One CommunityConsciously Mapping Humanity’s Future – One Community Weekly Progress Update #592
At One Community, we are dedicated to consciously mapping humanity’s future through sustainable approaches to food, energy, housing, education, and economics. Our all-volunteer team is committed to creating a model that becomes self-replicating, fostering global collaboration through teacher/demonstration hubs. By open sourcing and free sharing the complete process, we aim to evolve sustainability and regenerate our planet. Our mission is to create a world that works for everyone, always striving 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
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One Community’s physical location will forward this movement for consciously mapping humanity’s future as the first of many self-replicating teacher/demonstration communities, villages, and cities to be built around the world. This is the July 22nd, 2024 edition (#592) of our weekly progress update detailing our team’s development and accomplishments:
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HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING PROGRESS
One Community is consciously mapping humanity’s future 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:
- Take a look at consciously mapping humanity’s future with Our Upcoming Crowdfunding Campaign
- Learn about the different village models designed as part of consciously mapping humanity’s future: 7 Sustainable Village Models
- Visit the open source portals for the first two: Earthbag Village OS Hub | Straw Bale Village OS Hub
This week, Adefola Madehin (Electrical Design Specialist) continued his work with Earthbag Village designs. Fola revised the socket circuit of the Earthbag 4 Dome Village Electrical Design project and added extractor fans, air-conditioning sockets, kitchen hoods, cooker control units, and water heaters to the electrical design according to the National Electrical Code (NEC). He also amended the schematic diagram of the main electrical panel. The Earthbag Village is the first of 7 to be built as the housing component of One Community’s open source model for consciously mapping humanity’s future. See some of this work in the collage below.
Joseph Osayande (Mechanical Engineer) continued helping finish the Vermiculture Toilet designs. This week, research focused on finding a new connector or interface to keep the frame connected to the stand. Quick drafts of potential structures were created, but nothing concrete has been finalized yet. A new interface that is believed to work for the unistrut was designed, and work continued on other parts of the structure, including the vertical bar. The vermiculture toilets and other sustainable human waste processing technologies form the basis of One Community’s open source model for consciously mapping humanity’s future. See below for some of the pictures related to this work.
Rizwan Syed (Mechanical Engineer) also continued helping finish the Vermiculture Toilet designs. This week, Rizwan focused on connecting multiple pieces of unistrut channel for the vermiculture chamber assembly without welding. He brainstormed two concepts: a modular wing connector for attaching adjacent unistruts, including the slider support, and an L-shaped bracket separate from the unistrut pillar. He designed custom 3D models of L-brackets and wing connectors, importing reference vendor models into SolidWorks to evaluate component interference and ease of assembly for the vermiculture system. Additionally, Rizwan wrote detailed documentation describing the key activities of the mechanical engineering team, summarizing the design, analysis, hand calculations, and cost analysis for the eco-toilet design project, which would be posted on One Community’s official website. The vermiculture toilets and other sustainable human waste processing technologies form the basis of One Community’s open source model for consciously mapping humanity’s future. Here are a few photos showing examples of his work.
Yagyansh Maheshwari (Mechanical Engineer) started his work with Earthbag Village designs. This week, Yagyansh focused on checking the calculation done on the worm density based on the spreadsheet. He also researched various methods for transporting the drawers to the dumping site and explored different techniques for effectively dumping the contents. This work aims to improve the efficiency of the vermiculture process. The Earthbag Village is the first of 7 to be built as the housing component of One Community’s open source model for consciously mapping humanity’s future. See some of this work in the collage below.
AIRCRETE TEAM
The Aircrete Testing Team’s summary, covering their work on Aircrete Compression Testing was managed by John Sullivan (CBU Chemical Engineering Student) and includes Jonathan Crago (Civil Engineering Student), Preston Thompson (Civil Engineering Student), and Tad Matlock (Environmental Science Student). This week, Tad compared two foaming agents for Aircrete, specifically 7th Generation Dish Soap and Drexel, focusing on cost and sustainability analyses. He also continued writing trial summaries for ongoing Aircrete tests, adding additional pictures, and has summarized 27 trials so far. Tad further expanded his synopsis of past content. Jonathan and his team worked on stabilizing the Domegaia method to prevent collapses, creating test cylinders with various recipes and mixing methods, and brainstorming potential improvements. While one method showed promise, the team is striving for consistency and did compression testing on the cylinders. Preston and his team evaluated the effectiveness of their high concrete ratio, achieving two successful Domegaia batches. They attempted to add 5% more foam to the mix, but only one out of nine samples was successful. Compression tests on older trials revealed that most of them broke before being tested. This week, John and the team developed a plan to address the collapsing issues with the Domegaia method. They have been using a concrete mixer to mix the Aircrete, which has been the only successful trial. The team also started testing with a higher foam ratio by adding 5% more foam, but these trials have been unsuccessful so far. Additionally, John has been editing procedure videos for the Domegaia method. These aircrete tests contribute to the housing aspect of One Community’s open source model for consciously mapping humanity’s future. See below for some of the pictures related to this work.
