This week the core team completed 36 hours managing One Community volunteer-work review not included above, emails, social media accounts, web development, new bug identification and bug-fix integration for the Highest Good Network software, and interviewing and getting set up new volunteer team members. Pictures below show some of this work focusing on creating a society that works for everyone.

Another core team member while working on creating a society that works for everyone, began verification of all the modifications made to the working Highest Good Network software. She conducted testing on a total of 12 PRs from the designated list of fixed PRs. After thorough examination, it was determined that 10 of these PRs have been successfully resolved, demonstrating their effectiveness in addressing the identified issues.

However, two PRs were found to remain unresolved, indicating the persistence of the problems initially associated with them. In addition to testing the fixed PRs, the core team also reported two new PRs, accompanied by detailed explanations outlining the specific problems encountered and supplemented with supporting images for further clarity. See images below for examples of this work in progress.

Yiyun Tan (Management Dashboard Team Leader) completed her 59th week helping with the Highest Good Network software. This week, creating a society that works for everyone, Yiyun dedicated a significant portion of her time to creating new readme files for repositories and assisting in investigating an urgent bug related to users being deactivated automatically. In addition to these tasks, she actively contributed to the team’s efforts on Slack by providing support for problem-solving, bug reporting, and maintaining existing tutorials. Below, you’ll find pictures highlighting the development of this work.

Kaixiang “Kevin” Gu (Fullstack Software Developer) completed his 31st week helping with the Highest Good Network software. This week, creating a society that works for everyone, Kaixiang dedicated time to conducting final reviews for three pull requests, namely PR905, PR906, and PR908. In addition, he addressed an issue where the weekly committed hours couldn’t be updated in the user profile. Kaixiang successfully resolved this problem by implementing a hotfix, submitting a new pull request, and obtaining approval. He also allocated time to setting up the application environment on a Mac, and reinstalling all necessary components from scratch, resulting in the successful running of the application. Pictures below show some of this work-in-progress.

Jianjun Luo (Software Engineer) completed her 30th week helping with the Highest Good Network software. This week, creating a society that works for everyone, Jianjun successfully accomplished two tasks related to permission management. Firstly, she addressed a bug that prevented users from editing or deleting time entries made by other users while viewing their dashboard, despite being granted permission by the owner through user permission management. Jianjun rectified this issue, ensuring that the appropriate permissions were recognized and applied correctly. Additionally, she conducted thorough reviews of two pull requests, providing valuable feedback and ensuring the code met the necessary standards. Pictures below are related to this work.

Raul Effting(Jr. Front-End Web Developer) completed his 24th week helping with the Highest Good Network software. This week, creating a society that works for everyone, Raul dedicated his efforts to resolving several bugs in the timer feature of the application. He successfully addressed issues such as the input bug, tasks loading bug, and the add intangible time bug, ensuring improved functionality and user experience. Additionally, Raul implemented a new text editor that replaced all existing text editors within the application. To ensure quality, he invested time in thoroughly testing the timer, searching for alternative text editors, and adapting them to seamlessly integrate with the application. Below are some images related to this work.

Aishwarya Kalkundrikar (Full Stack Software Developer) completed her 22nd week helping with the Highest Good Network software. This week, creating a society that works for everyone, Aishwarya reviewed the frontend files to determine if any functions were making additional calls to the “putUserProfile” function, but no such changes were found. Aishwarya attempted to modify the email sender to send emails only once, but this resulted in a breakdown of the functionality. Further investigation is required. Additionally, Aishwarya successfully reviewed and approved frontend PR #917. She also provided comments on the document outlining the implementation of a feature related to the email sender, specifically addressing the settings required to send test emails. Pictures below show some of this work.

Lucas Emanuel Souza Silva (Software Developer) completed his 18th week helping with the Highest Good Network software. This week, creating a society that works for everyone, Lucas completed several tasks and resolved issues in the project. He successfully finished the Red Bell Task and addressed a bug that previously prevented non-team users from accessing their tasks.

