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

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

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One Community welcomes Gowtham Dongari to the Software Development Team as our newest Volunteer/Consultant!

Gowtham is a software engineer with over two years of experience and is currently pursuing his master’s in software engineering at Southern Methodist University. He has a solid foundation in both front-end and back-end development, excelling in creating robust and scalable software solutions. Gowtham’s expertise includes building APIs, developing mobile and web applications, and optimizing state management. He is proficient in Python, Java, and JavaScript, and skilled in frameworks and tools such as React.js, Node.js, MongoDB, MySQL, and AWS. Demonstrating leadership, critical thinking, and team collaboration skills, Gowtham is an ambitious, results-driven individual who continually seeks opportunities to learn and grow. As a member of the One Community Highest Good Network team, Gowtham has actively contributed to the development of a team management tool, working on features like user time logs, team location search and filter, weekly log summaries, and enhanced UI/UX. He has collaborated on and reviewed over 45 pull requests (PRs), ensuring the smooth integration of contributions.

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One Community welcomes Parth Rasu Jangid to the Software Development Team as our newest Volunteer/Consultant!

‹â€¹Parth Rasu Jangid, a computer science graduate from the University of Southern California (May 2024), has gained significant experience as a full-stack web and mobile application developer by working for startups, manufacturing firms, and mid-scale educational institutions. He possesses a strong understanding and hands-on knowledge of backend systems (leveraging Node.js and Spring Framework) and cloud platforms (Google Cloud and AWS). At One Community, he contributes as a member of the open-source Highest Good Network backend software team, having reviewed more than 40 pull requests for both backend and frontend repositories, developed 30+ unit and integration tests, and assisted peers in troubleshooting and resolving backend errors.

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ne Community welcomes Jim Zhang to the Admin/Management Team as our newest Volunteer/Consultant!

Jim has recently graduated from Columbia University for his Master of Science degree in Enterprise Risk Management. Throughout his past internships in consulting and data science, he has demonstrated success working with complex tasks in a dynamic environment by applying effective problem-solving and research skills. He believes in the importance of sustainability to encourage everyone to participate in creating a more sustainable and efficient society that benefits both current and future generations. As a member of the One Community team, Jim has helped with weekly progress updates on the One Community Updates Blog, past blogs SEO optimization, and developing a detailed cost analysis for the electrical component of the Earthbag Village.

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One Community welcomes Carlos Gomez to the Software Development Team as our newest Volunteer/Consultant!

Carlos has over one year of web development experience across various project types. He is fluent in programming languages including JavaScript and TypeScript, and proficient in frameworks and tools such as React.js, Node.js, MongoDB, Express.js, REST APIs, GitHub, and Google Cloud. He is also making progress in Next.js and Nest.js. Carlos has demonstrated success working in fast-paced environments and on complex projects that require efficient and effective solutions to challenging problems. As a member of the One Community Highest Good Network team, Carlos has helped develop the Project Report Page, coding both frontend and backend using the MERN stack. This project shows the hours dedicated by active and inactive volunteers in a specific project using two pie charts. Currently, Carlos is part of a selected group of developers working on a large reporting page, where graphs will be used for easy statistical data visualization.

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At One Community, we believe in creating holistic human support webs to address global challenges. Our all-volunteer organization is dedicated to evolving sustainability through open sourcing and free sharing our complete process. From sustainable approaches to food, energy, housing, education, to innovative economic and social architecture models, we aim to regenerate our planet. Our work is designed to be self-replicating, enabling the creation of global collaboration teacher/demonstration hubs. By doing this for “The Highest Good of All,” we are committed to creating a world that works for everyone.

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

OUR MAIN OPEN SOURCE HUBS

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

One Community’s physical location will forward this movement as the first of many self-replicating teacher/demonstration communities, villages, and cities to be built around the world. This is the July 15th, 2024 edition (#591) of our weekly progress update detailing our team’s development and accomplishments:

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HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING PROGRESS

One Community is developing holistic human support webs 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 that are foundation of these holistic human support webs: 7 Sustainable Village Models
• Visit the open source portals for the first two of these holistic human support webs: Earthbag Village OS Hub | Straw Bale Village OS Hub

This week, Joseph Osayande (Mechanical Engineer) continued helping finish the Vermiculture Toilet designs. The standing system assembly was developed further with the connector channel. Unistruts with brackets were added, and bolts were distributed along the strut to ensure balance and manage the weight effectively throughout the structure. Two separate designs were created, and a decision will be made next week on which design has the most potential. Selecting the right model is imperative for the project’s success. The vermiculture toilets and other sustainable human waste processing technologies form the basis of One Community’s open source model for holistic human support webs. See below for some of the pictures related to this work.

Rizwan Syed (Mechanical Engineer) also continued helping finish the Vermiculture Toilet designs. This week, Rizwan summarized the team’s design and stress analysis activities from the past three months to update the vermiculture eco-toilet design content on One Community’s website. Rizwan updated design criteria and metal frame engineering sections, incorporating the latest calculations. He researched unistrut wing connectors for pillar support and created custom 3D models in SOLIDWORKS to check assembly fit. He also verified hand calculations for the removable drawer with the engineering team. These efforts support One Community’s open-source sustainable waste processing model. Here are a few photos showing examples of his work.

Yagyansh Maheshwari (Mechanical Engineer) started his work with Earthbag Village designs. This week, Yagyansh searched for options of wheels that can be used in the drawer and finalized a few options after reviewing their specifications. He also reviewed the mechanism for disposing of compost on the ground, ensuring that the selected wheels and mechanism meet the necessary requirements for effective operation. The Earthbag Village is the first of 7 to be built as the housing component of One Community’s open source model for holistic human support webs. See some of this work in the collage below.

AIRCRETE TEAM

The Aircrete Testing Team’s summary, covering their work on Aircrete Compression Testing was managed by John Sullivan (CBU Chemical Engineering Student) and includes Jonathan Crago (Civil Engineering Student) and Preston Thompson (Civil Engineering Student). This week, Jonathan and his team advanced Domegaia aircrete testing, developing new test cylinders and troubleshooting a clogged drain by relocating equipment outside. They established a new production area, optimized workflows, and explored increasing cement content for stability. Despite delays, they conducted compression tests to refine their method, contributing to One Community’s open-source housing model. See below for some of the pictures related to this work.

EARTHBAG VILLAGE 4-DOME HOME TEAM

The Earthbag Village 4-dome Home Team was managed by Khushboo Parmar (Project Manager) and includes Michaela Silva (Architect), Adefola Madehin (Electrical Design Specialist), and Karthik Pillai (Volunteer Mechanical Engineer). Karthik focused on learning Revit and key architectural concepts for future contributions. Michaela finalized the loft stair design with storage and integrated all windows, doors, and arches into the Revit model. Fola completed lighting and socket circuit lettering for the Earthbag 4 Dome Village, finished the distribution panel schematic per NEC standards, and prepared for the electrical load schedule.

Khushboo prepared for and interviewed two software developers on separate days, offering them volunteer positions with the organization. She also led a team meeting with the lead architect to address blockers and created a Dropbox folder for the engineers to access project files. Khushboo maintained communication with all team members to provide support and answer questions. The Earthbag village forms the basis of One Community’s open source model for holistic human support webs. See their work in the collage below.

DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER PROGRESS

One Community is developing holistic human support webs 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 within holistic human support webs: Duplicable City Center Open Source Hub

This week, Chris Blair (GIS Technician/Horticulturist) continued working with GIS data as part of One Community’s Permaculture Design. Chris began developing a written tutorial for utilizing GIS data. He produced the initial draft detailing steps to locate digital elevation models (DEMs) based on property location, import them into ArcGIS Pro, verify and adjust coordinate systems, and create a polygon feature class to represent the property. Proper property modeling and understanding is a foundational part of One Community’s open source model for holistic human support webs. Here are a few photos showing examples of his work.

Clarice Gaw Gonzalo (Architect) continued her work with the Duplicable City Center room designs. Clarice edited previous renders of several themed rooms and focused on the Nautical-themed room. She began by fixing the candles on the wall in the Tranquility room in SketchUp before uploading them again to Lumion to render the previous view again. Additionally, she rendered the Nautical room, adding people and clutter, and further populated the bedroom and bathroom with people and objects. She also adjusted the sun pathing and lighting for each view. The City Center will be built along with the first of the 7 villages as part of One Community’s open source model for holistic human support webs. See some of this  below.

Nika Gavran (Industrial Designer) continued her work on the Duplicable City Center dormer window installation plans. This week, Nika focused on moving forward with the dormer window assembly instructions, concentrating on increasing the stability of the structure through the implementation of final screws and fasteners. She initiated renders for the final document, having a more finalized version of all the wood cuts. Additionally, she began working on the composition of the final document, inputting dimensions for the wood cuts. The Duplicable City Center is a foundational part of One Community’s open source holistic human support webs model. See below for some of the pictures related to this work.

HIGHEST GOOD FOOD PROGRESS

One Community is developing holistic human support webs 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 within the holistic human support webs 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, the core team continued updating and expanding the Highest Good Food tools, equipment, materials, and supplies document by adding new items and categorizing tools and equipment into powered and non-powered. This ongoing research aims to establish a list of tools for all One Community projects. The project also involves separating specific tools from the master list to create detailed inventories for individual One Community projects. Highest Good Food is an important part of holistic human support webs with One Community’s open source plans. See their work in the collage below.

Charles Gooley (Web Designer) focused this week on the Transition Food Self-sufficiency Plan and completed the replacement of placeholder images for recipe pages, with the exception of one vegan pasta image awaiting provision. His then shifted to correcting anchor links on the Tools and Equipment for Open Source Construction master page to ensure proper display in the address bar. This work will continue into the next week. Additionally, an image on the Foundations of Fulfillment page was linked to a larger view of the same image. Sustainable food and housing are an important part of creating holistic human support webs with One Community’s open source plans. See his work in the collage below.

Hayley Rosario (Sustainability Research Assistant) continued to update the Highest Good Food page, focusing primarily on the “Garden Establishment and No-Till” section. Her tasks include drafting the Highest Good Food page, completing the implementation details for the 20-person section, and beginning to focus on the 50-person section. For the 20-person section, she attached links to plants, formatted the content, and reviewed the information. Highest Good Food is an important part of holistic human support webs with One Community’s open source plans. See her work in the collage below.

HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION PROGRESS

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

This week, Apoorv Pandey (Mechanical Engineer) continued helping with the engineering details for The Ultimate Classroom part of the Highest Good Education component. He completed the AutoCAD cover page according to the City of San Diego’s CADD standards cover sheet guidelines. Apoorv plans to update the title block to align with the new standards outlined in a separate document. He has progressed with the STAAD Pro roof and truss calculation presentation and aims to complete the report. The One Community model of combining forward-thinking education with sustainably built classrooms like this is an excellent example of holistic human support webs. See the collage below for their work.

Brian Mwoyowatidi (Graduate Structural Engineer) continued helping with the engineering details for The Ultimate Classroom part of the Highest Good Education component. He focused on the Wind Load Analysis for the Ultimate Classroom, examining the loads affecting the footer and foundation system. He used Microsoft Excel to document calculations and relevant resources for this analysis. Brian also contributed to the tutorial for constructing the Ultimate Classroom, addressing topics such as construction methodology, PPE, site demarcation, and trench safety. The One Community model of combining forward-thinking education with sustainably built classrooms like this is an excellent example of holistic human support webs. See the collage below for their work.

HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY PROGRESS

One Community is developing holistic human support webs throughh 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 within holistic human support webs: A Day in the Life
• Learn about the 4 economic models that support holistic human support webs: RBE | For-profit | Non-profit | Entrepreneurship

This week, the core team completed over 34 hours managing One Community’s volunteer-work review not included above, emails, social media accounts, web development, new bug identification and bug-fix integration for the Highest Good Network software, and interviewing and getting set up new volunteer team members. They also shot and incorporated the video above that talks about holistic human support webs and how holistic human support webs is a foundation of the bigger picture of everything One Community is doing. The picture below shows some of this work.

Arun Chandar Ganesan (Volunteer Data Analyst and SEO and Social Media Assistant) focused on improving webpage SEO by reviewing a large number of pages, including some that had previously been abandoned, and working on the assigned webpages. He also oversaw and coordinated the scheduling of posts on One Community’s social media channels, including Facebook, Instagram, and LinkedIn, for the subsequent months of the year. His work on social media helps One Community to broaden our reach and spread our message about holistic human support webs. The following images show his work for the week.

Jia Shu (UX Designer) collaborated with John on Phase 3 of the PRD, focusing on epics, user stories, tasks, and priorities. Additionally, Jia explored web and mobile design systems, using resources from Material Design, Android Developer, and Apple Developer websites. The team established a design system structure with six epics and user stories, finalizing tasks with John. Using Figma, they created basic layouts for each function, focusing on activity evaluation, FAQ, calendar-connected summaries, and reports on participation, resource use, and feedback. These efforts align with the One Community mission to build open-source holistic human support webs. The image below showcases some of their progress.

ADMINISTRATION TEAM

The Administration Team’s summary, covering their work administrating and managing most of One Community’s ongoing process for supporting holistic human support webs was managed by Sneka Vetriappan (Data Analyst) and includes Durgeshwari Naikwade (Data Analyst), Jessica Fairbanks (Administrative Assistant), Jim Zhang (Administrative Assistant), Kishan Sivakumar (Administative Assistant and Software Team Manager), Michael Juma (Administrative Assistant), Olawunmi “Ola” Ijisesan (Administrative and Management Support), Rachna Malav (Data Analyst), Ruiqi Liu (Administrative Assistant), Saumit Chinchkhandi (Software Engineer), T R Samarth Urs (Data Analyst), Vibhav Chimatapu (Data Analyst/Admin Assistant) and Zuqi Li (Administrative Assistant and Economic Analyst).

Durgeshwari scheduled interviews and updated the HGN Phase 3 table. Jessica prepared for Highest Good Food tasks, joined admin training, and handled weekly duties. Jim optimized 10 blogs for SEO and drafted an ESG proposal. Kishan worked on the weekly update blog and SEO.

Michael enhanced SEO parameters for weekly blogs, optimizing 10 previous blogs. Ola participated in training new admin team members, reviewed the PR team’s work, and ensured the accuracy of progress report sheets. Rachna supported the holistic human support webs team as she performed regular administrative duties, scheduled interviews, and worked on SEO pages. Ruiqi completed review processes and managed bio announcements while continuing work on benchmarking. Saumit did his part supporting the creation of holistic human support webs as he completed onboarding and action items, practiced admin procedures, and created web pages featuring team summaries. Samarth managed the PR review team, optimized blogs, and summarized their work in a blog post.

