At One Community, we are pursuing eco-civilization design and implementation for a global audience seeking real, replicable change. Our all-volunteer team is building a self-replicating model that puts global stewardship practices into action across food, energy, housing, education, economics, and social architecture, each part designed to demonstrate regeneration in a growing network of teacher/demonstration hubs. Our complete process is open source and freely shared, because we’re 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

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 July 27, 2026 edition (#697) of our weekly progress update detailing our team’s development and accomplishments:

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HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING PROGRESS

One Community is demonstrating eco-civilization design and implementation 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 eco-civilization design and implementation: 7 Sustainable Village Models
    • Visit the open source portals for the first two: Earthbag Village OS Hub | Straw Bale Village OS Hub

This week, Chanikya Sita (Volunteer Civil/Transportation Engineer) finalized the Sustainable Roads and Sustainable Parking Lot Adaptation Guide and the Land Purchasing and Transportation Infrastructure Due Diligence document. A table of contents was added to improve navigation throughout both documents, and titles were added to every table to improve clarity and consistency. Hyperlinks were also added to all references, connecting each source title to its official online page. In addition, Chanikya backed up all reference materials as PDFs and organized them into a shared Dropbox resources folder, while images of the completed work were added to a dedicated images folder in accordance with One Community’s documentation standards. This work supports eco-civilization design and implementation by improving the accessibility, organization, and reliability of open source transportation and infrastructure resources. See below for some of the pictures related to this work.

Devendranath Chowdary Maganti (Data Analyst) updated the Highest Good Energy and Aircrete webpages by integrating new project content, revising existing sections, and incorporating the latest documentation and visualizations. He also reviewed the Highest Good Food documentation and related project materials to better understand the data and planning requirements for developing the timeline dashboard. In addition, Devendranath supported the Training Team by reviewing onboarding blogs, providing feedback to new volunteers, and assisting with training-related activities. He also completed regular Administration Team responsibilities and contributed to the team’s weekly administrative workflow. His efforts contribute to eco-civilization design and implementation by making sustainability resources more accessible while strengthening collaboration, knowledge sharing, and volunteer development. Below, you’ll find some images of this work.

Sagar Chavan (Transportation Engineer) continued working on the Sustainable Roadways and Sustainable Parking Lot Designs project by updating and refining technical documentation related to roadway layouts, parking lot planning, and stormwater management concepts. He reviewed existing project materials to improve the organization and clarity of the open source tutorials while verifying implementation details and cost analysis information for consistency. Sagar also compared the roadway design content with rainwater harvesting and drainage documentation to ensure alignment across related project resources. In addition, he prepared notes to support the development of guidance for adapting roadway and parking lot designs to different site conditions and coordinated with the project collaborator to maintain consistency between the design documentation and planned updates. His work supports eco-civilization design and implementation by strengthening practical, open source guidance for sustainable transportation and integrated water management systems. See below for some of the pictures related to this work.

DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER PROGRESS

One Community is demonstrating eco-civilization design and implementation through a Duplicable and Sustainable City Center that is LEED Platinum certified/Sustainable, can feed 200 people at a time, provide laundry for over 300 people, is beautiful, spacious, and saves resources, money, and space:

• • • Learn about this building, its function, eco-civilization design and implementation: Duplicable City Center Open Source Hub

This week, Bevan Chiu (Mechanical Engineer) continued his work finishing the City Center Eco-spa Designs. He worked on checking the Hot Tub Design calculations and evaluating the spa tub flooring finite element analysis (FEA). For the Hot Tub Design calculations, he revised the startup heating calculation to account for heat loss, added missing variables to the waterfall plumbing calculations, and provided recommendations for the electric load calculations. For the flooring FEA analysis, Bevan recalculated the applied loads, including hydrostatic pressure and stepping pressure, refined the boundary conditions and mesh aspect ratio, and evaluated the resulting stress and displacement outputs. This open source Duplicable City Center project focuses on eco-civilization design and implementation. For more details, refer to the image below.

Shivarama Krishna Revanuru (Mechanical Engineer) continued working on the Duplicable City Center design. The report sections covering the finite element analysis (FEA) of the spa cover hinge and Plate 2 were completed by incorporating result images and revising the content based on feedback from Jae and team members. Previous report sections were proofread to identify and correct errors, improve consistency, and ensure that no gaps remained in the documentation. The report was updated to incorporate the latest revisions and finite element analysis results. This open source Duplicable City Center project demonstrates eco-civilization design and implementation. The images below illustrate aspects of this work.

Nidish Reddy Koppula (Mechanical Engineer) continued working on the Duplicable City Center design. He worked on finite element analysis for the open source elevator design, including the elevator cab chassis, hydraulic rod-to-cab bracket, lift shaft, and full lift assembly. He set up boundary conditions and mesh controls for the cab chassis analysis, completed the cab frame FEA, and reviewed the results to check whether the frame could handle the applied and additional load cases. He also worked on the analysis of the bracket connecting the hydraulic rod to the lift cab and completed hand calculations to support verification of the lift shaft analysis setup. Nidish then set up and completed the lift shaft FEA, reviewed the results, and confirmed that the updated shaft design met the intended load requirements for the current analysis stage. He finished the week by completing finite element analysis on the full lift assembly and its critical components. This open source Duplicable City Center project presents eco-civilization design and implementation. For more details, refer to the image below.

Sri Vidya Sai Thumu (Mechanical Design Engineer) continued developing the City Center Eco-spa Designs. She worked on the spa tub flooring structural support and insulation layout design in SOLIDWORKS 2026. She updated the structural support assembly by refining the aluminum perimeter frame, support legs, and floor panel layout while incorporating non-welded mechanical connections throughout the design. Sri Vidya added heavy-duty corner gusset brackets at the frame corners, L-angle brackets between the aluminum joists and perimeter frame, flat plate connectors between the floor panel and frame, and corner brackets connecting the frame to the support legs. She evaluated bracket placement, connector locations, and fastener arrangements to improve load transfer and structural stability while maintaining a bolted assembly. Sri Vidya coordinated with her supervisor regarding finite element analysis, reviewed the proposed loading conditions for hydrostatic pressure, gravity, and stepping loads, updated the CAD model based on feedback, repositioned the center support leg, and uploaded the revised assembly for structural validation. She also documented design changes, prepared the assembly for FEA, and organized updated CAD files and supporting images for project review and submission. This open source Duplicable City Center project focused on eco-civilization design and implementation. For more details, refer to the image below.

HIGHEST GOOD FOOD PROGRESS

One Community is demonstrating eco-civilization design and implementation 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 eco-civilization design and implementation: 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/Supplies List for the Large-scale Garden, Botanical Garden, and other Highest Good Food components, focusing on summarizing data from a video regarding Amish wood preservation and incorporated the findings into the Master TEMS document for future use on the One Community website. The method involves a mixture of pine tar, boiled linseed oil, turpentine, and beeswax, a practice historically used by the Vikings, Romans, and Amish for wooden fencing and construction. This technique is documented to extend the functional lifespan of wood for over a century. Further research was conducted for suppliers that carry large quantities of pure turpentine. Their efforts contribute to One Community’s mission of eco-civilization design and implementation through open source collaboration, ecologically responsible innovation, and a focus on long-term global development. The collage below portrays the team’s efforts and achievements for the week.

Jay Nair (BIM Designer) continued working on the Aquapini and Walipini Planting and Harvesting documents. He worked on validating the greenhouse lighting energy calculator by reviewing each zone against the documented step-by-step calculations. The work focused on comparing calculation outputs with the written methodology, checking the accuracy of formulas, verifying linked inputs and zone-specific data, and identifying any discrepancies requiring correction. These updates support the ongoing refinement of the calculator and improve consistency across all lighting energy calculations for Walipini 1. These updates improve the stability and adaptability of shared systems, supporting the broader goal of eco-civilization design and implementation. See the collage below portraying the work done this week.

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

HIGHEST GOOD ENERGY PROGRESS

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

This week, the core team continued contributing to the Highest Good Energy initiative, part of One Community’s work demonstrating eco-civilization design and implementation. They followed up with Shameera and Rishikesh to provide guidance on their assigned tasks. The team also reviewed sections of the Vermiculture Eco-Toilet document again, completed their review of the Aircrete document, and added comments with suggested revisions. They reviewed the Goats document and inserted a placeholder for a video. In addition, the team continued updating the food infrastructure cost analysis documents by adding and organizing project cost information. See the collage below for a snapshot of their work this week.

Rohan Pariakar (Operations and Supply Chain Analyst) continued working for the Highest Good Energy initiative, part of One Community’s broader work demonstrating eco-civilization design and implementation, consolidating the project’s energy analysis and solar infrastructure workbooks by migrating validated calculations and supporting data from the development copy into the original project workbook. He updated dynamic cross-sheet references to maintain data integrity after the migration, resolving formula and reference errors introduced by the workbook restructuring. Rohan rebuilt and standardized data visualizations, including category-based pie charts and summary graphics, to accurately reflect the latest energy demand analysis. He also verified engineering calculations, reconciled procurement cost estimates by resolving panel cost precision and rounding inconsistencies, and ensured consistency across the Energy Analysis, Solar Sizing, Master Planning, and Solar Infrastructure workbooks. These improvements established a cleaner, more maintainable workbook structure with reliable dynamic references, standardized visual reporting, and enhanced traceability for future engineering analysis, procurement planning, and project documentation. See the collage below for highlights of his work.

HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION PROGRESS

One Community is demonstrating eco-civilization design and implementation 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, eco-civilization design and implementation: How to use the Education for Life Program
  
• Lesson Plans for Life – Lesson Plans How-to
• Foundations of Outstanding Leaders, Teachers, and Communicators
• Curriculum for Life
• Teaching Strategies for Life
• Learning Tools and Toys for Life
• Evaluation and Evolution

Isaiah “Isa” Hernandez (Graphic Designer) created seven new spreads for The Ultimate Classroom, a project demonstrating eco-civilization design and implementation, including content explaining why the project exists, project details, and the purposes of the Red Room through the Blue Room. He also updated the biographies from the previous week based on additional revisions and specific requests provided by Sara. See the collage below for a snapshot of his work this week.

Navya Eeshani Boyapati (Web Designer) continued working on The Ultimate Classroom webpage by updating and organizing content for the 959 4-Dome Home MEP Engineering page, improving HTML formatting, adding and adjusting image captions, ensuring proper alignment, optimizing SEO elements including image alt text and keywords, and making corrections based on the provided documentation and webpage requirements. She also began reviewing the Aquapini/Walipini planting page content, identifying areas for improvement and starting SEO optimization for all images to improve accessibility and search visibility. See the collage below for a snapshot of this week’s

HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY PROGRESS

One Community is demonstrating eco-civilization design and implementation 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 eco-civilization design and implementation: 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 46 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. They also interviewed and onboarded new volunteer team members. Additionally, they produced and integrated the video above about demonstrating eco-civilization design and implementation and how demonstrating eco-civilization design and implementation serves as a foundational element of One Community’s broader mission. The following images showcase their work.

