Creating a Collaborative Future – One Community Weekly Progress Update #584

Posted on May 27, 2024 by One Community Hs

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One Community’s physical location will forward this movement for creating a collaborative future as the first of many self-replicating teacher/demonstration communities, villages, and cities to be built around the world. This is the May 27th, 2024 edition (#584) of our weekly progress update detailing our team’s development and accomplishments:

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HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING PROGRESS

One Community is creating a collaborative 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:

- - Learn about: Our Upcoming Crowdfunding Campaign
  - Learn about the different village models and how they relate to creating a collaborative 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, Joseph Osayande (Mechanical Engineer) continued helping finish the Vermiculture Toilet designs. He continued with review to identify the most efficient, reliable, and globally available version that meets the requirements, with a focus on understanding the impact of gear ratio on winch effectiveness. Calculations for both the separator and the winch were revisited due to discrepancies and the need for new additions. Wheels were created and implemented for the drawer. Additionally, a structure using unistruts was developed to serve as a platform for the user and function as a steel separator remover. The vermiculture toilets and other sustainable human waste processing technologies form the basis of One Community’s open source model for creating a collaborative 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 implemented several design updates on the chamber structure of the vermiculture eco-toilet project using SolidWorks and AutoCAD. He made critical design modifications to the chamber structure in SolidWorks, where he extended the core structural pillars to align directly underneath the toilet openings and updated the front and side enclosures accordingly. Adjustments were also made to the positioning of viewport holes on the enclosures to facilitate the installation of rubber grommets. In addition to these design changes, Rizwan performed hand calculations to assess the maximum loading on the chamber, including the force needed to extract composted material. He further analyzed the vermiculture bathroom floor plan in AutoCAD, focusing on determining the spacing available for operating the drawer slides from the sides of the chamber. The vermiculture toilets and other sustainable human waste processing technologies an important component of One Community’s open source model for creating a collaborative future. Here are a few photos showing examples of his work.

Sajal Shah (Project Manager) continued managing completion of the Highest Good Energy components. This week, Sajal developed the Work Breakdown Structure (WBS) for the plumbing engineer, including both the plumbing plan and cost analysis for the Earthbag Village and the Duplicable City Center. This WBS outlines tasks and responsibilities, ensuring planning, execution, and budget management for the project’s plumbing components. The Highest Good Energy is an essential component of One Community’s open source model for creating a collaborative future. See below for some of the pictures related to this work.

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) and Preston Thompson (Civil Engineering Student). This week, the team created four concrete samples, two of which included fiberglass, to assess cement quality and mixer efficiency. After four days of curing, Preston and the team tested the compression strength of the samples and examined the cracked concrete. Jonathan learned how to use the compression testing machine and collaborated with the team to create two concrete cylinders composed of concrete and water and two others made with concrete, water, and fiberglass. Additionally, Jonathan and the team took inventory of the available materials and estimated the quantities needed for the summer. John met with the team to discuss the next steps and started further research on aircrete, seeking new sources of information. The team took inventory and informed Jae of the materials needed for the rest of the summer. John and the team also began trials and performed compression tests. The team’s efforts form the basis of One Community’s open source creating a collaborative future model. See below for some of the pictures related to this work.

DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER PROGRESS

One Community is creating a collaborative 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 its function as part of creating a collaborative future: Duplicable City Center Open Source Hub

This week, Amiti Singh (Architectural Designer) finished the process of finalizing all the files for the rooms she designed in Duplicable City Center. This included producing AutoCAD exports and finishing the final PPT summary of the “Neo-Futuristic” room. The Duplicable City Center will function as a foundational meeting and education space as part of creating a collaborative future using One Community’s designs. See below for examples of Amini’s final work.

Chris Blair (GIS Technician/Horticulturist) continued working with GIS data as part of One Community’s Permaculture Design. He continued georeferencing geospatial analysis images from Ben’s files and images related to the master plan from One Community’s permaculture web page. He also created metadata using the basic ArcGIS standard for all of Ben and One Community’s data involving the proposed property site, including maps, control points, and site plans. Additionally, he added a projected coordinate system to all relevant raster and vector data. Proper property modeling and understanding is a foundational part of One Community’s open source model for creating a collaborative future. Here are a few photos showing examples of his work.

