One Community welcomes Vriddhi Misra to the Administration Team as our newest Volunteer/Consultant!

Vriddhi brings a unique blend of business acumen and technical expertise honed through her MS in Business Analytics at Columbia University and roles at Verizon, Alteia, Kraft Heinz, and Tata Motors. With over 3 years of diverse hands-on experience in data analytics, product strategy, market analysis, and software development, she excels in leveraging data to drive decision-making. As a Manager at One Community, Vriddhi is leading cross-functional teams to optimize search engine management strategies and drive nonprofit funding. As an Admin and Marketing Assistant, she has spearheaded initiatives to optimize analytics strategies and enhance operational efficiency, driving the organization’s mission forward with measurable impact. Her comprehensive skills in analytics, software development, and project management make her a valuable asset to the One Community team, contributing to the organization’s mission with efficiency and innovation.

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

Currently pursuing a degree in Software Engineering at Estácio College, Peterson utilizes technologies such as React, Bootstrap, Node.js, and Express. He has acquired proficiency in these tools through Danki Code courses, an online platform, as well as practical projects including YouTube, Instagram, and Google Drive clones. As a member of the One Community team, Peterson is contributing to the development of both the front-end and back-end of the open source Highest Good Network software.

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One Community is committed to creating a sustainability matrix through our all-volunteer team. Our approach uses sustainable practices in food, energy, housing, education, economics, and social architecture, all aimed at fostering fulfilled living and global stewardship practicess. Everything we do is geared towards “The Highest Good of All,” with our model designed to be self-replicating. By open sourcing and free sharing the complete process, we’re paving the way for evolving sustainability and regenerating our planet. Join our all-volunteer team in creating a world that works for everyone.

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

OUR MAIN OPEN SOURCE HUBS

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

One Community’s physical location will forward this movement for creating a sustainability matrix as the first of many self-replicating teacher/demonstration communities, villages, and cities to be built around the world. This is the April 15th, 2024 edition (#578) of our weekly progress update detailing our team’s development and accomplishments:

Creating a Sustainability Matrix
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HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING PROGRESS

One Community is creating a sustainability matrix 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 creating a sustainability matrix with 7 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, Hayley Rosario (Sustainability Research Assistant) worked on modeling a hot tub for the Earthbag Village 4-dome cluster, and continued helping finalize the Highest Good Food rollout plan. She modeled a hot tub based on a given image for a larger video model of a house using SOLIDWORKS and exported the model into SOLIDWORKS Visualize, allowing someone to incorporate textures into a GBL file. In collaboration with Highest Good Food, numerous articles to aid in the production of the Integration Program were reviewed. She also watched videos on CSA’s and school food forests, while finalizing topics for the integration section pending review and approval. Highest Good Housing and Highest Good food are an important part in creating a sustainability matrix with One Community’s open source plans. See her work in the collage below.

Mithil Upadhyay (Mechanical Engineer) continued working on problem solving the designs for the Vermiculture Toilet. He worked towards completing the design of the closing mechanism as presented in the previous week. Mithil focused on designing various components, such as shut-off blades and frames, to support this mechanism. Additionally, he initiated the assembly of these components, which marked significant progress in the project as the parts began coming together for the final design. Sustainable human waste processing options, like the vermiculture toilets, are a foundation of One Community’s open source model for creating a sustainability matrix. Below are some demonstration images of his work.

Loza Ayehutsega (Civil Engineer/Assistant Civil Engineer) completed another week working on the Earth Dam risk assessment and dam break hazard assessment. She worked on emergency plan actions for the dam safety. An Emergency Action Plan (EAP) is a formal but simple plan that identifies potential emergency conditions that could occur at a dam and prescribes procedures to follow to minimize loss of life and the potential for property damage. Ideally, the design, construction, operation, maintenance and inspection of dams are all intended to minimize the risk of dam failures. Ensuring dam safety measures and preparedness are a foundation of One Community’s open source earthworks as part of creating a sustainability matrix. See the pictures below for examples related to this work.

Rizwan Syed (Mechanical Engineer) began helping finish the Vermiculture Toilet designs. He reviewed the ‘Rizwan Quadri Syed and One Community Collaboration’ onboarding Google Doc, providing relevant comments on each section as requested by Jae. He also signed up for the HGN app to log his volunteering work hours, and familiarized himself with the Vermiculture Toilet design project by reviewing essential documents, including the Vermiculture Eco-Toilet design page on One Community’s website, the Vermiculture Collaboration Google Doc (56 pages), and associated sub-documents on loading calculations for the vermiculture chamber. He examined the action items for the vermiculture project, including the design intent/criteria section, to understand the project’s scope and the specific tasks he would be undertaking to advance the vermiculture toilet design. The vermiculture toilets and other sustainable human waste processing technologies are one aspect of creating a sustainability matrix with One Community’s open source plans. Here are a few photos showing examples of his work.

Sajal Shah (Project Manager) began managing completion of the Highest Good Energy components. She completed the ad project “2.1.6 ” Finish Complete-Village Electrical Tutorials” and is awaiting feedback from Jae for any necessary corrections. Sajal also began work on another advertising campaign targeting different required skills. The primary focus is delivering high-quality content to market to potential volunteers. The Highest Good Energy is an essential component of One Community’s open source model for creating a sustainability matrix. See below for some of the pictures related to this work.

DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER PROGRESS

One Community is creating a sustainability matrix 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 its function as part of creating a sustainability matrix: Duplicable City Center Open Source Hub

This week, Nika Gavran (Industrial Designer) continued her work on the Duplicable City Center dormer window installation plans. She finalized research on the dormer windows and established a schedule to draft instructions for building a dormer window on the first floor, spanning a three-week timeframe. Her primary focus was on developing a materials and component list, while also creating four draft renders at varying fidelities for consideration in the final draft. The Duplicable City Center is a foundational part of how One Community is open-source creating a sustainability matrix model. See below for some of the pictures related to this work.

HIGHEST GOOD FOOD PROGRESS

One Community is creating a sustainability matrix 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 for creating a sustainability matrix related to food: Hoop House Hub | Aquapini & Walipini Open Source Hub
    • See what we’ll be growing when creating a sustainability matrix for food at One Community: Gardens & Hoop Houses | Large-scale Structures | Food Forest | TA

This week, the core team continued updating and expanding the Highest Good Food tools, equipment, and materials details focusing on tool descriptions. The focus shifted to powered hand tools, with individual tools separated from the combination tools kit. Each tool, including miter saw, circular saw, multi-tool, impact driver, Sawzall, orbital sander, router, and others, received its own photo and description. Highest Good food is an important part of creating a sustainability matrix with One Community’s open source plans. See their work in the collage below.

Charles Gooley (Web Designer) continued to work on the various recipes as part of the Transition Food Self-sufficiency Plan. This week, he added a variety of new recipes including Chickpea Sandwich, Buffalo Chicken Pasta, Mashed Potato and Tofu with Vegan Gravy, Potato Pancakes with Eggs, Pasta with Sautéed Chicken, Frittata, Tomato Sauce Pasta and Chicken Parmesan Meatballs, Brown Rice and Soy Marinated Tofu Bowls with Spicy Peanut Sauce, Sweet Potato Muffins and Tofu Scramble, Brown Rice with Grilled Chicken and Super Green Salad, Fish Potato Soup with Cheesy Garlic Bread, Celery, Cucumber, and Grape Salad, Brown Rice Tabbouleh, Parsley Pesto Pasta with Blistered Tomatoes and Quinoa, Sweet Potato Quinoa Bowl, Brown Rice with Sausage, Blackberry and Parsnip Traybake, Roasted Potato Bowls and BBQ Chicken. Placeholder images were utilized, to be replaced by final images upon availability. Highest Good food is an important part of creating a sustainability matrix with One Community’s open source plans. See his work in the collage below.

HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION PROGRESS

One Community is creating a sustainability matrix through Highest Good education that is for all ages, applicable in any environment, adaptable to individual needs, far exceeds traditional education standards, and more fun for both the teachers and the students. This component of One Community is about 95% complete with only the Open Source School Licensing and Ultimate Classroom construction and assembly details remaining to be finished. With over 8 years of work invested in the process, the sections below are all complete until we move onto the property and continue the development and open sourcing process with teachers and students – a development process that is built directly into the structure of the education program and everything else we’re creating too:

• Creating a sustainability matrix in education: Education Open Source Hub
• How the components work together: How to use the Education for Life Program
  
• Lesson Plans for Life – Lesson Plans How-to
• Foundations of Outstanding Leaders, Teachers, and Communicators
• Curriculum for Life
• Teaching Strategies for Life
• Learning Tools and Toys for Life
• Evaluation and Evolution

This week, Apoorv Pandey (Mechanical Engineer) began helping with the engineering details for the The Ultimate Classroom part of the Highest Good Education component. He completed his onboarding process and started to work on DIY-Replicable Straw Bale Structure Review & Report Prep project. He prioritized familiarizing himself with Civil/Structural Engineering software like AutoCAD and STAAD Pro to effectively fulfill project tasks. Apoorv focused on acquiring foundational knowledge for STAAD Pro, encompassing beam, 2D frame, and 3D frame analysis, alongside preliminary structural design and modeling. Additionally, he researched California building codes to ensure STAAD Pro calculations for the main roof truss could be accurately converted to PDF format as required by the State for approval. The One Community model of combining forward-thinking education with sustainably built classrooms like this are an excellent example of creating a sustainability matrix in education. See the collage below for his work.

HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY PROGRESS

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

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

This week, the core team completed over 73 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. They also shot and incorporated the video above that talks about creating a sustainability matrix and how creating a sustainability matrix is a foundation of the bigger picture of everything One Community is doing. The pictures below show some of this work.

Aaron Wang (Fundraising Assistant) continued helping to research possible funding sources for One Community. This week, Aaron continued in-depth research on connections with Leonardo DiCaprio, identifying emails, LinkedIn profiles, and backgrounds of individuals who may have personal or professional ties to DiCaprio. This effort is part of his broader strategy to facilitate connections with funders by building relationships with relevant individuals involved in these donations. His approach highlights a commitment to enhancing networking opportunities and establishing significant connections within the philanthropic community. Establishing win-win relationships like this are a big component to One Community’s vision for creating a sustainability matrix. The following images highlight his work for the week.

ADMINISTRATION TEAM

The Administration Team’s summary, covering their work administrating and managing most of One Community’s ongoing process for creating a sustainability matrix was managed by Vriddhi Misra (Admin and Marketing Assistant) and includes Durgeshwari Naikwade (Data Analyst), Jessica Fairbanks (Administrative Assistant), Olawunmi “Ola” Ijisesan (Administrative and Management Support), Ram Shrivatsav (Data Analyst and Admin assistant), Ratna Meena Shivakumar (Data Analyst and Admin), Ruiqi Liu (Administrative Assistant), Sinddhuzaa Poduri (Data Analyst and Admin assistant), Sneka Vetriappan (Data Analyst), T R Samarth Urs (Data Analyst), Vibhav Chimatapu (Data Analyst/Admin Assistant), Xiaolai Li (Administrative Assistant), and Zuqi Li (Administrative Assistant and Economic Analyst). This week, Durgeshwari focused on creating ‘HR Visualization’ and crafting Tableau Dashboards for the weekly volunteer summary, showcasing metrics such as the total number of volunteers, badges awarded, active and inactive volunteers, new volunteers, volunteers in teams versus not in teams, teams with four or more members, and work anniversaries for the week. Additionally, she developed visualizations displaying volunteering hours, role stats, and task and project stats, distinguishing between completed and incomplete tasks. Jessica completed her administrative tasks, reviewed weekly summaries, and created collages. Ola managed and reviewed tasks for the PR team, tracked progress reports, and managed correspondence. Ram organized and reviewed feedback, continued training in product testing, and assisted new joiners. Ratna reviewed progress updates, prepared collages, scheduled virtual interviews, and edited blogs to enhance SEO. Ruiqi completed review processes, created collages, and focused on SEO optimization for blogs and web pages. Sneka spent time on OC Administration tasks, focusing on timelog management and tutorial development. Samarth managed the PR review team, applied SEO techniques, and reviewed fellow admin team members’ work. Vibhav completed training on PR review processes, created group summaries and collages, and optimized web pages for SEO. Vriddhi finalized her training on PR review processes, created group summaries and collages, and enhanced webpage optimization for SEO. Xiaolai updated the webpage, completed financial spreadsheet introductions, reviewed cost analysis, and organized development documents. Zuqi also contributed to webpage updates, financial spreadsheet work, and document organization. One Community’s model for creating a sustainability matrix includes developing and maintaining a huge administration team like this. You can see the work for the team in the image below.

GRAPHIC DESIGN TEAM

The Graphic Design Team’s summary was managed by Zuqi Li (Administrative Assistant and Economic Analyst) and included Ashlesha Navale (Graphic Designer) and Zixi Zhang (Graphic Designer), covering their work on graphic designs for creating a sustainability matrix. Ashlesha focused on the development of a series of thematic social media images, specifically producing four titled Cooperation-Self-replicating Communities, Cooperation-Self-Sufficient Communities, Cooperation-Selfless Paradigm, and Cooperation-Support Work. She engaged in the selection and curation of nature-based backgrounds and various thematic images that align with the social media content’s requirements. She further extended her graphic design expertise to create nine recipe images tailored for a new project aimed at enhancing site content related to food recipes. Zixi created eleven Facebook shareable images that integrate sustainable and ecological motifs. These images included appropriate imagery, text overlays, and corporate identifiers to align with marketing objectives. She also undertook the creation of personal branding materials for Camilla, a volunteer, which included a profile photo, a bio image, and an announcement page. See the Highest Good Society pages for more on how this contributes to creating a sustainability matrix. See the collage below to view some of their work.

HIGHEST GOOD NETWORK PROGRESS

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

This week, the core team worked on the Highest Good Network PRs testing, confirming fixed PRs which include 11 PRs including those addressing alignment issues, input heights, permissions, and component functionality. However, several PRs remained unfixed, notably one concerning the non-closing behavior of the home Country option model and another regarding accessibility to the consumable add page. See the collage below for their work.

ALPHA SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT TEAM

The Alpha Team’s summary, covering their work on the Highest Good Network software was managed by Sucheta Mukherjee (Software Developer) and includes Gayathridevi Chithambaram (Full Stack Developer), Jaiwin Thumber (Front-End Develolper), Lin Khant Htel (Frontend Software Developer), Pratima Singh (Software Developer), and Shamim Rahman (Software Engineer). The Highest Good Network software is how we’ll be managing and objectively measuring our process for creating a sustainability matrix through our social architecture, construction, production, and maintenance processes. Gayathridevi made ESLint changes to a common component, executed the link checker, manually fixed changes along with those fixed by lint –fix, and removed the component from .prettierignore and .eslintignore, committing the code to her branch. She focused on efficient error resolution and PR reviews for items #1-#7, deepening her understanding of the software’s functionality, and contributed time to learning new aspects of React and Git. Additionally, she contributed to documenting the team description, sharing insights about her experience and guiding the team. Lin reviewed and approved 9 pull requests on the HGN GitHub repository, familiarizing himself with all development team documents and recognizing the need to enhance understanding of unit testing and test-driven development. Lin also gained insights into the codebases, file structures, and components. Pratima completed key development tasks aimed at enhancing data visualization and reporting functionalities, developing two new components: TasksProjectsStats.jsx and BlueSquareStats.jsx, and adding styling features to improve readability and presentation. She finalized the OverviewReport page, contributing to improving user experience and data accessibility. Shamim completed the task of reviewing 9 different pull requests, testing their functionality, and providing feedback, including screenshots and videos for issues identified. Sucheta resolved conflicts on the backend PR861, reviewed and configured environment variables and the Gmail API in PR2050+795, and approved PR2147. She collaborated with a team member to address inquiries and is currently engaged in the task “Fix refresh efficiency when resolving tasks. See the Highest Good Society and Highest Good Network pages for more on how this relates to creating a sustainability matrix. View some of the team’s work in the collage below.

