This week the core team completed 48 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, all while striving to integrate the principles of abundance in natural systems.. Pictures below show some of this work. 

Another core team member began verification of all the modifications made to the working Highest Good Network software. She created a test user and subsequently updated another test account, ensuring that both accounts were assigned to the same team, project, and task for testing purposes, reflecting the concept of abundance in natural systems.

She also confirmed the resolution of four identified issues, while three problems remained unresolved. Additionally, she determined that one particular test would require reevaluation in the following week. See images below for examples of this work in progress.

Yiyun Tan (Management Dashboard Team Leader) completed her 58th week helping with the Highest Good Network software. This week, Yiyun dedicated the majority of her time to creating a comprehensive tutorial on re-enabling the ESLint with Prettier and reviewing the newly implemented timer functionalities.

In addition to these tasks, she actively assisted the team on Slack, providing support for problem-solving, bug reporting, and maintaining the existing tutorials as per her regular responsibilities. Below, you’ll find pictures highlighting the development of this work, which subtly integrates the principle of abundance in natural systems.

Kaixiang “Kevin” Gu (Fullstack Software Developer) completed his 30th week helping with the Highest Good Network software. This week, Kaixiang focused on the backend side of the submit for review button, aiming to find a suitable solution for storing the button status property across all existing tasks.

Since the button’s rendering is dependent on backend data, this presented a challenge, much like understanding the abundance in natural systems where various elements interact dynamically.. Additionally, Kaixiang conducted final reviews for three PRs. Pictures below show some of this work-in-progress.

Jianjun Luo (Software Engineer) completed her 29th week helping with the Highest Good Network software. This week, Jianjun addressed a bug related to the ‘change user status’ permission on the user profile page, ensuring that the editing ability can now be efficiently managed through the permission management page.

Additionally, she promptly resolved a minor issue with the data-tip bug in the WBS detail table and conducted a thorough review of a PR concerning the improvement of the people report. Furthermore, Jianjun initiated an investigation into enhancing the performance of the team member task component, drawing inspiration from the abundance in natural systems where efficiency and adaptability are key. Pictures below are related to this work.

Raul Effting (Jr. Front-End Web Developer) completed his 23rd week helping with the Highest Good Network software while contributing to the concept of abundance in natural systems. This week, Raul successfully resolved a critical bug where the timer, when resumed after a pause, no longer added an extra five minutes.

Additionally, Raul tackled another bug related to loading delays, implementing necessary changes in both the frontend and backend branches to ensure seamless functionality with Nida. Furthermore, he made valuable contributions by merging two new pull requests related to the timer and invested time in resolving issues pertaining to the API connection. Below are some images related to this work.

Aishwarya Kalkundrikar (Full Stack Software Developer) completed her 21st week helping with the Highest Good Network software engineering abundance in natural systems. This week, Aishwarya contributed to the project by addressing a request from Jae to prevent Sangam from receiving email notifications for weekly summaries. Aishwarya began by thoroughly examining the front-end code in order to identify the root cause of the issue. During the debugging process, an unintended consequence occurred, resulting in the delivery of email notifications three times.

After a PR by someone else was reverted the notification system is currently back to sending emails twice. In addition to the front end, Aishwarya also conducted a comprehensive review of the backend code. Specifically, she focused on optimizing the email-sending function to ensure only one email is sent. Although her efforts towards engineering abundance in natural systems have not yet yielded the desired outcome, Aishwarya remains committed to resolving this matter and is continuing to work on finding a successful solution. Pictures below show some of this work.

Lucas Emanuel Souza Silva (Software Developer) completed his 17th week helping with the Highest Good Network software engineering abundance in natural systems. This week, Lucas completed the “task dismiss” feature, enhancing task functionality by enabling the dismissal of tasks without triggering a full page reload. He also dedicated time to resolving a bug that prevented non-owners and administrators from viewing their assigned tasks, successfully rectifying the issue.

Additionally, Lucas successfully addressed task 84, addressing the bug related to the red bell icon. The changes implemented ensure that the red bell icon disappears after the user has reviewed the relevant updates. Furthermore, Lucas accomplished task 162, which involved fixing the behavior of the Tasks tab for users other than volunteers. As per the task requirements, when volunteers have no tasks assigned, the main tab automatically switches to the Time Log tab. Pictures of some of this work are below.

Jinchao Feng (Software Engineer) completed his 16th week helping with the Highest Good Network software engineering abundance in natural systems. This week, Jinchao took on various development tasks and made notable contributions to the team’s projects. One of Jinchao’s primary focuses was addressing bugs in the teammembertask component following the launch of a new timer function.

By developing a hotfix, Jinchao successfully resolved the issues and ensured the smooth functioning of the component. In addition to bug fixes, Jinchao dedicated efforts to enhance the efficiency of the timeLog component.

This involved raising two pull requests (PRs) aimed at fixing bugs related to the task/project field of the timeEntry component. These PRs not only addressed the bugs but also optimized the timeLog component by eliminating redundant backend requests and refactoring the backend logic. Consequently, this optimization resulted in reduced communication costs between the backend and the database, further improving the overall efficiency of the timeLog component. Please refer to the pictures below.

Yongjian Pan (React.js/MongoDB Full Stack Software Developer) completed his 12th week helping with the Highest Good Network software engineering abundance in natural systems. This week, Yongjian implemented changes to the dashboard’s header based on Jae’s suggestion, replacing the toggle button with sun and moon icons. He successfully ensured the proper functionality of these toggling icons across various pages, guaranteeing consistent user experience.

Additionally, Yongjian addressed the issue of light and dark mode state persistence after a page refresh, ensuring that the chosen mode remained consistent throughout the user’s browsing session. See the images below for a look at this work.

Yihan Liu (Software Engineer) completed her 11th week helping with the Highest Good Network software engineering abundance in natural systems. This week, Yihan focused on rectifying the text in the information modal on the projects page. By consolidating all the ol elements in ProjectInfoModal.jsx into a dedicated class and applying a padding-left property to this class in projects.css, she successfully resolved the problem.

Subsequently, Yihan submitted PR#898 to implement the changes. Additionally, she conducted reviews of PR#901 and PR#891. PR#891 performed as intended, whereas during testing on an Owner type account, a new warning emerged in PR#901. ‹See the pictures‹ below related to this work.

Abdelmounaim “Abdel” Lallouache (Software Developer) completed his 10th week helping with the Highest Good Network software engineering abundance in natural systems. This week, Abdelmounaim made several updates to the system. On the backend, Abdelmounaim updated the task model by adding a new property called “followUpPercentageDeadline” to indicate when a user was followed up with. Correspondingly, Abdelmounaim modified the setFollowUp controller to handle this new property.

Moving to the frontend, Abdelmounaim introduced the checkWhoNeedsFollowUp function, which identifies users requiring follow-up. Additionally, Abdelmounaim made necessary adjustments to the handleCheckboxFollowUp, handleFollowUp, and task reducer to support the new “followUpPercentageDeadline” property. The pictures below are related to this work.

