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Re-establishing Global Equilibrium – One Community Weekly Progress Update #538

Posted on July 16, 2023 by Samarth Urs

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One Community is a global initiative focused on re-establishing global equilibrium through sustainable approaches to food, energy, housing, education, economics, social architecture, fulfilled living, and global stewardship practices. As an all-volunteer organization, our mission is to create a model that becomes self-replicating, enabling us to build a network of teacher/demonstration hubs worldwide. We believe in doing this for “The Highest Good of All,” which is why we are committed to open sourcing and free sharing the complete process. By evolving sustainability and fostering collaboration, we are actively regenerating our planet and creating a world that works for everyone.

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

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

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 July 16th, 2023 edition (#538) of our weekly progress update detailing our team’s development and accomplishments:

Re-establishing Global Equilibrium
One Community Progress Update #538

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HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING PROGRESS

One Community is re-establishing global equilibrium 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, Amal Lazar (MS Mechanical Engineering) completed another week of assisting with the research for the Most Sustainable Lightbulbs and Light Bulb Companies: Research, Energy Savings, and More tutorial. Amal successfully completed the lightbulb task by finalizing the remaining activities. She focused on the consumer site segment, specifically addressing the incandescent and LED components, and sought out alternative options from benchmarking companies for the City Center project. Her efforts were aimed at identifying suitable alternatives that align with the project’s requirements and specifications. Below, you’ll find some images of this work.

Julia Meaney (Researcher and Assistant to Executive Director) completed another week of assisting with the team. This week, Julia worked on multiple projects. She focused on the “Net-zero Bathroom and Earthbag Village Water Collection and Septic Design” EDITED CONTENT FOR WEB” Google Doc, editing the remaining content to ensure proper grammar, spelling, and format suitable for the website. She also took the initiative to update links and images related to various products and sources. In addition, Julia dedicated time to the “DIY Earth Dam Design & Construction Disaster Mitigation Content” Google Doc, reviewing and editing the newly added content while addressing and resolving comments. Another task involved her thorough review of the “Hot Tub Sanitizer Alternatives” Google Doc, where she provided clarity on the placement of its content on the website and the appropriate formatting for integration. Julia also worked on the corresponding spreadsheet, updating colors and formatting to align with the master Hot Tub design spreadsheet. Moreover, she focused on the “Traditional Dome vs. City Center Dome Structural Engineering Loading Comparison Report” Google Doc, ensuring the content adhered to proper grammar conventions. Utilizing comments, she raised questions and offered valuable feedback when necessary. Furthermore, Julia undertook the responsibility of reviewing updates made to the “Murphy Bed Instructions” PDF, resolving comments where her feedback had been incorporated. Lastly, she dedicated her attention to Chuck’s work on the “Duplicable City Center Engineering” webpage, examining the integration of her comments from the corresponding Feedback PDF. Whenever required, she provided additional comments and feedback. To enhance clarity and logical formatting, Julia rectified spelling mistakes in the Table of Content title texts and made various edits throughout the webpage. See the images below that show some of this work.

DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER PROGRESS

One Community is re-establishing global equilibrium 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, Charles Gooley (Web Designer) completed another week of assisting with web design. Charles focused on addressing feedback for the Solar Energy Microgrid Setup and Maintenance as well as the Duplicable City Center Engineering tutorial. For the Solar Energy page, he primarily dealt with correcting links to images and tables, ensuring that all relevant figures were linked to their respective spreadsheets. However, due to insufficient clarity in the source document for the Solar Microgrid Setup and Maintenance page, the intended links for many tables and figures remained unclear. Once these issues are resolved, the spreadsheet links will be implemented accordingly. Additionally, Charles worked on comments regarding the Duplicable City Center Engineering” page, where he removed italicization from the captions and replaced several equation images with text. The addressed comments require further review, with potential additional corrections to be made as necessary. The pictures below offer a visual representation of this work.

Julio Marín Bustillos (Mechanical Engineer) completed another week of assisting with the City Center Dome Hub Connector Engineering. This week, Julio proceeded with the design process for the remaining variations of hub connectors required for the second row. Recognizing the importance of conducting stress analysis to ensure the connectors can withstand the anticipated loads, Julio sought assistance from Yiwei. By the end of the week, Julio successfully completed several variations and aims to conclude work on the second row in the upcoming week. The pictures below provide a glimpse of this work.

Ranran Zhang (Architectural Designer) completed another week of assisting with the updated video for the Duplicable City Center internal and external walkthrough. This week, Ranran addressed the errors in the Lumion model, rectifying them promptly. In addition, she dedicated her efforts to incorporating video clips, meticulously selecting the most relevant views to show the library. Notably, Ranran strategically opted for an overhead angle, capturing the entirety of the entrance to the site and showcasing it in its entirety. To enhance realism, she further enhanced these views by incorporating figures, thereby augmenting the overall visual experience. Take a look at the images below to see some of the progress made in this work.

Amiti Singh (Architectural Designer) focused on the design and modeling of a visitor room within the Duplicable City Center, specifically emphasizing a theme centered on tranquility. The objective was to create a space that exudes a sense of meditative calmness through the utilization of “softness.” This concept was achieved by incorporating soft edges, a subdued color palette, and simple furniture, along with cloth canopies, a spa-like bathroom, and floor seating arrangements. Amiti took charge of the SketchUp modeling process of the room, diligently gathering references and selecting appropriate colors and materials to bring the envisioned design to life.

YiweiHe (MechanicalEngineer) completed another week of assisting City Center Dome Hub Connector Engineering. This week, Yiwei completed a report comparing the traditional geodesic dome model with the city center dome model. The report focused on analyzing vertical loads, wind loads, snow loads, and earthquake situations through simulations. The findings indicated that the load capacity of the city center dome exceeded that of the traditional dome. See some of this work in the pictures below.

HIGHEST GOOD FOOD PROGRESS

One Community is re-establishing global equilibrium 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 further reviewed the open-source designs. We re-familiarized and reviewed portions of the Food Infrastructure Rollout Doc. We added a veterinarian position to the ongoing list of Pioneers for the third round of Pioneers who will take up residency on our property. Additionally, we recommended food-grade HDPE #2 buckets for long-term food storage of bulk items. See the pictures below that are related to this.

The core team also undertook several tasks in relation to the work at hand Transition Food Self-sufficiency Plan. First, an extensive review was conducted on the PDF Source Recipes that had been submitted up until SWG Lunch#2. Subsequently, an interview was scheduled and carried out with Gregory, resulting in the decision to bring him on board to contribute to the HG Food project. Additionally, feedback was provided to Alyx, who expressed a desire to include her personal recipes in HG Food. See below for pictures related to this.

HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION PROGRESS

One Community is re-establishing global equilibrium 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.

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

Highest Good Education: All Subjects | All Learning Levels | Any Age – Click image for the open source hub

HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY PROGRESS

One Community is re-establishing global equilibrium 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 75 hours managing One Community volunteer-work review not included above, emails, social media accounts, web development, new bug identification and bug-fix integration for the Highest Good Network software, and interviewing and getting set up new volunteer team members. The pictures below show some of this work.

Another core team member began verification of all the modifications made to the working Highest Good Network software. They conducted HGN PRs testing; checked several PRs and marked them as fixed, including 757 (second part confirmed), 927, 960, and 925. However, PR 878 was not fixed, and they provided a list of missing areas with supporting images on pages 63-67. Additionally, they identified two PRs to be tested next week: PR359, which was reviewed again and found suitable for last week’s reporting date, and a case was set up to check PR757, which is related to making up the required hours missed the previous week. They also commented on all previously checked PRs in the “HGN Phase| Bugs and Needed Functionalities” Google Doc. See the images below for examples of this work in progress.

Abdelmounaim “Abdel” Lallouache (Software Developer) continued his work helping with the Highest Good Network software. This week, Abdelmounaim made several contributions to the project. On the backend, he implemented the “validateSetupToken” function in the “profileInitialSetupController” to handle token validation. Additionally, on the frontend, he made updates to the “routes” component by introducing a new route specifically for the initial setup. Furthermore, Abdel created the “SetupProfile” component, which serves the purpose of token validation and redirects the user to either “SetupProfileUserEntry” or “SetupProfileInvalidToken” based on the token’s validity. In order to facilitate the initial setup process, he also developed the “SetupProfileUserEntry” component, which consists of a form where users can enter their information. Lastly, Abdel implemented the “SetupProfileInvalidToken” component, which displays the page users are directed to when they attempt to access the setup with an invalid link. The pictures below are related to this work.

Aishwarya Kalkundrikar (Full Stack Software Developer) continued helping with the Highest Good Network software. This week, Aishwarya reviewed numerous files from both the backend and frontend systems, specifically focusing on the file WeeklySummary.jsx, which is associated with generating weekly summaries for users. She discovered several modifications had been made to this file, and suspects that these changes may be the cause of the issue at hand. Additionally, Aishwarya examined files related to the functionality of sending email notifications for infringements. The pictures below show some of her work.

Alyx Parr (Senior Support Specialist) completed another week of assisting with management, coordination, and overall support of the One Community project. This week, Alyx created collages of individuals’ pictures for the blog and reviewed tutorials on how to move the pictures into the blog. She transferred summaries for review and copied them to the blog. In addition, she dedicated time to transferring recipes from the Master Recipe Doc into the Transition Kitchen Recipe Build Out Spreadsheet. Alyx also spent time training Maddie and assisting Ola with her pictures. The pictures below are examples of this work.

Eduardo Horta (Software Engineer) provided more of his ongoing assistance with the Highest Good Network software too. This week, Eduardo worked on various tasks to improve the functionality and design of different pages. He began by adjusting the reports page for mobile devices and also started working on the people report feature. Eduardo focused on debugging responsiveness issues, particularly with scrollbars and overlapping classes. He faced challenges while trying to style the <PeopleDataTable /> component to enable horizontal overflow on mobile phones. In addition, he dedicated time to understanding the logic behind the overlapping style of elements and components on the people report page. Eduardo also initiated adjustments on the team report page, ensuring that the popper of the <DatePicker/> component was correctly placed to prevent it from appearing outside the screen. Furthermore, he created a media query to display Report Logs in a column format for devices with a maximum width of 1100px. Eduardo centralized the pie chart to ensure it appeared properly on mobile devices, but noted the need for further adjustments. He continued working on the Team Report Page and made modifications to elements such as the title and pie chart to enhance their appearance on mobile devices. The images presented below exemplify his work.

Edwin Estuardo Lau Mack (Software Engineer) continued developing the Highest Good Network software. This week, Edwin dedicated his efforts to advancing the development of the HGN application as a member of the Dev Team, with a primary focus on Frontend Functionality. Edwin successfully completed the pull request (PR) titled “Make Total Valid Weekly Summaries” number editable by Owner/Admin, ensuring that the up/down arrows were only visible to Admins/Owners. In addition, He undertook a new task named “Fix making time intangible to tangible doesn’t add progress.” During this task, he identified an issue where the new time entry, when transitioning between tangible and intangible, was not properly linked to the task model in the database, only to the time entry model. To address this, he made a backend request to extract all task properties and adjusted the hoursLogged property based on the user’s selection. Subsequently, heimplemented a request to update the task with the adjusted hoursLogged value, which was then used to update the progress bar. Finally, Edwin dedicated time to the deployment of the new timer, delving into the code to fix memory leak bugs and resolve the issue that caused the timer to restart after submitting a time entry. Images showing this progress are below.

Jianjun Luo (Software Engineer) continued developing the Highest Good Network software. This week, Jianjun focused on refining the total people report feature from the previous week. She successfully addressed the one day gap bug resulting from the timezone transformation and simplified the procedure for viewing different time ranges. In addition, Jianjun initiated the development of the total team report feature and completed the majority of its functionalities, encompassing the display of total numbers, a bar graph, and a detailed table. Currently, her efforts are directed towards enhancing the component’s performance. The pictures below are related to this work.

Jinchao Feng (Software Engineer) continued improving the Highest Good Network software. This week, Jinchao primarily focused on developing permissions for the visibility of the summary indicator and visibility icon. Additionally, he dedicated time to formatting the entire frontend repository using Prettier and ESLint. During this process, he successfully resolved several common errors, ensuring minimal impact on the existing codebase. Jinchao also made the decision to disable certain rules that were either deprecated or no longer aligned with the current code standards. Please refer to the pictures below.

Jonathan Carpena (Full Stack Developer) gave his continued support to the Highest Good Network software. This week, Jonathan started by addressing typos and adding a default value in his first pull request. Additionally, he joined the new timer team and was assigned the responsibility of completing a project that had been left unfinished by a previous team member. While working on this task, the team faced challenges related to memory leaks during state updates and encountered unavoidable front-end alerts and wrong status codes. Check out the following pictures for his work.

Kaixiang “Kevin” Gu (Fullstack Software Developer) focused on the Highest Good Network software. This week, Kaixiang further developed the obvious background for the bio announcement. He successfully implemented a function to fetch the total tangible hours and total days data from the backend, allowing the yellow bar to appear if the user meets both criteria. Additionally, Kaixiang completed the function to display the yellow bar based on the status of the toggle switch. However, there is a need for optimization in the loading speed of the component. Pictures below show some of this work-in-progress.

