Launching a New Paradigm of Sustainable Ideas – One Community Weekly Progress Update #650

At One Community, we are launching a new paradigm of sustainable ideas by open sourcing and free sharing a holistic model that integrates food, energy, housing, education, economics, social architecture, and more. Created by an all-volunteer team, this self-replicating model is designed to support a global collaboration of teacher/demonstration hubs focused on regenerating our planet and evolving sustainability. Our mission is to create a world that works for everyone by making innovative, sustainable solutions accessible to all. Everything we do is for The Highest Good of All, and we welcome others to join us in this global movement.

• 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 as the first of many self-replicating teacher/demonstration communities, villages, and cities to be built around the world. This is the September 1, 2025 edition (#650) of our weekly progress update detailing our team’s development and accomplishments:

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HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING PROGRESS

One Community is launching a new paradigm of sustainable ideas through Highest Good housing that is artistic and beautiful, more affordable, more space efficient, lasts longer, DIY buildable, and constructed with healthy and sustainable materials:

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

This week, Baraka Minja (Civil and Environmental Engineer Pr. Eng.) worked on the Vermiculture Toilet CAD drawings, adding details to the layouts to reflect the current design and reference additional sections. He updated existing sections and created new ones by including dimensions and details that align the incorporated elements with the Earthbag Village construction methods used on the other structures. As the first of seven planned villages, the Earthbag Village provides the initial housing within One Community’s open source designs for launching a new paradigm of sustainable ideas. See the work in the collage below.

Derrell Brown (Plumbing Designer) continued working on the Earthbag Village 4-dome home plumbing plans details. He advanced work on the final MEP report by gathering additional background information on the Earthbag Village and reviewing mechanical and plumbing outline examples. He developed example calculations and step-by-step procedures for determining cooling loads, heat gain, and key design considerations for the mechanical section. In addition, he created a similar step-by-step process for the plumbing section, including calculations for fixture loads, water piping entry size, and velocity. One Community’s open source designs for launching a new paradigm of sustainable ideas begins with Earthbag Village, the first of seven planned villages providing housing. See below for some of the pictures related to this work.

Karthik Pillai (Mechanical Engineer) continued working on the Earthbag Village 4-dome cluster project. Additional time was allocated to another project due to the arrival of two new team members, and several discussions were held regarding project progress and completion. In parallel, for the Vermiculture Toilet design project, he assisted with the onboarding of two new members. Work on the drawer component included design modifications in response to changes in the drawer’s opening mechanism; instead of opening from the side panel where the handle is located, the plan is now to open it from the back, which requires adjustments to the design of the waste dumping mechanism. As the first of seven planned villages, the Earthbag Village provides the initial housing within One Community’s open source designs for launching a new paradigm of sustainable ideas. See the work in the collage below.

Ketsia Kayembe (Civil Engineer) continued working on the three domes of the Earthbag Village, completing the 3-Dome Cluster drawings and submitting them for review. . She received feedback from Dashaarna regarding improvements to the drawings and later held a meeting with her to address questions and clarify the feedback. Toward the end of the week, Ketsia began editing the drawings based on the feedback, which included adding necessary details for permitting, aligning the layout with the provided template, and ensuring the drawings met the required standards and specifications. One Community’s open source framework for launching a new paradigm of sustainable ideas begins with Earthbag Village, the first of seven planned villages providing housing. See below for some of the pictures related to this work.

Rahul Kulkarni (Mechanical Engineer) continued working on the Vermiculture Toilet conducting research on the wastewater channel design by reviewing existing reports and related literature. Brainstorming began on possible channel designs compatible with the existing structure, and the design summary was revised to include considerations for channel design. The vermiculture engineering report was reviewed to support this work. He also participated in the team meeting where suggestions were received regarding the drawer modification for waste dumping, particularly with the handle design, and work was started on implementing these changes along with identifying suitable rubber materials with reliable global supply chains. The Earthbag Village, the first of seven planned villages, serves as the initial housing component within One Community’s open source model for launching a new paradigm of sustainable ideas. See below for some of the pictures related to this work.

Suprasanna (Architectural Designer) reviewed the Earthbag Village 6-Dome cluster drawing set and progressed the bedroom section and associated detail sheets. Work included aligning lineweights, layers, dimensions, and annotations to the template standards, verifying wall types and assemblies, and adding callouts and sheet references. Redlines were added where information is missing, including notes for plumbing and insulation coordination. To finalize the sheets to a consistent format, she requested access to the most recent approved 4-Dome DWG files for reference. Additionally, working files were organized in the shared Dropbox, and the earthbag checklist was updated to reflect items in progress and pending files needed to complete the 6-Dome cluster drawings. The Earthbag Village, the first of seven planned villages, serves as the initial housing component within One Community’s open source model for launching a new paradigm of sustainable ideas. See below for some of the pictures related to this work.

DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER PROGRESS

One Community is launching a new paradigm of sustainable ideas through a Duplicable and Sustainable City Center that is LEED Platinum certified/Sustainable, can feed 200 people at a time, provide laundry for over 300 people, is beautiful, spacious, and saves resources, money, and space:

• • • Learn about this building and it’s function: Duplicable City Center Open Source Hub

This week, Ariana Virginia Gutierrez Doria Medina (Industrial Designer) continued the analysis and cost estimation of the windows for the Duplicable City Center. She worked on an analysis of the material was carried out in coordination with the second-floor designer. As a result of this analysis, differences were identified between the nominal value and the actual value of the material in the 3D design. The parts were redrawn considering the actual value, and this modification affects both the final assembly and the final dimensions. The team is now awaiting final instructions and approval of the selected material in order to adjust the cost estimation. Explore One Community’s open-source Duplicable City Center for launching a new paradigm of sustainable ideas, which empowers people to learn. Browse the visuals below.

Ayushman Dutta (Mechanical Engineer) continued working on reviewing pipe materials for the Duplicable City Center hub connector design. He finished the report formatting for the FEA analysis of the hub connector and completed the Excel sheet for comparing the bolt configurations of the spoke plate. He organized the screenshots of the FEA results into their respective folders for better documentation management and attended the weekly team meeting to discuss bottlenecks and next action items. Ayushman started working on the manufacturing process document of the hub connector, reviewing the existing written process and making improvements to the documentation. He worked on the cost analysis of the hub connector, researching different bolts that would be used in the design, as well as other components like nuts and hardware. Ayushman created the cost analysis document with details about the different parts and their associated costs to provide a complete economic assessment of the hub connector design. This open-source Duplicable City Center project is launching a new paradigm of sustainable ideas through thoughtful design. For more specifics, view the image below.

Nikhil Bharadwaj (Mechanical Engineer) continued working on creating the spoke designs for the Duplicable City Center hub connector. Nikhil completed the hub and spoke design for row 3 with the 10.7-inch central hub and drafted 2D flattened drawings for each spoke to support fabrication and assembly. He added these drawings to the assembly spreadsheet and integrated the row 3 hub connector into the complete dome assembly, identifying the beams that need to be cut to create optimal clearances and fit. Nikhil also identified unique beams that will need to be addressed in floors 5, 6, and 7, and noted these considerations for assembling the upper floors. One Community’s Duplicable City Center is an example of launching a new paradigm of sustainable ideas. Here are a few pictures that showcase this work.

Nupur Shah (Mechanical Engineer) continued work on Row 3 of the Duplicable City Center hub connector. She focused on developing the assembly and reviewing the details required for the beam view to capture alignment, orientation, and connections between parts. Time was spent annotating all the unique parts of the hub connector so that each component is clearly identified and prepared for documentation in the spreadsheet. The work also involved comparing Row 3 with the previously completed Row 2 to maintain consistency across dimensions, part naming, and overall structure. While the sheet itself was not updated this week, the groundwork was completed to prepare for those updates, which will be incorporated in the following week. One Community’s Duplicable City Center serves as an open-source example of launching a new paradigm of sustainable ideas. Here are a few pictures that showcase this work.