Vibhav reviewed PR team work, created group summaries, and continued SEO optimization efforts. Zuqi organized weekly summaries for the Graphic Design and Alpha Teams, reviewed admin updates, and updated blog justifications. One Community’s model for supporting holistic human support webs includes developing and maintaining a supportive administration team like this. You can see the work for the team in the image below.

GRAPHIC DESIGN TEAM

The Graphic Design Team’s summary was managed by Zuqi Li (Administrative Assistant and Economic Analyst) and included Ashlesha Navale (Graphic Designer), covering their work on graphic designs for holistic human support webs. This week, Ashlesha updated Treehouse Village book pages 36-39, uploaded the InDesign file, and created a PDF. She researched nature-based and themed images, designed nine social media images, and fixed older social media and food recipe images. See the  work below.

HIGHEST GOOD NETWORK PROGRESS

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

• Learn about our open source holistic human support webs collaboration and management software: The Highest Good Network

This week, the core team continued their work on the Highest Good Network PRs testing, confirming the fixed PRs. This week’s PRs included task visibility for all roles, owner approval of task changes, a timer fix on the WBS page, and a new “Search Projects By Person” feature. Admins can now delete specific time logs. The team also reported issues like missing Dark/Light mode icons and broken links in Team Weekly Summaries. Additionally, they reviewed and updated the HGN User’s Manual with corrections and improvements.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 Lin Khant Htel (Frontend Software Developer) and includes Anand Seshadri (Software Engineer) and Logeshwari Renu (Software Engineer). The Highest Good Network software tracks and manages holistic human support processes. This week, Lin completed unit testing for DashboardController functions (PR#965) and reviewed team Alpha’s weekly summaries. Logeshwari fixed an error message issue in “User Management” (PR#1026), resolving API role gaps. Anand developed a feature to track task hour changes, updated state management, and resolved merge conflicts in a PR for review link validation.View some of the team’s work in the collage below.

BADGES BUGS SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT TEAM

The Badges Bugs Team’s summary overseeing advancements in the Highest Good Network software was managed by Summit Kaushal (Backend Software Developer) .The Highest Good Network software is how we’ll be managing and objectively measuring our process for holistic human support webs through our social architecture, construction, production, and maintenance processes. This week, Summit handled recruitment messages on Slack, responding to inquiries, declines, and interest from recruits. They reviewed a debugging video on a Postman issue, identified potential technical difficulties like internet connection problems, and worked on weekly tasks, documentation, and code reviews.View some of the team’s work in the collage below.

BINARY BRIGADE SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT TEAM

The Binary Brigade Team’s summary overseeing advancements in the Highest Good Network software was managed by Min Sun (Software Engineer) and includes Aaryaneil Nimbalkar (Software Developer), Deepthi Kannan (Software Engineer), Huijie Liu (Software Engineer), Sai Sarath Kumar Alavakonda (Software Engineer), Sandhya Adavikolanu (Software Developer) and Sri Sudersan Thopey Ganesh (Software Engineer). The Highest Good Network software is how we’ll be managing and objectively measuring our process for holistic human support webs through our social architecture, construction, production, and maintenance processes.

This week, Aaryaneil resolved issues with the VolunteeringTimeTab unit tests, fixed console errors from unhandled API calls, and tested PRs for tableFilter.jsx, Projects.jsx, permissions management mobile optimization, dark mode button, and user profile last name error. Deepthi improved the SEND EMAILS page’s mobile responsiveness by updating Announcements.css and collaborated on the HGN Phase 1 Users Manual. Huijie focused on styling the role distribution pie chart and work distribution bar chart, exploring alternatives like Chart.js and Recharts, and worked on the anniversary celebration component.

Min optimized the backend API for user profile retrieval and task component loading, hosted the weekly meeting, approved PRs, and compiled a team summary. Sai clarified checkout issues with Diya, addressed changes in PR 2416, and fixed a new team addition issue with the “see all” toggle. Sandhya enhanced data accuracy and visualizations, adding a bar chart to the TotalOrgSummary component for task completion data. Sri created PR 2452 for the TeamStatsBarChart component, featuring responsive horizontal bar charts and custom labels to track volunteer changes. He also updated volunteer tabs and activities.

BLUE STEEL SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT TEAM

The Blue Steel Team’s summary, presenting their work on the Highest Good Network software was managed by Jingyi Jia (Software Engineer, Team Manager), and includes Bhuvan Dama (Full stack Developer), Jay Srinivasan (Software Engineer), Parth Rasu Jangid (Software Developer), Ramakrishna Aruva (Software Engineer), Tzu Ning “Leo” Chueh (Software Engineer), and Vishavdeep Kaur (Full stack Developer). This week, Jay worked on unit tests for SameFolderTasks, improving coverage for fetch requests and component rendering. He also created a mock for testing the EditTaskModal and reviewed weekly summaries for Team Blue Steel. Bhuvan resolved merge conflicts in PR#2148, enhanced TableFilter.jsx, and expanded test cases. Ramakrishna developed a new method in the user profile controller and integrated backend API changes with the frontend.

Tzu Ning improved useEffect hooks to prevent data fetching with an undefined userId, added conditional rendering for a loading state, and finalized task functions, including save actions and button enablement. He also fixed a bug through a new pull request and resolved npm test failures, boosting system robustness. Vishavdeep tested eight pull requests across various projects, provided comments and approvals, and reviewed two additional pull requests. Parth wrote unit tests for the timeZoneAPIController.js and created PR#1027 for the backend HGNRest repository, also resolving conflicts in previous pull requests for merging. See below to view images of their work.

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Prioritizing positive global change is a process of millions of small actions adding up to a very large impact. One Community is supporting this with DIY and sustainable approaches to food, energy, housing, education, for-profit and non-profit economic design, social architecture, fulfilled living, global stewardship practices, and more. These will be able to be implemented as individual solutions or complete teacher/demonstration hubs purposed to teach and demonstrate a more fulfilling and luxuriant life.

• 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 of prioritizing positive global change as the first of many self-replicating teacher/demonstration communities, villages, and cities to be built around the world. This is the July 8th, 2024 edition (#590) of our weekly progress update detailing our team’s development and accomplishments:

Prioritizing Positive Global Change
One Community Progress Update #590

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HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING PROGRESS

One Community is prioritizing positive global change 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’re building as part of prioritizing positive global change: 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) focused on two pages: The Earthbag Village Tools and Equipmentent and Open Source DIY Earth Dam Design & Construction for Water Retention, Pond & Lake Creation. Charles addressed comments on several pages: Large Scale Gardening, Open Source DIY Permaculture-Design, Most Sustainable Lightbulbs and Light Bulb Companies, and Consensus With Large Groups, focusing primarily on linking images to their full-size versions. Additionally, he downloaded thirty-six images from the master Dropbox file provided by the graphic designer for the recipes pages, replacing existing placeholder images as required. Earth constructions like both of these are an important part of prioritizing positive global change with One Community’s open source plans. See his work in the collage below.

Joseph Osayande (Mechanical Engineer) continued helping finish the Vermiculture Toilet designs. This week, a new idea for the standing system was developed, centered around the unistrut connector channel with a 5-hole piece. This piece is intended to connect the internal and external unistruts, which will form the support system for the foot platform and the winch stand. The design is still in progress, with ongoing analysis to assess its functionality and feasibility. The vermiculture toilets and other sustainable human waste processing technologies form the basis of One Community’s open source model for prioritizing positive global change. See below for some of the pictures related to this work.