Additionally, Lucas implemented a feature where the timelog tab becomes the default tab for volunteer users who have no more tasks. In addition to these accomplishments, Lucas performed a thorough and comprehensive review of pull requests, identified the PRs that required merging, and assisted users with the initial setup and platform’s functionalities. Pictures of some of this work are below.

Jinchao Feng (Software Engineer) completed his 17th week helping with the Highest Good Network software. This week, creating a society that works for everyone, Jinchao took on various development tasks and made notable contributions to the team’s projects. One of Jinchao’s primary focuses was addressing bugs in the teammembertask component following the launch of a new timer function. By developing a hotfix, Jinchao successfully resolved the issues and ensured the smooth functioning of the component. In addition to bug fixes, Jinchao dedicated efforts to enhance the efficiency of the timeLog component.

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

Yongjian Pan (React.js/MongoDB Full Stack Software Developer) completed his 13th week helping with the Highest Good Network software. This week, creating a society that works for everyone, Yongjian successfully resolved an issue related to login functionality, specifically addressing the scenario where users entered the correct email but an incorrect password. He ensured that an appropriate error message, stating “Invalid email and/or password,” would be displayed in such cases.

Furthermore, Yongjian also addressed another issue concerning login attempts with both an incorrect email and an incorrect password, ensuring that the same error message would be displayed consistently. In addition to these bug fixes, Yongjian dedicated effort to enhance the project report functionality by adding the ability for members to copy project reports. Additionally, he worked on improving the display of the Work Breakdown Structure (WBS) ID on mobile devices. See the images below for a look at this work.

Yihan Liu (Software Engineer) completed her 12th week helping with the Highest Good Network software. This week, creating a society that works for everyone, Yihan focused on addressing two bugs in the system. The first bug is fixing the weekly summary submission date, and the second is removing the additional ‘save’ function when adding projects and Teams. Yihan successfully resolved the first issue by addressing bugs in the WeeklySummary.jsx and FormattedReport.jsx files, based on Zubing’s review.

In the case of the second problem, he conducted an in-depth analysis of the code and successfully identified the target file. Additionally, Yihan dedicated time to reviewing PR#836 and PR#362, which were urgent and related to final day functionality issues. Furthermore, Yihan reviewed PR#916, which functioned as expected. ‹See the pictures‹ below related to this work.

Abdelmounaim “Abdel” Lallouache (Software Developer) completed his 11th week helping with the Highest Good Network software. This week, creating a society that works for everyone, Abdel focused on various tasks within the project. One of the main areas of work involved testing the follow-up checkbox, ensuring its proper functionality and reliability. Additionally, Abdel successfully addressed a bug in the checkWhoNeedsFollowUp function, ensuring that it now operates as intended.

Another important aspect of the week’s work was updating the tooltip information by providing an additional explanation of the checkbox’s functionality. To enhance user experience, Abdel also created the followUpMouseoverText function, which dynamically generates and displays different information based on the progress made by a user on a specific task. The pictures below are related to this work.

Lucile Tronczyk (Full Stack Software Developer) completed her 9th week helping with the Highest Good Network software. This week, Lucile, creating a society that works for everyone, diligently addressed various technical issues within the system. She initiated an investigation into the blue square bug, focusing on understanding its root cause. Simultaneously, Lucile made concerted efforts to identify the reasons behind the occurrence of a bug associated with end dates and profiles being removed.

Additionally, she successfully implemented a solution to enhance user experience by ensuring proper input focus on specific pages. Through her coding expertise, Lucile enabled the cursor to automatically initiate in the relevant fields of teams, projects, and User Search. Her systematic approach and dedication resulted in the resolution of these issues, contributing to the overall improvement of the system. The pictures below relate to this.

Vishvesh Sheoran(Artificial Intelligence Specialist) completed his 9th week helping with the Highest Good Network software. This week, creating a society that works for everyone, Vishvesh played a key role in developing an action plan for implementing a content recommendation engine on the specified website. With a meticulous approach, he analyzed requirements, conducted in-depth research, and devised a comprehensive strategy. Vishvesh’s expertise in tool selection and strategic planning showcased his technical proficiency and commitment to delivering effective solutions. See pictures below showing his efforts.

