One Community welcomes Rizwan Syed to the Mechanical Engineering Team as our newest Volunteer/Consultant!

Rizwan holds a Master’s Degree in Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering from Rutgers University, New Jersey, and a Bachelor’s in Aeronautical Engineering. He brings 3 years of significant experience in the automotive and electric scooter industries, having worked at EV companies such as Rivian, Lucid Motors, and White Fox Scooters. During his tenure, Rizwan has successfully designed, analyzed, and brought meaningful products from initial concept to full-scale production. He is a certified 3DEXPERIENCE SOLIDWORKS Professional and an active member of the SOLIDWORKS Champions Program. Passionate about using his skills in mechanical design and with a research background in additive manufacturing, Rizwan is committed to designing and developing sustainable technologies that benefit both current and future generations. He excels in 3D CAD modeling, prototyping, and FEA simulations, and has developed strong cross-functional collaboration skills through partnerships with suppliers on multiple product design projects. As a key member of the One Community design team, Rizwan is applying his skills in SOLIDWORKS, stress analysis, and problem-solving to help complete the DIY human waste processing structure of the Vermiculture Toilet.

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One Community welcomes Samarth Urs to the Administration/Management Team as our newest Volunteer/Consultant!

Samarth holds a Master of Science in Computer Information Systems from Boston University. With close to three years of experience working as a data analyst and software QA engineer, Samarth is proficient in Python, SQL, ETL pipelines, Tableau, and Power BI. He is passionate about utilizing data analysis and technology to generate impactful insights and improve organizational efficiency. At One Community, Samarth plays a crucial role in the administrative team by managing PR review team members, tracking their work and time logs, and overseeing project progress. He also contributes to SEO optimization of blog posts, ensuring content is effective and reaches a wider audience.

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One Community welcomes Harsh Bodgal to the Software Development Team as our newest Volunteer/Consultant!

With four years experience in product development, Harsh brings a wealth of knowledge to the table. He specializes in Front end development, leveraging his expertise to enhance user experiences across diverse domains. Being a part of the Software Team at One Community, he contributes significantly to product development, employing his skills in React and Express to write efficient code. Harsh’s responsibilities extend beyond coding; he meticulously reviews code, proposes enhancements, and upholds the product’s quality standards, positioning himself as a future leader in software engineering and management within the organization. Harsh is helping reviewing work and enhancing the user interface of Weekly Summaries Reports.

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One Community welcomes Bhuvan DV to the Software Development Team as our newest Volunteer/Consultant!

Bhuvan is a results-oriented and innovative software developer with 20 months of experience in full stack technology and web development. He is skilled at directing teams and driving project success across the software development life cycle, developing innovative solutions to real-world problems. He is well versed in many programming languages and frameworks and is passionate about creating applications and improving user experiences. As a member of the One Community team working on the Highest Good Network software, Bhuvan has contributed to the development and unit test coverage of Reports, User Profile Edit, and Date Picker components. He has also played a key role in implementing innovative solutions to enhance user experiences and streamline project workflows on github.

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One Community welcomes Ratna Meena Shivakumar to the Administration/Management Team as our newest Volunteer/Consultant!

Ratna has over 3 years of professional experience in data science, analytics and software development, coupled with a Master’s degree in Information Systems from Boston University. Beyond her technical expertise, Ratna is a passionate classical dancer, hockey player, and a mandala artist, and has held leadership roles, including serving as Vice President of the Great Minds club, where she managed a team of 200+ students. She finds joy in solving problems and has a natural drive to achieve goals. Within One Community, as a part of Admin and Analytical team, she has contributed to hiring candidates and implementing successful Search Engine Optimization strategies for for One Community’s blogs, demonstrating her adaptability, strategic thinking, and dedication to supporting the organization’s mission with her distinctive blend of business acumen, technological expertise, and creative talents.

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One Community is committed to creating a collaborative future through sustainable approaches to food, energy, housing, education, economics, and social architecture, and more. Our all-volunteer team is building a model that becomes self-replicating, allowing us to create a global collaboration of teacher/demonstration hubs. We’re doing this for “The Highest Good of All” by open sourcing and free sharing the complete process. Join us in evolving sustainability, regenerating our planet, and creating a world that works for everyone.

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

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One Community’s physical location will forward this movement for creating a collaborative future as the first of many self-replicating teacher/demonstration communities, villages, and cities to be built around the world. This is the May 27th, 2024 edition (#584) of our weekly progress update detailing our team’s development and accomplishments:

Creating a Collaborative Future
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HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING PROGRESS

One Community is creating a collaborative future through Highest Good housing that is artistic and beautiful, more affordable, more space efficient, lasts longer, DIY buildable, and constructed with healthy and sustainable materials:

• • • Learn about: Our Upcoming Crowdfunding Campaign
    • Learn about the different village models and how they relate to creating a collaborative future: 7 Sustainable Village Models
    • Visit the open source portals for the first two: Earthbag Village OS Hub | Straw Bale Village OS Hub

This week, Joseph Osayande (Mechanical Engineer) continued helping finish the Vermiculture Toilet designs. He continued with review to identify the most efficient, reliable, and globally available version that meets the requirements, with a focus on understanding the impact of gear ratio on winch effectiveness. Calculations for both the separator and the winch were revisited due to discrepancies and the need for new additions. Wheels were created and implemented for the drawer. Additionally, a structure using unistruts was developed to serve as a platform for the user and function as a steel separator remover. The vermiculture toilets and other sustainable human waste processing technologies form the basis of One Community’s open source model for creating a collaborative future. See below for some of the pictures related to this work.

Rizwan Syed (Mechanical Engineer) also continued helping finish the Vermiculture Toilet designs. This week, Rizwan implemented several design updates on the chamber structure of the vermiculture eco-toilet project using SolidWorks and AutoCAD. He made critical design modifications to the chamber structure in SolidWorks, where he extended the core structural pillars to align directly underneath the toilet openings and updated the front and side enclosures accordingly. Adjustments were also made to the positioning of viewport holes on the enclosures to facilitate the installation of rubber grommets. In addition to these design changes, Rizwan performed hand calculations to assess the maximum loading on the chamber, including the force needed to extract composted material. He further analyzed the vermiculture bathroom floor plan in AutoCAD, focusing on determining the spacing available for operating the drawer slides from the sides of the chamber. The vermiculture toilets and other sustainable human waste processing technologies an important component of One Community’s open source model for creating a collaborative future. Here are a few photos showing examples of his work.

Sajal Shah (Project Manager) continued managing completion of the Highest Good Energy components. This week, Sajal developed the Work Breakdown Structure (WBS) for the plumbing engineer, including both the plumbing plan and cost analysis for the Earthbag Village and the Duplicable City Center. This WBS outlines tasks and responsibilities, ensuring planning, execution, and budget management for the project’s plumbing components. The Highest Good Energy is an essential component of One Community’s open source model for creating a collaborative future. See below for some of the pictures related to this work.

AIRCRETE TEAM

The Aircrete Testing Team’s summary, covering their work on Aircrete Compression Testing was managed by John Sullivan (CBU Chemical Engineering Student) and includes Jonathan Crago (Civil Engineering Student) and Preston Thompson (Civil Engineering Student). This week, the team created four concrete samples, two of which included fiberglass, to assess cement quality and mixer efficiency. After four days of curing, Preston and the team tested the compression strength of the samples and examined the cracked concrete. Jonathan learned how to use the compression testing machine and collaborated with the team to create two concrete cylinders composed of concrete and water and two others made with concrete, water, and fiberglass. Additionally, Jonathan and the team took inventory of the available materials and estimated the quantities needed for the summer. John met with the team to discuss the next steps and started further research on aircrete, seeking new sources of information. The team took inventory and informed Jae of the materials needed for the rest of the summer. John and the team also began trials and performed compression tests. The team’s efforts form the basis of One Community’s open source creating a collaborative future model. See below for some of the pictures related to this work.

DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER PROGRESS

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

• • • Learn about this building and its function as part of creating a collaborative future: Duplicable City Center Open Source Hub

This week, Amiti Singh (Architectural Designer) finished the process of finalizing all the files for the rooms she designed in Duplicable City Center. This included producing AutoCAD exports and finishing the final PPT summary of the “Neo-Futuristic” room. The Duplicable City Center will function as a foundational meeting and education space as part of creating a collaborative future using One Community’s designs. See below for examples of Amini’s final work. 

Chris Blair (GIS Technician/Horticulturist) continued working with GIS data as part of One Community’s Permaculture Design. He continued georeferencing geospatial analysis images from Ben’s files and images related to the master plan from One Community’s permaculture web page. He also created metadata using the basic ArcGIS standard for all of Ben and One Community’s data involving the proposed property site, including maps, control points, and site plans. Additionally, he added a projected coordinate system to all relevant raster and vector data. Proper property modeling and understanding is a foundational part of One Community’s open source model for creating a collaborative future. Here are a few photos showing examples of his work.

Nika Gavran (Industrial Designer) continued her work on the Duplicable City Center dormer window installation plans. This week, Nika incorporated insulation into the CAD model. She researched the best methods for insulation, including watching installation videos on YouTube, and determined that rigid foam insulation is typically used for dormer windows. She identified suitable product options and implemented one into the CAD model, continuing to adjust the surrounding pieces of lumber to accommodate the insulation. The Duplicable City Center is a foundational part of One Community’s open source creating a collaborative future model. See below for some of the pictures related to this work.

HIGHEST GOOD FOOD PROGRESS

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

• • • Learn about the structures and how they contribute to creating a collaborative future: Hoop House Hub | Aquapini & Walipini Open Source Hub
    • See what we’ll be growing first as we’re creating a collaborative future: Gardens & Hoop Houses | Large-scale Structures | Food Forest | TA

This week, the core team continued updating and expanding the Highest Good Food tools, equipment, materials, and supplies document by adding new items, descriptions for each item, categorizing each item and added corresponding photos. They ensured consistency in formatting by adhering to the style used in previous iterations of the list. Additionally, they had a call with Hayley to address her inquiries about the tools list and to engage in a discussion concerning various sections relevant to her School Integration write-up. Highest Good Food is an important part of creating a collaborative future with One Community’s open source plans. See their work in the collage below.

Charles Gooley (Web Designer) continued to work on various recipes as part of the Transition Food Self-sufficiency Plan generating table of contents for all the recipe pages. Placeholder images were replaced with provided ones and he worked on the Earthbag Village Tools and Equipment page. The list of Earthbag Village tools and equipment was alphabetized, and anchor links to each item on the list were provided, with corresponding links inserted into the tool and equipment descriptions. Highest Good Food is an important part of creating a collaborative future with One Community’s open source plans. See his work in the collage below. 

Hayley Rosario (Sustainability Research Assistant) continued helping finalize the Highest Good Food rollout plan and reviewed the Integration and Highest Good Food tools and equipment document. She completed the first draft of the Implementation program which includes finishing the summary, adding links, and including those links in the resources section at the bottom. Additionally, she reviewed and organized the Highest Good Food tools and equipment document by alphabetizing and adding new items. Highest Good Food is an important part of creating a collaborative future with One Community’s open source plans. See her work in the collage below. 

HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION PROGRESS

One Community is creating a collaborative future through Highest Good education that is for all ages, applicable in any environment, adaptable to individual needs, far exceeds traditional education standards, and more fun for both the teachers and the students. This component of One Community is about 95% complete with only the Open Source School Licensing and Ultimate Classroom construction and assembly details remaining to be finished. With over 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 as part of creating a collaborative future: 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

This week, Apoorv Pandey (Mechanical Engineer) continued helping with the engineering details for the The Ultimate Classroom part of the Highest Good Education component. He worked on documenting his findings into a single document for later addition to the main Google doc. He engaged with AutoCAD drafting tutorials and consulted with his senior engineer Brian Muigai Mwaniki (Structural Engineer), applying his new understanding of AutoCAD drafting to the title blocks for California. Following the discussions, Apoorv explored Coursera courses for a deeper understanding of structural engineering. Additionally, he continued updating the AutoCAD title block to meet state requirements and made further modifications to ensure compliance with these specifications. The One Community model of combining forward-thinking education with sustainably built classrooms like this are an excellent example of creating a collaborative future. See the collage below for his work.

HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY PROGRESS

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

• • • Read the Highest Good society overview: Highest Good Society
    • Learn about the model for fulfilled living and sharing as part of creating a collaborative future: A Day in the Life
    • Learn about the 4 economic models for creating a collaborative future: RBE | For-profit | Non-profit | Entrepreneurship
    • Learn about our open source software for managing and tracking our results for creating a collaborative future: The Highest Good Network

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

Aaron Wang (Fundraising Assistant) continued his extensive research into connections with Robert Downey Jr, identifying emails and background details of individuals potentially linked to Downey. This focused effort is designed to facilitate connections with funders by building relationships with relevant people involved in these networks. Additionally, he concentrated on locating candidates with investor backgrounds to explore broader funding channels. His efforts demonstrate a strategic approach to deepening networking opportunities and expanding potential funding sources within the philanthropic sector, which bolster One Community‘s goal for creating a collaborative future. The following images highlight his progress for the week.

Arun Chandar Ganesan (Volunteer Data Analyst and SEO and Social Media Assistant) continued working on some more webpages, focusing on the SEO work completed by other volunteers. He checked and verified ten additional pages, revisited and cleared some previously abandoned pages, scheduled posts on Pinterest for the month, and created a tutorial for adding people to the page and posting. His work on social media helps One Community to broaden our reach and spread our message for creating a collaborative future. The following images show his work for the week.

Prashanth Gowri Shankar Uppudi (Admin and Project Manager) updated the password section and weekly summaries, repositioning the earlier password content for better readability. He revised the sections on Project Management and Task Overview, as well as Team Membership and Visibility Management, ensuring that the information accurately reflects the current functionalities of the website. Additional content and screenshots were included as needed to clarify the presentation. He also made adjustments to the Menu section, rephrasing the existing content to align more closely with professional standards. These updates are aimed at improving user navigation and understanding of the site’s features. Improving user navigation and making the site more accessible makes it easier for One Community to execute our plan for creating a collaborative future. The images below display his work for the week.

ADMINISTRATION TEAM

The Administration Team’s summary, covering their work administrating and managing most of One Community’s ongoing process for creating a collaborative future was managed by  Sneka Vetriappan (Data Analyst) and includes Durgeshwari Naikwade (Data Analyst), Jessica Fairbank (Administrative Assistant), Jim Zhang (Administrative Assistant), Olawunmi “Ola” Ijisesan (Administrative and Management Support), Rachna Malav (Data Analyst), Ram Shrivatsav (Data Analyst and Admin assistant), Ratna Meena Shivakumar (Data Analyst and Admin), Ruiqi Liu (Administrative Assistant), T R Samarth Urs (Data Analyst), Vibhav Chimatapu (Data Analyst/Admin Assistant) and Xiaolai Li (Administrative Assistant). This week, Durgeshwari worked on interviews for the Software Development Team, optimized SEO based on feedback, worked on Looker Dashboard Mockups, and created a HR metrics documentation. Jessica integrated feedback into her tasks, completed drafts for review, and managed interviews and technical issues with a potential volunteer.

