At One Community, we are dedicated to providing highest good eco-community solutions to a global audience. Our all-volunteer team is pioneering sustainable approaches to food, energy, housing, education, economics, social architecture, and fulfilled living. By open sourcing and free sharing the complete process, we aim to create a model that becomes self-replicating and fosters global collaboration through teacher/demonstration hubs. Our mission is to regenerate our planet and evolve sustainability for “The Highest Good of All,” ultimately 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

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One Community’s physical location will forward this movement of highest good eco-community solutions as the first of many self-replicating teacher/demonstration communities, villages, and cities to be built around the world. This is the July 29th, 2024 edition (#593) of our weekly progress update detailing our team’s development and accomplishments:

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HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING PROGRESS

One Community is providing highest good eco-community solutions 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 we’ll be building as part of highest good eco-community solutions: 7 Sustainable Village Models
    • Visit the open source portals for the first two as highest good eco-community solutions: Earthbag Village OS Hub | Straw Bale Village OS Hub

This week, Adefola Madehin (Electrical Design Specialist) continued his work with Earthbag Village designs. Fola completed the electrical design for the Earthbag Village 4 Dome Project. The key aspects of the design included lighting fixtures, switches, cable wiring, exhaust fans, and kitchen hoods. Socket provisions were made for various appliances such as TVs, AC units, dishwashers, washing machines, and electric cookers. A lightning arrestor installation was specified for surge protection. A main electrical panel schematic diagram was created, showcasing circuit connections and cable sizes. An electrical load schedule was developed, outlining individual and total loads in watts and kVA for the project. This design ensures a safe, efficient, and functional electrical system that meets the required standards and specifications. The Earthbag Village is the first of 7 to be built as the housing component of One Community’s open source model for highest good eco-community solutions. See some of this work in the collage below.

Michaela Silva (Architect) continued working on finalizing the interior of the Earthbag Village 4-dome home design. This week, Michaela began designing the plumbing spaces for the single-family four-dome structure and researched the California plumbing code requirements for fixture sizes to ensure compliance. She compiled specifications for the basis of design for the kitchen appliances and created basic Revit families for each appliance to use in the kitchen layout. The Earthbag village is the first of 7 villages to be built as part of One Community’s open source model for highest good eco-community solutions. See her work in the collage below.

Rizwan Syed (Mechanical Engineer) also continued helping finish the Vermiculture Toilet designs. Rizwan’s contributions are integral to advancing this highest good eco-community solutions initiative. This week, Rizwan focused on design iterations using narrower unistrut channels to support the vermiculture structure. He also completed major sections of the vermiculture draft documentation to update the vermiculture eco-toilet design project homepage on One Community’s website. Specifically, he researched information on commercially available strut channels, both in single pieces and truss configurations, for benchmarking studies. Rizwan evaluated these existing designs to select the most suitable channel brackets and fittings for integration into the vermiculture assembly. He created a multi-member unistrut assembly in SOLIDWORKS with 1.5″ wide support pillars (3ft and 4ft long) to integrate the CAD model into the vermiculture assembly at the intersection of the front and side removable containers. Furthermore, he wrote technical content for the design and assembly of removable containers, replication details, and cost analysis, including detailed work instructions for operating the winch system. The vermiculture toilets and other sustainable human waste processing technologies form the basis of One Community’s open source highest good eco-community solutions model. Here are a few photos showing examples of his work.

AIRCRETE TEAM

The Aircrete Testing Team’s summary, covering their work on Aircrete Compression Testing was managed by John Sullivan (CBU Chemical Engineering Student) and includes Jonathan Crago (Civil Engineering Student), Preston Thompson (Civil Engineering Student), and Tad Matlock (Environmental Science Student). This week, Jonathan worked with his team to create test cylinders of aircrete using three different mixing types: Dome Gaia, Aircrete Harry, and Standard Mix. They varied the levels of foam, soap, cement, and mixing times to achieve a consistent and stable mix. Jonathan also assisted the team in recording all the results onto the Final Doc spreadsheet and the Trial Data doc.

This week, Preston and the team tested more batches and checked on those made the previous week. They experimented with new methods of making aircrete to see if it affected collapsing. Upon opening the successful Domegaia batches, they found air pockets in the mixes, raising concerns about batch failure. The team is considering focusing on Aircrete Harry and the standard mix instead of spending more time on Domegaia. This week, Tad did his part helping create highest good eco-community solutions as he added to his sustainability and cost reports on Aircrete’s two primary foaming agent options: 7th Gen. Dish Soap and Drexel. He then created tables for the two reports, making the information more presentable and direct. Also, he continued to write trial summaries with the current Aircrete team’s data. These aircrete tests contribute to the housing aspect of One Community’s open source model as highest good eco-community solutions. See below for some of the pictures related to this work.

EARTHBAG VILLAGE 4-DOME ROOF TEAM

The Earthbag Village 4-dome Roof Team was managed by Khushboo Parmar (Project Manager) and includes Karthik Pillai (Volunteer Mechanical Engineer) and Yusuf Thanawala (Structural Engineer). The Earthbag village forms the basis of One Community’s open source model for highest good eco-community solutions. This week, Khushboo facilitated the 4-Dome Cluster Roof Team meeting to address communication blockers and ensure project alignment. She interviewed over five candidates for open positions and scheduled five more interviews. Additionally, she introduced the new Plumbing Specialist to the Earthbag Village MEP team and spent time familiarizing herself with AutoCAD files and .dwg files. Khushboo also reviewed the Earthbag Village Plumbing Design and Setup webpage to better understand the MEP project. Meanwhile, Yusuf researched CLT ply construction for remote DIY applications and discussed findings with the team. He began designing the common loft, planning 2D CAD drawings before 3D modeling. Karthik designed domes using new dimensions and generated engineering drawings to address prior inconsistencies. He continued developing his REVIT skills to better support the team. The Earthbag village is an integral part of One Community’s open source model for highest good eco-community solutions. See their work in the collage below.

DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER PROGRESS

One Community providing highest good eco-community solutions 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 and its relation to highest good eco-community solutions: Duplicable City Center Open Source Hub

This week, Chris Blair (GIS Technician/Horticulturist) continued working with GIS data as part of One Community’s Permaculture Design. Chris created a smoother digital elevation model (DEM) and developed a suitability map showing the best areas for solar panel placement. He also created a stream flow map illustrating where water would accumulate and move across the landscape and generated contours using the DEM. Additionally, he continued creating content showcasing improvements to the master plan based on GIS data. Proper property modeling and understanding is a foundational part of One Community’s open source highest good eco-community solutions model. Here are a few photos showing examples of his work.

