Developing sustainable and free-shared ecology for a better world is a top priority for One Community. As an all-volunteer organization, we’re pioneering sustainable approaches to food, energy, housing, education, economics, and social architecture. Our model is designed to become self-replicating, establishing a global collaboration of teacher/demonstration hubs. We’re driven by the principle of doing this for “The Highest Good of All” ensuring that everything we create is open source and free-shared. Join us in our mission to evolve sustainability, regenerate our planet, and create a world that works for everyone.

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

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One Community’s physical location will forward this movement of sustainable and free-shared ecology as the first of many self-replicating teacher/demonstration communities, villages, and cities to be built around the world. This is the May 13th, 2024 edition (#582) of our weekly progress update detailing our team’s development and accomplishments:

Sustainable and Free-shared Ecology
One Community Progress Update #582

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HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING PROGRESS

One Community is developing sustainable and free-shared ecology 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 sustainable and free-shared ecology village models: 7 Sustainable Village Models
    • Visit the open source portals for the first two: Earthbag Village OS Hub | Straw Bale Village OS Hub

This week, the core team reviewed the final version of the Murphy Bed Assembly instruction document, checking, confirming, and resolving eight comments. They also continued their work on the Highest Good Network PRs testing, confirming the fixed PRs. They addressed issues such as user visibility on the dashboard, mouseover text corrections, weekly summaries editing errors, discrepancies in color display and tested for issues related to user permissions and dashboard functionality. However, there were unresolved issues with PRs related to the absence of a badge icon on the Weekly Summaries Reports page, problems with the Lost Time function, and the appearance of the Tasks Contributed section in the People Report. See the Highest Good Society and Highest Good Network pages for more on how this relates to sustainable and free-shared ecology. The collage below shows some of their work.

Joseph Osayande (Mechanical Engineer) began helping to finish the Vermiculture Toilet designs. He researched three methods for removing an inserted block from a container used to segregate process waste, comparing ratchet, pulley, and winch systems. After evaluating the options, it was determined that the winch system offers superior advantages due to its precise control over the extraction process, ensuring safe and efficient removal of the fitted item from the confined space. A winch prototype was then designed using SolidWorks to address the problem, intended to handle appropriate loads for extraction. Additionally, research was done on the optimal materials for housing the winch. The vermiculture toilets and other sustainable human waste processing technologies form the basis of One Community’s open source sustainable and free-shared ecology model. See below for some of the pictures related to this work.

Loza Ayehutsega (Civil Engineer/Assistant Civil Engineer) completed another week working on the Earth Dam risk assessment and dam break hazard assessment. She particularly worked on tolerable dam risk assessment and is also working on Emergency Action Plans. However, it is also recommended to add additional content about risk assessment. A tolerable dam risk assessment aims to evaluate and manage these risks within acceptable limits determined through a combination of engineering judgment, regulatory standards, historical data, and societal expectations. Ensuring dam safety measures and preparedness are a foundation of One Community’s open source earthworks as part of the sustainable and free-shared ecology model. See the pictures below for examples related to this work.

Rizwan Syed (Mechanical Engineer) also continued helping to finish the Vermiculture Toilet designs. He focused on iterating the design concept for the processing and removable chambers of One Community’s vermiculture eco-toilets. He explored options to remove the small lip portion beneath the removable slot to achieve a continuous interface between the two stacked chambers that collect waste material. Additionally, Rizwan adjusted the size of the two components and modified their construction material from wood to steel to enhance durability. To ensure the design’s feasibility, he performed hand calculations for stress and loading to determine the maximum load that the vermiculture chamber could support over a six-month period. The vermiculture toilets and other sustainable human waste processing technologies form the basis of One Community’s open source sustainable and free-shared ecology model. Here are a few photos showing examples of his work.

Sajal Shah (Project Manager) continued managing completion of the Highest Good Energy components. organized files for electrical design collaboration, cataloging necessary links for future reference. She worked on compiling detailed descriptions and Work Breakdown Structures (WBS) for various positions involved in the project. The Highest Good Energy is an essential component of One Community’s open source model for sustainable and free-shared ecology. See below for some of the pictures related to this work.

DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER PROGRESS

One Community is developing sustainable and free-shared ecology 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 sustainable and free-shared ecology: Duplicable City Center Open Source Hub

This week, Chris Blair (GIS Technician/Horticulturist) began working with GIS data as part of One Community’s Permaculture Design. He downloaded previous GIS work by Ben Missimer and imported data into ArcGIS Pro, ensuring consistency by transforming geographic coordinate systems to NAD 1983. Additionally, he georeferenced images by matching identifiable features in both base maps and images. Chris imported the master plan and initiated a review of its compatibility with provided geospatial data, alongside researching property details via government websites. Proper land evaluation like this is a huge part of creating sustainable and free-shared ecology using One Community’s open source designs. 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 concentrated on enhancing the CAD model of the window, addressing structural deficiencies observed in the previous version, notably addressing issues such as overlapping pieces of wood. Additionally, she finalized plans for fastening components and established a new document to track ongoing work that is prepared for review. The Duplicable City Center is a foundational part of One Community’s open source sustainable and free-shared ecology model. See below for some of the pictures related to this work.

HIGHEST GOOD FOOD PROGRESS

One Community is developing sustainable and free-shared ecology 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 sustainable and free-shared ecology food structures: Hoop House Hub | Aquapini & Walipini Open Source Hub
    • See what we’ll be growing: Gardens & Hoop Houses | Large-scale Structures | Food Forest | TA

This week, the core team continued 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. Additionally, they collaborated with Hayley via phone call to discuss item descriptions and the inclusion of relevant photos. Highest Good food is an important part of sustainable and free-shared ecology 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. He completed the task of organizing recipes and alphabetizing them within their respective pages. Subsequently, work began on generating tables of contents for the Vegan Rice, Vegan Miscellaneous, Vegan Pasta, and Vegan Potato recipe sections. Additional content for the recipe pages will be incorporated as it becomes available. Highest Good food is an important part of sustainable and free-shared ecology 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 focused on the integration program for small-scale organizations. She primarily rewrote, researched, and addressed minor issues in the documentation. Participating in the rewriting process, she expanded on the steps for implementing a food program into an organization. Additionally, she sourced links to support and elaborate on significant claims and ideas within the document. Hayley’s final task involved initiating the summary section to conclude the plan. Highest Good food is an important part of sustainable and free-shared ecology with One Community’s open source plans. See her work in the collage below.

HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION PROGRESS

One Community is developing sustainable and free-shared ecology 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 One Community’s sustainable and free-shared ecology education model: 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 focused on optimizing drain pipes and addressing potential plumbing concerns in a straw bale construction context. Furthermore, he reassessed the project goals, acknowledged the necessity for additional preparation time and studied about AutoCAD tutorials to enhance his proficiency in handling title blocks according to the California Construction format. The One Community model of combining forward-thinking education with sustainably built classrooms like this are an excellent example of sustainable and free-shared ecology. See the collage below for his work.

HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY PROGRESS

One Community is developing sustainable and free-shared ecology through a Highest Good society approach to living that is founded on fulfilled living, the study of meeting human needs, Community, and making a difference in the world:

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

This week, the core team completed over 60 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 sustainable and free-shared ecology and how sustainable and free-shared ecology 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 on connections with Robert Downey Jr., gathering emails, LinkedIn profiles, and background information of individuals who may know Downey. Additionally, Aaron focused on identifying candidates with investor backgrounds, further expanding his approach to building strategic partnerships within the philanthropic and investment communities. This effort aims to enhance his ability to connect with funders by fostering relationships with relevant parties involved in these networks. Fostering these relationships paves the way for One Community‘s goal for sustainable and free-shared ecology. 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. This week he focused on checking and verifying the SEO work carried out on webpages, alongside addressing incomplete SEO tasks from previous efforts. He maintained the scheduling of social media posts and collaborated with Jae to generate content text for images. Additionally, he analyzed metrics to determine the most impactful images and text, and facilitated a team meeting to delegate posting responsibilities. Working on social media posts and studying the metrics helps One Community to improve their reach and spread their message about sustainable and free-shared ecology. The following images show his work for the week.

Faisal Rasheed (Graphic Designer) made suggested changes to previous graphics to enhance clarity and ensure clear visualization. This week he remade the “Large Group Consensus Governance Threshold Calculator” using Microsoft Excel and made adjustments in the existing graphic as per instructions. Additionally, he updated the “Image Integration and Documentation Instructions” file and created a new file for the “final review and approval of the graphics.” Moreover, he redesigned a graphic titled “HOW ENERGY FOCUS LED LIGHTING IS SUSTAINABLE,” enhancing its appeal and usefulness. Working on these graphics contributes to One Community‘s vision for sustainable and free-shared ecology. The images below show his progress for the week.