Kurtis Ivey (Full Stack Developer) further advanced the Highest Good Network software. This week, Kurtis was promoted to the development team and was assigned to the new timer team. He diligently investigated and resolved several bugs, including an issue with Azure not working due to a redefined port variable. Kurtis successfully implemented a fix for the undefined TypeError on the front end. Additionally, he identified a timer problem where it would auto restart after submitting a time entry, which he resolved by deleting prevLogModal and modifying the if statement to prevent automatic timer restart. However, Kurtis currently faces a challenge with a merge conflict and awaits assistance to address it. Despite this obstacle, he has demonstrated a focused and problem-solving approach throughout his work. The pictures below are examples of this work.

Lawrence Chua (Full Stack Software Developer) further assisted with the Highest Good Network software. This week, Lawrence diligently re-reviewed backend PR #366 and confirmed that all the requested changes had been implemented satisfactorily. As the PR was functioning as intended, he proceeded to approve it. Additionally, Lawrence dedicated time and effort to resolving a bug associated with name changes for assigned resources when adding a task. Initially, he had devised a frontend solution; however, upon further examination, he determined it to be a temporary fix. With a focus on achieving a more robust resolution, he delved into the backend and identified a superior solution. After completing the task, Lawrence submitted a new pull request, which is currently awaiting review. See the images below to get a look at some of this work.

Leon Zhuang (Software Engineer) continued helping with the Highest Good Network software. This week, Leon dedicated his efforts to advancing the development of the interactive map. As part of this endeavor, he focused on implementing the logic required to retrieve data of all users from the backend. During this process, Leon made a minor adjustment to the backend code to enhance its functionality. Additionally, he delved into the exploration of integrating Leaflet, an interactive map library, with React. Through his diligent efforts, Leon successfully accomplished the task of setting up a basic working map using Leaflet. His work by him is shown below.

Lucile Tronczyk (Full Stack Software Developer) continued developing the Highest Good Network software. This week, Lucile undertook several tasks to advance her work. Firstly, she diligently prepared a first draft of the information points by utilizing a Google Doc. In order to ensure accuracy and adherence to the project requirements, Lucile referred to the relevant sections in the bugs and features document while navigating through the application. Additionally, she carefully examined the existing handling of information points and engaged in a discussion with a fellow team member responsible for making these points editable. Lucile’s proactive approach and collaborative mindset contributed to the progress made during the week. The pictures below relate to this.

Madhavan (Administrative Assistant) completed another week of assisting as a volunteer graphic designer helping with graphic design projects for all of One Community. This week, Madhavan joined the organization and underwent initial orientation, acquiring knowledge of collaging through the use of Fotojet and GIMP. Additionally, he familiarized themselves with the entire process and functionality of WordPress. Interactive meetings with colleague Alyx were held, during which he followed the instructions provided. The team warmly welcomed Madhavan, who quickly learned how to utilize CHAPTGPT and carry out tasks as an administrative assistant. For practice, dummy summaries were reviewed, with feedback provided by Jae and Alyx.

Nathan Hoffman (Software Engineer) continued improving the Highest Good Network software. This week, Nathan focused on optimizing code and resolving bugs in the project. He moved the hasPermission() calls outside of the render method, simplified the calls by utilizing Redux, and removed unnecessary variables. Nathan successfully merged PRs 931 and 416 with the development branches. While addressing small bugs that arose from the merge, he also identified an issue where testing was utilizing the wrong Redux store for hasPermission(). The pictures below show some of this work.

Nida Zaki (Software Engineer) further assisted with the Highest Good Network software. This week, Nida reviewed pull requests on both the frontend and the backend, and successfully identified the specific component responsible for a particular issue. She proceeded to implement a solution to rectify a bug that involved rendering a user inactive and editing their blue squares, which entailed removing duplicate useEffect hooks that were triggered by identical function calls. Additionally, she skillfully resolved merge conflicts on a specific branch. Moreover, she developed a functionality allowing only three designated accounts to possess the permissions necessary for editing, updating, and resetting the password of the “[email protected]” account. Lastly, Nida made changes to restrict the ability to modify details of the DevAdmin account exclusively to Jae. The pictures below are examples of this work.

Papia Sharmin (Full Stack Developer) continued working on the Highest Good Network software. This week, Papia focused on implementing an important feature on the dashboard: the addition of a suggestion icon. To enhance user experience, a select input was incorporated to enable users to choose a category for their suggestions. Once a category is selected, a corresponding text input field dynamically appears, allowing users to write their suggestions. Moreover, a radio input was introduced to give users the option to request feedback on their suggestions. In addition, Papia made significant enhancements to the owner class. Two edit buttons were added, enabling the owner to expand the functionality of the suggestions dropdown. The first button allows for the addition of new categories to the dropdown menu, while the second button facilitates the inclusion of new text input fields. Throughout the implementation process, all necessary functionality was integrated into both the frontend and backend components, ensuring a seamless user experience. Below are some images related to this work.

Ray Lee (Digital Creator) also helped create an additional new icon for the Highest Good Network and a new header for our People’s Agenda 21 – www.peoplesagenda21.com website. See below for some of the pictures.

Sav Costabile (Web Developer) continued helping with the Highest Good Network software. This week, Sav addressed an app issue related to the badges component, which was a known problem among developers. The issue involved a delay between the front end and backend when users received new badges, resulting in the profile and dashboard pages not updating immediately. Through comprehensive testing, Sav determined that badges were being assigned and received correctly from the backend. However, the delay was attributed to the front end only retrieving badge data during its initial rendering. To resolve this, Sav initiated testing of a MongoDB function called changeStream, which is expected to enable real-time front-end updates whenever there are changes in the backend data. The pictures below relate to this work.

Stevie Acuña (Volunteer Graphic Designer) completed another week of assisting as a volunteer graphic designer helping with graphic design projects for all of One Community. This week, Stevie focused on creating blog images for social media and YouTube posts, ensuring visually appealing content for the organization’s online platforms. Stevie also dedicated time to generating numerous volunteer announcements and developing supplementary web content, contributing to the effective communication of volunteer opportunities. Furthermore, Stevie reviewed and incorporated new volunteer background imagery into the volunteer announcement template, enhancing the visual presentation. Examples of his work are below.

Vishvesh Sheoran (Artificial Intelligence Specialist) continued assisting with the AI and machine learning improvements for all of One Community. This week, Vishvesh dedicated time to learning the intricacies of SEO by setting up the RankMath plugin for the One Community website. He delved into the features and functionalities of RankMath, focusing on optimizing on-page elements, meta tags, and keywords. His commitment to understanding and implementing effective SEO practices highlights his pursuit of enhancing website visibility and search engine rankings. See the pictures below showing his efforts by him.

Xiao Wang (Software Engineer) continued helping with the Highest Good Network software. This week, Xiao Wang focused on enhancing the logic of the WBS task system. Previously, all tasks were included and styled using style.display, which involved a significant amount of DOM manipulation not recommended for React. Currently, in the frontend, the recursive nesting of the Task component is almost complete, with the addition and import of tasks functioning as intended. However, there are still some unresolved details, including the elimination of unwanted setTimeout and the implementation of task movement functionality, which Xiao aims to address with more appropriate code. One major challenge encountered was ensuring that react-tooltip displays correctly after all tasks are rendered, but despite considerable effort, a solution could not be achieved. As a temporary workaround, a button was implemented on the page to display the tooltip. During work on the backend, Xiao also identified flawed logic pertaining to the task system data, although no action has been taken on that yet. Additionally, Xiao has scheduled the exploration of using the WBS schema’s modification date property to detect database changes and notify users when attempting modifications, such as adding new tasks. See supporting images below.

Xiaoyu Chen (Software Engineer) continued helping with the Highest Good Network software. This week, Xiaoyu proficiently addressed and resolved a bug associated with PR951, specifically related to conflicts between the handleSave and handleMove functions. Following this, she undertook a strategic separation of the handleSave and autoclose functions. This approach involved the meticulous rewriting of the handleMoveSave function, an endeavor that greatly enhanced its readability. Moreover, she thoughtfully integrated a ‘Close this window’ feature in PR975, providing users with the opportunity to verify the accuracy of the moved summary before opting to close the window through a simple button click. In response to Jae’s requirements, Xiaoyu conducted two rigorous tests focused on the Timer and Summary components, the objective being to uncover any potential bugs. Her keen attention to detail led to the discovery that updates to user class differences were not taking place when new roles and permissions were added. To rectify this, she skillfully rewrote the RoleInfoModal and incorporated a mouseover function, in addition to developing another mouseover function to facilitate owners in editing permissions for varying roles. Xiaoyu’s continued effort in enhancing user experience resulted in the addition of a scroll bar featuring a checklist in the editing mode, coupled with a submit button. Currently, she is diligently working on rectifying the handleSubmit function. Additionally, she effectively approved PR 881, ensuring that tangible time was accurately logged as intended. Please see evidence of this work below.

Yihan Liu (Software Engineer) continued development on the Highest Good Network software. This week, Yihan focused on addressing the issues related to the weekly summary submission date and the implementation of a “submit for review” button. Tatyana reported inaccuracies in the submission dates for the previous week and three weeks ago. She conducted a thorough analysis of the code and identified the dueDate property as a potential source of the problem. Taking prompt action, Yihan rectified the dueDate value and initiated PR#977 for review. Additionally, she commenced work on the “submit for review” button by creating the ReviewButton.jsx file and updating the TeamMemberTask.jsx file. Please look below for pictures of Yihan’s work.

Yiyun Tan (Management Dashboard Team Leader) continued improving the Highest Good Network software. This week, Yiyun devoted her time primarily to the “apply the ESLint and Formatter” plan, demonstrating her commitment to the project. She conducted extensive research on the GitHub Wikis, meticulously reviewing all existing documentation to gain a comprehensive understanding of the topic. Drawing upon her analysis, Yiyun formulated a detailed plan, carefully outlining the necessary updates required for specific files and identifying areas where new documentation needed to be created. Look below for connecting pictures.

Yongjian Pan (React.js/MongoDB Full Stack Software Developer) continued assisting with the Highest Good Network software. This week, Yongjian focused on improving the usability of the Work Breakdown Structure (WBS) by implementing a feature that allows users to directly access specific WBS pages by clicking on their respective names. However, during the implementation, issues arose as the corresponding pages became unresponsive when WBS names were clicked. Consequently, he dedicated time to debugging and identifying the underlying reasons behind the unresponsiveness. Additionally, Yongjian worked on the task of enhancing the login experience by implementing functionality that informs users if their account is no longer active. Through these endeavors, Yongjian demonstrated his commitment to improving user navigation and ensuring effective communication within the system. See the images below for a look at this work.

Yubo Sun (Full Stack Software Developer) focused on the Highest Good Network software . This week, Yubo addressed T149, which involves fixing the ability to add professional links. Given his’s usual work pattern, CSS styling and pull requests (PRs) are still pending, as the primary focus was on incorporating feedback from the previous week’s progress. While Yubo managed to resolve some of the identified issues, finding a solution for the problem of valid URLs remains unresolved, leading to encountering errors when attempting to remove additional saving. Additionally, he successfully resolved conflicts in the frontend PR#860. The pictures below relate to and show some of this work.

Yufei Zhang (Software Engineer) further assisted with the Highest Good Network software. This week, Yufei focused on developing an editable mouseover text feature for the owner user class. The primary challenge involved displaying the default mouseover text, storing the updated text, and ensuring its persistence. Yufei worked on the backend to build a mouseoverText controller and implemented the necessary routes and related components. To facilitate this feature, she added two new fields, “mouseoverText” and “isMouseoverTextEdited,” to the userProfile schema. Yufei also implemented a pre-save middleware to update the default mouseover text. Only users in the owner class can edit the mouseover text. Once the text has been manually edited, it will continue to display the owner’s changes until further updates by the owner, otherwise, the default mouseover text will automatically update based on the working hours. Please see below for pictures of this work.

Zubing Guo (Software Engineer) focused on the Highest Good Network software. This week, Zubing diligently continued her work on the task of incorporating “Admin Document” and “Link to Media Files” functionalities into the Profile page as part of the development team’s objectives. After successfully modifying the necessary code in UserLinks.jsx to display Dropbox links from the adminLinks section on user profiles, Zubing shifted her focus to EditLinkModal.jsx. With careful attention to detail, she implemented the necessary modifications to introduce labeled sections for both Google Docs and Dropbox Folders within the adminLinks section of the Links Layout. Furthermore, Zubing ensured the seamless retrieval and display of data in the designated areas. Throughout the process, she conducted thorough testing and subsequently submitted a well-prepared pull request. Despite encountering challenges that required additional time and effort, Zubing remained steadfastly committed to the successful completion of her task. Look below for pictures of her work by her.

The Highest Good Network software PR Review team also worked to test all of the above PRs and find any bugs they could within those PRs and the software as a whole. This week’s active members of this team (completing a minimum of 10 volunteer hours each) were: Aaron Persaud (Software Developer), Anish Pandita (Software Engineer), Bailey Mejia (Software Engineer), Carl Bebli (Software Developer), Hector Agudelo-Carmona (Front-end Developer), Igor Rocha da Silva (FullStack Developer), Jiangwei Shi (Full Stack Engineer), Luis Arevalo (Front End Developer), Maham Almizan Khan (Software Engineer), Olga Yudkin (Software Engineer), Ramya Ramasamy (Full Stack Developer), Shivansh Sharma (Software Developer), Siddharth Mohite (Software Engineer), Tim Kent (Full Stack Software Engineer), Tzu-Ning “Leo” Chueh (Software Engineer), and Yao Wang (Software Engineer). The collage below shows a compilation of the work from this team.

