One Community welcomes Pavan Swaroop Lebakula to the Software and Development Team as our newest Volunteer/Consultant!

Pavan is an innovative Software Engineer with over 4 years of experience, passionate about solving complex problems and creating impactful solutions. He has a proven track record of collaborating with cross-functional teams to design, develop, and deliver cutting-edge products and services. Pavan is open-minded and eager to learn new technologies, leveraging them to their full potential in order to drive efficiency and innovation. As a member of the One Community team, Pavan is working on the Highest Good Network app and has reviewed numerous PRs, provided insightful improvements, and is currently focused on resolving UI bugs.

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One Community welcomes John Sullivan to the Compression Testing Team as our newest Volunteer/Consultant!

John has over 8 years of experience with managing team projects. From coordinating his Eagle Scout project to managing the 50 members in the American Institute of Chemical Engineers charter at his university, he is comfortable leading others to accomplish a common goal. His time as a Division 1 swimmer has given him great insight on the importance of time management and consistent effort to produce favorable results. He has also worked as an undergraduate research assistant, which has taught him how to form reasonable hypotheses, test them, and make the necessary adjustments when practicing the scientific method. As a member of the One Community team, John has been part of the Earthbag Village team testing the strength and reliability of Aircrete and has produced quantitative data associated with it.

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One Community welcomes Logeshwari Renu to the Software Development Team as our newest Volunteer/Consultant!

With over 8 years of experience, Logeshwari excels in Angular, React, .NET, and MS SQL Server. She holds a Bachelor’s degree in Production Engineering from the Madras Institute of Technology, Anna University. Logeshwari has successfully developed numerous Responsive Web Apps, managing the application development lifecycle and deploying to GCP cloud servers via CI/CD Tekton pipelines. Her notable work includes pilot projects for Geo Reference Asset Mapping of Government Water Supply Schemes using Google and Bing Maps. She has demonstrated her proficiency by creating complex T-SQL queries, including stored procedures, functions, views, and triggers in PostgreSQL. Logeshwari is an expert in developing optimized RESTful APIs using Node.js and MongoDB/ PostgreSQL, ensuring efficient data exchange with real-time data. As a dedicated contributor to the One Community Highest Good Network software, she has made significant contributions to the Permission Management, Team Location search and user profile pages. She efficiently handles hotfixes and has reviewed over 60 Pull Requests, ensuring high code quality and seamless integration. Logeshwari’s robust technical skills, dedication to excellence, and collaborative nature make her an invaluable asset to any team.

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One Community welcomes Yili Sun to the Software Development Team as our newest Volunteer/Consultant!

Yili is an accomplished software engineer with over 3 years of experience. She has developed multiple microservices using Java and Node.js, enhanced database read/write speeds by 20% through SQL performance optimizations, and played a pivotal role in launching IoT medical products that contributed to significant revenue growth. Additionally, Yili has a robust portfolio of full-stack projects, including developing an online shopping platform with cloud computing and implementing OAuth security flow. As a member of the One Community Highest Good Network software team, Yili has fixed several bugs, such as UI issues on the User Management Page and the Permissions Management info icons issue, demonstrating a commitment to improving user experience and functionality.

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At One Community, we are re-establishing abundant natural systems through sustainable approaches to food, energy, housing, education, economics, and social architecture. Created by an all-volunteer team, we are evolving sustainability into a self-replicating model that supports fulfilled living and global stewardship practices. By open sourcing and free sharing the complete process, we aim to create a global collaboration of teacher/demonstration hubs dedicated to regenerating our planet and doing everything for “The Highest Good of All“.

• Here’s our project overview
• Here’s our world-change methodology
  
• Here’s how this becomes self-replicating
• Here’s how we are open source and free-sharing all the do-it-yourself designs

OUR MAIN OPEN SOURCE HUBS

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One Community’s physical location will forward this movement as the first of many self-replicating teacher/demonstration communities, villages, and cities to be built around the world. This is the August 19th, 2024 edition (#596) of our weekly progress update detailing our team’s development and accomplishments:

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HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING PROGRESS

One Community is re-establishing abundant natural systems 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 how we are re-establishing abundant natural systems: 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, Joseph Osayande (Mechanical Engineer) continued helping finish the Vermiculture Toilet engineering and design details. The reference list in the document for the vermiculture bin maintenance report was cleaned up, and numbered references were added throughout the document. The finishing touches on the Unistrut stand were completed, including securing all bolts and screws to ensure the parts are fully secured and function as intended. Corner brackets were added to connect the struts, and the main brackets were added to connect the support structure to the chamber. Additionally, holders for the steel plate on the strut were installed, though the weight capacity is yet to be determined. This model aims to offer sustainable solutions that not only address waste processing but also enhance living standards, contributing to the model of re-establishing abundant natural systems. See below for some of the pictures related to this work.

Michaela Silva (Architect) continued working on finalizing the interior of the Earthbag Village 4-dome home design. Michaela created the lighting plan for the 4 Dome House and created the necessary sheets and views in the Revit model. She also developed a Revit titleblock family for use by all members of One Community working on Revit-based projects. Additionally, Michaela completed her bio paragraph and provided a picture for inclusion on the website. The Earthbag village is the first of 7 villages to be built as part of One Community’s open source model for re-establishing abundant natural systems. See her work in the collage below.

Yagyansh Maheshwari (Mechanical Engineer) also continued helping finish the Vermiculture Toilet engineering and design details. This week, Yagyansh worked on designing methods for efficiently dumping compost on the ground. He made modifications to the drawer and its materials in SolidWorks, incorporating L clamps and a mechanism to assist with emptying the drawer. He also explored various options for transferring the drawer to the dumping site, finalized wheels that met the required weight capacity, and performed torque calculations for tipping the drawer. The Earthbag Village is the first of 7 to be built as the housing component of One Community’s open source model for re-establishing abundant natural systems. See some of his work in the collage below.

AIRCRETE TEAM

The Aircrete Testing Team’s summary, covering their work on Aircrete Compression Testing was managed by John Sullivan (CBU Chemical Engineering Student) and includes Jonathan Crago (Civil Engineering Student), Preston Thompson (Civil Engineering Student), and Tad Matlock (Environmental Science Student). This week, Jonathan collaborated with his team to create additional aircrete cylinders and cement slurry cylinders, both with and without stucco fiberglass mesh. He also assisted in cleaning the lab and courtyard and recorded the data. The team secured more cement bags for upcoming tests. Preston and his team completed the production of all the aircrete samples needed for the summer, using a gas mixer to prepare approximately 18 samples of cement for the control group, now awaiting curing before testing. Tad reviewed and revised his previous work, reformatting and expanding the main spreadsheet for final compression testing data. He also wrote trial summaries and revised two introductory paragraphs to incorporate new information. Their work contributes to re-establishing abundant natural systems by improving building materials and sustainability practices.By improving the aircrete testing and production procedures, the team is re-establishing abundant natural systems for future developments. See below for some of the pictures related to this work.

