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Combining Diverse Eco-elements – One Community Weekly Progress Update #517

Posted on February 19, 2023 by Durgeshwari Naikwade

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Humanity has the ability to be a species of global stewardship. By combining diverse eco-elements with comprehensive sustainability models, we can improve the quality of our lives while regenerating our planet. One Community is supporting this through stewardship models that integrate open source and sustainable models for food, energy, housing, education, for-profit and non-profit economic design, social architecture, fulfilled living, “Highest Good” management models, and more.

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 February 19th, 2023 edition (#517) of our weekly progress update detailing our team’s development and accomplishments:

Combining Diverse Eco-elements
One Community Progress Update #517

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HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING PROGRESS

One Community is combining diverse eco-elements 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 the core team detailed further experiments with aircrete, which included a repeat of the previous week using Drexel and using Seventh Generation dish soap while injecting the foam directly into the cement-water slurry. The same team member also had 2 meetings to detail tasks related to the City Center Dome structural analysis, and made progress on the solar energy required estimates. Pictures below are related to this work.

The core team also worked with a new team member who got set up and then read through the HGH Phase II: Material, Equipment, Tool and project tracking system document, wrote up his thoughts as a set of notes, and then added these notes as comments to the document. See below.

The Compression Team consisting of Genesis Avila (Engineering Intern Researcher), Fatima Duenas-Esparza (Engineering Intern Researcher), and Sarah-Jean Boyd (Engineering Intern Researcher) completed their 14th weeks helping with the Aircrete and earthbag compression testing. This week the Compression Testing Team made two different aircrete mixes – both batches were made with hard water but one consisted of Drexel foaming agent and the other 7th generation dish soap. The Team also continued to complete a data summary sheet to make various efforts more easily comparable. Pictures below are related to this work.

Loza Ayehutsega (Civil Engineer/Assistant Civil Engineer) completed her 7th week helping review the Net-zero Bathroom and Earthbag Village water collection and storage engineering calculations and designs. This week Loza reviewed the report document and spreadsheet, and presented the Roof design for residential buildings in the drop box. In addition, she reviewed the report document and suggested the writing orders for each topic on the hydraulic design part. Loza also reviewed the cost estimation calculation on the report document. See below for some pictures related to this.

DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER PROGRESS

One Community is combining diverse eco-elements 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, Gabriela Vilela S. C. Diniz (Architect and Urban Planner) completed her 33rd week working on the interior design for the Duplicable City Center rental rooms. This week Gabriela concluded adding all the images and the last details that were missing on the cost analysis table and presentation. Examples include the last posters on the brick wall and the bathroom, vinyl plank, ceiling planks, concrete wallpapers, brick wallpapers, etc. All she needs to do now is double check it and have Jae check it. Pictures below show some of this work.

Jieying “Mercy” Cai (Sustainability and Climate Policy Researcher) completed her 22nd week working on completing the Best Small and Large-scale Community Options for Sustainable Processing and Reuse of Non-recyclables research, report, and tutorial. This week, Mercy used the template to remake tables for the non-recyclable tasks, wrote the FAQs section, and checked and downloaded resource pdfs. For the City Center Eco-spa designs, she also did extensive research on the health and environmental impacts of chlorine, bromine, and biguanides, and added explanation paragraphs to the hot tub sanitizer alternatives tutorial. See below for some pictures related to this work.

Ranran Zhang (Architectural Designer) completed her 10th week working on the updated video for the Duplicable City Center internal and external walkthrough. This week, Ranran modified the SketchUp model mentioned in last week’s feedback. For the exterior elevators, Ranran added two walls on the outside of the exterior elevators and two windows for light. After discussion, Ranran also added a control room for the exterior elevators. In addition, she modified the material of the glasses in the yoga room. She also updated the Lumion file according to the modified parts and selected two views that needed to be rendered. These views are located on the first floor of the restaurant and the yoga room. See below for some pictures of this work.

Julio E. Marin Bustillos (Mechanical Engineer) joined the team and completed his 1st week helping with the City Center Dome Hub Connector Engineering. He read some background information about the City Center and existing design proposals for the hub connectors, as well as finishing the checklist from the Google Doc. Additionally, he wrote a short report about geodesic domes including the history, benefits, challenges, and science behind the structure. Julio also watched some tutorials on YouTube to get familiar with FreeCAD as well as exporting designs in a universal format so the designs can be viewed or edited in other software, such as Inventor and SolidWorks. Pictures of some of this work are below.

HIGHEST GOOD FOOD PROGRESS

One Community is combining diverse eco-elements 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 worked on updates for the Rabbits webpage. We continued adding details to the Rabbit document for website updates. We researched different housing options for rabbits, added images and short descriptions for rabbit hutches, rabbit tractors and rabbits colonies, and updated the Resources section by adding links and short descriptions for videos related to rabbits processing and rabbits housing. See pictures below.

Yifei Zhu (Analyst and Researcher) also completed her 14th week, now working on reviewing and formatting for publication the recipes for the Transition Food Self-sufficiency Plan. This week Yifei continued to work on converting the metric measurement to imperial for the Master recipe and 3-day Menu blocks. Yifei has converted from tbsp to oz, from g to oz, and edited the formatting from page 251 to 303. Pictures below are related to this work.

Rebecca Miller (Chef) completed her 3rd week helping with the Transition Food Self-sufficiency Plan. This week Rebecca worked on updating recipes and adding metric measurements. Rebecca is also checking ingredients against the master food cost list to ensure each ingredient can be priced accordingly and verifying that recipe instructions make sense for mass production. She has been editing methods based on her experience. See below for some pictures related to this.

HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION PROGRESS

One Community is combining diverse eco-elements through Highest Good education that is for all ages, applicable in any environment, adaptable to individual needs, far exceeds traditional education standards, and more fun for both the teachers and the students. This component of One Community is about 95% complete with only the Open Source School Licensing and Ultimate Classroom construction and assembly details remaining to be finished. We’ll report on the final two elements to be finished as we develop them.

With over 8 years of work invested in the process, the sections below are all complete until we move onto the property and continue the development and open sourcing process with teachers and students – a development process that is built directly into the structure of the education program and everything else we’re creating too:

Program Overview: Education Open Source Hub
How the components work together: 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, open source education, progressive education, One Community education, forward-thinking education, learning skills

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

HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY PROGRESS

One Community is combining diverse eco-elements 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 32 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.

Yiyun Tan (Management Dashboard Team Leader) completed her 42nd week helping with the Highest Good Network software. This week Yiyun worked on the urgent bugs 2/3/4. She discussed with a couple experienced members from the team, and got a clue that might be because of the abuse of useEffect(), she will collaborate with Johny and take a deeper look next week. Other than that, Yiyun helped the team on Slack, did some Management PR review, and problem solving as usual. Pictures of some of this work are below.

Alan Lee Sing Chan Yau (Software Engineer) completed his 15th week helping with the Highest Good Network software. This week Alan’s plan was to fix his previous PRs bugs and conflicts, because most of the PRs he created before are urgent. He started off making some changes on the duplicate name fix PR, and left some comments. Then Alan worked on the PR about the time entry still showing after we marked it as deleted, and he was able to fix that and it got approved. Additionally, he worked on changing all the remaining variable names of classification on the app to “category”, and he also changed the way we represent subcategories on the WBS page, so it is more clear. Lastly, Alan worked resolving conflicts and errors he got on the PR about viewing your teammates summaries in the UserProfile page. Pictures below show some of this work.

Kaixiang “Kevin” Gu (Fullstack Software Developer) completed his 15th week helping with the Highest Good Network software. This week, Kaixiang reviewed three pull requests. He also helped Yiyun with urgent bugs to find the root cause of one. He continued to work on buttons for the team member tasks tab too. The main features are working right now and the UI is also finished. The time logs will be displayed on the dashboard when clicking the button. Kaixiang will keep testing this feature and push a PR next week. Pictures below show some of this work.

Aashish Thapa Magar (Full Stack Software Developer) completed his 13th week helping with the Highest Good Network software. This week two badge bugs were examined. One of the bugs, which is from LeadTeamOfXPlus, the team collection is not displaying expected output. And the other bug is from TotalHrsInCategory, which is missing sufficient data to test the bug. A new code has been written for the TotalHrsInCategory to minimize computation time but due to insufficient data, it has not been tested for all outcomes. Pictures below relate to this work.

Jianjun Luo (Software Engineer) completed her 12th week helping with the Highest Good Network software. This week Jianjun finalized the work for the ‘all tasks’ functionality by fixing the sorting method. She then updated the forgot password page so that it will automatically validate the input format. The code works locally but fails the check after uploading, possibly due to the package version problem. Therefore Jianjun rewrote the function to prevent this from happening. Pictures below show some of this work.

Rajasri “RJ” Janaki Raman (React/MongoDB Full-stack Developer) completed her 11th week helping with the Highest Good Network software. This week, RJ Reviewed PR 677 and added suggestions and identified a few validation problems. She also experienced a CORS error and had to re-setup the entire workspace to rule it out. RJ additionally spent time working on “Enabling the option to submit a summary for different users by manager and above rules”, cleaning up the Summary Bar component, and analyzed Storybook as an option for us and provided suggestions. Pictures below show some of this work.

Johny dos Santos Anastacio (Software Engineer) completed his 10th week helping with the Highest Good Network software. Johny this week worked on the task “100 hours earned Badges” and got the solution. Now he just needs to finish all the tests for all categories. Next, Johny worked on figuring out what was happening with the development Branch because it was giving a bunch of errors and the Dev Application too, but he didn’t succeed on that. He also checked his PR for the subtask_folder_task PR for the frontend, because there are a bunch of errors there and he is thinking of creating another PR to fix all errors. Pictures below show some of this work.

