Posted on July 23, 2024 by One Community Hs
One Community welcomes KyoSook Shin to the Software Development Team as our newest Volunteer/Consultant!
KyoSook is a software engineer with over 10 years of experience in embedded systems and full-stack web development, working across both big tech firms and small-sized companies. After graduating from Yonsei University, she specialized in real-time device drivers and kernels. Operating systems and communication stack layers are her playground, C/C++ is her second language next to her native tongue, and she utilizes statistical methods for optimum software development processes. She is enthusiastic about broadening her software skills, including full-stack development, artificial intelligence, parallel computing, and algorithmic efficiency for performance-oriented software programming. Starting in August 2024, she will be pursuing a Master’s degree in Computer Science at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. She also holds certificates for Six Sigma Master Black Belt and ISTQB. KyoSook has been developing the TimeLogger functionality as a member of the Highest Good Network software team at One Community.
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Posted on July 23, 2024 by One Community Hs
One Community welcomes Min Sun to the Software Development Team as our newest Volunteer/Consultant!
Min is a passionate software engineer with a strong foundation in computer science and a track record of implementing innovative solutions. He is pursuing a Master of Science in Computer Science from Northeastern University and holds a Bachelor of Science in Computer Science from Penn State University. Min’s expertise spans multiple programming languages, databases, web technologies, and AI/ML, enabling him to tackle complex software challenges efficiently. He excels at architecting scalable solutions, optimizing code performance, and collaborating effectively within development teams to deliver high-quality software products. As a member of the One Community Highest Good Network team, Min is contributing to the Dashboard component, reviewing pull requests, and working as a manager of a development team.
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Posted on July 23, 2024 by One Community Hs
One Community welcomes Zuqi Li to the Administration/Management Team as our newest Volunteer/Consultant!
Zuqi has close to two years of experience in data analytics and administration and holds a Master’s degree in Applied Economics and Econometrics from the University of Southern California. With her strong analytical background and proficiency in econometric modeling, data analytics, SQL, python and Tableau, she excels at deriving actionable insights and using advanced statistical techniques to enhance organizational performance. As a volunteer at One Community, she has made significant contributions by designing comprehensive wireframes for dashboards within the Highest Good Network software, effectively visualizing key metrics. Her commitment to the organization’s mission is further demonstrated by her active role in optimizing the volunteer team management process and improving SEO strategies, ensuring the content reaches a broader audience.
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Posted on July 22, 2024 by One Community
At One Community, we are dedicated to consciously mapping humanity’s future through sustainable approaches to food, energy, housing, education, and economics. Our all-volunteer team is committed to creating a model that becomes self-replicating, fostering global collaboration through teacher/demonstration hubs. By open sourcing and free sharing the complete process, we aim to evolve sustainability and regenerate our planet. Our mission is to create a world that works for everyone, always striving for “The Highest Good of All.“
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One Community’s physical location will forward this movement for consciously mapping humanity’s future as the first of many self-replicating teacher/demonstration communities, villages, and cities to be built around the world. This is the July 22nd, 2024 edition (#592) of our weekly progress update detailing our team’s development and accomplishments:
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One Community is consciously mapping humanity’s future 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:
This week, Adefola Madehin (Electrical Design Specialist) continued his work with Earthbag Village designs. Fola revised the socket circuit of the Earthbag 4 Dome Village Electrical Design project and added extractor fans, air-conditioning sockets, kitchen hoods, cooker control units, and water heaters to the electrical design according to the National Electrical Code (NEC). He also amended the schematic diagram of the main electrical panel. The Earthbag Village is the first of 7 to be built as the housing component of One Community’s open source model for consciously mapping humanity’s future. See some of this work in the collage below.
Joseph Osayande (Mechanical Engineer) continued helping finish the Vermiculture Toilet designs. This week, research focused on finding a new connector or interface to keep the frame connected to the stand. Quick drafts of potential structures were created, but nothing concrete has been finalized yet. A new interface that is believed to work for the unistrut was designed, and work continued on other parts of the structure, including the vertical bar. The vermiculture toilets and other sustainable human waste processing technologies form the basis of One Community’s open source model for consciously mapping humanity’s future. 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 worked on connecting unistrut channels for the vermiculture chamber assembly without welding. He designed custom 3D models for L-brackets and wing connectors in SolidWorks, evaluating component interference and assembly ease. Rizwan also documented the mechanical engineering team’s work on the eco-toilet design, including design, analysis, calculations, and cost analysis for posting on One Community’s website. These sustainable technologies contribute to One Community’s open-source model for mapping humanity’s future. Here are a few photos showing examples of his work.
Yagyansh Maheshwari (Mechanical Engineer) started his work with Earthbag Village designs. This week, Yagyansh focused on checking the calculation done on the worm density based on the spreadsheet. He also researched various methods for transporting the drawers to the dumping site and explored different techniques for effectively dumping the contents. This work aims to improve the efficiency of the vermiculture process. The Earthbag Village is the first of 7 to be built as the housing component of One Community’s open source model for consciously mapping humanity’s future. See some of this work in the collage below.
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), Preston Thompson (Civil Engineering Student), and Tad Matlock (Environmental Science Student). This week, Tad analyzed 7th Generation Dish Soap and Drexel as foaming agents for Aircrete, completing 27 trial summaries. Jonathan’s team focused on stabilizing the Domegaia method with compression testing. Preston’s team achieved success with high concrete ratio batches, though extra foam testing failed. John’s team addressed collapsing issues, using a concrete mixer for successful trials and editing procedure videos. These efforts support One Community’s sustainable housing model. See below for some of the pictures related to this work.
