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

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

WELCOME TO THE TEAM JOHN!

FOLLOW ONE COMMUNITY’S PROGRESS (click icons for our pages)

INVESTOR PAGES

OVERVIEW | LOCATION | FUNDING

GET INVOLVED

CONSULTANTS | WAYS ANYONE CAN HELP | MEMBERSHIP

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

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

WELCOME TO THE TEAM WEIYAO!

FOLLOW ONE COMMUNITY’S PROGRESS (click icons for our pages)

INVESTOR PAGES

OVERVIEW | LOCATION | FUNDING

GET INVOLVED

CONSULTANTS | WAYS ANYONE CAN HELP | MEMBERSHIP

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

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

WELCOME TO THE TEAM RENAN!

FOLLOW ONE COMMUNITY’S PROGRESS (click icons for our pages)

INVESTOR PAGES

OVERVIEW | LOCATION | FUNDING

GET INVOLVED

CONSULTANTS | WAYS ANYONE CAN HELP | MEMBERSHIP

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

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

WELCOME TO THE TEAM NAHIYAN!

FOLLOW ONE COMMUNITY’S PROGRESS (click icons for our pages)

INVESTOR PAGES

OVERVIEW | LOCATION | FUNDING

GET INVOLVED

CONSULTANTS | WAYS ANYONE CAN HELP | MEMBERSHIP

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

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

OUR MAIN OPEN SOURCE HUBS

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

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

Eco-paradigm Construction
One Community Progress Update #576

DONATE | COLLABORATE | HELP WITH LARGE-SCALE FUNDING

CLICK HERE IF YOU’D LIKE TO RECEIVE AN EMAIL EACH WEEK WHEN WE RELEASE A NEW UPDATE

YOU CAN ALSO JOIN US THROUGH SOCIAL MEDIA

 

ONE COMMUNITY WEEKLY UPDATE DETAILS

HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING PROGRESS

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

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

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

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

DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER PROGRESS

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

• • • Learn about this building and its function as part of eco-paradigm construction: Duplicable City Center Open Source Hub

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

HIGHEST GOOD FOOD PROGRESS

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

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

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

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

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

HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION PROGRESS

One Community is forwarding eco-paradigm construction through Highest Good education that is for all ages, applicable in any environment, adaptable to individual needs, far exceeds traditional education standards, and more fun for both the teachers and the students. This component of One Community is about 95% complete with only the Open Source School Licensing and Ultimate Classroom construction and assembly details remaining to be finished. We’ll report on the final two elements to be finished as we develop them.

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

• Program Overview: Eco-paradigm Construction Education Open Source Hub
• How the components work together as part of the One Community eco-paradigm construction model: How to use the Education for Life Program
  
• Eco-paradigm construction: Lesson Plans for Life – Lesson Plans How-to
• Eco-paradigm construction: Foundations of Outstanding Leaders, Teachers, and Communicators
• Curriculum for Life
• Teaching Strategies for Life
• Learning Tools and Toys for Life
• Evaluation and Evolution

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

HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY PROGRESS

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

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

This week, the core team completed around 65 hours managing One Community volunteer-work review not included above, emails, social media accounts, web development, new bug identification and bug-fix integration for the Highest Good Network software, and interviewing and getting set up new volunteer team members. They also shot and incorporated the video above that talks about forwarding eco-paradigm construction and how eco-paradigm construction is a foundation of the bigger picture of everything One Community is doing. The pictures below show some of this work.

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

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

ADMINISTRATION TEAM

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

GRAPHIC DESIGN TEAM

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

HIGHEST GOOD NETWORK PROGRESS

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

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

ALPHA SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT TEAM

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

BADGES BUGS SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT TEAM

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

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

BLUE STEEL SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT TEAM

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

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

CODECRAFTERS SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT TEAM

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

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

FOLLOW ONE COMMUNITY’S PROGRESS (click icons for our pages)

 

INVESTOR PAGES

OVERVIEW | LOCATION | FUNDING

GET INVOLVED

DONATE | WAYS ANYONE CAN HELP | MEMBERSHIP

CLICK HERE FOR ALL PAST UPDATES

One Community welcomes Anirudh Dutt to the Software Development Team as our newest Volunteer/Consultant!

Anirudh is a proficient full stack developer with expertise in web development and enterprise software. With a Master of Science in Computer Science from the University of Southern California, he has a solid foundation in both front-end and back-end development, excelling in creating robust and scalable software solutions. Anirudh’s experience encompasses building APIs, developing mobile and web applications, and implementing secure authentication systems. Outside of work, he enjoys playing basketball, hiking and indulging in painting as creative outlets. As a member of the One Community team, Anirudh is helping develop the Highest Good Network software.

WELCOME TO THE TEAM ANIRUDH!

FOLLOW ONE COMMUNITY’S PROGRESS (click icons for our pages)

INVESTOR PAGES

OVERVIEW | LOCATION | FUNDING

GET INVOLVED

CONSULTANTS | WAYS ANYONE CAN HELP | MEMBERSHIP

One Community welcomes Shengjie Mao to the Software Development Team as our newest Volunteer / Consultant!

Shengjie is currently a graduate student in a Computer Software Engineering program and has actively contributed to various projects, showcasing expertise in Machine Learning, iOS development, and full-stack web applications. As a dedicated member of the One Community Software Team, she has a passion for exploring new horizons and embracing challenges. With a belief in the joy of life through continuous exploration, Shengjie brings a positive and empowering perspective to the team. Through diligent pull request reviews and rigorous testing, she has demonstrated a commitment to ensuring the quality and efficiency of the Highest Good Network software development process.

WELCOME TO THE TEAM SHENGJIE!

FOLLOW ONE COMMUNITY’S PROGRESS (click icons for our pages)

INVESTOR PAGES

OVERVIEW | LOCATION | FUNDING

GET INVOLVED

CONSULTANTS | WAYS ANYONE CAN HELP | MEMBERSHIP

One Community is committed to creating the global eco-renaissance through sustainable approaches to food, energy, housing, education, economics, and social architecture. Our all-volunteer team is dedicated to fulfilled living and global stewardship practices, all for “The Highest Good of All.” By open sourcing and free sharing the complete process, we’re not just regenerating our planet, but also creating a model that becomes self-replicating. Join us in evolving sustainability and creating a world that works for everyone.

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

OUR MAIN OPEN SOURCE HUBS

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

One Community’s physical location will forward this movement for creating the global eco-renaissance as the first of many self-replicating teacher/demonstration communities, villages, and cities to be built around the world. This is the March 25th, 2024 edition (#575) of our weekly progress update detailing our team’s development and accomplishments:

Creating the Global Eco-renaissance
One Community Progress Update #575

DONATE | COLLABORATE | HELP WITH LARGE-SCALE FUNDING

CLICK HERE IF YOU’D LIKE TO RECEIVE AN EMAIL EACH WEEK WHEN WE RELEASE A NEW UPDATE

YOU CAN ALSO JOIN US THROUGH SOCIAL MEDIA

 

ONE COMMUNITY WEEKLY UPDATE DETAILS

HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING PROGRESS

One Community is creating the global eco-renaissance 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 creating the global eco-renaissance with Our Upcoming Crowdfunding Campaign
    • Learn about creating the global eco-renaissance with the different village models: 7 Sustainable Village Models
    • Visit the open source portals for the first two: Earthbag Village OS Hub | Straw Bale Village OS Hub

This week, Mithil Upadhyay (Mechanical Engineer) utilized CAD designs and accessed Solidworks to assess the advancement of the Vermiculture Toilet design project. He worked on determining the dimensions based on the CAD designs for the ideas submitted in the previous week. Mithil also focused on learning newly added points in the design intent from the vermiculture collaboration document. Safe and sustainable human waste processing systems are an important part of creating the global eco-renaissance with One Community’s open source plans. See below for some of the pictures.

DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER PROGRESS

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

• • • Learn about this building and its teacher/demonstration hub function for creating the global eco-renaissance: Duplicable City Center Open Source Hub

This week, Julio Marín Bustillos (Mechanical Engineer) completed another week working on the hub connector. He created a different assembly comprising two stacked diamonds of the first four rows, aiming to design the windows for inclusion within the dome, with the interior design team responsible for this task. Julio also attempted to run the simulation on ANSYS, but the program froze when generating the meshes. The Duplicable City Center is an important part of creating the global eco-renaissance with One Community’s open source plans. See the pictures below for examples related to this work.

Nika Gavran (Industrial Designer) started her collaboration with One Community, completing her orientation and initiating her review of the progress of the Duplicable City Center along with its design and functionalities. She started by researching into the task specifics concerning the 1st and 2nd floor dormer windows, looking into the progress made by previous volunteers on this task. Then Nika imported the latest CAD files and began acquainting herself with the construction of dormer windows. The Duplicable City Center is an important part of creating the global eco-renaissance with One Community’s open source plans. The collage below shows her work for the week.

HIGHEST GOOD FOOD PROGRESS

One Community is creating the global eco-renaissance 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 food structures we’re open sourcing for creating the global eco-renaissance: Hoop House Hub | Aquapini & Walipini Open Source Hub
    • See what we’ll be growing for creating the global eco-renaissance: Gardens & Hoop Houses | Large-scale Structures | Food Forest | TA

This week, a core team member made further progress on the Highest Good Food Tools. They continued researching and compiling a list of necessary tools, including both hand tools and power equipment on the food growing aspect of the project. Additionally, they collaborated with Hayley on a call to discuss the integration of food growing initiatives within public schools. The conversation focused on potential methods for aligning these programs with the educational curriculum and fostering connections with local communities. Highest Good food is an important part of creating the global eco-renaissance with One Community’s open source plans. See their work in the collage below.

Charles Gooley (Web Designer) continued to work on the Vegan Rice Recipes page, developing a range of recipes including Vegan Waffles, Red Pepper Linguine, Crispy Smashed Potatoes, Chicken Thighs with Tomatoes, Easy Tofu Scramble with Pan Fried Potatoes, Jerk Sweet Potato & Black Bean Curry, Picadillo and Brown Rice, Whipped Porridge, Brown Rice with Sardine Stew, Potatoes and White Bean Chili, Sausage Casserole, Potato Salad with Crushed Tofu, Sweet Potato and Lentil Curry, Breakfast Scones with Egg Omelets, Stir Fried Rice with Mixed Veggies and Tofu, and Honey Roasted Chicken with Baked Sweet Potatoes. Placeholder images were utilized, awaiting replacement with final images upon availability. Highest Good Food is an important part of creating the global eco-renaissance with One Community’s open source plans. See his work in the collage below. 

Hayley Rosario (Sustainability Research Assistant) completed the summary of the school and small organization plan, incorporating examples, links, and videos to provide comprehensive explanations. Additionally, she integrated the Highest Good Food list, including images and descriptions, into the Highest Good Food document for further review, instruction, and updates. Highest Good Food is an important part of creating the global eco-renaissance with One Community’s open source plans. See below for pictures related to her work.

HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION PROGRESS

One Community is creating the global eco-renaissance through Highest Good education that is for all ages, applicable in any environment, adaptable to individual needs, far exceeds traditional education standards, and more fun for both the teachers and the students. This component of One Community is about 95% complete with only the Open Source School Licensing and Ultimate Classroom construction and assembly details remaining to be finished. We’ll report on the final two elements to be finished as we develop them.

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

• Creating the global eco-renaissance with education, program overview: Education Open Source Hub
• How the components work together for creating the global eco-renaissance: How to use the Education for Life Program
  
• Lesson Plans for Life – Lesson Plans How-to
• Foundations of Outstanding Leaders, Teachers, and Communicators
• Curriculum for Life
• Teaching Strategies for Life
• Learning Tools and Toys for Life
• Evaluation and Evolution

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

HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY PROGRESS

One Community is creating the global eco-renaissance 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 how Highest Good society contributes to creating the global eco-renaissance: Highest Good Society
    • Learn about the model for fulfilled living and sharing as part of creating the global eco-renaissance: A Day in the Life
    • Learn about the 4 economic models for creating the global eco-renaissance: RBE | For-profit | Non-profit | Entrepreneurship
    • Learn about our open source community collaboration and management software for creating the global eco-renaissance: The Highest Good Network

This week, the core team completed around 65 hours managing One Community volunteer-work review not included above, emails, social media accounts, web development, new bug identification and bug-fix integration for the Highest Good Network software and interviewing and getting set up new volunteer team members. We also shot and incorporated the video above that talks about creating the global eco-renaissance and how creating the global eco-renaissance is an important part of the bigger picture of everything One Community is doing. The pictures below show some of this work.

Aaron Wang (Fundraising Assistant) continued helping to research possible funding sources for One Community. He did extensive research to establish connections with Leonardo DiCaprio, focusing on locating emails and LinkedIn profiles of individuals who may have insights into DiCaprio and the narratives behind their funding. This initiative is part of a broader strategy aimed at facilitating connections with funders by establishing relationships with relevant individuals involved in those donations. Establishing win-win relationships like this are a big part of One Community’s model for creating the global eco-renaissance. See below to check his progress for the week.

ADMINISTRATION TEAM

The Administration Team’s summary, covering their work administrating and managing most of One Community’s ongoing process for creating the global eco-renaissance was managed by Vriddhi Misra (Admin and Marketing Assistant) and includes Alyx Parr (Senior Support Specialist), Camilla Okello (Administrative Assistant), Charuvi Saxena (HR Specialist), Jiaxin Zheng (Data Analyst), Meenakshi Velayutham (Sustainability Associate), Olawunmi “Ola” Ijisesan (Administrative and Management Support), Ram Shrivatsav (Data Analyst and Admin assistant), Ratna Meena Shivakumar (Data Analyst and Admin), Ruiqi Liu (Administrative Assistant), Sai Divya Gudimella (Data Analytics Administrative Assistant), Sneka Vetriappan (Data Analyst), T R Samarth Urs (Data Analyst), Vibhav Chimatapu (Data Analyst/Admin Assistant) and Xiaolai Li (Administrative Assistant). This week Alyx reviewed the work of other Admins and converted videos into audio for the Podcast. Camilla managed administrative duties, reviewed peers’ work, and optimized assigned blogs. Charuvi learned administrative tasks, demonstrated processes through practice sessions, and compiled summaries of volunteers’ activities. Gokul focused on enhancing the website’s search engine optimization (SEO), increasing the SEO score, and rectifying errors within the SEO framework. Jiaxin completed PR reviews, updated team summaries and collages on the webpage, and incorporated feedback into blog content. Meenakshi performed admin tasks, including reviewing weekly blog pages, updating tracking sheets, and making bio announcements. Ram concentrated on mastering SEO techniques, optimizing blog posts, and beginning the initial steps in HGN front-end product testing. Ratna focused on improving the SEO score of multiple blogs through various optimizations. Ruiqi completed review processes for multiple teams, created collage images, generated SEO keywords, and provided assistance to new admins. Sai Divya participated in admin team training, collaborated on the hiring process, and worked on search engine optimization tasks. Sneka contributed to software development projects and administrative tasks, including reviewing feedback and editing SEO pages. Samarth managed the PR review team, applied SEO techniques to optimize blog posts, and received constructive feedback. Vriddhi optimized assigned peers’ blogs, reviewed SEO work, revised tracking spreadsheets, compiled summaries, proofread, and edited blog posts. Xiaolai completed weekly reports, reviewed training processes, and organized documents and summaries. One Community’s model for creating the global eco-renaissance includes developing and maintaining a huge administration team like this. You can see the work for the team in the image below.