Sandesh Kumawat (Mechanical Engineer) continued working on the City Center Natural Pool and Eco-spa Designs. He focused on thermal analysis for the spa pool and finalized the calculation workflow in Excel. He reviewed fundamentals for conduction through the cover and walls, convection from open water, and evaporation using the saturation-pressure relation and the heat–mass (Lewis) analogy. Sandesh consolidated inputs for water and air temperatures, relative humidity, cover fraction, areas, layer properties for the cover, and air properties, and verified units throughout. The workbook now computes U-values for the cover and walls, sensible convection, evaporation mass flux, and latent heat, and totals the heat loss. A summary section converts the total loss to required heater power in kW and BTU/hr and to daily energy with an adjustable COP. Sandesh added cell comments explaining each parameter and equation so the sheet is easier to audit and update. He ran spot checks to confirm evaporation is the dominant loss when the cover is open and confirmed that changing the cover fraction correctly shifts losses between open-water terms and conduction through the cover. Discover One Community’s open-source Duplicable City Center for launching a new paradigm of sustainable ideas. The following visuals illustrate highlights from this effort.

Vineela Reddy Pippera Badguna (Mechanical Engineer) continued conducting in-depth research on greywater reuse systems for the Duplicable City Center. She updated the rainwater catchment zones to minimize the use of gutters and refined the zone layout to improve system efficiency. She revised the CAD drawings to include downspout placement and roof drainage layouts and updated the rainwater catchment CAD files to show drains and routing connections to the greywater pond. Vineela also revised the zone-based rainfall calculations to account for downspouts and gutters and updated the cost estimation of downspouts and gutters in the Google spreadsheet while preparing related report content for the website. This open-source Duplicable City Center project is launching a new paradigm of sustainable ideas through thoughtful design. For more specifics, view the image below.

HIGHEST GOOD FOOD PROGRESS

One Community is launching a new paradigm of sustainable ideas through Highest Good food that is more diverse, more nutritious, locally grown and sustainable, and part of our open source botanical garden model to support and share bio-diversity:

• • • Learn about the structures: Hoop House Hub | Aquapini & Walipini Open Source Hub
    • See what we’ll be growing: Gardens & Hoop Houses | Large-scale Structures | Food Forest | TA

This week, the core team continued on the final comprehensive review for the Master Tools, Equipment, and Materials/Supplies list. Although previously reported as complete, further review indicated the need for additional items. Specifically, most tractor attachments from the Orchard section, which were not included in other sections, are now being added to the Goat, Chickens, Rabbits, Large Garden, Botanical Garden, Earthbag Village, Soil Amendment, Food Forest, Tropical Atrium, and Apiary sections. Further review of the document is anticipated. The team also reviewed the Dormer document and suggested locations where plywood would be substituted for previously proposed glued boards. The Highest Good Food initiative is a key component of One Community’s open source plans, focused on launching a new paradigm of sustainable ideas, and exemplifies the organization’s commitment through innovative design and implementation. Below are some images showcasing this work.

Chelsea Mariah Stellmach (Project Manager) continued her work on the Transition Food Self-sufficiency Plan menus and customization spreadsheets. She met with Tyson to coordinate task assignments and determine responsibilities. She took on updating the current omnivore recipe pages, including pasta, potatoes, and yams, and applied formatting to guide the web designer on necessary site changes. She collaborated with Tyson to add a blurb on the Recipe Build Out Tool and reached out to Shireen to provide feedback on the current recipe tool graphic option, which will be added to the recipe pages. As an essential aspect of One Community’s open source goals, the Highest Good Food initiative supports launching a new paradigm of sustainable ideas as a foundation for sustainable living. Below are some images showcasing this work.

Faeq Abu Alya (Architectural Engineer) continued his work developing house designs for the Earthbag Village 4-dome cluster project. He focused on enhancing the design of the greenhouse roof, incorporating detailed structural and material considerations. Faeq’s updates aimed to improve both the functionality and the overall aesthetic of the greenhouse while aligning with the sustainable goals of the project. The Earthbag Village is the first of seven planned villages to be constructed as part of One Community’s open source model on launching a new paradigm of sustainable ideas. It is also powerfully reflected in the Highest Good Food initiative. Below are some pictures related to this work.

Gayatri Pandkar (Architect) continued contributing to the Highest Good Food. She focused on selecting appropriate trees and plants for the plantation area in the Walipini 1 structure. She completed option 1 for the floor plantation layout and created option 2, which included public seating around the planting zone. In addition, she added vegetation to further enhance the overall design and usability of the space. The Highest Good Food initiative plays a leading role in One Community’s open source platform by promoting sustainable and participatory development focused on the launching a new paradigm of sustainable ideas. Below are visuals highlighting this work.

Jay Nair (BIM Designer) continued working on Aquapini and Walipini Planting and Harvesting. He worked on standardizing the document to align with established formatting requirements and continued developing the lighting energy calculation for Walipini 1. His tasks included reviewing the structure of the document, updating content to meet specified standards, and ensuring the calculations were clearly presented for each relevant section. The Highest Good Food initiative plays a leading role in One Community’s open source platform, promoting and supporting the launching a new paradigm of sustainable ideas through sustainable and participatory development. See below for pictures related to this work.

Keerthi Reddy Gavinolla (Software Developer) continued working on the Highest Good Food page. She reviewed the Expressers and Lucky Star team’s work and updated their team blog. She continued working on the Soil Amendment and Initial Off-grid Site Preparation page by editing the document in line with the website content and making formatting adjustments. Keerthi also tested a few pull requests on the development site and completed her admin work for the week. Built on One Community’s open source foundation, the Highest Good Food initiative is dedicated to launching a new paradigm of sustainable ideas, empowering communities through self-sustaining systems. View examples of her work in the pictures below.

Nitin Parate (Architect) continued contributing to the Highest Good Food. He worked on reviewing feedback provided by Jae and Shivangi and requesting the latest AutoCAD files in order to proceed with updates and ensure accuracy in the drawings. Attention was given to going through ADA provisions to update the AutoCAD files by integrating relevant accessibility requirements so that the plans are accurate and compliant. This step was intended to refine the drawings and prepare them for further review and coordination with the team. In addition, he spent time going through the task assigned by Shivangi for the next week, focusing on understanding the requirements, identifying key steps, and preparing an approach that aligns the work with overall project expectations and objectives. The Highest Good Food initiative plays a leading role in One Community’s open source platform, promoting and supporting the launching a new paradigm of sustainable ideas through sustainable and participatory development. Below are some images showcasing this work.

Pallavi Deshmukh (Software Engineer) continued working on the Aquapini and Walipini Planting and Harvesting page. Pallavi created new content for blog 649 and worked with teammates by reviewing their suggestions and incorporating feedback to produce a clear and consistent final version. She completed and submitted information for one interview. She applied Jae’s feedback and finished adding Zenapini #2 content from Silin to the website, then moved on to Walipini #2, where she incorporated Junyi Shi’s work with updated text, links, and images for the webpage. In alignment with One Community’s open source objectives, the Highest Good Food project integrates the concept of launching a new paradigm of sustainable ideas into a larger vision of regenerative living. Her contributions are highlighted in the collage below.

Shivangi Varma (Volunteer Architectural Designer And Planner) continued contributing to the Highest Good Food. She finished editing the contents, tables, and formatting for the Highest Good Food Infrastructure page, and continued editing the Open Source Hub and Planting and Harvesting pages, and also continued to coordinate with the architect volunteer to complete all graphics for the three pages. The Highest Good Food initiative plays a leading role in One Community’s open source platform by promoting sustainable and participatory development focused on launching a new paradigm of sustainable ideas. Below are visuals highlighting this work.

Tyson Denherder (Volunteer Pioneer Team Member) continued contributing to the Highest Good Food. He worked with Chelsea to create reports for Transition Kitchen, Food Bars, the Food Self-Sufficiency Plan, and all recipe pages covering rice, pasta, potato, and sweet potato for both vegan and omnivore versions. He added references to the Recipe Build Out Tool on each page and made changes to content and formatting to improve usability. He also included links and video placeholders in the pages to support potential future videos. The Highest Good Food initiative plays a leading role in One Community’s open source platform by promoting sustainable and participatory development focused on launching a new paradigm of sustainable ideas. Below are images related to this project.