The Earthbag Village 4-dome Roof Team was managed by Khushboo Parmar (Project Manager) and includes Karthik Pillai (Volunteer Mechanical Engineer) and Yusuf Thanawala (Structural Engineer). Karthik created 2D dome drawings to improve replicability and aligned them with recent changes, while enhancing his Revit skills. Adefola revised the Earthbag 4 Dome Village Electrical Design to meet NEC standards, updating the socket circuit and main panel schematic. Khushboo conducted interviews, extended offers, and addressed candidate backlogs, while facilitating a project issue resolution meeting. Yusuf continued his loft design work and researched CLT panels for attic use in mass timber construction. These efforts support One Community’s sustainable Earthbag village model. See their work in the collage below.
One Community is consciously mapping humanity’s future 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:
This week, Chris Blair (GIS Technician/Horticulturist) continued working with GIS data as part of One Community’s Permaculture Design. Chris continued developing a written tutorial for utilizing GIS data, detailing the steps to combine various digital elevation models (DEMs) together into one cohesive unit, change linear units, and alter the symbology of a DEM. Additionally, he explored methods to process DEMs to improve their visual smoothness. Proper property modeling and understanding is a foundational part of One Community’s open source model for consciously mapping humanity’s future. 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 worked on editing the Neofuturistic bathroom, addressing issues with the mirror and a few textures. She completed the edits in SketchUp before rendering them in Lumion. She also focused on the Old Hollywood-themed room, adding extra furniture to match the red and gold theme throughout the room. Additionally, she populated the room with people and adjusted the lighting settings, including the sun pathing, while taking several views. The City Center will be built along with the first of the 7 villages as part of One Community’s open source model for consciously mapping humanity’s future. See some of this work in the collage below.
One Community is consciously mapping humanity’s future 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:
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. New acquisitions included hand tools like bolt cutters, pipe wrenches, and paint brushes, as well as applicators like roller brushes and caulking guns. Additionally, the core team prepared for organized progress reporting by creating and labeling eighteen folders for weekly submissions through mid-November 2024. Highest Good Food is an important part of consciously mapping humanity’s future 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. This week, Charles focused on correcting anchor links within the materials section of the Tools and Equipment for Open Source Construction master page to ensure proper display in the address bar. Additionally, he addressed an issue where the left margin of the page shifted to the left edge when specific anchor links were clicked. Another task involved populating blank cells in tools, equipment, and materials items that needs to be provided by the authors. See his work in the collage below.
Prathamesh Jadhav (HVAC Design Engineer) started working on Aquapini and Walipini Planting and Harvesting. He reviewed the welcome document and studied topics related to Aquapini and Walipinis. He examined the designs of the Walipini, Aquapini, and Zenapini, including the details and software to be used for each. Additionally, Prathamesh reviewed the design of the Open Source Climate Battery. Highest Good food is an important part of consciously mapping humanity’s future with One Community’s open source plans. See his work in the collage below.
One Community is consciously mapping humanity’s future 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 Brian Mwoyowatidi (Graduate Structural Engineer) continued helping with the engineering details for The Ultimate Classroom part of the Highest Good Education component. Brian focused on building layout, formwork setup, and design considerations, discussing foundation construction, concrete curing methods, and inspections. He added video visual aids to the tutorial and provided step-by-step guidance on subfloor preparation, including subgrade assessment, sub-base installation, proof rolling, vapor barrier placement, and reinforcement. His work supports One Community’s sustainable education model for mapping humanity’s future. See the collage below for his work.
One Community is consciously mapping humanity’s future 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:
This week, the core team completed over 65 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 consciously mapping humanity’s future and how consciously mapping humanity’s future 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, reviewing numerous pages, including some previously abandoned ones. He also improved the scores of his previous web pages. Additionally, Arun managed and coordinated the scheduling of posts on One Community’s social media platforms such as Facebook, Instagram, Pinterest, and LinkedIn, and regularly updated the tutorials. This work helps One Community to broaden our reach in social media and spread our message about consciously mapping humanity’s future. The following images show his work for the week.
Ibrahim Al Balushi (Software Engineer) continued working on security and stability related issues for the Highest Good Network software. He completed research and identified a tutorial to address the Dependabot issues. Relevant tutorials were incorporated into the bugs document, an action item list was added, and further research was done to identify additional safe tutorials while awaiting approval. This work helps One Community’s mission of consciously mapping humanity’s future. The picture below shows some of his work.
Jia Shu (UX Designer) collaborated with John to delve into Phase 3 PRD, covering epics, user stories, tasks, and priorities. John advised on low-fidelity prototyping, paving the way for mid-fidelity prototypes. The team began studying web and iOS/Android design systems from Material Design, Android Design, and Apple Design to enhance user experience. They structured the design system around six epics and user stories, focusing on UI elements like colors and icons in Figma. Research continues on tasks such as activity evaluation, tracking, FAQ, calendar integration, and reports. This work contributes to One Community’s mission of mapping humanity’s future. The picture below shows some of this work.
Jiaqi Wu (UX Designer) created the event page for activity organizers, the detailed information page for events, and the main dashboard. She incorporated the PM’s advice by adding filters to the event calendar and agreed on the functionality of the event page and the workflow of the resources manager. Additionally, she collaborated with the PM and another UX designer, providing advice and making some concessions. This work helps One Community’s mission of consciously mapping humanity’s future. The picture below shows some of this work.
The Administration Team’s summary, covering their work administrating and managing most of One Community’s ongoing process for consciously mapping humanity’s future was managed by Sneka Vetriappan (Data Analyst) and includes 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), Ratna Meena Shivakumar (Data Analyst and Admin), 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). This week, Jessica began familiarizing herself with the HG Food Rollout plan and reviewed the new administrator’s training process. Jim updated the electrical vehicle page, analyzed cost savings, and searched for golf cart prices.