Nika Gavran (Industrial Designer) continued her work on the Duplicable City Center dormer window installation plans. This week, Nika incorporated insulation into the CAD model. She researched the best methods for insulation, including watching installation videos on YouTube, and determined that rigid foam insulation is typically used for dormer windows. She identified suitable product options and implemented one into the CAD model, continuing to adjust the surrounding pieces of lumber to accommodate the insulation. The Duplicable City Center is a foundational part of One Community’s open source creating a collaborative future model. See below for some of the pictures related to this work.

HIGHEST GOOD FOOD PROGRESS

One Community is creating a collaborative 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 structures and how they contribute to creating a collaborative future: Hoop House Hub | Aquapini & Walipini Open Source Hub
  - See what we’ll be growing first as we’re creating a collaborative 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, descriptions for each item, categorizing each item and added corresponding photos. They ensured consistency in formatting by adhering to the style used in previous iterations of the list. Additionally, they had a call with Hayley to address her inquiries about the tools list and to engage in a discussion concerning various sections relevant to her School Integration write-up. Highest Good Food is an important part of creating a collaborative future with One Community’s open source plans. See their work in the collage below.

Charles Gooley (Web Designer) continued to work on various recipes as part of the Transition Food Self-sufficiency Plan generating table of contents for all the recipe pages. Placeholder images were replaced with provided ones and he worked on the Earthbag Village Tools and Equipment page. The list of Earthbag Village tools and equipment was alphabetized, and anchor links to each item on the list were provided, with corresponding links inserted into the tool and equipment descriptions. Highest Good Food is an important part of creating a collaborative future with One Community’s open source plans. See his work in the collage below.

Hayley Rosario (Sustainability Research Assistant) continued helping finalize the Highest Good Food rollout plan and reviewed the Integration and Highest Good Food tools and equipment document. She completed the first draft of the Implementation program which includes finishing the summary, adding links, and including those links in the resources section at the bottom. Additionally, she reviewed and organized the Highest Good Food tools and equipment document by alphabetizing and adding new items. Highest Good Food is an important part of creating a collaborative future with One Community’s open source plans. See her work in the collage below.

HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION PROGRESS

One Community is creating a collaborative 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 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 as part of creating a collaborative future: 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, Apoorv Pandey (Mechanical Engineer) continued helping with the engineering details for the The Ultimate Classroom part of the Highest Good Education component. He worked on documenting his findings into a single document for later addition to the main Google doc. He engaged with AutoCAD drafting tutorials and consulted with his senior engineer Brian Muigai Mwaniki (Structural Engineer), applying his new understanding of AutoCAD drafting to the title blocks for California. Following the discussions, Apoorv explored Coursera courses for a deeper understanding of structural engineering. Additionally, he continued updating the AutoCAD title block to meet state requirements and made further modifications to ensure compliance with these specifications. The One Community model of combining forward-thinking education with sustainably built classrooms like this are an excellent example of creating a collaborative future. See the collage below for his work.

HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY PROGRESS

One Community is creating a collaborative 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 as part of creating a collaborative future: A Day in the Life
  - Learn about the 4 economic models for creating a collaborative future: RBE | For-profit | Non-profit | Entrepreneurship
  - Learn about our open source software for managing and tracking our results for creating a collaborative future: The Highest Good Network

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

Aaron Wang (Fundraising Assistant ) continued his extensive research into connections with Robert Downey Jr, identifying emails and background details of individuals potentially linked to Downey. This focused effort is designed to facilitate connections with funders by building relationships with relevant people involved in these networks. Additionally, he concentrated on locating candidates with investor backgrounds to explore broader funding channels. His efforts demonstrate a strategic approach to deepening networking opportunities and expanding potential funding sources within the philanthropic sector, which bolster One Community‘s goal for creating a collaborative future. The following images highlight his progress for the week.

Arun Chandar Ganesan (Volunteer Data Analyst and SEO and Social Media Assistant) continued working on some more webpages, focusing on the SEO work completed by other volunteers. He checked and verified ten additional pages, revisited and cleared some previously abandoned pages, scheduled posts on Pinterest for the month, and created a tutorial for adding people to the page and posting. His work on social media helps One Community to broaden our reach and spread our message for creating a collaborative future. The following images show his work for the week.

