One Community welcomes Tuan Dinh to the Software Development Team as our newest Volunteer/Consultant!

Tuan has a passion for Computer Science and has explored many facets of the field. He is dedicated to applying his knowledge and skills in innovative ways, demonstrating a keen interest in problem-solving and technological advancements. With a strong foundation in computer science principles, Tuan continuously seeks to expand his expertise through hands-on experience and academic exploration. He believes in leveraging technology for positive societal impact and remains committed to contributing to the evolution of the digital landscape. He has a Bachelor Degree in Computer Science and is driven to make meaningful contributions that push the boundaries of what’s possible in the world of computing. As a member of One Community team, Tuan has been helping the Software team create the Unit Tests and testing all the functions in the Highest Good Network software.

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With an ongoing commitment to applying nature as our teacher, One Community is open sourcing a global sustainability model created by an all-volunteer team, driven by the ethos of “The Highest Good of All“, and covering sustainable food, energy, housing, education, for-profit and non-profit economic design, social architecture, and more. Beyond establishing a community, we’re pioneering a self-replicating teacher/demonstration hub.

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

OUR MAIN OPEN SOURCE HUBS

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

One Community’s physical location will forward this movement as the first of many self-replicating teacher/demonstration communities, villages, and cities to be built around the world and demonstrating nature as our teacher as a path to global sustainability. This is the November 27th, 2023 edition (#558) of our weekly progress update detailing our team’s development and accomplishments and below are the 5 areas we’re focusing on apply nature as our teacher:

Applying Nature as Our Teacher
One Community Progress Update #558

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HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING PROGRESS

One Community is applying nature as our teacher through Highest Good housing that is artistic and beautiful, more affordable, more space efficient, lasts longer, DIY buildable, and constructed with healthy and sustainable materials:

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

This week, Shengguang Jin (Mechanical Engineer) investigated the extraction and refinement of informative videos, aiming to generate ideas for enhancing the assembly of the Vermiculture Toilet. A summary paragraph has been added to the Google Doc, and Shengguang created 2D sketches for the waste-collecting rotational container. The design now includes accurate specifications for each dimension. See the images below for an idea of this work, an excellent example of applying nature as our teacher.

Yiwei He (Mechanical Engineer) focused on the Most Sustainable Lightbulb selection page and project management tasks with the Duplicable City Center. Her primary activities included light bulb content review and feedback, and advancing the design work for the hub connectors. Check out the collage below to see her work for the week.

DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER PROGRESS

One Community is applying nature as our teacher through a Duplicable and Sustainable City Center that is LEED Platinum certified/Sustainable, can feed 200 people at a time, provide laundry for over 300 people, is beautiful, spacious, and saves resources, money, and space:

• • • Learn about this building and it’s function: Duplicable City Center Open Source Hub

This week, Amiti Singh (Architectural Designer) continued her work helping with the interior design details for the rental rooms within the Duplicable City Center. Amiti initiated the 3D rendering process for Room 10, focusing on a Boho-aesthetic industrial theme, not an example of applying nature as our teacher, but still very beautiful and interesting. She began with the establishment of an initial material palette for the room, laying the foundation for the design elements. In addition to this, Amiti completed file finalization for the room design projects. See below for the collage of images related to this.

ENGINEERING TEAM

This week, the engineering summary was managed by Arvindh Xavier (Civil Engineer) and featured Julio Marín Bustillos (Mechanical Engineer) highlighting Julio’s concluded work on the Dome Hub Connector designs for the seventh row, generating four variations based on the initial design. Moving to the sixth row, a notable complexity emerged, necessitating a more extensive array of variations. The absence of discernible repetition in the designs presented a unique challenge for the sixth row and a similar situation is anticipated for the fifth row. See below for the visual representation of the images.

HIGHEST GOOD FOOD PROGRESS

One Community is applying nature as our teacher through Highest Good food that is more diverse, more nutritious, locally grown and sustainable, and part of our open source botanical garden model to support and share bio-diversity:

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

This week, Hayley Rosario (Sustainability Research Assistant) continued her review of the open-source Highest Good Food rollout plan. This plan is very much built on applying nature as our teacher. Hayley reviewed the 50-person webpage, her plan involves creating the final rough draft of the EDITs document. She also spent time working on other web pages and implemented details for the 20-person webpage. See below for the picture.

MENUS UI/UX WEB AND GRAPHICS TEAM

This week, the Transition Food Self-sufficiency Plan UI/UX Web and Graphics development was managed by Shivangi Patel (Graphic Designer) combining her work with the contributions of Rihab Baklouti (Freelance Generalist. Shivangi focused on producing social media content for Facebook, utilizing her Photoshop skills. Additionally, her efforts were directed toward the creation of mock-ups for Vegan Rice, Vegan Potato, Vegan Yam, and Vegan Pasta recipe pages. See below for the visual images.

HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION PROGRESS

One Community is applying nature as our teacher 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 integrates applying nature as our teacher and built directly into the structure of the education program and everything else we’re creating too:

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

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

HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY PROGRESS

One Community is applying nature as our teacher 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

At One Community, we are dedicated to demonstrating common sense eco-management, building a model with an all-volunteer team for “The Highest Good of All“. Our sustainable approaches encompass food, energy, housing, education, for-profit and non-profit economic design, social architecture, forwarding fulfilled living, and global stewardship practices.

We’re not just building a community; we’re pioneering a model that becomes self-replicating. Our work will be used to create a global collaboration of teacher/demonstration hubs, evolving sustainability and regenerating our planet. Committed to creating a world that works for everyone, we’re open sourcing and free sharing the complete process.

• 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 the movement of common sense eco-management as the first of many self-replicating teacher/demonstration communities, villages, and cities to be built around the world. This is the November 20th, 2023 edition (#557) of our weekly progress update detailing our team’s development and accomplishments:

Common Sense Eco-management
One Community Progress Update #557

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COMMON SENSE ECO-MANAGEMENT – HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING PROGRESS

One Community is demonstrating common sense eco-management through Highest Good housing that is artistic and beautiful, more affordable, more space efficient, lasts longer, DIY buildable, and constructed with healthy and sustainable materials:

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

This week, Charles Gooley (Web Designer) completed another week of assisting with web design. Charles focused on the Most Sustainable Windows & Window Companies page, organizing the content and incorporating a Table of Contents with anchor links.

The structured sections cover topics such as why assess doors, understanding doors, types of doors, door materials, and listings of the best & most sustainable door companies. The page is now ready for review. Additionally, Charles updated the Table of Contents on the Duplicable City Center Engineering page, streamlining the referencing process by aligning it with corresponding section numbers. This work helps One Community’s mission of common sense eco-management and reinforces our commitment to a better living quality for all people.

The visual representation of this work is provided in the accompanying pictures.

Common Sense Eco-management ” Charles – Most Sustainable Windows and Windows Companies

Khushboo Vyas (Architect) continued helping with the Earthbag Village (Pod 1) complete organization process. This week she developed a spreadsheet tutorial and its data organization. The focus of the tutorial was to establish a structured organization and workflow for the processes outlined on the page, emphasizing a clear sequence across pre-construction, and post-construction phases.

This approach aims to enable any interested individual to navigate the entire do-it-yourself (DIY) process. See below for the visual pictures.

Common Sense Eco-management ” Khushboo – Earthbag Village Site Map Link

Loza Ayehutsega (Civil Engineer/Assistant Civil Engineer) continued developing the Earth Dam Design and construction for the Water Retention, Pond, and Lake Creation tutorial, still developing the dam break risk analysis topic. Loza worked on the revision of design standards and construction techniques, specifically, her attention was on the evaluation of dam break risks.

This process involved an examination of factors such as the extent of flooding and the consequential impact on downstream areas. Take a look at the pictures below to get a glimpse of this work.

Common Sense Eco-management ” Loza – Earth Dam Design & construction for the Water Retention

Shengguang Jin (Mechanical Engineer) continued helping with the Vermiculture Toilet designs for the Earthbag Village. Shengguang focused on the material selection for components amenable to layer-by-layer 3D printing.