Rizwan Syed (Mechanical Engineer) also continued helping finish the Vermiculture Toilet designs. This week, Rizwan performed a modified structural analysis on the rectangular steel plate using ANSYS FEA by incorporating the correct thickness of the steel plate. He calculated the total deformation and maximum Von Mises stress, verifying the results with hand calculations to determine the structural durability of the slider plate. He updated the vermiculture loading spreadsheet by incorporating the latest drawer and chamber dimensions and subtracting the inner volume of the drawer from the main volume. He began summarizing key design accomplishments of the vermiculture eco-toilet design project for the past three months to document them effectively on One Community’s website. Additionally, Rizwan researched design strategies to integrate the unistrut wing connector into the vermiculture assembly for a singular unistrut construct to connect multiple members. The vermiculture toilets and other sustainable human waste processing technologies form the basis of One Community’s open source prioritizing positive global change model. Here are a few photos showing examples of his work.

AIRCRETE TEAM

The Aircrete Testing Team’s summary, covering their work on Aircrete Compression Testing was managed by John Sullivan (CBU Chemical Engineering Student) and includes Tad Matlock (Environmental Science Student). This week, Tad condensed and organized the past trial summaries on the main Aircrete webpage. Most of the summary content is now written and ready for review. He organized the past work into three categories: successes, failures, and general observations, filling out each section with detailed information for future readers. The group was unable to continue trials due to drain issues at the lab, and trials will be paused indefinitely until the drains are fixed. However, some compression tests were performed in the meantime. John edited some videos on the completed trials, which are now published in the Dropbox. These aircrete tests contribute to the housing aspect of One Community’s open source model for prioritizing positive global change. See below for some of the pictures related to this work.

EARTHBAG VILLAGE 4-DOME HOME TEAM

The Earthbag Village 4-dome Home Team was managed by Khushboo Parmar (Project Manager) and includes Michaela Silva (Architect), Adefola Madehin (Electrical Design Specialist), Yusuf Thanawala (Structural Engineer), and Karthik Pillai (Volunteer Mechanical Engineer).This week, Karthik focused on completing the four-dome design and understanding the roof loft structure on the 4-Dome Roof Cluster Team, assembling the domes with assistance from Abhishek’s files and directions from Michaela. He also began learning Revit from the basics to support the team and future projects, uploading all necessary files to Dropbox for team access, and plans to continue building Revit skills and optimizing the design to incorporate Michaela’s proposed updates. Yusuf completed the loft design for a live load of 5 kN/m², leading to a wood joist spacing of 400 mm for a 5-meter span. Observing this spacing to be less than expected, he is investigating how STAAD.Pro analyzes and designs the beam, noting that code checking with respect to American timber construction is automatically performed in STAAD.Pro, which may explain the low joist spacing. Michaela updated the details of doors and archways to align with Earthbag dimensions, assessed code compliance for access to the lofts in the domes, recommended an alternating tread stair for optimal suitability, used Revit to model the dome and proposed stair, and finalized the base floor plan accordingly. Fola completed the socket and panel layout for the Earthbag Village project, placing receptacles in the bedrooms and living room, installing the distribution panel in the living room, and preparing to work on the schematic diagram for the distribution panel using the American standard of single-phase voltage. Khushboo held the 4-Dome Cluster Roof meeting with both engineers to identify blockers and determine what is needed to overcome them, monitored everyone’s progress throughout the week to ensure that the projects are advancing on schedule, and set up an interview with a software engineer to recruit more volunteers. The Earthbag village forms the basis of One Community’s open source model for prioritizing positive global change. See their work in the collage below.

DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER PROGRESS

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

• Learn about this building and it’s function as part of One Community’s model for prioritizing positive global change: Duplicable City Center Open Source Hub

This week, Chris Blair (GIS Technician/Horticulturist) continued working with GIS data as part of One Community’s Permaculture Design. In preparation of creating a tutorial, he reviewed Ben Missimer’s YouTube channel to recreate the workflow presented in his videos and checked the availability and relevance of the online resources. Additionally, he revised content for slope analysis to be added to the Permaculture Design webpage. Proper property modeling and understanding is a foundational part of One Community’s open source prioritizing positive global change model. Here are a few photos showing examples of his work.

Clarice Gaw Gonzalo (Architect) continued her work with the Duplicable City Center room designs. This week, Clarice concentrated on enhancing the themed rooms, specifically the Tea Room and the Neofuturistic Room. Her tasks included adjusting the lighting and views to improve ambiance and realism. She populated these spaces with a diverse group of people to better represent a range of users and added various clutter items like clothes, plants, and pillows to create a more lived-in feel. In addition to these modifications, Clarice ensured that each room’s unique theme was maintained while integrating the new elements. She is now working on completing the last few rooms, making similar adjustments as needed, before redirecting her focus back to the main building. The City Center will be built along with the first of the 7 villages as part of One Community’s open source model for prioritizing positive global change. See some of this work in the collage below.

Nika Gavran (Industrial Designer) continued her work on the Duplicable City Center dormer window installation plans. This week, Nika focused on advancing the dormer window assembly instructions, with her main objective being to enhance the stability of the structure through the implementation of screws and fasteners. She added more screws to the new structure, which now includes increased rock wool insulation. Nika updated the CAD model with the new screws and took screenshots highlighting their placement in light blue. The Duplicable City Center is a foundational part of One Community’s open source prioritizing positive global change model. See below for some of the pictures related to this work.

HIGHEST GOOD FOOD PROGRESS

One Community is prioritizing positive global change 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 we’ll build first as part of this model for prioritizing positive global change: Hoop House Hub | Aquapini & Walipini Open Source Hub
• See what we’ll be growing first as part of this model for prioritizing positive global change: Gardens & Hoop Houses | Large-scale Structures | Food Forest | TA

This week, the core team continued updating and expanding the Highest Good Food tools, equipment, materials, and supplies document by adding new items and breaking down the categorization of tools and equipment into powered and non-powered. They further separated some of these entities into new categories and answered questions on the food doc from another reviewer. Highest Good Food is an important part of prioritizing positive global change with One Community’s open source plans. See their work in the collage below.

Hayley Rosario (Sustainability Research Assistant) continued to update the Highest Good Food page, focusing primarily on the “Garden Establishment and No-Till” section. Her tasks included formatting all lists and paragraphs within this section. She integrated links into those various lists, which contained extensive collections of organized plants, ensuring each plant list was linked appropriately. Additionally, she made updates to sections on Hoop House Construction, Soil Amendment, and Worms and Vermiculture. Highest Good food is an important part of prioritizing positive global change with One Community’s open source plans. See her work in the collage below.

HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION PROGRESS

One Community is prioritizing positive global change 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: Prioritizing Positive Global Change Education Open Source Hub
• How the components work together: How to use the Education for Life Program
  
• Prioritizing positive global change: Lesson Plans for Life – Lesson Plans How-to
• Foundations of Outstanding Leaders, Teachers, and Communicators interested in prioritizing positive global change
• Curriculum for Life and prioritizing positive global change
• Teaching Strategies for Life
• Learning Tools and Toys for Life
• Evaluation and Evolution

This week, Apoorv Pandey (Mechanical Engineer) continued helping with the engineering details for The Ultimate Classroom part of the Highest Good Education component. He began working on a new title block design according to recent guidelines and developments. He plans to include both his self-researched title block and the new design in the documentation report. Specifically, Apoorv is improving the layout of the cover sheet to include all necessary details for providing a brief overview of the Ultimate Classroom project. He is collaborating with fellow engineers to review and update calculations for the project’s roof and truss. The One Community model of combining forward-thinking education with sustainably built classrooms like this are an excellent example of prioritizing positive global change. See the collage below for their work.