HIGHEST GOOD ENERGY PROGRESS

One Community is launching a new paradigm of sustainable ideas through Highest Good energy that is more sustainable, resilient, supports self-sufficiency and includes solar, wind, hydro and more:

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

This week, Shravan Murlidharan (Volunteer Electrical Engineer) continued supporting with the Highest Good Energy. The tasks included applying a color-coded system to organize and highlight information, adding new contributions to expand the content, and proofreading to improve clarity and accuracy. Each update built on prior edits to maintain consistency across the document and ensure the highlighted sections matched the intended categories. Attention was given to refining the structure of the material so that both original and newly added information were integrated in a clear and consistent manner. In addition to these updates, feedback provided by Tyson was reviewed and addressed, with revisions made to align the content more closely with the comments received. The process remained focused on organizing information, maintaining accuracy, and incorporating feedback while continuing to strengthen the clarity and alignment of the webpage. The combination of editing, proofreading, and responding to feedback contributed to strengthening the clarity and alignment of the webpage content. One Community’s open source mission is powerfully reflected in the Highest Good Energy initiative, which helps in launching a new paradigm of sustainable ideas as a model for global benefit. Below are some of the images showcasing this work.

HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION PROGRESS

One Community is launching a new paradigm of sustainable ideas through Highest Good education that is for all ages, applicable in any environment, adaptable to individual needs, far exceeds traditional education standards, and more fun for both the teachers and the students. This component of One Community is about 95% complete with only the Open Source School Licensing and Ultimate Classroom construction and assembly details remaining to be finished. We’ll report on the final two elements to be finished as we develop them. With over 8 years of work invested in the process, the sections below are all complete until we move onto the property and continue the development and open sourcing process with teachers and students – a development process that is built directly into the structure of the education program and everything else we’re creating too:

• Program Overview: Education Open Source Hub
• How the components work together in designing human orchestrated eco-abundance: 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, Anuneet Kaur (Administrator) continued contributing to the Highest Good Education software platform by creating Figma design elements and refining the overall visual layout, supporting One Community’s dedication to highest good future building. She focused on researching resources for the most sustainable urinals, reviewing scholarly articles, and compiling relevant statistics for the graphic process. She ensured that all members were included in the live blog task and identified any who were missing. Additionally, she completed the drafting of the content and selecting images for the Highest Good Education Program Licensing and Accreditation webpage. Anuneet also reviewed the most sustainable research work of Yulin infographic and provided the feedback. She also reviewed the bio announcements work of Rishitha and provided the feedback. Her administrative contributions included editing summaries and collages for the Highest Good Society team, Highest Good Education, and Core Teams, while reviewing fellow admins’ submissions for accuracy and completeness. The One Community model of launching a new paradigm of sustainable ideas, exemplified by sustainably built classrooms like these, fosters lasting impact on a global scale. Her recent contributions are featured in the collage below.

Harshitha Rayapati (Program Manager) continued advancing the Highest Good Education platform by detailing deliverables, developing Figma designs, and expanding the visual layout of the student dashboard. She focused on onboarding Raahul to the HGN Phase 4 development process by providing context and assigning initial work items to begin development. She ensured that each front-end task in the deliverables had a corresponding Figma design screenshot for reference and spent time locating the appropriate repositories and resources to help the newly onboarded software engineers better understand the documentation and related materials. Harshitha also provided comments on the Figma designs for the Teacher Dashboard and Student Profile Page, compiled the weekly blog update, reviewed Housing’s weekly progress, edited the blog page, and created a collage. The One Community model of launching a new paradigm of sustainable ideas, exemplified by sustainably built classrooms like these, drives meaningful global change. The collage below highlights her recent contributions.

Ravi Kumar Sripathi (Software Engineer) continued developing the Highest Good Education software platform by creating Figma designs and refining the Build Lesson Plan module, which enables students to transform their saved interests into weekly learning plans through guided steps. He created wireframes for the Knowledge Evolution section, which illustrates mastery across subjects through education molecules composed of dynamic atoms. The design incorporates gold atoms for completed achievements, colored atoms for tasks in progress, and greyed-out atoms for those not yet started, with each atom opening a floating details view that is either student-specific or generic depending on its state. A save option was added to the details view to allow atoms to be stored in the My Saved Interests list for future exploration, and work also began on wireframes for the My Saved Interests dashboard, designed as a space for students to organize and prioritize their saved atoms. These updates strengthened both the functionality and user experience of the platform, advancing the One Community model of launching a new paradigm of sustainable ideas as a path to lasting global impact. Below are images related to his work.

HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY PROGRESS

One Community is launching a new paradigm of sustainable ideas through a Highest Good society approach to living that is founded on fulfilled living, the study of meeting human needs, Community, and making a difference in the world:

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

This week, the core team completed over 47 hours managing volunteer work reviews, handling emails, overseeing social media accounts, supporting web development, identifying new bugs, integrating bug fixes for the Highest Good Network software, and interviewing and onboarding new volunteer team members. They also produced and incorporated the video above, illustrating how launching a new paradigm of sustainable ideas forms the foundation of One Community’s broader mission. The following images showcase highlights of this work.

Govind Sajithkumar (Project Manager) continued focusing on analytics and content management for Meta’s Facebook and Instagram channels. He handled the content cycle for the Facebook and Instagram channels by creating, preparing, and scheduling a new set of posts. He logged all relevant post information, including scheduling details and media types, in the Open Source tracking spreadsheet. Govind also completed the weekly update for the social media analytics spreadsheet by collecting the most recent data and refreshing it with updated audience demographics and engagement statistics. Additionally, he completed PR Review Team Management by modifying a WordPress site with the team’s weekly summary and collage, filling the PR Review Team Table, and updating the Highest Good Network PR spreadsheet. He submitted his admin feedback table, supporting One Community’s mission of launching a new paradigm of sustainable ideas. The images below highlight key aspects of his contributions.

Jaiwanth Reddy Adavalli (Project Manager) continued developing the Job Applicants page along with key components of the Highest Good Network Phase 2 and Phase 4 dashboards, including the PR Team analytics section. He continued working on the Listing and Bidding Dashboard by designing components and creating related action items. He made edits to his video tutorial explaining the pull request review process for new volunteers and tracked updates in software team management documents to support task creation. Jaiwanth also tested multiple pull requests in the Highest Good Network software. As a member of the pull request review team, he reviewed submissions from the volunteer team assigned to him. This work supports One Community’s commitment to launching a new paradigm of sustainable ideas. The images below highlight his contributions.

Rajrajeshwari Gangadhar Sangolli (Data Analyst) continued working on Google Ads management and strategy evolution. She created one new campaign with two new ad sets under the Highest Good Philosophy theme and added six new ad groups across newer campaigns, including housing, energy, and food. She applied Google’s recommendations and increased the overall optimization score to 99.9 percent. Her tasks included updating keywords, headlines, and descriptions across existing campaigns such as Education and Energy, adding negative keywords, and performing keyword analysis for the Housing ad group. Rajrajeshwari monitored campaign performance data, tracked impressions, clicks, CTR, and cost-per-click, and analyzed weekly ad group metrics before and after updates to measure impact. She removed ads that were no longer relevant while continuing to review KPIs and optimization metrics across all campaigns to identify trends and determine areas for improvement. This project plays a vital role in One Community’s commitment to launching a new paradigm of sustainable ideas. The following images highlight key aspects of her work.