Kishan did his part helping us consciously mapping humanity’s future as he focused on optimizing the weekly update blog for SEO, while Michael continued improving blogs #490 to #499, addressing SEO metrics and keyword density. Ola reviewed the PR team’s work, trained new team volunteers, and organized the workspace. Rachna handled her regular administrative duties, created the weekly blog, and prepared for her transition to a new role as a mentor at One Community.
Ratna managed OC Administration tasks, including email reviews, blog updates, and social media post scheduling. Ruiqi completed the review process for the Dev Dynasty and Git-R-Done Team, ensured bio announcements were prepared, and worked on benchmarking Excel. Saumit did some work consciously mapping humanity’s future as he reviewed work, began PR review training, and participated in a Zoom meeting discussing new responsibilities. Samarth managed the PR review team, evaluated their work, optimized blog #531, and created a blog post summarizing the team’s work.
Vibhav proofread PR Team summaries, created group summaries and collages, and continued SEO optimization. Zuqi organized weekly summaries, updated the blog, and reviewed previous blog pages for SEO improvements. One Community’s model for consciously mapping humanity’s future includes developing and maintaining a supportive administration team like this. You can see the work for the team in the image below.
The Graphic Design Team’s summary was managed by Zuqi Li (Administrative Assistant and Economic Analyst) and included Ashlesha Navale (Graphic Designer) and Junyuan Liu (Graphic Designer, UI/UX Designer), covering their work on graphic designs for consciously mapping humanity’s future. This week, Ashlesha curated nature-based and theme-based background images for social media, producing nine images focused on self-improvement and sustainability. She also updated old social media and food recipe images. Liu, in his orientation process, learned about One Community’s mission and contributed by completing two social media images while working on a third. Their work supports One Community’s efforts in consciously mapping humanity’s future. See the collage below to view their contributions.
One Community is consciously mapping humanity’s future through open source Highest Good Network® software that is a web-based application for collaboration, time tracking, and objective data collection. The purpose of the Highest Good Network is to provide software for internal operations and external cooperation. It is being designed for global use in support of the different countries and communities replicating the One Community sustainable village models and related components.
This week, the core team continued their work on the Highest Good Network PRs testing, confirming the fixed PRs. This week, Several PRs were reviewed, including PR#2163 (copy WBS and Project ID functionality), PR#2348 (removed “Note” message on Profile page), PR#2295 (fixed Dark mode on SendEmail page), PR#2425 (fixed Dark mode for WBS page), and PR#2349 (fixed user creation errors). The timer issue was resolved, and FPR2409 and BPR1015 for the Chart Pie feature were tested. Unresolved issues include Profile page Dark mode problems, time log edits not appearing in history, PR#2078 errors, and visual issues with the Dark mode menu. This work supports One Community’s mission of mapping humanity’s future. See the collage below for more details.
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 Carlos Gomez (Full-stack Software Developer) and Logeshwari Renu (Software Engineer). The Highest Good Network software is how we will manage and measure our processes for consciously mapping humanity’s future across our social architecture, construction, production, and maintenance processes. This week, Lin focused on fixing the pagination UI for members in PR 2476. He reviewed and approved the unit testing and integration testing for PR 1021 (Project Controller) and PR 1027 (Time Zone API). Additionally, Lin reviewed the weekly summaries, photos, and videos related to the tasks of his team Alpha members.
Carlos reviewed the project backend using Abi’s API at the route api/reports/volunteerstats?startDate={startDate}&endDate={endDate}, focusing on fixing the aggregation logic. He analyzed another existing endpoint that uses api/TimeEntry/users and decided to use the getTimeEntriesForUsersList function from this endpoint. On the frontend, he did his part consciously mapping humanity’s future as he set up a list using allUserProfileReducer and filtered it for active users. He then built a reducer to manage time entries, named allUsersTimeEntrieReducer. Data for TotalOrgSummary.jsx, VolunteerHoursDistribution.jsx, and ReportPieChart.jsx was programmed, with state variables set up accordingly. The UI for Volunteer Hours Distribution is now 90% complete.
Logeshwari addressed an issue where newly created roles were not displayed in Permission Management. The solution involved updating role.js to call the API and create a new role via the addNewRole function, modifying PermissionsManagement.jsx to pass getAllRoles as a prop to CreateNewRolePopup in the ModalBody, and updating NewRolePopUp.jsx to include getAllRoles in mapDispatchToProps, as well as calling getAllRoles after successful role creation in handleSubmit. A pull request for review was created under PR 2471. See the Highest Good Society and Highest Good Network pages for more on how this relates to consciously mapping humanity’s future. View some of the team’s work in the collage below.
The Badges Bugs Team’s summary overseeing advancements in the Highest Good Network software was managed by Summit Kaushal (Backend Software Developer). This week, Summit addressed a Postman issue related to HGN by reviewing documents, collaborating on Slack, troubleshooting 401 and 404 errors, and experimenting with user authentication. He identified the need for further consultation with HGN members. Additionally, Summit managed recruitment activities and continued debugging efforts. This work supports One Community’s mission of mapping humanity’s future through the Highest Good Network. See the Highest Good Society and Highest Good Network pages for more. View some of the team’s work in the collage below.
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), Peizhou Zhang (Software Engineer), Sai Sarath Kumar Alavakonda (Software Engineer), Sandhya Adavikolanu (Software Developer), Sri Sudersan Thopey Ganesh (Software Engineer), Vigneshwar (Software Engineer), and Vijay Anand Pandian (Full Stack Software Engineer). The Highest Good Network software is how we’ll be consciously mapping humanity’s future through our social architecture, construction, production, and maintenance processes. This week, the HGN Software Development team worked on various tasks. Min completed adding manager icons to the dashboard and began optimizing the team report page loading speed. He also managed weekly meetings and reports.