Brian Mwoyowatidi (Graduate Structural Engineer) continued helping with the engineering details for The Ultimate Classroom part of the Highest Good Education component. He learned and utilized STAAD.Pro Foundations to model and analyze the isolated footings for the Ultimate Classroom. His task included inputting relevant project information, column geometry and dimensions, creating load cases, adding column reactions and soil bearing capacity, incorporating self-weight and design parameters, and completing the analysis and design. His work, including the AutoCAD detail drawing, AutoCAD GA drawing, schedule drawing, and detailed calculation report for the Ultimate Classroom tutorial and report, researching relevant references and building an outline. From this outline, he has covered the project overview, objectives, summary of relevant codes, compliance strategy, foundation design (particularly footers), and flooring design, including material selection, floor insulation, and installation process. The One Community model of combining forward-thinking education with sustainably built classrooms like this are an excellent example of prioritizing positive global change. See the collage below for their work.

HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY PROGRESS

One Community is prioritizing positive global change 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 prioritizing positive global change: Highest Good Society
• Learn about the model for fulfilled living and sharing: A Day in the Life
• Learn about the 4 economic models for prioritizing positive global change: RBE | For-profit | Non-profit | Entrepreneurship

This week, the core team completed over 50 hours managing One Community’s volunteer-work review not included above, emails, social media accounts, web development, new bug identification and bug-fix integration for the Highest Good Network software, and interviewing and getting set up new volunteer team members. They also shot and incorporated the video above that talks about prioritizing positive global change and how prioritizing positive global change is a foundation of the bigger picture of everything One Community is doing. The picture below shows some of this work.

Arun Chandar Ganesan (Volunteer Data Analyst and SEO and Social Media Assistant) continued working on webpages, focusing on the SEO efforts completed by other volunteers, including some that had previously been abandoned, and improving the scores of his previous pages. He also oversaw and coordinated the scheduling of posts on One Community’s social media channels, which included Facebook, Instagram, and LinkedIn. His work on social media helps One Community to broaden our reach and spread our message about prioritizing positive global change. The following images show his work for the week.

Jiaqi Wu (UX Designer) worked on Phase 3 of the Highest Good Network. She referred to three different user groups and their respective user flows to create the first draft. She considered making the calendar the main component, creating two versions: one for community members and one for organizers. Jiaqi also created the event detail page. This work Jiaqi is doing on Highest Good Network is an excellent example of prioritizing positive global change. Below is a collage of her work.

ADMINISTRATION TEAM

The Administration Team’s summary, covering their work administrating and managing most of One Community’s ongoing process for prioritizing positive global change was managed by Sneka Vetriappan (Data Analyst) and includes Durgeshwari Naikwade (Data Analyst), Jessica Fairbanks (Administrative Assistant), Jim Zhang (Administrative Assistant), Kishan Sivakumar (Administative Assistant and Software Team Manager), Michael Juma (Administrative Assistant), Olawunmi “Ola” Ijisesan (Administrative and Management Support), Rachna Malav (Data Analyst), Ruiqi Liu (Administrative Assistant), T R Samarth Urs (Data Analyst), Vibhav Chimatapu (Data Analyst/Admin Assistant) and Zuqi Li (Administrative Assistant and Economic Analyst). This week, Durgeshwari updated the first draft of the HGN Phase 3 deliverable tracking table and handled interviews for software development and admin teams. Jessica reviewed and provided feedback on new administrators’ training, interviewed a potential volunteer, and organized her Dropbox folders. Jim did his part prioritizing positive global change as he continued research on ESG investing strategies and their integration into portfolio construction models. Kishan focused on SEO optimization efforts and discussed admin onboarding with Jae. Juma began his administrative assistant role, managing collaboration documents and team summaries, among other tasks. Ola managed online content, scheduled posts, and organized workspace elements. Rachna did her part prioritizing positive global change as she oversaw software development teams, handled interviews, and focused on SEO pages. Ruiqi completed reviews for multiple teams and assisted in publishing bio announcements. Sneka worked on SEO optimization, time log management, and reviewed team content. Samarth managed a PR review team, evaluated their work, and summarized their efforts in a blog post. Vibhav reviewed PR team submissions, created group summaries, and optimized web page SEO. Zuqi organized summaries for various teams, reviewed blog optimizations, and fixed blog attributes. One Community’s model for prioritizing positive global change includes developing and maintaining a supportive administration team like this. You can see the work for the team in the image below.

GRAPHIC DESIGN TEAM

The Graphic Design Team’s summary was managed by Zuqi Li (Administrative Assistant and Economic Analyst) and included Ashlesha Navale (Graphic Designer), covering their work on graphic designs for prioritizing positive global change. This week Ashlesha worked on making changes in the Treehouse Village book-pages 36, 37, 38 and 39 and uploaded the Indesign Book file and created PDF file too. Additionally, she researched and curated a collection of nature-based background images and different theme-based images for creating Social Media Images and created five social media images. See the Highest Good Society pages for more on how this contributes to prioritizing positive global change. See the collage below to view some of their work.

HIGHEST GOOD NETWORK PROGRESS

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

• Learn about our open source community collaboration and management software designed for measuring our results as we are prioritizing positive global change: The Highest Good Network

This week, the core team continued their work on the Highest Good Network PRs testing, confirming the fixed PRs. They focused on HGN PR testing, confirming fixes for edit time entry tracking and the blue square function (PR2131), enhancing the protected account activity warning feature, and resolving a mentor summary setting issue (PR2317). Additional fixes included addressing a white screen issue in the Teams section and creating a way to reorder User Suggestion Categories (PR1913) on the Dev environment. They identified unfixed issues like the “Hours by Team Member” visualization on the Projects Reports page and setting users’ status to “rehireable” by default (2367). The team also worked on improving the admin/owner users’ ability to approve suggested changes on tasks, tested related features, recorded explanatory videos, and set up a case for testing a new scheduled-on date feature (FE2009/BE779). They reviewed the Highest Good Network User’s Manual, updating images for the Dashboard menu bar, timer buttons, and theme options, and commented on the Profile page text. See the Highest Good Society and Highest Good Network pages for more on how this relates to prioritizing positive global change. 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 Lin Khant Htel (Frontend Software Developer) and includes Jordy Corporan (Software Engineer), Logeshwari Renu (Software Engineer) and Nathalia Mesquita Carnevalli (Full Stack Software Developer). The Highest Good Network software is how we will manage and measure our processes for prioritizing positive global change across our social architecture, construction, production, and maintenance processes. Lin worked on unit testing for the DashboardController, focusing on the getSuggestionOption function. He also reviewed the weekly summaries, photos, and videos of his team Alpha members. Jordy advanced unit tests for both the popupEditorController and the emailController, working to ensure these tests are robust. He aimed to complete these tasks and push the updates to the repository to maintain project momentum. Nathalia addressed several bugs in the pull request for “Search Projects By Person” and completed the task “Fix PROJECT REPORT UI issues for 375px and up,” resolving problems with overlapping tasks table header items, dark mode stub placeholder appearance, title element order for screens 815px or below, and table responsiveness. Logeshwari did her part prioritizing positive global change as she reviewed five pull requests and contributed to frontend development for resolving issues in the HGN Software Development web application. She tested pull requests #PR2401 and #PR1010, ensuring compatibility with special characters, numbers, and alphabets within a defined range for Team codes, and added a “Select All with no Team code” option in the dropdown. Logeshwari ensured all test cases passed for pull requests #PR1007, #PR2406, and #PR2407. She transitioned to development tasks, addressing the “handleModalOpen is not defined” error by implementing changes in the PermissionsManagement component and initiated pull request #PR2420 titled “Logeshwari_Fix_Role_’i’_icons_top_of_Permissions_Management”. See the Highest Good Society and Highest Good Network pages for more on how this relates to prioritizing positive global change. View some of the team’s work in the collage below.