ADMINISTRATION TEAM

The Administration Team’s summary, which covers their work on the Highest Good Network, was managed by Prudhvi Marpina (Machine Learning Engineer) and includes Ashutosh Mishra (Software Engineer), Dashaarna Srinivasa (Project Engineer), Divanshu Bakshi (Team Admin), Georgina George (Business Intelligence Analyst), Indra Anuraag Gade (Software Engineer and Team Administrator), Keerthana Chitturi (System Administrator), Neeharika Kamireddy (Data Analyst), Olawunmi “Ola” Ijisesan (Administrative and Management Support), Olimpia Borgohain (Data Analyst and Team Administrator), Rachna Malav (Data Analyst), Rajeshwari Bhirud (Administrator), Rishi Sundara (Quality Control Engineer and Team Administrator), Rishitha Adepu (Administrator), Sai Suraj Matta Veera Venkata (Business Data Analyst), and Samhitha Are (Administrator). The Administration Team supports the Highest Good Network, a tool designed to manage and objectively measure progress while building open-source solutions for global sustainability. Through their focus on administrative support, documentation, testing, training, recruiting, analytics, and content management, the team directly contributes to launching a new paradigm of sustainable ideas and One Community’s mission of creating a replicable model for a sustainable world.

This week, Ashutosh advanced the HGN AI Chatbot by completing document loading and cosine similarity search, setting up Supabase, and designing a custom vector database for cost efficiency, while also handling timelog clarifications, reviewing entries, and supporting new-admin training. Dashaarna prepared Blog #649 – Duplicable City Center for publication by reviewing CAD drawing sets, correcting details, verifying unit consistency, and coordinating with teammates, while also providing feedback on training documents. This work contributes to One Community’s commitment to launching a new paradigm of sustainable ideas. Divanshu worked on Mastodon analytics by shaping data and building Power BI charts for posts, users, and engagement, assigning and tracking tasks, reproducing and verifying issues, logging bugs, coordinating merges, and aligning progress on Slack. Georgina created and posted over fifteen new Reddit updates, crossposted them across subreddits to expand reach, requested an API key for better analytics, and reviewed weekly summaries prepared by her team. Indra supported Blog #649 for CodeCrafters by editing and formatting summaries, preparing images and collages, uploading content to Dropbox, and applying SEO adjustments. This effort supports One Community’s mission of launching a new paradigm of sustainable ideas. Keerthana integrated feedback into Google Docs, reviewed Phase 1 and 3 documents to strengthen her understanding, explored Figma designs, and created dummy accounts for testing. Neeharika reviewed PR dashboard items, coordinated task assignments, tested pull requests, completed admin work, reviewed new admin training submissions, and scheduled interviews for next week. This project is part of One Community’s vision for launching a new paradigm of sustainable ideas. Ola ensured HGN spreadsheet accuracy, organized administrative files into folders, monitored PR team work, and submitted her weekly summary with images. Olimpia mentored a new admin trainee, monitored volunteer work for accuracy, resolved past comments, flagged potential issues, and analyzed two weeks of LinkedIn metrics. Rachna interviewed a candidate, managed scheduling changes, documented notes in the hiring spreadsheet, caught up on SEO and emails, and rescheduled another interview due to a no-show. This work aligns with One Community’s goal of launching a new paradigm of sustainable ideas. Rajeshwari continued as Blog #649 administrator, reviewing and editing summaries, identifying missing information, updating Binary Brigade Step 2 content, posting it on WordPress, and completing the HGN questionnaire with tracked feedback. Rishi merged all individual sections into Blog #649, completed SEO, reviewed and tested PRs, followed up on Slack regarding merge conflicts, flagged high-priority PRs, and monitored Node v20 upgrade tasks. This effort reflects One Community’s dedication to launching a new paradigm of sustainable ideas. Rishitha updated bios, followed up on missing details, conducted three interviews, scheduled additional ones, uploaded posts on Threads, and coordinated workflows to maintain progress. Sai refreshed LinkedIn analytics, updated Master Dashboard tabs, created a new Overview with standardized KPIs, finalized a Platform Data Coverage page, documented reporting methods, and supported admin work by compiling late submissions, creating collages, and editing a new web page with SEO. This project advances One Community’s focus on launching a new paradigm of sustainable ideas. Finally, Samhitha completed her blog, tested and reviewed Phase 3 PRs using different account roles, assigned tasks, monitored developer progress, and trained Keerthana on the current project status. To learn more about how this work connects to highest good future building, visit the Highest Good Society and Highest Good Network pages. Some of the team’s contributions can also be seen in the collage below.

GRAPHIC DESIGN TEAM

The Graphic Design Team’s summary includes Qinyi Liu (Graphic Designer) and Yulin Li (Graphic Designer), who focused this week on creating graphic designs that support launching a new paradigm of sustainable ideas

This week, Qinyi used ChatGPT to create and edit characters, applied them to poster designs involving layout, text, and color work, updated images needing revisions, and attempted to fix the recurring 2FA login issue on the website while working on launching a new paradigm of sustainable ideas, but the account was blocked again during the process. Yulin contributed to graphic design, content revisions, and team communication, revised four infographic designs and social media images with feedback, created and published the collaboration announcement for the HGN software and design teams, managed version control using Dropbox, participated in weekly discussions, and supported launching a new paradigm of sustainable ideas. Their combined efforts highlight launching a new paradigm of sustainable ideas. See the Highest Good Society pages and the collage below for examples of their work.

HIGHEST GOOD NETWORK PROGRESS

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

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

This week, the core team continued working on the Highest Good Network software pull requests and resolved several key issues. They performed HGN PRs testing, confirming fixes for several items including adding the project name in the project members page, resolving the deactivation ability in Other Links > Projects > Active column, fixing the landing page after confirming a blue square request, resolving merge conflicts, addressing issues with tasks not adding efficiently to WBS, and updating the popup bar. This contribution highlights One Community’s work in launching a new paradigm of sustainable ideas.

One item was not fixed, related to formatting, “i” editability, duplicate button, and a new filter in Reports > Reports. In addition, they reviewed assigned badges for “Tester One” and logged 4 hours, documenting issues with data and badge counts for the “New Max” badge. They also reported a new bug regarding the inability to see the proper members list for a project. See the Highest Good Society and Highest Good Network pages for more on how this work supports One Community’s commitment to launching a new paradigm of sustainable ideas. The collage below highlights some of these efforts.

ALPHA SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT TEAM

This week, the Alpha Software Team, working on the Highest Good Network software, was managed by Lin Khant Htel (Frontend Software Developer), Carlos Martinez (Full-Stack Software Developer), and Nikita Kolla (Full Stack Developer). This platform supports internal management and communication in service of launching a new paradigm of sustainable ideas. Lin reviewed PR #1671, tested it locally with all but one test case passing as expected, checked weekly submissions of summaries, photos, and videos, and carried out management duties for the Alpha Team. Carlos updated the QuantityOfMaterialsUsed component to support dark mode styling and submitted it for review, and he began implementing dark mode in the UtilizationChart component, which will be completed once mock data is available for testing. Nikita resolved merge conflicts for the task “Core Team member’s additional hours should be processed properly,” fixed related bugs, finalized styling, and advanced work on the Phase 2 Summary Dashboard by completing the backend for the Project Status donut chart and submitting it for review. See the Highest Good Society and Highest Good Network pages to learn more about how this relates to launching a new paradigm of sustainable ideas. See some of the team’s work in the collage below.

BINARY BRIGADE SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT TEAM

The Binary Brigade Team’s summary, presenting their work on the Highest Good Network software, was managed by Nikhil Routh (Software Engineer) and included Amalesh Arivanan (Software Engineer), Ramsundar Konety Govindarajan (Software Engineer), Harsha Rudhraraju (Software Engineer), Kanishk Agarwal (Software Engineer), Rishitha Chirumamilla (Software Engineer), Manvi Kishore (Software Engineer), and Taariq Mansurie (Full-Stack Developer). The Highest Good Network software is our tool for managing and objectively measuring progress, ensuring that all contributions are tracked, aligned with our mission, and launching a new paradigm of sustainable ideas.