The materials selection involved in hyperelastic solids is characterized by a capacity to soften in response to temperature drops and harden with rising temperatures, presenting a property-temperature relationship compared to crystalline metals. With this in mind, he explored an individual design that could possibly be 3D printed. Visual representations of his work are available in the accompanying images.

Common Sense Eco-management ” Shengguang – Vermiculture Toilet

Yiwei He (Mechanical Engineer) continued assisting with the management of two teams. Yiwei assumed responsibilities for both the Vermiculture Toilet and Duplicable City Center teams. She contributed her design ideas and also an in-depth discussion with a senior engineer, focusing specifically on assembly details and the utilization of hand tools.

The primary objective was to formulate practical plans with a particular emphasis on implementing the new hollow design. Visual representations of her work are shown below.

Common Sense Eco-management ” Yiwei – Vermiculture Toilet

COMMON SENSE ECO-MANAGEMENT – DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER PROGRESS

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

• • • Learn about this building and it’s function: Duplicable City Center Open Source Hub

This week, Amiti Singh (Architectural Designer) continued her work helping with the interior design details for the rental rooms within the Duplicable City Center. Amiti advanced the 3D model for Room 10, focusing on incorporating a Boho-aesthetic Industrial theme. The integration of lighter materials into the room’s color palette was a key aspect of this development.

Additionally, Amiti took up working on the material and furniture palette for the washroom of Room 10. Beyond her primary focus, she curated the final files for Rooms 4, 5, and 9. This task involved drafting plans for these rooms and detailed cost analyses and product specifications. This work helps One Community’s mission of common sense eco-management and reinforces our commitment to a better living quality for all people. See below for the collage of images related to this.

Common Sense Eco-management ” Amiti – Duplicable City Center

COMMON SENSE ECO-MANAGEMENT – ENGINEERING TEAM 

This week, the engineering summary was managed by Arvindh Xavier (Civil Engineer) and featured Julio Marín Bustillos (Mechanical Engineer) highlighting Julio’s creation of three variations for the Dome Hub Connector design specific to the seventh row. While one variation remains outstanding, its completion is a prerequisite for advancing to the sixth and fifth rows.

The timeline for these subsequent rows is extended due to the need for a more design approach, requiring the creation of multiple variations. See below for the visual representation of the images.

Common Sense Eco-management ” Arvindh – Dome Hub Connector

COMMON SENSE ECO-MANAGEMENT – HIGHEST GOOD FOOD PROGRESS

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

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

This week, Hayley Rosario (Sustainability Research Assistant) continued her review of the open-source Highest Good Food rollout plan. Hayley completed the initial rough draft of the 20-person material/task list within the EDITS document.

Her approach involved curation of information sourced from the Food Infrastructure Rollout document, structuring it in a manner that aligns with the intended web page format. This work helps One Community’s mission of common sense eco-management and reinforces our commitment to a better living quality for all people. See below for the picture.

Common Sense Eco-management ” Heylay – Highest Good Food

This week, the Transition Food Self-sufficiency Plan UI/UX Web and Graphics development was managed by Shivangi Patel (Graphic Designer), combining her work with the contributions of Rihab Baklouti (Freelance Generalist). Shivangi refined the volunteer’s profile image and produced work visuals using Photoshop.

Concurrently, she created the corresponding web content for the announcement. Collaborating with Rihab, Shivangi played a key role in co-designing mock-ups for both the Vegan Recipes Home Page and Omnivore Recipe Home Page while Rihab’s contribution included button designs and assets.

The duo employed their creative skills in designing individual recipe images, ensuring a user-friendly presentation of recipe information. Similarly, Shivangi also took charge of creating webpage banner images for specific recipe categories, including Vegan Rice Recipes, Vegan Potato Recipes, Vegan Yam Recipes, Vegan Pasta Recipes, and Omnivore Rice Recipes. This work helps One Community’s mission of common sense eco-management and reinforces our commitment to a better living quality for all people. See below for the visual images.

Common Sense Eco-management ” Shivangi – Transition Food Self-sufficiency Plan

COMMON SENSE ECO-MANAGEMENT – HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION PROGRESS

One Community is demonstrating common sense eco-management through Highest Good education that is for all ages, applicable in any environment, adaptable to individual needs, far exceeds traditional education standards, and more fun for both the teachers and the students.

This component of One Community is about 95% complete with only the Open Source School Licensing and Ultimate Classroom construction and assembly details remaining to be finished. We’ll report on the final two elements to be finished as we develop them.

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

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

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

COMMON SENSE ECO-MANAGEMENT – HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY PROGRESS

One Community is demonstrating common sense eco-management 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 57 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. This work helps One Community’s mission of common sense eco-management and reinforces our commitment to a better living quality for all people. The pictures below show some of this work.

Common Sense Eco-management ” Core Team – Volunteer Work

The core team also worked on testing HGN PRs, delivering precise results for One Community this week. We confirmed the case for PR 485, ensuring the seamless operation of a custom Infringement email, an increased number of required hours for the current week, and the addition of one Blue Square. All functions operated as intended.

We tested a case for recording a video addressing a bug where a user needs to be on a team to view their tasks, providing a video demonstration. In her testing efforts, she resolved PR#1169 and scrutinized the functionality of PR#994 on both Development and production (Main) environments.

While testing the latter, aimed at blocking all but Jae’s accounts from editing his accounts, we found that we could add and delete badges, and add teams for Jae’s accounts, and observed that there was no warning message during the profile modification process. You can view this work in the collage below. You can view this work in the collage below.

Common Sense Eco-management ” Core Team – HGN PRs

Another core team member continued to review Eckart Tolle’s audio of “A New Earth”, noting statements for possible inclusion in our One Community values page. This week, he also worked with Hayley Rosario revising and clarifying various aspects of the sections regarding the arrival of Pioneers to One Community’s property related to the Three and Twenty sections. You can view this work in the image below.

Common Sense Eco-management ” Core Team – Podcast

Aaron Wang (Fundraising Assistant) continued to help One Community with working on fundraising. This week, he researched six potential funders for future networking and partnership opportunities.

The focus of his investigation included high-profile individuals and philanthropists: Robert Downey Jr., MacKenzie Scott, Salma Hayek, and her husband François-Henri Pinault, George Soros, Leonardo DiCaprio, and Arnold Schwarzenegger. Aaron’s research analyzed their sustainability activities, philosophical approaches, and historical funding records.

This included an examination of the organizations they have previously supported. The outcome of this research was compiled into a report intended to guide and enhance future connection strategies and networking efforts.

Aaron’s work lays a foundational understanding of these potential funders’ philanthropic interests and past engagements, setting the stage for informed and strategic outreach in the future. You can view this work in the image below.

Common Sense Eco-management ” Aaron – Fundraising

Harsha Kulkarni (Data Analyst) continued working on One Community‘s Google AdWords campaigns and Analytics details. This week, Harsha focused on resolving data population issues on page 1 of the OCG Google Analytics Looker page. The tasks involved rectifying the data source by redirecting it to GA4 and adjusting the scheduled email alert to align with the updated changes.

These efforts were aimed at ensuring the accurate and up-to-date population of all pages in the report. Harsha also generated new ads for campaigns associated with pages currently without active campaigns. She created five new ads under the donation campaign, contributing to the ongoing optimization and expansion of campaign content. You can see some of this in the picture below.

Common Sense Eco-management ” Harsha – Google AdWords

Julie Musicar (Sound Editor) continued to help One Community this week by going through the Google Doc and exploring a tutorial for implementing the timer. She began editing the podcast episodes, leveling, mixing, and mastering the audio to ensure optimal voice quality. She also generated music options, which can be found in Dropbox. View this work in the collage below.