Vigneshwar focused on creating a global volunteer network map, including developing a sample database and application with a map and volunteer status pie chart. He addressed challenges integrating the map and plans to use actual volunteer data next. Sri developed the VolunteerStatusPieChart component using Chart.js and created a separate PR for the Blue Square Stats component using D3.
Sai did his part consciously mapping humanity’s future as he resolved UI issues and backend problems affecting the “see all” toggle functionality. He also implemented a solution to display active and inactive team member counts on the Teams page.
Vijay completed various UI fixes for narrow screens and auto scroll functionality, reviewed pull requests, and addressed bugs. Peizhou completed his assigned task and requested further improvement assistance before moving on to a new one. Deepthi did her part consciously mapping humanity’s future as she edited and enhanced the HGN Phase 1 User Manual and implemented informational icons with tooltips for user roles on the Permissions Management page. Aaryaneil added test cases and reviewed several pull requests.
Sandhya advanced the data accuracy testing dashboard for HGN Software Development. She finalized styling, ensured responsiveness across devices, integrated the component with the main application, implemented data filters and date range selectors, conducted testing, and updated documentation. She also collaborated with the team, gathered feedback, and validated volunteer status data, identifying discrepancies in the “Task Completed Bar Chart” that will be addressed in a meeting with Harsh. See the Highest Good Society and Highest Good Network pages for more on how this relates to consciously mapping humanity’s future. View some of the team’s work in the collage below.
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 Imran Issa (Software 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). The Highest Good Network software is how we’ll be managing and objectively measuring our process for consciously mapping humanity’s future through our social architecture, construction, production, and maintenance processes. This week, Parth worked on integration tests for the timeZoneAPIController, requiring an API key for proper functionality. He also reviewed three pull requests: numbers 962, 2431, and 2470, resolved conflicts in his pull request, and discussed unit testing with Luis.
Jay focused on Team Blue Steel, providing feedback and completing unit tests for the SameFolderTasks component, addressing merge conflicts, and preparing a pull request for development integration. Imran tackled component testing challenges related to permission settings, resolved failing test cases from the previous week, and managed to open a pull request after updating his branch and fixing conflicts.
Ramakrishna did his part consciously mapping humanity’s future as he implemented advanced techniques like heap and hashing to optimize the replacement of team codes for up to 1000 users and tested changes locally. Tzu Ning did his part consciously mapping humanity’s future as he planned modifications to event handling logic in a form to enhance user interaction by enabling field resetting. Vishavdeep addressed a UI issue as detailed in the “HGN Phase I Bugs and Needed Functionalities” document, created a new branch for the fixes, tested PR2443+1025, and coordinated with Nahiyan for further clarification on the bug.
Jingyi addressed memory leaks in the userProfile page by implementing AbortController in React hooks to manage and cancel ongoing HTTP requests, which helped prevent updates to unmounted components. See the Highest Good Society and the Highest Good Network pages to learn more on how their work contributes to consciously mapping humanity’s future. See below to view images of their work.
The Code Crafters Team’s summary, covering their work on the Highest Good Network software, was managed by Ruiqi Liu (Administrative Assistant) and includes Pavan Swaroop Lebakula (Software Engineer), Weiyao Li (Software Engineer) and Xiaoyu Chen (Software Engineer). The Highest Good Network software is how we’ll manage and objectively measure our process for consciously mapping humanity’s future through our social architecture, construction, production, and maintenance processes. Pavan reviewed a pull request that was merged without prior review and examined the applications for bugs, finding none that were not already listed on the bugs page. He also claimed several pull requests and prepared to review them, ensuring that all changes aligned with project requirements.
Weiyao worked on the “add roles” feature, which required edit access to create roles with permissions. He has finished the feature and moved to the code review part. He also learned React, Redux, and testing concepts essential for later features. Xiaoyu helped with consciously mapping humanity’s future as she addressed and resolved issues related to a recursive loop and subterms in the codebase as seen in pull request 2444, and corrected several lint errors. She modified the screen size responsiveness and updated the CSS for a button to meet new requirements. Additionally, she implemented fixes for the latest model test and continuous integration test errors as detailed in pull request 2419. The collage below shows some of this work.
The Dev Dynasty Team’s summary, covering their work on the Highest Good Network software, was managed by Nahiyan Ahmed (Full Stack Software Developer) and includes Akshit Sharma (Software Engineer), Anuj Vakil (Software Engineer), Howie Miao (Software Engineer), Harsh Bodgal (Software Engineer). and Jatin Agrawal (Software Engineer), Nandini Yelmela (Software Engineer). The Highest Good Network software is how we’ll manage and objectively measure our process for consciously mapping humanity’s future through our social architecture, construction, production, and maintenance processes.
This week, Nahiyan resolved merge conflicts and addressed changes on the dashboard and permissions management page PRs. He assisted new team members with bug selection and provided feedback on mobile optimization. Nahiyan created PR 2470 for a dark mode button with hover effects and PR 2477 for a hotfix on the timelog page and dashboard scrollbars. Meanwhile, Howie focused on bug fixes, advancing the scrollbar task and working on a fix for end dates for inactive users. The scrollbar task is progressing but still requires interaction with the correct table. This work supports the goal of consciously mapping humanity’s future.
Akshit resolved UI issues on the people report page, including improvements to the task contribution section, added a clear filters button, and formatted PR #2005. He helped with consciously mapping humanity’s future as he addressed requests and merge conflicts in PRs #2382 and #2390, and resolved merge conflicts, eslint, and prettier errors in PR #2309. Additionally, Akshit made UI changes to the overview on the projects and teams page.