Prashanth Gowri Shankar Uppudi (Admin and Project Manager) continued work on the user manual, completing the Tasks and Timelog page section while progressing with other sections. He updated the document with the owner and volunteer perspectives, including relevant screenshots, and added to the shared folder. He also revised previous tasks that had overlooked the development account. Feedback has been received and corrective actions are being implemented. The entire menu bar section of the manual is nearing completion. Developing the HGN software user manual can help future members to work towards One Community‘s goal for sustainable and free-shared ecology. These images show the progress made this week.

ADMINISTRATION TEAM

The Administration Team’s summary, covering their work administrating and managing most of One Community’s ongoing processes for sustainable and free-shared ecology was managed by Vriddhi Misra (Admin and Marketing Assistant) and includes Durgeshwari Naikwade (Data Analyst), Jessica Fairbanks (Administrative Assistant), Jim Zhang (Administrative Assistant), Meenakshi Velayutham (Sustainability Associate), 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 advanced her work on HR metrics analytics by generating a new dummy dataset and designing a mockup dashboard for ‘volunteer stats’, alongside compiling a Google document detailing the project’s steps, which she distributed to the team. She organized interviews and offered guidance to new volunteers through constructive feedback. Jessica reviewed Sajal’s volunteer ad postings, drafting them on Volunteer Match, alongside her regular administrative duties. She edited Sajal’s ads, uploaded them as drafts for Jae’s review, and initiated a review of the WBS details on Sajal’s page and the Hiring Team page. Jim met with Jae to identify his responsibilities as an administrative assistant, focusing on earthbag electrical cost analysis and past blogs SEO. He began researching solar panels, inverters, mounting systems, and batteries, organizing their prices into a spreadsheet. Additionally, Jim optimized five blog pages, raising their scores to 93. Ola completed tasks involving the review of work done by the teams managing the PR team members, providing necessary feedback to managers, and commenting on PR team members’ work for accountability. She tracked members’ progress reports for accuracy and documentation and assisted with volunteers’ training feedback performance where needed. Rachna did her part helping with sustainable and free-shared ecology as she completed her administrative tasks and integrated the feedback she received into her work. She assisted the hiring team by interviewing two potential volunteers and documented her insights to support the hiring process and decision. Rachna optimized SEO pages, engaging in a long process of editing and refining to enhance SEO scores, awaiting further feedback for iterative improvements. Additionally, she reviewed initial training materials, including documents, video tutorials, and relevant resources, compiling a list of recommendations to streamline future volunteer onboarding processes. Ram spent time working on making modifications to the SEO articles assigned. There was additional feedback he received from the admin team, that he worked on to make sure the SEO articles were up to the mark. He also worked on providing feedback in the training process of new members to the team to help their onboarding be smooth and seamless. He drafted his announcement and bio and signed up for working on scheduling social media posts for the month ahead. Ratna reviewed the weekly progress update #581 and prepared collages for the food, education, and core teams. Additionally, she reviewed other admins’ work as part of weekly progress updates. She scheduled and organized virtual interviews for candidates and managed the correspondence through email chains. Furthermore, she followed up with Ram, gave suggestions to Sneka and Rachna’s blogs and gave a final check for some of the already reviewed blogs. Ruiqi completed the four-step review process for the Dev Dynasty and Expresser Team, providing feedback to all team members and following up on their work. She created collage images for every team, stored them in Dropbox, and added the collages to the media library on WordPress. Ruiqi also utilized weekly summaries to generate SEO keywords and incorporated them as Alt Titles. She helped with the new admin’s training work. She also engaged in Search Engine Optimization and analytics. She followed the checklist table revised blogs 280-289, and 304-309. In addition, Ruiqi also integrated Meena’s comment in the Food infrastructure spreadsheet. Sneka focused on OC Administration tasks, primarily revolving around SEO page editing and management. She reviewed and optimized SEO pages, incorporating feedback from previous iterations. She spent time managing timelogs, providing feedback, and assisting in the training process for new team members. She also worked on webpage maintenance, including adding weekly summaries and collages to webpages. Samarth managed the PR review team assigned to him. He reviewed their work and provided necessary feedback. Samarth made changes to blog posts for SEO optimization based on the feedback he received. Vibhav carried on his administrative duties by reviewing the PR Team’s work, which involved proofreading their weekly summaries, ensuring the submission of the required number of PRs, and providing feedback on their Google Docs. He also created group summaries and collages for the team to insert into his WordPress page. He continued on-webpage SEO optimization, achieving notable results. Blogs were enhanced, with their scores boosted to 90+ through various optimization techniques. This included strategically incorporating focus keywords to improve keyword density ratios and optimizing titles by adding impactful power words and numbers. Vriddhi did her part helping with sustainable and free-shared ecology as she focused on optimizing blogs by assigning new tasks to the team and reviewing blog posts. She spent time reviewing and reassigning blogs, ensuring they were appropriately distributed. She worked on reassigning blog posts to One Community’s Jae editor account, followed by reviewing edits. She worked on the Blog for Week #581, compiling summaries for the admin team and creating collages. Vriddhi also started working towards the Week #582 blog. Xiaolai organized documents, edited summaries, and completed the weekly report 581. He assisted with training new employees and evaluated their progress. Additionally, he contributed to the training process and reviewed the solar energy project. Xiaolai also organized documents, edited summaries, and set up a webpage for the weekly report. Zuqi organized a weekly summary for the Graphic Design Team and updated the weekly blog to appreciate the team’s contribution. She reviewed 2 admins’ weekly updates and provided feedback for necessary adjustments. Zuqi also provided guidance and feedback on new admins’ initial setup process and helped to review their action items. One Community’s model for sustainable and free-shared ecology 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), Jasmine Soria (Graphic Designer), Nancy Mónchez (Graphic Designer), Shayan Afkari (Graphic Designer) and Zixi Zhang (Graphic Designer), covering their work on graphic designs for sustainable and free-shared ecology. Ashlesha worked on creating twenty-seven recipe images – Master Recipe SWF, Master Recipe FWE, and Master Recipe FWF for the new Graphic Design Task – Recipe Images for Site Task. She also researched and curated a collection of nature-based background images and different theme-based images for creating Social Media Images, and updated the volunteer Announcement image on the web. Britney brainstormed new phrases containing rhetorical questions to augment the One Community list for utilization in social media images, created an illustrated rendition of one of the villages for social media use, and continued making more images using images and illustration. Jasmine did her part helping with sustainable and free-shared ecology as she focused on creating graphics, completing one, and finalizing revisions for uploads, learned the format for website pages, ensured correct formatting during the upload process, and engaged with SEO projects. Nancy revamped social media posts with a more serious tone to establish equilibrium across publication weeks, strategized to incorporate creative, serious, and corporate themes into the brand’s online presence, optimizing the brand’s digital communication strategy for enhanced engagement. Shayan created more than six social images, incorporating various design techniques and reviewing past works of his team members in HGN, and rectified the words and links in the bio images on the website. Zixi utilized files from Google Docs to design ten social media images using Adobe Firefly, Photoshop, Illustrator, Pixabay, Adobe Stock generated photos, graphics, illustrations, and icons, and employed AdobeExpress for the fonts used in the text. See the Highest Good Society pages for more on how this contributes to sustainable and free-shared ecology. See the collage below to view some of their work.

HIGHEST GOOD NETWORK PROGRESS

One Community is developing sustainable and free-shared ecology 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

