing comprehensive and sustainable global reinvention. Visual examples of this work are presented below

DEV DYNASTY SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT TEAM

The Dev Dynasty Team’s summary, covering their work on the Highest Good Network software, was managed by Deekshith Kumar Singirikonda (Developer) and includes Adithya Cherukuri (Volunteer Software Engineer), Aditya Gambhir (Software Engineer), Neeraj Kondaveeti (Software Engineer), Sai Shravan Neelamsetty (Software Engineer), Sriamsh Reddy (Software Engineer) and Vikas Meneni (Software Engineer). The Highest Good Network software is how we’ll manage and objectively measure our processes for open sourcing a better world for us all through our social architecture, construction, production, and maintenance processes. This progress supports One Community in advancing comprehensive and sustainable global reinvention.

This week Adithya worked on the HGN Software Development project by implementing search and enhanced filtering for the Materials Table, adding local state management, multi-field filtering, responsive layout adjustments using Bootstrap and Flexbox, a conditional clear button, and safeguards against null values using optional chaining, followed by testing and preparation of weekly documentation. Deekshith developed a client-side React component to visualize resource usage data with responsive bar charts using Recharts, integrated dropdown controls, structured static datasets for materials, equipment, and venues, and implemented a themed CSS module supporting light and dark modes with consistent layout and styling. This reinforces comprehensive and sustainable global reinvention through collaboration and continuous improvement.

Neeraj improved the Collaboration page by replacing comma-separated job category filters with styled filter chips, updating only the relevant component and CSS module, ensuring compatibility with existing search, pagination, and API logic, and validating behavior across light and dark modes. Shravan addressed multiple PR review issues in the email management system by fixing sending state handling, improving modal behavior, implementing cache-busting and refresh logic, adjusting layout and spacing through CSS updates, removing duplicate selectors, and continuing work on template page layout, hover behavior, and dark mode support. This work helps demonstrate comprehensive and sustainable global reinvention in real, measurable ways.

Sriamsh implemented the Project Risk Profile page at the required route, added project and time-based filtering, integrated risk charts and trend indicators, restructured core component logic for consistent state handling, verified dynamic rendering, and aligned the implementation with documented requirements. Vikas reviewed and tested five abandoned pull requests related to reporting, analytics, attendance, and summaries, validating functionality, permissions, workflows, visual behavior, and dark mode compatibility, identifying merge conflicts and environment blockers, resolving code quality issues, and preparing several items for approval pending final conflict resolution. See the Highest Good Society and Highest Good Network pages for more on how this relates to our mission of advancing comprehensive and sustainable global reinvention. Explore some of the team’s work in the collage below.

LUCKY STAR SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT TEAM

The Lucky Star Team’s summary, covering their work on the Highest Good Network, was managed by Keerthana Chitturi (System Administrator). The team includes contributions from Abhinav Tharamel Baiju (Software Engineer), Aryan Rachala (Software Engineer), Chirag Bellara (Software Engineer), Shashank Madan (Software Engineer), Shravya Kudlu (Software Development Engineer), Veda Bellam (Software Engineer), Venkataramanan Venkateswaran (Software Engineer) and Vinay Krishna (Software Engineer). Their work supports One Community’s goal of comprehensive and sustainable global reinvention through cross-functional software development and ongoing system improvements.

This week, Abhinav implemented backend API endpoints for Phase 6 of the Kitchen Inventory Management system’s processing projects. The endpoints support adding and retrieving data for project queues including canning, dehydration, freeze drying, and cellar storage, and the database model defines attributes such as item name, process name, quantity, supplies quantity, supplies type, scheduled date, and priority. This work contributes to comprehensive and sustainable global reinvention. Aryan worked on Phase 3 of the HGN Software Development project by standardizing the date display format on the Used Resources page. He verified timestamp accuracy, ensured correct handling of user local time zones, removed relative time labels, and tested formatting and layout behavior across multiple browsers and screen sizes while cleaning up related code and performing regression testing. This work contributes to comprehensive and sustainable global reinvention.

Chirag completed the “Add toggle to show or hide past events in the Activities List” feature by implementing and testing the changes, resolving merge issues, and creating pull request 4772. He also added icons to the Event Details display in the Calendar View and fixed merge errors that were blocking the merge of pull request 4647. This work contributes to comprehensive and sustainable global reinvention. Shashank reviewed high priority pull requests and provided detailed feedback using screenshots and screen recordings to demonstrate functionality and highlight issues. He submitted code comments addressing coding patterns, structure, and implementation approaches, and coordinated with team members to clarify requirements and confirm expected behavior before moving pull requests forward. This work contributes to comprehensive and sustainable global reinvention.

Shravya addressed merge conflicts for ticket 3926 and researched git rebasing as a method to streamline future updates. She also worked on bugs associated with ticket 3106 by fixing functional requirements for one component and correcting dark theme display issues for another. This work contributes to comprehensive and sustainable global reinvention. Veda worked on analytics and dashboard improvements for the Listing and Bidding platform within the HGN Software Development project. She created and refined the “Cancellation Impact on Vacancy” chart with vacancy and cancellation rate visualizations, added date range and category-based filters, worked with placeholder data while resolving dependency issues, created a donut chart for Job Posting Page Analytics, resolved merge conflicts across frontend and backend codebases, converted stylesheets to module-based CSS, and fixed a dark mode filter display issue. This work contributes to comprehensive and sustainable global reinvention.

Venkataramanan resolved a mix of frontend and backend issues across the Highest Good Network App and HGNRest repositories, including updating WBS labels, fixing time entry validation messages, correcting user profile update issues affecting project visibility, aligning UI elements across dashboards and leaderboards, fixing unclickable WBS task areas, and improving navigation and layout consistency across multiple pages. This work contributes to comprehensive and sustainable global reinvention.

Vinay worked on updating the Team button behavior in the Project Risk Profile so that it redirects users to the Home page, improving navigation clarity within the Risk Profile flow. He reviewed the existing button configuration, updated redirect logic, validated behavior across common user paths, and ensured the changes did not introduce layout, permission, or routing regressions. This work contributes to comprehensive and sustainable global reinvention. See the Highest Good Society and Highest Good Network pages to learn more about how this work supports comprehensive and sustainable global reinvention. See the collage below highlighting the team’s work for the week.

MOONFALL SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT TEAM

The Moonfall Team’s summary, which covers their work on the Highest Good Network, was managed by Uha Kruthi (Software Engineer) and includes Aayush Shetty (Software Engineer), Alisha Walunj (Software Engineer), Sai Krishna (Software Engineer), and Mani Shashank Marneni (Software Engineer). Their efforts support One Community by advancing the mission of comprehensive and sustainable global reinvention through open-source collaboration, ecologically responsible innovation, and holistic global progress.

This week, Uha focused on improving dark mode behavior and visual consistency in the Lesson Form component by updating CSS and JSX to prevent unintended background changes in input fields, text areas, and dropdowns, implementing dedicated dark mode styles for lesson titles, content fields, select elements, and tag inputs, resolving duplicated dropdown indicators, hover color issues, and contrast problems, adjusting focus and active state styling, and validating all changes locally for usability and correctness. This week’s results move us closer to comprehensive and sustainable global reinvention.

Sai worked on adding the Consumables button to the project dropdown on the BMDashboard by completing required frontend changes, testing the functionality, raising a pull request, and beginning implementation of the Consumables Update History feature by analyzing requirements, creating a modal, defining display fields, and setting up the initial frontend structure to support backend integration. This work contributes to comprehensive and sustainable global reinvention by strengthening the reliability, maintainability, and reuse of shared open-source infrastructure.

Aayush worked on Phase 2 tasks by optimizing field dependency and selection flow through requirement analysis, codebase review, local branch setup, partial implementation, local testing, documentation with screenshots, and weekly reporting, and also resolved the Create New Team page display issue by handling empty dataset scenarios with appropriate user messaging and validating behavior locally. Mani worked on a Priority Medium task to add an Insights Panel to the PR Team Analytics Dashboard by designing and implementing a responsive UI component, developing metric calculation logic from filtered datasets to display key indicators, adding logic to identify and highlight the most-reviewed pull request, and aligning styling with existing light and dark mode standards. These refinements improve reuse and accessibility, supporting comprehensive and sustainable global reinvention.

Alisha worked on frontend wishlist functionality by integrating the correct dashboard header, fixing username rendering, correcting amenities list styling, raising and linking related pull requests, creating and fixing an applicant reason distribution pie chart, resolving merge conflicts through rebasing, addressing dark mode issues, developing a grouped bar chart for issues created versus resolved, resolving failing checks, and implementing requested changes on a prior pull request. Visit the Highest Good Society and Highest Good Network pages for more on how this work supports comprehensive and sustainable global reinvention through open-source development and globally accessible resources. The collage below illustrates the team’s work and accomplishments for the week:

REACTONAUTS SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT TEAM

The Reactonauts team summary was managed by Diya Wadhwani (Software Developer) and Iteesha Vishalakshi Aswath (Technical Program Manager), and it includes Aseem Deshmukh (Software Developer), Guna Pranith Reddy Cheelam (Software Developer), Kristin Dingchuan Hu (Software Engineer), Peterson Rodrigues dos Santos (Full Stack Developer), Siva Putti (Software Engineer), Sri Satya Venkatasai Siri Sudheeksha Vavila (Software Engineer), and Suparshwa Patil (Software Engineer). The Highest Good Network software helps manage and objectively measure progress by focusing on advancing comprehensive and sustainable global reinvention. It supports social architecture, construction, production, and maintenance processes to build sustainable and thriving ecosystems.

This week, Aseem updated multiple pull requests by adjusting tooltip sizing for improved chart readability in PR4354 and adding logic in PR4426 to prevent users from selecting future end dates through both the date picker and manual entry, then shared progress with Jae and pushed all changes to GitHub. Diya validated the full user status lifecycle from the User Profile page, including activation, immediate deactivation, scheduling a final day cancellation, and reactivation flows, refactored hook-based helpers to work within the User Management page’s class-based architecture and routed actions through unified dispatch utilities. This strengthens the foundation for comprehensive and sustainable global reinvention through free-sharing and open standards.

She resolved issues with premature execution and missing popup context, completed end-to-end testing to confirm unified endpoint usage, and correct cron job behavior for final-day calculations and notifications and restored email sending across all status actions. Diya also raised and merged PRs 2021 and 4767 after fixing CI failures, and resolved a login page UI issue in PR4774. The progress made this week contributes to our long-term goal of advancing comprehensive and sustainable global reinvention.

Guna continued refining the listings home page frontend by addressing remaining review notes for PR3999, focusing on image GET request error fixes and consistent tab heading behavior, while advancing Phase 3 Re-Engagement Strategies by investigating a ‘page not found’ issue affecting the log attendance route in the development environment. Kristin resolved merge conflicts for PR4589, implemented an organizer-based dropdown menu on the Event Participation page with aligned styling and updated mock data for testing. She also identified and debugged an issue with upcoming events being filtered out due to past-dated mock entries. This work supports advancing comprehensive and sustainable global reinvention through open source software.

Peterson improved the Projects page user filter experience by adding visual feedback through background color changes on the active All and Find buttons. Siva added a dynamic Community Portal Activity Agenda page with full event detail rendering and corrected loading and no-data state handling in PR4434, restored routing and integrated the comments page with the FAQs API in PR4553, and resolved merge conflicts related to Engagement page dark mode work in PR4467. This work plays an important role in advancing comprehensive and sustainable global reinvention through coordinated, real-world implementation.

Sudheeksha implemented dark mode styles for the HGN Skills page, troubleshooting and resolving pull request errors over multiple sessions before successfully raising the PR. Suparshwa refined the chatbot prompt to restrict responses to provided documentation and began developing an orchestration layer to persist and retrieve conversational memory to maintain accurate context across sessions. See the Highest Good Network and Highest Good Society pages to learn more about how this work supports advancing comprehensive and sustainable global reinvention. Below is the picture collage of the work done by the Reactonauts team towards advancing comprehensive and sustainable global reinvention.

SKYE SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT TEAM

The Skye Team’s summary, covering their work on the Highest Good Network, was managed by Sayantan Paul (Frontend Tester and Software Team Administrator) and Anthony Weathers (Software Engineer). The team includes Marcus Yi (Software Engineer) and Swathi Angadi (Software Engineer). The Highest Good Network software objectively tracks and manages progress, supports social architecture, construction, production, and maintenance processes that foster sustainable and thriving ecosystems, while advancing comprehensive and sustainable global reinvention through systems designed for transparency, scalability, and shared improvement.

This week, Marcus collaborated with fellow software developers to clarify reviewer testing requirements for his pull request, including expectations around local setup and validation workflows. Through these discussions, he helped successfully configure one reviewer’s environment so testing could move forward, while another setup remained unresolved and pending follow-up. Marcus also aligned with reviewers on the scope and status of testing completed to date, documenting progress and confirming that no code changes were made during this period due to incomplete reviewer readiness. In parallel, he provided guidance to support testing of related frontend and backend functionality for Facebook post uploads, clarifying instructions and troubleshooting reported issues such as reconnection failures, inconsistent connection status messaging, scheduled posts not executing, and questions around whether post history visibility should be user specific. This progress reflects continued momentum in promoting comprehensive and sustainable global reinvention through open, collaborative development.

Swathi worked on the edit functionality and the view update history feature on the Consumables page, ensuring that users can modify data and view change history as expected. She generalized both backend and frontend logic to support materials and consumables through shared implementations, reducing code duplication and improving maintainability. She fixed dark mode issues on the Consumables page to ensure consistent appearance across themes. She also resolved errors in test files and module.css files that occurred during the merge process, addressing build and styling issues. In addition, she tested multiple edge case scenarios related to the updated functionality and applied fixes where issues were identified. This effort facilitates comprehensive and sustainable global reinvention through consistent, actionable development practices.

By addressing these challenges, the Skye team’s work reinforces long-term stability in stewardship tracking features and fosters comprehensive and sustainable global reinvention by strengthening scalable, transparent systems within the broader Highest Good Network (HGN) infrastructure. See the Highest Good Society and Highest Good Network pages for more on how this contribution aligns with One Community’s goals by encouraging comprehensive and sustainable global reinvention within the Highest Good Network open source hub. See the collage below for the team’s work.

SOFTWARE PR REVIEW TEAM A-N

The PR Review Team’s summary for members with names starting A–N, managed by Neeharika Kamireddy (Data Analyst), highlights their contributions to the Highest Good Network software. This platform forms the foundation for measuring our results in advancing comprehensive and sustainable global reinvention. Active team members included Abdelmounaim Lallouache (Software Developer), Carl Bebli (Software Developer), Julia Ha (Software Engineer), Maithili Kalkar (Software Engineer), and Nathan Hoffman (Software Engineer). They supported the project by reviewing all pull requests shared this week. Learn more about how the Highest Good Network tracks progress toward advancing comprehensive and sustainable global reinvention in the Highest Good Network open source hub. The collage below showcases a compilation of this team’s work.

