One Community sees a path to redefining the Anthropocene Epoch as one of stewardship and regeneration. We’re supporting this with open source and free-shared sustainability plans covering food, energy, housing, education, for-profit and non-profit economic design, social architecture, fulfilled living, global stewardship practices, and more.

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

OUR MAIN OPEN SOURCE HUBS

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

One Community’s physical location will forward the movement of redefining the anthropocene epoch as the first of many self-replicating teacher/demonstration communities, villages, and cities to be built around the world. This is the February 5th, 2023 edition (#515) of our weekly progress update detailing our team’s development and accomplishments:

Redefining the Anthropocene Epoch
One Community Progress Update #515

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REDEFINING THE ANTHROPOCENE EPOCH – HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING PROGRESS

One Community sees a path to redefining the anthropocene epoch through Highest Good housing that is artistic and beautiful, more affordable, more space efficient, lasts longer, DIY buildable, and constructed with healthy and sustainable materials:

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

This week the core team resolved more comments in Murphy Bed Assembly Instruction document, put suggestion about selection of timber, and generated an updated image of the Murphy Bed with the above-bed light set.

The same team member also generated images for City Center with requested measurements of framing triangles for each row and another image with the heights of each row of triangles in the dome framing structure.

Redefining the Anthropocene Epoch ” Murphy Bed Assembly Instruction

Jieying “Mercy” Cai (Sustainability and Climate Policy Researcher) completed her 20th week working on completing the Best Small and Large-scale Community Options for Sustainable Processing and Reuse of Non-recyclables research, report, and tutorial.

This week Mercy worked on Julia’s comments, including 1) adding details of recommended processing plants, 2) integrating the CO2 mitigation benefit of these machines, 3) addressing the quote issue regarding plant D and replacing it with an alternative, 4) adding a One Community’s plan for non-recyclables section, and 5) any other suggested changes.

See below for some pictures related to this work.

Redefining the anthropocene epoch ” Community Options for sustainable processing & non-recyclables

Julia Meaney (Researcher and Assistant to Executive Director) completed her 20th week with the team. This week, Julia checked the “Murphy bed Instructions” PDF and resolved comments as necessary. She also began to check Chuck’s progress on the “Sustainable Roadways, Walkways, and Landscaping” webpage, resolving comments on the Feedback PDF that had been correctly integrated.

Julia then completed her content reviewing and editing of the doors section on the “Door and Window Research” Google Doc. She added her feedback using the comments.

Finally, Julia completed reviewing and editing the “Chickens” tab of the “P1c – Food Infrastructure Comprehensive Cost Analysis” Spreadsheet and also completed going through the entirety of the “Ethical, Humane, & Conscientious Chicken Stewardship” webpage. She reviewed and edited content directly on the site as needed and added new links to the Resources section, backing them all up to a Dropbox folder.

She then edited the rest of the new content on the Doc from Tatyana which is now ready for integration to the live site.

Redefining the Anthropocene Epoch ” Murphy bed Instructions

Charles Gooley (Web Designer) also completed his 20th week helping with web design, now focused on the Sustainable Roadways, Walkways, and Landscaping page. Charles continued working on feedback comments.

These comments included reformatting titles in the Rigid Pavement Design section to be all caps and underlined, re-adding images from the source Google Doc, adding a ToC to the General Bikeway Design Criteria section, and reformatting the caption for the image in the Recommendations section. There were several places where the left margin was misplaced due to incorrect coding of unordered lists.

The titles of two images in the Porous Asphalt Design section were cropped off and put into the caption. The page was checked to ensure that all the margins of all paragraphs were justified, and that there was a non-breaking space before each heading. The pictures below share some of this work.

Redefining the Anthropocene Epoch ” Sustainable Roadways, Walkways, and Landscaping

The Compression Team consisting of Genesis Avila (Engineering Intern Researcher), Fatima Duenas-Esparza (Engineering Intern Researcher), and Sarah-Jean Boyd (Engineering Intern Researcher) completed their 12th weeks helping with the Aircrete and earthbag compression testing. This week the Compression Testing Team made another aircrete mix utilizing the direct addition of foam method.

They were very specific and tedious with ingredients added and mixing. The team recorded and monitored the density that was necessary to produce well mixed aircrete. The next morning the cylinders were checked and there was no noticeable collapse. Work on the team 2 roundup document was also continued. Pictures below are related to this work.

Redefining the Anthropocene Epoch ” Aircrete and earthbag compression testing

Loza Ayehutsega (Civil Engineer/Assistant Civil Engineer) completed her 5th week helping review the Net-zero Bathroom and Earthbag Village water collection and storage engineering calculations and designs. This week Loza reviewed water treatment methodologies adopted in the report document and calculation details reported in the spreadsheet.

In addition, Loza discussed with Diwei the calculation approach used in the water barrel pressure and flow rate. Literature review about the west water treatment approach was done too. Water treatment methods were discussed briefly in the report document, however, some additional approaches reviewed in the literature are also presented in the DropBox file. See below for some pictures related to this.

Redefining the Anthropocene Epoch ” Net-zero Bathroom and Earthbag Village water collection

Vidhi Bansal (3D Visualization Artist) completed her 2nd week helping with video and AutoCAD renders for a 4-dome cluster Earthbag Village housing design. This week Vidhi continued her work on the 4-dome flythrough, focussing on textures and how they look under various lighting conditions within Unreal Engine.

She was able to UV unwrap most of the model and bring it into the engine to run a first series of texture tests and create some materials and edit them and do an RnD on what looks best under which lighting conditions. She was also able to add more details to the sourced textures to suit the look. Check out the pictures below as examples of this work.

Redefining the Anthropocene Epoch ” Renders for a 4-dome cluster Earthbag Village housing design

REDEFINING THE ANTHROPOCENE EPOCH – DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER PROGRESS

One Community sees a path to redefining the anthropocene epoch through a Duplicable and Sustainable City Center that is LEED Platinum certified/Sustainable, can feed 200 people at a time, provide laundry for over 300 people, is beautiful, spacious, and saves resources, money, and space:

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

This week the core team revamped the hub connector content by adding images and understanding the material better. We also looked into the height of each layer or row to determine if the vertical elevation is uniform.

The same team member also met with the Compression Testing Team to review their most recent aircrete results and their method, which were the first successful batch. Then she wrote up and edited the solar demand estimate details, connected with 2 new potential volunteers, and worked on a consent form.

Redefining the Anthropocene Epoch ” Aircrete Results

Daniela Andrea Parada (Civil Engineering Student) completed her 62nd and last week, now focused on finishing updates to the formatting of the Duplicable City Center Project Specification and Design Basis report. Daniela addressed comments she left for herself that required her to research and look at external references.

Daniela researched and linked any code that was mentioned throughout the report so that the reader would have easy access to it. There were only two references she absolutely could not find. She also went through the document and made last adjustments to image titles in addition to trying to find titles to images based on google image search.

Daniela wanted the proper name for each figure but was unable to find some of them. Pictures below are related to this work.

Redefining the Anthropocene Epoch ” Duplicable City Center Project Specification and report

This week, Gabriela Vilela S. C. Diniz (Architect and Urban Planner) completed her 31st week working on the interior design for the Duplicable City Center rental rooms. This week Gabriela worked again on the adjustments of the box where the TV will be installed.

It was still showing the frame, so she lifted the TV up 2 more inches. She then re rendered all aspects of the room that needed final approval. Pictures below show some of this work.

Redefining the Anthropocene Epoch ” Duplicable City Center rental rooms

Ranran Zhang (Architectural Designer) completed her 8th week working on the updated video internal and external walkthrough for the Duplicable City Center. This week, Ranran modified the SketchUp model mentioned in last week’s feedback, i.e. reducing the height of the column in the social dome.

In addition, she had a meeting with Yuxi to discuss the protective way for elevators. After the meeting, Ranran added protective spaces for these outdoor elevators. In this way, the outdoor elevator can avoid being infiltrated by rainwater. She also updated the Lumion file according to modified parts and selected three views that needed to be rendered.

These views are located in the restaurant, library, and the second floor of the Social Dome. See below for some pictures of this work.

Redefining the Anthropocene Epoch ” Duplicable City Center

REDEFINING THE ANTHROPOCENE EPOCH – HIGHEST GOOD FOOD PROGRESS

One Community sees a path to redefining the anthropocene epoch through Highest Good food that is more diverse, more nutritious, locally grown and sustainable, and part of our open source botanical garden model to support and share bio-diversity:

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

This week the core team worked on updates for the Rabbits and Chickens websites. We added missing links into the Chickens Resources section, provided a description for chickens feeding section, and updated the Cost Analysis spreadsheet for chicken coop. See pictures below.

Redefining the Anthropocene Epoch ” Rabbits and Chickens

Yifei Zhu (Analyst and Researcher) also completed her 12th week, now working on reviewing and formatting for publication the recipes for the Transition Food Self-sufficiency Plan. This week Yifei has continued to worked on converting the metric measurement to imperial for the Master recipe and 3-day Menu blocks.

Yifei has converted from tbsp to oz, from g to oz. Yifei re edited the content from page 100 to 165. She also converted the formatting for these pages. Pictures below are related to this work.

Redefining the Anthropocene Epoch ” Transition Food Self-sufficiency Plan

Rebecca Miller (Chef) joined the team and completed her 1st week helping with the Transition Food Self-sufficiency Plan. This week Rebecca worked on the master food cost spreadsheet. She fixed the formula so that the measurements were auto-populated from the master recipe template.

She noticed that the majority of the products entered were not priced out correctly by the correct unit of measurement, so she fixed that. Rebecca also went through each link as many were missing or had incorrect products and started looking into fixing the formula to get these food costs auto populating into the master recipe template. See below for some pictures related to this.

Redefining the Anthropocene Epoch ” Transition Food Self-sufficiency Plan

REDEFINING THE ANTHROPOCENE EPOCH – HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION PROGRESS

One Community sees a path to redefining the anthropocene epoch through Highest Good education that is for all ages, applicable in any environment, adaptable to individual needs, far exceeds traditional education standards, and more fun for both the teachers and the students.

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

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

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

Redefining the Anthropocene Epoch ” Highest Good Education: All Subjects | All Learning Levels |

REDEFINING THE ANTHROPOCENE EPOCH – HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY PROGRESS

One Community sees a path to redefining the anthropocene epoch 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 32 hours managing One Community volunteer-work review not included above, emails, social media accounts, web development, new bug identification and bug fix integration for the Highest Good Network software, and interviewing and getting set up new volunteer team members. Pictures below show some of this.

Redefining the Anthropocene Epoch ” Managing One Community volunteer-work review

Yan Xu (Software Development Engineer) completed her 27th week helping with the Highest Good Network software. Yan created a new summary button, search bar, and summary button, active summary, for the summary management page. She also formatted the summary page with the style, font, layout, and margin, now its style has been unified with our website style.

Next, Yan will make every button on the page “live”, one by one (the functions of adding, deleting, modifying, querying summary), which is her task in the next stage. She also created the PR for the pause and resume button, and after investigating, she found it is not possible to pause the user until tomorrow after every day after 16:00. Yan’s still working on fixing this. See pictures below for some of this work.

Redefining the Anthropocene Epoch ” Highest Good Network software

Navya Madiraju (React.js/MongoDB Full Stack Developer) completed her 17th week helping with the Highest Good Network software. This week Navya checked the backend code locally and analyzed how the code is written, how the flow is happening, and how the email is triggering everything.

She also checked the frontend code into local and analyzed it too, created a new user with admin to see how emails are populating and, after communicating with Jae, realized developing this functionality would be too much. Pictures below are related to this work.

Redefining the Anthropocene Epoch ” Highest Good Network software

Alan Lee Sing Chan Yau (Software Engineer) completed his 13th week helping with the Highest Good Network software. This Week Alan started by helping Kaixian debug his PR and confirmed the errors that other fellow reviewers saw in Kaixiang’s PR, and fortunately Kaixiang was able to find the cause of the problem.

The problem was that we were editing and deleting roles as admins but we should have done that as owners. Then Alan carried on to implement some changes that were requested on his PR about the duplicate name popup, but some of the requests were out of scope.