Common Sense Eco-management ” Julie – Sound Editing

Vishvesh Sheora (Artificial Intelligence Specialist) focused on elevating the SEO performance of blog posts featured on the One Community website. This week, Vishvesh addressed a checklist for various posts on the live main site, fixing issues such as featured images and CSS text while adhering to WordPress protocols.

His focus extended to optimizing SEO elements by rectifying inconsistencies in numbering and bullet points, thereby minimizing SEO discrepancies in the live post content. Lastly, he enhanced the SEO for the latest blogs on the live platform. See the work in the image below.

Common Sense Eco-management ” Vishvesh – SEO Performance

COMMON SENSE ECO-MANAGEMENT – ADMINISTRATION TEAM

This week, the Administration Team’s summary, covering their work administrating and managing most of One Community, was managed by Jamie Cruz (Administrative Assistant, Social Media Manager, and Team Manager) and includes Alyx Parr (Senior Support Specialist), Catherine Liu (Administrative and Analytics Assistant), Meenakshi Velayutham (Sustainability Associate), Olawunmi “Ola” Ijisesan (Administrative and Management Support), Ruiqi Liu (Administrative Assistant), Shaurya Sareen (Administrative Assistant), Xiaolai Li (Administrative Assistant).

Alyx collaborated with Melina on summarizing and college-related tasks, focusing on refining two pages for the upcoming blog. Jamie, overseeing the administration team, managed the Blue Steel team, Core Team, and individual contributors, prioritizing editing tasks for tutorials and refining her social media management skills in collaboration with Sara.

Meenakshi handled admin tasks, ensuring blog inclusivity, updating bios monitoring sheets, making bio announcements, and developing content from podcasts and an e-book chapter.

Ola initiated a form creation project and, alongside creating collages, reviewed summaries, organized images for the blog, and collaborated with the PR Team. Ruiqi completed a four-step review process for multiple teams, created collages, and contributed to business plan development related to Energy and Roadway Infrastructure.

Shaurya reviewed all of the pull requests, updated tracking sheets, and created a team summary and collage.

Xiaolai organized documents, created summaries, reviewed cost analyses, and worked on a webpage for the weekly report. Catherine, starting as Administration and Analytics Assistant, completed onboarding checklists, familiarized herself with action items, and ensured an understanding of operational aspects associated with her duties. This work helps One Community’s mission of common sense eco-management and reinforces our commitment to a better living quality for all people. You can see the work for the team in the image below.

Common Sense Eco-management ” Admin – Team Management

COMMON SENSE ECO-MANAGEMENT – BLUE STEEL SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT TEAM

This week, the Blue Steel Team’s summary, covering their work on the Highest Good Network software, was managed by Yubo Sun (Full Stack Software Developer and Team Manager), and includes, Haohui Lin (Software Engineer), Mohit Bali (Software Developer), Nathan Hoffman (Software Engineer), Sávio Mendes (Full Stack Software Developer), Xiao Wang (Software Engineer), and Yongjian Pan (React.js/MongoDB Full Stack Software Developer).

Yubo coordinated the team’s efforts, with Nathan reviewing Luis’s bug fix for managing summary intro, redirecting Jeffrey for linting problems, and engaging in discussions with Yubo about unit testing permissions. Nathan and the team worked on the permissions multi-checkbox, completed data entry, implemented it in various locations, and delved into hook research, leading to code refactoring for simplification.

Nathan further accomplished all implementations of PermissionList, addressed associated bug fixes, and created PR 1548. In a parallel focus, Mohit, newly promoted to the Dev Team, worked on four high-priority PR reviews, investing time in familiarizing himself with the development task selection process.

Despite the substantial time invested in understanding tasks and workflows, Mohit addressed the critical issue of the automatic timer stopping when viewing WBS details. Haohui concentrated on enhancing app features, specifically fixing permissions for editing tasks in PR#1466.

Haohui also worked on developing functionality that assigned permissions to individual users, enabling manager accounts to access projects and edit project details while managing permissions assigned to individuals and ensuring rigorous code testing. Yubo, in addition to overseeing the team’s collaborative efforts, concentrated on unit tests for the LinkModButton component and potentially the UserLinkLayout.

Resolving a pull request (PR) with a failed npm test, Yubo identified that the issue might stem from a permission rebuild, prompting a refactoring approach aligned with recommended practices for consistent code access permissions. Unfortunately, testing the pull was hindered by challenges in permission management.

Yubo provided assistance to Shree in finalizing her assigned tasks, contributing to the overall progress of the team. Yongjian addressed merge conflicts within his pull request, PR #842, which aimed at implementing a dark mode across the entire application. However, post-resolving these conflicts, he encountered an issue where the toggle button and associated features for the dark mode were inadvertently removed.

He compared the files changed on Github and worked on re-implementing the original features for this task in his local branch, aiming to reinstate the functionality as intended. Sávio undertook the assignment of creating the new “Overview Report” page. His responsibilities included designing mock-ups, and prototypes, and exploring Data Visualization techniques suitable for implementation on this page.

Sávio developed two versions of visualization employing the Donut Graph: one featuring attached labels and another with separate labels listed alongside. The complete design of the page was not finalized. This work helps One Community’s mission of common sense eco-management and reinforces our commitment to a better living quality for all people. The collage below shows some of this work.

Common Sense Eco-management ” Blue Steel – Highest Good Network

COMMON SENSE ECO-MANAGEMENT – EXPRESSERS SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT TEAM

This week, the Expressers Team’s summary, covering their work on the Highest Good Network software, was managed by Tim Kent (Full Stack Software Engineer) and includes Aishwarya Kalkundrikar (Full Stack Software Developer), Harshida Dalal (Software Engineer), Olga Yudkin (Software Engineer), Sahil Patel (Frontend Developer), and Vishala Ramasamy (Software Developer).

Aishwarya implemented modifications to the pull request (PR#605) for the building Tool schema in accordance with Tim’s specific requirements. Vishala began work on the Add Materials Page, creating two backend APIs to fetch material types for display on the frontend and to create a new material type.

She implemented user-friendly validations using JOI on the frontend, allowing the material type to accept either a custom unit or a pre-existing unit in the database. Olga finalized the design and refactoring of the tool view component, initiating backend development for the single tool view page.

She addressed responsive design issues in the project summary component and compiled a list of data for extraction from the backend. Harshida focused on the Filter Material list for the BM Dashboard, completing the task by adding a select input labeled Material.

She also ensured that option fields in the select input were appropriately mapped to all materials used in the current Project filter selection and dynamically adjusted based on the user’s project selection. Besides, she integrated a filter function that executed project and material filters for a refined result.

Tim rounded off the week by finalizing updates on the frontend and backend branches for Purchase Request: Material, incorporating new fields into the form, and enhancing its adaptive styling with CSS rules. He also resolved conflicts and linting errors, presenting detailed pull requests.

Sahil focused on PR reviews and unit testing, examining updates through PRs #1536, 612, 1556, 1554, 1547, 1546, 1540, 1541, 1552, 1559, 1557, 1558, and 1560. He ensured the effective implementation of the .nvmrc configuration and did thorough unit tests on various components like tooltips, pie charts, and modal components. This work helps One Community’s mission of common sense eco-management and reinforces our commitment to a better living quality for all people. The collage below shows some of this work.

Common Sense Eco-management ” Expresser Team – Highest Good Network

COMMON SENSE ECO-MANAGEMENT – GIT-R-DONE SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT TEAM

This week, the Git-R-Done Team’s summary, covering their work on the Highest Good Network software, was managed by Eduardo Horta (Software Engineer) and includes Jeffrey Li (Full-Stack Software Developer), Kaikane Lacno (Learning Assistant), Miguelcloid Reniva (Software Developer), Olena Danykh (Software Engineer), Rhea Wu (Software Engineer), Ziming Song (Software Engineer).

Eduardo guided team member Rhea on bypassing the linter for HGNRest, recommending the use of “git commit-n-m” in the routes/controller for a new Lesson PR due to the absence of specific lint rules. He also raised pull requests, reviewed team members’ work, hosted the weekly team meeting, oriented members on Phase 2 features, and improved documentation while accessing teammates’ branches during the meeting.