Jim wrapped up the electrical cost analysis for the net-zero bathroom, began research on eco-communal shower costs, and worked on administrative tasks for new teams related to Highest Good Housing and the Earthbag Village. Ola did her part helping with creating a collaborative future as she reviewed the PR team’s work, ensured expectations were met, reported Progress Tracking accurately, and organized the workspace. Rachna managed various administrative duties, provided team feedback, created and reviewed weekly blogs, interviewed candidates, and optimized 10 SEO pages.

Ram focused on improving SEO articles, incorporating feedback, and assisting with newcomer onboarding. Ratna prepared collages for different teams, managed virtual interviews, and reviewed admin work, including that of Ram, Arun, Sneka, and Rachna. Ruiqi did her part helping with creating a collaborative future as she completed the review process for the Dev Dynasty and Expresser Team, created collages, generated SEO keywords, and ensured team members were included in weekly progress summaries. Sneka re-edited SEO pages, added summaries and collages to the webpage, and provided training feedback. Samarth managed the PR review team, optimized specific blog posts for SEO, and adjusted his work based on feedback.

Vibhav reviewed PR team work, created summaries and collages, and improved blog SEO scores significantly. Xiaolai completed the blog page for week 583, reviewed team work, researched ESG investment and Grace Farms projects, and organized weekly report documents. Zuqi organized the weekly summary for the Graphic Design Team, updated the blog, provided feedback to admins, guided a new admin, and reviewed previous blog pages for better search engine marketing. One Community’s model for creating a collaborative future includes developing and maintaining huge administration team like this. You can see the work for the team in the image below.

GRAPHIC DESIGN TEAM

The Graphic Design Team’s summary was managed by Zuqi Li (Administrative Assistant and Economic Analyst) and included Ashlesha Navale (Graphic Designer), Jasmine Soria (Graphic Designer), Nancy Mónchez (Graphic Designer) and Shayan Afkari (Graphic Designer), covering their work on graphic designs for creating a collaborative future. This week, Ashlesha worked on creating thirty-six recipe images for the new Graphic Design Task – Recipe Images for Site Task, including Master Recipe FWG, Master Recipe FWH, Master Recipe SFWJ, and Master Recipe SFWK. Additionally, she researched and curated a collection of nature-based background images and different theme-based images for creating Social Media Images. Jasmine did her part helping with creating a collaborative future as she received feedback on Bhuvan’s webpage and addressed several mistakes. She completed four announcements on Photoshop for four volunteers and is in the process of adding them to the website. Finding it more efficient, Jasmine created the announcements and pictures in Photoshop first before uploading them to WordPress. She also watched tutorial videos on uploading content as a refresher and uploaded the four images of the announcements and progress pictures to her Dropbox.

Nancy, the designer, created new images for social networks and made corrections to previous ones, with the new set featuring a more neutral style to maintain creative order. Additionally, Nancy worked on questions provided by the manager to generate new content for images, awaiting approval or further corrections as needed. Shayan completed a creative project focused on producing new social media images this week. Employing masking brush techniques, he integrated text with building objects to achieve visually appealing and artistically engaging visuals. Additionally, Shayan forged two new biographies for team members and created accompanying announcement images to complement the announcements. See the Highest Good Society pages for more on how this contributes to creating a collaborative future. See the collage below to view some of their work.

HIGHEST GOOD NETWORK PROGRESS

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

• Learn about this open source community collaboration and management software: The Highest Good Network

This week, the core team continued their work on the Highest Good Network PRs testing, confirming the fixed PRs. The Highest Good Network software is how we will manage and objectively measure our processes for creating a collaborative future across our social architecture, construction, production, and maintenance processes. The PRs include Create New User permission (PR#2252), Dark mode for all dashboard modals (PR#2219), Dark mode on all modals in User Management (PR#2238), Dark mode on all modals on the Badge Management page (PR#2243), Fixed Header UI (PR#2212), Hid remove button on WBS task when no permission (PR#2156), and New header UI functionality (PR#2283). The not fixed PRs involved issues such as the 5-letter-codes-dropdown saving function (PR#1545) where the dropdown list is empty after team code update, Teams page modals (PR#2261) which lacked a confirmation popup when deleting a team member, slow loading times for total project/people/team reports (PR#2268), and Dark mode for team locations and Weekly Summaries Report Modals (PR#2236) which did not activate when viewing details for a person by clicking on their dot on the map. Additionally, they reported an error popup when a user with permission accessed the User Management page (PR#2252) and noted that they were unable to perform a test due to a lack of data in the system (PR#2193). See the Highest Good Society and Highest Good Network pages for more on how this relates to creating a collaborative future. The collage below shows some of their work.

ALPHA SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT TEAM

This week, the Alpha Team’s summary, covering their work on the Highest Good Network software was managed by Sucheta Mukherjee (Software Developer) and includes Anand Seshadri (Software Engineer), Gayathridevi Chithambaram (Full Stack Developer), Jordy Corporan (Software Engineer), Lin Khant Htel (Frontend Software Developer) and Nathalia Carnevalli (Full Stack Software Developer). The Highest Good Network software is how we will manage and objectively measure our processes for creating a collaborative future across our social architecture, construction, production, and maintenance processes. This week, Anand continued working on the Dark Mode Modals change on the Reports page, retested PR 1955, reviewed and approved PR 2259, and focused on refactoring PR 2250 to optimize code and fix the dark theme in the Edit Lost Time modal, with pending work on the dark mode in the Date picker inside modals and aligning the close button.

Gayathridevi developed the limit see-all checkbox functionality, enabling restricted member visibility within teams, and addressed a module not found issue. Jordy expanded his proficiency in unit testing, focusing on Jest while developing tests for the rolesController. He completed the unit tests for the ownerMessageController and created a new PR#959, ensuring all functions in the ownerMessageController were tested. His next steps involve implementing cache functionality in his unit tests for the rolesController.

Lin approved eight pull requests on the HGN GitHub repository and wrote unit tests for the DashboardController, completing unit testing for the weekly data function with assistance from Diego, while test cases for the updateAIPrompt function and monthly data function failed, requiring bug fixes. Nathalia did her part helping with creating a collaborative future as she addressed a bug causing discrepancies in total project hours on the Project Report page, corrected it with missing validation, and reviewed several pull requests, including #2284, #2077+#806, #2272, #2267, and #2263+#953. Sucheta implemented changes requested by PR reviewers, including PR 2290, which added a search function based on users’ first and last names, and enhanced error handling in the backend. She tested PR 2244, discovered a bug with fetching and displaying tasks, corrected it, and created PR 2284 to avoid merge conflicts. See the Highest Good Society and Highest Good Network pages for more on how this relates to creating a collaborative future. View some of the team’s work in the collage below.

BADGES BUGS SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT TEAM

The Badges Bugs Team’s summary overseeing advancements in the Highest Good Network software was managed by Shaofeng Li (Software Engineer) and includes Summit Kaushal (Backend Software Developer) and Xiao Zhang (Software Engineer). The Highest Good Network software is how we’ll be managing and objectively measuring our process for creating a collaborative future through our social architecture, construction, production, and maintenance processes. This week, Summit focused on testing PR 665 and reviewing comments on PR 326, specifically debugging code issues. During the testing of PR 665, related to the badge task, several issues with badge collection length were identified, indicating potential undefined values or data duplication. Summit additional tests on the personalbestmaxhrs feature using a volunteer account and the timer to add time, confirming through database checks that the data updated correctly. Similar tests on owner and admin accounts showed that the database data for max hours also updated as expected, leading to committed changes on GitHub.

Summit attended the weekly meeting and further tested to recreate and identify the cause of breadcrumbs, tracing it back to submitting tangible time entries. Testing on personalbestmaxhrs confirmed that when a new max hour was added, MongoDB updated accordingly, with plans to test this using a new account for consistent functionality.