Then Alan worked on the PR about changing the field name from Classification to Category when adding a task, and he was able to finish that and raised a PR. After that, he worked on the PR about time entries still showing in the dropdown of Tasks when we enter a tangible time entry even after we just deleted the task.

He was able to fix this problem and raised a PR as well. The last thing he worked on was the fix misspellings PR. Pictures below show some of this work.

Redefining the Anthropocene Epoch ” Highest Good Network software

Kaixiang “Kevin” Gu (Fullstack Software Developer) completed his 13th week helping with the Highest Good Network software. This week, Kaixiang focused on resolving issues in his PR editing role names and deleting roles. He found that the functionalities only work for the Owner role account. He made changes to hide all the buttons for the users who are not Owner.

For now, the edit name is not working on another person’s computer, Kaixiang still needs to debug this issue next week. He also fixed a negative value bug in his intangible hours PR, improved the UI on the volunteering times tab, and made all the labels and numbers alignment centered vertically. Pictures below show some of this work.

Redefining the Anthropocene Epoch ” Highest Good Network software

Jianjun Luo (Software Engineer) also completed her 10th week helping with the Highest Good Network software. This week Jianjun continued working on making the ‘all’ button of the WBS task page able to open all the folders in one click. She first figured out the cause of the bug in certain cases that occurred in the work from last week.

To solve the problem, she tried several methods to implement the function and chose a better way to achieve the goal. There are still a few small parts that can be improved and will be wrapped up next week. Pictures below show some of this work.

Redefining the Anthropocene Epoch ” Highest Good Network software

Rajasri “RJ” Janaki Raman (React/MongoDB Full-stack Developer) completed her 9th week helping with the Highest Good Network software. RJ completed Urgent priority bug 1 and raised PR 663. She fixed the login component “forgot password link” alignment as part of PT 663 too.

As part of UP bug 1, she analyzed the possibility to improve timelog load speed using google/pagespeed tool and studied a few React/Redux topics. RJ also cleaned up the leadership PR review page on Slack for easier status checking of PRs and updated status for pending PRs and reviewed PR 635 and the related backend PR. Pictures below show some of this work.

Redefining the Anthropocene Epoch ” Highest Good Network software

Johny dos Santos Anastacio (Software Engineer) completed his 8th week helping with the Highest Good Network software. This week Johny worked on his task, “Fix 100 hours total contributed badges bug”.

He found where the bug is being generated, and he found that the user profile is not being updated when adding tangible time (using the green button and using the timer too), and the badge 100 hours for any category is not being assigned because it is not calculating in the categoryTangibleHrs variable. Johny fixed this, now he will find why the user profile is not being updated.

Pictures below show some of this work.

Redefining the Anthropocene Epoch ” Highest Good Network software

Aishwarya Kalkundrikar (Full Stack Software Developer) completed her 6th week helping with the Highest Good Network software. This week Aishwarya picked a new bug: Make the “total remaining hours” column show the correct number after deleting tasks. She tested the scenario in the Dev using various test accounts as well as existing accounts but was unable to replicate the issue.

The issue exists only for 2 existing users on Dev but on Main is faced by all users. Aishwarya has also gone through multiple files and compared related files on Dev with Main, no change was observed. She also thoroughly went through the code logic from where values are picked but has not found any issue with it. Pictures below show some of this work.

Redefining the Anthropocene Epoch ” Highest Good Network software

Raul Effting (Jr. Front-End Web Developer) completed his 4th week helping with the Highest Good Network software. This week, Raul continuously checked and reviewed more PRs. Frontend PRs included: 654, 641, 639, 620, and 595 Backend PRs included: 270 and 266. Approved PRs included: 663 He also worked on “‘(PRIORITY LOW): Optimize user profiles for phones and tablets.”

The Blue Squares section was improved to fit on small screens, the tabs have been replaced by a list with modals, the list items were replaced by buttons, and the first modal (Basic Information) was improved to fit on small screens, Gurkanwal, Filipe, Anish, Prabhjot and Tianjue were mentored about how to review the PRs too. Check out the pictures below as examples of this work.

Redefining the Anthropocene Epoch ” Highest Good Network software

Pedro Elton (Frontend Software Developer) completed his 4th week helping with the Highest Good Network software. Pedro worked on the redesign of the modal at “Admin Login â  Other Links â  Projects â  Click WBS Icon by project chosen â  Choose WBS â  Add Task.

Pedro also changed the position and style of different components within the same modal and developed features that are being tested to be implemented next week to improve user experience on searching resources. Pictures below show some of this work.

Redefining the Anthropocene Epoch ” Highest Good Network software

Rafael C Castro (Software Engineer)  completed his 2nd week helping with the Highest Good Network software. This week Rafael performed PR reviews, checked their related code and followed up on those with new developments.

Rafael also tested the HGN App for features/bugs and tested the new timer component. PRs reviewed: PR#266, PR#270, PR#272, PR#622, PR#651, PR#652, PR#654, PR#656, PR#663, PR#664 and PR#665. Check out the pictures below as examples of this work.

Redefining the Anthropocene Epoch ” Highest Good Network software

Prabhjot Singh (Fullstack Software Engineer) also completed his 2nd week helping with the Highest Good Network software. Prabhjot reviewed 8 to 10 PRs. He went through some old ones, but the instructions were not clear, so he requested more info. Prabhjot also approved two PRs, suggested some code changes, and became more acquainted with the team and the process. See below pictures as examples of this work.

Redefining the Anthropocene Epoch ” Highest Good Network software

Filipe Santos de Oliveira (Full Stack Developer) joined the team and completed his 1st week helping with the Highest Good Network software. This week Filipe worked on getting the HGN React App running locally. He ran into some problems loading the application, and noticed that the dashboard does not show the current version of the Pull Request 654 he started reviewing.

He continues to problem solve these issues. See below pictures as examples of this work.

Redefining the Anthropocene Epoch ” Highest Good Network software

Anish Pandita (Software Engineer) also joined the team and completed his 1st week helping with the Highest Good Network software. This week Anish completed multiple PR reviews and also went over multiple code files for the same.

The week started with setting up and installing all the necessary softwares on his local machine and completing all the initial setup checklist and other formalities mentioned on the google doc. The second half of the week was more inclined towards testing and reviewing the PRs raised on the slack and git pulls.

The reviewed PRs include #665, #657, #641, #652, #663, #654. Anish also faced some Nodejs version issues while testing so had to reinstall everything again to solve it. See pictures below as examples of this work.

Redefining the Anthropocene Epoch ” Highest Good Network software

Gurkanwal Singh Kang (Software Engineer) joined the team and also completed his 1st week helping with the Highest Good Network software. Gurkanwal finished several PR reviews and examined numerous related code files. Setting up and installing all the required software on his laptop was the first task of the week.

Gurkanwal finished the basic setup checklist and all other requirements outlined in the google doc. The second half of the week was focused on testing and assessing PRs from GitHub. Included in the examined PRs are #665, #657, #641, #652, #663, and #595. See below pictures as examples of this work.

Redefining the Anthropocene Epoch ” Highest Good Network software

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One Community is demonstrating community ecology by taking a holistic approach to community creation. Combining our open source and free-shared sustainability solutions for food, energy, housing, education, for-profit and non-profit economic design, social architecture, fulfilled living, and global stewardship practices will provide a living experience that will be objectively healthier, more artistic, more affordable, and far more sustainable.

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• Here’s how we are open source and free-sharing all the do-it-yourself designs

OUR MAIN OPEN SOURCE HUBS

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

One Community’s physical location will forward this movement as the first of many self-replicating teacher/demonstration communities, villages, and cities to be built around the world. This is the January 29th, 2023 edition (#514) of our weekly progress update detailing our team’s development and accomplishments:

Community Ecology
One Community Progress Update #514

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COMMUNITY ECOLOGY – HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING PROGRESS

One Community is demonstrating community 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 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 member managing the aircrete compression testing team had the weekly meeting with the compression testing team and watched the meeting Jae had with Dr. Bai to make a decision on how to proceed with the current team and overall project.

The same team member also began a deeper review of the city center hub connector content on WordPress, continued to understand the quotes from commercially manufactured hub connectors, revised the on-site hub connector fabrication cost estimate based on a more accurate number of nodes, and added a tub-style deburring tumbler to the on-site fab method.

Community Ecology ” Aircrete Compression Testing Team

Stacey Maillet (Graphic Designer) completed her 86th week working on the final edits and revisions to the Murphy bed instructions. This week Stacey continued to address and resolve the comments received from the team. Screenshots below relate to this work.

Community Ecology ” Murphy bed instructions

Julia Meaney (Researcher and Assistant to Executive Director) completed her 19th week with the team. This week, Julia continued reviewing the “Murphy bed Instructions” PDF and went through the comments, resolving integrated feedback and responding with further feedback when needed.

She then reviewed the most recent work on the “Best Small and Large-scale Community Options for Sustainable Processing and Reuse of Non-recyclables” research, editing the content for grammar and spelling and using the comments to communicate feedback on the final research and most recent additions.

Also this week, Julia worked on her review of the “Ethical, Humane, & Conscientious Chicken Stewardship” webpage. She edited content for grammar, spelling, and format directly on the site as well as adding and integrating new content from the source Google Doc as needed. She used the comments on the source Doc to ask for clarifications and also worked to fix various coding and linking issues on the site.

Finally, Julia started her task of reviewing and editing the “Chickens” tab of the “P1c ” Food Infrastructure Comprehensive Cost Analysis” Spreadsheet.

Community Ecology ” Murphy bed Instructions

Charles Gooley (Web Designer) also completed his 19th week helping with web design, now focused on the Sustainable Roadways, Walkways, and Landscaping page. Charles continued working on feedback comments.

These comments included additions to the main and sub ToC’s, updating the mouseover text for items in the glossary so that the mouseover text contains the actual definition, replacing images that were improperly cropped, and making some adjustment to formatting of headings. The pictures below share some of this work.

Community Ecology ” Sustainable Roadways, Walkways, and Landscaping

The Compression Team consisting of Genesis Avila (Engineering Intern Researcher), Joshua Jacob (Engineering Intern Researcher), Fatima Duenas-Esparza (Engineering Intern Researcher), and Sarah-Jean Boyd (Engineering Intern Researcher) completed their 11th weeks helping with the Aircrete and earthbag compression testing.

The Compression Testing Team tested adding the foam into the mixing vessel instead of measuring it out first and reverse osmosis water was used. Work was continued with the Team 2 roundup document. Additionally, a schedule was made for when the team members could hold meetings if/when it became necessary.

Additional foam testing also took place. Pictures below are related to this work.

Community Ecology ” Aircrete and earthbag compression testing

Loza Ayehutsega (Civil Engineer/Assistant Civil Engineer) completed her 4th week helping review the Net-zero Bathroom and Earthbag Village water collection and storage engineering calculations and designs. This week Loza reviewed the design storm drainage standards and some additional design approaches from different works of literature.

The design approach can be different for different countries. However, the review was made according to the main standard approaches and the possible construction plans. Loza also reviewed gutter and Inlet equations used in the report and the applicability of those equations for the different conditions from the literature review.

See below for some pictures related to this.

Community Ecology ” Net-zero Bathroom and Earthbag Village water collection

Vidhi Bansal (3D Visualization Artist) joined the team and completed her 1st week helping with video and AutoCAD renders for a 4-dome cluster Earthbag Village housing design. This week, Vidhi worked on carefully cleaning up the OBJ file provided for the 4-dome flythrough, UV unwrapping the meshes so that they can be prepared for texturing and also testing the textures in UE.

She also did multiple tests to check which methodologies and pipelines would best suit the project. Two pipelines were tested, the SketchUp-to-Lumion pipeline and the Maya-to-Unreal-Engine pipeline. She ran a lighting test in Unreal so she could better understand how the textures would look to create as realistic looking a flythrough as possible.

Check out the pictures below as examples of this work.

Community Ecology ” Earthbag Village housing design

COMMUNITY ECOLOGY – DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER PROGRESS

One Community is demonstrating community 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 it’s function: Duplicable City Center Open Source Hub

Daniela Andrea Parada (Civil Engineering Student) completed her 61st week, now focused on finishing updates to the formatting of the Duplicable City Center Project Specification and Design Basis report. She read through all of the newest comments that were addressed to her and figured out where she left off previously.

