One Community welcomes Mohammad Abbas to the Software development Team as our newest Volunteer/Consultant!

Mohammad is an aspiring Software Engineer, currently pursuing a Postgraduate Certificate in Software Development at Humber College, with an expected graduation in August 2024. Despite his academic standing, he actively specializes in the MERN stack, including MongoDB, Express, React, and Node.js, with proficiency in Next.js and TypeScript. His primary skills also span ASP.NET, Python, C#, Java, and various databases like SQL Server, MySQL, and PostgreSQL. As a member of the One Community team, Mohammad has provided valuable insights as he’s gained practical experience. He has furthered his grasp of software engineering principles with PR reviews, feature development, and unit testing while helping with the development of the Highest Good Network software.

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One Community is dedicated to creating game-changing eco-solutions for sustainable living. Our all-volunteer team is committed to pioneering sustainable approaches to food, energy, housing, education, economics, and social architecture. With a focus on fulfilled living and global stewardship practices, we’re building a model that becomes self-replicating. Our vision? To create a world that works for everyone, doing this for “The Highest Good of All.” Everything we create is open source and free-shared, evolving sustainability, and regenerating our planet. Join us on this journey towards a brighter, more sustainable future, created by an all-volunteer team.

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

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One Community’s physical location will forward this movement of establishing abundant natural systems as the first of many self-replicating teacher/demonstration communities, villages, and cities to be built around the world. This is the April 29th, 2024 edition (#580) of our weekly progress update detailing our team’s development and accomplishments:

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HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING PROGRESS

One Community is creating game-changing eco-solutions through Highest Good housing that is artistic and beautiful, more affordable, more space efficient, lasts longer, DIY buildable, and constructed with healthy and sustainable materials:

• • • Learn about: Our Upcoming Crowdfunding Campaign
    • Learn about the differentgame-changing eco-solutions villages: 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 continued working towards completing the design of the closing mechanism as presented in the previous week. To support this mechanism, he focused on designing various components, such as shut-off blades and frames. Mithil also 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 game-changing eco-solutions. Below are some demonstration images of his work.

Rizwan Syed (Mechanical Engineer) also continued helping to finish the Vermiculture Toilet designs. He focused on the preliminary design of the chute diversion system for One Community’s vermicomposting toilet, using SolidWorks to design a cylindrical chute pipe extending from beneath the flush toilet to the composting chamber. He iterated his initial design by adjusting chute diameters to match commercially available pipes and refining the interface design for the closing mechanism. He then integrated flange and rubber gasket attachments for effective sealing of the chute beneath the toilet. In response to insights gained from his weekly meeting with Chris, Rizwan researched existing documentation on typical depths for feeding vermicomposting worms and the recommended bin size for utilizing separate chambers. He also researched for literature resources to better understand worm feeding depth and multiplication rates based on the feeding materials used in vermicomposting. The vermiculture toilets and other sustainable technologies form the basis of One Community’s open source strategy for game-changing eco-solutions. Here are a few photos showing examples of his work.

Sajal Shah (Project Manager) continued managing completion of the Highest Good energy components. She finalized the ad copy for two crucial roles within the Duplicable City Center and Straw Bale Village projects. One ad is tailored for an Electrical Plan Engineer, while the other targets an Electrical Cost Estimation Engineer. These roles are integral for ensuring the smooth functioning and cost-effectiveness of the electrical aspects of both projects. Highest Good energy is an essential component of One Community’s open source for game-changing eco-solutions model. See below for some of the pictures related to this work.

DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER PROGRESS

One Community is creating game-changing eco-solutions through a Duplicable and Sustainable City Center that is LEED Platinum certified/Sustainable, can feed 200 people at a time, provide laundry for over 300 people, is beautiful, spacious, and saves resources, money, and space:

• • • Learn about this building and its function as one of our for game-changing eco-solutions: 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 concentrated on advancing the dormer window assembly instructions, primarily aiming to finalize a general order of assembly through sketching. She researched on screws, nails, and their respective application methods to determine the most suitable options for each component in the assembly process. Nika also initiated the creation of a CAD file intended to catalog the fasteners to be used. The Duplicable City Center is a foundational part of One Community’s open source game-changing eco-solutions model. See below for some of the pictures related to this work.

HIGHEST GOOD FOOD PROGRESS

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

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

This week, the core team continued updating and expanding the Highest Good Food tools, equipment, materials, and supplies document by adding 50 new items. They organized the list alphabetically within each category for improved usability. The expanded list now includes essential tools for various tasks, such as bolts, cutters, brushes, clamps, chisels, hammers, lamps, levels, marking tools, crimpers, flagging, knives, mallets, panels, plumb bobs, rebar, magnetic tool racks, rope, saws, scissors, screwdrivers, sharpeners, shop vacuums, slatwall/pegboard with accessories, tin snips, survey stakes, staplers, staple guns, staples, stud finders, caution tape, drywall tape, duct tape, fish tape, flagging tape, tape measures in various sizes, painter’s tape, tarps, toolboxes, wire in various sizes, wire cutters, allen wrenches, open-ended/closed-ended wrenches, and socket wrenches. Highest Good food is an important part of game-changing eco-solutions with One Community’s open source plans. See their work in the collage below.

