Creating a more sustainable world is easier with open source sustainability infrastructure. One Community is supporting this by creating open source plans, tools, and tutorials covering sustainable 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 creating a more sustainable world as the first of many self-replicating teacher/demonstration communities, villages, and cities to be built around the world. This is the July 19th, 2020 edition (#382) of our weekly progress update detailing our team’s development and accomplishments:

Creating a More Sustainable World
One Community Progress Update #382

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ONE COMMUNITY WEEKLY UPDATE DETAILS

CREATING A MORE SUSTAINABLE WORLD – HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING PROGRESS

One Community is creating a more sustainable world 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 continued our detail review of work and research completed to date on hydropower for the open source Hydro Energy Setup and Maintenance page. This week we created an excel sheet to calculate power, began consolidating our notes for our introduction to hydropower, and researched resources for hydropower engineering design and equipment.

You can see some pictures of this research below.

Creating a More Sustainable World ” Continued Review of Research Completed on Hydropower

Angela Mao (Sustainability Researcher) also completed her 9th week as a member of the team. This week, Angela finished editing her plastic recycling tutorial and submitted it for review. She also compiled a list of the best products from each of the lighting brands and continued to research deeper into each of the brand’s sustainability practices.

She also looked for the best lighting practices to conserve energy. You can see some of this behind-the-scenes work below.

Creating a More Sustainable World -Finished Editing Plastic Recycling Tutorial & Submitted to Review

Ashwini Ramesh (Civil Engineer and Project Manager) continued with her 11th week helping with the Earthbag Village cost analysis and open source tutorials. This week Ashwini focused on researching compass installation, rubble trench footer formworks, rainwater harvesting, and french drains and gutters. You can see some of this work-in-progress below.

Creating a More Sustainable World ” Helping With Earthbag Village Cost Analysis & Open Source

Pallavi Samaiya (Business Technology Analyst) also continued with her 5th week researching how to sustainably manage and process non-recyclable waste. This week Pallavi researched cities and organizations already using waste to energy systems. She looked in to some differences in the types of these systems and into the economics and incentives for setting up such businesses.

You can see some of the pictures of the research below and we’d say this brings this tutorial to about 30% complete.

Creating a More Sustainable World ” Researched Cities & Orgs Already Using Waste to Energy

Michael Hagler (Senior Graphic Designer and Artist) also helped create all the new Highest Good Housing icons you see below.

Creating a More Sustainable World ” Helped Create All the New Highest Good Housing Icons

CREATING A MORE SUSTAINABLE WORLD – DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER PROGRESS

One Community is creating a more sustainable world 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 continued our detailed review of the Duplicable City Center energy analysis needed for LEED Platinum certification and completion of the City Center open source HVAC design tutorial. This week we adjusted the thermal efficiency for the boilers and remodeled the HVAC system based on the Mini Split designs and added clear labels. You can see some of this work-in-progress below.

Creating a More Sustainable World ” Continued Detailed Review of the Duplicable City Center Energy

And the core team continued working on the Duplicable City Center structural engineering details. This week the core team continued implementing an approach to accommodate all floors of the structures into one integrated model and brought this process to 90% complete. The final provision will be extending the supporting columns and specify the material and section details for the individual members.

In addition to this, the core team also inserted the seismic analysis function and load cases into the analysis. Once the model is ready for analysis after all the setup, hopefully by next week, the seismic analysis can be conducted to determine the displacement and reactions in the structure. You can see some of this work below.

Creating a More Sustainable World ” Continued Working on the Duplicable City Center Structure

This week Radhieka Nagpal (Volunteer Researcher) completed her 19th and final week researching the Most Sustainable Building Materials: Carpet, Flooring, Wood, Etc. This week Radhieka finished editing the ‘types of flooring descriptions’ by restructuring the features and pros/cons sections into Features/Pros and Cons sections to make the benefits more clearly separated from the negatives.

This brings the behind-the-scenes design of this tutorial to 100% complete.

Creating a More Sustainable World ” Continued Researching the Most Sustainable Building Materials

Ian Coletti (Environmental Studies Major Researcher) completed his 6th week researching for the Most Sustainable Windows and Doors open source guide. This week Ian completed what should be a majority of the window and door spreadsheets and began working on the company ranking spreadsheet. You can see some of this work-in-progress below.

Continued Research for the Most Sustainable Windows and Doors Open Source Guide ” Click for Page

And Ashish Hirani (Fire Protection Engineer) joined the team and completed his 1st week working on the City Center Sprinkler and Emergency Lighting Design. This week Ashish developed the Basis of Design document for emergency & exit lighting systems. He also prepared an A1 drawing template layout, that could be adapted for all A1 sized AutoCAD drawings.

Joined the Team and Began Working on the City Center Sprinkler and Emergency Lighting Design

CREATING A MORE SUSTAINABLE WORLD – HIGHEST GOOD FOOD PROGRESS

One Community is creating a more sustainable world 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 our research on rabbits and added edits and updates to pages 1-28, incorporating various paragraphs into more appropriate sections, reading through the pages and deleting and adding various info, and adding more sources to the resources section. You can see some of this work-in-progress below and we’d say we’re now about 95% complete with this research.