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), and Lin Khant Htel (Frontend Software Developer). The Highest Good Network software is how we’ll manage and objectively measure our processes for sustainable and free-shared ecology across our social architecture, construction, production, and maintenance processes. This week, Sucheta focused on finalizing error handling within the project page filtering mechanism, specifically targeting filtering by user’s first and last name, and initiated a pull request (PR2244) to align with the development branch. Additionally, work was done on refining the Add_Task_modal formatting by transitioning away from inline styles to CSS classes for div and spans. Anand worked on the Dark Mode Modals change in the Reports page, applying the dark theme to various components including modal buttons, hover states, and tooltip modals, and implemented dark modes for specific buttons. Anand also addressed error color issues and extended dark themes across all modals on the Reports page, with plans to create a Pull Request for the completed work. Lin reviewed 10 pull requests and approved 7 on the HGN GitHub repository, while also writing unit tests for the dashboardController and planning to refine testing code following discussions with Diego. Additionally, Lin learned more about unit testing and integration testing. Jordy enhanced his proficiency in unit testing, particularly focusing on Jest while developing tests for the OwnerMessageController, and provided feedback on PRs #941 and #2241+PR#919, while finalizing unit tests for the ownerMessageController to ensure clean and well-structured code. Gayathridevi’s primary focus was on addressing design issues with the Projects/People/Teams page on narrow screens. She worked to enhance user experience by ensuring that search results are immediately visible without requiring users to scroll down. The solution involves making it more apparent to users when search results are generated. The approach includes accessing the Reports section, navigating to Projects/People/Teams, narrowing the screen, and typing any letter in the search bar. Importantly, these adjustments do not alter the functionality on larger screens. See the Highest Good Society and Highest Good Network pages for more on how this relates to sustainable and free-shared ecology. 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), Xiao Zhang (Software Engineer), and Xiaohan Meng (Software Engineer). The Highest Good Network software is how we’ll be managing and objectively measuring our process for sustainable and free-shared ecology through our social architecture, construction, production, and maintenance processes. This week, Shaofeng worked on testing the ‘xhoursin1week’ badges in the ‘xhoursxweeks’ components of the HGN Software Development project, and participated in two weekly team meetings to address task reassignments. He also tackled issues with broken badge images, identifying causes and documenting findings to aid in troubleshooting. Summit worked on a collaboration document, addressing comments and completing tasks therein, while also reviewing and testing PRs 326, 665, and 929. Despite encountering issues with PR 929 in development, Summit made necessary adjustments and updated its description to ensure compatibility with frontend 2091, continuing efforts to diagnose and resolve the ongoing issues. Xiao did his part helping with sustainable and free-shared ecology as he took on additional responsibilities from a part-time teammate, testing all badges in the badge table for functionality and accuracy and addressing system issues to ensure compliance with required standards. His work included exploring Microsoft Azure features to prepare for a project aimed at removing duplicate badges, enhancing database management and maintaining badge data integrity. Xiaohan extended her testing to ‘X hours X week streak’ badges and others within Renan’s PR environment, modifying database data for tests and collaborating with Jae on fixing broken badge images. She also verified the operation of code for badge report notifications. See the Highest Good Society and Highest Good Network pages for more on how this relates to sustainable and free-shared ecology. 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) and Huijie Liu (Software Engineer). The Highest Good Network software is how we’ll be managing and objectively measuring our process for sustainable and free-shared ecology through our social architecture, construction, production, and maintenance processes. This week, Huijie focused on resolving the bug related to inconsistencies in the logged time between the timelog and profile pages. She tested previously implemented code changes and is currently implementing a solution, considering resetting the totalTangibleHrs field in the user profiles in the database. Additionally, Huijie is exploring an alternative approach by recalculating the total time directly from time entries on the profile page to address the issue. Tapan did his part helping with sustainable and free-shared ecology as he scheduled the weekly meeting, ensured necessary resources, and addressed fixing the timelogs tab, which reverted to the user instead of remaining on the person being viewed. Despite completing the code fixation, the issue continued during testing, leading Tapan to investigate a potential API call mishandling. He made progress in identifying an API bug, by checking the POST request payload’s formatting and reviewing the server-side code. After working on the API problem and conducting multiple tests locally with different accounts, Tapan resolved the bug. See the Highest Good Society and Highest Good Network pages for more on how this relates to sustainable and free-shared ecology. 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), and Xiao Wang (Software Engineer). The Highest Good Network software is how we’ll be managing and objectively measuring our process for sustainable and free-shared ecology through our social architecture, construction, production, and maintenance processes. This week, Bhuvan worked on various tasks within HGN Software Development. He was also involved in orientation and initial setup activities, which included completing his bio for a social media post and summarizing his work at One Community. He developed test coverage scenarios for the Date picker component in the Unit test for TableFilter.jsx. Bhuvan then reviewed edge cases for the ReportBlock.sx file and gathered similar cases for Reporthead.jsx files. Imran completed ongoing tasks and initiated new ones related to splitting blue square actions from the infringementAuthorizer permission. He managed both frontend and backend modifications, opening PRs for these changes and completing a review for a PR where his feedback was requested. He also followed up on previously opened PRs needing his attention. Jingyi did their part helping with sustainable and free-shared ecology as they completed the “readyForReview” permission feature, testing it to ensure functionality across various scenarios. This testing confirmed the feature’s robustness and seamless integration into the system, marking a key milestone in the project. Xiao provided technical assistance to his colleagues; he helped Jae with issues preventing the execution of the bluesquare assignment cron job and resolved a timer malfunction on the userprofile page. After reviewing a pull request by Nathan, Xiao identified and addressed a bug stemming from his earlier refactor. See the Highest Good Society and Highest Good Network pages for more on how this relates to sustainable and free-shared ecology. 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 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 sustainable and free-shared ecology through our social architecture, construction, production, and maintenance processes. This week, Meet focused on writing unit tests for the BadgeReport component, ensuring comprehensive coverage of all edge cases to verify proper rendering. Additionally, Meet conducted thorough PR reviews for PR 2169, PR 2191, PR 2202, PR 2203, PR 2227, and PR 2236. Meanwhile, Anirudh did his part helping with sustainable and free-shared ecology as he created a new user feature and familiarizing himself with the system design document for managing user permissions. He enhanced existing code to align with updated requirements, though he encountered testing issues that are currently under investigation. Weiyao worked on creating a new user feature and read the system design document for managing user permissions. He also spent time improving and updating the existing code to match these new requirements. See the Highest Good Society and Highest Good Network pages for more on how this relates to sustainable and free-shared ecology. 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 Nidhi Galgali (Software Developer), 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 sustainable and free-shared ecology across our social architecture, construction, production, and maintenance processes. This week, Hiral concentrated on improving the report page of the project by implementing design updates and ensuring responsiveness across different screen sizes. Working on an existing branch, she refined the layout and functionality to enhance user experience. Meanwhile, Rhea focused on completing recently assigned tasks and then watching tutorials and studying relevant articles, transitioning to a new task involving Routing and Controllers for the Log Equipment form. Nidhi did her part helping with sustainable and free-shared ecology as she spent her time exploring alternative approaches to address the challenge of mocking the hasPermissions module. Additionally, Sushmitha enhanced the project controller by developing unit tests for several functions. Creating three unit tests for the deleteProject function and tests for the getAllProjects controller, she also worked on the postProject and getProjectById functions, ensuring initial stability with respective unit tests. However, during testing, she encountered a TypeError with the deleteProject function’s unit tests, and she is currently collaborating with various team members to expedite a resolution. See the Highest Good Society and Highest Good Network pages for more on how this relates to sustainable and free-shared ecology. See the collage below for the team’s work this week.

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One Community welcomes Shereen Punnassery to the Software Development Team as our newest Volunteer/Consultant!

With a master’s degree in Software Engineering, Shereen has over 5 years of experience in full-stack software development across various project types. She maintains a positive and empowering perspective, driven by a belief in the joy of life found through continuous exploration. Shereen’s proficiency in backend development is matched by her dedication to creating user-centric and intuitive interfaces. This combination of skills enables her to design and implement cohesive software solutions that prioritize both user experience and technical excellence, driving the success of each project she undertakes. Through careful pull request reviews and thorough testing, she is helping with the quality and efficiency of the Highest Good Network software development process.

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One Community welcomes Nidhi Galgali to the Software Development Team as our newest Volunteer/Consultant!

Nidhi, a Master’s graduate in Computer Science from Indiana University Bloomington, leverages her solid foundation in web technologies and quality assurance to ensure sustainable software engineering practices. Nidhi’s background has provided her with a blend of problem-solving skills and technical knowledge. An advocate for agile development, she is passionate about building high-quality, enduring software solutions. At One Community, Nidhi is contributing to the development and refinement of the Highest Good Network Software, helping with bug resolution and unit test implementation to ensure the software’s stability and functionality.

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One Community is committed to cooperatively improving the standard of living for all. As an all-volunteer organization, we’re dedicated to pioneering sustainable approaches to food, energy, housing, education, economics, and social architecture. Our holistic model is designed to become self-replicating, forming a global collaboration of teacher/demonstration hubs. We’re driven by the principle of doing this for “The Highest Good of All” ensuring that everything we create is open source and free-shared. Join us in our journey towards evolving sustainability, creating a world that works for everyone, and regenerating our planet.

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

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One Community’s physical location will forward this movement for cooperatively improving the standard of living as the first of many self-replicating teacher/demonstration communities, villages, and cities to be built around the world. This is the May 6th, 2024 edition (#581) of our weekly progress update detailing our team’s development and accomplishments:

Cooperatively Improving the Standard of Living
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HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING PROGRESS

One Community is cooperatively improving the standard of living 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 designed for cooperatively improving the standard of living: 7 Sustainable Village Models
    • Visit the open source portals for the first two: Earthbag Village OS Hub | Straw Bale Village OS Hub

This week, Loza Ayehutsega (Civil Engineer/Assistant Civil Engineer) completed another week working on the Earth Dam risk assessment and dam break hazard assessment. She edited the Dam risk assessment section by adding some missing content. In addition, Loza is working on an Emergency action plan for the embankment dam. Creating an Emergency Action Plan (EAP) for an embankment dam is crucial for ensuring the safety of nearby communities and infrastructure. Ensuring dam safety measures and preparedness are a foundation of One Community’s open source earthworks as part of cooperatively improving the standard of living. See the pictures below for examples related to this work.