BADGES BUGS SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT TEAM

The Badges Bugs Team’s summary overseeing advancements in the Highest Good Network software was managed by Summit Kaushal (Backend Software Developer). The Highest Good Network software is how we’ll be managing and objectively measuring our process for prioritizing positive global change through our social architecture, construction, production, and maintenance processes. This week, Summit navigated through the team document to identify potential team members, creating lists based on coding skills, debugging proficiency, and database expertise, with an additional focus on Azure skills. Separate lists were created for members with varying ratings: those ranging from 6 to 9, indicating strong skills in one area but lower in another, and those who rated themselves between 5 and 6. Summit did his part prioritizing positive global change as he prioritized adding individuals with higher ratings to the list but also considered those with lower ratings. A recruitment letter was modified to include information previously mentioned by Jae, and messages were sent via Slack to individuals with skill ratings of 9-10. Several recruiting messages were sent, resulting in two members expressing interest in joining the team, and shared documents were sent, notifying Jae of these potential team members. Summit encountered an issue with Postman while reviewing PR 996 and reviewed the Postman API documentation to understand the problem better. Attempts to resolve the issue involved checking the code for potential issues related to routes and controllers, verifying the GET URL in Postman, and modifying the route, though the changes had no effect. A debug video was also reviewed to assist in resolving the issue. See the Highest Good Society and Highest Good Network pages for more on how this relates to prioritizing positive global change. View some of the team’s work in the collage below.

BINARY BRIGADE SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT TEAM

The Binary Brigade Team’s summary overseeing advancements in the Highest Good Network software was managed by Min Sun (Software Engineer) and includes Aaryaneil Nimbalkar (Software Developer), Deepthi Kannan (Software Engineer), Huijie Liu (Software Engineer), Peizhou Zhang (Software Engineer), Sai Sarath Kumar Alavakonda (Software Engineer), Sandhya Adavikolanu (Software Developer) and Sri Sudersan Thopey Ganesh (Software Engineer). The Highest Good Network software is how we’ll be managing and objectively measuring our process for prioritizing positive global change through our social architecture, construction, production, and maintenance processes.

This week, Aaryaneil added unit test cases for the WeeklySummaryOptions component, testing rendering summary options, handling user profile changes, and setting the default value to required. Work on unit tests for the VolunteeringTimeTab component was initiated, and research on hosting options for the HGN app was done, including a review of BlueHost and its alternatives. Comparisons between BlueHost and A2 Hosting were made, and a report compiling reviews from various sources on all hosting providers was created for Jae. Deepthi did her part prioritizing positive global change as she focused on fixing UI issues for the send emails page, ensuring functionality across dimensions from 375px to 800px. She updated Announcements.css by adding media queries, adjusted the component structure and styles in index.jsx, and verified the design across multiple breakpoints. She wrote the final code, tested it on the local host website, created PR 2426, and documented the changes with videos and snapshots. Deepthi worked with Prashanth on the user manual and coordinated with Min Sun for the manager in training role. Earlier, she faced errors while opening the app through the local host and sought assistance. Huijie continued working on the work distribution bar chart component, modifying her code based on backend and frontend updates for the total organization summary page, and performed tests on the fix time match task.

Min did his part prioritizing positive global change as he continued working on Task 717, creating methods to retrieve userId for team members and a method to retrieve partial userProfile. After realizing performance issues, he decided to create more backend endpoints to improve performance. Min also approved PR2410, 1007, 981, 2391, 2407, 2416, 2402, 2419, hosted the weekly meeting, reviewed team reports, proofread, and submitted the team summary. Peizhou wrapped up the work on the page refresh efficiency issue and created a pull request for other developers to review and follow up. He also began addressing a new task related to the team report page turning bright and did research to find a solution for this issue. Peizhou did his part prioritizing positive global change as he wrapped up the work on the page refresh efficiency issue and created a pull request for other developers to review and follow up. He also began addressing a new task related to the team report page turning bright and did research to find a solution for this issue. Sai gained access to the One Community HGN git repository after contacting Jae. A high-priority bug on the Teams page in the admin/owner interface was debugged, identifying the file causing UI issues at various dimensions. A new CSS file, TeamsOverview.css, was created and implemented to ensure responsive design, preventing cards from stacking vertically. Clarifications were sought from Nahiyan, and after obtaining git access, the changes were committed, and a new pull request (#2416) was created. The work, including screenshots and recordings, was compiled into a PDF document and uploaded to the shared Dropbox folder.

Sandhya made progress on the HGN Software Development project. She started by creating a pull request to merge her feature branch into the weekly-volunteer-summary-dashboard branch, ensuring that all recent changes were integrated into the main branch. Sandhya also addressed issues related to the “Share as PDF” feature on the Total Org Summary webpage. She took over the tasks related to analyzing the task completed bar chart and the testing dashboard, delving deeply into the problem statements to identify potential issues and areas for improvement. Sandhya did her part prioritizing positive global change as she had a productive meeting with Harsh, where they reviewed the progress and discussed the upcoming tasks and strategies for the project. They identified key areas that needed immediate attention and formulated a plan to address them. Sri developed the Blue Square Stats component for the Total Org Summary Dashboard, designing the DonutChart component, a React functional component, to render an interactive donut chart using D3.js for data visualization. React hooks like useRef and useEffect managed SVG rendering and updates. The component used D3 functions such as pieGenerator and arcGenerator to calculate pie slices and arc shapes based on data, while colorScale mapped colors to data labels. Interactive features included hover effects on arcs, and text labels inside arcs displayed numerical values and percentages. A legend enhanced clarity by associating colors with data categories. Sri pushed all related code to the feature branch, sri/blue-square-stats. See the Highest Good Society and Highest Good Network pages for more on how this relates to prioritizing positive global change. View some of the team’s work in the collage below.

BLUE STEEL SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT TEAM

The Blue Steel Team’s summary, presenting their work on the Highest Good Network software was managed by Jingyi Jia (Software Engineer, Team Manager), and includes Bhuvan Dama (Full stack Developer), Jay Srinivasan (Software Engineer), Parth Rasu Jangid (Software Developer), Ramakrishna Aruva (Software Engineer), and Tzu Ning “Leo” Chueh (Software Engineer). The Highest Good Network software is how we’ll be managing and objectively measuring our process for prioritizing positive global change through our social architecture, construction, production, and maintenance processes. This week, Jay reviewed weekly summaries and media folders for Team Blue Steel, completed work on the force new password issue, and submitted two PRs for the corresponding frontend and backend changes. He also tackled a new issue with unit tests for the SameFolderTasks component, encountering challenges with the mock adapter’s handling of component requests. Ramakrishna focused on enhancing the replace code function, creating a state to capture selected IDs efficiently and implemented a regex for the replaceTeamCode functionality. He did his part prioritizing positive global change as he completed frontend tasks by creating an API endpoint and implementing an Axios patch call. On the backend, he developed Express.js routers and updated values using Mongoose schemas but faced a “Bad Request” error which is still under resolution. Bhuvan developed a test suite for picker components, which failed to build. He also resolved code pulling issues and created test cases for the TableFilter.jsx file, focusing on fixing build crashes. Tzu Ning refined team management functionality, ensuring constant functionality of “Assign Team” and “Delete” buttons and integrating toast notifications for better user feedback. Parth reviewed four pull requests (PRs 970+2306, 1015+2409, 2276, 2408) and began writing unit tests for the timeZoneAPIController, aiming to complete them within a set timeframe. He also revisited his pull request 962 to aid its integration and assisted Luis with debugging his unit tests. See the Highest Good Society and the Highest Good Network pages to learn more on how their work contributes to prioritizing positive global change. See below to view images of their work.