Aishwarya Kalkundrikar (Full Stack Software Developer) completed her 8th week helping with the Highest Good Network software. This week Aishwarya found the solution to calculate the total remaining hours for the user correctly. Three cases are covered by her in this solution. Case 1: If the task is deleted from the profile. Case 2: If the task’s status is marked as ‘Complete’. Case 3: If the task is unassigned. She tried initializing the total remaining hours so that it is calculated correctly for previously deleted tasks, but no luck as any specific variable is not changed while previously deleting. Aishwarya also had a word with Yiyun about initializing the total remaining hours directly into the database for old deleted tasks. No solution yet though. Pictures below show some of this work.

Raul Effting (Jr. Front-End Web Developer) completed his 6th week helping with the Highest Good Network software. This week, Raul continuously checked and reviewed more PRs. Frontend PRs included: 657, 654, 641, 639, 622, 620, and 595. Approved PRs included: 666, 667 (Frontend). He also worked on PR 676 “(PRIORITY LOW) Header menu displays behind content when opened.” In Header.jsx, a ‘z-index: 10’ was added to the Navbar, so it cannot be overlapped by page content on small screens anymore. This PR was merged. Raul also worked on the following functionality: “(PRIORITY LOW) Jae: Add to top of app a section that the “Owner” class (only) can edit to post a message to all users of the app like, “Happy Holidays”.”. The Backend was finished and the functionality is already done, however, the Frontend needs some improvement to get cleaner and the logo is still pending from the design team. Check out the pictures below as examples of this work.

Rafael C Castro (Software Engineer) completed his 4th week helping with the Highest Good Network software. This week Rafael performed PR reviews, checked their related code and followed up on those with new developments. Rafael also tested the HGN App for features and bugs. The reviewed PRs were PR#595, PR#622, PR#635, PR#654, PR#657, PR#664, PR#667. Check out the pictures below as examples of this work.

Filipe Santos de Oliveira (Full Stack Developer) completed his 3rd week helping with the Highest Good Network software. Filipe worked this week on the following PRs: 676, 673, 671, 666, 672, 667, 665, 664, 652, 641, 657, 635, 622, 631, 639, 620, 677 and 653. For #666 He found ten results with one ‘m’ on the backend for the word ‘committed’ as requested in that PR. For #672 he tested it and it’s working like in his video sent to the comments section, but he encountered the same issue as @AnishPandita encountered related to the hours option. For #665 Filipe suggested just like @Gukal7 did, that the subs are not clearly defined. To change the font color of the subs, for example, or something that makes it clear that the directory is a sub, for example a branch symbol next to the folder name. For #664 he informed the person everything works fine. The only detail is the same as @one-community and @Gukal7 mentioned in the comments section about changing ‘until’ to ‘through’. In #641 he noticed some issues with different page resolutions. The cards on the Reports page are shifting position at a specific page size. Also, on the Team page where there are some pie charts, the whole page is not flexible. In #635 when he added the intangible hours in the volunteering times tab, an error popup appeared. When Filipe returned to the main page, the box for the current week remained reset. When he added the main intangible time, the task was added to the task box and timelog, but the current week box kept with zero. After he returned to the volunteering times in the profile, there was an addition to the manual time added in the main with the time manually added in the volunteering times. In #622 Filipe informed the same question as Rafael did that the “Total submitted: 0” is not working. In #631, when he changed the page resolution the ‘table’ was flexible but its child items were not. In #639 Filipe tested this PR and it’s showing the last three weeks correctly, but he ran into the same problem as Raul ran, a bug when it shows the summaries. It could be due to a number of things such as incorrect data being passed to the component, a mistake in the component’s rendering logic, or an issue with the component’s state or props. For #620 he tested It and it seems to be working correctly. It’s showing the blue squares as well. In #653 Filipe identified that it is not possible to alternate between stopwatch and countdown. See below pictures as examples of this work.

Anish Pandita (Software Engineer) completed his 3rd week helping with the Highest Good Network software. This week Anish completed another set of Frontend PR Reviews which included PR #673, #674 #675, #676, #677. The major tasks in the PRs was checking if the text container correctly wraps the content, testing responsiveness of the hamburger menu (derivative of old PR) and verifying if the forgot password form has correct input validation if the user doesn’t enter a name or inputs wrong email format. The PR workload was a bit less this week, therefore Anish utilized the work time to refresh his React skills. He studied the component building and other styling techniques prevalent in React code style. Practiced CRUD (Create, Rename, Update, Delete) operations in React and how to communicate with a database. He ran into some issues and errors while practicing and solved them successfully. See pictures below as examples of this work.

Tianjue Wang (Software Developer) completed her 2nd week helping with the Highest Good Network software. This week Tianjue worked on reviewing PRs by checking the code, adding comments, etc. By reviewing #667, #676, #673, #641, and reading comments, she familiarized herself with the whole system and how it works. Also, she spent a lot of time reviewing some React knowledge on Udemy, preparing for writing code in the future weeks. See below pictures as examples of this work.

Xinyu Jiang (Software Engineer) completed her 2nd week helping with the Highest Good Network software. This week, Xinyu spent most of the time reviewing PRs. It was interesting for her to find codes or function issues in the process. Apart from that, she also reviewed and learned some new conventions and behaviors related to React, which was very helpful for her coding. See the images below as examples of this work.

Ayush Tripathi (Full Stack Developer) joined the team and completed his 1st week helping with the Highest Good Network software. This week Ayush read most of the documents that were shared with him by Jae: General Onboarding Checklist, Instructions for Running HGN React App Locally, Ayush Tripathi and One Community Collaboration, Using ESLint and other code formatting tool to produce better code, HGN Volunteer Documentation. He also successfully installed Node Js, React Js, Visual Studio, and the required plugins and managed to run the application locally. See below pictures as examples of this work.

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One Community Welcomes Johny dos Santos Anastacio to the Software Development Team!

Posted on February 17, 2023 by One Community

One Community welcomes Johny dos Santos Anastacio to the Software Development Team as our newest Volunteer/Consultant!

Johny is a web developer specializing in fullstack web development. He works with the JavaScript language, in the Backend with Node.Js/Express and MongoDB, and in the Frontend with React.Js. He also has some experience with PHP, MySQL, some mobile development building Apps on React Native, and also Linux command line and Git version control. Johny enjoys designing scalable and clean code in a fast-paced environment and joined the One Community team to apply these skills to our open source Highest Good Network application.

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One Community Welcomes Ray Lee to the Graphic Design Team!

Posted on February 16, 2023 by One Community

One Community welcomes Ray Lee to the Graphic Design Team as our newest Volunteer/Consultant!

Ray is a Graphic Designer, Video Editor, and Web Developer based in Los Angeles, CA. His past employers and clients include: Monster, Xerox, RadioShack, Deloitte, H&R Block, Winnebago, Hyundai, Kawasaki, Bank of America, Disney, SeaWorld, and MTV. Ray’s skills are self-taught. He’s originally from Hawaii and moved to Los Angeles after high school to attend UCLA. His favorite movie is Barry Lyndon by Stanley Kubrick. Ray’s favorite genre of music is Techno and House (former DJ), and his favorite food is anything that tastes good. He’s a great friend of the digital world and is not afraid of AI taking over.

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Conscious Management of Spaceship Earth – One Community Weekly Progress Update #516

Posted on February 12, 2023 by Durgeshwari Naikwade

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One Community is facilitating conscious management of Spaceship Earth with open source and free-shared plans for sustainable food, energy, housing, education, for-profit and non-profit economic design, social architecture, fulfilled living, global stewardship practices, and more.

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 February 12th, 2023 edition (#516) of our weekly progress update detailing our team’s development and accomplishments:

Conscious Management of Spaceship Earth
One Community Progress Update #516

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HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING PROGRESS

One Community is facilitating conscious management of spaceship earth 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 the core team continued to improve the solar sizing spreadsheet and met with the Compression Testing Team to discuss expectations, create new attainable goals, and convey the goal for this week, as well as discussed with Marcus the experience the previous team had with using a wand to directly add the foam to the slurry. The same team member also interviewed and on-boarded a new volunteer to continue work with the city center hub connector design process.

Stacey Maillet (Graphic Designer) completed her 87th week working on the final edits and revisions to the Murphy bed instructions. This week Stacey continued to address and resolve the comments received from the team. Screenshots below relate to this work.

Julia Meaney (Researcher and Assistant to Executive Director) completed her 21st week with the team. This week, Julia checked on the “Murphy bed Instructions” PDF and resolved comments where feedback had been integrated. She then continued and completed her review of Chuck’s integration of requested edits on the “Sustainable Roadways, Walkways, and Landscaping” Feedback PDF. She made fixes on the live webpage to headings, table of contents, spacing, Title texts on links, and other formatting and coding issues as needed. She checked all of the images on the site, making small fixes as needed and assigning larger tasks to Chuck on the source Google Doc and the Feedback PDF. Julia then completed her final review of the “Addressing Non-recyclables” Google Doc. She checked Mercy’s most recent additions and added her feedback in the comments. Next, Julia went through the “Chickens” Google Doc and checked Chuck’s integration of new content to the “Ethical, Humane, & Conscientious Chicken Stewardship” webpage, crossing off content on the doc that had been correctly integrated. She made various fixes to ToC’s, images, format, and linked resources as needed and backed up new additional resources to her Dropbox folder. Finally, Julia continued her work on the “Eco-Laundry” task. She added a new “Flexibility Strategy” section to the site, writing a paragraph explaining One Community’s eco-laundry flexibility strategy and updating the table of content with the new subheading. See pictures below.