EARTHBAG VILLAGE 4-DOME ROOF TEAM

The Earthbag Village 4-dome Roof Team was managed by Khushboo Parmar (Project Manager) and includes Karthik Pillai (Volunteer Mechanical Engineer) and Yusuf Thanawala (Structural Engineer). The Earthbag Village is the first of 7 villages creating One Community’s open source model for re-establishing abundant natural systems through sustainable housing. This week, Khushboo focused on researching Earthbag structures and Earthbag structures with roof decks to support the 4-Dome Roof Cluster Team. She also managed Michaela Silva and Adefola Madehin, and led the weekly team meeting for the 4-Dome Roof Cluster, where an issue with the support columns was identified. Karthik concentrated on understanding and evaluating the progress of the vermiculture toilet design project, gaining a clearer view of the design process and his future role. He also worked on the wooden paneling for the roof deck of the four-dome cluster roof project, which is nearing completion under Michaela’s leadership; the team will proceed with Finite Element Analysis (FEA) once the design is finished. Yusuf revisited the deck design to accommodate an irregular-shaped structure, studying additional requirements for the posts and joists. Insights from the team meeting were valuable, particularly from an architectural perspective, and he noted the need for design inputs from the owner, such as the selection of deck flooring material. The Earthbag village is an integral part of One Community’s open source model for re-establishing abundant natural systems. See their work in the collage below.

DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER PROGRESS

One Community is re-establishing abundant natural systems 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 for re-establishing abundant natural systems: Duplicable City Center Open Source Hub

This week, Arnob Mutsuddi (Mechanical Engineer) continued working on Duplicable City Center structural engineering model and details. His work involved reviewing the BIM architectural code for California (Vol-2) and studying its content. The research was focused on material selection for the U-shaped/Ring Hub Connector, with additional focus on autoclaved aerated concrete to assess its potential dead load. The Duplicable City Center is a foundational part of One Community’s open source model for re-establishing abundant natural systems. 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 completed a second draft of the GIS content for the webpage, adding more content for clarity, revising graphics, and incorporating detailed watershed maps. Additionally, he continued creating metadata for the feature layers in ArcGIS to facilitate easier collaboration, improve reference, and streamline the import process to QGIS, an open-source GIS software. The Duplicable City Center is a foundational part of One Community’s open source model for re-establishing abundant natural systems. See some of this work in the pictures below.

Clarice Gaw Gonzalo (Architect) continued her work on the Duplicable City Center renders and visualizations, focusing on the outdoor vegetation and gardening space. She also worked on the natural filtration pond, determining the appropriate water density and reflection settings, and decorated the pond with water lilies and other plants. Additionally, Clarice created a trial video of the interior space. The Duplicable City Center is a foundational part of One Community’s open source model for re-establishing abundant natural systems. See some of this work in the pictures below.

Faeq Abu Alia (Architectural Engineer) began his work on the Duplicable City Center kitchen shelving and adding dry-storage food items. He researched and made adjustments to a shelf design in SketchUp, modifying its dimensions and layout to match the specifications from a video. After making the design changes, he organized and stocked the shelves to replicate the arrangement shown in the video. The Duplicable City Center is a foundational part of One Community’s open source model for re-establishing abundant natural systems. See below for some of the pictures related to 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 dormer window instructions, inputting text and images into Google Slides and organizing them by their respective sections. The Duplicable City Center is a foundational part of One Community’s open source model for re-establishing abundant natural systems. See below for some of the pictures related to this work.

HIGHEST GOOD FOOD PROGRESS

One Community is re-establishing abundant natural systems through Highest Good food that is more diverse, more nutritious, locally grown and sustainable, and part of our open source botanical garden model to support and share bio-diversity:

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

Charles Gooley (Web Designer) continued working on the Transition Food Self-sufficiency Plan. He updated the Tools and Equipment for Open Source Construction master page by adding tools from the non-powered tools section of the Highest Good Food Tools, Equipment, Materials/Supplies design document. This included incorporating the soil thermometer and ensuring that all links displayed correctly in the address bar when accessed. The task required resizing images and copying text from the design document. Some duplicate entries were omitted from the update. Highest Good Food is key to re-establishing abundant natural systems within One Community’s open source plans. See some of this work in the pictures below.

Hayley Rosario (Sustainability Research Assistant) continued updating the Highest Good Food page after discovering that her previous progress had been erased, recreating the survey team, the 3-person team, and the 20-person team. She also worked through the implementation list and details, except for adding links. Highest Good Food is a key component for assembling and re-establishing abundant natural systems within One Community’s open source plans. See her work in the collage below.

Jay Nair (BIM Designer) continued working on Aquapini and Walipini Planting and Harvesting. This week involved progressing through Zones 2 to 26 of Walipini 1, focusing on selecting and placing linear LED fixtures on structural beams to ensure adequate coverage for each plant species. The work included addressing specific lighting needs for various plants and ensuring compliance with sustainability criteria. Additionally, challenges with graphical issues in Revit were encountered, particularly with interior views using the camera, which were slightly resolved by using exterior section views and generating night renders to demonstrate the lighting design effectively. Highest Good Food is a key component for assembling and re-establishing abundant natural systems within One Community’s open source plans. See his work in the collage below.

Prathamesh Jadhav (HVAC Design Engineer) continued working on Aquapini and Walipini Planting and Harvesting while reviewing a research paper on Climate Battery design that includes an overview of battery designs, formulas, references to YouTube links, details on designing an HVAC backup system, and how AutoCAD software is used. Highest Good Food is a key component for assembling and re-establishing abundant natural systems within One Community’s open source plans. See his work in the collage below.

Ziyi Chen (Landscape Designer) began working on the design of the outdoor spaces for the Aquapini/Walipinis structures. The onboarding process was completed, and Ziyi reviewed the provided documentation and familiarized herself with the work of previous teams on this food system. The focus was on analyzing the differences between the natural environment, climate, and both indoor and outdoor environments, identifying the advantages and challenges of sustainable food landscape design, and re-establishing abundant natural systems to understand its potential impacts on community residents. Ziyi also explored precedents related to food landscapes, urban agriculture, permaculture, and food gardens to inform the detailed functional design. Additionally, existing CAD files were used to start preparing base drawings of the outdoor space. Highest Good Food is a key component for assembling and re-establishing abundant natural systems within One Community’s open source plans. See her work in the collage below.

HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION PROGRESS

One Community is re-establishing abundant natural systems 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: 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 write-up for the report, updating the initial software and detailing each section to address any questions or changes requested, that are understood by engineers and the general public. He primarily focused on optimizing the tables for better presentation which was a challenging task due to difficulties in adjusting the column widths for each section, while re-establishing abundant natural systems to enhance the overall clarity and impact of the report. Apoorv also concentrated on formatting the calculation section following the guidelines provided by the senior engineer, Brian Muigai Mwaniki (Structural Engineer). The One Community model of combining forward-thinking education with sustainably built classrooms like this is an excellent example of re-establishing abundant natural systems. See the collage below for his work.

Brian Mwoyowatidi (Graduate Structural Engineer) continued helping with the engineering details for The Ultimate Classroom part of the Highest Good Education component. He focused on learning and improving his detailing skills in Prokon Padds software in preparation for detailing the Foundation section of a proposed calculation report by the team. He also began finalizing the Ultimate Classroom Footer, Foundation, and Flooring Design Tutorial and Report, addressing all questions and suggestions to make this tutorial more relatable to engineers and the general public. The One Community model of combining forward-thinking education with sustainably built classrooms like this is an excellent example of re-establishing abundant natural systems. See the collage below for his work. 

HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY PROGRESS

One Community is re-establishing abundant natural systems through a Highest Good society approach to living that is founded on fulfilled living, the study of meeting human needs, Community, and making a difference in the world:

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

This week, the core team completed over 69 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 re-establishing abundant natural systems and how re-establishing abundant natural systems is a foundation of the bigger picture of everything One Community is doing. The image below shows some of this work.