This week, Kanishk focused on addressing the timer resubmission bug in the HGN Software Development project by testing, finalizing functions, preparing and raising a pull request, and enhancing the fix with session tracking, submission history, validation, and user experience improvements while also attempting to reproduce a refresh-related issue and preparing the weekly summary and media. This effort furthers One Community’s objective of launching a new paradigm of sustainable ideas. Amalesh resolved linting errors in the Projects folder, fixed a display issue in the Contributors Report, addressed errors in the bmdashboard test cases, and documented the work with screenshots and videos uploaded to the shared folder. This work demonstrates One Community’s commitment to launching a new paradigm of sustainable ideas. Harshavarma worked on the “Cleanup and completion for Application Page/Function” task by reviewing multiple pull requests, creating new tasks for those not functioning, following up with developers, and updating progress tracking sheets; he approved some backend and frontend changes, requested fixes for dark mode UI, tooltip behavior, and axis labels, debugged a runtime reference error with a developer, and reported an image width issue. This project contributes to One Community’s approach to launching a new paradigm of sustainable ideas. Manvi expanded the badge test suite to cover Category Totals, No Blue Square Streaks, and Leadership badges, confirming correct behavior across thresholds and milestones for awards, upgrades, replacements, and exclusions.

Nikhil migrated legacy CSS files to CSS Modules for TeamOrgLocations and Teams components, updated imports and className attributes, made changes for PR 3760, fixed issues in PRs 377, 3770, and 3222 related to timelog and weekly summaries, tracked CSS migration progress, and reviewed PR 3864. This task strengthens One Community’s efforts toward launching a new paradigm of sustainable ideas. Ram worked on fixing the behavior of the “database changed” pop-up in WBS task creation by ensuring tasks were not added when stale data protection conditions triggered the pop-up, implementing a return null statement in the add new task function, and recording a video of the fix for confirmation. This achievement supports One Community’s dedication to launching a new paradigm of sustainable ideas. Taariq focused on filterColor functionality for users and teams, resolving persistence issues on change and refresh across frontend and backend, fixing auto-scroll in WeeklySummariesReport, addressing merge conflicts and Husky module errors, removing inactive users from reports, beginning work on project archive and unarchive features, and completing updates to resolve a filters bug while ensuring branch alignment. See the Highest Good Society and Highest Good Network pages for more about how this relates to launching a new paradigm of sustainable ideas. The collage below shows images of their work.

BLUE STEEL SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT TEAM

This week, the Blue Steel Software Team, working on the Highest Good Network software, was managed by Divanshu Bakshi (Product Manager) and includes Linh Huynh (Software Engineer), Humemah Khalid (Software Engineer/Backend Developer), and Sheetal Mangate (Software Engineer). Linh worked on an error popup that appears when logging a new question in the FAQ via the “Log this question and notify Owner” action; as part of launching a new paradigm of sustainable ideas, the team reproduced the issue, reviewed the front-end submission path and API response handling, and traced the behavior to inconsistent duplicate-detection and logging logic rather than previously logged questions, then tested varied inputs to validate behavior and identify edge cases, with the fix in progress focusing on stabilizing the API call sequence, aligning validation with expected outcomes, and ensuring questions not already in the system are added without false errors. This work is consistent with One Community’s purpose of launching a new paradigm of sustainable ideas. In parallel, Humemah created the “Interact with Set Final Day Button” permission under Permissions Management > User Management as part of PR3245 and resolved conflicts in a prior pull request; the permission is assignable to individual users or roles, is active by default for Admin and Owner roles, and enables authorized users to access the Set Final Day button in a person’s Profile under Basic Information > End Date > Set Final Day, aligning with the initiative launching a new paradigm of sustainable ideas. Below are some images showcasing this work.

CODE CRAFTERS SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT TEAM

The Code Crafters Team, covering their work on the Highest Good Network software, was managed by Sai Shekhar Reddy Moola (Software Engineer) and includes Ajay Naidu (Software Engineer), Ashrita Cherlapally (Software Engineer), Benitha Sri Panchagiri (Software Engineer), Humera Naaz (MERN developer), Juhitha Reddy Penumalli (Software Engineer), Rohith Mallipudi (Software Engineer), Sphurthy Satish (Software Engineer). The Highest Good Network software is how we’ll manage and objectively measure our process for establishing abundant community systems through our social architecture, construction, production, and maintenance processes, and support widespread and lasting eco-lifestyle access. This effort exemplifies One Community’s open-source commitment to launching a new paradigm of sustainable ideas as a path to global sustainability.

This week Ajay added console logging for submitted payloads alongside the success popup, fixed duplicate key warnings in dropdowns, corrected menus that displayed identical values, addressed DOM tree errors, resolved merge conflicts, and opened PR #3957 to replace PR #3257. This project plays a role in One Community’s pursuit of launching a new paradigm of sustainable ideas. Ashrita worked on PRs #1516 and #1674 to resolve conflicts and stabilize tests by fixing undefined variables, removing duplicate router declarations, wiring required routes, and correcting a missing Dropbox module; she also aligned the Node.js toolchain, resolved native addon build errors, adjusted CI for compatibility, added and mounted /applications endpoints with role-based aggregation and caching, standardized date handling, ensured error handlers returned defined fields, and reviewed PRs #3418 and #3565. This effort is part of One Community’s broader mission of launching a new paradigm of sustainable ideas. Benitha resolved compile and lint errors by fixing imports, module paths, and constant declarations, removed stray return statements, and standardized reducer paths. Humera fixed a bug with the earned date for badge 1193 by adjusting logic for incremental counts and worked on frontend integration issues caused by version mismatches that required dependency alignment and build testing. Juhitha enhanced the Phase 2 Summary Dashboard by adding backend aggregation for monthly injury counts by severity, creating a route and endpoint, wiring frontend state management, and building the InjuryTrendChart component with filters, responsive layout, and dark mode; she also cleaned up the Google Gemini AI “Write it for me” feature with frontend and backend pull requests to resolve dependency and integration issues. This contribution adds to One Community’s initiative of launching a new paradigm of sustainable ideas. Rohith reviewed PR #3912 with feedback on graph axis labels, followed up with Pranav on PR #3741 still under review, checked with Namitha on the “Job Posting Page Analytics” graph task, confirmed Swetha’s progress on the “Job Application Listing Page” form, and awaited Varsha’s update on FAQ-related tasks. This progress reflects One Community’s aim of launching a new paradigm of sustainable ideas. Sai Moola tested the Supplier Performance graph component, verified filters, corrected colors, resolved merge conflicts on backend and frontend, and completed the task “Phase 2 Summary Dashboard: Supplier Performance” with PRs #3469 and #1379. This outcome aligns with One Community’s strategy for launching a new paradigm of sustainable ideas. Sphurthy completed deliverables including student profile view setup, teacher task assignment logic with backend endpoints, and student access to evaluation results with URLs, notifications, and API handling, and also worked on enabling dark mode across multiple dashboard pages by identifying and tracking affected areas such as materials, purchases, reusables, tools, projects, equipment, consumables, and lesson forms. This work supports One Community’s broader commitment to launching a new paradigm of sustainable ideas. These contributions strengthen One Community’s open-source mission of providing replicable solutions that model launching a new paradigm of sustainable ideas. See below for some of the pictures related to this week’s work by the team.

DEV DYNASTY SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT TEAM

The Dev Dynasty Team’s summary, covering their work on the Highest Good Network software, was managed by Zhifan Jia (Software Engineer) and includes Adithya Cherukuri (Volunteer Software Engineer), Deekshith Kumar Singirikonda (Developer), Dharmik Patel (Software Engineer), Manvitha Yeeli (Software Engineer), Nahiyan Ahmed (Full-Stack Software Developer), Neeraj Kondaveeri (Software Engineer), Prasanth Bhimana (Software Engineer), Saicharan Reddy Kotha (Software Engineer), Shraddha Shahari (Software Engineer), Vamsi Krishna Rolla(Software Engineer), Vamsidhar Panithi (Software Engineer), and Varsha Karanam (Software Engineer). The Highest Good Network software is how we’ll manage and objectively measure our process for highest good future building through our social architecture, construction, production, and maintenance processes to support widespread and lasting eco-lifestyle access. This progress supports One Community in launching a new paradigm of sustainable ideas.