Xiao took on extra responsibilities from a part-time colleague, focusing on thorough testing of all badges in the system to ensure proper functioning and accuracy. He also spent time troubleshooting and resolving any issues found, ensuring all badges met the established standards. Additionally, Xiao explored various functionalities of Microsoft Azure, investigating techniques to improve database management practices. See the Highest Good Society and Highest Good Network pages for more on how this relates to creating a collaborative future. View some of the team’s work in the collage below.

BLUE STEEL SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT TEAM

The Blue Steel Team’s summary, presenting their work on the Highest Good Network software was managed by Jingyi Jia (Software Engineer, Team Manager), and includes Bhuvan Dama (Full stack Developer), Imran Issa (Software Developer), Jay Srinivasan (Software Engineer), Parth Rasu Jangid (Software Developer), Ramakrishna Aruva (Software Engineer), Tzu Ning “Leo” Chueh (Software Engineer), and Xiao Wang (Software Engineer). The Highest Good Network software is how we’ll be managing and objectively measuring our process for creating a collaborative future through our social architecture, construction, production, and maintenance processes. This week, the team focused on a variety of tasks across the Highest Good Network application, addressing bugs, permissions, and unit testing.

Xiao tackled four specific bugs with three PRs, including issues with task page accessibility, incorrect icon display, user sorting by created date on the management page, and a redirection error on page refresh. Imran did his part helping with creating a collaborative future as he completed an assigned Permission Management task, updated the relevant spreadsheet with PR links, and added a high priority tag while also creating a hotfix for permission rearrangement.

Jay developed unit tests for Timer.jsx and SetUpFinalDayButton.jsx, exploring advanced testing techniques with the help of mentors. Ramakrishna resolved an issue with a try-catch block, improved additional lines of imperfect code, passed all test cases, and prepared for bug fixes and feature work. Bhuvan did his part helping with creating a collaborative future as he focused on HGN Software Development, particularly on unit testing for various components, achieving over 70% coverage and addressing integration issues.

Tzu Ning improved UI consistency and functionality with cursor focus and integration of the react-select library. Jingyi implemented both frontend and backend components for the “Unassign Team Members From Tasks” permission, enabling targeted task management on the dashboard. Finally, Parth concentrated on integration tests and reviewed several PRs, preparing for a unit-test team meeting to finalize changes. See the Highest Good Society and Highest Good Network pages for more on how this contributes to creating a collaborative future. See below to view their work.

CODE CRAFTERS SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT TEAM

The Code Crafters Team’s summary, covering their work on the Highest Good Network software, was managed by Ruiqi Liu (Administrative Assistant) and includes Anirudh Dutt (Software Engineer), Carlos Gomez (Full-stack Software Developer), Meet Padhiar (Software Engineer), Weiyao Li (Software Engineer) and Xiaoyu Chen (Software Engineer). The Highest Good Network software is how we’ll be managing and objectively measuring our process for creating a collaborative future through our social architecture, construction, production, and maintenance processes. Anirudh D worked on the taskNotificationController test file, writing 12 out of the 13 expected unit tests across 5 test suites, with assistance from Abi on a few challenging cases.

Carlos identified the need for a new pie chart to display total project hours used by all users, not just volunteers, and finished a thorough investigation into data sources, beginning with the Redux system and later examining the backend and People Report page. He set up Postman to test the /TimeEntry/user/ endpoint and plans to retrieve data using dispatch(getTimeEntriesForPeriod(id, fromDate, toDate)). Meet did his part helping with creating a collaborative future as he completed unit tests for the BadgeReport component, ensuring proper rendering and coverage of all edge cases, and finished thorough PR reviews for PRs 1675, 2164, 2267, 2266, 2272, and 2275.

Weiyao merged a new user feature for managing user permissions after reviews by Nathan and Jae and spent time learning React, Redux, and testing concepts, planning to select a new feature next week. Xiaoyu completed all unit tests for rolePresetController, addressed style issues related to descriptions and hour logging, and fixed a new bug in the document file, adding the correct email template for the core team role. She also wrote an integration test for rolePresetController.js following Diego’s comments and is now focusing on mouseoverTextController unit tests. See the Highest Good Society and Highest Good Network pages for more on how this relates to creating a collaborative future. The collage below shows some of this work.

DEV DYNASTY SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT TEAM

The Dev Dynasty Team’s summary, covering their work on the Highest Good Network software, was managed by Nahiyan Ahmed (Full Stack Software Developer) and includes Kaushik Malikireddy (Full Stack Developer Intern) and Harsh Bodgal (Software Engineer). The Highest Good Network software is how we’ll be managing and objectively measuring our process for creating a collaborative future through our social architecture, construction, production, and maintenance processes. Harsh focused on reviewing high-priority pull requests, including PRs #2271, #2272, #2273, #2275, #2276, #2279, #2282, and #2283, before shifting his attention to the Volunteer Summary Report, enhancing team communication to better understand designs and developing dashboard ideas.

Kaushik worked on integrating AI to generate weekly summaries for users, discovering limitations with ChatGPT’s free token limit and incompatibility with Gemini AI API due to node version issues. He also sought alternative solutions while managing nine pull requests, providing comments, and requesting changes as necessary. Nahiyan did his part helping with creating a collaborative future as he worked on three pull requests: PR #2272 implemented dark mode on all modals on the permissions management page and adjusted font colors, PR #2278 addressed header UI issues and ensured the correct display of the time entry modal header text in light mode, and PR #2283 introduced functionality to split navigation row items into two rows as the viewport size decreased and adjusted spacing to keep the main logo visible longer as the viewport shrank. See the Highest Good Society and Highest Good Network pages for more on how this relates to creating a collaborative future. The collage below shows some of this work.

EXPRESSERS SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT TEAM

The Expressers Team’s summary, covering their work on the Highest Good Network software, was managed by Christy Guo (Software Engineer) and includes Ilya Flaks (Software Engineer), Mohammad Abbas (Software Engineer), and Shereen Punnassery (Full Stack Software Engineer). The Highest Good Network software is how we’ll be creating a collaborative future throughout our social architecture, construction, production, and maintenance processes. This week, Christy scrambled to make a type specimen book that has survived not only five centuries but also the leap into electronic typesetting, remaining essentially unchanged. It was popularized in the 1960s with the release of Letraset sheets containing Lorem Ipsum passages and more recently with desktop publishing software like Aldus PageMaker, including versions of Lorem Ipsum. Ilya began by addressing a merge conflict in his earlier Pull Request #2193, which was merged into the development branch alongside its backend counterpart, PR #913. During this process, he engaged in discussions with his team, particularly Shereen, imparting his knowledge about the tools schemas and functionalities. Following these interactions, Ilya focused on enhancing the tools log functionality by refining the user experience to clear the log form upon submission, cancellation, or when a user selected a different project. He also implemented more robust error handling for various scenarios, transitioning the UI from displaying a single success/error toast for all items to showing individual toasts for each tool item checked in or out. On the backend, Ilya rewrote significant portions of the code to improve error management, now sending an array of errors and results to handle instances where some queries might not execute.

Mohammad did his part helping with creating a collaborative future as he completed two PR reviews, specifically PR #2288 and PR #2289 + #960. Additionally, he addressed and fixed an error in his own PR, ensuring his contributions met the project’s standards. Mohammad then focused on additional PR reviews to maintain the project’s quality and progress. Shereen worked on both the frontend and backend of the add tool component. She updated the schema of the buildingInventoryType collection and updated the controller to handle the new schema. Additionally, she created a new URL for API calls to add tools to the backend and added new cases to the inventoryTypeReducer to handle the add tool request. See the Highest Good Society and Highest Good Network pages for more on how this relates to creating a collaborative future. See the collage below for the team’s work this week.

GIT-R-DONE SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT TEAM

The Git-R-Done Team’s summary, covering their work on the Highest Good Network software, was managed by Hiral Soni (Full Stack Developer) and includes Chris Chen (Software Engineer Intern), Rhea Wu (Software Engineer), and Sushmitha Prathap (Software Developer). The Highest Good Network software is how we’ll be managing and objectively measuring our process for creating a collaborative future across our social architecture, construction, production, and maintenance processes.