Arun Chandar Ganesan (Volunteer Data Analyst and SEO and Social Media Assistant) focused on improving webpage SEO, reviewing numerous pages, including some previously abandoned ones. He also improved the scores of his previous web pages. Additionally, Arun managed and coordinated the scheduling of posts on One Community’s social media platforms such as Facebook, Instagram, Pinterest, and LinkedIn, and regularly updated the tutorials. This work helps One Community’s mission of re-establishing abundant natural systems. The following images show his work for the week.

Jia Shu (UX Designer) continued her work on the Highest Good Network phase 3 development that focuses on organizing and tracking the Fulfilled Living aspect of the Highest Good Society component. This week, she worked on refining existing elements and defining separate workflows for organizers and members, each with distinct functions such as recording attendee information and scanning QR codes for registration. Based on feedback from Joe’s video, she made several adjustments, including incorporating a QR code scan feature into the check-in process, updating the notification system to a pop-up style with options to decline, accept, or ignore, enhancing the visual UI for activity attendance rates, and adding filter and rating options to the comments section, along with other minor UI refinements. Jia also collaborated with John on refining the design of Phase 3, focusing on epics, user stories, tasks, and priorities. Feedback on low-fidelity prototypes led to the creation of mid-fidelity versions, and she studied web design and iOS/Android design systems to optimize the user experience. Additionally, she emphasized re-establishing abundant natural systems in the design, ensuring that the user interface promotes environmental sustainability and harmony with nature.  The design system was structured around six epics and their respective user stories, with tasks for each epic. The design work was initiated in Figma, where a basic layout for each function is currently in place. The UI system which includes colors and icons, was also halfway defined and is awaiting John’s confirmation. This work helps One Community’s mission of re-establishing abundant natural systems. The picture below shows some of this work.

Shireen Kayal (Humanitarian Program Developer & Data Manager) completed the onboarding checklist, checked the boxes, and added comments where required. She reviewed the action items, put together a sample video to assess the quality of work, created an intro and outro for the weekly progress video, and captured footage of the weekly progress. This work helps One Community’s mission of re-establishing abundant natural systems. The following images show her work for the week.

ADMINISTRATION TEAM

The Administration Team’s summary, covering their work administrating and managing most of One Community’s ongoing process for re-establishing abundant natural system was managed by Sneka Vetriappan (Data Analyst) and includes Durgeshwari Naikwade (Data Analyst), Hritvik Mahajan (Data Analyst), Ivy Yuwei Li (Project Manager and Team Administrator), Jessica Fairbanks (Administrative Assistant), Kishan Sivakumar (Administative Assistant and Software Team Manager), Michael Juma (Administrative Assistant), Mrudula Chavali (Administrative Assistant and Data Analyst), Praneeth Reddy Guduru (Data Analyst), Rachna Malav (Data Analyst), Ratna Meena Shivakumar (Data Analyst and Admin), Riddhisha Chitwadgi (Administrative Assistant), Ruiqi Liu (Administrative Assistant), Saumit Chinchkhandi (Administrative Assistant and Software Engineer), T R Samarth Urs (Data Analyst), Vibhav Chimatapu (Data Analyst/Admin Assistant) and Zuqi Li (Administrative Assistant and Economic Analyst). This week, Durgeshwari continued her work on phase three of the Highest Good Network Application, collaborating with team members and scheduling weekly meetings for updates from the UI/UX team. She also handled administrative tasks, such as editing weekly blogs and optimizing the website, and re-establishing abundant natural systems within the project framework. Hritvik completed weekly reviews and feedback for both of his teams, updated their summaries in the Step 2 documents, and worked on the weekly blog update. He also organized collages in the Dropbox folder, reviewed Ivy’s training work, provided feedback, checked various PRs, and started reviewing Nithin’s training work. Ivy completed her initial setup and orientation, reviewed weekly summaries of five individuals, provided feedback, used tracking tables to monitor changes, and wrote the team summary. She also logged into WordPress, edited a blog post, and focused on post-training action items. Jessica continued her work on the Highest Good Food Infrastructure Rollout Plan, researched and updated articles, and completed her weekly administrative tasks, including reviewing summaries and recording feedback. Kishan worked on the weekly update blog, focusing on SEO optimization and reviewing SEO pages, all while aligning efforts toward re-establishing abundant natural systems.. Michael prepared team summaries for the Reactonauts and Skye software development teams, improved SEO titles for blogs, and reviewed the progress of the Climate Battery project and GIS Project. Mrudula incorporated changes into her weekly blog, scheduled and interviewed new volunteers, and provided feedback on their work. Praneeth submitted action items for review, created a testing account for frontend testing, and discussed these items with Jae. Rachna scheduled interviews, assigned additional SEO pages, and dealt with timeout errors that impacted her progress, all while re-establishing abundant natural systems in her work approach. Ratna prepared the weekly summary and collages, interviewed candidates, updated and reviewed blogs, and scheduled posts for One Community’s Facebook and Instagram pages. Riddhisha focused on optimizing SEO for various blogs, corrected errors in administrative documents, and provided feedback on others’ work. Ruiqi completed the review process for the Dev Dynasty and Git-R-Done Teams, ensured the inclusion of all members in reports, and worked on DIY Earth Dam Design & Construction Disaster Mitigation Content. Saumit handled interviews with potential volunteers, worked on the PR review process, and focused on frontend software testing. Sneka reviewed her teammates’ work, including SEO pages and timelog entries, added weekly summaries and collages to the webpage, and met review table conditions. Samarth managed the PR review team, assessed their work, and summarized it in a blog post. Vibhav carried on his administrative duties, reviewed the PR Team’s work, created group summaries and collages, and continued to work on SEO optimization. Zuqi organized the weekly summary for the Graphic Design Team and Alpha Team, assisted with Alpha Team management, reviewed optimized blogs, and followed up with admins regarding feedback. One Community’s model for re-establishing abundant natural systems includes developing and maintaining a supportive administration team, which plays a crucial role in re-establishing abundant natural systems and ensuring their success. You can see the work for the team in the image below.

The Graphic Design Team’s summary was managed by Zuqi Li (Administrative Assistant and Economic Analyst) and included Anusha Tariq (Graphic Designer), Ashlesha Navale (Graphic Designer), Helen Ma (Graphic Designer), Junyuan Liu (Graphic Designer, UI/UX Designer) and Maomao Ding (UI/UX Designer), covering their work on graphic designs for re-establishing abundant natural systems. This week, Anusha completed all website upload tasks, following video instructions to ensure SEO links were correctly implemented. She addressed and fixed remaining changes, cross-checked the work, informed Sara about the updates, wrote a summary, and uploaded the relevant pictures to Dropbox. Ashlesha focused on creating a volunteer announcement, including a bio image, announcement image, and web content. She also researched and curated a collection of nature-based and theme-based images for social media, creating five images titled Better-World Collective Application, Better-World Harmony, Better-World Sustainable Practices, Better-World Together, and Better-World Tomorrow. Helen worked on the third infographic concept to engage readers with content about reusing, recycling, and repurposing materials, ensuring it adhered to social media image size requirements and included all essential facts within the image. Junyuan explored different styles for social media images to align with One Community’s promotional approach, focusing on the layout and flow of HGN Phase 3. He worked on the FAQs page and Comments section of Epic5, studying their structure, considering the functionality of the Comments section, and developing a new layout for it. Maomao onboarded the team, learned her major tasks, including social media graphic creation and contributing ideas for HGN Phase 3’s UI/UX design. She created six graphics and sourced related free-stock images from Unsplash. See the Highest Good Society page for more on how this contributes to re-establishing abundant natural systems. See the collage below to view some of their work.