Charles Gooley (Web Designer) continued to work on various recipes as part of the Transition Food Self-sufficiency Plan. He focused on the recipes project, continued to transfer recipes from the vegan rice recipe page to their respective new pages and alphabetize them. Upon completing the transfer of all recipes, six new ones were incorporated into their respective pages: Banana Pancakes, One Pot Pasta with Sausages, Rice and Beans stuffed Peppers, Quinoa Salad, Jambalaya Brown Rice with Black Beans, and Potatoes with Brussels Sprouts and Chicken. Additionally, nine placeholder images were replaced with final provided images. Highest Good food is an important part of game-changing eco-solutions 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. She organized new additions into the Highest Good food tools, equipment, materials/supplies document, adding images of various items and researching background information, including image sources and titles for each box. Additionally, she researched examples for the Integration program and incorporated suggestions from a core team member to revise wording in certain areas. Highest Good food are an important part of game-changing eco-solutions with One Community’s open source plans. See her work in the collage below.

HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION PROGRESS

One Community is creating game-changing eco-solutions through Highest Good education that is for all ages, applicable in any environment, adaptable to individual needs, far exceeds traditional education standards, and more fun for both the teachers and the students. This component of One Community is about 95% complete with only the Open Source School Licensing and Ultimate Classroom construction and assembly details remaining to be finished. 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 as part of our for game-changing eco-solutions model: 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

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HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY PROGRESS

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

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

This week, the core team completed over 55 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 game-changing eco-solutions and how game-changing eco-solutions are 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 his in-depth research into connections with Robert Downey Jr., identifying emails, LinkedIn profiles, and background information of individuals who may have personal or professional ties to Downey. This initiative is part of a broader strategy to facilitate connections with funders by cultivating relationships with key individuals involved in these networks. His careful approach underscores his commitment to leveraging networking opportunities to enhance collaborations within the philanthropic sector. Establishing win-win relationships like this is a big component to the One Community vision and working towards game-changing eco-solutions. The following images highlight his work for the week.

Arun Chandar Ganesan (Volunteer Data Analyst And SEO And Social Media Assistant) continued to work on the next 20 SEO pages for any necessary corrections, documenting them in the appropriate records. He communicated these corrections to the relevant individual and is awaiting acknowledgment. Simultaneously, he scheduled posts for Earth Day on both Facebook and Instagram, and is currently focusing on analytics for these posts. Arun is also organizing posts for the upcoming weeks on both platforms. Search engine optimization and regularly working on content on social media are important parts of One Community‘s model and paving the way for game-changing eco-solutions. The following images show his work for the week.

Faisal Rasheed (Graphic Designer) made suggested changes to previous graphics to enhance clarity and ensure clear visualization. Additionally, he recreated a new mind map for the “Consensus Idea to Implementation Structure”, giving it a fresh look and improving its visual clarity. He focused on attention to detail and clarity throughout the process, involving conceptualization, design, and refinement of graphics to effectively communicate essential information. Collaborating closely with team members, Faisal ensured that the designs aligned with project specifications and met client expectations. Completing these images contributes to One Community‘s vision for providing game-changing eco-solutions. 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 game-changing eco-solutions was managed by Vriddhi Misra (Admin and Marketing Assistant) and includes Camilla Okello (Administrative Assistant), Durgeshwari Naikwade (Data Analyst), Jessica Fairbanks (Administrative Assistant), Meenakshi Velayutham (Sustainability Associate), Olawunmi “Ola” Ijisesan (Administrative and Management Support), Rachna Malav (Data Analyst), Ram Shrivatsav (Data Analyst and Admin assistant), Ratna Meena Shivakumar (Data Analyst and Admin), Ruiqi Liu (Administrative 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 worked on reviewing another individual’s work and optimizing assigned blogs, utilizing ChatGPT to generate SEO terms and adding keywords. Durgeshwari scheduled and conducted virtual interviews completed SEO tasks for 10 content blocks, and reviewed the weekly progress update #579, preparing collages for the Blue Badge Team. Jessica completed administrative tasks, wrote volunteer postings for Highest Good Foods, scheduled and administered interviews with potential volunteers, and reviewed existing volunteer postings on Volunteer Match. Meenakshi did her part helping with our for game-changing eco-solutions as she continued reviewing the weekly blog, created new bio announcements, tracked ongoing announcements, analyzed Xiaolai’s work on the community solar project, and proofread social media images. Ola reviewed the PR team’s work, tracked team progress, updated table content for documentation, managed feedback and comments, and provided comments on trainees’ work. Rachna engaged in the onboarding process, reviewed weekly summaries, provided feedback, refined summaries, fixed submitted images, created collages, and integrated individual summaries onto a designated webpage. Ram focused on rectifying feedback points on his SEO work, worked on feedback for his blog post, and made progress in learning the PR review team process. Ratna reviewed the weekly progress update #579, prepared collages for various teams, scheduled and conducted virtual interviews, and reviewed blogs by Ram and Durgeshwari. Ruiqi completed the review process for four teams, created collage images, incorporated SEO keywords as Alt Titles, and updated SEO for blogs 303-309. Sneka focused on OC Administration tasks, reviewed time log entries, ensured correct task assignments, provided feedback, made necessary changes based on feedback, and maintained engagement with ongoing projects. Samarth managed the PR review team, reviewed their work, applied SEO techniques to optimize blog posts, and reviewed the work of fellow admin team members. Vibhav did his part helping with our for game-changing eco-solutions as he reviewed the PR team’s work, created group summaries and collages, and continued on-web page SEO optimization, enhancing blogs and achieving notable results. Vriddhi managed various aspects of OC Administration, reviewed and compiled work for weekly blog #580, offered feedback, assigned tasks to the SEO team, undertook training sessions for new managers, identified SEO keywords, and contributed collages and team summaries for weekly blog #579. Xiaolai organized documents, drafted the weekly report, updated the webpage for final review, assisted in training new admins, and reviewed documents and pictures. Zuqi organized a weekly summary for the Graphic Design Team, updated the weekly blog, reviewed admins’ weekly updates, fixed image captions, optimized blogs #310- #317, and checked them in accordance with SEO checklists. One Community’s model for game-changing eco-solutions 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), Jasmine Soria (Graphic Designer), Nancy Mónchez (Graphic Designer), Shayan Afkari (Graphic Designer) and Zixi Zhang (Graphic Designer), covering their work on graphic designs for game-changing eco-solutions. Ashlesha focused on creating twenty-seven recipe images for the Graphic Design Task – Recipe Images for Site Task, while also researching and curating nature-based and theme-based images for social media. Britney concentrated on producing social media images with consistent themes, utilizing illustrations and photos, and created a volunteer announcement page by editing the profile photo, creating an announcement image, and updating content. Jasmine joined our game-changing eco-solutions team familiarized herself with the collaborative tools, completed assigned tasks, and submitted three graphics. Nancy suggested layout ideas for social network images that emphasizing typography and eschewing gradient effects could help with visual relief. Shayan created bio images and announcement imagery, corrected URL addresses for team pictures and improved skills through video tutorials. Zixi designed ten social media images with Photoshop and an AI photo generator and created profile images, bio images, and announcement pages for Xiaohan and Christy. See the Highest Good Society pages for more on how this contributes to game-changing eco-solutions. See the collage below to view some of their work.