Since she had been attempting to find the title of some images but had been unsuccessful, she started reading through comments to see where she could research links for mentioned sources. There were multiple links that Daniela was struggling to find online and in the report. She plans to continue this work next week. Pictures below are related to this work.

Community Ecology ” Duplicable City Center Project Specification and Design Basis report

This week, Gabriela Vilela S. C. Diniz (Architect and Urban Planner) completed her 30th week working on the interior design for the Duplicable City Center rental rooms. This week Gabriela worked to fix the problem pointed out by Jae with the box and the TV, by adjusting the height.

She also looked for the posters for the bedroom, and worked on the presentation by adding the posters and more details for the bathroom and on the cost analysis table. Pictures below show some of this work.

Community Ecology ” Duplicable City Center rental room

Ranran Zhang (Architectural Designer) completed her 7th week working on the updated video internal and external walkthrough for the Duplicable City Center. This week, Ranran checked the SketchUp model and imported it into Lumion for adjustment.

Referring to the Lumion model, she modified some of the errors in the SketchUp model: material of the interior wall in the social dome according to the interior design plan and removed redundant handrails. In addition, Ranran had a meeting with Yuxi to discuss the location of the missing windows for the stair tower.

After their meeting, Ranran added these missing windows to the SketchUp model. See below for some pictures of this work.

Community Ecology ” Internal & External walkthrough for the Duplicable City Center

COMMUNITY ECOLOGY – HIGHEST GOOD FOOD PROGRESS

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

This week the core team realized more work was needed on the behind-the-scenes research and content for the Chickens webpage.

We corrected the Cost Analysis spreadsheet with updates to the cost of hardware for the chicken coop, added descriptions for some items, corrected the Incubation Parameters spreadsheet, and added a section with information and pictures about nesting boxes and creative ideas for DIY nesting boxes. 

Community Ecology – Chickens

The core team also continued detailed review and feedback on the Transition Food Self-sufficiency Plan. We completed one 3-Day menu block overview and 10 recipes through page 72.

Primary considerations related to overall clarity of the recipes, certifying instructions and ingredients align with all inclusive items, proper substitutions for both vegan and omnivore menu options, some capitalization issues, addressing sodium content to reasonable amounts, noting scaling amounts of portions for both vegan and omnivore options, reviewing 1, 2, & 3 at bottom of recipes and adjusting proper substitutes for both menu plan options, monitoring protein amounts of vegan recipes, inserting both celsius and Fahrenheit oven temps, and upgrading meager ingredient amounts to accommodate our hard working team.

Pictures below relate to this work.

Community Ecology – Transition Food Self-sufficiency Plan

Yifei Zhu (Analyst and Researcher) also completed her 11th week, now working on reviewing and formatting for publication the recipes for the Transition Food Self-sufficiency Plan. This week Yifei continued to work on converting the metric measurement to imperial for the Master recipe and 3-day Menu blocks, focusing on converting from tbsp to oz and from g to oz.

Yifei worked from page 143 to 184. Pictures below are related to this work.

Community Ecology – Transition Food Self-sufficiency Plan

COMMUNITY ECOLOGY – HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION PROGRESS

One Community is demonstrating community 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. We’ll report on the final two elements to be finished as we develop them.

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

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

Community Ecology – Highest Good Education: All Subjects | All Learning Levels | Any Age

COMMUNITY ECOLOGY – HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY PROGRESS

One Community is demonstrating community 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 26 hours managing One Community volunteer-work review not included above, emails, social media accounts, web development, new bug identification and bug fix integration for the Highest Good Network software, and interviewing and getting set up new volunteer team members. Pictures below show some of this.

Yan Xu (Software Development Engineer) completed her 26th week helping with the Highest Good Network software. Yan this week worked on the frontend UI for summary management. She created a new page you’ll see after clicking the Summary Management link. She also created a table for summary management with four variables: summary type, summary receiver, team member and action.

She then fixed a bug where the pause/resume button was not possible to set to tomorrow as a reactivation day. See pictures below for some of this work.

Navya Madiraju (React.js/MongoDB Full Stack Developer) completed her 16th week helping with the Highest Good Network software. This week Navya worked on reviewing PRs by checking the code, adding comments, etc. She looked into PR review by cloning the repo into local and then started running the application to analyze the work.

She did this for PR 637 and PR 659, then started working on her new email component workflow. Pictures below are related to this work.

Community Ecology – Highest Good Network software

Alan Lee Sing Chan Yau (Software Engineer) completed his 12th week helping with the Highest Good Network software. This week Alan started to work on a fix to the problem when creating a duplicate name under user management and we didn’t warn and ask the user if he was sure that he wanted to create a duplicate.

Alan created a new popup when the user was about to create a user with a duplicate name, and then he submitted a PR for this. He got some feedback on it and made some changes and is now waiting for it to be approved. Then he started to work on the fix for the total summaries PR.

He found out that the way to solve the incorrect due dates problem was to simply start updating each user’s weekly summaries but this will only be solved after the PR is merged. Pictures below show some of this work.

Community Ecology – Highest Good Network software

Kaixiang “Kevin” Gu (Fullstack Software Developer) completed his 12th week helping with the Highest Good Network software. This week, Kaixiang focused on working with the Team Member Tasks tab. The task is to add a 24 hours, 48 hours, and 72 hours button on the Team Member Tasks tab for anyone to view these time entries.

Kaixiang found the code for Team Member Tasks was not structured well, so he restructured the code, extracted reusable components into a separate file, and made the code more readable and cleaner. Pictures below show some of this work.

Community Ecology – Highest Good Network software

Jianjun Luo (Software Engineer) also completed her 9th week helping with the Highest Good Network software. This week Jianjun worked on correcting the spelling problem for the main branch to fix a bug with bluesquare counting. She took a look at a bug (delete, cancel then save the task in profile page) reported and left the comment.

She also started working on the functionality for showing all tasks in the WBS page by clicking one button. It succeeds in certain workflows but needs more time to be fully implemented. Pictures below show some of this work.

Community Ecology – Highest Good Network software

Rajasri “RJ” Janaki Raman (React/MongoDB Full-stack Developer) completed her 8th week helping with the Highest Good Network software. RJ Worked on bug fix: Urgent Priority 1. She tested it completely on a local machine. 1 hour of work is still pending though.

She also added a new low priority bug for the login component, fixed the misalignment of the project list when the name is very long as part of UP1, provided KT of infringement change task to Jianjun as part of task transfer, supported on coding-problems for less experienced team members and contributed in the Leadership Review team by reviewing PRs: #270, #656, #272, #657. Pictures below show some of this work.

Community Ecology – Highest Good Network software

Johny dos Santos Anastacio (Software Engineer) completed his 7th week helping with the Highest Good Network software. This week Johny worked on his new task, “Fix 100 hours total contributed badges bug” but is having a lot of difficulty finding where the bug is being generated.

He also finished additions to the frontend PR for the task “change the role from user profile gets saved and updated on profile page but doesn’t reflect on other pages/ privileges”. Johny reported a new bug that he found related to the Badge Bug list too. Pictures below show some of this work.

Community Ecology – Highest Good Network software

Cali Huddleston (Software Developer) completed her 4th week helping with the Highest Good Network software. This week Cali, being only able to work on the project on 01/21/23 due to family reasons, refreshed her memory on JWT and how it’s used. She first watched her lecture from her Bootcamp course.

Cali then went to look at JWT docs, wrote notes on the service and how it’s used. Afterwards, she looked at previous projects using JWT authentication to further her knowledge and gain confidence in tackling the bug. Now that Cali’s up to par and has refreshed her memory with JWT, she will be taking a look at the front end and back end configuration of JWT authentication. Pictures below show some of this work.

Community Ecology – Highest Good Network software

Said Rodrigues (Full Stack Developer) completed his 4th week helping with the Highest Good Network software. This week Said did a lot of improvements on the New Timer. First, he removed the Stopwatch mode, while leaving the possibility to use it in the future. This left only the Countdown mode.

He also did a lot of UX and UI improvements to the Stopwatch with the help of Jae and the guys from timer-rebuild channel on Slack. These included: Buttons to add more time while the countdown is running; Buttons to remove time while the countdown is running; Buttons to do quick actions without popping up the countdown window;

User can now open the Time Entry Log without stopping the timer; User can now add more time to the countdown in Time Entry Log; Added an alarm song when the countdown reaches 0; Adding mouseover text to not intuitive buttons; Countdown now has a maximum time allowed; Countdown now has a minimum time allowed; and a lot more of minor improvements. Check out the pictures below as examples of this work.

Community Ecology – Highest Good Network software

Raul Effting (Jr. Front-End Web Developer) completed his 3rd week helping with the Highest Good Network software. Raul continuously checked, reviewed, and replied to developers’ responses for PRs this week.

Front PRs: 654 / 641 / 639 / 620 / 595 Back PRs: 270 / 266 Approved PRs front: 657 / 656 / 635 Approved PRs back: 272 / 270 / 267 He also started and finished work to “Make Names on the User Management page Command(Mac)/Control(PC) Clickable” and the PR (#659) was created and approved by others. Time was also spent testing Said’s timer.

Check out the pictures below as examples of this work.

Community Ecology – Highest Good Network software

Rafael C Castro (Software Engineer) joined the team and completed his 1st week helping with the Highest Good Network software. He had problems with the eslint/prettier installation and requested help to solve the issues and finally managed to solve them. Rafael tested the new timer component, suggested adjustments and reviewed the code.

Rafael also reviewed different PR’s, as well as their code, following up for each PR afterwards. Check out the pictures below as examples of this work.

Community Ecology – Highest Good Network software

Prabhjot Singh (Fullstack Software Engineer) joined the team and also completed his 1st week helping with the Highest Good Network software.

He finished somewhere between three and four PR reviews and helped test the timer rebuild too. He reviewed every piece of material so that he could provide a more accurate assessment, acquainted himself with a handful of the other members of the team, and says he is having an overall wonderful experience so far. See below pictures as examples of this work.

Community Ecology – Highest Good Network software

Ray Lee (Digital Creator) also helped create custom graphics for us to share each Lunar New Year. These graphics replace the heading on our website, as shown below.

Community Ecology – Highest Good Network software

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One Community welcomes Yifei Zhu to the Research Team as our newest Volunteer/Consultant!

After obtaining her Masters of Science in Operations Research, Yifei gained hands-on experience as a data analyst with speciality in digital acquisition. Yifei is passionate about data analytics and considers her greatest strength to be resilience. Recreationally, Yifei enjoys snowboarding and playing card games. Combined with her knowledge as an Industrial Engineering major, she joined One Community to help with content review, formatting, and data entry for the Earthbag Village designs and Highest Good Food component.

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Open source permaculture solutions are one path to helping to establish permaculture in society. One Community is creating these and open source and free-shared sustainability solutions for energy, housing, education, for-profit and non-profit economic design, social architecture, fulfilled living, and global stewardship practices too.

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

OUR MAIN OPEN SOURCE HUBS

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

One Community’s physical location will forward this movement as the first of many self-replicating teacher/demonstration communities, villages, and cities to be built around the world. This is the January 22nd, 2023 edition (#513) of our weekly progress update detailing our team’s development and accomplishments:

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One Community Progress Update #513

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PERMACULTURE IN SOCIETY – HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING PROGRESS

One Community is helping to establish permaculture in society through Highest Good housing that is artistic and beautiful, more affordable, more space efficient, lasts longer, DIY buildable, and constructed with healthy and sustainable materials:

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

This week the core team member managing the aircrete compression testing team helped the aircrete team get organized and design some experiments and tables and had a weekly call to translate the information to the team. The same team member also reviewed the write up and spreadsheet for estimating energy demand of the City Center, Ultimate Classroom, Earthbag Village, and Straw Bale Village. She also worked on the City Center hub connector content and identified some necessary edits and revisions.

Permaculture in Society – Aircrete compression testing

Daniela Andrea Parada (Civil Engineering Student) completed her 60th week, focusing now on the Net-zero Bathroom content. This week Daniela read through the comments left on the Net-Zero Bathroom Design and Assembly Instructions google document and implemented them on the Net-Zero Bathroom and Earthbag Village Water Collection and Septic Design Edited Content for Web.