Pooja Kulkarni (UI/UX Designer) continued developing and refining the One Community philanthropic pitch deck. She organized the presentation into a clear narrative covering the sustainability challenge, One Community’s integrated solution demonstrating eco-civilization design and implementation, global replication model, proof of work, phased development roadmap, funding requirements, long-term sustainability, accountability, and the final philanthropic ask. Pooja also strengthened the visual storytelling by creating and improving supporting graphics for areas such as property acquisition, food and energy infrastructure, the Earthbag Village and City Center, working capital, and open source documentation. Her work emphasized a consistent visual identity, stronger information hierarchy, simplified messaging, and a more persuasive presentation flow designed to communicate the organization’s mission and the impact of the proposed $25 million funding opportunity. See the collage below for snapshots of her work.

Adhya Rastogi (Business Analyst) continued reviewing the Total Organization Summary Dashboard to verify the status of previously reported issues, cross-checked the Root Cause Matrix, bug documentation, and tracking spreadsheet, updated testing records, and shared unresolved issues requiring further developer attention with Jae. She continued Reddit engagement by publishing a discussion post, contributing comments through both the PostByPurpose and One Community accounts, and monitoring community interactions to better understand engagement patterns. Adhya also optimized Google Ads for multiple webpages by updating headlines, descriptions, keyword targeting, and negative keywords, reviewing campaign settings and optimization recommendations, and verifying that the ads aligned with campaign objectives and landing page content. She completed SEO optimization for the Mission and Purpose page, which is focused on demonstrating eco-civilization design and implementation, by improving content structure, heading hierarchy, keyword placement, metadata, internal linking, readability, and analytics tracking, updating the SEO tracking spreadsheet, and verifying the implemented changes in WordPress. See the collage below for highlights of her work.

Valentina Collini (Designer) continued creating social media images to support One Community’s outreach efforts, designing graphics that align with the organization’s visual standards and effectively communicate its mission of demonstrating eco-civilization design and implementation. She also reviewed and refined volunteer biographies, making corrections to improve accuracy, consistency, and overall presentation. In addition, Valentina carefully checked content for errors and implemented necessary updates, helping maintain the quality of both the website and promotional materials. Her work contributed to strengthening One Community’s online presence while ensuring that volunteer profiles and related content remained clear, professional, and up to date. See the collage below for highlights of her work.

ADMINISTRATION TEAM

The Administration Team’s summary, which covers their work on the Highest Good Network, was managed by Devendranath Chowdary Maganti (Data Analyst) and includes Leo Lishin Shiu (Software Engineer), Olawunmi “Ola” Ijisesan (Administrative and Management Support), Pranjul Garg (Business Analyst), Sachit Varma (Business Operations & Cost Analyst), Sai Sree Dongari (Data Analyst), Sayantan Paul (Frontend Tester and Software Team Administrator), Tanmay Nihal Harwani (Data Scientist), and Yeshwanth Nanjegowda (Full-Stack Software Engineer). The Administration Team supports the Highest Good Network, a tool designed to track and measure progress while developing systems that contribute to demonstrating eco-civilization design and implementation. Through administrative support, documentation, testing, training, recruitment, analytics, and content management, the team helps advance this mission, aligning with One Community’s vision of building a replicable and sustainable future model.

This week, Leo reviewed and compiled the 17LeDCC and 20LeFOD team weekly summaries, created blog collages, scheduled Facebook and Instagram posts, loaded previous week insights, and reviewed social media analytics including the newly added Mastodon platform. Ola reviewed the Pinterest social media account, prepared administrative folder dropboxes, organized the Google Workspace environment, verified account settings, updated directory structures, archived outdated documents, and consolidated shared drive folders. These social media management and administrative organization efforts contribute to demonstrating eco-civilization design and implementation.

Pranjul managed volunteer time log monitoring, identified and corrected logging issues, guided volunteers on updates, maintained activity records, scheduled Tumblr and Medium posts, gathered team project updates, and published WordPress blogs for multiple teams. Sachit developed a structured funding matrix with financial capacity screening, weighted evaluation criteria, standardized scoring methods, and sustainability-focused assessment categories. He researched potential funders, evaluated funding alignment, discussed business planning and funding continuity with management, and improved the framework for comparing prospective funding opportunities. These administrative, research, and planning activities contribute to demonstrating eco-civilization design and implementation.

Sai Sree organized PR review images, created collages, finalized PR Admin Team blog content, reviewed candidate profiles, completed interviews, documented hiring feedback, performed frontend testing across forms, search, filters, charts, validation, and theme compatibility, documented merged PRs, assigned testing items, and provided training feedback. Sayantan completed OC Administration responsibilities by submitting team blogs, performing peer reviews, identifying formatting and SEO issues, reviewing training work, updating feedback tracking, and guiding administrators on summaries, image titles, SEO text, folder naming, and contribution descriptions. These quality assurance, administration, and collaboration activities contribute to demonstrating eco-civilization design and implementation.

Tanmay continued bio administration, blog management, social media coordination, and administrative reviews by updating bios, collecting missing information, merging team blogs, completing SEO optimization, reviewing new admin work, creating Threads posts, updating the Social Media Master Dashboard, and maintaining tracking sheets. Yeshwanth completed onboarding tasks by reviewing documentation, completing checklists, adding feedback in Google Docs, organizing files through Dropbox, reviewing team members’ work, preparing team summaries, updating WordPress pages and Google Docs, and maintaining accurate content across documentation systems. These documentation, content management, and training activities contribute to demonstrating eco-civilization design and implementation. See the collage below for highlights of this week’s work.

HIGHEST GOOD NETWORK PROGRESS

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

• Learn about our open source community collaboration, management software, eco-civilization design and implementation: The Highest Good Network

This week, the core team continued testing pull requests on the main branch for the Highest Good Network, a platform demonstrating eco-civilization design and implementation. They confirmed that 15 fixed pull requests were resolved and identified that 11 pull requests were still not fixed. The team was also unable to test several pull requests because the required data was not available on the main branch. These included BM Dashboard – Add .module.css for /BMDashboard/RentalChart/RentalChart (PR #4092), Phase 2: Create an Interactive List of Open Issues (PRs #4800 and #2032), and Improve the Functioning of Tools/EquipmentUpdate Page (PR #4972). See the collage below to view the team’s work.

ALPHA SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT TEAM

The Alpha Team’s summary, covering their work on the Highest Good Network, was managed by Lin Khant Htel (Frontend Software Developer) and Sayantan Paul (Frontend Tester and Software Team Administrator) with a team consisting of Casstiel Pi (Software Engineer), Handika Harianto Ew Jong (Full Stack Developer), Maithili Kalkar (Software Engineer), Sai Sandeep (Software Engineer), and Som Ramnani (Junior Software Engineer) supporting One Community’s mission of cross-functional software development and system improvements. This work advances the team’s objectives, ensuring that all completed tasks directly contribute to eco-civilization design and implementation.

This week, Lin managed the weekly work summary for Team Alpha, reviewed PR #5319 by reviewing the code and running tests locally, verified Alpha team members’ weekly summaries, photos, and videos as part of team management duties. Casstiel completed and refined the Weekly Project Summary frontend updates, including the active project and week banner, Expand All and Collapse All controls, comparison toggle structure, section badges, empty-state support, loading feedback, dark mode styling, print behavior, and layout improvements for comparison mode. They confirmed that additional backend support is required for comparison data and badge counts, implemented and tested the /issues/breakdown endpoint, verified the Issues Breakdown chart using backend data, submitted the frontend pull request with notes on the remaining backend dependency, and began reviewing the Purchase Request enhancement task, furthering One Community’s mission of demonstrating eco-civilization design and implementation.

Handika completed PR #5405 by replacing the completed tasks chart with a paginated react-table, adding page size controls, retaining total logged time and completed task counts, improving the mobile layout, formatting time values, adding an empty state, and supporting dark mode. Maithili continued the Instagram auto-poster work by setting up ngrok, configuring Instagram and Meta Developer accounts, reviewing the existing frontend and backend implementation, investigating authentication and credential issues, creating a trial account for testing, and tracing integration issues affecting the feature. These combined technical improvements support the objective of demonstrating eco-civilization design and implementation.

Sai completed PR #4810 by restricting promotions to unpromoted users, adding toast notifications, updated backend PR #2270 to exclude promoted users from retrieval, and resolved an underlying issue through PR #5398 after collaborating with community members. Som resolved merge conflicts in PR #5189 while preserving filtering, sorting, dark mode, PDF export, list view, column alignment, and the More and Show Less functionality in MyCases, verified the changes with tests and code quality checks, resolved stylesheet conflicts in PR #4987 while retaining pagination and search functionality, and updated Community Portal routing in PR #4712 by resolving route conflicts and aligning navigation with registered resource management paths. This work advances the goal of demonstrating eco-civilization design and implementation through improvements to system efficiency and usability. The collage below offers a visual representation of the team’s work for the week.

BINARY BRIGADE SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT TEAM

The Team Brigade’s summary, covering their work on the Highest Good Network, was managed by Roshini Seelamsetty (Software Engineer) and Sayantan Paul (Frontend Tester and Software Team Administrator) with a team consisting of Amaan Syed (Volunteer Software Engineer), Mahitha Pasupuleti (Software Engineer), and Manoj Puttaswamy (Software Engineer). Roshini coordinated the weekly summary workflow, ensuring all technical milestones aligned with the project’s goal of demonstrating eco-civilization design and implementation.

This week Amaan worked on frontend development and follow-up tasks across multiple HighestGoodNetworkApp pull requests. His work included merging the latest development branch, resolving merge conflicts, addressing reviewer feedback, updating Injury Trend Chart filter alignment, project filtering logic, duplicate project handling, tooltips, hover behavior, and dark mode readability, and validating functionality before requesting review. He also worked on the Resource Management Dashboard by updating Request ID and Certification ID search functionality, refining dark mode readability, modifying table hover behavior, testing search, filters, actions, responsive layouts, dark mode, and user access behavior, and updating the pull request for review contributing to One Community’s mission of eco-civilization design and implementation.

In addition, Amaan worked on the People Report page by updating responsive layouts across desktop, tablet, and mobile viewports, modifying report layouts and dark mode styling, updating report table hover behavior, refining the Infringement modal layout and responsiveness, correcting profile column layout issues, testing across multiple screen sizes, and addressing reviewer feedback, furthering One Community’s mission of demonstrating eco-civilization design and implementation.

Mahitha worked on the Kitchen Inventory Management feature by creating the Suppliers section of the Orders page in PR #5106. Her work included implementing a supplier grid with supplier details, actions for viewing pricing history, editing supplier information, and creating supplier orders through external website links stored in the database, integrating CSS modules, and supporting responsive layouts, light and dark themes, and accessibility requirements. She also worked on the Seed Inventory section for the Garden Management page in PR #5111 by implementing functionality to display collected seed information, updating seed variety counts in summary cards, integrating CSS modules, and supporting responsive layouts, light and dark themes, and accessibility requirements, furthering One Community’s mission of demonstrating eco-civilization design and implementation.