Anuj completed PR reviews for #2416 and #2453 and began developing a feature to add a Projects Page Inventory sort button. Jatin worked on PRs 2446, 2443, 2431, 2426, 2413, 2410, 2394, 2391, 2390, and 2385. Jatin did his part consciously mapping humanity’s future as he addressed a bug to allow the owner to edit user data on the user management pages and worked on fixing the UI for weekly summary modals.
Nandini focused on resolving various UI issues and enhancing the layout of the PROJECT REPORT PAGE for the HGN Software Development project. She fixed the WBS placeholder for dark mode, aligning the title correctly for screens 850px and below, adding side spacing for the WBS and Members table at 415px and below, and preventing header overlap in the tasks table for screens between 851px and 1000px. See the Highest Good Society and Highest Good Network pages for more on how this relates to consciously mapping humanity’s future. The collage below shows some of this work.
The Expressers Team’s summary, covering their work on the Highest Good Network software, was managed by Christy Guo (Software Engineer). The Highest Good Network software is how we’ll manage and objectively measure our process for consciously mapping humanity’s future through our social architecture, construction, production, and maintenance processes.
This week, Christy continued working on fixing the connection errors and was unable to fetch data errors for the backend implementation for Hour Task Visualization. She worked on resolving backend connectivity issues and configuring those API routing to fetch project information and those related task information. See the Highest Good Society and Highest Good Network pages for more on how this relates to consciously mapping humanity’s future. See the collage below for the team’s work this week.
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), Jiadong Zhang (Volunteer Software Engineer), Shrada Chellasami (Software Engineer) and Yili Sun (Software Engineer). The Highest Good Network software is how we’ll be managing and objectively measuring our process for consciously mapping humanity’s future across our social architecture, construction, production, and maintenance processes.
This week, Abdelmounaim focused on fixing an error that occurred when users attempted to send the setup profile link, which caused the modal not to refresh and clear the input. He raised PR 1035 to implement these fixes. Additionally, he resolved conflicts in PR 1029, removed unused code, and retested the functionality. On PR 2430, Abdelmounaim worked on finding a solution to pass the test by experimenting with different styling options.
This week, Jiadong worked on replacing a badge on the dashboard and updated his local environment to ensure a clean and updated codebase, addressing a potential bug caused by unmerged content. Shrada focused on fixing missing form validation on the user profile page, addressing errors caused by missing frontend validation for the last name field, which currently doesn’t display a warning message when the length is under two characters. Yili worked on resolving issues with the Permissions Management info icons, ensuring the ‘delete role’ popup wouldn’t appear when the ‘save’ popup closed, and fixed the unresponsive close icon for the ‘delete’ popup.
Additionally, Yili worked on several UI improvements for the User Management Page, adjusting elements like the show button, dropdown filter, search input, and table font size to improve layout and usability across different screen sizes. The setup invitation history modal, Setup New User modal, and reset password modal were also updated for better visibility and space management at smaller screen sizes. These efforts contribute to One Community’s vision of consciously mapping humanity’s future through enhanced usability and functionality. See collage below.
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), Hoang Pham (Software Developer), Nikhil Pittala (Software Engineer), Peterson Rodrigues dos Santos (Full-Stack MERN Stack Developer), Vijeth Venkatesha (Full Stack Developer) and Yash Agrawal (Software Engineer).This week, Changhao managed the team and developed unit tests for the Highest Good Network software, supporting progress in social architecture, construction, and maintenance. He welcomed a new team member, hosted the weekly meeting, and monitored time logs. Changhao processed extension requests, created a folder for team progress uploads, and worked on testing and modifying unit tests for timeentry.jsx.
Dhairya focused on addressing the “Fix Projects find user function” task. He did his part consciously mapping humanity’s future as he accurately identified the root cause of the issue affecting user discovery within the projects section. Leveraging this understanding, Dhairya took proactive steps to develop a comprehensive sort and search function.
This week, Diya reviewed the development branch, identified six bugs across Timelog, Reports, and UserProfile, and added them to the bug tracker. A hotfix was implemented for the teams page, with a pull request raised for review. Backend improvements were made for manual assignments and blue square edits, and UI changes aligned with Figma mockups were pushed through pull requests #1038 and #2475. A cursor placement issue remains for the summary field when selecting a date without a description.
Hoang addressed merge conflicts on two open PRs: “Make Mark Task as Done and Remove Task from User More Efficient” (#2347) and “Fix Viewing Other Dashboard” (#2257 and #949). Additionally, Hoang attempted a hotfix for the /timelog route accessibility issue. Hoang is doing his part consciously mapping humanity’s future as he is also coordinating with the PR reviewer, Diya, to re-test a problem related to submitting weekly summaries on behalf of others when viewing their dashboards, as the issue no longer seemed to exist. Furthermore, Hoang is reviewing feedback and making necessary adjustments to ensure the functionality and efficiency of the updates made to the system.
Nikhil completed 18 pull requests, covering both frontend and backend development as well as unit testing. As a new addition to the development team, Nikhil did his part consciously mapping humanity’s future as he spent time familiarizing himself with the code base to ensure a solid understanding before taking on further tasks. This involved reviewing existing code, understanding the architecture, and identifying key components and their interactions.
Peterson improved his pull request implementing the autocomplete feature for the code assignment input on the user profile page. The enhancements included adding three columns and ten rows in the autocomplete. As the user types in the input, the autocomplete filters to suggest codes similar to the entered text. If there are only three suggested codes, only one column and three rows are displayed. Additionally, the autocomplete now has scrolling when there are more than thirty codes available.
