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Maximizing Involved and Meaningful Life Experiences – One Community Weekly Progress Update #562

Posted on December 25, 2023 by Jibin Joby

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In a relentless pursuit of maximizing involved and meaningful life experiences, One Community stands as an example of what’s possible through a collaborative effort. Our all-volunteer organization is dedicated to creating sustainable solutions across food, energy, and housing, to education, economics, and social architecture. Fueled by the vision of “The Highest Good of All” our model, evolves sustainability into a self-replicating force. Committed to global stewardship practices, we’re open sourcing and free sharing the complete process, working towards a world that not only regenerates our planet but also creates fulfilled living 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 maximizing involved and meaningful life experiences and this movement as the first of many self-replicating teacher/demonstration communities, villages, and cities to be built around the world. This is the December 25th, 2023 edition (#562) of our weekly progress update detailing our team’s development and accomplishments:

Maximizing Involved and Meaningful Life Experiences
One Community Progress Update #562

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HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING PROGRESS

One Community is maximizing involved and meaningful life experiences 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

See the Highest Good Society page for more on how all this relates to maximizing involved and meaningful life experiences.

This week, Charles Gooley (Web Designer) focused on addressing comments for four pages. Specifically, he worked on the Most Sustainable Windows and Doors page, making adjustments to the right margins of the icons. Additionally, he gave attention to the City Center Dome Hub Connector Engineering and Design, along with the Rainwater Harvesting, Water Catchment, and Swale Building Open Source Hub and Portal.

While most comments on the latter page were resolved, some still need clarification. Afterward, he continued work on the Most Sustainable Lightbulbs and Light Bulb Companies: Research, Energy Savings, and More” page. The sections covered reasons for comparing lightbulbs for sustainability, selecting the most sustainable light bulb, and exploring types like incandescent, compact fluorescent, and light-emitting diodes.

The page also discussed discerning the best sustainable light bulbs, decoding LED light bulb labels, identifying the most sustainable light bulb companies, and evaluating the best energy-efficient lights, including alternatives. Company logos and names were linked to their respective websites as part of the ongoing content development. The One Community food and housing infrastructure will provide the space and time-freedom for maximizing involved and meaningful life experiences. See his work on sustainable lightbulbs and light bulb companies in the collage below.

Loza Ayehutsega (Civil Engineer/Assistant Civil Engineer) focused on reviewing content related to Earth Dam risk assessment and dam break hazard assessment. These assessments play a vital role in securing the safety and stability of dams by pinpointing potential risks, vulnerabilities, and consequences linked to dam failure. This information allows for the implementation of measures aimed at reducing risks and improving public safety. The One Community food and housing infrastructure will provide the space and time-freedom for maximizing involved and meaningful life experiences. You can see her work on dam assessment in the collage below.

Yiwei He (Mechanical Engineer) had a meeting with Chris to delve into the complexities of system operations, particularly emphasizing detailed mechanics. Yiwei assigned the task of overseeing calculations concerning overall distributions and waste load, aiming for completion before the next scheduled meeting. Simultaneously, she tracked the progress of the light bulb page and the Duplicable City Center project. The One Community food and housing infrastructure will provide the space and time-freedom for maximizing involved and meaningful life experiences. The images below show her work on the mechanics of system operations.

DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER PROGRESS

One Community is maximizing involved and meaningful life experiences 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: Duplicable City Center Open Source Hub

See the Highest Good Society page for more on how all this relates to maximizing involved and meaningful life experiences.

This week, Amiti Singh (Architectural Designer) worked on the cost analysis related to the materials and furniture designed for Room 10 in the Duplicable City Center, focusing on achieving a Boho-industrial aesthetic. She assessed the furniture and material palettes, employing a cost analysis methodology to guide her decision-making process. After this assessment, Amiti reviewed the detailed moodboard for the room, presenting the outcomes through slides.

At the same time, she worked on finalizing files for previous room design projects within the Duplicable City Center. This City Center is one of the primary gathering spaces that One Community will use while maximizing involved and meaningful life experiences. The collage below shows her cost analysis for furniture materials for the City Center.

Julio Marín Bustillos (Mechanical Engineer) finished designing City Center hub connectors for the second and third rows, integrating them throughout the entire dome. This placement guarantees uniform coverage and functionality. This complete set of hub connectors will pave the way for the next step: performing Finite Element Analysis (FEA). This phase is pivotal in evaluating the structural integrity and performance of the entire dome design. This City Center is one of the primary gathering spaces that One Community will use while maximizing involved and meaningful life experiences. See the images below for an idea of his work on hub connector design.

HIGHEST GOOD FOOD PROGRESS

One Community is maximizing involved and meaningful life experiences 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

See the Highest Good Society page for more on how all this relates to maximizing involved and meaningful life experiences.

This week, the core team continued working with Hayley on the Highest Good food component. We focused on resolving comments by verifying all unaddressed information from the Rollout document was incorporated into the Edits document, which is slated for publication on the website. The One Community food and housing infrastructure will provide the space and time-freedom for maximizing involved and meaningful life experiences. You can see the images in the collage below.

Hayley Rosario (Sustainability Research Assistant) continued her review of the open-source Highest Good Food rollout plan. Hayley contributed to the development of the EDITS document, incorporating new items and refining its content. Noteworthy tasks included adding the food forest test plot to the 20-person material list, researching videos on ribbon and jar soil tests, and reviewing various items, including the drip irrigation system. Within the EDITS document, Hayley took the lead in initiating the final editing process, reviewing and annotating the content, and marking revisions. The One Community food and housing infrastructure will provide the space and time-freedom for maximizing involved and meaningful life experiences. See below for some of her work.

HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION PROGRESS – maximizing involved and meaningful life experiences.

One Community is maximizing involved and meaningful life experiences 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.

See the Highest Good Society page for more on how all this relates to maximizing involved and meaningful life experiences.

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

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

Highest Good education, open source education, progressive education, One Community education, forward-thinking education, learning skills

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

HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY PROGRESS

One Community is maximizing involved and meaningful life experiences 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 maximizing involved and meaningful life experiences and how maximizing involved and meaningful life experiences integrate into the bigger picture of everything One Community is doing. The pictures below show some of this work.