Olena completed modifications to the Lesson List component design, integrated tag input functionality, and reviewed PR 1453, confirming seamless functionality. She created DummyData for the Lesson Card, splitting components and making styling changes to the Lesson List Card component.

Kaikane incorporated a new capture feature into the lesson form, refined visual elements, and implemented automatic tag addition corresponding to the selected project in the “Belongs to” dropdown. He submitted a pull request for team members, targeting PR 1479, and focused on enhancing the lesson form for project-specific functionalities.

Jeffrey addressed two development bugs and reviewed three pull requests, resolving issues with the 5-letter-codes-dropdown and user access to tasks. His reviews ensured the validity of unit tests and functionality for various components in PRs #1547, #1548, and #1554. Miguel focused on several key tasks.

He addressed issues with the redirect URL, incorporated a redirect feature for the cancel button, and implemented the remaining CSS styling to align with the Figma design specifications. Ziming focused on developing the task of adding a Google Doc icon and link to people in the Tasks Tab.

He collected information about the features and aimed to enhance the functionality by using existing functions to get the Google Doc link. This work helps One Community’s mission of common sense eco-management and reinforces our commitment to a better living quality for all people. The collage below shows some of this work.

Common Sense Eco-management ” Git-R-Done – Highest Good Network

COMMON SENSE ECO-MANAGEMENT – GRAPHIC DESIGN TEAM

This week, the Graphic Design Team’s summary was managed by Ruiqi (Administrative Assistant) and includes Ashlesha Navale (Graphic Designer), Emily Ferguson (Visual Designer), and Nancy Mónchez (Graphic Designer) Emily designed diverse graphic images for social media and created a volunteer bio announcement on the organization’s WordPress website.

Nancy focused on a redesign project, incorporating a more serious style with gradients and a customized footer. The collage below shows some of this work.

Common Sense Eco-management ” Graphic Design Team

COMMON SENSE ECO-MANAGEMENT – MOONFALL’S SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT TEAM

This week, Moonfall Team’s summary, covering their work on the Highest Good Network software, was managed by Navneeth Krishna (Software Engineer) and includes Abdelmounaim “Abdel” Lallouache (Software Developer), Anny Wang (Software Engineer), Cheng-Yun Chuang (Software Engineer), Haoji Bian (Software Engineer), Jiadong Zhang (Software Engineer), Ruike Qiu (Software Engineer), Tzu Ning “Leo” Chueh (Software Engineer), Xiao Fei (Software Engineer), Yi Lin (Software Engineer), Yihan Liu (Software Engineer), YuFu Liao (Software Engineer), Zijie “Cyril” Yu (Software Engineer) and Zubing Guo (Software Engineer). Abdelmounaim integrated the ‘add profile picture’ option into the new user setup, implementing functionalities to validate image size and type, along with a modal to notify users when the selected size or file type isn’t acceptable.

Anny focused on creating the UI and modal for the new team member. She navigated through the requirements and designed the UI. Haoji focused on improving the application’s email communication system by shifting from a standard email service to utilizing Gmail’s robust sending capabilities.

Jiadong incorporated a button in the dashboard, aiming to present the badge through a more versatile and accessible pop-up interface. Yi accomplished the unit tests and passed for PR#1554, PR#1558, PR#1559, PR#1547, PR#1541, PR#1546. He also fixed minor formatting issues on dashboard and profile pages.

Cheng-Yun reviewed 13 pull requests spanning both the HGNRest backend and HighestGoodNetworkApp frontend repositories, with an emphasis on frontend PRs, along with attention to backend PR#602. Navneeth addressed the task “Permissions Mngmnt: See Teams Management Tab (Create Teams and edit team members only),” incorporating updates from the Permissions Management Fixes document.

He also reviewed PRs & in his role as Team Manager, oversaw daily monitoring, weekly work reviews, task delegation, and training teammates in team management duties. Ruike implemented an indicator for active or inactive users on team pages.

Tzu Ning focused on backend scripts, concentrating on badge management and time tracking, reviewed and approved PRs #1528, #1529, and #1530, and restored a mistakenly deleted bug in the project’s Google Docs.

Xiao F finished the task ‘Add floating and dismissable team notification modal’ and completed the feature enabling owners to edit and update ChatGPT prompt text, initiating pull requests with testing instructions.

Yihan streamlined the project, removing redundant code, enhancing logic in front-end and back-end files, and resolving conflicts post-merging, creating PRs #1535 and #611. Yufu focused on making columns editable by Owners on the User Management Page, introducing popup windows and enhancing backend development.

Zijie revisited pull requests for the HighestGoodNetworkApp repository, making revisions to enhance implementation methods and contributing to tasks within the ‘src/component/Memberships/’ directory. Zubing integrated the ‘Write it for me’ button into the summary page, restructuring frontend code. Look below for a collage of their work.

Common Sense Eco-management ” Moonfall Team – Highest Good Network

COMMON SENSE ECO-MANAGEMENT – REACTONAUTS’ SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT TEAM

This week, Reactonauts’ Team’s summary, covering their work on the Highest Good Network software, was managed by Carl Bebl (Software Developer) and includes Jiangwei Shi (Full Stack Engineer), Jiyuan Xia (Software Engineer), Obeda Velonjatovo (Front End Developer/Software Developer), Ramya Ramasamy (Full Stack Developer), Shantanu Kumar (Full Stack Software Developer), Shihao Xiong (Software Engineer), Shivansh Sharma (Software Developer), Shiwani Rajagopalan (Software Engineer), Shrey Jain (Software Engineer), Vikram Badhan (Software Engineer), Wanting Xu (Software Engineer), Yixiao Jiang (Software Engineer) and Zuhang Xu (Software Engineer).

Shantanu completed the creation of test cases for the NewModal and Pie Chart components, subsequently initiating a pull request for review. Zuhang Xu reviewed feedback from the previous Pull Request. Yixiao focused on render tests, integration tests, Redux tests, and edge case analysis. Jiangwei concentrated on developing unit tests for the ProjectTable component.

Vikram configured the local frontend and backend environments and engaged in the review of seven pull requests, namely, #1492, #1528, #1530, #1560, #1559, #1558, and #1556. Shivansh addressed a critical bug that allowed a user to delete a team or project without the required permissions, possibly stemming from a security gap within the user’s profile during these deletion attempts.

Wanting completed task #437 by adding a copy icon to the Weekly Summaries Reports and subsequently submitted a pull request (PR) for the task. She also resolved task #401, fixing the X hours in X weeks streak badges for accurate user achievement display.

Shiwani focused on writing unit tests for the BadgeDevelopmentTable component, creating mock data and formulating eight test cases to ensure proper rendering, functionality of tooltips, correct display of badge details, and the handling of buttons and checkmarks. She submitted PR#1547 for a testing review.

Carl concentrated on refining the modification of the suggestion modal, limiting it to email modifications, and initiated an issue on the reordering of suggestion options. He participated in peer review meetings with the Reactonauts team, providing valuable feedback on multiple pull requests, and addressing issues #1528, #1529, #1530, #1532, #1540, #1541, #1545, and #1548.

Jiyuan reviewed 5 PRs and maintained code quality. Shihao reviewed and approved PR#1545, assigned critical unit test tasks, and raised significant PRs #1540 and #1556. Shrey focused on writing unit test cases for the Paging.jsx component, submitting PR#1559 for peer review.

Ramya resolved lint fixes, initiating three Pull Requests (1550, 1552, 1553), and addressing lint fixes for the user profile module and its sub-modules. Look below for pictures of this work.

Common Sense Eco-management ” Reactonauts Team – Highest Good Network

COMMON SENSE ECO-MANAGEMENT – SKYE’S SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT TEAM

This week, Skye’s summary, covering their work on the Highest Good Network software, was managed by Luis Arevalo (Front End Developer) and includes Bailey Mejia (Software Engineer), Fan Yang (Software Engineer), Jerry Ren (Full Stack Developer), Roberto Contreras (Software Developer) and Tuan Dinh (Software Engineer).