Continued Our Research on Rabbits and Added Edits and Updates to our Google Doc.

The core team also continued working on the open source chicken coop step-by-step building instructions on our behind-the-scenes google doc. This week’s focus was finishing the south wall (nesting boxes wall) siding and windows installation and updating all the related instructions on pages 79-87. You can see some of this work-in-progress below.

Continued Working on the Open Source Chicken Coop Step-by-Step Building Instructions

Mohammad Almuzaial (Civil and Construction Engineer) continued with his 31st week helping with the Aquapini/Walipini engineering details. This week Mohammad finished the introduction of the design criteria report. You can see some of this work work-in-progress below and we’d say we’re now about 96% complete with the structural details.

Creating a More Sustainable World ” Finished the Introduction of the Design Criteria Report

Jessica Wienke (Food & Nutrition Project Consultant and CEO & Co-Owner of The Artisan Wheelhouse & The Roots of Medicine) and Aly Shannon (Food & Nutrition Project Consultant and Creative Director & Co-Owner of The Roots of Medicine) continued with their 5th week working on the Transition Food Self-sufficiency Plan.

This week they completed recipes for Pumpkin Muffins, Garden Veggie Red Sauce Pasta, Vegan Oatie Brownies, Red Curry, and Curry Burgers, all for the vegan recipe pages, as you see here.

Creating a More Sustainable World ” Continued Creating Vegan Recipes for the Transition Food Plan

And Moti Scotti (Permaculturalist) joined the team and began a detailed review of the Permaculture Doc the core team has been developing for the past year. She corrected errors, rewrote some sections, and deleted parts that would be confusing to the reader. You can see some screenshot of some of her changes below.

Joined the Team and Began a Detailed Review of the Permaculture Doc

CREATING A MORE SUSTAINABLE WORLD – HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION PROGRESS

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

This component of One Community is about 95% complete with only the Open Source School Licensing and Ultimate Classroom construction and assembly details remaining to be finished.

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

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

This week Zebao Chen (Structural Designer) Â completed her 13th week working on the Ultimate Classroom structural engineering details. This week, Zebao updated the section design and construction details to match the new material selection, light cement insulation. In addition, she researched the structure at the openings, windows and doors.

Her new perspectives show additional wood frame to support the straw bales above the openings. She also created the 3D models showing the construction detail and process. The 3D view and the elevation now show the element relationships in the structural system. You can see some of this work below and we’d say this brings the engineering of this building to 75% complete.

Updated the Section Design and Construction Details to Match the New Material Selection

Xiaolu Song (Landscape Designer) also completed her 4th week working on the playground and other external details of the Ultimate Classroom. This week Xiaolu used AutoCAD and Photoshop to create a colored plan, two detailed plans include outdoor learning space and a small town for younger kids. You can see some of this work below.

Continued Working on the Playground and Other External Details of the Ultimate Classroom

Shuwei Liu (Landscape Designer) also completed her 3rd week working on the playground and other external details of the Ultimate Classroom. This week Shuwei continued to update the planting selection board and SketchUp model and drew a cross section for the North side of the site.

Continued Working on the Playground and Other External Details of the Ultimate Classroom

CREATING A MORE SUSTAINABLE WORLD – HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY PROGRESS

One Community is creating a more sustainable world 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 Henry Nguyen (React Developer) completed his 24th week with the team and working on the Highest Good Network software. This week Henry fixed bugs from last week, fixing a problem with the sum of hours not adding properly from the excel file. Now the app will automatically recalculate tasks and other information after you import them from excel.

He also found another problem on the hour format with numbers including decimals not calculating accurately. If you put 52.5, it will keep 52 only. You can see some of this work below.

Creating a More Sustainable World ” Continued Working on the Highest Good Network Software

Alvaro Hernández (Open Source Tech Consultant, Developer) completed his 17th week as a member of the Highest Good Network software and web design teams. This week Alvaro improved the webpage review checklist so it now includes all reviewed aspects of the “Sustainable Parking Lot Construction Guide” and has a better format.

He also started to edit the “Best Small and Large-scale Community Clothing Recycling, Reuse, and Repurposing Options” tutorial, began to discuss the use of linting and code formatting tools and created a “Requirement Management Procedure For AirB&B Code Style conventions” doc to detect if this improvement is worth the effort or not.

You can see some screenshots of Alvaro’s behind-the-scenes work below.

Creating a More Sustainable World ” Continued Working on the HGN Software and Web Design

Wen Zhang (Software Engineer) completed her 13th week as a volunteer working on the Highest Good Network software too. This week Wen worked on the MongoDB database, read part of the reactstrap documentation and learned some new tricks, and created the different views for badge display and badge descriptions shown below.

Creating a More Sustainable World ” Continued Working on the Highest Good Network Software

Ross Edwards (Chief Imagination Officer, G3) completed his 13th week helping promote One Community. Ross is someone who found our project, loved what we are doing, and offered to just help contact people he (and we) thought might be interested in what we’re doing. This week he continued to promote our project and the One Community helping page to media outlets and philanthropists.

You can see below this last week’s list of who he contacted and the press release he is sharing.