Lucile Tronczyk (Full Stack Software Developer) completed her 8th week helping with the Highest Good Network software engineering abundance in natural systems. This week, Lucile focused on implementing the requested additions to the “confirmation improvements to people report.” The Pull Request has been completed and is now ready for merging.

It involves removing the “Hours Logged This Week” section for inactive users, centering the remaining sections, adding the User’s Title below their name, and incorporating a “Rehireable” section that can be toggled. These modifications are essential for ensuring the visual correctness of the report when a work confirmation is requested and a screenshot is taken.

Additionally, she worked on a bug related to making a user inactive and then editing their blue squares. Specifically, when logged in as an Admin, accessing a user’s profile, deactivating them by clicking the green dot next to their name, and subsequently attempting to delete a blue square, an alert message would appear. Ideally, the same behavior as deleting a blue square for an active user should occur, without triggering the alert. The pictures below relate to this.

Vishvesh Sheoran (Artificial Intelligence Specialist) completed his 8th week helping with the Highest Good Network software engineering abundance in natural systems. This week, Vishvesh Sheoran focused on implementing the proposed action plan for predictive analytics within the HGN (Highest Good Network) web app. He researched and evaluated suitable tools such as RapidMiner for data cleaning, model development, and deployment. He actively responded to comments, providing detailed explanations and examples to aid in decision-making. See pictures below showing his efforts.

Alexander G Huerta (Software Engineer) complete his 7th week helping with the Highest Good Network software engineering abundance in natural systems. This week, Alexander focused his efforts on the Weekly Summary Component. Recognizing the impact of chatGPT and other AI text completion tools on the creation and submission of weekly summary reports, Alexander introducing updates to the summary form’s placeholder text and added 2 new check boxes to ensure the summary’s quality, such as a prompt to review the summary. These alterations mark the beginning of a series of incremental modifications.

Furthermore, Alexander meticulously outlined his upcoming tasks for this component, establishing a clear roadmap for the following weeks. Among the proposed changes, a key enhancement involves the integration of a button that triggers a modal containing the current prompt, featuring a convenient copy button. Ultimately, the goal is to seamlessly incorporate AI directly into this component. The images below show this progress.

Xiao Tan (Software Engineer) completed her 7th week helping with the Highest Good Network software engineering abundance in natural systems. This week, Xiao devoted her attention to resolving the issue (PRIORITY LOW) identified by Jae, which involved creating Shadow Consistency for the Dashboard (PR878). Xiao worked on the code, ensuring that all tests were successfully passed to meet the desired outcome. Additionally, she dedicated time to enhance the user experience by making styling modifications to the search name feature on the Badge Management page. Xiao pushed these changes to the same PR for further review and collaboration.

In another task (PRIORITY LOW), she successfully implemented the rounding of hour numbers to two digits by incorporating the “toFixed(2)” function into both the timeEntryController.js file for the hoursLogged variable and the userHelper.js file for the timeSpent variable. She followed the link provided by Aishwarya to access the required environment variables for enabling Gmail API, which was essential for conducting thorough testing. Lastly, Xiao reviewed PR898, PR890, and PR899. See images supporting this below.

Edwin Estuardo Lau Mack (Software Engineer) completed his 6th week, helping with the Highest Good Network software engineering abundance in natural systems. This week, Edwin dedicated his efforts to reviewing pull requests (PRs) and advancing the development of the HGN application as a member of the Dev Team, primarily focusing on Frontend functionality. Alongside reviewing multiple PRs, Edwin implemented the “seeAllReports” permission functionality by creating a new permission, initializing it as the default for Administrator and Owner users, and adding it to the permission management tab.

Additionally, Edwin made changes to the Frontend functionality, modifying the rendering of the Reports tab in the header based on the user’s permissions. Users with the “seeAllReports” permission can view all tabs under Reports, users with the “seeWeeklySummaryReports” permission can only access the Weekly Summaries Report tab, and users without either of these permissions cannot see the Reports option in the header.

Furthermore, Edwin addressed a previous bug within the same component, preventing users without permission from accessing the weekly summaries report by manually altering the URL. Throughout the week, Edwin also reviewed a total of 7 PRs: #401, #826, #883, #890, #898, #903, and #904. Images showing this progress are below.

Sneha M Madle (Software Engineer) completed their 6th week helping with the Highest Good Network software. This week, Sneha began by reviewing the HGN Bug list and addressing the unresolved bugs. She proceeded to estimate the required effort for each bug. Of particular importance was the high-priority bug involving the addition of an information modal to the permission page.

To tackle this, an in-depth examination of role permissions was conducted to identify the necessary code modifications. Consideration was given to utilizing InfoModal, Modal, or Project Modal for the pop-up. Upon determining the appropriate approach, the individual implemented the required code changes. Subsequently, extensive testing of the alterations was performed locally. Finally, a pull request was submitted to initiate the review process. The pictures below show this work.

Xiao Wang (Software Engineer) completed his 6th week helping with the Highest Good Network software. This week, Xiao submitted two PR requests. The first request, PR #398, addresses the issue of a slow response time for the GET request to ‘…/dashboard/leaderboard/org/data’. This PR focuses on fixing the aggregate pipeline logic, as explained in the comments within the file, and streamlining the integration of a second time-consuming query.

The second request, PR #905 at front end, was accompanied by PR #402 at the back end. These PRs consolidate all the GET requests related to user tasks, specifically those sent to /TimeEntry/user/${userId}/${fromDate}/${toDate}, into a single POST request sent to TimeEntry/users. The POST request’s body includes all the necessary user IDs. Additionally, a video summarizing the changes has been uploaded to Dropbox. See supporting images below.

Yubo Sun (Full Stack Software Developer) completed his 6th week helping with the Highest Good Network software. This week, Yubo focused on frontend work, particularly on PR #860. This PR required changes to rectify a misunderstanding of the desired outcome and also aimed to compensate for missed commitments from the previous week.

Yubo reviewed PR #826 but did not achieve a successful outcome like other reviewers on GitHub, so the result was shared on Slack. For PR #860, Yubo chose to refactor the entire component into smaller components, incorporating edit permissions and resulting in different rendered views. This involved addressing warnings and fixing bugs that arose from the refactoring process.

Additionally, Yubo discovered a pre-existing warning indicating improper handling of input data types and intends to open another PR to address it, with the final solution still pending. Yubo also worked on Task 149, focusing on understanding the correct usage of backend APIs related to adding professional links to the Profile page. The pictures below relate to and show some of this work.

Yu-Wei Hsu (Software Engineer) completed his 6th week helping with the Highest Good Network software. This week, Yu-Wei focused on resolving a critical issue related to the permissions management of user profile links. They addressed the bug, utilizing their technical expertise and problem-solving skills to identify and rectify the underlying problem.

In addition to bug fixing, they took proactive steps to apply for an owner account, demonstrating their commitment to taking on additional responsibilities within the project. By actively addressing the issue and seeking ownership, they showcased their dedication to ensuring smooth operations and effective management of user profiles. See below for some pictures related to this.