HIGHEST GOOD NETWORK PROGRESS

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

• Learn about this open source community collaboration and management software: The Highest Good Network

span style=”font-size: 12pt;”>This week, the core team continued their work on the Highest Good Network PRs testing, confirming the fixed PRs. This included fixing the issue where deleted users were still visible on teams and allowing lower roles to update the Name and Title on the Profile to Basic Information page. Not fixed PRs include testing account edit permission issues and the time entry controller for post, edit, and delete time entries. Additional tasks included setting up test accounts, reporting a new bug regarding encountering a white screen when navigating certain pages, providing descriptions and images for recorded problems, and confirming the review issue regarding dashboard visibility for higher roles. See the Highest Good Society and Highest Good Network pages for more on how this relates to game-changing eco-solutions. The collage below shows some of their work.

ALPHA SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT TEAM

The Alpha Team’s summary, covering their work on the Highest Good Network software was managed by Sucheta Mukherjee (Software Developer) and includes Anand Seshadri (Software Engineer), Gayathridevi Chithambaram (Full Stack Developer), Jordy Corporan (Software Engineer), Lin Khant Htel (Frontend Software Developer), and Pratima Singh (Software Developer). The Highest Good Network software is how we’ll be managing and objectively measuring our process for implementing game-changing eco-solutions across our social architecture, construction, production, and maintenance processes. This week, Anand focused on Feature 9 of the Dashboard component, adding mouseover text to the Dashboard’s custom header buttons and retesting PR2128. He addressed a medium-priority item from the HGN Phase I bugs list, ensuring specific hover text for two buttons: “Edit this header” and “Click to restore header to standard message.” Anand also reviewed PR1677, concerning the Hotfix and Refactor of the OwnerMessage component, and examined an issue with PR2128 related to dark mode for user badges and permissions management, confirming its resolution. Gayathridevi did her part helping with this game-changing eco-solutions component as she improved accuracy in setting end dates for inactive individuals across the Profile Page, Reports section, and User Management page, with an added feature allowing Owners/Admins to edit an individual’s last day directly from their Profile page. Lin reviewed and approved 7 pull requests, beginning unit tests for the dashboardController and expanding his understanding of codebases and components. Pratima optimized network calls, particularly on the Teams page, by implementing debouncing in React and addressing multiple API call issues, enhancing system performance and stability. Jordy progressed with unit testing, focusing on the notifications controller, while Sucheta resolved a bug with PR2167, relocated a child div to mitigate spacing complications, guided a team member on using ChatGPT, and advanced on the “Search Project By Person” task by creating a controller function for project retrieval. See the Highest Good Society and Highest Good Network pages for more on how this relates to game-changing eco-solutions. 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 game-changing eco-solutions through our social architecture, construction, production, and maintenance processes. This week, Renan focused on testing all badges with a particular emphasis on verifying the correct operation of each badge. Although encountering a bug during the testing phase, efforts are directed toward identifying and resolving the issue to maintain progress. Shaofeng worked on the HGN Software Development project, including attending a weekly team meeting, researching data wiping procedures for the HGN app’s database, gaining knowledge on Heroku usage, discussing badge wiping with team members, checking progress on testing badge components, and engaging in problem-solving discussions related to CI/CD issues. Xiao reviewed pull request numbers 911 and 2089 and completed the development of unit tests for the badges feature, ensuring code accuracy and compatibility. Attention then shifted to developing tests that validate the functionality of the new badges feature, ensuring that all scenarios are covered and that the tests are robust enough to catch any potential issues. Xiaohan did her part helping with this game-changing eco-solutions component as she addressed CI/CD issues in the PR for the ‘Assign Badge on profile’ feature. After encountering a roadblock post several commits, she created a new recovery PR to allow for merging. Additionally, on Haoji’s request, she retested PR1531, discovering persistent issues with the banner appearing multiple times. Summit tested and debugged his task, focusing on adding additional conditions to avoid duplicating badges and addressing discrepancies in earned dates due to formatting differences. He made adjustments to the code and resolved a merge conflict during repository push. Additionally, Summit cleaned up the code by removing unnecessary console logs and fixed several eslint problems. See the Highest Good Society and Highest Good Network pages for more on how this relates to game-changing eco-solutions. View some of the team’s work in the collage below.