Prashanth Gowri Shankar Uppudi (Admin and Project Manager) updated the password section and weekly summaries, repositioning the earlier password content for better readability. He revised the sections on Project Management and Task Overview, as well as Team Membership and Visibility Management, ensuring that the information accurately reflects the current functionalities of the website. Additional content and screenshots were included as needed to clarify the presentation. He also made adjustments to the Menu section, rephrasing the existing content to align more closely with professional standards. These updates are aimed at improving user navigation and understanding of the site’s features. Improving user navigation and making the site more accessible makes it easier for One Community to execute our plan for creating a collaborative future. The images below display his work for the week.

ADMINISTRATION TEAM

The Administration Team’s summary, covering their work administrating and managing most of One Community’s ongoing process for creating a collaborative future was managed by Sneka Vetriappan (Data Analyst) and includes Durgeshwari Naikwade (Data Analyst), Jessica Fairbank (Administrative Assistant), Jim Zhang (Administrative Assistant), Olawunmi “Ola” Ijisesan (Administrative and Management Support), Rachna Malav (Data Analyst), Ram Shrivatsav (Data Analyst and Admin assistant), Ratna Meena Shivakumar (Data Analyst and Admin), Ruiqi Liu (Administrative Assistant), T R Samarth Urs (Data Analyst), Vibhav Chimatapu (Data Analyst/Admin Assistant) and Xiaolai Li (Administrative Assistant). This week, Durgeshwari worked on interviews for the Software Development Team, optimized SEO based on feedback, worked on Looker Dashboard Mockups, and created a HR metrics documentation. Jessica integrated feedback into her tasks, completed drafts for review, and managed interviews and technical issues with a potential volunteer.

Jim wrapped up the electrical cost analysis for the net-zero bathroom, began research on eco-communal shower costs, and worked on administrative tasks for new teams related to Highest Good Housing and the Earthbag Village. Ola did her part helping with creating a collaborative future as she reviewed the PR team’s work, ensured expectations were met, reported Progress Tracking accurately, and organized the workspace. Rachna managed various administrative duties, provided team feedback, created and reviewed weekly blogs, interviewed candidates, and optimized 10 SEO pages.

Ram focused on improving SEO articles, incorporating feedback, and assisting with newcomer onboarding. Ratna prepared collages for different teams, managed virtual interviews, and reviewed admin work, including that of Ram, Arun, Sneka, and Rachna. Ruiqi did her part helping with creating a collaborative future as she completed the review process for the Dev Dynasty and Expresser Team, created collages, generated SEO keywords, and ensured team members were included in weekly progress summaries. Sneka re-edited SEO pages, added summaries and collages to the webpage, and provided training feedback. Samarth managed the PR review team, optimized specific blog posts for SEO, and adjusted his work based on feedback.

Vibhav reviewed PR team work, created summaries and collages, and improved blog SEO scores significantly. Xiaolai completed the blog page for week 583, reviewed team work, researched ESG investment and Grace Farms projects, and organized weekly report documents. Zuqi organized the weekly summary for the Graphic Design Team, updated the blog, provided feedback to admins, guided a new admin, and reviewed previous blog pages for better search engine marketing. One Community’s model for creating a collaborative future includes developing and maintaining huge 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), Jasmine Soria (Graphic Designer), Nancy Mónchez (Graphic Designer) and Shayan Afkari (Graphic Designer), covering their work on graphic designs for creating a collaborative future. This week, Ashlesha worked on creating thirty-six recipe images for the new Graphic Design Task – Recipe Images for Site Task, including Master Recipe FWG, Master Recipe FWH, Master Recipe SFWJ, and Master Recipe SFWK. Additionally, she researched and curated a collection of nature-based background images and different theme-based images for creating Social Media Images. Jasmine did her part helping with creating a collaborative future as she received feedback on Bhuvan’s webpage and addressed several mistakes. She completed four announcements on Photoshop for four volunteers and is in the process of adding them to the website. Finding it more efficient, Jasmine created the announcements and pictures in Photoshop first before uploading them to WordPress. She also watched tutorial videos on uploading content as a refresher and uploaded the four images of the announcements and progress pictures to her Dropbox.