HIGHEST GOOD NETWORK PROGRESS

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

This week, a core team member worked on Highest Good Network PRs testing, confirming the fixes for several PRs, including improving the Profile Page Teams Tab UX (PR #1927), resolving the issue with the “thank you” message not displaying when selecting the home country option on the profile initial setup page (PR #2056), and moving the “eye” icon on the Reset Password modal (PR #2066). However, several PRs remained unresolved, such as update of the tangible time process, default visible/invisible setting for the Mentor role, and the inability to prevent editing of Jae’s accounts despite PR #2026. Additionally, the Blue Square Scheduler still allows requests for time off for a week that has already passed (PR #1994). In addition to PR testing, a Volunteer account to test Tangible time updates and recorded a video for the Tangible time update task has been set up. The Highest Good Network software is how we’ll be managing and objectively measuring our process for creating the global eco-renaissance through our social architecture, construction, production, and maintenance processes. See below for pictures related to their work.

ALPHA SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT TEAM

The Alpha Team’s summary, covering their work on the Highest Good Network software was managed by Sucheta Mukherjee (Software Developer) and includes Navya M (Full Stack Developer), and Shamim Rahman (Software Engineer). The Highest Good Network software is how we’ll be managing and objectively measuring our process for creating the global eco-renaissance through our social architecture, construction, production, and maintenance processes. This week, Navya encountered a version downgrade issue while working on a task, and sought assistance in the Slack channel. She then implemented some functionality for the task, proceeded with coding, completed implementation, and initiated testing. Additionally, Navya contributed their part to creating the global eco-renaissance as they reviewed pull requests #803, #804, and #805, and joined the testing team, participating in a Zoom meeting to gain insights into testing procedures and discuss related matters. Shamim reviewed seven different pull requests (PRs) numbered PR#2075, PR#2073, PR#2065, PR#1798, PR#1931, PR#2074, and PR#1862. He also handled functionality tests and provided feedback by commenting on the PRs with both screenshots and videos. PR#1862, PR#1798, and PR#2075 were found to not work as intended, so he shared the results. See the Highest Good Society and Highest Good Network pages for more on how this relates to creating the global eco-renaissance. View some of the team’s work in the collage below.

BADGES BUGS SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT TEAM

This week, the Badges Bugs Team’s summary overseeing advancements in the Highest Good Network software, was managed by Shaofeng Li (Software Engineer). The team comprised Renan Luiz Santiago Martins César (Full-stack developer), Summit Kaushal (Backend Software Developer), Xiao Zhang (Software Engineer), and Xiaohan Meng (Software Engineer). The Highest Good Network software is how we’ll be managing and objectively measuring our process for creating the global eco-renaissance through our social architecture, construction, production, and maintenance processes. This week, Xiao made efforts to enhance their project by establishing a specific function aimed at efficiently allocating X hours across a single week. He improved code structure and readability by segregating the initial XHoursForXWeeks function into two separate components, making the code more concise and easier to navigate, which refined the process for time allocation in their software endeavors. Shaofeng worked on the HGN Software Development project, working on activities ranging from integration testing of new features to debugging and team meetings, aimed at enhancing software functionality and team efficiency. He also focused on optimizing workflow by merging tasks, aiding new team members, and investigating database discrepancies to unify development and production environments. Xiaohan contributed their part to creating the global eco-renaissance as they concentrated on testing the ‘Assign Badge’ permission feature, deploying applications, and discussing outcomes with her manager, leading to the preparation and testing of the feature’s Pull Request. Summit reviewed and debugged code for Part B, discarded an unworkable function, and formulated a plan for a new approach while also reviewing badge code and studying software management principles. Renan Luiz tested the backend using nodemon for badge implementation, addressing issues such as date inconsistencies in MongoDB and debugging the CheckXHrsForWeek function based on documentation to rectify functionality in the local HGN environment. Collectively, their work contributed to their projects through technical troubleshooting, code enhancement, team collaboration, and strategic planning. See the Highest Good Society and Highest Good Network pages for more on how this relates to creating the global eco-renaissance. View some of the team’s work in the collage below.

BLUE STEEL SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT TEAM

This Blue Steel Team’s summary, covering their work on the Highest Good Network software was managed by Nathan Hoffman (Software Engineer, Team Manager) and includes Alex Brandt (Full Stack Developer), Bhuvan Dama (Full stack Developer), Jingyi Jia (Software Engineer), Shiqing Pan (Full-Stack Software Developer), Swathy Jayaseelan (Software Engineer), Tzu Ning “Leo” Chueh (Software Engineer) and Yaohong Xiang (Software Engineer). This week, Nathan examined Jay’s permissions PRs, uncovering peculiar logic and consulting Xiao for clarification, while also investigating MongoDB atomic updates for time entry adjustments and offering support on Slack. Jingyi created a frontend solution to bolster the badge management system, enhancing the togglePermission function within the PermissionListItem component to automatically grant “seeBadges” permission alongside badge management permissions, submitting pull request #2085 for review. Alex finalized the ChatGPT integration feature, submitting initial pull requests for both frontend and backend components, addressing requested changes on the backend and reviewing frontend pull request #2075. Bhuvan contributed their part to creating the global eco-renaissance as they focused on enhancing test coverage for the Notes section, achieving 73.91% coverage for ToogleSwitch.jsx and complete coverage for TriStateToggleSwitch while encountering difficulties with TableFilter.js. Shiqing handled formatting issues on the weekly summaries submission page and managed PR reviews for multiple submissions, including offering feedback and solutions for bug rectification. Yaohong advanced the “Quick Setup Modal” feature, resolving rendering issues from PR 1673 but facing challenges with data storage mechanisms. Swathy finalized PR-2035 for submission, reviewed PR 804, and tackled unit test issues with the Projects component. Meanwhile, Tzu Ning refined the teamCodeChange method, optimizing the tracking and updating of team code counts while implementing logic to manage state variables. See the image below to view some of their work. 