The Compression Team consisting of Genesis Avila (Engineering Intern Researcher), Fatima Duenas-Esparza (Engineering Intern Researcher), and Sarah-Jean Boyd (Engineering Intern Researcher) completed their 13th weeks helping with the Aircrete and earthbag compression testing. This week the compression testing team made another batch of aircrete using the same recipe as the week before but with the other foam generator, the Little Dragon. The focus shifted to trying to get the proper foam density (90g/L), which continued to be difficult because the effect of changing the pressure was unpredictable. Pictures below are related to this work.

Loza Ayehutsega (Civil Engineer/Assistant Civil Engineer) completed her 6th week helping review the Net-zero Bathroom and Earthbag Village water collection and storage engineering calculations and designs. This week Loza continued reviewing the report document, rainwater harvesting system, and septic tank design. The rainwater harvesting system described in the report document was not clear. Rainwater harvesting systems from different literature was reviewed and the Introduction, approaches, and benefits for the residential buildings are presented in the review work. The septic tank design part was reviewed in the previous weeks. However, this time some details from the literature were added to the review work. See below for some pictures related to this.

Vidhi Bansal (3D Visualization Artist) completed her 3rd week helping with video and AutoCAD renders for a 4-dome cluster Earthbag Village housing design. This week Vidhi worked on the 4-dome cluster flythrough landscape and lighting tests and iterations. She worked on foliage tests, arid and green landscape and has deduced from reference images that the ideal landscape would be a mix of both where the land around the building is cleared out. Next week she will work on proper placement of the foliage so the building looks well situated on the site. Less green than the green landscape and more green than the arid one. She also worked on lighting with good rays keeping camera angles in mind for a more cinematic and realistic effect. Check out the pictures below as examples of this work.

DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER PROGRESS

One Community is facilitating conscious management of spaceship earth 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, Gabriela Vilela S. C. Diniz (Architect and Urban Planner) completed her 32nd week working on the interior design for the Duplicable City Center rental rooms. This week Gabriela finished fixing the problem with the TV and almost finished the renders for the room, just one scene to go. It took a lot of time because it pushed the boundaries of her computer, but it’s almost done. She updated the presentation with the new images and now she just needs to finish the last image for the room, last items on the presentation and the cost analysis table. Pictures below show some of this work.

Jieying “Mercy” Cai (Sustainability and Climate Policy Researcher) completed her 21st week working on completing the Best Small and Large-scale Community Options for Sustainable Processing and Reuse of Non-recyclables research, report, and tutorial. This week Mercy continued working on Julia’s comments on the tutorial. She finished editing and rewriting the “Limitation of Landfilling”, “Waste sorting”, and “One community’s plan for addressing non-recyclables” sections. She also found heat exchanger and heat recovery boiler products on Alibaba.com. Mercy then worked on the hot tub task, she reviewed the comments and researched the outcomes of interaction with chlorine and bromine. See below for some pictures related to this work.

Ranran Zhang (Architectural Designer) completed her 9th week working on the updated video internal and external walkthrough for the Duplicable City Center. This week, Ranran modified the SketchUp model based on last week’s feedback. For the exterior elevators, Ranran added a floor-to-ceiling wall to protect against snow and rain blowing in from that side. By studying the elevator brochure, Ranran, and Yuxi also discussed and tried to add a control room for the exterior elevators. After their meeting, they made three proposals for the location of the control room. She also updated the Lumion file according to the modified parts and selected two views that need to be rendered. These views are located on the first floor of the restaurant and the kitchen. See below for some pictures of this work.

HIGHEST GOOD FOOD PROGRESS

One Community is facilitating conscious management of spaceship earth 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 worked on updates for the Rabbits and Chickens websites. We updated the Comprehensive Cost Analysis Spreadsheet for Chicken Coop, finished updating descriptions of all the items on that list, and then continued adding details to the Rabbit document as needed website updates. She added information to the “Ethical harvesting of rabbits” section, provided a list of items for the butchering process, added steps for the butchering process, and added links with descriptions of videos for the rabbit butchering process. The same team member also checked the Murphy Bed Instruction PDF, replied to some comments and resolved comments where issues were corrected. See pictures below.

Charles Gooley (Web Designer) also completed his 21st week helping with web design, now focused on the webpage for Chickens. Charles spent the week working on additions to the Chicken Shelter Needs section of the Ethical, Humane, & Conscientious Chicken Stewardship page. These included a discussion of chicken coop design with step-by-step building instructions with illustrations of coop design as well as how to implement nesting boxes. They should be safe, dark, clean & private. There were illustrations of how to make nesting boxes out of materials such as old furniture, 5 gallon buckets, plastic crates. Just about anything will do. Includes were the pros and cons of netting, wire and electric fencing. Finally additions were made on how to prepare chicken feed along with a feeding timeline. A few links to preparing chicken feed were added to the resources section. The pictures below share some of this work.

Yifei Zhu (Analyst and Researcher) also completed her 13th week, now working on reviewing and formatting for publication the recipes for the Transition Food Self-sufficiency Plan. This week Yifei has continued to work on converting the metric measurement to imperial for the Master recipe and 3-day Menu blocks. She converted from tbsp to oz, from g to oz. Yifei also re-edited the content from page 165 to 251 and also converted the formatting for these pages. Pictures below are related to this work.

Rebecca Miller (Chef) completed her 2nd week helping with the Transition Food Self-sufficiency Plan. This week Rebecca started correcting and editing recipes. She is working on adding metric measurements to all recipes. Rebecca is also finding mistakes or ways to improve current recipe instructions and double checking the work of interns also tasked with proofreading. Rebecca had noticed some ingredients not in the master cost spreadsheet and will work on adding them in. See below for some pictures related to this.

HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION PROGRESS

One Community is facilitating conscious management of spaceship earth 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 facilitating conscious management of spaceship earth 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 30 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.

Yiyun Tan (Management Dashboard Team Leader) completed her 41st week helping with the Highest Good Network software. This week Yiyun was working on the urgent bugs 3/4. During investigation on those two bugs, she realized the urgent bug 2 is also related to the others. She accessed Cali’s work and tried to get more clues. Next week she will discuss those bugs with senior developers, hopefully to solve them. Pictures of some of this work are below.

Yan Xu (Software Development Engineer) completed her 28th week helping with the Highest Good Network software. Yan this week started working on the “create new summary group” function, after clicking this button, it is possible to pop up a page to input the summary group name. But currently, it is not possible to successfully create a new row in the summary management table, so she still needs to investigate and think about the code for this. Yan will push PR part by part in the next step. As for the pause and resume button, she verified that the front end change will cause the backend change. See pictures below for some of this work.

Alan Lee Sing Chan Yau (Software Engineer) completed his 14th week helping with the Highest Good Network software. This week Alan started off by working on fixing the misspellings of “committed” throughout the frontend and also the backend. He worked on a similar PR before, and this time Alan knew that it was very probable that some things might not work properly after updating the spelling. The first problem he encountered was that after fixing the misspelling problem, the weeklyCommittedHours value in the summary was blank. Alan understood why this was happening, and this was because every user has this value stored in the database with the wrong spelling “weeklyComittedHours” with one m. That is why Alan left just one misspelling so we can continue seeing this value. Then Alan worked on his Management Dashboard feature that was needed, by adding a button to the tasks of each team member on the dashboard to mark their task as completed. Alan was able to add this button to each task, but he is still figuring out how to mark it as completed the same way we can do it in the userProfile page. Pictures below show some of this work.

Kaixiang “Kevin” Gu (Fullstack Software Developer) completed his 14th week helping with the Highest Good Network software. In this week, Kaixiang wrapped up PR #651, resolved issues that reviewers experienced, and then the PR was approved and merged. He also continued working on the bug, “show time logs in team member tasks”. The 24 hour function is working right now but still needs to be optimized. He’s also trying to find a way to make the UI look more organized when we have a long list of team members. Pictures below show some of this work.

Jianjun Luo (Software Engineer) also completed her 11th week helping with the Highest Good Network software. This week, Jianjun made some updates to the “open all folders” task based on the reviewers. Loading has been accelerated and a signal was introduced to make it more user friendly. She also took a look at the bug reported from the user profile task/project tab and raised a PR to fix a bug from the leaderboard component about text overflow. Pictures below show some of this work.

Rajasri “RJ” Janaki Raman (React/MongoDB Full-stack Developer) completed her 10th week helping with the Highest Good Network software. RJ worked on her bug fixes for PR 632, dashboard component bug 4. Analysis on the code flow is ongoing but will be completed next week. She reviewed PRs 657, 658 and associated backend PRs, raised bug 2 and 3 in the login component, worked on identifying the important steps for Phase II, made necessary slack communications with Raul, Pedro, Jianjun, Alan and Jae, and analyzed “Storybook” suggested by Pedro for our usage in the app. Pictures below show some of this work.

Johny dos Santos Anastacio (Software Engineer) completed his 9th week helping with the Highest Good Network software. This week Johny worked on the task, “Fix 100 hours total contributed badges bug”. He’s now working on a way to make user hoursByCategory properties to assign the 100 hours badges, because the only thing the categoryTangibleHrs are being used for is to assign those badges, but Johny is not understanding how this array categoryTangibleHrs is calculated. Johny also worked on his other task, “change the role from user profile gets saved and updated on profile page but doesn’t reflect on other pages/privileges”, he made some changes that were requested by reviewers, and the PR was merged. Pictures below show some of this work.