Nancy, the designer, created new images for social networks and made corrections to previous ones, with the new set featuring a more neutral style to maintain creative order. Additionally, Nancy worked on questions provided by the manager to generate new content for images, awaiting approval or further corrections as needed. Shayan completed a creative project focused on producing new social media images this week. Employing masking brush techniques, he integrated text with building objects to achieve visually appealing and artistically engaging visuals. Additionally, Shayan forged two new biographies for team members and created accompanying announcement images to complement the announcements. See the Highest Good Society pages for more on how this contributes to creating a collaborative future. See the collage below to view some of their work.

HIGHEST GOOD NETWORK PROGRESS

One Community is creating a collaborative 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 this open source community collaboration and management software: The Highest Good Network

This week, the core team continued their work on the Highest Good Network PRs testing, confirming the fixed PRs. The Highest Good Network software is how we will manage and objectively measure our processes for creating a collaborative future across our social architecture, construction, production, and maintenance processes. The PRs include Create New User permission (PR#2252), Dark mode for all dashboard modals (PR#2219), Dark mode on all modals in User Management (PR#2238), Dark mode on all modals on the Badge Management page (PR#2243), Fixed Header UI (PR#2212), Hid remove button on WBS task when no permission (PR#2156), and New header UI functionality (PR#2283). The not fixed PRs involved issues such as the 5-letter-codes-dropdown saving function (PR#1545) where the dropdown list is empty after team code update, Teams page modals (PR#2261) which lacked a confirmation popup when deleting a team member, slow loading times for total project/people/team reports (PR#2268), and Dark mode for team locations and Weekly Summaries Report Modals (PR#2236) which did not activate when viewing details for a person by clicking on their dot on the map. Additionally, they reported an error popup when a user with permission accessed the User Management page (PR#2252) and noted that they were unable to perform a test due to a lack of data in the system (PR#2193). See the Highest Good Society and Highest Good Network pages for more on how this relates to creating a collaborative future. The collage below shows some of their work.

ALPHA SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT TEAM

This week, the Alpha Team’s summary, covering their work on the Highest Good Network software was managed by Sucheta Mukherjee (Software Developer) and includes Anand Seshadri (Software Engineer), Gayathridevi Chithambaram (Full Stack Developer), Jordy Corporan (Software Engineer), Lin Khant Htel (Frontend Software Developer) and Nathalia Carnevalli (Full Stack Software Developer). The Highest Good Network software is how we will manage and objectively measure our processes for creating a collaborative future across our social architecture, construction, production, and maintenance processes. This week, Anand continued working on the Dark Mode Modals change on the Reports page, retested PR 1955, reviewed and approved PR 2259, and focused on refactoring PR 2250 to optimize code and fix the dark theme in the Edit Lost Time modal, with pending work on the dark mode in the Date picker inside modals and aligning the close button.

Gayathridevi developed the limit see-all checkbox functionality, enabling restricted member visibility within teams, and addressed a module not found issue. Jordy expanded his proficiency in unit testing, focusing on Jest while developing tests for the rolesController. He completed the unit tests for the ownerMessageController and created a new PR#959, ensuring all functions in the ownerMessageController were tested. His next steps involve implementing cache functionality in his unit tests for the rolesController.

Lin approved eight pull requests on the HGN GitHub repository and wrote unit tests for the DashboardController, completing unit testing for the weekly data function with assistance from Diego, while test cases for the updateAIPrompt function and monthly data function failed, requiring bug fixes. Nathalia did her part helping with creating a collaborative future as she addressed a bug causing discrepancies in total project hours on the Project Report page, corrected it with missing validation, and reviewed several pull requests, including #2284, #2077+#806, #2272, #2267, and #2263+#953. Sucheta implemented changes requested by PR reviewers, including PR 2290, which added a search function based on users’ first and last names, and enhanced error handling in the backend. She tested PR 2244, discovered a bug with fetching and displaying tasks, corrected it, and created PR 2284 to avoid merge conflicts. See the Highest Good Society and Highest Good Network pages for more on how this relates to creating a collaborative 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 Shaofeng Li (Software Engineer) and includes Summit Kaushal (Backend Software Developer) and Xiao Zhang (Software Engineer). The Highest Good Network software is how we’ll be managing and objectively measuring our process for creating a collaborative future through our social architecture, construction, production, and maintenance processes. This week, Summit focused on testing PR 665 and reviewing comments on PR 326, specifically debugging code issues. During the testing of PR 665, related to the badge task, several issues with badge collection length were identified, indicating potential undefined values or data duplication. Summit additional tests on the personalbestmaxhrs feature using a volunteer account and the timer to add time, confirming through database checks that the data updated correctly. Similar tests on owner and admin accounts showed that the database data for max hours also updated as expected, leading to committed changes on GitHub.