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Forwarding Positive Change – One Community Weekly Progress Update #537

Posted on July 9, 2023 by Samarth Urs

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One Community is dedicated to forwarding positive change through sustainable approaches to food, energy, housing, education, economics, social architecture, and more. As an all-volunteer organization, we are proud to introduce a self-replicating model for forming a global collaboration of teacher/demonstration hubs. Together, we are evolving sustainability, regenerating our planet, and striving to create a world that works for everyone.

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 July 9th 2023 edition (#537) of our weekly progress update detailing our team’s development and accomplishments:

Forwarding Positive Change
One Community Progress Update #537

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HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING PROGRESS

One Community is forwarding 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

Amal Lazar (MS Mechanical Engineering) completed another week of assisting with the research for the Most Sustainable Lightbulbs and Light Bulb Companies: Research, Energy Savings, and More tutorial. This week, Amal finished gathering data on the three metrics for each company and completed building the table as well. She updated the ranking based on the information collected and made changes to the order of the narratives and sustainability benchmarking. Amal also worked on the consumer site section, searching for alternatives for the City Center Project. Below, you’ll find some images of this work.

This week, Julia Meaney (Researcher and Assistant to Executive Director) completed another week of assisting with the team. This week, Julia oversaw and assessed Amal’s progress on her Light Bulb research, providing editorial revisions and offering feedback through comments when necessary. Following that, she dedicated her efforts to the”Solar Microgrid Setup Maintenance” webpage, making necessary edits and addressing comments received on the source Google Doc. Additionally, she reconstructed outdated tables for this page and updated corresponding screenshots and links on the source Google Doc. Julia then focused on resolving spacing issues on the “Eco-laundry” webpage, successfully resolving them and ensuring the page’s completion. Julia devoted considerable time to working on the “Net-zero Bathroom and Earthbag Village Water Collection and Septic Design” EDITED CONTENT FOR WEB” Google Doc, refining its content by editing grammar, spelling, and format, while utilizing comments to pose clarifying questions. She backed up various sources to her Dropbox, updating screenshots, source links, image captions, and Resources sections on the Doc accordingly. Furthermore, she replaced broken links and sourced new images and products as needed. Lastly, Julia integrated relevant content from older sections into already-edited segments and removed any obsolete information. See the images below that show some of this work.

DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER PROGRESS

One Community is forwarding 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: Duplicable City Center Open Source Hub

This week, Charles Gooley (Web Designer) completed another week of assisting with web design. Charles worked on feedback for the Solar Microgrid Setup Maintenance tutorial. The comments involved correcting links to images and tables, and ensuring that all other figures had links to spreadsheets where applicable. Then he worked on comments for the Duplicable City Center Engineering page. Some comments were to add bullets to some of the lists, make a number of corrections and add missing images, convert equations from image to html text, and make additions to some of the Tables of Contents. The pictures below offer a visual representation of this work.

Julio Marín Bustillos (Mechanical Engineer) completed another week of assisting with the City Center Dome Hub Connector Engineering. This week, Julio made progress in the installation of hub connectors along the nodes for the City Center Dome. Julio successfully completed the placement of 9 hub connectors on the right side of the node for the second row. The only discernible distinction between these hub connectors is a minute difference in angle. Although this discrepancy is not expected to impact the overall design, it is essential to incorporate these slight variations in the 3D model to ensure precise fitting during the final assembly. To differentiate between brackets with different opening angles, distinct colors were assigned. These brackets will play a crucial role in the completion of the hub connector assembly for all the nodes in the second row. The pictures below provide a glimpse of this work.

Yiwei He (Mechanical Engineer) completed another week of assisting with the City Center Dome Hub Connector Engineering. This week, Yiwei completed a report comparing the Traditional Geodesic Dome Model with the City Center Dome Model. The simulation worked on vertical loads, wind loads, snow loads, and earthquake situations. The findings of the report revealed that the load capacity of the City Center Dome surpassed that of the traditional dome. See some of this work in the pictures below.

Ranran Zhang (Architectural Designer) completed another week of assisting with the updated video for the Duplicable City Center internal and external walkthrough. This week, Ranran addressed some errors present in the Lumion Model, ensuring its accuracy and functionality. Additionally, she dedicated her efforts to incorporating video clips into the project. By carefully selecting specific views that showcased the herb garden and root cellar, Ranran enhanced the overall visual experience. To further augment realism, she integrated figures and plants into these chosen views. Take a look at the images below to see some of the progress made in this work.

HIGHEST GOOD FOOD PROGRESS

One Community is forwarding 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: Gardens & Hoop Houses | Large-scale Structures | Food Forest | TA

This week the core team further reviewed the open-source Chicken Coop designs. We completed updates, reviews, and edits for the Chicken Doc pages 166-199, which cover the topics of nesting boxes and window and fan installations. We also reviewed the FAQs and completed some of the unanswered questions. See the pictures below that are related to this.

Zhide Wang (Mechanical Engineer) completed another week of assisting primarily focused on data entry tasks for the Transition Food Self-sufficiency Plan, completing three of them and partially filling out the fourth. Due to the absence of specific numbers and factors for certain ingredients, he invested additional time to determine accurate values. He also helped with the Aircrete and earthbag compression testing but encountered challenges with the Aircrete WBSs due to misunderstandings, resulting in a prolonged effort to address them. Although he dedicated considerable time to this task, he was unable to complete it and aims to exert his utmost effort to finalize it in the upcoming week. Get a closer look at this work through the pictures below.

HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION PROGRESS

One Community is forwarding 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. 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 Brian Muigai Mwaniki (Structural Engineer) completed work helping with the Ultimate Classroom. Brian made significant progress in completing the structural details, with 98% of the work now finished. The remaining 2% involves editing a few text elements, which will be addressed once the structural design is finalized. Additionally, the ongoing Structural Analysis, utilizing STAAD Pro, is currently in progress. See below for pictures related to this work.

HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY PROGRESS

One Community is forwarding 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: 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 68 hours managing One Community volunteer-work review not included above, emails, social media accounts, web development, new bug identification and bug-fix integration for the Highest Good Network software, and interviewing and getting set up new volunteer team members. The pictures below show some of this work.

Another core team member began verification of all the modifications made to the working Highest Good Network software. She conducted testing on HGN PRs (Pull Requests). After a thorough evaluation, she marked the following PRs as fixed: 727, 412, 886, 930, 926, and 948. However, several PRs were identified as not fixed, including 908, 916 (working only for Owner accounts), 920 (working only for Owner accounts), 928 (requiring changes in seven different locations), 941 (missing “WEEKLY SUMMARIES LINK” field in the user’s profile), and 840 (not fixed for certain accounts). Additionally, a new bug was discovered. The committed hour’s changes were not reflected on the Core Team Dashboard, but it was resolved during this week as well. Tatyana also prepared the account data setup for retesting PR757. See the images below for examples of this work in progress.

Abdelmounaim “Abdel” Lallouache (Software Developer) continued his work helping with the Highest Good Network software. This week, Abdelmounaim focused primarily on frontend development. One of the key accomplishments was the addition of the “setUpNewUserPopup” modal file, which facilitates the process of sending a setup profile link to a provided email address. Additionally, the “tokenProtectedRoute” component was implemented, enabling the validation of token-based links and subsequent redirection to the setup page. On the backend side, Abdelmounaim introduced the “sendLinkMessage” function, which generates the email body for sending the setup link. Notably, the “getSetupToken” function was also updated to include the functionality of sending emails to new users, providing them with a link to set up their accounts. The pictures below are related to this work.

Alyx Parr (Senior Support Specialist) completed another week of assisting with management, coordination, and overall support of the One Community project. This week, Alyx transferred the summaries of the volunteers onto a Google Doc. prepared for the One Community Website Blog. In addition, she acquired the knowledge, through a process of experimentation and refinement, necessary to prepare the blog for Sara’s inclusion of the accompanying visual content. Furthermore, Alyx provided assistance to the volunteers by offering guidance on measurements and ingredients relevant to the Transition Food Self-sufficiency Plan. The pictures below are examples of this work.

Aishwarya Kalkundrikar (Full Stack Software Developer) continued helping with the Highest Good Network software. This week, Aishwarya successfully resolved a bug related to double notification emails for a blue square that was manually assigned. Aishwarya identified and removed a duplicate ‘useEffect’ hook in the code responsible for the blue square, specifically within the handleSubmit function, which handles user profile saving logic. The presence of the duplicated ‘useEffect’ caused the handleSubmit function to trigger twice, resulting in the user profile being saved twice and two email notifications being sent instead of the intended one. Additionally, Aishwarya conducted thorough testing of the functionality, including its corner cases. In addition, she reviewed and approved frontend PR#925, and began working on another assigned bug related to a change in the total remaining hours for users. Further understanding of this change is required to address the bug as the functionality to mark a task as complete is now changed. Aishwarya also went through some files to find issues related to no blue square getting assigned even when the weekly summary was not provided. She found that many changes were done in the file WeeklySummary.jsx and suspects that the issue lies in it. The pictures below show some of her work.

Eduardo Horta (Software Engineer) provided more of his ongoing assistance with the Highest Good Network software too. This week, Eduardo took the initiative in improving the user experience by implementing Skeleton Loading components throughout the application. He created a SkeletonLoading folder in the common directory, replacing the outdated <Loading /> component. The new SkeletonLoading component was designed to dynamically switch between different cases based on the props it receives. Eduardo successfully added Skeleton Loading to the WeeklySummary and WeeklySummariesReport pages, enhancing the loading experience for users. Furthermore, he implemented Skeleton Loading for the UserProfile and UserManagement pages, ensuring a seamless loading transition. Eduardo also dedicated time to cleaning up the SkeletonLoading component for the UserManagement page and updating it for the UserProfile page. In order to consolidate the changes, he raised PR #962, titled “Eduardo add skeleton loading feature to all components,” and skillfully resolved any conflicts that arose during the pull request process. The images presented below exemplify his work.

Edwin Estuardo Lau Mack (Software Engineer) dedicated his efforts to advancing the development of the Highest Good Network software. This week, Edwin completed the task “Change location and function of red X” by aligning the deadline notification icon in the progress bar, preventing it from occupying extra space in the team member task rows and instead placing it on top of the progress bar component. Additionally, Edwin submitted a pull request (PR) that made the “Total Time” in the leaderboard appear blue when it differed from the “Tangible Time.” Furthermore, Edwin worked on enabling Owner/Admin to edit the “Total Valid Weekly Summaries” number. To achieve this, he created a new ArrowCounter component that allowed users to increase or decrease the number displayed on the screen. Upon clicking the up or down arrow, a request was sent to the backend to update the corresponding property, ensuring that the new count would be displayed upon refreshing the page. Images showing this progress are below.

Jianjun Luo (Software Engineer) continued developing the Highest Good Network software. This week, Jianjun successfully implemented a new feature on the report page. The feature enables admin to conveniently view or hide the number of members who have contributed over ten hours, along with their total tangible hours, for any selected time period. Additionally, a bar graph is dynamically generated to depict the monthly or yearly distribution of the data, depending on the duration of the selected period. To facilitate further exploration, users can effortlessly access a detailed list of the contributing members and directly navigate to their individual profiles with a single click. The pictures below are related to this work.

Jinchao Feng (Software Engineer) continued improving the Highest Good Network software. This week, Jinchao focused on cleaning up commits on the main branch and updating it to the same version as the development branch to resolve merge conflicts in the latest pull requests. He also addressed issues related to the timer not functioning correctly and investigated and resolved a bug that prevented the editing of time entries. Additionally, Jinchao began the process of formatting the code according to the latest ESLint and Prettier rules. Please refer to the pictures below.

Jonathan Carpena (Full Stack Developer) gave his continued support to the Highest Good Network software. This week, Jonathan undertook a review of two pull requests, namely 925 which addressed badges and text, and 944 which focused on fixing linting errors and nesting element errors. Subsequently, Jonathan dedicated his efforts to the implementation of a new feature in the application. This feature empowered admin users with additional options for their Weekly Summaries, including the ability to choose “Not Required” or select a specific team. Following the successful completion of the initial pull request, Jonathan proceeded to debug website issues that had been reported in the coding-problems channel on Slack.

Kaixiang “Kevin” Gu (Fullstack Software Developer) focused on the Highest Good Network software. This week, Kaixiang dedicated time to conducting final reviews for three pull requests, namely PR905, PR906, and PR908. In addition, he addressed an issue where the weekly committed hours couldn’t be updated in the user profile. Kaixiang successfully resolved this problem by implementing a hotfix, submitting a new pull request, and obtaining approval. He also allocated time to setting up the application environment on a Mac, and reinstalling all necessary components from scratch, resulting in the successful running of the application. Pictures below show some of this work-in-progress.

Lawrence Chua (Full Stack Software Developer) further assisted with the Highest Good Network software. This week, Lawrence focused on two tasks to enhance the functionality of the system. The first task involved improving the visibility of time entries that were not associated with specific tasks. To achieve this, Lawrence implemented a solution that highlighted the text of such time entries by making it bold and introduced a white bar within the colored bar on the left side of the task to indicate it as a non-task entry. With the completion of this task, Lawrence proceeded to open his first pull request. The second task entailed resolving a bug related to name changes for assigned resources when adding a task. Lawrence successfully identified a solution to this issue, which involved ensuring that the task displayed the updated name of the user even after their name was changed. See the images below to get a look at some of this work.

Leon Zhuang (Software Engineer) continued helping with the Highest Good Network software. This week, Leon addressed a bug related to the display of user profiles. Specifically, he rectified an issue where, when viewing a user’s profile, the text indicating the number of badges earned by that user incorrectly implied that it reflected the viewer’s own accomplishments rather than the user whose profile was being viewed. To resolve this, Leon implemented logic to verify whether the user was viewing their own profile, and subsequently modified the text accordingly. Additionally, he contributed to the bugs and new features document by generating a descriptive summary for a newly developed interactive map feature. His work by him is shown below.