As she was going through them side-by-side, she realized that the content on one document was placed in various sections of the other sections. This took Daniela a bit more time than expected in order to make sure the content did align with the final report. Daniela read through the documents and made edits to grammar and spelling along with adding some content based on some comments/questions.

Daniela finished reading through the document and reviewed everything that needed to be addressed. She then moved on to the comments that had not been addressed on the Net-zero Bathroom Calculations for the google sheets.

For one sheet she spent time researching how to understand the functions that calculated tank and water requirements, but was unable to fully understand it even though she knew the information came from data listed prior. Pictures below are related to this work.

Permaculture in Society – Net-zero Bathroom

Jieying “Mercy” Cai (Sustainability and Climate Policy Researcher) completed her 18th week working on completing the Best Small and Large-scale Community Options for Sustainable Processing and Reuse of Non-recyclables research, report, and tutorial. This week Mercy researched and created tables for cost estimation for starting a business with different waste management solutions.

She added introduction paragraphs to each section as suggested in the comments and made the final edits to the content and the comparison table by addressing the comments and carrying out additional research. See below for some pictures related to this work.

Community Options for Sustainable Processing and Reuse of Non-recyclables

The Compression Team consisting of Genesis Avila (Engineering Intern Researcher), Joshua Jacob (Engineering Intern Researcher), Fatima Duenas-Esparza (Engineering Intern Researcher), and Sarah-Jean Boyd (Engineering Intern Researcher) completed their 10th weeks helping with the Aircrete and earthbag compression testing.

This week, the Compression Testing Team attempted to understand the data sheets and calculations from last year’s team. After reading through the last team’s data, it was difficult to understand their process of creating aircrete. They also recorded data, watched Aircrete Harry’s videos, and expanded on the research using a better comparison table. Pictures below are related to this work.

Permaculture in Society ” Aircrete and earthbag compression testing

Loza Ayehutsega (Civil Engineer/Assistant Civil Engineer) completed her 3rd week helping review the Net-zero Bathroom and Earthbag Village water collection and storage engineering calculations and designs. This week Loza checked the report document and read some new topics added to the report.

This week no comment was added; however, a detailed research review was made on wastewater treatment methodologies and the design of the storm drainage system, tank components, and types of storage tanks. See below for some pictures related to this.

Permaculture in Society ” Net-zero Bathroom and Earthbag Village water collection and storage

PERMACULTURE IN SOCIETY – DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER PROGRESS

One Community is helping to establish permaculture in society through a Duplicable and Sustainable City Center that is LEED Platinum certified/Sustainable, can feed 200 people at a time, provide laundry for over 300 people, is beautiful, spacious, and saves resources, money, and space:

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

This week, Gabriela Vilela S. C. Diniz (Architect and Urban Planner) completed her 29th week working on the interior design for the Duplicable City Center rental rooms. This week Gabriela worked on the final adjustments for the renders. She fixed the problem with the lights and the height of the TV on the box.

She rendered a few versions with the TV up and down and worked on the presentation by adding the rendered images and more materials. Pictures below show some of this work.

Permaculture in Society ” Duplicable City Center rental rooms

Julia Meaney (Researcher and Assistant to Executive Director) completed her 18th week with the team. This week, Julia continued her work on the “Eco-laundry” webpage task. She updated various images and charts, added necessary FAQ’s and linked sources, and edited and worked on various parts of the narrative.

She also had a Zoom meeting with Jae to go over a few of her questions about completing this task. Julia then completed her initial review of the “Sustainable Roadways, Walkways, and Landscaping” webpage and made a Feedback PDF in her Dropbox to communicate needed corrections to the coding and formatting of the page.

While doing this, she completed various small tasks of content and coding editing as needed. She also went through the source Google Doc and addressed, resolved, and added comments there. Finally, Julia began reviewing and editing content on the “Chickens” Google Doc. She made corrections and edits in bolded, red text to ensure their visibility when being integrated on to the webpage.

Pictures below are related to this work.

Permaculture in Society ” Eco-laundry

Ranran Zhang (Architectural Designer) completed her 6th week working on the updated video internal and external walkthrough for the Duplicable City Center. This week, Ranran checked the SketchUp model and imported it into Lumion for adjustment. Referring to the Lumion model, she modified some of the errors in the SketchUp model.

These include: adjusting the position of the light source on the floor of the social dome hall; deleting the protruding floor on the second floor of the social dome; modifying the material of the pool edge in the social dome in Lumion. In addition, Ranran also selected four views that need to be rendered in Lumion.

They include the second floor of the restaurant, the social dome hall, the second-floor lounge area of the social dome, and the outdoor terrace. See below for some pictures of this work.

Permaculture in Society ” Duplicable City Center

PERMACULTURE IN SOCIETY – HIGHEST GOOD FOOD PROGRESS

One Community is helping to establish permaculture in society through Highest Good food that is more diverse, more nutritious, locally grown and sustainable, and part of our open source botanical garden model to support and share bio-diversity:

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

This week the core team wrapped up our work on the behind-the-scenes research and content for the Chickens webpage and began similar research for the Rabbits webpage. We updated the Incubation Parameters spreadsheet for the Chickens website page updates. Then we added images for the rabbit hutch, tractor, and setting up of rabbit butchering.

We also updated the sections “Why Rabbits” and “Before Choosing to Raise Rabbits”. We additionally added information about several different housing options for rabbits and about some of the benefits of raising rabbits.   

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Yifei Zhu (Analyst and Researcher) also completed her 10th week, now working on reviewing and formatting for publication the recipes for the Transition Food Self-sufficiency Plan. This week Yifei has continued to work on converting the metric measurement to imperial for the Master recipe and 3-day Menu blocks.

Yifei has converted from tbsp to oz and from g to oz. She worked from page 110 to 143 with many more pages remaining to be completed. Pictures below are related to this work.

Permaculture in Society ” Transition Food Self-sufficiency Plan

PERMACULTURE IN SOCIETY – HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION PROGRESS

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

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

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

Permaculture in Society ” Highest Good Education: All Subjects | All Learning Levels | Any Age

PERMACULTURE IN SOCIETY – HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY PROGRESS

One Community is helping to establish permaculture in society 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

Over the past week the core team completed 22 hours managing One Community volunteer-work review not included above, emails, social media accounts, web development, and interviewing and setting up new volunteer team members. Pictures below show some of this.

Permaculture in Society ” Managing One Community

An additional 4+ hours were invested by the core team in Highest Good Network software checkins and review.

Permaculture in Society ” Highest Good Network software checkins and review

Yiyun Tan (Management Dashboard Team Leader) completed her 40th week helping with the Highest Good Network software. This week Yiyun put most of her time on investigating the urgent #3 and #4 bugs and discussing findings with team members. Other than that, she completed her usual management work, reviewed PRs, provided help on Slack, and fixed release-merge conflicts. Pictures of some of this work are below.

Permaculture in Society ” Highest Good Network software

Yan Xu (Software Development Engineer) completed her 25th week helping with the Highest Good Network software. In the first half week, she created a team manager pop up in the team page according to the old design doc.

But, the old task (team manager design doc) has been changed to the summary management project, therefore, she started working on the summary management project, and created a new page in the “Other Links” dropdown. She then estimated the time to complete both the frontend and backend. See pictures below for some of this work.

Permaculture in Society ” Highest Good Network software

Navya Madiraju (React.js/MongoDB Full Stack Developer) completed her 15th week helping with the Highest Good Network software. This week Navya started approving the PRs by checking the code into local and then started checking the lines of code, ran the code in the local host and tested as per the requirements, then raised a few comments.

After that she followed up with the developer and, as per their comments, again reviewed and then approved the PR. Pictures below are related to this work.

Permaculture in Society ” Highest Good Network software

Alan Lee Sing Chan Yau (Software Engineer) completed his 11th week helping with the Highest Good Network software. This week Alan started by working on fixing total summaries as it is Urgent. We are displaying the total number of summaries correctly, but the only problem is that the backend does not store the last 4 weeks, it only has the last 3 summaries.

So we won’t be able to display the summaries correctly until we merge the new PR where it stores 4 summaries instead of 3. Then Alan worked on problems on the Timelog and Tasks where some tasks were not displaying correctly when viewing someone else’s PR. He fixed this issue and submitted a PR.

The last thing he worked on this week was checking if the user meant to create a new user with a duplicate name, by creating a popup where it asks a yes or no question. Pictures below show some of this work.

Permaculture in Society ” Highest Good Network software

Kaixiang “Kevin” Gu (Fullstack Software Developer) completed his 11th week helping with the Highest Good Network software. For this week, Kaixiang made a new pull request for editing role names and delete roles. He added new functionalities for admins that they can edit role names and delete newly added roles if no longer needed.

This PR still has a small redirect issue and he will fix it next week. Kaixiang also made a fix for requested changes in the PR for ‘make intangible hours editable’. Pictures below show some of this work.

Permaculture in Society ” Highest Good Network software

Jianjun Luo (Software Engineer) also completed her 8th week helping with the Highest Good Network software. This week Jianjun fixed several bugs for the phase one front end code. A small change was made to the css to make the top bar looks aligned. A filter was added to catch the tasks which are marked as “complete” so that the website will not return an empty white page when clicking the button.

The save reminder is able to appear whenever a change has been made. Pictures below show some of this work.

Permaculture in Society ” Highest Good Network software

Rajasri “RJ” Janaki Raman (React/MongoDB Full-stack Developer) completed her 7th week helping with the Highest Good Network software. RJ worked this week on HP bug 7: “Missing bluesquare in dashboard summary bar”.

She identified the root cause of the mismatch in main, updated Yiyun on her findings and next steps, then switched to working on Urgent Priority Bug #1 about wrong data being loaded before correct data. Handling it as 2 different PRs, 1 part is fixed and merged (PR #647). Working on the second part, she has identified the root cause of it and is currently working on fixing it.

Experienced timer issue twice and got some error displayed on console while trying to replicate the issue. Pictures below show some of this work.

Permaculture in Society ” Highest Good Network software

Johny dos Santos Anastacio (Software Engineer) completed his 6th week helping with the Highest Good Network software. Johny fixed the bug for the task “Changing the role from user profile gets saved and updated on profiles page but doesn’t reflect on other pages/privileges”, now everything is working very well. He posted the PR for the backend and the frontend will post next week. Pictures below show some of this work.

Permaculture in Society ” Highest Good Network software

Shaun Sullivan (React/MongoDB Developer) completed his 6th and final week helping with the Highest Good Network software. This week Shaun continued working on the People Reports page. He was able to figure out the NaN issue, and now has a number displaying for the total hours worked, however not the right number.

He was able to get that number to display in the center of the donut chart, although with that the arcs of the chart disappeared. So while there is progress on the bug, still some troubleshooting needed to figure it out. Pictures below show some of this work.

Permaculture in Society ” Highest Good Network software

Aishwarya Kalkundrikar (Full Stack Software Developer) completed her 5th week helping with the Highest Good Network software. This week Aishwarya has worked on High priority bug #4: Fix the ability to change a Project Category. After fixing the bug partially, she was facing an issue where the value on selecting from the drop-down showed the default value until refreshed.

Now the bug is fixed and she has raised PR for the same. Pictures below show some of this work.

Permaculture in Society ” Highest Good Network software

Cali Huddleston (Software Developer) completed her 3rd week helping with the Highest Good Network software. This week Cali looked further into the config issue. Although she did not find anything wrong with Axios GET requests (working just fine) when tested by running a console.log in the Axios config, she did confirm that the JWT is not being authorized upon page load.

It’s also not being properly decoded or grabbed from local storage. She is going to refresh her memory with JWT (shouldn’t take too long) and local storage to hopefully squash this bug once and for all! Cali will be looking at previous work she has done with JWT in addition to reading documentation and researching more. Pictures below show some of this work.

Permaculture in Society ” Highest Good Network software

Said Rodrigues (Full Stack Developer) completed his 3rd week helping with the Highest Good Network software. This week Said remade the UI of the timer while bringing in new features like the Countdown mode.