Summit attended the weekly meeting and further tested to recreate and identify the cause of breadcrumbs, tracing it back to submitting tangible time entries. Testing on personalbestmaxhrs confirmed that when a new max hour was added, MongoDB updated accordingly, with plans to test this using a new account for consistent functionality.

Xiao took on extra responsibilities from a part-time colleague, focusing on thorough testing of all badges in the system to ensure proper functioning and accuracy. He also spent time troubleshooting and resolving any issues found, ensuring all badges met the established standards. Additionally, Xiao explored various functionalities of Microsoft Azure, investigating techniques to improve database management practices. See the Highest Good Society and Highest Good Network pages for more on how this relates to creating a collaborative 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 Tapan Pathak (Software Engineer) and includes Aaryaneil Nimbalkar (Software Developer), Huijie Liu (Software Engineer) and Min Sun (Software Engineer). The Highest Good Network software is how we’ll be managing and objectively measuring our process for creating a collaborative future through our social architecture, construction, production, and maintenance processes. This week, Aaryaneil addressed the finishing touches and error resolution in the test code before creating a pull request for the VolunteeringTimeTab unit test component. He completed the pull request and reviewed PRs #2282, #2279, and #2266. He began his work on the unit test for the ProjectTable component and resolved errors in the VolunteeringTimeTab unit test PR.

Additionally, he also reviewed PRs #2289, #960, and #2284. Huijie made plans to recalculate hoursByCategory data based on time entry data for each user and devised a strategy to update the database to protect existing data and avoid potential mistakes. She is currently testing and debugging her controller code to achieve this recalculation and update using Postman.

Min did his part helping with creating a collaborative future as he approved PR 959, PR 2279, PR 2282, PR 2291, PR 2266, PR 954, and PR 896 as the tests passed without errors. He also approved PR 2272, implementing a new dark mode change on the permission management page, which functions as expected. Additionally, he approved the new format on the add task modal. There was a bug, which PR 2288 fixed, related to the web application crashing when returning from the report page to the dashboard page. Furthermore, he approved PR 2289 and PR 960, which fixed an issue with the permission management toggle request for the bio announcement. Finally, he approved PR 2276 because there were no more crashes.

Tapan had the weekly meeting with the team, gathering updates and ensuring they had the necessary resources. He then worked on reviewing some PRs and testing them. Tapan picked up a new task to improve the loading of the “Resources” list on the tasks. He recreated the bug where the Resources list did not populate with the list of resources in the Add task. Logging in with different accounts, he found the issue occurred across all accounts, prompting him to examine the codebase and console to understand the code and API calls. See the Highest Good Society and Highest Good Network pages for more on how this contributes to creating a collaborative 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 Bhuvan Dama (Full stack Developer), Imran Issa (Software Developer), Jay Srinivasan (Software Engineer), Parth Rasu Jangid (Software Developer), Ramakrishna Aruva (Software Engineer), Tzu Ning “Leo” Chueh (Software Engineer), and Xiao Wang (Software Engineer). The Highest Good Network software is how we’ll be managing and objectively measuring our process for creating a collaborative future through our social architecture, construction, production, and maintenance processes. This week, the team focused on a variety of tasks across the Highest Good Network application, addressing bugs, permissions, and unit testing.

Xiao tackled four specific bugs with three PRs, including issues with task page accessibility, incorrect icon display, user sorting by created date on the management page, and a redirection error on page refresh. Imran did his part helping with creating a collaborative future as he completed an assigned Permission Management task, updated the relevant spreadsheet with PR links, and added a high priority tag while also creating a hotfix for permission rearrangement.

