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One Community Welcomes Satya Shanthi to the Software Development Team!

Posted on November 20, 2024 by One Community Hs

One Community welcomes Satya Shanthi to the Software Development Team as our newest Volunteer/Consultant!

Satya, a Full-Stack Developer, has 3 years of experience specializing in JavaScript, React, Java, and backend technologies like Node.js, Express, and Spring. A strong believer in efficiency and user-centered design, she has developed seamless and efficient web applications, including a personal budget tracker available on GitHub, which helps users effectively manage their finances with an intuitive and easy-to-use interface. Known for a calm and polite demeanor, Satya is always eager to learn new technologies to enhance technical skills, build innovative solutions and deliver scalable, robust applications. Her portfolio, which includes professional experience and all key projects, can be found here. As a member of the One Community team, she has contributed to creating dynamic solutions on Highest Good Network software, focusing on optimizing the layout of the Teams page and addressing responsive design issues to ensure better functionality across different screen sizes.

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Ongoing Path to Making No-Impact Living Mainstream – One Community Weekly Progress Update #609

Posted on November 18, 2024 by One Community Hs

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At One Community, we are creating an ongoing path to making no-impact living mainstream to regenerate our planet and create a world that works for everyone. Our all-volunteer team is focused on sustainable approaches to food, energy, housing, education, economics, and social architecture. By open sourcing and free sharing the complete process, we aim to build a self-replicating model that inspires a global collaboration of teacher/demonstration hubs, all for “The Highest Good of All.” Together, we are evolving sustainability and fostering global stewardship practices that promote fulfilled living and lasting positive change.

Here’s our ongoing path to making no-impact living mainstream 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 OF THE ONGOING PATH TO MAKING NO-IMPACT LVING MAINSTREAM

Click on each icon to be taken to the corresponding Highest Good hub page.

One Community’s physical location will forward this movement and ongoing path to making no-impact living mainstream as the first of many self-replicating teacher/demonstration communities, villages, and cities to be built around the world. This is the November 18th, 2024 edition (#609) of our weekly progress update detailing our team’s development and accomplishments in the ongoing path to making no-impact living mainstream.

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HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING PROGRESS

One Community is creating an ongoing path to making no-impact living mainstream 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 the crowdfunding campaign part of this ongoing path to making no-impact living mainstream: Our Upcoming Crowdfunding Campaign
  - Learn about the different village models: 7 Sustainable Village Models
  - Visit the open source portals for the first two villages as parts of this ongoing path to making no-impact living mainstream: Earthbag Village OS Hub | Straw Bale Village OS Hub

This week, Adil Zulfiquar (Engineer) continued working on the Vermiculture Toilet engineering and designs for an ongoing path to making no-impact living mainstream. He focused on the Vermiculture Transportation Solutions Report, involving revisions to include additional resources, references, and detailed information on vermiculture structures, along with the addition of relevant images. The section on narrow-body trailers was expanded, titles were reorganized for better clarity, and formatting adjustments were made to enhance readability and presentation. The Earthbag Village is the first of 7 to be built as the housing component of One Community’s open source model for an ongoing path to making no-impact living mainstream. See below for some of the pictures related to work.

Akshit Sethi (Architectural Designer) continued working on updating the Earthbag Village SketchUp and AutoCAD layouts. Akshit updated the base drawing set for the EarthBag Village essential in the ongoing path to making no-impact living mainstream, refining layers for improved readability, and preparing the drawings for publication. He shared the updated PDFs and AutoCAD files with the team for alignment and worked on finalizing the 3D model based on the revised CAD file, focusing on completing the final details to achieve a cohesive design. The Earthbag village is the first of 7 villages to be built as part of One Community’s open source model for an ongoing path to making no-impact living mainstream. See his work on the in the collage below.

Anil Karathra (Mechanical Engineer) continued helping complete the Vermiculture Toilet engineering and designs. He focused on creating and uploading weekly summaries with screenshots, and final adjustments were made to the vermiculture collaboration document. The master task list was updated to include new team members in the ongoing path to making no-impact living mainstream. The collaboration document was reorganized and reformatted to integrate research findings from Adil and refined based on recent feedback. A weekly team meeting was attended, and the slider FEA analysis was redone as a multi-step process to capture a stress-strain curve, with the analysis incorporated into the document. Additionally, documentation was edited based on suggestions from Manjiri, and work commenced on compiling a spreadsheet for the bill of materials. The approach for an ongoing path to making no-impact living mainstream enables the development of innovative solutions that are both environmentally friendly and effective. See below for some of the pictures related to the work.

Avery Hamilton (Mechanical Designer) continued working on finalizing the interior of the Earthbag Village 4-dome home design as a strategy for the ongoing path to making no-impact living mainstream. Avery added a floor drain for the spa space and a wall hydrant for the spa equipment. He integrated family types into Revit to generate schedules for new fixtures, routed refrigerant lines for mini-split systems, created details for pipe penetrations, and reselected the range hood. The Earthbag village is the first of 7 villages to be built as part of One Community’s open source model for an ongoing path to making no-impact living mainstream. See the work in the collage below.

Charles Gooley (Web Designer) continued working on the Aircrete Engineering and Research: Compression Testing, Mix Ratios, R-value, and More page. Charles updated the Aircrete Engineering and Research page focused on compression testing, mix ratios, R-value, and related topics. He documented the engineering processes, research, resources, and tools used to validate the safety of discrete designs and structures key in the ongoing path to making no-impact living mainstream. Tasks included verifying that no content was lost after a website crash and linking the tables of contents using anchor links for the Initial Trial Phase and Final Testing Phase sections. Aircrete is an alternative we’re exploring for the Earthbag Village, a foundational part of One Community’s open-source model for an ongoing path to making no-impact living mainstream. Take a look at some of the work in the images below.

Joseph Osayande (Mechanical Engineer) continued helping finish the Vermiculture Toilet engineering and design details. Joseph focused his efforts on revising the ongoing path to making no-impact living mainstream; main document for the Waste Removal System (WRS), including updates to values, enhanced readability, and the addition of diagrams to illustrate key concepts and support the design phase. Considerations were documented regarding potential external forces that might impact the connection to the main chamber, addressing any remaining concerns before moving forward with the build. The Earthbag Village is the first of 7 to be built as the housing component of One Community’s open source model for an ongoing path to making no-impact living mainstream. See some of his work in the collage below.

Karthik Pillai (Mechanical Engineer) continued helping finish the Vermiculture Toilet engineering and helping with the Earthbag Village 4-dome home roof plan. Karthik focused on the four-dome cluster roof project, addressing key structural elements central in the ongoing path to making no-impact living mainstream. He completed live load calculations and corrected discrepancies from a previous finite element analysis that used incorrect load values to ensure alignment with project requirements. Additionally, he refined the roof design with guidance from Michaela to enhance functionality and performance. Progress was also made on the vermiculture toilet design project, with ongoing adjustments to meet design specifications and improve operational effectiveness. The Earthbag Village is the first of 7 to be built as the housing component of One Community’s open source model for an ongoing path to making no-impact living mainstream. See the work in the collage below.

Michaela Silva (Architect) continued working on finalizing the interior details for the Earthbag Village 4-dome home design. Michaela facilitated meetings with Avery to address MEP (Mechanical, Electrical, and Plumbing) issues and with Karthik to review roof design details. She suggested positioning the mini-split units above bedroom doors to enable the ongoing path to making no-impact living mainstream routing refrigerant lines and power through the ceiling and into the main roof structure via a bump-out in the loft space. Additionally, she researched options for the roof deck finish and reviewed relevant structural codes. The Earthbag Village is the first of 7 villages to be built as part of One Community’s open source model for an ongoing path to making no-impact living mainstream. See her work in the collage below.

DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER PROGRESS

One Community is creating an ongoing path to making no-impact living mainstream through a Duplicable and Sustainable City Center that is LEED Platinum certified/Sustainable, can feed 200 people at a time, provides laundry for over 300 people, is beautiful, spacious, and saves resources, money, and space:

- - Learn about this ongoing path to making no-impact living mainstream building and its function: Duplicable City Center Open Source Hub

This week, Adithya Bhalaji (Mechanical Engineer) explored various types of dormer designs available in the market and studied commonly used materials for windows and dormer construction, focusing on their insulation properties for the dormer interior. He brainstormed potential dormer designs based on aesthetic and functional requirements, developing concept sketches for consideration. Additionally, Adithya worked on designing components such as window frames, glass elements, and the overall exterior structure of the dormer, utilizing SolidWorks software. The resulting images were uploaded to Dropbox and a copy was also saved in Google Docs for reference. The Duplicable City Center represents a fundamental element of One Community’s open-source approach, dedicated to an ongoing path to making no-impact living mainstream. View examples of this work in the pictures provided below.

Arnob Mutsuddi (Mechanical Engineer) continued working on Duplicable City Center structural engineering model and details. His work focused on completing design alterations for the hub connector in row 4, addressing GD&T issues with the side struts and middle ring, and finalizing the row 4 hub connector design with GD&T verification. Efforts transitioned to the hub connector design for row 6, with progress made on the middle ring. A team meeting was held, during which guidance was provided to a team member on the hub connector design. The Duplicable City Center is a foundational part of One Community’s open-source model, which excels in an ongoing path to making no-impact living mainstream. This approach is integral to their mission through innovative and scalable solutions. See some of this work in the pictures below.

Chris Blair (GIS Technician/Horticulturist) continued working with GIS data as part of One Community’s Permaculture Design which includes the location of the Duplicable City Center. He completed scaling, digitizing, and georeferencing the villages and community center based on revised area measurements of their footprints. Using these accurately scaled footprints, he analyzed and placed them in optimal locations on the property, considering level ground and solar aspects. Additionally, Chris reworked the slope map to increase detail and applied the clump tool to group areas with similar slopes, improving the map’s clarity. Within One Community’s open-source framework, the Duplicable City Center plays a central role in the ongoing path to making no-impact living mainstream. The images below showcase some of the work.

Faeq Abu Alia (Architectural Engineer) continued his work on the Duplicable City Center kitchen shelving and adding dry-storage food items. He refined the Duplicable City Center kitchen model in SketchUp by implementing feedback, addressing design issues, and incorporating elements such as food items and human figures to enhance visual realism. In Lumion, he adjusted materials, added more human figures, and worked on three paths for kitchen walkthrough videos, rendering essential shots to improve the presentation. These updates were focused on aligning the model with project feedback and enhancing the overall quality of the visual experience. The Duplicable City Center represents a fundamental element of One Community’s open-source approach, dedicated to an ongoing path to making no-impact living mainstream. View examples of the work in the pictures provided below.

Jason Bao (Architectural Designer) continued working on producing renders for the Duplicable City Center library. This week he focused on setting up and rendering scenes for the library of the Duplicable City Center to showcase its ongoing path to making no-impact living mainstream versatility as a multi-purpose room. Modifications to the SketchUp model included adding books, toys, and other amenities to bookshelves and arranging furniture to create realistic settings. Scenes depicting a sports night, movie night, class gathering, and reading session were developed. In Lumion, adjustments were made to lighting, object placements, and render settings, with final renders uploaded to Dropbox for review. The Duplicable City Center is a foundational part of One Community’s open-source model, which excels in an ongoing path to making no-impact living mainstream. This approach is integral to their mission through innovative and scalable solutions. See some of this work in the pictures below.

Mohammed Maaz Siddiqui (Architect) continued working on the outdoor landscape areas for the Duplicable City Center; ongoing path to making no-impact living mainstream project. He focused on developing the front landscape area of the Duplicable City Center by integrating trees based on permaculture plans, and selecting and planting specified or similar species to align with design requirements. He enhanced the landscape’s volume by increasing tree density and incorporating undergrowth to reduce the appearance of emptiness. Additional plants, trees, and flowers were added to create a more vibrant and engaging environment. Changes were made to the landscape based on review feedback to refine the overall scene. Within One Community’s open-source framework, the Duplicable City Center plays a central role in an ongoing path to making no-impact living mainstream. The images below showcase some of this work.

Nika Gavran (Industrial Designer) continued her work on the Duplicable City Center dormer window installation plans. She focused on expanding the final document for the ongoing path to making no-impact living mainstream; dormer window instructions, progressing with the next steps in the assembly, primarily involving the window’s exterior. With the window now fully assembled, she began refining the renders by removing shadows and adding graphics, such as arrows, to ensure the instructions were clear and easy to follow. As a foundational component of One Community’s open-source strategy, the Duplicable City Center is designed for an ongoing path to making no-impact living mainstream. The images below showcase some of this work.

Sanket Basannavar (Mechanical Engineer) continued working on the Duplicable City Center spa cover as part of the City Center Natural Pool and Eco-spa Designs. This week, he continued his research on the structure and materials used in spa covers currently available in the market. The design of the spa cover was completed, and static stress analysis was performed, showing minimal displacement under a 200 lbs load and low stress on the cover. A static thermal analysis was also conducted, but the results were less favorable, with a low R-value indicating insufficient thermal resistance. Within One Community’s open-source framework, the Duplicable City Center plays a central role in the ongoing path to making no-impact living mainstream. The images below showcase some of this work.

Tasmia Hasan (Design Engineer) continued her work on the structural engineering of the Duplicable City Center. She adjusted the angle of the steel struts to 66.18 degrees using trial-and-error methods to address alignment challenges in the structure. During a group meeting, she collaborated with the team to review design modifications and explore potential areas for further optimization. Tasmia also worked closely with Arnob to identify an improved approach for refining the design, focusing on structural integrity and practicality. She conducted additional evaluations to ensure that the adjustments met project specifications and supported the overall objectives of the work. As a foundational component of One Community’s open-source strategy, the Duplicable City Center is designed for the ongoing path to making no-impact living mainstream. You can see examples of this work in the following images.

Yan Zu (Architectural Designer) continued her work on the greenhouse area of the Duplicable City Center. This week, she enhanced the greenhouse exterior by adding diverse plants and people to create a natural atmosphere. Stones were placed around the pond to improve its appearance and integrate it better with the surroundings. The four-tiered platform was populated with people to showcase interaction and activity, highlighting its functionality. An animation was created to demonstrate the platform’s design features, structural details, and how it integrates with the surrounding environment, providing a clear representation of the space. Within One Community’s open-source framework, the Duplicable City Center plays a central role in our ongoing path to making no-impact living mainstream. The images below showcase some of this work.

Yancong E (Architectural Designer) continued working on the Duplicable City Center project. He updated the outdoor view analysis floorplan to reflect the latest revisions, ensuring alignment with the current plan. He refined the overall analysis description and adjusted the formatting for consistency with the website. Additionally, Yancong conducted individual floor analyses, detailing room-specific information and identifying those eligible for points. The Duplicable City Center represents a fundamental element of One Community’s open-source approach, dedicated to creating an ongoing path to making no-impact living mainstream. This innovative initiative aims to showcase how creating patterns of positive change can transform urban spaces into more sustainable and community-oriented environments. You can see examples of this work in the following images.

HIGHEST GOOD FOOD PROGRESS

One Community is creating an ongoing path to making no-impact living mainstream 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 biodiversity:

- - Learn about the structures of an ongoing path to making no-impact living mainstream: 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 their research on the Earthbag Village Tools, Equipment, and Materials/Supplies list and initiated the review of necessary tools for the Apiary Tools, Equipment, and Materials/Supplies list. Additionally, they added photos to the weekly summary and reviewed an electrical drawing for the Earthbag Village, providing recommendations and suggestions for updating the subpanel and its contents. The Earthbag Village is the first of 7 to be built as the housing component of One Community’s open source model for an ongoing path to making no-impact living mainstream. See below for some of the pictures related to this work.

Jay Nair (BIM Designer) continued working on Aquapini and Walipini Planting and Harvesting lighting and HVAC design. He focused on revising the lighting specifications for the greenhouse project to account for the 6,000-foot elevation of the site. Adjustments were made to the lighting requirements for various plant species, considering the increased solar radiation and temperature variations associated with high-altitude environments. A lighting schedule was developed to ensure the accurate implementation of these specifications. Additionally, research was conducted on the plumbing needs for Walipini 1, including water supply, drainage, and irrigation systems, to support optimal plant growth and facility operations. The Highest Good Food initiative is a key component of One Community’s open source plans, dedicated to an ongoing path to making no-impact living mainstream, and exemplifies the organization’s commitment through innovative design and implementation. Below are some of the images showcasing this work.