Rizwan Syed (Mechanical Engineer) also continued helping to finish the Vermiculture Toilet designs. He focused on brainstorming design ideas for directing feces from the vermiculture toilet seat into a single chamber system, categorized into the removable and processing chamber. He reviewed challenges associated with sloped walls, material availability, and chamber size to develop ideas for his preliminary design. After assessing various options and considering criteria outlined for the vermiculture toilet, Rizwan designed a preliminary CAD model of the removable chamber compartment in SolidWorks, modeling a wooden box structure for the bottom removable chamber and a similar box for the upper processing chamber. By adding a slot opening on the processing chamber, he explored a potential solution for supporting the processing chamber contents during the removable chamber’s emptying process. The vermiculture toilets and other sustainable human waste processing technologies form the basis of One Community’s open source for cooperatively improving the standard of living. Here are a few photos showing examples of his work.

Sajal Shah (Project Manager) continued managing completion of the Highest Good Energy components. She began her work by organizing advertisements and doing research. In doing so, she has prepared a set of targeted questions tailored for the recruitment process of an electrical engineer. This work aims to fortify the infrastructure development for the Earthbag Village, Duplicable City, and Straw Bale Village projects. The Highest Good Energy is an essential component of One Community’s open source model for cooperatively improving the standard of living. See below for some of the pictures related to this work.

DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER PROGRESS

One Community is cooperatively improving the standard of living 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 for cooperatively improving the standard of living: Duplicable City Center Open Source Hub

This week, Nika Gavran (Industrial Designer) continued her work on the Duplicable City Center dormer window installation plans. She directed her efforts towards integrating fastener placement and size onto the primary CAD file. Nika was introduced to Mounir, another volunteer assigned to the task, who assisted her in strategizing the selection of screws and determining the appropriate quantity to be placed on various sections of the dormer window. The Duplicable City Center is a foundational part of One Community’s open source plans for cooperatively improving the standard of living. See below for some of the pictures related to this work.

HIGHEST GOOD FOOD PROGRESS

One Community is cooperatively improving the standard of living through Highest Good food that is more diverse, more nutritious, locally grown and sustainable, and part of our open source botanical garden model to support and share bio-diversity:

• • • Learn about the food structures we’re designing for cooperatively improving the standard of living: Hoop House Hub | Aquapini & Walipini Open Source Hub
    • See what we’ll be growing: Gardens & Hoop Houses | Large-scale Structures | Food Forest | TA

This week, the core team continued updating and expanding the Highest Good Food tools, equipment, materials, and supplies document by adding new items and categorizing each item. Additionally, they revised the introduction of Hayley’s school integration research document, providing clarity through edits and suggesting improvements to sentence structure and overall document layout. Highest Good food is an important part of cooperatively improving the standard of living 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. He continued his work on the recipes project, focusing on transferring recipes from the vegan rice recipe page to their respective new pages and alphabetizing them accordingly. He added numerous new recipes, such as Healthy Sprout Salad, Pasta Alla Puttanesca with Chicken, Sweet Potato Jackets with Guacamole and Kidney Beans, and replaced nine placeholder images with final provided images. Highest Good food is an important part of cooperatively improving the standard of living 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. She completed the addition of new tools, equipment, materials, and supplies into the Highest Good Food document, including organizing images, names, and corresponding links alphabetically by category. Additionally, she reviewed portions of the Integration Program to plan tasks for the upcoming weeks. Good Housing and Highest Good food are an important part of cooperatively improving the standard of living with One Community’s open source plans. See her work in the collage below.

HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION PROGRESS

One Community is cooperatively improving the standard of living 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 cooperatively improving the standard of living: How to use the Education for Life Program
  
• Lesson Plans for Life – Lesson Plans How-to
• Foundations of Outstanding Leaders, Teachers, and Communicators cooperatively improving the standard of living
• 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 refined the title block format for the PDF review, addressing issues with several AutoCAD files that led to multiple PC crashes, finalizing the STAAD Pro files into PDF format, and exploring ways to enhance the existing straw bale design. Additionally, Apoorv worked on initiatives for sustainable building design within the state. The One Community model of combining forward-thinking education with sustainably built classrooms like this are an excellent example of cooperatively improving the standard of living with education. See the collage below for his work.

HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY PROGRESS

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

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

This week, the core team completed over 60 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 cooperatively improving the standard of living and how cooperatively improving the standard of living is a foundation of the bigger picture of everything One Community is doing. The pictures below show some of this work.

Aaron Wang (Fundraising Assistant) continued his in-depth research on connections with Robert Downey Jr., collecting emails, LinkedIn profiles, and background information of individuals who may know Downey. This targeted effort is aimed at improving his ability to connect with funders by establishing relationships with key people associated with these donations. His methodical approach demonstrates his commitment to effectively networking and building meaningful connections within the philanthropic community, which helps One Community in our mission of cooperatively improving the standard of living. 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. This week, he edited the draft of a tutorial covering the entire social media process, covering from adding admins to analyzing performance analytics. Additionally, he checked the SEO optimization of blog pages completed by other volunteers, while simultaneously updating the content strategy and developing content buckets for upcoming posts. Search engine optimization and regularly working on content are important parts of One Community‘s model for cooperatively improving the standard of living. The following images show his work for the week.

Faisal Rasheed (Graphic Designer) made suggested changes to previous graphics to enhance clarity and ensure clear visualization. This week he recreated two essential Graphics: the “Large Group Consensus Governance Threshold Calculator” and the “Large Scale Consensus Governance Structure.” He also produced captivating graphics for “Consensus Governance with Groups,” enhancing the visual appeal of the material. Working on these graphics contributes to One Community‘s vision for cooperatively improving the standard of living. The images below show his progress for the week.

Prashanth Gowri Shankar Uppudi (Admin and Project Manager) revised the informational content for the dashboard’s help icons to enhance user engagement and clarity. Updates included simplifying the Dashboard Overview with concise navigation instructions and emojis, clarifying the distinctions in Timesheet Management, refining the Task Timeline Overview for intuitive interaction, and streamlining the Badge Recognition System with engaging criteria descriptions. Suggestions for improving the “i” buttons focused on enhancing usability and aesthetics, proposing enhancements that improve user interaction and information accessibility. He also continued work on developing the HGN software user manual, creating reference material and drafting unstructured content for integration into the final document. Prashanth outlined key sections, including the dashboard overview, menu bar, theme toggle, timer component, navigation buttons, and profile settings. He further incorporated annotated screenshots to ensure clarity, and provided comments for review before final compilation to ensure the manual effectively guides all users through the platform’s features. Developing the HGN software user manual can help future members to work towards One Community‘s goal for cooperatively improving the standard of living. These images show the progress made this week.

ADMINISTRATION TEAM

The Administration Team’s summary, covering their work administrating and managing most of One Community’s ongoing processes for cooperatively improving the standard of living was managed by Vriddhi Misra (Admin and Marketing Assistant) and includes Camilla Okello (Administrative Assistant), Durgeshwari Naikwade (Data Analyst), Jessica Fairbanks (Administrative Assistant), Jim Zhang (Administrative Assistant), Meenakshi Velayutham (Sustainability Associate), 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, Camilla worked on administrative duties while also optimizing her personal blog sites for improved visibility. Durgeshwari focused on interviewing for the Software Development Team and enhancing SEO strategies based on received feedback, alongside creating dashboard mockups and HR metrics analysis documentation. Jessica concentrated on volunteer recruitment for the Highest Good Food project, integrating reviewed ads into Volunteer Match with enhanced content.

Jim familiarized himself with administrative requirements and completed orientation tasks, including blog editing and team summary reviews. Meenakshi primarily handled admin tasks, including bio announcements and tutorial creation, along with verifying software member profiles. Ola contributed to summary reports, PR team reviews, and onboarding new volunteers, while also updating team worksheets. Rachna did her part helping with our process for cooperatively improving the standard of living as she worked on incorporating feedback into her tasks, collaborating with the SEO team, and understanding One Community’s organizational structure. Ram provided feedback and guidance to new team members, corrected previous work, and focused on training for PR review management. Ratna reviewed progress updates, took virtual interviews, and provided feedback on blogs by other team members.