This week Nahiyan reviewed PR3988, verifying that the changes aligned with project requirements, met expected standards, avoided unnecessary complexity, and did not introduce issues affecting maintainability or overall code quality. This step contributes to One Community’s vision of launching a new paradigm of sustainable ideas. Shraddha worked on debugging issues with updating task dates by analyzing the root cause and progressing toward a fix, addressed lint errors in PeopleTasksPieChart.test.jsx with work still ongoing, and completed fixes for dark mode in PR3612, which was merged and closed. This work contributes to One Community’s commitment to launching a new paradigm of sustainable ideas. Vamsi advanced development of the Comments tab by implementing posting, replying, likes, sorting, visibility settings, profile displays, pagination, and tab-switching between Comments and Feedback, refining CSS for responsiveness, completing integration fixes, testing organizer flows, and documenting for consistency. This effort supports One Community’s mission of launching a new paradigm of sustainable ideas. Mohan worked on HGN Software Development by addressing the missing login function on the HGNForm page, implementing dark mode support, refactoring date input logic into a shared component, reducing redundant code, adding owner-only editable date fields, and coordinating with design for icon and placeholder visibility, while also connecting new event logging functions to the backend, indexing event timestamps, filtering events per user, and sorting responses, along with initial testing. This project is part of One Community’s vision for launching a new paradigm of sustainable ideas. Manvitha resolved issues in the People Report page where logged hours were miscalculated and events were not displaying correctly, raising PR3975, converted CSS files in the HGNHelpSkillsDashboard into module.css with PR3981, addressed review comments on PR3870 for job posting, and applied styling changes in the Event Registration folder with PR3992. This work aligns with One Community’s goal of launching a new paradigm of sustainable ideas. Sai created the backend structure for the Project Status Donut Chart, implementing models, services, controllers, and routers to summarize Active, Completed, and Delayed projects with counts and percentages, tested endpoints in Postman with date filters, and documented progress in the Phase-2 document. This effort reflects One Community’s dedication to launching a new paradigm of sustainable ideas. Varsha revised questionnaire form labels to improve clarity, accessibility, and alignment, created a CSS file to replace Tailwind with reusable styles, implemented a CSS Module for the FAQ section to scope and organize styles, and refactored FAQ Section to use these modules for improved maintainability. This project advances One Community’s focus on launching a new paradigm of sustainable ideas.

Prasanth reviewed over 50 pages of the Phase 2 document, tested PRs locally, identified gaps that became new action items, collaborated with developers for clarification and fixes, coordinated with Jae for updates, and contributed to creating modular CSS tasks, auditing Phase 2 implementation, testing with dummy data, identifying workflow and UI/UX issues, and suggesting improvements alongside teammates Sai and Varsha. This contribution highlights One Community’s work in launching a new paradigm of sustainable ideas. Vamsidhar worked on Phase 2 of the Summary Dashboard by resolving conflicts and progressing PR3906 to create a line graph of cost breakdown by expenditure type, verifying integration and functionality, and preparing the PR for review. This effort furthers One Community’s objective of launching a new paradigm of sustainable ideas. Adithya refined the Job Posting Page Analytics timeline chart by improving data handling across filters and chart components, adjusting frontend structures for reusability, refining chart interactions, polishing role filters, aligning backend and frontend data flow, troubleshooting setup issues, and confirming functionality against local backend endpoints. This work demonstrates One Community’s commitment to launching a new paradigm of sustainable ideas. Neeraj developed backend routes for Job Analytics Competitive Roles with role filters, custom dates, and granularity, updated logic to return applications instead of views, and refined the frontend to display a horizontal bar chart with filters, fixing axis visibility, scroll issues, data labels, and dropdown population. This project contributes to One Community’s approach to launching a new paradigm of sustainable ideas. Zhifan investigated discrepancies in Total Tangible Hours between the volunteering times tab and reports page, identified incorrect logic in category assignment, fixed tangibleCalculationHelper and updateUserprofileCategoryHrs, added a helper for project ID resolution, updated related function calls, recalculated hours, and confirmed consistency before raising a PR. This task strengthens One Community’s efforts toward launching a new paradigm of sustainable ideas. Dharmik logged 20 hours on HGN Software Development, resolving merge conflicts for the PR Review Team Analytics Dashboard routes, aligning feature branches with development, testing backend and frontend integration for the Application/Job Posting Page permissions feature, and preparing a pull request after confirming expected behavior across both layers. This work is consistent with One Community’s purpose of launching a new paradigm of sustainable ideas. Deekshith worked on a frontend PR involving routing, controllers, and schema definitions, adding and adjusting protected routes for multiple purchase flows, extending controller functionality for wishlist management with validation and error handling, and creating a village schema with enumerated fields, links, and optional images, all documented in the PR and linked with backend updates to validate the changes. See the Highest Good Society and Highest Good Network pages for more on how this relates to launching a new paradigm of sustainable ideas. Explore some of the team’s work in the collage below.

EXPRESSERS SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT TEAM

The Expressers Team’s summary, which covers their work on the Highest Good Network, was managed by Rahul Trivedi (Software Engineer) and includes Casstiel Pi (Software Engineer), Meenashi Jeyanthinatha (Full-Stack Developer) and Tanmay Arora (Software Engineer). This contribution supports One Community’s goal of launching a new paradigm of sustainable ideas

This week, Casstiel continued development of the auto-poster feature for the Plurk platform and worked on resolving issues with API response data by adding validation checks, restructuring parsing functions, and testing normalization methods, though debugging remains needed to identify whether the problem is in request parameters, server-side handling, or client-side interpretation. This project plays a role in One Community’s pursuit of launching a new paradigm of sustainable ideas. Meenashi confirmed the Category and Position dropdown lists and introduced a new collection called jobPositionCategory to remove hardcoding, updated the GetJobs API to use this collection, verified ImageUrl functionality for multiple engineering roles, and ensured dark and light modes function properly pending final approval, while also noting adjustments needed for the ShowSummaries toggle and loading state. Tanmay focused on fixing PR 3902 by migrating the project environment from Node 14 to Node 20, addressing dependency and configuration issues, upgrading React and Material UI packages, adding cross-env for system compatibility, troubleshooting Vite build errors, and completing testing to confirm stability in the Node 20 environment. This work supports One Community’s goal of launching a new paradigm of sustainable ideas.

Rahul focused on identifying and addressing UI issues with light text display in dark mode across various components. This effort is part of One Community’s broader mission of launching a new paradigm of sustainable ideas. He explored the codebase to trace the root causes of errors, particularly in dropdowns and headers, and reviewed CSS files to identify inconsistencies contributing to the problem. He also worked on potential solutions to resolve these discrepancies in the BM Dashboard, specifically targeting dropdown issues in the /bmdashboard/T/EDailyActivityLog section. Alongside this technical work, he managed team responsibilities to support ongoing improvements to the interface. See the Highest Good Society and Highest Good Network pages for more on how this contributed to launching a new paradigm of sustainable ideas. See the collage below to view the team’s work.

LUCKY STAR SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT TEAM

The Lucky Star Team’s summary, which covers their work on the Highest Good Network, was managed by Barnaboss Puli (Volunteer Software Engineer) and includes contributions from Dipti Yadav (Software Engineer), Durga Venkata Praveen Boppana (Software Engineer), Ganesh Karnati (Software Engineer), Ghouse Shahe Meera Ziddi Mohammad (Software Engineer Intern), Kedarnath Ravi Shankar Gubbi (Software Engineer), Pranav Govindaswamy (Software Developer), Shashank Madan (Software Engineer), Shravya Kudlu (Software Development Engineer), Sohail Uddin Syed (Software Engineer), Veda Bellam (Software Engineer), and Venkataramanan Venkateswaran (Software Engineer). Their work continued to support our goal of launching a new paradigm of sustainable ideas through collaborative and cross-functional software development.