EXPRESSERS SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT TEAM

The Expressers Team’s summary, covering their work on the Highest Good Network software, was managed by Shereen Punnassery (Full Stack Software Engineer) and includes Christy Guo (Software Engineer), Jiayu Huang (Software Engineer), Kaushik Malikireddy (Full Stack Developer Intern), KyoSook Shin (Software Engineer), and Mohammad Abbas (Software Engineer). The Highest Good Network software is how we’ll manage and objectively measure our process for prioritizing positive global change through our social architecture, construction, production, and maintenance processes.

Christy focused on implementing the backend for Hour Task Visualization and worked on resolving the error message when configuring API routing to fetch project and related task information, aiming to fix those API endpoints to ensure seamless data retrieval. KyoSook worked on frontend development, including adding a stopwatch function and a pause toggle button, improving the appearance of the stopwatch, identifying and fixing an issue with backend communication related to BMTimeLogProjectDetails rendering, and addressing a Dropbox access issue by requesting Jae to delete the account created as a 30-day trial and recreate it as a basic account. Kyo Sook also worked on creating a bio for the OneCommunity web page and on backend efforts to extract the taskName for each user by sending separate signals to the server due to latency issues, necessitating additional signals to update members’ hours when the stopwatch is stopped.

Shereen worked on the Equipment List View component to fix a sorting issue, addressed the Bulk Reusables Update component to resolve problems with ‘Used’ and ‘Wasted’ fields, fixed issues related to form validation for the Telephone Number and Rental To Date fields in the Add Tool component, and performed unit testing for the Weekly Summary Modal, including adding a new test case for the toggle feature. Kaushik reviewed 13 PRs, assisted fellow volunteers on Slack with resolving bugs, and familiarized himself with the managerial process for submitting the team’s weekly summaries. Jiayu created a new pull request for implementing a limit see-all option for teams, resolved merge conflicts, modified the logic for displaying the limit see-all toggle, fixed a bug, and added a loading state for fetching team members to prevent the display of previous team members for new teams. Jiayu did her part prioritizing positive global change as she also began work on adding a standard time entry and description for “add lost time” time logs along with associated testing.

Mohammad focused on identifying and resolving issues to improve the project’s functionality. KyoSook identified and fixed an issue with backend communication; the error was due to improper rendering of BMTimeLogProjectDetails linked with the `/bmdashboard/timelogger/` path, and additional lines were added to ensure proper rendering. On the backend, KyoSook extracted the taskName for each user, which required sending separate signals to the server due to latency issues in retrieving taskName from the Task model. See the Highest Good Society and Highest Good Network pages for more on how this relates to prioritizing positive global change. See the collage below for the team’s work this week.

GIT-R-DONE SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT TEAM

The Git-R-Done Team’s summary, covering their work on the Highest Good Network software includes Kavil Rajendra Jain (Software Developer), Sushmitha Prathap (Software Developer) and Youyou Zhang (Software Developer). The Highest Good Network software is how we’ll be managing and objectively measuring our process for prioritizing positive global change across our social architecture, construction, production, and maintenance processes. This week, Kavil worked on reviewing five pull requests: PR 2306 – 970, PR 2310, PR 2332, PR 2343, and PR 2359 – 992.

Sushmitha contributed to prioritizing positive global change as she reviewed the work of team members that was ready for review and then went through the individual summaries. Following this, Sushmitha worked on creating a pull request for the projectController and resumed work on the TaskController file. Additionally, she worked on unit tests for the taskEditSuggestion controller, handling all the cases.

Youyou reviewed the Google Doc containing unsolved bugs and claimed a task aimed at allowing a larger margin around certain icons to prevent overlapping with longer text. She began working on the task but encountered issues with the backend development branch, where errors occurred upon loading the frontend dashboard. This problem has hindered the development process since testing the frontend is difficult without a functioning backend. See the Highest Good Society and Highest Good Network pages for more on how this relates to prioritizing positive global change. See the collage below for the team’s work this week.

MOONFALL SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT TEAM

The Moonfall Team’s summary, covering their work on the Highest Good Network software was managed by Lu Wang (Software Engineer) and includes Abdelmounaim “Abdel” Lallouache (Software Developer), Shrada Chellasamiand (Software Engineer) and Yili Sun (Software Engineer). The Highest Good Network software is how we’ll be managing and objectively measuring our process for prioritizing positive global change across our social architecture, construction, production, and maintenance processes. This week, Abdelmounaim resolved an issue where users who had never logged time and been active for more than one week did not receive blue squares, submitting PR 1022. He also fixed the style of the follow-up button and the task board table on small screens, ensuring the table header was properly aligned and that the table collapsed correctly on smaller devices. Additionally, he troubleshooted the map location functionality for new users.

Lu did her part prioritizing positive global change as she focused on writing and fixing unit tests for the PeopleReport/components/PeopleTasksPieChart.jsx component. She redesigned the test cases for selector functions to ensure they accurately filter and process data according to the latest requirements. Lu also addressed and fixed issues related to rendering and data binding in the chart by improving the performance and visual accuracy. She rewrote the test cases to cover more edge cases and improve test coverage, especially handling errors related to state management and asynchronous data handling. Additionally, Lu handled her assistant team management duties, which included writing the weekly report, reviewing teammates’ work, and collecting the best two pictures of work from teammates.

Shrada completed the previous task and reviewed the PR, resolving all suggested changes. She took on a new task and completed three parts of it, focusing on the loading screen to ensure the spinning circle is displayed in the center alongside the loaded projects instead of on the left side. Additionally, Shrada addressed layout issues, including adjusting the right margin at 991px and below to match the left margin and aligning the up and down arrows in the second column at the same resolution.

Yili fixed the incorrect information in the pop-ups for Permissions Management info icons, tested the changes locally to ensure everything was working correctly, and created a pull request on GitHub. Additionally, Yili worked on the new task to fix User Management Page UI issues, testing the bugs on the development branch to verify their existence and understand their impact. See the Highest Good Society and Highest Good Network pages for more on how this relates to prioritizing positive global change. See the collage below for the team’s work this week.

REACTONAUTS SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT TEAM

The Reactonauts Team’s summary, covering their work on the Highest Good Network software was managed by Changhao Li (Software Engineer) and includes Dhairya Mehta (Software Engineer), Diya Wadhwani (Software Developer), Hetvi Patel (Software Engineer), Hoang Pham (Software Developer), Peterson Rodrigues dos Santos (Full-Stack MERN Stack Developer), Vijeth Venkatesha (Full Stack Developer) and Yash Agrawal (Software Engineer). The Highest Good Network software is how we’ll be managing and objectively measuring our process for prioritizing positive global change across our social architecture, construction, production, and maintenance processes. This week, Changhao focused on team management, unit test development, and assisting new team members. He hosted the weekly team meeting to review progress and addressed questions from new members, set up the weekly team pic folder for progress uploads, and reminded the team to upload on time via Slack. He also read and summarized individual weekly summaries from team members and reviewed development documents and functions for timeentry.jsx, continuing work on the unit test file.