BADGES BUGS SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT TEAM

The Badges Bugs Team’s summary overseeing advancements in the Highest Good Network software was managed by Shaofeng Li (Software Engineer) and includes Renan Luiz Santiago Martins César (Full-stack developer), Summit Kaushal (Backend Software Developer), Xiao Zhang (Software Engineer), and Xiaohan Meng (Software Engineer). The Highest Good Network software is how we’ll be managing and objectively measuring our process for creating a sustainability matrix through our social architecture, construction, production, and maintenance processes. This week, Summit worked on testing the changebadgecount and addbadge functions, strategizing solutions for identified issues. His further testing uncovered issues with badge earned dates and encountered an unrelated error message, prompting investigation. Additionally, Summit made efforts to match functions with totaltangiblehrs, but discrepancies remained, hinting at possible data anomalies. He directed his attention towards verifying backend logic and addressing potential frontend data handling issues, especially in fixdiscrepancy.js. Shaofeng did his part helping with creating a sustainability matrix as he worked on HGN Software Development, managing PR follow-ups, conducting thorough testing on Renan’s task, discussing badge component testing with Xiao in a one-on-one session, and participating in a team meeting for progress updates and planning. Additionally, Shaofeng ensured the correctness of new features and collaborated on strategizing for the following week’s activities. Xiaohan followed up on feedback for the Pull Request addressing the ‘Assign Badge on profile’ bug, resolving new challenges related to missing and duplicate badges. She utilized badge detail documentation and implemented corrections within MongoDB and the development branch’s backend, effectively rectifying issues with missing badges and duplicates. She also discussed with her manager to fix differences between badges on the main branch and the ones on the development branch. Xiao focused on developing a unit test to ensure correct badge assignment within the application, verifying that each badge triggers under the right conditions. This task involved defining parameters for each badge, coding test cases, and analyzing preliminary results to enhance accuracy and reliability. These modifications were crucial for maintaining the integrity of the badge system and ensuring user satisfaction. Renan concentrated on tasks related to disaster recovery implementation, creating a document outlining the process, recording a tutorial demonstrating testing procedures, resolving code issues, and providing assistance to colleagues with their pull requests, contributing to his task completion streak. See the Highest Good Society and Highest Good Network pages for more on how this relates to creating a sustainability matrix. View some of the team’s work in the collage below.

BLUE STEEL SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT TEAM

The Blue Steel Team’s summary, displaying their work on the Highest Good Network software, was managed by Sarthak Jaiswal (Full-Stack Developer) and includes Alex Brandt (Full Stack Developer), Bhuvan Dama (Full stack Developer), Imran Issa (Software Developer), Nathan Hoffman (Software Engineer, Team Manager), Sanket Kaware (Full-Stack Developer), Shiqing Pan (Full-Stack Software Developer), Swathy Jayaseelan (Software Engineer), Tzu Ning “Leo” Chueh (Software Engineer), Xiao Wang (Software Engineer), and Yaohong Xiang (Software Engineer). The Highest Good Network software is how we’ll be managing and objectively measuring our process for creating a sustainability matrix through our social architecture, construction, production, and maintenance processes. This week, Sarthak submitted Pull Request #2155 aimed at rectifying formatting issues within the project report and handled management tasks for the week. Xiao did his part helping with creating a sustainability matrix as he contributed two pull requests, #2131 and #881, enhancing time entry handlers in frontend and backend systems, integrating user profile changes requests, and implementing MongoDB transaction mechanisms for database reliability. Swathy focused on improving unit test coverage of the Projects table component, addressing hover issues and completing unit testing for the User profile section. Nathan assisted with build problems, PR changes, Slack messages, and addressed various issues including preventing user deletion and package vulnerabilities. Alex progressed on writing an API for dashboard metrics and investigated API response issues for frontend PR 2083. Imran finalized tasks from the permission management fixes spreadsheet, raising PRs and addressing frontend permission fixes. Shiqing administered final reviews and conflict resolution for PR 1464, experimented with rendering techniques, and reviewed multiple pull requests while addressing comments on PR 1955. Bhuvan worked on the TableFilter.js functionality challenges and unit tests for UserProfileEdit components. Sanket focused on developing “6 months and yearly anniversaries” feature and addressed issues in previous PRs and weekly summaries reports. Tzu Ning addressed JavaScript errors by enhancing API response checks and resolving the “process is not defined” issue. Yaohong improved report profile by concealing unwanted blocks, resolved bugs in pull requests #2092 and #821, and implemented additional validation measures in the backend for system reliability. See the Highest Good Society and Highest Good Network pages for more on how this relates to creating a sustainability matrix. See below to view their work.

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One Community welcomes Camilla Awuor Okello to the Administration/Management Team as our newest Volunteer/Consultant!

Camilla possesses over 3 years of experience in customer service and 1 year in administrative assistance, she is skilled at addressing diverse customer needs while providing comprehensive administrative support across the organization. Thriving in fast-paced environments, Camilla has demonstrated proficiency in managing complex tasks, ensuring efficient and effective solutions to challenges encountered in both customer service and administrative roles. As a member of One Community, Camilla has been helping with production of the weekly progress updates for our 100+ team, supporting work review, organization, and day-to-day virtual environment tasks.

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One Community is dedicated to creating people-care communities that embody sustainable approaches to food, energy, housing, education, economics, and social architecture. Our all-volunteer team is driven by the vision of doing this for “The Highest Good of All.” By open sourcing and free sharing the complete process, we’re paving the way for evolving sustainability and regenerating our planet. Our model, which becomes self-replicating, will be used to create a global collaboration of teacher/demonstration hubs, ultimately creating a world that works for everyone.

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

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 April 8th, 2024 edition (#577) of our weekly progress update detailing our team’s development and accomplishments:

People-care Communities
One Community Progress Update #577

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HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING PROGRESS

One Community is dedicated to creating people-care communities through Highest Good housing that is artistic and beautiful, more affordable, more space efficient, lasts longer, DIY buildable, and constructed with healthy and sustainable materials:

• • • Learn about: Our Upcoming Crowdfunding Campaign
    • Learn about the different village models: 7 Sustainable Village Models
    • Visit the open source portals for the first two: Earthbag Village OS Hub | Straw Bale Village OS Hub

This week, Loza Ayehutsega (Civil Engineer/Assistant Civil Engineer) completed another week working on the Earth Dam risk assessment and dam break hazard assessment. She worked on the emergency action plan (EAP) for dam safety according to the USA regulation. Preparing an effective emergency action plan (EAP is crucial for ensuring the safety and well-being of individuals in the event of emergencies. Ensuring dam safety measures and preparedness are a foundation of One Community’s open source people-care communities model. This work supports One Community’s mission of fostering people-care communities and reinforces our commitment to improving living quality for everyone. See the pictures below for examples related to this work.

DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER PROGRESS

One Community is dedicated to creating people-care communities 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 its function: Duplicable City Center Open Source Hub

This week, Amiti Singh (Volunteer Architectural Designer) focused on finalizing all the files for the rooms she designed in Duplicable City Center, as she is wrapping up her work with One Community. She finalized all the files prepared for the rooms designed in the Duplicable City, including detailed plans, changing visualization inaccuracies in renders, and submitting any remaining documents necessary to support the room designs and moodboard. Comprehensive design solutions for the Duplicable City Center project are a foundation of One Community’s open source people-care communities model. This work supports One Community’s mission of fostering people-care communities and reinforces our commitment to improving living quality for everyone. Below are some demonstration images of this work.

Nika Gavran (Industrial Designer) continued her work on the Duplicable City Center dormer window installation plans. She finalized research on the dormer windows and established a schedule to draft instructions for building a dormer window on the first floor, spanning a three-week timeframe. Her primary focus was on developing a materials and component list, while also creating four draft renders at varying fidelities for consideration in the final draft. The Duplicable City Center is a foundational part of One Community’s open source people-care communities model. This work supports One Community’s mission of fostering people-care communities and reinforces our commitment to improving living quality for everyone. See below for some of the pictures related to this work.