Creating a More Sustainable World ” Promoting the Project & One Community Page to Media Outlets

Andon Ignatov (Full-stack Developer) completed his 10th week working on the Highest Good Network software. This week Andon wrote full tests for the Weekly Summaries Report page and related components. That work included doing research on whether React functional components with hooks can be tested using Jest and Enzyme.

He wrote the tests for the “WeeklySummariesReport” component with React Testing Library including the redux store related code (actions, reducers) utilizing the Mock Service Worker (MSW) library. Andon also included snapshot testing for the components used to generate the reports data for the web page and the PDF report files.

You can see screenshots of some of this work below.

Creating a More Sustainable World ” Wrote Full Tests for the Weekly Summaries Report Page

TEKtalent Inc. (a custom programming solutions company) also continued with their 7th week helping with the Highest Good Network software. This week Nithesh and the TEKtalent team completed the reset password functionality and introduced hyperlinking in the user management grid item to open the user profile.

Upon clicking the first name or last name the user profile page shall open with details. The reset password button has been introduced in both the grid and user profile page, upon clicking this button a popup will be shown to enter and confirm the password. Once the administrator enters the new password and clicks, the reset password button will trigger the password reset.

You can see some of this work below.

Creating a More Sustainable World ” Continued Working on the Highest Good Network Software

Adam Capdeville (Software Engineer) completed his 6th week working on the Highest Good Network software. Adam began his week fixing issues with the displaying of blue squares. Admins will now be the only one who can edit blue squares. The Blue Squares edit screen has been fixed so Admins can edit single fields if they choose to do so.

Display of user links and admin links are now grouped together too. Adam optimized the links by displaying the buttons with the link name, instead of displaying link name and link URL next to each other. The link URL, often too long and incoherent, was extra information that didn’t need to be displayed.

Adam refined the links to be clean and more straight to the point. Users will be able to add and edit personal links, while admins will be able to add permanent work links that are listed first. Next week Adam will wrap up links and finish refactoring module 1.4. You can see some of Adam’s behind-the-scenes work below.

Creating a More Sustainable World ” Continued Working on the Highest Good Network Software

And Yiqi Feng (Software Engineer) continued with her 2nd week as a member of the Highest Good Network software team. This week Yiqi continued learning how the timer and time log component works and worked on getting her local machine to run the backend code and React App. You can see some of this work below.

Creating a More Sustainable World ” Continued Learning How the Timer and Time Log Works

Jin Hua (Web Marketer and Graphic Designer) also got the keywords created for a new adwords campaign we’ll be running, 728 keywords were researched. He also ran reports to identify what words have been performing best in our existing campaigns. You can see some of this work below and this marketing is part of a grant our nonprofit has received.

Creating a More Sustainable World ” Created Keywords for A New Adwords Campaign

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One Community has developed an open source sustainability model capable of creating global sustainability within our lifetime.

When the designs are complete, we’ll use them to launch a global network of teacher/demonstration hubs designed to help people replicate sustainable environments integrating ecological and “Highest Good” approaches to food, energy, housing, education, for-profit and non-profit economic design, social architecture, fulfilled living, global stewardship practices, and more.

Doing this so they are modular and easy enough, affordable enough, and attractive enough to spread on their own is how we will accomplish our global sustainability goal.

• 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 an open source sustainability model as the first of many self-replicating teacher/demonstration communities, villages, and cities to be built around the world. This is the July 12th, 2020 edition (#381) of our weekly progress update detailing our team’s development and accomplishments:

An Open Source Sustainability Model
One Community Progress Update #381

DONATE | COLLABORATE | HELP WITH LARGE-SCALE FUNDING

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AN OPEN SOURCE SUSTAINABILITY MODEL – HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING PROGRESS

One Community is developing an open source sustainability model 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 continued our detail review of work and research completed to date on hydropower for the open source Hydro Energy Setup and Maintenance page. The focus this week was reviewing several documents in support of the hydropower topic. You can see some pictures of this research below.

An Open Source Sustainability Model ” Detailed Review of Work and Research on Hydropower

The core team also began final formatting, editing, and development of the Open Source Sustainable Parking Lot guide. This week we fixed HTML code issues accidentally transferred from the Google Doc into the entire page and then finalized the content and imagery for the introduction, table of contents, What, Why, and first section of the Details. We’d say this page is now 90% complete. 

Began Final Formatting, Editing, and Development of the Open Source Sustainable Parking Lot Guide

Dean Scholz (Architectural Designer) continued helping with the Earthbag Village (Pod 1) 4-dome cluster designs. This week was week #193 of Dean’s work and the focus this week was adjusting textures for trees and plants and adding a fire pit and sitting area. You can see some of this work below.

An Open Source Sustainability Model ” Adjusted Textures for Trees, Adding a Fire Pit and Sitting Area

Angela Mao (Sustainability Researcher) also completed her 8th week as a member of the team. This week, Angela finished her plastic recycling business tutorial and is now awaiting Core Team review of her work.

Angela also narrowed down the best lightbulb brands down to 6 and is now researching their sustainability practices. She also started to compile a list of the most sustainable products from each of these brands. You can see some of this behind-the-scenes work below.