Clarice Gaw Gonzalo (Architect) continued her work with the Duplicable City Center room designs. This week, Clarice worked on revising some old issues in the overall model, specifically addressing missing shelving. She reviewed recent files but found that most did not contain the pantry shelves. After examining older files, she located a dining space file that included the shelving. She noted several differences between this file and the one imported into the render, such as the pantry’s size and the doors. She added the shelving into the SketchUp file linked to the render and imported it into Lumion. Although the shelves significantly slowed down Lumion, she began filling up the pantry. Clarice plans to discuss with Jae whether these shelves can be replaced. The City Center will be built along with the first of the 7 villages as part of One Community’s open source model for highest good eco-community solutions, which reflects their commitment to innovative highest good eco-community solutions. See some of this work in the collage below.

Nika Gavran (Industrial Designer) continued her work on the Duplicable City Center dormer window installation plans. This week, Nika focused on compiling the order of assembly for the 1st floor dormer window instructions. She created a general list of actions and is rendering them in Keyshot, producing detailed images. She is making sure to leave background off of the renderings, so they can be placed over any background later on. These images will be incorporated into an existing document along with the list of materials. The Duplicable City Center is a foundational part of One Community’s open source highest good eco-community solutions model. See below for some of the pictures related to this work.

HIGHEST GOOD FOOD PROGRESS

One Community providing highest good eco-community solutions 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 updating and expanding the Highest Good Food tools, equipment, materials, and supplies document by adding new items and categorizing tools and equipment into powered and non-powered. The additions included cutting tools (hacksaws and drywall saws), manipulating tools (vises and pipe benders), demolition tools (crowbars and sledgehammers), electrical tools (soldering iron kits and wire strippers), application tools (paint sprayers and drywall trowels), measuring tools (carpenter’s squares), and miscellaneous tools (scissors, awl, nail punches, masonry trowels and brushes, drywall lifts, and even sawhorses with included DIY build instructions. Highest Good Food is an important part of highest good eco-community solutions, contributing to the broader highest good eco-community solutions framework with One Community’s open source plans. See their work in the collage below.

Charles Gooley (Web Designer) focused this week on the Transition Food Self-sufficiency Plan and completed the replacement of placeholder images for recipe pages, with the exception of one vegan pasta image awaiting provision. This week, Charles completed correction of the anchor links in the materials section of the Tools and Equipment for Open Source Construction master page, so that the links are displayed in the address bar. The tools, equipment and materials items that were copied from the Earthbag Village Tools and Equipment page have blank cells that need content to be provided by the authors. Then the items in the second list on the Earthbag Village Tools and Equipment were copied to the materials section of the Tools and Equipment for Open source Construction Village Tools and Equipment master page and anchor links update appropriately. Sustainable food and housing are an important part of creating highest good eco-community solutions with One Community’s open source plans. This work contributes to the development of highest good eco-community solutions and can be seen in the collage below.

Hayley Rosario (Sustainability Research Assistant) continued to update the Highest Good Food page, focusing primarily on the “Garden Establishment and No-Till” section. This week, Hayley completed the “Food for up to 50 people” section, which involved adding links, formatting, and re-reading various items. She encountered several formatting issues, and found items in the EDITs doc that she wishes to review with a core team member. Highest Good food is an important part of highest good eco-community solutions with One Community’s open source plans. See her work in the collage below.

HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION PROGRESS

One Community providing highest good eco-community solutions 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 highest good eco-community solutions education program and everything else we’re creating too:

• Program Overview: Education Open Source Hub
• How the components work together, through highest good eco-community solutions.: How to use the Education for Life Program
  
• Lesson Plans for Life – Lesson Plans How-to
• Foundations of Outstanding Leaders, Teachers, and Communicators
• Curriculum for Life
• Teaching Strategies for Life
• Learning Tools and Toys for Life
• Evaluation and Evolution

This week, Apoorv Pandey (Mechanical Engineer) continued helping with the engineering details for The Ultimate Classroom part of the Highest Good Education component. He focused on the write-up for the report, expanding his project scope to provide a broader view of the entire project and target goals. He is finalizing the AutoCAD cover page according to the cover sheet guidelines specified by the city of San Diego’s CADD standards. He also made progress with the STAAD Pro roof and truss calculation presentation. The One Community model of combining forward-thinking education with sustainably built classrooms like this is an excellent example of the highest good eco-community solutions. See the collage below for his work.

HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY PROGRESS

One Community providing highest good eco-community solutions through a Highest Good society approach to living that is founded on fulfilled living, the study of meeting human needs, Community, and making a difference in the world:

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

This week, the core team completed over 57 hours managing One Community’s volunteer-work review not included above, emails, social media accounts, web development, new bug identification and bug-fix integration for the Highest Good Network software, and interviewing and getting set up new volunteer team members. They also shot and incorporated the video above that talks about the highest good eco-community solutions and how the highest good eco-community solutions is a foundation of the bigger picture of everything One Community is doing. The picture below shows some of this work.

Arun Chandar Ganesan (Volunteer Data Analyst and SEO and Social Media Assistant) focused on improving webpage SEO, reviewing numerous pages, including some previously abandoned ones. He also improved the scores of his previous web pages. Additionally, Arun managed and coordinated the scheduling of posts on One Community’s social media platforms such as Facebook, Instagram, Pinterest, and LinkedIn, and regularly updated the tutorials. This work helps One Community to broaden our reach in social media and spread our message about highest good eco-community solutions. The following images show his work for the week.

Ibrahim Al Balushi (Software Engineer) focused on developing a proposal and tutorial for depandabot.yml files. The proposal document was initiated, detailing the creation, implementation, and modification of depandabot.yml files. Additionally, a tutorial was created to provide an in-depth explanation of these files and was incorporated into the bugs document for reference. This work helps One Community’s mission of highest good eco-community solutions. The picture below shows some of his work.

Jia Shu (UX Designer) collaborated with John to delve into Phase 3 PRD, covering epics, user stories, tasks, and priorities. John provided advice on low-fidelity prototyping, potentially leading to mid-fidelity prototypes. Independent study of web design and iOS/Android design systems was started using resources on Material Design, Android Design, and Apple Design to develop a reliable web structure and optimize user experience. The design system was structured around six epics and their respective user stories, with specific tasks for each epic being defined. The team is halfway through defining the UI system, including colors and icons, and has started design work in Figma with a basic layout for each function. Jia mainly focused on iterating based on John’s feedback and working on the original design for “Logging of Participation” and “Attendance for Each Activity”. This work helps One Community’s mission of the highest good eco-community solutions. The picture below shows some of this work, which aligns with the highest good eco-community solutions vision.