Lucas Emanuel Souza Silva (Software Developer) further assisted with the Highest Good Network software. This week, Lucas diligently focused on implementing code for a specific task, utilizing the slice with userProfile to establish the appropriate state when users access another user’s dashboard. Additionally, Lucas extended the codebase to enforce limitations on user interactions within the dashboard, while preserving distinct interactions for owner and administrator users. Throughout the week, Lucas devoted time to reviewing pull requests (PRs) that required final review before submission and commenced the implementation of code to retrieve tasks associated with the viewed user. Furthermore, Lucas resolved challenges encountered during the merging of the development branch with the task 171 branch and contributed to the final review process by assessing a PR. Pictures of some of this work are below.

Lucile Tronczyk (Full Stack Software Developer) continued developing the Highest Good Network software. This week, Lucile conducted a thorough investigation into the bug that arises when attempting to edit blue squares while users are set as inactive or active. Despite the modal no longer appearing, an error persisted in the console. Lucile dedicated efforts to further examine and address the issue, particularly focusing on resolving the steps involved in making a user inactive and subsequently editing their corresponding blue square. Additionally, Lucile initiated the creation of a Google document intended to serve as an informational resource for the app, aiming to include relevant information points. Moreover, Lucile engaged in a search to identify the specific location of an existing information point within the app, with the intention of drawing inspiration for the creation of other information points. The pictures below relate to this.

Nathan Hoffman (Software Engineer) continued improving the Highest Good Network software. This week, Nathan actively engaged in the code review process and carried out various tasks related to permissions. He reviewed PR 401 and generated a bug report. Additionally, he re-reviewed PRs 867 and 842, providing additional suggested changes. Nathan reviewed the implemented changes in PR 881, ensuring their effectiveness, and subsequently approved the PR. Upon request, he re-reviewed PR 842. Furthermore, Nathan verified the existence of all necessary permissions in permissionsBackEnd and immersed himself in permissions documentation. He completed a form for proposing changes and worked on merging back-end and front-end permissions. During the process, he encountered an instance without back-end permissions and proceeded to replace front-end permissions that had corresponding back-end equivalents. Nathan’s efforts included attempting to set up a test database for alternate permissions, but instead, he created an alternate role collection in the main database. Despite this, he successfully achieved the functionality of alternate permissions. The pictures below show some of this work.

Nida Zaki (Software Engineer) further assisted with the Highest Good Network software. This week, Nida researched React hooks and successfully implemented the functionality to set the latest project value and latest team value within their respective functions called in the useEffect hook. Furthermore, the cause behind the issue of the front-end failing to send requests for updated changes to the server was identified for the task when saving the edited changes in the time entry form. To address this, appropriate measures were taken to rectify the problem. Additionally, improvements were made to the system’s functionality by implementing sorting capabilities for the list of names in the resources field. This enhancement allows for sorting by either first name or last name when adding or editing a WBS task. The pictures below are examples of this work.

Olawunmi Ijisesan (Administrative and Management Support) completed another week of assisting with management, coordination, and overall support of the One Community project. This week, Ola focused on tasks related to the Website Blog. She dedicated time to watching tutorials, editing summaries, and copying and pasting the required work for the week. Furthermore, Ola engaged in a conference call with Jae to discuss relevant matters. In addition to their work on the blog, Ola also contributed to the Transition Food Self-sufficiency Plan by entering all the recipes from the Master Recipe and 3-Day Menu Blocks Doc into the designated spreadsheets. Pictures of some of this work are below.

Papia Sharmin (Full Stack Developer) continued working on the Highest Good Network software. This week, Papia made several notable contributions to our project. Firstly, she implemented a new feature that displays a message to users if they don’t have any other team members in their team. This enhancement was added to the “Add My Team” filter task. Additionally, Papia introduced a “View Suggestions” button on the Task Edit Suggestion page for the new task. This button allows users to easily access and review suggested edits. Furthermore, she incorporated the functionality to approve tasks within the Task Edit Modal by implementing the “Approved” button. Furthermore, Papia made important modifications to the system, enabling administrators to view the notification count on the dashboard upon logging in. This change provides administrators with quick access to essential notifications. Lastly, she diligently reviewed Pull Request #864 and provided her approval. Below are some images related to this work.

Raul Effting (Jr. Front-End Web Developer) continued his help with the Highest Good Network software too. This week, he created new pull requests (PRs) with updated code and a new timer. One of the PRs for the new timer required fixing, leading to the creation of a new PR. Additionally, Raul created another PR incorporating the new timer. They worked on resolving a loading issue and attempted to find a solution for the new timer to function on the development environment, but unfortunately, were unsuccessful in their efforts. Below are some images related to this work.

Ray Lee (Digital Creator) also helped create additional One Community overview graphics for our ongoing website optimization process. See below for some examples.

Sav Costabile (Web Developer) continued helping with the Highest Good Network software. This week, Sav dedicated their efforts to reviewing the entire userHelper file responsible for managing badge assignments. They focused on refactoring obsolete code to enhance readability and enable scalability for future badge implementations. Towards the end of the week, Sav focused on troubleshooting a peculiar issue related to the inadvertent assignment of blue squares to users upon completion of their hours. The pictures below relate to this work.

“Sola” Olusola Akinbode (Full Stack Software Developer) continued forwarding with the Highest Good Network software. This week, Sola made progress on PR 838 by focusing on the migration of CRUD operations from Axios calls to Redux calls. He also introduced a new tab/button called “Summary Teams” within the “View Profile” section. This feature allows users to view the summary teams they are a part of. Sola implemented functionality that enables users to add or remove themselves from a summary team. However, the ability for admins to add a summary receiver remains restricted to the summary management tab, which is exclusively accessible to admins. The summary receivers within a team receive reports from all team members associated with that particular team. Look below for pictures of this work.

Stevie Acuña (Volunteer Graphic Designer) completed another week of assisting as a volunteer graphic designer helping with graphic design projects for all of One Community. This week, Stevie focused on creating blog images for social media and YouTube posts, ensuring visually appealing content for the organization’s online platforms. He also dedicated time to generating numerous volunteer announcements and developing supplementary web content, contributing to the effective communication of volunteer opportunities. Furthermore, Stevie reviewed and incorporated new volunteer background imagery into the volunteer announcement template, enhancing the visual presentation. Through these efforts, Stevie has been consistently providing materials that align with the organization’s requirements, supporting its overall objectives. Examples of his work are below.

Xiao Wang (Software Engineer) continued helping with the Highest Good Network software. This week, Xiao focused on enhancing the logic of the WBS task system. The current implementation heavily relied on DOM manipulation, resulting in potential conflicts with React and unintended behaviors. Another concern was the utilization of settimeout to simulate a loading effect, which was deemed inappropriate. Progress was made in implementing the nesting of Task components within Task components, aiming to facilitate improved functionality without relying on DOM manipulation. Additionally, XiaoWang explored the possibility of utilizing the WBS schema’s modification date property to detect changes in the database and notify users when attempting to make modifications, such as adding new tasks. See supporting images below.

Xiaoyu Chen (Software Engineer) continued helping with the Highest Good Network software. This week, Xiaoyu successfully separated the mediaUrl and googleDoc Link in the system, thereby enhancing clarity in the user profile. In tandem with these modifications, the user’s name now clearly indicates the difference between these two links. Any changes made to the mediaUrl will automatically reflect on the user profile page, ensuring real-time updates. Xiaoyu also efficiently segregated these two links in the summary report for improved navigation. Notably, she initiated a meaningful change in the phrasing on the summary report page: the term ‘weekly summary: duedate’ has been replaced with ‘Submitted on submitteddate’. To streamline operations, Xiaoyu implemented a ‘move summary’ feature that resets and updates the summary report. She meticulously addressed a typographical error and later removed the checkbox to confirm the move operation. The move dropdown menu now reads ‘move this summary’, adding coherence to the interface. On selection of the week, a popup will display for user interaction. No changes occur upon choosing ‘close’, but when ‘confirm’ is selected, the move function activates. Additionally, Xiaoyu incorporated a save function for confirmation. She simplified the previously complex ‘handleSave’ function by rewriting the code, thereby improving its readability. The move function was subsequently bound to the save function, promoting seamless operation. Xiaoyu, always proactive, prioritized and addressed several urgent bugs in the system. She made a substantial contribution by integrating a role information modal in the basic user information tab, enhancing the user’s ability to navigate and interact with the platform. Check out the pictures below as examples of this work.

Yihan Liu ( Software Engineer) continued development on the Highest Good Network software. This week, Yihan focused on three specific tasks: modifying the layout of the “create new user” form, eliminating the need for additional save when adding projects and teams, and ensuring the task summary refreshes after editing and saving. To address the first issue, Yihan successfully resolved it by consolidating the Row component of UserProfileAdd.jsx into a single class and incorporating a style property. Regarding the second task, Yihan implemented an automatic closure for the team popup after assigning a team, streamlining the process. Lastly, for the third task, Yihan fixed the problem by updating EditTaskModal.jsx to execute the reload function upon clicking the “update” button, ensuring that the task summary reflects the latest changes and updates. See the pictures below related to this work.

Yiyun Tan (Management Dashboard Team Leader) continued improving the Highest Good Network software. This week, Yiyun dedicated her time primarily to the “HGN documentation improvements” plan. She conducted extensive research on the GitHub Wikis and thoroughly reviewed all existing documentation. Based on her analysis, Yiyun formulated a detailed plan outlining the necessary updates for specific files and identified areas where new documentation needed to be created. In addition to her documentation responsibilities, she actively supported the entire team by providing assistance and conducting code reviews, as she routinely does. Yiyun’s contributions were invaluable in ensuring the team’s productivity and maintaining the quality of the project. Below, you’ll find pictures highlighting the development of this work.

Yufei Zhang (Software Engineer) further assisted with the Highest Good Network software. This week, Yufei started her first pull request aimed at improving the functionality of the intangible time number with a mouseover explanation. She started by creating a separate working branch from the development branch and pushed it to the remote repository. By the end of the week, Yufei successfully implemented the desired behavior: the time number now appears in blue or remains unchanged based on the presence of intangible time. Each time number is accompanied by a mouseover text that provides a clear explanation for its blue or non-blue appearance. When no time logged, the mouseover text displays “No time logged yet.” For only tangible time logs, it shows “XXX hours logged.” In cases where both tangible and intangible time are logged, the text reads “XXX hours logged (XX intangible).” Yufei also made progress in allowing owner users to edit the mouseover text, although she is still working on determining the optimal approach for storing the edited and logged text information. Please see below for pictures of this work.

Zubing Guo (Software Engineer) focused on the Highest Good Network software. This week, Zubing joined the development team and quickly familiarized herself with the application’s frontend and backend structure. She diligently reviewed the existing bug list and took on the task of adding “Admin Document” and “Link to Media Files” to the Profile page, recognizing its urgent priority. Before diving into the code implementation, Zubing conducted comprehensive testing to ensure functionality and meticulously planned the data retrieval logic and tab design. By locating the relevant code in UserLinks.jsx, she successfully modified it to display Dropbox links from the adminLinks section on user profiles. Moreover, Zubing enabled the editing of both Google Doc and Dropbox folder links within the adminLinks. Additionally, Zubing took the initiative to create new files specifically for storing Dropbox links separately from other links. She implemented the necessary functionality to add a dedicated tab for Dropbox links on the profile page. Look below for pictures of her work by her.

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One Community Welcomes Papia Sharmin to the Software Development Team!

Posted on July 8, 2023 by One Community Hs

One Community welcomes Papia Sharmin to the Software Development Team as our newest Volunteer/Consultant!

Papia is a Full Stack Developer with a strong focus on building optimized and scalable projects using React.js and Next.js. With a natural aptitude for learning, Papia easily adapts to emerging technologies and stays up to date with the latest industry trends. She approaches every task with determination, strives for perfection while delivering projects on time, and excels in problem-solving and debugging, tackling challenges with a methodical approach to find effective solutions. With a comprehensive skill set encompassing HTML, CSS, JavaScript, TypeScript, React.js, Next.js, and Testing, Papia possesses a solid foundation in Full Stack Development and joined the One Community team as a developer working on the open source Highest Good Network.

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One Community Welcomes Edwin Estuardo Lau Mack to the Software Development Team!

Posted on July 4, 2023 by One Community Hs

One Community welcomes Edwin Estuardo Lau Mack to the Software Development Team as our newest Volunteer/Consultant!

Edwin is an international student from Guatemala, recently graduated, with a B.S in Computer Science from the University of California San Diego. He is an enthusiastic, professional and hard-working person who is always seeking new opportunities to learn and expand his circle of skills. His interests are in software development and he loves to create products that will bring satisfaction and a smile to users and customers. One of Edwin’s key accomplishments during his academic career is that he was able to successfully deliver a full-stack project during his internship at Amazon. This project was the first front end application that managed the booking of warehouse transportation of Amazon merchandise. Edwin joined the One Community team to help with our open source Highest Good Network software and, through demonstrating both professional excellence and outstanding software development skills, was promoted to the management team in less than 2 months.

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One Community Welcomes Xiao Tan to the Software Development Team!

Posted on July 2, 2023 by One Community Hs

One Community welcomes Xiao Tan to the Software Development Team as our newest Volunteer/Consultant!