Ruiqi engaged in team reviews, created collages, and contributed to SEO optimization efforts, alongside assisting in new admin training. Sneka re-edited SEO pages, addressed comments, and reviewed time log entries, ensuring accuracy and task assignments were correct. Samarth managed the PR review team, applied SEO techniques to blog posts, and reviewed fellow team members’ work. Vibhav reviewed PR teamwork, created summaries and collages, and continued on-page SEO optimization, improving blog scores. Vriddhi optimized blogs, managed OC Administration tasks, and led team members in understanding review processes and responsibilities. Xiaolai completed weekly progress updates, assisted with trainees, and organized documents, while also setting up webpages. Zuqi organized weekly summaries, updated blogs, optimized content, and familiarized herself with admin manager workflows, following her promotion. One Community’s model for cooperatively improving the standard of living 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), Jasmine Soria (Graphic Designer), Nancy Mónchez (Graphic Designer), P D Tharanga Pathirana (Graphic Designer), Shayan Afkari (Graphic Designer) and Zixi Zhang (Graphic Designer), covering their work on graphic designs for cooperatively improving the standard of living. Ashlesha worked on the creation of twenty-seven recipe images for the Graphic Design Task – Recipe Images for Site Task, along with curating nature-based and theme-based images for social media. Britney focused on producing social media images showcasing One Community’s housing options, alongside creating bio images and announcements.

Jasmine completed three graphics, incorporating feedback and initiating work on a fourth, while also organizing progress uploads. Nancy refined design concepts through layout tests, ensuring alignment with project goals. Tharanga worked on updating profiles, reviewing and enhancing announcements, and preparing for profile page updates. Shayan created bioimages and announcements, and uploaded them to the website, while also generating Facebook images. Zixi created seven social media images using Photoshop and Adobe Firefly AI, revising previous work and completing profile images and announcements. See the Highest Good Society pages for more on how this contributes to cooperatively improving the standard of living. See the collage below to view some of their work.

HIGHEST GOOD NETWORK PROGRESS

One Community is cooperatively improving the standard of living 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 how it is being used for objectively documenting and measuring our processes for cooperatively improving the standard of living: 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 PR2089, which addressed the Assign Badges permission function, PR2043, which added protected routes to safeguard access to WBS components, PR1852, which fixed an incorrect End date on the Reports page, and PR# 802, which addressed the issue of missing icons related to badges on the Weekly Summaries Reports page. However, she encountered unresolved issues with PRs related to user management functionalities, specifically regarding the “Other Links” to “User Management” option and the permission to add/remove users from projects. Additionally, they identified formatting issues with the Weekly Summaries submission page in PR2084. Beyond PR testing, the core team also documented issues with submitting Weekly Summary Reports for others and encountering a white screen while navigating through certain admin functions, recording related videos and documenting the issues for further review and resolution. See the Highest Good Society and Highest Good Network pages for more on how this relates to cooperatively improving the standard of living. The collage below shows some of their work.

ALPHA SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT TEAM

The Alpha Team’s summary, covering their work on the Highest Good Network software was managed by Sucheta Mukherjee (Software Developer) and includes Anand Seshadri (Software Engineer), Gayathridevi Chithambaram (Full Stack Developer), Jordy Corporan (Software Engineer), and Lin Khant Htel (Frontend Software Developer). The Highest Good Network software is how we’ll be managing and objectively measuring our process for cooperatively improving the standard of living across our social architecture, construction, production, and maintenance processes. This week, Anand worked on Dark Mode Modals change in the Reports page. He began by studying the documentation on themes, layouts, state variables, and implementation details for the Dark Mode feature, authored by Nahiyan. Drawing insights from the implementation of Dark Mode on other pages like the Dashboard and Report, Anand then focused on implementing the feature for the Add Lost Time modal. He completed this task by incorporating conditional color rendering based on the selected radio button, referencing PR 2128 and PR 2105 for guidance.

Jordy did his part helping with this software’s function for cooperatively improving the standard of living as he expanded his proficiency in unit testing, focusing particularly on Jest while developing tests for the notification controller. He reviewed pull requests related to testing strategies, examining PR#921, PR#912, and PR#2210. Additionally, he finalized the unit tests for the notification controller and created PR#925, covering more than five methods, ensuring that the code was clean and readable. Sucheta’s primary focus was on learning and understanding the useReducer hook in React, which is extensively utilized in the HGN app. The process involved comprehending the separation and maintenance of each part, including constants, reducer functions, and actions within our web application. A key task was the implementation of a filter function to retrieve projects related to a specific user based on their first and last names, with further work planned for early next week.

Gayathridevi improved the design of the Projects/People/Teams page for narrow screens, ensuring search results are immediately visible without scrolling down. Lin reviewed 9 pull requests and approved 7 of them on the HGN GitHub repository. He also continued to expand his understanding of codebases, file structures, and components throughout the week. See the Highest Good Society and Highest Good Network pages for more on how this relates to cooperatively improving the standard of living. 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 Renan Luiz Santiago Martins César (Full-stack developer), Summit Kaushal (Backend Software Developer), Xiao Zhang (Software Engineer), and Xiaohan Meng (Software Engineer). The Highest Good Network software is how we’ll be managing and objectively measuring our process for cooperatively improving the standard of living through our social architecture, construction, production, and maintenance processes. This week, Shaofeng worked on HGN Software Development tasks, such as submitting the weekly summary and images, reviewing team members’ reports, had a meeting with Xiao about Azure platform badges, organizing a team meeting to monitor progress, following up on testing with Xiaohan and Renan, and assigning Xiao a new task for badge management on Azure. Summit did his part helping with this software’s function for cooperatively improving the standard of living as he managed the Monday meeting and debugged code, resolving a data discrepancy and implementing a potential solution. Even though there was a data duplication issue and zeros were added to saved tangible hours, Summit ultimately corrected the duplication problem and updated a database function for accurate data. However, further testing revealed the function update wasn’t effective, so it was abandoned, leading Summit to continue debugging. After final tests, a test guide was made for the PR, and the PR was submitted with an issue regarding dates also addressed.

Xiao researched Microsoft Azure to prepare for removing incorrectly assigned badges by studying technical resources and crafting an effective plan to reassign them efficiently while maintaining the badge system’s integrity. He identified badges needing correction and strategized a way to implement changes without disrupting ongoing projects. Xiaohan began testing the ‘X hours X week streak’ badges by reviewing Renan’s PR901 to verify feature functionality, familiarizing herself with his backend code, and testing the 30-hour and 40-hour badges to ensure proper automatic assignment across scenarios. See the Highest Good Society and Highest Good Network pages for more on how this relates to cooperatively improving the standard of living. 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) and Huijie Liu (Software Engineer). The Highest Good Network software is how we’ll be managing and objectively measuring our process for cooperatively improving the standard of living through our social architecture, construction, production, and maintenance processes. This week, Aaryaneil undertook reviews of PRs #2224, #925, #916, #2205, #913, #2193, #921, #920, and #2219 while initiating their learning process on unit testing and writing unit tests for VolunteeringTimeTab/VolunteeringTimeTab.jsx.

Huijie focused on resolving the bug concerning inconsistencies in logged time between the “timelog” and “profile” pages, noting shared sources of inaccuracy and bugs within the controller code for the editing time entry operation. Tapan did his part helping with this software’s function for cooperatively improving the standard of living as he reviewed teammates’ previous week summaries, time logs, photos, and videos, providing feedback and completing all managerial tasks. He ran the weekly meeting, gathering updates and ensuring necessary resources. Tapan addressed the task of fixing the timelogs tab, progressing to approximately 80% completion after analyzing the codebase and initiating changes. He compiled his weekly summary, documented work through videos and photos, and organized a new folder in Dropbox for the team’s pictures, selecting the best images of each member. See the Highest Good Society and Highest Good Network pages for more on how this relates to cooperatively improving the standard of living. 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), and includes Nathan Hoffman (Software Engineer, Team Manager), Parth Rasu Jangid (Software Developer), 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 cooperatively improving the standard of living across our social architecture, construction, production, and maintenance processes. This week, Nathan assisted with Postman troubleshooting on Slack, searched for Postman documentation, responded to Slack messages, and addressed various issues, including creating a PR to update createInitialPermissions.js with desired permissions for default roles. He also completed PRs for separating editTimeEntry into smaller permissions. Jingyi Jia did her part helping with this software’s function for cooperatively improving the standard of living as she submitted a pull request for task 59 on the Highest Good Network App and worked on the “toggleTangibleTimeSelf” permission management. She then started working on the “readyForReview” permission, developing new logic due to its dependence on user roles.