ADMINISTRATION TEAM

The Administration Team’s summary, covering their work administrating and managing most of One Community’s ongoing process for creating highest good eco-community solutions was managed by Sneka Vetriappan (Data Analyst) and includes Hritvik Mahajan (Data Analyst), Jim Zhang (Administrative Assistant), Kishan Sivakumar (Administative Assistant and Software Team Manager), Michael Juma (Administrative Assistant), Mrudula Chavali (Administrative Assistant and Data Analyst), Ratna Meena Shivakumar (Data Analyst and Admin), Ruiqi Liu (Administrative Assistant), Saumit Chinchkhandi (Software Engineer), Vibhav Chimatapu (Data Analyst/Admin Assistant) and Zuqi Li (Administrative Assistant and Economic Analyst). This week, Hritvik completed his training and reviews for four team members from the previous week and received feedback from Ruiqi and Ola on his PR review training process. Jim updated the electric vehicle blog, reached out to dealers for price quotations, and completed the weekly blog update with the housing and food team while reviewing work from new admins.

Kishan worked on optimizing SEO for the weekly update blog, focusing on 20 pages to achieve high SEO scores. Michael did his part helping create highest good eco-community solutions as he prepared summaries for the Reactonauts and Skye software development teams, managed contributors Chris Blair and Prathamesh Jadhav, and handled admin feedback tracking. Mrudula completed her administrative orientation, set up essential apps, and reviewed existing documentation and previous blogs. Ratna managed various tasks for OC Administration, including scheduling interviews, updating and reviewing blogs, and handling social media posts. Ruiqi completed the review process for the Dev Dynasty and Git-R-Done Team, checked blog 592, and assisted members with their bio announcements while continuing her work on the NEW Light Bulb Company Benchmarking Excel.

Saumit did his part helping create highest good eco-community solutions as he began PR training with new team code, created personalized responses, and worked on the HR training document and Software Admin testing document. Vibhav reviewed PR Team’s work, provided feedback, created summaries and collages, and continued on-webpage SEO optimization. Zuqi organized weekly summaries for the Graphic Design Team and Alpha Team, reviewed work and provided feedback for blogs, and updated blog justifications. One Community’s model for creating highest good eco-community solutions includes developing and maintaining a supportive administration team like this. You can see the work for the team in the image below.

GRAPHIC DESIGN TEAM

The Graphic Design Team’s summary was managed by Zuqi Li (Administrative Assistant and Economic Analyst) and included Ashlesha Navale (Graphic Designer), Helen Ma (Graphic Designer) and Junyuan Liu (Graphic Designer, UI/UX Designer), covering their work on graphic designs for highest good eco-community solutions. This week, Ashlesha worked on creating three volunteer announcements, producing three bio images and three announcement images. Additionally, she researched and curated a collection of nature-based background images and various theme-based images for social media content, creating five images titled Self-Responsibility, Self-Sustainable City Model, Self-Thrive, Sustainability-Idea to Action, and Sustainability-Action. Helen completed her training program, established Dropbox and Google Drive for future collaboration with One Community, and familiarized herself with the organization’s working system. She studied artworks produced by other designers to understand One Community’s brand message and identity. Helen began working on assigned tasks, creating feature images for various pages, and completed three artworks, each corresponding to a different page. Junyuan focused on researching and completing two social media images related to One Community. Additionally, he reviewed and developed UI/UX content for HGN Phase 3, analyzing content from HGN Phase 2 and assessing the current progress of HGN Phase 3. See the Highest Good Society pages for more on how this contributes to highest good eco-community solutions. See the collage below to view some of their work.

HIGHEST GOOD NETWORK PROGRESS

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

This week, the core team continued their work on the Highest Good Network PRs testing, confirming the fixed PRs. The PRs include edit button functionality on narrow screens (PR #2422), improved resource list loading on tasks (PR #2397), corrected project total hours discrepancies on the Project Report page (PR #2315), resolved dark mode menu text color issue (PR #2413), enabled admin/owner approval of suggested task changes (PR #2413), implemented immediate team deletion (PR #2214), fixed duplicate team entries (PR #2495), added a delete final day button (PR #2366), and improved Projects and Teams page formatting (PR #2123). Lost time updates were tested on the Reports page. Unresolved issues include the need for a refresh button on the Weekly Summaries Reports page (PR #2316) and dark mode implementation on the Profile page (PR #2295). Additionally, a new issue was created regarding incomplete member lists when the ALL-TIME button is selected, and a suggestion was made to display a warning for duplicate team names during creation. Progress on the X hours in X weeks streak badges feature continues, with a test account established for tracking logtime. See the Highest Good Society and Highest Good Network pages for more on how this relates to the highest good eco-community solutions. The collage below shows some of their work in advancing the highest good eco-community solutions.

ALPHA SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT TEAM

This week, the Alpha Team’s summary, covering their work on the Highest Good Network software was managed by Lin Khant Htel (Frontend Software Developer) and includes Anand Seshadri (Software Engineer) and Logeshwari Renu (Software Engineer). The Highest Good Network software is how we will manage and measure our processes for highest good eco-community solutions across our social architecture, construction, production, and maintenance processes. Anand retested PR 1955 and confirmed that the issue with the Work Breakdown Structure (WBS) tasks has been resolved, allowing for the creation, addition, and editing of tasks that now correctly reflect in the assigned volunteer user accounts. He also worked on a feature from the HGN Bugs list to enable users to suggest changes in time, increasing the changes tracker on the dashboard. Anand added the handleApprove function to verify user roles, created the incrementDashboardTaskCount action, updated the reducer to handle the INCREMENT_TASK_COUNT action, and ensured the Dashboard component displays updated task counters. Lin focused on fixing the pagination UI for members in PR 2476, with changes appearing satisfactory. He also reviewed the weekly summaries, photos, and videos related to the tasks of his team Alpha members. Logeshwari addressed an issue causing a blank page to display when searching for a location on the team location page. She updated the teamLocations.js file to resolve the error “Uncaught TypeError: Assignment to constant variable” by reassigning mapMarkers to filteredMapMarkers when the search filter is applied. Additionally, a loading spinner was added to indicate the loading state of map data. See the Highest Good Society and Highest Good Network pages for more on how this relates to highest good eco-community solutions. View some of the team’s work in the collage below.

BINARY BRIGADE SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT TEAM

The Binary Brigade Team’s summary overseeing advancements in the Highest Good Network software was managed by Min Sun (Software Engineer) and includes Aaryaneil Nimbalkar (Software Developer), Huijie Liu (Software Engineer), Peizhou Zhang (Software Engineer), Sai Sarath Kumar Alavakonda (Software Engineer), Sandhya Adavikolanu (Software Developer) and Vijay Anand Pandian (Full Stack Software Engineer). The Highest Good Network software is how we’ll be managing and objectively measuring our process for highest good eco-community solutions through our social architecture, construction, production, and maintenance processes.

