In our pursuit of increasing sustainable flow and yield, One Community proudly champions a paradigm created by our all-volunteer team, and guided by “The Highest Good of All“. Our holistic approach encompasses sustainable practices in food, energy, housing, education, for-profit and non-profit economic design, social architecture, fulfilled living, global stewardship practices, and more. Beyond building a community, we’re creating a replicable model set to establish teacher/demonstration hubs globally. At the core of our strategy is open sourcing and free sharing, ensuring the evolution of sustainability and the enhancement of flow and yield for the betterment of our planet.

• 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 sustainable flow and yield movement as the first of many self-replicating teacher/demonstration communities, villages, and cities to be built around the world. This is the December 11th, 2023 edition (#560) of our weekly progress update detailing our team’s development and accomplishments:

Sustainable Flow and Yield
One Community Progress Update #560

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HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING PROGRESS

One Community is increasing sustainable flow and yield 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, Abhishek Kadian (Architect) focused on integrating the 4 Dome structure with the existing 3D files for the Earthbag Village (Pod 1), nearing completion. Furthermore, he began developing a Revit file based on it to generate a roof plan and additional sectional views. Progress has been made in constructing a wall and roof, with work ongoing. Earthbag construction is part of our sustainable flow and yield plan for housing. The collage below shows his work on the 4 Dome structure.

Yiwei He (Mechanical Engineer) dedicated her time to catching up on previous processes involving Vermiculture Toilets and reviewing all updated materials and comments. Additionally, she met with Chris to discuss the future schedule and coordinate the next steps, providing clarity on the team’s objectives. Vermiculture is a solution for sustainable flow and yield in human waste processing. Check out the collage below to see her work for the week.

Charles Gooley (Web Designer) concentrated on addressing comments for the Most Sustainable Windows and Window Companies page. The majority of the comments pertained to typographical errors in the mouseover text, with additional feedback related to anchor links. Two images on the Sustainable Doors page were substituted with full-size images. In the Best and Most Sustainable Companies section of both pages, company logos were incorporated and linked to their respective websites. These pages share our research into the companies and products best demonstrating sustainable flow and yield for windows and doors. The images below show his work on sustainable door comparison.

Khushboo Vyas (Architect) focused on organizing construction phases according to the guidelines, ensuring a step-by-step, chronological process for the Earthbag Village DIY tutorial. Khushboo focused on making sure that information flows smoothly and references within the steps connect well (sustainable flow and yield!). She added some temporary logos and organized the details in a clear step-by-step order. See the collage below of Khushboo’s work on DIY tutorials.

DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER PROGRESS

One Community is increasing sustainable flow and yield 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 generated for Room 10 in the Duplicable City Center, initially centered around a Boho-industrial aesthetic. The renders integrated eclectic industrial furniture and boho decor to temper the color palette. To achieve a more formal appearance, Amiti eliminated redundant objects and introduced materials to enrich the room’s texture. Alongside this, she finished file finalization for earlier room design projects within the City Center. We’re addressing sustainable flow and yield in our room designs by looking a the sustainability of all components in each room, and the benefits for those who stay in them. Amiti’s beautiful architectural renderings are shown in the collage below.

Justin Varghese (Mechanical Engineer) focused on frame analysis and simulation to assess the City Center Hub Connector’s response to seismic (earthquake) loading, specifically employing response spectrum analysis (RSA). These analyses were created following guidance from the Senior Engineer, with a focus on enhancing the accuracy of the analysis by incorporating more than 90% mass participation through the inclusion of additional modes. This is about sustainable flow of load forces to yield safe structural design. The images below show some of Justin’s work on frame analysis.

HIGHEST GOOD FOOD PROGRESS

One Community is increasing sustainable flow and yield 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. Collaborative efforts were undertaken both collectively and individually to advance the Food Infrastructure document and its corresponding Edits document. Attention was given to sections 50, 100, and 400, addressing personnel arrival procedures at the One Community property and the sustainable flow and yields of our food infrastructure rollout process. Furthermore, we completed the audio recording of Eckhart Tolle’s book “A NEW EARTH,”. 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. She reviewed and addressed comments and suggestions provided by the core team, making edits to the EDIT’s document to his specifications. She also resolved issues related to capitalization, images, and information. Additionally, Hayley incorporated the 100, 400, and over 400 drafts, adding webpages, refining formatting, and reviewing personal information in the over 400-people categories as part of the sustainable flow and yields of our food infrastructure rollout process. See below for the picture.