Aishwarya Kalkundrikar (Full Stack Software Developer) completed her 7th week helping with the Highest Good Network software. This week Aishwarya thoroughly went through the issue and found out that whenever any task is deleted, its estimated time and logged-in hours are not removed. This makes the sum or remaining hours be calculated incorrectly. Aishwarya also found out that the remaining hours of the tasks which are present in the ‘all’ section after deletion are also considered in the total sum of remaining hours. She found the solution and is now finding out if there are any corner cases that need to be handled. Pictures below show some of this work.

Raul Effting (Jr. Front-End Web Developer) completed his 5th week helping with the Highest Good Network software. This week, Raul continuously checked and reviewed more PRs. Frontend PRs included: 657, 654, 641, 639, 622, 620, and 595. Backend PRs included: 277 and 266. Approved PRs included: 664, 651 (Frontend), and 269 (Backend). He also worked on PR 670 “'(PRIORITY LOW): Optimize user profiles for phones and tablets.” On Basic Information Modal, ‘status’ and ‘end date’ were aligned. The delete button was aligned on Teams and Projects Modals, and so were the tab titles and the checkbox overlapping. Inputs were aligned at the Links Modal. Finally, the badges’ modals were improved by resizing them to fit, including fixing the buttons without the scroll needing and creating a dropdown button on the Select Featured modal. The PR is pending approval. Check out the pictures below as examples of this work.

Pedro Elton (Frontend Software Developer) completed his 5th week helping with the Highest Good Network software. This week, Pedro built and delivered the resource component. That can be found at Admin Login → Other Links → Projects → Click WBS Icon by project chosen → Choose WBS → Add Task. Pedro also fixed the styles of the circle icon that toggles on that same component and the padding between buttons from the WBS page. He then built a style guide based on the bootstrap design system and discussed with RJ and Jae about the consistency and performance across the application, suggesting an integration with Storybook to make it easy to maintain the large code base of the app. Pictures below show some of this work.

Rafael C Castro (Software Engineer) completed his 3rd week helping with the Highest Good Network software. This week Rafael continued to perform PR reviews, checking the related code and following up on those with new developments. Rafael also tested the HGN App for features and bugs. PRs reviewed this week were PR#267, PR#269, PR#635, PR#651, PR#657, PR#664, PR#666, PR#667, PR#668, PR#670, PR#672. Check out the pictures below as examples of this work.

Prabhjot Singh (Fullstack Software Engineer) also completed his 3rd week helping with the Highest Good Network software. Prabhjot reviewed 10 PRs this week and 2-3 of them twice after revisions. He suggested solutions for fixing 2-3 issues and also found some extra errors and got those fixed by Alan. See below pictures as examples of this work.

Filipe Santos de Oliveira (Full Stack Developer) completed his 2nd week helping with the Highest Good Network software. Filipe finished PR reviews this week for a variety of issues and bugs posted on Github. The issues were 595, 666, 668, 654, 670, 671, and 670. In PR 654 Filipe informed that sometimes the dashboard doesn’t load after he refreshed the page or when he was trying to go back to the previous page. Also he noticed that clicking a second time on the dot next to the user the leaderboard only shows the user he clicked on previously. As soon as he comes back to the page it shows all users again and after clicking on a second user the leaderboard only shows that user again. For PR 595 Filipe found many errors: Unable to click on items from the tab tasks, last week, week before the last; Popup bar is not fixed on the top; The floating menu is opening below the time counter window and summary window. He recommended some minor changes to the popup bar that fixes the popup bar space on the left side of the page and puts the popup bar above the number in the red circle of tasks, badges. Finally for PR 670 Filipe found that in the basic information, the ‘role’ field is overtaking the screen and in the basic information, the ‘Time Zone’ field is overtaking the screen. See below pictures as examples of this work.

Anish Pandita (Software Engineer) also completed his 2nd week helping with the Highest Good Network software. This week Anish completed PR reviews for multiple issues and bugs listed on Github. The issues included #664, #666, #667, #670, #668, #671, #672. Most of the issues were UI changes that needed to be tested to ensure everything is working fine. He commented all the findings like the bugs found in PR #666 where the deletion of task from still didn’t update the time filling menu, suggested that some optimization might be necessary in the PR #667 for better UX, found that the profile page had still some bugs while testing responsiveness on different screen sizes for PR #670 and formulated the findings for #672 where Anish found some bugs in the create task menu. Overall it was a fruitful week and he learnt a lot. See pictures below as examples of this work.

Gurkanwal Singh Kang (Software Engineer) completed his 2nd week helping with the Highest Good Network software. Gurkanwal evaluated various relevant code files this week and completed a number of PR evaluations. During the PR review, he offered advice and found a few bugs. This week’s key priorities were testing and evaluating GitHub pull requests. PRs #668, #670, #671, #666, #664, and #667 are among those that were evaluated. See below pictures as examples of this work.

Ray Lee (Digital Creator) also helped create the custom graphics for us to share each Valentine’s Day. These graphics replace the heading on our website and can be used for other marketing and promotional purposes too.

Tianjue Wang (Software Developer) joined the team and completed her 1st week helping with the Highest Good Network software. This week Tianjue worked on reviewing PRs by checking the code, adding comments, etc. She reviewed #667, #670, #671, #276, #635 and, through reading comments, she learned how to do PR reviews properly. Also, Tianjue spent a lot of time reading the code other team members wrote so that she could get familiarized with the whole system and the coding style. See below pictures as examples of this work.

Xinyu Jiang (Software Engineer) also joined the team and completed her 1st week helping with the Highest Good Network software. This week, Xinyu spent most of her time on the setting up and onboarding process, finishing all the checklists and reading all the documents carefully. It was interesting for her to fix several issues and vulnerabilities she came across in the process. Apart from that, Xinyu set up all the related development tools and got familiar with the basic functions of them. Lastly, she prepared for code review, looked into all the current PRs that were available, and will focus on PR reviews starting next week. See the images below as examples of this work.

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One Community Welcomes Ranran Zhang to the Design Team!

Posted on February 7, 2023 by One Community

One Community welcomes Ranran Zhang to the Design Team as our newest Volunteer/Consultant!

Ranran graduated from the University of Pennsylvania, with a Master of Science in Design degree. With 7 years of academic experience, she is a creative architectural designer and proficient in architectural design software. As a LEED GA, Ranran is interested in green buildings and hopes to become a LEED AP in the future. As a member of the One Community team, Ranran is helping with video walkthrough and design updates for the Duplicable City Center.

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Redefining the Anthropocene Epoch – One Community Weekly Progress Update #515

Posted on February 5, 2023 by Durgeshwari Naikwade

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One Community sees a path to redefining the Anthropocene Epoch as one of stewardship and regeneration. We’re supporting this with open source and free-shared sustainability plans covering food, energy, housing, education, for-profit and non-profit economic design, social architecture, fulfilled living, global stewardship practices, and more.

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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 February 5th, 2023 edition (#515) of our weekly progress update detailing our team’s development and accomplishments:

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HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING PROGRESS

One Community sees a path to redefining the anthropocene epoch 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 the core team resolved more comments in Murphy Bed Assembly Instruction document, put suggestion about selection of timber, and generated an updated image of the Murphy Bed with the above-bed light set. The same team member also generated images for City Center with requested measurements of framing triangles for each row and another image with the heights of each row of triangles in the dome framing structure.

Jieying “Mercy” Cai (Sustainability and Climate Policy Researcher) completed her 20th week working on completing the Best Small and Large-scale Community Options for Sustainable Processing and Reuse of Non-recyclables research, report, and tutorial. This week Mercy worked on Julia’s comments, including 1) adding details of recommended processing plants, 2) integrating the CO2 mitigation benefit of these machines, 3) addressing the quote issue regarding plant D and replacing it with an alternative, 4) adding a One Community’s plan for non-recyclables section, and 5) any other suggested changes. See below for some pictures related to this work.

Julia Meaney (Researcher and Assistant to Executive Director) completed her 20th week with the team. This week, Julia checked the “Murphy bed Instructions” PDF and resolved comments as necessary. She also began to check Chuck’s progress on the “Sustainable Roadways, Walkways, and Landscaping” webpage, resolving comments on the Feedback PDF that had been correctly integrated. Julia then completed her content reviewing and editing of the doors section on the “Door and Window Research” Google Doc. She added her feedback using the comments. Finally, Julia completed reviewing and editing the “Chickens” tab of the “P1c – Food Infrastructure Comprehensive Cost Analysis” Spreadsheet and also completed going through the entirety of the “Ethical, Humane, & Conscientious Chicken Stewardship” webpage. She reviewed and edited content directly on the site as needed and added new links to the Resources section, backing them all up to a Dropbox folder. She then edited the rest of the new content on the Doc from Tatyana which is now ready for integration to the live site.

Charles Gooley (Web Designer) also completed his 20th week helping with web design, now focused on the Sustainable Roadways, Walkways, and Landscaping page. Charles continued working on feedback comments. These comments included reformatting titles in the Rigid Pavement Design section to be all caps and underlined, re-adding images from the source Google Doc, adding a ToC to the General Bikeway Design Criteria section, and reformatting the caption for the image in the Recommendations section. There were several places where the left margin was misplaced due to incorrect coding of unordered lists. The titles of two images in the Porous Asphalt Design section were cropped off and put into the caption. The page was checked to ensure that all the margins of all paragraphs were justified, and that there was a non-breaking space before each heading. The pictures below share some of this work.

The Compression Team consisting of Genesis Avila (Engineering Intern Researcher), Fatima Duenas-Esparza (Engineering Intern Researcher), and Sarah-Jean Boyd (Engineering Intern Researcher) completed their 12th weeks helping with the Aircrete and earthbag compression testing. This week the Compression Testing Team made another aircrete mix utilizing the direct addition of foam method. They were very specific and tedious with ingredients added and mixing. The team recorded and monitored the density that was necessary to produce well mixed aircrete. The next morning the cylinders were checked and there was no noticeable collapse. Work on the team 2 roundup document was also continued. Pictures below are related to this work.