Dhairya addressed the “Fix Projects find user function” task, identifying the root cause of the issue affecting user discovery within the projects section and developing a sort and search function to optimize user assignment processes.

Diya did her part prioritizing positive global change as she worked on fixing the “Fix Assign/Edit/Delete Blue Squares” bug, made necessary changes, and updated screenshots and videos to illustrate the fixes. Although the bug was fixed, reloading the user profile did not fetch updated infringement details. She raised a PR for this bug, reviewed multiple PRs, claimed new bugs, and worked on adding a reasons field while assigning blue squares. Challenges were encountered in reviewing PRs due to issues running the code.

Hetvi completed front-end development for AJAX functionality and filtering in the search engine, resolved challenges related to font color in search results, images, and page titles, and did a review and testing of the global search engine flow.

Hoang continued working on fixing the issue related to approving or rejecting a task edit suggestion that had already been approved or rejected by someone else, implemented a method to refetch data, and addressed updating weekly summaries for other users to ensure accurate and current information.

Peterson did his part prioritizing positive global change as he fixed the last remaining bug on the “User Profile” page in the “Teams” tab and the modal for the “Assign Team” button, and started implementing a feature for autocomplete suggestions in the “Create Team” input.

Vijeth worked on Docker for the back-end server code, created a Docker image, hosted it on Docker Hub, and assisted a team member in testing it before making a PR release. He also helped resolve issues related to JWT-decode.

Yash set up the React application using TypeScript, established the backend infrastructure with Node.js, constructed the dashboard for the listing rental platform using React, configured a MongoDB database to store listing data, and created a GraphQL API for efficient querying and retrieval of these listings. See the Highest Good Society and Highest Good Network pages for more on how this relates to prioritizing positive global change. See the collage below for the team’s work this week.

SKYE SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT TEAM

The Skye Team’s summary, covering their work on the Highest Good Network software was managed by Luis Arevalo (Software Engineer) and includes Abi Liu (Software Engineer), Gowtham Dongari (Software Engineer), and Mengtian Chen (Software Engineer). The Highest Good Network software is how we’ll be managing and objectively measuring our process for prioritizing positive global change across our social architecture, construction, production, and maintenance processes. This week, Abi focused on aggregating data for the overview reports page, specifically grouping users by their location data. In addition to this task, he completed the unit testing for the map locations controller. Furthermore, he initiated the process of writing integration tests for the router, ensuring coverage and functionality.

Gowtham focused on refining key functionalities within the HGN Software Development project, addressing specific needs concerning core team members and system stability. He put in efforts to properly process additional hours for core team members, working on adjusting these hours to be accounted for in upcoming weeks’ target hours. This task required him to develop a solution for adjusting the minimum hours fulfillment, enhancing the system’s handling of workload distribution among core team members. Additionally, Gowtham resolved a critical error that caused the application to crash when launched locally. This fix was crucial for maintaining the operational stability of the development environment, ensuring that further enhancements could be made without interruption. Simultaneously, he completed his work on the “Fix ‘Filter by Over Hours'” task. After development and testing, he raised a PR for review, marking a significant step toward improving the system’s ability to manage and report on hours worked, especially those exceeding the set thresholds.

Luis did his part prioritizing positive global change as he continued to test the inventoryController and faced several challenges. During a pair programming session with Parth, Parth guided Luis on how to solve these issues and completed the testing for the postInvInProjectWBS function. The only remaining issue was sending a 201 status when updating an inventory item, which is where he left off. He made plans to complete the postInvInProjectWBS and worked on a new feature to take a break from unit testing.

Mengtian worked on developing and refining unit tests for the `GoogleDocIcon` component in a React project. The tasks included writing tests to ensure the component correctly opens a new window when a valid link is present, displays an error toast when no link is provided, and appropriately toggles the `inactive` class based on the presence of the link. Additionally, tests were written to verify that the `handleGoogleDocClick` function is triggered by both Enter and Space key presses. The test suite involved mocking external dependencies like the `toast` function from `react-toastify` to prevent actual toasts during testing and using `@testing-library/react` for rendering components and simulating user interactions. See the Highest Good Society and Highest Good Network pages for more on how this relates to prioritizing positive global change. See the collage below for the team’s work this week.

SOFTWARE PR REVIEW TEAM A-L

The PR Review Team’s summaries for team members’ names starting with A-L and covering their work on the Highest Good Network software was managed by Vibhav Chimatapu (Data Analyst/Admin Assistant). The Highest Good Network software is a foundation of what we’ll be using to measure our results for prioritizing positive global change. This week’s active members of this team were: Carl Bebli (Software Engineer), Howie Miao (Software Engineer/Developer), Ichinnorov Tuguldur (Software Engineer), Jinxiong You (Software Engineer), Keshav Daga (Software Engineer), Kurtis Ivey (Software Engineer), and Sahithi Dhulipala (Software Engineer). 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 prioritizing positive global change in the Highest Good Network open source hub. The collage below shows a compilation of the work from this team.

SOFTWARE PR REVIEW TEAM M-Z

The PR Review Team’s summary for team members’ names starting with M-Z and covering their work on the Highest Good Network software was managed by Olawunmi “Ola” 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 prioritizing positive global change. This week’s active members of this team were: Rishitha Kondabolu (Software Developer), Shengwei “Peter” Peng (Software Engineer), Vigneshwar Muriki (Software Engineer), Vijay Anand Pandian (Full Stack Software Engineer), Xiao Wang (Software Engineer), Vishavdeep Kaur (Full Stack Developer) and Yiyun Tan (Software Engineer). 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 prioritizing positive global change 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 Sushmitha Prathap to the Software Development Team as our newest Volunteer/Consultant!

Sushmitha is a proficient full stack developer with expertise in web development and enterprise software. With a Master of Science in Information Systems from Northeastern University, she has a solid foundation in both front-end and back-end development, excelling in creating robust and scalable software solutions. Sushmitha’s experience encompasses building APIs, developing mobile and web applications, and optimizing state management. Outside of work, she enjoys exploring cloud technologies, reading about integration testing, and watching videos on innovative tech solutions. As a member of the One Community team, Sushmitha is helping develop the Highest Good Network software.

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One Community welcomes Durgeshwari Naikwade to the Administration/Management Team as our newest Volunteer/Consultant!

Durgeshwari has over two years of experience in data analytics and engineering and holds a master’s degree in Business Analytics. She excels at transforming data into actionable insights to drive strategic decisions and improve organizational performance. At One Community, as part of the Admin and Analytical team, she has played a key role in HR analytics, designing and creating wireframes for dashboards within the Highest Good Network software to visualize important metrics. She has also been instrumental in the hiring process, applying her analytical skills to identify and select the best candidates. Her strong analytical skills, adaptability, and commitment to the organization’s mission showcase her effective combination of management and technical expertise.

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One Community welcomes Imran Issa to the Software Development Team as our newest Volunteer/Consultant!

Imran is a recent graduate with a Bachelor’s degree in IT and over three years of software development experience. He began his self-taught programming journey in 2020 starting with Java and expanding his expertise to include Python, JavaScript, and Flutter. He has also explored PHP, C#, and Linux, showcasing his versatility and to grow and refine his skills. He believes in the power of continuous learning and the endless possibilities in software development. Currently, as a Full-Stack MERN Developer on the One Community team, he contributes to the Highest Good Network software by focusing on permissions management. This involves implementing and fixing permissions to improve accessibility and authorization, proper data access and controlled feature access.

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