This week, Aaryaneil added additional test cases to the aaryaneil-unit-test-ProjectTable to test for dark mode hover functionality, and updated the pull request to include the latest changes. Test cases in the Members/Members.jsx file were fixed in preparation for a new pull request. The following pull requests were reviewed: NandiniYelmela’s fix for project report UI issues (#2480), Vishav’s fix for timelog page UI issues for 375px and up (#2488), Howie’s fix for the team scroll bar issue (#2492), TimeLogger for BMdashboard by Howie (#1041) and Kyo (#2494), Peizhou’s fix for the assigning blue square with a future date issue (#2496), Nahiyan’s optimization of the User Profile Page for mobile displays (#2497), and Jay’s unit test for the InfoModal component (#2501). Additionally, he completed the unit tests for the LoginPrivileges component with test cases for rendering radio buttons, checking if the selected input is correct, ensuring the input change handler is called, verifying the default selected input, testing radio button interactions, handling the scenario where no role is selected, and testing multiple renders to ensure stability. A pull request was also created for the LoginPrivileges component. Huijie continued to work on her tasks. For the submitted PR, she helped team members for instructions to get token for testing. Huijie tested on the reported problem, modified the code. She currently got error when solving the merge conflicts. She also rewrote her code using chart.js and react-chart js-2 for chart components as required by the team, contributing to the highest good eco-community solutions. Min completed the task of adding manager icons to the task tab and moved on to refining the team report page and its API, improving report generation speed. He also did weekly meetings and compiled team summaries. Peizhou worked on solving the issue of the duplicate display of the team entities under the Teams table of the User Profile. The issue is due to the repetitive code in the source file, and by properly deleting the duplicate code, this issue can be solved. The team’s work continues to align with the highest good eco-community solutions, ensuring our updates and fixes contribute to a more sustainable and efficient development environment.

Sai focused on extracting active and inactive members from the teams component. Work was done to add a new column in the team table within the UI, aiming to display the count of active members in each team. Modifications began on the teammemberpopup.jsx component to facilitate this count. A blocker was encountered in retrieving the active members count, necessitating further work in the next session. The total members count was added to the members popup, although fetching data for the new active members column was not completed; the total is now displayed in the popup instead. Refactoring was done to the code, including the removal of irrelevant comments. This aligns with our goal of integrating highest good eco-community solutions by optimizing team management processes. Sandhya began by learning about the intricacies of integrating badge data into the Weekly Summaries Dashboard. With this foundation, she focused on enhancing the badge component implementation by uploading and reviewing various files such as AssignBadge.jsx, Badge.jsx, and BadgeManagement.jsx to ensure proper functionality and integration of badge assignment, display, and management. After this, she proceeded with the implementation phase. This involved enhancing files related to the Weekly Summaries Dashboard, including WeeklySummariesReport.jsx and WeeklySummariesReport.css, to display badge data correctly on the Weekly Summaries Report page. Furthermore, Sandhya verified the backend API endpoints to ensure proper data retrieval and error management, significantly improving data accuracy and user engagement. Vijay worked on moving the filter section, search, select date range, and view total project/people/team report into a separate component (PR #2510). Additionally, reviews were completed for PRs that included a fix for assigning a blue square for future dates (PR #2496), test cases for the InfoModalComponent (PR #2501), and changes for displaying the total member count in the members modal on the teams page (PR #2506). This work is part of our commitment to highest good eco-community solutions. See the Highest Good Society and Highest Good Network pages for more on how this relates to highest good eco-community solutions. View some of the team’s work in the collage below.

BLUE STEEL SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT TEAM

The Blue Steel Team’s summary, presenting their work on the Highest Good Network software was managed by Jingyi Jia (Software Engineer, Team Manager), and includes Imran Issa (Software Developer), Jay Srinivasan (Software Engineer), Parth Rasu Jangid (Software Developer), Ramakrishna Aruva (Software Engineer), Tzu Ning “Leo” Chueh (Software Engineer), and Vishavdeep Kaur (Full stack Developer). The Highest Good Network software is how we’ll be managing and objectively measuring our process for the highest good eco-community solutions through our social architecture, construction, production, and maintenance processes. This week, Parth reviewed three PRs: 1044, 2496, and 2497, completed his integration test for the timeZoneAPIController.js, and refactored his codebase, resulting in PR 1027 being marked as DO NOT MERGE. He also created a new PR combining unit and integration tests. Vishavdeep addressed a UI issue with PR#2488 and reviewed PRs 2497 and 2496, providing feedback and testing PR-2503. Tzu Ning resolved a timer functionality error in the Timer component by ensuring correct userId assignment in WebSocket messages. Jingyi made progress on fixing memory leaks in the userProfile page by addressing updates to unmounted components and reviewed five high-priority PRs: 2496, 2431, 2476, 2488, and 2497. Imran fixed a frontend bug on the Rehireable status and resolved additional backend issues, completing his assigned task. Ramakrishna identified new bugs, reviewed a PR, and corrected reviews related to a previous task. He began a new task and corrected misuse of the useMemo function in the team report page. Lastly, Jay reviewed summaries and media for Team Blue Steel and wrote unit tests for the InfoModal component, ensuring its correct rendering and presence management in the document, which he followed up with a new PR. See the Highest Good Society and the Highest Good Network pages to learn more on how their work contributes to highest good eco-community solutions. See below to view images of their work.

CODE CRAFTERS SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT TEAM

The Code Crafters Team’s summary, covering their work on the Highest Good Network software, was managed by Summit Kaushal (Backend Software Developer) and includes Xiaoyu (Ivy) Chen (Software Engineer). The Highest Good Network software is how we’ll manage and objectively measure our process for the highest good eco-community solutions through our social architecture, construction, production, and maintenance processes. Ivy addressed async loop and await lint style issues, and participated in meetings with Summit and her team to discuss recent tasks and monitor progress. Ivy met with Harsh regarding the new API she built. She checked the bug documentation, tested the setup link, and managed leader team permissions and badge management. Ivy fixed a bug related to the manage permission submit button, responded to request changes from Nathanah, and resolved a lint error by renaming and reverting changes. Additionally, she picked up a bug related to the report page where inactive members were not displayed correctly and began investigating and defining the issue. Summit addressed and resolved several issues with Postman requests, specifically troubleshooting GET request errors that resulted in 404 responses. They identified an unrelated issue with the .env file and resolved it. Summit noticed that running ‘npm run build’ reset changes to the badgeRouter file, which might be related to building configurations. They fixed the Postman issue by deleting changes, performing an ‘npm install’ running the build, and restarting the debugger. See the Highest Good Society and Highest Good Network pages for more on how this relates to the highest good eco-community solutions. The collage below shows some of this work.

DEV DYNASTY SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT TEAM

The Dev Dynasty Team’s summary, covering their work on the Highest Good Network software, was managed by Ruiqi Liu (Administrative Assistant) and includes Akshit Sharma (Software Engineer), Angela Cheng (Software Engineer), Anuj Vakil (Software Engineer), Jatin Agrawal (Software Engineer), Howie Miao (Software Engineer), Nandini Yelmela (Software Engineer) and Nahiyan Ahmed (Full Stack Software Developer). The Highest Good Network software is how we’ll manage and objectively measure our process for the highest good eco-community solutions through our social architecture, construction, production, and maintenance processes.