HIGHEST GOOD FOOD PROGRESS

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

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

This week, the core team continued updating and expanding the Highest Good Food tools, equipment, and materials details focusing on tool descriptions. They also expanded the selection of utility dump trailers by adding two heavy-duty options suitable for medium-sized tractors, and also provided clarification on 12/2 and 12/3 wire concerns regarding the Murphy Bed Furniture document. Highest Good food is an important part in forwarding people-care communities with One Community’s open source plans. This work supports One Community’s mission of fostering people-care communities and reinforces our commitment to improving living quality for everyone. See their work in the collage below.

Charles Gooley (Web Designer) continued to work on the Vegan Rice Recipes page. This week, he added a variety of new recipes including Vegan Muffins with Tofu Scramble, Mexican Rice and Chili Roasted Chicken, French Toast, Brown Rice with Garlic Herb Chicken, Vegan Apple Muffin with Tofu Scramble, Vegan Pasta Bake and Tempeh, Brown Rice with Chickpea Curry, Vegan Breakfast Hash with Baked Beans, Pasta with Quinoa and Corn, Spicy Pies Sweet Potato Mash with Beef, Baked Sweet Potato Pudding with Sausages, Sweet Potato Croquettes with Baked Tempeh, and Brown Rice and Tempeh Curry. Placeholder images were utilized temporarily, to be replaced with final images upon availability. Highest Good food is an important part in forwarding people-care communities with One Community’s open source plans. This work supports One Community’s mission of fostering people-care communities and reinforces our commitment to improving living quality for everyone. See his work in the collage below.

Hayley Rosario (Sustainability Research Assistant) continued helping finalize the Highest Good Food rollout plan. This week, she was instructed to expand on the integration program section on the EDITs doc, formatting and creating subsections which quickly describe the what, why, and how of integrating the Highest Good Food plan into small- scale organizations. Highest Good food is an important part in forwarding people-care communities with One Community’s open source plans. This work supports One Community’s mission of fostering people-care communities and reinforces our commitment to improving living quality for everyone. See her work in the collage below.

HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION PROGRESS

One Community is dedicated to creating people-care communities 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: All Subjects | All Learning Levels | Any Age – Click image for the open source hub

HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY PROGRESS

One Community is dedicated to creating people-care communities 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 around 65 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. They also shot and incorporated the video above that talks about forwarding people-care communities and how people-care communities is a foundation of the bigger picture of everything One Community is doing. This work supports One Community’s mission of fostering people-care communities and reinforces our commitment to improving living quality for everyone. This work supports One Community’s mission of fostering people-care communities and reinforces our commitment to improving living quality for everyone. The pictures below show some of this work.

A core team member worked on the Highest Good Network PRs testing, confirming fixed PRs which include addressing the Delete Time Log Entry Refresh Bug (PRs 1508 + 602), adding an indicator for “Members” to the Projects report (PR 815), fixing issues with Converted Time Log Hours not Updating Task Hours (PR 486), ensuring the addition of a person to an existing team during setup reflects on the Team’s page (PR 1328), introducing two filter options to the Weekly Summaries Reports page (PR 1929), resolving a bug with the Weekly Summary submission form’s minimum word count (PR 1333), addressing the removal of a user from an existing team within the user profile page (PRs 1350 + 550), enabling the ability to sort searched accounts by the Active/Inactive column (PR 2003), relocating the “Back to Top” button on the People Reports page (PR 1662), enforcing email input when logging in (PR 506), and implementing conditional formatting for multi-word names on the Projects page (PR 1970). Unresolved PRs include creating the ability for admin/owner users to approve and apply “suggested” changes on a task (PR 949) and addressing issues related to the deletion of users and teams (PR 1765). Additionally, they reported misalignment of columns in the project-related report (PR 815) and issues with a new spreadsheet on the User Roles page, as well as reported on an issue where a deleted team remains on the teams list. This work supports One Community’s mission of fostering people-care communities and reinforces our commitment to improving living quality for everyone. See the collage below for their work.

Aaron Wang (Fundraising Assistant) continued helping to research possible funding sources for One Community. This week, Aaron continued his research into connections with Leonardo DiCaprio by identifying emails, LinkedIn profiles, and the backgrounds of individuals potentially linked to DiCaprio. This research is aimed at enhancing our ability to connect with funders by establishing relationships with pertinent individuals involved in those donations. Establishing win-win relationships like this are a big component to One Community’s vision for people-care communities. This work supports One Community’s mission of fostering people-care communities and reinforces our commitment to improving living quality for everyone. Images below show their progress for the week.

Arun Chandar Ganesan (Volunteer Data Analyst and SEO And Social Media Assistant) optimized three more web pages for SEO, bringing the total number of pages worked on to 23. He also updated the scores in the designated sheet. Simultaneously, he completed the next month’s social media schedule and created a tutorial for posting to the social media page. Following that, Arun is working on Facebook analytics and developing a guide for understanding the metrics. Search engine optimization and an ongoing outreach program are important parts of One Community’s model for developing people-care communities. This work supports One Community’s mission of fostering people-care communities and reinforces our commitment to improving living quality for everyone. The following images highlight his work.

Cody Media Productions (Video Editing Company) continued working on finalizing the intro video for the weekly progress update YouTube videos. They focused on completing the fourth rough cut of the intro video, addressing specific modifications as requested after a full review. These videos will showcase the open-source components of One Community promoting people-care communities. This work supports One Community’s mission of fostering people-care communities and reinforces our commitment to improving living quality for everyone. The following images highlight their work.

The Administration Team’s summary, covering their work administrating and managing most of One Community’s ongoing process for people-care communities was managed by Vriddhi Misra (Admin and Marketing Assistant) and includes Camilla Okello (Administrative Assistant), Durgeshwari Naikwade (Data Analyst), Jessica Fairbanks (Administrative Assistant), Jiaxin Zheng (Data Analyst), Meenakshi Velayutham (Sustainability Associate), Olawunmi “Ola” Ijisesan (Administrative and Management Support), Ram Shrivatsav (Data Analyst and Admin assistant), Ratna Meena Shivakumar (Data Analyst and Admin), Ruiqi Liu (Administrative Assistant), Sinddhuzaa Poduri (Data Analyst and Admin assistant), Sneka Vetriappan (Data Analyst), T R Samarth Urs (Data Analyst), Vibhav Chimatapu (Data Analyst/Admin Assistant), Xiaolai Li (Administrative Assistant), and Zuqi Li (Administrative Assistant and Economic Analyst). This week, Camilla started by handling her Sunday administrative responsibilities, helping review other administrators’ work, and making necessary changes to her own work. Additionally, she completed her weekly SEO tasks while assessing trial work done by new administrators to help them get started. Durgeshwari began working on a visualization project to create volunteer statistics visuals using Tableau software, alongside finishing administrative training and updating her website based on feedback. Jessica wrote job advertisements for various positions at HG Foods, made revisions based on feedback, and did her regular administrative tasks. Jiaxin focused on reviewing processes, updating team summaries and collages on the webpage, checking SEO keyword optimization, and helping new team members get trained. Ola checked the work of the Admins’ teams, made sure documentation was accurate, and supported new Admin team members’ training. Meenakshi continued with admin tasks and started creating a tutorial for the bio announcement and tracking process, while also finalizing updates on the DIY earth dam page. Ram focused on HGN software testing steps and PR Management review team tasks, adjusting his work based on feedback and reviewing new team members’ work. Ratna reviewed progress updates, took virtual interviews, and edited blogs to improve SEO scores. Ruiqi completed reviews for various teams, created SEO keywords, and helped new admins with training. Sinddhuzaa edited summaries and images for the webpage and managed tasks related to audio files. Sneka worked on HGN Software Development, reviewed comments, and helped with OC Administration tasks. Samarth supervised the PR review team, applied SEO techniques to improve blog posts, and received constructive feedback. Vibhav continued with on-web page SEO optimization and administrative duties, including reviewing the team’s work and optimizing webpage content. Vriddhi contributed to OC Administration and SEO tasks, edited blog posts, and reviewed the team’s work. Xiaolai submitted a blog page, assessed admin team tasks, and improved the admin tutorial. Zuqi reviewed administrators’ webpages thoroughly, joined the admin team, followed SEO instructions, and improved previous blog posts. This work supports One Community’s mission of fostering people-care communities and reinforces our commitment to improving living quality for everyone. One Community’s model for people-care communities includes developing and maintaining a huge administration team like this. You can see the work for the team in the image below.