EARTHBAG VILLAGE 4-DOME ROOF TEAM
The Earthbag Village 4-dome Roof Team was managed by Khushboo Parmar (Project Manager) and includes Karthik Pillai (Volunteer Mechanical Engineer) and Yusuf Thanawala (Structural Engineer). Karthik implemented directions provided by Michaela and initiated the section view of the loft. He focused on creating 2D drawings of the domes for replicability and to align with recent changes. Karthik participated in team meetings to share concerns and insights. Additionally, he spent time learning REVIT through YouTube tutorials to improve his skills for project application. Adefola revised the socket circuit of the Earthbag 4 Dome Village Electrical Design project to incorporate extractor fans, air-conditioning sockets, kitchen hoods, cooker control units, and water heaters, aligning with the National Electrical Code (NEC). He also updated the schematic diagram of the main electrical panel. Khushboo did interviews with multiple volunteers and extended offers for positions. She addressed approximately half of the backlog of candidates, scheduling their interviews accordingly. Additionally, Khushboo facilitated a meeting with the 4 Dome Cluster Roof team to address weekly inquiries and resolve any project impediments. In his fourth week with HGN, Yusuf continued his work on loft design for a single dome structure and furthered his understanding of Revit. He researched design values for mass timber construction and learned about CLT (Cross Laminated Timber) panels, specifically evaluating a 5-ply, 6 7/8″ thick V1 CLT panel with FbSeff,0 = 4800 lb-ft/ft for a 16-foot clear span beam. He concluded that this panel would be sufficient for a 40 psf dead and 40psf live load. Additionally, Yusuf considered the use of CLT for the attic part of the structure, contingent on its availability and constructability for sustainable DIY-type construction. The Earthbag village forms the basis of One Community’s open source model for consciously mapping humanity’s future. See their work in the collage below.
DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER PROGRESS
One Community is consciously mapping humanity’s future through a Duplicable and Sustainable City Center that is LEED Platinum certified/Sustainable, can feed 200 people at a time, provide laundry for over 300 people, is beautiful, spacious, and saves resources, money, and space:
- Learn about this building and it’s function as part of consciously mapping humanity’s future: Duplicable City Center Open Source Hub
This week, Chris Blair (GIS Technician/Horticulturist) continued working with GIS data as part of One Community’s Permaculture Design. Chris continued developing a written tutorial for utilizing GIS data, detailing the steps to combine various digital elevation models (DEMs) together into one cohesive unit, change linear units, and alter the symbology of a DEM. Additionally, he explored methods to process DEMs to improve their visual smoothness. Proper property modeling and understanding is a foundational part of One Community’s open source model for consciously mapping humanity’s future. Here are a few photos showing examples of his work.
Clarice Gaw Gonzalo (Architect) continued her work with the Duplicable City Center room designs. This week, Clarice worked on editing the Neofuturistic bathroom, addressing issues with the mirror and a few textures. She completed the edits in SketchUp before rendering them in Lumion. She also focused on the Old Hollywood-themed room, adding extra furniture to match the red and gold theme throughout the room. Additionally, she populated the room with people and adjusted the lighting settings, including the sun pathing, while taking several views. The City Center will be built along with the first of the 7 villages as part of One Community’s open source model for consciously mapping humanity’s future. See some of this work in the collage below.
HIGHEST GOOD FOOD PROGRESS
One Community is consciously mapping humanity’s future 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 food structures we’ve designed for consciously mapping humanity’s future: Hoop House Hub | Aquapini & Walipini Open Source Hub
- See what we’ll be growing first as we’re consciously mapping humanity’s future: Gardens & Hoop Houses | Large-scale Structures | Food Forest | TA
This week, the core team continued updating and expanding the Highest Good Food tools, equipment, materials, and supplies document by adding new items and categorizing tools and equipment into powered and non-powered. New acquisitions included hand tools like bolt cutters, pipe wrenches, and paint brushes, as well as applicators like roller brushes and caulking guns. Additionally, the core team prepared for organized progress reporting by creating and labeling eighteen folders for weekly submissions through mid-November 2024. Highest Good Food is an important part of consciously mapping humanity’s future with One Community’s open source plans. See their work in the collage below.
Charles Gooley (Web Designer) focused this week on the Transition Food Self-sufficiency Plan and completed the replacement of placeholder images for recipe pages, with the exception of one vegan pasta image awaiting provision. This week, Charles focused on correcting anchor links within the materials section of the Tools and Equipment for Open Source Construction master page to ensure proper display in the address bar. Additionally, he addressed an issue where the left margin of the page shifted to the left edge when specific anchor links were clicked. Another task involved populating blank cells in tools, equipment, and materials items that needs to be provided by the authors. Sustainable food and housing are an important part of consciously mapping humanity’s future with One Community’s open source plans. See his work in the collage below.
Prathamesh Jadhav (HVAC Design Engineer) started working on Aquapini and Walipini Planting and Harvesting. He reviewed the welcome document and studied topics related to Aquapini and Walipinis. He examined the designs of the Walipini, Aquapini, and Zenapini, including the details and software to be used for each. Additionally, Prathamesh reviewed the design of the Open Source Climate Battery. Highest Good food is an important part of consciously mapping humanity’s future with One Community’s open source plans. See his work in the collage below.
HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION PROGRESS
One Community is consciously mapping humanity’s future 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 a decade 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:
- Education program overview for consciously mapping humanity’s future: Education Open Source Hub
- How the components work together for consciously mapping humanity’s future: How to use the Education for Life Program
- Lesson Plans for Life – Lesson Plans How-to
- Foundations of Outstanding Leaders, Teachers, and Communicators interested in consciously mapping humanity’s future
- Curriculum for Life (and consciously mapping humanity’s future)
- Teaching Strategies for Life (and consciously mapping humanity’s future)
- Learning Tools and Toys for Life (and consciously mapping humanity’s future)
- Evaluation and Evolution
This week Brian Mwoyowatidi (Graduate Structural Engineer) continued helping with the engineering details for The Ultimate Classroom part of the Highest Good Education component. He began by covering how to layout the building according to the plans and design, including setting up the formwork, materials used in formwork, types of formwork, and design considerations. He further examined foundation construction, addressing the curing of concrete and inspections, the importance of curing, different methods, and typical curing periods. Video visual representations were added to various sections of the tutorial. Brian also covered the subfloor preparation for the flooring system, providing step-by-step guidance on assessing the subgrade, improving it if needed, installing the sub-base, proof rolling, placing a vapor barrier, setting up forms, and adding reinforcement. He also elaborated on the purpose and importance of the Ultimate Classroom Footer, Foundation, and Flooring. The One Community model of combining forward-thinking education with sustainably built classrooms like this is an excellent example of consciously mapping humanity’s future. See the collage below for his work.
HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY PROGRESS
One Community is consciously mapping humanity’s future through a Highest Good society approach to living that is founded on fulfilled living, the study of meeting human needs, Community, and making a difference in the world:
- Read the Highest Good society overview: Highest Good Society
- Learn about the model for fulfilled living and sharing: A Day in the Life
- Learn about the 4 economic models: RBE | For-profit | Non-profit | Entrepreneurship
This week, the core team completed over 65 hours managing One Community’s volunteer-work review not included above, emails, social media accounts, web development, new bug identification and bug-fix integration for the Highest Good Network software, and interviewing and getting set up new volunteer team members. They also shot and incorporated the video above that talks about consciously mapping humanity’s future and how consciously mapping humanity’s future is a foundation of the bigger picture of everything One Community is doing. The picture below shows some of this work.
Arun Chandar Ganesan (Volunteer Data Analyst and SEO and Social Media Assistant) focused on improving webpage SEO, reviewing numerous pages, including some previously abandoned ones. He also improved the scores of his previous web pages. Additionally, Arun managed and coordinated the scheduling of posts on One Community’s social media platforms such as Facebook, Instagram, Pinterest, and LinkedIn, and regularly updated the tutorials. This work helps One Community to broaden our reach in social media and spread our message about consciously mapping humanity’s future. The following images show his work for the week.
Ibrahim Al Balushi (Software Engineer) continued working on security and stability related issues for the Highest Good Network software. He completed research and identified a tutorial to address the Dependabot issues. Relevant tutorials were incorporated into the bugs document, an action item list was added, and further research was done to identify additional safe tutorials while awaiting approval. This work helps One Community’s mission of consciously mapping humanity’s future. The picture below shows some of his work.
Jia Shu (UX Designer) collaborated with John to delve into Phase 3 PRD, covering epics, user stories, tasks, and priorities. John provided advice on low-fidelity prototyping, potentially leading to mid-fidelity prototypes. Independent study of web design and iOS/Android design systems was started using resources on Material Design, Android Design, and Apple Design to develop a reliable web structure and optimize user experience. The design system was structured around six epics and their respective user stories, with specific tasks for each epic being defined. The team is halfway through defining the UI system, including colors and icons, and has started design work in Figma with a basic layout for each function. Research is ongoing for references to apply to design tasks such as activity evaluation and evolution tracking, activity FAQ, summary and comments connected to the calendar, and reports functionality covering participation, resource use, feedback, and class ratings. This work helps One Community’s mission of consciously mapping humanity’s future. The picture below shows some of this work.
Jiaqi Wu (UX Designer) created the event page for activity organizers, the detailed information page for events, and the main dashboard. She incorporated the PM’s advice by adding filters to the event calendar and agreed on the functionality of the event page and the workflow of the resources manager. Additionally, she collaborated with the PM and another UX designer, providing advice and making some concessions. This work helps One Community’s mission of consciously mapping humanity’s future. The picture below shows some of this work.
ADMINISTRATION TEAM
The Administration Team’s summary, covering their work administrating and managing most of One Community’s ongoing process for consciously mapping humanity’s future was managed by Sneka Vetriappan (Data Analyst) and includes Jessica Fairbanks (Administrative Assistant), Jim Zhang (Administrative Assistant), Kishan Sivakumar (Administative Assistant and Software Team Manager), Michael Juma (Administrative Assistant), Olawunmi “Ola” Ijisesan (Administrative and Management Support), Rachna Malav (Data Analyst), Ratna Meena Shivakumar (Data Analyst and Admin), Ruiqi Liu (Administrative Assistant), Saumit Chinchkhandi (Software Engineer), T R Samarth Urs (Data Analyst), Vibhav Chimatapu (Data Analyst/Admin Assistant) and Zuqi Li (Administrative Assistant and Economic Analyst). This week, Jessica began familiarizing herself with the HG Food Rollout plan and reviewed the new administrator’s training process. Jim updated the electrical vehicle page, analyzed cost savings, and searched for golf cart prices.
Kishan did his part helping us consciously mapping humanity’s future as he focused on optimizing the weekly update blog for SEO, while Michael continued improving blogs #490 to #499, addressing SEO metrics and keyword density. Ola reviewed the PR team’s work, trained new team volunteers, and organized the workspace. Rachna handled her regular administrative duties, created the weekly blog, and prepared for her transition to a new role as a mentor at One Community.