He also changed the logic in the backend to handle this new mode while improving some performances of the service and added documentation to all things that he modified so that anyone who tries to modify or update this feature in the future can do it without too much headache. Check out the pictures below as examples of this work.

Permaculture in Society ” Highest Good Network software

Raul Effting (Jr. Front-End Web Developer) completed his 2nd week helping with the Highest Good Network software. This week Raul continued his focus on extensive PR review: PRs continuously checked, reviewed, and/or waiting for developers’ response: (front) 639 / 622 / 620 / 595 / 635 / 641 / 638 / 650, (back) 266 / 267 Approved PRs: 642 / 643 / 646 / 649. He also spent a bunch of time reorganizing the Bugs Google Doc. Check out the pictures below as examples of this work.

Permaculture in Society ” Highest Good Network software

Ray Lee (Digital Creator) also helped create custom graphics for us to share each Martin Luther King Jr. Day. These graphics replace the heading on our website, as shown below.

Permaculture in Society ” Highest Good Network software

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One Community welcomes Jianjun Luo to the Software Development Team as our newest Volunteer/Consultant!

Jianjun has over 7 years of data mining and data analytics experience. She has also worked on a few projects that provide practical solutions for real life with her frontend and backend skills. She believes that with the development in technology and the convenience brought by the internet, people are empowered to make progressive social impact and able to fulfill their potential more easily. As a member of the One Community team, Jianjun is helping develop the software for the open source Highest Good Network project that tracks time and materials.

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One Community welcomes Rajasri “RJ” Janaki Raman to the Software Development Team as our newest Volunteer/Consultant!

Rajasri “RJ” is a software specialist with 5 years of experience in Java and related technologies. She has demonstrated success working in dynamic projects and with customers from across the globe. A quick learner and passionate about technology, RJ joined the One Community team to apply and further her skills. She’s helping as manager of Phase 2 of the Highest Good Network software, and with various bugs and additional functionality for finishing Phase 1.

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One Community is establishing a model for surplus return communities. We are open sourcing everything needed to construct them: food, energy, housing, education, for-profit and non-profit economic design, social architecture, fulfilled living, global stewardship practices, and more.

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

OUR MAIN OPEN SOURCE HUBS

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

One Community’s physical location will forward this movement as the first of many self-replicating teacher/demonstration communities, villages, and cities to be built around the world. This is the January 15th, 2023 edition (#512) of our weekly progress update detailing our team’s development and accomplishments:

Surplus Return Communities
One Community Progress Update #512

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SURPLUS RETURN COMMUNITIES – HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING PROGRESS

One Community is establishing a model for surplus return communities through Highest Good housing that is artistic and beautiful, more affordable, more space efficient, lasts longer, DIY buildable, and constructed with healthy and sustainable materials:

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

This week the core team member managing the aircrete compression testing team took a deeper dive into the aircrete issues and began organizing the summaries thus far in a manner that makes it easier to compare and contrast using the table template. They also managed the weekly call with the team.

The same team member additionally addressed several comments in the Net-zero Bathroom rainwater collection document and reviewed the work on Solar Energy Sizing and conversed with Luis, to wrap things up.

Surplus Return Communities ” Aircrete compression testing

Daniela Andrea Parada (Civil Engineering Student) completed her 59th week, focusing now on the Net-zero Bathroom content. This week Daniela started by finishing up the review for the google sheets document for the Net-zero bathroom calculations. She went through the last tab and initialed the sections she double checked calculations for.

After reviewing any comments, she left some of the harder calculations she had not initialed and decided to work on those once the review of the google docs was complete. Daniela then started reading through the Net-zero Bathroom Design and Assembly Instructions. She left some comments and edited some details.

Once getting to a certain point Daniela realized she needed to do a side-by-side review with the Net-zero Bathroom and Earthbag Village Water Collection and Septic Design document. She then backtracked a bit in order to go over the material on the second document, but was able to continue and review new material. Pictures below are related to this work.

Surplus Return Communities ” Net-zero Bathroom

Charles Gooley (Web Designer) also completed his 18th week helping with web design, now focused on the Sustainable Roadways, Walkways, and Landscaping page. Charles completed the Flexible Pavement Design section of the Roadways, Walkways, Gutters, and Parking Lot Report page.

These included the six sections, Preliminary Analysis, California Bearing Ratio Design Procedure, Required Structural Design Procedure, Quality Assurance and Quality Control, Flexible Pavement Widening, Maintenance/Preservation, and Rehabilitation, along with the images, links and anchor links to the glossary with the corresponding mouseover text.

Charles also added the Flexible Pavement Design to the Pavement Designs Table of Contents. Charles noted that the code in the two ToC’s for the Structural Design section had list style types of lower alpha and lower roman that were not rendering properly. The pictures below share some of this work.

Surplus Return Communities ” Sustainable Roadways, Walkways, and Landscaping

Jieying “Mercy” Cai (Sustainability and Climate Policy Researcher) completed her 17th week working on completing the Best Small and Large-scale Community Options for Sustainable Processing and Reuse of Non-recyclables research, report, and tutorial. This week Mercy researched incinerator options to replace the previous pyrolysis recommendations.

She filled in the table with the information on new plants, evaluated new plants according to the criteria, and reranked the waste-to-energy options. She also drafted narratives for breakdown by population and researched how different types of waste can be treated by incineration. See below for some pictures related to this work.

Community Options for Sustainable Processing and Reuse of Non-recyclables

Philip Bogaerts (Structural Window Designer) completed his 11th week working on completing the Most Sustainable Windows and Doors research. Philip completed most of the narratives for the ‘best door’ section. The doors are covered, probably a little bit more text will be added to the Masonite (best company) section, to make sure everything is covered.

The spreadsheet has also been completed, for the best doors as well as for the best companies, however, the borders of the table still need some optimization. See below for some pictures of this work.

Surplus Return Communities ” Most Sustainable Windows and Doors research

Loza Ayehutsega (Civil Engineer/Assistant Civil Engineer) completed her 2nd week helping review the Net-zero Bathroom and Earthbag Village water collection and storage engineering calculations and designs. This week Loza reviewed the Net-zero Bathroom report document and excel calculation details.

Revisions were made using a literature review and a few design details were added related to the time of concentration and runoff calculations approach for different catchment characteristics. Loza also reviewed the approach used for the estimation of the area for the rooftop rainwater harvesting system. See below for some pictures related to this.

Net-zero Bathroom & Earthbag Village water collection & storage engineering calculations and designs

SURPLUS RETURN COMMUNITIES – DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER PROGRESS

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

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

This week, Luis Manuel Dominguez (Research Engineer) completed his 68th week, now helping with energy analysis for our open source solar microgrid design. Luis began wrapping up his work at One Community by going through the Solar Sizing Energy Balance Calculations and verifying his work to date.

He reviewed the remaining tabs (Shower Water Heater Calculations, Hourly Demand, and Outcomes) and wrote up how to use these tabs. Pictures below are related to this work.

Surplus Return Communities ” Solar microgrid design

Gabriela Vilela S. C. Diniz (Architect and Urban Planner) completed her 28th week working on the interior design for the Duplicable City Center rental rooms. This week Gabriela worked on changing the wall color on the entrance and fixing the lights on the sign to make new rendering images.

She started working on the presentation, adding the images that were ready, a few materials, and working on the cost analysis table by adding some more missing items. Pictures below show some of this work.

Surplus Return Communities ” Duplicable City Center rental rooms

Julia Meaney (Researcher and Assistant to Executive Director) completed her 17th week with the team. This week, Julia continued her reviewing and editing of the “Addressing Non-recyclables” Google Doc and the corresponding “Waste to Energy Incinerators Master” spreadsheet.

She went through and checked the integrated feedback and also read new content, offering further feedback in the comments. Julia then continued her task of completing the “City Center Eco-laundry” webpage. She integrated the “Old Stuff” with the “New Stuff” on the page, editing the content to include all of the final research and ensuring to check it against the source Google Doc.

She also updated images with correct alternative texts, image title attributes, and linked sources. Julia brought old data up to date and left various comments for necessary questions and inquiries on the source Google Doc. She backed up all of the linked resources on the site to her Dropbox folder and added each of them to the “Resources” section.

Finally, Julia re-formatted and re-ordered the main table of content as well as the smaller tables of content throughout the page to properly reflect the new order of information on the webpage. Pictures below are related to this work.

Surplus Return Communities ” Addressing Non-recyclables

SURPLUS RETURN COMMUNITIES – HIGHEST GOOD FOOD PROGRESS

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

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

This week core team continued detailed review and feedback on the Transition Food Self-sufficiency Plan. We reviewed the 3-Day Menu Block doc per the pertinent points drawn up the previous week. This allows for a more focused and comprehensive review.

We “greened”/finalized the equivalent of 9 recipes (8 recipes and one 3-Day Menu Block overview), The completed tasks were from page 45-56. Pictures below relate to this work.

Surplus Return Communities ” Transition Food Self-sufficiency Plan

This week the core team continued working on updates to the Chickens webpage. We finished adding details for the fencing section and started updating the Chicken feed section with details related to DIY feed for baby chicks and adult chickens and options on how to reduce the cost of chicken feed.

The same team member also continued working with the Murphy Bed assembly instructions document. We resolved comments related to problems that were fixed and answered questions to help the editor with future updates.

Surplus Return Communities

Yifei Zhu (Analyst and Researcher) also completed her 9th week, now working on reviewing and formatting for publication the recipes for the Transition Food Self-sufficiency Plan. This week Yifei has worked on converting the metric measurement to imperial for the Master recipe and 3-day Menu blocks.

Yifei has converted from tbsp to oz, from g to oz. Additionally, Yifei worked on checking the format of the recipe and she is still in the process of it. Pictures below are related to this work.

Surplus Return Communities ” Transition Food Self-sufficiency Plan

SURPLUS RETURN COMMUNITIES – HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION PROGRESS

One Community is establishing a model for surplus return communities through Highest Good education that is for all ages, applicable in any environment, adaptable to individual needs, far exceeds traditional education standards, and more fun for both the teachers and the students.

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

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

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

Surplus Return Communities ” Highest Good Education: All Subjects | All Learning Levels | Any Age

SURPLUS RETURN COMMUNITIES – HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY PROGRESS

One Community is establishing a model for surplus return communities 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

Over the past week the core team completed 22 hours managing One Community volunteer-work review not included above, emails, social media accounts, web development, and interviewing and setting up new volunteer team members. Pictures below show some of this.

Surplus Return Communities ” Managing One Community volunteer-work review

An additional 6+ hours were invested by the core team in Highest Good Network software checkins and review.

Surplus Return Communities – Highest Good Network software checkins and review

And the core team uploaded, integrated, shared and added to our social media strategy our final homepage video, the Get Involved Video.

Surplus Return Communities – Get Involved Video

Here’s the video too:

Yiyun Tan (Management Dashboard Team Leader) completed her 39th week helping with the Highest Good Network software. This week Yiyun put most of her time on investigating urgent bug #1, however she can only reproduce that bug on Dev and with one task. Next week she will continue working on it and discuss with other experienced members.

Other than that, she ran management work, provided help on Slack, fixed release-merge conflicts, and did hotfixes for the app. Pictures of some of this work are below.

Surplus Return Communities – Highest Good Network software

Yan Xu (Software Development Engineer) completed her 24th week helping with the Highest Good Network software. This week, Yan started working on the new task so a manager can receive their team members’ weekly summaries. She started to design this task by creating a column named “Manager” on the team page and made it so an Admin was able to set up a team manager via this button.

She also created a new variable named Team Manager for teams that will show in the userProfile – teams. See pictures below for some of this work.

Surplus Return Communities – Highest Good Network software

Navya Madiraju (React.js/MongoDB Full Stack Developer) completed her 14th week helping with the Highest Good Network software. This week Navya started looking into a new issue: Alphabetize people on the reports page. She started debugging the code and then implemented the sorting functionality, then tested it and it worked well, so she raised the PR.

She also reviewed PR #637, and looked into fixing the Add Team function when creating new users. Pictures below are related to this work.