BINARY BRIGADE SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT TEAM

The Binary Brigade Team’s summary overseeing advancements in the Highest Good Network software was managed by Tapan Pathak (Software Engineer) and includes Aaryaneil Nimbalkar (Software Developer) and Huijie Liu (Software Engineer). The Highest Good Network software is how we’ll be managing and objectively measuring our process for game-changing eco-solutions through our social architecture, construction, production, and maintenance processes. This week, Aaryaneil’s testing activities encompassed PR #2199, focusing on the removal of errors from the dashboard console log, and PR #2198, involving testing improved formatting for the addtask modal. Additionally, PR #2192 was assigned to testing dark mode functionality for taskeditsuggestions, while PR #2196 tested the end date for user functionality, and PR #2201 addressed pagination overlap fixes. Huijie, who joined the Dev team this week, did her part helping with this game-changing eco-solutions component as she began learning about the responsibilities of being a manager-in-training while working on resolving an existing bug concerning the mismatch between Fix Time Log and Profile Page Times. She supervised tests on the Dev environment and examined the code, identifying a potential source of the problem as incorrect timelog information retrieval from fetched userProfile data. Tapan did a dry test run of the five essential manager role steps. He welcomed new team members, led the first weekly team meeting, and maintained communication with teammates on Slack. Tapan resolved an issue with Pagination UI in the Members table and compiled his weekly summary, including videos and photos of completed work. See the Highest Good Society and Highest Good Network pages for more on how this relates to game-changing eco-solutions. View some of the team’s work in the collage below.

BLUE STEEL SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT TEAM

The Blue Steel Team’s summary, presenting their work on the Highest Good Network software was managed by Nathan Hoffman (Software Engineer, Team Manager), and includes Imran Issa (Software Developer), Jingyi Jia (Software Engineer), Parth Rasu Jangid (Software Developer), Sanket Kaware (Full-Stack Developer), Shiqing Pan (Full-Stack Software Developer), Tzu Ning “Leo” Chueh (Software Engineer), and Xiao Wang (Software Engineer). The Highest Good Network software is how we’ll be managing and objectively measuring our process for game-changing eco-solutions through our social architecture, construction, production, and maintenance processes. This week, Nathan responded to Slack messages regarding team structure, PR reviews, and management, while also working on automating Dropbox image collection and focusing on separating the ‘editTimeEntry’ permission into different permissions for each field. Imran completed both frontend and backend components for one task from the Permission Management Fixes Spreadsheet and submitted it for review, while also tackling the backend portion of another task and creating a corresponding PR. Jingyi made enhancements to the permission management system within the project, introducing a logical tie in the frontend to automatically include crucial permissions when enabling the ‘Assign Project to Users’ permission, although encountering a new bug unrelated to the current task. Sanket focused on resolving the issue related to the “follow-up feature not working for 0Eduardo Mentor0 user” and implemented a database check, recommending retaining the PR description for future reference and submitting the task for review. Shiqing did her part helping with this game-changing eco-solutions component as she addressed an issue where deleted users remained visible on teams, verified the bug resolution, and engaged in pull request reviews related to unit testing. Xiao Wang resolved issue PR 2194 and assisted with other bug fixes, spending additional time addressing a problem causing a white screen due to deleted tasks and other data. Tzu Ning focused on defining proper types for dropdown items in the application and implemented controlled components with local state hooks for each dropdown, along with enabling the auto-sort feature for improved functionality and user interface.Parth focused on writing unit tests for forgotPwdcontroller.js, reviewing official documentation, testing guides, Google Docs, and videos for reference. See the Highest Good Society and Highest Good Network pages for more on how this contributes to game-changing eco-solutions. See below view images of their work./p>

SOFTWARE PR REVIEW TEAM M-Z

The PR Review Team’s summaries for team members’ names starting with M-Z and covering their work on the Highest Good Network software was managed by Olawunmi Ijisesan (Administrative and Management Support) and Samarth Urs (Administrative Assistant and Data Analyst). The Highest Good Network software is a foundation of what we’ll be using to measure our results of game-changing eco-solutions. This week’s active members of this team were: Gowtham Dongari (Software Engineer), Mengtian Chen (Software Engineer), Mohamed Sharif (Software Engineer), Olga Yudkin (Software Engineer), Shivani Adusumilli (Software Engineer), Tim Kent (Full Stack Software Engineer), Yiyun Tan (Software Engineer) and Youyou Zhang (Software Developer). They reviewed all the Highest Good Network PRs (Pull Requests) shared in this week’s update. Learn more about how the Highest Good Network will measure and assist in game-changing eco-solutions in the Highest Good Network open source hub. The collage below shows a compilation of the work from this team.