Jay developed unit tests for Timer.jsx and SetUpFinalDayButton.jsx, exploring advanced testing techniques with the help of mentors. Ramakrishna resolved an issue with a try-catch block, improved additional lines of imperfect code, passed all test cases, and prepared for bug fixes and feature work. Bhuvan did his part helping with creating a collaborative future as he focused on HGN Software Development, particularly on unit testing for various components, achieving over 70% coverage and addressing integration issues.

Tzu Ning improved UI consistency and functionality with cursor focus and integration of the react-select library. Jingyi implemented both frontend and backend components for the “Unassign Team Members From Tasks” permission, enabling targeted task management on the dashboard. Finally, Parth concentrated on integration tests and reviewed several PRs, preparing for a unit-test team meeting to finalize changes. See the Highest Good Society and Highest Good Network pages for more on how this contributes to creating a collaborative future. See below to view 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 Anirudh Dutt (Software Engineer), Carlos Gomez (Full-stack Software Developer), Meet Padhiar (Software Engineer), Weiyao Li (Software Engineer) and Xiaoyu Chen (Software Engineer). The Highest Good Network software is how we’ll be managing and objectively measuring our process for creating a collaborative future through our social architecture, construction, production, and maintenance processes. Anirudh D worked on the taskNotificationController test file, writing 12 out of the 13 expected unit tests across 5 test suites, with assistance from Abi on a few challenging cases.

Carlos identified the need for a new pie chart to display total project hours used by all users, not just volunteers, and finished a thorough investigation into data sources, beginning with the Redux system and later examining the backend and People Report page. He set up Postman to test the /TimeEntry/user/ endpoint and plans to retrieve data using dispatch(getTimeEntriesForPeriod(id, fromDate, toDate)). Meet did his part helping with creating a collaborative future as he completed unit tests for the BadgeReport component, ensuring proper rendering and coverage of all edge cases, and finished thorough PR reviews for PRs 1675, 2164, 2267, 2266, 2272, and 2275.

Weiyao merged a new user feature for managing user permissions after reviews by Nathan and Jae and spent time learning React, Redux, and testing concepts, planning to select a new feature next week. Xiaoyu completed all unit tests for rolePresetController, addressed style issues related to descriptions and hour logging, and fixed a new bug in the document file, adding the correct email template for the core team role. She also wrote an integration test for rolePresetController.js following Diego’s comments and is now focusing on mouseoverTextController unit tests. See the Highest Good Society and Highest Good Network pages for more on how this relates to creating a collaborative 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 Kaushik Malikireddy (Full Stack Developer Intern) and Harsh Bodgal (Software Engineer). The Highest Good Network software is how we’ll be managing and objectively measuring our process for creating a collaborative future through our social architecture, construction, production, and maintenance processes. Harsh focused on reviewing high-priority pull requests, including PRs #2271, #2272, #2273, #2275, #2276, #2279, #2282, and #2283, before shifting his attention to the Volunteer Summary Report, enhancing team communication to better understand designs and developing dashboard ideas.

Kaushik worked on integrating AI to generate weekly summaries for users, discovering limitations with ChatGPT’s free token limit and incompatibility with Gemini AI API due to node version issues. He also sought alternative solutions while managing nine pull requests, providing comments, and requesting changes as necessary. Nahiyan did his part helping with creating a collaborative future as he worked on three pull requests: PR #2272 implemented dark mode on all modals on the permissions management page and adjusted font colors, PR #2278 addressed header UI issues and ensured the correct display of the time entry modal header text in light mode, and PR #2283 introduced functionality to split navigation row items into two rows as the viewport size decreased and adjusted spacing to keep the main logo visible longer as the viewport shrank. See the Highest Good Society and Highest Good Network pages for more on how this relates to creating a collaborative 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) and includes Ilya Flaks (Software Engineer), Mohammad Abbas (Software Engineer), and Shereen Punnassery (Full Stack Software Engineer). The Highest Good Network software is how we’ll be creating a collaborative future throughout our social architecture, construction, production, and maintenance processes. This week, Christy scrambled to make a type specimen book that has survived not only five centuries but also the leap into electronic typesetting, remaining essentially unchanged. It was popularized in the 1960s with the release of Letraset sheets containing Lorem Ipsum passages and more recently with desktop publishing software like Aldus PageMaker, including versions of Lorem Ipsum. Ilya began by addressing a merge conflict in his earlier Pull Request #2193, which was merged into the development branch alongside its backend counterpart, PR #913. During this process, he engaged in discussions with his team, particularly Shereen, imparting his knowledge about the tools schemas and functionalities. Following these interactions, Ilya focused on enhancing the tools log functionality by refining the user experience to clear the log form upon submission, cancellation, or when a user selected a different project. He also implemented more robust error handling for various scenarios, transitioning the UI from displaying a single success/error toast for all items to showing individual toasts for each tool item checked in or out. On the backend, Ilya rewrote significant portions of the code to improve error management, now sending an array of errors and results to handle instances where some queries might not execute.