CODECRAFTERS SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT TEAM

AND WE PRODUCED THIS WEEKLY UPDATES BLOG – CLICK HERE TO SUBSCRIBE

FOLLOW ONE COMMUNITY’S PROGRESS (click icons for our pages)

 

INVESTOR PAGES

OVERVIEW | LOCATION | FUNDING

GET INVOLVED

DONATE | WAYS ANYONE CAN HELP | MEMBERSHIP

CLICK HERE FOR ALL PAST UPDATES

One Community is dedicated to creating a better way of life through eco-communities. Our all-volunteer team is working towards sustainable approaches in food, energy, housing, education, economics, and social architecture. Our vision extends beyond individual communities; it’s about creating a model that becomes self-replicating. Our efforts are guided by the principle of doing this for “The Highest Good of All,” ensuring that everything we create is open source and freely-shared. With a focus on evolving sustainability and regenerating our planet, we aim to create 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 of a better way of life through eco-communities as the first of many self-replicating teacher/demonstration communities, villages, and cities to be built around the world. This is the March 18th, 2024 edition (#574) of our weekly progress update detailing our team’s development and accomplishments:

A Better Way of Life Through Eco-communities
One Community Progress Update #574

DONATE | COLLABORATE | HELP WITH LARGE-SCALE FUNDING

CLICK HERE IF YOU’D LIKE TO RECEIVE AN EMAIL EACH WEEK WHEN WE RELEASE A NEW UPDATE

YOU CAN ALSO JOIN US THROUGH SOCIAL MEDIA

 

ONE COMMUNITY WEEKLY UPDATE DETAILS

HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING PROGRESS

One Community is creating a better way of life through eco-communities through Highest Good housing that is artistic and beautiful, more affordable, more space efficient, lasts longer, DIY buildable, and constructed with healthy and sustainable materials:

• • • Learn about Our Upcoming Crowdfunding Campaign as a pathway to a better way of life through eco-communities
    • Learn about the 7 Sustainable Village Models as a better way of life through eco-communities
    • Visit the open source portals for the first two: Earthbag Village OS Hub | Straw Bale Village OS Hub

This week, Mithil Upadhayay (Mechanical Engineer) began working on the Vermiculture Toilet designs within the Earthbag Village (Pod 1). He addressed the design intent outlined in the Google Docs regarding separating the bottom and top chambers. The proposed solution involves implementing a parallel blade design/mechanism, as depicted in the images. These blades will remain open and can be closed when separation is required, as demonstrated. To streamline the process and minimize costs, the suggestion was to utilize or repurpose large metal oil drums instead of manufacturing separate boxes for the bottom chamber. However, further consideration is necessary to determine the optimal mounting method for these drums with the top chamber. One Community’s model for a better way of life through eco-communities includes sustainable waste processing like this. See below for some of the pictures.

DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER PROGRESS

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

• • • Learn about this building and its function within a better way of life through eco-communities: Duplicable City Center Open Source Hub

This week, Julio Marín Bustillos (Mechanical Engineer) completed another week working on the hub connector. He focused on setting up ANSYS on his computer, a specialized software platform designed for Finite Element Analysis (FEA). He navigated through the installation process, ensuring that all necessary components were correctly integrated into his system. Once ANSYS was up and running, Julio proceeded to import the model into the software environment, an important step in laying the foundation for the simulation. He then assigned materials to the various components of the model, considering their physical properties and behavior under different conditions. Then he started on the task of creating meshes, refining the mesh density to strike the delicate balance between computational efficiency and accuracy of results. One Community’s model for a better way of life through eco-communities includes City Center designs like this. See the pictures below for examples related to this work.

HIGHEST GOOD FOOD PROGRESS

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

• • • Learn about the food structures creating a better way of life through eco-communities: Hoop House Hub | Aquapini & Walipini Open Source Hub
    • See what we’ll be growing as part of creating a better way of life through eco-communities: Gardens & Hoop Houses | Large-scale Structures | Food Forest | TA

This week, a core team member made further progress on the Highest Good Food Tools and Equipment document. This week they updated information on the chipper and other tractor attachments. They also continued writing detailed descriptions for individual tools and equipment within the document. They concluded the week with a phone call to the team, suggesting tasks to help them complete their work. Food production improvements are a significant part of creating a better way of life through eco-communities with One Community. See their work in the collage below.

Charles Gooley (Web Designer) focused on the development of the Vegan Rice Recipes page, creating a variety of recipes including Baked Potato and Curried Red Lentil Soup, Brown Rice with Coconut Curried Golden Lentils, Quick BBQ Chicken and Spanish Potatoes, Baked Oatmeal, Chipotle Lime Chicken and Rice, Lemon Pepper Chicken with Orzo, Cornbread, Smoky Lentil Stuffed Sweet Potatoes, One Pot Roasted Red Pepper Pasta, Braised Beef with Ginger and Japanese-Style Brown Rice, Beef Chili with Baked Potatoes, Hearty Breakfast Skillet, Quick Salmon, Preserved Lemon & Olive Pilaf, and Vegan Potato and Corn Chowder. Placeholder images were utilized until final images become available for replacement. Diverse food menus are a significant part of how One Community is designed for creating a better way of life through eco-communities. See his work in the collage below.

Hayley Rosario (Sustainability Research Assistant) finished updating the Highest Good Food list and wrote a summary detailing examples and methods for integrating the Highest Good Food Network (HGF) into small-scale organizations. Her summary included insights that organizations, communities, and schools might be interested in, which adopt HGF practices. She researched articles and watched instructional videos to gather examples and insights, which she then formatted and incorporated the links into her summary. Hayley documented her activities and time spent collaborating with One Community, providing a write up account of her contributions. Food improvements are a significant part of how One Community is designed for creating a better way of life through eco-communities. See below for pictures related to her work.

HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION PROGRESS

One Community is creating a better way of life through eco-communities through Highest Good education that is for all ages, applicable in any environment, adaptable to individual needs, far exceeds traditional education standards, and more fun for both the teachers and the students. This component of One Community is about 95% complete with only the Open Source School Licensing and Ultimate Classroom construction and assembly details remaining to be finished. We’ll report on the final two elements to be finished as we develop them.

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

• Education Open Source Hub for creating a better way of life through eco-communities
• How the components work together for creating a better way of life through eco-communities: How to use the Education for Life Program
  
• Lesson Plans for Life as part of creating a better way of life through eco-communities: Lesson Plans How-to
• Foundations of Outstanding Leaders, Teachers, and Communicators within creating a better way of life through eco-communities
• Planned Curriculum for Life as part of creating a better way of life through eco-communities
• Teaching Strategies for Life as part of our creating a better way of life through eco-communities
• Learning Tools and Toys for Life as part of creating a better way of life through eco-communities
• Evaluation and Evolution as part of creating a better way of life through eco-communities

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

HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY PROGRESS

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

• • • Read the Highest Good society overview: Highest Good Society as part of part of creating a better way of life through eco-communities
    • Learn about the model for fulfilled living and sharing as part of part of creating a better way of life through eco-communities: A Day in the Life
    • Learn about the 4 economic models as part of part of creating a better way of life through eco-communities: RBE | For-profit | Non-profit | Entrepreneurship
    • Learn about our open source community collaboration and management software for creating a better way of life through eco-communities: The Highest Good Network

This week, the core team completed 56 hours managing One Community volunteer-work review not included above, emails, social media accounts, web development, new bug identification and bug-fix integration for the Highest Good Network software, and interviewing and getting set up new volunteer team members. We also shot and incorporated the video above that talks about creating the a better way of life through eco-communities and how creating a better way of life through eco-communities is a foundation of the bigger picture of everything One Community is doing. The pictures below show some of this work. See below for pictures related to this.