This week, Barnaboss worked on the auto-poster for Twitter/X by debugging API call failures and improving posting reliability. He fixed data-fetching issues in the HGN Phase 2 Project Details section, developed backend logic for the Phase 2 Summary Dashboard horizontal bar graph, and refined the Total Org Summary volunteer hours distribution pie chart by preparing data, integrating backend values, and validating calculations. This contribution adds to One Community’s initiative of launching a new paradigm of sustainable ideas. Dipti fixed a white screen issue triggered by the task “Edit” button by debugging, testing, and submitting a pull request. She also resolved login issues caused by a backend port forwarding conflict. Durga resolved multiple merge conflicts, created pull requests #3990, #3993, and #3986, and adjusted the dashboard header layout to improve visibility and consistency across screen sizes. This progress reflects One Community’s aim of launching a new paradigm of sustainable ideas. Ganesh focused on backend API development for the PR grading screen’s checkbox functionality by setting up folder structures, defining functions to fetch PR data from MongoDB, implementing controller routes, and adding PR data for testing while continuing integration alignment. Kedarnath resolved reviewer feedback on the Job Listing Page, fixed display issues, corrected the pagination limit to 18 jobs per page, and migrated styles from .css to .module.css. This work supports One Community’s broader commitment to launching a new paradigm of sustainable ideas.

Pranav improved the applicants age bar graph by enhancing the loading state presentation, updated the collaboration page with an image and bio, and began backend development of the horizontal bar graph by exploring MongoDB schema setup and dummy data integration. This step contributes to One Community’s vision of launching a new paradigm of sustainable ideas. Shashank fixed and finished PR 3740, verified changes across different account types, and raised a new pull request. He also worked on PR 3890 by updating routes and userSkillsProfile, made the questionnaire name field editable, and applied backend PR changes to verify functionality. Shravya worked on bug fixes for issues 3926, 3964, 3963, and 3969 by converting CSS files to .module.css, correcting JSX mappings, fixing styling inconsistencies, adding dark mode features, and conducting unit testing. This work contributes to One Community’s commitment to launching a new paradigm of sustainable ideas. Sohail resolved a critical bug in the HGNRest backend’s email functionality for missed weekly summaries by fixing an array indexing issue, adding validation, and creating mock tests to ensure correct handling for new and existing users. Veda modularized the Application/Job Posting Page into reusable components, improved search and application flow, refined styling and responsiveness, and implemented caching with debounced search handling and abortable fetches. This effort supports One Community’s mission of launching a new paradigm of sustainable ideas. Venkataramanan raised four frontend pull requests (#3983, #3982, #3968, #3960) to fix layout inconsistencies, refine component interactions, and resolve UI bugs. Ziddi worked on fixing the email notification system where admins were not receiving complete reports by identifying root causes and implementing solutions to ensure accuracy. See the Highest Good Society and Highest Good Network pages to learn more about how this work supports launching a new paradigm of sustainable ideas. See the collage below to view the team’s work.

MOONFALL SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT TEAM

This week’s summary was managed by Rishitha Adepu (Software Administrator) and includes Shashank Kumar (Software Engineer), Aayush Jayant Shetty (Software Engineer), Alisha Walunj (Software Engineer), Bangaru Babu Kota (Software Engineer), Bhavpreet Singh (Software Engineer), Gurusai Chittoji (Software Engineer), Marneni Shashank (Software Engineer), Nikitha Anakala (ETL Developer), Ramakrishna Aruva (Software Engineer), Sai Krishna (Software Engineer), Swetha Rachakonda (Software Engineer), and Uha Kruthi (Software Engineer), collectively advancing to launching a new paradigm of sustainable ideas.

Aayush worked on the Phase 2 Summary Dashboard by creating a line chart to show total injuries over time, developing reducers for Redux, fixing issues, implementing the chart and dropdown filters, making modifications to resolve errors, and creating pull requests for both frontend and backend along with submitting his summary and related images. This project is part of One Community’s vision for launching a new paradigm of sustainable ideas. Bangaru Babu worked on fixing the “Set Final Day” feature in the HGN Software Development project, ensuring that the selected final day is correctly stored, displayed, and reflected in email notifications; he also verified database updates to maintain accurate user time logs and addressed criteria updates for bios based on valid weekly summaries. This work aligns with One Community’s goal of launching a new paradigm of sustainable ideas. Bhavpreet worked on the job form application page, implementing job search functionality with filters, aligning the frontend with the design, connecting it to the backend, and adding actions, reducers, constants, and dynamic fields to handle specific job requirements. This effort reflects One Community’s dedication to launching a new paradigm of sustainable ideas. Gurusai reviewed pull requests, requested UI-related changes, revisited the task list to identify pending and ongoing items, received responses that led to new pull requests, documented updates, and submitted the weekly summary report with details uploaded to Dropbox. Mani worked on the high-priority Job Posting Page Analytics bug for the applicant-to-volunteer conversion ratio chart, addressing dark-mode and date-validation issues, expanding selectors, adding validation logic to prevent invalid API calls, rendering inline warnings, running static checks, performing browser tests, and updating the changelog before submitting PR #3977. This project advances One Community’s focus on launching a new paradigm of sustainable ideas. Nikitha built the new Replicate Task feature in the HighestGoodNetwork frontend, adding a button in the Task modal to duplicate selected tasks for each assigned resource, and added a tooltip to guide users on the replication process. Ramakrishna worked on fixing issues with dashboard views by examining code related to user ID handling, Redux state management, and the use of useMemo to reflect the correct state in headers, while investigating issues such as permission mismatches and argument length errors. This contribution highlights One Community’s work in launching a new paradigm of sustainable ideas. Sai continued work on CSS styling for the donut chart page, concentrating on the section for planned costs, rendering the chart to represent four categories, refining rendering logic, and beginning basic testing to validate the functionality and appearance of the chart. Shashank worked on converting regular CSS files into CSS modules to ensure styles remained isolated and did not interfere with other components, and he also focused on improving the weekly summary project by refining the chart, adjusting the layout for better alignment, and resolving styling conflicts to create a cleaner interface. This effort furthers One Community’s objective of launching a new paradigm of sustainable ideas. Swetha, who joined the development team on Thursday, reviewed documentation on pull requests and previous work on the job application page to understand requirements and project standards, and during the remaining time, began implementation and provided videos of progress. This work demonstrates One Community’s commitment to launching a new paradigm of sustainable ideas. Uha began work on the SMS notification feature for the Listing and Bidding Platform by reviewing and documenting requirements for backend and frontend components, analyzing related pull requests to understand existing notification flows, initiating backend setup, and drafting frontend changes for notification settings, all contributing towards launching a new paradigm of sustainable ideas. See below for some of the team’s work.

REACTONAUTS SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT TEAM

The Reactonauts Team’s summary, covering their work on the Highest Good Network, was managed by Sai Suraj Matta Veera Venkata (Business Data Analyst) and Akshay Jayaram (Software Engineer). The team includes Aseem Deshmukh (Software Developer), Ghazi Rahman Shaik (Software Engineer Intern), Guna Pranith Reddy Cheelam (Software Developer), Jaydeep Mulani (Software Developer), Kristin Dingchuan Hu (Software Engineer), Namitha Vijaykumar Pawar (Software Engineer), Peterson Rodrigues dos Santos (Full Stack Developer), Raahul Sallagunta (Software Engineer), Rishwa Patel (Software Developer), Siva Putti (Software Engineer), Sreeja Nandyala (Software Engineer), Sri Satya Venkatasai Siri Sudheeksha Vavila (Software Engineer), Suparshwa Patil (Software Engineer) and Ujjwal Baranwal (Full-stack Software Developer). The Highest Good Network software helps manage and objectively measure progress by focusing on launching a new paradigm of sustainable ideas. It supports social architecture, construction, production, and maintenance processes to build sustainable and thriving ecosystems. This solution is portable, scalable, and ideal for off-grid or sustainable living communities.