Papia Sharmin (Full Stack Developer) completed her 5th week helping with the Highest Good Network software engineering abundance in natural systems. This week, Papia focused on an app-related task. Her main accomplishment was creating a toggle button for the team task tab and leaderboard tab. This feature allows users to switch between viewing only their own team members or seeing all team members. The toggle functionality is restricted to the Owner, Admin, and Core Team classes, as these users have permission to access information on all team members. Additionally, Papia performed code reviews for PR #866 and #867 on the frontend. She provided valuable suggestions for changes in PR #867.

Nida Zaki (Software Engineer) completed her 4th week helping with the Highest Good Network software engineering abundance in natural systems. This week, Nida conducted research on implementing the addition of a popstate event Listener and utilizing local storage to incorporate the necessary changes. She also performed lint fixes by running prettier on all relevant files to ensure consistent code formatting. Furthermore, efforts were made to address the build failure in the pull request created for the task, specifically focusing on enabling the Weekly Summaries page to remain on the same summary tab when refreshed.

Additionally, Nida successfully resolved test case issues related to default tab selection. Lastly, she dedicated time to comprehending the workflow of a new timer that was causing the text editor to become disabled when the timer initiated. The pictures below are examples of this work.

Lawrence Chua (Full Stack Software Developer) completed his 3rd week helping with the Highest Good Network software engineering abundance in natural systems. This week, Lawrence tackled an issue related to rare occurrences where a blue square would be incorrectly reassigned to the user from whom it was removed, leading to multiple emails being sent by the mailer system. To resolve this issue, Lawrence dedicated time to studying the backend codebase, investigating the root cause and understanding the underlying mechanisms contributing to the problem.

Despite diligently logging the mailer system, Lawrence was unable to diagnose the issue within the given timeframe. Additionally, Lawrence performed a re-review of PR #850 and provided the necessary approval for the pull request. See the images below to get a look at some of this work.

The Highest Good Network software PR Review team also worked towards engineering abundance in natural systems and to test all of the above PRs and find any bugs they could within those PRs and the software as a whole. This week’s active members of this team and how many weeks they’ve been with us are as follows:  Anish Pandita (Software Engineer) completed his 17th week, Eduardo Horta (Software Engineer) completed his 5th week, Kurtis Ivey (Full Stack Developer) completed his 1st week, Leon Zhuang (Software Engineer) completed his 1st week, Maham Almizan Khan (Software Engineer) completed her 1st week.

Nathan Hoffman (Software Engineer) completed his 5th week, Olga Yudkin (Software Engineer) completed her 2nd week, “Sola” Olusola Akinbode (Full Stack Software Developer) completed his 4th week, Steve Paalz (Software Developer) completed his 4th week, Xiaoyu Chen (Software Engineer) completed her 5th week, Yufei Zhang (Software Engineer) completed her 3rd week, and Zubing Guo (Software Engineer) completed her 1st week. The collage below shows a compilation of the work from this team. ‹

This week the core team completed 46 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. Our efforts are driven by a commitment to sustainable eco-progress, and pictures below show some of this work.

Yiyun Tan (Management Dashboard Team Leader) completed her 57th week helping with the Highest Good Network software. This week, Yiyun dedicated the majority of her time to creating a comprehensive tutorial on database management and reviewing the newly implemented timer functionalities. In addition to these tasks, she actively assisted the team on Slack, providing support for problem-solving, bug reporting, and maintaining the existing tutorials as per her regular responsibilities. Through her efforts, Yiyun contributed to sustainable eco-progress within the project. Below, you’ll find pictures highlighting the development of this work.

Kaixiang “Kevin” Gu (Fullstack Software Developer) completed his 29th week helping with the Highest Good Network software, contributing to sustainable eco-progress. This week, Kaixiang continued working on the submit for review button. He implemented a new function that ensured the “submit for review” button was only visible to users with the same task, and allowed them to switch to the “ready for review” button upon clicking. Pictures below show some of this work-in-progress.

Jianjun Luo (Software Engineer) completed her 28th week helping with the Highest Good Network software. This week, Jianjun completed the remaining features for the bio announcement status on the weekly summaries report page. The toggle switch was modified to a label for non-editable users. Improvements were made to the code readability, eliminating duplicate sections. Additionally, Jianjun incorporated the ability to edit the bio status into the permission management, allowing authorized roles or users to have editing privileges. This work contributes to sustainable eco-progress by enhancing the software’s efficiency and user management. Lastly, she conducted a thorough review of a pull request regarding task resolving notifications. Pictures below are related to this work.

Raul Effting(Jr. Front-End Web Developer) completed his 22nd week helping with the Highest Good Network software. This week, Raul conducted comprehensive testing on the newly developed timer, subjecting it to rigorous evaluation. Through this process, numerous conflicts were identified and subsequently resolved, ensuring enhanced functionality and performance. His efforts contribute significantly to the team’s commitment to sustainable eco-progress.

However, it is worth noting that some final steps in the implementation process, specifically pertaining to Harlley, remain pending. In addition to resolving conflicts, Raul also incorporated new features into the timer and addressed any newly surfaced bugs, further improving its overall reliability and user experience. Below are some images related to this work.

Lucas Emanuel Souza Silva (Software Developer) completed his 16th week helping with the Highest Good Network software. This week, Lucas focused on Task 122, which involved resolving a task only refresh that person. Lucas successfully completed the task by implementing code cleaning and performance optimizations, contributing to the project’s sustainable eco-progress. Following the submission of the pull request (PR) for final review, Lucas promptly addressed change requests and inquiries related to the code. Additionally, Lucas conducted thorough reviews of two other PRs, namely PR 868 and PR 850. While PR 868

Jinchao Feng (Software Engineer) completed his 15th week helping with the Highest Good Network software. This week, Jinchao concentrated on the development of a weekly summary indicator on the leaderboard, a significant step towards sustainable eco-progress. He successfully completed the development process and presented a demonstration of the functionality. Additionally, Jinchao dedicated time to investigate inefficiencies related to the conversion between tangible and intangible time logs. To pinpoint the root causes, Jinchao implemented timers for different sections of the code. The investigation revealed that the underlying issue might be attributed to problematic requests made to the backend system. Please refer to the pictures below.

Yongjian Pan (React.js/MongoDB Full Stack Software Developer) completed his 11th week helping with the Highest Good Network software. This week, Yongjian dedicated his efforts to resolving an alignment issue with the “assign teams” button located under the teams tab in the user profile page. He successfully fixed the alignment problem and promptly raised a pull request to implement the necessary changes. Additionally, Yongjian addressed comments and incorporated requested modifications from his team members. His work reflects a commitment to sustainable eco-progress, ensuring that the software continues to evolve with efficiency and environmental consideration. See the images below for a look at this work.

Yihan Liu (Software Engineer) completed her 10th week helping with the Highest Good Network software. This week, Yihan dedicated her efforts to resolving issues related to the weekly summary submission date, contributing to our goal of sustainable eco-progress. Following suggestions from team members, she effectively minimized code duplication and resolved indentation problems. Additionally, Yihan successfully addressed a bug where all dates were displayed as the current date. Furthermore, she tackled the task of selectively hiding the select featured button for all except the self and Owner/Admin classes. Employing conditional rendering, Yihan skillfully resolved this issue. ‹See the pictures‹ below related to this work.