Purva Borkar (Landscape Architect) continued her work on creating an outdoor merge of a food-producing ecosystem and people spaces for the Aquapini and Walipini Planting and Harvesting structures. She worked on a CAD drawing of a landscape design centered around a rain garden designed to manage stormwater overflow. The project integrated sustainable features with passive recreation spaces, including pathways, seating areas, and gathering zones. The design incorporated diverse plantings and natural elements to enhance biodiversity and support stormwater filtration. Additional visuals included diagrams and a constructed boardwalk pathway, emphasizing accessibility and the integration of built and natural environments. As part of One Community’s open source efforts, the Highest Good Food initiative embodies a commitment to an ongoing path to making no-impact living mainstream. The images below offer a glimpse into these ongoing efforts.

Surya Teja Anumolu (Volunteer Mechanical Engineer) continued his work on the Highest Good Food most sustainable construction and agricultural equipment. He focused on creating Aquapini and Walipini Planting and Harvesting footprint drawings to identify areas at each level that could be categorized as usable and walkable. Using the master AutoCAD file from the OneCommunity Dropbox folder, he produced five distinct drawings, including layouts for the underground level, floor level, walkable areas, and a landscaping plan, with the latter also providing area annotations in multiple units. The Highest Good Food initiative is a key component of One Community’s open-source plans, dedicated to an ongoing path to making no-impact living mainstream. This approach is critical to ensure alignment with the initiative’s goals. See his work in the collage below.

Syahrina Maulida Majid (Volunteer Nutritionist) continued working on creating menu implementation tutorials as a part of One Community’s Transition Food Self-Sufficiency Plan. She worked on menu implementation by refining and testing the master recipe template. She developed step-by-step instructions for a tutorial to guide users on data input, adapting the template to different dietary needs, and interpreting its outputs. Observations from earlier testing were integrated to address potential challenges and enhance the tutorial’s clarity. Additionally, she documented examples to provide practical context, ensuring the tutorial is accessible and applicable to a variety of users. The Highest Good Food initiative plays a crucial role in One Community’s open source plans, with the aim of an ongoing path to making no-impact living mainstream. Her work is showcased in the collage below.

Vatsal Tapiawala (Mechanical Engineer) continued working on integrating ideas from Paul Wheaton’s Truly Passive Greenhouse” designs into the Aquapini/Walipinis structures. He worked on key aspects of the project, including designing a 3-foot-deep lowered walkway for Walipini 1 to improve thermal efficiency. He used the energy analytical model in Revit to analyze the performance of Walipini 1 and refine its design. Additionally, Vatsal began addressing the process of calculating heating and cooling loads using Revit. The Highest Good Food initiative is a key component of One Community’s open source plans, dedicated to an ongoing path to making no-impact living mainstream. See his work in the collage below.

Ziyi Chen (Landscape Designer) continued working on the design of the outdoor spaces for the Aquapini/Walipinis structures. She finalized tree species selections, refined planting models, and advanced the plant design along the southeastern road with a focus on creating a visually engaging and sensory-rich environment. Mint was included along the roadside to encourage sensory interaction, while fruit-bearing plants such as lingonberries were placed further back to add functional and visual interest. Four-season plants like dogwood were positioned to ensure year-round appeal, featuring red branches visible in winter without interfering with shade. Groundcover plants, including Ophiopogon japonicus and ceanothus, were chosen for slopes in the Zenapini area due to their adaptability to well-drained soil and suitability for local conditions. Human models were also incorporated into the design to evaluate the layout’s appearance at human scale. The Highest Good Food initiative is a key component of One Community’s open source plans, dedicated to an ongoing path to making no-impact living mainstream. See her work in the collage below.

HIGHEST GOOD ENERGY PROGRESS

One Community is creating an ongoing path to making no-impact living mainstream 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, Sarmad Tariq (Electrical Engineer) continued helping finish the Highest Good energy component and evaluating grid-tie vs off-grid solar design. This week he reviewed all the introductory documents and previously published web pages to understand HGN and its end goal. These included websites for solar microgrid setup, solar incentive rates, and a phased Duplicable City Center project rollout. Moreover, Sarmad looked at different projections of battery prices and the future trend of battery prices according to different models provided by NREL and other organizations. The team has made significant progress within One Community’s open-source framework, the Duplicable City Center plays a central role in the ongoing path to making no-impact living mainstream. Take a look at some of this work in the images below.

Viktoriia Zakharova (Administrative Assistant) continued her research to complete the update of the Most Sustainable Lightbulbs and Light Bulb Companies. This week, Viktoriia researched sustainable materials for lighting fixtures, verified quantities in the original Duplicable City Center spreadsheet, and read scientific literature on sustainable fixtures, noting key highlights. She also scheduled and conducted hiring interviews with three volunteer candidates, and reviewed the progress of the Highest Good Food team, provided comments, created collages, and published updates on her WordPress page. Additionally, Viktoriia reviewed the work of other administrators, added missing pictures and people omitted from the blog to her page. The Duplicable City Center represents a fundamental element of One Community’s open-source approach, which is dedicated to the ongoing path to making no-impact living mainstream. View examples of this work in the pictures provided below.

Yi-Ju Lien (Environmental Engineer) continued her work on the Highest Good energy LEED points related to stormwater retention. This week she worked on data collection and spreadsheet development to meet the LEED requirement through Option 1: Retaining the 95th Percentile Storm onsite. She gathered over 30 years of daily data from the monitoring station to ensure an unbiased analysis developed functions to filter out invalid data and calculated the percentile rainfall. She also created visualizations and refined the summary table to check whether the selected site met the required stormwater retention facility size. The Duplicable City Center represents a fundamental element of One Community’s open-source approach, which is dedicated to the ongoing path to making no-impact living mainstream. Below is a collage of this work.

HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION PROGRESS

One Community is creating an ongoing path to making no-impact living mainstream through Highest Good education that is for all ages, applicable in any environment, adaptable to individual needs, far exceeds traditional education standards, and more fun for both the teachers and the students. This component of One Community is about 95% complete with only the Open Source School Licensing and Ultimate Classroom construction and assembly details remaining to be finished. With over 8 years of work invested in the process, the sections below are all complete until we move onto the property and continue the development and open sourcing process with teachers and students – a development process that is built directly into the structure of the education program and everything else we’re creating too:

Program Overview: Education Open Source Hub
How the components work together in designing human orchestrated eco-abundance: How to use the Education for Life Program
Lesson Plans for Life – Lesson Plans How-to
Foundations of Outstanding Leaders, Teachers, and Communicators
Curriculum for Life
Teaching Strategies for Life
Learning Tools and Toys for Life
Evaluation and Evolution

This week, Apoorv Pandey (Mechanical Engineer) continued helping with the engineering details for the Ultimate Classroom part of the Highest Good Education component. He continued working on the final draft of the Structural Engineering Report for the Ultimate Classroom Project, focusing on the changes recommended by Jae. He worked on making the AutoCAD files more presentable, especially the detailing of each drawing. He is currently logging all of his work in a video format for a varied explanation of all the work he’s done. He researched ways to simplify the explanation of technical tables, such as the static check table and the beam force detail summary, to make the content more accessible to a layperson. Additionally, Apoorv is reworking the formatting of certain sections and referencing other published materials on One Community’s website to guide his work. The One Community model of combining forward-thinking education with sustainably built classrooms like this is an excellent example of an ongoing path to making no-impact living mainstream. This approach exemplifies by creating environments fostering collaboration and innovation. See the collage below for his work.

HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY PROGRESS

One Community is creating an ongoing path to making no-impact living mainstream 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 One Community’s ongoing path to making no-impact living mainstream: A Day in the Life
  - Learn about the 4 economic models that are part of our ongoing path to making no-impact living mainstream: 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 64 hours managing One Community’s volunteer-work review not included above, emails, social media accounts, web development, new bug identification and bug-fix integration for the Highest Good Network software, and interviewing and getting set up new volunteer team members. They also shot and incorporated the video above that talks about One Community and how this ongoing path to making no-impact living mainstream is a foundation of the bigger picture of everything One Community is doing. The image below shows some of this work.

Anoushka Hazari (Data Analyst) continued working on code for automating and simplifying the Highest Good Network software promotion process. This week, she fixed the mix-up between the PR review table and the HGN spreadsheet was resolved with guidance from the manager. The blog was completed, a collage was created, and the PR review table for the week was finalized, awaiting managerial review. Suggestions were provided to team members on their upcoming tasks. Work continued in automating the PR promotion messages, addressing errors in the process, and creating a new Google Console key to reconnect the Google Sheet. Additionally, a Slack bot named “Promotion App” was developed to automate and improve the process of sending promotion messages within Slack channels. This involved troubleshooting code errors and exploring new functionalities to enhance efficiency. The automation for Slack notifications was completed and made fully functional, and a Loom video was recorded to clarify questions about the HGN Google Sheet of PR reviews. Feedback from the manager was incorporated into ongoing tasks. Images were added to the Week 7 Dropbox folder, and all work was double-checked before submission on Slack. This work helps One Community’s mission and reinforces our commitment to the ongoing path to making no-impact living mainstream. The following images show her work for the week.

Christopher Powell (Grant Writer) continued helping with grant writing as a source of funding. This week, he completed a rough draft of the Brutten Family Foundation Letter of Intent (LOI), addressing key questions related to the project’s objectives and the reasons for its funding. He submitted the draft to Jae for feedback, which was reviewed and will be considered further in the coming week. The LOI required extensive research on One Community, including gathering detailed information on the organization and its primary project, with additional work planned to finalize the content. This work helps One Community’s mission and reinforces our commitment to the ongoing path to making no-impact living mainstream. The following images show his work for the week.

Feras Rehman (Data Analyst) continued working on developing One Community’s Mastodon account and strategy. He also managed his part of the One Community Updates Blog by reviewing and adding images to supplement the summary. Sneka, Ratna, Saumit, and Yash were reviewed, and feedback was provided on identified errors. Five more Mastodon posts were scheduled on Buffer for the upcoming week. Targeted Mastodon strategies were developed and implemented, resulting in a fivefold increase in post reach through optimized hashtag usage and improved post structuring. This work helps One Community’s mission and reinforces our commitment to the ongoing path to making no-impact living mainstream. The following images show his work for the week.

Praneeth Kruthiventi (Volunteer Data Analyst) continued helping manage the One Community Google Ads campaigns. He optimized the active Google Ads campaigns by updating keywords and descriptions to enhance their relevance. He interviewed two candidates for Software Developer roles and scheduled two additional interviews for the following week. Praneeth also explored methods for generating automated reports to monitor the performance of ongoing Google Ads campaigns. Additionally, he reviewed training exercises completed by new volunteers and contributed to the hiring process for upcoming positions. This work helps One Community’s mission and reinforces our commitment to the ongoing path to making no-impact living mainstream. The following images show his work for the week.

Rahul Bavanandan (Data Analyst) continued working on several key projects within the Highest Good Network software, One Community’s Reddit presence, and administration. He continued his work on the HGN Phase 2 Evolution project, focusing on translating Figma designs for the Phase 2 dashboard. He also engaged with diverse posts on Reddit to enhance his comment karma and contributed original content across various subreddits to establish a strong presence, refining and formatting a document outlining an effective Reddit strategy. Rahul continued building his Reddit presence by actively engaging in conversations across various subreddits. Rahul curated content for the weekly progress update, which involved adding weekly summaries and photo collages to the webpage. He also reviewed summaries and images submitted by team members, provided constructive feedback, and reviewed the work of two others in the Step 4 Document. Additionally, he filled out the Step 2, Step 4, and HGN Questionnaire (Responses) documents. This work helps One Community’s mission and reinforces our commitment to the ongoing path to making no-impact living mainstream. The following images show his work for the week.

Shireen Kayal (Humanitarian Program Developer & Data Manager) continued her work on branding graphics for all of One Community. She focused on preparing for upcoming tasks by researching the One Community website, particularly the Highest Good Energy page. She also updated and improved the Week 13 folder by replacing images with newer versions, adjusting URLs, and eliminating double dashes. Additionally, Shireen created new designs for the “Our Values” section on the Our Pledge page and developed fresh images for social media and the website. This work helps One Community’s mission and reinforces our commitment to the ongoing path to making no-impact living mainstream. The following images show her work for the week.

Vatsal Mendpara (Security Analyst) began working on a new task assigned through the website, focusing on preparing a detailed report on individual user usage of the HGN application for time logging. He analyzed resources utilized by the HGN application across both servers and started creating a checklist for testing website security mechanisms. Additionally, Vatsal worked on compiling a report about the usage of the HGN application across both servers and developed a checklist detailing critical points for web application testing, initiating work on those points. He also progressed on a checklist for server security, documenting all identified bugs and potential vulnerabilities. Finally, Vatsal began testing the web security of onecommunityglobal.org, creating reports on vulnerabilities in alignment with the OWASP Top 10. This work helps One Community’s mission and reinforces our commitment to the ongoing path to making no-impact living mainstream. The following images show his work for the week.

Venkata Jaya Pavan Naru (Volunteer Network And Cybersecurity Engineer) continued helping with the One Community website and Highest Good Network software stability and security. He tested website speed tests to ensure stability and consistent performance, with results showing an “A” grade across all servers. He also reset the server and performed phase 1 of a cybersecurity task. Monitored website health, participated in a meeting with Gavin to discuss upcoming cybersecurity implementations for HGN, and worked on a new cybersecurity proposal. This work helps One Community’s mission and reinforces our commitment to the ongoing path to making no-impact living mainstream. The following images show his work for the week.

Yash Shah (Data Analyst and Team Administrator) continued his admin work and managed the social architecture component of the Highest Good Network software. He worked on tasks related to HGN Phase 3 allocated to teammates, with specific action items segregated and organized. Assistance was provided to Khushi with Figma, including resolving comments and aligning designs with requirements. A weekly meeting for Phase 3 was facilitated, during which Shreya and Vaibhavi were assigned to provide input from the development side. Additionally, he also created a blog for Dev Dynasty, organizing the weekly folder, providing feedback, and preparing the summary for the week in the manager’s absence. This work helps One Community’s mission of an ongoing path to making no-impact living mainstream and reinforces our commitment to the ongoing path to making no-impact living mainstream. The following images show his work for the week.

ADMINISTRATION TEAM A-O

The Administration Team’s summary, covering their work administrating and managing most of One Community’s ongoing path to making no-impact living mainstream was managed by Muhammad Huzaifah (Administrative Assistant) and includes, Durgeshwari Naikwade (Data Analyst), Jessica Fairbanks (Administrative Assistant), Michael Juma (Administrative Assistant), Kishan Sivakumar (Administrative Assistant and Software Team Manager), Jibin Joby (Data Analyst), Vishnu Murali (Data Analyst) and Olawunmi “Ola” Ijisesan (Administrative and Management Support). This week, Durgeshwari collaborated with the Google Analytics team to update the strategy for a Google Ads campaign, initiated market research, and explored search engine console features for a marketing strategy. She also created LinkedIn posts and contributed to the Binary Brigade for the One Community Weekly Progress Update #608. Jessica completed administrative duties, created a collage, reviewed progress updates of team members, and provided feedback to fellow administrators. She also advanced the Highest Good Food infrastructure plan by researching and adding information on corporate gardens.

Jibin did his part helping create an ongoing path to making no-impact living mainstream as he attended the Google Analytics meeting, participated in strategy discussions, reviewed team work, and expanded his knowledge through videos. He researched dashboard layouts and reporting to enhance the analytics setup and improve data-driven insights. Kishan completed senior admin tasks, reviewed volunteer documents, tracked progress, addressed requests, and conducted SEO page reviews. He also completed a weekly blog and revisited optimized pages based on feedback. Michael managed the energy team, provided feedback on their progress, and researched the design and budgeting aspects of a Google AdWords campaign.

Huzaifah contributed to administrative tasks, conducted a blog audit, followed up on team bios, and focused on deadline management by coordinating task updates with volunteers. Ola did her part helping create an ongoing path to making no-impact living mainstream as she oversaw PR review managers, ensured task completion, monitored reporting through HGN spreadsheets, and provided feedback on PR reviews. Vishnu planned event tagging for improved Google Analytics reporting, participated in a meeting to outline next steps, reviewed team contributions, and updated the blog to align with project objectives. One Community’s model for an ongoing path to making no-impact living mainstream includes developing and maintaining a supportive administration team like this. You can see the work for the team in the image below.