This week, Hiral completed the work on the people reports page, updated the PR, checked the entire code, and ran the web pages. She also started working on the new task of the weekly summary page, running the code locally and checking its functionality. Rhea concentrated on completing recently assigned tasks by testing the building task and updating the codebase, including modifying the route’s endpoint for the Issue router. She also watched tutorials and read relevant articles to enhance her knowledge and skills. She also sarted a new task, 9.2.4 Routing and controllers for the Log Equipment form.

Chris resolved a critical issue in report rendering by optimizing a backend API, increasing its speed by 150%, and preventing timeouts. He also did his part helping with creating a collaborative future as he modified frontend API calls to utilize the optimized API and created unit tests for the TaskButton component and actions.js, ensuring correct functionality and error handling for team member tasks and notifications.

Sushmitha began by addressing and understanding the TypeError encountered last week. She wrote positive test cases for the remaining functions and worked on the `getProjectMembership` function within the project controller. An error in the local machine’s Prettier configuration was identified and resolved with assistance from team members. After final checks, it was found that the positive test cases for the save functionality of three functions were throwing errors, and she is currently working on resolving these issues. See the Highest Good Society and Highest Good Network pages for more on how this relates to creating a collaborative future. See the collage below for the team’s work this week.

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Zixi, a graphic designer with a BFA degree from Suffolk University, excels in art direction, specializing in composition and color. Her passion lies in creating visually compelling designs that effectively communicate messages and captivate audiences. Specializing in logo, branding, print, illustration, layout and advertisement design, Zixi brings a diverse set of talents to her work. She uses Illustrator, Photoshop, Indesign, Premiere, and After Effects for her design work. She believes sustainable graphic design can make the world a better place. As a member of the One Community graphic design team, she utilized tools such as Photoshop, Adobe Firefly, and Adobe Express to create Facebook social media images, created diversity designs including text and images, while also used WordPress to develop announcement pages for our volunteers.

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As an all-volunteer organization, One Community is committed to the process of component assembly for human evolution. We are dedicated to creating sustainable approaches to food, energy, housing, education, economics, and social architecture. Our model, driven by the principle of doing this for “The Highest Good of All” is designed to become self-replicating, fostering a global collaboration of teacher/demonstration hubs. Everything we create is open source and free-shared, created to evolve sustainability, regenerate our planet, and create a world that works for everyone. Join us in our mission towards a brighter future.

• 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

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One Community’s physical location will forward this example of component assembly for human evolution as the first of many self-replicating teacher/demonstration communities, villages, and cities to be built around the world. This is the May 20th, 2024 edition (#583) of our weekly progress update detailing our team’s development and accomplishments:

Component Assembly for Human Evolution
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HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING PROGRESS

One Community is facilitating component assembly for human evolution 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 as part of component assembly for human evolution: 7 Sustainable Village Models
    • Visit the open source portals for the first two: Earthbag Village OS Hub | Straw Bale Village OS Hub

This week, the core team reviewed sections of the “Murphy Bed” document, ensuring that the listed quantities of lumber correspond precisely with the written instructions for the lumber stacks. Additionally, they continued updating and expanding the Highest Good Food tools, equipment, materials, and supplies document by adding new items, descriptions for each item and categorizing each item. They expanded the tool list and initiated a formatting overhaul to align it with the structure of previous tool lists. DIY furniture and Highest Good food are an important part of component assembly for human evolution with One Community’s open source plans. See our work in the collage below.

Joseph Osayande (Mechanical Engineer) continued helping finish the Vermiculture Toilet designs. His objective was to finalize calculations in feet for each quadrant of the container when full and for the drawers when full. The amount of force required to pull out the steel metal separator was determined, and a D-ring was identified as a solution for the winch to connect to as the pulling mechanism. Sketches were created for the object that would support and act as an attachment for the winch to the main container, allowing it to move around when pulling out the metal separator. Further research was made on winch operation and the realistic force capabilities, and different types of winches were analyzed. The vermiculture toilets and other sustainable human waste processing technologies form the basis of One Community’s open source component assembly for human evolution model. See below for some of the pictures related to this work.

Rizwan Syed (Mechanical Engineer) also continued helping finish the Vermiculture Toilet designs. He resumed with design iterations of One Community’s vermiculture eco-toilet chamber system. He redesigned the pull handle of the removable drawer to allow bolts to be inserted from the inside, enhancing the assembly’s maintainability. The processing chamber container was replaced with a long rectangular sheet, and viewport holes were added at one-foot intervals vertically to monitor the vermicomposting process. Rizwan also researched options for installing rubber plugs to cover these cutouts, aiming to improve the system’s sealing capabilities. Additionally, he updated his hand calculations for the maximum loading on the chamber system, taking into account the accurate vertical height from the lower toilet to the topmost ceiling of the vermiculture toilet. The vermiculture toilets and other sustainable human waste processing technologies form the basis of One Community’s open source component assembly for human evolution model. Here are a few photos showing examples of his work.

Sajal Shah (Project Manager) continued managing completion of the Highest Good Energy components. She revised and developed a new Work Breakdown Structure (WBS) for the Straw Bale classroom project, ensuring that all tasks and milestones are clearly defined and organized. Additionally, Sajal was in charge of an interview with a candidate for the plumbing designer position, evaluating the candidate’s qualifications and fit for the role. The Highest Good Energy is an essential component of One Community’s open source component assembly for human evolution model. See below for some of the pictures related to this work.

AIRCRETE TEAM

The Aircrete Testing Team’s summary, covering their work on Aircrete Compression Testing was managed by John Sullivan (CBU Chemical Engineering Student) and includes Jonathan Crago (Civil Engineering Student) and Preston Thompson (Civil Engineering Student). This week, John and Preston examined the inventory and assessed the team’s requirements, confirming the availability of all necessary materials for the project. Together, they began compression tests using old cylinders and practiced creating foam with an air compressor. Jonathan nearly completed the orientation document for his team, collaborated with John and Preston to develop a general schedule for the summer, emailed Dr. Bai to arrange a meeting to discuss aircrete foam disposal, and agreed to participate in media coverage. Preston further researched aircrete and foam to deepen his understanding of the process. The team’s efforts form the basis of One Community’s open source component assembly for human evolution. See below for some of the pictures related to this work.

DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER PROGRESS

One Community is facilitating component assembly for human evolution through a Duplicable and Sustainable City Center that is LEED Platinum certified/Sustainable, can feed 200 people at a time, provide laundry for over 300 people, is beautiful, spacious, and saves resources, money, and space:

• • • Learn about this building and its function as part of component assembly for human evolution: Duplicable City Center Open Source Hub

This week, Chris Blair (GIS Technician/Horticulturist) continued working with GIS data as part of One Community’s Permaculture Design. He reviewed Ben’s files and familiarized himself with One Community’s permaculture web page. He imported images involving the master plan into ArcGIS Pro and georeferenced them. Additionally, Chris found digital surface models (DSM) of the property on a government website, imported them into ArcGIS Pro, and combined the sections into a cohesive raster mosaic dataset covering the property. Proper property modeling and understanding is a foundational part of One Community’s open source component assembly for human evolution model. Here are a few photos showing examples of his work.

Nika Gavran (Industrial Designer) continued her work on the Duplicable City Center dormer window installation plans. She focused on improving the structural integrity of the first-floor dormer window. She identified issues in the previous CAD design that resulted in an unstable structure and transitioned the design from a classic dormer window to a shed dormer, which better suits the dome structure. Nika also completed a version of the window using wood pieces available in hardware stores. The Duplicable City Center is a foundational part of One Community’s open source component assembly for human evolution model. See below for some of the pictures related to this work.