The core team also tested the Highest Good Network PRs for One Community, we concentrated on testing HGN PRs, resolving several, such as 712, 903, 1073, 1262, 1283, 1147, 1226, and 1291. However, some PRs remain unresolved, including one related to fixing icons next to “Tasks and Timelogs.” Additionally, we initiated a new PR to address a problem with multiple dates of assigning badges, providing further clarity through a video demonstration of the issue.

The Highest Good Network software is how we’ll be measuring many of the results as we’re maximizing involved and meaningful life experiences 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 maximizing involved and meaningful life experiences. See the collage of pictures below that are related to this week’s work.

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Aaron Wang (Fundraising Assistant) continued to help One Community with working on fundraising. We won’t be able to be maximizing involved and meaningful life experiences without funding. This week, Aaron focused on researching four potential funders: Mark Heising, Jack and Laura Dangermond, Scott Cook and Signe Ostby, and Airbnb’s Brian Chesky.

He looked into their sustainability activities, philosophical beliefs, funding records, and the organizations they have supported. He also completed a prioritization of all potential funders he has researched to date, which is intended to streamline and enhance the efficacy of future outreach endeavors. See the Highest Good Society for more on our model for maximizing involved and meaningful life experiences. You can view this work in the collage below.

Harsha Kulkarni (Data Analyst) continued working on One Community‘s Google AdWords campaigns and Analytics details. Our ads here share many of our pages focused on maximizing involved and meaningful life experiences. This week, Harsha focused on addressing anomalies in the Google Analytics dashboard, which included investigating graphs not populating as expected and displaying a declining trend.

Subsequently, she created appeals for ads experiencing policy issues related to trademark usage in page content. Additionally, Harsha worked on formulating a plan for generating ads and analytics to assess the efficiency of Google Ads created. See the Highest Good Society for more on how all this relates to maximizing involved and meaningful life experiences. You can see some of this in the picture below.

Ray Lee (Digital Creator) helped this week by creating a new holiday header image for the Highest Good Network app. See the images below to view this work.

Vishvesh Sheora (Artificial Intelligence Specialist) focused on elevating the SEO performance of blog posts featured on the One Community website. These focus on key SEO terms like “maximizing involved and meaningful life experiences.” This week, Vishvesh continued to boost the SEO performance on the live main site by elevating the SEO score of key pages, including the “About Us” page, from 85 to an increased score of 90. Additionally, he reviewed the tutorial demo page, addressing minor bugs so it functions more smoothly. See the work in the image below.

ADMINISTRATION TEAM

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

Alyx had a review of Saeed’s initial contributions to the shared Google Doc, and also assessed and provided feedback on the blog content submitted by Ola and Xiaolai. In addition, Alyx did research on SEO and its relevance to One Community, gaining insights into the concept of pillar content and determining its inapplicability to specific needs.

Catherine completed a thorough review of the Admin, Blue Steel, Alpha teams, and individuals, organizing images and summaries in WordPress Editors and finalizing edits. She reviewed her work by comparing it with the final webpage, identifying and understanding errors.

Catherine also reviewed the City Center Dome Hub Connector Engineering webpage and started editing prior blog updates to improve the SEO score. Meenakshi managed administrative responsibilities, including checking blogs for group crediting, creatingd new bio announcements, and updating the spreadsheet for changes. She integrated feedback into new webpages, addressed comments, and documented sustainable alternatives for a case study.

Melina focused on completing the web review for Charles Gooley, the Water Conservation Page designer, ensuring formatting, accuracy, and content quality. Additionally, she did weekly reviews for the housing and Duplicable City Center Teams, preparing collages and editing summaries on WordPress.

Ola reviewed past work, addressed feedback, and optimized previous blogs for SEO. She organized the Google Docs space for collaboration with Admin teams. Ruiqi completed a four-step review process for Code Crafters, Git-R-Done, Graphic Design, and Expresser Team, provided feedback, created collages, and incorporated SEO keywords in WordPress. She worked on the Energy and Roadway Infrastructure Comprehensive Cost Analysis Spreadsheet, updating the “parking and roadway” table.

Shaurya reviewed pull requests (PRs), addressing issues with team members and updating tracking sheets. He created a team summary and compiled a team collage featuring all PRs. Xiaolai revised summaries, arranged documents, and composed the weekly report labeled 561, submitting it for final review and proceeding with the rating process.

Additionally, he reviewed the live blog and transferred final content to his page. These are the managers helping us manage the current process of creating One Community, one purpose of which is maximizing involved and meaningful life experiences. See the Highest Good Society for more on how all this relates to maximizing involved and meaningful life experiences. You can see the work for the team in the image below.

ALPHA TEAM

The Alpha Team’s summary, covering their work on the Highest Good Network software, was managed by Carl Bebli (Software Engineer, Team Manager) and includes Zichan Yang (Software Engineer). The Highest Good Network software is how we’ll be measuring many of the results as we’re maximizing involved and meaningful life experiences through our social architecture, construction, production, and maintenance processes.

Carl facilitated the weekly meeting with Team Alpha, overseeing discussions related to Phase Two challenges. He encountered the challenge of accommodating a continuous influx of new members over the past three weeks. Moreover, Carl evaluated multiple pull requests and provided constructive feedback, addressing issues flagged under numbers #611, #660, #1331, #1535, #1712, #1713, #1718, #1722, #1723, #1735, and #1736.

Zichan identified formatting issues on the “Other Links>Teams” and “Other Links>Projects” pages. He discovered problems of two boxes that lacked uniform sizing, exhibited poor alignment, and occupied excessive space. Zichan also noted incorrect green dot alignment within these boxes and identified the need for improvements in the row below them. To rectify these issues, he suggested aligning colors and formatting with those present on the “Reports>Reports>People>[chosen person]” pages.

He has submitted the changes through Pull Request #1746. See the Highest Good Society and Highest Good Network pages for more on how this relates to maximizing involved and meaningful life experiences. View some of this work in the collage below.

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 Haohui Lin (Software Engineer), Shubhankar Valimbe (Lead Full Stack Software Developer), Xuying He (Software Engineer) and Yubo Sun (Full Stack Software Developer). The Highest Good Network software is how we’ll be measuring many of the results as we’re maximizing involved and meaningful life experiences through our social architecture, construction, production, and maintenance processes.

Nathan responded to messages, addressed a broken permissions styling issue, and debugged a problem related to missing formatting imports, resulting in PR #1726. Shubhankar, focusing on team management, reviewed team members’ submissions (part of maximizing involved and meaningful life experiences as a volunteer), providing feedback, and resolved issues with the “assign blue squares only” permission.