Manoj worked on BMDashboard updates by addressing issues related to searchable multi-select filter components across inventory categories, updating localStorage handling, restoring filter user interface elements, resolving sort header functionality issues, addressing dropdown display behavior, updating Reset button functionality, and extending multi-select filters and localStorage persistence to the Equipment page. He also updated dark mode behavior across inventory pages by addressing table text visibility, aligning page backgrounds, removing display inconsistencies on the Materials page, and updating Equipment page category icon colors furthering One Community’s mission of eco-civilization design and implementation.

Roshini worked on Hours Completed and Tasks report by reviewing report data accuracy, validating calculation and aggregation behavior across historical data, updating the display to show a single hours distribution label with task and project percentages that dynamically total 100 percent, resolving merge conflicts, and correcting frontend issues. Roshini also worked on implementing permission-based access for viewing the number of times time was added to a task, creating a new permission under Permissions Management, and assigning the permission to applicable roles while supporting assignment to individual users. These combined technical improvements support the objective of demonstrating eco-civilization design and implementation. This work advances the goal of demonstrating eco-civilization design and implementation through improvements to system efficiency and usability. The collage below offers a visual representation of the team’s work for the week.

DEV DYNASTY SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT TEAM

The Dev Dynasty Team’s summary, covering their work on the Highest Good Network software, was managed by Sayantan Paul (Frontend Tester and Software Team Administrator) and Rithika Pai (Software Engineer). The team includes Amaresh Chaudhary Nara (Software Engineer), Bosu Babu Bade (Software Developer), Mahathi Ganimisetti (Data Analyst), Shreevaths Karawal Satish Rao (Software Engineer), and Sireesha Kunchala (Software Engineer). The Highest Good Network software supports eco-civilization design and implementation by helping manage and measure sustainable, zero-waste operational processes across social architecture, construction, production, and maintenance systems.

This week, Rithika resumed work on several paired PRs across the BM Dashboard, part of the Highest Good Network’s ongoing work demonstrating eco-civilization design and implementation. For PRs #4396/#1903 (Tool Stoppage Reason), Rithika rebased both branches, resolved repeated WeeklyProjectSummary.module.css conflicts, fixed a SonarQube duplication issue by extracting a shared aggregation utility, added a unit test suite, and fixed a CI coverage-report issue. For PRs #5073/#2115 (Smart Insights and Predictive Utilization Analysis), conflicts in DropOffTracking.jsx and a lockfile mismatch were resolved, the CI fix was propagated, and a SonarQube-flagged unused variable was resolved. For PRs #4587/#1957 (Material Usage vs Cost Correlation Chart), reviewer feedback on the date picker and clear icon was addressed, a dark mode issue was flagged, and a SonarQube cleanup began on 17 backend issues, furthering One Community’s mission of demonstrating eco-civilization design and implementation.

Amaresh worked on dark mode fixes for the Community Portal Participation page (PR #4530), tracing a black-text bug to an overly broad global CSS selector, restoring Event Participation Analytics components and routes that a merge had silently dropped, and applying debouncing (via lodash) to recomputation/re-render logic in Team search, User Management search, and Assign Team/Project options in UserProfile, plus a Reports page search box, without debouncing the input fields themselves. Bosu worked on frontend PR #5386 and backend PR #1856 for the Event Reschedule feature, resolving merge conflicts, restoring missing reschedule routes, fixing modal close behavior, adding a reschedule confirmation view, fixing dark mode text visibility, adding backend support for mock activity IDs and OAuth-less email dry-run mode, and addressing ESLint, Stylelint, and SonarCloud findings, furthering One Community’s mission of demonstrating eco-civilization design and implementation.

Mahathi fixed a User Management page crash caused by an incorrect endpoint mapping, added defensive array validation for user profile data, completed test suite updates across configuration gating, identity verification, webhook controllers, and service scenarios, and completed end-to-end verification of the create flow, one-to-one linkage enforcement, deactivate/reactivate synchronization, and webhook signature validation using a real production account. Shreevaths fixed a login regression on PR #4340 caused by an incorrect jwt-decode import style, reworked EPProtectedRoute.jsx so a stale logged-out flag no longer permanently traps a user who has since regained access, updated the corresponding test suites, and cleaned up the branch by reverting unrelated edits that had crept in. These updates support eco-civilization design and implementation by improving platform functionality, code quality and the reliability of collaborative tools within the Highest Good Network.

Sireesha contributed 18 hours across PRs #4489, #4367, and #4742, resolving merge conflicts for the injury severity grouped bar graph display, implementing dark mode styling and accessibility fixes across the Weekly Project Summary Dashboard and badge detail modals, and integrating dark mode support into FeedbackForm and FollowUpEmailTemplate while fixing focus outlines, CTA hover states, and removing unused CSS, thus contributing to One Community’s mission of demonstrating eco-civilization design and implementation. To learn more about how this work supports eco-civilization design and implementation, visit the Highest Good Society and the Highest Good Network pages. Below is the collage showcasing the Dev Dynasty team’s work for the week.

SKYE SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT TEAM

The Skye Team’s summary, covering their work on the Highest Good Network, was managed by Sayantan Paul (Frontend Tester and Software Team Administrator) and Anthony Weathers (Software Engineer). The team includes Jaden Wong (Software Engineer), Purav Patel (Software Engineer), and Swathi Angadi (Software Engineer). demonstrating eco-civilization design and implementation is a service commitment of the Highest Good Network software which is accomplished by objectively tracking and managing progress across social architecture, construction, production and maintenance processes, utilizing transparent, scalable systems that strengthen accountability, coordination and resilient ecosystems.

This week, Jaden resolved merge conflicts on PR #3286 related to 404-page fixes by reconciling eight conflicted files with the latest development branch, preserving the authenticated and unauthenticated conditional rendering logic, and retaining the custom 404 catch-all route in the routing configuration. He also completed PR #3517 for Badge Management improvements by creating a dedicated BadgeDevelopment.module.css file, replacing inline styles with scoped CSS module classes, extracting helper functions to resolve a SonarQube cognitive complexity issue, and standardizing dark mode class handling throughout the component. Both pull requests were completed with passing CI checks, zero new SonarQube issues, and successful Netlify deployment previews, furthering One Community’s mission of demonstrating eco-civilization design and implementation.

Purav completed unfinished frontend and backend work for the PR Review Team Analytics Dashboard and the Educator Document Review Workflow. For Frontend PR #5413, which replaces PR #3861, he created a new feature branch from the latest development code, migrated the required analytics changes, completed the Reviewers Ranked by Requirement Satisfied chart with duration filters, responsive layout, dark mode support, readable tooltips, and navigation under the PR Dashboard. For Backend PR #2285, which replaces PR #1648, he completed the review summary API required by the dashboard and documented the local backend and GitHub token setup needed for testing. Purav completed Backend PR #2284 for the Educator Document Review Workflow by selectively migrating the required changes from the older branch, implementing APIs for submission retrieval, progress auto-save, page comment management, grading, and change requests, extending the education task schema with review fields, fixing grading state and student name issues, aligning submitted task discovery, verifying all eight endpoints locally, adding unit tests, and resolving SonarCloud coverage and complexity issues before submitting the completed branches for review, furthering One Community’s mission of demonstrating eco-civilization design and implementation.

Anthony investigated a reviewer comment on PR #3600 regarding an Administrator account being unable to modify another user’s permissions despite the original requirements indicating it should be possible. He identified the cause of the issue and shared a video with the stakeholder to confirm the expected behavior. Based on stakeholder feedback, Anthony implemented styling updates, prepared the description for an upcoming hotfix PR, and created additional videos to review the completed changes and discuss a remaining issue to determine whether it was expected behavior or required another fix. He also updated the styling for user role and job information, modified the User Profile container and save button styling, and began implementing a fix for the permission change header messages shown before forcing a user logout, with additional testing and refinements still in progress. These updates support eco-civilization design and implementation by improving platform functionality, code quality and the reliability of collaborative tools within the Highest Good Network.

Swathi continued working on the Go button functionality from the previous week after determining that the initial implementation did not fully match the expected behavior. She pushed the existing changes, raised questions in the documentation to clarify the requirements, and then began work on the Edit to Reorder functionality for the Collaboration page. Swathi also investigated files and code that had been overwritten during merge conflict resolution, identified the previous implementation, began updating it to work with the current codebase, and committed portions of the revised implementation, thus contributing to One Community’s mission of demonstrating eco-civilization design and implementation. See the Highest Good Society and the Highest Good Network pages to learn more about how this work supports eco-civilization design and implementation through our 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 with A–N was managed by Sai Sree Dongari (Data Analyst). The Highest Good Network is a foundation for measuring our results in demonstrating eco-civilization design and implementation. This week’s active members of this team were Akshay Viswanath (Software Engineer), Ansh Shah (Software Engineer), Carl Bebli (Software Developer), Deepigha Japamony (Software Engineer), Ken Zou (Software Engineer), Mallikharjuna Abhiram Mulpuri (Software Engineer), and Nathan Hoffman (Software Engineer). They reviewed all Highest Good Network PRs shared in this week’s update. Learn more about how the Highest Good Network open source hub measures progress toward demonstrating eco-civilization design and implementation. The collage below shows a compilation of this team’s work.

SOFTWARE PR REVIEW TEAM O-Z

The PR Review Team’s summary for members with names starting with O–Z was managed by Shameera Musthafa (Data Analyst). The Highest Good Network is a foundation for measuring our results in eco-civilization design and implementation. This week’s active members of this team were Sundar Machani (Software Engineer), Yiyun Tan (Software Engineer), and Yuxuan Wang (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 eco-civilization design and implementation. The collage below shows a compilation of the work from this team.

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One Community welcomes Devendranath Chowdary Maganti to the Administration Team as our newest Volunteer/Consultant!

Devendranath is a data analyst with experience in data visualization, dashboard development, and technical documentation. He has worked on transforming complex datasets into clear visual reports and dashboards that improve accessibility and support data-driven decision-making. His interests include data analytics, business intelligence, and visualization design for collaborative, sustainability-focused projects. As a member of the One Community Software Team, Devendranath has contributed to the Aircrete project by creating summary tables, graphical representations, explanatory content, and web pages from technical documentation. He also developed the Highest Good Energy Construction Timeline Data Analysis Dashboard and Visualizations, enhanced the Highest Good Network Tracker based on project feedback, and supported the Administration Team by reviewing onboarding blogs, providing feedback to new volunteers, and assisting with training and administrative workflows.

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One Community welcomes Deepigha Japamony to the Software Development Team as our newest Volunteer/Consultant!

Deepigha has over 7 years of experience in Software Engineering and Quality Assurance. She is proficient in Java, Python, TypeScript, JavaScript, and has hands-on experience with React, Node.js, MongoDB, FastAPI, Streamlit, QA Automation, AWS, and GCP. She has built and deployed independent projects including AI agents, data visualization tools, and web scraping applications, and has contributed to open-source development as a pull request reviewer for a MERN stack application. Her work spans frontend and backend development, API validation, and AI agent development. As a member of the One Community team, Deepigha has reviewed pull requests for the Highest Good Network app, covering frontend, backend, and full-stack features across profile management, dashboards, event management, materials tracking, and data visualization, identifying functional bugs, dark mode contrast issues, API backend gaps, and UI regressions, and approving PRs after fixes were confirmed.