Surplus Return Communities – Highest Good Network software

Alan Lee Sing Chan Yau (Software Engineer) completed his 10th week helping with the Highest Good Network software. This week Alan started the week by working on integrating the new functionality that was requested to display the last three summaries of the user we are viewing on the dashboard.

He was able to do this by adding a tab to the Timelog component, but he encountered a problem. This problem is happening in the development branch, but is not happening on the main branch.

Now after the new year started, the last three summaries that we have in the userProfile object are all with the due date of this week, and that is why it shows up that the user did not submit a summary for the last three weeks in one of my screenshots. Alan carefully reviewed Pedro’s PR about the Reports page redesign and gave him some feedback.

He also approved some dependabots PRs and left some comments as well. Pictures below show some of this work.

Surplus Return Communities – Highest Good Network software

Kaixiang “Kevin” Gu (Fullstack Software Developer) completed his 10th week helping with the Highest Good Network software. In this week, Kaixiang finished making intangible hours editable, and made a new pull request. It has already been approved by one team member and is waiting for the final review by the management team.

Kaixiang then moved on to the next task, finding a way to edit role names and delete newly added roles. He finished most of the frontend side work and will work on the backend side in the next week. Pictures below show some of this work.

Surplus Return Communities – Highest Good Network software

Jianjun Luo (Software Engineer) also completed her 7th week helping with the Highest Good Network software. This week Jianjun added the required changes to the previous work in phase one. Then she finished all the wireframe design work assigned before.

She designed the material list page as well as the list of issues (material update history), a member group check-in page, a lesson list page, and its submit form. Then Jianjun added the explanation and description to the document. Pictures below show some of this work.

Surplus Return Communities – Highest Good Network software

Rajasri “RJ” Janakiraman (React/MongoDB Full-stack Developer) completed her 5th week helping with the Highest Good Network software. RJ Worked on PR 625 review, testing the applications and reporting the incorrect behavior of the progress bar in leaderboard.

She also analyzed the application flow to understand the problem listed in high priority issue 3,4 and 5 about data loading too slowly and incorrectly, but couldn’t complete the committed hours due to unexpected power outage due to weather conditions and will take the blue square for the week. Pictures below show some of this work.

Surplus Return Communities – Highest Good Network software

Johny dos Santos Anastacio (Software Engineer) completed his 5th week helping with the Highest Good Network software. Johny fixed the task “if a user hasn’t visited: Other Links > Badge Management yet, no badges will show to be assigned”, now the badges are showing well.

He then started to make some changes that were requested on his other task: “Make it so sub-tasks in a WBS create a new folder”, based on review feedback that they were creating a subtask of a task the icon folder was showing, but when they deleted all the subtasks the folder doesn’t disappear. Johny found a way to fix this, raised the PR, and the new changes were approved. Pictures below show some of this work.

Surplus Return Communities – Highest Good Network software

Shaun Sullivan (React/MongoDB Developer) completed his 5th week helping with the Highest Good Network software. This week Shaun worked on the screen resize for the user management page. While the page is functional, and merged with development, he is going to continue to work on getting the page to resize depending on the User’s device.

He also worked on the bug for the Pie Chart displayed hours worked on projects/tasks. He was able to make some progress, but still needs to figure out how to display total hours worked on the bottom line, as well as display that total in the center of the donut. He also did more code cleanup. Pictures below show some of this work.

Surplus Return Communities – Highest Good Network software

Aishwarya Kalkundrikar (Full Stack Software Developer) completed her 4th week helping with the Highest Good Network software. This week Aishwarya has added the feature of making names click-to-visit-profile on the weekly summaries reports page. For this, she updated the file FormattedReport.jsx. PR #637 was raised for this change and it was approved and merged.

Aishwarya also reviewed PR #638, approved it, and then picked and started on a new bug: Fixing the ability to change a Project Category. Pictures below show some of this work.

Surplus Return Communities – Highest Good Network software

Pedro Elton (Frontend Software Developer) completed his 3rd week helping with the Highest Good Network software. This week, Pedro redesigned the reports page, making it responsive and with a design that matches the other pages. The team reports page was also redesigned, implementing the different information based on login privileges, tables, and charts.

Pedro researched, designed, and prototyped the clock and noted a few bugs in the time logging. Pictures below show some of this work.

Surplus Return Communities – Highest Good Network software

Cali Huddleston (Software Developer) completed her 2nd week helping with the Highest Good Network software. This week Cali continued working on an issue we’re having with incorrect and slowly loading data. She started looking more into the routes and controllers and when she searched the console.log wh found a 401 error.

She researched more into this and thinks her hypothesis is correct in that Axios is not getting the data properly on page load. After gathering her weekly media files though, she noticed that the error only happens when a user logs out. So she believes this is only a piece of the puzzle that is this problem.

What she discovered with this error is that the config gets set and won’t change until after authorization. The authorization token isn’t being passed on the first call. So when the page refreshes the config data has been set again with authorization and the call being succeeded. She started to look more into axios docs and google similar issues to see if I could find solutions.

She found that a solution may be within the axios config file – she just has to find it. Pictures below show some of this work.

Surplus Return Communities – Highest Good Network software

Said Rodrigues (Full Stack Developer) completed his 2nd week helping with the Highest Good Network software. This week Said made big improvements on the Real Time Clock. He managed to synchronize the Start, Stop, Pause and Reset Clock functions while integrating it with the current way to associate a time to a task.

He also managed to automatically close and stop the timer if all user connections are down. He is still trying to figure out how to track user inactivity while the PC isn’t in sleep mode and he is waiting for Pedro to create the new Timer UI/UX for integration next week. Check out the pictures below as examples of this work.

Surplus Return Communities – Highest Good Network software

Raul Effting (Jr. Front-End Web Developer) joined the team and completed his 1st week helping with the Highest Good Network software. Raul reviewed a diversity of PRs. These were the approved ones: #630 #633 #634 #268 #635 #267 #631 #265 These still need to be fixed: #595 #620 #622 Suggestions were also made in the instructions document about how to create quality PRs and properly review them. Check out the pictures below as examples of this work.

Surplus Return Communities – Highest Good Network software

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One Community is creating a template for environmental accounting that covers all aspects of sustainable community construction. We are open sourcing and free sharing everything as a self-replicating model for achieving a sustainable civilization.

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

OUR MAIN OPEN SOURCE HUBS

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

One Community’s physical location will forward this movement as the first of many self-replicating teacher/demonstration communities, villages, and cities to be built around the world. This is the January 8th, 2023 edition (#511) of our weekly progress update detailing our team’s development and accomplishments:

Environmental Accounting
One Community Progress Update #511

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ENVIRONMENTAL ACCOUNTING – HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING PROGRESS

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

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

This week the core team member managing the aircrete compression testing team reviewed several aircrete videos to look for a more accurate foam density being used by Aircrete Harry, downloaded Domgaia’s new Aircrete 101 PDF, planned for the next weekly call with the aircrete team, and looked further into why we are still experiencing collapse. The same team member also addressed comments related to the net-zero bathroom rainwater catchment, solar energy demand, and roadways content.

Environmental Accounting ” Aircrete compression testing

Daniela Andrea Parada (Civil Engineering Student) completed her 58th week, focusing now on the Net-zero Bathroom content. This week, Daniela solely focused on the Net-zero Bathroom Calculations google sheets. As there are numerous tabs within this document, Daniela reviewed calculations and analyzed values in order to ensure that they made sense to the reader.

As there were concepts Daniela had not seen in a while, as well as equations Daniela had never used, she researched to find outside information in order to comprehend the material better. In addition, Daniela left comments on the google sheets so that alterations could be made. Pictures below are related to this work.

Environmental Accounting ” Net-zero Bathroom

Charles Gooley (Web Designer) also completed his 17th week helping with web design, now focused on the Sustainable Roadways, Walkways, and Landscaping page. Charles continued working on the glossary, adding the remaining terms to the glossary and setting anchor links and mouseover text to the corresponding terms in the body of the page.

Charles also cleaned up the nested ordered lists at the top of the Getting Started section. For some reason, the Roman numerals would not render properly, so a workaround was implemented. The pictures below share some of this developing work.

Environmental Accounting ” Sustainable Roadways

Jieying “Mercy” Cai (Sustainability and Climate Policy Researcher) completed her 16th week working on completing the Best Small and Large-scale Community Options for Sustainable Processing and Reuse of Non-recyclables research, report, and tutorial. This week Mercy addressed all comments left by Julia on the narratives.

She researched and added existing plant examples for all solutions. For the spreadsheet, she added scores on all options and a ranking legend. Mercy also looked for pyrolysis options more suitable for communities of 50, 100, and 200 populations. Further discussion led to shifting the focus of recommendations from pyrolysis to incineration, so she started new research on incinerators and ways to make incineration more sustainable. See below for some pictures related to this work.

Community Options for Sustainable Processing and Reuse of Non-recyclables

Yifei Zhu (Analyst and Researcher) also completed her 8th week working on reviewing and formatting for publication the newest content for the Net-zero Bathroom and Earthbag Village water collection and storage.

This week Yifei made additional revisions to the net-zero bathroom rainwater catchment content, replied to the comments, updated and replaced the tables within the written content, proofread the whole document, made sure to recheck for grammar mistakes, and submitted it for final review. Pictures below are related to this work.

Environmental Accounting ” Net-zero Bathroom and Earthbag Village water collection

Loza Ayehutsega (Civil Engineer/Assistant Civil Engineer) joined the team and completed her 1st week helping review the Net-zero Bathroom and Earthbag Village water collection and storage engineering calculations and designs.

This week, Loza reviewed the net-zero bathroom spreadsheet by checking the calculation on structural design and load calculation for roof design using several references and standards. Roof design calculation detail and load calculation approach were reviewed using Eurocode and ACI standards just to check the methodologies.

Loza also reviewed the report Google document since there are more descriptions and assumptions made there for the design approaches. See below for some pictures related to this.

Environmental Accounting ” Net-zero Bathroom and Earthbag Village water collection

ENVIRONMENTAL ACCOUNTING – DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER PROGRESS

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

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

This week, Luis Manuel Dominguez (Research Engineer) completed his 67th week, now helping with energy analysis for our open source solar microgrid design. This week Luis finished more updating of the Solar Sizing calculations for the Earthbag Village, Duplicable City Center, Ultimate Classroom, and Straw Bale Village while focusing mostly on the components that exceeded 400 kWh of usage.

He checked details and made updates where needed. Pictures below are related to this work.

Environmental Accounting ” Solar microgrid design

Venus Abdollahi (Architectural Designer) completed her 60th week helping finish the Duplicable City Center designs. This week Venus completed roof numbers 1, 2 and 3. She changed the roof rendering according to supervisor feedback, corrected the R-value for the roof layers, exported the Revit files to AutoCAD files, and saved all AutoCAD and Revit files to Dropbox.

This completes Venus’ work with us for now. See pictures below.

Environmental Accounting ” Duplicable City Center designs

Gabriela Vilela S. C. Diniz (Architect and Urban Planner) completed her 27th week working on the interior design for the Duplicable City Center rental rooms. This week, Gabriela worked on the last request made by Jae: Change 3 movies posters to more classic movies he suggested. After that, she started and ran the first set of final render tests for the bathroom and main room. Pictures below show some of this work.

Environmental Accounting ” Duplicable City Center rental rooms

Julia Meaney (Researcher and Assistant to Executive Director) completed her 16th week with the team. This week, Julia had a Zoom meeting with Jae to discuss various current and upcoming tasks. She checked on the “Waste to energy incinerators master” Spreadsheet (part of the Non-recyclables research) and resolved comments where feedback had been integrated.

Julia then began working on the “City Center Eco-laundry” Webpage completion task. She checked the Feedback PDF for the page and made sure that all comments had been integrated correctly.

Next, Julia began reading through the content of the “Eco-Laundry” webpage and the corresponding source Google Doc by Jinxi to familiarize herself with the integration and editing that this task requires. Julia continued by reviewing and edit content for grammar and spelling mistakes.

She also updated data as necessary, re-found and re-linked old resources, updated images and corrected various coding, captions, and linking mistakes, integrated the “old stuff” with the “new stuff”, and checked all of the web content with the source Google Doc as she worked. Finally, Julia backed up all of the linked resources from the content she had edited so far, uploading the back-up PDFs to her Dropbox. Pictures below are related to this work.