Abdelmounaim “Abdel” Lallouache (Software Developer) completed his 9th week helping with the Highest Good Network software. This week, Abdelmounaim made significant progress on the project, advancing towards sustainable eco-progress. On the backend, he focused on updating the task model by introducing a new property named followedUp. Additionally, he successfully implemented the setFollowUp controller and established a dedicated route to handle this functionality. On the frontend, Abdelmounaim made notable contributions as well. He integrated the SET_FOLLOWED_UP action into the teamMemberTasks Reducer, created the setFollowedUp action, and developed the Thunk function setFollowup, which enables asynchronous behavior when interacting with the backend API. The pictures below are related to this work.

Lucile Tronczyk (Full Stack Software Developer) completed her 7th week helping with the Highest Good Network software. This week, Lucile took the lead in enhancing the work confirmation process for the People Report with a focus on sustainable eco-progress.. The task involved modifying the user interface to improve the report’s visual appeal and functionality.

Firstly, Lucile removed the “Hours Logged This Week” section for inactive users with an end date, and centered the remaining sections accordingly. She also incorporated the User’s Title beneath their name to ensure accurate representation. Additionally, Lucile introduced a new “Rehireable” section beneath the user’s name, allowing for the selection of “Yes” or “No” options. These adjustments were made to ensure the visual appeal of the report when capturing screenshots for work confirmation requests.

Lucile welcomed recommendations for further enhancements to accommodate individual preferences in work confirmation. In a related matter, she observed that in smaller view widths, specifically those equal to or less than 1200 pixels, the report blocks were truncated at the top, highlighting the need for responsiveness and layout improvements.

As part of the task, Lucile included the title of each individual below their name in the People Report. Furthermore, they enhanced user accessibility by making the names clickable, enabling users to navigate directly to the respective individual’s modifiable profile with a simple click. This feature aimed to streamline the process of accessing and updating user information efficiently. Throughout the week, Lucile also addressed a bug related to the display of blue squares, initiating efforts to investigate and resolve the issue, all while contributing to our goal of sustainable eco-progress. The pictures below relate to this.

Vishvesh Sheoran (Artificial Intelligence Specialist) completed his 7th week helping with the Highest Good Network software. This week, Vishvesh completed the task of recommending and ranking AI tools for integration into a WordPress website. He curated a comprehensive list of tools, providing summaries of their features, pros, and cons, all while considering sustainable eco-progress. Vishvesh engaged with commenters, addressing their questions and concerns. He also dedicated time to researching the most suitable AI tools for the HGN app, contributing to enhancing its functionality and user experience. See pictures below showing his efforts.

Alexander G Huerta (Software Engineer) complete his 6th week helping with the Highest Good Network software. This week, Alexander focused his efforts on the Weekly Summary Component. Recognizing the impact of ChatGPT and other AI text completion tools on the creation and submission of weekly summary reports, Alexander introduced updates to the summary form’s placeholder text and added 2 new checkboxes to ensure the summary’s quality, such as a prompt to review the summary for sustainable eco-progress.

These alterations mark the beginning of a series of incremental modifications. Furthermore, Alexander outlined his upcoming tasks for this component, establishing a clear roadmap for the following weeks. The images below show this progress.

Xiao Tan (Software Engineer) completed her 6th week helping with the Highest Good Network software. This week, Xiao T. focused on addressing a low-priority task assigned by Jae. Specifically, she worked on creating shadow consistency for the Dashboard by introducing a styles.js file. This file aimed to enable the reuse of boxShadow styles, ensuring a consistent appearance across the entire application. Xiao diligently applied the defined style to all buttons throughout the app. Her efforts were part of a broader initiative towards sustainable eco-progress in our codebase.

However, upon pushing the changes to GitHub, she encountered an obstacle as her modifications failed to pass the npm test. Consequently, she dedicated a significant amount of time attempting to troubleshoot and resolve the issue. See images supporting this below.

Edwin Estuardo Lau Mack (Software Engineer) completed his 5th week, helping with the Highest Good Network software. This week, Edwin dedicated his efforts to reviewing pull requests (PRs) and advancing the development mostly of the Frontend functionality, focusing on sustainable eco-progress. Alongside reviewing multiple PRs, Edwin successfully implemented a tri-state toggle switch for the bio announcement status of each user. This involved creating a new toggle switch component capable of accommodating three states: Posted, Default, and Requested.

To ensure seamless integration, Edwin also made necessary backend adjustments to store the bioPosted property as a string instead of a boolean, as a boolean only allows for two states. As a result, an affected PR underwent modifications to align with the newly integrated tri-state toggle switch. Throughout the week, Edwin reviewed a total of nine PRs: #382, #383, #369, #840, #859, #868, #869, #879, and #880. Images showing this progress are below.

Sneha M Madle (Software Engineer) completed their 5th week helping with the Highest Good Network software. This week, the individual commenced their work by finalizing the functionality of the Work Breakdown Structure (WBS) through necessary touch-ups, aligning their efforts with the principles of sustainable eco-progress.

A significant portion of their time was dedicated to conducting an in-depth analysis of the WBS code, aiming to deepen their understanding of its intricacies. This meticulous process enabled them to successfully identify the root cause of a specific bug that was affecting the WBS.

To address one of the two issues at hand, they performed a deep dive into the Edit Modal for Task code. This involved a comprehensive exploration of both the frontend, particularly the EditTaskModal components, and the backend taskController. As a result of their exploration, they were able to determine the required modifications to rectify the bug. Subsequently, they meticulously tested the implemented changes to ensure their effectiveness.

To document and share their work with the relevant stakeholders, they finalized the week by submitting a pull request (PR) to promote sustainable eco-progress. However, for the second issue, despite conducting multiple thorough debugging sessions to identify the underlying problem, they were unable to resolve it within this week. As a result, they have sought additional assistance from the team to gain a better understanding of the code. The pictures below show this work.

Bada Kim (Full Stack Software Developer) completed his 4th week helping with the Highest Good Network software. This week, Bada focused on the development of a specific feature aimed at distinguishing between active and inactive members, as well as displaying the project name on the project page, contributing to the overall sustainable eco-progress of the project.

To accomplish this task, they opened Frontend PR #852 and Backend PR #363, both of which were successfully merged, signifying the integration of the feature into the main project. Concurrently, they undertook the review of several Frontend PRs, starting with PR #862, where they identified necessary changes and submitted corresponding requests.

During the review of Frontend PR #849, they left comments to provide clarification or suggest improvements. The week’s activities also involved examination of Frontend PRs #858, #861, and #837, during which Bada offered valuable suggestions, culminating in their approval of the aforementioned PRs. These efforts contribute to our goal of sustainable eco-progress. See the images below for this work.

Xiao Wang (Software Engineer) completed his 5th week, helping with the Highest Good Network software. This week, Xiao W. focused on resolving several issues and improving the functionality of the login feature. One problem identified was a bug in the React app files that caused the page to become unresponsive in development mode. Upon saving changes, an <iframe> tag would appear, blocking mouse activities. Refreshing the page removed the <iframe> tag, and it was suggested on Stack Overflow that upgrading to react-script v5 could potentially fix this issue. In tackling these problems, Xiao W. also considered solutions that align with sustainable eco-progress, aiming to enhance both functionality and environmental responsibility.