Loza Ayehutsega (Civil Engineer/Assistant Civil Engineer) completed her 5th week helping review the Net-zero Bathroom and Earthbag Village water collection and storage engineering calculations and designs. This week Loza reviewed water treatment methodologies adopted in the report document and calculation details reported in the spreadsheet. In addition, Loza discussed with Diwei the calculation approach used in the water barrel pressure and flow rate. Literature review about the west water treatment approach was done too. Water treatment methods were discussed briefly in the report document, however, some additional approaches reviewed in the literature are also presented in the DropBox file. See below for some pictures related to this.

Vidhi Bansal (3D Visualization Artist) completed her 2nd week helping with video and AutoCAD renders for a 4-dome cluster Earthbag Village housing design. This week Vidhi continued her work on the 4-dome flythrough, focussing on textures and how they look under various lighting conditions within Unreal Engine. She was able to UV unwrap most of the model and bring it into the engine to run a first series of texture tests and create some materials and edit them and do an RnD on what looks best under which lighting conditions. She was also able to add more details to the sourced textures to suit the look. Check out the pictures below as examples of this work.

DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER PROGRESS

One Community sees a path to redefining the anthropocene epoch 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 the core team revamped the hub connector content by adding images and understanding the material better. We also looked into the height of each layer or row to determine if the vertical elevation is uniform. The same team member also met with the Compression Testing Team to review their most recent aircrete results and their method, which were the first successful batch. Then she wrote up and edited the solar demand estimate details, connected with 2 new potential volunteers, and worked on a consent form.

Daniela Andrea Parada (Civil Engineering Student) completed her 62nd and last week, now focused on finishing updates to the formatting of the Duplicable City Center Project Specification and Design Basis report. Daniela addressed comments she left for herself that required her to research and look at external references. Daniela researched and linked any code that was mentioned throughout the report so that the reader would have easy access to it. There were only two references she absolutely could not find. She also went through the document and made last adjustments to image titles in addition to trying to find titles to images based on google image search. Daniela wanted the proper name for each figure but was unable to find some of them. Pictures below are related to this work.

This week, Gabriela Vilela S. C. Diniz (Architect and Urban Planner) completed her 31st week working on the interior design for the Duplicable City Center rental rooms. This week Gabriela worked again on the adjustments of the box where the TV will be installed. It was still showing the frame, so she lifted the TV up 2 more inches. She then re rendered all aspects of the room that needed final approval. Pictures below show some of this work.

Ranran Zhang (Architectural Designer) completed her 8th week working on the updated video internal and external walkthrough for the Duplicable City Center. This week, Ranran modified the SketchUp model mentioned in last week’s feedback, i.e. reducing the height of the column in the social dome. In addition, she had a meeting with Yuxi to discuss the protective way for elevators. After the meeting, Ranran added protective spaces for these outdoor elevators. In this way, the outdoor elevator can avoid being infiltrated by rainwater. She also updated the Lumion file according to modified parts and selected three views that needed to be rendered. These views are located in the restaurant, library, and the second floor of the Social Dome. See below for some pictures of this work.

HIGHEST GOOD FOOD PROGRESS

One Community sees a path to redefining the anthropocene epoch 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 worked on updates for the Rabbits and Chickens websites. We added missing links into the Chickens Resources section, provided a description for chickens feeding section, and updated the Cost Analysis spreadsheet for chicken coop. See pictures below.

Yifei Zhu (Analyst and Researcher) also completed her 12th week, now working on reviewing and formatting for publication the recipes for the Transition Food Self-sufficiency Plan. This week Yifei has continued to worked on converting the metric measurement to imperial for the Master recipe and 3-day Menu blocks. Yifei has converted from tbsp to oz, from g to oz. Yifei re edited the content from page 100 to 165. She also converted the formatting for these pages. Pictures below are related to this work.

Rebecca Miller (Chef) joined the team and completed her 1st week helping with the Transition Food Self-sufficiency Plan. This week Rebecca worked on the master food cost spreadsheet. She fixed the formula so that the measurements were auto-populated from the master recipe template. She noticed that the majority of the products entered were not priced out correctly by the correct unit of measurement, so she fixed that. Rebecca also went through each link as many were missing or had incorrect products and started looking into fixing the formula to get these food costs auto populating into the master recipe template. See below for some pictures related to this.

HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION PROGRESS

One Community sees a path to redefining the anthropocene epoch 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 sees a path to redefining the anthropocene epoch 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

Yan Xu (Software Development Engineer) completed her 27th week helping with the Highest Good Network software. Yan created a new summary button, search bar, and summary button, active summary, for the summary management page. She also formatted the summary page with the style, font, layout, and margin, now its style has been unified with our website style. Next, Yan will make every button on the page “live”, one by one (the functions of adding, deleting, modifying, querying summary), which is her task in the next stage. She also created the PR for the pause and resume button, and after investigating, she found it is not possible to pause the user until tomorrow after every day after 16:00. Yan’s still working on fixing this. See pictures below for some of this work.

Navya Madiraju (React.js/MongoDB Full Stack Developer) completed her 17th week helping with the Highest Good Network software. This week Navya checked the backend code locally and analyzed how the code is written, how the flow is happening, and how the email is triggering everything. She also checked the frontend code into local and analyzed it too, created a new user with admin to see how emails are populating and, after communicating with Jae, realized developing this functionality would be too much. Pictures below are related to this work.

Alan Lee Sing Chan Yau (Software Engineer) completed his 13th week helping with the Highest Good Network software. This Week Alan started by helping Kaixian debug his PR and confirmed the errors that other fellow reviewers saw in Kaixiang’s PR, and fortunately Kaixiang was able to find the cause of the problem. The problem was that we were editing and deleting roles as admins but we should have done that as owners. Then Alan carried on to implement some changes that were requested on his PR about the duplicate name popup, but some of the requests were out of scope. Then Alan worked on the PR about changing the field name from Classification to Category when adding a task, and he was able to finish that and raised a PR. After that, he worked on the PR about time entries still showing in the dropdown of Tasks when we enter a tangible time entry even after we just deleted the task. He was able to fix this problem and raised a PR as well. The last thing he worked on was the fix misspellings PR. Pictures below show some of this work.

Kaixiang “Kevin” Gu (Fullstack Software Developer) completed his 13th week helping with the Highest Good Network software. This week, Kaixiang focused on resolving issues in his PR editing role names and deleting roles. He found that the functionalities only work for the Owner role account. He made changes to hide all the buttons for the users who are not Owner. For now, the edit name is not working on another person’s computer, Kaixiang still needs to debug this issue next week. He also fixed a negative value bug in his intangible hours PR, improved the UI on the volunteering times tab, and made all the labels and numbers alignment centered vertically. Pictures below show some of this work.

Jianjun Luo (Software Engineer) also completed her 10th week helping with the Highest Good Network software. This week Jianjun continued working on making the ‘all’ button of the WBS task page able to open all the folders in one click. She first figured out the cause of the bug in certain cases that occurred in the work from last week. To solve the problem, she tried several methods to implement the function and chose a better way to achieve the goal. There are still a few small parts that can be improved and will be wrapped up next week. Pictures below show some of this work.

Rajasri “RJ” Janaki Raman (React/MongoDB Full-stack Developer) completed her 9th week helping with the Highest Good Network software. RJ completed Urgent priority bug 1 and raised PR 663. She fixed the login component “forgot password link” alignment as part of PT 663 too. As part of UP bug 1, she analyzed the possibility to improve timelog load speed using google/pagespeed tool and studied a few React/Redux topics. RJ also cleaned up the leadership PR review page on Slack for easier status checking of PRs and updated status for pending PRs and reviewed PR 635 and the related backend PR. Pictures below show some of this work.

Johny dos Santos Anastacio (Software Engineer) completed his 8th week helping with the Highest Good Network software. This week Johny worked on his task, “Fix 100 hours total contributed badges bug”. He found where the bug is being generated, and he found that the user profile is not being updated when adding tangible time (using the green button and using the timer too), and the badge 100 hours for any category is not being assigned because it is not calculating in the categoryTangibleHrs variable. Johny fixed this, now he will find why the user profile is not being updated. Pictures below show some of this work.

Aishwarya Kalkundrikar (Full Stack Software Developer) completed her 6th week helping with the Highest Good Network software. This week Aishwarya picked a new bug: Make the “total remaining hours” column show the correct number after deleting tasks. She tested the scenario in the Dev using various test accounts as well as existing accounts but was unable to replicate the issue. The issue exists only for 2 existing users on Dev but on Main is faced by all users. Aishwarya has also gone through multiple files and compared related files on Dev with Main, no change was observed. She also thoroughly went through the code logic from where values are picked but has not found any issue with it. Pictures below show some of this work.

Raul Effting (Jr. Front-End Web Developer) completed his 4th week helping with the Highest Good Network software. This week, Raul continuously checked and reviewed more PRs. Frontend PRs included: 654, 641, 639, 620, and 595 Backend PRs included: 270 and 266. Approved PRs included: 663 He also worked on “'(PRIORITY LOW): Optimize user profiles for phones and tablets.” The Blue Squares section was improved to fit on small screens, the tabs have been replaced by a list with modals, the list items were replaced by buttons, and the first modal (Basic Information) was improved to fit on small screens, Gurkanwal, Filipe, Anish, Prabhjot and Tianjue were mentored about how to review the PRs too. Check out the pictures below as examples of this work.