Alexander G Huerta (Software Engineer) completed his 8th week helping with the Highest Good Network software. This week, creating a society that works for everyone, Alexander focused his efforts on the Weekly Summary Component. Recognizing the impact of chatGPT and other AI text completion tools on the creation and submission of weekly summary reports, Alexander introduced updates to the summary form’s placeholder text and added 2 new checkboxes to ensure the summary’s quality, such as a prompt to review the summary.

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

Xiao Tan (Software Engineer) completed her 8th week helping with the Highest Good Network software. This week, creating a society that works for everyone, Xiao, now a member of the PR Review Leadership Team, dedicated her time to reviewing multiple pull requests, including PR905, 402, 904, 911, 398, 401, 901, 802, and 343. She meticulously examined each request, offering valuable feedback and providing accompanying screenshots to ensure clear communication.

In addition to her reviewing responsibilities, Xiao actively contributed to the development process by working on the “Round hours numbers to two digits” task. She successfully set up and tested the emailSender functionality at the backend, subsequently raising PR407. Furthermore, Xiao commenced work on another task titled “Fix and date is not changing on the User Management Page,” displaying her ability to tackle multiple assignments simultaneously. See images supporting this below.

Edwin Estuardo Lau Mack (Software Engineer) completed his 7th week, helping with the Highest Good Network software. This week, creating a society that works for everyone, Edwin dedicated his efforts to reviewing pull requests (PRs) and advancing the development of the HGN application as a member of the Dev Team, primarily focusing on Frontend functionality. Alongside reviewing multiple PRs, Edwin implemented the functionality of the “X” checkmark in the team member tasks component.

The “X” mark allows the user to click on it, triggering a modal to confirm the removal of a user from a task. If confirmed, the task name and user ID are passed as props, deleting the user from the resource list of the task in the backend and readjusting the team member tasks without page refresh. Additionally, when a user removes themselves from a task, the dropdown for “intangible time entry” is updated dynamically.

Edwin also added the frontend permission “View and interact with ‘X'” to enable visibility of the checkmark. Throughout the week, Edwin reviewed a total of 10 PR’s: #398, #402, #891, #904, #905, #909, #910, #914, #916, #918. Images showing this progress are below.

Xiao Wang (Software Engineer) completed his 7th week helping with the Highest Good Network software. This week, creating a society that works for everyone, created PR 918 to address a bug in the PROJECTS/TASKS/WBS COMPONENT # 6. During the code review, it was discovered that the member list of the AddTaskModal component was not being updated when the redux store received data from the server. To rectify this issue, Xiao Wang made necessary modifications to ensure timely updates. Additionally, obsolete codes that had not been utilized since PR 694 were removed to improve code clarity. See supporting images below.

Yubo Sun (Full Stack Software Developer) completed his 7th week helping with the Highest Good Network software. This week, creating a society that works for everyone, Yubo provided an update for frontend pull request (PR) #826, which was communicated via Slack due to repeated results. He dedicated further efforts towards resolving the warnings by working on Make Non-Editable filed in Task Obvious, which is now PR#860. It was discovered that these warnings did not occur in the development branch, but rather within the PR itself. Yubo suspects an improperly used git stash function during code testing.

While addressing this, he engaged in discussions with Jae regarding the feature of editing hours in Task, which turned out to be another component sharing the same structure. He suggested the use of a container component, but due to the difference in components, the decision was made not to address it in this PR.

Additionally, Yubo continued work on Task 149, focused on fixing the ability to add professional links to the Profile page. After confirming that no backend changes were required, Yubo proceeded with frontend adjustments and consulted relevant tutorials. The incorrect usage of dispatch and useReducer functions has been refactored. The pictures below relate to and show some of this work, aimed at creating a society that works for everyone.