An Open Source Sustainability Model ” Created, Updated and Further Developed Colored Plans

Ashwini Ramesh (Civil Engineer and Project Manager) continued with her 10th week helping with the Earthbag Village cost analysis and open source tutorials.

This week Ashwini continued to work on the Construction of Footer Foundation and Floor page for 3-dome and 6-dome clusters by conducting research on excavation and trenching and safety aspects as per OSHA and The Associated General Contractors of America. You can see some of this work-in-progress below.

An Open Source Sustainability Model ” Continued to Work on the Construction of Footer Foundation

Pallavi Samaiya (Business Technology Analyst) also continued with her 4th week researching how to sustainably manage and process non-recyclable waste. This week Pallavi researched on Plasma Gasification process, Plasco WTE system, Precious Plastic machines for shredding and recycling, and Dendro Liquid Energy.

You can see some of the pictures of the research below and we’d say this brings this tutorial to about 20% complete.

Research on Plasma Gasification Process, Plasco WTE System, Precious Plastic Machines

AN OPEN SOURCE SUSTAINABILITY MODEL – DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER PROGRESS

One Community is developing an open source sustainability model 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 continued our detailed review of the Duplicable City Center energy analysis needed for LEED Platinum certification and completion of the City Center open source HVAC design tutorial.

This week we applied construction sets and schedule sets to the various spaces, added an economizer to the HVAC system, adjusted the coefficient of performance (COP) for the DX Coil Heating based on data in the document, adjusted thermal efficiency for the electric boiler based on data in the document, and adjusted the layout of Mini Split A and B, with corresponding COP.

You can see some of this work-in-progress below.

An Open Source Sustainability Model ” Continued Detailed Review of the Duplicable City Center

And the core team continued working on the Duplicable City Center structural engineering details. This week we continued working on the SAP model to incorporate all the three levels in a single SAP file to create an integrated structural model for analysis. The combining process is currently at ⦝ of the overall, where the fourth level isn’t combined with the other two yet.

Another task started was the code (ASCE7-16) guidance of the seismic analysis. We researched the parameters needed for preliminary analysis and plan to calculate related values next week. You can see some of this work below.

An Open Source Sustainability Model ” Continued Working on the Duplicable City Center Structure

This week Radhieka Nagpal (Volunteer Researcher) completed her 18th week researching the Most Sustainable Building Materials: Carpet, Flooring, Wood, Etc. This week Radhieka edited the structure of the ‘types of flooring descriptions’ by converting the paragraph form into description, key features, and pros/cons. We’d say this brings this tutorial to 98% complete.

An Open Source Sustainability Model ” Continued Researching the Most Sustainable Building Material

And Ian Coletti (Environmental Studies Major Researcher) completed his 5th week researching for the Most Sustainable Windows and Doors open source guide. This week Ian continued to fill out the window information chart. His primary focus was on glazing options and energy star ratings. You can see some of this work-in-progress below.

An Open Source Sustainability Model ” Research on the Most Sustainable Windows and Doors

AN OPEN SOURCE SUSTAINABILITY MODEL – HIGHEST GOOD FOOD PROGRESS

One Community is developing an open source sustainability model 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 also continued researching rabbits. This week’s focus was more work on final formatting and additions covering info on harvesting and lack of inspections. You can see some of this work-in-progress below and we’d say we’re now about 95% complete with this research.

An Open Source Sustainability Model ” Continued Researching Rabbits on our Behind-the-Scenes

The core team also continued working on the open source chicken coop step-by-step building instructions on our behind-the-scenes google doc. This week’s focus was finishing the steps for the siding of chicken door side wall (East), framing the chicken door and getting details for sliding door installation, and starting the siding instructions for the Nesting Box wall (South).

You can see some of this work-in-progress below.

An Open Source Sustainability Model ” Working on the Open Source Chicken Coop Instructions

An Open Source Sustainability Model ” Creating Vegan Recipes for the Transition Food Plan

AN OPEN SOURCE SUSTAINABILITY MODEL – HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION PROGRESS

One Community is developing an open source sustainability model through Highest Good education that is for all ages, applicable in any environment, adaptable to individual needs, far exceeds traditional education standards, and more fun for both the teachers and the students.

This component of One Community is about 95% complete with only the Open Source School Licensing and Ultimate Classroom construction and assembly details remaining to be finished.

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

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

This week Zebao Chen (Structural Designer)  completed her 12th week working on the Ultimate Classroom structural engineering details. This week Zebao searched on the fire resisting construction of the straw bale walls and the wood structure. Per the 1-hour fire rating requirement, Zebao updated the structure plan by increasing the exposed wood elements dimensions.

According to the building code and ASTM E119, the flat straw bale stack without metal mesh will provide enough fire resistance of 1 hour. In addition, Zebao added more construction details indicating the section details of ceiling, roof, and overhead construction.

With the continuous thermal insulation surrounding the whole building, the building will have better energy performance and will save on maintenance costs in the long term. You can see some of this work below and we’d say this brings the engineering of this building to 70% complete.

An Open Source Sustainability Model ” Working on the Ultimate Classroom Structural Engineering

Xiaolu Song (Landscape Designer) also completed her 3rd week working on the playground and other external details of the Ultimate Classroom. This week Xiaolu used AutoCAD and Photoshop to create the updated and further developed colored plans and diagrams shown below.