ADMINISTRATION TEAM R-Z

The Administration Team’s summary, covering their work administrating and managing most of One Community’s ongoing process for the ongoing path to making no-impact living mainstream was managed by Sneka Vetriappan (Data Analyst) and includes Rachna Malav (Data Analyst), Ratna Meena Shivakumar (Data Analyst and Admin), Riddhisha Chitwadgi (Administrative Assistant), Rishabh Rao (Administrator), Saumit Chinchkhandi (Administrative Assistant and Software Engineer), Shrinivas Patil (Software Engineer) and Zuqi Li (Administrative Assistant and Economic Analyst). This week, Rachna interviewed three candidates, recorded meeting notes in the hiring team spreadsheet, and responded to emails. She also worked on SEO pages and assignments. Ratna focused on preparing the weekly summary, creating collages for blog posts, and scheduling social media posts for One Community’s Facebook and Instagram. She also had a discussion with Jae regarding the AI music project and reviewed and updated blog descriptions.

Riddhisha worked on video tutorials for blog transfer and prepared a tracking spreadsheet. She met with the analytics team, created documentation for using the spreadsheet, and transferred Blog #608 while performing SEO tasks, including keyword integration. Rishab completed the administrative tasks for Team Skye, uploading the team summary and collage to WordPress. He also gained access to the One Community Fan Page and Sustainable Lives Facebook page to strategize user engagement. Rishab did his part contributing our ongoing path to making no-impact living mainstream as he participated in his first meeting with the Google Analytics team. Saumit handled frontend testing for multiple pull requests, collaborating with developers to resolve conflicts. He also managed the review workflow for volunteers, updated his WordPress page with the team summary and collage, and reviewed Yash’s WordPress page, implementing feedback. Shrinivas provided feedback for Team Moonfall, worked on Blog #608, and assisted Sara with the admin feedback spreadsheet. He reviewed PDFs, corrected them, and managed the HGN PR review tracking spreadsheet. He organized urgent tasks and helped improve the tracking process.

Sneka also did her part contributing our ongoing path to making no-impact living mainstream as she reviewed and provided feedback on teammates’ work, including weekly blog entries and summaries, addressing errors to maintain quality. She updated the SEO page, added weekly summaries and collages to the webpage, and ensured clear communication throughout the team’s tasks. Zuqi organized the weekly summary for the Graphic Design Team, reviewed other admins’ summaries, and researched metrics for blog performance tracking. She also reviewed Google AdWords and Google Analytics documents to improve her understanding of these tools. One Community’s model for an ongoing path to making no-impact living mainstream includes developing and maintaining a supportive administration team like this. You can see the work for the team in the image below.

GRAPHIC DESIGN TEAM

The Graphic Design Team’s summary was managed by Zuqi Li (Administrative Assistant and Economic Analyst) and included Aurora Juang (Graphic Designer), Junyuan Liu (Graphic Designer, UI/UX Designer) and Jaime Yao (Creative Technologist), covering their work on graphic designs for an ongoing path to making no-impact living mainstream. This week, Aurora finalized the layout for the company’s presentation deck, completing internal sections such as the team profile, visual guidelines, and style sheets. She submitted these for review to Jae, incorporated the feedback, and made the necessary updates. Aurora also watched video tutorials to create custom icons for the contributor directory, edited images for the organization’s online volunteer showcase, and designed promotional assets by creating social media posts using the brand’s Instagram templates.

Jaime created an announcement image and a website for Viktoriia Zakharova. He also developed social media visuals based on previously outlined concepts, including “A Canvas of Change” and “Collaborative Spiral” for the theme “Collaborate and find solutions that reflect the needs and aspirations of all,” and “Solar Panel Eiffel Tower,” “Solar Great Wall,” and “Solar Sydney Opera House” for the theme “Sustainable practices are keys to building a brighter future for our planet.” Junyuan focused on creating social media content, gathering images, and exploring various design options, which resulted in three new social media images. He also began sourcing images and considering design ideas for the next image and participated in a meeting with Yash and others to assess potential adjustments for HGN Phase 3. See the Highest Good Society pages for more on how this contributes to an ongoing path to making no-impact living mainstream. See the collage below to view some of their work.

HIGHEST GOOD NETWORK PROGRESS

One Community is creating an ongoing path to making no-impact living mainstream 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 their work on the Highest Good Network PRs testing, confirming the fixed PRs and resolving several issues. They confirmed fixes for several issues including Hours Status (#2535), title summary on the profile page (#2700), timer layout changes (#2820), opening teams in a new tab (#2589), and team code autocomplete in mobile view (#2839). Unresolved issues included UI problems on the People Report page for 375px and up (#2650), checkbox and label alignment in the PieChart section (#2505), vertical space usage in formatting (#2750), date mismatches in reports and user management (#2798), button spacing adjustments (#2795), report loading time improvements (#2780), and adding a reminder to save changes modal on the permissions management page (#2309).

Additionally, they logged five tangible hours for ‘CoreTeam TesterAgain’ to test hours accumulation over five blue squares. The test confirmed that the absence of a Weekly Summary Report should generate a sixth blue square and add one extra hour to the required hours for Core Team accounts. We continued to focus on the ongoing path to making no-impact living mainstream through iterative improvements and user-centric solutions. See the Highest Good Society and Highest Good Network pages for more on how this relates to the ongoing path to making no-impact living mainstream. The collage below shows some of their work.

ALPHA SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT TEAM

The Alpha Team’s summary, covering their work on the Highest Good Network software software was managed by Lin Khant Htel (Frontend Software Developer) and includes Carlos Gomez (Full-Stack Software Developer), Nanguan Lin (Software Developer), Rupa Rajesh Bhatia (Software Engineer), and Sheetal Mangate (Software Engineer). The Highest Good Network software is how we will manage and measure our processes for an ongoing path to making no-impact living mainstream across our social architecture, construction, production, and maintenance processes.

This week, Lin reviewed and approved PR #2871, becoming more familiar with the codebase and testing the changes on his local machine, where all test cases passed. Lin also reviewed weekly summaries, photos, and videos submitted by his Alpha team members. Carlos collaborated with Howard on addressing a time log submission issue, reviewing initial bug reports on the ongoing path to making no-impact living mainstream; but was unable to reproduce the reported problems. Carlos requested a detailed video recording with audio to gather additional information, awaiting further input from Howard. Rupa worked on managerial tasks by reviewing team member summaries and evaluating completed work, including contributions from Lin, Nanguan, Carlos, and Sheetal.

Concurrently, Rupa developed Pages 1, 2, and 3 of a multi-step form in React, focusing on controlled components for efficient state management and capturing user data such as name, professional title, experience, and expertise. React Router was utilized for navigation between pages, with the structure and functionality established and styling in progress. Development also began on Pages 4 through 7, emphasizing consistent form handling and user experience. Sheetal concentrated on state management with Redux in React, reviewing the managingTeamsReducer.js file to deepen her understanding and support writing test cases. She also worked on a pull request for a new test file, ensuring compliance with best practices by consulting the “How to Create a Good PR” document. See the Highest Good Society and Highest Good Network pages for more on how this relates to the ongoing path to making no-impact living mainstream. 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 Vijay Anand Pandian (Full Stack Software Engineer) and includes Aaryaneil Nimbalkar (Software Developer), Anirudh Sampath Kumar (Software Developer), Ashish Nagaraju (Software Engineer), Ashmita Pandey (Software Engineer), Deepthi Kannan (Software Engineer), Huijie Liu (Software Engineer), Sai Venkatesh Voruganti (Volunteer Software Engineer), Sandhya Adavikolanu (Software Developer), Sriram Seelamneni (Software Engineer), Xiaolu Li (Software Engineer) and Ziyu Chu (Volunteer Software Engineer). The Highest Good Network software is how we’ll be managing and objectively measuring our process for an ongoing path to making no-impact living mainstream through our social architecture, construction, production, and maintenance processes.

This week, Aaryaneil prepared reports on changes in PR 972, the implementation of PR 1106, and the impact of PR 1105. He completed testing and reviews for frontend issues, including project title sorting (#2849), dropdown display (#2848), lint fixes (#2847, #2846), and updates from Rishitha (#2845), Nikita (#2854, #2853), Xiaolu (#2852), Sam (#2851), and Gmon (#2850). He also reviewed backend PRs from Shreya (#1141), Ashish (#1140), Jatin (#1139, #1116), Sai Venkatesh (#1130), Carlos (#1128), Luis (#1123), and Huijie (#1115). Additionally, Aaryaneil developed test cases for `ownerMessageReducer.js` and `popupEditorReducer.js`. Anirudh reviewed and tested three pull requests: PR 2851 (lint fixes on the summary bar), PR 2859 (unit tests for roleReducer.js), and PR 2861 (new reports icon on the profile page). He validated code changes, ran tests, and ensured expected functionality. Additionally, he revisited PR 2753 to confirm updates were effective and started investigating a new bug on the User Management page related to account status display after activation or deactivation without reloading. His initial work included analyzing the code and starting a fix. Ashish worked on Bug 24 from the User Profile Component, implementing a feature to provide a warning when attempting to change the rehireable status for protected accounts. The code was completed and pushed, and a pull request was raised. Ashish then proceeded to address Bug 1 from the Management Dashboard Component, which involved adding a column title to a table. The implementation was completed and tested, and a pull request is pending.

Ashmita focused on improving the code quality in the `src/components/TaskEditSuggestions`directory of the HighestGoodNetworkApp. She employed ESLint and other automated code formatting tools to address numerous linting errors. Her efforts enhanced the maintainability and consistency of component files, ensuring a more robust and uniform codebase across the entire application. Deepthi merged PR 2760 and worked on PR 2842 to improve the load responsiveness of the featured badges page, aiming to remove the “Do Not Review” tag. She also addressed issues with PR 2246 related to the weekly summaries page, incorporating input from the team manager. Additionally, Deepthi worked on progressing other existing PRs by addressing feedback and facilitating re-reviews to move them closer to completion. Huijie submitted the pull requests for the meeting scheduling bell notification task, including frontend PR 2878 and backend PR 1154. She improved various functionality details and changed the notification format from a card to a modal. Additionally, she began reviewing the requirements and started working on a new task to implement a search-by-category bar in the application.

Sai addressed a warning in the `loadAsyncData` function of the Timelog component due to `null` values in a controlled `<select>` component. The issue was caused by `defaultTabValue`, derived from asynchronous data, sometimes being `null`. He resolved this by applying a fallback—`defaultTabValue`—to default to an empty string. He also updated the `setInitialTab` function to ensure `defaultTabValue` is always a valid string, eliminating the warning and stabilizing the component’s behavior. Sandhya enhanced the HGN Software Development project by adding a Task Completion Analysis Bar Chart and updating the Total Organization Summary Dashboard. She implemented a bar chart using React and Recharts, visualizing volunteer data from an API and categorizing it by Active, New, and Deactivated Volunteers. Sandhya integrated the chart into the dashboard, creating Redux actions, updating reducers, and developing utility functions for accurate data formatting. She ensured seamless data flow and real-time updates via Redux. Unit tests were written to handle edge cases and verify the new features, improving dashboard functionality and reliability. Sriram worked on resolving the issue of incorrect data appearing in certain fields upon refresh in the “fixing others’ dashboard view” pull request. He made significant progress toward completing this fix and reviewed his two related pull requests to ensure they functioned as intended, addressing ambiguities in the bug descriptions and aligning the solutions with project requirements.

Vijay reviewed weekly summaries from Binary Brigade team members, compiled the team’s summary, and attached relevant screenshots to the project repository. He reviewed several PRs, including fixes for time logs not updating after viewing another user’s dashboard (PR #2843), visibility issues in Dark Mode for the header row and badge confirmation messages (PR #2857), and issues in the User Management page (PR #2856). Additional reviews included resolving the “Active” filter issue on the projects page (PR #2865), addressing name overflow in dashboard card titles (PR #2864), and adding a “Reports” icon to the individual user’s profile page for the people report section (PR #2861). Vijay also completed unit testing implementations for the `timeEntriesReducer` file (PR #2871) and the `roleReducer` file (PR #2859). Xiaolu began working on unit tests for the ScheduleExplanationModal/ScheduleExplanationModal.jsx component. A branch was created for this task, and progress was documented with screenshots of the code. Xiaolu also recorded a weekly summary video detailing the work completed and uploaded both the images and the video to the designated Dropbox folder for review. Ziyu began working on unit tests for the TimeOffRequestsTable/TimeOffRequestsTable.jsx component. She selected five test cases to validate the component’s structure, functionality, and hooks. Ziyu wrote the specific test code for all five cases. However, during execution, some test cases failed. See the Highest Good Society and Highest Good Network pages for more on how this relates to an ongoing path to making no-impact living mainstream. View some of the team’s work in the collage below.

BLUE STEEL SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT TEAM

This week, Supriya enhanced the functionality of the Tasks Tab by modifying the TeamMemberTask.jsx file to display user roles beneath names, excluding the Volunteer role. Roles such as Owner, Admin, Core Team, Manager, and Assistant Manager are now visible. After integrating this feature, which supports both light and dark modes, she committed her changes and opened a pull request for peer review. Jingyi finalized a feature development that introduces a confirmation modal when users log intangible time, aiming to convert it to tangible. This model was designed to ensure compliance with time-tracking protocols, in the ongoing path to making no-impact living mainstream, and offers three succinct response options to streamline user interactions.

Cillian addressed an issue within the Highest Good Network project, correcting the display of the “End Date” on the profile page, which showed “Invalid date” when deactivating an account. His solution involved pinpointing and rectifying the code responsible for updating the deactivation date. His modifications were validated through tests and summarized in a detailed pull request. Meanwhile, Ramakrishna resolved a backend issue by implementing the “R” icon with CSS instead of external libraries, ensuring the solution adhered to project requirements. He also engaged in reviewing documentation and tracking issues, selecting a new task for development. See the Highest Good Society and the Highest Good Network pages to learn more on how their work contributes to developing an ongoing path to making no-impact living mainstream. See below to view images of their work.

CODE CRAFTERS SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT TEAM

This week, Swaroop incorporated recent updates from the development branch and created a new branch to resolve merge conflicts related to project creation notifications. He modified the AddProject.jsx and projects.js files to address infinite loading issues and manage the notification feature while reviewing team members’ work and maintaining communication as part of his manager-in-training role in the ongoing path to making no-impact living mainstream projects. Pavan focused on adding a “Title” column and resizing the “Role” column on the User Management page, considered a medium-priority task, and requested the closure of the bell icon bug due to changes in task scope, continuing to improve the Dashboard’s bell icon functionality.

Summit worked on enhancing the streak badge aggregation system, addressing delays caused by empty badge collections, and proposed fixes for inconsistencies in streak increments, all as part of the ongoing path to making no-impact living mainstream. He collaborated with Bhavya on a lead team badge database issue, assisted Muhideen, Ashrita, and others with badge testing and related processes, and further troubleshot streak badge behavior. Humera supported Bhavya in resolving a MongoDB aggregation error related to the Team Lead Badge, identifying schema issues within the myTeam schema that impacted data handling.

Anoushka improved the “Most Hours in a Week” badge functionality by refining logic, adding error handling, and implementing badge assignment checks. Ashritha reviewed a bugs and functionalities document, set up debugging tools, and fixed badge count issues in various badge tests, including the “Most Hours in a Week” and “checkNoInfringementStreak.” Denish enhanced the volunteer hour reporting system by updating the backend code to distinguish between “Assigned Hours” and “Total Hours Worked,” making changes to query parameters and response structures, and testing updates using Postman. Dhrumil submitted a pull request and, with guidance from his manager, began tackling a challenging new bug—all contributing to the ongoing path to making no-impact living mainstream. Muhideen joined the development team and tested several badge component functionalities using debugging tools, Postman, and MongoDB, covering aspects like checking Personal Max and other badge criteria.

Ambika worked on tasks related to HGN Software Development, including configuring email settings for a Mailchimp replacement, evaluating announcement functionalities, and reviewing the broadcast feature. She resolved a team calendar cropping issue in the Reports section by assessing feedback and identifying outdated comments and shared updates on bug documentation for the task component start date and “i” icon in weekly summaries. This work helps One Community’s mission of an ongoing path to making no-impact living mainstream. The collage below shows the work for this week.