Xiao submitted two time entries related to a white screen issue caused by deleted tasks and data. He refactored the project controller for getUserProjects on the backend and initiated changes to the Projects component on the frontend to clarify its logic. Xiao also continued refactoring Project-related components for better functionality. Parth completed four PR reviews and focused on refining the unit test for the forgotPwdController.js of the HGNRest repository. He engaged in discussions with Abi from the unit-testing team and tested an additional function, preparing to seek review before submitting a PR. Tzu Ning addressed several linting issues in the project’s codebase, resolved path errors for missing image assets, reordered imports to align with project conventions, and used Prettier and eslint –fix to ensure code consistency. See the Highest Good Society and Highest Good Network pages for more on how this contributes to cooperatively improving the standard of living. 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 Anirudh Ghildiyal (Software Engineer) and includes Anirudh Dutt (Software Engineer), Ramya Ramasamy (Software Engineer), 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 cooperatively improving the standard of living through our social architecture, construction, production, and maintenance processes. This week, Xiaoyu focused on unit testing, ensuring the success of error catches for various functions like getInfo, addInfo, deleteInfo, and updateInfo, as well as handling scenarios involving duplicate info names and cache management. She encountered challenges with 400 errors in the Information Controller but successfully modified the addInfo function to address them.

Additionally, Xiaoyu resolved a 200 status issue in the Get Information function and fixed potential issues with the setCache function. Meanwhile, Anirudh did his part helping with this software’s function for cooperatively improving the standard of living as he submitted login controller unit tests for review and resolved merge conflicts for older PRs, including completely redoing the End Date display task and creating new branches and PRs for it. He also worked on creating a new user feature, reading the system design document for managing user permissions, and updating existing code to meet new requirements, albeit facing challenges with JavaScript grammar problems and testing issues that require further attention. See the Highest Good Society and Highest Good Network pages for more on how this relates to cooperatively improving the standard of living. 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), Nidhi Galgali (Software Developer), 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 cooperatively improving the standard of living across our social architecture, construction, production, and maintenance processes. This week, Chris addressed the issue of “Update Equipment” pull requests on the BMDashboard for phase 2 development, creating necessary JSX and CSS files, adding routing, and configuring URL handling for equipment updates. The frontend changes were encapsulated in a pull request targeting the development branch directly, requiring no backend modifications. Although the page fetches and displays equipment data correctly, updates made on the page do not change database entries yet due to backend limitations.

Chris also resolved UI issues, improving readability and the user interface by replacing input tags with div elements for read-only fields. Hiral focused on formatting the profile page, updating the design for the status component in the basic information section and improving the design of the team table in the absence of a team assignment for the user. Nidhi developed a test suite to validate button presence based on the count of blue squares, addressing prior errors stemming from improper mocking of components and useState. Rhea did her part helping with this software’s function for cooperatively improving the standard of living as she concentrated on testing the buildingIssue task, updating the codebase by updating the route’s endpoint for the Issue router, and enhancing her skills through tutorials and articles. Sushmitha joined the Advanced testing team, familiarizing herself with team resources and beginning work on a lesson task, which she transitioned upon encountering an existing pull request. She continued learning by completing video materials and initiated unit testing for the project controller, contributing to collaborative efforts by reviewing pull request submissions. See the Highest Good Society and Highest Good Network pages for more on how this relates to cooperatively improving the standard of living. See the collage below for the team’s work this week.

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One Community welcomes Tapan Pathak to the Software Development Team as our newest Volunteer/Consultant!

Tapan stands as a dynamic professional poised at the intersection of innovation and technology. With a Master of Computer Science from the University of California, Irvine, he is passionate about computers and has a diverse technical skill set that includes web and database development, software development, and artificial intelligence. Throughout his academic and professional journey, he has developed a strong foundation in software design and development, with expertise in a variety of programming languages including Python, C/C++, and Java. As a member of the One Community team, Tapan is helping develop the open source Highest Good Network software code base, implementing new functionalities, fixing bugs and being a reviewer of Pull Requests.

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One Community welcomes Jingyi Jia to the Software Development Team as our newest Volunteer/Consultant!

Jingyi is currently pursuing her Master of Science degree at the University of Washington, where she specializes in software development. Jingyi is dedicated to applying her technical skills to create impactful solutions. Her expertise spans several programming languages and technologies, including JavaScript, React, Node.js, and MongoDB. She is also proficient in version control with Git. At One Community, Jingyi is helping develop the Highest Good Network software by producing user profile components and management permissions, streamlining processes, and enhancing the usability of the platform.

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One Community welcomes Meet Padhiar to the Software Engineering Team as our newest Volunteer/Consultant!

Meet is a result-oriented individual with a background in Software Engineering. With a Master’s in Information Technology from the University of Texas at Dallas, he is equipped with a strong foundational knowledge of web development and programming in general. He has worked on projects that involved developing and automating reporting solutions for clients using Python, C#, and SQL. As a member of One Community, Meet is working on developing new features for the Highest Good Network open-source project, using ReactJS and Node, as well as performing functional and unit testing of these features.

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One Community welcomes Mohammad Abbas to the Software development Team as our newest Volunteer/Consultant!

Mohammad is an aspiring Software Engineer, currently pursuing a Postgraduate Certificate in Software Development at Humber College, with an expected graduation in August 2024. Despite his academic standing, he actively specializes in the MERN stack, including MongoDB, Express, React, and Node.js, with proficiency in Next.js and TypeScript. His primary skills also span ASP.NET, Python, C#, Java, and various databases like SQL Server, MySQL, and PostgreSQL. As a member of the One Community team, Mohammad has provided valuable insights as he’s gained practical experience. He has furthered his grasp of software engineering principles with PR reviews, feature development, and unit testing while helping with the development of the Highest Good Network software.

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One Community is dedicated to creating game-changing eco-solutions for sustainable living. Our all-volunteer team is committed to pioneering sustainable approaches to food, energy, housing, education, economics, and social architecture. With a focus on fulfilled living and global stewardship practices, we’re building a model that becomes self-replicating. Our vision? To create a world that works for everyone, doing this for “The Highest Good of All.” Everything we create is open source and free-shared, evolving sustainability, and regenerating our planet. Join us on this journey towards a brighter, more sustainable future, created by an all-volunteer team.

• 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 of establishing abundant natural systems as the first of many self-replicating teacher/demonstration communities, villages, and cities to be built around the world. This is the April 29th, 2024 edition (#580) of our weekly progress update detailing our team’s development and accomplishments:

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HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING PROGRESS

One Community is creating game-changing eco-solutions 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 differentgame-changing eco-solutions villages: 7 Sustainable Village Models
    • Visit the open source portals for the first two: Earthbag Village OS Hub | Straw Bale Village OS Hub

This week, Mithil Upadhyay (Mechanical Engineer) continued working on problem solving the designs for the Vermiculture Toilet. He continued working towards completing the design of the closing mechanism as presented in the previous week. To support this mechanism, he focused on designing various components, such as shut-off blades and frames. Mithil also initiated the assembly of these components, which marked significant progress in the project as the parts began coming together for the final design. Sustainable human waste processing options, like the vermiculture toilets, are a foundation of One Community’s open source model for game-changing eco-solutions. Below are some demonstration images of his work.

Rizwan Syed (Mechanical Engineer) also continued helping to finish the Vermiculture Toilet designs. He focused on the preliminary design of the chute diversion system for One Community’s vermicomposting toilet, using SolidWorks to design a cylindrical chute pipe extending from beneath the flush toilet to the composting chamber. He iterated his initial design by adjusting chute diameters to match commercially available pipes and refining the interface design for the closing mechanism. He then integrated flange and rubber gasket attachments for effective sealing of the chute beneath the toilet. In response to insights gained from his weekly meeting with Chris, Rizwan researched existing documentation on typical depths for feeding vermicomposting worms and the recommended bin size for utilizing separate chambers. He also researched for literature resources to better understand worm feeding depth and multiplication rates based on the feeding materials used in vermicomposting. The vermiculture toilets and other sustainable technologies form the basis of One Community’s open source strategy for game-changing eco-solutions. Here are a few photos showing examples of his work.

Sajal Shah (Project Manager) continued managing completion of the Highest Good energy components. She finalized the ad copy for two crucial roles within the Duplicable City Center and Straw Bale Village projects. One ad is tailored for an Electrical Plan Engineer, while the other targets an Electrical Cost Estimation Engineer. These roles are integral for ensuring the smooth functioning and cost-effectiveness of the electrical aspects of both projects. Highest Good energy is an essential component of One Community’s open source for game-changing eco-solutions model. See below for some of the pictures related to this work.

DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER PROGRESS

One Community is creating game-changing eco-solutions 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 one of our for game-changing eco-solutions: Duplicable City Center Open Source Hub

This week, Nika Gavran (Industrial Designer) continued her work on the Duplicable City Center dormer window installation plans. She concentrated on advancing the dormer window assembly instructions, primarily aiming to finalize a general order of assembly through sketching. She researched on screws, nails, and their respective application methods to determine the most suitable options for each component in the assembly process. Nika also initiated the creation of a CAD file intended to catalog the fasteners to be used. The Duplicable City Center is a foundational part of One Community’s open source game-changing eco-solutions model. See below for some of the pictures related to this work.