Ratna managed OC Administration tasks, including email reviews, blog updates, and social media post scheduling. Ruiqi completed the review process for the Dev Dynasty and Git-R-Done Team, ensured bio announcements were prepared, and worked on benchmarking Excel. Saumit did some work consciously mapping humanity’s future as he reviewed work, began PR review training, and participated in a Zoom meeting discussing new responsibilities. Samarth managed the PR review team, evaluated their work, optimized blog #531, and created a blog post summarizing the team’s work.
Vibhav proofread PR Team summaries, created group summaries and collages, and continued SEO optimization. Zuqi organized weekly summaries, updated the blog, and reviewed previous blog pages for SEO improvements. One Community’s model for consciously mapping humanity’s future includes developing and maintaining a supportive administration team like this. You can see the work for the team in the image below.
GRAPHIC DESIGN TEAM
The Graphic Design Team’s summary was managed by Zuqi Li (Administrative Assistant and Economic Analyst) and included Ashlesha Navale (Graphic Designer) and Junyuan Liu (Graphic Designer, UI/UX Designer), covering their work on graphic designs for consciously mapping humanity’s future. This week, Ashlesha researched and curated a collection of nature-based and theme-based background images for creating social media images, producing nine images titled Self-Contribution To Evolution, Self-Decision, Self-Fulfilled Life, Self-How To Make Change, Self-Humanity’s Choice, Self-Improvement, Self-Lifestyle Change, Self-One Thing You Can Do, and Self-Reduce Waste. She also fixed a few old social media images and food recipe images, updating her folder. Liu started his process of learning how we are consciously mapping humanity’s future as he participated in the Orientation process, which included filling out confirmation forms, providing personal information, and reviewing materials related to One Community. He read about the Social Media Image program and the UI/UX program, researched, and completed two social media images and is continuing to work on a third. See the Highest Good Society pages for more on how this contributes to consciously mapping humanity’s future. See the collage below to view some of their work.
HIGHEST GOOD NETWORK PROGRESS
One Community is consciously mapping humanity’s future through open source Highest Good Network® software that is a web-based application for collaboration, time tracking, and objective data collection. The purpose of the Highest Good Network is to provide software for internal operations and external cooperation. It is being designed for global use in support of the different countries and communities replicating the One Community sustainable village models and related components.
- Learn about our open source community collaboration and management software designed for tracking and managing our process of consciously mapping humanity’s future: The Highest Good Network
This week, the core team continued their work on the Highest Good Network PRs testing, confirming the fixed PRs. The PRs include PR#2163, which added functionality to copy WBS and Project ID and fixed column alignments for small screen sizes; PR#2348, which removed the “Note: Only works on Permissions Management Page” message from all ‘i’ information messages on the Profile page; PR#2295, which fixed the Dark mode issue on the SendEmail page; PR#2425, which fixed Dark mode for the WBS page; and PR#2349, which fixed errors with “create new user” and “see all users.” Additionally, the issue with the timer stopping a couple of minutes before the set time was resolved. They also tested FPR2409 and BPR1015 concerning the Chart Pie feature on the Report-to-Project page, which was not present on Main pages, and the unresolved issues with PR#2295 and Dark mode on the Profile page were noted. Other unresolved issues included updating the time log/editing an entry that is not getting added to the edit history in the user profile and PR#2078, which had numerous issues such as incorrect data, duplicated functions, and user confusion. Furthermore, they reported that when HGN is in Dark mode, the menu to switch to Light mode has black font instead of white and identified a double entry of the team on the Profile page. See the Highest Good Society and Highest Good Network pages for more on how this relates to consciously mapping humanity’s future. The collage below shows some of their work.
ALPHA SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT TEAM
The Alpha Team’s summary, covering their work on the Highest Good Network software was managed by Lin Khant Htel (Frontend Software Developer) and includes Carlos Gomez (Full-stack Software Developer) and Logeshwari Renu (Software Engineer). The Highest Good Network software is how we will manage and measure our processes for consciously mapping humanity’s future across our social architecture, construction, production, and maintenance processes. This week, Lin focused on fixing the pagination UI for members in PR 2476. He reviewed and approved the unit testing and integration testing for PR 1021 (Project Controller) and PR 1027 (Time Zone API). Additionally, Lin reviewed the weekly summaries, photos, and videos related to the tasks of his team Alpha members.
Carlos reviewed the project backend using Abi’s API at the route api/reports/volunteerstats?startDate={startDate}&endDate={endDate}, focusing on fixing the aggregation logic. He analyzed another existing endpoint that uses api/TimeEntry/users and decided to use the getTimeEntriesForUsersList function from this endpoint. On the frontend, he did his part consciously mapping humanity’s future as he set up a list using allUserProfileReducer and filtered it for active users. He then built a reducer to manage time entries, named allUsersTimeEntrieReducer. Data for TotalOrgSummary.jsx, VolunteerHoursDistribution.jsx, and ReportPieChart.jsx was programmed, with state variables set up accordingly. The UI for Volunteer Hours Distribution is now 90% complete.