DEV DYNASTY SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT TEAM

The Dev Dynasty Team’s summary, covering their work on the Highest Good Network software, was managed by Jatin Agrawal (Software Engineer) and includes Ajay Kumar Reddy (Software Engineer), Crystal Low (Software Engineer), Fangle Xi (Software Engineer), Mrinalini Raghavendran (Software Engineer), Sailavanya Narthu (Software Engineer), Shreya Vithala (Software Engineer), Nikita Kolla (Full Stack Developer), Nishita Gudiniye (Software Engineer) and Varun Elangovan (Software Engineer). The Highest Good Network software is how we’ll manage and objectively measure our process for an ongoing path to making no-impact living mainstream through our social architecture, construction, production, and maintenance processes.

This week, Jatin worked on resolving a bug affecting the functionality of the invisibility toggle button and addressed a new issue on the job application page to develop an application form template. The template is designed to enable owners to create distinct question sets for various job positions described by the organization. Ajay reviewed his pull requests, addressed feedback, modified a sorting function, and resolved merge conflicts to prepare the branch for integration. He refrained from starting new tasks in light of his impending departure to avoid complications from unresolved issues. This is important in the success of the ongoing path to making no-impact living mainstream.

Fangle participated in a discussion group about task APIs, particularly those for Instagram publishing, and completed planned API tasks, but noted that the old Instagram APIs have been deprecated and need integration with the Facebook development platform. She reviewed the project status with the team and plans to collaborate with colleagues on the new API integration. Sailavanya addressed an issue with API token handling in CI builds, identifying missing tokens during the build process that caused blank screens and blocked user access. She updated token management logic, conducted manual and automated tests to verify the solution, and documented findings for unresolved issues that required further testing of the ongoing path to making no-impact living mainstream.

Shreya worked on improving the responsiveness of the header component on smaller screens, making CSS adjustments to prevent the disappearance of the header logo, and restructured HTML for better alignment of navigation links. She also verified the work of three colleagues as part of her managerial training and reported findings about the ongoing path to making no-impact living mainstream to Jatin. Nikita addressed bugs with badge category counts and assignments, identifying and fixing issues in the backend and frontend code to restore functionality and ensure accurate category count displays.

Nishita worked on the “Team Stats – Comparison Needed” component in the Volunteer Roles and Team Dynamics section, focusing on analyzing metrics related to the number of users in teams versus those not in teams and tracking these figures over time. She reviewed requirements to ensure percentage changes were applied accurately and adhered to data validation standards of the ongoing path to making no-impact living mainstream. Varun reviewed Total Org Summary features, identifying discrepancies in hour ranges for the Volunteer Hours Distribution Pie Chart and suggested adjustments for accuracy. He flagged backend errors affecting the Work Distribution Bar Chart and Role Distribution Pie Chart and debugged an issue with saving user profiles when the start date was earlier than the creation date. See the Highest Good Society and Highest Good Network pages for more on how this relates to an ongoing path to making no-impact living mainstream. View some of the team’s work in the collage below.

EXPRESSERS SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT TEAM

This week, Aishwarya worked on implementing the showtrophyicon anniversaries functionality for the project, handling both the frontend and backend aspects. She focused on integrating these components into the existing system, addressing the display issues of the trophy icon on the weekly report summaries page as well as on the ongoing path to making no-impact living mainstream and dashboard page. Christy worked on improving the ProjectTaskChart component in React. She added functionalities like sorting tasks by date or hours and filtering tasks based on their completion status. Additionally, she reviewed PRs #2859, #2876, and #2852. Faye worked on the HGN software development project, handling issues with the frontend and backend installations by reinstalling them multiple times to resolve an unknown problem in the ongoing path to making no-impact living mainstream. She added the Cheerio package to a new branch and implemented functions like calculateGrowthPercentage and getTotalVolunteer.

Haoqing, addressed formatting issues on the People Report page, focusing on the top alignment of various components. She resolved the problem and organized three or four boxes into a single line. Additionally, she reproduced the scenario depicted in the provided video, contributing to the ongoing path to making no-impact living mainstream. Howie focused on a range of tasks, including helping team members and resolving the double confirmation bug. He provided support to Carlos by explaining how to update the system date, sharing relevant insights from past issues, and outlining future actions.

Rahul completed the development of Page 1 for the HGN Developer’s Form, focusing on improved UI elements and a responsive design across different devices, contributing to the ongoing path to making no-impact living mainstream. He made adjustments to the UI styling and restructured the data collection and storage methods to enhance data processing and usability. Reina relocated the tag deletion function she had previously implemented to a different page as part of the phase 2 implementation. She modified API calls to resolve connection issues on the new page and ensure proper functionality.

Shreya finalized the phase 3 document, integrating feedback from team members Jae and Yash. She revised the Figma file for phase 3 and expanded the accompanying documentation, aligning it with project requirements. Strallia focused on the backend for the Total Org Summary page by adding documentation comments to her code changes, testing edge cases with different input dates, and resolving API errors. She updated the response format to return numeric data types and submitted her commits to PR 1145. See the Highest Good Society and Highest Good Network pages for more on how this relates to the ongoing path to making no-impact living mainstream. See the collage below to view the team’s work this week.

LUCKY STAR SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT TEAM

Chetan continued to work on resolving the issue with time updates on the dashboard, which prevents logged time from automatically reflecting without a page reload. After implementing a prior hotfix, he resumed investigating potential solutions on the ongoing path to making no-impact living mainstream and sought assistance from the coding channel. Koushica enhanced the Tasks Tab on the Dashboard by incorporating Google Docs and Manager role icons, using a team roles object for organized role management. She also reviewed PRs for updates and page responsiveness and began implementing a task for new Google Docs symbol integration.

Nikhitha addressed display issues in the Team Member Tasks section of the Dashboard, focusing on resolving bugs affecting smaller screens and collaborating with a teammate to ensure functionality across user roles. Samarth managed a PR review team, assessed the quality of reviews, provided document feedback, and compiled a blog post summarizing their work about the ongoing path to making no-impact living mainstream; which included a collage of team images. Shefali updated a testing sheet for a merged pull request, resolved conflicts in PR #2783, reviewed the bug document, and developed test cases for the Volunteering Time tab.

Vaibhavi contributed to the HGN Phase III document by refining deliverables and structuring collaborative frameworks to enhance system tracking and management. This is important in the ongoing path to making no-impact living mainstream. Yashwanth worked on resubmitting design changes, addressed error label issues in the “Create a New User” form, and advanced the task for individual permissions tracking. Ziyan resolved a bug affecting start date logic and fixed data validation in the Media Folder for the Add New GST form, submitting PR #2867 and beginning work on task #209. Anne focused on resolving the member column filter bug in ProjectTableHeader and Projects files, using async wait functionality for API calls, while managing tasks for the Lucky Star team, reviewing photos and videos, and submitting weekly summaries. Learn more about how the Highest Good Society and Highest Good Network will measure the ongoing path to making no-impact living mainstream in the Highest Good Network open-source hub, See their work on the collage below.

MOONFALL SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT TEAM

This week, Calvin improved the dark mode styling for a table component in CheckTypes.jsx. He has made adjustments to background and row colors, hover effects, and table headers, with dynamic style switching based on the darkMode state. Newell has reviewed Azure hosting plans to optimize costs and set up a demo backend for an HGN app. He resolved encoding issues and improved MySQL performance using Releem. He has explored paginated searches for virtual dashboard lists.

Nikil has resolved a bug with invitation link handling in a user management system and identified backend delays causing popup issues. He reviewed several pull requests for UI functionality and collaborated with Ziyan to address a save button issue. Rachana worked on gzip compression for API response optimization within a REST API framework for the ongoing path to making no-impact living mainstream. She has configured middleware in Express.js and explored library options. Rashmitha has reviewed and tested multiple pull requests for features like dark mode compatibility, reliable status changes, and active filters, documenting findings and uploading screenshots. Satya has focused on unit tests and validated features. She resolved linting issues and managed end-of-week reporting. Saurabh has debugged hour count update delays in task progress sections. He has aimed for consistent real-time behavior across all platform sections.

Shashank diagnosed a bug and reviewed the code architecture. He has made adjustments, and prepared for thorough testing before finalizing a solution. Swathi has tested and debugged Task component issues related to the ongoing path to making no-impact living mainstream; that is, `replaceAll` compatibility, event handling, and CSS transitions, addressing discrepancies in expected behaviors. Vedant has resolved dark mode bugs for a project delete modal and addressed a failing test case. He has begun fixing misalignment issues in Phase 1 checkboxes. Yili has refined permission handling for user accounts and updated access rules for specific roles. She adjusted password reset permissions and submitted pull requests to implement these changes. See the Highest Good Society and Highest Good Network pages for more on how this relates to the ongoing path to making no-impact living mainstream. Below is a collage of the team’s work.

REACTONAUTS SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT TEAM

This week, team members focused on a range of tasks that contributed to One Community’s ongoing path to making no-impact living mainstream. Dhairya has worked on enhancing the “Find User” function in the Projects section by identifying root issues and developing a sort and search feature to improve user assignments. Gmon completed work on adding active/inactive team numbers on the team page and submitted PR 2850 for review. He began addressing a new task related to bell notifications for task deadlines and encountered a 404 error in the process. Haoyue made significant progress on the FAQ tool and implemented a structured database with search functionality, an admin management page for tracking FAQs, and permissions settings. Khushi updated the Phase 3 document by resolving comments and incorporating feedback. She equally collaborated with Jae and Yash for approvals.

Mohan documented an issue with the project archive functionality, where the interface froze after setting a project to inactive. He indicated a need for further investigation in the ongoing path to making no-impact living mainstream. Nikhil reviewed 12 pull requests across front-end and back-end tasks and performed unit testing to ensure code quality and functionality. Pallavi has submitted a pull request for a previous task and began addressing a bug in the Admin Dashboard’s deadline check-in functionality. She focused on backend interactions to resolve the issue. Peterson enhanced the “Team Code” input with autosave functionality and streamlined the process. He also improved the user experience to enhance the ongoing path to making no-impact living mainstream.

Rishitha completed the active filter for the project page and raised a pull request. She began working on a percentage toggle for the People Report. Saniya implemented changes on a teammate’s dashboard and resolved functionality issues around the ongoing path to making no-impact living mainstream. She continued bug investigations for future updates. Sharadha addressed freezing and visibility issues in the Team Member Tasks section and tested updates across roles and screen modes, while debugging a screen shake issue on smaller displays. Vijeth supported the team by addressing website load time issues and gathered updates in weekly meetings. He resolved ongoing team challenges. See the Highest Good Society and Highest Good Network pages for more on how this relates to the ongoing path to making no-impact living mainstream. Below is a collage of the team’s work.

SKYE SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT TEAM

This week Skye Team’s summary covering their work on the Highest Good Network was managed by Rishabh Rao (Administrator) and Luis Arevalo (Software Engineer) and the team includes Laura Cohen (Software Engineer), Sai Preetham (Full Stack Developer), Snehal Dilip Patare (Software Engineer), Yao Wang (Software Engineer) and Zhimin Liang (Full Stack Developer). The Highest Good Network software is how we’ll manage and objectively measure our process creating an ongoing path to making no-impact living mainstream through our social architecture, construction, production, and maintenance processes.

This week, Laura worked on troubleshooting issues with the permission change modal by refining the process for filtering permissions for users and preset roles on an ongoing path to making no-impact living mainstream. She encountered challenges due to incomplete back-end logic for front-end permissions, which led her to explore alternative methods for retrieving and applying permissions for the current user. Yao continued developing a LinkedIn alternative, adding media upload functionality to the front end to support posting media. While addressing a persistent 401 error, he tested the issue using curl and replaced the environment file with a directly embedded token in the backend code, though the error remained unresolved. Snehal created a branch named Snehal_delete_0members_from_project and submitted PR#2862, which faced a failing test due to an issue with the delete button on the member’s page. She also started addressing a User Management bug to fix the table layout and reduce the size of the Role column executing the ongoing path to making no-impact living mainstream.

Zhimin worked on the backend code for her local environment, defining routes to handle requests for scheduling and posting videos, implementing functions for scheduling posts and uploading videos to YouTube, setting up the Express server in the app.js file, and connecting it to MongoDB. She did not complete her hours and plans to begin working on frontend code locally. Sai Preetham addressed a name alignment and truncation issue in the ongoing path to making no-impact living mainstream; summarybar.jsx and summarybar.css files as part of the HGN Software Development project. He implemented code changes, tested various scenarios, raised a Pull Request (PR) with descriptions and reproduction steps, reviewed PR suggestions for previous assignments, searched for new tasks, awaited feedback from Jae on ongoing items, and completed updates related to the weekly summary and Dropbox tasks.

Luis worked on creating new warnings and addressed issues with the route for fetching special warnings, which was not functioning correctly or returning the appropriate warnings. After debugging, he was able to complete and post new warnings triggered by the buttons in the ongoing path to making no-impact living mainstream model. He plans to finalize the functionality of the remaining button, ensuring both buttons work as intended. Additionally, he ensured that clicking the button displayed the modal, replicating the behavior of issuing a warning when a user received more than three warnings. See the Highest Good Society and the Highest Good Network pages to learn more about how their work contributes to the ongoing path to making no-impact living mainstream. See below for some of the work done by the group.

SOFTWARE PR REVIEW TEAM A-K

The PR Review Team’s summaries for team members’ names starting with A-K and covering their work on the Highest Good Network software were managed by Anoushka Hazari (Data Analyst) to achieve the ongoing path to making no-impact living mainstream. The Highest Good Network software is a foundation of what we’ll be using to measure our results for the ongoing path to making no-impact living mainstream. This week’s active members of this team were: Abdelmounaim Lallouache (Software Developer), Anjineyulu Annavarapu (Software Developer), Audrey Trinh (Software Engineer Intern) and Carl Bebli (Software Engineer). They reviewed all the Highest Good Network PRs (Pull Requests) shared in this week’s update. Learn more about how the Highest Good Network will measure and assist in the ongoing path to making no-impact living mainstream in the Highest Good Network open source hub. The collage below shows a compilation of the work from this team.

SOFTWARE PR REVIEW TEAM L-Sg

The PR Review Team’s summary for team members’ names starting with L-Sg and covering their work on the Highest Good Network software was managed by Saumit Chinchkhandi (Administrative Assistant and Software Engineer). The Highest Good Network software is a foundation of what we’ll be using to measure our results of the ongoing path to making no-impact living mainstream. This week’s active members of this team were: Nahiyan Ahmed (Full Stack Software Developer), Nathan Hoffman (Software Engineer), Pratyush Prasanna Sahu (Software Engineer) and Samarth Bhadane (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 and assists in the ongoing path to making no-impact living mainstream in the Highest Good Network open source hub. The collage below shows a compilation of the work from this team.

SOFTWARE PR REVIEW TEAM Sh-Z

The PR Review Team’s summary for team members’ names starting with Sh-Z and covering their work on the Highest Good Network software was managed by Olawunmi “Ola” Ijisesan (Administrative and Management Support) and Samarth Urs (Administrative Assistant and Data Analyst). The Highest Good Network software is a foundation of what we’ll be using to measure our results of an ongoing path to making no-impact living mainstream. This week’s active members of this team were: Sujith Reddy Sudini (Mern Stack Developer, Full Stack Developer, Software Developer), Neeharika Koniki (Software Engineer, Developer), 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 will measure and assist in the ongoing path to making no-impact living mainstream in the Highest Good Network open source hub. The collage below shows a compilation of the work from this team.

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One Community Welcomes Geeta Matkar to the Software Development Team!

Posted on November 15, 2024 by One Community Hs

One Community welcomes Geeta Matkar to the Software Development Team as our newest Volunteer/Consultant!

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Geeta holds a Master’s degree in Computer Science and is driven by her passion for solving real-world problems through technology. Specializing in JavaScript, React, and Node.js, she enjoys crafting scalable web solutions that make a positive impact. Beyond coding, she finds inspiration in reading tech blogs to stay updated on emerging trends, experimenting with new recipes in the kitchen, and immersing herself in music. A continuous learner at heart, she believes in using her skills not just for personal growth but to contribute meaningfully to society. As a member of the One Community team, she has already reviewed over 50 pull requests, ensuring quality and stability of Highest Good Network software while helping to drive impactful change through technology.

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One Community Welcomes Anne Zhang to the Software Development Team!

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One Community welcomes Anne Zhang to the Software Development Team as our newest Volunteer/Consultant!