Haohui concentrated on fixing a bug preventing users from clicking buttons on the main page and resolving the scrolling issue in tasks with the “Fix permission for edit tasks” task. Xuying worked on completing the “Finish ‘My Team’ filter for Tasks Tab and Leaderboard” task, creating a new button and ensuring correct data fetching.

Yubo concluded various tasks, including initiating pull request #1635 to improve admin links, assessing the new permission system’s impact on pull request #1035, progressing on pull request #860, and advancing the creation of the Core Team’s blue square email template, with the merge of pull request #1718 for unit testing.

See the Highest Good Society and Highest Good Network pages for more on how this relates to maximizing involved and meaningful life experiences. The collage below shows some of this 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 Ramya Ramasamy (Software Engineer), and Sucheta Mukherjee (Software Developer). The Highest Good Network software is how we’ll be measuring many of the results as we’re maximizing involved and meaningful life experiences through our social architecture, construction, production, and maintenance processes.

Ramya concentrated on addressing and resolving feedback for two pull requests related to lint fixes, effectively resolving concerns raised. She engaged in addressing feedback for a third pull request. In addition, Ramya completed the unit testing for two distinct components, PopUpBar, and BasicTabTips, with the latter merged into the development branch.

Anirudh worked on the SetUpFinalDayPopUp unit test case, systematically considering all possible scenarios to ensure coverage. Sucheta was involved in assessing the existing functionality of the Project Component and examining backend server API calls. Reviewing the response object aimed to determine the approach for sorting the Work Breakdown Structure (WBS), ensuring that modifications within the WBS wouldn’t directly impact the Task model.

Additionally, updates were made per request to the ‘Can’t Schedule Time Off’ button, alongside an explanatory modal. See the Highest Good Society and Highest Good Network pages for more on how this relates to maximizing involved and meaningful life experiences. The collage below shows some of this work.

EXPRESSERS SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT TEAM

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

The Highest Good Network software is how we’ll be measuring many of the results as we’re maximizing involved and meaningful life experiences through our social architecture, construction, production, and maintenance processes. Aishwarya tackled the development of the tool purchase request form, addressing a persistent 500 error after form submission.

Aishwarya also solved a mismatch between the model and data sent to the buildingTool collection for purchase record creation, ensuring error-free form submissions and the creation of a purchase record in the collection. In addition, she added the Materials Page, creating a new schema for units and seamlessly integrating it with the frontend.

Olga worked on the single tool view page, debugging the tool view components fetching by ID functionality, and updating database documents with the required information for the tool page. She also progressed in the design of the addtool form, incorporating price calculation and completing necessary form functionality.

Tim focused on full-stack software development, specifically the Add Equipment Type API. On the frontend, he established a new route and root component for the form, implementing form fields with client-side validation checks and the HTTP post request.

Tim also developed the backend API, creating a new endpoint and controller function. He refactored the buildingInventoryType mongoose schema, using discriminators to establish a separate model for each of the five inventory categories, sharing fields from a base model.

In his managerial role, Tim hosted the weekly standup meeting, finished a peer programming and debugging session, and provided support, communication, and project management guidance to the Phase 2 software development team. See the Highest Good Society and Highest Good Network pages for more on how this relates to maximizing involved and meaningful life experiences. The collage below shows some of this work.

GIT-R-DONE SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT TEAM

The Git-R-Done Team’s summary, covering their work on the Highest Good Network software, was managed by Kaikane Lacno (Learning Assistant) and includes, Olena Danykh (Software Engineer), Miguelcloid Reniva (Software Developer), and Rhea Wu (Software Engineer). The Highest Good Network software is how we’ll be measuring many of the results as we’re maximizing involved and meaningful life experiences through our social architecture, construction, production, and maintenance processes.

Miguel focused on resolving the user suggestion issue by finalizing a design and approach, implementing an editing radio button, and making the description category dynamic. He also initiated work on a dynamic, draggable list. Olena worked on integrating the application with the Redux store, loading lessons from the database, and enabling edit and delete actions with immediate visibility.

Rhea advanced her assigned task on New Lesson routing and controller, overcoming challenges with assistance from Tim Kent and Kai Kanes, and refined MongoDB documentation. See the Highest Good Society and Highest Good Network pages for more on how this relates to maximizing involved and meaningful life experiences. The collage below shows some of this work.

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GRAPHIC DESIGN TEAM

The Graphic Design Team’s summary was managed by Ruiqi (Administrative Assistant) and includes Ashlesha Navale (Graphic Designer), Jackie King (Graphic Designer), and Nancy Mónchez (Graphic Designer). Ashlesha created a Volunteer Announcement, generated corresponding bio and announcement images, and updated web content. She finished Social Media Images, involving research and curating nature-based and theme-specific visuals. Jackie created ten Social Media Images and finished a shared spreadsheet with 242 entries, demonstrating progress toward completion.

She corrected a previous mistake on a Volunteer Announcement and published an additional one. She finished a plan of works about Social Media Images, including the observation of tutorials, implementation of edits, and the creation of new redesigns. These images convey our messages associated with the complete project, including maximizing involved and meaningful life experiences. See the Highest Good Society for more on how all this relates to maximizing involved and meaningful life experiences. The collage below shows some of this work.

MOONFALL’S SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT TEAM

Abdelmounaim addressed multiple technical issues, resolving problems with the entry of country names, tackling permission-related issues in the time-off feature setup, and concluding the development of the confirmation email feature for the Blue Square Scheduler.

Cheng-Yun crafted unit test code for Members.jsx, adding new test cases, and initiating a PR with a detailed description of the unit test code. Haoji focused on implementing a new email application functionality, integrating customized headers for personalized email communication.

Jiadong completed the replacement of the dashboard badge and refined the badge button’s style for hide-and-show functionality. Additionally, he implemented a popup feature to display badges, aiming to compare and evaluate the effectiveness of both approaches for the BadgeComponent.

Lu concentrated on debugging unit tests, code review, and team management, he also assisted in reviewing weekly reports from teammates. Navneeth undertook a new task, “Create Weekly Summary Email for Admins,” involving Figma mockup reviews, D3.js code exploration, debugging efforts for leaderboard components that are part of maximizing involved and meaningful life experiences as a volunteer. Tzu Ning resolved a technical issue related to button display, finished debugging sessions, and optimized logic for the ‘Add Time Entry’ button.