Logeshwari addressed an issue where newly created roles were not displayed in Permission Management. The solution involved updating role.js to call the API and create a new role via the addNewRole function, modifying PermissionsManagement.jsx to pass getAllRoles as a prop to CreateNewRolePopup in the ModalBody, and updating NewRolePopUp.jsx to include getAllRoles in mapDispatchToProps, as well as calling getAllRoles after successful role creation in handleSubmit. A pull request for review was created under PR 2471. See the Highest Good Society and Highest Good Network pages for more on how this relates to consciously mapping humanity’s future. View some of the team’s work in the collage below.
BADGES BUGS SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT TEAM
The Badges Bugs Team’s summary overseeing advancements in the Highest Good Network software was managed by Summit Kaushal (Backend Software Developer). The Highest Good Network software is how we’ll be consciously mapping humanity’s future through our social architecture, construction, production, and maintenance processes. This week, Summit focused on resolving a Postman issue by reviewing relevant HGN documents and collaborating with team members on Slack. They researched potential solutions through Postman’s resources and community forums, including troubleshooting 401 and 404 errors, deleting and recreating collections, and experimenting with user authentication methods. Additionally, Summit investigated code-related causes and identified the need to consult with other HGN members for further assistance. While also managing recruitment activities on Slack, he worked on debugging and problem-solving efforts. See the Highest Good Society and Highest Good Network pages for more on how this relates to consciously mapping humanity’s future. View some of the team’s work in the collage below.
BINARY BRIGADE SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT TEAM
The Binary Brigade Team’s summary overseeing advancements in the Highest Good Network software was managed by Min Sun (Software Engineer) and includes Aaryaneil Nimbalkar (Software Developer), Deepthi Kannan (Software Engineer), Peizhou Zhang (Software Engineer), Sai Sarath Kumar Alavakonda (Software Engineer), Sandhya Adavikolanu (Software Developer), Sri Sudersan Thopey Ganesh (Software Engineer), Vigneshwar (Software Engineer), and Vijay Anand Pandian (Full Stack Software Engineer). The Highest Good Network software is how we’ll be consciously mapping humanity’s future through our social architecture, construction, production, and maintenance processes. This week, the HGN Software Development team worked on various tasks. Min completed adding manager icons to the dashboard and began optimizing the team report page loading speed. He also managed weekly meetings and reports.
Vigneshwar focused on creating a global volunteer network map, including developing a sample database and application with a map and volunteer status pie chart. He addressed challenges integrating the map and plans to use actual volunteer data next. Sri developed the VolunteerStatusPieChart component using Chart.js and created a separate PR for the Blue Square Stats component using D3.
Sai did his part consciously mapping humanity’s future as he resolved UI issues and backend problems affecting the “see all” toggle functionality. He also implemented a solution to display active and inactive team member counts on the Teams page.
Vijay completed various UI fixes for narrow screens and auto scroll functionality, reviewed pull requests, and addressed bugs. Peizhou completed his assigned task and requested further improvement assistance before moving on to a new one. Deepthi did her part consciously mapping humanity’s future as she edited and enhanced the HGN Phase 1 User Manual and implemented informational icons with tooltips for user roles on the Permissions Management page. Aaryaneil added test cases and reviewed several pull requests.
Sandhya advanced the data accuracy testing dashboard for HGN Software Development. She finalized styling, ensured responsiveness across devices, integrated the component with the main application, implemented data filters and date range selectors, conducted testing, and updated documentation. She also collaborated with the team, gathered feedback, and validated volunteer status data, identifying discrepancies in the “Task Completed Bar Chart” that will be addressed in a meeting with Harsh. See the Highest Good Society and Highest Good Network pages for more on how this relates to consciously mapping humanity’s future. View some of the team’s work in the collage below.
BLUE STEEL SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT TEAM
The Blue Steel Team’s summary, presenting their work on the Highest Good Network software was managed by Jingyi Jia (Software Engineer, Team Manager), and includes Imran Issa (Software Developer), Jay Srinivasan (Software Engineer), Parth Rasu Jangid (Software Developer), Ramakrishna Aruva (Software Engineer), Tzu Ning “Leo” Chueh (Software Engineer), and Vishavdeep Kaur (Full stack Developer). The Highest Good Network software is how we’ll be managing and objectively measuring our process for consciously mapping humanity’s future through our social architecture, construction, production, and maintenance processes. This week, Parth worked on integration tests for the timeZoneAPIController, requiring an API key for proper functionality. He also reviewed three pull requests: numbers 962, 2431, and 2470, resolved conflicts in his pull request, and discussed unit testing with Luis.
Jay focused on Team Blue Steel, providing feedback and completing unit tests for the SameFolderTasks component, addressing merge conflicts, and preparing a pull request for development integration. Imran tackled component testing challenges related to permission settings, resolved failing test cases from the previous week, and managed to open a pull request after updating his branch and fixing conflicts.
Ramakrishna did his part consciously mapping humanity’s future as he implemented advanced techniques like heap and hashing to optimize the replacement of team codes for up to 1000 users and tested changes locally. Tzu Ning did his part consciously mapping humanity’s future as he planned modifications to event handling logic in a form to enhance user interaction by enabling field resetting. Vishavdeep addressed a UI issue as detailed in the “HGN Phase I Bugs and Needed Functionalities” document, created a new branch for the fixes, tested PR2443+1025, and coordinated with Nahiyan for further clarification on the bug.
Jingyi addressed memory leaks in the userProfile page by implementing AbortController in React hooks to manage and cancel ongoing HTTP requests, which helped prevent updates to unmounted components. See the Highest Good Society and the Highest Good Network pages to learn more on how their work contributes to consciously mapping humanity’s future. See below to view images of their work.