Vijeth worked on Docker for the front-end application, ensuring the Docker environment was fully tested and operational. He did his part consciously mapping humanity’s future as he deployed the Docker image on Docker Hub. Additionally, he attended weekly meetings, providing updates on his progress to keep the team informed. Vijeth also communicated with his manager about adjusting the number of hours allocated for the project. He then reviewed the project structure and the dashboard for future changes.
Yashu updated the React code with useState and useEffect hooks to manually refetch data using the useQuery hook. An Apollo Client was built with apollo-boost to consume GraphQL. The useQuery and useMutation hooks were refactored to use Apollo Hooks for more efficient handling. Session cookies were utilized to keep users signed in, and the CSRF token client authentication was set up to prevent CSRF attacks. The Google Location API was integrated for location data, and the Google Maps SDK for Node.js was added to list nearby places. Wildcard matching was also integrated to improve search results for queries. See the collage below for the team’s work this week.
The Skye Team’s summary, covering their work on the Highest Good Network software was managed by Luis Arevalo (Software Engineer) and includes, Gowtham Dongari (Software Engineer), Hui Kong (Software Engineer) and Youyou Zhang (Full Stuck Developer). This week, Gowtham resolved key issues in the HGN Software Development project, focusing on time log and user profile functionalities. He fixed a critical issue with the user time log page, created a hotfix for dynamic user ID updates, and submitted PR #2465 to address multiple time log issues. Gowtham also finalized changes for PR #2410 and resolved the team location search error, ensuring correct functionality across user profiles. His contributions support the HGN platform’s mission in mapping humanity’s future.
Hui did her part helping us consciously mapping humanity’s future as she reviewed back end and front end Pull Requests 945, 1027, 1037, 2297, 2342, 2345, 2383 + 1004, 2421 and 2469, examined the recent bugs in the ‘HGN Phase I Bugs and Needed Functionalities’. Hui also contacted the unit testing team but no response.
Luis continued testing the inventoryController and worked on error cases when testing the transferInvById function. He completed unit testing on the postInvInProject function and followed up with Parth regarding an issue, planning to complete the transferInvById unit test and move on to the next function.
Youyou reviewed and modified code to address changes requested in her last PR, specifically handling edge cases to trim spaces at the end of user input to prevent duplicates. She also worked on a new task to adjust the margin of certain icons when the accompanying text is too long. Additionally, she reviewed PR 2453, which involves a unit test for a component. Finally, Youyou completed writing her personal bio paragraph for the team member’s page. See the Highest Good Society and Highest Good Network pages for more on how this relates to consciously mapping humanity’s future. See the collage below for the team’s work this week.
The PR Review Team’s summaries for team members’ names starting with A-O and covering their work on the Highest Good Network software was managed by Vibhav Chimatapu (Data Analyst/Admin Assistant). This week’s active members of this team were: Ambika Kabra (Volunteer Software Engineer), Angela Cheng (Full Stack Developer), Carl Bebli (Software Engineer), Chetan Sunku (Software Engineer), Ishan Miglani (Software Engineer), Gaurav Setty (Software Engineer), Jinxiong You (Software Engineer), Keshav Daga (Software Engineer), Kurtis Ivey (Software Engineer), Nathan Hoffman (Software Engineer), Niketha Anand (Software Engineer), and Olga Yudkin (Software Engineer). The team reviewed all the Highest Good Network PRs (Pull Requests) shared in this week’s update. See the collage below for the team’s work this week.
The PR Review Team’s summary for team members’ names starting with P-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). This week’s active members of this team were: Rama Srikanth Kotaru (Software Engineer), Ramya Ramasamy (Full Stack Developer), Reina Takahara (Software Developer), Sailavanya Narthu (Software Engineer), Shadhrush Swaroop (Full Stack Software Engineer), Shengwei “Peter” Peng (Software Engineer), Sourav Girish Walke (Full Stack Engineer), Vaishnavi Kulkarni (Software Engineer), Xiao Wang (Software Engineer), Yiyun Tan (Software Engineer) and Zijie Yu (Software Engineer). See below for the team’s work this week.
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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.
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One Community’s physical location will forward this movement as the first of many self-replicating teacher/demonstration communities, villages, and cities to be built around the world. This is the July 15th, 2024 edition (#591) of our weekly progress update detailing our team’s development and accomplishments:
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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:
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.
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.
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.
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:
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.
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:
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.
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.
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:
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
The Code Crafters Team’s summary, covering their work on the Highest Good Network software, was managed by Ruiqi Liu (Administrative Assistant) and includes Carlos Gomez (Full-stack Software Developer), Weiyao Li (Software Engineer) and Xiaoyu Chen (Software Engineer). The Highest Good Network software streamlines holistic support management. Carlos optimized Redux in TotalOrgSummary, reset weekly hours in VolunteerHoursDistribution.jsx, and debugged VolunteerHoursStats.jsx. Weiyao developed the “add roles” feature with permissions while learning React and Redux. Xiaoyu enhanced the volunteer dashboard, rewrote permission functions, built a chart layout with Chart.js, and completed the getTaskAndProjectStats API call. See the Highest Good Society and Highest Good Network pages for more on how this relates to holistic human support webs. The collage below shows some of this work.
The Dev Dynasty Team’s summary, covering their work on the Highest Good Network software, was managed by Nahiyan Ahmed (Full Stack Software Developer) and includes Howie Miao (Software Engineer), Harsh Bodgal (Software Engineer). and Jatin Agrawal (Software Engineer). The Highest Good Network software helps manage and measure holistic human support webs across various processes. Nahiyan completed PR 2446, optimizing the permissions management page for mobile and tablet displays by redesigning pagination, adjusting font sizes, and ensuring responsive button sizes. He also addressed PR 2442, fixing issues with the dark mode button, including hover effects and font colors.