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One Community welcomes Sai Sandeep Koritala to the Software Team as our newest Volunteer/Consultant!

Sai Sandeep is a Full Stack Developer with expertise across the MERN stack, TypeScript, and backend security protocols. He has a proven track record of refactoring complex codebases and building interactive, data-driven user interfaces that optimize the overall user experience. He thrives in fast-paced environments where he can transition between frontend visualization challenges and complex backend integration work. As a member of the One Community team, Sai has contributed to the Highest Good Network by implementing secure JWT authentication workflows, engineering backend student logging infrastructure, integrating dynamic charting systems for financial and volunteer metrics, delivering advanced tooltip features for doughnut charts, and building full-text search, pagination, and multi-tier date filtering systems alongside light and dark mode UI enhancements.

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One Community welcomes Valentina Collini to the Graphic Design Team as our newest Volunteer Graphic Designer!

Valentina recently graduated from Las Positas College with a degree in graphic design and is focused on developing her skills in design and marketing. She is passionate about continuing to learn, expanding her horizons, and building a career that combines creativity with meaningful communication. Her interests include visual storytelling, branding, and creating designs that support clear and effective messaging. As a member of the One Community team, Valentina helps with design tasks, primarily creating images for volunteers and social media, as well as uploading biographies to the website. She is excited to keep growing professionally while contributing to projects that support the mission of One Community.

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At One Community, we are facilitating a highest good living model for a global audience seeking real, replicable change. Our all-volunteer team is building a self-replicating framework that weaves together sustainable approaches to food, energy, housing, education, economics, and social architecture, all designed to evolve into a global network of teacher/demonstration hubs. Everything we create is open source and freely shared because we’re 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 July 20, 2026 edition (#696) of our weekly progress update detailing our team’s development and accomplishments:

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HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING PROGRESS

One Community is facilitating a highest good living 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 facilitating a highest good living 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, Devendranath Chowdary Maganti (Data Analyst) finalized the Highest Good Energy Rollout Tracker and completed the full set of visualizations for the webpage, including the rollout Gantt chart, timeline charts for each construction step, and corresponding duration-share donut charts. He integrated these visualizations into the webpage by drafting introductory text, captions, explanatory content, and source references before revising the page based on feedback to improve organization, consistency, and readability. Devendranath also continued supporting the Administration Team by reviewing onboarding blogs, providing feedback to new volunteers, assisting with training activities, and completing regular administrative tasks. His work contributes to facilitating a highest good living model by making complex sustainability information easier to understand and apply through well-organized open-source resources. Below, you’ll find some images of this work.

Sagar Chavan (Transportation Engineer) continued working on sustainable infrastructure documentation for One Community. This week, he shifted focus to the roadway, parking lot, and stormwater management materials that support the broader Sustainable Roadways, Walkways, and Landscaping component. He examined plans, reports, and tutorial materials related to sustainable infrastructure, including drainage systems, stormwater collection methods, and roadway and parking lot design elements, to better understand the project requirements and available design information. Sagar organized the project information, identified areas requiring updates, and prepared notes to improve the clarity and usability of the open-source documentation. He also reviewed existing design documentation and technical requirements to support future project updates. His efforts support facilitating a highest good living model by strengthening the quality and usability of open-source guidance for sustainable transportation and water management systems. See below for some of the pictures related to this work.

DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER PROGRESS

One Community is facilitating a highest good living 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, its function and facilitating a highest good living model: Duplicable City Center Open Source Hub

This week, Bevan Chiu (Mechanical Engineer) continued his work finishing the City Center Eco-spa Designs. He worked on selecting an insulation sweet spot range of 18 to 21 inches, edited report content, began verifying team calculations, and integrated the initial flooring structure into the CAD assembly. For the insulation sweet spot, Bevan updated the graphs and revised the accompanying write-up to reflect the selected thickness range. He also edited the spa cover section to improve the organization of the content and checked the FEA boundary conditions for the spa cover components. As part of the calculation verification effort, Bevan checked each entry in the Heat Loss, Hot Tub Startup, and Water Head Loss calculators, documenting any calculation updates along with the supporting references for specific values. In addition, he integrated the spa tub flooring structure into the CAD assembly, checking component fit and overall integration between the flooring structure and the existing assembly. This open source Duplicable City Center project focuses on facilitating a highest good living 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 preparing the report write-up for the finite element analysis (FEA) of the spa cover by adding relevant images and incorporating edits suggested by JAE and team members. Team members’ report sections were proofread to identify and address gaps, improving consistency across the document. Work also included progressing on the FEA of the weight loading applied to Plate 2 and continuing analysis related to the FEA model. This open source Duplicable City Center project is facilitating a highest good living model. The images below illustrate aspects of this work.

Nidish Reddy Koppula (Mechanical Engineer) continued working on the Duplicable City Center design. He worked on the hydraulic elevator assembly by assembling major components, checking tolerances, verifying mating alignment, and identifying parts that required modification for proper fit. He updated components that were not mating correctly and adjusted the assembly to improve alignment between the cab, guide rails, guide shoes, brackets, and lift shaft structure. Nidish also performed preliminary FEA on the guide shoes and guide rails to evaluate stress, deformation, and load response under selected guide loading conditions. After completing those component-level checks, he started the FEA setup and analysis process for the lift cab chassis to evaluate the structural response of the cab frame and hydraulic load path. This open source Duplicable City Center project is facilitating a highest good living model. For more details, refer to the image below.

Sri Vidya Sai Thumu (Mechanical Design Engineer) continued developing the City Center Eco-spa Designs. She worked on City Center Spa Tub flooring system in SOLIDWORKS by refining the floor panel assembly and aluminum structural frame. The work included researching aluminum rectangular hollow sections and weld-free connection methods, evaluating structural support concepts, and modifying the design to use vertical supports for transferring loads to the cinderblock walls while maintaining clearance for the drain and Rockwool insulation. The floor panel, perimeter frame, interior joists, and support members were updated, and the assembly was refined to improve the overall structural layout. Time was also spent learning the SOLIDWORKS Simulation workflow, researching FEA setup and boundary conditions, and preparing the model for structural analysis. This open source Duplicable City Center project focused on facilitating a highest good living model. For more details, refer to the image below.

HIGHEST GOOD FOOD PROGRESS

One Community is facilitating a highest good living 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 and facilitating a highest good living model: 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/Supplies List for the Large-scale Garden, Botanical Garden, and other Highest Good Food components, focusing on the storage location for the EQSB to include fencing supplies, lumber, and cardboard, and respirators for the Earthbag Village project. They reviewed the goat information on the website and provided necessary corrections. Furthermore, the team researched the Amish method of wood preservation, specifically the application of pine tar, boiled linseed oil derived from flax, and turpentine. Current consideration is for constructing one fence from metal and the remaining from wood treated with these substances. Their efforts contribute to One Community’s mission of facilitating a highest good living model through open-source collaboration, ecologically responsible innovation, and a focus on long-term global development. The collage below portrays the team’s efforts and achievements for the week.

Jay Nair (BIM Designer) continued working on the Aquapini and Walipini Planting and Harvesting documents. He worked on analyzing each zone in the greenhouse lighting energy calculator using the written step-by-step calculations to verify the equations and supporting data. The work focused on comparing calculator outputs against the manual calculation process, checking linked inputs, reviewing zone-specific values, and identifying inconsistencies in the formulas while refining the calculator for accuracy and future use. These updates improve the stability and adaptability of shared systems, supporting the broader goal of facilitating a highest good living model. See the collage below portraying the work done this week.

Shameera Musthafa (Data Analyst) continued working on the Highest Good Food initiative, OC Administration, and the PR Review Team, coordinating review workflows and providing feedback to ensure accuracy, clarity, and consistency across deliverables. She organized and categorized project images, created visual collages, and finalized blog-related content as part of PR review coordination, ensuring that both visual and written materials were properly curated and documented. She also contributed to the Highest Good Energy report pages, related visualizations, and managed the One Community Bluesky social media account, creating and publishing posts to help share project updates and increase outreach and engagement furthering One Community’s mission of facilitating a highest good living model.

In addition, Shameera supported the hiring process, interviewing and evaluating candidates. She also carried out end-to-end testing of the PR Review Team Admin Dashboard, validating key workflows, identifying issues, documenting results, and helping ensure the dashboard functioned as intended. This work plays a key role in facilitating a highest good living model. See below for images showcasing her work.

HIGHEST GOOD ENERGY PROGRESS

One Community is facilitating a highest good living 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 and facilitating a highest good living model: 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 completed the review of the Aircrete webpage, leaving comments about broken links, missing units, minor edits, and small content revisions. The team also communicated with the vermiculture eco-toilet team regarding force calculations and with the hot tub team regarding bather load. In addition, they completed the spreadsheet cost analysis for the hoop house infrastructure in step 2 of the food infrastructure rollout as part of facilitating a highest good living model. See the collage below for a snapshot of their work this week.

Rohan Pariakar (Operations and Supply Chain Analyst) continued working for the Highest Good Energy initiative, facilitating a highest good living model. He advanced the project’s renewable energy planning and infrastructure analysis by completing the Phase 4 energy demand model and standardizing phase-based energy calculations using validated operating-hour assumptions derived from the hourly load analysis. He updated phase summaries, generated comparative visualizations, and verified calculation consistency across the Energy Analysis workbook. Building on these results, he refined the solar sizing methodology by standardizing the project around 450 W First Solar Series 6 photovoltaic modules, validating the selected 1.6 MW system design, recalculating panel quantities, installation footprint, and expected energy generation, while correcting engineering units and improving workbook traceability.

Rohan also developed a phased solar deployment strategy aligned with community growth by allocating the final 1.6 MW system across the 3-10, 10-20, 20-50, and 50-100 population phases, updating procurement quantities, installed capacities, and cost estimates while ensuring consistency between the Energy Analysis, Solar Sizing, Master Planning, and Solar Infrastructure workbooks. Additionally, he implemented dynamic cross-workbook references, reconciled panel cost calculations with supplier pricing, resolved rounding and precision discrepancies, and strengthened the overall engineering workflow to support future infrastructure planning, procurement, and project documentation. See the collage below for highlights of his work, which contributes to facilitating a highest good living model.

HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION PROGRESS

One Community is facilitating a highest good living 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. 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 facilitating a highest good living 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

This week, Jung Ah “Romey” Choi (Graphic Designer) continued contributing to the Ultimate Classroom outdoors book design, as part of facilitating a highest good living model. She completed the revisions and creation of additional ones for the Ultimate Classroom project. Romey updated and finalized a total of 81 files to improve the quality and completeness of the materials. Additionally, she completed the digital book conversion in the PubHTML5 format, uploaded the finalized version, and shared it with the manager. Romey also reviewed the final materials carefully to ensure accuracy and quality before completion. See the collage below for a snapshot of the work done this week.