CODE CRAFTERS SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT TEAM
The Code Crafters Team’s summary, covering their work on the Highest Good Network software, was managed by Ruiqi Liu (Administrative Assistant) and includes Pavan Swaroop Lebakula (Software Engineer), Weiyao Li (Software Engineer) and Xiaoyu Chen (Software Engineer). The Highest Good Network software is how we’ll manage and objectively measure our process for consciously mapping humanity’s future through our social architecture, construction, production, and maintenance processes. Pavan reviewed a pull request that was merged without prior review and examined the applications for bugs, finding none that were not already listed on the bugs page. He also claimed several pull requests and prepared to review them, ensuring that all changes aligned with project requirements.
Weiyao worked on the “add roles” feature, which required edit access to create roles with permissions. He has finished the feature and moved to the code review part. He also learned React, Redux, and testing concepts essential for later features. Xiaoyu helped with consciously mapping humanity’s future as she addressed and resolved issues related to a recursive loop and subterms in the codebase as seen in pull request 2444, and corrected several lint errors. She modified the screen size responsiveness and updated the CSS for a button to meet new requirements. Additionally, she implemented fixes for the latest model test and continuous integration test errors as detailed in pull request 2419. See the Highest Good Society and Highest Good Network pages for more on how this relates to consciously mapping humanity’s future. The collage below shows some of this work.
DEV DYNASTY SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT TEAM
The Dev Dynasty Team’s summary, covering their work on the Highest Good Network software, was managed by Nahiyan Ahmed (Full Stack Software Developer) and includes Akshit Sharma (Software Engineer), Anuj Vakil (Software Engineer), Howie Miao (Software Engineer), Harsh Bodgal (Software Engineer). and Jatin Agrawal (Software Engineer), Nandini Yelmela (Software Engineer). The Highest Good Network software is how we’ll manage and objectively measure our process for consciously mapping humanity’s future through our social architecture, construction, production, and maintenance processes.
Nahiyan resolved merge conflicts and addressed requested changes on the dashboard and permissions management page PR. He assisted two new team members in settling in and selecting their first bug to tackle and provided feedback and approvals for the mobile optimization project. Nahiyan created two PRs: PR 2470, introducing a new dark mode button with hover effects and animations for a clean and responsive look, and PR 2477, a hotfix that corrected spacing on the timelog page and set the scroll bars on the dashboard to auto. Howie contributed to consciously mapping humanity’s future as he continued his work on software development and bug fixing, focusing on the scrollbar bug and starting a new task related to fixing end dates for users who had not worked for over a week. He revisited the scrollbar task and began making progress, creating a demo and advancing the React implementation, managing to get the scrollbar to show up but not yet interact with the correct table.
Akshit resolved UI issues on the people report page, including improvements to the task contribution section, added a clear filters button, and formatted PR #2005. He helped with consciously mapping humanity’s future as he addressed requests and merge conflicts in PRs #2382 and #2390, and resolved merge conflicts, eslint, and prettier errors in PR #2309. Additionally, Akshit made UI changes to the overview on the projects and teams page.
Anuj completed PR reviews for #2416 and #2453 and began developing a feature to add a Projects Page Inventory sort button. Jatin worked on PRs 2446, 2443, 2431, 2426, 2413, 2410, 2394, 2391, 2390, and 2385. Jatin did his part consciously mapping humanity’s future as he addressed a bug to allow the owner to edit user data on the user management pages and worked on fixing the UI for weekly summary modals.
Nandini focused on resolving various UI issues and enhancing the layout of the PROJECT REPORT PAGE for the HGN Software Development project. She fixed the WBS placeholder for dark mode, aligning the title correctly for screens 850px and below, adding side spacing for the WBS and Members table at 415px and below, and preventing header overlap in the tasks table for screens between 851px and 1000px. See the Highest Good Society and Highest Good Network pages for more on how this relates to consciously mapping humanity’s future. The collage below shows some of this work.
EXPRESSERS SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT TEAM
The Expressers Team’s summary, covering their work on the Highest Good Network software, was managed by Christy Guo (Software Engineer). The Highest Good Network software is how we’ll manage and objectively measure our process for consciously mapping humanity’s future through our social architecture, construction, production, and maintenance processes.
This week, Christy continued working on fixing the connection errors and was unable to fetch data errors for the backend implementation for Hour Task Visualization. She worked on resolving backend connectivity issues and configuring those API routing to fetch project information and those related task information. See the Highest Good Society and Highest Good Network pages for more on how this relates to consciously mapping humanity’s future. See the collage below for the team’s work this week.
MOONFALL SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT TEAM
The Moonfall Team’s summary, covering their work on the Highest Good Network software was managed by Lu Wang (Software Engineer) and includes Abdelmounaim “Abdel” Lallouache (Software Developer), Jiadong Zhang (Volunteer Software Engineer), Shrada Chellasami (Software Engineer) and Yili Sun (Software Engineer). The Highest Good Network software is how we’ll be managing and objectively measuring our process for consciously mapping humanity’s future across our social architecture, construction, production, and maintenance processes.
This week, Abdelmounaim focused on fixing an error that occurred when users attempted to send the setup profile link, which caused the modal not to refresh and clear the input. He raised PR 1035 to implement these fixes. Additionally, he resolved conflicts in PR 1029, removed unused code, and retested the functionality. On PR 2430, Abdelmounaim worked on finding a solution to pass the test by experimenting with different styling options.