Nathan Hoffman (Software Engineer) completed his 6th week helping with the Highest Good Network software. This week, creating a society that works for everyone, Nathan actively engaged in the code review process and carried out various tasks related to permissions. He reviewed PR 401 and generated a bug report. Additionally, he re-reviewed PRs 867 and 842, providing additional suggested changes. Nathan reviewed the implemented changes in PR 881, ensuring their effectiveness, and subsequently approved the PR. Upon request, he re-reviewed PR 842.

Furthermore, Nathan verified the existence of all necessary permissions in permissionsBackEnd and immersed himself in permissions documentation. He completed a form for proposing changes and worked on merging back-end and front-end permissions. During the process, he encountered an instance without back-end permissions and proceeded to replace front-end permissions that had corresponding back-end equivalents.

Nathan’s efforts included attempting to set up a test database for alternate permissions, but instead, he created an alternate role collection in the main database. Despite this, he successfully achieved the functionality of alternate permissions. While some work remains in terms of writing permissions and conducting tests, Nathan’s progress demonstrates his dedication and meticulous approach to permissions management. The pictures below show some of this work, aimed at creating a society that works for everyone.

Papia Sharmin (Full Stack Developer) completed her 6th week helping with the Highest Good Network software. This week, creating a society that works for everyone, Papia accomplished her designated task with success and delivered PR #913. Her main areas of focus were enhancing the leaderboard’s functionality and restructuring the code. Furthermore, she incorporated CSS styles to guarantee visually appealing buttons across different screen sizes.

Papia also resolved the problem of displaying the member list of the previously logged-in user on the leaderboard for the current user. Additionally, she actively engaged in the review process for PRs #891, #910, and #914 on the frontend. Through careful evaluation, Papia provided valuable feedback and ultimately granted approval for these pull requests. Below are some images related to this work, aimed at creating a society that works for everyone. Â 

Xiaoyu Chen (Software Engineer) completed her 5th week helping with the Highest Good Network software. This week, creating a society that works for everyone, Xiaoyu diligently worked on refining the software interface. Her initial plan involved the introduction of a clear button and a dropdown menu, but she soon realized the consequential heavy reliance on the ‘reactstrap’ API.

To circumvent this, she intelligently altered her approach and substituted the button with radio options, thus enhancing user-friendliness while simultaneously reducing API dependency. This constructive change further facilitated the ‘handleMoveOptions’ function to reset content based on the selected value, improving the system’s interaction with the past four weeks’ summaries.

Throughout this process, Xiaoyu appreciated the insightful feedback from her colleagues. Leon Zhuang contributed by identifying typographical and capitalization inconsistencies, while XiaoTan and OAkinbode suggested repositioning the Tab feature for a superior user experience. Taking their advice onboard, Xiaoyu adjusted the location of the Tab toggle within the handleMove functions, leading to improved user interaction. After implementing these improvements, she turned her focus on resolving bugs associated with media and Dropbox links.

Xiaoyu’s initial step involved changing the weekly summary name within the create user profile function. She then developed an efficient solution to substitute the ‘mediaUrl’ in the summary submissions by incorporating a ‘GoogleDocLink’ into the ‘getWeeklySummaries’ function, a modification she intends to execute in the immediate future. Nevertheless, a minor hiccup occurred when she failed to switch between the software branches, resulting in a slight mix-up. Showing resilience, Xiaoyu successfully resolved this by segregating the issues into two separate branches, thereby maintaining the functionality and integrity of the codebase. Check out the pictures below as examples of this work, all aimed at creating a society that works for everyone.

Nida Zaki (Software Engineer) completed her 5th week helping with the Highest Good Network software. This week, creating a society that works for everyone, Nida installed new libraries, PrimeReact and Quill, and conducted research to ensure compatibility with the existing React version. She successfully implemented a method for the PrimeReact text editor to adapt to the current code logic by utilizing a global variable to store the selected tabId of selected tabName, which was then utilized by the text editor. Additionally, she incorporated wordCount logic to accurately track the number of words within the text editor.

Furthermore, she dedicated time to researching the inclusion and removal of the popstate eventListener, along with implementing session Storage to establish the default tab selection as “Last week”. Nida also implemented leonzh2k’s suggestion and diligently traced PRs and commits to identify the specific code change responsible for the deactivation of active users bug. The pictures below are examples of this work, all aimed at creating a society that works for everyone.