Xiao is a first-year Masters student at the University of Southern California specializing in Communication Data Science. She has a passion for the convergence of technology and business that drives her to create technology-powered products, services, and experiences guided by data-driven decisions. She has a strong foundation in Data Analysis, Machine Learning, Computer Science, and Business and her previous internships at JD.com and Bytedance also provided valuable experiences in project management. There she collaborated with cross-functional teams, conducted market research, led feature development, and presented actionable recommendations based on data analysis. These experiences further fueled Xiao’s dedication to data-driven decision-making and inspired their pursuit of a graduate degree in Data Science, with the goal of becoming a proficient project manager in the future. As a member of the One Community Team helping develop the open source Highest Good Network software, Xiao quickly distinguished herself and is now a manager on the PR Review Leadership Team.

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Maximizing Sustainable Yields – One Community Weekly Progress Update #536

Posted on July 2, 2023 by Samarth Urs

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One Community is an all-volunteer organization dedicated to maximizing sustainable yields through our holistic approach to food, energy, housing, education, for-profit and non-profit economic design, social architecture, fulfilled living, global stewardship practices, and more. Our open source and free-shared model, meticulously designed to become self-replicating, serves as the foundation for creating a global network of teacher/demonstration hubs commitment to “The Highest Good of All“.

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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 July 2nd, 2023 edition (#536) of our weekly progress update detailing our team’s development and accomplishments:

Maximizing Sustainable Yields
One Community Progress Update #536

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HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING PROGRESS

One Community is maximizing sustainable yields 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, Julia Meaney (Researcher and Assistant to Executive Director) completed her 35th week with the team. Julia assumed responsibility for overseeing and managing Amal’s Light bulb research, addressing and resolving comments on her development Google Doc. Additionally, Julia produced a Feedback PDF for the “Solar Microgrid Setup Maintenance” webpage, completing her initial review of Chuck’s incorporation of new content onto the page. Throughout the process, Julia utilized the comments to communicate necessary fixes, making minor edits to the code and formatting as needed. To ensure accuracy, she consistently referenced the source Google Doc during the integration of all new content. Furthermore, Julia conducted a review of Chuck’s implementation of her feedback for the “Eco-laundry” webpage, resolving comments on the Feedback PDF and finalizing the page. In parallel, she worked on the “Net-zero Bathroom and Earthbag Village Water Collection and Septic Design EDITED CONTENT FOR WEB” Google Doc, addressing comments and editing the content. Lastly, Julia reviewed the “Hot Tub Sanitizer Alternatives” Google Doc, confirming its completion and readiness for integration into the website. See the images below that show some of this work.

Amal Lazar (MS Mechanical Engineering) completed her 12th week helping now with the research for the Most Sustainable Lightbulbs and Light Bulb Companies: Research, Energy Savings, and More tutorial. This week, Amal worked on various sections of the research project. She began by conducting further research and making adjustments to the sustainability benchmarking section, particularly focusing on refining the descriptions of each company. In this context, Amal undertook the development of a new methodology aimed at enhancing the ranking of companies. This involved investing time in gathering the necessary information and organizing it in a table format. Currently, her main focus is on validating the sustainability benchmarking section, as the ranking plays a crucial role in the subsequent stages of the research. Thus far, Amal has identified alternative proposals for the city center project, specifically suggested by Signify, which holds the top position due to its exceptional sustainability achievements. For the remaining two rankings, she is relying on the utilization of the new set of four metrics to ensure a robust decision-making process and establish a solid ranking. Below, you’ll find some images of this work.

Vidhi Bansal (3D Visualization Artist) completed her 11th week helping with video and AutoCAD renders for a 4-dome cluster Earthbag Village housing design. This week, Vidhi focused on the 4 Dome Flythrough project, integrating the Tesla charger, glass box, and road pathway into the scene. He worked on the scene’s overall layout and resolved material issues for several assets. He also made significant changes and edits to the materials of the Tesla charger and the glass box. In his quest for optimal placement, he experimented with positioning the charger on the walls of the Domes and concluded that situating it alongside the Tesla was a superior solution. Additionally, Vidhi dedicated time to enhancing the landscape materials and achieving a realistic appearance for the entire scene through lighting adjustment. Check out the pictures below as examples of this work.

Zhide Wang (Mechanical Engineer) completed his 11th week, helping now with the Aircrete and earthbag compression testing preparation. This week, Zhide completed the finalization of the Work Breakdown Structures (WBSs) for the Aircrete project and integrated them into the standard documentation. Additionally, he familiarized himself with another project involving data entry for a transition kitchen intended to serve a population of over 50 individuals. Zhide, promptly began assisting with the data entry tasks and successfully completed two of the plans while also commencing work on the third one. Get a closer look at this work through the pictures below.

DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER PROGRESS

One Community is maximizing sustainable yields 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, Charles Gooley (Web Designer) completed his 35th week helping with web design. Charles continued working on feedback for Solar Energy Microgrid Setup and Maintenance tutorial. The comments involved adding links to the pie chart figures to the corresponding spreadsheet, and insuring that all the other figures had links to spreadsheets where applicable. Then he worked on comments for the City Center Dome Hub Connector Engineering page. Some comments were to add bullets to some of the lists, and comments asked to replace equations that were imaged with text. The pictures below offer a visual representation of this work.

Julio Marín Bustillos (Mechanical Engineer) completed his 19th week helping with the City Center Dome Hub Connector Engineering. This week, Julio dedicated time to researching various hub connector concepts but decided to prioritize testing the current model due to its comparatively simpler manufacturability in comparison to other options. His initial focus was on designing the “V” bracket for the right side of the first row, encompassing two models with slight variations in plate angles. Although these angle differences were fractional (0.2 degrees), they were deemed negligible in terms of performance impact. In the event that this model fails simulation testing, he will explore more intricate design alternatives. The pictures below provide a glimpse of this work.

Yiwei He (Mechanical Engineer) completed her 16th week helping with the City Center Dome Hub Connector Engineering. This week, Yiwei focused on the simulation aspects of the two dome structures, delving into the intricacies of the design and construction. She dedicated her efforts to ensuring the accuracy and efficiency of the simulations, while also taking into account the potential impact of various weather conditions. In addition, she completed the finalization of the Aircrete ordering list, meticulously reviewing the details to ensure the correct quantities and specifications. As part of her responsibilities, she checked the contents of the solar page, verifying the accuracy and relevance of the information presented. See some of this work in the pictures below.

HIGHEST GOOD FOOD PROGRESS

One Community is maximizing sustainable yields 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 to work on the Transition Food Self-sufficiency Plan. We worked with 3 new team members as we imported the recipe information from the Master Recipe and 3-Day Menu Blocks Doc to the Transition Kitchen Recipe Build Out. We also uploaded PDF recipes to the Source Recipe PDFs folder. See below for pictures related to this.

The core team also reviewed the open-source Chicken Coop designs. This week we reviewed and provided edits for the chicken doc pages 117-140 regarding the topics of Coop Entry Door Construction, Hanging the Coop Entry Door, Installing Sliding Chicken Doors, and Building Shutters for Ventilation Openings. We then provided suggestions to format headings in a grammatically similar format and to also unify the material lists with the same sequential three-line items. See the pictures below that are related to this.

HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION PROGRESS

One Community is maximizing sustainable yields 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.

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

Highest Good Education: All Subjects | All Learning Levels | Any Age – Click image for the open source hub

HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY PROGRESS

One Community is maximizing sustainable yields 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 51 hours managing One Community volunteer-work review not included above, emails, social media accounts, web development, new bug identification and bug-fix integration for the Highest Good Network software, and interviewing and getting set up new volunteer team members. The pictures below show some of this work.

Another core team member began verification of all the modifications made to the working Highest Good Network software. we performed testing on a total of 15 pull requests (PRs) from the designated list of fixed PRs. Out of these, 12 PRs were successfully confirmed as fixed, effectively addressing the identified issues. However, two PRs were found to remain unresolved. One more PR requires additional information regarding the steps to test the second request in order to proceed with the resolution process. In addition to testing the fixed PRs, Tatyana also reported one new PR that pertains to the generation of duplicated numbers when adding a new task to the project. A detailed description of the problem was provided, along with supporting images to assist in understanding the issue. See the images below for examples of this work in progress.

Yiyun Tan (Management Dashboard Team Leader) completed her 61st week helping with the Highest Good Network software. This week, Yiyun dedicated her time to resolving the bug titled “manually assign blue squares will get two duplicate notification emails.” She exhibited active participation in team communication channels such as Slack, where she provided valuable support in problem-solving, bug reporting, and maintaining existing tutorials. Alongside these tasks, Yiyun consistently fulfilled her regular responsibilities. Below, you’ll find pictures highlighting the development of this work.

Jianjun Luo (Software Engineer) completed her 31st week helping with the Highest Good Network software. This week, Jianjun implemented a crucial update to the user status changing permission, introducing a restriction. Following the modifications, only the owner is now authorized to deactivate another owner, while other roles possessing the ‘change user status’ permission are capable of activating an inactive owner. This conditional verification process has been implemented on both the user management page and the user profile page. Additionally, she made several reviews to the opening PRs. She also commenced work on a new feature for the report page. Pictures below are related to this work.

Raul Effting (Jr. Front-End Web Developer) completed his 25th week helping with the Highest Good Network software. This week, Raul, dedicated his time to resolving new timer conflicts on GitHub. The primary focus of his work was troubleshooting it and rectifying new timer conflicts that arose during the week. His efforts were concentrated on identifying and resolving these conflicts, ensuring smooth functionality and synchronization. Below are some images related to this work.

Aishwarya Kalkundrikar (Full Stack Software Developer) completed her 23rd week helping with the Highest Good Network software. This week, Aishwarya conducted an extensive review of frontend files containing the blue square addition function. In an effort to debug the code, she inserted output lines but was unable to identify any issues resulting in the double notification. Ultimately, she determined that the problem arose from the user profile being saved twice when a Bluesquare was assigned. A function named ‘handleSubmit’ was invoked within a useeffect hook, leading to duplicate profile saves. The resolution for this bug entails removing the function from the useeffect hook. Aishwarya requested additional time to conduct thorough testing of corner cases. Additionally, she examined Raul’s pull request, which presented multiple conflicts, and provided minor review comments. Subsequently, it was discovered that the conflicts stemmed from a name mismatch in the file “TeamMemberTasks.jsx,” which had been modified for a hotfix. Pictures below show some of this work.

Lucas Emanuel Souza Silva (Software Developer) completed his 20th week helping with the Highest Good Network software. This week, Lucas reviewed pull requests that required final approval and completed the questionnaire for phase 2. Additionally, Lucas focused on fixing the header display when viewing another user’s dashboard, conducting thorough research on components and user IDs. During this process, Lucas identified a glitch involving submitting time to a task on another user’s dashboard. Continuing development work, Lucas decided against implementing a new state slice on the store and instead explored accessing route parameters within the Header component. To improve the code, Lucas reverted the commits on the branch due to previous ideas not being effective. Moreover, Lucas successfully discovered a solution for displaying the URL in the Header component. In addition to these tasks, Lucas conducted code reviews on a pair of pull requests, which were subsequently merged. Pictures of some of this work are below.

Jinchao Feng (Software Engineer) completed his 18th week helping with the Highest Good Network software. This week, Jinchao focused on the development of EsLint and Prettier configuration. He tested every ESLint plugin on several code files to see their effectiveness and came up with a plugin combination that makes the code formatted and follows as many rules as possible with minimal code changes. Then he applied those rules to more directories to conduct thorough testing. Afterward, he drafted a pull request (PR) with detailed instructions, summarizing his work. Please refer to the pictures below.

Sav Costabile (Web Developer) completed their 16th week helping with the Highest Good Network software. This week, Sav resumed work following a two-week break and focused on various tasks. They attended to PR suggestions and implemented necessary changes. Additionally, they dedicated time to testing the readiness of the badgeAssignmentBug for the final review stage. In order to effectively manage the remaining badge-related issues, Sav planned out the required modifications, creating a timeline and checklist for addressing these bugs prior to phase 2. Another area of their attention was spent rectifying formatting problems stemming from their local environment, while also resolving the remaining PRs. Lastly, Sav allocated time to investigating a new bug that impacted both the front and backend aspects of the badge component. The pictures below relate to this work.

Yongjian Pan (React.js/MongoDB Full Stack Software Developer) completed his 14th week helping with the Highest Good Network software. This week, Yongjian focused on improving the alignment of IDs and green dots on the Work Breakdown Structure (WBS) page within the projects. Users can access the WBS page by navigating through the reports, selecting a project, and choosing a specific WBS to view. Additionally, Yongjian is currently working on implementing a functionality that enables users to click on the name of a WBS and be redirected to the respective WBS page. Through these tasks, Yongjian aims to enhance the overall usability and navigation experience within the project management system. See the images below for a look at this work.

Abdelmounaim “Abdel” Lallouache (Software Developer) completed his 13th week helping with the Highest Good Network software. This week, Abdelmounaim focused on the backend aspect of the project. Initially, he incorporated the “profileInitialSetupToken.js” file, which was responsible for implementing the Token schema. In addition, he introduced the “profileInitialSetupRouter.js” file, which established routes for retrieving tokens and facilitating the setup process for new users. Lastly, Abdelmounaim added the “profileInitialSetupController.js” file, encompassing two essential functions: “getSetupToken” and “setUpNewUser.”The pictures below are related to this work.