SOFTWARE PR REVIEW TEAM O-Z

The PR Review Team’s summary for members with names starting with O–Z was managed by Shameera Musthafa (Data Analyst). The Highest Good Network is a foundation for measuring our results in developing comprehensive and sustainable global reinvention. This week’s active members of this team were Rohan Rastogi (Software Engineer), Roshini Seelamsetty (Software Engineer), Sai Teja Kaasoju (Software Engineer), Sayali Sable (Software Engineer), Sundar Machani (Software Engineer), and Yiyun Tan (Software Engineer). They reviewed all the Highest Good Network PRs (Pull Requests) shared in this week’s update. Learn more about how the Highest Good Network open-source hub measures progress towards our goal of developing comprehensive and sustainable global reinvention. The collage below shows a compilation of the work from this team.

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Sayantan is a computer science graduate from Texas A&M University–Kingsville with a background in deep learning and generative AI. Through his academic research, he developed analytical and testing skills by designing validation methodologies and evaluating experimental results. As a member of the One Community team, Sayantan contributed to software development efforts by supporting a development team’s workflow and monitoring progress to support timely delivery. He contributed to the Application and Jobs Posting component by testing features, documenting defects, and confirming their resolution to support quality standards within the Highest Good Network software.

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At One Community, we are developing DIY sustainable construction models as part of a larger open source framework for building resilient and regenerative communities. Created by an all-volunteer team, our solutions integrate housing with food, energy, housing, education, economics, and social architecture, all free-shared to support global replication. Designed to evolve into a network of teacher/demonstration hubs, this work promotes fulfilled living, planetary regeneration, and a world that works for everyone, always guided by The Highest Good of All.

• Here’s our project overview
• Here’s our world-change methodology
  
• Here’s how this becomes self-replicating
• Here’s how we are open source and free-sharing all the do-it-yourself designs

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One Community’s physical location will forward this movement as the first of many self-replicating teacher/demonstration communities, villages, and cities to be built around the world. This is the January 26, 2026 edition (#671) of our weekly progress update detailing our team’s development and accomplishments:

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HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING PROGRESS

One Community is developing DIY sustainable construction models 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 DIY Sustainable Construction Models: 7 Sustainable Village Models
    • Visit the open source portals for the first two: Earthbag Village OS Hub | Straw Bale Village OS Hub

This week, Fangting Xu (Interior Design Intern) continued working with ADA codes related to building connections for the ADA 3-dome cluster of the Earthbag Village. She wrote and refined the building elevations, sections, wall sections, and construction details for the 3-dome cluster ADA project. Fangting exported the drawings from the SketchUp model and discovered scale inconsistencies caused by the model being exported in an incorrect camera projection, requiring careful rescaling in AutoCAD to ensure dimensional accuracy and code-compliant documentation. Her attention to precision strengthens DIY sustainable construction models through accessible and compliant design documentation. Below, you’ll find some images of this work.

Iteesha Vishalakshi Aswath (Technical Program Manager) worked on the open source Climate Battery design cost analysis by updating and expanding the Google sheet template to match the current project structure and planning requirements. She revised the README sheet to clarify its purpose, scope, and use for cost estimation and construction planning. The Summary sheet was updated with project information, component listings, and cost rollup structures, while the Assumptions sheet was created to document design, pricing, and scope considerations. Line items were organized across materials, excavation, insulation, airflow, controls, and sensors, with defined units, quantities, costs, and references. In parallel, Iteesha collaborated with a general contractor to refine layout, formatting, and usability based on real-world construction workflows. Her work supports DIY sustainable construction models by making cost planning transparent and replicable. Below, you’ll find some images of this work.

Kaustubh Kadam (Construction Engineering and Management Professional) continued working on the Highest Good housing project by updating the cost estimate templates based on Jae’s feedback. This included adjusting the color coding to better match the reference format, adding clear example references in the detailed estimate lines so non-industry users understand what to enter, and correcting formula issues that were causing errors and incorrect rollups. He also cleaned up the layout and formatting to improve readability and presentation, contributing to DIY sustainable construction models by simplifying construction cost estimation for broader use. Below are some images showcasing this work.

Malhar Solanki (Mechanical Engineer) continued working on the Vermiculture Toilet component of the Earthbag Village. He attended the weekly mechanical team meeting to monitor progress, discussed obstacles, and evaluated FEA results. Malhar updated the Bill of Materials with final adjustments and pricing data. Because FEA analysis showed that AL 6061 was unsuitable for the application, he identified a different material and updated the BOM. He added technical content and images to the dumping assembly section of the report. The report now includes three types of FEA analyses to justify the material selection. His contributions reinforce DIY sustainable construction models through evidence-based engineering decisions. Review the latest updates in the images below.

Rishi Chakrapani (Mechanical Engineer) continued working on the Vermiculture Toilet. He completed his section of the signoff on the Bill of Materials for the dumping mechanism and the main unistrut structure, with verification that all listed parts, including fixtures, were properly identified, sourced, quoted, and available. The reports for the sensor selection and analysis, as well as the manual winch and drawer stress analysis, were also completed and prepared for inclusion in the project documentation. His validation work supports DIY sustainable construction models by ensuring reliability and build-readiness. Visual examples from his work are presented below.

Sai Bhuvanesh Nandipati (Mechanical Engineer) continued working on the Earthbag Village by reviewing the CAD drawings and correlating the geometric and layout information with the water management calculations provided in the Excel file. He focused on aligning drainage paths, flow lengths, and surface characteristics shown in the drawings with the assumptions used in the calculations. In parallel, Sai updated the existing simulation setup by introducing an appropriate turbulence model into the sheet flow analysis to better represent flow behavior under the defined conditions. This work supports the development of DIY sustainable construction models. See below for some of the pictures related to this work.

DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER PROGRESS

One Community is developing DIY sustainable construction models 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 and it’s function and DIY Sustainable Construction Models: Duplicable City Center Open Source Hub

This week, Ariana Virginia Gutierrez Doria Medina (Industrial Designer) continued working on the Duplicable City Center window and door framing by researching insulation materials to inform material selection and compatibility with the current design. In parallel, the support structure was modified to address fit and stability requirements identified during development activities. The 3D CAD design was updated to reflect the structural changes and the selected insulation approach, ensuring alignment between components. The updated CAD model serves as a reference for defining cut layouts, estimating material and fabrication costs, and preparing assembly instructions, allowing the design to be used consistently across planning and fabrication tasks. This open-source Duplicable City Center project is dedicated to developing DIY sustainable construction models. Please see the illustration below for more specific information.

Bevan Chiu (Mechanical Engineer) continued his work on the City Center Eco-spa Designs. He worked on developing the Bill of Materials for the spa assembly, focusing on both layout definition and material quantification. The cinder block assembly was rearranged to accommodate R30 rockwool insulation that is currently available in the market. To support the Bill of Materials, Bevan created drawings that documented the layout and identified each component with corresponding quantities. In parallel, he prepared an Excel spreadsheet to calculate material quantities and costs, including detailed calculations for items such as rebar and other construction materials required for the assembly. This open source Duplicable City Center project is currently developing DIY sustainable construction models. For more details, refer to the image below.

Shivarama Krishna Revanuru (Mechanical Engineer) continued working on the Duplicable City Center design. He focused on finite element analysis of the pulley holder and carabiner, including cost analysis and material selection. Discussions were held with a teammate regarding the FEA results and cost considerations. In addition, structural load analysis for both the pulley holder and carabiner was started, and preliminary calculations were performed to determine load distribution and identify critical points for further evaluation. This open source Duplicable City Center project is developing DIY sustainable construction models. The images below illustrate aspects of this work.

Shreyas Nagaraj (Design Engineer) made more updates to the City Center Dome Hub Connector Engineering and beams for the Duplicable City Center. He spent his hours on the Duplicable City Center project, focusing on setting up and verifying finite element analyses for the dome assembly under multiple load conditions. He set up the analysis environment in Inventor and checked the dome assembly model across various load cases, ensuring all relevant loads were considered. Additionally, Shreyas continued performing finite element analysis checks under different load conditions to validate the model’s structural behavior. This open source Duplicable City Center project focused on developing DIY sustainable construction models. For more details, refer to the image below.

HIGHEST GOOD FOOD PROGRESS

One Community is developing DIY sustainable construction models 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 DIY sustainable construction models: Hoop House Hub | Aquapini & Walipini Open Source Hub
    • See what we’ll be growing: Gardens & Hoop Houses | Large-scale Structures | Food Forest | TA

This week, the core team continued working on the Master Tools, Equipment, and Materials and Supplies List for the Large-scale Garden, Botanical Garden, and other Highest Good Food components. The team completed the Master Document comparisons for the Automotive Shop (ASHP), General Storage & Inventory (GSI), Metal Shop (MSHP), and Wood Shop (WSHP). All entries within these sections were alphabetized for improved organization. Additionally, descriptive paragraphs were developed for various tools, including general purpose and multi-use items, incidental tools for both metalworking and woodworking, automotive incidental tools, safety and organizational tools, and drywall tools such as the mud pan, hawk, taping knife, banjo, and automatic taper. The Highest Good Food initiative is a key component of One Community’s open source plans, focused on DIY sustainable construction models and exemplifying the organization’s commitment through innovative design and implementation. Below are some images showcasing this work.

Chelsea Mariah Stellmach (Project Manager) continued working on the Transition Food Self-sufficiency food and inventory tracking software plans. She addressed technical issues affecting the project while managing the onboarding of several new software developers. The addition of new developers enabled broader testing of Bhanu’s work and increased visibility into existing code, while also creating some uncertainty regarding task ownership and the delegation of work within the team. Chelsea worked to clarify roles, responsibilities, and expectations to reduce overlap and confusion. Throughout the week, she focused on identifying and resolving blockers as they arose, coordinating with team members to address questions and align next steps, with the goal of maintaining steady progress and avoiding disruptions to the software development workflow. As an essential aspect of One Community’s open source goals, the Highest Good Food initiative supports open sourcing DIY sustainable construction models. The following images provide a view of her contributions.

Japneet Kour (Volunteer Architect) continued contributing to the Highest Good Food initiative. She worked on updating the SketchUp model of the Walipini 3 tropical house, focusing on design changes that included adding more people, expanding outdoor spaces, incorporating greater diversity within the scene, adding a table as part of the layout, and integrating all updated SketchUp renders into the project document. The Highest Good Food initiative is a key part of One Community’s open source platform, focused on sustainable and participatory development while supporting DIY sustainable construction models. Visual examples from her work are presented below.

Jay Nair (BIM Designer) continued developing the Aquapini and Walipini Planting and Harvesting documents. Jay worked on completing the missing data required for the standardization of the lighting energy calculations for Walipini 1. The effort involved reviewing calculation sections, filling in incomplete values, verifying consistency across inputs, and ensuring the information aligned with the established documentation format. These updates were made to support clarity, accuracy, and consistency within the lighting energy calculation document. The Highest Good Food initiative is a key part of One Community’s open-source platform, focused on sustainable and participatory development and the open sourcing of DIY sustainable construction models. See below for pictures related to this work.

Nitin Parate (Architect) continued contributing to the Aquapini and Walipini renders and layout graphics. The work focused on developing the axonometric drawing of the Zen Aquapini. Updates were made to improve clarity, alignment, and overall layout while maintaining the design intent. Attention was given to detailing roof members, glazing, and structural elements, and this information was incorporated into the axonometric view. The drawings were refined by improving line work, colors, and layout to make them easier to read and understand. Explanatory text was added to describe key elements, materials, and systems. Sectional drawings were also prepared to show construction details, levels, and internal connections between different parts of the design. The Highest Good Food initiative is a key part of One Community’s open source platform, promoting regenerative and participatory development while supporting DIY sustainable construction models. Images below showcase his contributions.

Pallavi Deshmukh (Software Engineer) continued working on the Aquapini and Walipini Planting and Harvesting web details. She continued adding Walipini 1 content based on Gayatri Pandkar’s work, making updates in response to feedback from Jae, including editing and incorporating revised images. Pallavi also added a table of contents for the Zenapini section to improve structure and navigation. In addition, Jae assigned her a new web page focused on integrating all related content for the Aquahaven Southwest Area web design, and Pallavi began organizing and preparing the materials needed for this integration work. The Highest Good Food project integrates DIY sustainable construction models into a larger vision of regenerative living. Her contributions are highlighted in the collage below.

Shivangi Varma (Architectural Designer and Planner) continued the redesign of the Highest Good Food overall presentation, currently focused on the Aquapini and Walipini masterplan render. She detailed the Aquapini feature graphics for the Differences diagram and edited the distinctions between Aquapini, Walipini, and Zenipini. She also coordinated with the architect volunteer to align on the outstanding graphics needed for the Open Source Hub page. The Highest Good Food initiative plays a leading role in One Community’s open source platform by promoting sustainable and participatory development, focused on DIY sustainable construction models. Below are visuals highlighting this work.

HIGHEST GOOD ENERGY PROGRESS

One Community is developing DIY sustainable construction models 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: Solar, Hydro, and Wind
    • Explore our research into the most sustainable products and companies for saving water and energy and DIY Sustainable Construction Models: Insulation, Eco-laundry, Lightbulbs and Light Bulb Companies, Doors and Door Companies, Windows and Window Companies, Toilets, Faucets and Faucet Accessories, Urinals, and more.

This week, the core team continued contributing to the Highest Good Energy initiative. The core team reviewed and corrected the financial documents attached to the business plan, examined the earthbag village dome construction documents, and began drafting questions for Michaela based on that review. They made formatting changes to Ayushman’s future work instructions to improve clarity and consistency, and compared the six-dome earthbag construction documents with the four-dome example to identify differences and areas requiring attention. The Highest Good Energy initiative plays a leading role in One Community’s open source platform by promoting sustainable and participatory development, focused on DIY sustainable construction models. Below are images related to this project.

HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION PROGRESS

One Community is developing DIY sustainable construction models 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 and DIY Sustainable Construction Models: Education Open Source Hub
• How the components work together in designing human orchestrated eco-abundance: 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

HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY PROGRESS

One Community is developing DIY sustainable construction models through a Highest Good society approach to living that is founded on fulfilled living, the study of meeting human needs, Community, and making a difference in the world:

• • • Read the Highest Good society overview and DIY Sustainable Construction Models: Highest Good Society
    • Learn about the model for fulfilled living and sharing: A Day in the Life
    • Learn about the 4 economic models: RBE | For-profit | Non-profit | Entrepreneurship
    • Learn about our open source community collaboration and management software: The Highest Good Network

This week, the core team completed over 44 hours managing volunteer work reviews, handling emails, overseeing social media accounts, supporting web development, and identifying and integrating bug fixes for the Highest Good Network. The team also interviewed and onboarded new volunteer team members. Additionally, they produced and integrated the video above, which highlights how DIY sustainable construction models serve as a foundational element of One Community’s broader mission. The following images showcase highlights of this work.

Jaiwanth Reddy Adavalli (Project Manager) continued developing the Job Applicants page and key components of the Highest Good Network. He tested multiple pull requests of components in various parts of the HGN Software. He created action items for the HGN Phase 1 Software. He tracked updates in software team management documents to support task management. As a member of the pull request review team, he reviewed submissions from the volunteer team assigned to him. This work supports One Community’s commitment to DIY sustainable construction models. The images below highlight his contributions.