Akshit worked on understanding and resolving issues in PR #1750, focusing on fixing errors in the members.test.jsx file and resolving network errors, resulting in five test cases now passing. He also addressed the issue of empty space where the pie chart should appear for projects with zero members and zero hours in PR #2509 by making changes to PieChartByProject.jsx and WbsPieChart.jsx. This work contributes to the highest good eco-community solutions by enhancing the visual representation and functionality of the project data. Angela focused on completing the remaining PR reviews (PR# 2410, 2378, 2335, 2326, 2342, 2332, 1027, 2276, 2309, 2497) for the team, addressing 9 out of 10 PRs, with the last one scheduled for completion on July 27th. Her work included investigating and understanding target bugs, exploring the Badge component, its selected feature, and badge assignment, along with concepts of mapDispatchToProps and mapStateToProps in Redux. Angela’s efforts are pivotal in aligning with the highest good eco-community solutions by ensuring the robustness and reliability of the codebase.

Anuj worked on the sort functionality and addressed site issues. The inventory functionality has not yet been implemented and is planned for phase two. He reviewed the documentation to understand the functionality better and required more time to grasp its workings and requirements before proceeding with the implementation. Jatin focused on various pull requests and bug fixes. He completed work on PRs 2497, 2496, 2488, 2478, 2476, 2469, 2494, 2492, 2480, and 2451. In addition to these tasks, Jatin is halfway through adding the edit button on the user management page. The button is visible on the page, and on click, the text is replaced with an input element.

Nahiyan created three pull requests: PR 2497, which optimizes the user profile page for mobile and tablet displays; PR 2491, which fixes the scroll bars for the leaderboard and timelog to appear only on mobile displays; and another pull request addressing the timelog components’ scroll bar functionality on mobile displays. He also reviewed pull requests related to his mobile optimization project. Nandini addressed the misalignment of checkboxes and labels in the pie charts section of a project report, resulting in a visually organized layout. She reviewed the existing codebase, updated the CSS and JSX for proper alignment, and raised PR#2505 to resolve the issue. Howie worked on the scrollbar bug, discussed it with Nahiyan, and decided to adopt a different, simpler approach. He completed the bug fix and learned about creating pull requests, formatting for One Community, and task submission. Howie proceeded to identify more bugs on various parts of the webpage and started working on fixing the end date descriptions and setting up a new volunteer account for testing purposes. See the Highest Good Society and Highest Good Network pages for more on how this relates to the highest good eco-community solutions. The collage below shows some of this work.

One Community welcomes Prashanth Gowri Shankar Uppudi to the Software Development Team as our newest Volunteer/Consultant!

Prashanth, with over 5 years of dynamic experience, excels in his role as Project Management Professional. Holding a Master’s in Project Management from Northeastern University, he is an active PMI member, continually advancing project excellence. His expertise in Agile and Scrum methodologies, along with tools like JIRA and Trello, ensures seamless project execution. His work has driven significant projects at Cognizant and advanced research in ophthalmological imaging. Passionate about sustainability, Prashanth transforms resource management into impactful environmental and economic benefits. Prashanth helped create the Highest Good Network (HGN) User Manual, a vital guide enhancing user experience and platform efficiency.

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One Community welcomes Sandhya Adavikolanu to the Software Development Team as our newest Volunteer/Consultant!

Sandhya has over 2 years of experience in software engineering and data analysis, contributing to both front-end and back-end web applications. She has a proven track record in enhancing data processes and integrating complex systems, including a 40% efficiency boost via AWS-Salesforce integration. Proficient in data analysis, API development, and business intelligence visualization, Sandhya is focused on optimizing data processes to support strategic, data-driven decisions. She holds a Master’s degree in Information Technology from Arizona State University and a Bachelor’s degree in Information Technology from Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University. She is passionate about leveraging her skills to make meaningful contributions to development teams. As a member of the One Community team, Sandhya has developed components in the Highest Good Network Weekly Volunteer Summary Dashboard, enhancing data retrieval speed by 25% and increasing user engagement by 20% through her features and optimizations. Additionally, her code reviews and unit testing efforts have reduced related bugs by 30%, ensuring robust and reliable software performance.

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One Community welcomes Nathalia Mesquita Carnevalli to the Software Development Team as our newest Volunteer/Consultant!

Nathalia has a profound passion for technology that began in her childhood and led her to pursue a degree in computer science, eventually launching her career as a programmer. She possesses expertise in Agile Methods, particularly Scrum, and is proficient in technologies such as React.js, Node.js, MySQL, PostgreSQL, Tailwind, and MongoDB, a skill she has honed while working at One Community helping develop the open-source Highest Good Network software. Nathalia consistently delivers high-quality code that meets user needs, while remaining enthusiastic about learning and embracing new challenges, and has resolved various application bugs and implemented new functionalities across both the frontend and backend.

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One Community welcomes Kaushik Malikireddy to the Software Development Team as our newest Volunteer/Consultant!

Kaushik is a seasoned software developer with nearly five years of experience. He believes in the power of teamwork and is always ready to assist his colleagues, fostering a collaborative environment that enhances collective learning. As a proficient Full Stack Developer, Kaushik excels in various frameworks, including MERN. He has a keen eye for identifying and resolving bugs promptly, ensuring smooth and efficient project execution. Passionate about continuous learning and experimenting with new technologies, and as a member of the One Community Highest Good Network team, he completed over 100 PR reviews, demonstrating his meticulousness in maintaining high-quality, straightforward code. Kaushik also successfully integrated Gen AI to simplify weekly report generation, allowing users to generate reports effortlessly with just a click.

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One Community welcomes KyoSook Shin to the Software Development Team as our newest Volunteer/Consultant!

KyoSook is a software engineer with over 10 years of experience in embedded systems and full-stack web development, working across both big tech firms and small-sized companies. After graduating from Yonsei University, she specialized in real-time device drivers and kernels. Operating systems and communication stack layers are her playground, C/C++ is her second language next to her native tongue, and she utilizes statistical methods for optimum software development processes. She is enthusiastic about broadening her software skills, including full-stack development, artificial intelligence, parallel computing, and algorithmic efficiency for performance-oriented software programming. Starting in August 2024, she will be pursuing a Master’s degree in Computer Science at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. She also holds certificates for Six Sigma Master Black Belt and ISTQB. KyoSook has been developing the TimeLogger functionality as a member of the Highest Good Network software team at One Community.

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

Min is a passionate software engineer with a strong foundation in computer science and a track record of implementing innovative solutions. He is pursuing a Master of Science in Computer Science from Northeastern University and holds a Bachelor of Science in Computer Science from Penn State University. Min’s expertise spans multiple programming languages, databases, web technologies, and AI/ML, enabling him to tackle complex software challenges efficiently. He excels at architecting scalable solutions, optimizing code performance, and collaborating effectively within development teams to deliver high-quality software products. As a member of the One Community Highest Good Network team, Min is contributing to the Dashboard component, reviewing pull requests, and working as a manager of a development team.