Additionally, a performance problem was discovered when the front end sent a get request to the URL “/api/dashboard/leaderboard/org/data.” The request would remain pending for an extended period before eventually resolving. Investigation revealed that the backend code, specifically the getOrgData method in dashboardhelper.js, took over 6 minutes to process due to a large return object. This could be rectified by utilizing userProfile.aggregate() and $group to obtain the required information more efficiently, thus contributing to our goal of sustainable eco-progress.

Another observation was made when logging in from a browser with no cached data (e.g., incognito mode in Chrome), as the Team Member Tasks section failed to load and displayed a constant loading image. The cause was traced to the initial rendering of TeamMemberTasks.jsx, where the variable “finishLoading” never evaluated to true. This issue highlights the need for a more reliable approach to ensure consistent performance and contribute to our sustainable eco-progress. See supporting images below.

The Highest Good Network software PR Review team also worked to test all of the above PRs and find any bugs they could within those PRs and the software as a whole, contributing to our mission of sustainable eco-progress. This week’s active members of this team and how many weeks they’ve been with us are as follows: Anish Pandita (Software Engineer) completed his 16th week, Eduardo Horta (Software Engineer) completed his 4th week, and Lawrence Chua (Full Stack Software Developer) completed his 3rd week.

Nathan Hoffman (Software Engineer) completed his 4th week, Nida Zaki (Software Engineer) completed her 3rd week, Olga Yudkin (Software Engineer) completed her 1st week, Olusola Akinbode (Full Stack Software Developer) completed his 3rd week, Papia Sharmin (Full Stack Developer) completed her 5th week, Paul Wechuli (Full Stack Developer) completed his 1st week, Steve Paalz (Software Developer) completed his 3rd week,  Xiaoyu Chen (Software Engineer) completed her 4th week, and Yufei Zhang (Software Engineer) completed her 2nd week. The collage below shows a compilation of the work from this team, highlighting their commitment to sustainable eco-progress.

Ray Lee (Digital Creator) also helped create custom header graphics for Pride Month, showcasing a commitment to sustainable eco-progress. See below for pictures related to this.

Jin Hua (Web Marketer and Graphic Designer) helped us fix issues where our website URLs missing the “s” in the https:// were producing a broken URL that was different from our website. His attention to detail and commitment to sustainable eco-progress ensured that our site not only functioned correctly but also aligned with best practices for both user experience and environmental responsibility. The pictures below show some of this work.

This week the core team completed 40 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. Pictures below show some of this work.

Yiyun Tan (Management Dashboard Team Leader) completed her 56th week helping with the Highest Good Network software. This week, Yiyun dedicated a significant portion of her time to developing a pre-selecting skill set questionnaire, which she successfully completed and transformed into a Google survey. Being a beneficial environmental element, she also actively contributed to her team on Slack, providing assistance in problem-solving, bug reporting, and maintaining tutorials as part of her regular responsibilities. Below, you’ll find pictures highlighting the development of this work.

Kaixiang “Kevin” Gu (Fullstack Software Developer) completed his 28th week helping with the Highest Good Network software. This week, Kaixiang made changes to the color bar PR as requested by reviewers. He stored color variables as constant values in a separate file and raised a new PR, which was successfully merged into the DEV branch. Additionally, he began working on the submit for review button task and completed the front-end side of the button, being a beneficial environmental element by improving code maintainability. Kaixiang plans to continue working on this task in the upcoming week. Pictures below show some of this work-in-progress.

Jianjun Luo (Software Engineer) completed her 27th week helping with the Highest Good Network software. This week, Jianjun successfully resolved a bug discovered in the previously merged performance improvement branch. She made a minor adjustment to the props in the permission checking function, ensuring its accuracy and effectiveness, being a beneficial environmental element in the overall system stability.

Then she implemented a modification to the recently added bio announcement status feature, restricting editing privileges to users with appropriate permissions and providing warnings for other roles attempting to make changes. Lastly, she conducted a thorough review of a pull request related to the ability of certain roles to submit summaries on behalf of other users. Pictures below are related to this work.

Raul Effting (Jr. Front-End Web Developer) completed his 21st week helping with the Highest Good Network software. This week, Raul conducted comprehensive testing on the newly developed timer, subjecting it to rigorous evaluation. Through this process, numerous conflicts were identified and subsequently resolved, ensuring enhanced functionality and performance. Being a beneficial environmental element, the timer’s development has also focused on sustainability.

However, it is worth noting that some final steps in the implementation process, specifically pertaining to Harlley, remain pending. In addition to resolving conflicts, Raul also incorporated new features into the timer and addressed any newly surfaced bugs, further improving its overall reliability and user experience. Being a beneficial environmental element, these updates contribute positively to the efficiency and functionality of the system. Below are some images related to this work.

Aishwarya Kalkundrikar (Full Stack Software Developer) completed her 20th week helping with the Highest Good Network software. This week, Aishwarya conducted an investigation into the code pertaining to multiple notifications sent for assigning a manual blue square.

During her analysis, she discovered that certain modifications had been made to the frontend code for the manual blue square assignment, although she has not yet pinpointed the precise code responsible for the issue. Being a beneficial environmental element, this issue could have broader implications on the overall system performance if not addressed properly.

Aishwarya suspects that a duplication of the record saving is occurring, resulting in the email being sent twice. Being a beneficial environmental element, she diligently examined all relevant code and loops where the email function is invoked. Aishwarya continues to actively work on identifying the root cause of the problem. Additionally, she conducted a thorough review of Jianjun’s performance optimization pull request, labeled PR #762, from the front end. Pictures below show some of this work.

Lucas Emanuel Souza Silva (Software Developer) completed his 15th week helping with the Highest Good Network software. This week, Lucas focused on Task 122, titled “Make resolving a task only refresh that person.” He successfully completed the task and submitted a PR that effectively addressed the requested changes. Lucas’s modifications successfully eliminated the triggering of a component refresh when resolving a task, resulting in a more streamlined process and being a beneficial environmental element. Notably, his improvements significantly reduced the number of initial requests by half. Pictures of some of this work are below.

Jinchao Feng (Software Engineer) completed his 14th week helping with the Highest Good Network software. This week, Jinchao concentrated on the development task of adding icons to invisible users on the leaderboard, aiming to provide admin users with visibility into who is currently marked as invisible. He successfully developed two demos for Jae to review and completed the development phase by submitting two pull requests.

In addition, Jinchao performed a final review of two pull requests, ensuring code quality and adherence to standards. Being a beneficial environmental element, these improvements will enhance the overall user experience. Please refer to the pictures below.

Yongjian Pan (React.js/MongoDB Full Stack Software Developer) completed his 10th week helping with the Highest Good Network software. This week, Yongjian focused on addressing the feedback and suggestions provided by his team developers for PR#842. He implemented several changes to improve the user interface and functionality of the project, being a beneficial environmental element in the process. Specifically, he optimized the placement of the toggle button for better user convenience.