An Open Source Sustainability Model ” Created, Updated and Further Developed Colored Plans

Shuwei Liu (Landscape Designer) also completed her 2nd week working on the playground and other external details of the Ultimate Classroom. This week Shuwei updated the plant selection research based on the project location, discussed the concept plan and programs location with Xiaolu, and updated the SketchUp model.

An Open Source Sustainability Model ” Working on Ultimate Classroom Playground and others

AN OPEN SOURCE SUSTAINABILITY MODEL – HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY PROGRESS

One Community is developing an open source sustainability model 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 Henry Nguyen (React Developer) completed his 23rd week with the team and working on the Highest Good Network software. This week Henry fixed problems from last week.

Now the commas will be back after we changed them in CVS files, the orders and task’s ID are working properly, a popup will display for users to see how to import tasks from the CVS, a bug was fixed to remove double quotation marks when adding tasks, he made the software default to Status “Not Started”, removed the need to input a date when adding new tasks, and other minor bug fixes.

There are problems with update functions and performance that still need to be fixed next week. You can see some of this work below.

An Open Source Sustainability Model ” Continued Working on the Highest Good Network Software

Alvaro Hernández (Open Source Tech Consultant, Developer) completed his 16th week as a member of the Highest Good Network software team. This week Alvaro worked on “Using Prettier and ESLint to produce better code” documentation for the HGN development team, mainly understanding the difference between prettier and ESlint, if they should work together, and how to configure them.

He also started talking with Yiqi to coordinate her work in continuing Tengxiao;s work on the timer features. You can see some screenshots of Alvaro’s behind-the-scenes work below. 

Worked on “Using Prettier and ESLint to Produce Better Code” Document for HGN Development Team

Wen Zhang (Software Engineer) completed her 12th week as a volunteer working on the Highest Good Network software too. This week Wen’s major progress is that the front end talks to the back end – a milestone. Front end fetches data from the badge collection in the database. “Real” badges can be displayed. Some bugs at the back end were also fixed. You can see some screenshots of Wen’s work-in-progress below.

An Open Source Sustainability Model ” Continued Working on the Highest Good Network Software

Ross Edwards (Chief Imagination Officer, G3) completed his 12th week helping promote One Community. Ross is someone who found our project, loved what we are doing, and offered to just help contact people he (and we) thought might be interested in what we’re doing.

This week he continued to promote our project and the One Community helping page to educators, engineers and various supporters of The Venus Project. He finished his promotion to educators and began promotion to media outlets. You can see below this last week’s list of who he contacted and screenshots of the overview and press release he is sharing.

An Open Source Sustainability Model”Finished Promoting to Educators & Began Promotion to Media

TEKtalent Inc. (a custom programming solutions company) also continued with their 6th week helping with the Highest Good Network software. This week Nithesh and the TEK talent team completed the remaining changes and actions in the “User Management” list page. The paused filter has been added in the search filter so that the admin can filter the paused users only.

The corresponding changes have been done in the REST Api as well. An action was also been given to the status column so that clicking on the status icon will ask for a confirmation and change the status of the user. You can see some of this work below.

Completed the Remaining Changes and Actions in the “user Management” List Page

Adam Capdeville (Software Engineer) completed his 5th week working on the Highest Good Network software. Adam started week five by continuing to work on bugs and web app aesthetics dealing with module 1.4, the user profile. Adam fixed the privacy settings feature for email, phone number and blue squares.

Adam also disabled the ability for users to add resource links, and only allowed social media links to be added and deleted. Admins currently have the ability to add and delete resource & social media links. Adam created a custom modal that allows admins to file blue squares manually (blue squares are infringements done by users).

The modal contains two fields, one for the date the infringement was made, and the second, a summary of the infringement. Currently access to add blue squares are allowed by all roles, next week, Adam will work to make blue squares limited to admins, and other users will only be able to see blue squares. You can see some of Adam’s behind-the-scenes work below.

Continued to Work on Bugs and Web App Aesthetics Dealing With Module 1.4, the User Profile

And Yiqi Feng (Software Engineer) joined the Highest Good Network software team and completed her 1st week. This week Yiqi read the project instruction and got familiar with HGN tools. She also set up her local development environment (Node.js, ESLint, Prettier, etc) and discussed with Tengxiao and Alvaro how to take over development of the timer functionality.

An Open Source Sustainability Model ” Joined HGN Software Team, Read the Instruction

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One Community is creating an open source blueprint for ecological living. It includes open source and sustainable approaches for food, energy, housing, education, for-profit and non-profit economic design, social architecture, fulfilled living, global stewardship practices, and more.

When the plans are complete, we’ll use them to build the first teacher/demonstration hub to check our work, add video and other media elements, and begin the global replication process.

• 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 July 5th, 2020 edition (#380) of our weekly progress update detailing our team’s development and accomplishments:

A Blueprint for Ecological Living
One Community Progress Update #380

DONATE | COLLABORATE | HELP WITH LARGE-SCALE FUNDING

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A BLUEPRINT FOR ECOLOGICAL LIVING – HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING PROGRESS

One Community is designing and sharing a blueprint for ecological living through Highest Good housing that is artistic and beautiful, more affordable, more space efficient, lasts longer, DIY buildable, and constructed with healthy and sustainable materials:

• • • Learn about: Our Upcoming Crowdfunding Campaign
    • Learn about the different village models: 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 finished the Earthbag Village (Pod 1) video walkthrough edits and additions to produce the video below.