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Anne has 1 year of software engineering experience across vast project types. She believes in effective communication, team building and critical thinking in a fast-paced environment. She is passionate about software development and leading the teammates with the correct mindsets, skill and toolsets. As a member of the One Community team, Anne has helped develop the frontend and backend for Highest Good Network software and has successfully led a team of over 10 people

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Creating Patterns of Positive Change – One Community Weekly Progress Update #608

Posted on November 11, 2024 by One Community Hs

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At One Community, we are creating patterns of positive change to regenerate our planet and create a world that works for everyone. Our all-volunteer team is focused on sustainable approaches to food, energy, housing, education, economics, and social architecture. By open sourcing and free sharing the complete process, we aim to build a self-replicating model that inspires a global collaboration of teacher/demonstration hubs, all for “The Highest Good of All.” Together, we are evolving sustainability and fostering global stewardship practices that promote fulfilled living and lasting progress.

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One Community’s physical location will forward this movement as the first of many creating patterns of positive change as self-replicating teacher/demonstration communities, villages, and cities to be built around the world. This is the November 11th, 2024 edition (#608) of our weekly progress update detailing our team’s development and accomplishments:

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HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING PROGRESS

One Community is creating patterns of positive change 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, Adil Zulfiquar (Engineer) continued working on the Vermiculture Toilet designs. He focused on updating the rendering of the vermiculture structure to reflect the latest design, and related information was revised. Titles and headings were adjusted to better align with the content of each section, and additional resources and references used for calculations were added for clarity. The context for the narrow-body design trailer was also revised. The Earthbag Village is the first of 7 to be built as the housing component of One Community’s open source model for creating patterns of positive change. See below for some of the pictures related to this work.

Akshit Sethi (Architectural Designer) continued working on updating the Earthbag Village SketchUp and AutoCAD layouts. Akshit updated the base drawing set for the EarthBag Village, refining layers to improve readability and prepare the drawings for publication. He advanced work on the 3D model to align with the revised CAD file and collaborated with a team member to confirm accurate sizing of the service ramp. These updates aimed to enhance precision and clarity within the project documentation. The Earthbag village is the first of 7 villages to be built as part of One Community’s open source model for creating patterns of positive change. See his work in the collage below.

Anil Karathra (Mechanical Engineer) continued helping complete the Vermiculture Toilet designs. Anil uploaded and formatted all recent documents in the vermiculture collaboration file and incorporated the latest feedback. He discussed exit tasks and checklists with Yagyansh and reviewed weekly tasks and progress with Manjiri. He completed research on worm density and population dynamics in vermiculture, documented the findings, and initiated research on odor and pest control strategies. Anil led the weekly team meeting, conducted new finite element analysis on the slider, and reviewed and organized work completed by Yuze. Additionally, he held an introductory call with Manjiri to guide her through the project and associated documents. The approach for creating patterns of positive change enables the development of innovative solutions that are both environmentally friendly and effective. See below for some of the pictures related to this work.

Avery Hamilton (Mechanical Designer) continued working on finalizing the interior of the Earthbag Village 4-dome home design. Avery created a coordination document for MEP items, detailing fixture selections, equipment code requirements, and equipment locations to streamline project alignment. He updated the model to include more accurate equipment based on project specifications and initiated the layout of refrigerant piping to indoor AC units to support system design. This work focused on improving the integration and alignment of mechanical elements within the overall design. The Earthbag village is the first of 7 villages to be built as part of One Community’s open source model for creating patterns of positive change. See his work in the collage below.

Joseph Osayande (Mechanical Engineer) also continued helping finish the Vermiculture Toilet engineering and design details. He focused on finalizing modifications to the Waste Removal Stand (WRS), identifying that the selected unistrut material may deform under the load at the winch attachment point. A stronger steel is recommended to prevent potential breakage from repeated use. All L-brackets were adjusted to support the weight of the steel plate, and the unistruts were confirmed to handle human weight. Additional finite element analysis will be performed on the connecting piece to explore materials that offer better reinforcement for the winch’s pulling function. The Earthbag Village is the first of 7 to be built as the housing component of One Community’s open source model for creating patterns of positive change. See some of his work in the collage below.

Karthik Pillai (Mechanical Engineer) continued helping finish the Vermiculture Toilet engineering and helping with the Earthbag Village 4-dome home roof plan. Karthik refined the four-dome cluster roof project by using finite element analysis (FEA) to evaluate various joist designs and optimize structural performance. This involved testing multiple iterations to determine optimal joist dimensions for stability and effective load distribution per mechanical engineering standards. Concurrently, he worked on the vermiculture toilet design, making adjustments to the main assembly to reduce overflow by minimizing gap sizes. The team also collaborated on engineering solutions to prevent material leakage, exploring design modifications to enhance fluid containment and system efficiency. The Earthbag Village is the first of 7 to be built as the housing component of One Community’s open source model for creating patterns of positive change. See some of his work in the collage below.

Michaela Silva (Architect) continued working on finalizing the interior details for the Earthbag Village 4-dome home design. Michaela researched recommended minimum light levels for residential spaces and calculated the required number of fixtures for each area to meet these standards. She developed a layout for the light fixtures and shared the updated plans for electrical coordination. Additionally, she facilitated a roof structure meeting, guiding the team through code research on maximum deflection and the specifications for live and dead load calculations. The Earthbag Village is the first of 7 villages to be built as part of One Community’s open source model for creating patterns of positive change. See her work in the collage below.

Prarthana Jathar (Architectural Designer) continued working on AutoCAD tasks and the Earthbag Village 4-dome home interior renders. Prarthana calculated the footprint of the Duplicable City Center and formatted the output into PDFs. She developed a Photoshop library for internal renders of the 4-dome cluster and produced internal renders using Rhino and Photoshop. Additionally, she refined the internal living room renders for the 4-dome cluster, utilizing Photoshop for visual enhancements. The Earthbag Village is the first of 7 to be built as the housing component of One Community’s open source model for creating patterns of positive change. Take a look at some of this work in the images below.

Vimarsh Acharya (Engineering Manager and Technical Reviewer) continued working on identifying sustainability-related arguments covering Highest Good Lifestyle Considerations and sourcing quality research to support each one. He gathered 20 peer-reviewed papers for each topic, prioritizing studies with clear relevance to sustainability objectives. His research covered environmental, economic, and social impacts, emphasizing practical solutions such as community recycling, waste reduction, and resource conservation. Each study was selected for its direct contribution to sustainability, with particular attention to areas like greenhouse gas reduction, resource management, and environmental policy support. The One Community model of combining forward-thinking education with sustainably built classrooms like this is an excellent example of creating patterns of positive change. See the collage below for his work.

DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER PROGRESS

One Community is creating patterns of positive change 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 in creating patterns of positive change: Duplicable City Center Open Source Hub

This week, Arnob Mutsuddi (Mechanical Engineer) continued working on the City Center Dome Hub Connector Engineering model and details. The row 2 hub connector design was completed and design work for the row 4 hub connector was initiated and continued. The row 4 hub connector design progressed with a focus on angle alignment, middle ring integration, and the alignment of four side struts with the middle ring. A team meeting was held to discuss work progress, during which guidance was provided on the snow load test simulation to ensure realistic load values. Row 4 hub connector design continued, reaching 85% completion. The Duplicable City Center is a foundational part of One Community’s open-source model, which excels in creating patterns of positive change. This approach is integral to their mission of creating patterns of positive change through innovative and scalable solutions. See some of this work in the pictures below.

Chris Blair (GIS Technician/Horticulturist) continued working with GIS data as part of One Community’s Permaculture Design that includes the location of the Duplicable City Center. He continued learning how to use QGIS, an open-source GIS software, with the goal of recreating his previous work from proprietary software to improve future data access. He imported updated blueprints into QGIS and continued scaling, digitizing, and georeferencing the villages and community center based on revised area measurements of their footprints. Within One Community’s open-source framework, the Duplicable City Center plays a central role in creating patterns of positive change. The images below showcase some of this work.

Faeq Abu Alia (Architectural Engineer) continued his work on the Duplicable City Center Eco-kitchen renders He continued refining the Duplicable City Center kitchen model in SketchUp by addressing feedback, correcting model issues, and adding elements like food and human figures to enhance realism. In Lumion, he adjusted materials, incorporated additional human figures, and rendered essential video shots to improve the walkthrough presentation. These updates were made to align with project feedback and increase the overall quality of the visual experience. The Duplicable City Center represents a fundamental element of One Community’s open-source approach, dedicated to creating patterns of positive change. View examples of this work in the pictures provided below.

Jason Bao (Architectural Designer) began his work on producing renders for the Duplicable City Center library. Initial tasks included setting up Lumion live-sync with SketchUp, removing unnecessary elements from the model, and testing night render settings. Adjustments focused on lighting effects, material textures, and render quality, including refining angles, brightness, and reflections. Additional lights and objects were placed to enhance realism, with a specific focus on a “sport night” scene setup. Render tests were uploaded for further review and feedback. As a foundational component of One Community’s open-source strategy, the Duplicable City Center is designed for creating patterns of positive change. The images below showcase some of this work.

Mohammed Maaz Siddiqui (Architect) worked on the outdoor landscape areas for the Duplicable City Center project. He planted trees based on the designated landscape map, ensuring each was positioned according to the planned layout. He also incorporated figures to add liveliness to the renders, completing the work with final rendering adjustments. Within One Community’s open-source framework, the Duplicable City Center plays a central role in creating patterns of positive change. The images below showcase some of this work.

Nika Gavran (Industrial Designer) continued her work on the Duplicable City Center dormer window installation plans. This week, Nika expanded the final dormer window assembly document, focusing on the next steps for the exterior assembly. With the window fully assembled, she placed all renders into the final graphic format, removed shadows, and added directional graphics, such as arrows, to improve clarity in the instructions. She continued compiling slides and made progress on finalizing the document. As a foundational component of One Community’s open-source strategy, the Duplicable City Center is designed for creating patterns of positive change. The images below showcase some of this work.

Nimika Devi (Architect) continued woking on the Duplicable City Center outdoor back areas. This week, she developed a detailed 3D exterior model of a greenhouse for the Duplicable City Center. The process involved enhancing the model with additional architectural elements and interactive features to improve the visual experience. High-definition renders were exported, and a comprehensive walkthrough of the model was produced to showcase the greenhouse design and its integration within the city center. These visualizations focused on the structure’s aesthetic and functional aspects, providing a clear representation of the proposed design in an immersive format. Within One Community’s open-source framework, the Duplicable City Center plays a central role in creating patterns of positive change. The images below showcase some of this work.

Sanket Basannavar (Mechanical Engineer) continued working on the Duplicable City Center spa cover as part of the City Center Natural Pool and Eco-spa Designs. This week, he continued his research on the structure and materials used in spa covers currently available in the market. He refined the spa cover design and conducted stress analysis to assess its load-bearing capacity. The analysis revealed that the current design could not withstand a load of 200 pounds, identifying structural areas needing reinforcement or material adjustments to enhance durability. These findings from the stress test will inform necessary modifications to meet safety and functional specifications. Within One Community’s open-source framework, the Duplicable City Center plays a central role in creating patterns of positive change. The images below showcase some of this work.

Tasmia Hasan (Design Engineer) continued her work on the structural engineering of the Duplicable City Center. She worked on modifying the hub connector design by adjusting specific edges to meet a 66-degree angle requirement, though challenges arose due to issues with the movement of certain faces within the model. Additionally, Tasmia participated in a team meeting to review and discuss the project’s overall design approach. As a foundational component of One Community’s open-source strategy, the Duplicable City Center is designed for creating patterns of positive change. You can see examples of this work in the following images.

Umema Ali (Mechanical Design Engineer) continued working on the Duplicable City Center Engineering. She focused on static structural analysis of a traditional structure subjected to snow loads of 10 and 20 lbs. Using Autodesk Inventor, she analyzed the effects of a uniformly distributed load, specifically examining displacement and stress values. Her work included assessing how the structure responded to these load levels, with attention to both displacement and internal stress distribution. This analysis generated data on the structure’s stability under varying snow load conditions, identifying key insights into its resilience and highlighting potential structural vulnerabilities. Within One Community’s open-source framework, the Duplicable City Center plays a central role in creating patterns of positive change. The images below showcase some of this work.

Yancong E (Architectural Designer) continued working on the Duplicable City Center project. He continued updating the Outdoor View floor plan labels to align with the latest floor plan revisions, completing the labeling for the second and third floors. Yancong also recalculated the Outdoor View Percentage and finalized the view calculations for each room in the living dome on the first and second floors. The Duplicable City Center represents a fundamental element of One Community’s open-source approach, dedicated to creating patterns of positive change. This innovative initiative aims to showcase how creating patterns of positive change can transform urban spaces into more sustainable and community-oriented environments. You can see examples of this work in the following images.

HIGHEST GOOD FOOD PROGRESS

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

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

This week, the core team initiated and completed the Hoop House Tools, Equipment, Materials/Supplies list. The primary purpose of the hoop houses is to extend the growing season on each end to benefit from an additional two to three month growing season. They also protect plants from wind, frost, snow, ice, heavy rain, extreme temperatures as well as disease and pest infestations and can result in a higher crop yield and quality. Photos were also added for the items and designated on the master list with an “HH” designation. The Highest Good Food initiative is a key component of One Community’s open source plans, dedicated to creating patterns of positive change. See their work in the collage below.

Jay Nair (BIM Designer) continued working on Aquapini and Walipini Planting and Harvesting lighting and HVAC design. He focused on building a multidisciplinary team for the greenhouse project, identifying key roles necessary for design and analysis, including specialists in HVAC design, structural engineering, and botany. The work also included in-depth research on incorporating climate battery systems to enhance temperature regulation and energy efficiency within the greenhouse. Additionally, research extended to evaluating analysis capabilities within Revit software to understand the feasibility of conducting FEA simulations and integrating HVAC components for comprehensive thermal modeling and optimization. The Highest Good Food initiative is a key component of One Community’s open source plans, dedicated to creating patterns of positive change, and exemplifies the organization’s commitment to creating patterns of positive change through innovative design and implementation. Below are some of the images showcasing this work.

Purva Borkar (Landscape Architect) continued her work on creating an outdoor merge of a food-producing ecosystem and people spaces for the Aquapini and Walipini Planting and Harvesting structures. She worked on CAD drawings that require a detailed understanding of bioswale design, focusing on depth, slope, vegetation, and soil composition to optimize water filtration and flow control. She also detailed inflow and outflow points, erosion prevention, and plant selection, ensuring each bioswale captures runoff, reduces pollutants, and supports sustainable site functionality. As part of One Community’s open source efforts, the Highest Good Food initiative embodies a commitment to creating patterns of positive change. The images below offer a glimpse into these ongoing efforts.

Vatsal Tapiawala (Mechanical Engineer) continued working on integrating ideas from Paul Wheaton’s Truly Passive Greenhouse” designs into the Aquapini/Walipinis structures. He formatted his research for the passive greenhouse project according to One Community’s website guidelines. Additionally, he created a list of action items to integrate the ideas into the design and perform various analyses. Vatsal also performed an initial energy simulation for the entire model and considered ideas to include a lowered walkway in the design. The Highest Good Food initiative is a key component of One Community’s open source plans, dedicated to creating patterns of positive change. See his work in the collage below.

Ziyi Chen (Landscape Designer) continued working on the design of the outdoor spaces for the Aquapini/Walipinis structures. She continued selecting tree species and refining her models. She completed most of the construction in the southeast section of the Four Seasons area, using wintergreen and different types of sage to create a transition between the district and the outermost road. The plantings on both sides of the road were arranged in a staggered pattern to enhance the overall appearance. Ziyi also added dogwood as understory planting along the road leading from the central compass to the food forest. On the opposite side, she planted low-growing berry shrubs between the seating areas to reduce shading on the Walipini structure, allowing people to sit on the benches and view the interior of the Walipini through its roof. The Highest Good Food initiative is a key component of One Community’s open source plans, dedicated to creating patterns of positive change. See her work in the collage below.

HIGHEST GOOD ENERGY PROGRESS

One Community is creating patterns of positive change 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, Panambur Rachan Rao (Project Manager) continued revising the Highest Good Energy cost analysis spreadsheet. This week he used data from the Department of Energy and NREL websites to estimate costs for various renewable energy options. He factored in the energy requirements for the Earthbag Village and Duplicable City Center. Additionally, Rachan checked in on the DCC team’s weekly progress to track the status of their tasks. The team has made progress within One Community’s open-source framework, with the Duplicable City Center playing a central role in creating patterns of positive change. Take a look at some of this work in the images below.