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One Community welcomes Zuqi Li to the Administration/Management Team as our newest Volunteer/Consultant!

Zuqi has close to two years of experience in data analytics and administration and holds a Master’s degree in Applied Economics and Econometrics from the University of Southern California. With her strong analytical background and proficiency in econometric modeling, data analytics, SQL, python and Tableau, she excels at deriving actionable insights and using advanced statistical techniques to enhance organizational performance. As a volunteer at One Community, she has made significant contributions by designing comprehensive wireframes for dashboards within the Highest Good Network software, effectively visualizing key metrics. Her commitment to the organization’s mission is further demonstrated by her active role in optimizing the volunteer team management process and improving SEO strategies, ensuring the content reaches a broader audience.

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At One Community, we are dedicated to consciously mapping humanity’s future through sustainable approaches to food, energy, housing, education, and economics. Our all-volunteer team is committed to creating a model that becomes self-replicating, fostering global collaboration through teacher/demonstration hubs. By open sourcing and free sharing the complete process, we aim to evolve sustainability and regenerate our planet. Our mission is to create a world that works for everyone, always striving for “The Highest Good of All.“

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

OUR MAIN OPEN SOURCE HUBS

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

One Community’s physical location will forward this movement for consciously mapping humanity’s future as the first of many self-replicating teacher/demonstration communities, villages, and cities to be built around the world. This is the July 22nd, 2024 edition (#592) of our weekly progress update detailing our team’s development and accomplishments:

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HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING PROGRESS

One Community is consciously mapping humanity’s future through Highest Good housing that is artistic and beautiful, more affordable, more space efficient, lasts longer, DIY buildable, and constructed with healthy and sustainable materials:

• Take a look at consciously mapping humanity’s future with Our Upcoming Crowdfunding Campaign
• Learn about the different village models designed as part of consciously mapping humanity’s future: 7 Sustainable Village Models
• Visit the open source portals for the first two: Earthbag Village OS Hub | Straw Bale Village OS Hub

This week, Adefola Madehin (Electrical Design Specialist) continued his work with Earthbag Village designs. Fola revised the socket circuit of the Earthbag 4 Dome Village Electrical Design project and added extractor fans, air-conditioning sockets, kitchen hoods, cooker control units, and water heaters to the electrical design according to the National Electrical Code (NEC). He also amended the schematic diagram of the main electrical panel. The Earthbag Village is the first of 7 to be built as the housing component of One Community’s open source model for consciously mapping humanity’s future. See some of this work in the collage below.

Joseph Osayande (Mechanical Engineer) continued helping finish the Vermiculture Toilet designs. This week, research focused on finding a new connector or interface to keep the frame connected to the stand. Quick drafts of potential structures were created, but nothing concrete has been finalized yet. A new interface that is believed to work for the unistrut was designed, and work continued on other parts of the structure, including the vertical bar. The vermiculture toilets and other sustainable human waste processing technologies form the basis of One Community’s open source model for consciously mapping humanity’s future. See below for some of the pictures related to this work.

Rizwan Syed (Mechanical Engineer) also continued helping finish the Vermiculture Toilet designs. This week, Rizwan worked on connecting unistrut channels for the vermiculture chamber assembly without welding. He designed custom 3D models for L-brackets and wing connectors in SolidWorks, evaluating component interference and assembly ease. Rizwan also documented the mechanical engineering team’s work on the eco-toilet design, including design, analysis, calculations, and cost analysis for posting on One Community’s website. These sustainable technologies contribute to One Community’s open-source model for mapping humanity’s future. Here are a few photos showing examples of his work.

Yagyansh Maheshwari (Mechanical Engineer) started his work with Earthbag Village designs. This week, Yagyansh focused on checking the calculation done on the worm density based on the spreadsheet. He also researched various methods for transporting the drawers to the dumping site and explored different techniques for effectively dumping the contents. This work aims to improve the efficiency of the vermiculture process. The Earthbag Village is the first of 7 to be built as the housing component of One Community’s open source model for consciously mapping humanity’s future. See some of this work in the collage below.

AIRCRETE TEAM

The Aircrete Testing Team’s summary, covering their work on Aircrete Compression Testing was managed by John Sullivan (CBU Chemical Engineering Student) and includes Jonathan Crago (Civil Engineering Student), Preston Thompson (Civil Engineering Student), and Tad Matlock (Environmental Science Student). This week, Tad analyzed 7th Generation Dish Soap and Drexel as foaming agents for Aircrete, completing 27 trial summaries. Jonathan’s team focused on stabilizing the Domegaia method with compression testing. Preston’s team achieved success with high concrete ratio batches, though extra foam testing failed. John’s team addressed collapsing issues, using a concrete mixer for successful trials and editing procedure videos. These efforts support One Community’s sustainable housing model. See below for some of the pictures related to this work.

EARTHBAG VILLAGE 4-DOME ROOF TEAM

The Earthbag Village 4-dome Roof Team was managed by Khushboo Parmar (Project Manager) and includes Karthik Pillai (Volunteer Mechanical Engineer) and Yusuf Thanawala (Structural Engineer). Karthik created 2D dome drawings to improve replicability and aligned them with recent changes, while enhancing his Revit skills. Adefola revised the Earthbag 4 Dome Village Electrical Design to meet NEC standards, updating the socket circuit and main panel schematic. Khushboo conducted interviews, extended offers, and addressed candidate backlogs, while facilitating a project issue resolution meeting. Yusuf continued his loft design work and researched CLT panels for attic use in mass timber construction. These efforts support One Community’s sustainable Earthbag village model. See their work in the collage below.

DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER PROGRESS

One Community is consciously mapping humanity’s future through a Duplicable and Sustainable City Center that is LEED Platinum certified/Sustainable, can feed 200 people at a time, provide laundry for over 300 people, is beautiful, spacious, and saves resources, money, and space:

• Learn about this building and it’s function as part of consciously mapping humanity’s future: Duplicable City Center Open Source Hub

This week, Chris Blair (GIS Technician/Horticulturist) continued working with GIS data as part of One Community’s Permaculture Design. Chris continued developing a written tutorial for utilizing GIS data, detailing the steps to combine various digital elevation models (DEMs) together into one cohesive unit, change linear units, and alter the symbology of a DEM. Additionally, he explored methods to process DEMs to improve their visual smoothness. Proper property modeling and understanding is a foundational part of One Community’s open source model for consciously mapping humanity’s future. Here are a few photos showing examples of his work.