Environmental Accounting ” City Center Eco-laundry

Ranran Zhang (Architectural Designer) completed her 5th week working on the updated video internal and external walkthrough for the Duplicable City Center. This week, Ranran focused on modifying the SketchUp model based on feedback from last week and designing the main entrance doors through suggestions provided by Yuxi Lu (Architectural Designer) .

She added elements of trees to the glass doors to make them more integrated with nature and to improve their aesthetics. As the SketchUp model was modified, the corresponding cad file also needed to be adjusted accordingly. For this reason, Ranran and Yuxi had a one-hour meeting to discuss the parts that needed to be modified and made the needed updates to the master file in AutoCAD.

She also updated the entryway grates in front of the Social Dome to include empty catchment spaces below them. See below for some pictures of this work.

Environmental Accounting ” Internal and External walkthrough video for the Duplicable City Center

ENVIRONMENTAL ACCOUNTING – HIGHEST GOOD FOOD PROGRESS

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

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

This week the core team continued working on updates to the Chickens webpage. We researched information about different fencing options and provided data with advantages and disadvantages for each type of discussed fencing option.

The same team member also checked the time stamps with corresponding seconds in videos for December and June shadow movements for the Aquapini/Walipini food infrastructure described below. 

Environmental Accounting

Arthur Olifant (Videographer) completed his 21st week helping create videos. This week, Arthur also helped update the time details and finish rendering our Aquapini/Walipini videos showing the shadows over and into the structures during the longest and shortest days of the year. The pictures below show this work in progress. See pictures below that are related to this work.

Environmental Accounting ” Rendering our Aquapini:Walipini videos

ENVIRONMENTAL ACCOUNTING – HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION PROGRESS

One Community is creating a template for environmental accounting through Highest Good education that is for all ages, applicable in any environment, adaptable to individual needs, far exceeds traditional education standards, and more fun for both the teachers and the students.

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

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

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

Environmental Accounting ” Highest Good Education: All Subjects | All Learning Levels | Any Age

ENVIRONMENTAL ACCOUNTING – HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY PROGRESS

One Community is creating a template for environmental accounting 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

Over the past week the core team completed 25 hours managing One Community volunteer-work review not included above, emails, social media accounts, web development, and interviewing and setting up new volunteer team members. Pictures below show some of this.

Environmental Accounting ” Managing One Community volunteer-work review

An additional 10+ hours were invested by the core team in Highest Good Network software checkins and review.

Environmental Accounting ” Highest Good Network software checkins and review

And the core team created and implemented new Merry Christmas, Happy Hanukkah, Happy Kwanzaa, and Happy Winter Solstice holiday graphics and a new holiday strategy.

Environmental Accounting ” Created holiday graphics and a new holiday strategy

Ray Lee (Digital Creator) then took over on the graphics creation and helped create custom graphics for us to share each New Year. These graphics replace the heading on our website, are used in our New Year emails, and for the New Year blog.

Environmental Accounting ” Created custom graphics for us to share each New Year

Yiyun Tan (Management Dashboard Team Leader) completed her 38th week helping with the Highest Good Network software. This week Yiyun put most of her time on testing and reviewing PRs. She cherry-pick Kevin’s PR changes and raised a PR on Main. Next week she will go back to Management Dashboard work, wrapping up Eiki and Shaung’s leftover PRs.

Other than that, she ran management work, provided help on Slack, fixed release merge conflicts, and provided hotfixes. Pictures of some of this work are below.

Environmental Accounting ” Highest Good Network software

Navya Madiraju (React.js/MongoDB Full Stack Developer) completed her 13th week helping with the Highest Good Network software. This week Navya worked on PR reviews, started looking into bugs, slacked with Yiyun to check for some other tasks to work on, and started working on an alphabetization bug for the reports pages. Pictures below are related to this work.

Environmental Accounting ” Highest Good Network software

Aashish Thapa Magar (Full Stack Software Developer) completed his 12th week helping with the Highest Good Network software. This week the X Hrs for X Weeks bug was resolved and Aashish looked into the total hours in a category bug. The 200 hours in economics category badge is auto-assigned even though the hours of the category don’t match.

Aashish is continually debugging existing code to see if it needs an entire code change or just some minor changes. Pictures below relate to this work.

Environmental Accounting ” Highest Good Network software

Alan Lee Sing Chan Yau (Software Engineer) completed his 9th week helping with the Highest Good Network software. This week Alan started working on the teammates summaries PR. He got feedback to place the button as a navtab, instead of a button on the top. Alan also made sure that we can see only our teammates’ Summaries and not our teammate’s teammates.

Alan then proceeded to review the feedback he got for more urgent PRs that he submitted last week. Pictures below show some of this work.

Environmental Accounting ” Highest Good Network software

Jianjun Luo (Software Engineer) also completed her 6th week helping with the Highest Good Network software. This week Jianjun reviewed a few pull requests and updated a previous pull request according to the comment. She found a problem with the progress bars used in different components and solved it.

Jianjun fixed a bug about the hours shown in the tasks board too. After that, she began working on the previous assigned tasks of phase two. Pictures below show some of this work.

Environmental Accounting ” Highest Good Network software

Rajasri “RJ” Janakiraman (React/MongoDB Full-stack Developer) completed her 4th week helping with the Highest Good Network software. RJ reviewed 5 pull requests (628, 625, 616, 608 and 619), tested the application during various reviews and raised 2 bugs. She also worked on bug fix for Priority Low – #4 (took over from Shaun) and raised PR 632 for the same.

RJ analyzed the code flow for various tasks, read through multiple articles/blogs for understanding the ReactJs code used in the project, and maintained and managed necessary Slack communications. Pictures below show some of this work.

Environmental Accounting ” Highest Good Network software-reviewed pull requests

Johny dos Santos Anastacio (Software Engineer) completed his 4th week helping with the Highest Good Network software. Johny created a Details Button to see when specific badges were earned. Some badges are earned multiple times, so the button shows all dates when they were earned.

He then started to make some changes that were requested on his other task: “Creating sub-tasks in a WBS doesn’t create a new folder and makes the tasks uneditable”, because when a user deletes all subtasks of a task, the icon folder should disappear. Pictures below show some of this work.

Environmental Accounting ” Highest Good Network software

Shaun Sullivan (React/MongoDB Developer) completed his 4th week helping with the Highest Good Network software. This week Shaun worked on code cleanup for a good chunk of frontend code. He spoke with Yiyun and is going to continue the cleanup, with recommendations from her, over the coming weeks.

He also continued to work on the time refresh bug, RJ helped so much that she asked if she could take it over, he had no issues with that. She agreed to show him what she did to get it working upon completion. He then spent most of the week working on the screen resize for the user management page but was having difficulties in approaching the bug.

With some help Shaun realized it was not necessarily the page he was resizing, but the table, and that opened up doors for how he should be tackling this bug. Pictures below show some of this work.

Environmental Accounting ” Highest Good Network software

Aishwarya Kalkundrikar (Full Stack Software Developer) completed her 3rd week helping with the Highest Good Network software. This week Aishwarya had a conversation with Yiyun and discussed creating a new API to get the correct user profile. She then started working towards this feature.

She also went through various backend files and understood the backend code base structure, other APIs, their working, variables used, and their flow. Pictures below show some of this work.

Environmental Accounting ” Highest Good Network software

Pedro Elton (Frontend Software Developer) completed his 2nd week helping with the Highest Good Network software. This week, Pedro redesigned the Teams Report page, he had a meeting with Jae to decide on the layout and analyze the UX for the Team’s Report flow and coded about 60% of the page and its logic.

He also fixed text based on recent feedback provided by Jae on Figma and divided a large size component into smaller components, to make the code easier to maintain. Then Pedro created a simulation for user login privileges to test the toggle and how it’s going to appear for each user. Pictures below show some of this work.

Environmental Accounting ” Highest Good Network software

Said Rodrigues (Full Stack Developer) joined the team and completed his 1st week helping with the Highest Good Network software. This week Said read all the docs to familiarize himself with the work. He also was assigned to fix the WBS files not being parsed. He fixed those and raised the PR.

Said also started to collect information to update the realtime clock for HGN activity, searched through a lot of message brokers to seek the best one for our use case, and revisited the previous implementation notes. Check out the pictures below as examples of this work.

Environmental Accounting ” Highest Good Network software

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One Community welcomes Alan Lee Sing Chan Yau to the Software Development Team as our newest Volunteer/Consultant!

Alan is a software engineer with experience in web and mobile development. He has over 2 years of experience in software development and a strong interest in learning and finding solutions to problems in efficient ways. Alan believes that the best way to contribute to sustainability is by focusing on our lifestyle, by using less and managing our resources better. As a member of the One Community team, Alan is helping with the development of the Highest Good Network software by addressing bugs and implementing new features.

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One Community is forwarding intentional community design through open source and free-shared step-by-step plans for replication. The comprehensive plans include food, energy, housing, education, for-profit and non-profit economic design, social architecture, fulfilled living, global stewardship practices, and more.

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

OUR MAIN OPEN SOURCE HUBS

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

One Community’s physical location will forward this movement as the first of many self-replicating teacher/demonstration communities, villages, and cities to be built around the world. This is the January 1st, 2023 edition (#510) of our weekly progress update detailing our team’s development and accomplishments:

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INTENTIONAL COMMUNITY DESIGN – HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING PROGRESS

One Community is forwarding intentional community design through Highest Good housing that is artistic and beautiful, more affordable, more space efficient, lasts longer, DIY buildable, and constructed with healthy and sustainable materials:

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

This week the core team member managing the aircrete compression testing team had a meeting with the aircrete team and discussed the plan during winter break, and looked over data gathered to this point, so as to provide more guidance to the students.

The same team member also reviewed solar sizing work, Net-zero Bathroom rainwater catchment content, and discussed how to move forward with City Center hub connector conclusions and final review after finding some errors.

Intentional Community Design ” Managing aircrete compression testing team

Ming Weng (MS Geography & Environmental Engineering) completed his 36th week helping with the Best Small and Large-scale Community Options for Sustainable Processing and Reuse of Non-recyclables research, report, and tutorial. This week, Ming did the final step of inquiry with Dongguan Haibao with its representative and engineers.

It turned out the cost of waste separation for downstream recycling and WTE methods is the most economical option. A customized waste separator system is an option they provide. They suggest incorporation of their product with specialized incinerators / pyrolyzers / gasifiers. Ming also started working on writing theoretical parts of the documents, using work from his previous weeks.

Pictures below show some of this work-in-progress.

Intentional Community Design ” Sustainable Processing and Reuse of Non-recyclables

Charles Gooley (Web Designer) also completed his 16th week helping with web design. Charles spent the week working on the Flexible Pavement Design section of the Sustainable Roadways, Walkways, and Landscaping page.

This included part A (preliminary analysis), part B (California Bearing Ratio Design Procedure), part C (Required Structural Number Design Procedure: American Association of State Highway Officials (AASHTO)’s model), part D (Quality Assurance and Quality Control) and most of part E (Flexible Pavement Widening).

Charles included alt text and mouseover text for the images, and mouseover text for the links. There were also several anchor links from special technical terms to the glossary. In one paragraph, Charles inserted Greek character codes rather than using screenshots.

Intentional Community Design ” Web Design

Julia Meaney (Researcher and Assistant to Executive Director) completed her 15th week with the team. This week, Julia continued to review and address integrated feedback on the “Addressing Non-recyclables” Google Doc and the “Waste to energy incinerators master” Spreadsheets. She made various updates to the spreadsheet format to make it more visually effective.

Julia then completed her first review of the “Hot Tub Sanitizer Alternatives” Google Doc and the “Hot tub sanitary non-chlorine alternative” sheet in the “Waste to energy incinerators master” Spreadsheet. She used the comments to offer her feedback for expanded research and further edits.

Also this week, Julia worked on completing the “Open Source Climate Battery Design” webpage. She added the requested additional resources from the corresponding Google Doc to the live page and then backed them all up to her Dropbox folder. She then checked that all of the items in the “Resources” section on the webpage had been backed up to the correct folder.