Yihan Liu (Software Engineer) completed her 13th week helping with the Highest Good Network software. This week, Yihan focused on streamlining the process of adding Projects or Teams by eliminating the need for an additional “save” action. This was achieved by transferring the handleSubmit function from the UserProfile component to the TeamsTab and ProjectsTab components, and ultimately to the AddTeamPopup and AddProjectPopup components. Upon clicking the “confirm” button, the handleSubmit handle is executed seamlessly. Additionally, Yihan diligently reviewed PR#927 and confirmed that it performed as expected. During testing in the Dev environment, Yihan observed that users were required to click the “save changes” button twice in order to eliminate the save change warning. As a result, Yihan promptly logged this bug in the bug list for further attention and resolution. See the pictures below related to this work.

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Vishvesh Sheoran (Artificial Intelligence Specialist) completed his 12th week helping with the Highest Good Network software. This week, Vishvesh Sheoran dedicated time to mastering Google AdWords essentials for the onecommunity website. He extensively researched content-recommendation plugins like YARPP, analyzing their features and potential benefits for the website’s content strategy. Additionally, he delved into the functionalities of RankMath, an SEO plugin, gaining valuable insights into optimizing website content for search engines. See pictures below showing his efforts.

Lucile Tronczyk (Full Stack Software Developer) completed her 10th week helping with the Highest Good Network software. This week, Lucile focused on enhancing the codebase by making it reusable for editing a specific section of the user profile. By eliminating the need for a previously buggy function, Lucile successfully improved the efficiency and reliability of the code. Additionally, Lucile implemented a feature to ensure that the cursor starts in the appropriate fields on various pages, including Teams Projects and others. This enhancement enhances user experience and streamlines the workflow for users interacting with these pages. The pictures below relate to this.

Edwin Estuardo Lau Mack (Software Engineer) completed his 8th week, helping with the Highest Good Network software. This week, Edwin dedicated his efforts to reviewing pull requests (PRs) and advancing the development of the HGN application as a member of the Dev Team, primarily focusing on Frontend functionality. Alongside reviewing multiple PRs, Edwin fixed a bug related to email authentication, ensuring that users can only authenticate with an exact email match. To achieve this, Edwin modified the regex expression passed in the findOne() function in the backend to enforce exact email matching for authentication. Additionally, Edwin implemented a new functionality that allows tracking of deadline updates for tasks. This involved introducing a new property called “deadlineCount” in the backend task model, which keeps track of the number of times the estimated hours for a task have been updated. Whenever the estimated hours change and differ from the previous value, the deadlineCount is incremented. This information is then fetched in the TeamMemberTask component and displayed in the top right of the progress time bar. This week Edwin reviewed a total of 6 PR’s: #412, #920, #926, #927, #928, #934 Images showing this progress are below.

Papia Sharmin (Full Stack Developer) completed her 8th week helping with the Highest Good Network software. This week, Papia Sharmin made several notable contributions to our project. Firstly, she implemented a new feature that displays a message to users if they don’t have any other team members in their team. This enhancement was added to the “Add My Team” filter task. Additionally, Papia introduced a “View Suggestions” button on the Task Edit Suggestion page for the new task. This button allows users to easily access and review suggested edits. Furthermore, she incorporated the functionality to approve tasks within the Task Edit Modal by implementing the “Approved” button. Furthermore, Papia made important modifications to the system, enabling administrators to view the notification count on the dashboard upon logging in. This change provides administrators with quick access to essential notifications. Lastly, she diligently reviewed Pull Request #864 and provided her approval. Her attention to detail and thorough review process greatly contribute to the project’s progress. Below are some images related to this work.

Xiao Tan (Software Engineer) completed her 9th week helping with the Highest Good Network software. This week, Xiao focused on various tasks and demonstrated her commitment to addressing project priorities. She devoted her attention to resolving the issue identified by Jae, which involved creating Shadow Consistency for the Dashboard (PR878). She diligently worked on the code, ensuring that all tests were successfully passed to meet the desired outcome. Additionally, Xiao dedicated time to enhance the user experience by making styling modifications to the search name feature on the Badge Management page. She promptly pushed these changes to the same PR for further review and collaboration. In another task, she successfully implemented the rounding of hour numbers to two digits by incorporating the “toFixed(2)” function into both the timeEntryController.js file for the hoursLogged variable and the userHelper.js file for the timeSpent variable. She proactively followed the link provided by Aishwarya to access the required environment variables for enabling Gmail API, which was essential for conducting thorough testing. Lastly, Xiao actively contributed to the team by reviewing PR898, PR890, and PR899, providing valuable feedback to her peers. See images supporting this below.

Xiao Wang (Software Engineer) completed his 8th week helping with the Highest Good Network software. This week, Xiao improved the loading speed of WBS pages by focusing on several key tasks. Firstly, he addressed a freeze problem caused by the <ReactTooltip> component, which resulted in browser freezing. To resolve this issue, he implemented a solution in which ReactTooltip.rebuild() is executed on the parent component (<WBSTasks>) to consolidate all tooltips of the child component (<Task>) into a single <div>. This significantly reduced the number of <div> elements created. Secondly, Xiao optimized the logic in the allTasksReducer.js file. Previously, the application sent multiple requests for different levels of tasks, leading to inconsistent response ordering. Additionally, when a level 0 request was made, the app would inadvertently remove tasks of other levels if their responses arrived earlier. Xiao addressed this problem by introducing a fetchedData buffer in the state. The response data now occupies a fixed position in the buffer based on its level, and a sortByNum function combines and sorts all the response data into taskItems. Furthermore, he simplified the code by allowing the sortByNum function to handle the sorting for all tasks, eliminating the need to find the index of the mother task and insert at a specific position for certain cases. He also temporarily fixed an issue where the addTask functionality failed to update the hasChild property of the parent task. In the future, this issue needs to be resolved in a subsequent pull request. XiaoW also made modifications to the allTasksReducer.test.js test file to accommodate the newly added property in the allTasksReducer.js state. He disabled certain test cases and made necessary adjustments, considering that some code in the previous version of allTasksReducer.js was solely intended to pass the test file without offering functional value. Lastly, Xiao removed redundant sorting logic in the <WBSTasks> component. See supporting images below.

Nathan Hoffman (Software Engineer) completed his 7th week helping with the Highest Good Network software. This week, Nathan actively engaged in the code review process and carried out various tasks related to permissions. He reviewed PR 401 and generated a bug report. Additionally, he re-reviewed PRs 867 and 842, providing additional suggested changes. Nathan reviewed the implemented changes in PR 881, ensuring their effectiveness, and subsequently approved the PR. Upon request, he re-reviewed PR 842. Furthermore, Nathan verified the existence of all necessary permissions in permissionsBackEnd and immersed himself in permissions documentation. He completed a form for proposing changes and worked on merging back-end and front-end permissions. During the process, he encountered an instance without back-end permissions and proceeded to replace front-end permissions that had corresponding back-end equivalents. Nathan’s efforts included attempting to set up a test database for alternate permissions, but instead, he created an alternate role collection in the main database. Despite this, he successfully achieved the functionality of alternate permissions. While some work remains in terms of writing permissions and conducting tests, Nathan’s progress demonstrates his dedication and meticulous approach to permissions management. The pictures below show some of this work.

Nida Zaki (Software Engineer) completed her 6th week helping with the Highest Good Network software. This week, Nida made several updates to the codebase. She added min and max attributes to the endDate and startDate components in order to ensure that the End Date is always later than the Start Date when using the datepicker. Nida also dedicated time to researching validation techniques that would allow the end date to be later than the start date while still allowing manual input. She made efforts to incorporate a suggestion provided by KurtisIvey on the pull request for this task. To visually indicate validation errors, she applied CSS styling to make the border of both fields red. Lastly, she conducted research and successfully implemented sorting for Members, with a focus on giving higher priority to names starting with the inputted letter, followed by other names that include the letter. The pictures below are examples of this work.

Xiaoyu Chen (Software Engineer) completed her 6th week helping with the Highest Good Network software. This week, Xiaoyu diligently worked on refining the software interface. Her initial plan involved the introduction of a clear button and a dropdown menu, but she soon realized the consequential heavy reliance on the ‘reactstrap’ API. To circumvent this, she intelligently altered her approach and substituted the button with radio options, thus enhancing user-friendliness while simultaneously reducing API dependency. This constructive change further facilitated the ‘handleMoveOptions’ function to reset content based on the selected value, improving the system’s interaction with the past four weeks’ summaries. Throughout this process, Xiaoyu appreciated the insightful feedback from her colleagues. Leon Zhuang contributed by identifying typographical and capitalization inconsistencies, while Xiao Tan and OAkinbode suggested repositioning the Tab feature for a superior user experience. Taking their advice onboard, Xiaoyu adjusted the location of the Tab toggle within the handleMove functions, leading to improved user interaction. After implementing these improvements, she turned her focus on resolving bugs associated with media and Dropbox links. Xiaoyu’s initial step involved changing the weekly summary name within the create user profile function. She then developed an efficient solution to substitute the ‘mediaUrl’ in the summary submissions by incorporating a ‘GoogleDocLink’ into the ‘getWeeklySummaries’ function, a modification she intends to execute in the immediate future. Nevertheless, a minor hiccup occurred when she failed to switch between the software branches, resulting in a slight mix-up. Showing resilience, Xiaoyu successfully resolved this by segregating the issues into two separate branches, thereby maintaining the functionality and integrity of the codebase. Check out the pictures below as examples of this work.

Sneha M Madle (Software Engineer) completed their 5th week helping with the Highest Good Network software. This week, Sneha began by examining the HGN Bug list and subsequently undertook the task of addressing a medium priority bug, specifically focusing on rectifying the assign badge functionality within the user profile. Sneha performed a thorough investigation into the workings of the assign badge functionality, resulting in the identification of areas requiring code modifications. Following this discovery, Sneha made the necessary code changes. However, the initial attempts proved unsuccessful, prompting Sneha to perform another in-depth analysis of the code. As a result, it became apparent that a considerable amount of additional code alterations were still necessary, and Sneha worked diligently on implementing them. Moreover, Sneha also dedicated time to reviewing several pull requests during the course of the week. The pictures below show this work.

“Sola” Olusola Akinbode (Full Stack Software Developer) completed his 5th week helping with the Highest Good Network software. This week, Sola assumed responsibility for the development of a project aimed at implementing a feature that enables administrators and team leaders to receive team weekly summary reports via email from their respective groups. Sola addressed a bug encountered while adding new group members or users and initiated the implementation of CRUD operations using Redux as the initial approach. Additionally, Axios calls were utilized to synchronize data between Redux and MongoDB, resulting in improvements in loading times. These tasks are currently in progress within Pull Request 838. Look below for pictures of this work.

Lawrence Chua (Full Stack Software Developer) completed his 3rd week helping with the Highest Good Network software. This week, Lawrence diligently pursued the investigation of an issue involving rare occurrences within the blue square system. Specifically, the system exhibited behavior where deleted blue squares would occasionally be reassigned hours after deletion and trigger multiple email notifications. To address this, Lawrence extensively studied the blue square system’s mailer system, aiming to comprehend its inner workings. He meticulously logged and tested numerous blue squares in an effort to reproduce the issue. Despite thorough efforts, Lawrence was unable to pinpoint the root cause as all system components appeared to be functioning as intended. See the images below to get a look at some of this work.

Leon Zhuang (Software Engineer) completed his 3rd week helping with the Highest Good Network software. This week, Leon addressed a bug related to the display of user profiles. Specifically, he rectified an issue where, when viewing a user’s profile, the text indicating the number of badges earned by that user incorrectly implied that it reflected the viewer’s own accomplishments rather than the user whose profile was being viewed. To resolve this, Leon implemented logic to verify whether the user was viewing their own profile, and subsequently modified the text accordingly. Additionally, he contributed to the bugs and new features document by generating a descriptive summary for a newly developed interactive map feature. His work is shown below.

Stevie Acuña (Volunteer Graphic Designer) completed his 2nd week as a volunteer graphic designer helping with graphic design projects for all of One Community. This week, Stevie diligently pursued the creation of blog images for One Community Global, employing expertise in graphic design to conduct thorough research, develop comprehensive plans, and successfully produce visually striking graphics. In addition, Stevie crafted three distinctive announcements and bio images for individuals who completed a two-month tenure with One Community Global, effectively highlighting their achievements. Subsequently, Stevie efficiently incorporated the relevant information of these three individuals into the organization’s website for seamless uploading. Examples of his work are below.

Alyx Parr (Senior Support Specialist) completed her 2nd week helping with management, coordination, and overall support of the One Community project. This week, Alyx worked to grasp all the nuances of the team, meticulously reviewing their tasks to ensure they had completed everything as required. She also helped with data entry by learning and beginning the process of importing the Transition Food Self-sufficiency Plan recipes into the Master spreadsheet. The pictures below are examples of this work.

Olawunmi Ijisesan (Administrative and Management Support) completed her 2nd week helping with management, coordination, and overall support of the One Community project. This week, Ola acquired new skills including data entry, uploading website pictures into spreadsheets, and inputting data for the Transition Food Self-sufficiency Plan and “Transition Kitchen Recipe build Out from the Master Recipes and 3-Day Menu Blocks” documents. Additionally, Ola diligently organized folders for HGN, NON-HGN, and PR team members in the designated location for the collage and HGN Website Blog. Ola also actively participated by providing comments and responses on team members’ Google Docs. Pictures of some of this work are below.

Jin Hua (Web Marketer and Graphic Designer) helped us analyze how well our new site improvement plugin is working and other areas we can still improve it. The pictures below show some of this work.