Shivangi Patel (Graphic Designer) continued her work the Transition Food Self-sufficiency Plan UI/UX Web and Graphics development. This week she created both volunteer announcements and profile images for volunteer work using Photoshop. Simultaneously, she authored pertinent web content for the announcement. Later in the week, Shivangi focused on designs for the transition menu recipe webpages. She incorporated small banners and iterated on the designs, prioritizing a user experience. Additionally, Shivangi compiled a deck to organize and present the designs for submission to the web designer. 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 completed the review for Shaurya’s weekly blog post and made progress on data tasks related to the Kitchen menu. His focus remained on data analysis for the Transition Kitchen menu, emphasizing the creation of interpretation tables and tutorials for the “master Recipe FWA” documentation. Smit concluded the week by working on the data interpretation task for the FWA recipe ingredient cost analysis from the Transition Kitchen Menu. These designs are about the sustainable flow and yield of food procurement and preparation during our transition to food self-sufficiency. A visual representation of Smit’s work can be observed in the accompanying picture collage below.

HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION PROGRESS

One Community is increasing sustainable flow and yield 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 sustainable flow and yield structure of the education program and everything else we’re creating too:

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

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

HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY PROGRESS

One Community is increasing sustainable flow and yield 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 53 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 sustainable flow and yield and how sustainable flow and yield integrate into the bigger picture of everything One Community is doing. The pictures below show some of this work.

The core team tested Highest Good Network PRs for One Community this week. They worked on HGN pull request (PR) testing, recorded a video detailing the issues identified in the testing of one PR, and shared the link with the volunteer on Slack. The team also updated locations for inactive accounts ensuring the accuracy of information. They faced a challenge when attempting to update the location for one account, as clicking on the ‘Get Time Zone’ button consistently resulted in a white screen. The Highest Good Network software is how we’ll be measuring much of the sustainable flow and yield of our construction, production, and maintenance processes. See the collage pictures below.

Aaron Wang (Fundraising Assistant) continued to help One Community with working on fundraising. We won’t be able to have sustainable flow and yield without funding. This week, Aaron researched eight potential funders: Michael R. Bloomberg, Marcel Arsenault and Cynda Collins Arsenault, Mark Zuckerberg, Ted Turner, Jeff Skoll, Tom Secunda, Tom Steyer and Kat Taylor, and Laura and John Arnold. His research focused on their sustainability activities, funding histories, and the specific organizations they have supported. The outcome is intended to facilitate future networking and connection strategies. Alongside this new research, Aaron also completed the ranking of previously researched funders, categorizing them based on the priority for future connection. You can view this work in the image below.

Vishvesh Sheora (Artificial Intelligence Specialist) focused on enhancing the SEO performance on the live main site, achieving an improvement from 35 to a much better 80. The more web traffic we have, the more we can promote  sustainable flow and yield. He also focused on refining SEO criteria as outlined by RankMath, and worked on addressing specific elements to optimize the overall SEO score. Emphasizing content quality, Vishvesh balanced length and pruned content where necessary. See some of his work in the image below.

ADMINISTRATION TEAM

One Community welcomes Wanting Xu to the Software Development Team as our newest Volunteer/Consultant!

Wanting is a graduate student at Northeastern University in the Bay Area majoring in Computer Science with nearly two years of experience in software development. Her expertise encompasses full-stack website and mobile application development. Prior to her foray into technology, Wanting earned majors in Economics and Marketing, and gained practical experience as a management trainee at an educational company. In her current role with One Community, she contributes to backend and frontend development, focusing on bug fixes and the development of new features for the open-source Highest Good Network Software.

WELCOME TO THE TEAM WANTING!

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One Community welcomes Obeda Andrilalaina Velonjatovo to the Software Development Team as our newest Volunteer/Consultant!