Mohammad did his part helping with creating a collaborative future as he completed two PR reviews, specifically PR #2288 and PR #2289 + #960. Additionally, he addressed and fixed an error in his own PR, ensuring his contributions met the project’s standards. Mohammad then focused on additional PR reviews to maintain the project’s quality and progress. Shereen worked on both the frontend and backend of the add tool component. She updated the schema of the buildingInventoryType collection and updated the controller to handle the new schema. Additionally, she created a new URL for API calls to add tools to the backend and added new cases to the inventoryTypeReducer to handle the add tool request. See the Highest Good Society and Highest Good Network pages for more on how this relates to creating a collaborative future. See the collage below for the team’s work this week.

GIT-R-DONE SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT TEAM

The Git-R-Done Team’s summary, covering their work on the Highest Good Network software, was managed by Hiral Soni (Full Stack Developer) and includes Chris Chen (Software Engineer Intern), Rhea Wu (Software Engineer), and Sushmitha Prathap (Software Developer). The Highest Good Network software is how we’ll be managing and objectively measuring our process for creating a collaborative future across our social architecture, construction, production, and maintenance processes.

This week, Hiral completed the work on the people reports page, updated the PR, checked the entire code, and ran the web pages. She also started working on the new task of the weekly summary page, running the code locally and checking its functionality. Rhea concentrated on completing recently assigned tasks by testing the building task and updating the codebase, including modifying the route’s endpoint for the Issue router. She also watched tutorials and read relevant articles to enhance her knowledge and skills. She also sarted a new task, 9.2.4 Routing and controllers for the Log Equipment form.

Chris resolved a critical issue in report rendering by optimizing a backend API, increasing its speed by 150%, and preventing timeouts. He also did his part helping with creating a collaborative future as he modified frontend API calls to utilize the optimized API and created unit tests for the TaskButton component and actions.js, ensuring correct functionality and error handling for team member tasks and notifications.

Sushmitha began by addressing and understanding the TypeError encountered last week. She wrote positive test cases for the remaining functions and worked on the `getProjectMembership` function within the project controller. An error in the local machine’s Prettier configuration was identified and resolved with assistance from team members. After final checks, it was found that the positive test cases for the save functionality of three functions were throwing errors, and she is currently working on resolving these issues. See the Highest Good Society and Highest Good Network pages for more on how this relates to creating a collaborative future. See the collage below for the team’s work this week.

MOONFALL’S SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT TEAM

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 (Software Engineer) and Malav Patel (Software developer). The Highest Good Network software is how we’ll be managing and objectively measuring our process for creating a collaborative future throughout our social architecture, construction, production, and maintenance processes. Abdelmounaim focused on developing a solution for the allocation of recipients for the blue square emails.

Jiadong focused on several tasks, including replacing badges on the dashboard and addressing bugs in his pull request. He also rewrote the backend portion for assigning badges, working on resolving issues that caused inaccuracies in the badge count. Lu addressed and fixed bugs reported by teammates and focused on two new unit tests for PeopleReport/components/PeopleTasksPieChart.jsx and PeopleReport/selectors.js, reading the necessary test files and writing half of the functions.

Malav did his part helping with creating a collaborative future as he tackled various tasks to fix bugs in the DELETE_TIME_ENTRY_OTHERS feature and HGN software development. He made additional changes to restrict the permission of volunteers to delete owners/admins/managers’ Time Entry Log, pushed these changes to his own branch, and spent 20 hours on these tasks, solving many issues during the bug-fixing phase. See the Highest Good Society and Highest Good Network pages for more on how this relates to creating a collaborative future. Look below for a collage of their work.