Howie transitioned from PR reviews to joining a development team to address bugs and work on website development after finishing up a couple more PR reviews. He shifted to bug searching on the user profile page, as suggested by Nahiyan. Jatin focused on bug fixes, working 20 hours on various PRs, including the bug on the weekly-voluntary summary frontend page. Harsh tackled an ongoing API issue, then shifted to developing a time period and comparison period selection dropdown, ensuring compatibility with existing systems and responsiveness. Additionally, he worked on integrating the dropdown with charts and APIs. The collage below shows some of this work.
The Expressers Team’s summary, covering their work on the Highest Good Network software, was managed by Christy Guo (Software Engineer) and includes Jiayu Huang (Software Engineer), Kaushik Malikireddy (Full Stack Developer Intern). The Highest Good Network software is how we’ll manage and objectively measure our process for holistic human support webs through our social architecture, construction, production, and maintenance processes.
Christy focused on fixing the connections errors and unable to fetch data error for the backend implementation for Hour Task Visualization. She also created a local test branch to test those API endpoints for the Hour Task visualization module. She will be working on building the connection between the frontend and the backend routing to fetch project information and those related task information.
Jiayu contributed to the HGN Software Development project by resolving merge conflicts, fixing bugs, and updating pull requests. He added a sort button for modified members on the projects page and modified the backend to track changes in member assignments. Jiayu also addressed issues with an old pull request, suggested database changes for sorting recently edited items, and created new pull requests. Additionally, he implemented dark mode support and added a note prompt for lost time in the time log feature.
Kaushik focused on closing PRs 2169, 1750, and 1610, verifying changes and seeking peer reviews. He also completed reviews for four front-end PRs (2450, 2448, 2446, and 2441) and resolved merge conflicts for GEMINI AI tasks in PRs 2366 and 966. While working on the backend, Kaushik identified a GEMINI AI error that required upgrading the node version from v14 to v18 or higher. To address this, he created a new testing branch and uploaded an image displaying a “not supported” warnig message to Dropbox. See the Highest Good Society and Highest Good Network pages formoreon how this relates to holistic human support webs. See the collage below for the team’s work this week.
The Git-R-Done Team’s summary, covering their work on the Highest Good Network software, was managed Sushmitha Prathap (Software Developer) and includes Youyou Zhang (Software Developer). The Highest Good Network software is how we’ll be managing and objectively measuring our process for holistic human support webs across our social architecture, construction, production, and maintenance processes.
Youyou claimed a new task to fix a bug on the frontend UI. While working on it, she encountered a console error from the development branch unrelated to her code. She reported the issue on Slack and is awaiting a response. She furthered the creation of holistic human support webs as she then focused on reviewing pull requests, approving PR 2448, a unit test for the Project page, and requesting changes for PR 2442, which adds a button to switch between dark and light modes. See the Highest Good Society and Highest Good Network pages for more on how this relates to holistic human support webs. See the collage below for the team’s work this week.
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), Jiadong Zhang (Volunteer Software Engineer) and Shrada Chellasamiand (Software Engineer). The Highest Good Network software helps manage and measure holistic human support webs across social architecture, construction, production, and maintenance processes. This week, Abdelmounaim fixed three bugs related to the home country option for new users created with the setup link. He addressed issues where new accounts showed up on the map without contributing 10 hours, deleted accounts’ locations remained visible, and the total number of countries included deleted accounts. Abdelmounaim created PR #1029 with the fixes for these issues.
Jiadong worked on enhancing the dashboard by replacing the badge system. He furthered the creation of holistic human support webs as he maintained open communication, addressing feedback on his PR promptly. By merging the main branch into his branch, Jiadong ensured any bug fixes were incorporated.
Lu worked on improving unit tests for the PeopleReport/components/PeopleTasksPieChart.jsx component by redesigning test cases for selector functions to better filter and process data. She resolved rendering and data binding issues, boosting performance and visual accuracy. Lu expanded test coverage, handling edge cases, state management, and asynchronous data. In addition, she contributed to holistic human support webs by managing her assistant team, writing weekly reports, reviewing teammates’ work, and collecting top project photos. This work supports adaptable solutions for holistic human support webs.
Shrada contributed to holistic human support webs by addressing high-priority UI issues on the PROJECTS PAGE for screen widths of 375px and up. She fixed several problems: centered the spinning circle that appeared with loaded projects, corrected misaligned arrows and margins at 991px and below, ensured the project search bar matched the table length, fixed padding issues on cards at 768px, and adjusted the search bar input size at 375px. Shrada developed, tested, and pushed the changes, creating a pull request with a recorded video. See the Highest Good Society and Highest Good Network pages for more on how this relates to holistic human support webs. See the collage below for the team’s work this week.
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), Peterson Rodrigues dos Santos (Full-Stack MERN Stack Developer), Shiwani Rajagopalan (Software Engineer), Vijeth Venkatesha (Full Stack Developer) and Yash Agrawal (Software Engineer). This week, Changhao contributed to the Highest Good Network software by focusing on unit test development for `timeentry.jsx’, addressing issues and identifying edge cases. He also monitored time logs and task progress, supporting the creation of holistic human support webs through effective collaboration and technical development.
Dhairya furthered the creation of holistic human support webs as she focused on resolving the “Fix Projects find user function” task, demonstrating problem-solving skills by identifying and addressing user discovery issues within the projects section. He implemented a sort and search function to optimize user assignment processes, thereby enhancing operational efficiency and user experience.