Xiao Fei made progress on the ‘Update teams page sorting’ task, adapting to class components, implementing sorting mechanisms, and refining frontend code. Yi executed the task of deleting old branches, reviewing and removing over 100 branches for repository hygiene.

Yihan focused on various tasks, including addressing the “add lost hour” issue, fixing problems on the leaderboard, and initiating PR#1721. Zijie continued working on the reducer component, reapplying lint fix repairs to approximately 40 to 50 JavaScript files. See the Highest Good Society and Highest Good Network pages for more on how this relates to maximizing involved and meaningful life experiences. Look below for a collage of their work.

REACTONAUTS’ SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT TEAM

Reactonauts’ Team’s summary, covering their work on the Highest Good Network software, was managed by Masasa Thapelo (Software Engineer) and includes Changhao Li (Software Engineer), Shengwei Peng (Software Engineer), Shihao Xiong (Software Engineer), Shiwani Rajagopalan (Software Engineer), Shrey Jain (Software Engineer), Vikram Badhan (Software Engineer), Yixiao Jiang (Software Engineer) and Zuhang Xu (Software Engineer).

The Highest Good Network software is how we’ll be measuring many of the results as we’re maximizing involved and meaningful life experiences through our social architecture, construction, production, and maintenance processes. Changhao focused on unit testing ActiveCell.jsx and tasks involving NewUserPopup.jsx, ResetPasswordButton.jsx, and ResetPasswordPopup.jsx. Masasa finalized PR issues related to selecting all teams and teams without codes, ensuring their resolution.

Following this, he rectified scrolling issues within the team management page. Shengwei collaborated with Vishala on optimization efforts, implementing caching strategies and streamlining the Circle CI build process to reduce resource usage. He also addressed failing unit test cases associated with PR1681 due to UI changes, modifying and updating existing test cases and adding 15 new unit tests to ensure coverage for various account scenarios.

Shihao oversaw multiple development activities, ensuring project segments met standards and integrated smoothly. He reviewed and approved PRs 1708 and 1713 while addressing issues in PR#1651, resolving a specific bug affecting functionality.

Shiwani concentrated on two tasks: creating a leaderboard to track team members’ off status and conducting unit tests for AddTeamPopup. She modified controllers, models and frontend components for the leaderboard, tested scenarios and submitted PRs#1722 and #660 for review.

Shrey wrote unit test cases for two Timelog components, TimeEntryForm/AboutModal.jsx and TimeEntryForm/TangibleInfoModal.jsx. Vikram configured the local frontend and backend environments and engaged in the review of eight pull requests.

In addition, he addressed an issue related to the non-functionality of the “90-hour in one week” badge within the HGN application. Yixiao resolved issues with the TaskEditSuggestions file. Additionally, Yixiao analyzed and wrote the test file for the selectors and service.

Zuhang tackled a notable issue where the space drop-down menu failed to appear during username searches. Additionally, he implemented enhancements to the TeamMembersPopUp component, improving the process of adding team members. See the Highest Good Society and Highest Good Network pages for more on how this relates to maximizing involved and meaningful life experiences. Look below for pictures of this work.

SKYE’S SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT TEAM

The Highest Good Network software is how we’ll be measuring many of the results as we’re maximizing involved and meaningful life experiences through our social architecture, construction, production, and maintenance processes. Bailey focused on enhancing the ‘submit link for review’ functionality. This feature allows users to attach links to their submissions, streamlining the review process for managers.

Bailey integrated the display of these links into the managers’ dropdown menu. He also resolved an issue by creating a new field named ‘relatedWorkLinks’ in the backend, which mirrors the structure of the original ‘links’ field.

Jerry executed the planning, filming, and editing of a video tutorial. This tutorial demonstrates how to use the Visual Studio Code debugger on the badge component, with a specific focus on the backend code. Additionally, he contributed to his development team by publishing a GitHub pull request (PR #665), which addressed the streak fix auto dropoff bug in the HGNRest project.

Roberto focused on the “View Another Person’s Dashboard” task. His approach differed from previous attempts, as he implemented a Redux variable to store in the state, acting as a notifier to determine viewing mode. This ensures navigation throughout the website for users viewing another person’s account.

Yao developed the FAQ button’s functionality, which is now operational. See the Highest Good Society and Highest Good Network pages for more on how this relates to maximizing involved and meaningful life experiences. See the collage below for some of their work.

SOFTWARE PR REVIEW TEAM

The Highest Good Network software is how we’ll be measuring many of the results as we’re maximizing involved and meaningful life experiences 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 maximizing involved and meaningful life experiences. The collage below shows a compilation of the work from this team.

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One Community Welcomes Haohui Lin to the Software Development Team!

Posted on December 23, 2023 by One Community Hs

One Community welcomes Haohui Lin to the Software Team as our newest Volunteer/Consultant!

Haohui is an experienced software engineer with a rich background spanning over 2 years, encompassing a wide array of project types. His expertise lies in thriving within dynamic and challenging environments, where he excels in solving intricate problems through efficient and effective solutions. Haohui possesses a deep sense of ownership, coupled with a passion for tackling problems using advanced software technology, and a keen ability to empathetically understand user needs. Proficient in crafting client-side applications, web APIs, and logical services, his solutions are characterized by their reliability, scalability, and maintainability. As a member of the One Community Highest Good Network software team, Haohui has made substantial contributions to maintaining the business platform and orchestrating detailed project development for all endeavors undertaken by One Community.

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One Community Welcomes Anny Wang to the Software Development Team!

Posted on December 21, 2023 by One Community Hs

One Community welcomes Anny Wang to the Software Development Team as our newest Volunteer/Consultant!

Anny is passionate about software development. After working as a dietitian for a while, she discovered her love for technology through interactions with the software she used at work. Anny signed up for a bootcamp and learned the MERN stack. Now, she is dedicating her skills to One Community. She believes that software development can help improve society and the world. As a software engineer of the One Community team, Anny is contributing to the development of the open source Highest Good Network software.

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One Community Welcomes Rhea Wu to the Software Development Team!

Posted on December 21, 2023 by One Community Hs

One Community welcomes Rhea Wu to the Software Development Team as our newest Volunteer/Consultant!

Rhea boasts a robust background in full-stack engineering, accumulating over 4 years of hands-on experience across diverse tech projects. She has a proven track record of thriving in fast-paced development environments, tackling intricate challenges, and delivering efficient and effective solutions. As a member of the One Community team, Rhea has been instrumental in crafting comprehensive technical roadmaps and executing full-stack development plans for Phase 2 of the open source Highest Good Network software.