Clarice Gaw Gonzalo (Architect) continued her work with the Duplicable City Center room designs. This week, Clarice worked on editing the Neofuturistic bathroom, addressing issues with the mirror and a few textures. She completed the edits in SketchUp before rendering them in Lumion. She also focused on the Old Hollywood-themed room, adding extra furniture to match the red and gold theme throughout the room. Additionally, she populated the room with people and adjusted the lighting settings, including the sun pathing, while taking several views. The City Center will be built along with the first of the 7 villages as part of One Community’s open source model for consciously mapping humanity’s future. See some of this work in the collage below.

HIGHEST GOOD FOOD PROGRESS

One Community is consciously mapping humanity’s future through Highest Good food that is more diverse, more nutritious, locally grown and sustainable, and part of our open source botanical garden model to support and share bio-diversity:

• Learn about the food structures we’ve designed for consciously mapping humanity’s future: Hoop House Hub | Aquapini & Walipini Open Source Hub
• See what we’ll be growing first as we’re consciously mapping humanity’s future: Gardens & Hoop Houses | Large-scale Structures | Food Forest | TA

This week, the core team continued updating and expanding the Highest Good Food tools, equipment, materials, and supplies document by adding new items and categorizing tools and equipment into powered and non-powered. New acquisitions included hand tools like bolt cutters, pipe wrenches, and paint brushes, as well as applicators like roller brushes and caulking guns. Additionally, the core team prepared for organized progress reporting by creating and labeling eighteen folders for weekly submissions through mid-November 2024. Highest Good Food is an important part of consciously mapping humanity’s future with One Community’s open source plans. See their work in the collage below.

Charles Gooley (Web Designer) focused this week on the Transition Food Self-sufficiency Plan and completed the replacement of placeholder images for recipe pages, with the exception of one vegan pasta image awaiting provision. This week, Charles focused on correcting anchor links within the materials section of the Tools and Equipment for Open Source Construction master page to ensure proper display in the address bar. Additionally, he addressed an issue where the left margin of the page shifted to the left edge when specific anchor links were clicked. Another task involved populating blank cells in tools, equipment, and materials items that needs to be provided by the authors. See his work in the collage below.

Prathamesh Jadhav (HVAC Design Engineer) started working on Aquapini and Walipini Planting and Harvesting. He reviewed the welcome document and studied topics related to Aquapini and Walipinis. He examined the designs of the Walipini, Aquapini, and Zenapini, including the details and software to be used for each. Additionally, Prathamesh reviewed the design of the Open Source Climate Battery. Highest Good food is an important part of consciously mapping humanity’s future with One Community’s open source plans. See his work in the collage below.

HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION PROGRESS

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

• Education program overview for consciously mapping humanity’s future: Education Open Source Hub
• How the components work together for consciously mapping humanity’s future: How to use the Education for Life Program
  
• Lesson Plans for Life – Lesson Plans How-to
• Foundations of Outstanding Leaders, Teachers, and Communicators interested in consciously mapping humanity’s future
• Curriculum for Life (and consciously mapping humanity’s future)
• Teaching Strategies for Life (and consciously mapping humanity’s future)
• Learning Tools and Toys for Life (and consciously mapping humanity’s future)
• Evaluation and Evolution

This week Brian Mwoyowatidi (Graduate Structural Engineer) continued helping with the engineering details for The Ultimate Classroom part of the Highest Good Education component. Brian focused on building layout, formwork setup, and design considerations, discussing foundation construction, concrete curing methods, and inspections. He added video visual aids to the tutorial and provided step-by-step guidance on subfloor preparation, including subgrade assessment, sub-base installation, proof rolling, vapor barrier placement, and reinforcement. His work supports One Community’s sustainable education model for mapping humanity’s future. See the collage below for his work.

HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY PROGRESS

One Community is consciously mapping humanity’s future through a Highest Good society approach to living that is founded on fulfilled living, the study of meeting human needs, Community, and making a difference in the world:

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

This week, the core team completed over 65 hours managing One Community’s volunteer-work review not included above, emails, social media accounts, web development, new bug identification and bug-fix integration for the Highest Good Network software, and interviewing and getting set up new volunteer team members. They also shot and incorporated the video above that talks about consciously mapping humanity’s future and how consciously mapping humanity’s future is a foundation of the bigger picture of everything One Community is doing. The picture below shows some of this work.

Arun Chandar Ganesan (Volunteer Data Analyst and SEO and Social Media Assistant) focused on improving webpage SEO, reviewing numerous pages, including some previously abandoned ones. He also improved the scores of his previous web pages. Additionally, Arun managed and coordinated the scheduling of posts on One Community’s social media platforms such as Facebook, Instagram, Pinterest, and LinkedIn, and regularly updated the tutorials. This work helps One Community to broaden our reach in social media and spread our message about consciously mapping humanity’s future. The following images show his work for the week.

Ibrahim Al Balushi (Software Engineer) continued working on security and stability related issues for the Highest Good Network software. He completed research and identified a tutorial to address the Dependabot issues. Relevant tutorials were incorporated into the bugs document, an action item list was added, and further research was done to identify additional safe tutorials while awaiting approval. This work helps One Community’s mission of consciously mapping humanity’s future. The picture below shows some of his work.

Jia Shu (UX Designer) collaborated with John to delve into Phase 3 PRD, covering epics, user stories, tasks, and priorities. John advised on low-fidelity prototyping, paving the way for mid-fidelity prototypes. The team began studying web and iOS/Android design systems from Material Design, Android Design, and Apple Design to enhance user experience. They structured the design system around six epics and user stories, focusing on UI elements like colors and icons in Figma. Research continues on tasks such as activity evaluation, tracking, FAQ, calendar integration, and reports. This work contributes to One Community’s mission of mapping humanity’s future. The picture below shows some of this work.

Jiaqi Wu (UX Designer) created the event page for activity organizers, the detailed information page for events, and the main dashboard. She incorporated the PM’s advice by adding filters to the event calendar and agreed on the functionality of the event page and the workflow of the resources manager. Additionally, she collaborated with the PM and another UX designer, providing advice and making some concessions. This work helps One Community’s mission of consciously mapping humanity’s future. The picture below shows some of this work.

ADMINISTRATION TEAM

The Administration Team’s summary, covering their work administrating and managing most of One Community’s ongoing process for consciously mapping humanity’s future was managed by Sneka Vetriappan (Data Analyst) and includes Jessica Fairbanks (Administrative Assistant), Jim Zhang (Administrative Assistant), Kishan Sivakumar (Administative Assistant and Software Team Manager), Michael Juma (Administrative Assistant), Olawunmi “Ola” Ijisesan (Administrative and Management Support), Rachna Malav (Data Analyst), Ratna Meena Shivakumar (Data Analyst and Admin), Ruiqi Liu (Administrative Assistant), Saumit Chinchkhandi (Software Engineer), T R Samarth Urs (Data Analyst), Vibhav Chimatapu (Data Analyst/Admin Assistant) and Zuqi Li (Administrative Assistant and Economic Analyst). This week, Jessica began familiarizing herself with the HG Food Rollout plan and reviewed the new administrator’s training process. Jim updated the electrical vehicle page, analyzed cost savings, and searched for golf cart prices.