Aaron Wang (Fundraising Assistant) continued helping researching possible funding sources for One Community. Full funding is needed to begin construction of One Community’s model for creating a better way of life through eco-communities. Aaron advanced his in-depth research into connections with Robert Downey Jr., identifying emails and LinkedIn profiles of individuals who may have links to Robert Downey Jr. and his philanthropic contributions. This targeted effort aims to improve the process of engaging with funders by nurturing relationships with pertinent individuals involved in these donations. Aaron’s detailed and strategic approach emphasizes his dedication to effective networking and establishing meaningful connections within the philanthropic sector. One Community’s model for a better way of life through eco-communities includes a huge outreach program. You can view this work in the collage below.

Ray Lee (Graphic Designer, Video Editor) helped this week by creating images for updating our the One Community website header to celebrate and acknowledge Black History Month. One Community’s model for a better way of life through eco-communities includes honoring and celebrating key holidays like this. See the collage image below.

Arun Chandar Ganesan (Volunteer Data Analyst And SEO And Social Media Assistant) began creating social media posts and helping further evolve our open source social media strategy. This week, he focused on creating a written tutorial on adding administrators to manage the Facebook page. Additionally, after obtaining posting access to the One Community Facebook page through Sara, Arun scheduled content from the Open Source Media Design Google Sheet and incorporated several images shared by Jae. Given Meta’s scheduling limitations of posts from 20 minutes to 29 days in advance, Arun has scheduled posts up to April 14th. One Community’s model for a better way of life through eco-communities includes developing and like this. Furthermore, he received access for website editing, which he plans to commence next week.

ADMINISTRATION TEAM

The Administration Team’s summary, covering their work administrating and managing most of One Community’s ongoing process for creating a better way of life through eco-communities was managed by Vriddhi Misra (Admin and Marketing Assistant) and includes Alyx Parr (Senior Support Specialist), Camilla Okello (Administrative Assistant), Jiaxin Zheng (Data Analyst), Meenakshi Velayutham (Sustainability Associate), Olawunmi “Ola” Ijisesan (Administrative and Management Support), Ram Shrivatsav (Data Analyst and Admin assistant), Ratna Meena Shivakumar (Data Analyst and Admin), Ruiqi Liu (Administrative Assistant), Sneka Vetriappan (Data Analyst), T R Samarth Urs (Data Analyst), Vibhav Chimatapu (Data Analyst/Admin Assistant) and Xiaolai Li (Administrative Assistant). This week, Alyx reviewed Purva’s work on her designated page. She combed through Purva’s work, looking at each element for potential errors or inconsistencies. After reviewing Sneka’s work, she provided constructive feedback on the mistakes she noticed, highlighting areas for improvement while acknowledging Sneka’s efforts. Alyx aimed to create a supportive environment for Sneka as a new team member, encouraging her growth in the role. With Sneka engaged in her task, she moved on to her responsibilities, converting and downloading audio files for an upcoming blog post. She ensured the files were correctly formatted and met quality standards. Camilla began her week with Sunday administrative tasks before reviewing and providing feedback to other administrators while attending to her own corrections. Later, she focused on SEO assignments, adjusting and optimizing assigned blogs. Jiaxin concentrated on tasks to enhance team productivity and review processes. She reviewed SOC team reports, PR review team dry runs, reviewed admin teamwork and learned SEO tutorials. Jiaxin completed the PR review training steps and integrated feedback into the process. Meenakshi continued admin tasks, verifying the weekly summary page, tracking contributors, and creating bio announcements. She analyzed and suggested content updates for infographics and proofread social media web images for accuracy. Ola collaborated with administrative teams, provided training to new volunteers, and reviewed completed tasks. She also worked on PR reviews, organized Google Doc workspace, and provided feedback to admins. Ram focused on studying SEO, analyzing articles, and implementing strategies to boost optimization. Ratna completed training, performed weekly summary reviews, and engaged in SEO learning sessions. Ruiqi completed review processes, created collages, updated SEO keywords, and supported new admins. Sneka worked on orientation tasks, integrated keywords, edited SEO pages, and progressed through training steps. Samarth completed PR review team training, managed team members, applied SEO techniques to blog posts, and received constructive feedback. Vibhav completed administrative tasks, reviewed work, edited web pages, and engaged in SEO activities. Vriddhi oversaw OC administration for the Administration, Alpha, Blue Steel, and Badges Bugs teams, refined SEO strategies, delegated tasks, and enhanced tracking spreadsheets. Xiaolai completed weekly reports, reviewed training processes, updated web pages, and organized documents for reports. One Community’s model for a better way of life through eco-communities includes developing and maintaining huge administration team like this. You can see the work for the team in the image below.

GRAPHIC DESIGN TEAM

The Graphic Design Team’s summary was managed by Ruiqi Liu (Administrative Assistant) and included Ashlesha Navale (Graphic Designer) and Nancy Mónchez (Graphic Designer). Ashlesha created nine Social Media Images focused on themes such as Cooperation-Implementing global change, Cooperation-Improving life on earth, and Cooperation-Increased peace and happiness, among others. In addition, she curated nature-based and theme-based images to complement these designs. Nancy concentrated on completing tasks for week 20, particularly refining the designs of Excel lists, and ensuring consistency in style elements to maintain unity and quality standards across the project. She continued efforts to adjust the intensity of the blue tone to meet project requirements. See the Highest Good Society pages for more on how this relates to a better way of life through eco-communities. The collage below shows some of this work.

HIGHEST GOOD NETWORK PROGRESS

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

This week, a core team member worked on the Highest Good Network confirming fixes for several PRs. This included confirming the fix for a recurring issue related to working week dates. However, several PRs remained unresolved, including issues with the default setting for new or converted mentors, the implementation of editing tangible time for non-Admin/Owner roles, and PR1471 regarding the Blue Square Reason Scheduler. They identified a problem where a volunteer user failed to receive a blue square after editing their time entry multiple times. PRs 1218+532, which grants users permission to manage individual user permissions, require clarification on which permission to use. They also engaged in various other activities, including commenting on requests to improve the loading speed of the Weekly Summaries Reports page, fixing the team code dropdown list to display 15 items, addressing a request to add a popup message for invalid team codes, and providing feedback on horizontal scrolling issues on the team page. The Highest Good Network software is how we’ll be managing and objectively measuring our process for a better way of life through eco-communities throughout our social architecture, construction, production, and maintenance processes. See below for pictures related to their work.

ALPHA SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT TEAM

The Alpha Team’s summary, covering their work on the Highest Good Network software was managed by Sucheta Mukherjee (Software Developer) and includes Chengyan Wang (Software Engineer), Gabriele Canova (Frontend Developer), Navya M (Full Stack Developer), Pratima Singh (Software Developer), Shamim Rahman (Software Engineer), and Yongjian Pan (Software Engineer). The Highest Good Network software is how we’ll be managing and objectively measuring our process for a better way of life through eco-communities throughout our social architecture, construction, production, and maintenance processes. This week, Sucheta focused on addressing a hot fix related to scroll functionality within the timelog section on PR2057 and refactored PR2006 to remove redundancy, particularly concerning password prompts upon clicking the weeklySummaryRecipient button. Additionally, modifications were made to ensure that the weeklySummaryRecipient button rendered exclusively for authorized users, following Jae’s directive, with the implementation including the storage of Jae and Sara’s email addresses as environment variables in both frontend and backend applications for user authorization checks. These tasks were successfully completed and merged into PR2061+792. Navya reviewed the Phase1 bugs document and the permission management Excel, identifying issues and requesting further details from Jae. She also conducted peer reviews for PR #2011 and PR #782, while initiating work on enabling users to change status in the dashboard page. Yongjian decided to redo PR# 842 to create a dark mode for the application due to difficulties in debugging the original PR, aiming to break it into smaller files for easier management. Gabriele, starting work from Wednesday evening due to personal reasons, faced productivity challenges but successfully completed their first pull request (#2065) after several attempts, though encountering lingering issues. Despite time constraints, they conducted pull request reviews, contributing to pull request #2016. Pratima tested various dashboard-related pull requests, providing feedback and suggestions for improvements. Shamim diligently reviewed 10 pull requests (PR#1850, PR#707, PR#1922, PR#735, PR#2010, PR#780, PR#2016, PR#2023, PR#781, PR#1987), conducting functionality tests and offering detailed feedback with accompanying screenshots and videos, particularly highlighting issues with PR#1850, PR#1922, and PR#2016. See the Highest Good Society and Highest Good Network pages for more on how this relates to a better way of life through eco-communities. View some of the team’s work in the collage below.