GRAPHIC DESIGN TEAM

The Graphic Design Team’s summary was managed by Zuqi Li (Administrative Assistant and Economic Analyst) and included Ashlesha Navale (Graphic Designer), Britney Robles (Graphic Designer), Nancy Mónchez (Graphic Designer), P D Tharanga Pathirana (Graphic Designer) and Zixi Zhang (Graphic Designer), covering their work on graphic designs for people-care communities construction. Ashlesha concentrated on generating one volunteer announcement, creating bio and announcement images, and updating web content pertinent to the announcement. Her process involved the creation of three social media images and the curation of a collection of nature-based and theme-specific background images for social media content, alongside the development of five recipe images for site-related tasks. Britney navigated through her initial steps of announcement and bio imagery creation, guided by instructional videos. She produced multiple versions of social media graphics, using tools such as Photoshop and Illustrator to elevate her proficiency. Nancy focused on producing a singular, engaging social media post, incorporating a newly selected font. Her work also included the near completion of an Excel list detailing the text locations for social media design. Tharanga updated five images from a previous week to align with current project standards and created a new image to infuse fresh visual elements into his portfolio. His work extended to refining his professional bio and familiarizing himself with website updates. Zixi’s created three Facebook social media images, each accompanied by captions that resonate with themes of regenerative community, potential realization, and environmental transformation. Furthermore, she managed the creation of two volunteer announcements, involving both bio imagery production in Photoshop and web content generation on WordPress. This work supports One Community’s mission of fostering people-care communities and reinforces our commitment to improving living quality for everyone. See the Highest Good Society pages for more on how this relates to forwarding people-care communities construction. See the collage below to view some of their work.

HIGHEST GOOD NETWORK PROGRESS

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

ALPHA SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT TEAM

This week, the Alpha Team’s summary, covering their work on the Highest Good Network software was managed by Sucheta Mukherjee (Software Developer) and includes Pratima Singh (Software Developer), and Shamim Rahman (Software Engineer). The Highest Good Network software is how we’ll be managing and objectively measuring our process for forwarding people-care communities through our social architecture, construction, production, and maintenance processes. This week, Sucheta focused on reviewing PR1925 and requested changes due to errors. The majority of the week was spent to implementing a feature for authorized users to view the weekly summary recipients table and to have the ability to see and hide their information on the modal itself, accomplished through PR2124 and backend PR81. Pratima worked on in several development tasks, including adding state management functionality for switching tabs on the Overview Report page, modifying the code for the DonutChart in D3.js to enhance its generality, inputting all text into VolunteerStats.jsx, and incorporating CSS styling for VolunteerStats.jsx. Additionally, Pratima developed the VolunteerRoleStats page, integrating a Donut Chart into it, and ensuring responsiveness across various pages. She also worked on the yi-overview-report-tabs branch, updating PR 2067 to address requested changes and progressing it to the final review stage. Shamim reviewed 8 different pull requests (PRs), specifically PR#2105, PR#2096, PR#2078, PR#2030, PR#2031, PR#2005, PR#2038, and PR#2013. Following the reviews, Shamim tested the functionality of each PR and provided detailed feedback by commenting on them with accompanying screenshots and videos. PR#2005 and PR#2013 were identified as not functioning as intended, prompting Shamim to include corresponding screenshots and videos for these issues, which were shared via Dropbox. This work supports One Community’s mission of fostering people-care communities and reinforces our commitment to improving living quality for everyone. See the Highest Good Society and Highest Good Network pages for more on how this relates to forwarding people-care communities. View some of the team’s work in the collage below.

BADGES BUGS SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT TEAM

This week, the Badges Bugs Team’s summary overseeing advancements in the Highest Good Network software was managed by Shaofeng Li (Software Engineer) and includes Renan Luiz Santiago Martins César (Full-stack developer), Summit Kaushal (Backend Software Developer), Xiao Zhang (Software Engineer), and Xiaohan Meng (Software Engineer). The Highest Good Network software is how we’ll be managing and objectively measuring our process for people-care communities through our social architecture, construction, production, and maintenance processes. This week, Renan Luiz concentrated on enhancing the ‘checkXHoursInXWeeks’ feature to address badge streak issues, involving debugging and testing of new values in MongoDB. He resolved the problem related to the ‘fix x hours in x week’ streak. Additionally, he actively reviewed pull requests and committed to implementing solutions for the streak badge. Xiao managed feedback for pull request #802, to improve the project by discussion with the manager, which included devising a series of unit tests to ensure the reliability of the system’s badge features. Shaofeng worked on a variety of tasks within HGN Software Development, such as attending meetings, and one-on-one sessions, following up on pull requests, and engaging in badge component discussions. Xiaohan focused on refining the ‘Assign Badge on profile’ feature by addressing feedback and testing to ensure its readiness for final review. She also reviewed a teammate’s pull request and prepared for badge inspection by organizing badge details and setting up the backend support. Summit resolved a debugging issue by switching frontend branches and completed PR #802, examining data discrepancies in ‘personalbestmaxhrs’ and ‘totaltangiblehrs’. His work included understanding data access and storage within the codebase. This work supports One Community’s mission of fostering people-care communities and reinforces our commitment to improving living quality for everyone. See the Highest Good Society and Highest Good Network pages for more on how this relates to people-care communities. View some of the team’s work in the collage below.

BLUE STEEL SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT TEAM

The Blue Steel Team’s summary, presenting their work on the Highest Good Network software, was managed by Nathan Hoffman (Software Engineer, Team Manager) and includes Alex Brandt (Full Stack Developer), Bhuvan Dama (Full stack Developer), Jingyi Jia (Software Engineer), Sanket Kaware (Full-Stack Developer), Sarthak Jaiswal (Full-Stack Developer), Shiqing Pan (Full-Stack Software Developer), Swathy Jayaseelan (Software Engineer), Tzu Ning “Leo” Chueh (Software Engineer), and Yaohong Xiang (Software Engineer). This week, Nathan focused on optimizing code efficiency by creating hotfix PRs to restore role permission preset functionality and separating the time entry permissions on the backend. They took over Jay’s PRs, reviewed team members’ weekly summaries, and provided feedback for them. Additionally, Nathan created PRs #2216 and #839 for adding the seeUsersInDashboard permission, which replaces the role-based logic overriding team requirements for seeing every user in the leaderboard and team-member task. He also responded to messages on Slack and removed a task from Shiqing. Alex concentrated on developing the “weekly summary email for admins” dashboard, focusing on the backend API to aggregate team information for automated weekly email distribution to administrators, while also reviewing frontend pull request #2105. Bhuvan worked on unit tests, facing challenges with file coverage and store mocks, ultimately creating their first pull request for unit test files related to Reports. Jingyi streamlined the permissions system within the project and addressed challenges in removing users from projects, as well as planned backend logic adjustments. Sanket initiated work on visualizing anniversaries within a project, addressing issues identified in both frontend and backend pull requests. Sarthak began their new managerial trainee role within the development team, submitting their first pull request. Shiqing addressed formatting issues on the reports page and resolved a bug related to the new user creation, in addition to conducting multiple PR reviews and enhancing the weekly summary page’s formatting. Swathy focused on unit testing components within the User Profile feature, completed unit tests for the User Teams Table, and shifted focus to developing unit tests for the User Projects Table component. Tzu Ning focused on ensuring correct processing of user IDs from URLs and accurate state updates, utilizing console logs for debugging and enhancing the application’s user interface functionality. Xiao continued refining the time entry handler function, integrating frontend logic into the backend for the post time entry handler, and tackling the complexities of adjusting the edit time entry handler. Yaohong focused on enhancing the use interface by implementing layout improvements and functional enhancements. This work supports One Community’s mission of fostering people-care communities and reinforces our commitment to improving living quality for everyone. See below to view some of their work. 