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One Community welcomes Shiqing Pan to the Software Development Team as our newest Volunteer/Consultant!

Shiqing holds a Master of Science in Computer Science from Northeastern University, and a Master of Accounting with Data and Analytics from The Ohio State University. With a background in business and a strong foundation in computer sciences, Shiqing brings a blend of analytical and technical skills to software development. Fluent in programming languages including Python, Java, JavaScript, C, and SQL, and proficient in tools like AWS, GCP, Spring, Docker, MySQL, MongoDB, Postgres, and React, Shiqing is a distinguished full-stack software developer and has developed a range of applications from customized financial systems to team management apps. With a commitment to agile development principles and a passion for sustainable software engineering, she consistently drives projects towards excellence, ensuring that technological developments promote both efficiency and positive community impact. As a Full-Stack Software Developer with One Community, Shiqing is actively engaged in developing and enhancing the Highest Good Network Software, focusing on addressing bugs, implementing unit tests, and upgrading features to ensure robust functionality and user engagement.

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One Community welcomes Christy Guo to the Software Development Team as our newest Volunteer/Consultant!

Christy contributes as a Software Engineer to the open source Highest Good Network software. She is dedicated to excellence and continuous improvement, brings a positive and empowering perspective to the team, and loves to showcase her expertise in full-stack application development. Consistently going the extra mile to ensure the delivery of robust and reliable code, her contributions have been crucial in expanding the management dashboard’s features and elevating the software’s reliability and performance by executing thorough comprehensive unit and integration tests for the backend.

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One Community welcomes Xiaohan Meng to the Software development Team as our newest Volunteer/Consultant!

Xiaohan holds a Master’s degrees in Computer Graphics, Vision and Imaging from University College London, and Information Systems from Northeastern University and is a skilled software engineer with a strong background in both web and mobile development. Her notable projects include developing an Online Transaction Record System using React and JavaScript, and creating an iOS social application with Swift, demonstrating her expertise in user interface design and data management. Working on the Highest Good Network software with One Community, Xiaohan successfully tackled complex badge-related issues and provided support on over 20 pull requests, significantly improving project collaboration. Her broad technical skill set includes Java, Python, JavaScript, Swift, and frameworks such as Node.js and React, positioning her as a key contributor in diverse development environments.

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One Community is dedicated to establishing abundant natural systems through our all-volunteer efforts. We use sustainable approaches to food, energy, housing, education, economics, and social architecture, all designed for fulfilled living and global stewardship practices. With a model that becomes self-replicating, we’re creating a global collaboration of teacher/demonstration hubs, all working for “The Highest Good of All.” Our commitment to open sourcing and free sharing the complete process is 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

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One Community’s physical location will forward this movement of establishing abundant natural systems as the first of many self-replicating teacher/demonstration communities, villages, and cities to be built around the world. This is the April 22nd, 2024 edition (#579) of our weekly progress update detailing our team’s development and accomplishments:

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HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING PROGRESS

One Community is establishing abundant natural systems through Highest Good housing that is artistic and beautiful, more affordable, more space efficient, lasts longer, DIY buildable, and constructed with healthy and sustainable materials:

• • • Learn about: Our Upcoming Crowdfunding Campaign
    • Learn about the different village models we’ll be building for establishing abundant natural systems: 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 continued completing the design of the closing mechanism as presented in the previous week. To support this mechanism, he focused on designing various components, such as shut-off blades and frames. Additionally, Mithil 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 establishing abundant natural systems. Below are some demonstration images of his work.

Rizwan Syed (Mechanical Engineer) also continued helping to finish the Vermiculture Toilet designs. He reviewed the vermiculture volume/loading calculations sheet and the relevant reference documents attached to the calculations sheet. He double-checked the vermiculture volume/loading hand calculations to ensure the accuracy of the total mass and volume of feces while understanding the underlying assumptions on the worm feed rate. Additionally, based on insights from his weekly meeting with Chris, he researched online articles to understand different mechanisms for composting food waste and feces beneath the main chamber. Rizwan researched existing examples of vermicomposting using separate bins with human feces for a comparative analysis of composting methods. In addition, he began the design process for One Community’s vermiculture toilets in SolidWorks, brainstorming concepts for adding a chute around the assembly to ensure effective sealing of its edges. Lastly, Rizwan revisited the vermiculture toilet CAD documentation to grasp the critical design requirements of the vermiculture chamber, while also exploring design ideas for converting sloped walls to a vertical construction. The vermiculture toilets and other sustainable human waste processing technologies form the basis of One Community’s open source strategy for establishing abundant natural systems. Here are a few photos showing examples of his work.

Sajal Shah (Project Manager) continued managing completion of the Highest Good Energy components. She completed the preparation of the advertisement for the Electrical Engineer position, incorporating all received feedback and making necessary revisions. Additionally, she has initiated work on creating an advertisement for a Plumbing Engineer. Sajal is currently engaged in researching the role, focusing on identifying the specific skills and qualifications required to select the ideal candidate. The Highest Good Energy is an essential component of One Community’s open source approach for establishing abundant natural systems. See below for some of the pictures related to this work.

DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER PROGRESS

One Community is establishing abundant natural systems through a Duplicable and Sustainable City Center that is LEED Platinum certified/Sustainable, can feed 200 people at a time, provide laundry for over 300 people, is beautiful, spacious, and saves resources, money, and space:

• • • Learn about this building and its function establishing abundant natural systems: 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 concentrated on the assembly methods for the dormer window, as assigned. Nika researched the assembly process of the dormer window, including the tools and methods typically utilized. Following this research, she planned the sequence of attaching wood planks and the methods of attachment. Nika refined and developed various sketches. The Duplicable City Center is a foundational part of One Community’s open source designs for establishing abundant natural systems model. See below for some of the pictures related to this work.

HIGHEST GOOD FOOD PROGRESS

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

• • • Learn about the structures and their function for establishing abundant natural systems for food: 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, Charles Gooley (Web Designer) continued to work on various recipes as part of the Transition Food Self-sufficiency Plan. He incorporated nine new images to replace placeholder images and observed that the page’s length was causing significant delays in loading, leading to timeouts. He divided the page into eight smaller sections, categorizing them into rice, pasta, potatoes, sweet potatoes, and miscellaneous, with separate sections for vegan and omnivore recipes and migrated half of the recipes to their respective pages. Highest Good food is an important part in establishing abundant natural systems 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. She reviewed the EDITs document, performed additional research, and revised the Food Program Integration section. The primary focus involved a overhaul and expansion of the Integration section. She re-read both the permaculture article and the Highest Good Food Rollout plan where the key areas were identified for further investigation or refinement in the EDITs doc and were highlighted in yellow for future attention. Additionally, Hayley incorporated the feedback received to refine various topics within the section. Highest Good Housing and Highest Good food are an important part in establishing abundant natural systems with One Community’s open source plans. See her work in the collage below.

HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION PROGRESS

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

• Program Overview: Education Open Source Hub
• How the components work together as part of establishing abundant natural systems: How to use the Education for Life Program
  
• Lesson Plans for Life – Lesson Plans How-to
• Foundations of Outstanding Leaders, Teachers, and Communicators
• Curriculum for Life
• Teaching Strategies for Life
• Learning Tools and Toys for Life
• Evaluation and Evolution

This week, Apoorv Pandey (Mechanical Engineer) continued helping with the engineering details for the The Ultimate Classroom part of the Highest Good Education component. He examined California building blueprints to understand the title block format for the final PDF, researched additional California building codes for review, and resolved challenges in interpreting AutoCAD files through discussion with his manager, Brian Muigai Mwaniki (Structural Engineer). They explored alternative insulation options for mechanical pipes and plumbing in existing designs, and investigated CAD standard manuals specific to the state of California. Furthermore, Apoorv looked into ongoing plans for sustainable building design within the state. The One Community model of combining forward-thinking education with sustainably built classrooms like this are an excellent example of establishing abundant natural systems in education. See the collage below for their work.

HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY PROGRESS

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

• • • Read the Highest Good society overview and how it relates to establishing abundant natural systems: Highest Good Society
    • Learn about the model for fulfilled living and sharing establishing abundant natural systems: A Day in the Life
    • Learn about the 4 economic models for establishing abundant natural systems: 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 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 establishing abundant natural systems and how establishing abundant natural systems 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) deepened his research on connections with Leonardo DiCaprio as a possible funding sources for One Community, gathering emails, LinkedIn profiles, and background information of individuals potentially linked to DiCaprio, including Camila Morrone and Blake Lively. This research is part of a strategy to better connect with funders by establishing relationships with relevant individuals associated with these connections. His thorough approach is aimed at enhancing his networking capabilities and forging significant relationships within the philanthropic community. Establishing win-win relationships like this is a big component to One Community’s vision for establishing abundant natural systems. 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 establishing abundant natural systems was managed by Vriddhi Misra (Admin and Marketing Assistant) and includes Camilla Okello (Administrative Assistant), Durgeshwari Naikwade (Data Analyst), Jessica Fairbanks (Administrative Assistant), 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), 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 assumed administrative duties post-HGN network repair and assisted in reviewing another individual’s work, subsequently optimizing assigned blogs. With the help of ChatGPT, she generated SEO terms for images in the initial five blogs. Camilla also optimized the initial three blogs by incorporating keywords until achieving the required density. Durgeshwari focused on completing SEO tasks for 10 content blocks and led a meeting to refine HR data visualization metrics. Jessica worked on job advertisements for Highest Good Foods and took interviews with volunteer candidates. Meenakshi continued admin tasks, executed workflow processes, and collaborated on image integration for web pages. Ola reviewed PR teamwork, managed progress tracking, and provided feedback. Ram reviewed and corrected previous work, fixed SEO issues on articles, and worked on HGN product front-end testing. Ratna prepared progress updates, held interviews, and enhanced SEO on blogs. Ruiqi completed reviews for various teams, created collages, and optimized SEO for blogs. Sneka focused on OC Administration tasks, including timelog management and tutorial development. Samarth managed a PR review team, applied SEO techniques, and reviewed fellow admin teamwork. Vibhav incorporated feedback from PR review training and enhanced on-web page SEO. Vriddhi coordinated admin team efforts, managed the SEO Team, trained new managers, and began work on the next blog. Xiaolai finished reports, updated web pages, and worked on financial sheets. Zuqi organized the weekly summary for the Graphic Design Team, reviewed admin updates, and optimized blogs for SEO. One Community’s model for establishing abundant natural systems 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), Shayan Afkari (Graphic Designer) and Zixi Zhang (Graphic Designer), covering their work on graphic designs for establishing abundant natural systems. Ashlesha worked on creating two social media images themed Cooperation-Stop Global Warming and Cooperation-Sustainable Civilization. She also researched and curated nature-based and theme-based background images for future social media content and created fourteen recipe images for a new graphic design task. Britney worked on developing materials for a volunteer announcement page, including creating a profile photo and a bio image, as well as updating the page content for publication. She designed nine social media graphics that addressed sustainability and regenerative communities. Nancy redesigned posts, experimenting with new styles and elements to enhance message relevance, and addressed technical issues with the HGN APP by reporting them to the manager, resulting in a resolution by the software team. She also corrected an image from week number 20. Shayan engaged with documentation and tutorial videos to understand the organization’s operations and goals. He used Adobe Photoshop to produce announcement imagery that incorporated elements from One Community’s graphics repository and their MidJourney AI-driven platform. Zixi generated eleven social media images, ensuring each corresponded with the provided text using Photoshop and an AI photo generator. She also created Peterson’s profile image, bio image, and announcement page, utilizing her skills in graphic design and web coding to integrate these elements. See the Highest Good Society pages for more on how this contributes to establishing abundant natural systems. See the collage below to view some of their work.