Jiadong focused on replacing a badge on the dashboard. Additionally, did his part consciously mapping humanity’s future as he reset his local environment and updated all changes in his previous branch. Jiadong believed that the bug in his pull request was caused by some unmerged content, prompting these actions to ensure a clean and updated codebase. Shrada focused on fixing the missing form validation in the user profile page. The backend is currently configured to return an error if the last name length is shorter than two characters. However, the frontend validation is missing, and no warning message is displayed. She tried several approaches to solving the bug, but facing a few additional errors. Yili addressed the issue with the Permissions Management info icons, the problem where the ‘delete role’ popup would appear when the ‘save’ popup was closed and the ‘delete’ popup’s close icon was unresponsive.
Additionally, Yili worked on the UI issues on the User Management Page for screen sizes 375px and up. These issues included adding spacing to the right of the show button, ensuring the dropdown filter next to the show button has a darker background when active, resizing the search input to be more appropriate at 641px and 491px, and aligning the top items properly with adequate spacing at 375px. The font size for the user table was adjusted to reduce side scrolling at 750px. The setup invitation history modal was changed to a bordered table with placeholders for inputs, and the Setup New User modal was updated so the whole placeholder is visible at 375px. Finally, the reset password modal was modified to reduce the excessive space underneath the labels. See the Highest Good Society and Highest Good Network pages for more on how this relates to consciously mapping humanity’s future. Below is a collage for the team’s work.
REACTONAUTS SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT TEAM
The Reactonauts Team’s summary, covering their work on the Highest Good Network software was managed by Changhao Li (Software Engineer) and includes Dhairya Mehta (Software Engineer), Diya Wadhwani (Software Developer), Hoang Pham (Software Developer), Nikhil Pittala (Software Engineer), Peterson Rodrigues dos Santos (Full-Stack MERN Stack Developer), Vijeth Venkatesha (Full Stack Developer) and Yash Agrawal (Software Engineer). The Highest Good Network software is how we’ll be managing and objectively measuring our process for consciously mapping humanity’s future across our social architecture, construction, production, and maintenance processes. This week, Changhao worked on team management, new team member task recommendations, and unit test development. In team management, a new member was welcomed and familiarized with the software structure and development processes. He hosted the weekly team meeting, where members updated their task progress and outlined their work plans. He monitored the team’s task time logs to ensure smooth progress and processed time extension requests for Hetvi and Yash. Additionally, Changhao also created a team weekly pic folder for members to upload their work progress screenshots and videos for team review. For unit test development, Changhao continued working on timeentry.jsx, addressing updates on the latest branch that required monitoring and modifications for the unit tests.
Dhairya focused on addressing the “Fix Projects find user function” task. He did his part consciously mapping humanity’s future as he accurately identified the root cause of the issue affecting user discovery within the projects section. Leveraging this understanding, Dhairya took proactive steps to develop a comprehensive sort and search function.
Diya reviewed the development branch’s frontend and backend, identifying and documenting bugs across various components. Specifically, six bugs affecting the Timelog, Reports, and UserProfile components were added, and the bug documentation was updated with screenshots. A hotfix was implemented to address an issue with loading the teams page; changes were made and a working video and code were uploaded to Dropbox. A pull request with the ‘hotfix’ label was raised, and Jae was notified. Additionally, Diya completed backend functionality improvements for manual assignments and edits related to blue squares, with a testing video uploaded to Dropbox. The corresponding UI changes, which aligned with the Figma mockups approved by Jae, were also finished. Pull requests #1038 and #2475 were created for these updates. However, a pending issue related to placing the cursor in the summary field when a date is selected without a description remains unresolved. A screenshot of the updated UI was uploaded to the Dropbox folder for the week.
Hoang addressed merge conflicts on two open PRs: “Make Mark Task as Done and Remove Task from User More Efficient” (#2347) and “Fix Viewing Other Dashboard” (#2257 and #949). Additionally, Hoang attempted a hotfix for the /timelog route accessibility issue. Hoang is doing his part consciously mapping humanity’s future as he is also coordinating with the PR reviewer, Diya, to re-test a problem related to submitting weekly summaries on behalf of others when viewing their dashboards, as the issue no longer seemed to exist. Furthermore, Hoang is reviewing feedback and making necessary adjustments to ensure the functionality and efficiency of the updates made to the system.
Nikhil completed 18 pull requests, covering both frontend and backend development as well as unit testing. As a new addition to the development team, Nikhil did his part consciously mapping humanity’s future as he spent time familiarizing himself with the code base to ensure a solid understanding before taking on further tasks. This involved reviewing existing code, understanding the architecture, and identifying key components and their interactions.
Peterson improved his pull request implementing the autocomplete feature for the code assignment input on the user profile page. The enhancements included adding three columns and ten rows in the autocomplete. As the user types in the input, the autocomplete filters to suggest codes similar to the entered text. If there are only three suggested codes, only one column and three rows are displayed. Additionally, the autocomplete now has scrolling when there are more than thirty codes available.
Vijeth worked on Docker for the front-end application, ensuring the Docker environment was fully tested and operational. He did his part consciously mapping humanity’s future as he deployed the Docker image on Docker Hub. Additionally, he attended weekly meetings, providing updates on his progress to keep the team informed. Vijeth also communicated with his manager about adjusting the number of hours allocated for the project. He then reviewed the project structure and the dashboard for future changes.