CODECRAFTERS SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT TEAM

The Code Crafters Team’s summary, covering their work on the Highest Good Network software, was managed by Anirudh Ghildiyal (Software Engineer) and includes Meet Padhiar (Software Engineer), Ramya Ramasamy (Software Engineer), Nahiyan Ahmed (Full Stack Software Developer), Shantanu Kumar (Software Developer), Shengjie Mao (Software Engineer), Weiyao Li (Software Engineer) and Xiaoyu Chen (Software Engineer). The Highest Good Network software is how we’ll be managing and objectively measuring our process for creating people-care communities throughout our social architecture, construction, production, and maintenance processes. This week, Anirudh G ensured team coordination through reviews and led the weekly standup, addressing unit test errors in the UserTeamProjectContainer. Diego provided support in unit testing, working with Xiaoyu on the informationController and assisting Abi with a test issue. He reviewed Christy’s PR and initiated PR 835 for README updates, catering to Linux and MacOS users. He also addressed a Windows-specific ‘npm install’ issue with another PR and aided Abi with unit test challenges, verifying high standards in testing practices across the team. Meet verified front-end functionality post-merge and introduced a new feature for task button colors. Nahiyan advanced the implementation of dark mode, particularly focusing on the reports page. Ramya resolved an npm issue and tackled a merging problem with Diego’s assistance, also revisiting pull request tests. Shantanu refined the “Make Submit for Review” button, contending with merge conflicts and dependency issues, and reviewed a pull request for input handling. Shengjie enhanced unit tests for the ForgotPassword component, focusing on input handling and button functionalities. Weiyao explored advanced React/Redux concepts for a new user feature, ensuring its performance with Jae. Xiaoyu addressed a caching error in unit tests and rectified a frontend issue related to table alignment and spacing. This work supports One Community’s mission of fostering people-care communities and reinforces our commitment to improving living quality for everyone. See the Highest Good Society and Highest Good Network pages for more on how this relates to people-care communities. The collage below shows some of this work.

One Community welcomes John Mumbi to the Software and Development Team as our newest Volunteer/Consultant!

John has over 6 years of experience working in various roles within the software engineering field. He has proven his ability to thrive in dynamic settings and tackle intricate projects, delivering efficient and innovative solutions to complex challenges. John is committed to maximizing resource utilization, striving for productivity, and advocating for improvement in software delivery processes. As a member of the One Community team, John helped with features and fixing bugs within the open source Highest Good Network Software.

WELCOME TO THE TEAM JOHN!

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INVESTOR PAGES

OVERVIEW | LOCATION | FUNDING

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CONSULTANTS | WAYS ANYONE CAN HELP | MEMBERSHIP

One Community welcomes Weiyao (Nolan) Li to the Software Development Team as our newest Volunteer/Consultant!

Weiyao (Nolan) earned his Master’s degree in Statistics from Columbia University, bringing experience in web development and machine learning. He previously worked as a Software Engineer in AI/ML, advancing an open-source LLM project for financial sentimental analysis. His experience also includes an internship as a Software Engineer for a distributed e-commerce payment monitoring system (Java, Spring Boot, MyBatis, MySQL, Redis, HBase) that served over 600M customers. For Nolan’s personal project, he co-developed CureSphere, utilizing AWS microservices to help people find doctors in the US. As a member of the One Community Engineering team, Nolan contributes as a Full-Stack Software Engineer to the open-source Highest Good Network Project. He has completed over 20 high-quality PR reviews and is currently working towards implementing a permission management feature.

WELCOME TO THE TEAM WEIYAO!

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One Community welcomes Renan Luiz Santiago Martins César to the Software Development Team as our newest Volunteer/Consultant!

Renan has been doing programming projects since 2021, both front-end and back-end. With a lot of effort and dedication, seeking daily to improve his programming, he built all the projects in his portfolio. As a member of the One Community team, Renan has been a key support member for other less-experienced software team members, helped with issues on Azure, and is currently helping finish fixing bugs within the Highest Good Network badges component. 

WELCOME TO THE TEAM RENAN!

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One Community welcomes Nahiyan Ahmed to the Software Development Team as our newest Volunteer/Consultant!

Nahiyan is a dedicated professional who recently graduated with a bachelor’s degree in computer science. His passion for creating reliable and efficient software has been evident throughout his career. At Nanotronics, he contributed significantly by developing an application that streamlined the setup process for machines, enhancing efficiency and client satisfaction. With a strong focus on web development, Nahiyan joined One Community as a Full Stack Software Developer working on the Highest Good Network software. His expertise in identifying and resolving bugs, coupled with his knack for making impactful improvements, has made him a valuable asset to the team. Notably, he spearheaded a major project to implement dark mode, demonstrating his commitment to enhancing user experience and staying at the forefront of industry trends.

WELCOME TO THE TEAM NAHIYAN!

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One Community is forwarding eco-paradigm construction, a holistic approach to sustainability covering food, energy, housing, education, economics, and social architecture. Our all-volunteer team is committed to creating a model that becomes self-replicating, fostering global collaboration through teacher/demonstration hubs. Grounded in the principle of “The Highest Good of All,” we open source and free-share our complete process, promoting fulfilled living and global stewardship practices. Join us in evolving sustainability, regenerating our planet, and creating a world that works for everyone.

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

OUR MAIN OPEN SOURCE HUBS

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

One Community’s physical location will forward this eco-paradigm construction movement as the first of many self-replicating teacher/demonstration communities, villages, and cities to be built around the world. This is the April 1st, 2024 edition (#576) of our weekly progress update detailing our team’s development and accomplishments:

Eco-paradigm Construction
One Community Progress Update #576

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HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING PROGRESS

One Community is forwarding eco-paradigm construction 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:

• • • Eco-paradigm construction: Our Upcoming Crowdfunding Campaign
    • Learn about the different eco-paradigm construction 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, Mithil Upadhyay (Mechanical Engineer) continued working on problem solving the designs for the Vermiculture Toilet. He focused on designing the 55 gallon drum using general dimensions found on the Internet. Mithil also designed the frame for the closing mechanism, aligning it with the discussions from the meeting and the presentation done in week 1, utilizing Solidworks for CAD design. Sustainable human waste processing options, like the vermiculture toilets, are a foundation of One Community’s open source eco-paradigm construction model. Below are some demonstration images of his work.

Vidhi Bansal (3D Visualization Artist) completed another week working on the Earthbag Village 4-dome home renders. She focused on refining techniques for working with translucent glass, enhancing foliage to fill up spaces, and adding a hot tub. She then updated the plinths and lighting to improve the overall environment, while addressing errors in the landscape. Vidhi also updated the clothing designs, ensuring accuracy in scales for both people and objects within the projects. Adapting our models to demonstrate traditional housing options is a part of One Community’s open source eco-paradigm construction model too. See the pictures below for examples related to this work.

DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER PROGRESS

One Community is forwarding eco-paradigm construction 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 its function as part of eco-paradigm construction: Duplicable City Center Open Source Hub

This week, Nika Gavran (Industrial Designer) continued her work on the Duplicable City Center dormer window installation plans. She made an in-depth research and documentation on the process of creating dormer windows. She extensively researched architecture and construction sources to gain understanding of the assembly and placement of elements within a dormer window. Nika documented the tools utilized and the sequence of operations involved. She also reviewed the CAD files associated with the window to identify the constituent pieces within the assembly. The Duplicable City Center is a foundational part of One Community’s open source eco-paradigm construction model. See below for some of the pictures related to this work.

HIGHEST GOOD FOOD PROGRESS

One Community is forwarding eco-paradigm construction through Highest Good food that is more diverse, more nutritious, locally grown and sustainable, and part of our open source botanical garden model to support and share bio-diversity:

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

This week, the core team continued to focus on updating and expanding the Highest Good Food tools, equipment, and materials details. They researched, added new entries, and wrote detailed narratives to accompany each addition. They also researched about the specifications and features of Turftime heavy duty hydraulic dump trailers and the latest Woodland Mills TF810 Pro PTO Wood Chipper Walk Around. Highest Good food is an important part of creating the global eco-renaissance with One Community’s open source eco-paradigm construction plans. See their work in the collage below. 