Fan enhanced the functionality of the software by addressing a critical issue in pull request (PR) #1537, which involved fixing letters with accents and their interaction with the search feature. Tuan authored Unit Tests for TeamsReportCharts.jsx, TeamsReportLogs.jsx, and UserLoginPrivileges.jsx components.

Bailey prepared for the loading task section speed, submitted a pull request (PR) for a new personal max badge and resolved a delay in badge assignment. Jerry addressed issues related to undefined values in `changeBadgeCount()`. He resolved the problem by modifying the argument to `badgeCollection[i].count`, ensuring the proper removal of the last badge earned in a streak.

Jerry also identified and corrected an inconsistency in the mongoose aggregate function, ensuring the correct sorting of streak badges by weeks and total hours. Roberto tackled the time zone API issue, merging a pull request for the Ukraine time zone problem. He addressed multiple decimal points in intangible time entry hours using the `toFixed(2)` function.

Luis addressed a bug and generated a pull request (PR) to incorporate functionality for adding users to projects and granting administrators permission to remove users from projects. He shifted focus to a new feature enabling Jae to monitor the number of warnings issued to users. Luis discussed the details of the features with Jae and started building a part of the project using the Figma design he made.

See the collage below for their work.

Common Sense Eco-management ” Skye Team – Highest Good Network

COMMON SENSE ECO-MANAGEMENT – SOFTWARE PR REVIEW TEAM

The PR Review Team’s summary covering their work on the Highest Good Network software, was managed by Shaurya Sareen (Administrative Assistant). This week’s active members of this team were: Anish Pandita (Software Engineer), Changhao Li (Software Engineer), Demi Zayas (Software Engineer), Hemsharavanan Bharathithasan (Software Engineer), Kavya Alla (Software Engineer), Keyun Huang (Software Engineer), Kurtis Ivey (Software Engineer), Lu Wang (Software Engineer), Palak Gosalia (Software Engineer), Shengwei Peng (Software Engineer), Shuhua Liu (Software Engineer), Xuying He (Software Engineer), Zichan Yang (Software Engineer). They reviewed all the Highest Good Network PRs (Pull Requests) shared in this week’s update. The collage below shows a compilation of the work from this team.

Common Sense Eco-management ” PR Team – Highest Good Network Software

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One Community welcomes Tianyuan Nan to the Software Development Team as our newest Volunteer/Consultant!

Tianyuan is a graduate student pursuing a master’s degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering at UCLA. He previously studied Electrical Engineering at UCSB for an Electrical Engineering bachelor’s degree, specializing in embedded system design. During his academic journey, he successfully completed a Capstone project with ASML, leveraging image processing and machine learning tools in Python to enhance the efficiency of 3D reconstruction code by 70%. Tianyuan possesses more than four years of experience in software project design, encompassing various programming languages, including Javascript, Typescript, C++, and Python. He is driven by a strong passion for continuous learning and self-improvement, with a primary goal of developing software solutions that enhance convenience for users, even if in small increments. As a member of the One Community team, Tianyuan contributes to the maintenance of high-quality code standards and addresses visibility issues for different account roles within the Highest Good Network software.

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One Community welcomes Rihab Baklouti to the Graphic Design Team as our newest Volunteer/Consultant!

Rihab has been on her freelancing journey for 4 years and counting. It all began after her graduation with a 5.3 GPA in the SAE Institute of Dubai with a Bachelor’s degree in Animation, specializing in VFX. Rihab has always had a huge passion with anything creative, with pride and utmost commitment, she has taken up multiple projects that catered to Graphic Design, Video Editing, 3D Modelling, Translation, Social Media Management, Digital Art and Web Design. Hard work, quality over quantity, and communication are the key forms of her work ethics. As a member of the One Community Team, Rihab has contributed to developing the graphics of the blog updates and volunteer announcements, as well as the upcoming Transition Food Menu webpage.

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One Community is dedicated to forwarding global cooperatives. Our organization is committed to advancing the cause of collaborative efforts covering food, energy, housing, education, economics, social architecture, and more. Combined, these will be used to build the cooperative teacher/demonstration models we see as holding the keys to a more sustainable and equitable future, empowering individuals and communities to come together, sharing knowledge, and working collectively to shape a brighter future for all.

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

OUR MAIN OPEN SOURCE HUBS

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

One Community’s physical location will forward the movement of forwarding global cooperatives as the first of many self-replicating teacher/demonstration communities, villages, and cities to be built around the world. This is the November 13th, 2023 edition (#556) of our weekly progress update detailing our team’s development and accomplishments:

Forwarding Global Cooperatives
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FORWARDING GLOBAL COOPERATIVES – HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING PROGRESS

One Community is forwarding global cooperatives through Highest Good housing that is artistic and beautiful, more affordable, more space efficient, lasts longer, DIY buildable, and constructed with healthy and sustainable materials:

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

This week, Charles Gooley (Web Designer) completed another week of assisting with web design. Charles focused on the Most Sustainable Windows & Window Companies page. He structured the content, incorporating a Table of Contents with relevant anchor links for easy navigation.

Charles explained the significance of accessing windows and delved into understanding windows, specifically addressing glazing and coating aspects, including types of glass coatings and window performance metrics. He curated information on the best and most sustainable window companies, presenting a total of fourteen options.

The culmination of the page includes a summary, a resources section, and frequently answered questions. Then, Charles began work on the Most Sustainable Doors and Door Companies page. The visual representation of this work is provided in the accompanying pictures.

Forwarding Global Cooperatives ” Charles – Most Sustainable Windows & Window Companies

Shengguang Jin (Mechanical Engineer) continued helping with the Vermiculture Toilet designs for the Earthbag Village. Shengguang focused on the development of optimal designs for a litter collection container. His efforts centered on creating an assembly comprising multiple intricately designed components that collaborate to enhance usability, mobility, strength, and storage capacity.

The emphasis was placed on ensuring that the various parts function cohesively to achieve an efficient and user-friendly device. Additionally, Shengguang considered the potential incorporation of the design intent into a practical and cost-effective manufacturing process, reflecting a concern for the economic viability of the proposed design.

Visual representations of his work are available in the accompanying images.

Forwarding Global Cooperatives ” Shengguang – Vermiculture Toilet

Yiwei He (Mechanical Engineer) continued assisting with the management of two teams. She worked with the Vermiculture Toilet team, addressing challenges and seeking solutions, incorporating input from colleagues. In parallel, she collaborated with her Duplicable City Center team, specifically concentrating on the evaluation of a new hollow design.

Yiwei researched multiple simulations to compare the new design with the previous one, emphasizing an analytical approach to improvement. Visual representations of her work are shown below.

Forwarding Global Cooperatives ” Yiwei – Vermiculture Toilet

FORWARDING GLOBAL COOPERATIVES – DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER PROGRESS

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

• • • Learn about this building and it’s function: Duplicable City Center Open Source Hub

This week, Amiti Singh (Architectural Designer) continued her work helping with the interior design details for the rental rooms within the Duplicable City Center. Amiti made progress in the development of the 3D model for Room 10, focusing on achieving a boho-aesthetic industrial theme.

Her concentration was on integrating eclectic industrial furniture and boho decor to mitigate the color palette. Amiti utilized 3D inspirations to refine the furniture palette for the room. Furthermore, she extended her work to the bathroom, applying an industrial palette to the space. See below for the collage of images related to this.

Forwarding Global Cooperatives ” Amiti – Duplicable City Center

Justin Varghese (Mechanical Engineer) completed another week assisting with the City Center Dome Hub Connector Engineering. Justin focused on developing new dome hub connectors with designs optimized for ease of manufacturability.

The decision to pursue this new design arose from concerns within the team regarding potential complications in the manufacturing process and increased machining costs associated with the previous design. The updated design shows a rectangular plate bent to provide support for the beam, which is secured to the ring using bolts and nuts. See the images of the work.