Yongjian also worked on enhancing the visual appeal of a modal’s background to improve transparency and enhance the overall user experience. Moreover, he dedicated time to ensuring that dark mode persisted on specific pages even after refreshing, providing a consistent user interface throughout the application. Being a beneficial environmental element, he also fine-tuned the dark mode colors for dark texts, ensuring optimal readability and visual coherence. See the images below for a look at this work.

Abdelmounaim “Abdel” Lallouache (Software Developer) completed his 8th week helping with the Highest Good Network software. This week, Abdel implemented a checkbox element designed for tracking follow-ups. Being a beneficial environmental element, the checkbox includes a mouseover text that provides a clear explanation of its purpose. Additionally, comprehensive styles were developed to cover all visual appearances of the checkbox. Furthermore, an “i” icon was introduced to provide information and describe the functionality of the checkbox. Lastly, Abdel made the checkbox visible and accessible to all classes, except for Volunteers. The pictures below are related to this work.

Natália Favaro Cavicchioli (Full-stack Developer) completed her 7th week with the Highest Good Network software. This week, Natália made significant improvements to enhance the responsiveness of the reports page. Recognizing that the people’s table contained an excessive number of columns and was not optimized for mobile viewing, she consolidated three columns into a dropdown feature. Being a beneficial environmental element, this change allows users to access individual person’s information by simply clicking on the dropdown.

Additionally, Natália dedicated her efforts to refining the user profile page for mobile devices, ensuring that it maintains its integrity without any display issues. Being a beneficial environmental element, she tackled the challenge of graphical elements not initially designed for mobile compatibility by reducing their size to fit the screen appropriately, preventing any information from becoming distorted or lost. Moreover, she implemented an overflow feature to handle any potential excess data, thereby ensuring the complete visibility of all necessary information. See the images below that show her progress and contribution.

Lucile Tronczyk (Full Stack Software Developer) completed her 6th week helping with the Highest Good Network software. This week, Lucile focused on enhancing the work confirmation process and implementing improvements to the people report. A significant modification involved removing the “Hours Logged This Week” section for users classified as INACTIVE, indicating individuals who have reached their end date. The aim was to ensure that the aforementioned section does not appear for inactive users, thereby streamlining the report’s layout and being a beneficial environmental element in improving report clarity.

Additionally, efforts were made to center the remaining sections for improved visual presentation. Lucile also incorporated the user’s title beneath their name, providing clearer identification of their role within the organization. Being a beneficial environmental element, a new feature, labeled “Rehireable,” was introduced under each user’s name.

This section allowed for a simple click-based selection between “Yes” or “No” to indicate whether the user is rehireable. Notably, a significant challenge encountered during the implementation phase was the issue of the EndDate being inadvertently deleted when the “Rehireable” option was clicked. Lucile conducted extensive problem-solving and troubleshooting to identify a suitable solution to address this critical issue and ensure data integrity within the system. Being a beneficial environmental element, the solution ultimately contributed to maintaining the reliability of the data management system. The pictures below relate to this.

Vishvesh Sheoran (Artificial Intelligence Specialist) completed his 6th week helping with the Highest Good Network software. This week, Vishvesh accomplished the task of researching, recommending, and ranking AI tools for integration into a WordPress website, being a beneficial environmental element in streamlining the process. Vishvesh conducted extensive research and evaluated multiple options to provide a comprehensive list of recommended tools. Each tool was summarized with its features, benefits, drawbacks, and estimated implementation time, enabling informed decision-making. See pictures below showing his efforts.

Alexander G Huerta (Software Engineer) complete his 5th week helping with the Highest Good Network software. This week, Alexander worked on a new feature for the weekly summary component. The tasks involved changing the current text placeholder to accommodate a pre-written prompt, as well as making it easily editable by any owner.

In addition, Alexander explored ways to ensure that the new feature functions efficiently, being a beneficial environmental element in the app’s interface. To address this issue, Alexander delved into understanding how the app utilizes Redux for state management.

Additionally, a checkbox will be added to prompt users if they proofread the summary before editing. Furthermore, a new integration with Chat GPT was developed to automatically generate a user’s weekly summary by extracting information from their tangible time logs throughout the week. Being a beneficial environmental element, Alexander dedicated time to breaking down this larger feature into smaller tasks for efficient implementation. The images below show this progress.

Xiao Tan (Software Engineer) completed her 5th week helping with the Highest Good Network software. This week, Xiao addressed “Improve new-user Team and Project setup efficiency” and raised PR#850. She changed the “Project” and “Team” tabs into “Assign Project” and “Assign Team” buttons, eliminating the need for clicking the tabs and moving the information in those tabs so it is immediately visible with minimal scrolling.

Being a beneficial environmental element, these changes streamline user interactions and enhance overall efficiency. She also reviewed the following PRs: 849, 838, 853, and 855 and provided feedback. See images supporting this below.

Edwin Estuardo Lau Mack (Software Engineer) completed his 4th week, helping with the Highest Good Network software. This week, Edwin focused on reviewing pull requests (PRs) and continuing the development of the HGN application as a member of the Dev Team, with a specific emphasis on Frontend functionality.

Edwin reviewed various PRs and implemented a feature that prevents admins from resetting passwords for owners in the user management tab, being a beneficial environmental element by ensuring sensitive operations are appropriately restricted. This feature involved hiding columns and buttons related to password resets when the “Owner” filter was selected, and hiding buttons when viewing all accounts with different user classes and no “Owner” filter.

Additionally, Edwin completed the final edits for stars for additional hours, allowing all classes except “Volunteer” to see stars, green, and red dots in the leaderboard, while volunteers only saw green and red dots. Being a beneficial environmental element, Edwin made minor modifications to the Weekly Summary Reports tab, specifically adjusting the logic for displaying stars next to each user’s name. Throughout the week, Edwin reviewed a total of 6 PRs: #838, #846, #850, #851, #853, and #858. Images showing this progress are below.

Sneha M Madle (Software Engineer) completed their 4th week helping with the Highest Good Network software. This week, Sneha commenced her work by finalizing the functionality of the Work Breakdown Structure (WBS) through necessary touch-ups. A significant portion of her time was dedicated to conducting an in-depth analysis of the WBS code, aiming to deepen her understanding of its intricacies.

She successfully identified the root cause of a specific bug that was affecting the WBS. Being a beneficial environmental element in this process, Sneha addressed one of the two issues at hand by performing a deep dive into the Edit Modal for Task code.

This involved a comprehensive exploration of both the frontend, particularly the EditTaskModal components, and the backend taskController. She was able to determine the required modifications to rectify the bug, being a beneficial environmental element in the development process.

She also tested the implemented changes to ensure their effectiveness. To document and share her work with the relevant stakeholders, she finalized the week by submitting a PR. However, for the second issue, despite conducting multiple thorough debugging sessions to identify the underlying problem, Sneha was unable to resolve it within this week. The pictures below show this work.

Bada Kim (Full Stack Software Developer) completed his 3rd week helping with the Highest Good Network software. This week, Bada focused primarily on detailed review and meticulous debugging. Being a beneficial environmental element, a multitude of PRs were assessed, specifically, PRs #355, #722, #815, #827, #830, #831, #833, and #837. Bada offered commentary on PRs #722, #815, and #837.