Pooja Kulkarni (UI/UX Designer) continued working on UX and UI design of the Highest Good Network. She focused on designing and refining a governance platform experience, creating a complete set of mid-fidelity wireframes that cover the end-to-end lifecycle of community decision-making. She designed the core dashboard to surface active proposals, participation metrics, voting power, announcements, and recent activity, ensuring information hierarchy and clarity for frequent users. Pooja also designed the proposal creation flow as a multi-step process, including purpose definition, implementation planning, budgeting, risks, and accountability, with clear progress indicators and form guidance to reduce cognitive load. Additional work included proposal review and voting screens that display proposal details, timelines, expected impact, real-time participation data, voting actions, and confirmation states after a vote is submitted. This work supports developing DIY sustainable construction models.

She designed analytics views to visualize community engagement trends, proposal distribution, delegation status, and contributor activity. Supporting screens such as login, governance education, and a process flow walkthrough were also created to help onboard users and explain how decisions move from discussion to voting. Across all screens, Pooja emphasized consistency in layout, typography, spacing, and component usage to support usability and scalability of the system. This project supports One Community’s commitment to DIY sustainable construction models. The images below highlight key aspects of her work.

Rajrajeshwari Gangadhar Sangolli (Data Analyst) continued working on Google Ads management and strategy evolution of the Highest Good Network. She completed administrative work for the Highest Good Food and Highest Good Energy volunteers and reviewed work submitted by other volunteers by adding comments and checking all required parts. She worked on understanding Deliverable 2 by identifying possible tasks to add and discussed these ideas with Prudhvi to confirm what could be included. Rajrajeshwari read through the document for the listing and bidding platform, checked for errors, reviewed merged comments, and replied to comments that required responses. She rechecked administrative work and explained the process and expectations to Shreya in detail to ensure clarity and consistency. She completed the review of Manish’s work and left clear and structured comments so that the feedback could be easily understood and applied. Rajrajeshwari also created a document for Shreya and future AdWords team members to follow, providing guidance to help them understand workflows and maintain consistency in their work. This project supports One Community’s commitment to demonstrating DIY sustainable construction models. The images below highlight key aspects of her work.

ADMINISTRATION TEAM

The Administration Team’s summary, which covers their work on the Highest Good Network, was managed by Prudhvi Marpina (Data Analyst) and includes Anusha Gali (Software Engineer), Ashutosh Mishra (Software Engineer), Divanshu Bakshi (Team Admin), Keerthana Chitturi (System Administrator), Leo Lishin Shiu (Software Engineer), Manish Kanuri (Data Scientist), Mridul Bhushan (Volunteer Project Strategy Analyst and Team Administrator), Neeharika Kamireddy (Data Analyst), Olawunmi “Ola” Ijisesan (Administrative and Management Support), Olimpia Borgohain (Data Analyst and Team Administrator), Priyanshi Sharma (Data Analyst and Team Administrator), Rachna Malav (Data Analyst), Rajeshwari Bhirud (Administrator), Rishitha Adepu (Administrator), Sayantan Paul (Frontend Tester and Software Team Administrator), Shreya Shetty (Data Analyst), and Sudarshan Raju Chintalapati Venkata (Data Analyst). The Administration Team supports the Highest Good Network, a tool designed to track and measure progress while developing systems that contribute to developing DIY sustainable construction models. Through administrative support, documentation, testing, training, recruiting, 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, Anusha completed Level 2 Software Testing and QA for HGN Software Development, handling 45 pull requests across approvals, change requests, and re-reviews while identifying UI, responsiveness, functionality, and regression issues. She also covered administrative duties by reviewing submissions, creating image collages, editing summaries, updating tracking documents, and reviewing admin blog posts with structured feedback. Ashutosh tested Chatbot UI front-end changes, validating light and dark modes, preparing the Team Dev Dynasty report, and building reusable components. He also redesigned video and audio workflows after technical analysis and explored a CLIP- and Whisper-based proof of concept. Divanshu managed the end-to-end Mastodon content workflow, publishing and monitoring four daily posts while maintaining brand standards. He also built a Python automation to normalize analytics data and integrated it into the reporting dashboard. Together, these efforts support developing DIY sustainable construction models.

Keerthana handled administrative responsibilities by reviewing summaries, updating Step 2 and Step 4 tracking documents, reviewing new admins’ work, and preparing the weekly blog. She also added action items to Phase 3 documentation for follow-up. Leo audited weekly summaries for compliance, combined approved content into a team blog, and created aligned photo collages. He also organized and analyzed social media datasets across platforms to identify engagement trends. Manish coordinated team documentation by consolidating summaries, maintaining tracking tables, and updating the WordPress blog while ensuring formatting, accessibility, and SEO compliance. Mridul coordinated Moonfall team deliverables for Weekly Progress Update #670, resolving missing submissions and ensuring consistency across reporting artifacts. He also managed Twitter/X analytics, scheduled posts through January 31, 2026, and reviewed dry-run admin work. This coordinated administrative and publishing work advances developing DIY sustainable construction models.

Neeharika reviewed task assignments, followed up on progress, tested pull requests in development, and reported findings. She also verified updated PDFs, reviewed admin work, conducted an interview, and shared outcomes with leadership. Ola updated Pinterest analytics, transferred CSV data into the KPI dashboard, monitored engagement metrics, organized admin folders, and submitted the weekly report with images. Olimpia updated LinkedIn analytics KPIs, reviewed volunteer documentation as part of her senior admin role, resolved prior admin comments, and scheduled posts for the upcoming week. Priyanshi continued Phase 2 page-by-page testing of HGN dashboards, identifying visualization, filter, and execution issues across light and dark modes and documenting findings for follow-up. This work helps advance developing DIY sustainable construction models.

Rachna revisited prior tasks, emails, comments, and reviewed One Community webpages and SEO pages, with no hiring work completed this week. Rishitha served as weekly content administrator by combining blogs, applying SEO updates, managing bio administration, maintaining Threads engagement, and updating dashboards and trackers. Sayantan completed Level 1 and Level 2 software testing across multiple portals, validating charts, filters, exports, and indicators while documenting issues and reviewing new joiner training work. Shreya completed weekly reporting and blog training tasks by editing summaries, creating image collages, managing WordPress updates, and ensuring publishing compliance. Sudarshan managed Alpha Software Team blog updates, applied SEO improvements, reviewed and tested multiple pull requests, and created tasks to address bugs and inconsistencies. To learn more about how this work supports developing DIY sustainable construction models, visit the Highest Good Society and Highest Good Network pages. Highlights of the team’s contributions are shown in the collage below.

GRAPHIC DESIGN TEAM

The Graphic Design Team’s summary includes Qinyi Liu (Graphic Designer) and Yulin Li (Graphic Designer), who focused this week on creating graphic designs that support DIY sustainable construction models.

This week, Qinyi worked on marketing and promotion tasks, including social media and website visuals using a game character style, with content related to DIY sustainable construction models. She created and reused character assets, updated bio and announcement images, and refined posters to improve clarity and consistency across platforms. Yulin focused on visual communication, creating infographics related to DIY sustainable construction models, publishing a team collaboration announcement, maintaining assets in Dropbox, and participating in weekly reviews. Their efforts highlight DIY sustainable construction models. See the Highest Good Society pages and the collage below for examples of their work.

HIGHEST GOOD NETWORK PROGRESS

One Community is developing DIY sustainable construction models through open source Highest Good Network^® software that is a web-based application for collaboration, time tracking, and objective data collection. The purpose of the Highest Good Network is to provide software for internal operations and external cooperation. It is being designed for global use in support of the different countries and communities replicating the One Community sustainable village models and related components.

• Learn about our open source community collaboration and management software and DIY Sustainable Construction Models: The Highest Good Network

This week, the core team tested Highest Good Network pull requests and confirmed 11 as fixed. This effort highlights One Community’s commitment demonstrating DIY sustainable construction models.

The following PRs were not fixed: implementation of the community members list, fixes to the Volunteer Status pie chart in the Total Organization Summary, the issue preventing visibility or assignment of members to newly created teams, the horizontal bar graph comparing role competitiveness on the Job Posting Page Analytics, dark mode issues in the Total Organization Summary dashboard, and the warning prompt for users before refreshing or navigating away from the application form template on the Application and Job Posting pages. They were also not able to test several PRs due to the absence of data on the Main branch, including fixes for chart legend visibility and dark mode theming on rental cost and related report charts, the addition of a dedicated search button or icon for improved usability in Phase 3, and the multi-category selection feature for job filtering on the Job Posting Page. This work strengthens One Community’s mission of demonstrating DIY sustainable construction models. See the Highest Good Society and The Highest Good Network pages, and the collage below, for an overview of the team’s contributions.

ALPHA SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT TEAM

The Alpha Software Team, working on the Highest Good Network software, was managed by Lin Khant Htel (Frontend Software Developer). The team includes Casstiel Pi (Software Engineer). The Highest Good Network software is a key part of sustainable and free-shared eco-solutions, helping track and measure progress toward DIY sustainable construction models. The software supports social architecture, construction, production, and maintenance processes that contribute to the open source project and resilient ecosystems. Designed to be portable and scalable, the Highest Good Network software is well suited for off-grid and sustainable living communities. This project reflects One Community’s open source commitment to DIY sustainable construction models.

This week, Lin reviewed PR #1873 by checking the code, testing it on a local machine, and confirming that all tests passed, then reviewed weekly summaries, photos, and videos submitted by Alpha team members and handled routine management responsibilities for the Alpha Team. Casstiel continued work on the task to add a new card for the issue chart related to material consumption, tested new frontend logic on the local server, and added a new prop variable, variant, to address a rendering issue. During testing, it was identified that the graph needs to be placed inside the card component for proper functionality. Work continued toward resolving the existing task related to the multi-select filter solutions. See the Highest Good Society and Highest Good Network pages for more on how this contributed to DIY sustainable construction models. See the collage below to view the team’s work.

BINARY BRIGADE SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT TEAM

The Binary Brigade Team, presenting their work on the Highest Good Network software, was managed by Amalesh Arivanan (Software Engineer) and included Taariq Mansurie (Full-Stack Developer), Aswin “Tony” Kanikairaj (Software Engineer), Ramsundar Konety Govindarajan (Software Engineer), Harsha Rudhraraju (Software Engineer), and Nikhil Routh (Software Engineer). The Highest Good Network software is our tool for managing and objectively measuring progress, ensuring that all contributions are tracked and aligned with our mission while modeling and developing DIY sustainable construction models. It supports social architecture, construction, production, and maintenance processes that contribute to open-source projects and resilient, sustainable ecosystems.

This week, Amalesh worked on “Phase 1 Bugs: Fix PR3940 and PR1676” by fixing dark mode styling issues on the Badge Management landing page, where text was unreadable or inconsistent. He validated the changes in both light and dark themes, documented results with screenshots and videos using the required naming conventions, tracked time in the HGN timer, and completed onboarding steps to keep access to tools and documentation. Aswin updated the Post-Event Feedback Follow-Up Email template preview UI by adding a clear subject line and preview text, inserting placeholders for event name and date, converting the survey link into a “Complete Survey” button with a “Takes less than 2 minutes” helper note, grouping secondary actions into an “Other options” section to reduce conflicting calls to action, keeping footer content concise while retaining legal language and adding an unsubscribe option, and improving styling for better scannability and accessibility. This progress contributes to developing DIY sustainable construction models.

Ramsundar fixed the Member Group Check-In search bug by adding safety checks to the member filtering logic to handle missing user fields and team name data. He skipped members without valid user data and filtered again before rendering to ensure only members with valid user IDs are shown. He updated empty-state messaging to distinguish between no matches and no assigned members and opened pull requests 2017 and 4760, which also include work related to the dashboard task deletion “X” button behavior. Taariq advanced the archived projects feature by fixing a blocking bug, rewriting parts of the implementation to stabilize undo and unarchive actions, validating the behavior, and submitting code for peer review. He also made progress on the filter color refresh work by fixing regressions in the team codes dropdown, resolving repeated merge conflicts while aligning changes across branches, switching between frontend and backend branches to address caching issues and coverage test failures, and keeping active branches synchronized for merge readiness. These updates support developing DIY sustainable construction models.

Nikhil completed his handover work by resolving conflicts in previous open pull requests and submitting them for review. He produced documentation for mapping CSS modules to the related components and their pull requests. Harshavarma expanded filtering support by adding day-level filtering alongside existing weekly and monthly views. He fixed edge cases where filter state updates caused inconsistencies between list and card views, added dark mode styling for filters, improved responsiveness so that filters, cards, and lists adapt across different screen sizes, implemented and tested Today, This Week, and This Month filters, including handling date boundaries, empty states, and immediate UI updates. He cleaned up filter-related code for better readability and maintainability and tested filters like applying, clearing, and switching to confirm stable rendering and predictable behavior in both light and dark modes. See the Highest Good Society and Highest Good Network pages for more information on how this works in developing DIY sustainable construction models. The collage below shows images of their work.

BLUE STEEL SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT TEAM

The Blue Steel Software Team, working on the Highest Good Network software, was managed by Divanshu Bakshi (Product Manager) and includes Linh Huynh (Software Engineer), Som Ramnani (Software Engineer), and Sheetal Mangate (Software Engineer). This week Som worked on PR #4428 by updating the “Ending After” date filter to use a modular CSS approach, refactoring styles into clearly scoped and reusable classes, and adjusting layout and spacing with flexbox to ensure proper alignment of the DatePicker. As part of the DIY sustainable construction models initiative, he focused on validating placeholder behavior between native date inputs and the DatePicker component, ensuring validation error messaging displayed correctly beneath the field, and also revisited PR #4215 related to saving featured badges on the profile page by resolving extensive merge conflicts caused by branch divergence. This involved addressing a large number of yarn.lock conflicts by resetting it to match the development branch, reviewing dependency differences, reconciling configuration changes, and aligning the branch with the latest development updates to restore build stability.

Linh focused on front-end enhancements for the BM Dashboard Materials page by implementing Materials Usage Insights and visual indicators to improve visibility into stock health and material consumption within the DIY sustainable construction models framework. This included reviewing requirements and acceptance criteria, analyzing the existing Materials table, and defining front-end calculation logic for stock health based on Available versus Bought and usage percentage based on Used versus Bought with edge case handling and value formatting. To enhance the user experience for DIY sustainable construction models, he added new table columns with color-coded stock health indicators, usage percentage progress bars, and explanatory tooltips, while also planning and scoping a summary panel above the table with aggregated metrics derived from the displayed dataset, validating layout behavior for responsiveness and dark mode, and preparing a front-end pull request.

Sheetal managed this week’s summary and worked on identity and access management integration by creating an Auth0 account, configuring a Single Page Application aligned with the existing Okta-based authentication approach, initiating authentication integration for the social media module through branch creation and management, resolving merge conflicts with the autoposter branch, beginning front-end integration of the Auth0Provider for React, attempting installation and configuration of the Auth0 React SDK, and investigating an undefined dependency issue that prevented the authentication setup from functioning as expected, supporting scalable platform foundations that align with data transparency and tooling needs used across DIY sustainable construction models. Supporting images of the related work are provided below.