Isaiah “Isa” Hernandez (Graphic Designer) reformatted the Ultimate Classroom book and designed bios for Deepigha and Devendranath, as a part of facilitating a highest good living model. He also completed the first two web announcements for each bio. The work involved reformatting the book, learning the basics with coding One Community’s web announcements, preparing biography layouts, and developing announcement materials for use on the web. See the collage below for a snapshot of his work this week.

Navya Eeshani Boyapati (Web Designer) updated the Ultimate Classroom webpage by revising HTML formatting, correcting heading levels for the table of contents, adjusting image captions and alignment, and adding or fixing anchor links. She edited foundation-related content, updated SEO elements including image alt text and keywords, compared the webpage with the Google Doc instructions to ensure consistency, corrected formatting issues in WordPress, made revisions based on supervisor feedback, and prepared the page for additional updates. See the collage below for a snapshot of this week’s work towards facilitating a highest good living model.

HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY PROGRESS

One Community is facilitating a highest good living 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, sharing and facilitating a highest good living 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 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. They also interviewed and onboarded new volunteer team members. Additionally, they produced and integrated the video above, which highlights facilitating a highest good living model and 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 working on the One Community Governance Portal, expanding and refining the experience across both public-display and personal-device formats. She designed a Live Governance TV dashboard to present real-time proposal activity, voting distribution, approaching deadlines, urgent items, participation levels, and the complete governance-stage flow in a format that is easy for the public to understand. She also created community outreach and calendar-management experiences that organize partner information, shared projects, contacts, announcements, governance meetings, resource availability, and booking options. In addition, Pooja refined the Total Organization Governance Summary by improving the information hierarchy, chart readability, spacing, color differentiation, KPI visibility, and proposal-outcome reporting across infrastructure, sustainability, health and wellness, education, and community outreach sections. These updates support facilitating a highest good living model across teams and disciplines. See the collage below for snapshots of her work.

Adhya Rastogi (Business Analyst) continued end-to-end testing of the Total Organization Summary Dashboard by rechecking previously tested components, verifying the status of reported issues after recent updates, performing additional validation of selected features, updating the testing records, and documenting components that required further verification. She maintained Reddit engagement by contributing comments across relevant communities, publishing a discussion post, and monitoring community responses to better understand engagement patterns and facilitating a highest good living model.

Adhya also optimized Google Ads campaigns by refining keyword targeting, adding relevant and negative keywords, updating ad copy, reviewing campaign performance, analyzing budget allocation and spending patterns, evaluating Google Ads recommendations, and studying upcoming bidding system changes to understand their potential impact on campaign optimization. She completed SEO optimization for the Pledge page by improving content structure, keyword placement, headings, metadata, internal linking, readability, and other on-page SEO elements, recording baseline analytics, updating the SEO tracking spreadsheet, and verifying the implemented changes in WordPress. contributing to One Community’s mission of facilitating a highest good living model. See the collage below for highlights of this work.

Valentina Collini (Designer) continued reviewing and refining volunteer biographies and correcting website content for accuracy and consistency. This week, she shifted focus to creating social media images to support outreach efforts, designing graphics that align with the organization’s visual standards and communicate its mission. She also spent time reviewing and refining volunteer biographies, making corrections to improve accuracy, consistency, and overall presentation. In addition, Valentina checked content for errors and implemented necessary updates, helping maintain the quality of both the website and promotional materials. Her work contributed to facilitating a highest good living model and ensuring that volunteer profiles and related content remained clear, professional, and up to date. See the collage below for highlights of this work.

ADMINISTRATION TEAM

The Administration Team’s summary, which covers their work on the Highest Good Network, was managed by Devendranath Chowdary Maganti (Data Analyst) and includes Leo Lishin Shiu (Software Engineer), Mridul Bhushan (Volunteer Project Strategy Analyst and Team Administrator), Olawunmi “Ola” Ijisesan (Administrative and Management Support), Pranjul Garg (Business Analyst), Sachit Varma (Business Operations & Cost Analyst), Sai Sree Dongari (Data Analyst), Sayantan Paul (Frontend Tester and Software Team Administrator), and Tanmay Nihal Harwani (Data Scientist). The Administration Team supports the Highest Good Network, a tool designed to track and measure progress while developing systems that contribute to facilitating a highest good living model. Through administrative support, documentation, testing, training, recruitment, analytics, and content management, the team helps advance this mission, aligning with One Community’s vision of building a replicable and sustainable future model.

This week, Leo reviewed the 17LeDCC and 20LeFOD team weekly summaries, prepared collages for the weekly blog, scheduled Facebook and Instagram posts through Meta Business Suite, and analyzed social media insights and tracking data. Mridul continued supporting One Community as a Senior Admin Mentor Member by scheduling Twitter/X posts, completing weekend analytics for Twitter/X and LinkedIn, and mentoring Sachit through Blog #695 by reviewing formatting, organization, clarity, and compliance with blog standards. These content management, analytics, and mentoring efforts contribute to facilitating a highest good living model.

Ola reviewed the Pinterest social media dashboard, updated weekly folders for the admin team, organized workspaces, responded to priority comments, updated scheduled posts, created and resized images, prepared published content, and uploaded the weekly summary report. Pranjul monitored volunteer time logs, corrected logging issues, updated activity records, scheduled Tumblr and Medium posts, gathered weekly team updates, and published the final WordPress blog. These administrative coordination and content management efforts contribute to facilitating a highest good living model.

Sachit restructured One Community’s funding matrix into a two-stage evaluation framework, created an Association Matrix for connector analysis, researched prospective funders, produced detailed evaluation briefs, corrected factual information, and applied the updated scoring system to compare organizational alignment and funding potential. Sai Sree organized PR review images, created collages, finalized PR Admin Team blog content, completed candidate interviews, recorded hiring feedback, performed frontend testing across multiple dashboard areas, documented UI observations, and reviewed Aadit’s training submissions. These research, evaluation, hiring, and testing activities contribute to facilitating a highest good living model.

Sayantan completed OC Administration responsibilities by managing Team Skye’s blog submission, performing peer evaluations, assessing admin training work, providing guidance on formatting and SEO requirements, updating administration feedback records, and supporting warning procedures. He also tested multiple HGN frontend improvements, documented remaining software issues, monitored bug and feature trackers, assigned tasks, and supported developers with implementation guidance furthering One Community’s mission of facilitating a highest good living model.

Tanmay continued bio administration, blog management, social media coordination, and administrative audits by updating bios, following up on missing information, merging team blogs, completing SEO optimization, checking new admin work, publishing Threads posts, and maintaining project tracking records. These administration, software testing, and communication activities contribute to facilitating a highest good living model. See the collage below for highlights of this week’s work.

HIGHEST GOOD NETWORK PROGRESS

One Community is facilitating a highest good living 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, management software and facilitating a highest good living model: The Highest Good Network

This week, the core team continued testing pull requests on the main branch for the Highest Good Network. They confirmed that fixes were working as expected for 10 pull requests and identified that 8 pull requests were not fixed. The team also identified several pull requests that could not be tested because the required data was not available on the main branch. These included Application/Job Posting Page (PR #5238), Phase 6 – Kitchen Inventory Management – Implement Search Functionality for Inventory Page (PR #5318), Listing and Bidding Platform – Implement Frontend User Management Section with Static Mock Data (PR #5328), Add Labor Cost Variance & Budget Benchmarking (PR #5260), Fix “Expand All” Functionality on Lesson List Page (PR #4528), Fix Paid Labor Cost Filters Visibility in Dark Mode (PR #4683), and Fix “Issue” Option in Dropdown Not Functioning (PR #4385). See the collage below to view the team’s work, which contributes to facilitating a highest good living model.

ALPHA SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT TEAM

The Alpha Team’s summary, covering their work on the Highest Good Network, was managed by Lin Khant Htel (Frontend Software Developer) and Pranjul Garg (Business Analyst) with a team consisting of Casstiel Pi (Software Engineer), Handika Harianto Ew Jong (Full Stack Developer), Maithili Kalkar (Software Engineer), Sai Sandeep (Software Engineer), Som Ramnani (Junior Software Engineer), and Yingshu Wang (Software Engineer) supporting One Community’s mission of cross-functional software development and system improvements. This work advances the team’s objectives, ensuring that all completed tasks directly contribute to facilitating a highest good living model.

This week, Casstiel verified the deployment of frontend usability features for the Weekly Project Summary interface, including project and week labels, section controls, dynamic badge structures, empty-state UI handling, and loading state feedback. Upon identifying necessary backend dependencies for comparison datasets, badge counts, and filtering logic, he created a dedicated repository branch to construct the /issue/breakdown endpoint. He concluded the sprint by validating data delivery payloads directly feeding the Issues Breakdown visualization chart contributing to One Community’s mission of facilitating a highest good living model.

Handika updated pull requests #5002 and #4998 to introduce full dark mode compatibility across the analytics dashboard layout. He engineered direct click handlers to bind filter criteria to the Apply component, restructured tooltip rendering states, and synchronized quick-select operations with custom calendar date inputs. Additionally, he integrated react-select architectures to replace legacy comparison filters, repaired layout typography alignment faults, and refined cross-theme CSS styling rules. These combined technical improvements support the objective of facilitating a highest good living model.

Maithili deployed an ngrok local tunneling infrastructure to provision secure sandboxed testing conditions for social media automation integrations. She established and configured isolated testing environments inside Meta Developer and Instagram business profiles to map out API capabilities. This foundation allowed her to audit existing codebase routing logic and trace current authorization flows to diagnose authentication flaws and configuration bottlenecks. Sai finalized critical feature enhancements on pull request #4810, neutralizing an edge-case bug in the application’s elevation logic that restricted previously promoted reviewers from re-entering promotion workflows. He followed this up by deploying multiple interface responsiveness patches and troubleshooting regression anomalies on pull request #5383, fully restoring application routing functionality across all core BM Dashboard view states. This work advances the goal of facilitating a highest good living model through improvements to system efficiency and usability.

Som pushed visual polish updates to pull request #5273, correcting spacing values, connector line boundaries, hover informational tooltips, and legend data keys for the Blue Square Stats component. To secure these UI enhancements, he authored fresh testing layers evaluating theme rendering behaviors, then targeted SonarQube duplication warnings within pull request #5364. He resolved these warnings by modularizing shared utility files and consolidating redundant PropTypes declaration trees before running local formatting, linting, and production compilation pipelines furthering One Community’s mission of facilitating a highest good living model.

Yingshu completed onboarding protocols across the master project architecture and frontend repository structure to establish a development environment baseline. She initiated development phases for the Volunteer Time subsystem, systematically restructuring the functional file architecture and checking in the preliminary codebase configuration commits. Finally, she isolated lingering state errors tied to Task 1191, evaluating data mutations within profile hour updates to isolate the source of erroneous calculations. This work advances the goal of facilitating a highest good living model through improvements to system efficiency and usability. The collage below offers a visual representation of the team’s work for the week.