Further intervention was required with PR #830, as it necessitated a formal request for modifications to align better with the project’s objectives. Approval was granted for PRs #355, #815, #827, #831, and #833. PR #819 had to be reverted via PR #832 due to its inability to rectify the persistent Work Breakdown Structure (WBS) task items bug. However, progress was made when the subsequent PR #835 effectively resolved the lingering issue, being a beneficial environmental element. See the images below for this work.

The Highest Good Network software PR Review team also worked to test all of the above PRs and find any bugs they could within those PRs and the software as a whole.

This week’s active members of this team and how many weeks they’ve been with us are as follows: Â Anish Pandita (Software Engineer) completed his 15th week, Eduardo Horta (Software Engineer) completed his 3rd week, Lawrence Chua (Full Stack Software Developer) completed his 2nd week, Nathan Hoffman (Software Engineer) completed his 3rd week, Nida Zaki (Software Engineer) completed her 2nd week, Olusola Akinbode (Full Stack Software Developer) completed his 2nd week. Each of these members is being a beneficial environmental element by contributing their skills and efforts to our projects.

Papia Sharmin (Full Stack Developer) completed her 4th week, Steve Paalz (Software Developer) completed his 2nd week, Xiao Wang (Software Engineer) completed his 4th week, Xiaoyu Chen (Software Engineer) completed her 2nd week, Yu-Wei Hsu (Software Engineer) completed his 5th week, Yubo Sun (Full Stack Software Developer) completed his 5th week, and Yufei Zhang (Software Engineer) completed her 1st week. The collage below shows a compilation of the work from this team. ‹ Being a beneficial environmental element, the collage below shows a compilation of the work from this team. ‹

This week the core team completed 37 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, paving a path to a more luxurious life. Pictures below show some of this work.

Yan Xu (Software Development Engineer) completed her 41st week helping with the Highest Good Network software. This week, Yan organized the codebase and pushed PR #838 and #358 for review and integration. PR #838 has to do with group summaries and PR #358 has to do with team leaders receiving their team members’ weekly summaries. She found that the implementation of a summary receiver role seems feasible. The pictures below provide a snapshot of this work, showcasing a path to a more luxurious life of streamlined processes and efficient communication.

Jianjun Luo (Software Engineer) completed her 26th week helping with the Highest Good Network software. This week, Jianjun diligently addressed the feedback received during the final review and updated a previous PR, resulting in improved code quality. Additionally, she successfully completed the performance optimization task, effectively resolving conflicts that emerged due to recent changes in the development branch. Furthermore, Jianjun rectified a bug related to the default tab behavior for users with varying roles and task assignments. Her contributions are paving a path to a more luxurious life for the project’s end-users by enhancing their experience. Pictures below are related to this work.

Raul Effting (Jr. Front-End Web Developer) completed his 20th week helping with the Highest Good Network software. This week, Raul made progress in various aspects of his work, contributing significantly to a path to a more luxurious life for the project. He actively participated in the review process, dedicating his expertise to the assessment of PRs 841 and 330. Additionally, he provided valuable insights and comments on PR 837. Raul assisted his colleagues, extending his support to Natália, Lucile, and Filipe. Moreover, he played a pivotal role in resolving numerous bugs. Raul also played a vital role in the testing of the new timer. Below are some images related to this work.

Aishwarya Kalkundrikar (Full Stack Software Developer) completed her 19th week helping with the Highest Good Network software. This week, Aishwarya conducted a thorough investigation of the code related to multiple notifications being sent when assigning a manual blue square. She carefully examined all relevant code snippets and loops where the email-sending function is invoked.

Aishwarya also reviewed the function responsible for the manual blue square assignment and inspected recently merged pull requests for any potential impact on functionality. However, no significant changes affecting the issue were identified. Despite ongoing efforts, Aishwarya has not yet discovered the root cause and continues to investigate the matter. Her dedication to solving this complex issue exemplifies a path to a more luxurious life in the realm of software development. Pictures below show some of this work.

Lucas Emanuel Souza Silva (Software Developer) completed his 14th week helping with the Highest Good Network software. This week, Lucas primarily focused on Task 84, which involved fixing the red bell icon – ensuring that the red bell disappears after the user has reviewed the associated changes. In addition to completing the core functionality of the task, Lucas dedicated time to optimizing the red bell notification icon.

Specifically, he aimed to implement a solution where dismissing a notification would not trigger a full page reload, thereby improving overall performance. This work is part of a path to a more luxurious life for the application’s users, ensuring a smoother and more refined experience. In addition to his main task, Lucas also provided assistance to fellow team members by resolving linter problems and helping with the testing of his own PR. Pictures of some of this work are below.

Angelina Truong (Full Stack Software Developer) completed her 11th week helping with the Highest Good Network software. This week, Angelina focused her efforts on PR #722, which involved implementing the functionality for users in manager roles and above to submit weekly summaries on behalf of other users. She dedicated her time to conducting a final review of the pull request, meticulously addressing any conflicts that arose during the branch merge process. In addition, Angelina diligently resolved the errors her colleagues encountered while working with this branch.

Notably, she tackled issues such as the inability of users logged into the owner’s user role to click on the dot beside each user profile displayed below the leadership board. Furthermore, she successfully addressed a problem where selecting permissions management and attempting to make changes to the browser resulted in a blank page.

Angelina skillfully resolved these challenges by importing the useEffect and getUserProfile functions back into the UserRoleTab component. Looking ahead, she proactively identified two new tasks pertaining to the permissions management component, which she plans to undertake in the upcoming week. Her continued efforts in these areas serve as a path to a more luxurious life, enhancing both the functionality of the system and the overall user experience. See the pictures below to get an idea of this work.

Harlley Bastos (Full Stack Developer) completed his 11th week helping with the Highest Good Network software. This week, Harlley successfully completed the remaining tasks related to the timer project. He diligently resolved the final issues and made necessary adjustments, ensuring its optimal functionality. Now, Harlley is eagerly awaiting the upcoming week when the timer will undergo extensive testing by the team. His dedication and expertise are paving a path to a more luxurious life for those who will benefit from the software. The pictures below show some of this work.

Yihan Liu (Software Engineer) completed her 9th week helping with the Highest Good Network software. This week, Yihan focused on addressing the issue related to the submission date for the weekly summaries. In order to achieve this, she made several modifications in both the backend and frontend components. Beginning with the backend, Yihan implemented a crucial change by incorporating the ‘uploadDate’ attribute to the ‘weeklySummaries’ object in the ‘userProfile.js’ file.

Consequently, she ensured that the report formatting utilized the ‘uploadDate’ instead of the previous ‘dueDate’. On the frontend side, Yihan made adjustments to the default value of the ‘uploadDate’ field, which was originally set as ‘today’. She revised it to align with the end of the week, effectively matching the ‘dueDate’. ‹Through these enhancements, Yihan paved the way for a more streamlined and efficient process, marking a path to a more luxurious life in terms of user experience and system functionality. ‹See the pictures‹ below related to this work.