This week, Akshay completed the dark mode theme implementation by adding CSS module styles for multiple components including containers and dropdowns, opened PR3976, began fixing the members list display issue for projects, and coordinated Reactonauts team activities by tracking pull requests, helping with Git issues, and submitting the weekly team review. This project contributes to One Community’s approach to launching a new paradigm of sustainable ideas. Aseem tested and reviewed multiple pull requests covering cost breakdown graphs, review system frontend adjustments, grouped bar graph errors, contributors report validation, meeting scheduling issues, CSS module bug fixes, and began reviewing high-priority Instagram and Threads auto-poster integration tasks. Ghazi refactored TagsSearch and AddTaskModal to leverage a preloaded dataset for performance, resolved mapping inconsistencies and merge conflicts, and added debugging logs to strengthen task assignment workflows. This work aligns with One Community’s objective of launching a new paradigm of sustainable ideas. This task strengthens One Community’s efforts toward launching a new paradigm of sustainable ideas. Guna Pranith completed updates to the listings home page frontend by fixing console errors and correcting tab headings, with changes merged under PR #3999. Jaydeep finalized work on the Community Calendar Full View and Track Estimated Event Value features by implementing modular CSS, resolving conflicts, improving component layouts and responsiveness, and raising related frontend and backend pull requests. This work is consistent with One Community’s purpose of launching a new paradigm of sustainable ideas. Kristin completed the UI for the financials cards on the Total Construction Summary page under PR3970, began converting .css files to module.css in the hgnhelp/ pages, factored out userProfilePage styling, and encountered a 401 error during site testing. Namitha fixed dark mode issues on the Job Posting Page Analytics by introducing theme variables, refactoring state, updating chart titles, and validating functionality across filters, layouts, and browsers. Peterson updated the Teams page (PR #3928) by adding a message and create button when no matching team name is found. This effort is part of One Community’s broader mission of launching a new paradigm of sustainable ideas.

Raahul reviewed HGN Phase 4 documentation for authentication and access setup, validated requirements, set up the backend framework, and continued reviewing deliverables to align documentation with backend structure. This contribution adds to One Community’s initiative of launching a new paradigm of sustainable ideas. Rishwa implemented a backend endpoint for reviewer and weekly PR statistics, wrote MongoDB aggregation queries, added unit tests, updated API documentation, logged API calls, and began work on promotion confirmation batch support. Siva fixed color discrepancy issues in Tasks pie charts when navigating through Reports, addressing merge conflicts and ensuring charts render consistently. This progress reflects One Community’s aim of launching a new paradigm of sustainable ideas. Sreeja tracked backend, frontend, and analytics tasks, confirmed backend title search merges, followed up on job posting filter fixes, monitored analytics progress, and ensured referral link and FAQ tool tasks were picked up with pending completions. Sudheeksha spent 20 hours resolving merge conflicts for PR #3924, fixing issues in UserProfile.jsx and yarn.lock, removing conflict markers, resolving dependency mismatches, and preserving both branch changes while maintaining application functionality. This outcome aligns with One Community’s strategy for launching a new paradigm of sustainable ideas.  Suparshwa resolved ESLint issues in the userProfile module, started integrating endpoint data retrieval, and worked on stabilizing failing unit tests. Ujjwal added a Reasons Array for infringements in the User Profile module, resolved repository access issues, raised a pull request for the changes, and began debugging the next assigned task by recreating the issue on a new branch. See the Highest Good Network and Highest Good Society pages to learn more about how this work supports launching a new paradigm of sustainable ideas. See below for the work done on launching a new paradigm of sustainable ideas.

SKYE SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT TEAM

Skye Team’s summary, covering their work on the Highest Good Network was managed by Georgina George (Business Intelligence Data Analyst And Team Administrator) and Anthony Weathers (Software Engineer). The team includes Julia Ha (Software Engineer), Marcus Yi (Software Engineer) and Snehal Dilip Patare (Software Engineer). The Highest Good Network software helps manage and objectively measure progress by focusing on creating an ecological living paradigm. It supports social architecture, construction, production, and maintenance processes to build sustainable and thriving ecosystems. This solution is portable, scalable, and ideal for off-grid or sustainable living communities. This effort exemplifies One Community’s open-source commitment to launching a new paradigm of sustainable ideas as a path to global sustainability.

This week, Anthony continued work on PR#3121 + PR#1216, adding code to track which special warnings were issued a Blue Square and which were not when using the “both” button to remove a Blue Square in mixed cases. He implemented code checks to select the correct email type for these scenarios and added two new email templates, incorporating text adjustments provided by Jae to list the special warnings so that the one issued a Blue Square appeared first, followed by noting that the user also received a warning for the other. After a final code review, he created and pushed PR#3978 + PR#1682. He then reviewed PR#1104 and PR#1334, manually testing their code to identify failures, and discovered that PR#1104 contained an indexing issue causing its feature to fail. This work supports One Community’s broader commitment to launching a new paradigm of sustainable ideas. Julia continued working on the controller to retrieve the most popular pull requests from GitHub. She updated the function to use the new JobId and modified the sync process to resume from previous work and handle rate-limit issues. She also updated the controller to return an error if the cron job failed to update the database for more than seven days. She reviewed and tested the code, identified several bugs, and implemented fixes, including ensuring the code uses Pacific time, resolving an issue preventing new jobs from being created, and correcting a problem where the GitHubHelper failed to read the environment variable. This work contributes to One Community’s commitment to launching a new paradigm of sustainable ideas. Marcus merged the base wireframe for the OnlyWire replacement project into the development branch and finalized his website bio after completing the required time with the organization for official recognition. On the frontend, he refined the X tab to align its layout and controls with the platform’s posting model and worked on routing and authentication flows to enable direct posting to X from the application, including handling media payloads and API response states. He verified build integrity after the merge, reviewed related pull requests, and documented outstanding blockers related to the X posting path. This effort supports One Community’s mission of launching a new paradigm of sustainable ideas. Snehal worked on resolving user interface errors, addressed warnings from nvm update versions, and investigated issues with the email dashboard that were preventing messages from being sent. She also troubleshot database-related problems and identified issues when testing the scheduling of tweets in index.js that affected posting content to Twitter at the scheduled time. See the Highest Good Society and Highest Good Network pages for more on how this contributed to launching a new paradigm of sustainable ideas. See the collage below to view the team’s work.

SOFTWARE PR REVIEW TEAM A-F

This week, the PR Review Team’s summary for members with names starting A–F, managed by Neeharika Kamireddy (Data Analyst), highlights their contributions to the Highest Good Network software. This platform forms the foundation for measuring our results in launching a new paradigm of sustainable ideas. Active team members included Abdelmounaim Lallouache (Software Developer), Akshith Kumar Reddy Balappagari Gnaneswara (Software Engineer – Full Stack), Carl Bebli (Software Developer), and Chieh “Jerry” Jui Lee (Software Engineer). They supported the project by thoroughly reviewing all pull requests shared this week. Learn more about how the Highest Good Network tracks progress toward launching a new paradigm of sustainable ideas in the Highest Good Network open source hub. The collage below showcases a compilation of this team’s work.

SOFTWARE PR REVIEW TEAM G-N

This week, the PR Review Team’s summary for team members with names starting from G–N, covering their work on the Highest Good Network software, was managed by Govind Sajithkumar (Software Project Manager). The Highest Good Network software is a foundation for measuring our results of launching a new paradigm of sustainable ideas. This week’s active members of this team were: Hemanth Chimakurthi (Software Engineer), Kurtis Ivey (Full Stack Developer), Nahiyan Ahmed (Full Stack Software Developer), and Nathan Hoffman (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 measures launching a new paradigm of sustainable ideas by exploring the Highest Good Network open-source hub. The collage below shows a compilation of the work from this team.

SOFTWARE PR REVIEW TEAM O-Z

This week, the PR Review Team’s summary for team members with names starting from O–Z, covering their work on the Highest Good Network software, was managed by Jaiwanth Reddy Adavalli (Software Project Manager). The Highest Good Network software is a foundation for measuring our results of launching a new paradigm of sustainable ideas. This week’s active members of this team were: Soham Sharma (Software Engineer), Sourabh Bagde (Software Developer), Srushti Patel (Software Developer), Sudheesh Thuralkalmakki (Full-Stack Developer), Sundar Machani (Software Engineer), Vishnu Kumar (Software Engineer), Vivek Chandra (Software Engineer), and Yiyun Tan (Software Engineer). They reviewed all the Highest Good Network PRs (Pull Requests) shared in this week’s update. Learn more about how the Highest Good Network measures launching a new paradigm of sustainable ideas by exploring the Highest Good Network open-source hub. The collage below shows a compilation of the work from this team.

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