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One Community Welcomes Yi Lin to the Infrastructure and Design Team!

Posted on December 20, 2023 by One Community Hs

One Community welcomes Yi Lin to the Infrastructure and Design Team as our newest Volunteer/Consultant!

Yi is a proficient Computer Science professional, holding a Bachelor of Science from the University of Massachusetts Amherst and an Associate’s degree from Bunker Hill Community College. Yi likes to demonstrate his strong aptitude for software development through various projects, particularly in the MERN stack (MongoDB, Express.js, React, and Node.js). These projects highlight Yi’s ability to effectively utilize a range of modern software development tools and methodologies. As a member of the One Community team, Yi has applied his strong problem-solving skills and technical expertise to help develop the Highest Good Network software and fix bugs.

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One Community Welcomes Ruiqi Liu to the Administrative Team!

Posted on December 20, 2023 by One Community Hs

One Community welcomes Ruiqi Liu to the Administrative Team as our newest Volunteer/Consultant!

Ruiqi received her Bachelor of Science in Environmental Economics and Policy from the University of California, Berkeley in 2023. She then started her Project Management journey with One Community on the Administrative Team. She has managed complex projects in a fast-paced work environment and efficiently solved a variety of challenging problems. She believes that increasing resource efficiency, doing more with less, and leveraging resources and infrastructure for sustainable development are ways to have a positive impact on the environment and the economy. As a member of the One Community team, she has contributed to the weekly updates posts on the One Community Updates Blog, provided ongoing feedback and support to the volunteer team, and helped with cost analysis for the business plans for One Community’s ongoing projects.

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One Community Welcomes Olena Danykh to the Software Development Team!

Posted on December 20, 2023 by One Community Hs

One Community welcomes Olena Danykh to the Software Development Team as our newest Volunteer/Consultant!

Olena is a dedicated and innovative Front End Developer with over 2 years of software development experience. She successfully completed the Full-Stack Coding Bootcamp and has since worked as a Full-Stack Developer, honing her skills in both front-end and back-end technologies, including HTML, CSS, JavaScript, MongoDB, PostgreSQL, Express, React, and Node.js. While she initially engaged extensively in both ends, her current focus is primarily on the Front End, specializing in React and Angular. With a diverse portfolio, she has contributed to projects such as a Machine Learning Platform, a Quote Generating App for an insurance company, and several personal apps. Additionally, she takes pride in being a co-creator of Trinity, a VS Code extension designed for the Neo4j graph database. As an integral member of the One Community team, Olena actively contributes to the development of the open-source Highest Good Network Software.

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Complete Earth-Care Teacher/Demonstration Hubs – One Community Weekly Progress Update #561

Posted on December 18, 2023 by Jibin Joby

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One Community is creating open source plans for Earth-care teacher/demonstration hubs. From sustainable practices in food, energy, and housing, to education, economics, and social architecture, we’re cultivating a model for fulfilled living and global stewardship. Beyond community building, we’re launching a movement of positive change and global sustainability. With an ethos rooted in open sourcing and free sharing, join us in creating a future where each hub becomes a unique storyteller, narrating the journey towards a planet supported and cared for by all.

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

OUR MAIN OPEN SOURCE HUBS

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One Community’s physical location will forward this movement as the first of many self-replicating Earth-care teacher/demonstration hubs, communities, villages, and cities to be built around the world. This is the December 18th, 2023 edition (#561) of our weekly progress update detailing our team’s development and accomplishments:

Earth-care Teacher/Demonstration Hubs
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HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING PROGRESS

One Community is creating Earth-care teacher/demonstration hubs 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, the core team reviewed the “Murphy Bed Furniture Page Assembly Instructions” PDF document, addressing comments, and providing descriptions for comments related to labeling links for downloading multiple PDF files on the same page. We also tested the Highest Good Network PRs for One Community. They concentrated on HGN PRs testing, with unresolved PRs 1182.

They recorded a video illustrating the issue while the team addressed and resolved PRs 472, involving the addition of a new field “Start Date” to the Create New User modal, and 1216, fixing an app crash linked to duplicate permissions. Concurrently with PR testing, they retested an Admin account’s ability to submit Weekly Summaries Reports for others. Additionally, the team initiated testing for PR 1073+464, focusing on easy/nearly automated data input for creating a new member. In tandem with their PR testing duties, they See the collage pictures below.

Abhishek Kadian (Architect) worked on preparing the Revit file of a 4-dome structure for the Earthbag Village (Pod 1), aiming to match the roof plan and other detailed DWG files with AutoCAD and reference final 3D views. He gathered all necessary information for the model from the reference file and importing it into Revit, while also creating families in Revit on the side. The earthbag village will be the first sustainable village build as part of the One Community Earth-care teacher/demonstration hub. See the collage below for an idea of his work.

Charles Gooley (Web Designer) began work on the Most Sustainable Lightbulbs and Light Bulb Companies page. The sections covered why it is essential to compare lightbulbs for sustainability, the criteria for selecting the most sustainable light bulb, and an analysis of various types of bulbs, including incandescent, compact fluorescent, and light emitting diodes.

The content delved into identifying the best type of sustainable light bulbs, guidance on interpreting an LED light bulb label, and a list of the best and most sustainable light bulb companies, with company logos and names linked to their respective websites. Additionally, the page featured insights on the best energy-efficient lights, encompassing alternative options. Sustainable lighting is a large part of the sustainability foundation of One Community as a future Earth-care teacher/demonstration hub. The collage below shows his work comparing sustainable lighbulb and light bulb companies.

Yiwei He (Mechanical Engineer) met with her Duplicable City Center team to review progress, coordinate future steps, and establish meeting schedules to accommodate the upcoming holiday season. Additionally, she researched the Vermiculture Toilet design, and addressed and responded to comments on the light bulb document. All of this is part of maximizing the replicability and sustainability of One Community as a future Earth-care teacher/demonstration hub. The collage below gives an idea of the tasks she completed this week.

DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER PROGRESS

One Community is creating Earth-care teacher/demonstration hubs 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: Duplicable City Center Open Source Hub

This week, Amiti Singh (Architectural Designer) reviewed the 3D renders she produced for Room 10 in the Duplicable City Center, initially focusing on a Boho-industrial aesthetic. The renders incorporated diverse industrial furniture and boho decor, strategically adjusting the color palette. Amiti assessed the furniture and material palettes, with a cost analysis approach to inform decision-making. She utilized this analysis to create a moodboard for the room, presented through slides. She also worked on file finalization for previous room design projects within the Duplicable City Center, a major component of One Community as a future Earth-care teacher/demonstration hub. The collage below shows some of her architectural renderings.

Julio Marín Bustillos (Mechanical Engineer) began work on Justin’s dome, leveraging its full symmetry to streamline the City Center Hub Connector’s design process. The inherent symmetry of the dome eliminates the challenge of creating numerous unique hub connectors, presenting a more practical approach to manufacturing and significantly reducing the design timeline. Julio designed the hub connectors for the first and second rows, taking the additional step of placing the initial connectors along the entire length of the first row. This approach aims for efficiency and consistency (key components of an Earth-care teacher/demonstration hub) in the hub connector design across the symmetrical dome structure. The collage below shows his work on the connector design process.

HIGHEST GOOD FOOD PROGRESS

One Community is creating Earth-care teacher/demonstration hubs 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 working with Hayley on the Highest Good food component. Their work extended across all sections of the initial rollout plan, addressing deployment for small teams of 3 individuals to larger groups of 20, 50, 100, and 400 participants. The focus was on ensuring coverage of implementation strategies and providing essential tools tailored to each stage of the rollout. Sustainable food is an essential component of the One Community Earth-care teacher/demonstration hub designs. You can see the images in the collage below.

Hayley Rosario (Sustainability Research Assistant) continued her review of the open-source Highest Good Food rollout plan. Hayley focused on addressing general issues within the EDITS document, emphasizing clarity and accuracy. She organized planting lists and corresponding links to optimize accessibility. In addition, she reviewed and updated relevant information on the website, incorporating necessary details. She examined the website for missing links and addressed comments and suggestions, implementing necessary fixes. See below for some of her work.

Shivangi Patel (Graphic Designer) finished her work on the Transition Food Self-sufficiency Plan UI/UX Web and Graphics development. This week, Shivangi completed the design phase for the Transition Menu Webpages. She compiled and organized all designs into a slide deck, accompanied by clarifying notes to guide the web designer. In addition, Shivangi developed a template for future PDF versions of recipes, color-coding each template to align with its respective recipe type. She finalized the design for individual recipe pages, providing the web designer with a range of options for user-friendly information display. This is part of how we’ll feed people as we construct the One Community Earth-care teacher/demonstration hub. See below for the visual images.

Smit Bhoir (Data and Business Analyst) continued data analysis for the menus for the Transition Food Self-sufficiency Plan. Smit worked on the data analysis aspect of the Transition Kitchen Menu project, with a specific focus on cost analysis. He also wrote a tutorial explaining the data visualization techniques pertinent to cost analysis, and he concluded by finalizing edits on another tutorial that addressed data analysis for the Transition Kitchen Menu. Smit also developed a tutorial focusing on data interpretation techniques relevant to the aforementioned project and also reviewed the Software PR review team under Sharuya’s supervision and a review of the weekly blog. A visual representation of Smit’s work is shown in the collage below.

HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION PROGRESS

One Community is creating Earth-care teacher/demonstration hubs 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.

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

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

HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY PROGRESS

One Community is creating Earth-care teacher/demonstration hubs 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 47 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 Earth-care teacher demonstration hubs and how Earth-care teacher demonstration hubs integrate into the bigger picture of everything One Community is doing. The pictures below show some of this work.

Aaron Wang (Fundraising Assistant) continued to help One Community with working on fundraising. We won’t be able to have Earth-care teacher demonstration hubs without funding. This week, Aaron engaged in detailed research of seven potential funders: John and Timi Sobrato, Keanu Reeves, John and Ginger Sall, Gordon and Betty Moore, Craig and Susan McCaw, Joe Gebbia, and Marc and Lynne Benioff. His investigation encompassed their sustainability activities, philosophical approaches, funding histories, and the organizations they have supported. The primary goal of this research was to gain a deep understanding of each potential funder’s interests and past philanthropic engagements. You can view this work in the collage below.

ADMINISTRATION TEAM

The Administration Team’s summary, covering their work administrating and managing most of One Community, was managed by Catherine Liu (Administrative and Analytics Assistant, Team Manager) and includes Alyx Parr (Senior Support Specialist), Meenakshi Velayutham (Sustainability Associate), Melina Chen (Administrative Assistant), Olawunmi “Ola” Ijisesan (Administrative and Management Support), Ruiqi Liu (Administrative Assistant), Xiaolai Li (Administrative Assistant).

Alyx reviewed individual blog pages and met with Jae to enhance her understanding of SEO terms. In addition to content review, she did an examination of older blog pages, providing constructive comments to facilitate the editing process. Meenakshi focused on various admin obligations, including verifying blog pages for inclusion and maintaining oversight of announcements. She also reviewed web pages and offered feedback. Meanwhile, Meenakshi integrated content from another website, seeking improvements and addressing necessary materials for completeness.

Melina focused on tasks related to the Weekly Progress Update Blog for the Housing and Duplicable City Center. Her responsibilities included editing individual summaries, creating collages showcasing volunteer contributions, and integrating these elements into WordPress for transfer to the final blog. She also did a web review of the water conservation page, ensuring accuracy and examining for typographical errors and formatting inconsistencies.

Ola focused on acquiring an understanding through tutorial guidance, scrutinizing the One Community Global webpage for corrections, offering constructive feedback, and suggesting improvements. Simultaneously, she assessed a trainee’s work, providing feedback as needed. Ruiqi completed the four-step review process for the Code Crafters Git-R-Done, Graphic Design, and Expresser Team, providing feedback and creating collage images for each team. She integrated SEO keywords into WordPress and worked on the Energy and Roadway Infrastructure Comprehensive Cost Analysis Spreadsheet for the business plan project.

Xiaolai submitted the finalized weekly report (560) after reviewing documents and development work. He edited the final blog and webpage, preparing for tasks such as reviewing and editing weekly summaries and organizing pictures and documents for the report. These are the managers helping us manage the current process of creating One Community, the first Earth-care teacher/demonstration hub. You can see the work for the team in the image below.