Charles Gooley (Web Designer) continued to work on the Vegan Rice Recipes page. This week, he focused on constructing several recipes including Sweet Potato Breakfast Bowl with Baked Beans, Chicken, Sweet Potato & Coconut Curry, Mexican Tomato Rice with Beans, Chia Seed Pudding, Alfredo Pasta with Chicken, Potato and Beans Casserole, and Brown Rice Pudding. Additionally, Mediterranean Baked Sweet Potatoes, Brown Rice and Spanish Chicken Stew, Vegan Cinnamon Rolls with Tofu Scramble, and Sautéed Potatoes and Creamy Herb Chicken were added. Also included were Spaghetti and Tofu, Quinoa Breakfast Pudding, Tomato Brown Rice Pilaf with Baked Tilapia, and Mashed Sweet Potatoes with Chicken Garlic Herb Sauce. Placeholder images were utilized, awaiting replacement with final images upon availability. Highest Good Food is an important part of eco-paradigm construction with One Community’s open source plans. See his work in the collage below.

Hayley Rosario (Sustainability Research Assistant) continued helping finalize the Highest Good Food rollout plan. This week, Hayley reviewed relevant documents, incorporated links, fixed formatting and addressed minor issues, as well as updated her portfolio at her request of a core team member. She inserted links in Highest Good Food within the “relevant pages” section, performed comparative analysis of the formatting between the EDITs document and the Highest Good Energy document, and compared the information from the EDITs document with that of the Food Infrastructure Rollout document. Additionally, in both the Highest Good Food Tools document and the EDITs document, Hayley fixed formatting and resolved the minor issues. Highest Good Food is an important part of eco-paradigm construction with One Community’s open source plans. See her work in the collage below.

HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION PROGRESS

One Community is forwarding eco-paradigm construction 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: Eco-paradigm Construction Education Open Source Hub
• How the components work together as part of the One Community eco-paradigm construction model: How to use the Education for Life Program
  
• Eco-paradigm construction: Lesson Plans for Life – Lesson Plans How-to
• Eco-paradigm construction: 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 forwarding eco-paradigm construction 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 eco-paradigm construction overview: Highest Good Society
    • Learn about the model for fulfilled living and sharing as part of eco-paradigm construction: A Day in the Life
    • Learn about the 4 economic models for eco-paradigm construction: RBE | For-profit | Non-profit | Entrepreneurship
    • Learn about our open source community eco-paradigm construction collaboration and management software: The Highest Good Network

This week, the core team completed around 65 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. They also shot and incorporated the video above that talks about forwarding eco-paradigm construction and how eco-paradigm construction is a foundation of the bigger picture of everything One Community is doing. The pictures below show some of this work.

Cody Media Productions (Video Editing Company) continued working on finalizing the intro video for the weekly progress update YouTube videos. They submitted their third rough cut and gauged the positive feedback received. The team initiated adjustments to the intro video, addressing specific modifications as requested. These videos will showcase the open source components of One Community as the prototype for forwarding eco-paradigm construction. The following images highlight their work.

Faisal Rasheed (Graphic Designer) visited the One Community site map to explore graphics that could potentially be improved upon, including graphics used from other sites. Subsequently, he sent the links for approval and officially began work on the “grown in-ground versus what you can grow in pots” and the “why people do gardening?” infographics. Completing these contributes to One Community‘s vision for forwarding eco-paradigm construction. The images below show his progress for the week.

ADMINISTRATION TEAM

The Administration Team’s summary, covering their work administrating and managing most of One Community’s ongoing process for forwarding eco-paradigm construction was managed by Vriddhi Misra (Admin and Marketing Assistant) and includes Camilla Okello (Administrative Assistant), Charuvi Saxena (HR Specialist), Durgeshwari Naikwade (Data Analyst), Gokul Palanisamy (Data Analyst), Jessica Fairbanks (Administrative Assistant), Jiaxin Zheng (Data Analyst), Meenakshi Velayutham (Sustainability Associate), Olawunmi “Ola” Ijisesan (Administrative and Management Support), Ram Shrivatsav (Data Analyst and Admin assistant), Ratna Meena Shivakumar (Data Analyst and Admin), Ruiqi Liu (Administrative Assistant), Sinddhuzaa Poduri (Data Analyst and Admin assistant), Sneka Vetriappan (Data Analyst), T R Samarth Urs (Data Analyst), Vibhav Chimatapu (Data Analyst/Admin Assistant), Xiaolai Li (Administrative Assistant), and Zuqi Li (Administrative Assistant and Economic Analyst). This week, Camilla managed her administrative duties by completing weekly tasks, reviewing other admins’ work, and optimizing blogs with corrections to keywords. Charuvi contributed to the hiring process by interviewing candidates, recording details, offering suggestions in collaboration documents, and providing feedback on applicant videos. Durgeshwari completed all assigned initial training tasks for the admin team, integrating feedback and ensuring the completion of tasks. Gokul balanced regular tasks with updated SEO feedback, conducted interviews, and delivered detailed feedback. Jessica worked on administrative tasks, refined her skills, and expanded her responsibilities by joining the hiring team. Jiaxin focused on review processes, SEO optimization, and assisting new team members’ training, ensuring SEO scores above 90 for webpages and providing feedback on their work. Meenakshi continued administrative tasks, reviewed and suggested updates for various analyses, and proofread social media web images for accuracy. Ola organized folders, added new team members, tracked progress reports, and reviewed the training work of new volunteers. Ram understood software development processes, managed the PR review team, and provided feedback to new team members. Ratna reviewed progress updates, prepared collages, shadowed interviews, discussed hiring processes, and improved SEO scores for blogs. Ruiqi completed review processes, created collages, incorporated SEO keywords, and supported new admins’ training while engaging in SEO and analytics tasks. Sneka worked on administration and software development tasks, provided feedback, optimized webpages, and contributed to software testing efforts. Samarth managed the PR review team, applied SEO techniques to optimize blog posts, reviewed fellow admins’ work, and received constructive feedback. Vibhav completed training on webpage SEO optimization, enhanced blogs, reviewed the team’s work, and optimized webpages for SEO. Vriddhi managed administrative tasks, reviewed and assigned blogs, provided feedback, and edited and submitted blog posts with a commitment to success. Xiaolai finalized the weekly report, reviewed documents, administered tutorials, assessed training processes, and organized documents for the weekly report. One Community’s model for eco-paradigm construction includes developing and maintaining a huge administration team like this. You can see the work for the team in the image below.

GRAPHIC DESIGN TEAM

The Graphic Design Team’s summary was managed by Ruiqi Liu (Administrative Assistant) and included Ashlesha Navale (Graphic Designer), Britney Robles (Graphic Designer), Nancy Mónchez (Graphic Designer), and Zixi Zhang (Graphic Designer). Ashlesha spearheaded the creation of seven Social Media Images, while also undertaking research and curation of nature-based and theme-specific background images for the task. She fixed and redesigned approximately twelve social media images, ensuring their alignment with desired aesthetics and updating her image repository accordingly. Britney began her first week of volunteering with One Community as a graphic designer. She created five social media graphics, experimenting with diverse styles and imagery to meet role expectations. Nancy addressed design corrections flagged by administrators and investigated incomplete tasks, discovering a technical glitch hindering task verification in Google Docs. Zixi completed the initial app setup and checklist requirements, guaranteeing the app’s readiness for use and adherence to registration protocols. She created two sets of social media images in line with campaign objectives, totaling seven images, and refined three existing social media visuals for enhanced audience engagement, ensuring their availability on Dropbox for seamless access. See the Highest Good Society pages for more on how this relates to forwarding eco-paradigm construction. The collage below shows some of this work.