HIGHEST GOOD NETWORK PROGRESS

One Community is re-establishing abundant natural systems 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.

This week, the core team continued their work on the Highest Good Network PRs testing, confirming the fixed PRs. The resolved HGN PRs included a margin correction within report details views (PR #2493). Unresolved issues targeted task dropdowns on project reports (PR #2376) and identified UI inconsistencies on smaller screen sizes (PR #2391) and a detailed report with descriptions, images, and videos documenting five specific problems was submitted. Additional activities included setting up a test account for time tracking (PR #996) and core team functionalities (referencing PR #958), as well as further investigation into link overflow issues within team weekly summaries. See the Highest Good Society and Highest Good Network pages for more on how this relates to re-establishing abundant natural systems. The collage below shows some of their work.

ALPHA SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT TEAM

The Alpha Team’s summary, covering their work on the Highest Good Network software was managed by Zuqi Li (Administrative Assistant and Economic Analyst) and includes Anand Seshadri (Software Engineer), Carlos Gomez (Full-stack Software Developer), and Jordy Corporan (Software Engineer). The Highest Good Network software is how we will manage and measure our processes for re-establishing abundant natural systems across our social architecture, construction, production, and maintenance processes. This week, Anand focused on adding unit tests for the BadgeManagement.jsx page, testing key areas such as rendering the component with various props and states, verifying tab switching functionality, ensuring proper interaction with the Redux store, testing the interaction with the EditableInfoModal, and confirming that the component renders when dark mode is toggled. Additionally, he performed a final review of PR 2517. Carlos addressed and resolved GitHub comments and new conflicts in FPR #2503 with the development branch. He also tested Abi’s BPR #1062, which related to queries regarding volunteer hours stats and work distribution stats. The initial review indicated that the endpoint functioned correctly, though the totalHoursWorked array was empty. A subsequent review revealed inconsistencies between the results in workDistributionStats, volunteerHoursStats, and the totalHoursWorked value. Jordy continued making progress on the unit tests for the emailController, completing the tests for the first function inside the controller. He is now focused on working through the remaining controller functions, encountering some blockers but remaining committed to finding solutions. See the Highest Good Society and Highest Good Network pages for more on how this relates to re-establishing abundant natural systems. View some of the team’s work in the collage below.

BINARY BRIGADE SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT TEAM

The Binary Brigade Team’s summary overseeing advancements in the Highest Good Network software was managed by Min Sun (Software Engineer) and includes Aaryaneil Nimbalkar (Software Developer), Deepthi Kannan (Software Engineer), Huijie Liu (Software Engineer), Peizhou Zhang (Software Engineer), Sandhya Adavikolanu (Software Developer), Sri Sudersan Thopey Ganesh (Software Engineer), and Vijay Anand Pandian (Full Stack Software Engineer). The Highest Good Network software is how we’ll be managing and objectively measuring our process for re-establishing abundant natural systems through our social architecture, construction, production, and maintenance processes.

This week, Aaryaneil focused on creating unit tests for several components, including WeeklySummaryOptions, DeleteBadgePopup, and PeopleTasksPieChart. These tests were designed to cover various scenarios, such as rendering in different modes, handling user interactions, and verifying accessibility attributes. Aaryaneil finalized these tests and submitted the necessary pull requests to ensure the components functioned correctly across different conditions. Deepthi concentrated on PR reviews, UI updates, and documentation. She addressed styling consistency in PR2554, improved input field padding and responsive design in PR2426, and updated the user manual by incorporating new images and addressing feedback from Tatyana to keep the documentation accurate and current. Her work ensured that the UI remains consistent and user-friendly across different devices and screen sizes. Huijie resolved a bug related to user permissions that resulted from previous merge conflicts, preparing PR#1004 for merging. She also submitted PR#2584, addressing issues with the role distribution pie chart. Additionally, Huijie worked on fixing the ability to edit start and end dates in forms, resolving issues with alerts after each keyboard input and addressing limitations related to date selection, while continuing to implement form validation, contributing to re-establishing abundant natural systems.

Peizhou addressed an issue related to project category management, ensuring that the category remained specific when adding new projects and allowed changes to current project categories. He solved the issue and submitted a tested pull request, contributing to better project management functionality within the system. Sandhya made significant progress in stabilizing the HGN Software Development project by integrating the TaskCompletedBarChart component with the Redux store. She refined error handling, improved authentication flow by encapsulating token management logic, and resolved critical issues such as API errors, memory leaks, and process environment configurations. Her work enhanced the application’s stability, security, and overall performance, all while re-establishing abundant natural systems in the process. Sri worked on enhancing an existing API by adding a comparisonPeriod parameter to improve statistical analysis of volunteer activities. This enhancement required modifications to the API’s logic and data processing functions to handle the new comparison feature effectively. Sri laid the groundwork for these changes, but the task is still in progress as further adjustments are needed. Vijay worked on enhancing the user experience within the HGN Software Development project by adding a search-by-name feature to the leaderboard component and disabling the assign badge button unless a name is typed. He also did PR reviews on several issues, including enabling time entry deletion permissions, fixing email validation and success message placement, addressing dark mode label issues, and resolving a mobile view problem related to text color updates. See the Highest Good Society and Highest Good Network pages for more on how this relates to re-establishing abundant natural systems. View some of the team’s work in the collage below.

BLUE STEEL SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT TEAM

The Blue Steel Team’s summary, presenting their work on the Highest Good Network software was managed by Jingyi Jia (Software Engineer, Team Manager), and includes Imran Issa (Software Developer), Jay Srinivasan (Software Engineer), Parth Rasu Jangid (Software Developer), Ramakrishna Aruva (Software Engineer), and Vishavdeep Kaur (Full stack Developer). The Highest Good Network software is how we’ll be managing and objectively measuring our process for re-establishing abundant natural systems through our social architecture, construction, production, and maintenance processes. This week, Jingyi completed the “time-off indicator on the leaderboard” feature, ensuring it now displays when a person has scheduled time off and grays out the names of members who are currently on time off. The feature also introduces a “+num” indicator for members with additional weeks off and displays the weeks until a member’s future scheduled time off, visible only to users with roles at or above manager level. Meanwhile, Jay focused on providing individual feedback to Team Blue Steel on their summaries and media folders, resolved pie chart color discrepancies in people reports, and completed reviews for PR 2558, PR 2508, PR 2530, and PR 2536. Ramakrishna tackled failing test cases using React Testing Library and Jest, resolving one of the issues. Parth developed test cases for the taskController, focusing on the postTasks function and reviewed four pull requests. Imran completed the automation of code assignments to teams and addressed merge conflicts in preparation for merging his PRs. Lastly, Vishavdeep verified functionalities against the HGN Bugs document across various screen sizes, reviewed and tested multiple PRs, addressing errors and providing feedback to ensure all functionalities are up to standard without further issues. See the Highest Good Society and the Highest Good Network pages to learn more on how their work contributes to re-establishing abundant natural systems. See below to view images of their work.

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One Community welcomes Jinxiong You to the Software Development Team as our newest Volunteer/Consultant!

With a robust background in software engineering, Jinxiong has accumulated over 2 years of experience in designing and developing software solutions. Specializing in backend systems and data architecture, he has excelled in environments demanding rigorous structure and problem-solving skills. Jinxiong is passionate about creating scalable and efficient software that not only meets the immediate needs of clients but also anticipates future growth and challenges. As a member of the One Community team, he has been instrumental in architecting resilient software infrastructures and optimizing the Highest Good Network systems to enhance performance and reliability. Jinxiong also plays a critical role in maintaining high code quality standards by conducting thorough peer reviews and ensuring best practices in code development across his team.