Viktoriia Zakharova (Administrative Assistant) continued her research to complete the update of the Most Sustainable Lightbulbs and Light Bulb Companies. This week’s focus was completing an inventory of fixtures chosen for the Duplicable City Center through computational modeling. She created a list of sustainable lighting fixture companies for further research and defined specific product evaluation criteria. Additionally, she reviewed seven scientific articles covering advancements and recent innovations in the lighting fixture industry. Viktoriia also fulfilled her administrative responsibilities. The Duplicable City Center represents a fundamental element of One Community’s open-source approach, which is dedicated to creating patterns of positive change. View examples of this work in the pictures provided below.

Yi-Ju Lien (Environmental Engineer) refined her work on the Hydro Energy Exploration and Open Source DIY Dam Design for Water Retention, Pond and Lake Creation, etc. tutorials. She reviewed the work on the sustainable parking lot and pavement design and gained a better understanding of the current plan for the earthbag village, which helped her grasp the overall project context. The review further allowed her to consider the project’s potential for stormwater management. These open source energy contributors are a fundamental element of One Community’s open-source approach, which is dedicated to creating patterns of positive change. Below is a collage of this work.

HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION PROGRESS

One Community is creating patterns of positive change 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 creating patterns of positive change: How to use the Education for Life Program

This week, Apoorv Pandey (Mechanical Engineer) continued helping with the structural engineering details for the Ultimate Classroom part of the Highest Good education component. He continued working on the final draft of the Structural Engineering Report, focusing on the calculations and analysis section and the drawings in the AutoCAD file. He researched ways to simplify the explanation of technical tables, such as the static check table and the beam force detail summary, to make the content more accessible to a layperson. Given the complexity of the results, he sought assistance from Jae to help complete the report. Additionally, Apoorv is reworking the formatting of certain sections and referencing other published materials on One Community’s website to guide his work. The One Community model of combining forward-thinking education with sustainably built classrooms like this is an excellent example of creating patterns of positive change. This approach exemplifies creating patterns of positive change by creating environments fostering collaboration and innovation. See the collage below for his work.

Brian Mwoyowatidi (Graduate Structural Engineer) continued helping with the footer, foundation, and flooring engineering details for the Ultimate Classroom part of the Highest Good education component. He focused on the Footers section of the Engineering Report and Tutorial, adding images illustrating footer design considerations based on ACI 318-19. He also included a new video section outlining the drainage and waterproofing installation process for use during the construction phase of the Ultimate Classroom. In the reinforcement section, he added an image to visually support footing reinforcement as typically assembled on-site. Brian completed the final integration of feedback, adding backup links to Dropbox for the AutoCAD plans covering the footer, foundation, and flooring systems, and he completed the final proofreading of the report and tutorial. The One Community model of combining forward-thinking education with sustainably built classrooms like this is an excellent example of creating patterns of positive change. This approach exemplifies creating patterns of positive change by creating environments fostering collaboration and innovation. See the collage below for his work.

Ritu Damani (Graphic Designer) helped by finishing another revision of the Ultimate Classroom overview. She concluded her work on the ultimate classroom project layout task based on feedback, correcting errors, and implementing layout changes as well as creating a few more social media images and rectifying the previous one. She also created a volunteer announcement for herself that is to be published. This approach exemplifies creating patterns of positive change by creating environments fostering collaboration and innovation. See the collage below for his work.

HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY PROGRESS

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

- - Read the Highest Good society overview: Highest Good Society
  - Learn about the model for fulfilled living and sharing and creating patterns of positive change: 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 58 hours managing One Community’s volunteer-work review not included above, emails, social media accounts, web development, new bug identification and bug-fix integration for the Highest Good Network software, and interviewing and getting set up new volunteer team members. They also shot and incorporated the video above that talks about creating patterns of positive change and how creating patterns of positive change is a foundation of the bigger picture of everything One Community is doing. The image below shows some of this work.

Anoushka Hazari (Data Analyst) continued working on code for automating and simplifying the Highest Good Network software promotion process. This week she focused on implementing the code for Slack integration, specifically working on automating notifications and real-time updates for team channels. The initial steps involved addressing challenges with the ID and `gspread` imports in the code. Additionally, she spent time reviewing Google videos related to importing the Slack API, although the time spent on this task was not logged before proceeding to write the actual code. This work helps One Community’s mission of creating patterns of positive change and reinforces our commitment to creating patterns of positive change. The following images show his work for the week.

Aravind Yuvraj (Cyber Security Professional) continued helping with the One Community website and Highest Good Network software stability and security. This week he focused on obtaining the necessary backend files to support hosting on an alternative platform, which included reviewing files within Azure. Efforts continued in Azure’s database, concentrating on creating and saving backups. Site stability for One Community Global was monitored, alongside work for transitioning the HGN site from Azure to a different hosting platform. Additionally, he checked for general site stability monitoring, and further checks were performed on HGN for the upcoming transfer. This work helps One Community’s mission of creating patterns of positive change and reinforces our commitment to creating patterns of positive change. The following images show his work for the week.

Christopher Powell (Grant Writer) joined the team and began helping with grant writing as a source of funding. This week, he had an in-depth discussion with Jae to gain a deeper understanding of One Community’s goals, functions, and the project’s current status. He worked extensively on the template document, adding notes and questions, and developed an initial strategy for determining priorities and the approach to take moving forward. Christopher also reviewed the website and several key documents to gain deeper insight into One Community’s internal operations and long-term vision. This work helps One Community’s mission of creating patterns of positive change and reinforces our commitment to creating patterns of positive change. The following images show his work for the week.

Feras Rehman (Data Analyst) continued working on developing One Community’s Mastodon account and strategy. He also managed his part of the One Community Updates Blog and reviewed Rahul’s work, providing feedback on identified errors. Five additional posts for Mastodon were scheduled on Buffer the following week, leading to a threefold increase in post reach through optimized hashtag selection and refined post structuring. The weekly summary was completed, and images were added to supplement the content. This work helps One Community’s mission of creating patterns of positive change and reinforces our commitment to creating patterns of positive change. The following images show his work for the week.

Gavin Burk (Project Manager) continued to lead the tech team in addressing website and Highest Good Network software issues. This week he researched sustainable building methods and permitting procedures to identify key considerations for obtaining permits and began drafting a list of items to include on the webpage. He also worked with the team to establish new priorities for website improvements and created an action item list to clarify responsibilities across team members. This work helps One Community’s mission of creating patterns of positive change and reinforces our commitment to creating patterns of positive change. The following images show his work for the week.

Praneeth Kruthiventi (Volunteer Data Analyst) continued helping manager the One Community Google Ads campaigns. This week’s focus was addressing issues with the active Google Ads campaigns and optimized keywords and descriptions. He completed his study of Google Analytics using instructional materials provided in a shared document and completed the Google Analytics certification. Additionally, he submitted his photo and bio for the One Community collaboration page. This work supports One Community’s mission and reinforces our commitment to creating patterns of positive change. The images below showcase his work for the week.

Rahul Bavanandan (Data Analyst) continued working on several key projects within the Highest Good Network software, One Community’s Reddit presence, and administration. For the HGN Phase 2 Evolution, he concentrated on translating Figma designs into the Phase 2 dashboard, aiming for consistency with the Phase 1 interface. His marketing efforts included building a presence on Reddit, where he engaged in relevant subreddit conversations to strengthen his standing and prepare for sharing content related to One Community. Additionally, he contributed to the weekly update by curating content, adding summaries and photo collages to the website, and reviewing submissions from team members to ensure alignment with organizational standards and enhance the quality of posted materials. This work supports One Community’s mission and reinforces our commitment to creating patterns of positive change. The images below showcase his work for the week.

Shireen Kayal (Humanitarian Program Developer & Data Manager) continued her work on branding graphics for all of One Community. This week she created new graphics for both the Highest Good Food Page and the For The Highest Good of All^® philosophy page. Additionally, she designed eleven infographics intended for social media use and to accompany longer text on the website, making the information more accessible and visually appealing. This work supports One Community’s mission and reinforces our commitment to creating patterns of positive change. The images below showcase her work for the week.

Shrinivas Patil (Software Engineer) completed his blog 607 and submitted individual feedback for each member of Team Moonfall. He reviewed the contributions of two other admins, providing them feedback on their summaries, images, and video submissions, and assisted Sara in tracking feedback on the admin feedback spreadsheet. He also monitored the HGN PR reviews tracking sheet, identifying urgent and high-priority tasks, marking completed and raised PRs ready for review. Additionally, he followed up with team members on Slack regarding their progress on specific PRs, integrating updates into the tracking spreadsheet. This work supports One Community’s mission and reinforces our commitment to creating patterns of positive change. The images below showcase his work for the week.

Venkata Jaya Pavan Naru (Volunteer Network And Cybersecurity Engineer) continued helping with the One Community website and Highest Good Network software stability and security. This week he adjusted PHP settings, verified active plugins, and optimized website speed through PHP modifications and web maintenance. They checked for unnecessary plugins, cleared the database cache, and conducted speed tests. Additionally, they contacted Bluehost support for performance improvements and collaborated to implement recommendations from the performance summary. They also addressed a new cybersecurity task with Bluehost’s guidance. This work supports One Community’s mission and reinforces our commitment to creating patterns of positive change. The images below showcase his work for the week.

Yash Shah (Data Analyst and Team Administrator) continued his admin work and managing the social architecture component of the Highest Good Network software. This week he completed all points for Deliverable 0, identifying the available pages for development. He conducted a weekly call, introducing a new team member to ongoing processes and tasks. Additionally, he created sub-items for deliverables and added Deliverable 0 to facilitate access and navigation within the Community Activities Portal, added and modified images to the HGN Phase3 documentation, and added descriptions to some of the images to make it clear what the content relates to. He also created a blog entry for Dev Dynasty, organized project folders for the week, and provided feedback. This work supports One Community’s mission and reinforces our commitment to creating patterns of positive change. The images below showcase his work for the week.

ADMINISTRATION TEAM A-O

The Administration Team’s summary, covering their work administrating and managing most of One Community’s ongoing process for creating patterns of positive change was managed by Muhammad Huzaifah (Administrative Assistant) and includes Akilan Kumaran (Data Analyst), Durgeshwari Naikwade (Data Analyst), Jessica Fairbanks (Administrative Assistant), Michael Juma (Administrative Assistant), Kishan Sivakumar (Administrative Assistant and Software Team Manager), Jibin Joby (Data Analyst), Vishnu Murali (Data Analyst), Namra Patel (Volunteer Data Analyst), and Olawunmi “Ola” Ijisesan (Administrative and Management Support). This week, Akilan followed up on the weekly summary and tested bugs in the development environment to ensure proper functionality. He and his team also secured Slack access to collaborate on Google Analytics and Google AdWords for the One Community site. Namra focused on website maintenance and administrative tasks, updating blog pages, recovering lost work on Blog 606, and researching hosting providers for site migration. She met with Gavin to discuss migration progress and created a summary report of team contributions, creating patterns of positive change through her detailed and proactive approach. Durgeshwari created LinkedIn social media posts, coordinated interview scheduling, conducted analytics research, and contributed to the Binary Brigade for One Community’s Weekly Progress Update #606. Jessica collaborated with Syahrina on menu implementation tutorials, integrate Highest Good Food into small-scale organizations, conducted research, and completed her weekly administrative tasks. Jibin reviewed his team’s work, provided feedback, developed his Google Analytics skills, and focused on improving performance metrics. Kishan performed senior admin duties, reviewed volunteer documents, tracked progress, addressed comments, and completed assigned SEO tasks, including revisiting optimized pages based on peer feedback. Michael reviewed Google AdWords strategies, revisited a concept document, and conducted extensive research on the Google AdWords account creation process and keyword optimization. Ola handled PR review work, addressed comments, monitored PR team oversight, scheduled Pinterest appointments, and resized images for upload. Vishnu prepared metrics for reporting within the Google Analytics team, explored GA4 for SEO optimization, participated in team meetings to clarify task divisions, and reviewed weekly summaries for accuracy. One Community’s model for creating patterns of positive change includes developing and maintaining a supportive administration team like this. You can see the work for the team in the image below, showcasing our commitment to creating patterns of positive change.

ADMINISTRATION TEAM R-Z

The Administration Team’s summary, covering their work administrating and managing most of One Community’s ongoing process for creating patterns of positive change was managed by Sneka Vetriappan (Data Analyst) and includes Ratna Meena Shivakumar (Data Analyst and Admin), Saumit Chinchkhandi (Administrative Assistant and Software Engineer), T R Samarth Urs (Data Analyst), and Zuqi Li (Administrative Assistant and Economic Analyst). This week, Ratna focused on preparing the weekly summary and creating collages for blog posts featuring members from the Education, Core Team, and Highest Good Society groups. She also updated and reviewed blogs for SEO improvements, checking formatting, refining SEO scores, and enhancing One Community’s Avatar Page. Ratna scheduled posts for One Community’s Facebook and Instagram pages and reviewed about 200 blogs, reaching Blog #500, particularly working on AI Music tasks. Riddhisha, meanwhile, optimized SEO and keywords for blog #607 and developed a video tutorial for keyword integration using Loom. She researched GA4, held weekly meetings, assigned tasks to the team, and prepared two setup instruction documents for GA4 integration with WordPress. Through all their efforts, they are creating patterns of positive change, building momentum for continuous improvement and impact. Saumit completed frontend testing for multiple pull requests, collaborating with developers on Slack to address PR conflicts. He also scheduled and handled a software team interview, updating the hiring spreadsheet, and reviewed pull requests from volunteers whose names ranged from L to Sg. Additionally, he created a team summary and collage on his WordPress page, and reviewed Nidhi Mange’s work on WordPress, offering corrections. Sneka contributed by creating and attaching weekly summaries, supporting images, and reviewing entries for the OC Administration project. She provided feedback on time logs, blog posts, and team comments, ensuring accuracy, and also made updates to the SEO page and followed up on teammate comments to maintain project progress. One Community’s model for creating patterns of positive change includes developing and maintaining a supportive administration team like this. You can see the work for the team in the image below, showcasing our commitment to creating patterns of positive change.

GRAPHIC DESIGN TEAM

The Graphic Design Team’s summary was managed by Zuqi Li (Administrative Assistant and Economic Analyst) and included Anusha Tariq (Graphic Designer), Aurora Juang (Graphic Designer), Junyuan Liu (Graphic Designer, UI/UX Designer) and Jaime Yao (Creative Technologist), covering their work on graphic designs for creating patterns of positive change. This week, Anusha enhanced visual assets by redesigning previously created images in Photoshop, adjusting dimensions to align with platform specifications. She created a new social media design selected from a predefined list and completed SEO optimization for previously uploaded announcement images. Anusha also reviewed all images, making necessary corrections for consistency and quality. Aurora finalized the brand book design, including templates for the contact list, brand guidelines, and inner pages. She reviewed email and business card layouts, submitted them to Jae for feedback, and made adjustments as needed. Following tutorials, Aurora designed bio images for One Community’s contributor list and photoshopped web content for individual volunteers, then created social media posts using Facebook templates. Jaime developed visuals based on themes like “By making conscious choices, we can protect our planet for future generations” and “Empowering communities, inspiring change.” He explored concepts using poker cards, chess, and mazes to illustrate the impact of choices on sustainability and focused on visuals of wind power and tree planting to represent community-driven change for environmental restoration. Junyuan worked on social media content and then shifted focus to analyzing feedback on the HGN Phase 3 Figma project, making adjustments to improve the visual representation of customizable elements on the event page for organizers, creating patterns of positive change through collaborative design and impactful visuals. He updated images and text in the document to clarify content representations. See the Highest Good Society pages for more on how this contributes to creating patterns of positive change. See the collage below to view some of their work.

HIGHEST GOOD NETWORK PROGRESS

One Community is creating patterns of positive change 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 their work on the Highest Good Network PRs testing, confirming the fixed PRs and resolving several issues. They identified that the bug with deleted accounts is still showing in WBS tasks, labeled “Make delete function fully remove people,” and remains unresolved. They also logged 6 hours of tangible time for “CoreTeam TesterAgain” to test hours accumulation over 5 blue squares. This account already has 5 blue squares, and the missing summary report should generate the 6th blue square, adding 1 extra hour to the required hours for the core team. They referenced the bug report for “Core Team member’s additional hours should be processed properly.” Additionally, they reviewed pages 1-25 of the “Highest Good Network (HGN) User’s Manual,” updating images, providing comments, suggesting restructuring sections, and making necessary text updates. We continue to focus on creating patterns of positive change through iterative improvements and user-centric solutions. See the Highest Good Society and Highest Good Network pages for more on how this relates to creating patterns of positive change. The collage below shows some of their work.