Pedro Elton (Frontend Software Developer) completed his 4th week helping with the Highest Good Network software. Pedro worked on the redesign of the modal at “Admin Login → Other Links → Projects → Click WBS Icon by project chosen → Choose WBS → Add Task. Pedro also changed the position and style of different components within the same modal and developed features that are being tested to be implemented next week to improve user experience on searching resources. Pictures below show some of this work.

Rafael C Castro (Software Engineer) completed his 2nd week helping with the Highest Good Network software. This week Rafael performed PR reviews, checked their related code and followed up on those with new developments. Rafael also tested the HGN App for features/bugs and tested the new timer component. PRs reviewed: PR#266, PR#270, PR#272, PR#622, PR#651, PR#652, PR#654, PR#656, PR#663, PR#664 and PR#665. Check out the pictures below as examples of this work.

Prabhjot Singh (Fullstack Software Engineer) also completed his 2nd week helping with the Highest Good Network software. Prabhjot reviewed 8 to 10 PRs. He went through some old ones, but the instructions were not clear, so he requested more info. Prabhjot also approved two PRs, suggested some code changes, and became more acquainted with the team and the process. See below pictures as examples of this work.

Filipe Santos de Oliveira (Full Stack Developer) joined the team and completed his 1st week helping with the Highest Good Network software. This week Filipe worked on getting the HGN React App running locally. He ran into some problems loading the application, and noticed that the dashboard does not show the current version of the Pull Request 654 he started reviewing. He continues to problem solve these issues. See below pictures as examples of this work.

Anish Pandita (Software Engineer) also joined the team and completed his 1st week helping with the Highest Good Network software. This week Anish completed multiple PR reviews and also went over multiple code files for the same. The week started with setting up and installing all the necessary softwares on his local machine and completing all the initial setup checklist and other formalities mentioned on the google doc. The second half of the week was more inclined towards testing and reviewing the PRs raised on the slack and git pulls. The reviewed PRs include #665, #657, #641, #652, #663, #654. Anish also faced some Nodejs version issues while testing so had to reinstall everything again to solve it. See pictures below as examples of this work.

Gurkanwal Singh Kang (Software Engineer) joined the team and also completed his 1st week helping with the Highest Good Network software. Gurkanwal finished several PR reviews and examined numerous related code files. Setting up and installing all the required software on his laptop was the first task of the week. Gurkanwal finished the basic setup checklist and all other requirements outlined in the google doc. The second half of the week was focused on testing and assessing PRs from GitHub. Included in the examined PRs are #665, #657, #641, #652, #663, and #595. See below pictures as examples of this work.

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Community Ecology – One Community Weekly Progress Update #514

Posted on January 29, 2023 by Durgeshwari Naikwade

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One Community is demonstrating community ecology by taking a holistic approach to community creation. Combining our open source and free-shared sustainability solutions for food, energy, housing, education, for-profit and non-profit economic design, social architecture, fulfilled living, and global stewardship practices will provide a living experience that will be objectively healthier, more artistic, more affordable, and far more sustainable.

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 January 29th, 2023 edition (#514) of our weekly progress update detailing our team’s development and accomplishments:

Community Ecology
One Community Progress Update #514

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HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING PROGRESS

One Community is demonstrating community ecology 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 the core team member managing the aircrete compression testing team had the weekly meeting with the compression testing team and watched the meeting Jae had with Dr. Bai to make a decision on how to proceed with the current team and overall project. The same team member also began a deeper review of the city center hub connector content on WordPress, continued to understand the quotes from commercially manufactured hub connectors, revised the on-site hub connector fabrication cost estimate based on a more accurate number of nodes, and added a tub-style deburring tumbler to the on-site fab method.

Stacey Maillet (Graphic Designer) completed her 86th week working on the final edits and revisions to the Murphy bed instructions. This week Stacey continued to address and resolve the comments received from the team. Screenshots below relate to this work.

Julia Meaney (Researcher and Assistant to Executive Director) completed her 19th week with the team. This week, Julia continued reviewing the “Murphy bed Instructions” PDF and went through the comments, resolving integrated feedback and responding with further feedback when needed. She then reviewed the most recent work on the “Best Small and Large-scale Community Options for Sustainable Processing and Reuse of Non-recyclables” research, editing the content for grammar and spelling and using the comments to communicate feedback on the final research and most recent additions. Also this week, Julia worked on her review of the “Ethical, Humane, & Conscientious Chicken Stewardship” webpage. She edited content for grammar, spelling, and format directly on the site as well as adding and integrating new content from the source Google Doc as needed. She used the comments on the source Doc to ask for clarifications and also worked to fix various coding and linking issues on the site. Finally, Julia started her task of reviewing and editing the “Chickens” tab of the “P1c – Food Infrastructure Comprehensive Cost Analysis” Spreadsheet.

Charles Gooley (Web Designer) also completed his 19th week helping with web design, now focused on the Sustainable Roadways, Walkways, and Landscaping page. Charles continued working on feedback comments. These comments included additions to the main and sub ToC’s, updating the mouseover text for items in the glossary so that the mouseover text contains the actual definition, replacing images that were improperly cropped, and making some adjustment to formatting of headings. The pictures below share some of this work.

The Compression Team consisting of Genesis Avila (Engineering Intern Researcher), Joshua Jacob (Engineering Intern Researcher), Fatima Duenas-Esparza (Engineering Intern Researcher), and Sarah-Jean Boyd (Engineering Intern Researcher) completed their 11th weeks helping with the Aircrete and earthbag compression testing. The Compression Testing Team tested adding the foam into the mixing vessel instead of measuring it out first and reverse osmosis water was used. Work was continued with the Team 2 roundup document. Additionally, a schedule was made for when the team members could hold meetings if/when it became necessary. Additional foam testing also took place. Pictures below are related to this work.

Loza Ayehutsega (Civil Engineer/Assistant Civil Engineer) completed her 4th week helping review the Net-zero Bathroom and Earthbag Village water collection and storage engineering calculations and designs. This week Loza reviewed the design storm drainage standards and some additional design approaches from different works of literature. The design approach can be different for different countries. However, the review was made according to the main standard approaches and the possible construction plans. Loza also reviewed gutter and Inlet equations used in the report and the applicability of those equations for the different conditions from the literature review. See below for some pictures related to this.

Vidhi Bansal (3D Visualization Artist) joined the team and completed her 1st week helping with video and AutoCAD renders for a 4-dome cluster Earthbag Village housing design. This week, Vidhi worked on carefully cleaning up the OBJ file provided for the 4-dome flythrough, UV unwrapping the meshes so that they can be prepared for texturing and also testing the textures in UE. She also did multiple tests to check which methodologies and pipelines would best suit the project. Two pipelines were tested, the SketchUp-to-Lumion pipeline and the Maya-to-Unreal-Engine pipeline. She ran a lighting test in Unreal so she could better understand how the textures would look to create as realistic looking a flythrough as possible. Check out the pictures below as examples of this work.

DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER PROGRESS

One Community is demonstrating community ecology 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

Daniela Andrea Parada (Civil Engineering Student) completed her 61st week, now focused on finishing updates to the formatting of the Duplicable City Center Project Specification and Design Basis report. She read through all of the newest comments that were addressed to her and figured out where she left off previously. Since she had been attempting to find the title of some images but had been unsuccessful, she started reading through comments to see where she could research links for mentioned sources. There were multiple links that Daniela was struggling to find online and in the report. She plans to continue this work next week. Pictures below are related to this work.

This week, Gabriela Vilela S. C. Diniz (Architect and Urban Planner) completed her 30th week working on the interior design for the Duplicable City Center rental rooms. This week Gabriela worked to fix the problem pointed out by Jae with the box and the TV, by adjusting the height. She also looked for the posters for the bedroom, and worked on the presentation by adding the posters and more details for the bathroom and on the cost analysis table. Pictures below show some of this work.

Ranran Zhang (Architectural Designer) completed her 7th week working on the updated video internal and external walkthrough for the Duplicable City Center. This week, Ranran checked the SketchUp model and imported it into Lumion for adjustment. Referring to the Lumion model, she modified some of the errors in the SketchUp model: material of the interior wall in the social dome according to the interior design plan and removed redundant handrails. In addition, Ranran had a meeting with Yuxi to discuss the location of the missing windows for the stair tower. After their meeting, Ranran added these missing windows to the SketchUp model. See below for some pictures of this work.

HIGHEST GOOD FOOD PROGRESS

One Community is demonstrating community ecology 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 realized more work was needed on the behind-the-scenes research and content for the Chickens webpage. We corrected the Cost Analysis spreadsheet with updates to the cost of hardware for the chicken coop, added descriptions for some items, corrected the Incubation Parameters spreadsheet, and added a section with information and pictures about nesting boxes and creative ideas for DIY nesting boxes.

The core team also continued detailed review and feedback on the Transition Food Self-sufficiency Plan. We completed one 3-Day menu block overview and 10 recipes through page 72. Primary considerations related to overall clarity of the recipes, certifying instructions and ingredients align with all inclusive items, proper substitutions for both vegan and omnivore menu options, some capitalization issues, addressing sodium content to reasonable amounts, noting scaling amounts of portions for both vegan and omnivore options, reviewing 1, 2, & 3 at bottom of recipes and adjusting proper substitutes for both menu plan options, monitoring protein amounts of vegan recipes, inserting both celsius and Fahrenheit oven temps, and upgrading meager ingredient amounts to accommodate our hard working team. Pictures below relate to this work.

Yifei Zhu (Analyst and Researcher) also completed her 11th week, now working on reviewing and formatting for publication the recipes for the Transition Food Self-sufficiency Plan. This week Yifei continued to work on converting the metric measurement to imperial for the Master recipe and 3-day Menu blocks, focusing on converting from tbsp to oz and from g to oz. Yifei worked from page 143 to 184. Pictures below are related to this work.

HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION PROGRESS

One Community is demonstrating community ecology 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 demonstrating community ecology 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 26 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.

Yan Xu (Software Development Engineer) completed her 26th week helping with the Highest Good Network software. Yan this week worked on the frontend UI for summary management. She created a new page you’ll see after clicking the Summary Management link. She also created a table for summary management with four variables: summary type, summary receiver, team member and action. She then fixed a bug where the pause/resume button was not possible to set to tomorrow as a reactivation day. See pictures below for some of this work.

Navya Madiraju (React.js/MongoDB Full Stack Developer) completed her 16th week helping with the Highest Good Network software. This week Navya worked on reviewing PRs by checking the code, adding comments, etc. She looked into PR review by cloning the repo into local and then started running the application to analyze the work. She did this for PR 637 and PR 659, then started working on her new email component workflow. Pictures below are related to this work.

Alan Lee Sing Chan Yau (Software Engineer) completed his 12th week helping with the Highest Good Network software. This week Alan started to work on a fix to the problem when creating a duplicate name under user management and we didn’t warn and ask the user if he was sure that he wanted to create a duplicate. Alan created a new popup when the user was about to create a user with a duplicate name, and then he submitted a PR for this. He got some feedback on it and made some changes and is now waiting for it to be approved. Then he started to work on the fix for the total summaries PR. He found out that the way to solve the incorrect due dates problem was to simply start updating each user’s weekly summaries but this will only be solved after the PR is merged. Pictures below show some of this work.

Kaixiang “Kevin” Gu (Fullstack Software Developer) completed his 12th week helping with the Highest Good Network software. This week, Kaixiang focused on working with the Team Member Tasks tab. The task is to add a 24 hours, 48 hours, and 72 hours button on the Team Member Tasks tab for anyone to view these time entries. Kaixiang found the code for Team Member Tasks was not structured well, so he restructured the code, extracted reusable components into a separate file, and made the code more readable and cleaner. Pictures below show some of this work.

Jianjun Luo (Software Engineer) also completed her 9th week helping with the Highest Good Network software. This week Jianjun worked on correcting the spelling problem for the main branch to fix a bug with bluesquare counting. She took a look at a bug (delete, cancel then save the task in profile page) reported and left the comment. She also started working on the functionality for showing all tasks in the WBS page by clicking one button. It succeeds in certain workflows but needs more time to be fully implemented. Pictures below show some of this work.

Rajasri “RJ” Janaki Raman (React/MongoDB Full-stack Developer) completed her 8th week helping with the Highest Good Network software. RJ Worked on bug fix: Urgent Priority 1. She tested it completely on a local machine. 1 hour of work is still pending though. She also added a new low priority bug for the login component, fixed the misalignment of the project list when the name is very long as part of UP1, provided KT of infringement change task to Jianjun as part of task transfer, supported on coding-problems for less experienced team members and contributed in the Leadership Review team by reviewing PRs: #270, #656, #272, #657. Pictures below show some of this work.

Johny dos Santos Anastacio (Software Engineer) completed his 7th week helping with the Highest Good Network software. This week Johny worked on his new task, “Fix 100 hours total contributed badges bug” but is having a lot of difficulty finding where the bug is being generated. He also finished additions to the frontend PR for the task “change the role from user profile gets saved and updated on profile page but doesn’t reflect on other pages/ privileges”. Johny reported a new bug that he found related to the Badge Bug list too. Pictures below show some of this work.

Cali Huddleston (Software Developer) completed her 4th week helping with the Highest Good Network software. This week Cali, being only able to work on the project on 01/21/23 due to family reasons, refreshed her memory on JWT and how it’s used. She first watched her lecture from her Bootcamp course. Cali then went to look at JWT docs, wrote notes on the service and how it’s used. Afterwards, she looked at previous projects using JWT authentication to further her knowledge and gain confidence in tackling the bug. Now that Cali’s up to par and has refreshed her memory with JWT, she will be taking a look at the front end and back end configuration of JWT authentication. Pictures below show some of this work.

Said Rodrigues (Full Stack Developer) completed his 4th week helping with the Highest Good Network software. This week Said did a lot of improvements on the New Timer. First, he removed the Stopwatch mode, while leaving the possibility to use it in the future. This left only the Countdown mode. He also did a lot of UX and UI improvements to the Stopwatch with the help of Jae and the guys from timer-rebuild channel on Slack. These included: Buttons to add more time while the countdown is running; Buttons to remove time while the countdown is running; Buttons to do quick actions without popping up the countdown window; User can now open the Time Entry Log without stopping the timer; User can now add more time to the countdown in Time Entry Log; Added an alarm song when the countdown reaches 0; Adding mouseover text to not intuitive buttons; Countdown now has a maximum time allowed; Countdown now has a minimum time allowed; and a lot more of minor improvements. Check out the pictures below as examples of this work.

Raul Effting (Jr. Front-End Web Developer) completed his 3rd week helping with the Highest Good Network software. Raul continuously checked, reviewed, and replied to developers’ responses for PRs this week. Front PRs: 654 / 641 / 639 / 620 / 595 Back PRs: 270 / 266 Approved PRs front: 657 / 656 / 635 Approved PRs back: 272 / 270 / 267 He also started and finished work to “Make Names on the User Management page Command(Mac)/Control(PC) Clickable” and the PR (#659) was created and approved by others. Time was also spent testing Said’s timer. Check out the pictures below as examples of this work.

Rafael C Castro (Software Engineer) joined the team and completed his 1st week helping with the Highest Good Network software. He had problems with the eslint/prettier installation and requested help to solve the issues and finally managed to solve them. Rafael tested the new timer component, suggested adjustments and reviewed the code. Rafael also reviewed different PR’s, as well as their code, following up for each PR afterwards. Check out the pictures below as examples of this work.

Prabhjot Singh (Fullstack Software Engineer) joined the team and also completed his 1st week helping with the Highest Good Network software. He finished somewhere between three and four PR reviews and helped test the timer rebuild too. He reviewed every piece of material so that he could provide a more accurate assessment, acquainted himself with a handful of the other members of the team, and says he is having an overall wonderful experience so far. See below pictures as examples of this work.

Ray Lee (Digital Creator) also helped create custom graphics for us to share each Lunar New Year. These graphics replace the heading on our website, as shown below.

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One Community Welcomes Yifei Zhu to the Research Team!

Posted on January 28, 2023 by One Community

One Community welcomes Yifei Zhu to the Research Team as our newest Volunteer/Consultant!

After obtaining her Masters of Science in Operations Research, Yifei gained hands-on experience as a data analyst with speciality in digital acquisition. Yifei is passionate about data analytics and considers her greatest strength to be resilience. Recreationally, Yifei enjoys snowboarding and playing card games. Combined with her knowledge as an Industrial Engineering major, she joined One Community to help with content review, formatting, and data entry for the Earthbag Village designs and Highest Good Food component.

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Permaculture in Society – One Community Weekly Progress Update #513

Posted on January 22, 2023 by Durgeshwari Naikwade

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Open source permaculture solutions are one path to helping to establish permaculture in society. One Community is creating these and open source and free-shared sustainability solutions for energy, housing, education, for-profit and non-profit economic design, social architecture, fulfilled living, and global stewardship practices too.

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 January 22nd, 2023 edition (#513) of our weekly progress update detailing our team’s development and accomplishments:

Permaculture in Society
One Community Progress Update #513

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HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING PROGRESS

One Community is helping to establish permaculture in society 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 the core team member managing the aircrete compression testing team helped the aircrete team get organized and design some experiments and tables and had a weekly call to translate the information to the team. The same team member also reviewed the write up and spreadsheet for estimating energy demand of the City Center, Ultimate Classroom, Earthbag Village, and Straw Bale Village. She also worked on the City Center hub connector content and identified some necessary edits and revisions.

Daniela Andrea Parada (Civil Engineering Student) completed her 60th week, focusing now on the Net-zero Bathroom content. This week Daniela read through the comments left on the Net-Zero Bathroom Design and Assembly Instructions google document and implemented them on the Net-Zero Bathroom and Earthbag Village Water Collection and Septic Design Edited Content for Web. As she was going through them side-by-side, she realized that the content on one document was placed in various sections of the other sections. This took Daniela a bit more time than expected in order to make sure the content did align with the final report. Daniela read through the documents and made edits to grammar and spelling along with adding some content based on some comments/questions. Daniela finished reading through the document and reviewed everything that needed to be addressed. She then moved on to the comments that had not been addressed on the Net-zero Bathroom Calculations for the google sheets. For one sheet she spent time researching how to understand the functions that calculated tank and water requirements, but was unable to fully understand it even though she knew the information came from data listed prior. Pictures below are related to this work.

Jieying “Mercy” Cai (Sustainability and Climate Policy Researcher) completed her 18th week working on completing the Best Small and Large-scale Community Options for Sustainable Processing and Reuse of Non-recyclables research, report, and tutorial. This week Mercy researched and created tables for cost estimation for starting a business with different waste management solutions. She added introduction paragraphs to each section as suggested in the comments and made the final edits to the content and the comparison table by addressing the comments and carrying out additional research. See below for some pictures related to this work.

The Compression Team consisting of Genesis Avila (Engineering Intern Researcher), Joshua Jacob (Engineering Intern Researcher), Fatima Duenas-Esparza (Engineering Intern Researcher), and Sarah-Jean Boyd (Engineering Intern Researcher) completed their 10th weeks helping with the Aircrete and earthbag compression testing. This week, the Compression Testing Team attempted to understand the data sheets and calculations from last year’s team. After reading through the last team’s data, it was difficult to understand their process of creating aircrete. They also recorded data, watched Aircrete Harry’s videos, and expanded on the research using a better comparison table. Pictures below are related to this work.