Obeda graduated with a Bachelor’s degree in computer science from San Jose State University. His passion lies in web development, and he aspires to use his software development skills to make a positive and meaningful impact in the world. Obeda has contributed to various projects, including an e-commerce platform named OSD for office supplies and the Go Split Android application designed to facilitate bill splitting. He believes it’s important to use resources wisely, do more with less, and support sustainability to positively impact both the environment and the economy. As an active member of the One Community Team, Obeda is helping implement new features and address bugs in the Highest Good Network Software.

WELCOME TO THE TEAM OBEDA!

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With a mission of creating positive change permanence, One Community’s initiatives include food, energy, housing, education, for-profit and non-profit economic design, social architecture, fostering fulfilled living, global stewardship practices. Beyond constructing a community, we’re creating a replicable model poised to establish teacher/demonstration hubs globally. The essence of our approach lies in open sourcing and free sharing, ensuring the evolution of sustainability and the creation of a lasting, positive impact on our world. Join us as we pioneer a future built on the permanence of positive change.

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

OUR MAIN OPEN SOURCE HUBS

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

One Community’s physical location will forward this movement as the first of many self-replicating teacher/demonstration communities, villages, and cities to be built around the world as engines of creating positive change permanence. This is the December 4th, 2023 edition (#559) of our weekly progress update detailing our team’s development and accomplishments:

Creating Positive Change Permanence
One Community Progress Update #559

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HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING PROGRESS

One Community is creating positive change permanence 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, Abhishek Kadian (Architect) reviewed the drawings, renderings, and structures of the Earthbag Village (Pod 1) three Dome clusters and started preparing the relevant files. He updated the section of the three Dome Cluster to synchronize with the 3D model. Furthermore, Abhishek collected information for the four Dome Cluster, initially aiming to create a Revit 3D model that corresponds with the rendered images. The Earthbag Village is the first sustainable village in our creating positive change permanence plan. See the dome cluster renderings he worked on below.

Charles Gooley (Web Designer) focused on enhancing the Water Recycling Net-zero Bathroom page by addressing comments. Tasks undertaken included rectifying the anchor link in the Tables of Contents to ensure seamless navigation to the respective headings, replacing the Structural Wood Lumber Engineering Properties chart, eliminating extraneous spaces beneath underlined headings, updating the Tables of Contents to reflect section relocations, resizing the High Desert Utah Monthly rainfall graphic and relocating it to the right, and rectifying the left margin subsequent to the Tables of Contents. Additionally, he contributed new content to the City Center Dome Hub Connector Engineering page. This involved incorporating a new section that offers a comparative analysis between traditional geodesic domes and city center domes, encompassing an introduction and frame models, vector loads, weather and environmental effects tests, as well as examinations of snow and earthquake loads, supported by relevant illustrations. Water recycling and the Duplicable City Center are both huge parts of our strategy for creating positive change permanence. Check out the collage below for a look into his web design work.

Khushboo Vyas (Architect) reviewed and reorganized the Earthbag Village page. She broke each component down into distinct sub-components categorized under ‘what,’ ‘why,’ ‘how,’ and specific details within the Earthbag Village Site Map spreadsheet. She also proofread the body text, ensuring high-resolution visuals were correctly accessible through relevant hyperlinks and cross-referenced other URLs. Khushboo provided suggestions, including corrected text and proposed graphic incorporations. Addressing the process sequence for the DIY open-source tutorial, she initiated the creation of flow charts and structuring the order using traditional pen-and-paper methods. The Earthbag Village is the first sustainable village in our creating positive change permanence plan. You can find her work in the collage below.

Loza Ayehutsega (Civil Engineer/Assistant Civil Engineer) undertook a review of comments, removing resolved older comments while preserving the option to restore them if further clarification is required. In addition, she contributed additional points regarding the dam break and dam safety. We feel earthworks are an essential component of creating positive change permanence through water conservation. Some of her work is shown in the collage below.

DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER PROGRESS

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

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

Julio Marín Bustillos (Mechanical Engineer) advanced the design work for the City Center Dome Hub Connector Engineering in the sixth row. A realization emerged during this process ” none of the connectors in this row exhibit repetition. Consequently, each node necessitates a distinct variation in hub connector design, a factor that is expected to extend the time required for completion. The same scenario is anticipated for the fifth row, where the absence of repeated designs poses a similar challenge, emphasizing the time-intensive nature of the design work for these specific rows. See images of this hub connector design work below.