ALPHA SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT TEAM

The Alpha Team’s summary, covering their work on the Highest Good Network software software was managed by Lin Khant Htel (Frontend Software Developer) and includes (Software Engineer) Anand Seshadri, Carlos Gomez (Full-Stack Software Developer), Nanguan Lin (Software Developer), Rupa Rajesh Bhatia (Software Engineer), and Sheetal Mangate (Software Engineer). The Highest Good Network software is how we will manage and measure our processes for creating patterns of positive change across our social architecture, construction, production, and maintenance processes. This week, Lin reviewed and approved PR #2852, learning about the codebase and running all tests locally with successful results, and reviewed the weekly summaries, photos, and videos submitted by his Alpha team members. Anand focused on testing and reviewing multiple PRs, including PR 2831, where he confirmed fixes to text overflow and delete button alignment issues in dark and light modes; PR 2708, ensuring correct functionality in the Teams section with the assign team button tooltip at smaller resolutions and members modal display; PR 2855, which included improvements to the Project Report Pie Chart with a new toggle switch and selection options for individual or all members; and PR 2817, where a new button was added to filter and display paused tasks with updated filter logic, styling, and layout alignment, creating patterns of positive change that enhance team collaboration and project outcomes. Carlos collaborated with Jae on the team hours display report page, completing a feature that allows admin users to toggle between viewing individual, multiple, or combined member values, and further refined the UI by centering the toggle button and values around the foot chart. Jae approved the finalized work, and Carlos submitted PR F#2855; he also engaged in discussions with Howard Miao to assist on a time log submission task. Nanguan focused on fixing linting issues in the report component, spending approximately three hours on an incomplete refactor that encountered unresolved import path issues and function component naming errors. Rupa developed form page 6 in the HGN software, setting up navigation with React Router and integrating a responsive, reusable form component using Flexbox and media queries to ensure adaptability across screen sizes. She handled state management with React hooks, managing form validation and error handling for improved usability, and completed management training to align workflows with Lin’s guidance. Sheetal joined the development team, focusing on writing unit test cases, beginning with a study of the HGN Unit Testing Guide, where she gained insights into the significance of unit testing, creating test cases for a login form, and using the React Testing Library. Together, they are creating patterns of positive change by enhancing the software’s functionality, usability, and overall quality. She reviewed test cases submitted by other developers to learn best practices and continued learning how Redux integrates with React as part of her ongoing process. See the Highest Good Society and Highest Good Network pages for more on how this relates to creating patterns of positive change. 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 Vijay Anand Pandian (Full Stack Software Engineer) and includes Aaryaneil Nimbalkar (Software Developer), Anirudh Sampath Kumar (Software Developer), Ashish Nagaraju (Software Engineer), Ashmita Pandey (Software Engineer), Deepthi Kannan (Software Engineer), Geeta Matkar (Software Engineer), Huijie Liu (Software Engineer), Sai Venkatesh Voruganti (Volunteer Software Engineer), Sandhya Adavikolanu (Software Developer), Sriram Seelamneni (Software Engineer), Xiaolu Li (Software Engineer) and Ziyu Chu (Volunteer Software Engineer). The Highest Good Network software is how we’ll be managing and objectively measuring our process for creating patterns of positive change through our social architecture, construction, production, and maintenance processes.

This week, Aaryaneil completed reports on changes in PR 972, PR 1106, and PR 1105, highlighting their impact and implementation. He tested and reviewed several pull requests, including Ajay’s WBS title sort (#2849), Sharadha’s dropdown fix (#2848), lint fixes (#2847, #2846), and Rishitha’s team code updates (#2845). He also reviewed Nikita’s member list fix (#2854), Xiaolu’s unit test (#2852), and Gmon’s team page update (#2850). Backend testing covered Shreya’s core team hours fix (#1141), Ashish’s team report update (#1140), and Jatin’s backend form development (#1139). Anirudh reviewed and tested 11 pull requests: #2827, #2832, #2833, #2838, #2840, #2841, #2843, #2844, #2845, #2846, and #2847. His work involved assessing code quality, verifying the functionality of new and modified features, and ensuring compatibility with the project’s existing components. Anirudh identified issues affecting user experience and tested updates for consistency and performance in line with project standards. He also provided feedback to contributors to refine implementation details and address areas needing improvement, contributing to the application’s overall usability and stability. Through his contributions, Anirudh is consistently creating patterns of positive change, fostering improvements in both the technical and user experience aspects of the project.

Ashish started work on issue 24 related to the User Profile Component, a feature initially developed by another team member but reported to have ongoing problems by several users. He investigated the issue, aiming to replicate it in the development environment, but faced challenges reproducing it locally. Ashish proceeded to review the codebase to pinpoint possible causes of the problem. Ashmita focused on improving code quality within the `src/components/EmailSubscribeForm` directory of the HighestGoodNetworkApp. She used ESLint and other automated code formatting tools to address multiple linting errors and enhance the maintainability and consistency of the component files throughout the codebase. The files updated include `.eslintignore` and `src/components/EmailSubscribeForm/index.js`. Deepthi worked on resolving Git conflicts in PR 2838 to enable its merge into the development branch. She also created PR 2842 to address layout issues with earned dates on featured badges for screens below 1025px and worked on improving loading responsiveness related to this issue. Additionally, she focused on progressing several other open PRs, making necessary adjustments and refinements to prepare them for merging, creating patterns of positive change throughout the development process.

Geeta tested both the frontend and backend GitHub repositories to verify functionality across the codebase. She reviewed pull requests, including PR 2822, PR 2824, PR 2830, PR 2831, PR 2832, PR 2843, PR 2844, PR 2846, PR 2847, and PR 2849, focusing on feature checks and fixes. Her tasks included verifying search bar responsiveness, ensuring correct modal background display from the teams page, checking unit tests for user permissions, and confirming the rendering of pie charts, along with other updates aimed at validating integration and identifying potential issues. By performing these tasks, Geeta contributed to creating patterns of positive change, ensuring a seamless user experience and strengthening the overall codebase. Huijie focused on refining the bell notification functionality for the meeting scheduling feature, enhancing the logic for retrieving and displaying meeting information as notifications. She also implemented a “Mark as Read” feature to improve notification management. Additionally, she claimed a new task involving the development of a section within a form page. Sai resolved a React warning related to state updates on unmounted components, which can cause memory leaks if asynchronous tasks update the component state after its removal from the DOM. He identified the issue within an asynchronous function, `doSubmit`, which awaited a call to `this.props.loginUser` and could still attempt a `setState` call even after the component was unmounted. To address this, Sai introduced a flag named `_isMounted` to track the component’s mounting status, setting it to `true` in `componentDidMount` and to `false` in `componentWillUnmount`. He then modified `doSubmit` to use this flag, ensuring that state updates were only made when the component was still mounted, effectively preventing `setState` calls on unmounted components and reducing the risk of memory leaks. Sandhya enhanced the Total Organization Summary dashboard for the HGN Software Development project. She developed a Task Completed Bar Chart using Recharts, integrated it with Redux for state management, and ensured responsive design for various screen sizes. Sandhya also implemented backend data integration with actions like `getAllUsersTimeEntries`, added PDF export via jsPDF, and included the Web Share API for easy data sharing. In the broader TotalOrgSummary component, she created utility functions for time aggregation and added role-based access controls. Her testing focused on data accuracy, responsiveness, and functionality across different devices and browsers, creating patterns of positive change in the way the team approached development.

Sriram focused on reviewing and resolving merge conflicts in an older pull request to ensure it functions as expected within the codebase. He addressed feedback received on previous pull requests and fixed the raised issues. He then progressed on a new assigned task and evaluated code and implemented necessary changes then pushed the updated code with resolved conflicts. Vijay reviewed and contributed to several updates in the HGN Software Development project. He reviewed a PR that addressed an issue with saving featured badges in user profiles (PR #2825) and another that fixed a loading icon issue when adding new projects (PR #2804). He also reviewed a fix for a missing link in the WBSItem component that was causing reset issues (PR #2807). Additional reviews included a UI adjustment in the Teams Table (PR #2838), a fix for unnecessary page refresh when pressing Enter on the badge management page (PR #2830), and a PR introducing tests for the Teams component (PR #2788). Vijay also completed the unit testing implementation for the handleSuccessReducer file (PR #2844). Xiaolu completed the unit tests for the BlueSquaresTable/BlueSquareTable.jsx component, testing conditions for the editable toggle, dark mode, handleUserProfile, and handleBlueSquare. Xiaolu also submitted a PR titled “Xiaolu finish the unit test for BlueSquaresTable #2852.” Screenshots of the code and the weekly summary video were uploaded to the designated Dropbox folder for review. Ziyu began working on unit testing tasks, creating patterns of positive change within the team’s development process. She selected the task of writing unit tests for a component, TimeOffRequestsTable/ TimeOffRequestsTable.jsx, and chose five test cases to evaluate the component’s structure, functionality, and hooks. She wrote specific test code for each case; however, some tests did not pass during execution. See the Highest Good Society and Highest Good Network pages for more on how this relates to creating patterns of positive change. 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 Cillian Ren (Software Engineer) and Ramakrishna Aruva (Software Engineer). The Highest Good Network software is how we’ll be managing and objectively measuring our process for creating patterns of positive change through our social architecture, construction, production, and maintenance processes. This week, Cillian tackled an issue in the Highest Good Network project where the deactivation date was not displaying correctly on the profile page. The “End Date” field was showing “Invalid date” when users clicked the button to deactivate an account. Cillian examined the code handling account status changes and reviewed various sections of the codebase to trace the root of the issue. He prepared adjustments to ensure the “End Date” field would display accurately upon resolving the problem. Meanwhile, Ramakrishna worked on identifying the necessary permissions for accessing the reports icon, utilizing an existing permissions method to retrieve and validate access rights to determine if the icon should be displayed. He developed a method that redirects to the designated user’s reports upon invocation and confirmed its functionality through testing. Additionally, Ramakrishna focused on creating patterns of positive change, selecting and placing appropriate icons from Font Awesome to meet project requirements. Jingyi focused on implementing and troubleshooting a modal designed to prompt users for confirmation when logging intangible time that they wish to convert to tangible. She refined the modal trigger to activate only when attempting to mark time as tangible, integrated three distinct response options into the modal, and styled each button to appear in a single row for a cleaner presentation. This work aimed to enhance usability and ensure compliance with time tracking processes. See the Highest Good Society and the Highest Good Network pages to learn more on how their work contributes to creating patterns of positive change. See below to view images of their work.

CODE CRAFTERS SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT TEAM

The Code Crafters Team summary, covering their work on the Highest Good Network software, was managed by Akilan Kumaran (Software Engineer) and includes Dhrumil Dhimantkumar Shah (Software Engineer), Pavan Swaroop Lebakula (Software Engineer), Summit Kaushal (Backend Software Developer), Swaroop Udgaonkar (Software Engineer), Muzammil Moahmmed (Software Engineer) and Anoushka Gupta (Software Engineer). The Highest Good Network software is how we will manage and measure our processes for creating patterns of positive change across our social architecture, construction, production, and maintenance processes. This week, Swaroop focused on incorporating recent code updates and made adjustments to optimize the display of teams and projects on smaller screens, evaluating user-friendliness. In his role as a manager-in-training, he reviewed his team’s work, including images, videos, and summaries, and followed up with Denish and Muzammil on the team channel. Pavan worked on implementing bell icon functionality to retrieve data but faced technical limitations and sought assistance from Jae, using the waiting period to review pull requests. Summit met with the developer working on the Lead Team badge, addressed their questions, and created support videos. Summit reviewed the frontend code for the “volunteer time” section, analyzed tangible hours data, and explored merging data arrays to calculate maximum hours, identifying the need to adjust earned Dates for integrating tangible hours from Time Entries. Anoushka Gupta worked on fixing the “Most Hours in a Week” badge bug, using MongoDB and Postman, generating login and authorization tokens, adding logging statements, and updating the “checkMostHrsWeek” function logic to improve functionality, creating patterns of positive change in the process. Dhrumil focused on ensuring the “Export Featured” button remains disabled when no badges are featured, identified additional issues during the previous pull request, and worked with his manager to complete the necessary fixes. Muzammil addressed issue 104 related to category inconsistencies in the ‘create project’ feature under the Profile > Projects tab, traced the root cause through past pull requests, and is nearing completion of the fix. This work helps One Community’s mission of creating patterns of positive change. The collage below shows the work for this week.

DEV DYNASTY SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT TEAM

The Dev Dynasty Team’s summary, covering their work on the Highest Good Network software, was managed by Yash Shah (Data Analyst and Team Administrator) and includes Harsh Bodgal (Software Engineer), Ajay Kumar Reddy (Software Engineer), Crystal Low (Software Engineer), Lucy Xi (Software Engineer), Jatin Agrawal (Software Engineer), Manikrishna Sanganabatla (Software Engineer), Mrinalini Raghavendran (Software Engineer), Nandini Yelmela (Software Engineer), Sailavanya Narthu (Software Engineer), Shreya Vithala (Software Engineer), Nikita Kolla (Full Stack Developer), Nishita Gudiniye (Software Engineer) and Varun Elangovan (Software Engineer). The Highest Good Network software is how we’ll manage and objectively measure our process for creating patterns of positive change through our social architecture, construction, production, and maintenance processes. This Week, Ajay focused on enhancing the Work Breakdown Structure (WBS) and Project pages by improving both the user interface and functionality. His updates included centering titles, refining sorting options, and applying formatting changes for consistency across related pages. He also updated components and test files to incorporate these improvements. Fangle concentrated on backend development for Instagram posting APIs, specifically writing and testing code for image posting. She joined discussions about task APIs and will continue refining features like post scheduling in the weeks to come. Jatin made progress on resolving an invisible toggle permission bug, addressing this issue through a pull request. He responded to review feedback and updated test cases to ensure they aligned with the updated functionality. Manikrishna focused on reviewing many pull requests, ranging from PRs #2832 to #2849, while also searching for additional bugs in the application. In addition, he completed a bio for publication and held a feature discussion call with his manager, creating patterns of positive change through his work in reviewing and refining key processes. Mrinalini resolved a critical timelog issue within the Timelog.jsx component, updated the Application Page design document based on feedback, and began work on a new task from the bugs and functionalities document. She confirmed that the timelog fix worked across scenarios and submitted a pull request with the changes. Nandini addressed various issues in the HGN Software Development project, including an error with the react-collapsible module and a TypeError in the breadcrumbs.ts file. She worked to handle undefined props in multiple components and tested changes across both dark and light modes to ensure stability. Nikita raised pull requests for the “input components for Google Form replacement” and “fix incomplete members list when all-time is selected” tasks. She also began working on fixing a Badge Categories count and assignment issue, studying the badge codebase to identify relevant problem areas. Nishita focused on the Team Stats – Comparison Needed component, analyzing metrics related to team dynamics and reviewing requirements to ensure accurate data representation. Sailavanya worked on resolving issues in the sailavanya_fix_blank_page_issue_fresh branch, tackling validation problems, state update warnings, and nesting errors. She also fixed a bug that caused a blank page when selecting badges in the User Profile and updated dependencies to ensure smooth functionality. In all these tasks, the team was focused on creating patterns of positive change, ensuring a smooth and consistent user experience across the project. Shreya worked on enhancing the responsiveness of the header image and text on smaller screens and began addressing an issue where new users were not visible in the User Management section after a page refresh. She analyzed the relevant code files and documented her findings for future improvements. Lastly, Varun transitioned to the development team “devdynasty.” He completed his onboarding process, held discussions with his manager regarding upcoming tasks, familiarized himself with the team’s codebase, and started validating pull requests related to the backend implementation of the Total Org Summary feature. Together, they are creating patterns of positive change, driving progress and ensuring stability in the project. See the Highest Good Society and Highest Good Network pages for more on how this relates to creating patterns of positive change. View some of the team’s work in the collage below.