The Highest Good Network software PR Review team also worked to test all of the above PRs and find any bugs they could within those PRs and the software as a whole. This week’s active members of this team and how many weeks they’ve been with us are as follows: Anish Pandita (Software Engineer) completed his 19th week, Eduardo Horta (Software Engineer) completed his 7th week, Kurtis Ivey (Full Stack Developer) completed his 3rd week, Maham Almizan Khan (Software Engineer) completed her 4th week, Olga Yudkin (Software Engineer) completed her 4th week, Rachna Vijay Pandya (Full Stack Developer) completed her 2nd week, Steve Paalz (Software Developer) completed his 5th week, Tzu-Ning “Leo” Chueh (Software Engineer) completed his 3rd week, Yufei Zhang (Software Engineer) completed her 5th week. The collage below shows a compilation of the work from this team.

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Creating a Society that Works for Everyone – One Community Weekly Progress Update #535

Posted on June 25, 2023 by Samarth Urs

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At One Community, an all-volunteer organization, we are dedicated to creating a society that works for everyone. We are supporting this with open source and sustainable approaches to food, energy, housing, education, for-profit and non-profit economic design, social architecture, fulfilled living, global stewardship practices, and more. Combining these, our model is designed to be self-replicating, inspiring others to join our mission of regenerating our planet through a global collaboration of teacher/demonstration hubs, where our sustainability practices will be further evolved and open sourced. This is the June 25th, 2023 edition (#535) of our weekly progress update detailing our team’s development and accomplishments.

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

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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 June 25th, 2023 edition (#535) of our weekly progress update detailing our team’s development and accomplishments:

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HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING PROGRESS

One Community is creating a society that works for everyone 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, Loza Ayehutsega (Civil Engineer/Assistant Civil Engineer) completed her 21th week helping, now focused on Earth Dam Design & Construction for Water Retention, Pond & Lake Creation. This week Loza worked on the Dam safety guidelines topic. This topic is quite broad. The guidelines are given for the possible failure mechanism. Dam risk mitigation by considering the possible failure mechanism is reported on this topic. The safety of Dams relates to many disciplines, Dam owners, Dam inspectors, construction sectors, authorities, and government representatives. Take a look at the pictures below to get a glimpse of this work.

Amal Lazar (MS Mechanical Engineering) completed her 11th week helping now with the research for the Most Sustainable Lightbulbs and Light Bulb Companies: Research, Energy Savings, and More tutorial. This week, Amal focused on finalizing the sustainability benchmarking part. She diligently gathered data on each company and meticulously summarized the findings in a comprehensive table. Amal conducted thorough comparisons between companies to initially determine and predict the most accurate ranking. In the process, She identified and corrected numerous mistakes, refining the narratives and expanding certain paragraphs. Additionally, Amal conducted research on alternative lighting solutions for the Duplicable City Center. Below, you’ll find some images of this work.

Zhide Wang (Mechanical Engineer) completed his 10th week, helping now with the Aircrete and earthbag compression testing preparation. This week, Zhide successfully organized the Aircrete information and revamped the Aircrete Work Breakdown Structures (WBSs). The WBSs now feature concise task titles, clearly outlined task importance, implementation guidelines, and expected end states, making them ready for review. Additionally, Zhide found a lack of clarity regarding the stabilized earth task and conducted thorough research to address this gap. Get a closer look at this work through the pictures below.

DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER PROGRESS

One Community is creating a society that works for everyone 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, Charles Gooley (Web Designer) completed his 35th week helping with web design. This week, Charles continued working on Julia’s feedback to the Eco-Laundry research tutorial. The comments involved adding blank lines before some of the headings, and correcting links in the Resources section. Then he worked on the Solar Microgrid Setup and Maintenance page. He compared the contents of the Google Doc to the WordPress page. The only issues that were found were a few missing blank lines before headings, and missing anchor links in the Choosing the Best Solar Hardware section. The pictures below offer a visual representation of this work.

Ranran Zhang (Architectural Designer) completed her 28th week working on the updated video for the Duplicable City Center internal and external walkthrough. This week, Ranran undertook several modifications and adjustments based on the feedback received. In particular, she made changes to the model to address the suggested improvements. Additionally, she decided to alter the material used for the countertop, freezer, and various kitchen machines, and carefully selected specific views that showcased the vegetable greenhouse and the entrance to the garden. Take a look at the images below to see some of the progress made in this work.

Julio Marín Bustillos (Mechanical Engineer) completed his 19th week helping with the City Center Dome Hub Connector Engineering. This week, Julio focused on developing a practical model for the City Center dome. Building upon the previous week’s work, which utilized a dome composed of cylinders to analyze reactive forces and determine maximum stresses, Julio successfully redesigned the dome using genuine beams featuring an 8-inch hub diameter to prevent beam intersections. To accomplish this, Julio leveraged the wire model to generate the beams effectively. This newly constructed model will serve as a valuable resource for designing an improved hub connector and conducting additional simulations to assess the design’s optimization and compliance with performance requirements. The pictures below provide a glimpse of this work.

Yiwei He (Mechanical Engineer) completed her 16th week helping with the City Center Dome Hub Connector Engineering. This week, Yiwei focused on the simulation aspects of two dome structures, delving into the intricacies of their design and construction. She dedicated her efforts to ensuring the accuracy and efficiency of the simulations, while also taking into account the potential impact of various weather conditions. In addition, Yiwei completed the finalization of the Aircrete ordering list, meticulously reviewing the details to ensure the correct quantities and specifications. As part of her responsibilities, she also diligently checked the contents of the Solar Microgrid page, verifying the accuracy and relevance of the information presented. See some of this work in the pictures below.

HIGHEST GOOD FOOD PROGRESS

One Community is creating a society that works for everyone 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 to work on the Transition Food Self-sufficiency Plan. This week we worked on the Loose Measurements column in the Shopping List and completed those calculations. We also began adding Absolute Reference markers to the calculations in the Shopping List and did so for the first two columns. We then imported FWC and FWD to the Master Recipe Template. See below for pictures related to this.

The core team also reviewed the open source Chicken coop designs. This week we reviewed and provided edits for the chicken doc pages 117-140 regarding the topics of Coop Entry Door Construction, Hanging the Coop Entry Door, Installing Sliding Chicken Door, and Building Shutters for Ventilation Openings. We then provided suggestions to format headings in a grammatically similar format and to also unify the material lists with the same sequential three line items. See pictures below that are related to this.

HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION PROGRESS

One Community is creating a society that works for everyone 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.

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

Highest Good Education: All Subjects | All Learning Levels | Any Age – Click image for the open source hub

HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY PROGRESS

One Community is creating a society that works for everyone 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 36 hours managing One Community volunteer-work review not included above, emails, social media accounts, web development, new bug identification and bug-fix integration for the Highest Good Network software, and interviewing and getting set up new volunteer team members. Pictures below show some of this work.

Another core team member began verification of all the modifications made to the working Highest Good Network software. She conducted testing on a total of 12 PRs from the designated list of fixed PRs. After thorough examination, it was determined that 10 of these PRs have been successfully resolved, demonstrating their effectiveness in addressing the identified issues. However, two PRs were found to remain unresolved, indicating the persistence of the problems initially associated with them. In addition to testing the fixed PRs, the core team also reported two new PRs, accompanied by detailed explanations outlining the specific problems encountered and supplemented with supporting images for further clarity. See images below for examples of this work in progress.

Yiyun Tan (Management Dashboard Team Leader) completed her 59th week helping with the Highest Good Network software. This week, Yiyun dedicated a significant portion of her time to creating new readme files for repositories and assisting in investigating an urgent bug related to users being deactivated automatically. In addition to these tasks, she actively contributed to the team’s efforts on Slack by providing support for problem-solving, bug reporting, and maintaining existing tutorials. Below, you’ll find pictures highlighting the development of this work.

Kaixiang “Kevin” Gu (Fullstack Software Developer) completed his 31st week helping with the Highest Good Network software. This week, Kaixiang dedicated time to conducting final reviews for three pull requests, namely PR905, PR906, and PR908. In addition, he addressed an issue where the weekly committed hours couldn’t be updated in the user profile. Kaixiang successfully resolved this problem by implementing a hotfix, submitting a new pull request, and obtaining approval. He also allocated time to setting up the application environment on a Mac, and reinstalling all necessary components from scratch, resulting in the successful running of the application. Pictures below show some of this work-in-progress.

Jianjun Luo (Software Engineer) completed her 30th week helping with the Highest Good Network software. This week, Jianjun successfully accomplished two tasks related to permission management. Firstly, she addressed a bug that prevented users from editing or deleting time entries made by other users while viewing their dashboard, despite being granted permission by the owner through user permission management. Jianjun rectified this issue, ensuring that the appropriate permissions were recognized and applied correctly. Additionally, she conducted thorough reviews of two pull requests, providing valuable feedback and ensuring the code met the necessary standards. Pictures below are related to this work.

Raul Effting (Jr. Front-End Web Developer) completed his 24th week helping with the Highest Good Network software. This week, Raul dedicated his efforts to resolving several bugs in the timer feature of the application. He successfully addressed issues such as the input bug, tasks loading bug, and the add intangible time bug, ensuring improved functionality and user experience. Additionally, Raul implemented a new text editor that replaced all existing text editors within the application. To ensure quality, he invested time in thoroughly testing the timer, searching for alternative text editors, and adapting them to seamlessly integrate with the application. Below are some images related to this work.

Aishwarya Kalkundrikar (Full Stack Software Developer) completed her 22nd week helping with the Highest Good Network software. This week, Aishwarya reviewed the frontend files to determine if any functions were making additional calls to the “putUserProfile” function, but no such changes were found. Aishwarya attempted to modify the email sender to send emails only once, but this resulted in a breakdown of the functionality. Further investigation is required. Additionally, Aishwarya successfully reviewed and approved frontend PR #917. She also provided comments on the document outlining the implementation of a feature related to the email sender, specifically addressing the settings required to send test emails. Pictures below show some of this work.

Lucas Emanuel Souza Silva (Software Developer) completed his 18th week helping with the Highest Good Network software. This week, Lucas completed several tasks and resolved issues in the project. He successfully finished the Red Bell Task and addressed a bug that previously prevented non-team users from accessing their tasks. Additionally, Lucas implemented a feature where the timelog tab becomes the default tab for volunteer users who have no more tasks. In addition to these accomplishments, Lucas performed a thorough and comprehensive review of pull requests, identified the PRs that required merging, and assisted users with the initial setup and platform’s functionalities. Pictures of some of this work are below.

Jinchao Feng (Software Engineer) completed his 17th week helping with the Highest Good Network software. This week, Jinchao took on various development tasks and made notable contributions to the team’s projects. One of Jinchao’s primary focuses was addressing bugs in the teammembertask component following the launch of a new timer function. By developing a hotfix, Jinchao successfully resolved the issues and ensured the smooth functioning of the component. In addition to bug fixes, Jinchao dedicated efforts to enhance the efficiency of the timeLog component. This involved raising two pull requests (PRs) aimed at fixing bugs related to the task/project field of the timeEntry component. These PRs not only addressed the bugs but also optimized the timeLog component by eliminating redundant backend requests and refactoring the backend logic. Consequently, this optimization resulted in reduced communication costs between the backend and the database, further improving the overall efficiency of the timeLog component. Please refer to the pictures below.

Yongjian Pan (React.js/MongoDB Full Stack Software Developer) completed his 13th week helping with the Highest Good Network software. This week, Yongjian successfully resolved an issue related to login functionality, specifically addressing the scenario where users entered the correct email but an incorrect password. He ensured that an appropriate error message, stating “Invalid email and/or password,” would be displayed in such cases. Furthermore, Yongjian also addressed another issue concerning login attempts with both an incorrect email and an incorrect password, ensuring that the same error message would be displayed consistently. In addition to these bug fixes, Yongjian dedicated effort to enhance the project report functionality by adding the ability for members to copy project reports. Additionally, he worked on improving the display of the Work Breakdown Structure (WBS) ID on mobile devices. See the images below for a look at this work.

Yihan Liu (Software Engineer) completed her 12th week helping with the Highest Good Network software. This week, Yihan focused on addressing two bugs in the system. The first bug is fixing the weekly summary submission date, and the second is removing the additional ‘save’ function when adding projects and Teams. Yihan successfully resolved the first issue by addressing bugs in the WeeklySummary.jsx and FormattedReport.jsx files, based on Zubing’s review. In the case of the second problem, he conducted an in-depth analysis of the code and successfully identified the target file. Additionally, Yihan dedicated time to reviewing PR#836 and PR#362, which were urgent and related to final day functionality issues. Furthermore, Yihan reviewed PR#916, which functioned as expected. See the pictures below related to this work.

Abdelmounaim “Abdel” Lallouache (Software Developer) completed his 11th week helping with the Highest Good Network software. This week, Abdel focused on various tasks within the project. One of the main areas of work involved testing the follow-up checkbox, ensuring its proper functionality and reliability. Additionally, Abdel successfully addressed a bug in the checkWhoNeedsFollowUp function, ensuring that it now operates as intended. Another important aspect of the week’s work was updating the tooltip information by providing an additional explanation of the checkbox’s functionality. To enhance user experience, Abdel also created the followUpMouseoverText function, which dynamically generates and displays different information based on the progress made by a user on a specific task. The pictures below are related to this work.