HIGHEST GOOD NETWORK PROGRESS

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

This week, a core team member worked on the Highest Good Network PRs testing, confirming fixed PRs including making WBS names active links (PR#1985), addressing different date formats in time-off requests (PR#1471), fixing Team Management alerts (PR#1185), adding explanatory “i” icons (PR#1000), implementing conditional formatting for multi-word names (PR#1970), updating Teams Page sorting (PR#1756 + PR#1757), fixing Projects and Teams Page formatting (PR#1746), and enhancing project update speed on User Profile and Timelog (PR#596). Unresolved PRs include creating a Blue Square Reason Scheduler (PR#1471) and adding features to various pages. Additionally, they recorded a video regarding the issue of the horizontal scroll bar not appearing when searching for teams not listed at the end, reported a bug concerning the timer stopping on the WBS page, and provided suggestions for formatting headers on Projects and Teams pages along with relevant images. See the collage below for their work.

ALPHA SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT TEAM

This week, the Alpha Team’s summary, covering their work on the Highest Good Network software was managed by Sucheta Mukherjee (Software Developer) and includes Cooper Bjorkelund (Frontend developer), Navya M (Full Stack Developer), Pratima Singh (Software Developer), and Shamim Rahman (Software Engineer). The Highest Good Network software is how we’ll be managing and objectively measuring our process for forwarding eco-paradigm construction through our social architecture, construction, production, and maintenance processes. This week, Pratima set up the ViewReport page, creating five distinct tabs for improved functionality, including a horizontal bar chart and a donut chart using D3.js to effectively showcase volunteer statistics, enhancing user experience and facilitating informed decision-making for stakeholders (PR: 2070). Navya collaborated with the unit testing team, attending meetings to familiarize themselves with tasks. Additionally, Navya worked on PR #813, reviewing, testing, and approving code changes locally, testing both positive and negative scenarios and different roles to ensure expected behavior, planning further review before raising the PR. Shamim reviewed 9 different pull requests (PRs) and tested their functionality, providing constructive feedback with accompanying screenshots and videos, addressing issues in PR#1831 and PR#704, and sharing them via Dropbox. Cooper advanced in the development of the toggle tangible time permission feature of the HGN app, making significant progress and addressing minor issues collaboratively with the team, maintaining open communication, providing updates on eco-paradigm construction, and actively participating in discussions throughout the week to achieve project milestones. See the Highest Good Society and Highest Good Network pages for more on how this relates to forwarding eco-paradigm construction. View some of the team’s work in the collage below.

BADGES BUGS SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT TEAM

This week, the Badges Bugs Team’s summary overseeing advancements in the Highest Good Network software, was managed by Shaofeng Li (Software Engineer) and includes Renan Luiz Santiago Martins César (Full-stack developer), Summit Kaushal (Backend Software Developer), Xiao Zhang (Software Engineer), and Xiaohan Meng (Software Engineer). The Highest Good Network software is how we’ll be managing and objectively measuring our process for Eco-paradigm construction through our social architecture, construction, production, and maintenance processes. This week, Shaofeng participated in a team meeting to discuss the week’s plan, collaborated with Xiao on aligning the development version badges table with the production version database, strategized on testing badge components, debugged the codebase, assisted colleagues in resolving technical issues, modified badges in the production database for testing, and debugged the XhoursXweeks function.

Renan sought assistance regarding an error encountered during the implementation of certain features in the checkXHrsForXWeeks function, tested and identified potential issues with this function, and addressed GitHub-related issues focusing on webpack-dev-middleware problems. Summit focused on re-implementing a feature to obtain maximum hours of every week, devised a design, implemented and tested it, debugged the code, discovered and modified the ‘getTangibleHoursReportedThisWeekByUserId’ function, and fine-tuned the logic to obtain maximum value. Xiao did his part for this eco-paradigm construction software as he addressed comments on pull request number 802, resolved specific issues, enhanced project functionality, and met with the manager to outline the next task centered on verifying the operational integrity of all badge features, and decided to develop a series of unit tests to assess each badge function’s performance. Xiaohan submitted a Pull Request to address a bug in the ‘Assign Badge on profile’ feature, engaged with reviewers on Slack and reviewed badge’s PR2085 identifying issues with badge visibility on user profiles after deletion. See the Highest Good Society and Highest Good Network pages for more on how this relates to Eco-paradigm construction. View some of the team’s work in the collage below.

BLUE STEEL SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT TEAM

The Blue Steel Team’s summary, displaying their work on the Highest Good Network software, was managed by Nathan Hoffman (Software Engineer, Team Manager) and includes Bhuvan Dama (Full stack Developer), Jingyi Jia (Software Engineer), Shiqing Pan (Full-Stack Software Developer), Swathy Jayaseelan (Software Engineer), Tzu Ning “Leo” Chueh (Software Engineer), and Yaohong Xiang (Software Engineer). This week, Nathan focused on optimizing code efficiency by exploring the consolidation of two API calls within editTeamMemberTimeEntry() and refactoring the logic of getTimeEntriesForPeriod() to streamline and simplify its implementation. Shiqing addressed a bug affecting page formatting on the reports page, ensuring that the result table now appears adjacent to the search function on sufficiently wide screens, and conducted peer reviews for pull requests 1966 and 1940.

Bhuvan did his part for this eco-paradigm construction software as he completed coverage analysis of the SaveButton.jsx file, achieving a coverage rate of 75%, and tackled the implementation of several edge cases identified during previous research on the TableFilter.js file. Jingyi started work on the permission management system related to the project management feature, identifying and addressing limitations in the current setup, with plans to implement and test solutions for these issues. Yaohong addressed remaining issues related to setting up a modal, ensuring functionality and maintainability improvements, and submitted a pull request encapsulating these efforts. Swathy focused on improving the user interface by implementing hover effects for checkboxes and radio buttons, addressing a comment on a previous pull request, and resolving a bug within the User Teams Table component’s test file. Tzu Ning fixed a synchronization issue in the WeeklySummariesReport component, enhancing the user experience by providing real-time updates to team code selections. See below to view their work.

CODECRAFTERS SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT TEAM

The Code Crafters Team’s summary, covering their work on the Highest Good Network software, was managed by Anirudh Ghildiyal (Software Engineer) and includes Anirudh Dutt (Software Developer), Ramya Ramasamy (Software Engineer), Nahiyan Ahmed (Full Stack Software Developer), Shantanu Kumar (Software Developer), Shengjie Mao (Software Engineer), Sophie Lei (Software Engineer), Weiyao Li (Software Engineer) and Tapan Pathak (Software Engineer). The Highest Good Network software is how we’ll be managing and objectively measuring our process for forwarding eco-paradigm construction throughout our social architecture, construction, production, and maintenance processes. This week, Anirudh D joined the unit testing team, collaborating with Diego and others to develop unit tests and reviewing several pull requests while resolving merge conflicts and build failures, including authoring tests for the login controller.

Anirudh G did his part for this eco-paradigm construction software as he focused on debugging test cases for the TeamsTab and UserTeamProject components, managing the weekly standup, and aiming to resolve two failing test cases. Diego, in partnership with Christy G., facilitated peer programming, reviewed and merged PR 817, updated the userProfileController, and submitted PR 822 for further testing, also guiding Anirudh D in unit testing efforts. Meet devoted his efforts to assessing the front end of phase one, ensuring the integrated pull requests delivered the expected results. Nahiyan undertook a dark mode project, integrating a toggle button on the navigation bar and selecting Oxford blue among other colors for the theme. Ramya, hindered by backend server issues, focused on front-end tasks, debugging the Limit-see-all functionality, and reviewing six pull requests related to unit tests. Shantanu addressed merge conflicts in the “Make Submit for Review” button, contending with dependency version discrepancies. Shengjie developed unit tests for the ProjectsTab component, covering basic rendering, functionalities, and edge cases. Tapan did his part for this eco-paradigm construction software as he tackled memory leaks in the user profile page by optimizing Axios calls and state updates, and Weiyao immersed himself in React/Redux studies for user creation functionality. See the Highest Good Society and Highest Good Network pages for more on how this relates to eco-paradigm construction. The collage below shows some of this work.

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