BADGES BUGS SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT TEAM

The Badges Bugs Team’s summary this week, overseeing advancements in the Highest Good Network software, was managed by Shaofeng Li (Software Engineer). The team comprised Renan Luiz Santiago Martins César (Full-stack developer), Summit Kaushal (Backend Software Developer), Xiao Zhang (Software Engineer), and Xiaohan Meng (Software Engineer). The Highest Good Network software is how we’ll be managing and objectively measuring our process for a better way of life through eco-communities throughout our social architecture, construction, production, and maintenance processes. This week, Renan spent most of the week identifying and addressing issues with badges, focusing on testing the backend system for potential problems and understanding how to effectively test badges on their machine. He also explored the integration of intangible time into account ownership to evaluate badge visibility, persisting in troubleshooting potential badge-related issues. Xiao focused on refining their project through the development of a specialized function designed to effectively distribute hours over the span of one week, dividing the previously combined function into two distinct parts to streamline and clarify the code. Shaofeng Li engaged in various tasks for the HGN Software Development project, including discussing badge functionality, assisting teammates, reviewing pull requests, and addressing coding challenges. Efforts also included troubleshooting, setting up Postman for backend operations, and fixing bugs related to badge awarding. Xiaohan addressed an issue with the ‘Assign Badge’ permission feature, examining frontend and backend code discrepancies and debugging to resolve critical faults. She plans to conduct detailed tests to ensure system reliability. Summit reviewed necessary files and set up MongoDB to test PR 619, analyzing the codebase and identifying completed and pending tasks. After identifying a potential solution for an obstacle in part B, Summit implemented the feature and planned to initiate work on part C, acknowledging the need for further refinement. See the Highest Good Society and Highest Good Network pages for more on how this relates to a better way of life through eco-communities. Look below for pictures of the team’s work.

BLUE STEEL SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT TEAM

The Blue Steel Team’s summary, covering their work on the Highest Good Network software, was managed by Nathan Hoffman (Software Engineer, Team Manager) and includes Alex Brandt (Full Stack Developer), Bhuvan Dama (Full stack Developer), Jingyi Jia (Software Engineer), Tzu Ning “Leo” Chueh (Software Engineer) and Yaohong Xiang (Software Engineer). The Highest Good Network software is how we’ll be managing and objectively measuring our process for a better way of life through eco-communities throughout our social architecture, construction, production, and maintenance processes. This week, Nathan encountered a white screen error on the dashboard upon logging in and worked diligently to resolve it promptly. Additionally, he reviewed Jay’s invisibility permission, noting continued non-compliance with instructions for separating permissions. Responding to Slack messages, Nathan offered assistance with coding problems and assigned tasks to team members, while also engaging in bug exploration. Meanwhile, Jingyi initiated work on the permission management system related to the badge management feature, identifying an inconsistency regarding the “see Badge” permission’s impact on user actions. To address this, Jingyi proposed and implemented a frontend solution to ensure automatic inclusion of the “seeBadges” permission whenever badge management permissions are activated for a user. Alex focused on advancing the ChatGPT summary generator by configuring the OpenAI API for front-end summaries and implementing pre-processing to remove hyperlinks from user-provided timelogs. Bhuvan spend time improving code coverage in specific components within the sharedComponents/ReportPage directory, achieving full coverage for several files and increasing coverage for others. Tzu Ning concentrated on refining the edit team code functionality in the WeeklySummariesReport.jsx file, conducting rigorous testing and adjusting permission checks to ensure a seamless user experience for Admin users. See the Highest Good Society and Highest Good Network pages for more on how this relates to a better way of life through eco-communities. The collage below shows some of this work.

CODECRAFTERS SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT TEAM

SOFTWARE PR REVIEW TEAM M-Z

AND WE PRODUCED THIS WEEKLY UPDATES BLOG – CLICK HERE TO SUBSCRIBE

FOLLOW ONE COMMUNITY’S PROGRESS (click icons for our pages)

 

INVESTOR PAGES

OVERVIEW | LOCATION | FUNDING

GET INVOLVED

DONATE | WAYS ANYONE CAN HELP | MEMBERSHIP

CLICK HERE FOR ALL PAST UPDATES

One Community is creating the world that’s possible through sustainable approaches to food, energy, housing, education, economics, and social architecture. Our all-volunteer team is dedicated to pioneering fulfilled living and global stewardship practices. With a model designed for “The Highest Good of All,“we’re open sourcing and free sharing the complete process, aiming to regenerate our planet and create a world that works for everyone. This model, created by an all-volunteer team, will be used to create a global collaboration of teacher/demonstration hubs, ensuring our efforts become self-replicating.

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

OUR MAIN OPEN SOURCE HUBS

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

One Community’s physical location will forward this movement for creating the world that’s possible as the first of many self-replicating teacher/demonstration communities, villages, and cities to be built around the world. This is the March 11th, 2024 edition (#573) of our weekly progress update detailing our team’s development and accomplishments:

Creating the World That’s Possible
One Community Progress Update #573

DONATE | COLLABORATE | HELP WITH LARGE-SCALE FUNDING

CLICK HERE IF YOU’D LIKE TO RECEIVE AN EMAIL EACH WEEK WHEN WE RELEASE A NEW UPDATE

YOU CAN ALSO JOIN US THROUGH SOCIAL MEDIA

 

ONE COMMUNITY WEEKLY UPDATE DETAILS

HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING PROGRESS

One Community is creating the world that’s possible through Highest Good housing that is artistic and beautiful, more affordable, more space efficient, lasts longer, DIY buildable, and constructed with healthy and sustainable materials:

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

This week, a core team member did their final review of the DIY Murphy Bed Furniture for the Earthbag Village. They completed a review of the Murphy Bed document, identifying inconsistencies in material quantities and sizes. They also tested alternative electrical components, replacing any unsuitable for the project, and differentiated color jackets on 12-gauge wire. They also worked on the Highest Good Food Tools and Equipment document by incorporating and expanding the list by adding new power equipment entries. Sustainable housing and food improvements are a significant part of creating the world that’s possible with One Community’s open source plans. See their work in the collage below.

Vidhi Bansal (3D Visualization Artist) completed another week of assisting with the visualization and 4-dome cluster variation renders for the Earthbag Village. She addressed scale discrepancies and made adjustments to foliage, as well as refined human movements for enhanced realism. Additionally, she created three perspective still renders using pathtracer, setting up lighting to optimize visual impact. Moreover, Vidhi expanded the repertoire of camera angles and refined people animations for a captivating flythrough experience. These sustainable single or double-family housing models are a significant part of creating the world that’s possible with One Community’s open source plans. See below for some of the pictures.

DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER PROGRESS

One Community is creating the world that’s possible through a Duplicable and Sustainable City Center that is LEED Platinum certified/Sustainable, can feed 200 people at a time, provide laundry for over 300 people, is beautiful, spacious, and saves resources, money, and space:

• • • Learn about this building and its function as part of creating the world that’s possible: Duplicable City Center Open Source Hub

This week, Julio Marín Bustillos (Mechanical Engineer) completed another week working on the hub connector. He calculated the overall weight of the structure by summing the weights of each individual component. This step is crucial as this information will be utilized for performing Finite Element Analysis (FEA) on the hub connectors to assess their performance. During the process, he recognized that an even distribution of the overall weight across all the nodes would be ideal for the structure’s design. However, Julio acknowledges the necessity of utilizing a more advanced FEA software to accurately determine the real load distribution within the structure. The Duplicable City Center is part of our model for creating the world that’s possible with teacher/demonstration villages. Below are some demonstration images of his work.

HIGHEST GOOD FOOD PROGRESS

One Community is creating the world that’s possible through Highest Good food that is more diverse, more nutritious, locally grown and sustainable, and part of our open source botanical garden model to support and share bio-diversity:

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

This week Charles Gooley (Web Designer) focused on further development of the Vegan Rice Recipes page, constructing the following recipes: Bacon, Lettuce, and Tomato Sandwiches, Potatoes with Chicken, Sausage, and Peppers, Vegan Pesto Pasta, Grilled Vegetable Sandwiches with Pesto, Vegetable Fried Rice, Zucchini Pasta with Vegan Meatballs, Spiced Lentils and Scrambled Eggs, Creamy Tomato and Spinach Pasta with Baked Ginger Salmon, Creamy Tomato and Spinach Pasta with Baked Ginger Salmon, Cheesy Grits, Skillet Chicken with Orzo and Olives, Brown Rice & Chicken Soup, Beet Hash with Sautéed Chickpeas, Sweet Potatoes, Creamy Hummus and Pulled Beef, and Hummus Pasta. Placeholder images were utilized and will be substituted with final images upon availability. Diverse food menus are a significant part of how One Community is designed for rolling out the whole open source process for creating the world that’s possible. See his work in the collage below.

Hayley Rosario (Sustainability Research Assistant) finished updating the Highest Good Food list, enhancing its format, nomenclature, and overall organization while preserving alphabetical order. The associated images and descriptions, currently housed in a separate document, are ready for integration into the main Highest Good Food document after a review. Hayley looked into articles on incorporating gardens into educational curriculum. Food system improvements are a significant part of how One Community is designed for creating the world that’s possible. See below for pictures related to her work.

HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION PROGRESS

One Community is creating the world that’s possible through Highest Good education that is for all ages, applicable in any environment, adaptable to individual needs, far exceeds traditional education standards, and more fun for both the teachers and the students. This component of One Community is about 95% complete with only the Open Source School Licensing and Ultimate Classroom construction and assembly details remaining to be finished. We’ll report on the final two elements to be finished as we develop them.

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

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

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

HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY PROGRESS

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

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

This week, the core team completed 58 hours managing One Community volunteer-work review not included above, emails, social media accounts, web development, new bug identification and bug-fix integration for the Highest Good Network software, and interviewing and getting set up new volunteer team members. We also shot and incorporated the video above that talks about creating the world that’s possible and how creating the world that’s possible is a foundation of the bigger picture of everything One Community is doing. The pictures below show some of this work. See below for pictures related to this. 

Another core team member worked on the Highest Good Network confirming fixes for several PRs, including 1375, 1208+494, 1236, 1391, 494+1208, 561+1371, and PR1775. They also identified issues with PRs 1471, 1371+561, 1368, and 1393+563, reporting discrepancies between the PR descriptions and their actual implementation, particularly regarding report generation and team code formatting. They created a new bug record for fixing the “New Max-Personal Record Award”, related to PR#619. The Highest Good Network software is how we’ll be managing and objectively measuring our process for creating the world that’s possible through our social architecture, construction, production, and maintenance processes. See below for pictures related to their work.

ADMINISTRATION TEAM

The Administration Team’s summary, covering their work administrating and managing most of One Community’s ongoing process for creating the world that’s possible was managed by Vriddhi Misra (Admin and Marketing Assistant) and includes Alyx Parr (Senior Support Specialist), Camilla Okello (Administrative Assistant), Gokul Palanisamy (Data Analyst), Jiaxin Zheng (Data Analyst), Meenakshi Velayutham (Sustainability Associate), Olawunmi “Ola” Ijisesan (Administrative and Management Support), Purva Nantarajesh (Marketing Analyst), Ram Shrivatsav (Data Analyst and Admin assistant), Ruiqi Liu (Administrative Assistant), T R Samarth Urs (Data Analyst) and Xiaolai Li (Administrative Assistant). This week, Alyx optimized the management process for One Community MP3 files obtained from YouTube, renaming the MP3 files to facilitate easy recognition and retrieval of content. She also transformed videos into audio format for the podcast, ensuring a seamless conversion process and maintaining content quality throughout. Camilla completed administrative duties and provided feedback on other admins’ work, while also optimizing her assigned blogs following tutorials. Gokul completed initial training, gained access to the WordPress platform, and uploaded images tailored to content areas to enhance visual appeal and relevance. Jiaxin completed orientation and onboarding tasks, including setting up collaboration software and creating collages, and worked on the SOC team’s weekly review. Meenakshi continued administrative tasks such as checking the weekly summary page and tracking bio announcements, along with reviewing cost analysis details and resolving feedback for infrastructure requirements. Ola reviewed trainees’ work, worked on PR Review teamwork, created collages, and contributed to optimizing the SEO rank score. Purva created collages, performed summary proofreading, assisted newcomers, and optimized previous blog posts for search engines. Ram focused on onboarding training, creating summaries, collages, and a blog post, incorporating feedback from admin mem bers. Ruiqi did her part creating the world that’s possible as she completed the four-step review process for various teams, created collage images, utilized weekly summaries for SEO keywords, and updated SEO on blogs. Samarth completed orientation and setup tasks, participated in Admin team and SEO optimization training, and applied SEO techniques to optimize blog posts. Vriddhi worked on OC Administration tasks for the: Administration, Alpha, Badges Bugs, and Blue Steel Teams. She assigned SEO blogs to team members, reviewed and implemented changes based on team feedback, and worked on Google Analytics and SEO optimization. Xiaolai compiled and submitted Weekly Report 572, assessed the training progress of new team members, updated the webpage, provided assistance to new administrators, and organized documents for the weekly report. You can see the work for the team in the image below.

GRAPHIC DESIGN TEAM

The Graphic Design Team’s summary was managed by Ruiqi Liu (Administrative Assistant) and includes Ashlesha Navale (Graphic Designer) and Jialun Liu (Graphic Designer). Ashlesha focused on creating eight Social Media Images with themes like Cooperation-If We Want To, Cooperation-Idealistic Dream, Cooperation-Humanity Is Ready, Cooperation-Huge Difference, Cooperation-Holistic Living, Cooperation-Higher And Broader Vision, Cooperation-Harmony, and Cooperation-Green Living Solutions. In addition to her design work, she researched and curated a collection of nature-based background images and various theme-based images for the creation of Social Media Images. Jialun worked on a graphic design project, and his works showcased environmental problems and solutions or community actions to improve people’s lives. See the Highest Good Society pages for more on how this relates to creating the world that’s possible. The collage below shows some of this work.