Lucile Tronczyk (Full Stack Software Developer) completed her 9th week helping with the Highest Good Network software. This week, Lucile, diligently addressed various technical issues within the system. She initiated an investigation into the blue square bug, focusing on understanding its root cause. Simultaneously, Lucile made concerted efforts to identify the reasons behind the occurrence of a bug associated with end dates and profiles being removed. Additionally, she successfully implemented a solution to enhance user experience by ensuring proper input focus on specific pages. Through her coding expertise, Lucile enabled the cursor to automatically initiate in the relevant fields of teams, projects, and User Search. Her systematic approach and dedication resulted in the resolution of these issues, contributing to the overall improvement of the system. The pictures below relate to this.

Vishvesh Sheoran (Artificial Intelligence Specialist) completed his 9th week helping with the Highest Good Network software. This week, Vishvesh played a key role in developing an action plan for implementing a content recommendation engine on the specified website. With a meticulous approach, he analyzed requirements, conducted in-depth research, and devised a comprehensive strategy. Vishvesh’s expertise in tool selection and strategic planning showcased his technical proficiency and commitment to delivering effective solutions. See pictures below showing his efforts.

Alexander G Huerta (Software Engineer) completed his 8th week helping with the Highest Good Network software. This week, Alexander focused his efforts on the Weekly Summary Component. Recognizing the impact of chatGPT and other AI text completion tools on the creation and submission of weekly summary reports, Alexander introduced updates to the summary form’s placeholder text and added 2 new checkboxes to ensure the summary’s quality, such as a prompt to review the summary. These alterations mark the beginning of a series of incremental modifications. Furthermore, Alexander meticulously outlined his upcoming tasks for this component, establishing a clear roadmap for the following weeks. Among the proposed changes, a key enhancement involves the integration of a button that triggers a modal containing the current prompt, featuring a convenient copy button. Ultimately, the goal is to seamlessly incorporate AI directly into this component. The images below show this progress.

Xiao Tan (Software Engineer) completed her 8th week helping with the Highest Good Network software. This week, Xiao, now a member of the PR Review Leadership Team, dedicated her time to reviewing multiple pull requests, including PR905, 402, 904, 911, 398, 401, 901, 802, and 343. She meticulously examined each request, offering valuable feedback and providing accompanying screenshots to ensure clear communication. In addition to her reviewing responsibilities, Xiao actively contributed to the development process by working on the “Round hours numbers to two digits” task. She successfully set up and tested the emailSender functionality at the backend, subsequently raising PR407. Furthermore, Xiao commenced work on another task titled “Fix and date is not changing on the User Management Page,” displaying her ability to tackle multiple assignments simultaneously. See images supporting this below.

Edwin Estuardo Lau Mack (Software Engineer) completed his 7th week, helping with the Highest Good Network software. This week, Edwin dedicated his efforts to reviewing pull requests (PRs) and advancing the development of the HGN application as a member of the Dev Team, primarily focusing on Frontend functionality. Alongside reviewing multiple PRs, Edwin implemented the functionality of the “X” checkmark in the team member tasks component. The “X” mark allows the user to click on it, triggering a modal to confirm the removal of a user from a task. If confirmed, the task name and user ID are passed as props, deleting the user from the resource list of the task in the backend and readjusting the team member tasks without page refresh. Additionally, when a user removes themselves from a task, the dropdown for “intangible time entry” is updated dynamically. Edwin also added the frontend permission “View and interact with ‘X'” to enable visibility of the checkmark. Throughout the week, Edwin reviewed a total of 10 PR’s: #398, #402, #891, #904, #905, #909, #910, #914, #916, #918. Images showing this progress are below.

Xiao Wang (Software Engineer) completed his 7th week helping with the Highest Good Network software. This week, created PR 918 to address a bug in the PROJECTS/TASKS/WBS COMPONENT # 6. During the code review, it was discovered that the member list of the AddTaskModal component was not being updated when the redux store received data from the server. To rectify this issue, Xiao Wang made necessary modifications to ensure timely updates. Additionally, obsolete codes that had not been utilized since PR 694 were removed to improve code clarity. See supporting images below.

Yubo Sun (Full Stack Software Developer) completed his 7th week helping with the Highest Good Network software. This week, Yubo provided an update for frontend pull request (PR) #826, which was communicated via Slack due to repeated results. He dedicated further efforts towards resolving the warnings by working on Make Non-Editable filed in Task Obvious, which is now PR#860. It was discovered that these warnings did not occur in the development branch, but rather within the PR itself. Yubo suspects an improperly used git stash function during code testing. While addressing this, he engaged in discussions with Jae regarding the feature of editing hours in Task, which turned out to be another component sharing the same structure. He suggested the use of a container component, but due to the difference in components, the decision was made not to address it in this PR. Additionally, Yubo continued work on Task 149, focused on fixing the ability to add professional links to the Profile page. After confirming that no backend changes were required, Yubo proceeded with frontend adjustments and consulted relevant tutorials. The incorrect usage of dispatch and useReducer functions has been refactored. The pictures below relate to and show some of this work.

Nathan Hoffman (Software Engineer) completed his 6th week helping with the Highest Good Network software. This week, Nathan actively engaged in the code review process and carried out various tasks related to permissions. He reviewed PR 401 and generated a bug report. Additionally, he re-reviewed PRs 867 and 842, providing additional suggested changes. Nathan reviewed the implemented changes in PR 881, ensuring their effectiveness, and subsequently approved the PR. Upon request, he re-reviewed PR 842. Furthermore, Nathan verified the existence of all necessary permissions in permissionsBackEnd and immersed himself in permissions documentation. He completed a form for proposing changes and worked on merging back-end and front-end permissions. During the process, he encountered an instance without back-end permissions and proceeded to replace front-end permissions that had corresponding back-end equivalents. Nathan’s efforts included attempting to set up a test database for alternate permissions, but instead, he created an alternate role collection in the main database. Despite this, he successfully achieved the functionality of alternate permissions. While some work remains in terms of writing permissions and conducting tests, Nathan’s progress demonstrates his dedication and meticulous approach to permissions management. The pictures below show some of this work.

Papia Sharmin (Full Stack Developer) completed her 6th week helping with the Highest Good Network software. This week, Papia accomplished her designated task with success and delivered PR #913. Her main areas of focus were enhancing the leaderboard’s functionality and restructuring the code. Furthermore, she incorporated CSS styles to guarantee visually appealing buttons across different screen sizes. Papia also resolved the problem of displaying the member list of the previously logged-in user on the leaderboard for the current user. Additionally, she actively engaged in the review process for PRs #891, #910, and #914 on the frontend. Through careful evaluation, Papia provided valuable feedback and ultimately granted approval for these pull requests. Below are some images related to this work.

Xiaoyu Chen (Software Engineer) completed her 5th week helping with the Highest Good Network software. This week, Xiaoyu diligently worked on refining the software interface. Her initial plan involved the introduction of a clear button and a dropdown menu, but she soon realized the consequential heavy reliance on the ‘reactstrap’ API. To circumvent this, she intelligently altered her approach and substituted the button with radio options, thus enhancing user-friendliness while simultaneously reducing API dependency. This constructive change further facilitated the ‘handleMoveOptions’ function to reset content based on the selected value, improving the system’s interaction with the past four weeks’ summaries. Throughout this process, Xiaoyu appreciated the insightful feedback from her colleagues. Leon Zhuang contributed by identifying typographical and capitalization inconsistencies, while XiaoTan and OAkinbode suggested repositioning the Tab feature for a superior user experience. Taking their advice onboard, Xiaoyu adjusted the location of the Tab toggle within the handleMove functions, leading to improved user interaction. After implementing these improvements, she turned her focus on resolving bugs associated with media and Dropbox links. Xiaoyu’s initial step involved changing the weekly summary name within the create user profile function. She then developed an efficient solution to substitute the ‘mediaUrl’ in the summary submissions by incorporating a ‘GoogleDocLink’ into the ‘getWeeklySummaries’ function, a modification she intends to execute in the immediate future. Nevertheless, a minor hiccup occurred when she failed to switch between the software branches, resulting in a slight mix-up. Showing resilience, Xiaoyu successfully resolved this by segregating the issues into two separate branches, thereby maintaining the functionality and integrity of the codebase. Check out the pictures below as examples of this work.

Nida Zaki (Software Engineer) completed her 5th week helping with the Highest Good Network software. This week, Nida installed new libraries, PrimeReact and Quill, and conducted research to ensure compatibility with the existing React version. She successfully implemented a method for the PrimeReact text editor to adapt to the current code logic by utilizing a global variable to store the selected tabId of selected tabName, which was then utilized by the text editor. Additionally, she incorporated wordCount logic to accurately track the number of words within the text editor. Furthermore, she dedicated time to researching the inclusion and removal of the popstate eventListener, along with implementing session Storage to establish the default tab selection as “Last week”. Nida also implemented leonzh2k’s suggestion and diligently traced PRs and commits to identify the specific code change responsible for the deactivation of active users bug. The pictures below are examples of this work.

Alyx Parr (Senior Support Specialist) completed her 1st week helping with management, coordination, and overall support of the One Community project. This week, Alyx worked to grasp all the nuances of the team, meticulously reviewing their tasks to ensure they had completed everything as required. She also helped with data entry by learning and beginning the process of importing the Transition Food Self-sufficiency Plan recipes into to the Master spreadsheet. The pictures below are examples of this work.

Olawunmi Ijisesan (Administrative and Management Support) completed her 1st week helping with management, coordination, and overall support of the One Community project. This week, Ola acquiring new skills including data entry, uploading website pictures into spreadsheets, and inputting data for the Transition Food Self-sufficiency Plan and “Transition Kitchen Recipe build Out from the Master Recipes and 3-Day Menu Blocks” documents. Additionally, Ola diligently organized folders for HGN, NON-HGN, and PR team members in the designated location for the collage and HGN Website Blog. Ola also actively participated by providing comments and responses on team members’ Google Docs. Pictures of some of this work are below.

Stevie Acuña (Volunteer Graphic Designer) completed his 1st week as a volunteer graphic designer helping with graphic design projects for all of One Community. This week, Stevie commenced his role as a volunteer graphic designer. He dedicated time to thoroughly reading the onboarding instructions and familiarizing himself with his responsibilities. As part of his initial tasks, Stevie conducted research, brainstormed ideas, and gathered relevant information and visuals to develop Weekly Progress Updates Social Media and YouTube Preview/Intro Images. These images hold significant importance as they serve as the initial visual representation for individuals engaging with One Community’s content. Examples of his work are below.

Jin Hua (Web Marketer and Graphic Designer) helped us analyze our traffic drop problem and implement several performance solutions. The pictures below show some of this work.

Implemented performance solutions, Creating a Society that Works for Everyone, One Community Weekly Progress Update #535

The Highest Good Network software PR Review team also worked to test all of the above PRs and find any bugs they could within those PRs and the software as a whole. This week’s active members of this team and how many weeks they’ve been with us are as follows: Anish Pandita (Software Engineer) completed his 18th week, Eduardo Horta (Software Engineer) completed his 6th week, Kurtis Ivey (Full Stack Developer) completed his 2nd week, Leon Zhuang (Software Engineer) completed his 2nd week, Maham Almizan Khan (Software Engineer) completed her 2nd week, Olga Yudkin (Software Engineer) completed her 3rd week, Rachna Vijay Pandya (Full Stack Developer) completed her 1st week, “Sola” Olusola Akinbode (Full Stack Software Developer) completed his 5th week, Steve Paalz (Software Developer) completed his 5th week, Tzu-Ning “Leo” Chueh (Software Engineer) completed his 1st week, Yufei Zhang (Software Engineer) completed her 4th week, and Zubing Guo (Software Engineer) completed her 2nd week. The collage below shows a compilation of the work from this team.

Highest Good Network software, Creating a Society that Works for Everyone, One Community Weekly Progress Update #535

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One Community welcomes Zhide Wang to the Engineering Team!

Posted on June 25, 2023 by One Community Hs

One Community welcomes Zhide Wang to the Engineering Team as our newest Volunteer/Consultant!

Zhide is a dedicated and passionate graduate from the University of Florida with a degree in Mechanical Engineering. During his studies, he developed a strong interest in the fields of solar energy and high-performance vehicles, actively participating as a member of the Formula SAE team. Prior to graduation, Zhide gained valuable industry experience through internships with NIO and AVIC, focusing on mechanical design and system management. These experiences honed his skills in designing and optimizing mechanical systems. As a member of One Community, Zhide has helped contribute to the completion of the City Center Structural Engineering Tutorials, helped to enhance the Net-zero Bathroom and Earthbag Village Water Collection and Septic Design, aircrete compression testing organization and planning, and Food Self-sufficiency Transition Plan.

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One Community Welcomes Alexander G Huerta to the Software Development Team!

Posted on June 24, 2023 by One Community Hs

One Community welcomes Alexander G Huerta to the Software Development Team as our newest Volunteer/Consultant!

Alexander is a full stack software engineer known for his curiosity, passion for learning, and problem-solving prowess. With a degree from the rigorous Hack Reactor Software Engineering immersion, he continuously expands his knowledge and embraces new technologies to deliver innovative solutions. Prior to his software development career, Alexander spent seven years in real estate, cultivating exceptional communication skills, a solution-oriented mindset, and effective time management abilities. Currently, he explores his love for trying new things by learning to play soccer and actively participating in a local league. Alexander’s interests extend beyond technology, as he is deeply committed to global sustainability and seeks to make a positive impact on the world. He indulges his love for diverse cultures by sampling new foods and embarking on enriching travel experiences, continuously broadening his horizons. As a member of the One Community team, Alex is helping create the open source Highest Good Network software.

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