BINARY BRIGADE SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT TEAM

The Team Brigade’s summary, covering their work on the Highest Good Network, was managed by Roshini Seelamsetty (Software Engineer) and Pranjul Garg (Business Analyst) with a team consisting of Amaan Syed (Volunteer Software Engineer), Mahitha Pasupuleti (Software Engineer), Manoj Puttaswamy (Software Engineer), and Divya Sai Nagabhairu (Software Engineer). Roshini coordinated the weekly summary workflow, ensuring all technical milestones align with the project’s goal to contribute to facilitating a highest good living model.

This week, Amaan worked on frontend development and follow-up tasks across multiple HighestGoodNetworkApp pull requests. His work included resolving merge conflicts, updating responsive layouts in the Header and Permissions Management pages, addressing reviewer feedback and SonarCloud findings, validating implementations across different viewport sizes, updating dark mode styling and modal behavior in the PR Review Promotion Modal, refactoring User Management filter logic to address code quality recommendations, validating searches containing embedded spaces, running frontend tests, refactoring anniversary rendering logic to reduce complexity while maintaining existing functionality, and updating Edit Links modal behavior, duplicate link validation, and dark mode styling while testing add, edit, delete, cancel, and update workflows contributing to One Community’s mission of facilitating a highest good living model.

Mahitha worked on the server date protection feature for time logging and weekly summaries by finalizing backend and frontend implementations, submitting pull requests #2271 and #5390, implementing server-side date validation, and updating frontend validation to use server date values instead of local system dates. Divya submitted the weekly summary report, reviewed completed work, and updated project documentation to reflect current progress. The work also included contributing to PR #5273, PR #5276, and PR #5369 by reviewing the implementation, making code updates, testing changes where applicable, addressing updates related to the pull requests, and preparing the changes for review. Additional time was spent supporting software development activities related to project tasks, maintaining progress on assigned work, and ensuring documentation and pull request updates were aligned with ongoing development efforts. These combined technical improvements support the objective of facilitating a highest good living model.

Mahitha also worked on Phase 6 of the Kitchen Inventory Management feature by taking over PR #5106 for the Suppliers section on the Orders page, reviewing the existing implementation and feature requirements, addressing issues preventing completion, and working on supplier profiles, supplier details, action buttons, and CSS module integration. Manoj worked on fixes related to regressions introduced in the BMDashboard inventory pages after updates to searchable multi-select filter components. His work included addressing localStorage key conflicts affecting filter state across inventory categories, updating missing and incorrect parent component properties, restoring filter user interface elements on the Tools page, resolving state type issues affecting sort header functionality, updating dropdown display behavior related to the sticky table header, and correcting Reset button alignment issues by updating the page structure. This work advances the goal of facilitating a highest good living model through improvements to system efficiency and usability. The collage below offers a visual representation of the team’s work for the week.

DEV DYNASTY SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT TEAM

The Dev Dynasty Team’s summary, covering their work on the Highest Good Network software, was managed by Sayantan Paul (Frontend Tester and Software Team Administrator) and Rithika Pai (Software Engineer). The team includes Amaresh Chaudhary Nara (Software Engineer), Mahathi Ganimisetti (Data Analyst), and Sireesha Kunchala (Software Engineer). The Highest Good Network software supports facilitating a highest good living model by helping manage and measure sustainable, zero-waste operational processes across social architecture, construction, production, and maintenance systems.

This week, Amaresh completed Phase 1 of the global CSS cleanup by reviewing module.css files, fixing unscoped global selectors and styling conflicts that affected unrelated components, and resolving dark mode display issues. He also fixed PR 4738 by restoring lost time form rendering on the Reports page, improving dark mode readability, correcting backend issues that caused 404 errors when saving project or team lost time entries, resolving cache-related delays, and submitting the backend fixes in PR 2276. Mahathi worked on the frontend admin workflow for Production Identity Validation by adding production identity verification during user creation, auto-filling and locking verified user information, making identity fields read-only during edits, adding a Production Auto-Deactivated filter in User Management, fixing email case-sensitivity issues through normalized email handling, and improving local validation and error handling. These updates contribute to One Community’s mission of facilitating a highest good living model.

Rithika worked on paired frontend and backend pull requests for the BM Dashboard by fixing incorrect backend responses for invalid project IDs, extracting shared utility functions to reduce duplicate code, improving chart sizing and responsive layouts, confirming date-filter behavior through database validation, resolving dependency and test issues after rebasing, reducing SonarQube issues through code cleanup, and documenting a new task for Attendance and No-Show Tracking. Sireesha resolved merge conflicts and build failures across pull requests 4272, 4367, 4489, and 3933 by fixing dark mode styling issues, addressing SonarCloud quality gate failures and code smells, correcting UI contrast problems in the Weekly Project Summary, fixing an application crash in User Management, and updating the loading state interface. To learn more about how this work supports facilitating a highest good living model, visit the Highest Good Society and the Highest Good Network pages. Below is the collage showcasing the Dev Dynasty team’s work for the week.

SKYE SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT TEAM

The Skye Team’s summary, covering their work on the Highest Good Network, was managed by Sayantan Paul (Frontend Tester and Software Team Administrator) and Anthony Weathers (Software Engineer). The team includes Jaden Wong (Software Engineer), Nirali Patel (Full Stack Developer), Purav Patel (Software Engineer) and Swathi Angadi (Software Engineer). Facilitating a highest good living model is a service commitment of the Highest Good Network software which is accomplished by objectively tracking and managing progress across social architecture, construction, production and maintenance processes, utilizing transparent, scalable systems that strengthen accountability, coordination and resilient ecosystems.

This week, Jaden worked on PR #3517 by implementing dark mode support across the BadgeDevelopment component. He moved inline styles into a dedicated CSS module, updated styling to use the project’s standard dark mode utility, reduced SonarQube cognitive complexity to meet quality gate requirements by extracting helper functions and precomputing derived values, separated filter logic into module-level functions, and styled the filter interface using Bootstrap utility classes with CSS Modules while maintaining accessibility standards. For PR #3631, he determined that Netlify deployment failures were caused by unresolved merge conflicts rather than code issues, resolved the conflicts by merging the latest development branch, reverted unnecessary import changes, and restored the branch to its intended minimal scope. Both pull requests were finished with passing SonarQube quality gates and CI checks thereby furthering One Community’s mission of facilitating a highest good living model.

Purav worked on the backend Interactive Map feature by troubleshooting a startup dependency issue, reviewing the related routes and implementation, and examining pull request history and reviewer feedback. He reviewed PR #1342 and PR #1810, pushed the latest modifications, resolved merge conflicts while preserving the appropriate development implementation, removed obsolete files, and verified that the branch contained all current development commits and remained aligned with the latest codebase. Purav also created PR #2272 to merge the feature branch with the latest development changes, furthering One Community’s mission of facilitating a highest good living model.

Nirali worked on fixing failing tests for PR #5230 in the HighestGoodNetworkApp. She investigated the test failures, implemented the necessary fixes, verified the changes to improve test stability and ensure the pull request functioned as expected, and reviewed project documentation while exploring available tasks in preparation for her next assignment. Swathi worked on the Job Form Builder creation page by making it accessible to all users instead of only the owner. She also implemented functionality for the Go button click, submitted the completed changes, and continued working on the remaining Go button functionality that has not yet been submitted. These updates support facilitating a highest good living model by improving platform functionality, code quality and the reliability of collaborative tools within the Highest Good Network.

Anthony continued work on PR #5340 by reviewing feedback, making the requested code changes, addressing a Sonar issue, resolving reviewer comments, and removing an unnecessary line of code before pushing multiple follow-up commits. He communicated with a reviewer to discuss additional improvements, performed testing after each round of changes to verify the fixes, and created an update video for the stakeholder to gather feedback before proceeding with a new PR. Anthony continued investigating a logout issue affecting the wrong user, tested a potential fix and acknowledged a bug found during a follow‑up review thus contributing to One Community’s mission of facilitating a highest good living model. See the Highest Good Society and the Highest Good Network pages to learn more about how this work supports facilitating a highest good living model through our 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 with A–N was managed by Sai Sree Dongari (Data Analyst). The Highest Good Network is a foundation for measuring our results in facilitating a highest good living model. This week’s active members of this team were Akshay Viswanath (Software Engineer), Ansh Shah (Software Engineer), Bosu Babu Bade (Software Developer), Carl Bebli (Software Developer), Hemanth Nidamanuru (Data Engineer), Ken Zou (Software Engineer), Mallikharjuna Mulpuri (Software Engineer), and Nathan Hoffman (Software Engineer). They reviewed all Highest Good Network PRs shared in this week’s update. Learn more about how the Highest Good Network open source hub measures progress toward facilitating a highest good living model. The collage below shows a compilation of this team’s work.

SOFTWARE PR REVIEW TEAM O-Z

The PR Review Team’s summary for members with names starting with O–Z was managed by Shameera Musthafa (Data Analyst). The Highest Good Network is a foundation for measuring our results in facilitating a highest good living model. This week’s active members of this team were Shreevaths Karawal Satish Rao (Software Engineer), Sundar Machani (Software Engineer), Yiyun Tan (Software Engineer), and Yuxuan Wang (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 facilitating a highest good living model. The collage below shows a compilation of the work from this team.

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Sai Sree has over 2.5 years of experience in data analytics and a master’s degree in Data Science, specializing in data visualization, ETL development, and dashboard creation to support reporting and decision-making. She has worked in fast paced environments where she applied analytical thinking and problem solving to improve workflow efficiency. She focuses on applying data-driven solutions, visualization tools, and process-optimization techniques to advance organizational goals and communicate insights clearly. As a member of the One Community team, Sai Sree contributes to PR Review Dashboards and the Total Organization Summary Dashboard for the Highest Good Network, tests and validates data visualizations, and recommends improvements to enhance dashboard clarity and user experience.

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At One Community, we are creating open source sustainability solutions for a global audience seeking real, replicable change. Our all-volunteer team is building a self-replicating model designed to evolve into a worldwide network of teacher/demonstration hubs, each showcasing sustainable approaches to food, energy, housing, education, economics, and social architecture. Everything we create, including our complete process, is open source and freely shared because we’re doing this for “The Highest Good of All.” Together, we’re evolving sustainability, regenerating our planet, and creating a world that works for everyone—one fulfilled, thriving community at a time.

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HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING PROGRESS

One Community is creating open source sustainability solutions through Highest Good housing that is artistic and beautiful, more affordable, more space efficient, lasts longer, DIY buildable, and constructed with healthy and sustainable materials:

• • • Learn about: Our Upcoming Crowdfunding Campaign
    • Learn about the different village models and creating open source sustainability solutions: 7 Sustainable Village Models
    • Visit the open source portals for the first two: Earthbag Village OS Hub | Straw Bale Village OS Hub

This week, Chanikya Sita (Volunteer Civil/Transportation Engineer) continued improving the Sustainable Roadways, Walkways, and Landscaping and Sustainable Parking Lot Construction Guide pages. He worked on two documents based on supervisor feedback. For the Land Purchasing and Transportation Infrastructure Due Diligence document, updates included revising section titles to make them more specific, correcting heading styles, adding introductory paragraphs between headings and tables, replacing em dashes with standard hyphens, converting inline bullet characters into properly formatted bulleted lists, reformatting the References section to match One Community standards with 19 numbered entries, adding titles for all seven tables, and writing a detailed summary covering all nine sections of the document contributing to One Community’s mission of creating open source sustainability solutions.