ALPHA TEAM

The Alpha Team’s summary, covering their work on the Highest Good Network software, was managed by Carl Bebli (Software Engineer, Team Manager) and includes Yongjian Pan (Software Engineer). The Highest Good Network software is how we’ll manage the details of the Earth-care teacher/demonstration hub construction, production, and maintenance processes. Carl spearheaded the resolution of issues related to the malfunctioning replyTo feature in the context of automated infringements, implementing necessary fixes. Simultaneously, he worked on improving user communication by integrating a volunteer’s duration into community emails. Furthermore, Carl was a co-host in the inaugural meeting with Team Alpha, facilitating discussions on challenges related to Phase two.

Yongjian focused on addressing the npm test errors occurring within Github actions. To tackle this issue, he worked with team members possessing expertise in the field, revealing additional complexities as numerous warnings accompanied the failed npm errors. Yongjian also took steps to rectify assumptions made in his PR #1331, refining and narrowing down changes to align more precisely with the intended scope of the pull request. View some of this work in the collage below.

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 Haohui Lin (Software Engineer), Xiao Wang (Software Engineer) and Yubo Sun (Full Stack Software Developer). The Highest Good Network software is how we’ll manage the details of the Earth-care teacher/demonstration hub construction, production, and maintenance processes. Nathan worked on addressing a frontend owner permission bypass by creating PR#1691 and participated in the review and approval of Ruide’s PR.

Haohui reviewed multiple pull requests, including PR#1704, 1703, 1705, 1672, 1660, 1697, 1667, and 1676. Xiao focused on hotfixing and refactoring the ownerMessage component, consolidating two collections into one and removing redundant code in the frontend logic. Yubo explored restructuring the email template structure in the backend for improved manageability, seeking input from team members, and faced a challenge in mocking the child component during the unit testing of ModLinkButton. The collage below shows some of this work.

CODECRAFTERS SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT TEAM

The Code Crafters Team’s summary, covering their work on the Highest Good Network software, was managed by Ruiqi (Administrative Assistant) and includes Anirudh Ghildiyal (Software Engineer), Ramya Ramasamy (Software Engineer), Shantanu Kumar (Software Engineer), and Sucheta Mukherjee (Software Developer). The Highest Good Network software is how we’ll manage the development and tracking of the One Community Earth-care Teacher/Demonstration Hubs and the components.

Anirudh focused on unit test cases, reported errors and bugs, and worked on the project’s second phase, reviewing relevant documents. Ramya focused on designing and completing unit tests for TabToolTip and BasicTabToolTip components, and compiling a Pull Request with formulated test cases. Shantanu created test cases for the profile dot nav and configured the final day component. He addressed merging conflicts and identified a potential root cause related to outdated dependency.

Sucheta was involved in several testing tasks, including PR 1485+648, observing editing of the 5-digit team code for Admins and Owners, while Volunteers exhibited expected restrictions. PR 1715 implemented a replacement for the Blue Square scheduler, addressing user roles and BlueSquares with new components, SchedulerExplanationModal and StopSchedulerModal. The collage below shows some of this work.

EXPRESSERS SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT TEAM

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

The Highest Good Network software is how we’ll manage the development and tracking of the One Community Earth-care teacher/demonstration hub components and construction process. Olga completed the project summaries component by resolving merge conflicts in the pull request and incorporating optional chaining to prevent errors. Additionally, she progressed with the design of the single tool view page, introducing a database query to the tool controller for retrieving essential data and updating the building tool document with placeholder information.

Olga further advanced the drag-and-drop component for the addTool feature, integrating the file preview functionality, and simultaneously continued refining the design and functionality of the addTool form, incorporating basic form features. Vishala focused on debugging and resolving issues associated with deployment configuration on Circleci and deployment through Surge. She addressed code issues in the myTeam view, specifically fixing the leaderboard API, and rewriting the query for the leaderboard view. Sahil focused on enhancing the testing rigor of the HighestGoodNetworkApp, running unit tests for various components across multiple PRs. Additionally, Sahil initiated the development of a new unit test for TeamsTab.

Tim worked on updating the Phase 2 materials API to fetch data from the new buildingInventoryItems database collection. He also addressed Redux and loading state issues causing build time crashes on the Material List and Material Update web pages, with these branches currently in code review. In addition, Tim hosted weekly standup meetings, providing leadership, communication, and support to team members working on Phase 2 building and inventory management projects. The collage below shows some of this work.

GIT-R-DONE SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT TEAM

The Git-R-Done Team’s summary, covering their work on the Highest Good Network software, was managed by Eduardo Horta (Software Engineer) and includes Kaikane Lacno (Learning Assistant), Jacob Smith (Full Stack Developer), Olena Danykh (Software Engineer), Miguelcloid Reniva (Software Developer), Rhea Wu (Software Engineer), and Shuhua Liu (Full-Stack Developer).

The Highest Good Network software is how we’ll manage the development and tracking of the One Community Earth-care teacher/demonstration hub components and construction process. Eduardo reviewed team members’ comments and addressed inventory management inquiries. He guided team member Kai on management processes, provided direction to Miguel on Issue Log design, and addressed unexpected behavior in the BM New Issue – Routes and Controller project, planning updates and seeking guidance from backend members.

Olena focused on advancing the development of “filter” functionality, completed the implementation for week, month, and year filters, and worked on creating a reducer and action for backend data loading. Kai concentrated on Lessonlist routing and controllers, creating GET, PUT, and DELETE routes, submitting a pull request, and initiating the development of Like functionality with user references. Miguel completed the development of the Issue Log form, addressing CSS alignment issues and working on a User Suggestion feature request.

Shuhua enhanced the user experience by integrating toasters for updating presets within the Permission Management page, and implementing notifications for updates to role permission presets. Rhea focused on Phase 2 WBS 6.3.2 New Lesson routing and controller, building and testing functions while addressing issues and consulting MongoDB documentation. Jacob addressed several critical tasks in their project development role. Seven pull requests were completed, specifically numbers 1698, 1703, 1704, 1708, 1710, 1711, and 1713. The collage below shows some of this work.

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GRAPHIC DESIGN TEAM

The Graphic Design Team’s summary was managed by Ruiqi (Administrative Assistant) and includes Ashlesha Navale (Graphic Designer), Emily Ferguson (Visual Designer), Jackie King (Graphic Designer), and Nancy Mónchez (Graphic Designer). Ashlesha focused on creating a Volunteer Announcement and producing a bio image and announcement image. She updated web content, created five Social Media Images, and researched nature-themed visuals.