HIGHEST GOOD NETWORK PROGRESS

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

• Learn about this open source community collaboration and management software: The Highest Good Network

This week, the core team worked on the Highest Good Network PRs testing, confirming the fixed PRs including PR#2095 for setting up correct style in the Home Country option modal, PR#1331, PR#2134 for removing admin or owner ability to delete themselves, PR#1915 for adding more specific link validation for GDoc links, PR#2024 for removing inactive accounts from the “Generate Summary Intro” button, PR#1987 for adding a Project Page title and relevant Project information to the right side summary, PR 2069 for fixing map component scrolling, PR 1565 for making the ‘Save’ button visible to users with ‘Edit User Profile’ permission, as well as creating the “Submit for Review” Button in PR#1045 and #482. However, the following PRs remain unfixed: 2124+861, which adds the user’s ability to check entered passwords to reveal the weeklySummaryRecipient for Authorized users only, with the absence of the WeeklySummaryRecepients button on the Weekly Summaries Report page for Owner or Admin accounts; the addition of a scheduled-on date to scheduled blue square reasons in PR 1641+640 – PR 2009+779, with a discrepancy in the format of “Created Date” and “Blue Square Date”; the lack of a popup “i” icon on the Weekly Summaries Reports page in PR 1910; and the persisting scrollbar issue on the Team Management page in PR 1809 + PR 2002. See the Highest Good Society and Highest Good Network pages for more on how this relates to establishing abundant natural systems. 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 Anand Seshadri (Software Engineer), Gayathridevi Chithambaram (Full Stack Developer), Jaiwin Thumber (Front-End Develolper), Jordy Corporan (Software Engineer), 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 establishing abundant natural systems through our social architecture, construction, production, and maintenance processes. This week, Jaiwin worked on fixing errors and learning more about how the software functions, particularly in React and Git, while also optimizing the application for mobile devices. Lin reviewed and approved 8 pull requests on the HGN GitHub repository, familiarized himself with all relevant documents related to the development team, and actively worked on improving his understanding of unit testing and test-driven development, encountering failed test cases while writing unit tests for the dashboardController and resolving these issues. Throughout the week, Lin also deepened his knowledge of codebases, file structures, and components. Imran did his part on this software for measuring our process for establishing abundant natural systems as he fixed permission issues related to deleting tasks (#2156), Nahiyan implemented a Dark Mode feature for the User Profile Page (#2162), Shereen wrote unit tests for weeklySummary and weeklySummaryModal (#2164) as well as for UserProfile and UserProfileAdd (#2174), Abi added badge tests (#899), Hoang added functionalities to copy project reports (#2163), Shengjie worked on unit tests for tinyce (#2165), and Sucheta improved the format of the Add New Task modal (#2167).