Diya addressed a bug related to updating last names to initials, raising PRs 2440 and 1024 for the fix. She also implemented changes for manually assigning blue squares, adding flags for manual assignment and user identification. Diya contributed to holistic human support webs by reviewing multiple PRs, including unit testing for user profiles, task deactivation, WBS task button adjustments, and time off requests. She reviewed issues with the volunteer summary dashboard and permissions for adding roles. Additionally, Diya created a Figma mockup and is awaiting confirmation from Jae on UI changes for the blue square bug.
Hetvi put her efforts into setting up live server FTP, backing up data, and migrating flow code for data entries. She did her part in support of holistic human support webs as she overcame challenges with provider knowledge, ensuring secure setup and migration of custom post type, taxonomy, meta field, and filter codes without functionality impact. Addressing a warning in functions.php on the staging site, Hetvi proceeded to create options taxonomy for pages across 15 search engines on the live server.
Peterson did his part to support the creation of holistic human support webs as he fixed a bug on the time log page. The issue occurred because the user ID was not being sent to the time log page via the URL, resulting in an error when making requests to retrieve user information and causing the loading indicator to remain indefinitely. He resolved the bug by implementing a feature that ensures the user ID is sent through the URL every time the time log page is accessed.
Shiwani advanced holistic human support webs by testing the UserProfileModal and Projects components. She validated the Resize button, link updates, and blue square summaries for UserProfileModal. In Projects, she tested the AddProject button, modal title, and archiving functionality. Shiwani submitted PRs #2453 and #2448 for her tests. Meanwhile, the application was enhanced to dynamically display database-driven listings, with new APIs for deleting listings integrated with GraphQL, custom React code for re-renders, and routing for redirects. Bugs were fixed, leading to the creation of a Listings page for viewing prices and placing bids.
Vijeth fixed some bugs in the Docker environment as part of supporting holistic human support webs, but noted that some APIs still need resolution. He tested Docker in the local environment to ensure it worked as expected. He implemented Docker in the front-end repository of HGN software, confirmed its functionality, and identified potential future bugs for testing. While working on Docker for the front-end repository, he encountered a jwt-decode error that requires fixing before proceeding further. Additionally, he addressed an issue related to port conflicts during Docker testing.
Yash contributed to holistic human support webs by making the application dynamic. He enabled database-driven listings, eliminating hardcoding, and developed APIs for deleting listings, including a GraphQL API. Yash integrated these APIs with the frontend, customized React code for re-renders, implemented routing for redirects, and tested the app across various viewports and use cases. Additionally, he developed a Listing page where buyers could view prices and place bids. See the Highest Good Society and Highest Good Network pages for more on how this relates to holistic human support webs. See the collage below for the team’s work this week.
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), Hui Kong (Software Engineer) and Mengtian Chen (Software Engineer). The Highest Good Network software is key to managing and measuring our process for holistic human support webs. This week, Abi focused on troubleshooting issues with data aggregation in the time entries MongoDB collection, resolving queries that returned empty or null results for time worked data. He also continued working on integration tests for the map location controller, completing error handling for 404 and 401 cases.
Gowtham contributed to the HGN Software Development project by addressing key functionality and stability issues. He worked on a hotfix to resolve the problem of loading the wrong time log when opening multiple entries, ensuring each log is correctly associated with the intended user. He also fixed a bug that caused a null value in the user ID display within the dashboard component. Gowtham reviewed several Pull Requests (#1007, #1021, #981, #976), providing detailed feedback for improvements. Additionally, he created a video walkthrough and documented tasks to streamline onboarding and ensure clear development records.
Hui reviewed Pull Requests 2446 and 2448, examined the recent bugs in the ‘HGN Phase I Bugs and Needed Functionalities,’ and selected a team to join. Hui also contacted the unit testing team and practiced tests for PR 803, PR 804, and PR 805.
Luis continued testing the inventoryController, completing tests for the getAllInvInProject function and initiating tests for the postInvInProject function. He encountered issues with the post method returning a 500 error when updating an inventory item.
Mengtian focused on developing and enhancing unit tests for the GoogleDocIcon component. The testing tasks ensured the component behaves as expected: opening a new window when a valid link is provided, showing an error toast if no link is present, and toggling the inactive class depending on the link’s presence. Additionally, tests confirmed that the handleGoogleDocClick function responds to Enter and Space key presses. See the Highest Good Society and Highest Good Network pages for more on how this relates to holistic human support webs. See the collage below for the team’s work this week.
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 holistic human support webs. This week’s active members of this team were: Angela Cheng (Full Stack Developer), Anuj Vakil (Software Engineer), Carl Bebli (Software Engineer), Gaurav Setty (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 shared in this week’s update. The collage below shows a compilation of the work from this team.
The PR Review Team’s summary for team members’ names with M-Z and was managed by Olawunmi “Ola” Ijisesan (Administrative and Management Support), and Samarth Urs (Administrative Assistant and Data Analyst). Active members were: Nandini Yelmela (Software Engineer), Nathan Hoffman (Software Engineer), Niketha Anand (Software Engineer), Nikhil Pittala (Volunteer Software Engineer), Olga Yudkin (Software Engineer), Ramya Ramasamy (Full Stack Developer), Rishitha Kondabolu (Software Developer), Rohith Gummadi (Software Engineer), Sailavanya Narthu (Software Engineer), Shadhrush Swaroop (Full Stack Software Engineer), Shengwei “Peter” Peng (Software Engineer), Vigneshwar Muriki (Software Engineer), Vijay Anand Pandian (Full Stack Software Engineer), Xiao Wang (Software Engineer), Yiyun Tan (Software Engineer) and Zijie Yu (Software Engineer). They reviewed the PRs shared in this week’s update. See image below.
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