HIGHEST GOOD FOOD PROGRESS

One Community is creating game-changing eco-solutions 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 for game-changing eco-solutions structures: Hoop House Hub | Aquapini & Walipini Open Source Hub
    • See what we’ll be growing: Gardens & Hoop Houses | Large-scale Structures | Food Forest | TA

This week, the core team continued updating and expanding the Highest Good Food tools, equipment, materials, and supplies document by adding 50 new items. They organized the list alphabetically within each category for improved usability. The expanded list now includes essential tools for various tasks, such as bolts, cutters, brushes, clamps, chisels, hammers, lamps, levels, marking tools, crimpers, flagging, knives, mallets, panels, plumb bobs, rebar, magnetic tool racks, rope, saws, scissors, screwdrivers, sharpeners, shop vacuums, slatwall/pegboard with accessories, tin snips, survey stakes, staplers, staple guns, staples, stud finders, caution tape, drywall tape, duct tape, fish tape, flagging tape, tape measures in various sizes, painter’s tape, tarps, toolboxes, wire in various sizes, wire cutters, allen wrenches, open-ended/closed-ended wrenches, and socket wrenches. Highest Good food is an important part of game-changing eco-solutions 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. He focused on the recipes project, continued to transfer recipes from the vegan rice recipe page to their respective new pages and alphabetize them. Upon completing the transfer of all recipes, six new ones were incorporated into their respective pages: Banana Pancakes, One Pot Pasta with Sausages, Rice and Beans stuffed Peppers, Quinoa Salad, Jambalaya Brown Rice with Black Beans, and Potatoes with Brussels Sprouts and Chicken. Additionally, nine placeholder images were replaced with final provided images. Highest Good food is an important part of game-changing eco-solutions 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. She organized new additions into the Highest Good food tools, equipment, materials/supplies document, adding images of various items and researching background information, including image sources and titles for each box. Additionally, she researched examples for the Integration program and incorporated suggestions from a core team member to revise wording in certain areas. Highest Good food are an important part of game-changing eco-solutions with One Community’s open source plans. See her work in the collage below.

HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION PROGRESS

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

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

• Program Overview: Education Open Source Hub
• How the components work together as part of our for game-changing eco-solutions model: 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

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HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY PROGRESS

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

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

This week, the core team completed over 55 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 game-changing eco-solutions and how game-changing eco-solutions are a foundation of the bigger picture of everything One Community is doing. The pictures below show some of this work.

Aaron Wang (Fundraising Assistant) continued his in-depth research into connections with Robert Downey Jr., identifying emails, LinkedIn profiles, and background information of individuals who may have personal or professional ties to Downey. This initiative is part of a broader strategy to facilitate connections with funders by cultivating relationships with key individuals involved in these networks. His careful approach underscores his commitment to leveraging networking opportunities to enhance collaborations within the philanthropic sector. Establishing win-win relationships like this is a big component to the One Community vision and working towards game-changing eco-solutions. The following images highlight his work for the week.

Arun Chandar Ganesan (Volunteer Data Analyst And SEO And Social Media Assistant) continued to work on the next 20 SEO pages for any necessary corrections, documenting them in the appropriate records. He communicated these corrections to the relevant individual and is awaiting acknowledgment. Simultaneously, he scheduled posts for Earth Day on both Facebook and Instagram, and is currently focusing on analytics for these posts. Arun is also organizing posts for the upcoming weeks on both platforms. Search engine optimization and regularly working on content on social media are important parts of One Community‘s model and paving the way for game-changing eco-solutions. The following images show his work for the week.

Faisal Rasheed (Graphic Designer) made suggested changes to previous graphics to enhance clarity and ensure clear visualization. Additionally, he recreated a new mind map for the “Consensus Idea to Implementation Structure”, giving it a fresh look and improving its visual clarity. He focused on attention to detail and clarity throughout the process, involving conceptualization, design, and refinement of graphics to effectively communicate essential information. Collaborating closely with team members, Faisal ensured that the designs aligned with project specifications and met client expectations. Completing these images contributes to One Community‘s vision for providing game-changing eco-solutions. The images below show his progress for the week.

ADMINISTRATION TEAM

The Administration Team’s summary, covering their work administrating and managing most of One Community’s ongoing process for game-changing eco-solutions was managed by Vriddhi Misra (Admin and Marketing Assistant) and includes Camilla Okello (Administrative Assistant), Durgeshwari Naikwade (Data Analyst), Jessica Fairbanks (Administrative Assistant), Meenakshi Velayutham (Sustainability Associate), 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, Camilla worked on reviewing another individual’s work and optimizing assigned blogs, utilizing ChatGPT to generate SEO terms and adding keywords. Durgeshwari scheduled and conducted virtual interviews completed SEO tasks for 10 content blocks, and reviewed the weekly progress update #579, preparing collages for the Blue Badge Team. Jessica completed administrative tasks, wrote volunteer postings for Highest Good Foods, scheduled and administered interviews with potential volunteers, and reviewed existing volunteer postings on Volunteer Match. Meenakshi did her part helping with our for game-changing eco-solutions as she continued reviewing the weekly blog, created new bio announcements, tracked ongoing announcements, analyzed Xiaolai’s work on the community solar project, and proofread social media images. Ola reviewed the PR team’s work, tracked team progress, updated table content for documentation, managed feedback and comments, and provided comments on trainees’ work. Rachna engaged in the onboarding process, reviewed weekly summaries, provided feedback, refined summaries, fixed submitted images, created collages, and integrated individual summaries onto a designated webpage. Ram focused on rectifying feedback points on his SEO work, worked on feedback for his blog post, and made progress in learning the PR review team process. Ratna reviewed the weekly progress update #579, prepared collages for various teams, scheduled and conducted virtual interviews, and reviewed blogs by Ram and Durgeshwari. Ruiqi completed the review process for four teams, created collage images, incorporated SEO keywords as Alt Titles, and updated SEO for blogs 303-309. Sneka focused on OC Administration tasks, reviewed time log entries, ensured correct task assignments, provided feedback, made necessary changes based on feedback, and maintained engagement with ongoing projects. Samarth managed the PR review team, reviewed their work, applied SEO techniques to optimize blog posts, and reviewed the work of fellow admin team members. Vibhav did his part helping with our for game-changing eco-solutions as he reviewed the PR team’s work, created group summaries and collages, and continued on-web page SEO optimization, enhancing blogs and achieving notable results. Vriddhi managed various aspects of OC Administration, reviewed and compiled work for weekly blog #580, offered feedback, assigned tasks to the SEO team, undertook training sessions for new managers, identified SEO keywords, and contributed collages and team summaries for weekly blog #579. Xiaolai organized documents, drafted the weekly report, updated the webpage for final review, assisted in training new admins, and reviewed documents and pictures. Zuqi organized a weekly summary for the Graphic Design Team, updated the weekly blog, reviewed admins’ weekly updates, fixed image captions, optimized blogs #310- #317, and checked them in accordance with SEO checklists. One Community’s model for game-changing eco-solutions 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), Jasmine Soria (Graphic Designer), Nancy Mónchez (Graphic Designer), Shayan Afkari (Graphic Designer) and Zixi Zhang (Graphic Designer), covering their work on graphic designs for game-changing eco-solutions. Ashlesha focused on creating twenty-seven recipe images for the Graphic Design Task – Recipe Images for Site Task, while also researching and curating nature-based and theme-based images for social media. Britney concentrated on producing social media images with consistent themes, utilizing illustrations and photos, and created a volunteer announcement page by editing the profile photo, creating an announcement image, and updating content. Jasmine joined our game-changing eco-solutions team familiarized herself with the collaborative tools, completed assigned tasks, and submitted three graphics. Nancy suggested layout ideas for social network images that emphasizing typography and eschewing gradient effects could help with visual relief. Shayan created bio images and announcement imagery, corrected URL addresses for team pictures and improved skills through video tutorials. Zixi designed ten social media images with Photoshop and an AI photo generator and created profile images, bio images, and announcement pages for Xiaohan and Christy. See the Highest Good Society pages for more on how this contributes to game-changing eco-solutions. See the collage below to view some of their work.

HIGHEST GOOD NETWORK PROGRESS

One Community is creating game-changing eco-solutions 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

span style=”font-size: 12pt;”>This week, the core team continued their work on the Highest Good Network PRs testing, confirming the fixed PRs. This included fixing the issue where deleted users were still visible on teams and allowing lower roles to update the Name and Title on the Profile to Basic Information page. Not fixed PRs include testing account edit permission issues and the time entry controller for post, edit, and delete time entries. Additional tasks included setting up test accounts, reporting a new bug regarding encountering a white screen when navigating certain pages, providing descriptions and images for recorded problems, and confirming the review issue regarding dashboard visibility for higher roles. See the Highest Good Society and Highest Good Network pages for more on how this relates to game-changing eco-solutions. The collage below shows some of their work.