Yashu updated the React code with useState and useEffect hooks to manually refetch data using the useQuery hook. An Apollo Client was built with apollo-boost to consume GraphQL. The useQuery and useMutation hooks were refactored to use Apollo Hooks for more efficient handling. Session cookies were utilized to keep users signed in, and the CSRF token client authentication was set up to prevent CSRF attacks. The Google Location API was integrated for location data, and the Google Maps SDK for Node.js was added to list nearby places. Wildcard matching was also integrated to improve search results for queries. See the Highest Good Society and Highest Good Network pages for more on how this relates to consciously mapping humanity’s future. See the collage below for the team’s work this week.
SKYE’S SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT TEAM
The Skye Team’s summary, covering their work on the Highest Good Network software was managed by Luis Arevalo (Software Engineer) and includes, Gowtham Dongari (Software Engineer), Hui Kong (Software Engineer) and Youyou Zhang (Full Stuck Developer). The Highest Good Network software is how we’ll be managing and objectively measuring our process for consciously mapping humanity’s future across our social architecture, construction, production, and maintenance processes. This week, Gowtham worked on in resolving various issues within the HGN Software Development project, focusing on time log and user profile functionalities. He began the week addressing a critical issue on the user time log page, which was not updating correctly for the logged-in user. This problem was exacerbated by a recent merge that introduced multiple issues with time log functionality, affecting user profile logs. Gowtham did his part helping us consciously mapping humanity’s future as he worked on creating a hotfix that involved handling multiple components where the user ID needed to dynamically change based on the profile of the user. His efforts culminated in PR #2465, where he fixed multiple time log issues. Gowtham also finalized requested changes for PR #2410 to ensure all modifications were implemented correctly. He replicated an issue with the time log and worked on another hotfix. Gowtham concluded by resolving and testing the team location search error, adjusting the functionality to operate correctly across different user profiles.
Hui did her part helping us consciously mapping humanity’s future as she reviewed back end and front end Pull Requests 945, 1027, 1037, 2297, 2342, 2345, 2383 + 1004, 2421 and 2469, examined the recent bugs in the ‘HGN Phase I Bugs and Needed Functionalities’. Hui also contacted the unit testing team but no response.
Luis continued testing the inventoryController and worked on error cases when testing the transferInvById function. He completed unit testing on the postInvInProject function and followed up with Parth regarding an issue, planning to complete the transferInvById unit test and move on to the next function.
Youyou reviewed and modified code to address changes requested in her last PR, specifically handling edge cases to trim spaces at the end of user input to prevent duplicates. She also worked on a new task to adjust the margin of certain icons when the accompanying text is too long. Additionally, she reviewed PR 2453, which involves a unit test for a component. Finally, Youyou completed writing her personal bio paragraph for the team member’s page. See the Highest Good Society and Highest Good Network pages for more on how this relates to consciously mapping humanity’s future. See the collage below for the team’s work this week.
SOFTWARE PR REVIEW TEAM A-O
The PR Review Team’s summaries for team members’ names starting with A-O and covering their work on the Highest Good Network software was managed by Vibhav Chimatapu (Data Analyst/Admin Assistant). The Highest Good Network software is a foundation of what we’ll be using to measure our results for consciously mapping humanity’s future. This week’s active members of this team were: Ambika Kabra (Volunteer Software Engineer), Angela Cheng (Full Stack Developer), Carl Bebli (Software Engineer), Chetan Sunku (Software Engineer), Ishan Miglani (Software Engineer), Gaurav Setty (Software Engineer), Jinxiong You (Software Engineer), Keshav Daga (Software Engineer), Kurtis Ivey (Software Engineer), Nathan Hoffman (Software Engineer), Niketha Anand (Software Engineer), and Olga Yudkin (Software Engineer). They reviewed all the Highest Good Network PRs (Pull Requests) shared in this week’s update. Learn more about how the Highest Good Network will measure and assist in consciously mapping humanity’s future in the Highest Good Network open source hub. The collage below shows a compilation of the work from this team.
SOFTWARE PR REVIEW TEAM P-Z
The PR Review Team’s summary for team members’ names starting with P-Z and covering their work on the Highest Good Network software was managed by Olawunmi “Ola” Ijisesan (Administrative and Management Support), and Samarth Urs (Administrative Assistant and Data Analyst). The Highest Good Network software is a foundation of what we’ll be using to measure our results of consciously mapping humanity’s future. This week’s active members of this team were: Rama Srikanth Kotaru (Software Engineer), Ramya Ramasamy (Full Stack Developer), Reina Takahara (Software Developer), Sailavanya Narthu (Software Engineer), Shadhrush Swaroop (Full Stack Software Engineer), Shengwei “Peter” Peng (Software Engineer), Sourav Girish Walke (Full Stack Engineer), Vaishnavi Kulkarni (Software Engineer), Xiao Wang (Software Engineer), Yiyun Tan (Software Engineer) and Zijie Yu (Software Engineer). They reviewed all the Highest Good Network PRs (Pull Requests) shared in this week’s update. Learn more about how the Highest Good Network will measure and assist in consciously mapping humanity’s future in the Highest Good Network open source hub. The collage below shows a compilation of the work from this team.
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