For the Sustainable Roadways and Parking Lot Adaptation Guide, updates included revising the Village Layout Repositioning section to clarify that the village orientation remains fixed, updating the Size Check section with the accurate Earthbag Village footprint of 1.59 acres (69,140 square feet) based on GIS analysis, and adding a passive solar orientation bullet point to the Orientation Rules section. This work supports creating open source sustainability solutions by improving the quality, clarity, and usability of guidance for sustainable transportation infrastructure. See below for some of the pictures related to this work.

Devendranath Chowdary Maganti (Data Analyst) continued working on the aircrete project by updating the webpage with the latest documentation, content revisions, and project improvements to ensure it reflected the current version of the report. He completed the final visualizations for the Highest Good Energy Construction Timeline Data Analysis Dashboard, refining charts and data presentation to improve clarity and usability. Devendranath also supported the Administration Team by reviewing onboarding blogs, providing feedback to new volunteers, assisting with training activities, and completing regular administrative tasks related to the team’s weekly workflow. His efforts contribute to creating open source sustainability solutions by making project information more accessible while strengthening collaboration and volunteer training. Below, you’ll find some images of this work.

Gaurang Pawar (Architectural Designer) focused his work this week on the tropical atrium plans. He used AutoCAD to develop the building’s circulation and envelope layouts by drafting plan views and cross-sections for the rear entrance staircase and roof details. He focused on detailing the foundation footings, stringer connections, railing-to-slab connections, railing details, and flashing before reviewing the drawings to correct discrepancies across the plans, sections, and elevations. This work contributes to creating open source sustainability solutions by developing accurate and replicable architectural documentation for sustainable construction projects. Review the latest updates in the images below.

DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER PROGRESS

One Community is creating open source sustainability solutions 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, it’s function and creating open source sustainability solutions: Duplicable City Center Open Source Hub

This week, Bevan Chiu (Mechanical Engineer) continued his work finishing the City Center Eco-spa Designs. He worked on editing the FAQ section of the report, the insulation sweet spot analysis, and the spa test tracker for the remaining tasks. He reorganized relevant content into the FAQ section and added references to the corresponding FAQ entries. He also wrote questions and answers covering the tub foundation, plumbing panel materials, insulation sweet spot considerations, and plumbing equipment furthering One Community’s mission of creating open source sustainability solutions.

Additional report updates included standardizing the format of calculation tables, adding the sustainability suggestion button to each major section, and checking the bill of materials with the associated PDF documents. For the insulation sweet spot analysis, he revised the report content, updated the cost calculations, and incorporated the cost analysis results into the report. He also updated the spa test tracker by organizing the remaining tasks and adding a checklist of calculations to verify. This open source Duplicable City Center project focuses on creating open source sustainability solutions. For more details, refer to the image below.

Shivarama Krishna Revanuru (Mechanical Engineer) continued working on the Duplicable City Center design. He focused on writing the report section for the finite element analysis (FEA) of the spa cover and incorporating edits suggested by JAE and team members. Team members’ report sections were proofread to identify gaps, improve consistency, and ensure that missing information was addressed where needed. Efforts also included working on the finite element analysis of the weight loading on Plate 2, including analysis setup and evaluation of the FEA model. This open source Duplicable City Center project is creating open source sustainability solutions. The images below illustrate aspects of this work.

Nidish Reddy Koppula (Mechanical Engineer) continued working on the Duplicable City Center design. He worked on the elevator guide rail, cab, lift shaft, and guide rail mounting systems for the hydraulic elevator assembly. He developed the guide rail subsystem using a T89/B rail profile, defined rail segmentation, added backside fishplate assumptions, and completed preliminary rail bending and deflection calculations for different bracket spacing cases. He also researched guide shoe options and designed sliding guide shoe assemblies for the T89/B guide rail interface after reducing the rail-to-cab gap furthering One Community’s mission of creating open source sustainability solutions.

Additionally, Nidish modeled an updated elevator cab structure with structural members intended to support the hydraulic load path, guide shoe mounting locations, and assembly fit checks. He reviewed the lift shaft structure, performed preliminary structural calculations, and determined that the shaft frame required additional structural capacity to support the elevator assembly as a standalone structure. Based on the updated load computations, he modeled the complete lift shaft structure and revised the shaft layout to better support the cab, guide rails, and hydraulic elevator components. He also designed a guide rail bracket/clamp concept to mount the guide rails to the lift shaft, verified key model dimensions, checked alignment between the shaft, guide rails, cab, and guide shoes, and completed weekly report and documentation work. This open source Duplicable City Center project presents an example of creating open source sustainability solutions. For more details, refer to the image below.

Sri Vidya Sai Thumu (Mechanical Design Engineer) continued developing the City Center Eco-spa Designs. She worked on the City Center Spa Tub Flooring project by researching hot tub flooring construction methods, aluminum structural framing systems, corrosion-resistant materials, and non-welded assembly techniques. A structural support frame was modeled in SOLIDWORKS 2025 using rectangular hollow aluminum joists, including two long joists, six short joists, and a floor panel with an integrated drain opening. The joist layout was evaluated to accommodate the plumbing system and insulation while maintaining compatibility with the existing cinderblock layout. An aluminum L-angle bracket was designed for bolted connections between the joists, and different bracket dimensions and placement options were assessed for representative frame joints. These efforts support creating open source sustainability solutions by enhancing clarity and accessibility.

Additional work included reviewing the City Center Hot Tub Design documentation, researching practical construction methods, resolving SOLIDWORKS assembly and version compatibility issues, and preparing the structural support assembly for future finite element analysis (FEA) and design validation. This open source Duplicable City Center project focused on creating open source sustainability solutions. For more details, refer to the image below.

HIGHEST GOOD FOOD PROGRESS

One Community is creating open source sustainability solutions through Highest Good food that is more diverse, more nutritious, locally grown and sustainable, and part of our open source botanical garden model to support and share bio-diversity:

• • • Learn about the structures and creating open source sustainability solutions: 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/Supplies List for the Large-scale Garden, Botanical Garden, and other Highest Good Food components. This week we finalized the review of the Master Tools, Equipment, Materials/Supplies documentation and transferred the information to another Pioneer for further review and commentary. We also completed the review of the Goat Fencing documentation, which includes a series of instructional videos by Pete B. that detail the materials and step-by-step procedures required for constructing secure goat fencing. Their efforts contribute to One Community’s mission of creating open source sustainability solutions through open source collaboration, ecologically responsible innovation, and a focus on long-term global development. The collage below portrays the team’s efforts and achievements for the week.

Jay Nair (BIM Designer) continued working on the Aquapini and Walipini Planting and Harvesting documents. He worked on analyzing each zone individually within the greenhouse lighting energy calculator to verify the equations, linked inputs, and supporting data used in the calculations. The work focused on checking zone-specific values, identifying inconsistencies, and reviewing how plant requirements, fixture information, geometry, and operating assumptions affect the results while the calculator continues to be refined. These updates improve the stability and adaptability of shared systems, supporting the broader goal of the creating open source sustainability solutions. See the collage below portraying the work done this week.

Shameera Musthafa (Data Analyst) continued working on the Highest Good Food initiative, OC Administration, and the PR Review Team, coordinating review workflows and providing feedback to ensure accuracy, clarity, and consistency across deliverables. She organized and categorized project images, created visual collages, and finalized blog-related content, ensuring visual and written materials were properly curated in support of One Community’s mission of creating open source sustainability solutions.

Shameera also contributed to the Highest Good Energy report pages and related visualizations, managed the One Community Bluesky account by publishing posts to boost outreach and engagement, supported hiring by conducting interviews and evaluating candidates, and carried out end-to-end testing of the PR Review Team Admin Dashboard, validating workflows, identifying issues, and documenting results as part of creating open source sustainability solutions. See below for images showcasing her work.

HIGHEST GOOD ENERGY PROGRESS

One Community is creating open source sustainability solutions through Highest Good energy that is more sustainable, resilient, supports self-sufficiency and includes solar, wind, hydro and more:

• • • Learn about the open source sustainable-energy foundations and creating open source sustainability solutions: 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 updated the expected operating time of the jets in the hot tub spreadsheet and revised the related hot tub energy document to reflect those changes. The team reviewed the vermiculture eco-toilet document and identified an issue with the calculation of the frictional force on the plate at the base. They also provided feedback through document comments and a video explaining the issue and describing the necessary corrections. They also began reviewing the Aircrete testing webpage and left comments where revisions are needed as part of creating open source sustainability solutions. See the collage below for a snapshot of their work this week.

Rohan Pariakar (Operations and Supply Chain Analyst) continued working for the Highest Good Energy initiative, creating open source sustainability solutions. Rohan expanded and standardized the community energy analysis framework by completing the Phase 3 and Phase 4 energy demand models using a Power × Operating Hours methodology derived from validated hourly load profiles, replacing generalized scaling assumptions with traceable equipment-level calculations. He reconciled energy consumption across project phases by updating summary tables, validating cross-sheet formulas, refining lookup-based calculation logic, and generating comparative visualizations to improve interpretation of phase-specific energy demand.

In parallel, he refined the project’s solar sizing methodology by standardizing the use of 450 W First Solar Series 6 photovoltaic modules, validating the project’s selected 1.6 MW installed capacity, recalculating panel quantities, installation footprint, expected daily energy generation, and module cost assumptions, while identifying inconsistencies between legacy phased solar infrastructure models and the updated engineering design. Additionally, Rohan strengthened workbook architecture by improving data flow between the Hourly Breakdown, Energy Analysis, Solar Sizing, and project summary sheets, reducing manual inputs, improving calculation traceability, and creating a more maintainable engineering model to support future energy planning, infrastructure sizing, and procurement activities. See the collage below for highlights of his work, which contributes to creating open source sustainability solutions.

HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION PROGRESS

One Community is creating open source sustainability solutions through Highest Good education that is for all ages, applicable in any environment, adaptable to individual needs, far exceeds traditional education standards, and more fun for both the teachers and the students. This component of One Community is about 95% complete with only the Open Source School Licensing and Ultimate Classroom construction and assembly details remaining to be finished. We’ll report on the final two elements to be finished as we develop them.

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

• Program Overview: Education Open Source Hub
• How the components work together in designing human orchestrated eco-abundance and creating open source sustainability solutions: 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

Jung Ah “Romey” Choi (Graphic Designer) continued contributing to The Ultimate Classroom outdoors book design, as part of creating open source sustainability solutions. Her work focused on producing more than 40 photo layout variations using the 4px, 8px, and 12px spacing guidelines. Each template was prepared in both JPG and PSD formats to ensure consistency, scalability, and compatibility with the publishing workflow. The iterative process helped improve the overall visual quality and establish a more flexible template library for future content development, supporting the creation of accessible and reusable resources for the One Community initiative. See the collage below for a snapshot of the work done this week.

HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY PROGRESS

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

• • • Read the Highest Good society overview: Highest Good Society
    • Learn about the model for fulfilled living, sharing, and creating open source sustainability solutions: A Day in the Life
    • Learn about the 4 economic models: RBE | For-profit | Non-profit | Entrepreneurship
    • Learn about our open source community collaboration, management software and creating open source sustainability solutions: 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. They also interviewed and onboarded new volunteer team members. Additionally, they produced and integrated the video above, which highlights creating open source sustainability solutions and serves as a foundational element of One Community’s broader mission. The following images showcase highlights of this work.

Pooja Kulkarni (UI/UX Designer) worked on refining the One Community Global governance dashboard experience by designing and improving key screens for member orientation, home dashboard, proposal overview, and active voting. She focused on making the governance workflow easier to understand by showing proposal stages, group roles, pending votes, urgent actions, participation rates, community pulse, upcoming meetings, and recent decisions in a clearer visual structure. Pooja also developed the detailed proposal voting screen for the Solar Array Expansion Phase 3 proposal, including the approval stage, proposal text, documentation log, approval group members, voting options, live tally, consensus threshold, and archive access. These updates support creating open source sustainability solutions across teams and disciplines.

In addition, she improved the onboarding/orientation flow by explaining how Discussion Groups, Focus Groups, Approval Groups, Administrative Groups, and participation levels work so new members can understand their responsibilities before participating. Pooja continued refining dashboard layouts, public display concepts, hierarchy, spacing, status labels, and interaction patterns to support transparency, decision-making, and easier navigation across the platform, supporting One Community’s mission of creating open source sustainability solutions by making collaborative governance more accessible, transparent, and effective. See the collage below for highlights of her work.

Adhya Rastogi (Business Analyst) continued Reddit engagement by contributing comments across relevant communities, publishing a discussion post, researching the process of creating and managing a dedicated Reddit community for the One Community account, exploring sustainability-related communities, and identifying opportunities for future discussion topics to support organic audience growth. She optimized Google Ads for multiple webpages by updating headlines, descriptions, targeted keywords, and negative keywords while reviewing campaign performance to evaluate the impact of recent optimizations and identify areas for improvement. Adhya also completed end-to-end testing of the Total Organization Summary Dashboard by validating component functionality, updating the dashboard analysis spreadsheet, expanding the Root Cause Matrix with dependency mapping, reviewing the status of previously reported bugs, and sharing testing observations with Jae contributing to One Community’s mission of creating open source sustainability solutions.

In addition, she implemented approved SEO updates for the Overview page in WordPress, recorded baseline analytics, reviewed Rank Math guidance, and updated the SEO tracking spreadsheet with implementation details and optimization progress. These efforts support One Community’s mission of creating open source sustainability solutions by improving the visibility, reliability, and accessibility of its platforms, tools, and resources for a broader global audience. See the collage below for highlights of this work.

Valentina Collini (Designer) contributed to the One Community website by creating new biography images and announcement images for incoming volunteers. She also updated the website with information for new team members, ensuring that profiles and related content were properly integrated into the site. In addition, Valentina reviewed existing website content and corrected errors where needed, helping maintain the accuracy, consistency, and overall quality of the website. She also created new images for social media. Her work supported the onboarding of new volunteers and strengthened One Community’s mission of creating open source sustainability solutions by improving the presentation, accuracy, and accessibility of information shared with the global community. See the collage below for highlights of this work.

ADMINISTRATION TEAM

The Administration Team’s summary, which covers their work on the Highest Good Network, was managed by Devendranath Chowdary Maganti (Data Analyst) and includes Leo Lishin Shiu (Software Engineer), Mridul Bhushan (Project Strategy Analyst and Team Administrator), Olawunmi “Ola” Ijisesan (Administrative and Management Support), Pranjul Garg (Business Analyst), Sai Sree Dongari (Data Analyst), Sayantan Paul (Frontend Tester and Software Team Administrator), Tanmay Nihal Harwani (Data Scientist), Udayan Sathe (Financial Analyst), and Sachit Varma (Business Operations & Cost Analyst). The Administration Team supports the Highest Good Network, a tool designed to track and measure progress while developing systems that contribute to creating open source sustainability solutions. Through administrative support, documentation, testing, training, recruitment, analytics, and content management, the team helps advance this mission, aligning with One Community’s vision of building a replicable and sustainable future model.

This week, Leo reviewed the 17LeDCC and 20LeFOD team weekly summaries, created collages for the weekly blog, scheduled Facebook and Instagram posts, and uploaded social media data to the dashboard and insights tracking system for performance reporting. Mridul supported One Community as a Senior Admin Mentor Member by standardizing Claude prompts for weekly blog creation and social media content generation, scheduling LinkedIn and Twitter/X posts, completing weekend analytics, and mentoring Udayan through Blog #694 review and recommendations. These content management, analytics, and mentoring activities contribute to creating open source sustainability solutions.

Ola optimized admin and PR team workspaces, created a structured folder system for documentation, reviewed Pinterest analytics data, and monitored weekly scheduling activities to support organized content management. Pranjul managed volunteer time logs, identified logging errors, guided corrections, updated system records, scheduled Tumblr and Medium updates, gathered team project updates, and published WordPress blogs for multiple teams. These administrative coordination and digital organization efforts contribute to creating open source sustainability solutions.

Sachit developed a funder scoring matrix with updated evaluation criteria, weighting structures, and research frameworks for prospective One Community funders. He reviewed organizational information, business plans, operations, funding strategies, and financial details from an investor and funder perspective, completed revisions to his orientation blog, reviewed collaborator feedback, and provided corrections on team submissions. Sai Sree organized PR review images, created collages, finalized PR Admin Team blog content, completed candidate interviews, recorded feedback, and performed frontend testing to verify styling, tooltips, dropdown behavior, typography, filters, and light and dark mode consistency. These research, review, and testing activities contribute to creating open source sustainability solutions.

Sayantan completed OC Administration tasks by handling Team Skye’s blog submission, performing peer admin reviews, identifying formatting and summary issues, reviewing senior administration feedback, updating tracking records, and guiding team members on summary quality and commenting practices. He also tested HGN software updates across frontend and backend PRs covering dashboards, reports, education portals, event features, search filters, tool functionality, CSS migrations, and APIs while documenting remaining issues furthering One Community’s mission of creating open source sustainability solutions.

Tanmay continued bio administration, blog management, social media coordination, and administrative reviews by updating bios, collecting missing information, combining team blogs, completing SEO updates, reviewing admin submissions, creating Threads posts, and maintaining dashboard tracking sheets. These software testing, administration, and communication activities contribute to creating open source sustainability solutions.

Udayan continued financial analysis work by improving revenue projection models across seven development phases, updating assumptions, identifying open items, and preparing a handoff document for future analysts. The work included reviewing financial structures and organizing documentation to support continuity of project planning. See the collage below for highlights of this week’s work and contributions toward creating open source sustainability solutions.

HIGHEST GOOD NETWORK PROGRESS

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

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

This week, the core team continued testing Highest Good Network pull requests on the Main branch and confirmed that 13 pull requests were fixed and 11 were not fixed. They were also unable to test several pull requests because the required data was not available on the Main branch. These included Update Project Risk Graph Layout to Match Expected Visual Format (PR 4771), Enable Hover-Triggered Chart Display for “Tools and Equipment Tracking” Section (PR 4753), Finish PR 4792 – Add Historical Trend & Risk Movement Tracking to Project Risk Profile (PR 5184), Phase 2 Bugs: Fix 4301 – Fix Calendar Dark Mode and Issue Chart Visibility (PR 4653), and Add Side-by-Side Comparison Mode for Actual vs. Planned Expenditure Charts (PR 4898 and PR 2073). See the collage below to view the team’s work, which contributes to creating open source sustainability solutions.

ALPHA SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT TEAM

The Alpha Team’s summary, covering their work on the Highest Good Network, was managed by Lin Khant Htel (Frontend Software Developer) and Pranjul Garg (Business Analyst) with a team consisting of Casstiel Pi (Software Engineer), Handika Harianto Ew Jong (Full Stack Developer), Maithili Kalkar (Software Engineer), Sai Sandeep (Software Engineer), Som Ramnani (Junior Software Engineer) and Yingshu Wang (Software Engineer) supporting One Community’s mission of cross-functional software development and system improvements. This work advances the team’s objectives, ensuring that all completed tasks directly contribute to creating open source sustainability solutions.

This week, Casstiel reviewed the Weekly Project Summary implementation by examining the frontend filter flow, Redux state, chart components, and backend routes to confirm that frontend usability features were fully in place. He identified missing backend support for issue breakdown, comparison data, badge counts, and project and date filtering, allowing him to plan the required backend updates across routes, controllers, models, and data sources furthering One Community’s mission of creating open source sustainability solutions.

Handika updated inventory management by correcting API endpoint naming, connecting deletion controllers, adding edit endpoints, improving error handling, and verifying delete functionality across inventory types. He also added confirmation dialogs, fixed frontend update behavior after failed edits, and enhanced the experience donut chart with updated date pickers, multi-select role filtering, a responsive layout, and light and dark mode styling. These technical updates advance the team’s objectives, creating open source sustainability solutions.

One Community welcomes Sharadha Kasiviswanathan to the Software Team as our newest Volunteer/Consultant!

Sharadha is a recent Master’s graduate in Computer Science, with 3+ years of experience in artificial intelligence, machine learning, data analytics, and software engineering. She has worked on projects involving Agentic AI, Natural Language Processing, speech recognition, and predictive analytics. She is passionate about building scalable applications, leveraging data-driven insights, and developing technology that creates meaningful impact. As a member of the One Community team, Sharadha contributed to the development and enhancement of the Highest Good Network software platform by implementing new features, improving application functionality, resolving integration issues, supporting frontend and backend development efforts, and helping advance components such as analytics dashboards, workflow management systems, lesson management features, error handling modules, automated posting, and resource request functionality.

WELCOME TO THE TEAM SHARADHA!

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One Community welcomes Hemanth Nidamanuru to the Software Team as our newest Volunteer/Consultant!

Hemanth holds a Master of Science in Computer Science from Purdue University and has over three years of professional experience in data engineering and pipeline development. He has developed deep expertise in building production-grade systems across distributed data processing, real-time streaming, cloud infrastructure, and data quality assurance. His technical toolkit spans PySpark, Python, Kafka, Apache Airflow, Azure Databricks, AWS, and Snowflake, with a track record of delivering scalable, high-reliability pipelines in fast-paced Agile environments. As a volunteer contributor to the One Community team, Hemanth brings that same commitment to precision and quality to the Highest Good Network (HGN) application, actively contributing through thorough pull request reviews, functional UI test execution, defect identification and documentation, and end-to-end fix verification, helping ensure the platform remains stable, well-tested, and continuously improving.

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