HIGHEST GOOD FOOD PROGRESS

One Community is facilitating component assembly for human evolution 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 these structures and their function as part of component assembly for human evolution: Hoop House Hub | Aquapini & Walipini Open Source Hub
    • See what we’ll be growing: Gardens & Hoop Houses | Large-scale Structures | Food Forest | TA

This week, Charles Gooley (Web Designer) continued to work on various recipes as part of the Transition Food Self-sufficiency Plan. He continued to work on the recipes project, focusing on generating tables of contents for various recipe categories, including Vegan Sweet Potato Yam recipes, Omnivore Miscellaneous recipes, Omnivore Pasta recipes, Omnivore Potato recipes, and Omnivore Sweet Potato recipes. Placeholder images will be replaced with the provided images, and remaining content for the recipe pages will be posted upon receipt. Highest Good food is an important part of component assembly for human evolution with One Community’s open source plans. See his work in the collage below.

Hayley Rosario (Sustainability Research Assistant) continued helping finalize the Highest Good Food rollout plan and reviewed the Integration and Highest Good Food tools and equipment document. She was assigned to check the order, image, and description on the Highest Good Food document. With the Integration document, she attempted to research additional links and examples to use, but was unsuccessful. Highest Good food is an important part of component assembly for human evolution with One Community’s open source plans. See her work in the collage below.

HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION PROGRESS

One Community is facilitating component assembly for human evolution through Highest Good education that is for all ages, applicable in any environment, adaptable to individual needs, far exceeds traditional education standards, and more fun for both the teachers and the students. This component of One Community is about 95% complete with only the Open Source School Licensing and Ultimate Classroom construction and assembly details remaining to be finished. With over 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 as part of component assembly for human evolution: Education Open Source Hub
• How the components work together as part of One Community’s component assembly for human evolution: 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

This week, Apoorv Pandey (Mechanical Engineer) continued helping with the engineering details for the The Ultimate Classroom part of the Highest Good Education component. He documented all completed work in a centralized location, performed calculations for the updated frame of the entire structure in STAAD Pro, and made calculations for the main roof truss in STAAD Pro. He also continued updating the title block in AutoCAD to meet State requirements and made additional modifications to ensure compliance with these specifications. The One Community model of combining forward-thinking education with sustainably built classrooms like this are another example of component assembly for human evolution. See the collage below for his work.

HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY PROGRESS

One Community is facilitating component assembly for human evolution 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 as part of component assembly for human evolution: A Day in the Life
      • Learn about the 4 economic models and their part of component assembly for human evolution: 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 over 50 hours managing One Community volunteer-work review not included above, emails, social media accounts, web development, new bug identification and bug-fix integration for the Highest Good Network software, and interviewing and getting set up new volunteer team members. They also shot and incorporated the video above that talks about component assembly for human evolution and how component assembly for human evolution is a foundation of the bigger picture of everything One Community is doing. The pictures below shows some of this work.

Aaron Wang (Fundraising Assistant) continued his in-depth research on connections with Robert Downey Jr., uncovering emails, LinkedIn profiles, and background information of individuals who may be connected to Downey. His goal is to enhance connections with funders by establishing relationships with relevant individuals involved in these networks. Additionally, Aaron focused on identifying candidates with investor backgrounds, aiming to broaden the channels through which funding can be accessed. His efforts demonstrate a strategic approach to deepening networking opportunities and expanding potential funding sources within the philanthropic sector bolster One Community‘s goal for component assembly for human evolution. The following images highlight his progress for the week.

Arun Chandar Ganesan (Volunteer Data Analyst and SEO and Social Media Assistant) continued his work related to social media scheduling for Facebook and Instagram. He worked on multiple webpages, focusing on the SEO work completed by other volunteers. He checked and verified approximately 40 pages and also revisited and cleared some previously abandoned pages. Additionally, Arun began learning how to post on Pinterest and continued scheduling content on that platform. His work on social media helps One Community to broaden their reach and spread their message about component assembly for human evolution. The following images show his work for the week.

Jin Hua (Website, AdWords, and Analytics Administrator) worked on helping move our domains from BlueHost to CloudFlare. BlueHost has raised prices on us every other year for the past several years. This move will stop this and cut our costs by over 50%. See below for images related to this.

Prashanth Gowri Shankar Uppudi (Admin and Project Manager) continued work on the user manual, while progressing with other sections. He enhanced the user manual interface’s menu bar and created a comprehensive section dedicated to profile visits, project reports, and team summaries. His work included refining content associated with team locations and additional functionalities exclusive to the owner account, with a particular focus on enriching the reports section. In the teams component of the reports section, he introduced features that allow activity selection based on diverse filters and facilitated the integration of performance charts. Prashanth also updated the projects section of the manual, improving the presentation of current information and ensuring it covered all necessary aspects of the reporting features available to the owner. This included incorporating weekly summaries accessible over extended periods and carefully selecting and updating images to meet established criteria. Development of the user manual makes it easier for One Community to train their volunteers to execute their plans for ideating the component assembly for human evolution. The images below display his work for the week.

ADMINISTRATION TEAM

The Administration Team’s summary, covering their work administrating and managing most of One Community’s ongoing process for component assembly for human evolution was managed by Vriddhi Misra (Admin and Marketing Assistant) and includes Durgeshwari Naikwade (Data Analyst), Jessica Fairbanks (Administrative Assistant), Jim Zhang (Administrative Assistant), Olawunmi “Ola” Ijisesan (Administrative and Management Support), Rachna Malav (Data Analyst), Ram Shrivatsav (Data Analyst and Admin assistant), Ratna Meena Shivakumar (Data Analyst and Admin), Ruiqi Liu (Administrative Assistant), Sneka Vetriappan (Data Analyst), T R Samarth Urs (Data Analyst), Vibhav Chimatapu (Data Analyst/Admin Assistant), Xiaolai Li (Administrative Assistant), and Zuqi Li (Administrative Assistant and Economic Analyst). This week, Durgeshwari progressed on HR metrics analytics by creating a new dummy dataset and designing a mockup dashboard for volunteer stats in collaboration with the software development team. She also optimized SEO for 10 blogs, gave interviews for the software development team, and provided feedback to guide new volunteers. Jessica initiated the drafting of work breakdown structures for multiple volunteer roles, and arranged and completed an interview with a prospective volunteer, while managing her routine administrative duties.

Jim posted weekly blog updates, completed SEO for the first 10 blogs, worked on the electrical cost analysis for the earthbag project, and finished the electrical cost analysis for the net-zero bathroom project, which is now awaiting review. Ola reviewed the work of PR team members, provided feedback, tracked progress reports for accuracy and documentation, and assisted with volunteer training feedback. Rachna did her part helping with component assembly for human evolution as she handled administrative tasks, provided feedback to team members, created the weekly blog, reviewed the work of other administrators, scheduled interviews, met with candidates, and improved SEO scores on assigned pages.

Ram focused on refining SEO articles, updating a blog post-PDF, and assisting with the initial training of new volunteers. Ratna did her part helping with component assembly for human evolution as she reviewed the weekly progress update, prepared collages, scheduled and gave interviews, managed correspondence, and gave feedback on blogs. Ruiqi completed reviews for the Dev Dynasty and Expresser teams, created collage images, generated SEO keywords, helped with new admin training, and modified the Aquapini and Walipini Cost Analysis spreadsheet for readability. Sneka added weekly summaries and collages to a webpage, reviewed time log entries, provided feedback, and worked on improving SEO pages.