CODE CRAFTERS SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT TEAM

The Code Crafters Team, covering their work on the Highest Good Network software, was managed by Vivek Chandra Bengaluru Suresh (Software Engineer) and includes Ajay Naidu (Software Engineer), Akshith Kumar Reddy Balappagari Gnaneswara (Software Engineer – Full Stack), Bhanu Anish Akkineni (Software Engineer), Chaitanya Swaroop Kumar Allu (Software Engineer), Shreya Padaganur (Software Engineer) and Sphurthy Satish (Software Engineer). The Highest Good Network software manages and objectively measures progress in DIY sustainable construction models by coordinating social architecture, construction, production, and maintenance efforts. It pioneers a prototype solution engine for global challenges and enables scalable, long-term access to regenerative lifestyles worldwide.

This week, Ajay reviewed reviewer suggestions, implemented the requested updates, and fixed a routing issue that affected navigation flows while improving dark mode behavior across application modals. He applied a consistent dark theme on the weekly report page, corrected font colors for readability, and ensured inputs, dropdowns, and related controls render with proper contrast. He standardized styling for form elements within modals, addressed cases where theme variables were not applied, and verified hover, focus, and disabled states appear as expected. He checked that layout, spacing, and typography remain stable when switching themes and that interactions do not introduce visual shifts. He published updated branches for review, requested re-review where changes had been requested, and confirmed that the revisions align with existing patterns. He also validated that the changes work across common scenarios and that the code integrates with current components without regressions. These efforts reflect One Community’s goal of developing DIY sustainable construction models.

Akshith worked on Phase 3 improvement tasks, including adding fuzzy search and typo tolerance for event searches, implementing typo tolerance for type and location searches in the activity list, fixing radio button and checkbox alignment mismatches, and updating date selection in the search filter. He created a new utility function to handle typos in search queries and updated the community portal date filter to display events based on the selected date. He also made UI adjustments to align buttons and checkboxes according to the Figma design specifications. The progress shown here reflects continued advancement toward the DIY sustainable construction models through coordinated social architecture supported by documented actions.

Bhanu worked on building API endpoints to add, update, and retrieve items from the kitchen inventory system. He created the KIInventoryItem model to support a new collection in the MongoDB database and implemented the required routes and endpoints for inventory operations. This included an endpoint to add new items to the inventory, endpoints to retrieve all items and retrieve items by category for display in the appropriate tabs, and an endpoint to retrieve preserved items by filtering ingredients with an expiry date greater than or equal to one year from the current date. He also implemented update endpoints to adjust stock based on usage, add new stock quantities, and update harvest-related details. He tested all endpoints with sample data using Postman to verify expected behavior and then raised a pull request to merge the working branch into the development branch. This progress supports One Community’s long-term goal of developing DIY sustainable construction models.

Chaitanya focused on advancing Phase 2 of the Workforce Skill-Gap dashboard within the Highest Good Network application. He reviewed the requirements and design specifications, set up the WorkforceSkillGap component structure, and implemented a Recharts-based bar chart within the Weekly Project Summary module. He defined the data model and aggregation logic to calculate required and available skill hours by construction trade and implemented useMemo-based filtering to ensure the chart updates dynamically based on selected projects and departments. On the frontend, he built a Department multi-select filter that includes worker types, an All toggle, checkbox-based selection, click-outside-to-close behavior, and styling aligned with the existing dashboard. On the backend, he designed APIs to support the chart’s data requirements and examined multiple data sources, including UserProfile, Teams, Tasks, and ExternalTeam, to determine the appropriate source of truth for construction trade availability; although ExternalTeam appears to be the most likely candidate, the final data mapping and validation are still pending due to unresolved ambiguity in the underlying data model. The progress shown here reflects continued advancement toward the DIY sustainable construction models through coordinated social architecture supported by documented actions.

Shreya continued work on the user state indicator feature across the Dashboard Tasks and Weekly Summaries Reports pages, focusing on both backend and frontend structure. The core architecture for the feature is in place, including initial logic for handling user state data and integrating it into the relevant views. Progress included implementing and refining the Summaries Reports page while aligning it with the Dashboard Tasks view to ensure consistent behavior. During implementation, issues were encountered connecting the frontend and backend codebases, particularly with state data loading and the state catalog not appearing as expected on the frontend, which has prevented the indicator from rendering for some users. A frontend execution error was identified during this phase, leading to a shift from feature expansion to debugging and issue isolation. That frontend error has since been resolved, allowing work to move back into active development. Investigation into the remaining state data loading issue is ongoing, as it continues to block full completion of the feature. Sphurthy addressed a font color styling issue in the Search Filters section on the All Events page. The section headings for Branches, Themes, and Categories appeared darker and bolder, while the selectable subtext like “Select branches,” “Select themes,” and “Select categories” appeared lighter. This reversed the intended visual hierarchy from the Figma design. The styling was updated so section headings use a lighter font color and the selectable text uses a darker, more prominent color. This change improves visual hierarchy, readability, and consistency with the Figma design specifications. The update affects only the UI presentation and does not change functionality. The progress shown demonstrates ongoing advancement toward DIY sustainable construction models through coordinated, well-documented social architecture.

Vivek Chandra requested additional time to continue work on a previously resolved task and subsequently asked for administrative updates to reflect the extended effort. The work remained focused on identifying and correcting a recurring issue, which involved modifying the controller logic and integrating it with the user interface. Despite these changes, the issue persisted. To gain clearer insight into the root cause, Vivek Chandra rewrote the entire set of models to improve clarity around the error and address potential structural issues contributing to the behavior. In parallel, he worked on integrating the frontend with the backend API endpoints, during which a blocking issue was encountered where frontend requests were not reaching the backend as expected, preventing full end-to-end functionality. These efforts help move One Community closer to developing DIY sustainable construction models. Visual examples from his work are presented below.

DEV DYNASTY SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT TEAM

The Dev Dynasty Team’s summary, covering their work on the Highest Good Network software, was managed by Ashutosh Mishra (Software Engineer) and includes Adithya Cherukuri (Volunteer Software Engineer), Aditya Gambhir (Software Engineer), Deekshith Kumar Singirikonda (Developer), Neeraj Kondaveeti (Software Engineer), Sai Shravan Neelamsetty (Software Engineer), Sriamsh Reddy (Software Engineer) and Vikas Meneni (Software Engineer). The Highest Good Network software is how we’ll manage and objectively measure our processes for open sourcing a better world for us all through our social architecture, construction, production, and maintenance processes. This progress supports One Community in developing DIY sustainable construction models.

This week Adithya focused on the HGN Software Development project by finishing the Edit Tool feature and starting search and filtering for the Materials Table, resolving an API issue caused by a mismatch between the Mongoose model and the buildingInventoryTypes collection, refactoring the controller to target the correct collection, cleaning the codebase, documenting changes, and beginning analysis of the MaterialListView component to address missing project identifiers. Aditya resolved dashboard routing 404 errors, restructured MongoDB collections into summaryDashboardMetrics, implemented the generateInitialSnapshot function, integrated Sentry logging through a centralized logger, wrote 104 unit tests to reach 90 percent coverage, fixed a status enum and date type issue in buildingIssue.js, and updated frontend dashboard behavior, modals, notifications, and linter warnings. These efforts strengthen the foundation for developing DIY sustainable construction models.

Deekshith contributed React-based dashboard components for issue and resource visualization, preparing structured usage data, integrating Recharts, Bootstrap, theming, custom CSS, and Redux-based global state management through the IssueHeader component with routing, authentication, and project data handling. Neeraj enhanced the Resource Usage Monitoring page by adding due date classification logic, visual indicators, tooltips, accessibility considerations, and integrating existing CSV and Excel export functionality, with validation across data states and refresh scenarios. This progress supports scalable solutions for developing DIY sustainable construction models.

Shravan addressed multiple Email Management UI issues including search behavior during loading, template validation flow, save logic, error messaging, draft handling, confirmation dialogs, labeling clarity, and outbox behavior, testing all fixes locally and recording demonstrations while noting remaining navigation and modal issues. Sriamsh addressed pull request feedback, investigated a non-rendering cost breakdown donut chart in the Financials view, documented findings as a separate bug item, rewired the Project Risk Profile page to the correct route, and coordinated task scope, documentation, and time tracking. Vikas delivered the Orders and Purchase Orders landing page for the Kitchen Inventory Management project, implementing stat cards, tab navigation, searchable and sorted order lists, status-based actions, responsive layouts, scoped styling, and light and dark mode support aligned with branding. See the Highest Good Society and Highest Good Network pages for more on how this relates to our mission of developing DIY sustainable construction models. Explore some of the team’s work in the collage below.

LUCKY STAR SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT TEAM

The Lucky Star Team’s summary, covering their work on the Highest Good Network, was managed by Keerthana Chitturi (System Administrator) and Sohail Uddin Syed (Software Engineer). The team includes contributions from Abhinav Tharamel Baiju (Software Engineer), Aryan Rachala (Software Engineer), Chirag Bellara (Software Engineer), Shashank Madan (Software Engineer), Shravya Kudlu (Software Development Engineer), Veda Bellam (Software Engineer), Venkataramanan Venkateswaran (Software Engineer) and Vinay Krishna (Software Engineer). Their work supports One Community’s goal of DIY sustainable construction models through cross-functional software development and ongoing system improvements.

This week, Abhinav developed the landing page for the Kitchen Inventory Management Processing module and submitted a pull request. His work included integrating a CSS module, ensuring responsiveness, and supporting light and dark modes. He built a dashboard displaying weight totals for items canned, dehydrated, freeze-dried, and stored in cellar storage through the previous month, along with a section navbar and overview area showing processing methods, item counts, and monthly quantities. He also implemented a supply section listing inventory items by canning and storage type and applied earth-tone styling and large fonts to meet branding and accessibility requirements. This work contributes to DIY sustainable construction models.

Aryan worked on Phase 3 fixes within the Highest Good Network software, focusing on improving data display consistency and UI behavior. He addressed percentage calculation and display logic issues on the Activity Attendance page, fixed tooltip visibility problems, validated behavior across display modes, and corrected color rendering in dark mode. He also standardized date formatting on the Used Resources page by defining a consistent format and updating date-handling logic to ensure accurate rendering across views and timezones. This work contributes to DIY sustainable construction models. Chirag worked on completing the “Clear All” button styling fix on the Activities screen by updating styles, checking in the changes, and creating pull request 4737. He also updated the Activities logic to default to showing current and future events by adding a “Show Past Events” toggle and modifying the code to ensure compatibility with existing filters. This work contributes to DIY sustainable construction models. Shashank reviewed open pull requests to confirm required approvals and verify functionality, identifying one pull request with pending requested changes. He tested the related issue to determine its root cause and fixed an error in a previously submitted pull request by addressing review comments and resolving merge conflicts to restore the work to a usable state. This work contributes to DIY sustainable construction models.

Shravya worked on bug fixes related to issue 3370 by analyzing activity page theming behavior in light and dark modes and applying corrections across multiple files. She raised pull request 4756, resolved merge conflicts, and improved code readability. She also addressed issue 3824 by fixing one identified bug and validating expected behavior for a second issue, and worked on issue 3399 by resolving light and dark mode inconsistencies across its components. This work contributes to DIY sustainable construction models. Sohail refactored the badge achievement engine by updating pull request 1153 to replace callback-based logic with an asynchronous architecture using Mongoose. He addressed race conditions that caused duplicate badge counts, ensured tiered rewards correctly replaced lower-level achievements, implemented sequential asynchronous processing to maintain data integrity, and requested a task to address the HGN totals mismatch with the active volunteers count. This work contributes to DIY sustainable construction models.

Veda worked on the Listing and Bidding Dashboard by creating a line chart titled “Cancellation Impact on Vacancy” and reviewing task requirements to support data integration. She also worked on a donut chart titled “Sentiment Breakdown,” resolved mobile view visual issues, updated chart display behavior, and fixed storage and memory issues after pulling the latest development code. This work contributes to DIY sustainable construction models. Venkataramanan worked on frontend and backend fixes to improve usability and system behavior, including correcting interaction issues in the WBS edit task modal, fixing dropdown styling and alignment, resolving a loading error on the Team Locations page, updating button color states, adjusting icon positioning, correcting leaderboard text color, and ensuring infringement deletions persisted correctly in the database. This work contributes to DIY sustainable construction models.

Vinay worked on updating the Project Risk Profile Overview graph layout to match the expected visual format by addressing spacing, grouping, and structural issues. He aligned bar groupings, standardized axis scaling and labeling, refined legend placement and typography, improved filter and chart alignment, ensured color consistency across light and dark modes, and reviewed responsive behavior across device sizes. This work contributes to DIY sustainable construction models. See the Highest Good Society and Highest Good Network pages to learn more about how this work supports DIY sustainable construction models. See the collage below highlighting the team’s work for the week.

MOONFALL SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT TEAM

The Moonfall Team’s summary, which covers their work on the Highest Good Network, was managed by Uha Kruthi (Software Engineer) and includes Aayush Shetty (Software Engineer), Alisha Walunj (Software Engineer), Sai Krishna (Software Engineer), Mani Shashank Marneni (Software Engineer), and Sudheesh Thuralkalmakki Dharmappa Gowda (Full Stack Developer). Their efforts support One Community by advancing the mission of DIY sustainable construction models through open-source collaboration, ecologically responsible innovation, and holistic global progress.

This week, Uha focused on resolving visibility and contrast issues in the Distribution of Labour Hours chart by fixing cases where text was not visible due to similar background and foreground colors in both light and dark modes, improving the readability of chart labels, legends, and headings, resolving the issue where the submit button text was not visible in light mode, and testing changes locally to ensure consistent usability. Sai worked on enhancing the main Header component by adding a new “Consumables” option to the Projects dropdown menu, routing it to the appropriate path, placing it in alignment with the existing menu structure, and ensuring consistency with dark mode styling and disabled state handling. Sudheesh progressed on Phase 2 chart visibility fixes in dark mode by identifying relocated files, reorganizing frontend styles into separate CSS files, implementing dark mode support, resolving related visibility issues, completing feature updates, pushing changes to the repository, and preparing the work for testing. These efforts strengthen the path toward DIY sustainable construction models by supporting accessible, well-structured, and reusable open source systems.

Aayush addressed multiple Phase 2 issues by analyzing the “Select Projects” dropdown redirection problem, verifying reproducibility, documenting findings, debugging the “Create New Team” page data loading issue, fixing form submission behavior, and validating solutions through local testing. Mani worked on a priority task to develop the “Conversion Funnel” Sankey Diagram by wiring interactive controls, implementing mock data logic, styling the chart with fixed layouts and dark mode support, improving responsiveness, removing unnecessary toolbars, and documenting the work in a pull request. Alisha focused on resolving reported issues in previously assigned tasks by debugging and fixing dark mode problems in Learner Knowledge Evolution views, addressing deployment failures, implementing requested changes, contributing to Posting Page Analytics with new visualizations and validations, improving error handling, resolving merge conflicts, and fixing user interface issues such as filter overflow and visibility problems across different scenarios. Visit the Highest Good Society and Highest Good Network pages for more on how this work supports DIY sustainable construction models through open-source development and globally accessible resources. The collage depicted below shows the team’s efforts for the week.