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One Community welcomes Christopher Blair to the Design Team as our newest Volunteer/Consultant!

With a Bachelor of Science degree in Landscape Design and a minor in Horticulture, Christopher has over a decade of experience in the horticulture and landscaping industry. Through his employment with a diverse range of landscaping companies, he has gained valuable insights into how nurturing a garden extends beyond its literal meaning to encompass broader concepts of environmental stewardship. Christopher’s passion is investigating how people can live in mutually beneficial ways with their environment. He is currently completing a Geographic Information Science (GIS) certification from the University of Utah, as a natural progression of his interest in organizing, analyzing, and visualizing efforts related to our interactions with the environment. His dream is to contribute to the development of self-sufficient and environmentally conscious communities worldwide. While a member of the One Community team, Christopher has accomplished geospatial analysis of the Master Plan as part of our Permaculture Design to find improvements in the placement of the 7 Villages and the Duplicable City Center.

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One Community welcomes Jatin Agrawal to the Software Development Team as our newest Volunteer/Consultant!

Jatin is a dedicated software engineer with two years of experience in software development. Fluent in programming languages like JavaScript and familiar with frameworks and tools such as React.js, Node.js, MongoDB, Express.js, REST APIs, and GitHub, he is passionate about leveraging technology for social good. As a member of the One Community team, Jatin contributes to the web development of the Highest Good Network software, and he focuses on creating impactful software solutions that make a positive difference. He has successfully added a feature that allows permissions to be added or removed for quick action functions on user profiles, enhancing user management and functionality. A startup enthusiast at heart, he aspires to launch his own startup in the future, driven by his innovative spirit and entrepreneurial mindset. When not coding, he enjoys staying updated with the latest tech trends and contributing to projects that benefit the community.

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One Community welcomes Clarice Gaw Gonzalo to the Architectural Design Team as our newest Volunteer/Consultant!

Clarice has been in the architectural field for nearly 7 years now from finishing her Bachelors of Science in Architecture from the University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign to currently completing her Masters in Architecture at California College of the Arts. In between school she has also gained experience at a couple firms working on projects of various types such as: high rise apartment buildings, bus stations, libraries, schools and clinics. She is knowledgeable in many architectural softwares including: AutoCAD, Lumion, Revit, Rhino, SketchUp, Grasshopper, Twinmotion and most Adobe softwares. Clarice is very passionate about sustainability and the urban environment. She believes architecture is designed to make people the best versions of themselves as they thrive in the space they are in. Clarice actively engages in initiatives that aim to create greener, more livable urban spaces, and she is always seeking innovative ways to integrate sustainable solutions into city planning and development. As a member of One Community, Clarice has helped create the architectural renders for the Duplicable City Center and is working on creating a video for the space as well.

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At One Community, we are assembling the social components for human abundance to pioneer sustainable approaches to food, energy, housing, education, economics, and social architecture. Our all-volunteer team is dedicated to creating a self-replicating model designed for “The Highest Good of All.” By open sourcing and free sharing our complete process, we aim to foster a global collaboration of teacher/demonstration hubs, evolving sustainability, and creating a world that works for everyone. Through our efforts, we strive to regenerate our planet and promote fulfilled living for all.

• Here’s our project overview
• Here’s our world-change methodology
  
• Here’s how this becomes self-replicating
• Here’s how we are open source and free-sharing all the do-it-yourself designs

OUR MAIN OPEN SOURCE HUBS

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One Community’s physical location will forward this movement as the first of many self-replicating teacher/demonstration communities, villages, and cities to be built around the world, assembling the social components for human abundance.. This is the August 12th, 2024 edition (#595) of our weekly progress update detailing our team’s development and accomplishments:

Assembling the Social Components for Human Abundance
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HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING PROGRESS

One Community is assembling the social components for human abundance 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 assembling the social components for human abundance: 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, Joseph Osayande (Mechanical Engineer) continued helping finish the Vermiculture Toilet designs. He made corrections to the report from the meeting, and a list of sources was compiled and expanded to detail the necessary steps for maintaining worm health and a secure environment. He conducted research to find a reliable source for determining the accurate amount of material needed for each bowel release. Additionally, Joseph made changes to the standing system, and proposed two new ideas, including a pin to secure the winch attachment to the stand. This model aims to offer sustainable solutions that not only address waste processing but also enhance living standards, contributing to the model of assembling the social components for human abundance. See below for some of the pictures related to this work.

Michaela Silva (Architect) continued working on finalizing the interior of the Earthbag Village 4-dome home design. This week, Michaela compiled the code requirements for the domes in the 3 dome plans and gathered the code requirements for the mechanical system and ventilation in the 4 dome plan. She also advanced the floor plans and identified the location of the roof deck stair with storage at the front of the home. Additionally, Michaela assisted other members of the four-dome team with Revit. The Earthbag village is the first of 7 villages to be built as part of One Community’s open source model for assembling the social components for human abundance. See her work in the collage below.

Yagyansh Maheshwari (Mechanical Engineer) started his work with Earthbag Village designs. This week, Yagyansh focused on designing methods to dump compost on the ground. He made changes to the drawer design in SolidWorks, including adding L clamps and a mechanism to assist in emptying the drawer. Additionally, he explored options for transferring the drawer to the dumping site and finalized wheels that matched the weight capacity. The Earthbag Village is the first of 7 to be built as the housing component of One Community’s open source model for assembling the social components for human abundance. See some of his work in the collage below.

AIRCRETE TEAM

The Aircrete Testing Team’s summary, covering their work on Aircrete Compression Testing was managed by John Sullivan (CBU Chemical Engineering Student) and includes Jonathan Crago (Civil Engineering Student), Preston Thompson (Civil Engineering Student), and Tad Matlock (Environmental Science Student). This week, Tad continued organizing new content for the main Aircrete webpage, writing trial summaries, and incorporating tutorial videos and images as necessary. He also embedded links within the content to provide additional details and instructions. Additionally, he formatted a spreadsheet intended to store compression testing data for ongoing Aircrete tests. Meanwhile, Jonathan collaborated with Preston and John to produce additional test cylinders using the Aircrete Harry method. The team experimented with varying ratios of foam, cement, and water and tested cylinders with and without stucco fiberglass mesh. They prepared these cylinders for final testing and ensured the lab was cleaned after each session. These aircrete tests contribute to the housing aspect of One Community’s open source model for assembling the social components for human abundance. By improving the aircrete testing and production procedures, the team is advancing assembling the social components for human abundance for future developments. See below for some of the pictures related to this work.

EARTHBAG VILLAGE 4-DOME ROOF TEAM

The Earthbag Village 4-dome Roof Team was managed by Khushboo Parmar (Project Manager) and includes Karthik Pillai (Volunteer Mechanical Engineer) and Yusuf Thanawala (Structural Engineer). The Earthbag Village forms the basis of One Community’s open source model for assembling the social components for human abundance. This week, Karthik focused on understanding the requirements for completing the roof loft design and identifying the necessary materials. He raised important concerns and questions during the weekly team meeting. He has learned Revit and is working to improve his proficiency with the software. He addressed Michaela’s inquiries and worked on the roof deck joists and supporting structures, considering the challenges associated with Revit. Yusuf completed the preliminary design of the loft for the Earthbag village, arranging columns in a 10-sided polygon and planning the beam framing. He reviewed a design guide for wooden structures to grasp the methodology and searched for articles on DIY wooden structures to identify appropriate decking materials. Khushboo handled administrative tasks, including scheduling and conducting interviews for volunteer candidates. She led the weekly 4-Dome Cluster Roof meeting and the biweekly Earthbag Village MEP Team. Additionally, she continued researching California codes related to load-bearing wood roof decks for the 4-Dome Cluster Roof team and assisted the team with this research to advance the project. Khushboo also managed Michaela Silva and Adefola Madehin. The Earthbag village is an integral part of One Community’s open source model for assembling the social components for human abundance. See their work in the collage below.

DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER PROGRESS

One Community is assembling the social components for human abundance through a Duplicable and Sustainable City Center that is LEED Platinum certified/Sustainable, can feed 200 people at a time, provide laundry for over 300 people, is beautiful, spacious, and saves resources, money, and space:

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

This week, Arnob Mutsuddi (Mechanical Engineer) started working on Duplicable City Center model. He completed the orientation and initial onboarding process, followed by a review of the documents provided. A comparative analysis conducted earlier was studied, along with familiarizing himself with the previous team’s work. The load calculation for the structure was examined, and plans were made to recalibrate the load test at a later time. The dimensions of the V-shaped hub were analyzed using Autodesk Inventor, and access is awaited to study the U-shaped/Ring Hub Connector i2. Additionally, the BIM regulations for California were reviewed to better understand the architectural requirements. The Duplicable City Center is a foundational part of One Community’s open source model for assembling the social components for human abundance. See below for some of the pictures related to his work.

Chris Blair (GIS Technician/Horticulturist) continued working with GIS data as part of One Community’s Permaculture Design. He reviewed and edited content for the permaculture design webpage and created a side-by-side graphic comparing the original and updated master plans. He also imported feature layers from ArcGIS Pro to QGIS, an open-source GIS software, to improve accessibility. Additionally, Chris created metadata for the feature layers to facilitate easier collaboration and reference. Proper property modeling and understanding is a foundational part of One Community’s model for assembling the social components for human abundance. Below are a few photos showing examples of his work.

Clarice Gaw Gonzalo (Architect) continued her work with the Duplicable City Center room designs, focusing on assembling the social components for human abundance. Clarice focused on adding more people to the dining space, ensuring the tables were filled with a variety of seated individuals, either engaged in conversation or with food nearby. She also revised some files to assign tasks to another volunteer to support the video production. Additionally, she addressed texture problems within the render, considering revisions to the water texture for a more realistic appearance. Clarice updated the glass texture on the greenhouse to make it more translucent and adjusted various settings, including scale, relief, roughness, and opacity. The Duplicable City Center is a foundational part of One Community’s open source model for assembling the social components for human abundance. See below for some of the pictures related to this work.

Nika Gavran (Industrial Designer) continued her work on the Duplicable City Center dormer window installation plans. This week, Nika focused on compiling the assembly order for the 1st-floor dormer window instructions. She created a general list of actions and is rendering them in Keyshot, producing detailed images that will be integrated into an existing document along with the list of materials. The Duplicable City Center is a foundational part of One Community’s open source model for assembling the social components for human abundance. See below for some of the pictures related to this work.

HIGHEST GOOD FOOD PROGRESS

One Community is assembling the social components for human abundance through Highest Good food that is more diverse, more nutritious, locally grown and sustainable, and part of our open source botanical garden model to support and share bio-diversity:

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

This week, the core team continued expanding the Highest Good Food tools document by incorporating additional tools, equipment, and materials/supplies. Additionally, the core team finalized the review of Haley’s School Integration Project, outlining optimal strategies for small-scale food cultivation within schools and smaller organizations. The review also includes the cost analysis summary centered on a minimalist approach to gauge interest levels and participant commitment. Highest Good Food is a key component for assembling the social components for human abundance within One Community’s open source plans. See their work in the collage below.

Charles Gooley (Web Designer) continued working on the Transition Food Self-sufficiency Plan. He added tools from the Highest Good Food Tools, Equipment, Materials/Supplies design document to the Tools and Equipment for Open Source Construction master page, ensuring links appear correctly when clicked in the address bar. The work included resizing images and copying text from the design document. The tools listed through the end of the first section, up to Ratchet Tie Down Strap, have been completed. Highest Good Food is key to assembling the social components for human abundance within One Community’s open source plans. See his work in the collage below.

Hayley Rosario (Sustainability Research Assistant) continued to update the Highest Good Food page, focusing primarily on the “Garden Establishment and No-Till” section. Hayley focused on finalizing the Highest Good Food draft page, completing the first drafts of the sections “Food for up to 100 people,” “Food for up to 400 people,” and “Food for over 400 people.” She also added the resources section and included some links. During this period, she was assigned to a new project involving the organization of tools, equipment, and materials/supplies in alphabetical order. Highest Good Food is key to assembling the social components for human abundance within One Community’s open source plans. See her work in the collage below.

Jay Nair (BIM Designer) started working on Aquapini and Walipini Planting and Harvesting. His work included understanding the lighting plan requirements for Walipini #1 and familiarizing them with the extensive resources available on One Community’s webpage. He spent time retrieving and reviewing various documents and information related to their projects. In Revit, he worked on adjusting family parameters, such as the Tilt Angle for Lighting_Fixtures_Downlight_Spot, and addressing the technical challenges of placing these fixtures on sloped glazing and beams. Additionally, findings for Zone 1 were identified, considering the specific light requirements for the Cordeauxia edulis (Yeheb Nut) and the optimal fixture placement to ensure sufficient coverage. Highest Good Food is key to assembling the social components for human abundance within One Community’s open source plans. See his work in the collage below.

HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION PROGRESS

One Community is assembling the social components for human abundance through Highest Good education that is for all ages, applicable in any environment, adaptable to individual needs, far exceeds traditional education standards, and more fun for both the teachers and the students. This component of One Community is about 95% complete with only the Open Source School Licensing and Ultimate Classroom construction and assembly details remaining to be finished. With over a decade of work invested in the process, the sections below are all complete until we move onto the property and continue the development and open sourcing process with teachers and students – a development process that is built directly into the structure of the education program and everything else we’re creating too:

• Program Overview: Education Open Source Hub
• How the components work together: 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 write-up for the report, updating the initial software and detailing section to address any questions or changes requested so that it is understood by both engineers and the general public. A meeting was also organized by Brian Muigai Mwaniki (Structural Engineer), Apoorv’s manager to discuss the technical issues. The One Community model of combining forward-thinking education with sustainably built classrooms like this is an excellent example of assembling the social components for human abundance. See the collage below for his work.

HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY PROGRESS

One Community is assembling the social components for human abundance through a Highest Good society approach to living that is founded on fulfilled living, the study of meeting human needs, Community, and making a difference in the world:

• Read the Highest Good society overview: Highest Good Society
• Learn about the model for fulfilled living and sharing: A Day in the Life
• Learn about the 4 economic models: RBE | For-profit | Non-profit | Entrepreneurship

This week, the core team completed over 49 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 assembling the social components for human abundance and how assembling the social components for human abundance is a foundation of the bigger picture of everything One Community is doing. The image below shows some of this work.

Arun Chandar Ganesan (Volunteer Data Analyst and SEO and Social Media Assistant) continued on improving webpage SEO, reviewing numerous pages, including some previously abandoned ones, and worked on the assigned webpages. He also improved the scores of his previous web pages. Additionally, he managed and coordinated the scheduling of posts on One Community’s social media platforms such as Facebook, Instagram, Pinterest, and LinkedIn, and regularly updated the tutorials. This work helps One Community’s mission of assembling the social components for human abundance. The following images show his work for the week.