HIGHEST GOOD NETWORK PROGRESS

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

ALPHA SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT TEAM

This week, the Alpha Team’s summary, covering their work on the Highest Good Network software, was managed by Sucheta Mukherjee (Software Developer) and includes Chengyan Wang (Software Engineer), Navya M (Full Stack Developer), and Shamim Rahman (Software Engineer). The Highest Good Network software is how we’ll be managing and objectively measuring our process for creating the world that’s possible through our social architecture, construction, production, and maintenance processes. This week, Sucheta focused on reviewing PR1956+750 and PR1979+758, understanding functionality, testing, and approving all functions. Additionally, she played a pivotal role in refactoring the weeklySummary Recipients button functionality to enhance user experience. Meanwhile, Navya spent time on code review and pull request approvals, checking code in the local environment, providing feedback, and scrutinizing Figma screens for task analysis. She also examined Phase 2 documentation and participated in meetings. Shamim completed multiple tasks, including reviewing 11 pull requests, conducting functionality tests, and identifying issues with screenshots. Furthermore, Chengyan addressed technical challenges, resolving UI bugs, eliminating ‘No item data’ issues, and updating the backend and frontend to enhance user experience. See the Highest Good Society and Highest Good Network pages for more on how this relates to creating the world that’s possible. View some of the team’s work in the collage below.

BADGES BUGS SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT TEAM

The Badges Bugs Team’s summary, covering their work on the Highest Good Network software, was managed by Shaofeng Li (Software Engineer) and includes Renan Luiz Santiago Martins César (Full-stack developer), Xiao Zhang (Software Engineer), and Xiaohan Meng (Software Engineer). The Highest Good Network software is how we’ll be managing and objectively measuring our process for creating the world that’s possible through our social architecture, construction, production, and maintenance processes. This week, Renan implemented disaster recovery in Azure, incorporating both Central US as the primary region and West Europe as the secondary region. He developed the function ‘checkXHrsForXWeek’ to identify potential issues, analyzed components, and performed tests within the application to ensure the proper display of badges, in addition to performing content analysis and resource identification to support the implementation of logic. He identified and resolved a bug related to deleting usernames upon account deletion and is currently working on implementing the solution, alongside investigating the absence of 30-week hours in one week for potential solutions. Shaofeng helped with creating the world that’s possible as he engaged in a range of activities for the HGN Software Development project, starting with tests on the front-end system to identify necessary fixes, facilitated a team meeting to outline the week’s plan and assisted team members with technical obstacles, involved code modifications to the front-end components. He saw an effort in resolving the “90 hours in one week badge not being awarded” issue, with bug fixes in the front-end parts and conducting unit tests, tallying up to 5 hours. He also aimed to ensure both front-end and back-end functionality were aligned, investigating the log time functionality as a potential factor in the badge assignment problem. Xiao concentrated on optimizing their project by creating a function to efficiently allocate X hours within a single week, splitting the existing XHoursForXWeeks function into two separate entities, which simplified the code, making it more intuitive and easier to manage. Xiaohan reviewed the “HGN Phase I Bugs and Needed Functionalities” and “HGN Software Team Management” documents, and acquired an understanding of the protocols for submitting a pull request (PR), the associated procedures, and HGN management’s requirements. He configured and operated the front-end and back-end environments locally without complications, and following requests from Jae and Nahiyan_Add, Xiaohan undertook reviews of specific PRs, finding significant issues concerning component overlap and a backend terminal issue related to the profile picture upload functionality. See the Highest Good Society and Highest Good Network pages for more on how this relates to creating the world that’s possible. Look below for pictures of the team’s work.

BLUE STEEL SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT TEAM

The Blue Steel Team’s summary, covering their work on the Highest Good Network software, was managed by Nathan Hoffman (Software Engineer, Team Manager) and includes Alex Brandt (Full Stack Developer), Jingyi Jia (Software Engineer), Shiqing Pan (Full-Stack Software Developer), Swathy Jayaseelan (Software Engineer), Tzu Ning “Leo” Chueh (Software Engineer), and Xiao Wang (Software Engineer). This week, Alex started working in a developer role, working on two pull requests, PR #646 for the back end and PR #1562 for the front end. To resolve a testing bug, he researched the Provider and Connect APIs for Redux and made edits to the styling of the front-end prompt buttons. Finally, on the back end, he configured their own OpenAI API key. Jingyi completed the development of the “rehireable / Not rehireable” checkbox feature, implemented on both the user profile page and in the reports/people reports/user profile section of the platform. Following thorough testing in a local environment, where the feature performed as expected without any issues, Jingyi submitted two pull requests for review: PR 2032 and PR 789. Nathan reviewed team members’ weekly summaries and videos, offering constructive feedback to foster improvement. Additionally, he reviewed Jay’s pull requests, clarifying requirements for password and task X permissions with Jae. In-depth review of Jay’s pull requests also involved addressing issues related to editing time log dates and requesting necessary changes for refinement. Shiqing tackled the problem of users needing to be part of a team to view their tasks. She reviewed the comments in the pull requests made by colleagues and made necessary code modifications. Utilizing useEffect, she monitored the userHaveTask status to indicate whether tasks were assigned to a user and directly updated the activeTab variable within the timeLogState as soon as any data change occurred. Additionally, Shiqing enhanced the Teams component by implementing further tests for adding, deleting, and updating team information. She also spent time debugging previous tests on this component, ensuring functionality and reliability were maintained. Swathy did her part helping with creating the world that’s possible as she expanded the unit test coverage for the codebase, completing a unit test file and submitting a pull request for review and integration. She then began testing the UserProfile -> Teams Table component but encountered challenges in creating reliable test cases. After troubleshooting, Swathy identified a configuration issue within the file and is currently researching solutions through online documentation, and writing test cases to verify the component’s functionality. Tzu Ning checked out the current branch, cleared the site data and cache, then logged in as an admin user and tested the Google Doc link by entering various URLs to verify that only Google Doc links are allowed. Additionally, he confirmed that any valid URL could be entered in the Media Folder link, ensuring the functionality aligns with the intended design and requirements. Xiao assisted Shereen in testing the time entry history feature, identifying a critical limitation: due to permissions constraints, users lacking ‘edit time entry’ access are unable to modify time entry details, leading to unchangeable history records. Additionally, he supported Mohammad with a refactoring issue related to accessing the state in the Redux store, providing guidance on best practices for state management. Xiao also contributed to resolving a failing test case issue for Christy, advising on modifications to test scenarios to ensure success. In another instance, he helped Demi troubleshoot a visibility problem with her page, which was traced back to a time entry logged against a task she was not assigned to. Furthermore, he implemented a pull request to enhance the Timer’s resilience to poor internet connectivity by allowing up to three failed connection attempts before a heartbeat failure is declared, aiming to improve user experience in low-bandwidth situations. The Highest Good Network software is how we’ll be managing and objectively measuring our process for creating the world that’s possible through our social architecture, construction, production, and maintenance processes. See the Highest Good Society and Highest Good Network pages for more on how this relates to creating the world that’s possible. The collage below shows some of this work.