Alyx Parr (Senior Support Specialist) completed her 1st week helping with management, coordination, and overall support of the One Community project. This week, creating a society that works for everyone, Alyx worked to grasp all the nuances of the team, meticulously reviewing their tasks to ensure they had completed everything as required. She also helped with data entry by  learning and beginning the process of importing the Transition Food Self-sufficiency Plan recipes into to the Master spreadsheet. The pictures below are examples of this work.

Olawunmi Ijisesan (Administrative and Management Support) completed her 1st week helping with management, coordination, and overall support of the One Community project. This week, creating a society that works for everyone, Ola acquiring new skills including data entry, uploading website pictures into spreadsheets, and inputting data for the Transition Food Self-sufficiency Plan and “Transition Kitchen Recipe build Out from the Master Recipes and 3-Day Menu Blocks” documents.

Additionally, Ola diligently organized folders for HGN, NON-HGN, and PR team members in the designated location for the collage and HGN Website Blog. Ola also actively participated by providing comments and responses on team members’ Google Docs. Pictures of some of this work are below.

Stevie Acuña (Volunteer Graphic Designer) completed his 1st week as a volunteer graphic designer helping with graphic design projects for all of One Community. This week, creating a society that works for everyone, Stevie commenced his role as a volunteer graphic designer. He dedicated time to thoroughly reading the onboarding instructions and familiarizing himself with his responsibilities.

As part of his initial tasks, Stevie conducted research, brainstormed ideas, and gathered relevant information and visuals to develop Weekly Progress Updates Social Media and YouTube Preview/Intro Images. These images hold significant importance as they serve as the initial visual representation for individuals engaging with One Community’s content, aligning with the organization’s mission of Creating a Society that Works for Everyone. Examples of his work are below.

Jin Hua (Web Marketer and Graphic Designer) helped us analyze our traffic drop problem and implement several performance solutions while focusing on creating a society that works for everyone. The pictures below show some of this work.

The Highest Good Network software PR Review team also worked to test all of the above PRs and find any bugs they could within those PRs and the software as a whole. This week’s active members of this team working towards creating a society that works for everyone and how many weeks they’ve been with us are as follows:  Anish Pandita (Software Engineer) completed his 18th week, Eduardo Horta (Software Engineer) completed his 6th week, Kurtis Ivey (Full Stack Developer) completed his 2nd week, Leon Zhuang (Software Engineer) completed his 2nd week.

Maham Almizan Khan (Software Engineer) completed her 2nd week, Olga Yudkin (Software Engineer) completed her 3rd week, Rachna Vijay Pandya (Full Stack Developer) completed her 1st week, “Sola” Olusola Akinbode (Full Stack Software Developer) completed his 5th week, Steve Paalz (Software Developer) completed his 5th week, Tzu-Ning “Leo” Chueh (Software Engineer) completed his 1st week, Yufei Zhang (Software Engineer) completed her 4th week, and Zubing Guo (Software Engineer) completed her 2nd week. The collage below shows a compilation of the work from this team contributing to creating a society that works for everyone.

This week the core team completed 48 hours managing One Community volunteer-work review not included above, emails, social media accounts, web development, new bug identification and bug-fix integration for the Highest Good Network software, and interviewing and getting set up new volunteer team members, all while striving to integrate the principles of abundance in natural systems.. Pictures below show some of this work. 

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

This week the core team completed 46 hours managing One Community volunteer-work review not included above, emails, social media accounts, web development, new bug identification and bug-fix integration for the Highest Good Network software, and interviewing and getting set up new volunteer team members. Our efforts are driven by a commitment to sustainable eco-progress, and pictures below show some of this work.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

This week the core team completed 40 hours managing One Community volunteer-work review not included above, emails, social media accounts, web development, new bug identification and bug-fix integration for the Highest Good Network software, and interviewing and getting set up new volunteer team members. Pictures below show some of this work.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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