Loza Ayehutsega (Civil Engineer/Assistant Civil Engineer) completed her 3rd week helping review the Net-zero Bathroom and Earthbag Village water collection and storage engineering calculations and designs. This week Loza checked the report document and read some new topics added to the report. This week no comment was added; however, a detailed research review was made on wastewater treatment methodologies and the design of the storm drainage system, tank components, and types of storage tanks. See below for some pictures related to this.

DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER PROGRESS

One Community is helping to establish permaculture in society 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, Gabriela Vilela S. C. Diniz (Architect and Urban Planner) completed her 29th week working on the interior design for the Duplicable City Center rental rooms. This week Gabriela worked on the final adjustments for the renders. She fixed the problem with the lights and the height of the TV on the box. She rendered a few versions with the TV up and down and worked on the presentation by adding the rendered images and more materials. Pictures below show some of this work.

Julia Meaney (Researcher and Assistant to Executive Director) completed her 18th week with the team. This week, Julia continued her work on the “Eco-laundry” webpage task. She updated various images and charts, added necessary FAQ’s and linked sources, and edited and worked on various parts of the narrative. She also had a Zoom meeting with Jae to go over a few of her questions about completing this task. Julia then completed her initial review of the “Sustainable Roadways, Walkways, and Landscaping” webpage and made a Feedback PDF in her Dropbox to communicate needed corrections to the coding and formatting of the page. While doing this, she completed various small tasks of content and coding editing as needed. She also went through the source Google Doc and addressed, resolved, and added comments there. Finally, Julia began reviewing and editing content on the “Chickens” Google Doc. She made corrections and edits in bolded, red text to ensure their visibility when being integrated on to the webpage. Pictures below are related to this work.

Ranran Zhang (Architectural Designer) completed her 6th week working on the updated video internal and external walkthrough for the Duplicable City Center. This week, Ranran checked the SketchUp model and imported it into Lumion for adjustment. Referring to the Lumion model, she modified some of the errors in the SketchUp model. These include: adjusting the position of the light source on the floor of the social dome hall; deleting the protruding floor on the second floor of the social dome; modifying the material of the pool edge in the social dome in Lumion. In addition, Ranran also selected four views that need to be rendered in Lumion. They include the second floor of the restaurant, the social dome hall, the second-floor lounge area of the social dome, and the outdoor terrace. See below for some pictures of this work.

HIGHEST GOOD FOOD PROGRESS

One Community is helping to establish permaculture in society 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 wrapped up our work on the behind-the-scenes research and content for the Chickens webpage and began similar research for the Rabbits webpage. We updated the Incubation Parameters spreadsheet for the Chickens website page updates. Then we added images for the rabbit hutch, tractor, and setting up of rabbit butchering. We also updated the sections “Why Rabbits” and “Before Choosing to Raise Rabbits”. We additionally added information about several different housing options for rabbits and about some of the benefits of raising rabbits.

Yifei Zhu (Analyst and Researcher) also completed her 10th week, now working on reviewing and formatting for publication the recipes for the Transition Food Self-sufficiency Plan. This week Yifei has continued to work on converting the metric measurement to imperial for the Master recipe and 3-day Menu blocks. Yifei has converted from tbsp to oz and from g to oz. She worked from page 110 to 143 with many more pages remaining to be completed. Pictures below are related to this work.

HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION PROGRESS

One Community is helping to establish permaculture in society 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 helping to establish permaculture in society 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

Over the past week the core team completed 22 hours managing One Community volunteer-work review not included above, emails, social media accounts, web development, and interviewing and setting up new volunteer team members. Pictures below show some of this.

An additional 4+ hours were invested by the core team in Highest Good Network software checkins and review.

Yiyun Tan (Management Dashboard Team Leader) completed her 40th week helping with the Highest Good Network software. This week Yiyun put most of her time on investigating the urgent #3 and #4 bugs and discussing findings with team members. Other than that, she completed her usual management work, reviewed PRs, provided help on Slack, and fixed release-merge conflicts. Pictures of some of this work are below.

Yan Xu (Software Development Engineer) completed her 25th week helping with the Highest Good Network software. In the first half week, she created a team manager pop up in the team page according to the old design doc. But, the old task (team manager design doc) has been changed to the summary management project, therefore, she started working on the summary management project, and created a new page in the “Other Links” dropdown. She then estimated the time to complete both the frontend and backend. See pictures below for some of this work.

Navya Madiraju (React.js/MongoDB Full Stack Developer) completed her 15th week helping with the Highest Good Network software. This week Navya started approving the PRs by checking the code into local and then started checking the lines of code, ran the code in the local host and tested as per the requirements, then raised a few comments. After that she followed up with the developer and, as per their comments, again reviewed and then approved the PR. Pictures below are related to this work.

Alan Lee Sing Chan Yau (Software Engineer) completed his 11th week helping with the Highest Good Network software. This week Alan started by working on fixing total summaries as it is Urgent. We are displaying the total number of summaries correctly, but the only problem is that the backend does not store the last 4 weeks, it only has the last 3 summaries. So we won’t be able to display the summaries correctly until we merge the new PR where it stores 4 summaries instead of 3. Then Alan worked on problems on the Timelog and Tasks where some tasks were not displaying correctly when viewing someone else’s PR. He fixed this issue and submitted a PR. The last thing he worked on this week was checking if the user meant to create a new user with a duplicate name, by creating a popup where it asks a yes or no question. Pictures below show some of this work.

Kaixiang “Kevin” Gu (Fullstack Software Developer) completed his 11th week helping with the Highest Good Network software. For this week, Kaixiang made a new pull request for editing role names and delete roles. He added new functionalities for admins that they can edit role names and delete newly added roles if no longer needed. This PR still has a small redirect issue and he will fix it next week. Kaixiang also made a fix for requested changes in the PR for ‘make intangible hours editable’. Pictures below show some of this work.

Jianjun Luo (Software Engineer) also completed her 8th week helping with the Highest Good Network software. This week Jianjun fixed several bugs for the phase one front end code. A small change was made to the css to make the top bar looks aligned. A filter was added to catch the tasks which are marked as “complete” so that the website will not return an empty white page when clicking the button. The save reminder is able to appear whenever a change has been made. Pictures below show some of this work.

Rajasri “RJ” Janaki Raman (React/MongoDB Full-stack Developer) completed her 7th week helping with the Highest Good Network software. RJ worked this week on HP bug 7: “Missing bluesquare in dashboard summary bar”. She identified the root cause of the mismatch in main, updated Yiyun on her findings and next steps, then switched to working on Urgent Priority Bug #1 about wrong data being loaded before correct data. Handling it as 2 different PRs, 1 part is fixed and merged (PR #647). Working on the second part, she has identified the root cause of it and is currently working on fixing it. Experienced timer issue twice and got some error displayed on console while trying to replicate the issue. Pictures below show some of this work.

Johny dos Santos Anastacio (Software Engineer) completed his 6th week helping with the Highest Good Network software. Johny fixed the bug for the task “Changing the role from user profile gets saved and updated on profiles page but doesn’t reflect on other pages/privileges”, now everything is working very well. He posted the PR for the backend and the frontend will post next week. Pictures below show some of this work.

Shaun Sullivan (React/MongoDB Developer) completed his 6th and final week helping with the Highest Good Network software. This week Shaun continued working on the People Reports page. He was able to figure out the NaN issue, and now has a number displaying for the total hours worked, however not the right number. He was able to get that number to display in the center of the donut chart, although with that the arcs of the chart disappeared. So while there is progress on the bug, still some troubleshooting needed to figure it out. Pictures below show some of this work.

Aishwarya Kalkundrikar (Full Stack Software Developer) completed her 5th week helping with the Highest Good Network software. This week Aishwarya has worked on High priority bug #4: Fix the ability to change a Project Category. After fixing the bug partially, she was facing an issue where the value on selecting from the drop-down showed the default value until refreshed. Now the bug is fixed and she has raised PR for the same. Pictures below show some of this work.

Cali Huddleston (Software Developer) completed her 3rd week helping with the Highest Good Network software. This week Cali looked further into the config issue. Although she did not find anything wrong with Axios GET requests (working just fine) when tested by running a console.log in the Axios config, she did confirm that the JWT is not being authorized upon page load. It’s also not being properly decoded or grabbed from local storage. She is going to refresh her memory with JWT (shouldn’t take too long) and local storage to hopefully squash this bug once and for all! Cali will be looking at previous work she has done with JWT in addition to reading documentation and researching more. Pictures below show some of this work.

Said Rodrigues (Full Stack Developer) completed his 3rd week helping with the Highest Good Network software. This week Said remade the UI of the timer while bringing in new features like the Countdown mode. He also changed the logic in the backend to handle this new mode while improving some performances of the service and added documentation to all things that he modified so that anyone who tries to modify or update this feature in the future can do it without too much headache. Check out the pictures below as examples of this work.

Raul Effting (Jr. Front-End Web Developer) completed his 2nd week helping with the Highest Good Network software. This week Raul continued his focus on extensive PR review: PRs continuously checked, reviewed, and/or waiting for developers’ response: (front) 639 / 622 / 620 / 595 / 635 / 641 / 638 / 650, (back) 266 / 267 Approved PRs: 642 / 643 / 646 / 649. He also spent a bunch of time reorganizing the Bugs Google Doc. Check out the pictures below as examples of this work.

Ray Lee (Digital Creator) also helped create custom graphics for us to share each Martin Luther King Jr. Day. These graphics replace the heading on our website, as shown below.

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