Jia Shu (UX Designer) worked on refining existing elements and defining separate workflows for organizers and members, each with distinct functions such as recording attendee information and scanning QR codes for registration. Based on feedback from Joe’s video, she made several adjustments, including incorporating a QR code scan feature into the check-in process, updating the notification system to a pop-up style with options to decline, accept, or ignore, enhancing the visual UI for activity attendance rates, and adding filter and rating options to the comments section, along with other minor UI refinements. This work helps One Community’s mission of assembling the social components for human abundance. The picture below shows some of this work.

ADMINISTRATION TEAM

The Administration Team’s summary, covering their work administrating and managing most of One Community’s ongoing process for assembling the social components for human abundance was managed by Sneka Vetriappan (Data Analyst) and includes Durgeshwari Naikwade (Data Analyst), Hritvik Mahajan (Data Analyst), Kishan Sivakumar (Administative Assistant and Software Team Manager), Michael Juma (Administrative Assistant), Olawunmi “Ola” Ijisesan (Administrative and Management Support), Praneeth Reddy Guduru (Data Analyst), Rachna Malav (Data Analyst), Ratna Meena Shivakumar (Data Analyst and Admin), Riddhisha Chitwadgi (Administrative Assistant), Ruiqi Liu (Administrative Assistant), Saumit Chinchkhandi (Software Engineer), T R Samarth Urs (Data Analyst), Vibhav Chimatapu (Data Analyst/Admin Assistant) and Zuqi Li (Administrative Assistant and Economic Analyst). This week, Durgeshwari scheduled a key meeting with UI/UX designers for phase 3, documented changes, worked on user stories, and handled interviews for the Highest Good Network Application. Hritvik completed and posted blogs for the Highest Good Food and Duplicable City Center teams, provided feedback on multiple PRs, and reviewed important documents. Kishan focused on the weekly update blog, reviewing SEO optimization for 20 pages and incorporating peer feedback. Michael prepared team summaries for the Reactonauts and Skye software teams, enhanced SEO titles, and carried out in-depth reviews of the GIS and climate battery projects. Ola assessed PR teamwork, onboarded new volunteers, and ensured the accuracy of PR images and reports. Praneeth began his role as a Data Analyst and Administrator, completing his training, providing feedback on weekly summaries, and editing a blog post. Rachna managed the hiring process by interviewing candidates, assigning SEO pages, and resolving task assignment errors. Ratna prepared weekly summaries, handled interview scheduling, and reviewed blog formatting and SEO scores. Riddhisha worked on SEO, content review, and administrative tasks, providing feedback to new members, and organizing team summaries, while focusing on assembling the social components for human abundance. Ruiqi completed reviews for the Dev Dynasty and Git-R-Done teams, followed up on member responses, and continued working on various benchmarking and content projects. Saumit created PR team summaries, tested frontend development PRs, and handled interviews with potential volunteers. Samarth managed the PR review team, provided feedback on their work, and summarized their efforts in a blog post. Vibhav continued his administrative duties, reviewed PR team work, and optimized blogs for better SEO performance. Zuqi organized weekly summaries for the Graphic Design and Alpha Teams, reviewed optimized blogs, and provided necessary feedback for adjustments. One Community’s model for assembling the social components for human abundance 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 Anusha Tariq (Graphic Designer), Ashlesha Navale (Graphic Designer), Helen Ma (Graphic Designer) and Junyuan Liu (Graphic Designer, UI/UX Designer), covering their work on graphic designs for assembling the social components for human abundance. This week, Anusha reviewed all instructed videos to identify previous mistakes in preparation for upcoming tasks and created a bio and announcement. She added two bios and announcement pictures for review, along with another assigned announcement. Anusha made progress on updating the website with a focus on fixing SEO issues. She also created and attached another announcement and bio picture in a document file for feedback. Ashlesha worked on creating two volunteer announcements, including two bio images and two announcement images. She also developed web content for both volunteer announcements and researched and curated a collection of nature-based and theme-based images for social media. This week, she created five social media images titled Better-World Choice, Sustainability-Norm, Sustainability-Revolution, Sustainability-Sustainable Model, and Sustainability-Villages. Helen focused on two infographic concepts designed to engage readers with content on webpages discussing how to reuse, recycle, and repurpose various materials. One concept has a corporate look, while the other is more playful. Junyuan organized the content previously collected and created for social media images. He met with the UI/UX team in HGN Phase 3 to determine the overall content and goals for the phase, leading to the decision that the first task would focus on the content in epic5. He researched and sketched the FAQs page for epic5 and created the initial demo of the FAQs page in Figma. See the Highest Good Society pages for more on how this contributes to assembling the social components for human abundance. See the collage below to view some of their work.

HIGHEST GOOD NETWORK PROGRESS

One Community is assembling the social components for human abundance 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. The resolved HGN PRs included improvements to user interface functionality: a successful message for empty email lists (PR #2522), corrected dropdown color selection (PR #2225), and enhanced clarity for the user dashboard status indicator (PR #2527). Assembling the social components for human abundance was a key focus as unresolved issues included functionalities like team management (PR #2412) and project archiving processes (linked video). Bugs related to manual timesheet entry for past years (FE#2319) and project/team lost time management (500 error) were also investigated. Additionally, improvements were suggested for user notifications upon team member deactivation (PR1033) and report clarity within the Weekly Summaries Reports page (PR #2300). Team location search functionality also required further examination (PR #2276). Other activities included setting up test accounts for time tracking (PR #996) and core team functionalities (referencing PR #958), as well as documenting user interface discrepancies related to dashboard views and weekly summaries. See the Highest Good Society and Highest Good Network pages for more on how this relates to assembling the social components for human abundance. The collage below shows some of their work.

ALPHA SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT TEAM

This week, the Alpha Team’s summary, covering their work on the Highest Good Network software was managed by Zuqi Li (Administrative Assistant and Economic Analyst) and includes Anand Seshadri (Software Engineer), Carlos Gomez (Full-stack Software Developer), Jordy Corporan (Software Engineer) and Logeshwari Renu (Software Engineer). The Highest Good Network software is how we will manage and measure our processes for assembling the social components for human abundance across our social architecture, construction, production, and maintenance processes. Anand completed updates to the dashboard task to ensure that task deadline counts reflect when a task’s hours suggestion is approved, with the red notification circle showing the correct count. He added logs to address and fix rendering issues for task updates in the dashboard component, reviewed the reducer responsible for incrementing the count, and fixed the rendering issue related to the task deadline count increment. Anand updated TeamMemberTask and raised PR 2547. Additionally, he began addressing changes requested in an existing PR, including clearing start and end date error fields when the form resets, and is working on fixing the date calendar view in dark mode, with plans to complete this next week. He is also focused on assembling the social components for human abundance to enhance the overall user experience. Carlos resolved merge conflicts between PR#2503 and the development branch, incorporating feedback from Jae and team members. He reviewed PR#2508 from Abi regarding the bar chart template and identified the need to compare the last full week with the previous full week for the hours completed section. Carlos also submitted PR#2540 to introduce new date functions that automatically calculate the required date ranges and integrated useDispatch from react-redux to retrieve complete data for taskProjectHours. Jordy continued to make progress on the unit tests for the emailController. He is focused on the first test and, although encountering some blockers, remains committed to overcoming them and prioritizing the task’s completion. Assembling the social components for human abundance, Logeshwari worked on adding a total badges hyperlink in the Profile Page and implemented a modal to display the list of user badges in the same order as the Badge Management ranking when the total badges count is selected. Additionally, she reviewed and tested two pull requests: PR#2539, which involved verifying the search functionality for first and last names displayed in a table with radio button user selection, and PR#2538, which tested and confirmed the redirection functionality from the selected user to the current user. See the Highest Good Society and Highest Good Network pages for more on how this relates to assembling the social components for human abundance. View some of the team’s work in the collage below.