HIGHEST GOOD FOOD PROGRESS

One Community is creating positive change permanence 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. We worked with her addressing the arrival of 20 individuals to the property, with collaboration centered on critical topics such as fencing, water laboratory setup, and various logistical considerations related to the food infrastructure. We also continued our review of Eckhart Tolle’s audio A NEW EARTH noting statements for possible inclusion in the One Community values page. We consider this part of integrating the consciousness of positive change permanence. You can view this work in the collage below.

Hayley Rosario (Sustainability Research Assistant) continued her review of the open-source Highest Good Food rollout plan. Hayley completed the final rough draft for the implementation details involving a 20-person team and initiated the preliminary draft outlining tasks and materials for a 50-person project. Additionally, she concluded the review of a 100-person task list. This all relates to the food component of positive change permanence. See below for the picture.

Smit Bhoir (Data and Business Analyst) continued data analysis for the menus for the Transition Food Self-sufficiency Plan. The primary concentration was on the analysis of Transition Kitchen Recipe data, concluding weekly tasks associated with kitchen recipe management and analysis. He also reviewed Sharuya’s PR blog post. In tandem, Smit began creating a tutorial focused on tasks related to kitchen menu data visualization. This all relates to the food component of positive change permanence. A visual representation of Smit’s work can be observed in the accompanying picture collage below.

HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION PROGRESS

One Community is creating positive change permanence 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 positive change permanence structure of the education program and everything else we’re creating too:

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

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

HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY PROGRESS

One Community is creating positive change permanence 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

CODECRAFTERS SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT TEAM

This week, 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), and Shantanu Kumar (Software Engineer). Anirudh led the inaugural standup for the Code Crafters Team. He submitted code for review, concentrating on implementing an edit button on the summary page. He also identified a bug allowing lower-level roles to submit summaries for higher-level roles, documented in the Bugs Document. He also did a test on unit test cases and discussed the Badge task with Bailey. Ramya focused on resolving lint issues in UserProfile, adapting her strategy due to dev branch modifications. She reviewed and submitted PRs for 6 submodules, maintaining a lint rule tracker. And Shantanu enhanced code reliability by completing the ‘show save warning’ unit test case and is developing test cases for the profile dot nav component. The Highest Good Network is how we’ll be measuring and tracking creating positive change permanence, related investments of time, and the components as we develop them. The collage below shows some of this work.

EXPRESSERS SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT TEAM

This week, the Expressers Team’s summary, covering their work on the Highest Good Network software, was managed by Tim Kent (Full Stack Software Engineer) and includes Aishwarya Kalkundrikar (Full Stack Software Developer), Harshida Dalal (Software Engineer), Kavya Alla (Software Engineer), Olga Yudkin (Software Engineer), and Vishala Ramasamy (Software Developer). Aishwarya implemented important backend adjustments for the tool purchase request form, addressing issues related to unit display, enabling category-based filtering, and resolving outstanding project details. Harshida worked on the Equipment List, completing the frontend view but facing a technical challenge with routing. Kavya undertook a review of Phase 2 documentation and initiated frontend development for the Reusables List, participating in meetings for project familiarization. Olga completed the development of the project summary view component, enhancing each summary with informative bullet points highlighting vital project information. She also worked on the single tool/equipment view component, concluding the front-end implementation by creating the router and controller and establishing their connection. Vishala focused on migrating material changes to production, addressed git conflicts, resolved lint and build errors, and enhanced the Add Materials form with a similarity checker. Tim oversaw eight software engineers on the new building and inventory management portal (Phase 2), and made substantial updates to the work breakdown structure, incorporating a detailed task list for the new reusable inventory section of the site. He facilitated team collaboration by hosting the weekly standup meeting, pair programming, and planning meetings, ensuring effective communication and coordination. Additionally, Tim updated the work breakdown structure, hosted meetings, and made substantial updates to the MongoDB aggregate function in the project summary backend API. The Highest Good Network is how we’ll be measuring and tracking creating positive change permanence, related investments of time, and the components as we develop them. The collage below shows some of this work.