For those that weren’t, Julia added them to the folder and labeled each item to match what’s on the webpage. She then finalized this task by writing the webpage summary and fixing final coding issues throughout. She also had a meeting with Jae about what’s needed to fully update the “City Center Eco-laundry” webpage with the 100s of hours or additional research we have.

Intentional Community Design ” Addressing Non-recyclables

Philip Bogaerts (Structural Window Designer) completed his 10th week working on completing the Most Sustainable Windows and Doors research. This week Philip worked on the descriptions of every door to rank them properly. He also improved the narratives per material and ranked them according to which material is the most sustainable.

And he also changed the spreadsheet and some of the topics being discussed. For the final topic “costs” he is still looking to optimize the table. See below for some pictures of this work.

Intentional Community Design ” Most Sustainable Windows and Doors research

Yifei Zhu (Analyst and Researcher) also completed her 7th week working on reviewing and formatting for publication the newest content for the Net-zero Bathroom and Earthbag Village water collection and storage. This week Yifei revised the net-zero bathroom content.

She replied to the comments, updated the tables in the writeup because the tables were updated to have fewer significant digits, proofread the whole document, and made sure the grammar was proper. Pictures below are related to this work.

Intentional Community Design ” Net-zero Bathroom and Earthbag Village water collection

INTENTIONAL COMMUNITY DESIGN – DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER PROGRESS

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

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

This week Venus Abdollahi (Architectural Designer) completed her 59th week helping finish the Duplicable City Center designs. This week Venus completed roofs number 1, 2, and 3. She modeled the roof according to the SketchUp model on the Revit file, made a section of the roofs to show the R-value and define the roof layers. See pictures below.

Intentional Community Design ” Duplicable City Center designs

Luis Manuel Dominguez (Research Engineer) completed his 66th week, now helping with energy analysis for our open source solar microgrid design. This week Luis continued updating the Solar Sizing calculations for the Earthbag Village, Duplicable City Center, Ultimate Classroom, and Straw Bale Village.

He focused on the components that exceeded 400 kWh of usage across the sites, he updated some outdated information on that tab, and added to the description of how to use this spreadsheet. Pictures below are related to this work.

Intentional Community Design ” Solar Microgrid Design

Daniela Andrea Parada (Civil Engineering Student) completed her 57th week, focusing now on the Duplicable City Center Project Specification and Design Basis report. This week Daniela continued to go through the images that were untitled, attempted to find them online, and researched the proper titles that correlated with the image.

Jae then presented her with a new task, reviewing the Net-zero Bathroom content. She read through the action list and asked a few questions, then reviewed multiple tabs from the google sheet for the calculations and initialized her name on each row where the calculations were approved. Pictures below are related to this work.

Intentional Community Design ” Duplicable City Center Project Specification and Design Basis report

Gabriela Vilela S. C. Diniz (Architect and Urban Planner) completed her 26th week working on the interior design for the Duplicable City Center rental rooms. This week, Gabriela worked on updating posters for older movies, worked on trim around the ticket booth/window, fixed the problem with the box for the TV, and changed the tower sound system on the floor to a wall sound system. Pictures below show some of this work.

Intentional Community Design ” Duplicable City Center rental rooms

Ranran Zhang (Architectural Designer) completed her 4th week working on the updated video internal and external walkthrough for the Duplicable City Center. This week, Ranran focused on modifying the SketchUp model based on feedback from last week and the previous renderings. She also cooperated with Jae to verify some details in the model.

Modified areas include 1) Social Dome hall: Made the seats around the tree spacious enough and removed the plants around the tree 2) Dining Dome: Repaired the grate at the doorway so that it is at the same height as the ground; modeled roof lights and added them to the dining room’s roof.

In addition, Ranran and Yuxi Lu (Architectural Designer) discussed the design of the entrance door. According to the precedent given by Yuxi, Ranran designed a sketch of the door. Ranran also applied the tree branch shape to the entrance door and imported the sketch into AutoCAD for modification. See below for some pictures of this work.

Intentional Community Design ” Internal and External walkthrough for the Duplicable City Center

INTENTIONAL COMMUNITY DESIGN – HIGHEST GOOD FOOD PROGRESS

One Community is forwarding intentional community design through Highest Good food that is more diverse, more nutritious, locally grown and sustainable, and part of our open source botanical garden model to support and share bio-diversity:

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

This week core team continued detailed review and feedback on the Transition Food Self-sufficiency Plan. We worked on the 3-Day Menu Block doc correcting areas where ingredients in the ingredients list were included in the instructions.

We also posted a few comments asking for further clarity, increased amounts of ingredients where the quantities deemed necessary, and updated to green all areas of work through page 45.5 that were complete during this first comprehensive draft review. Pictures below relate to this work.

Intentional Community Design ” 3-Day Menu Block

Another member of the core team also started adding final chicken details to the Chickens webpage. We researched information about incubation and hatching chicken eggs and provided a spreadsheet with temperature and humidity requirements for each day of the incubation cycle. We also started research about fencing to protect chickens from ground and aerial predators, and added research links to the resource section. 

Intentional Community Design ” Chicken Coop Design

INTENTIONAL COMMUNITY DESIGN – HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION PROGRESS

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

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

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

Intentional Community Design ” Highest Good Education: All Subjects | All Learning Levels | Any Age

INTENTIONAL COMMUNITY DESIGN – HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY PROGRESS

One Community is forwarding intentional community design 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

Over the past week the core team completed 27 hours managing One Community volunteer-work review not included above, emails, social media accounts, web development, Highest Good Network software checkins and review, and interviewing and setting up new volunteer team members. Pictures below show some of this.

Intentional Community Design ” Managing One Community volunteer-work review

Yiyun Tan (Management Dashboard Team Leader) completed her 37th week helping with the Highest Good Network software. This week Yiyun put most of her time into fixing the “blue squares cannot be deleted” problem. She solved the problem and raised a PR for it.

Yiyun also helped with a broad diversity of management work, providing help on Slack, fixing release merge conflicts, PR reviews, etc. Pictures of some of this work are below.

Intentional Community Design ” Highest Good Network software

Yan Xu (Software Development Engineer) completed her 23rd week helping with the Highest Good Network software. This week Yan tried to fix the bug with blue square emails not sending when blue squares are manually added to a person. After investigating she found this may be caused by the bug high priority 3 that users can not save the user profile when clicking to add a blue square.

After deeper investigation, she found it was caused by the Axios put error. Now Yan is trying to fix this Axios put function on the frontend and backend. See pictures below for some of this work.

Intentional Community Design ” Highest Good Network software

Navya Madiraju (React.js/MongoDB Full Stack Developer) rejoined the team and completed her 12th week helping with the Highest Good Network software. This week Navya started looking into the blue square sorting issue. She cloned the latest code into local and then ran the project and added a few blue squares and tested the functionality.

She then implemented the sorting function, tested it by adding a few blue squares and deleting blue squares. It works and now the blue squares are adding by the data not by the date added. She raised the PR and the PR got approved. Navya also worked on PR approval and suggested a few changes. Pictures below are related to this work.

Intentional Community Design ” Highest Good Network software

Guilherme Wustro (Full Stack Developer) completed his 11th week helping with the Highest Good Network software. This week Guilherme fixed the Newly Created Tasks Bug and made the PR for this bug fix. Also, he did 2 PR reviews, one about the Code clean up, and another about the weekly summaries shown in the user profile.

To fix the bug, Guilherme changed the classification default to Housing, and if a sub-task is created, the default is the “mother” task, but It is changeable using a drawdown. Pictures below relate to this work.

Intentional Community Design ” Highest Good Network software

Aashish Thapa Magar (Full Stack Software Developer) completed his 11th week helping with the Highest Good Network software. This week, he familiarized himself more with the already written hundreds of lines of codes and logic for the cause behind the bugs (XHrsForXWeeks specific codes). Then Aashish created new logic to attain the desired results and wrote new codes accordingly. The work is halfway done. Pictures below relate to this work.

Intentional Community Design ” Highest Good Network software

Kaixiang “Kevin” Gu (Fullstack Software Developer) completed his 9th week helping with the Highest Good Network software. This week, Kaixiang focused on making intangible hours editable on the Profile Page. Intangible hours should be editable by an admin or owner and save changes made on the user profile.

It also should keep track accurately whenever a user edits his or her intangible time entries or manually edits hours on the user profile. Kaixiang will make a pull request for this bug fix in the next week. Pictures below show some of this work.

Intentional Community Design ” Highest Good Network software

Alan Lee Sing Chan (Software Engineer) completed his 8th week helping with the Highest Good Network software. This week, Alan started by working on the PR about creating a view summaries button. He made some changes, mainly to be able to see the last three summaries. He raised the PR.

He he started working on fixing a problem on the WeeklySummaries component where the wrong “Total submitted” count was showing. Alan then made some changes by displaying the WeeklySummariesCount variable as the same variable stored in userProfile object. The last thing Alan did was review Guilherme’s PR and approved it. Pictures below show some of this work.

Intentional Community Design ” Highest Good Network software

Jianjun Luo (Software Engineer) also completed her 5th week helping with the Highest Good Network software. This week Jianjun continued working on the HGN phase one bug fixes. She reviewed three pull requests, located a problem and provided suggestions for one of them. She added a dropdown selection for the category/classification when the user tries to save a new task. It will show and save the default project category without selecting. Then Jianjun fixed the progress bar shown in the summary bar and member task board, which did not reflect the percentage of work before. Info description for the leaderboard has been updated to avoid confusion. Pictures below show some of this work.

Intentional Community Design ” Highest Good Network software

Rajasri “RJ” Janakiraman (React/MongoDB Full-stack Developer) completed her 3rd week helping with the Highest Good Network software. This week RJ worked on approving a few PRs (606 and 602), worked on bug fix and created PR 607, created a source code management doc, created a tags doc, and replied to a diversity of team comments. She also had a short call with Aishwarya to update the status of Phase II tasks and provided her suggestions on the bug she is working on. Pictures below show some of this work.

Intentional Community Design ” Highest Good Network software

Johny dos Santos Anastacio (Software Engineer) completed his 3rd week helping with the Highest Good Network software. Johny fixed the ability to create sub tasks of tasks and have the original task become a folder for the new tasks. He also made it possible to click a task from a person’s dashboard and now see the other tasks in the same folder.

Johny then started working on his new task: “Need a details button or other way to see when specific badges were earned. Some badges are earned multiple times, so the button needs to show all dates when they were earned”. Pictures below show some of this work.

Intentional Community Design ” Highest Good Network software

Shaun Sullivan (React/MongoDB Developer) completed his 3rd week helping with the Highest Good Network software. This week Shaun worked on multiple bugs. He adjusted the Badge Box to align with the TimeLog box, adding the Container/Row/Col to the Badge component which fixed this.

He also fixed the phoneInput bug so that it would accept Foreign numbers, adding in a regions section to the phoneInput component to allow for numbers outside the US to be input. He helped with code cleanup and continued working on the TimeEntryForm bug.

All code is entered, server is able to start and app runs, however he cannot find the console.log for what he is trying to search for, so Shaun is unsure if the code is actually working properly. Pictures below show some of this work.

Intentional Community Design ” Highest Good Network software

Cali Huddleston (Software Developer) joined the team and completed her 1st week helping with the Highest Good Network software. This week Cali got started by completing the Onboarding Checklist, signing the volunteer agreement and understanding the basic requirements/communication procedures.

Cali then followed the instructions on how to run the app locally. After successfully running the app locally, she took the time to go through some of the code to get a better understanding of what tools were being used and how the overall concept is being developed. With this research, she found some tools that she had not used previously.

So, Cali then took the time to research these tools such as Axios, Dependabot, and ESLint. After the research and getting a basic idea of what these tools are used for, she then looked over the list of bugs and decided to start working on #12 (Name not appearing upon page load). After some digging, she found that the Axios GET request is not obtaining the data upon loading.

She also found that the setHeaderData function is not being triggered (found by running a console.log which did not appear in the console). Cali is further investigating this and will be taking a look at the bug #13 also, as per Jae’s recommendation/request. Pictures below show some of this work.

Intentional Community Design ” Highest Good Network software

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