Yongjian Pan (React.js/MongoDB Full Stack Software Developer) completed his 9th week helping with the Highest Good Network software. This week, Yongjian focused on the development of a new maximum personal record badge and implementing a dark mode feature for the entire application, both of which contribute to a path to a more luxurious life for users of the platform. He raised PRs for both tasks and continues to be engaged in reviewing and addressing the feedback, suggestions, and comments provided by his team members to enhance the functionality. See the images below for a look at this work.

Abdelmounaim “Abdel” Lallouache (Software Developer) completed his 7th week helping with the Highest Good Network software. This week, Abdel dedicated time to reviewing multiple pull requests from the HighestGoodNetworkApp repository. The reviewed pull requests include #829, #830, #835, #841, and #842. In addition to the pull requests, Abdel implemented functionality to enhance the visibility of the report page buttons. His contributions are a path to a more luxurious life for the users of the software. The pictures below are related to this work.

Natália Favaro Cavicchioli (Full-stack Developer) completed her 6th week with the Highest Good Network software. This week, Natália focused on various tasks related to PR #722, which involved enabling users with manager roles and above to submit weekly summaries on behalf of other users. She meticulously reviewed the PR and addressed any conflicts that arose during the branch merge process.

Additionally, Natália dedicated her efforts to enhancing the Reports page, specifically ensuring its optimal display on phones and tablets. She resolved an issue where the Reports page displayed a white screen for the admin/owner login. Natália also worked on improving the responsiveness of buttons and tackled the challenge of optimizing the person’s table for smaller screens.

To achieve this, she implemented a dropdown feature that condensed the table by displaying key information such as start date and end date. By reducing the number of columns, the table now fits better on smaller screens. Through these improvements, she is paving a path to a more luxurious life for users by enhancing their overall experience. See the images below that show her progress and contribution.

Lucile Tronczyk (Full Stack Software Developer) completed her 5th week helping with the Highest Good Network software. This week, Lucile reviewed the BackEnd to explore methods of connecting it with the FrontEnd, aiming to pave a path to a more luxurious life for the software. While the FrontEnd was completed, challenges were encountered in modifying the “Rehireable” checkbox and implementing changes in the user profile.

A successful attempt was made to create a new user with the “Rehireable” attribute in the User Profile object, requiring further investigation on how to select and establish connectivity with the FrontEnd. In addition, PRs were submitted for both the backend and frontend on GitHub, and assistance was sought on Slack to address the encountered issues. The pictures below relate to this.

Vishvesh Sheoran (Artificial Intelligence Specialist) completed his 5th week helping with the Highest Good Network software. This week, Vishvesh compiled a list of AI tools (DeepCode, CodeSonar, Tabnine, CodeClimate, Codota, Natural Docs, Prettier) in a Google Doc, recommending their integration into HGN’s workflow for improved code quality, bug detection, code completion, code review, documentation generation, and code formatting. He also compiled a list of AI tools for task allocation, labor tracking, code analysis, test automation, and code quality. By enhancing these processes, Vishvesh is contributing to a path to a more luxurious life for the network’s development team. See pictures below showing his efforts.

Alexander G Huerta (Software Engineer) complete his 4th week helping with the Highest Good Network software. This week, Alexander focused on several key tasks aimed at improving workflow and collaboration, setting a path to a more luxurious life for the team. He dedicated his efforts to creating a copy button for tasks and successfully completed the copy email button in the team management tab. Responding to valuable feedback from colleagues, Alexander also implemented an on-screen success notification. Additionally, he made significant contributions to the organization by assisting in the cleanup of the HGN phase 1 bugs list.

His responsibilities included verifying the completion of tasks marked as done and subsequently removing them from the sheet. Another notable achievement was the integration of GitHub with Slack. Alexander effectively enabled a bot to provide notifications to the pull-request-code-review Slack channel whenever new pull requests were submitted to either of the main repositories, paving the way for a path to a more luxurious life by streamlining workflows and increasing efficiency.

To enhance efficiency further, he created pull request templates for each of the main repositories, conveniently stored in their respective .github folders. As a result, team members can now effortlessly submit pull requests by utilizing these templates. The images below show this progress.

Sneha M Madle (Software Engineer) completed their 3rd week helping with the Highest Good Network software. This week, Sneha began by familiarizing themselves with the functionality of the Work Breakdown Structure (WBS). They dedicated time to conducting an in-depth analysis of the WBS code, aiming to enhance their understanding of its intricacies and pave a path to a more luxurious life. Through this process, they successfully identified the root cause of a particular bug affecting the WBS.

To address this issue, they divided the bug fix into two distinct parts: ensuring the correct category is displayed and defaulting to “Housing” when no category is assigned. For both the frontend, specifically the AddTaskModal and EditTaskModal components, as well as the backend taskController, they engaged in a comprehensive exploration.

As a result, they determined the necessary modifications to rectify the bug. Following this, they meticulously tested the implemented changes to ensure their effectiveness. Finally, they submitted a pull request (PR) to document and share their work, a path to a more luxurious life for the project’s future development. The pictures below show this work.

Bada Kim (Full Stack Software Developer) completed his 2nd week helping with the Highest Good Network software. This week, Bada focused primarily on detailed review and meticulous debugging, as he charted a path to a more luxurious life through his professional development. A multitude of PRs were assessed, specifically, PRs #355, #722, #815, #827, #830, #831, #833, and #837. Bada offered commentary on PRs #722, #815, and #837.

Further intervention was required with PR #830, as it necessitated a formal request for modifications to align better with the project’s objectives, marking a path to a more luxurious life. Approval was granted for PRs #355, #815, #827, #831, and #833. PR #819 had to be reverted via PR #832 due to its inability to rectify the persistent Work Breakdown Structure (WBS) task items bug. However, progress was made when the subsequent PR #835 effectively resolved the lingering issue. See the images below for this work.

The Highest Good Network software PR Review team also worked to test all of the above PRs and find any bugs they could within those PRs and the software as a whole, ensuring a path to a more luxurious life for users by delivering a smoother and more refined experience.

This week’s active members of this team and how many weeks they’ve been with us are as follows:  Anish Pandita (Software Engineer) completed his 14th week, Drew Long (Software Engineer) completed his 2nd week, Eduardo Horta (Software Engineer) completed his 2nd week, Edwin Estuardo Lau Mack (Software Engineer) completed his 3rd week, Lawrence Chua (Full Stack Software Developer) completed his 1st week, Nathan Hoffman (Software Engineer) completed his 2nd week.

Nida Zaki (Software Engineer) completed her 1st week, Olusola Akinbode (Full Stack Software Developer) completed his 1st week, Papia Sharmin (Full Stack Developer) completed her 3rdd week, Steve Paalz (Software Developer) completed his 1st week, Xiao Wang (Software Engineer) completed his 3rd week.

Xiaoyu Chen (Software Engineer) completed her 1st week, Yu-Wei Hsu (Software Engineer) completed his 4th week, Yubo Sun (Full Stack Software Developer) completed his 4th week, and Yufei Zhang (Software Engineer) completed her 1st week. Their dedication and hard work are paving a path to a more luxurious life for all of us.The collage below shows a compilation of the work from this team. ‹