Kishan did his part helping us consciously mapping humanity’s future as he focused on optimizing the weekly update blog for SEO, while Michael continued improving blogs #490 to #499, addressing SEO metrics and keyword density. Ola reviewed the PR team’s work, trained new team volunteers, and organized the workspace. Rachna handled her regular administrative duties, created the weekly blog, and prepared for her transition to a new role as a mentor at One Community.

Ratna managed OC Administration tasks, including email reviews, blog updates, and social media post scheduling. Ruiqi completed the review process for the Dev Dynasty and Git-R-Done Team, ensured bio announcements were prepared, and worked on benchmarking Excel. Saumit did some work consciously mapping humanity’s future as he reviewed work, began PR review training, and participated in a Zoom meeting discussing new responsibilities. Samarth managed the PR review team, evaluated their work, optimized blog #531, and created a blog post summarizing the team’s work.

Vibhav proofread PR Team summaries, created group summaries and collages, and continued SEO optimization. Zuqi organized weekly summaries, updated the blog, and reviewed previous blog pages for SEO improvements. One Community’s model for consciously mapping humanity’s future includes developing and maintaining a supportive administration team like this. You can see the work for the team in the image below.

GRAPHIC DESIGN TEAM

The Graphic Design Team’s summary was managed by Zuqi Li (Administrative Assistant and Economic Analyst) and included Ashlesha Navale (Graphic Designer) and Junyuan Liu (Graphic Designer, UI/UX Designer), covering their work on graphic designs for consciously mapping humanity’s future. This week, Ashlesha curated nature-based and theme-based background images for social media, producing nine images focused on self-improvement and sustainability. She also updated old social media and food recipe images. Liu, in his orientation process, learned about One Community’s mission and contributed by completing two social media images while working on a third. Their work supports One Community’s efforts in consciously mapping humanity’s future. See the collage below to view their contributions.

HIGHEST GOOD NETWORK PROGRESS

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

• Learn about our open source community collaboration and management software designed for tracking and managing our process of consciously mapping humanity’s future: The Highest Good Network

This week, the core team continued their work on the Highest Good Network PRs testing, confirming the fixed PRs. This week, Several PRs were reviewed, including PR#2163 (copy WBS and Project ID functionality), PR#2348 (removed “Note” message on Profile page), PR#2295 (fixed Dark mode on SendEmail page), PR#2425 (fixed Dark mode for WBS page), and PR#2349 (fixed user creation errors). The timer issue was resolved, and FPR2409 and BPR1015 for the Chart Pie feature were tested. Unresolved issues include Profile page Dark mode problems, time log edits not appearing in history, PR#2078 errors, and visual issues with the Dark mode menu. This work supports One Community’s mission of mapping humanity’s future. See the collage below for more details.

ALPHA SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT TEAM

The Alpha Team’s summary, covering their work on the Highest Good Network software was managed by Lin Khant Htel (Frontend Software Developer) and includes Carlos Gomez (Full-stack Software Developer) and Logeshwari Renu (Software Engineer). The Highest Good Network software is how we will manage and measure our processes for consciously mapping humanity’s future across our social architecture, construction, production, and maintenance processes. This week, Lin focused on fixing the pagination UI for members in PR 2476. He reviewed and approved the unit testing and integration testing for PR 1021 (Project Controller) and PR 1027 (Time Zone API). Additionally, Lin reviewed the weekly summaries, photos, and videos related to the tasks of his team Alpha members.

Carlos reviewed the project backend using Abi’s API at the route api/reports/volunteerstats?startDate={startDate}&endDate={endDate}, focusing on fixing the aggregation logic. He analyzed another existing endpoint that uses api/TimeEntry/users and decided to use the getTimeEntriesForUsersList function from this endpoint. On the frontend, he did his part consciously mapping humanity’s future as he set up a list using allUserProfileReducer and filtered it for active users. He then built a reducer to manage time entries, named allUsersTimeEntrieReducer. Data for TotalOrgSummary.jsx, VolunteerHoursDistribution.jsx, and ReportPieChart.jsx was programmed, with state variables set up accordingly. The UI for Volunteer Hours Distribution is now 90% complete.

Logeshwari addressed an issue where newly created roles were not displayed in Permission Management. The solution involved updating role.js to call the API and create a new role via the addNewRole function, modifying PermissionsManagement.jsx to pass getAllRoles as a prop to CreateNewRolePopup in the ModalBody, and updating NewRolePopUp.jsx to include getAllRoles in mapDispatchToProps, as well as calling getAllRoles after successful role creation in handleSubmit. A pull request for review was created under PR 2471. See the Highest Good Society and Highest Good Network pages for more on how this relates to consciously mapping humanity’s future. View some of the team’s work in the collage below.

BADGES BUGS SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT TEAM

The Badges Bugs Team’s summary overseeing advancements in the Highest Good Network software was managed by Summit Kaushal (Backend Software Developer). This week, Summit addressed a Postman issue related to HGN by reviewing documents, collaborating on Slack, troubleshooting 401 and 404 errors, and experimenting with user authentication. He identified the need for further consultation with HGN members. Additionally, Summit managed recruitment activities and continued debugging efforts. This work supports One Community’s mission of mapping humanity’s future through the Highest Good Network. See the Highest Good Society and Highest Good Network pages for more. View some of the team’s work in the collage below.

BINARY BRIGADE SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT TEAM

The Binary Brigade Team’s summary overseeing advancements in the Highest Good Network software was managed by Min Sun (Software Engineer) and includes Aaryaneil Nimbalkar (Software Developer), Deepthi Kannan (Software Engineer), Peizhou Zhang (Software Engineer), Sai Sarath Kumar Alavakonda (Software Engineer), Sandhya Adavikolanu (Software Developer), Sri Sudersan Thopey Ganesh (Software Engineer), Vigneshwar (Software Engineer), and Vijay Anand Pandian (Full Stack Software Engineer). The Highest Good Network software is how we’ll be consciously mapping humanity’s future through our social architecture, construction, production, and maintenance processes. This week, the HGN Software Development team worked on various tasks. Min completed adding manager icons to the dashboard and began optimizing the team report page loading speed. He also managed weekly meetings and reports.

One Community welcomes Rachna Malav to the Administration/Management Team as our newest Volunteer/Consultant!

Rachna has 1+ years of data analytics experience working in SaaS start-ups and nonprofits. She has demonstrated success working in fast-paced environments and on complex projects requiring effective solutions to aid in data-driven decision-making. She believes in the power of data-driven decision-making with a touch of intuition. As a member of the One Community team, Rachna has helped the volunteer community grow by aiding the hiring process and implementing SEO strategies on 20+ blogs.

WELCOME TO THE TEAM RACHNA!

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