One Community welcomes Justin Varghese to the Engineering Team as our newest Volunteer/Consultant!

Justin earned his Bachelor’s degree in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Mumbai and holds a Master of Science degree in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Colorado Boulder. He brings his expertise in CAD (SolidWorks, Inventor), FEA (Ansys), Structural Analysis (Autodesk RSA), as well as proficiency in mechanical design, manufacturability, and material engineering to the One Community Project for the development of the Duplicable City Center domes. Justin’s diverse passions for crafting and designing, combined with a natural inclination for mechanics and analytical thinking, contribute to his excellent problem-solving abilities and a unique, creative approach. As a member of the One Community team, Justin is dedicated to generating comprehensive CAD models and conducting structural Finite Element Analysis (FEA) for the beams and hub connectors of the project’s dome structures.

WELCOME TO THE TEAM JUSTIN!

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

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

WELCOME TO THE TEAM TUAN!

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

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

OUR MAIN OPEN SOURCE HUBS

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

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

Applying Nature as Our Teacher
One Community Progress Update #558

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HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING PROGRESS

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

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

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

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

DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER PROGRESS

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

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

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

ENGINEERING TEAM

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

HIGHEST GOOD FOOD PROGRESS

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

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

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

MENUS UI/UX WEB AND GRAPHICS TEAM

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

HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION PROGRESS

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

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

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

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

HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY PROGRESS

One Community is applying nature as our teacher through a Highest Good society approach to living that is founded on fulfilled living, the study of meeting human needs, Community, and making a difference in the world:

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

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

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

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

OUR MAIN OPEN SOURCE HUBS

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

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

Common Sense Eco-management
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COMMON SENSE ECO-MANAGEMENT – HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING PROGRESS

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Common Sense Eco-management ” Shengguang – Vermiculture Toilet

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

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

Common Sense Eco-management ” Yiwei – Vermiculture Toilet

COMMON SENSE ECO-MANAGEMENT – DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER PROGRESS

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

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

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

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

Common Sense Eco-management ” Amiti – Duplicable City Center

COMMON SENSE ECO-MANAGEMENT – ENGINEERING TEAM 

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

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

Common Sense Eco-management ” Arvindh – Dome Hub Connector

COMMON SENSE ECO-MANAGEMENT – HIGHEST GOOD FOOD PROGRESS

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

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

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

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

Common Sense Eco-management ” Heylay – Highest Good Food

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

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

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

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

COMMON SENSE ECO-MANAGEMENT – HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION PROGRESS

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

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

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

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

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

COMMON SENSE ECO-MANAGEMENT – HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY PROGRESS

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

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

This week, the core team completed 57 hours managing One Community volunteer-work review not included above, emails, social media accounts, web development, new bug identification and bug-fix integration for the Highest Good Network software, and interviewing and getting set up new volunteer team members. This work helps One Community’s mission of common sense eco-management and reinforces our commitment to a better living quality for all people. The pictures below show some of this work.

Common Sense Eco-management ” Core Team – Volunteer Work

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

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

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

Common Sense Eco-management ” Core Team – HGN PRs

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

Common Sense Eco-management ” Core Team – Podcast

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

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

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

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

Common Sense Eco-management ” Aaron – Fundraising

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

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

Common Sense Eco-management ” Harsha – Google AdWords

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

Common Sense Eco-management ” Julie – Sound Editing

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

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

Common Sense Eco-management ” Vishvesh – SEO Performance

COMMON SENSE ECO-MANAGEMENT – ADMINISTRATION TEAM

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

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

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

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

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

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

Common Sense Eco-management ” Admin – Team Management

COMMON SENSE ECO-MANAGEMENT – BLUE STEEL SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT TEAM

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

COMMON SENSE ECO-MANAGEMENT – EXPRESSERS SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT TEAM

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

COMMON SENSE ECO-MANAGEMENT – GRAPHIC DESIGN TEAM

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

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

Common Sense Eco-management ” Graphic Design Team

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

COMMON SENSE ECO-MANAGEMENT – REACTONAUTS’ SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT TEAM

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

See the collage below for their work.

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

COMMON SENSE ECO-MANAGEMENT – SOFTWARE PR REVIEW TEAM

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

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

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