REACTONAUTS SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT TEAM

The Reactonauts team summary was managed by Akshay Jayaram (Software Engineer) and Iteesha Vishalakshi Aswath (Technical Program Manager), and it includes Aseem Deshmukh (Software Developer), Diya Wadhwani (Software Developer), Kristin Dingchuan Hu (Software Engineer), Namitha Vijaykumar Pawar (Software Engineer), Peterson Rodrigues dos Santos (Full Stack Developer), Siva Putti (Software Engineer), and Sri Satya Venkatasai Siri Sudheeksha Vavila (Software Engineer). The Highest Good Network software helps manage and objectively measure progress by focusing on DIY sustainable construction models. It supports social architecture, construction, production, and maintenance processes to build sustainable and thriving ecosystems.

This week, Aseem updated PR4310 by improving the responsiveness of the expense chart through layout and styling changes to ExpenseBarChart.jsx and ExpectedVsActualBarChart.module.css, removing scroll behavior, separating the chart from the card structure, eliminating unused cards, pushing the updates to GitHub, and communicating progress to Jae. Diya resumed deactivation lifecycle work by verifying ownership of the Blue Square auto-drop item, investigating server errors related to the inactiveReason field, reviewing PR3600 for compatibility with new routes and schema and implementing a hotfix to ensure immediate deactivation behavior was consistent across the User Profile and status cell popup. She also worked on restructuring the state flow to reduce reload dependency, updating modal options for deactivation and reactivation, testing the changes, and raising PR2016 for an urgent login fix. The progress made this week contributes to our long-term goal of developing DIY sustainable construction models.

Kristin improved the Log Attendance page dark mode by refining styling for text, backgrounds, borders, and interactive elements to ensure proper contrast, and updated the JSX structure for the Drop-off rate and No-show rate insights sections so each analytics block could apply independent styling and behavior. This work supports developing DIY sustainable construction models through open source software.

Namitha resolved theme color visibility issues in the HGN Software Team Questionnaire Dashboard by adjusting text, icon, and button styles to maintain readability across light and dark modes, validating accessibility and consistency without changing existing layout or interaction patterns. Peterson enhanced the Projects page in PR4746 by adding a red toast notification to inform users when a filtered username search returns no results, improving user feedback and clarity. This work plays an important role in developing DIY sustainable construction models through coordinated, real-world implementation.

Siva advanced the Node 20 upgrade by updating configuration and resolving workflow merge conflicts, continued improving create-new-team functionality by fixing ESLint errors and preserving AddTeamPopup behavior in PR3658. He also resolved dashboard merge conflicts to retain a simplified CPDashboard layout and proper alignment of the Show Past Events button in PR4311, and ensured filter alignment consistency in PR4388. Siri Sudheeksha Vavila worked 20 hours on implementing dark mode styles for the HGN Skills page, iterating on file updates, troubleshooting errors encountered during pull request creation, and progressing toward completing and submitting the changes. See the Highest Good Network and Highest Good Society pages to learn more about how this work supports developing DIY sustainable construction models. See below for the picture collage of the work done by the Reactonauts team towards developing DIY sustainable construction models.

SKYE SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT TEAM

The Skye Team’s summary, covering their work on the Highest Good Network, was managed by Sayantan Paul (Frontend Tester and Software Team Administrator) and Anthony Weathers (Software Engineer). The team includes Marcus Yi (Software Engineer) and Swathi Angadi (Software Engineer). The Highest Good Network software objectively tracks and manages progress, supporting social architecture, construction, production, and maintenance processes that foster sustainable and thriving ecosystems, while developing DIY sustainable construction models that can be replicated and improved through open collaboration.

This week, Anthony completed additional git merges and resolved merge conflicts for PR#3600 and PR#1447, updated the PR descriptions to provide clearer and more accurate testing steps and prepared them for review pending any remaining issues or approval for merging. He also reduced and refactored code related to the reordering task to improve efficiency and reviewed the associated functions to confirm the feature continued to operate as intended. In addition, he continued work on PR#3917 and PR#1668 by updating code, resolving merge conflicts, recording a video to document the process and clarify parts of the task that were adjusted based on received feedback. This progress reflects continued momentum in delivering DIY sustainable construction models through open, collaborative development.

Marcus rolled back prior commits that were interfering with the Facebook connection and focused on stabilizing the integration. He rewrote and clarified testing instructions to support validation of the pull request, continued adding finishing touches to the Facebook connect page and began preparing a demo video to aid testing and review, with the work tracked in PR#4714. This effort supports the growth of DIY sustainable construction models through consistent, actionable development practices.

Swathi modified backend logic for the edit functionality to store material update history and added a new collection to the schema to support inventory history tracking. She implemented both frontend and backend logic to view update history, fixed dark mode issues on the Materials and Consumable pages, resolved a dropdown issue on the Consumable page, added the add consumable functionality and enabled filtering on the Consumable page by both project and consumable. By addressing these challenges, the Skye team’s work reinforces long-term stability in stewardship tracking features and supports evolution of DIY sustainable construction models by strengthening scalable, transparent systems within the broader Highest Good Network (HGN) infrastructure.

See the Highest Good Society and Highest Good Network pages for more on how this contribution aligns with One Community’s goals by advancing DIY sustainable construction models within the Highest Good Network open source hub. See the collage below for the team’s work.

SOFTWARE PR REVIEW TEAM A-N

The PR Review Team’s summary for members with names starting A–N, managed by Neeharika Kamireddy (Data Analyst), highlights their contributions to the Highest Good Network software. This platform forms the foundation for measuring our results in developing DIY sustainable construction models. Active team members included Abdelmounaim Lallouache (Software Developer), Abhinav Tharamel Baiju (Software Engineer), Carl Bebli (Software Developer), Ganesh Gadicherla (Software Engineer), Julia Ha (Software Engineer), and Nathan Hoffman (Software Engineer). They supported the project by reviewing all pull requests shared this week. Learn more about how the Highest Good Network tracks progress toward developing DIY sustainable construction models in the Highest Good Network open source hub. This work supports developing DIY sustainable construction models. The collage below showcases a compilation of this team’s work.

SOFTWARE PR REVIEW TEAM O-Z

The PR Review Team’s summary, covering their work on the Highest Good Network software, was managed by Jaiwanth Reddy Adavalli (Software Project Manager). The Highest Good Network software is a foundation for measuring our results in developing DIY sustainable construction models. This week’s active members of this team were: Abdelmounaim Lallouache (Software Developer), Carl Bebli (Software Developer), Ganesh Gadicherla (Software Engineer), Nathan Hoffman (Software Engineer), Rohan Rastogi (Software Engineer), Sundar Machani (Software Engineer), and Yiyun Tan (Software Engineer). They reviewed all the Highest Good Network PRs (Pull Requests) shared in this week’s update. Learn more about how the Highest Good Network open source hub measures progress towards our goal of developing DIY sustainable construction models. The collage below shows a compilation of the work from this team.

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Aswin is a software engineer with 4+ years of experience building and operating backend-heavy and full-stack systems across SaaS, fintech, and large-scale data platforms, demonstrating strong ownership from design through production delivery. He has hands-on expertise with React, Next.js, Node.js, FastAPI, SQL, and cloud-native workflows, and is currently focused on building reliable, scalable, and accessible user-facing systems with a strong emphasis on performance, maintainability, and usability. As a member of the One Community Software Team, Aswin has contributed consistently to the Highest Good Network by implementing UI and UX improvements, fixing accessibility and dark mode issues, enhancing filtering and data visibility across dashboards, refining reusable React components, reviewing and integrating pull requests, and completing multiple tracked WBS tasks that improved clarity, usability, and reliability across core software modules.

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At One Community, we are open sourcing the Golden Age of sustainable living by freely sharing complete systems for food, energy, housing, education, economics, and social architecture. Built by an all-volunteer team, our work focuses on transparency, replicability, and collaboration to support a model that is self-replicating and scalable worldwide. By developing solutions for fulfilled living and regenerating our planet, we aim to help create a world that works for everyone—always doing this for The Highest Good of All.

• Here’s our project overview
• Here’s our world-change methodology
  
• Here’s how this becomes self-replicating
• Here’s how we are open source and free-sharing all the do-it-yourself designs

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One Community’s physical location will forward this movement as the first of many self-replicating teacher/demonstration communities, villages, and cities to be built around the world. This is the January 19, 2026 edition (#670) of our weekly progress update detailing our team’s development and accomplishments:

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HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING PROGRESS

One Community is open sourcing the Golden Age 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: 7 Sustainable Village Models
    • Visit the open source portals for the first two: Earthbag Village OS Hub | Straw Bale Village OS Hub

This week, Ajay Adithiya Kumar Elancheliyan Tamilalagi (Mechanical Engineer) continued working on the ventilation system design for the Vermiculture Toilet component of the Earthbag Village. He finalized the Bill of Materials for the Earthbag Village project and completed the vermiculture duct ventilation design. Structural analysis included finishing Finite Element Analysis for two material cases, specifically comparing aluminum and stainless steel components to evaluate weight and structural integrity. Calculations for the factor of safety were performed for both materials to verify that performance requirements were met. The technical report was updated to include the aluminum section, reorganized for consistency, and finalized with all required photos and visual documentation for the vermicomposting ventilation system, supporting open sourcing the Golden Age through transparent and replicable engineering work. Below, you’ll find some images of this work.

Baraka Minja (Civil and Environmental Engineer Pr. Eng.) continued working on the Communal Eco-shower and Vermiculture Toilet drawings. He worked on the vermiculture CAD drawings, updating them to align with the standard connection details used in the communal Earthbag Village drawings. These updates ensured consistency across the design portfolio. In addition, he adjusted the setting out drawing and incorporated changes into the layouts to reflect the updates, contributing to open sourcing the Golden Age by improving coordination and design consistency. See below for some of the pictures.

Derrell Brown (Plumbing Designer) continued working on the Earthbag Village 4-dome home final MEP report by addressing feedback from the initial draft and applying revisions across the mechanical and electrical sections to improve calculation logic, clarity, and alignment with overall project intent. He advanced work on the MEP final report by finalizing the MEP cost analysis spreadsheet. He updated the spreadsheet to clearly separate mechanical, electrical, and plumbing scopes, ensuring each discipline was organized consistently. The spreadsheet was structured with individual rows for each fixture, component, and system element associated with each discipline. Columns were arranged to document unit pricing, total cost, quantity expressed as counts or linear footage, and a corresponding image for reference. These updates improved clarity, traceability, and consistency between the cost analysis and the supporting design documentation, reinforcing open sourcing the Golden Age. See below for some of the pictures related to this work.

Fangting Xu (Interior Design Intern) continued working with ADA codes related to building connections for the ADA 3-dome cluster of the Earthbag Village. She produced construction documents for the 3-Dome Cluster ADA project and reviewed and commented on Baraka’s work using the checklist as a reference. In addition, Fangting hosted the weekly meeting with Baraka and followed up on Baraka’s tasks and priorities for the week, further supporting open sourcing the Golden Age through inclusive and well-coordinated documentation. She also asked Jae some questions to clarify the review comments on Baraka’s work. Below, you’ll find some images of this work.

Iteesha Vishalakshi Aswath (Technical Program Manager) completed initial onboarding and training activities related to becoming a One Community administrator and spent the remainder of the time reviewing technical source material required to begin cost and needs analysis. Building on this foundational context, the work this week focused on translating reviewed energy documentation into structured cost analysis and planning tools. She worked on building a cost analysis template for the open source Climate Battery design by completing a full review of the webpage content and associated technical sections. She finished and provided feedback on topics including heating design, validation methods, 2D and 3D modeling, boundary conditions, simulation inputs, thermal simulation cases, references and results. This work reflects One Community’s goal of open sourcing the Golden Age.

In parallel, she created a basic cost analysis template in Google Sheets designed to be readable and replicable, with a summary page and populated sections covering documented assumptions, tubing and material unit costs and quantities, excavation and backfill, insulation, fans and airflow, controls and sensors, installation labor, operating energy costs, and maintenance and lifecycle considerations. She also developed a reusable set of cost estimate and construction planning and tracking templates, formatting and color coding sections for clarity while collaborating with a general contractor to align layout and usability. Iteesha also completed administrative work for the Reactonauts software development team, supporting open sourcing the Golden Age through scalable tools and organized knowledge sharing. Below are some images showcasing this work.

Kaustubh Kadam (Construction Engineering and Management Professional) worked on cleaning and improving the formulas in the cost estimation template and started building the planning and tracking template to support Highest Good Housing projects by adding more tabs to the planning sheet and making updates based on the items discussed with Iteesha. He improved all the sheets by applying both minor and major changes recommended by his teammate. He fixed issues in the formulas used in the estimating sheets and updated them to improve accuracy and reduce manual work. He also added additional estimation sheets to make the template easier to use and better organized. He continued working on a Gantt chart to improve clarity and readability of the planning timeline. He also applied recommendations shared by Jae and made related updates across the templates, advancing open sourcing the Golden Age through improved construction planning tools. Visual examples from his work are presented below.

Malhar Solanki (Mechanical Engineer) continued working on the Vermiculture Toilet component of the Earthbag Village. He updated the BOM for dumping and cross-checked the data with teammates to ensure all items were accounted for. During the weekly mechanical team meeting, the status of report writing was discussed, and he revised his previously added content during the call. He also assisted Ajay with Finite Element Analysis (FEA) of alternative materials for the project and wrote portions of the report concerning material selection. Following the FEA testing of Al 6061, he updated the cost of materials based on the revised analysis, contributing to open sourcing the Golden Age through data-driven decision-making. Review the latest updates in the images below.

Rishi Chakrapani (Mechanical Engineer) continued working on the Vermiculture Toilet. This week, final updates were made to the dumping mechanism CAD model, including the addition of bolts, nuts, and other required fixtures to complete the assembly. An exploded view of the full assembly was also created and added to the master report to clearly show part relationships and assembly order. The Bill of Materials was updated to reflect the finalized design, with all components reviewed to confirm accuracy and completeness, reinforcing open sourcing the Golden Age through clear and shareable documentation. See below for some of the pictures related to this work.

Sai Bhuvanesh Nandipati (Mechanical Engineer) continued focusing on understanding the scope of the assigned work and clarifying the technical expectations associated with the project. He reviewed and interpreted the LEED strategies applied to the Earthbag Village model to understand their intent and relevance to the analysis. This background supported the applied flow modeling and simulation setup completed during the week. He identified and documented the key factors affecting sheet flow and incorporated them into the modeling approach. He set up a sheet flow simulation in ANSYS Fluent using an assumed travel time of 12.6 minutes as the initial condition for evaluation. The simulation was initiated and was running at the time of this update, with model settings and assumptions established to support evaluation and comparison of results, contributing to open sourcing the Golden Age. Below are some images showcasing this work.

DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER PROGRESS

One Community is open sourcing the Golden Age 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 and it’s function: Duplicable City Center Open Source Hub

Bevan Chiu (Mechanical Engineer) continued his work finishing the City Center Eco-spa Designs. He worked on the plumbing access panels, focusing on both design development and documentation updates. This included creating CAD models for larger HDPE panel options and defining panel layouts that accommodate the spa cover equipment. He incorporated a locking solution using a recessed ring handle to address access and security requirements. In parallel, he updated the DIY assembly instructions by adding step-by-step images and diagrams to clarify the cinderblock layouts. Bevan also documented the manufacturing process steps for the cinderblock assembly. This open source Duplicable City Center project is dedicated to open sourcing the Golden Age. For more details, refer to the image below.

Sandesh Kumawat (Mechanical Engineer) continued developing the City Center Eco-spa Designs. He focused on the Spa Project by completing high-fidelity structural simulations of the upper shell assembly and validating its performance under combined loading. He finalized a quarter-symmetry finite element model to balance accuracy and computational efficiency and evaluated two simultaneous load cases: bolt pretension to represent assembly clamping forces and hydrostatic pressure corresponding to a base water pressure of approximately 0.00747 MPa. The results show that the structure remains well within allowable limits, with von Mises stresses largely in the low-stress range (approximately 20–62 MPa) and localized peaks occurring at expected fastener locations, consistent with bolted Unistrut behavior. These efforts reinforce the focus on open sourcing the Golden Age.

Displacement results indicate a maximum deflection of about 3.13 mm at the center of the largest unsupported panels, which is minimal for a structure of this scale (approximately 130 in × 105 in) and confirms adequate stiffness of the hybrid cork–steel shell. No yielding or excessive deformation was observed that would threaten the cement waterproofing layer or overall structural integrity. With the upper shell validated, Sandesh has begun transitioning to analysis of the lower foundation assembly, including modeling the rebar-reinforced cinder block base to assess compressive capacity under the full system water load of approximately 14,787 lb, while also preparing to integrate upper and lower results and extract a Bill of Materials based on the validated component dimensions. Discover One Community’s open source Duplicable City Center, which is dedicated to open sourcing the Golden Age. See the visuals below for a closer look.

Shivarama Krishna Revanuru (Mechanical Engineer) continued working on the Duplicable City Center design. He focused on understanding assigned responsibilities related to finite element analysis of the pulley holder and hook, along with associated cost analysis tasks. Time was spent clarifying the scope of FEA requirements and how cost considerations integrate with the overall design and analysis process. Discussions were held with a teammate to align on approaches for finite element analysis and cost evaluation, ensuring consistency in assumptions and methodology. Research was carried out on material selection to support both structural performance and cost objectives, with attention given to suitability for the intended loading conditions. Initial work was started on finite element modeling and structural load analysis for the pulley system, including identifying load cases and boundary conditions relevant to the pulley operation. This open source Duplicable City Center project is pioneering the concept of open sourcing the Golden Age. The images below illustrate aspects of this work.

Shreyas Nagaraj (Design Engineer) made more updates to the City Center Dome Hub Connector Engineering and beams for the Duplicable City Center. He spent many hours on the Duplicable City Center project, focusing on finite element analysis setup and verification for the dome assembly under multiple load conditions. The required files were received from Srujan, and the analysis environment was set up in Inventor. The dome assembly model was checked for different load cases, and work continued on evaluating all relevant loads while creating a proper assembly. This involved addressing issues with multiple part files that were not correctly linked in the model. Finite element analysis checks on the dome assembly were continued across the various load conditions to validate the structural behavior of the model. This open source Duplicable City Center project exemplifies open sourcing the Golden Age. For more details, refer to the image below.

HIGHEST GOOD FOOD PROGRESS

One Community is open sourcing the Golden Age 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: Hoop House Hub | Aquapini & Walipini Open Source Hub
    • See what we’ll be growing: Gardens & Hoop Houses | Large-scale Structures | Food Forest | TA

This week, the core team continued working on the Master Tools, Equipment, and Materials and Supplies List for the Large-scale Garden, Botanical Garden, and other Highest Good Food components. They incorporated a mechanic’s creeper for the Auto Shop (ASHP) and bench dogs, rolled workbenches, and fixed workbenches across the ASHP, General Shop & Inventory (GSI), Metal Shop (MSHP), and Wood Shop (WSHP) documents. Furthermore, additional items were integrated into all fencing projects, including a fence post sealer for the above-ground portion of the seven-inch diameter Douglas fir posts, a four-inch brush for sealer application, and a come-along for post alignment. Air compressors were also added for the four shop areas. This progress continues building toward open sourcing the Golden Age.

The General Purpose Storage (GPS) acronym was updated to General Storage Inventory (GSI) across 74 entries, and new photos were included for all recent modifications. The Highest Good Food initiative is a key component of One Community’s open source plans, focused on open sourcing the Golden Age and exemplifying the organization’s commitment through innovative design and implementation. Below are some images showcasing this work.

Chelsea Mariah Stellmach (Project Manager) continued working on the Transition Food Self-sufficiency food and inventory tracking software plans. Chelsea worked with Bhanu to coordinate and advance the inventory management software development, focusing on alignment of priorities and next steps. She also met with Bhanu and Jae to discuss her perspective on onboarding additional developers to the project to increase delivery capacity and accelerate progress. The development team tested several completed pages of the application, and those pages met approval criteria. Ongoing work emphasized maintaining continuity across features, supporting steady progress on the existing codebase, and ensuring that recently approved components can be extended as development continues. As an essential aspect of One Community’s open source goals, the Highest Good Food initiative supports open sourcing the Golden Age. The following images provide a view of her contributions.

Japneet Kour (Volunteer Architect) continued contributing to the Highest Good Food initiative. Japneet completed the design portion of the Walipini 3 tropical house, focusing on functional requirements, incorporating moss on selected walls to suit a humid climate, adding seating areas to improve usability, adding the vines on the walls and creating scenes in SketchUp to support the next phase of rendering and design visualization tasks. The Highest Good Food initiative is a key part of One Community’s open source platform, focused on sustainable and participatory development while open sourcing the Golden Age. Visual examples from her work are presented below.

Jay Nair (BIM Designer) continued developing the Aquapini and Walipini Planting and Harvesting documents. He reviewed the lighting energy calculation document for Greenhouse Walipini 1 to identify and address missing information required for accurate calculations. This included checking incomplete data entries, verifying assumptions and fixture details, and updating the documentation to ensure the calculation sections are complete, consistent, and aligned with project standards. The Highest Good Food initiative is a key part of One Community’s open source platform, focused on sustainable and participatory development while open sourcing the Golden Age. See below for pictures related to this work.

Nitin Parate (Architect) continued contributing to the Aquapini and Walipini renders and layout graphics. The work focused on developing the axonometric drawing of the Zen Aquapini. Updates were made to improve clarity, alignment, and overall layout while keeping the design intent the same. Special attention was given to details such as roof members, glazing, and structural elements, and this information was added into the axonometric view. Further work will include refining the visuals, adding explanatory text, and preparing supporting sectional drawings. The Highest Good Food initiative is a key part of One Community’s open source platform, promoting regenerative and participatory development while open sourcing the Golden Age. Images below showcase his contributions.

Pallavi Deshmukh (Software Engineer) continued working on the Aquapini and Walipini Planting and Harvesting web details. She developed new content for blog 669 and worked with teammates to incorporate their suggestions and feedback to ensure clarity and consistency in the final version. Pallavi continued adding Walipini 1 content based on Gayatri’s work and made updates in response to feedback from Jae, including editing text and incorporating revised images. She also added a table of contents to the Zenapini section to improve structure and navigation. This contribution supports the vision of open sourcing the Golden Age.

Additionally, Jae assigned her a new web page focused on integrating all related content for the Aquahaven Southwest Area web design, and she began organizing and preparing the required materials for this effort. Pallavi also completed five interviews for the software and admin teams and submitted the related details as required. The Highest Good Food project integrates open sourcing the Golden Age into a larger vision of regenerative living. Her contributions are highlighted in the collage below.

Shivangi Varma (Architectural Designer and Planner) continued the redesign of the Highest Good Food overall presentation, currently focused on the Aquapini and Walipini masterplan render. She finalized the shrubs and planters across the full landscaped site and finalized the layout for Walipini 3, began detailing the landscape for the Aquapini structure, continued developing landscape details for Zenapini layout, and added updates to the three structure typologies across the HGF project based on feedback received. The Highest Good Food initiative plays a leading role in One Community’s open source platform by promoting sustainable and participatory development, focused on open sourcing the Golden Age. Below are visuals highlighting this work.

HIGHEST GOOD ENERGY PROGRESS

One Community is open sourcing the Golden Age 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: Solar, Hydro, and Wind
    • Explore our research into the most sustainable products and companies for saving water and energy: Insulation, Eco-laundry, Lightbulbs and Light Bulb Companies, Doors and Door Companies, Windows and Window Companies, Toilets, Faucets and Faucet Accessories, Urinals, and more.

This week, the core team continued contributing to the Highest Good Energy initiative. They monitored feedback on Ayushman’s work related to hub connector future task descriptions and provided comments that reinforced prior guidance. The team also spent time reading the Earthbag Village construction documentation and materials related to the One Community Business Plan to build familiarity with the content and context in preparation for future work associated with those materials. The Highest Good Energy initiative plays a leading role in One Community’s open source platform by promoting sustainable and participatory development, focused on open sourcing the Golden Age. Below are images related to this project.

HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION PROGRESS

One Community is open sourcing the Golden Age through Highest Good education that is for all ages, applicable in any environment, adaptable to individual needs, far exceeds traditional education standards, and more fun for both the teachers and the students. This component of One Community is about 95% complete with only the Open Source School Licensing and Ultimate Classroom construction and assembly details remaining to be finished.

With over 8 years of work invested in the process, the sections below are all complete until we move onto the property and continue the development and open sourcing process with teachers and students – a development process that is built directly into the structure of the education program and everything else we’re creating too:

• Program Overview: Education Open Source Hub
• How the components work together in designing human orchestrated eco-abundance: 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

This week, Prudhvi Marpina (Data Analyst) continued developing the Highest Good Education software platform, concentrating on Phase 4: marketing, promotion, and administrative activities. He worked on Phase 5 governance by meeting with the Figma developer and a development administrator to review governance-related Figma designs, clarify design requirements, and identify required updates. He updated Deliverable action item descriptions in the Phase 5 document to reflect the agreed design direction and coordination outcomes. He also supported Phase 4 software management by reviewing Deliverable 4 action items, updating GitHub review statuses, and communicating required and follow-up pull request reviews to developers. In marketing and promotion, Prudhvi scheduled weekly BlueSky content through Buffer and updated tracking tables in the social media dashboard and BlueSky analytics visualization sheets. He also supported OC administration by updating the weekly blog and providing feedback on administration team submissions for the reporting period. Through these activities, he supported One Community’s commitment to open sourcing the Golden Age. The images below highlight his contributions.

HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY PROGRESS

One Community is open sourcing the Golden Age 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 and sharing: A Day in the Life
    • Learn about the 4 economic models: RBE | For-profit | Non-profit | Entrepreneurship
    • Learn about our open source community collaboration and management software: The Highest Good Network

This week, the core team completed over 28 hours managing volunteer work reviews, handling emails, overseeing social media accounts, supporting web development, and identifying and integrating bug fixes for the Highest Good Network. The team also interviewed and onboarded new volunteer team members. Additionally, they produced and integrated the video above, which highlights how open sourcing the Golden Age serves as a foundational element of One Community’s broader mission. The following images showcase highlights of this work.

Jaiwanth Reddy Adavalli (Project Manager) continued developing the Job Applicants page and key components of the Highest Good Network. He tested multiple pull requests across different components of the Highest Good Network software. He also updated action items related to the Food Inventory Management Dashboard and tracked progress in software team management documents to support task coordination. As a member of the pull request review team, he reviewed submissions from assigned volunteer teams and provided feedback based on testing outcomes. This work supports One Community’s commitment to open sourcing the Golden Age. The images below highlight his contributions.

Pooja Kulkarni (UI/UX Designer) began working on UX and UI design of the Highest Good Network. She reviewed the Phase 4 Highest Good Education documentation to understand existing access controls, role structures, and platform goals and used that context to inform initial Phase 5 planning. She designed and refined four governance-related user interface screens covering authentication and access gating, inactive account messaging, governance dashboards, and onboarding flows. Pooja also aligned screen logic of Phase 4 requirements related to authentication, permissions, and transparency and translated those requirements into structured, user-centered layouts appropriate for large-group governance and education workflows. This project supports One Community’s commitment to open sourcing the Golden Age. The images below highlight key aspects of her work.

Rajrajeshwari Gangadhar Sangolli (Data Analyst) continued working on Google Ads management and strategy evolution of the Highest Good Network. She completed administrative steps one through four for nine volunteers by adding comments, rechecking submissions, and cross-verifying related work and images. She performed campaign checks, prepared the weekly report, and added Google Ads recommendations. She also worked on low-fidelity design tasks by creating a group and coordinating a meeting, and met with Prudhvi to discuss deliverables, review Figma files, and align on design ideas. Rajrajeshwari connected with Pooja and Prudhvi to clarify design requirements and explain design elements. She updated Deliverable 1 for Phase 5 by revising the Google Sheet, adding tasks based on the agreed structure, and incorporating required document changes. She then finalized and proofread the deliverables, developed five new chart concepts, created two new chart types with explanations and images, and added key charts for design reference in Figma. This project supports One Community’s commitment to demonstrating open sourcing the Golden Age. The images below highlight key aspects of her work.

Yagna Reddy Badvel (Data Analyst and Team Administrator) continued working on the Summary Dashboards and Weekly Report page on the Highest Good Network. He audited the Phase 2 Materials, Equipment, Tools, and Project Tracking System tab by correcting task categorization, dropdown usage, priorities, formatting issues, links, and filters to maintain accuracy and consistency. He also completed weekly administrative tasks by reviewing team submissions to confirm summaries met writing standards, media requirements were met, tracking logs were added where needed, and images were optimized and uploaded to WordPress with correct SEO attributes, formatting, and title fields while confirming that all eligible contributors were included. This work supports One Community’s commitment to open sourcing the Golden Age. The images below highlight his contributions.

ADMINISTRATION TEAM

The Administration Team’s summary, which covers their work on the Highest Good Network, was managed by Prudhvi Marpina (Data Analyst) and includes Anusha Gali (Software Engineer), Ashutosh Mishra (Software Engineer), Divanshu Bakshi (Team Admin), Keerthana Chitturi (System Administrator), Leo Lishin Shiu (Software Engineer), Mridul Bhushan (Volunteer Project Strategy Analyst and Team Administrator), Neeharika Kamireddy (Data Analyst), Olawunmi “Ola” Ijisesan (Administrative and Management Support), Olimpia Borgohain (Data Analyst and Team Administrator), Priyanshi Sharma (Data Analyst and Team Administrator), Rachna Malav (Data Analyst), Rajeshwari Bhirud (Administrator), Rishitha Adepu (Administrator), Sayantan Paul (Volunteer Frontend Tester and Software Team Administrator), and Sudarshan Raju Chintalapati Venkata (Data Analyst). The Administration Team supports the Highest Good Network, a tool designed to track and measure progress while developing systems that contribute to open sourcing the Golden Age. Through administrative support, documentation, testing, training, recruiting, 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, Anusha completed extensive Level 2 frontend and backend software testing and quality assurance by reviewing and validating a high volume of pull requests, updating shared tracking documents, and documenting issues related to regressions, environment setup gaps, UI alignment, dark mode behavior, and backend dependencies. Ashutosh advanced AI and frontend development by updating wireframes for video clip workflows, building interfaces to manage multimedia assets, implementing video slicing for embedding models, and beginning work on an automated ingestion pipeline, while also refining layout structure and usability. Divanshu managed end-to-end Mastodon operations by preparing, publishing, and monitoring daily posts, documenting feature issues and enhancement ideas, processing analytics data through Python-based transformations, and validating dashboard accuracy through structured testing. Together, these efforts support open sourcing the Golden Age.