Forwarding Global Cooperatives ” Justin – City Center Dome Hub Connector Engineering

FORWARDING GLOBAL COOPERATIVES – ENGINEERING TEAM 

This week, the engineering summary was managed by Arvindh Xavier (Civil Engineer) and featured Julio Marín Bustillos (Mechanical Engineer) highlighting Julio’s achievement of concluding the design phase for the eighth row. Expanding on this progress, he began the design work for the Dome Hub Connector of the seventh row.

This phase introduces increased complexity and time investment, as the seventh, sixth, and fifth rows necessitate the creation of multiple variation designs for the dome hub connectors. The intricate nature of this section of the dome, compounded by its lack of full symmetry, will make the design process longer for these specific rows. See the pictures below.

Forwarding Global Cooperatives ” Arvindh – Dome Hub Connector

FORWARDING GLOBAL COOPERATIVES – HIGHEST GOOD FOOD PROGRESS

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

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

This week, Hayley Rosario (Sustainability Research Assistant) continued her review of the open-source Highest Good Food rollout plan. Hayley took on the task of revising the outdated three-person material/task list in the EDITS document.

Drawing relevant data from the “Food Infrastructure Rollout” document, she created an initial draft in a separate document organizing and updating all items within the three-person material/task list. See below for the images.

Forwarding Global Cooperatives ” Hayley – Highest Good Food

Smit Bhoir (Data and Business Analyst) continued data analysis for the menus for the Transition Food Self-sufficiency Plan. He visualized ingredient cost data for the Transition Kitchen Menu, starting the process during the initial stages. Throughout the week, Smit focused on high-cost ingredients within the Transition Kitchen Menu Recipe worksheet.

Smit improved how the information looks on the menu sheet. He made it better by adding a clear summary of the data and easy explanations for people who aren’t tech-savvy. In parallel, he reviewed Sharuyra’s PR Review work while simultaneously contributing to the publication of his work. Check out the picture collage below to see their work.

Forwarding Global Cooperatives ” Smit – Transition Food Self-sufficiency Plan

FORWARDING GLOBAL COOPERATIVES – MENUS UI/UX WEB AND GRAPHICS TEAM

This week, the Transition Food Self-sufficiency Plan UI/UX Web and Graphics development was managed by Shivangi Patel (Graphic Designer), combining her work with the contributions of Rihab Baklouti (Freelance Generalist), Shivangi and Rihab began a mock-up, concentrating on either a Vegan Recipe webpage or an Omnivore Recipe webpage, expanding on the outlines established.

In this process, they designed a template for One Community Global’s webpage, utilizing Photoshop to refine header images, create harmonious color palettes, and maintain a standard of high-quality UX design. Simultaneously, Shivangi focused on generating social media content for Facebook.

Using her Photoshop skills, she merged eye-catching visuals with sustainability quotes, highlighting eco-friendly initiatives. Additionally, Shivangi designed volunteer announcement images and corresponding web content. See below for the visual images.

Forwarding Global Cooperatives ” Shivangi – Transition Food Self-sufficiency Plan

FORWARDING GLOBAL COOPERATIVES – HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION PROGRESS

One Community is forwarding global cooperatives through Highest Good education that is for all ages, applicable in any environment, adaptable to individual needs, far exceeds traditional education standards, and more fun for both the teachers and the students.

This component of One Community is about 95% complete with only the Open Source School Licensing and Ultimate Classroom construction and assembly details remaining to be finished. We’ll report on the final two elements to be finished as we develop them.

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

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

Forwarding Global Cooperatives – Highest Good Education: All Subjects | All Learning Levels | Any Age

FORWARDING GLOBAL COOPERATIVES – HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY PROGRESS

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

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

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

Forwarding Global Cooperatives ” Core Team – Volunteer Work

The core team also worked on conducting tests on several HGN PRs, confirming the resolution of six PRs. Challenges came up with PR#1169, unable to test part ‘b’ related to the ‘More work needed, reset this button.’ Additionally, in PR#722, we observed that while a manager can see all team members on the Dashboard Tasks tab, not all are visible on the Leaderboard.

We retested this issue and provided an explanation to a volunteer on Slack. the core team also identified a new bug where, following specific steps in the Projects section, a popup window appears and the timer stops. In addition to PR testing, we set up a test scenario for PR #485 using the ‘Tanya-test Test1’ account, which already had 5 blue squares.

Unfortunately, attempts to create an Owner account on the Dev environment were unsuccessful, preventing testing of part ‘d’ of PR#994. You can view this work in the collage below.

Forwarding Global Cooperatives ” Core Team – HGN PRs

Another core team member continued to listen to Eckart Tolle’s “A New Earth” for key points and word additions to be integrated throughout our website. He also collaborated with Hayley Rosario focusing on clarifications regarding the 3 and 20 Pioneer arrival to our property.

Discussions centered on the food portions and rewriting portions for further clarity and defining more specifically the tasks for the 3 person’s duties. View some of this work in the collage below.

Forwarding Global Cooperatives ” Core Team – Eckart Tolle’s

Harsha Kulkarni (Data Analyst) continued working on One Community‘s Google AdWords campaigns and Analytics details. This week, Harsha focused on modifying looker reports that were not populating the dashboard. She looked into how the reports were made to make changes easier.

She focused on changing where the info comes from for the graphs, using Google Analytics 4 and incorporated new attributes during the report-building process. This resulted in the migration of all dashboards except for one. Harsha also worked on making certain ad groups stronger in Google AdWords. You can see some of this in the picture below.

Forwarding Global Cooperatives ” Harsha – Google AdWords

Vishvesh Sheora (Artificial Intelligence Specialist) focused on elevating the SEO performance of blog posts featured on the One Community website. This week, Vishvesh addressed issues such as fixing featured images and adjusting CSS text in accordance with WordPress protocols.

He focused on optimizing SEO elements by rectifying inconsistencies in numbering and bullet points, effectively minimizing SEO discrepancies within the post content. See the work in the image below.

Forwarding Global Cooperatives ” Vishvesh – SEO Performance

FORWARDING GLOBAL COOPERATIVES – ADMINISTRATION TEAM

This week, the Administration Team’s summary, covering their work administrating and managing most of One Community, was managed by Jamie Cruz (Administrative Assistant, Social Media Manager, and Team Manager) and includes Alyx Parr (Senior Support Specialist), Meenakshi Velayutham (Sustainability Associate), Olawunmi “Ola” Ijisesan (Administrative and Management Support), Ruiqi Liu (Administrative Assistant), Shaurya Sareen (Administrative Assistant), and Xiaolai Li (Administrative Assistant).

Alyx worked on a review of two blog pages, to make sure they included everyone and reviewed additional pages, while also inspecting uploaded images and providing feedback via Loom-recorded videos. Jamie focused on refining team summaries, creating collages, and managing administrative tasks, including overseeing social media and organizing video content.

Meenakshi performed setup tasks, oriented herself to management responsibilities through video tutorials, actively contributed to last week’s blog page, and engaged in analyzing research questions. Ola prepared for the weekly live blog, handling tasks such as curating image collages, SEO optimization on WordPress, and contributing to PR tracking.

Ruiqi completed a four-step review process for multiple teams, providing feedback, creating collages, and initiating business plan development. Shaurya worked on a review of all pull requests, updating tracking sheets and weekly tables, and created a team summary and team collage.

Xiaolao worked on on organizing documents and summaries, reviewing financial statements and a business plan, managing cost analysis, researching expenses, and setting up the webpage for the current week. You can see the work for the team in the image below.

Forwarding Global Cooperatives ” Admin – Team Management

FORWARDING GLOBAL COOPERATIVES – BLUE STEEL SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT TEAM

This week, the Blue Steel Team’s summary, covering their work on the Highest Good Network software, was managed by Nathan Hoffman (Software Engineer and Team Manager) and includes, Haohui Lin (Software Engineer), Shubhankar Valimbe (Lead Full Stack Software Developer), Xiao Wang (Software Engineer), Yongjian Pan (React.js/MongoDB Full Stack Software Developer), and Yubo Sun (Full Stack Software Developer).