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 Aishwarya Ramesh (Software Engineer), Haoqing Zhu (Software Engineer), Howie Miao (Software Engineer), Rahul Trivedi (Software Developer), Reina Takahara (Software Developer), and Strallia Chao (Software Engineer). The Highest Good Network software is how we’ll manage and objectively measure our process for creating patterns of positive change through our social architecture, construction, production, and maintenance processes. This week, Aishwarya implemented the trophy icon display for anniversaries on the weekly report summaries page, handling both frontend and backend components. Christy focused on unit testing and data visualization, including testing multiple pull requests and contributing to the development of a Project Task Chart using D3.js within the ProjectTask component. Haoqing, recently promoted to developer, reviewed a total of 10 pull requests, requesting changes on four and approving six, while also fixing a bug related to People Report formatting. Howie addressed several hotfixes, such as adjustments to the teams scrollbar for better accessibility, adding a double confirmation step for task submissions, and reviewing a system date bug for future resolution. Rahul developed the initial page of the HGN Form for Developers. Reina worked on integrating backend and frontend updates, completing a feature to retrieve, add, and delete tag information. Strallia continued building backend logic for the Hours Completed chart on the Total Org Summary page, focusing on refining calculations. See the Highest Good Society and Highest Good Network pages for more on how this relates to creating patterns of positive change. See the collage below to view the team’s work this week.

LUCKY STAR SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT TEAM

The Lucky Star Team’s summary, covering their work on the Highest Good Network software, was managed by Anne Zhang (Software Engineer) and includes contributions from Chetan Sunku (Software Engineer), Koushica Bosadi Ulaganathan (Software Engineer), Nikhitha Kalinga (Software Engineer), T R Samarth Urs (Data Analyst) ,Vaibhavi Madhav Deshpande (Software Engineer), and Ziyan Wang (Software Engineer). The Highest Good Network software is how we will manage and measure our processes for creating patterns of positive change across our social architecture, construction, production, and maintenance processes. This week, Chetan continued work on the dashboard time update issue, focusing on how logged time is displayed without requiring a page reload. Koushica reviewed multiple pull requests for the HighestGoodNetworkApp, approving PR #2823 and assessing PR #2760’s responsiveness updates, with improvements expected in a forthcoming PR. She also began a new task, creating a branch for displaying a Google Docs symbol, analyzing code, and implementing initial changes. Nikhitha did her part creating patterns of positive change as she focused on addressing user permission bugs related to toggling active and inactive statuses on the Profile and User Management pages, implementing changes in Permissions Management, resolving conflicts, and testing updates. Samarth managed a PR review team, assessing review quality, providing feedback on each document, and summarizing the team’s work in a blog post, which he submitted along with a collage of team images. Vaibhavi reviewed the HGN Phase III: Social Architecture Tracking and Management System Outline, studying its functionalities and user roles within the Highest Good Network framework and drafting related subtasks. Ziyan completed the “146 Optimize the app for Safari” task, reviewing console and compatibility issues to ensure app functionality across the Dashboard, Profile, Task, Password, and Location sections in both light and dark modes on Safari. Relevant images were uploaded to the Week 6 Dropbox folder. Anne addressed the member column filter bug in the ProjectTableHeader and Projects files, verifying the function for fetching backend data on active members. She also resolved merge conflicts from previous PRs, managed her team’s tasks, and reviewed team photos and videos for the weekly summaries. Through these efforts, the team is collectively creating patterns of positive change in the Highest Good Network, contributing to its ongoing growth and impact. Learn more about how the Highest Good Society and Highest Good Network will measure and assist in creating patterns of positive change in the Highest Good Network open source hub, See their work on the collage below.

MOONFALL SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT TEAM

The Moonfall Team’s summary, covering their work on the Highest Good Network software was managed by Satya Shanthi Tadiparthi (Team Manager), and includes Bhavya Prakash (Software Engineer), Calvin Liu (PR Team), Newell Newell (PR Team I-N), Nikhil Giri (Software Engineer), Rachana Zha (Software Engineer), Rishabh Nevatia (Software Engineer), Saurabh Shetty (Software Engineer), Shashank Kumar (Software Engineer), Swathi Dharma Sankaran (Software Engineer), Vedant Gandhi (Software Engineer), and Yili Sun (Software Engineer). The Highest Good Network software is how we will manage and measure our processes for creating patterns of positive change across our social architecture, construction, production, and maintenance processes. This week, Bhavya has collaborated with Summit to reproduce a bug and gain access to MongoDB, initiating debugging efforts by testing APIs in Postman. Creating patterns of positive change, she has verified responses to identify the root cause, which was eventually traced to a data retrieval limit issue in MongoDB; additional assistance was sought via Slack to troubleshoot. Calvin has focused on resolving Bug 16, which involved implementing a scrollable table in the inventory type list to limit the page’s height, while enhancing visual elements with alternating row colors, hover effects, padding, borders, and shadowing for improved usability. By creating patterns of positive change, Newell has optimized a community website’s database and achieved a loading time of 0.8 seconds. He has created a mockup for a new HGN app design, along with setting up monitoring tools. Nikil has completed reviews and tested several PRs. He has focused on responsiveness, UI consistency, and functionality. He has validated updates in PRs like 2838 for teams table responsiveness, 2840 for project name display, and 2843 for time log reloading, while ensuring all unit tests and dropdown visibility checks passed successfully. Rachana has delved into gzip compression research for Express.js and studied documentation and real-world applications to understand configuration settings. She has measured its impact on response size using tools like Postman, Chrome DevTools, and Google Lighthouse, while examining compatibility and CPU concerns for high-traffic servers. Rishabh has worked on advancing the material purchase approval feature and collaborated with a teammate to clarify requirements. He has refined frontend updates. Satya has reviewed and tested multiple PRs and included verifying unit tests for AddTeamsAutoComplete in PR 1914. She has addressed an issue with the TotalOrgSummary bar chart in PR 2713 and validated display changes in PR 2848. By taking ownership of these tasks, she is creating patterns of positive change. She has approved PRs related to Teams Modal UI and handleSuccessReducer; she also compiled a final proofread summary from team submissions. Shashank has completed Page 3 components based on Figma designs. Swathi has focused on PR 2789 and conducted tests on rendering, functionality, useEffect hooks, and edge cases. Also, she has implemented a hotfix to reduce a component jump during rendering. Vedant has resolved merge conflicts for PRs 2687 and 2708. He has modified PR 2821 for responsive summary sections and clarified task requirements with a teammate. Yili has addressed permissions and UI stability issues. She has fixed a popup error on the Profile page. She has removed unused functions, and improved layout consistency on the User Management page for various screen sizes. See the Highest Good Society and Highest Good Network pages for more on how this relates to creating patterns of positive change. Below is a collage for the team’s work:

REACTONAUTS SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT TEAM

The Reactonauts Team’s summary, covering their work on the Highest Good Network software, was managed by Vijeth Venkatesha (Software Engineer). It included Dhairya Mehta (Software Engineer), Gmon Kuzhiyanikkal (Software Engineer), Haoyue Wen (Software Engineer), Jinxiong You (Software Developer), Khushi Jain (Software Engineer), Mohan Gadde (Software Engineer), Nikhil Pittala (Software Engineer), Pallavi Thorat (Software Engineer), Peterson Rodrigues dos Santos (Full-Stack MERN Stack Developer), Rishitha Mamidala (Software Engineer), Saniya Farheen (Software Engineer) and Sharadha Shivakumar(Software Engineer). The Highest Good Network software is creating patterns of positive change across social architecture, construction, production, and maintenance processes. This week, the team made significant progress across multiple tasks. Dhairya addressed an issue with the user function in projects, improving the user discovery experience with an optimized sort and search function. Gmon completed his task of adding active/inactive team numbers, submitting PR 2850, and prepared screenshots and videos for review. Haoyue tackled merge conflicts, refined multiple pull requests, and began work on an FAQ feature. Jinxiong identified and fixed bugs in the HGN app, including a critical freezing issue, while reviewing several PRs. Khushi developed the “New Position Setup Page” mockup and started work on an auto-poster for Medium. Mohan worked on troubleshooting the project archive functionality, where he found and documented a freezing issue. Nikhil completed 12 pull request reviews, contributing to code quality and stability. Pallavi improved the User Management search function and fixed a dark mode display bug. Peterson enhanced search functionality on the User Management page, enabling full-name searches. Rishitha simplified user creation by removing the team code requirement and investigated a filtering issue on the project page. Saniya resolved a visibility bug on team member profiles and is investigating a dashboard issue. Sharadha fixed a dropdown issue with the Review button and began addressing a screen freeze in the Team Member Tasks section. Vijeth focused on bug hunting for Phases 1 and 2, supported team queries, and managed the team through meetings, updates, and submission oversight. his momentum showcases how the team’s efforts are creating patterns of positive change, driving innovation and cohesion across projects. See the Highest Good Society and the Highest Good Network pages to learn more on how their work contributes to creating patterns of positive change. See below to view images of their work.

SKYE SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT TEAM

This week Skye Team’s summary covering their work on the Highest Good Network software was managed by Rishabh Rao (Administrator) and Luis Arevalo (Software Engineer) and the team includes Abi Liu (Software Developer), Laura Cohen (Software Engineer), Sai Preetham (Full Stack Developer), Yao Wang (Software Engineer), and Zhimin Liang (Full Stack Developer). The Highest Good Network software supports creating patterns of positive change social architecture, construction, production, and maintenance processes. This week, Abi focused on refactoring the volunteer trends query, encountering unforeseen challenges that required extensive time exploring various query methods to improve data retrieval accuracy. He reviewed documentation in detail and debugged complex queries to meet project requirements, demonstrating creating patterns of positive change in his approach to problem-solving. Laura configured logic for the permission change modal to appear only for users with custom permissions and adjusted it to display correctly in dark mode. She also reviewed front-end code across the application to maintain UI consistency and locate supporting functions and utilities for the modal’s appearance. Yao continued working on backend API issues related to LinkedIn company posts, specifically addressing persistent 401 errors likely due to restrictions on the testing account. Yao reached out to LinkedIn for assistance, as login issues may contribute to these errors, and encountered LinkedIn service error code 65608, which may also relate to the restriction. Snehal completed modifications for a bug regarding project member deletion, updating members.jsx and member.jsx files and creating a branch named “Snehal_delete_0members_from_project” for these changes. She reviewed PR2673 to verify updates for archiving projects and setting them to inactive and planned to create a pull request for the bug fixes by Saturday. Through creating patterns of positive change, Snehal and the team are reinforcing structured problem-solving and collaboration. Zhimin explored different YouTube API methods, such as “Search” and “Channel,” and tested them using Postman. She started the initial backend code on her local computer, installed the necessary packages, created a file to initialize the YouTube API client, and defined a schema to store scheduled YouTube posts and planned to create a POST function and, if time allowed, set up routes and controller functions. Sai Preetham worked on resolving the “Name Overflow on Dashboard” issue within the HGN Software Development project by identifying the cause of the overflow affecting long names. He created a branch named “Sai_Preetham_Name_Overflow_On_Dashboard” and modified the JSX structure with partial CSS updates to improve styling, which helped mitigate some display issues, though additional work remains. See the Highest Good Society and the Highest Good Network pages to learn more on how their work contributes to creating patterns of positive change. He also completed weekly summary and Dropbox tasks related to this issue, documenting his progress and observations. See below for the work done by the group.

SOFTWARE PR REVIEW TEAM A-K

The PR Review Team’s summaries for team members’ names starting with A-K and covering their work on the Highest Good Network software was managed by Anoushka Hazari (Data Analyst). The Highest Good Network software is a foundation of what we’ll be using to measure our results for creating patterns of positive change. This week’s active members of this team were: Abdelmounaim Lallouache (Software Developer), Anjineyulu Annavarapu (Software Developer), Ajit Patil (Software Engineer), Ashrita Cherlapally (Software Engineer), Audrey Trinh (Software Engineer Intern), Carl Bebli (Software Engineer), Humera Naaz (Mern Developer), and Kurtis Ivey (Full Stack Developer). They reviewed all the Highest Good Network PRs (Pull Requests) shared in this week’s update. Learn more about how the Highest Good Network will measure and assist in creating patterns of positive change in the Highest Good Network open source hub. The collage below shows a compilation of the work from this team.

SOFTWARE PR REVIEW TEAM L-Sg

The PR Review Team’s summary for team members’ names starting with L-Sg and covering their work on the Highest Good Network software was managed by Saumit Chinchkhandi (Administrative Assistant and Software Engineer). The Highest Good Network software is a foundation of what we’ll be using to measure our results of creating patterns of positive change. This week’s active members of this team were: Muhideen Mustapha (Software Engineer), Nahiyan Ahmed (Full Stack Software Developer), Nathan Hoffman (Software Engineer), Rashmitha Kalliot Yadav (Software Engineer), and Rui Liu (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 and assists in creating patterns of positive change in the Highest Good Network open source hub. The collage below shows a compilation of the work from this team.

SOFTWARE PR REVIEW TEAM Sh-Z

The PR Review Team’s summary for team members’ names starting with Sh-Z and covering their work on the Highest Good Network software was managed by Olawunmi “Ola” Ijisesan (Administrative and Management Support) and Samarth Urs (Administrative Assistant and Data Analyst). The Highest Good Network software is a foundation of what we’ll be using to measure our results of creating patterns of positive change. This week’s active members of this team were: Supriya Sudini (MERN Stack Developer), Neeharika Koniki (Software Engineer, Developer), 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 will measure and assist in creating patterns of positive change in the Highest Good Network open source hub. The collage below shows a compilation of the work from this team.

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One Community Welcomes Yagyansh Maheshwari to the Engineering Team!

Posted on November 10, 2024 by One Community Hs

One Community welcomes Yagyansh Maheshwari to the Engineering Team as our newest Volunteer/Consultant!

Yagyansh has a strong background in mechanical engineering, specializing in product design, optimization, and robotics. With experience in leading multidisciplinary teams and working on innovative engineering projects, he excels at designing solutions that balance functionality and sustainability. Yagyansh is passionate about developing efficient engineering solutions that have a positive impact on the environment and society. As a member of the One Community Engineering Team, Yagyansh has helped in designing and optimizing Vermiculture designs in support of the long-term goals of the Highest Good Housing project.

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One Community Welcomes Sailavanya Narthu to the Software Development Team!

Posted on November 9, 2024 by One Community Hs

One Community welcomes Sailavanya Narthu to the Software Development Team as our newest Volunteer/Consultant!

Sailavanya is a skilled software engineer with around 2 years of experience specializing in full-stack development and machine learning. She has successfully developed and maintained scalable software applications using the MERN stack and Java for companies like Tata Consultancy Services and open-source projects with One Community. Sai is passionate about building innovative and efficient software solutions, leveraging cloud technologies like AWS and Azure, and continuously improving her skills in software engineering and data science. She actively contributes to various open-source projects and collaborates with global teams to ensure high-quality software delivery. As a member of the One Community team working on the Highest Good Network software, she has contributed significantly to enhancing the Highest Good Network app by implementing new features, managing environments, and adhering to best coding practices.

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One Community Welcomes Hritvik Mahajan to the Administration Team!

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One Community welcomes Hritvik Mahajan to the Administration Team as our newest Volunteer/Consultant!

Hritvik is an accomplished Data Analyst with over two years of experience in data analytics, cloud computing, and project management. He holds a master’s degree in Data Analytics from Northeastern University and has expertise in tools like Python, SQL, and data visualization platforms. Hritvik has a demonstrated ability to drive data-informed decision-making and streamline processes in dynamic environments. He leverages technology to develop innovative solutions, enhance operational efficiency, and integrate sustainability principles into data management and infrastructure. As a member of the One Community team, Hritvik has made significant contributions to managing PR reviews for the Highest Good Network software, conducting front-end testing, and shaping One Community’s social media strategy.

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One Community Welcomes Kyrene Flores to the Software Development Team!

Posted on November 7, 2024 by One Community Hs

One Community welcomes Kyrene Flores to the Software Development Team as our newest Volunteer/Consultant!

Kyrene brings over three years of diverse web development experience to the table. A dedicated team player, she thrives in collaborative environments, working closely with development teams to create intuitive and functional applications. As a member of the One Community Front-End Development team, Kyrene has effectively troubleshooted and debugged numerous React components, redesigning functionality to enhance both user experience and site performance of the Highest Good Network software. Her passion for Front End development drives her to continually elevate the quality of her work.

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