Keerthana coordinated administrative workflows by reviewing team summaries for accuracy and formatting, updating Step 2 and Step 4 tracking documents, compiling and validating the weekly blog, and assigning Phase 3 action items to developers. Leo compiled team summaries, created visual collages, verified cross-platform analytics consistency, and scheduled Meta posts to maintain the publishing calendar. Mridul reviewed and consolidated blog content, refined collage alt text, resized images to meet publishing standards, completed Twitter/X moderator training, scheduled posts, and logged engagement metrics across dashboards. This coordinated administrative and publishing work advances open sourcing the Golden Age.

Neeharika supported task management and testing by reviewing software team documents, following up on assigned tasks, testing pull requests, and verifying updated PDFs. Ola monitored KPI dashboards, scheduled Pinterest content, created weekly admin folders, and organized Google Workspace to improve workflows for the PR and admin teams. Olimpia updated LinkedIn analytics KPIs, completed senior admin reviews, resolved prior comments, identified cases requiring warnings or blue squares, and scheduled upcoming posts. Priyanshi continued Phase 2 project management testing by validating financial tracking dashboards, identifying chart loading and filter interaction issues, and documenting contrast and visibility problems for follow-up. This work helps advance open sourcing the Golden Age.

Rachna focused on routine administrative and SEO-related tasks, while Rajeshwari conducted extensive endpoint testing, documented UI, CSS, and data inconsistencies, managed blog administration, and maintained SEO keywords. Rishitha consolidated blogs, optimized SEO, maintained bios, supported Threads engagement, and updated dashboards and trackers, while Sayantan tested merged pull requests, logged usability improvements, assigned tasks from the bugs and features tracker, and reported UI behavior issues. Sudarshan managed the Alpha Software Team blog, reviewed pull requests, and created tasks to address bugs and system improvements. To learn more about how this work supports open sourcing the Golden Age, visit the Highest Good Society and Highest Good Network pages. Highlights of the team’s contributions are shown in the collage below.

GRAPHIC DESIGN TEAM

The Graphic Design Team’s summary includes Qinyi Liu (Graphic Designer) and Yulin Li (Graphic Designer), who focused this week on creating graphic designs that support open sourcing the Golden Age.

This week, Qinyi worked on marketing and promotion tasks, creating social media and announcement visuals and web designs using a game-character style aligned with open sourcing the Golden Age. She generated and reused character assets, created bio images and announcements, and revised posters based on feedback to meet project requirements. Yulin focused on visual communication and coordination, creating infographics based on feedback, preparing a team collaboration announcement, and managing assets in Dropbox aligned with open sourcing the Golden Age. She also participated in weekly discussions to ensure tasks were completed on time. Their efforts highlight a open sourcing the Golden Age. See the Highest Good Society pages and the collage below for examples of their work.

HIGHEST GOOD NETWORK PROGRESS

One Community is open sourcing the Golden Age through open source Highest Good Network^® software that is a web-based application for collaboration, time tracking, and objective data collection. The purpose of the Highest Good Network is to provide software for internal operations and external cooperation. It is being designed for global use in support of the different countries and communities replicating the One Community sustainable village models and related components.

• Learn about our open source community collaboration and management software: The Highest Good Network

This week, the core team tested Highest Good Network pull requests and confirmed 7 as fixed. This effort highlights One Community’s commitment demonstrating open sourcing the Golden Age.

The following PRs were not fixed: issues related to manually adding lost hours for past years, improvements to mobile functionality, missing color-coding for event status in Phase 3, the force logout issue when permissions change, and dashboard view fixes. They were not able to test 11 PRs because there was no data available on the Main branch. This work strengthens One Community’s mission of demonstrating open sourcing the Golden Age. See the Highest Good Society and The Highest Good Network pages, and the collage below, for an overview of the team’s contributions.

ALPHA SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT TEAM

The Alpha Software Team, working on the Highest Good Network software, was managed by Lin Khant Htel (Frontend Software Developer). The team includes Casstiel Pi (Software Engineer). The Highest Good Network software is a key part of sustainable and free-shared eco-solutions, helping track and measure progress toward open sourcing the Golden Age. The software supports social architecture, construction, production, and maintenance processes that contribute to the open source project and resilient ecosystems. Designed to be portable and scalable, the Highest Good Network software is well suited for off-grid and sustainable living communities. This project reflects One Community’s open source commitment to open sourcing the Golden Age.

This week, Lin reviewed PR #1991 by checking the code, testing it in a local environment, and confirming that all tests passed, then reviewed the weekly summaries, photos, and videos submitted by Alpha team members and handled Alpha Team management responsibilities. Casstiel continued work on enhancing the multi-select filter solution, completing the backend logic implementation, which still needs to pass checks in the local environment. The clicking error on the filter box remains unresolved because the related fix has not yet been merged into the main branch. He also began a new task to add a new card for the issue chart related to material consumption and is analyzing the existing code base while reviewing similar logic to maintain consistency across the implementation. See the Highest Good Society and Highest Good Network pages for more on how this contributed to open sourcing the Golden Age. See the collage below to view the team’s work.

BINARY BRIGADE SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT TEAM

The Binary Brigade Team, presenting their work on the Highest Good Network software, was managed by Amalesh Arivanan (Software Engineer) and included Sourabh Bagde (Software Developer), Taariq Mansurie (Full-Stack Developer), Aswin “Tony” Kanikairaj (Software Engineer), Ramsundar Konety Govindarajan (Software Engineer), Sumedh Kumar (Full-Stack Developer), Harsha Rudhraraju (Software Engineer), and Nikhil Routh (Software Engineer). The Highest Good Network software is our tool for managing and objectively measuring progress, ensuring that all contributions are tracked and aligned with our mission while modeling and pioneering open sourcing the Golden Age. It supports social architecture, construction, production, and maintenance processes that contribute to open-source projects and resilient, sustainable ecosystems.

This week, Aswin enhanced the BM Dashboard Issues Chart by adding Select All and Clear All actions for the Issue Type and Year filters, showing selected counts for better visibility, ensuring keyboard accessibility, refining hover tooltips to clearly display Issue Type, Year, and Count, adjusting the x-axis labels’ rotation and spacing to reduce overlap, confirming that legend interactions support toggling year-based series, and adding Export CSV and Export PNG options with disabled states when no data is available, along with a “No data for selected filters’ message, all while maintaining consistency across light and dark modes. This development contributes to open sourcing the Golden Age.

Sourabh improved the MySpace auto-poster by completing the tabbed interface with validation, preview, copy helpers, local scheduling, edit support, localStorage persistence, and badge updates, wiring backend support through router, controller, and model layers, and implementing shared badge logic via a reusable component that updates reactively with capped display values. He shifted schedule persistence to localStorage with UI messaging indicating that schedules are stored per browser session, enhanced the edit workflow to restore fields, clamp date and time values to prevent past scheduling, reset validation and preview state, and guide users into the Schedule tab with feedback. Additionally, he updated the save logic to prevent duplicates, validate required data, normalize payloads, update local state on success, and handle failures by storing local copies and resetting the form for retries. This work reflects One Community’s goal of open sourcing the Golden Age.

Sumedh added dark mode support to PR4302, resolved new merge conflicts, and tested for alignment with existing behavior and design. He fixed merge conflicts in PR4462, implemented custom calendar styling for consistent dark mode behavior, and updated the daily activity log page to prevent selecting past dates for check-in and check-out based on review feedback, while confirming integration with existing logic. He continued working on PR4656 by resolving merge conflicts and addressing review comments. Ram prepared a pull request for the dashboard change related to the task “X” button, but encountered a 500 “Permission update failed” error affecting owner and admin flows, blocking progress due to the Add button not being available. He compared behavior against prior results and permission logs, coordinated with Anusha to isolate the cause, and began investigating the “Fix Search Error in Member Group Check-In” task by checking backend endpoint request parameters and response structure for project-based filtering, with work still ongoing. These efforts reinforce focus on open sourcing the Golden Age.

Taariq worked on both frontend and backend tasks by finalizing remaining code changes, submitting updated implementations, investigating a local loading issue in Microsoft Edge, and continuing debugging on auto-scroll, BioStatusToggle, and auto-refresh with repeated local testing and cache investigations before preparing a handoff due to persistent issues. He refined the weekly summary email logic to include only active users, resolved merge conflicts, and aligned with the development baseline for team testing. He cleaned up and validated the archived projects feature locally and completed the filter refresh feature with final fixes prepared for submission after confirming expected behavior. This progress continues building toward open sourcing the Golden Age.

Amalesh worked on “Phase 1 Bugs: Fix PR4548” by implementing frontend fixes, submitting a new pull request, documenting testing with screenshots and videos using required naming conventions, tracking time with the HGN timer, and completing onboarding steps to maintain access to tools and documentation. Nikhil resolved conflicts in previously open pull requests and submitted them for review, raised PR4690 for modularizing src/Common components, and prepared it for merging. He also documented the CSS-to-module-CSS tasks while mapping components to their respective pull requests. This work helps advance open sourcing the Golden Age.

Harshavarma improved filter logic to keep data consistent across card and list views, added dark mode support to the calendar UI, integrated updates with the Events flow’s Landing Page, improved responsiveness, and addressed small-device layout issues. He continued resolving filter synchronization issues between views, began implementing ‘Load More Events’ with frontend and backend changes for incremental loading, added backend APIs for landing page sections to support events, filtering, and pagination, and validated initial data retrieval and UI rendering across light and dark modes. See the Highest Good Society and Highest Good Network pages for more information on how this works in pioneering open sourcing the Golden Age. The collage below shows images of their work.

BLUE STEEL SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT TEAM

The Blue Steel Software Team, working on the Highest Good Network software, was managed by Divanshu Bakshi (Product Manager) and includes Linh Huynh (Software Engineer), Som Ramnani (Software Engineer), and Sheetal Mangate (Software Engineer). This week, Som revisited PR #4428 related to the “Ending After” date filter Figma UI mismatch, resolving extensive merge conflicts caused by the branch falling behind the development branch by resetting it to the latest development state and reapplying only the intended changes aligned with the current codebase, while confirming that no unrelated files were modified and that updates remained limited to relevant Community Portal components. He also addressed incorrect routing for Other Links that were directing to the root instead of Community Portal paths by updating several dashboard routes under /communityportal. Open sourcing the Golden Age informed continued alignment with shared standards and maintainable structures as he resolved merge conflicts in CPDashboard.jsx introduced by recent development updates, ensured the hours logging dashboard loads correctly from profile routes, and created a new pull request reflecting the cleaned set of changes along with updated demo videos showing current dashboard behavior.

Linh reviewed and updated task documentation for the Materials dashboard enhancement focused on usage insights and visual indicators, clarifying functional requirements, calculation logic, and UI expectations. This work included analyzing existing Materials table fields such as Bought, Used, Available, Wasted, and Hold to determine their role in supporting stock health indicators and usage calculations. Relevant backend APIs were tested to confirm data availability and accuracy. Based on these findings, Linh mapped required indicators to existing data structures, identified areas where UI components need extension, aligned proposed visuals with existing dashboard patterns, and began initial development by preparing the Materials table structure to support additional columns, visual indicators, and tooltips while maintaining compatibility with responsive layouts and light and dark modes. These updates support the mission of open sourcing the Golden Age.

Sheetal worked on fetching secret values from Bitwarden in cases where existing code returned only secret identifiers, tested Secrets Manager and Password Manager using a restricted endpoint to validate retrieval behavior, verified correct secret access, and committed the implementation to the appropriate branch. In addition, she explored Okta integration for OAuth-based authentication and role-based access control by reviewing documentation, identifying suitable services and configurations, and evaluating how the integration would fit within the current system architecture, open sourcing the Golden Age. Supporting images of the related work are provided below.

CODE CRAFTERS SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT TEAM

The Code Crafters Team, covering their work on the Highest Good Network software, was managed by Vivek Chandra Bengaluru Suresh (Software Engineer) and includes Akshith Kumar Reddy Balappagari Gnaneswara (Software Engineer – Full Stack), Bhanu Anish Akkineni (Software Engineer), Chaitanya Swaroop Kumar Allu (Software Engineer), Shreya Padaganur (Software Engineer), and Sphurthy Satish (Software Engineer). The Highest Good Network software manages and objectively measures our progress in open sourcing the Golden Age by coordinating social architecture, construction, production, and maintenance efforts that pioneer a prototype solution engine for global challenges and support scalable, lasting access to regenerative lifestyles worldwide.

This week, Akshith completed several Phase 3 UI fixes, including resolving the overlap of the “No events available” message with the search filters, adding missing Apply and Clear buttons, implementing pagination for the activity list, and correcting missing year information in event dates. These updates were completed through targeted styling improvements and added filter functionality to meet UI requirements. Anish completed the inventory page for the Kitchen and Inventory portal by implementing required UI components, adding dark mode support, and ensuring responsiveness across screen sizes. He raised a pull request to merge the frontend work into the development branch and then began backend development for inventory management, creating API endpoints, routes, controller logic, and schemas to support adding, updating, and deleting inventory items. This work supports open sourcing the Golden Age.

Chaitanya advanced Phase 2 dashboard features and stabilized the MailChimp Replacement workflow. He implemented the Workforce Skill-Gap bar chart with multi-select filters, integrated it into the Weekly Project Summary dashboard with Redux-based data handling, and resolved build and linting issues. He also finalized the Material Stock-Out Risk Indicator by fixing backend logic, improving frontend scalability, and submitting related pull requests. In parallel, he reviewed and improved the MailChimp Replacement email workflow by resolving logic issues, standardizing error handling, and improving test compatibility. Shreya reviewed the codebase and internal documentation to take ownership of PR4157 and PR1772, analyzed feature requirements, and began frontend development. Her work focuses on building a configurable user state indicator for the Dashboard Tasks and Weekly Summaries pages, including emoji-supported states, date tracking, real-time updates, and permission-based controls. Relevant Week 4 screenshots were uploaded for documentation. These updates support the mission of open sourcing the Golden Age.

Meanwhile, Vivek Chandra continued work on resolving issues related to displaying resolved tasks, investigating a long-standing underlying issue, and supporting Shreya by clarifying task requirements. The collage below highlights this team’s progress. These efforts collectively reinforce One Community’s mission and long-term commitment to open sourcing the Golden Age. Visual examples from his work are presented below.