Nathan responded to Luis’s requests for clarification and assistance, completing reviews for the previous week, communicating expectations to the new assistant manager, and making modifications to the permissions management document. While responding to Slack messages, Nathan also reviewed Jefferey’s PR and, although unable to resolve Luis’s bug after inspecting the code, continued to provide support.

Additionally, he assisted Yubo with unit testing questions related to permissions and kept the permission design document updated. Haohui focused on enhancing the app’s features, specifically working on the task: Fix permission for edit tasks in PR#1466, and developing functionality to assign permissions to individual users, fostering collaboration within the team.

Shubhankar addressed bugs, including missing box shadow styles, leading to PR #1518 for frontend enhancements, and investigated a bug related to task resolution efficiency. Xiao addressed a critical issue by implementing a hotfix in PR#600, enabling the information modal to save changes on the backend.

In addition to this, Xiao provided assistance to various team members with their inquiries. Support was extended to Anny in resolving a text alignment problem, Jahanzaib in addressing a CSS style precedence issue, Anirudh concerning a delay in changes reflecting on the page, and Jae in identifying the cause of failed requests to /task/task.

Lastly, Xiao continued progress on the ongoing TimeEntryForm refactor. Yongjian put time to a thorough re-review of his pull request, specifically PR #1318. During this process, he addressed alignment issues related to green dots on the Work Breakdown Structure (WBS) page under Projects, as well as console log error messages that had been highlighted by one of the reviewers.

Yongjian encountered challenges in resolving the alignment issue, as it continued in his local environment despite his initial attempts to rectify it. Yubo worked on completing the unit test, and resolving permission problems with Nathan’s assistance, with plans to transition the draft pull request into an open pull request once all functionalities are confirmed.

He also identified suggestions for permission access updates to be proposed in the documentation. The collage below shows some of this work.

Forwarding Global Cooperatives ” Blue Steel – Highest Good Network

FORWARDING GLOBAL COOPERATIVES – EXPRESSERS SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT TEAM

This week, the Expressers Team’s summary, covering their work on the Highest Good Network software, was managed by Tim Kent (Full Stack Software Engineer) and includes Aishwarya Kalkundrikar (Full Stack Software Developer), Harshida Dalal (Software Engineer), Olga Yudkin (Software Engineer), Tianyuan Nan (Software Engineer), Vishala Ramasamy (Software Developer).

Tianyuan focused on packaging his branch to resolve the email list visibility issue at the bottom of the Weekly Summary Page. He completed Seven PRs, including a Lint fix for the inventory component, unit tests for various folders, deleting badges, and drag-and-drop picture upload. He also delved into Phase 1 and 2 documentation to plan his future contributions.

Aishwarya raised a PR for a backend task related to Project details routing and controller, addressing issues during the process. Vishala completed tasks related to material updates, integrating pop-up windows and validations, and began work on the equipment/tool update history log page and the Add Material page.

Olga refactored the BM dashboard component, connecting the front end to the database and integrating Redux for efficient data management. Harshida focused on the Filter Material Task, adding a new select input and mapping option fields appropriately.

Tim merged the building project API, created MongoDB collections and schemes for inventory types and materials, and revamped the Purchase Material form and backend API for correct data handling. Tim also hosted meetings, communicated with the team, and conducted brainstorming sessions.

Additionally, he contributed extensively to Phase 2 documentation and updated the WBS spreadsheet. The collage below shows some of this work.

Forwarding Global Cooperatives ” Expresser Team – Highest Good Network

FORWARDING GLOBAL COOPERATIVES – GIT-R-DONE SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT TEAM

This week, the Git-R-Done Team’s summary, covering their work on the Highest Good Network software, was managed by Ruiqi (Administrative Assistant) and includes Eduardo Horta (Software Engineer), Jeffrey Li (Full-Stack Software Developer), Kaikane Lacno (Learning Assistant), Miguelcloid Reniva (Software Developer), Olena Danykh (Software Engineer), Rhea Wu (Software Engineer), Ziming Song (Software Engineer).

Eduardo prepared reports and planned meetings while addressing coding problems and enhancing documentation. Jeffrey addressed two development bugs and reviewed three pull requests, ensuring the functionality of various features. Kaikane worked on addressing conflicts and integrating new features while also focusing on the drag-and-drop feature.

Miguelcloid developed the structure of a form, with an emphasis on CSS styling. Olena worked on the development and design of the LessonList Component, with some final code cleanup tasks remaining. Rhea made progress in Phase 2 development. Ziming did the testing part, contributing to several pull requests. The collage below shows some of his work.

Forwarding Global Cooperatives ” Git-R-Done – Highest Good Network

FORWARDING GLOBAL COOPERATIVES – GRAPHIC DESIGN TEAM

This week, the Graphic Design Team’s summary was managed by Ruiqi (Administrative Assistant) and includes Ashlesha Navale (Graphic Designer), Emily Ferguson (Visual Designer), Nancy Mónchez (Graphic Designer) and Shivangi Patel (Graphic Designer). Ashlesha worked on eight Social Media Images.

She curated nature-based and theme-based images for the project. Emily undertook a project of crafting six distinct hand-drawn digital images, promoting food sustainability, global impact, and sustainable practices. And Nancy focused on creating re-design posts with added design elements like gradients and opacities.

She introduced the color purple for visual appeal and maintained brand consistency by including the brand and URL for promotional purposes, showcasing their dedication to the project. Shivangi created 13 beautiful social media images too. The collage below shows some of this work.

Forwarding Global Cooperatives ” Graphic Design Team

FORWARDING GLOBAL COOPERATIVES – MOONFALL’S SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT TEAM

This week, Moonfall Team’s summary, covering their work on the Highest Good Network software, was managed by Navneeth Krishna (Software Engineer) and includes Abdelmounaim “Abdel” Lallouache (Software Developer), Anny Wang (Software Engineer), Haoji Bian (Software Engineer), Jiadong Zhang (Software Engineer), Ruike Qiu (Software Engineer), Tzu Ning “Leo” Chueh (Software Engineer), Xiao Fei (Software Engineer), Yi Lin (Software Engineer), Yihan Liu (Software Engineer), YuFu Liao (Software Engineer), Zijie “Cyril” Yu (Software Engineer) and Zubing Guo (Software Engineer).

Abdelmounaim contributed to the enhancement of the setup profile functionality by introducing a new feature. Anny undertook the task of fixing text alignment in Permissions Management buttons, achieved a merged PR and valuable insights into CSS and Bootstrap conflicts.

Haoji focused on enhancing profile image selection, introducing a verification mechanism for active members, enabling users to choose profile images, and integrating an automated email system for transparency. Jahanzaib concentrated on pull request reviews, bug fixes, and improvements, addressing issues in user profile and timelog updates, conducting unit tests, and investigating CSS conflicts.

Jiadong made efforts to the ongoing task of refactoring the time log component. He identified a time efficiency issue stemming from a bug, addressed and resolved it. Navneeth addressed a backend bug, worked on in multiple pull requests, and managed Team Moonfall responsibilities.

Ruike addressed a bug in the user profile controller, implementing robust measures for data sanitation. Tzu Ning focused on testing, refining functionalities, and resolving merge conflicts. Xiao F developed a feature for owners to edit ChatGPT prompts, addressing backend issues and participated in the review process.

Yi passed unit tests, ensuring code reliability, and verified UI aspects in various pull requests. Yihan addressed tasks related to lost hours, and implemented an auto-refresh feature. Yufu focused on making columns editable by Owner on the User Management Page, developing and testing a popup component.

Zijie revised and fixed pull requests for lint fixes in the reports component, completing 80% of the required fixes. Zubing integrated the ‘Write it for me’ button into the summary page, restructuring frontend code for successful outcomes despite challenges. Look below for a collage of their work.