ALPHA SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT TEAM

The Alpha Team’s summary, covering their work on the Highest Good Network software was managed by Sucheta Mukherjee (Software Developer) and includes Anand Seshadri (Software Engineer), Gayathridevi Chithambaram (Full Stack Developer), Jordy Corporan (Software Engineer), Lin Khant Htel (Frontend Software Developer), and Pratima Singh (Software Developer). The Highest Good Network software is how we’ll be managing and objectively measuring our process for implementing game-changing eco-solutions across our social architecture, construction, production, and maintenance processes. This week, Anand focused on Feature 9 of the Dashboard component, adding mouseover text to the Dashboard’s custom header buttons and retesting PR2128. He addressed a medium-priority item from the HGN Phase I bugs list, ensuring specific hover text for two buttons: “Edit this header” and “Click to restore header to standard message.” Anand also reviewed PR1677, concerning the Hotfix and Refactor of the OwnerMessage component, and examined an issue with PR2128 related to dark mode for user badges and permissions management, confirming its resolution. Gayathridevi did her part helping with this game-changing eco-solutions component as she improved accuracy in setting end dates for inactive individuals across the Profile Page, Reports section, and User Management page, with an added feature allowing Owners/Admins to edit an individual’s last day directly from their Profile page. Lin reviewed and approved 7 pull requests, beginning unit tests for the dashboardController and expanding his understanding of codebases and components. Pratima optimized network calls, particularly on the Teams page, by implementing debouncing in React and addressing multiple API call issues, enhancing system performance and stability. Jordy progressed with unit testing, focusing on the notifications controller, while Sucheta resolved a bug with PR2167, relocated a child div to mitigate spacing complications, guided a team member on using ChatGPT, and advanced on the “Search Project By Person” task by creating a controller function for project retrieval. See the Highest Good Society and Highest Good Network pages for more on how this relates to game-changing eco-solutions. 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 Renan Luiz Santiago Martins César (Full-stack developer), Summit Kaushal (Backend Software Developer), Xiao Zhang (Software Engineer), and Xiaohan Meng (Software Engineer). The Highest Good Network software is how we’ll be managing and objectively measuring our process for game-changing eco-solutions through our social architecture, construction, production, and maintenance processes. This week, Renan focused on testing all badges with a particular emphasis on verifying the correct operation of each badge. Although encountering a bug during the testing phase, efforts are directed toward identifying and resolving the issue to maintain progress. Shaofeng worked on the HGN Software Development project, including attending a weekly team meeting, researching data wiping procedures for the HGN app’s database, gaining knowledge on Heroku usage, discussing badge wiping with team members, checking progress on testing badge components, and engaging in problem-solving discussions related to CI/CD issues. Xiao reviewed pull request numbers 911 and 2089 and completed the development of unit tests for the badges feature, ensuring code accuracy and compatibility. Attention then shifted to developing tests that validate the functionality of the new badges feature, ensuring that all scenarios are covered and that the tests are robust enough to catch any potential issues. Xiaohan did her part helping with this game-changing eco-solutions component as she addressed CI/CD issues in the PR for the ‘Assign Badge on profile’ feature. After encountering a roadblock post several commits, she created a new recovery PR to allow for merging. Additionally, on Haoji’s request, she retested PR1531, discovering persistent issues with the banner appearing multiple times. Summit tested and debugged his task, focusing on adding additional conditions to avoid duplicating badges and addressing discrepancies in earned dates due to formatting differences. He made adjustments to the code and resolved a merge conflict during repository push. Additionally, Summit cleaned up the code by removing unnecessary console logs and fixed several eslint problems. See the Highest Good Society and Highest Good Network pages for more on how this relates to game-changing eco-solutions. 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) and Huijie Liu (Software Engineer). The Highest Good Network software is how we’ll be managing and objectively measuring our process for game-changing eco-solutions through our social architecture, construction, production, and maintenance processes. This week, Aaryaneil’s testing activities encompassed PR #2199, focusing on the removal of errors from the dashboard console log, and PR #2198, involving testing improved formatting for the addtask modal. Additionally, PR #2192 was assigned to testing dark mode functionality for taskeditsuggestions, while PR #2196 tested the end date for user functionality, and PR #2201 addressed pagination overlap fixes. Huijie, who joined the Dev team this week, did her part helping with this game-changing eco-solutions component as she began learning about the responsibilities of being a manager-in-training while working on resolving an existing bug concerning the mismatch between Fix Time Log and Profile Page Times. She supervised tests on the Dev environment and examined the code, identifying a potential source of the problem as incorrect timelog information retrieval from fetched userProfile data. Tapan did a dry test run of the five essential manager role steps. He welcomed new team members, led the first weekly team meeting, and maintained communication with teammates on Slack. Tapan resolved an issue with Pagination UI in the Members table and compiled his weekly summary, including videos and photos of completed work. See the Highest Good Society and Highest Good Network pages for more on how this relates to game-changing eco-solutions. 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 Nathan Hoffman (Software Engineer, Team Manager), and includes Imran Issa (Software Developer), Jingyi Jia (Software Engineer), Parth Rasu Jangid (Software Developer), Sanket Kaware (Full-Stack Developer), Shiqing Pan (Full-Stack Software Developer), 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 game-changing eco-solutions through our social architecture, construction, production, and maintenance processes. This week, Nathan responded to Slack messages regarding team structure, PR reviews, and management, while also working on automating Dropbox image collection and focusing on separating the ‘editTimeEntry’ permission into different permissions for each field. Imran completed both frontend and backend components for one task from the Permission Management Fixes Spreadsheet and submitted it for review, while also tackling the backend portion of another task and creating a corresponding PR. Jingyi made enhancements to the permission management system within the project, introducing a logical tie in the frontend to automatically include crucial permissions when enabling the ‘Assign Project to Users’ permission, although encountering a new bug unrelated to the current task. Sanket focused on resolving the issue related to the “follow-up feature not working for 0Eduardo Mentor0 user” and implemented a database check, recommending retaining the PR description for future reference and submitting the task for review. Shiqing did her part helping with this game-changing eco-solutions component as she addressed an issue where deleted users remained visible on teams, verified the bug resolution, and engaged in pull request reviews related to unit testing. Xiao Wang resolved issue PR 2194 and assisted with other bug fixes, spending additional time addressing a problem causing a white screen due to deleted tasks and other data. Tzu Ning focused on defining proper types for dropdown items in the application and implemented controlled components with local state hooks for each dropdown, along with enabling the auto-sort feature for improved functionality and user interface.Parth focused on writing unit tests for forgotPwdcontroller.js, reviewing official documentation, testing guides, Google Docs, and videos for reference. See the Highest Good Society and Highest Good Network pages for more on how this contributes to game-changing eco-solutions. See below view images of their work./p>

SOFTWARE PR REVIEW TEAM M-Z

The PR Review Team’s summaries for team members’ names starting with M-Z and covering their work on the Highest Good Network software was managed by Olawunmi Ijisesan (Administrative and Management Support) and Samarth Urs (Administrative Assistant and Data Analyst). The Highest Good Network software is a foundation of what we’ll be using to measure our results of game-changing eco-solutions. This week’s active members of this team were: Gowtham Dongari (Software Engineer), Mengtian Chen (Software Engineer), Mohamed Sharif (Software Engineer), Olga Yudkin (Software Engineer), Shivani Adusumilli (Software Engineer), Tim Kent (Full Stack Software Engineer), Yiyun Tan (Software Engineer) and Youyou Zhang (Software Developer). They reviewed all the Highest Good Network PRs (Pull Requests) shared in this week’s update. Learn more about how the Highest Good Network will measure and assist in game-changing eco-solutions in the Highest Good Network open source hub. The collage below shows a compilation of the work from this team.

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One Community welcomes Shiqing Pan to the Software Development Team as our newest Volunteer/Consultant!

Shiqing holds a Master of Science in Computer Science from Northeastern University, and a Master of Accounting with Data and Analytics from The Ohio State University. With a background in business and a strong foundation in computer sciences, Shiqing brings a blend of analytical and technical skills to software development. Fluent in programming languages including Python, Java, JavaScript, C, and SQL, and proficient in tools like AWS, GCP, Spring, Docker, MySQL, MongoDB, Postgres, and React, Shiqing is a distinguished full-stack software developer and has developed a range of applications from customized financial systems to team management apps. With a commitment to agile development principles and a passion for sustainable software engineering, she consistently drives projects towards excellence, ensuring that technological developments promote both efficiency and positive community impact. As a Full-Stack Software Developer with One Community, Shiqing is actively engaged in developing and enhancing the Highest Good Network Software, focusing on addressing bugs, implementing unit tests, and upgrading features to ensure robust functionality and user engagement.

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