Samarth managed the PR review team, changed blog posts for SEO optimization, and adjusted his blog based on feedback. Vibhav reviewed the PR Team’s work, created group summaries and collages, and achieved notable results in webpage SEO optimization. Vriddhi assigned and reviewed blog tasks, compiled summaries, and created collages for the admin team. Xiaolai organized documents, edited summaries, completed the weekly report, assisted with trainee reviews, contributed to a solar energy project, and initiated a project on ESG sustainable investments. Zuqi organized weekly summaries, updated the weekly blog, reviewed past optimized blogs, provided guidance to new admins, and reviewed their action items. One Community’s model for component assembly for human evolution includes developing and maintaining a huge administration team like this. You can see the work for the team in the image below.

GRAPHIC DESIGN TEAM

The Graphic Design Team’s summary was managed by Zuqi Li (Administrative Assistant and Economic Analyst) and included Ashlesha Navale (Graphic Designer), Britney Robles (Graphic Designer), Nancy Mónchez (Graphic Designer), Shayan Afkari (Graphic Designer) and Zixi Zhang (Graphic Designer), covering their work on graphic designs for component assembly for human evolution. Ashlesha focused on producing thirty recipe images for the Master Recipe SWG, Master Recipe SWH, Master Recipe SFWI, and Master Recipe FWG, as well as curated a collection of nature-based and theme-based background images for social media content. Britney selected imagery and phrases, creating illustrations to augment One Community’s social media presence, utilizing both stock photos and original designs to enhance engagement. Nancy worked on refining existing images, emphasizing typography over visuals for certain Facebook publications, while also drafting grammatically accurate questions for social media posts.

Shayan created over six images with advanced techniques like masking and color adjustments, and also designed biographical profiles for web content. Zixi contributed ten social media images, employing varied composition designs and a cohesive green color scheme across different platforms. Zixi worked on Sneka’s profile image, bio image, and announcement page using WordPress and Photoshop. See the Highest Good Society pages for more on how this contributes to component assembly for human evolution. See the collage below to view some of their work.

HIGHEST GOOD NETWORK PROGRESS

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

• Learn about this open source community collaboration and management software and its relation to component assembly for human evolution: The Highest Good Network

This week, the core team continued their work on the Highest Good Network PRs testing, confirming the fixed PRs. This included edit time entry tracking and blue square function (PR2131), making Jae’s accounts editable only by each other (PR 1681 + 649), ensuring manually assigned badges show up on pages (PR 666), and changing button colors of the team members’ task component (PR 2145). They identified unresolved issues, such as checking and fixing the “X hours in one week” badges (PR802), noting that no icon appears on the Weekly Summaries Reports page next to the user name, although the badge earned last week displays the correct number of hours, “30 hours” (logged 39 hours). Additionally, they reported a new bug related to discrepancies in total hours committed to the project when viewing reports from different accounts, tested and confirmed an issue with the very slow loading of the members list on the Project report page (taking 1 minute and 12 seconds), and checked all PRs marked as DONE that were merged into the main branch, stopping on page 73. See the Highest Good Society and Highest Good Network pages for more on how this relates to component assembly for human evolution. The collage below shows some of their work.

ALPHA SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT TEAM

This week, the Alpha Team’s summary, covering their work on the Highest Good Network software was managed by Sucheta Mukherjee (Software Developer) and includes Gayathridevi Chithambaram (Full Stack Developer), Jordy Corporan (Software Engineer), and Lin Khant Htel (Frontend Software Developer). The Highest Good Network software is how we will manage and objectively measure our processes for component assembly for human evolution across our social architecture, construction, production, and maintenance processes. This week, Gayathridevi focused on implementing a limit-see-all checkbox within the teams feature, which restricts the visibility of team members so that only designated individuals within the team have access to view all other members. This functionality is being developed to facilitate the creation of teams with members requiring specialized support within a controlled group environment, preventing these members from viewing each other even if they belong to different teams.

Lin approved eight pull requests on the HGN GitHub repository, wrote unit tests for the DashboardController, addressed some failed test cases. Additionally, Lin worked on weekly data testing and gained substantial knowledge about unit testing, MongoDB aggregation, and integration testing. The pull requests included Gowtham’s fix on the Weekly Remaining Summaries submission page formatting (#2246), Jordy’s fix on ES6 export syntax (#944), Nahiyan’s dark mode on Badge Management Page Modals (#2243), Weiyao’s permission management for creating users (#2252), Peterson’s bug fix related to an error after searching for a user (#948), Ramakrishna’s creation of different views for the summary (#2259), Nahiyan’s dark mode modals on the Teams Page (#2261), and Imran’s feature to see users in projects (#2263).

Jordy expanded his proficiency in unit testing, focusing particularly on Jest while developing tests for the OwnerMessageController and rolesController. He also reviewed PR#920, provided feedback, and finalized the unit tests for the OwnerMessageController and rolesController to ensure clean and well-structured code. Sucheta did her part helping with component assembly for human evolution as she primarily focused on learning Redux and its implementation. She reviewed PR 2238, which was supposed to implement dark mode for the Owner’s account, specifically for User Management modals; most features worked as expected, but a comment was left regarding an issue where dark mode resets to light mode upon page refresh. PR 2256 was reviewed, noting an issue where dark mode changes were not consistent between pages, reverting to light mode on navigation or refresh, potentially leading to a poor user experience; aside from this, the modals looked fine. PR 2259, which involved creating different views of the summary bar based on the account profile’s requirements for summary submission, was reviewed and approved as it worked as expected. PR 2261, which involved implementing dark mode on the Teams page, was also reviewed and approved as it functioned correctly.

Additionally, Sucheta reviewed the code base to understand how task completion and user removal from tasks worked on the TeamMemberTasks.js file, but it was difficult to determine the cause of the delay in loading the component related to the task of fixing refresh efficiency when resolving tasks, requiring more time for completion. See the Highest Good Society and Highest Good Network pages for more on how this relates to component assembly for human evolution. View some of the team’s work in the collage below.

BADGES BUGS SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT TEAM

The Badges Bugs Team’s summary overseeing advancements in the Highest Good Network software was managed by Shaofeng Li (Software Engineer) and includes Summit Kaushal (Backend Software Developer) and Xiao Zhang (Software Engineer). The Highest Good Network software is how we’ll be managing and objectively measuring our process for component assembly for human evolution through our social architecture, construction, production, and maintenance processes. This week, Shaofeng handled tasks such as reviewing team weekly summaries, testing assignment and automatic dropping of ‘xhoursin1week’ badges in the ‘xhoursxweeks’ components, uploading Xiaohan’s testing documentation, taking over Xiao’s work and testing badges. He also did testing for 30 hours to earn the 2-week badge and 30 hours to earn the 3-week badge, attempting to reproduce the auto-dropping bug and attended weekly team meetings to discuss assigning remaining work, and following up on issues on Slack while testing Summit’s PR.

Summit did his part helping with component assembly for human evolution as he discovered a bug in the frontend development concerning the ‘add intangible time entry,’ which contained an uncaught syntax error among other issues, prompting consideration to avoid using the development for this task. Summit created a new pull request that resolved the issue where the user profile appeared blank when using the frontend development and addressed the new max personal record, as the original one made through a fork complicated testing. Summit continued backend code optimization and further investigated the breadcrumbs issue, with ongoing debugging efforts to identify the root cause by checking several files. Summit made several changes to the backend, including simplifying the max hour and weeks data logic, and identified that breadcrumbs issues might be related to the frontend, leading to ongoing debugging efforts.

Xiao took over several responsibilities from a part-time teammate, primarily focusing on testing all badges in the badge table to verify their functionality and accuracy, addressing potential issues within the system to ensure that each badge meets the required standards. In addition to his testing duties, Xiao explored various features of Microsoft Azure as part of his preparation for a critical project aimed at eliminating duplicate badges from the system, involving research into different strategies to enhance the database management processes to streamline operations and maintain the integrity of the badge data. See the Highest Good Society and Highest Good Network pages for more on how this relates to component assembly for human evolution. View some of the team’s work in the collage below.