One Community Earthbag Village Walkthrough

The core team also began a detailed review of work and research completed to date on hydropower and began adding more details to finish this tutorial so it is ready for publication on the open source Hydro Energy Setup and Maintenance page.

A Blueprint for Ecological Living ” Review of Work and Research to Date on Hydropower

Dean Scholz (Architectural Designer) continued helping with the Earthbag Village (Pod 1) 4-dome cluster designs. This week was week #192 of Dean’s work and the focus this week was adding and working to perfect the grass and bush additions shown in front of the window here.

This seems like a small thing but the grass alone took over 6 hours of work to get right.

A Blueprint for Ecological Living ” Working to Perfect Grass & Bush Additions in Front of the Windows

Alvaro Hernández (Open Source Tech Consultant, Developer) also finished the 3rd draft of editing and preparing the Open Source Sustainable Parking Lot guide for web publication. You can see some screenshots of the feedback before integration and some of what the newly edited page looked like after.

We’d say this page is now 85% complete. 

A Blueprint for Ecological Living ” Open Source Sustainable Parking Lot Guide

Angela Mao (Sustainability Researcher) also completed her 7th week as a member of the team. This week Angela finished the final research needed for the Best Small and Large-scale Community Paper Recycling, Reuse, and Repurposing Options page by researching paper businesses and various paper products that a small business could produce.

She also began research for sustainable lightbulb company ranking. So far, she has identified several brands and is browsing their websites for information about how sustainable they are. In addition to this, she added to her plastic recycling tutorial by looking at how plastic can be converted into oil and exploring options for creating plastic bottle schools and other buildings.

 You can see some of this behind-the-scenes work below.

A Blueprint for Ecological Living ” Best Small and Large-scale Community Paper Recycling Page

Ashwini Ramesh (Civil Engineer and Project Manager) continued with her 9th week helping with the Earthbag Village cost analysis and open source tutorials. This week Ashwini continued to work on the Excavation for Footer and Foundation page and writing the content for 3-dome and 6-dome Clusters. You can see some of this work-in-progress below.

A Blueprint for Ecological Living ” Earthbag Village Cost Analysis and Open Source Tutorials

Pallavi Samaiya (Business Technology Analyst) also continued with her 3rd week researching how to sustainably manage and process non-recyclable waste. This week Pallavi researched on landfills, incinerators and plasma gasification options for community processing of non recyclable products.

She was able to find some implementations of these processes as well. You can see some pictures below of this research and we’d say this brings this tutorial to about 10% complete.

A Blueprint for Ecological Living ” Landfills, Incinerators and Plasma Gasification Options

A BLUEPRINT FOR ECOLOGICAL LIVING – DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER PROGRESS

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

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

This week the core team continued our detailed review of the Duplicable City Center energy analysis needed for LEED Platinum certification and completion of the City Center open source HVAC design tutorial.

This week we updated the design days by updating the ddy file from the EnergyPlus website, updated the Occupancy under People Definition based on the measurements listed in that file, updated and verified the lighting definitions, with units converted, updated the freezer’s rate in Electrical Equipment Definitions, and updated the construction sets to the corresponding space types.

You can see some of this work-in-progress below.

A Blueprint for Ecological Living ” Continued Detailed Review of the Duplicable City Center Energy

And the core team continued working on the Duplicable City Center structural engineering details. This week we used access to the previous SAP model of the structure to review the current model with assigned material, section details and the end release conditions. With last week’s calculated snow load, different load combinations were performed to visualize the stress in the supporting columns.

The current challenge of the SAP model is to integrate the four floors in the same model in order to calculate the seismic reactions of the structure as a whole. Therefore, next week’s emphasis is on finding out the approach for this integrated SAP model. You can see some of this work below.

A Blueprint for Ecological Living ” Continued Working on Duplicable City Center Structure

This week Radhieka Nagpal (Volunteer Researcher) completed her 17th week researching the Most Sustainable Building Materials: Carpet, Flooring, Wood, Etc. This week Radhieka updated the pictures to royalty free ones and edited the 2 benchmarking spreadsheets from a rough version to a formal one, for linking in the main document. We’d say this brings this tutorial to 94% complete.

A Blueprint for Ecological Living ” Continued Researching the Most Sustainable Building Materials

Ziqian Zheng (Architectural Designer and Drafter) also continued working on the Duplicable City Center 3D walkthrough and completed his 33rd week as a volunteer designer with our team. This week’s focus was completion of draft one of the walkthrough by adding the remaining people needed, adjusting the walkthrough path, and fixing textures.

You can see some of this work below and we’d say creation of this walkthrough video is now 80% complete.

A Blueprint for Ecological Living ” Continued Working on the Duplicable City Center 3D Walkthrough

And Ian Coletti (Environmental Studies Major Researcher) completed his 4th week researching for the Most Sustainable Windows and Doors open source guide. This week This week Ian finished an initial determination of sustainability rankings for companies and began filling out an information spreadsheet for window products. You can see some of this work-in-progress below.