BINARY BRIGADE SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT TEAM

The Binary Brigade Team’s summary overseeing advancements in the Highest Good Network software was managed by Min Sun (Software Engineer) and includes Aaryaneil Nimbalkar (Software Developer), Deepthi Kannan (Software Engineer), Huijie Liu (Software Engineer), Peizhou Zhang (Software Engineer), Sai Sarath Kumar Alavakonda (Software Engineer), Sri Sudersan Thopey Ganesh (Software Engineer), Vigneshwar Muriki (Software Engineer) and Vijay Anand Pandian (Full Stack Software Engineer). The Highest Good Network software is how we’ll be managing and objectively measuring our process for assembling the social components for human abundance through our social architecture, construction, production, and maintenance processes.

This week, Aaryaneil tested several pull requests (PRs) to ensure smooth integration with the existing system. Key PRs included the addition of a total members count in the members popup (#2506), providing users with a quick overview of member statistics, and Deepthi’s fix for the ‘Volunteer Agreement Confirmed’ checkbox padding (#2554), which ensured a consistent and user-friendly design. Aaryaneil also tested Vijay Anand’s separate components for filtering and viewing reports by date range on the reports page (#2510), improving user navigation and data accessibility. He evaluated Nandini’s work on fixing the alignment of checkboxes and labels in the PieChart section (#2505), enhancing the aesthetic and functionality of the data visualization. Shrada’s addition of missing form validation on the user profile page (#2507) was also reviewed to ensure users received immediate feedback on input errors, thus improving interaction and data integrity. Additionally, assembling the social components for human abundance was a key focus, integrating various elements to foster community growth and connection.

Deepthi focused on fixing a bug in the Highest Good Network (HGN) software related to the “Volunteer Agreement Confirmed” checkbox, which had a misalignment issue due to missing padding. She updated the `AssignSetUpModal.jsx` file by adding the necessary padding using inline styling and refactored the checkbox component to improve readability and maintainability. Deepthi created pull request #2554 for review and addressed the PR review comments by making additional changes.

Huijie resolved the merge conflicts for PR #1004 and created response recording videos for change requests. She completed her work on the role distribution pie chart, identified an issue with overlapping text for roles with small angles, and is currently confirming whether to display only the top roles to keep the chart clean. Additionally, Huijie claimed and began working on a new task to fix the ability to change the start and end dates on the profile page, while also assembling the social components for human abundance. Peizhou worked on the task of fixing the incorrect category issue of the projects, on the Project page. He also discovered that on the Project page, users are not able to change the category of an existing project, because the update function is undefined. He is working on fixing these two issues.

Sai began working on the HGN REST backend pull request 608 and Highest Good Network frontend pull request 1531, which together involve changes across 17 files (11 on the frontend and 6 on the backend). The files were reviewed to understand the task at hand, identify the source of errors, and determine how to address the requested changes in the pull requests, while assembling the social components for human abundance.

Sri initially aimed to implement the Team Stats Bar Chart component using Chart.js and react-chartjs-2, intending to display team statistics with custom labels. The component was designed to accept data and colors as props, showing team names, values, and changes in volunteer numbers, with colors determining bar appearance. However, challenges arose in applying different colors to each label part due to Chart.js limitations, and attempts to manually draw text using the afterDraw method resulted in errors. Given these difficulties, Sri switched to Recharts, which offered more straightforward customization and was better suited to the project’s needs, providing the flexibility and simplicity necessary for effective component customization, while assembling the social components for human abundance.

Vigneshwar initially managed state for user locations within the MapComponent using useReducer and useEffect, but this approach was limited in scalability. To improve modularity and reusability, he decoupled the state management logic and organized it into separate actions and reducers files. He introduced a GlobalStateProvider to allow easy access to global state across the application. Additionally, Vigneshwar implemented heatmap functionality using leaflet.heat with react-leaflet to visualize user concentration and added a message styled in red italics to inform users about data limitations, ensuring they are aware that inactive or deactivated volunteers are not displayed. Assembling the social components for human abundance, he enhanced the overall user experience by integrating these features seamlessly.

Vijay focused on improving user experience and resolving several interface issues in the HGN Software Development project. Efforts were made to disable the “Assign Badge” button unless a name is typed in the input boxes, and a fix was implemented in the badge assignment modal to display badges with an internal scroll, eliminating the need to scroll to the bottom to click the confirm button. A pull request (PR #2539) was raised to replace the badge assignment search functionality to display results in a table for better user experience, along with fixes to failing test cases. PR reviews were done for several fixes: the reports page horizontal scrolling issue on mobile dimensions (PR #2552), a redirection issue in dashboard mode (PR #2538), the addition of an information icon to the permission management page (PR #2536), handling long description inputs in time logs (PR #2534), and a teams modal mobile view fix on the user profile page (PR #2530). See the Highest Good Society and Highest Good Network pages for more on how this relates to assembling the social components for human abundance. 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 Jay Srinivasan (Software Engineer), Parth Rasu Jangid (Software Developer), Ramakrishna Aruva (Software Engineer), and Vishavdeep Kaur (Full stack Developer). The Highest Good Network software is how we’ll be managing and objectively measuring our process for assembling the social components for human abundance through our social architecture, construction, production, and maintenance processes. This week, Jay reviewed the summaries and media folders for Team Blue Steel and provided individual feedback to each member. He also looked into a user profile page alignment issue but found that the error could not be reproduced; it turned out that the necessary corrections had already been made in a prior update. He documented this finding in the initial bug report. Jay then worked on increasing the margins for the volunteer times tab, for which he submitted a pull request. Meanwhile, Parth concentrated on developing unit tests for the task controller, identifying and beginning to write tests for various functions. In addition, he reviewed several pull requests: PR 983+2343, PR 2529+1053, and PR 2541. The team also made progress in assembling the social components for human abundance, furthering the project’s impact. Ramakrishna focused on exploring different approaches to resolve the issue of test cases that were previously failing. During this period, he also wrote additional test cases to ensure the builds would pass. Vishavdeep tested, reviewed, and approved a series of pull requests (PRs) on the GitHub repository. The specific PRs addressed include PR-2538, PR-2539, PR-2545, PR-2488, PR-2542, PR-2541, PR-2523, PR-2503, PR-2515, PR-2514+1046, PR-2529+1053, and PR-2519. Comments were provided, and necessary changes were made to resolve the issues suggested in PR-2488. Jingyi worked on the “add timeoff indicator on leaderboard” feature, which involved calculating and displaying additional weeks of scheduled time off for team members, ensuring that these indicators are visible only to users with manager-level roles or higher. In addition, the team is focused on assembling the social components for human abundance, ensuring that their collaborative efforts contribute to the broader goal of fostering a thriving and supportive work environment. This enhancement focuses on improving the functionality and user interface of the application without compromising privacy. See the Highest Good Society and the Highest Good Network pages to learn more on how their work contributes to assembling the social components for human abundance. See below to view images of their work.

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