Pratima refactored the HorizontalBarChart.jsx to enable the display of values at the end of each bar, updated the TasksProjectsStats.jsx to incorporate the revised MultiHorizontalBarChart component, and coded API calls for each component within the Overview Reports component. Collaborative initiatives began as she partnered with Yi and Abi on API integration, during which she encountered 404 Not Found errors on the overview report’s endpoints, leading to further investigation. Shamim did his part on this software for measuring our process for establishing abundant natural systems as he reviewed 9 different pull requests (PRs), tested their functionality rigorously, and provided feedback with accompanying screenshots and videos, addressing issues encountered in PR#1990 and PR#1910. Sucheta focused on implementing an eye icon feature and formatting the addTaskModal, and assisted team members during the weekly team meeting. Jordy did his part on this software for measuring our process for establishing abundant natural systems as he concentrated on expanding his proficiency in unit testing with an emphasis on using Jest, engaging in reviewing pull requests and developing unit tests for the notification controller. Anand worked on feature 28 from the HGN Phase I sheet, focusing on ensuring a related link is required when submitting a task for review, and raised a pull request under PR 2185. Gayathridevi focused on setting accurate dates within the software, particularly on the Profile Page, Reports (People section), and the User Management page, aiming to ensure a person’s end date corresponds to the last week they contributed hours, with the last day of that week serving as their end date, and working to enable Owners/Admins to edit a person’s end date from their Profile page to enhance the software’s functionality. See the Highest Good Society and Highest Good Network pages for more on how this relates to establishing abundant natural systems. 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 establishing abundant natural systems through our social architecture, construction, production, and maintenance processes. This week, Renan focused on resolving various tasks related to his work. He began by watching a video tutorial on timelog and profile page functionality, seeking solutions to encountered issues. Additionally, he addressed problems with his pull request (PR), actively seeking resolution and awaiting feedback from his team. He also engaged with his team to discuss and resolve PR conflicts, to overcome challenges with running nodemon due to project conflicts. Summit created a new branch for their task, incorporating the latest codebase and ensuring its integrity by reviewing and removing unnecessary function calls, specifically addressing an issue in awarding new badges. He also worked on testing and review on Pull Requests (PRs) 890 and 901, ensuring functionality met expectations.

Additionally, Summit identified and resolved discrepancies in the codebase, particularly in the badge count incrementation process. During debugging sessions, the focus was on the userHelper.js functions, primarily aiming to fix the inconsistency in badge counts and implementing solutions to ensure accurate updates, with careful verification of the changes’ effectiveness. Shaofeng did his part on this software for measuring our process for establishing abundant natural systems as he worked on HGN Software Development, engaging in various activities aimed at project advancement. He reviewed PRs, providing feedback on their readiness for merging. Shaofeng participated in team meetings, sharing progress updates and engaging in discussions regarding new tasks. The team addressed reported bugs by attempting to reproduce them in their local environment and collaborated with colleagues to resolve conflicts in their PRs. Additionally, they utilized Slack as a communication platform, providing clear directions to team members and facilitating effective collaboration. Xiao did his part on this software for measuring our process for establishing abundant natural systems as he concentrated on creating a unit test to verify the accurate assignment of badges in the app. The test was created to check that each badge activates correctly based on set conditions, sticking closely to established criteria. This involved setting the parameters for each badge, programming the test scenarios, and running them to observe the results. The task demanded attention to detail and a deep understanding of both the existing codebase and the intended functionalities of the badges. End of the week, initial test results were evaluated, prompting revisions to the badge allocation logic to improve both accuracy and dependability.

Xiaohan resolved conflicts in the Pull Request for the ‘Assign Badge on profile’ feature upon Jae’s request, preparing it for merging. She also addressed problems with missing and duplicate badges, conducting checks in the frontend, backend, and database to ensure the completeness and integrity of badge information. See the Highest Good Society and Highest Good Network pages for more on how this relates to establishing abundant natural systems. View some of the team’s work in the collage below.

BLUE STEEL SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT TEAM

The Blue Steel Team’s summary, presenting their work on the Highest Good Network software, was managed by Nathan Hoffman (Software Engineer, Team Manager), and includes Bhuvan Dama (Full stack Developer), Jingyi Jia (Software Engineer), Sanket Kaware (Full-Stack Developer), Shiqing Pan (Full-Stack Software Developer), 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 progress as we’re establishing abundant natural systems throughout our social architecture, construction, production, and maintenance processes. This week, Nathan reviewed Imran’s delete task PR and resolved a miscommunication with Weiyao on Slack, responded to Jae on Slack, and reviewed PR 2052 for swapping permissions from strings to constants. Additionally, they explored automating the weekly gathering of images on Dropbox, figured out the Dropbox API for obtaining the most recent subfolder, and began developing a loop for collecting images from team members, achieving partial automation of Dropbox photo collection, pending implementation of mutex, OAuth, and testing.

Yaohong did his part on this software for measuring our process for establishing abundant natural systems as he continued addressing issues in pull requests #PR2092 and #PR2130, focusing on resolving console logging errors, input field errors related to team and project assignments, and a bug causing simultaneous error and success messages display when the media folder was incorrect. Bhuvan calibrated edge cases for ReportPage.jsx and unit testing TableFilter.jsx throughout the week. Jingyi made enhancements to the permission management system within the project, ensuring that necessary permissions such as ‘getProjectMembers,’ ‘sell Users,’ ‘editUserProfile,’ ‘modifyImportantUserInfo,’ and ‘edit task’ are activated simultaneously, streamlining the user experience. Sanket focused on creating trophy icons for work anniversaries and addressed an issue regarding the follow-up feature not functioning for a specific user. Shiqing did her part on this software for measuring our process for establishing abundant natural systems as she completed the final review and resolved conflicts for Pull Request 1464, enhancing the Reports view functionality, and initiated a new PR for further reviews.

Xiao continued his work on time entry refactor PRs and assisted with Christy’s PRs, identifying and addressing sessionStorage-related issues. Tzu Ning resolved a bug related to dynamic updating of team codes in the WeeklySummariesReport component, enhancing its reliability and user experience. See the Highest Good Society and Highest Good Network pages for more on how this relates to establishing abundant natural systems. See below to view their work. 

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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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