Forwarding Global Cooperatives ” Moonfall Team – Highest Good Network

FORWARDING GLOBAL COOPERATIVES – REACTONAUTS’ SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT TEAM

This week, Reactonauts’ Team’s summary, covering their work on the Highest Good Network software, was managed by Carl Bebl (Software Developer) and includes Anirudh Ghildiyal (Software Engineer), Jiangwei Shi (Full Stack Engineer), Jiyuan Xia (Software Engineer), Masasa Thapelo (Software Engineer), Obeda Velonjatovo (Front End Developer/Software Developer), Ramya Ramasamy (Full Stack Developer), Shantanu Kumar (Full Stack Software Developer), Shihao Xiong (Software Engineer), Shivansh Sharma (Software Developer), Shiwani Rajagopalan (Software Engineer), Shrey Jain (Software Engineer), Shubhankar Mishra (Software Engineer), Vikram Badhan (Software Engineer), Wanting Xu (Software Engineer), Yixiao Jiang (Software Engineer) and Zuhang Xu (Software Engineer).

Shubhankar worked on configuring the work environment and addressing errors from previous weeks, conducting reviews for 10 distinct PRs (#1487, #1488, #1491, #1492, #1497, #1499, #1501, #1502, #1504, and #1505).

Shiwani wrote unit tests for the AssignBadgePopup and BadgeTableFilter components, creating six test cases for each, employing mocking techniques, and raising pull requests for both tasks (PR#1499 and PR#1507).

Carl advanced the development of the suggestion modal for a community, participated in peer reviews and provided support in multiple meetings with team members, addressing issues in PRs #571, #602, #1414, #1489, #1490, #1491, #1501, #1507, and #1508. Jiyuan continued with 5 PR reviews (#1499, #1498, #1502, #1504, and #1505).

Shantanu created test cases for the Pie Chart and new model components, implementing a null safety feature for the Pie Chart. Shihao reviewed and approved pull requests, specifically PR#1488, PR#1499, PR#1501, and PR#1502, contributing significantly to code quality. Shrey wrote unit test cases for Input.jsx and Modal.jsx, initiating pull requests (PR#1497 and PR#1501) for peer review.

Ramya gave feedback for the PR testing of the Limit See All feature, engaging in discussions with the lint fix team for UserProfile component improvements, and testing high-priority Pull Requests. Anirudh discussed with several developers on different teams, gaining valuable perspectives on contributions and tasks for the development of various technical endeavors.

Wanting to review the pull requests (PRs) she had previously created, focusing on a specific task related to making 5-letter codes editable only by Admin and Owner Class. Masasa focused on configuring the data for the pie chart to reflect team-specific information. Zuhang examined feedback from prior Pull Request evaluations.

Yixiao executed a pull request for the TaskEditSuggestionRow.test.js file within a designated GitHub repository. She outlined tests for four components of TaskEditSuggestionModal.test.js file: rendering tests, integration tests, Redux tests, and several edge cases. Shivansh initiated an investigation into a newly identified bug, where a user possesses the ability to delete a team or project without the necessary permissions.

Jiangwei engaged in strategic dialogues with Jae, focusing on creating unit tests for the TeamTable component. Vikram focused on configuring the local frontend and backend environments and engaged in the review of four pull requests, namely, #1507, #1501, #1499, and #1511. Look below for pictures of this work.

Forwarding Global Cooperatives ” Reactonauts Team – Highest Good Network

FORWARDING GLOBAL COOPERATIVES – SKYE’S SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT TEAM

This week, Skye’s summary, covering their work on the Highest Good Network software, was managed by Luis Arevalo (Front End Developer) and includes Fan Yang (Software Engineer), Hector Agudelo-Carmona (Front-End Developer), Jerry Ren (Full Stack Developer), Mounica Dingar (Software Developer), Roberto Contreras (Software Developer) and Tuan Dinh (Software Engineer)

This week, Jerry focused on Task 428, specifically addressing the X-hours in X-weeks streak issue for auto dropoff. He comprehended the awardNewBadges() function and manipulated the lastWeekTangibleHrs property in the userProfile document to assess checkXHrsForXWeeks().

Roberto created a unit test for the BadgeHistory component, submitting a corresponding pull request (PR) marked as 1481. Fan made efforts to Task 436, focusing on issues related to letters with accents in search functionalities. He examined the existing search method code, led the development of a specialized function designed to enhance data search capabilities with accent consideration.

Luis addressed the caching issue on the backend, which was causing a bug that removed the project when adding tangible time. He modified the backend PR to conduct additional testing on the caching issue. Hector focused on resolving the time zone issue associated with the location feature, specifically when inputting Ukraine.

Mounica tested on PR#1468, enhancing the functionality for task submission, review initiation, and task completion optimization. Tuan addressed issues in the previously established unit tests, specifically focusing on the Login Privileges and Pie Chart Info Details Unit Test #1491, and the Report Charts and Team Chart Group Unit Test #1495. See the collage below for their work.

Forwarding Global Cooperatives ” Skye Team – Highest Good Network

FORWARDING GLOBAL COOPERATIVES – SOFTWARE PR REVIEW TEAM

The PR Review Team’s summary covering their work on the Highest Good Network software, was managed by Shaurya Sareen (Administrative Assistant).

This week’s active members of this team were: Anish Pandita (Software Engineer), Hemsharavanan Bharathithasan (Software Engineer), Kavya Alla (Software Engineer), Kurtis Ivey (Software Engineer), Lu Wang (Software Engineer), Mohit Bali (Software Engineer), Palak Gosalia (Software Engineer), Sahil Patel (Software Engineer), Shuhua Liu (Software Engineer), Xuying He (Software Engineer).

They reviewed all the Highest Good Network PRs (Pull Requests) shared in this week’s update. The collage below shows a compilation of the work from this team.

Forwarding Global Cooperatives ” PR Review Team – Highest Good Network Software

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A student double majoring in Computer Science and Data Science at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, Haoji has two years of experience in software development using Spring, Python, and MySQL and one year of experience in the MERN stack. With professional experiences ranging from a Full Stack Developer role and founding his own platform, Katfun.com, Haoji is comfortable managing and delivering on complex projects. He has developed responsive, user-friendly systems and websites. He also has experience as an Embedded Software Development Intern. As a part of diverse teams, Haoji has employed his programming acumen to create efficient solutions and drive projects to successful completion, demonstrating a passion for innovation and quality in the tech industry. As a One Community volunteer, Haoji has helped the teams develop new features and fix bugs in the Highest Good Network.

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One Community welcomes Jiadong Zhang to the Software Development Team as our newest Volunteer/Consultant!

Jiadong is a recent graduate of the Software Engineering program at Carnegie Mellon University, with his undergraduate studies completed at the University of California, Irvine. Armed with a strong foundation in full-stack software development, Jiadong is proficient in a range of technologies, including Django, React, and Node.js. During his time at CMU, he played a pivotal role in a team dedicated to crafting a gamification platform tailored to gather valuable feedback from both students and professors during presentations. As an active member of the One Community team, Jiadong contributes his skills and passion to the development of the Highest Good Network software project.

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One Community welcomes Mounica Dingar to the Software Development Team as our newest Volunteer/Consultant!

Mounica is a passionate and experienced MERN stack developer with a strong love for building web applications that leave a mark on the digital landscape. She’s on the lookout for emerging web development trends and technologies. Mounica has collaborated with cross-functional teams to design, develop and deploy web applications using MERN stack and analyzed business requirements to translate functional requirements into technical requirements and developed web applications using MongoDB, Express, React.js/Redux and Node.js (MERN stack). In her free time, she enjoys contributing to open-source projects, attending tech meetups, and experimenting with new frameworks to expand her skill set and belief in the power of continuous learning and improvement. As a member of the One Community team, Mounica has contributed to the project’s features and development of the Highest Good Network project.

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