A Blueprint for Ecological Living ” Continued Research for the Most Sustainable Windows and Doors

A BLUEPRINT FOR ECOLOGICAL LIVING – HIGHEST GOOD FOOD PROGRESS

One Community is designing and sharing a blueprint for ecological living through Highest Good food that is more diverse, more nutritious, locally grown and sustainable, and part of our open source botanical garden model to support and share bio-diversity:

• • • Learn about the 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 also continued researching rabbits. This week’s focus was working on final formatting and additions and restoring some lost content.  You can see some of this work-in-progress below and we’d say we’re now about 90% complete with this research.

A Blueprint for Ecological Living ” Continued Researching Rabbits ” Click for Page

The core team also continued working on the open source chicken coop step-by-step building instructions on our behind-the-scenes google doc. This week’s focus was updating all the images on pages 35-72 after updating the screening. You can see some of this work-in-progress below.

A Blueprint for Ecological Living ” Open Source Chicken Coop Step-by-step Building Instructions

Continued Working on the Transition Food Self-sufficiency Plan; Created new Vegan Meals

A BLUEPRINT FOR ECOLOGICAL LIVING – HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION PROGRESS

One Community is designing and sharing a blueprint for ecological living through Highest Good education that is for all ages, applicable in any environment, adaptable to individual needs, far exceeds traditional education standards, and more fun for both the teachers and the students.

This component of One Community is about 95% complete with only the Open Source School Licensing and Ultimate Classroom construction and assembly details remaining to be finished.

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

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

This week Dan Alleck (Designer and Illustrator) completed his 82nd week helping with render additions and finishing work for the rooms in the Ultimate Classroom. This week he continued work on the 2nd render for the central area that will be used for plays and other events.

He redid the security coverings for the classrooms and curtains and backdrop, darkened the room, updated the lighted area, and added the first people to the scene.

Continued Helping With Render Additions & Finishing Work for the Rooms in the Ultimate Classroom

Zebao Chen (Structural Designer)  completed her 11th week working on the Ultimate Classroom structural engineering details. This week Zebao continued to analyze the structure system to support the attic storage area and roof. With the design dimensions, Zebao also double-checked the critical beam design with a large load applied to it.

The result shows the dimension is enough for strength design. With the final design result and code requirements in IBC, Zebao updated the structural layout plans for the ceiling plan, roof plan, and the section. You can see some of this work below and we’d say this brings the engineering of this building to 60% complete.

A Blueprint for Ecological Living ” Continued Working on the Ultimate Classroom Structure

Xiaolu Song (Landscape Designer) also completed her 2nd week working on the playground and other external details of the Ultimate Classroom. This week Xiaolu used photoshop to make new colored plans and diagrams, completed a view analysis, and then converted these plans into digital plans in AutoCAD. You can see some of this work below.

A Blueprint for Ecological Living ” Playground and Other External Details of the Ultimate Classroom

Shuwei Liu (Landscape Designer) also joined the team and completed her 1st week working on the playground and other external details of the Ultimate Classroom.

This week Shuwei did research about the plant selection suitable for the general children play area, found precedent projects related to sustainable landscape design, analyzed design strategies for stormwater management, and created the summaries and presentations shown below.

A Blueprint for Ecological Living ” Playground, Other External Details of the Ultimate Classroom

A BLUEPRINT FOR ECOLOGICAL LIVING – HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY PROGRESS

One Community is designing and sharing a blueprint for ecological living through a Highest Good society approach to living that is founded on fulfilled living, the study of meeting human needs, Community, and making a difference in the world:

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

Henry Nguyen (React Developer) also completed his 22nd week with the team and working on the Highest Good Network software. This week Henry fixed major bugs after we imported the WBS from CVS. There are still some minor bugs for right now but they will be easy to fix. He also added a function in the backend to find the users in the resources and link them to the user page.

The task of this week was especially challenging for Henry because he needed to re-designed some structure of the wbs and change algorithms to make the import data work with our database. You can see some of this work below.

A Blueprint for Ecological Living ” Fixed Major Bugs After We Imported the WBS From CVS

Alvaro Hernández (Open Source Tech Consultant, Developer) completed his 15th week as a member of the Highest Good Network software team. This week Alvaro continued the code review of Tengxiao’s timer component and researched how to make sure installation of plugins happened during the local environment set up.

This is so Tengxiao could verify the airbnb code style conventions compliance of his pull request. This would also clean up the formatting noise of future pull requests for a faster code review in the Highest Good Network development team.

This has been a complex topic for Alvaro since he had to learn how different development tools work behind the scenes to start understanding what was going on and how others in the team could make sure Linting tools are working in their development environments. You can see some screenshots of Alvaro’s behind-the-scenes work below. 

A Blueprint for Ecological Living ” Continued Working on the Highest Good Network Software

Wen Zhang (Software Engineer) completed her 11th week as a volunteer working on the Highest Good Network software too. This week Wen helped with code review, cleared some google doc comments/questions, and continued with her focus on the badge functionality, testing code on her local machine. You can see some screenshots of Wen’s work-in-progress below.