Emily prioritized bold and engaging social media images, aiming to create distinct graphics to elevate One Community’s online presence. She also created bios for fellow volunteers. Jackie completed a Bio/Volunteer Announcement and nine social media images, utilizing royalty-free fonts and images. Nancy redesigned social media posts, refined biographies, and enhanced design elements. These images convey our messages associated with Earth-care Teacher/Demonstration Hubs. The collage below shows some of this work.

MOONFALL’S SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT TEAM

The Highest Good Network software is how we’ll manage the development and tracking of the One Community Earth-care teacher/demonstration hub components and construction process. Anny was engaged in the setup modal for new users and addressing persisting issues with the pull request. She also explored new tasks, particularly in graphic design, to enhance the visual aspects of the project.

Cheng-Yun created unit test code for Members.jsx, focusing on render testing and the correct display of properties. He then initiated a detailed PR for these tests. Lu managed the team and addressed bugs in the Git repository, wrote unit tests and reviewed several PRs. She compiled a detailed team report from the previous week, including screenshots of teammates’ work, and focused on resolving bugs in the local repository of the HGN project.

Palak worked on the NewBadges component, creating four unit test cases. Tzu Ning reviewed Timelog.jsx, identifying and resolving state inconsistencies and issues with the user ID display in the dashboard view. He extended his investigation to related components, aiming to pinpoint the files responsible for these issues. Xiao worked on the ‘Add New User’ feature, specifically focusing on the AddOrEditPopup component. He implemented a useEffect hook for cursor positioning in the first name field and developed a custom input component using useRef, significantly improving user interaction. Yi reviewed and removed over 200 old branches from the repository.

Yihan resolved conflicts in both the frontend and backend PRs for the “add lost hour” task, updating the edit lost time entry form to prevent alteration of team/person/project names. She also fixed the disappearance of the trophy on the leaderboard for the Trophy task, adjusting the trophy icon’s color and ensuring proper authorization for follow-ups.

Yufu reviewed the HGN Phase I Bugs and Needed Functionalities list, focusing on identifying areas for assistance, particularly in the reports component No.12. He also wrote a summary of his findings. Zijie addressed challenges in the update password components, submitting pull request 1714 to rectify identified issues. He also merged the reducer component. Zubing focused on integrating the ‘Write it for me’ button into the summary page. She implemented an algorithm for processing notes data, and resolved issues encountered during testing. In addition, she reviewed several frontend PRs. Look below for a collage of their work.

REACTONAUTS’ SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT TEAM

The Highest Good Network software is how we’ll manage the development and tracking of the One Community Earth-care teacher/demonstration hub components and construction process. Changhao completed two unit tests and pushed them to the GitHub repo for PR reviews. Jiangwei developed unit tests for the Selectors component and the TasksTable component, and created tests for another crucial module. Masasa focused on finalizing the visualizations for the components and subsequently created a pull request for review. Following this, attention shifted towards addressing specific issues highlighted within the pull request, particularly those associated with instances of code crashing when a team without specified code was selected.

Obeda completed his task about adding a modal on the project page that would show up when a user tries to delete a project that is not deletable. Shengwei focused on unit test cases fixing, application optimization, Circle CI build process optimization, and troubleshooting a development environment issue related to the Surge server. Shihao completed several unit tests and resolved issues in pull requests. Shivansh focused on integrating security features into the application, beginning with implementing a security check on the delete team pop-up. Shiwani addressed an issue with the edit project category or status permission, leading to backend modifications and subsequent backend PR#650. Additionally, she completed unit tests for the TagsSearch component and the AddTeamPopup component.

Shrey wrote unit test cases for two Timelog components. Vikram worked on local environment configurations, PR reviews, and resolved an issue with the “90-hour in one week” badge within the HGN application. Yixiao resolved issues with the TaskEditSuggestions file, completed the test file for reducers.js and oversaw the merging of other ready pull requests. Zuhang addressed merging conflicts caused by recent updates in the git repository and responded to change requests from pull requests (PRs) submitted by colleagues. Look below for pictures of this work.

SKYE’S SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT TEAM

Skye’s summary, covering their work on the Highest Good Network software, was managed by Bailey Mejia (Software Engineer) and includes Jerry Ren (Full Stack Developer), Roberto Contreras (Software Developer) and Yao Wang (Software Engineer). The Highest Good Network software is how we’ll manage the development and tracking of the One Community Earth-care teacher/demonstration hub components and construction process.

Bailey stepped in as temporary Manager for Team Skye, substituting for Luis. Bailey initiated the “Add Link to Submit for Review” task, adding an input field in the submit modal for developers to link their pull requests or related work. He also worked on a verification system to prevent accidental selections during reviews and addressed a critical hotfix. The hotfix involved a discrepancy in the modified dates within the badges component. Collaborating with Roberto, Bailey used the substring method on the ‘lastModified’ field to align the dates with the dates array.

Roberto tackled the challenge of handling duplicate badges in the badge assignment process. The issue was an error occurring when users tried to assign additional badges, especially if they already had duplicates. Roberto identified the lack of backend logic to manage this scenario. He implemented a fix for duplicate badges, consolidating their attributes. Yao advanced the FAQ modal project and wrote the ‘Define State’ and ‘Implement toggleModal Function’. He then modified the existing code for the FAQ modal integration but faced many ‘fail to compile’ issues. This led him to write his own version of the modal, focusing on resolving these challenges and ensuring smoother integration and functionality.

Jerry finalized code changes to pass initial test cases. His bug fixes enabled accurate user recognition for the next streak badge, simultaneously removing the previous one. He ensured users could receive streak badges they already own. See the collage below for some of their work.

SOFTWARE PR REVIEW TEAM

The PR Review Team’s summary covering their work on the Highest Good Network software, was managed by Shaurya Sareen (Administrative Assistant). This week’s active members of this team were: Demi Zayas (Software Engineer), Jay Yong (Software Engineer), Jiarong Li (Software Engineer), Keyun Huang (Software Engineer), Kurtis Ivey (Software Engineer), and Xuying He (Software Engineer). They reviewed all the Highest Good Network PRs (Pull Requests) shared in this week’s update. The Highest Good Network software is how we’ll be creating Earth-care teacher/demonstration hubs by our construction, production, and maintenance processes. The collage below shows a compilation of the work from this team.

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One Community Welcomes Shivangi Patel to the Graphic Design Team!

Posted on December 14, 2023 by One Community Hs