REACTONAUTS’ SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT TEAM

Reactonauts’ Team’s summary, covering their work on the Highest Good Network software, was managed by Masasa Thapelo (Software Engineer) and includes Changhao Li (Software Engineer), Dhairya Mehta (Software Engineer), Peterson Rodrigues (Full-Stack MERN Stack Developer), Shengwei Peng (Software Engineer), Shiwani Rajagopalan (Software Engineer) and Vikram Badhan (Software Engineer). The Highest Good Network software is how we’ll be managing and objectively measuring our process for creating a collaborative future throughout our social architecture, construction, production, and maintenance processes. Changhao worked on unit test development, solving issues with several PRs, and created a team picture folder for weekly progress uploads. He reported progress to the team manager and committed new unit tests to GitHub for review.

Dhairya focused on the “Fix Projects find user function” task, identifying the issue’s root cause and developing a sort and search function to improve user assignment processes. Masasa did his part helping with creating a collaborative future as he worked on the weekly meeting and checked the final report for his PRs for the charts and the scrollbar. He then went on to inform Jae that this would be his final week with the organization. Peterson implemented a toast notification on the user profile page and the teams tab to alert users when they are added to a team they are already part of. He also opened a pull request to fix a bug where the “Save Changes” button was disabled in all tabs after adding a user to a team.

Shengwei worked on two different tasks. The first involved fixing a bug in the quick setup modal that caused the page to crash due to data issues and incorrect validation. He refactored existing code to resolve the logic problems. The second task addressed an issue where a protected account was deleted in the development environment. Shiwani did her part helping with creating a collaborative future as she focused on the TeamReports and BMLogin unit tests. For the TeamReports unit test, she created nine test cases to validate the component’s rendering, error messages, and correct display of various team-related information. She set up a mock Redux store, configured team data, and checked the presence of these elements. Vikram worked on unit testing for the WeeklySummaryOptions.jsx and ToggleSwitchContainer.jsx files, writing and executing test scripts, debugging issues, and refining the codebase for better performance and stability. He also worked on pull request reviews and some PRs. See the Highest Good Society and Highest Good Network pages for more on how this relates to creating a collaborative future. Look below for pictures of this work.

SKYE’S SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT TEAM

Skye’s summary, covering their work on the Highest Good Network software, was managed by Luis Arevalo (Front End Developer) and includes Abi Liu (Software Engineer), Bhuvaneswari Gnanasekar (Software Engineer), Clemar Nunes (Web Developer), Gowtham Dongari (Software Engineer) and Jiarong Li (Software Engineer). The Highest Good Network software is how we’ll be managing and objectively measuring our process for creating a collaborative future throughout our social architecture, construction, production, and maintenance processes. Abi assisted Anirudh with troubleshooting a complex issue involving unit testing nested promise chaining with a callback function. He participated in a peer programming session to address the problem and later resolved the issue.

Bhuvaneswari focused on implementing a feature to send email notifications to managers and admin when a user’s account is deactivated. She created a new function, SendDeactivationEmail, in the EmailController.js file to define the email structure and recipients. Furthermore, she updated the EmailRouter.js file to incorporate the SendDeactivation function, ensuring the notifications are correctly routed and triggered when an account is deactivated. Clemar did his part helping with creating a collaborative future as he focused on debugging a specific issue related to the ‘showModal’ permission within the HGN Software Development project. Gowtham resolved the Team Location Search Error in the project’s system. He enhanced the functionality by ensuring that the list updates correctly after searches for different accounts, leading to an improved and more reliable search feature.

Jiarong focused on enhancing the User Management Page of the HGN Software Development project by making columns editable by the Owner. Luis worked on finalizing his previous PR, moving it into final testing, and received a message from Jae for a minor fix, to which he responded accordingly. He then worked on the inventoryController unit testing and, after reaching out to Abi, resolved a previous issue. See the Highest Good Society and Highest Good Network pages for more on how this relates to creating a collaborative future. See the collage below for some of their work.