DEV DYNASTY SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT TEAM

The Dev Dynasty Team’s summary, covering their work on the Highest Good Network software, was managed by Ashutosh Mishra (Software Engineer) and includes Adithya Cherukuri (Volunteer Software Engineer), Deekshith Kumar Singirikonda (Developer), Neeraj Kondaveeti (Software Engineer) and Sriamsh Reddy (Software Engineer). The Highest Good Network software is how we’ll manage and objectively measure our processes for open sourcing a better world for us all through our social architecture, construction, production, and maintenance processes. This progress supports One Community in open sourcing the Golden Age.

This week Adithya worked on the HGN Software Development project by completing the Back button fix on the Lessons page and progressing the non-functional Edit Tool feature, resolving remaining linting issues, verifying backward navigation, pushing updated code with documented changes, and implementing a Redux-based asynchronous update action along with a new UpdateToolModal component using Reactstrap with pre-filled data and validation, while also preparing weekly documentation and reviewing uploaded images. Deekshith developed a React-based issue or dashboard header component integrated with Redux to consume global state such as theme, user, and project data, managed local UI state for tabs and search behavior, triggered project data fetching on component mount, and implemented a CSS module to style a centered, card-like container with responsive support for light and dark themes. These efforts align with One Community’s vision of open sourcing the Golden Age.

Neeraj focused on frontend enhancements to improve data usability by adding client-side export functionality in CSV and Excel formats to multiple pages, ensuring exported data reflected visible columns and current views, handling row selection, excluding action elements, adding loading and disabled states to prevent repeated actions, making minor UI spacing adjustments, updating dependencies, resolving linting issues enforced by pre-commit hooks, and preparing detailed pull request descriptions with testing instructions. Sriamsh completed validation and submission of user experience improvements for the Equipment Daily Activity Log by verifying project-based filtering, submission handling, empty-state messaging, layout behavior, and related network activity before raising a pull request, and also investigated the Project Risk Profile task by identifying a routing issue where the intended path redirected to the main dashboard, locating an existing ProjectRiskProfileOverview component within another view, and communicating findings to clarify whether a new route or restoration of prior behavior was required. See the Highest Good Society and Highest Good Network pages for more on how this relates to our mission of open sourcing the Golden Age. Explore some of the team’s work in the collage below.

LUCKY STAR SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT TEAM

The Lucky Star Team’s summary, covering their work on the Highest Good Network, was managed by Keerthana Chitturi (System Administrator) and Sohail Uddin Syed (Software Engineer). The team includes contributions from Aryan Rachala (Software Engineer), Chirag Bellara (Software Engineer), Shashank Madan (Software Engineer), Shravya Kudlu (Software Development Engineer), Veda Bellam (Software Engineer), Venkataramanan Venkateswaran (Software Engineer) and Vinay Krishna (Software Engineer). Their work supports One Community’s goal of open sourcing the Golden Age through cross-functional software development and ongoing system improvements.

This week, Aryan worked on Phase 3 fixes for the Activity Attendance page by correcting percentage calculation and display logic to resolve rounding and floating-point precision issues. He updated the donut chart to ensure all segments summed to 100 percent, improved label spacing and tooltip clarity, and implemented dynamic re-rendering so chart data updated automatically when attendance values changed. Multiple scenarios were tested to confirm correct calculations and visual accuracy. These frontend updates contribute to open sourcing the Golden Age. Chirag worked on adding the Attendance Confirmation message on the Database Design screen.

He implemented a toast notification that displays a confirmation message when the button is clicked and disables the button to prevent multiple registrations. After confirming with Jae that the page should redirect to the registration screen, he worked on fixing the related route and applied a temporary solution to support end-to-end testing of the confirmation message functionality. This work contributes to open sourcing the Golden Age. Shashank reviewed the current implementation and reproduced a filtering issue locally, identifying incorrect use of .includes() instead of .startswith(). He refactored the code by extracting mock data into a separate file, added placeholder API logic with fallback handling, corrected autocomplete behavior, and updated event display logic to ensure only properly filtered events were shown. These refinements contribute to open sourcing the Golden Age.

Shravya resolved merge conflicts in pull request 3926 and addressed bugs identified through review comments. She continued investigating issue 3824 related to lost time discrepancies by identifying missing team name capture during submission and delayed data reflection, applying fixes for identified issues and documenting remaining findings. These backend updates contribute to open sourcing the Golden Age. Sohail refactored the badge assignment system to correct logic errors affecting badge counts and replacement behavior. He converted callback-based badge utilities to promise-based asynchronous functions, implemented sequential processing to ensure correct badge replacement, and updated streak and personal record logic to prevent race conditions during database updates. These improvements contribute to open sourcing the golden age.

Veda worked on the Listing and Bidding Dashboard by creating a donut chart titled Sentiment Breakdown within the Reviews section. She integrated the chart structure with test data, fixed rendering issues, refined dark mode compatibility, adjusted layout and spacing for mobile responsiveness, and ensured visual consistency with existing dashboard components. These updates contribute to open sourcing the Golden Age.

Venkataramanan worked on frontend and backend fixes to improve usability and system behavior, including correcting header logo alignment, fixing blue square ordering and display logic, updating leaderboard styling, improving WBS navigation behavior, prioritizing email delivery logic, and ensuring only active members appeared in resource dropdowns. These fixes contribute to open sourcing the Golden Age. Vinay worked on improving chart visibility in the Total Construction Summary dashboard by addressing a hover-triggered rendering issue. He introduced a visible placeholder state when filters were not applied, ensured charts rendered immediately after filters changed, limited hover behavior to tooltips, and reviewed accessibility and contrast behavior. This refinement contributes to open sourcing the Golden Age. See the Highest Good Society and Highest Good Network pages to learn more about how this work supports open sourcing the Golden Age. See the collage below highlighting the team’s work for the week.

MOONFALL SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT TEAM

The Moonfall Team’s summary, which covers their work on the Highest Good Network, was managed by Uha Kruthi (Software Engineer) and includes Aayush Shetty (Software Engineer), Sai Krishna (Software Engineer), Mani Shashank Marneni (Software Engineer), and Sudheesh Thuralkalmakki Dharmappa Gowda (Full Stack Developer). Their efforts support One Community by advancing the mission of open sourcing the Golden Age through open-source collaboration, ecologically responsible innovation, and holistic global progress.

This week, Uha addressed multiple UI visibility issues in the Distribution of Labour Hours chart by resolving low-contrast text problems in both light and dark modes, improving percentage label readability using theme-aware styling without changing placement, fixing invisible Submit button text in light mode, and correcting text visibility across chart labels, legends, and tooltips to ensure consistent readability. This contribution supports the long-term goal of open sourcing the Golden Age. Sai focused on backend performance, security, and code quality improvements for the labor hours functionality by implementing caching with a five-minute time-to-live to reduce repeated database queries, integrating JWT authentication, applying role-based access control to restrict access to authorized users, and refactoring an oversized controller by extracting helper functions for aggregation, validation, and formatting logic to meet linting requirements.

Sudheesh worked on resolving dark mode chart styling and visibility issues by updating frontend components for the Supplier Performance Chart, improving readability and visual consistency, resolving remaining UI issues, merging changes into version control, documenting a testing strategy, and aligning updates with existing coding standards. These efforts strengthen the path toward open sourcing the Golden Age.

Aayush worked across multiple Phase 2 tasks by fixing an issue where the Create New Team page was not displaying through requirement review and local bug resolution, documenting progress with screenshots, attempting to set up BM Dashboard work related to the Equipment Update form and Tool Detail data binding while requesting clarification due to routing uncertainty, and addressing a CI workflow issue associated with an existing backend pull request. Mani worked on a high-priority task to build a Sankey Diagram conversion funnel by configuring the testing environment with URL createObjectURL and revokeObjectURL mocks in Vitest to prevent Plotly-related test failures in jsdom, implementing the mocks across both Node and window contexts for broader test coverage, and developing the Sankey-based conversion funnel component with interactive filters, Plotly rendering, and a mock data generation system. Visit the Highest Good Society and Highest Good Network pages for more on how this work supports open sourcing the Golden Age through open-source development and globally accessible resources. The collage portrayed below depicts the team’s efforts for the week.

REACTONAUTS SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT TEAM

The Reactonauts team summary was managed by Akshay Jayaram (Software Engineer) and Iteesha Vishalakshi Aswath (Technical Program Manager), and it includes Aseem Deshmukh (Software Developer), Guna Pranith Reddy Cheelam (Software Developer), Kristin Dingchuan Hu (Software Engineer), Namitha Vijaykumar Pawar (Software Engineer), Peterson Rodrigues dos Santos (Full Stack Developer), Siva Putti (Software Engineer), Sri Satya Venkatasai Siri Sudheeksha Vavila (Software Engineer), and Suparshwa Patil (Software Engineer). The Highest Good Network software helps manage and objectively measure progress by focusing on open sourcing the Golden Age. It supports social architecture, construction, production, and maintenance processes to build sustainable and thriving ecosystems in order to work towards open sourcing the Golden Age.

This week, Akshay added a sorting option to the community portal database design feature by extending state management to support sortable fields, implementing client-side sorting logic for multiple data types, integrating the control into the existing user interface, and opening PR47250. He also prepared the weekly team review, tracking contributor progress, and hosting the weekly team call. Aseem updated PR4354 to improve bar chart responsiveness across screen sizes by aligning the implementation with review feedback and began Phase 2 work on improving the Financials Dashboard by defining color-based indicators to highlight cost overruns and underspends. Guna Pranith continued refining the listings home page frontend by addressing review feedback on PR3999, focusing on image GET request error fixes and corrected tab heading behavior, and advanced the Phase 3 Re-Engagement Strategies task by investigating a Page Not Found error affecting the log attendance route in the development environment. The progress made this week contributes to our long-term goal of open sourcing the Golden Age.

Kristin completed the calendar view dropdown implementation on the community calendar, added dark mode support for the weekly view grid, refactored related frontend code, tested the changes, opened PR4717, and reviewed approximately a dozen existing pull requests by applying updates, resolving merge conflicts, and ensuring automated checks passed. Namitha implemented comprehensive filter functionality for the Listing and Bidding Dashboard by adding date range selectors, comparison type selection between Villages and Properties, a Listing and Bidding toggle with validation, grouped metric selection across Demand, Revenue, and Vacancy categories, and conditional disabling of auction-only metrics, delivering the work in PR4718. Peterson improved the responsiveness of the User Permission Management page in PR4711 by ensuring action buttons maintain consistent sizing and reposition below the role list on smaller screens while remaining aligned beside it on larger screens. This work supports collaborative progress in open sourcing the Golden Age.

Siva resolved merge conflicts and added a minimum date constraint to prevent past date selection in PR4338, addressed code quality issues by removing unused imports and fixing routing conflicts in PR4553, and refactored ActivityAgenda.jsx to reduce cognitive complexity, apply safer data access, and replace legacy checks in PR4434. This work plays a role in open sourcing the Golden Age through coordinated, real-world implementation.

Sudheeksha worked 20 hours across three days on Phase 2 tasks to add separate inputs for tools and equipment, troubleshooting pull request issues and ultimately completing and submitting the finalized pull request. Suparshwa Patil refined the chatbot prompt to restrict responses strictly to provided documentation, began developing an orchestration layer for managing persistent conversational memory, and modified application-layer endpoints to support these changes. See the Highest Good Network and Highest Good Society pages to learn more about how this work supports open sourcing the Golden Age. See below for the picture collage of the work done by the Reactonauts team towards open sourcing the Golden Age.

SKYE SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT TEAM

The Skye Team’s summary, covering their work on the Highest Good Network, was managed by Sayantan Paul (Frontend Tester and Software Team Administrator) and Anthony Weathers (Software Engineer). The team includes Marcus Yi (Software Engineer) and Swathi Angadi (Software Engineer). The Highest Good Network software objectively tracks and manages progress, supporting social architecture, construction, production, and maintenance processes that foster sustainable and thriving ecosystems and plays a major role in open sourcing the Golden Age.

This week, Marcus worked on the frontend and backend branches for the Facebook auto poster feature. He implemented dark mode changes, resolved merge conflicts, addressed failing tests across both codebases, and submitted the frontend and backend pull requests. While the Facebook posting workflow awaited external approval, he shifted focus to developing posting functionality for X and continued progress on that integration during the wait. This progress reflects continued momentum in advancing open sourcing the Golden Age through open, collaborative development.

Swathi implemented the edit functionality for the “Edit name/measurement” button in the materials page in bmdashboard, added form validations and handled error scenarios on both the frontend and backend. She provided user feedback through toast notifications for error messages, resolved the filtering issue on the materials page, updated the filters to allow users to filter by project and material and began work on the view update history feature for the selected material. This work contributes to advancing open sourcing the Golden Age through practical, repeatable development.

Anthony worked on the pull requests for changes to default permissions applied to users. He provided feedback on PR#3600 and PR#1447 by updating the permission change logs to vary text styling and column emphasis based on the reason for each change. He pushed these updates and coordinated with a colleague regarding a recent code change that introduced an issue when saving user updates. He also continued work on PR#3917 and PR#1668, reviewing and testing the code to better understand the flow, made incremental changes to ensure role permissions were displayed in the modal during initial viewing, and added star icons carried over from PR#3600 to visually indicate differences between role permissions and the permissions a user would have after a role change. By addressing these challenges, the Skye team’s work reinforces long-term stability in stewardship tracking features and helps realize open sourcing the Golden Age by strengthening scalable, transparent systems within the broader Highest Good Network (HGN) infrastructure.

See the Highest Good Society and Highest Good Network pages for more on how this contribution aligns with One Community’s goals by enabling and accelerating open sourcing the Golden Age within the Highest Good Network open source hub. See the collage below for the team’s work.

SOFTWARE PR REVIEW TEAM A-N

The PR Review Team’s summary for members with names starting A–N, managed by Neeharika Kamireddy (Data Analyst), highlights their contributions to the Highest Good Network software. This platform forms the foundation for measuring our results in open sourcing the Golden Age. Active team members included Abdelmounaim Lallouache (Software Developer), Abhinav Tharamel Baiju (Software Engineer), Carl Bebli (Software Developer), Ganesh Gadicherla (Software Engineer), Julia Ha (Software Engineer), and Nathan Hoffman (Software Engineer). They supported the project by reviewing all pull requests shared this week. Learn more about how the Highest Good Network tracks progress toward open sourcing the Golden Age in the Highest Good Network open source hub. The collage below showcases a compilation of this team’s work.

SOFTWARE PR REVIEW TEAM O-Z

The PR Review Team’s summary for team members with names starting from O–Z, covering their work on the Highest Good Network software, was managed by Jaiwanth Reddy Adavalli (Software Project Manager). The Highest Good Network software is a foundation for measuring our results in open sourcing the Golden Age. This week’s active members of this team were: Rohan Rastogi (Software Engineer), Sai Shravan Neelamsetty (Software Engineer), Sundar Machani (Software Engineer), Vikas Meneni (Software Engineer), and Yiyun Tan (Software Engineer). They reviewed all the Highest Good Network PRs (Pull Requests) shared in this week’s update. Learn more about how the Highest Good Network open source hub measures progress towards our goal of open sourcing the Golden Age. The collage below shows a compilation of the work from this team.

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