BINARY BRIGADE SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT TEAM

The Binary Brigade Team’s summary overseeing advancements in the Highest Good Network software was managed by Tapan Pathak (Software Engineer) and includes Aaryaneil Nimbalkar (Software Developer), Huijie Liu (Software Engineer) and Min Sun (Software Engineer). The Highest Good Network software is how we’ll be managing and objectively measuring our process for component assembly for human evolution through our social architecture, construction, production, and maintenance processes. This week, Aaryanaiel learned unit testing using Jest and began work on the unit test for the VolunteeringTimeTab component of the frontend. Unit tests were written for the StartDate component to validate and display success or error messages based on the start and end dates. Additionally, unit tests for the WeeklyCommittedHours component were created to check the values entered against the defined minimum or maximum, and unit tests for the MissedHours component were written to determine acceptable values and appropriate displays. Huijie focused on resolving the issue with the “hoursByCategory” field in userProfiles being incorrect. She tested the website’s behavior, examined the controller code related to time entry operations, discovered several bugs in the functions for updating category hours while posting, editing, and deleting time entries, and fixed these bugs. Huijie continued to write code to recalculate the correct values of hoursByCategory for all users based on their time entry data.

Min reviewed several pull requests and read the instructions on claiming a ticket and the codebase. He approved PR 945 after confirming that all tests passed with no errors in the console. He also approved PR 2261 and PR 2256, which involved changes to the dark modals on the team page and the Projects/WBS page, verifying that they functioned as intended. Additionally, Min verified PR 2259 to ensure that mentor users no longer see the weekly summary as mandatory. Min approved PR 2263 and PR 953 on permission management, and suggested changes on PR 2267 to change the background for the textbox from black to white to align with changes from other developers. Lastly, he tested and approved PR 2167 on ID copy functionality on the report page. Tapan did their part supporting component assembly for human evolution as they arranged the weekly meeting, gathered updates, ensured necessary resources were available. He addressed fixing the timelogs tab issue, which reverted to the user instead of remaining on the person being viewed. After testing, he recorded videos demonstrating the bug before and after the fix and raised PR 2262 for review. Tapan also reviewed PRs 2224 and 2238, compiled his weekly summary, documented work through videos and photos, submitted everything for review, organized a new Dropbox folder for team pictures, selected the best images of each team member, and drafted and proofread the team’s weekly summary before submission. See the Highest Good Society and Highest Good Network pages for more on how this relates to component assembly for human evolution. View some of the team’s work in the collage below.

BLUE STEEL SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT TEAM

The Blue Steel Team’s summary, presenting their work on the Highest Good Network software was managed by Jingyi Jia (Software Engineer, Team Manager), and includes Bhuvan Dama (Full stack Developer), Imran Issa (Software Developer), Parth Rasu Jangid (Software Developer), Ramakrishna Aruva (Software Engineer), Tzu Ning “Leo” Chueh (Software Engineer), and Xiao Wang (Software Engineer). The Highest Good Network software is how we’ll be managing and objectively measuring our process for component assembly for human evolution through our social architecture, construction, production, and maintenance processes. This week, Ramakrishna reviewed several pull requests, including #914, #2200, #945, and #944, and worked on various bugs and enhancements, culminating in raising pull request #2259.

Xiao supported Jae by contributing to PR 2255, addressing a hot fix related to user management issues and continued resolving the white screen issue by adding an ‘isArchive’ property to projects. Imran tackled two tasks from the Permission Management Fixes Spreadsheet, completing both with frontend and backend modifications, and opened pull requests for his updates. Jingyi did their part supporting component assembly for human evolution as they focused on the “Interact with Task ‘Ready for Review’ button” with PR #2254 and initiated work on the “Unassign Team Members From Tasks” by implementing new permissions for task unassignment in the system’s frontend.

Parth reviewed multiple PRs and joined a meeting to resolve a unit test issue. Tzu Ning enhanced the WeeklySummariesReport component by integrating dynamic team code updates, improving real-time updates without page refreshes. Meanwhile, Bhuvan worked on unit testing ReportHeader.jsx and TableFilter.jsx, addressing complex edge cases and increasing test coverage, alongside contributing to resolving a discussed issue in the #codingproblems Slack channel. See the Highest Good Society and Highest Good Network pages for more on how this contributes to component assembly for human evolution. See below to view images of their work.

CODE CRAFTERS SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT TEAM

The Code Crafters Team’s summary, covering their work on the Highest Good Network software, was managed by Anirudh Ghildiyal (Software Engineer) and includes Anirudh Dutt (Software Engineer), Carlos Gomez (Full-stack Software Developer), Meet Padhiar (Software Engineer), and Weiyao Li (Software Engineer). The Highest Good Network software is how we’ll be managing and objectively measuring our process for component assembly for human evolution through our social architecture, construction, production, and maintenance processes. This week, Anirudh focused on the taskNotificationController unit test cases, documenting requirements in markdown and implementing test cases. He reported mixed results, with some tests passing and others requiring further work. Additionally, Anirudh caught up on app updates after being away the previous week.

Carlos transitioned to the developer role and joined the code crafter team, where he reviewed three pull requests. PR 2078(A) showed charging issues but maintained core functionality, PR 2238(A) confirmed proper dark mode behavior for all popups, and PR 2244(CR) had an unexpected redirect to the dashboard upon task selection. Carlos was also tasked with improving PR 1960. He proposed a global solution for Jae’s approval and began by examining the ProjectReport.jsx and WsPieChart.jsx components to understand the application’s global state better, noting the use of react-redux and useSelector for accessing props. Meet did his part supporting component assembly for human evolution as he wrote thorough unit tests for the BadgeReport component, ensuring proper rendering in all scenarios and covering every possible edge case. Weiyao worked on creating a new user feature, studying the system design document for managing user permissions, and updating the existing code to align with new requirements. He completed the feature, which is now awaiting further review before being merged. See the Highest Good Society and Highest Good Network pages for more on how this relates to component assembly for human evolution. The collage below shows some of this work.

GIT-R-DONE SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT TEAM

The Git-R-Done Team’s summary, covering their work on the Highest Good Network software was managed by Hiral Soni (Full Stack Developer) and includes Chris Chen (Software Engineer Intern), Rhea Wu (Software Engineer), and Sushmitha Prathap (Software Developer). The Highest Good Network software is how we’ll be managing and objectively measuring our process for component assembly for human evolution across our social architecture, construction, production, and maintenance processes. This week, Chris focused on backend optimizations for the people/teams/projects reports. He migrated calculation logic from the frontend to the backend to enhance report loading speed, implemented a new API endpoint getTimeEntriesForReports to retrieve time entries for reports, ensuring efficient data transfer and handling exceptions, and optimized MongoDB queries for faster JSON data retrieval. Hiral worked on the PR for the HighestGoodNetworkApp, improving the design of the report page, making it responsive for all screen sizes, and resolving various bugs.

Rhea did her part supporting component assembly for human evolution as she focused on completing recently assigned tasks, testing the buildingIssue task, updating the codebase, including the route’s endpoint for the Issue router, and enhancing her knowledge and skills through tutorials and articles. She is starting a new task, 9.2.4 Routing and controllers for the Log Equipment form, as she continues to contribute to the ongoing project development.

Sushmitha began by resolving the TypeError encountered in the previous week, reviewed her team members’ summaries, examined the team’s images and videos, and sent feedback to the group. She started working on the getUserProjects and assignProjectToUsers functions in the project controller, led the weekly standup call, continued work on the assignProjectToUsers function, addressed database-related errors and success scenarios in two previous controllers, enhanced the getUserProject function by adding two new cases, and focused on resolving existing errors. See the Highest Good Society and Highest Good Network pages for more on how this relates to component assembly for human evolution. See the collage below for the team’s work this week.

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