A Blueprint for Ecological Living ” Continued Working on the Highest Good Network Software

Ross Edwards (Chief Imagination Officer, G3) completed his 11th week helping promote One Community. Ross is someone who found our project, loved what we are doing, and offered to just help contact people he (and we) thought might be interested in what we’re doing.

This week he continued to promote our project and the One Community helping page to educators, engineers and various supporters of The Venus Project. You can see below this last week’s list of who he contacted and some screenshots of the overview he shares.

A Blueprint for Ecological Living ” Promoting Our Project Page to Supporters of the Venus Project

Andon Ignatov (Full-stack Developer) completed his 9th week working on the Highest Good Network software. This week Andon’s work mainly involved helping out with pull request reviews for others. That involved review and testing as well as related discussions on Slack, approval and merge of WBS4.2.6/Delete_User pull request.

He also implemented a new feature and submitted a pull request WBS# 4.2.4 for the HGNRest (backend), this feature will automatically reactivate a user based on the scheduled date. Towards the end of the week Andon started working on designing the unit testing for the Weekly Summaries Report component. You can see screenshots of some of this work below.

A Blueprint for Ecological Living ” Worked on Helping Out With Pull Request Reviews for Others

TEKtalent Inc. (a custom programming solutions company) also continued with their 5th week helping with the Highest Good Network software. This week Nithesh and the TEK talent team completed the Delete functionality changes. This will allow the administrator to delete a user with three options 1) Delete forever 2) Make them inactive 3) Delete user and archive data.

Upon clicking the delete button in the user management grid a popup will display with these three options. They have also added a new column in the user management grid which displays the resume date for the paused users. The team also introduced a default sort for the user management grid in the descending order of the created date so that the latest users will be listed on top.

You can see some of this work below.

A Blueprint for Ecological Living ” Completed the Delete Functionality Changes

And Adam Capdeville (Software Engineer) completed his 4th week working on the Highest Good Network software. This week Adam completed half of 1.4.8, profile blue squares visibility and added the ability for users to delete their own links. Viewability privacy for phone, email, blue squares is still in the works.

Adam also worked on creating a more minimal profile design and layout. Next week Adam will be working towards completing the privacy layer of user profiles as well as the overall overhaul of the look and feel of the profile. You can see some of Adam’s behind-the-scenes work below.

Completed Half of 1.4.8, Blue Squares Visibility, Added the Ability for Users to Delete Their Own Links

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One Community welcomes Angela Mao to the Research Team as our newest Volunteer/Consultant!

A high school student from Long Island, New York, Angela has always had an interest in sustainability and the environment. She has been a member of her school’s speech and debate team and DECA team for 3 years. She is also an active member of the Sierra Club and enjoys volunteering at beach cleanups and the Alley Pond Environmental Center. Passionate about researching a sustainable lifestyle for herself and for others, and wanting to have a positive impact on the planet, Angela believes that a balance can be struck between the environment, businesses, and our lifestyles. As a member of the One Community team, Angela helped write the complete clothing/textile tutorial, edit and finish the paper and plastic recycling tutorials, and is now researching the most sustainable bulbs, bulb companies, and other related sustainability topics.

WELCOME TO THE TEAM ANGELA!

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Building open source sustainable communities is possible just like building anything else open source. One Community is doing this for “The Highest Good of All.” Step one is finishing the open source designs for food, energy, housing, education, for-profit and non-profit economic design, social architecture, fulfilled living, and global stewardship practices. Step two is confirm everything is correct as we use them to build the initial teacher/demonstration community. Step three is hosting visitors and supporting others for global replication as we continue to build the additional open source village models.

• 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 June 28th, 2020 edition (#379) of our weekly progress update detailing our team’s development and accomplishments:

Building Open Source Sustainable Communities
One Community Progress Update #379

DONATE | COLLABORATE | HELP WITH LARGE-SCALE FUNDING

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HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING PROGRESS

One Community is building open source sustainable 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 how it relates to building open source sustainable communities: 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 created version 1 of the Earthbag Village (Pod 1) video walkthrough. This included recording and editing the audio, minor video edits, and adding the first round of transition elements, labels, and effect. You can see some of this work in progress below on how it relates to building open source sustainable communities.

Created Version 1 of the Earthbag Village Video Walkthrough – Click for Page

Dean Scholz (Architectural Designer) continued helping with the Earthbag Village (Pod 1) 4-dome cluster designs. This week was week #191 of Dean’s work and the focus this week was developing the ground texture and variability around the domes. See below for pictures on how it relates to building open source sustainable communities

Developed the Ground Texture and Variability Around the Domes – Click for Earthbag Village

Ashwini Ramesh (Civil Engineer and Project Manager) continued with her 8th week helping with the Earthbag Village cost analysis and open source tutorials. this week Ashwini began working on the excavation, footers and foundation research and content updates. You can see some of this work-in-progress below on how it relates to building open source sustainable communities.

Continued Helping With the Earthbag Village Cost Analysis and Open Source Tutorials – Click for Page

Pallavi Samaiya (Business Technology Analyst) also continued with her 2nd week researching how to sustainably manage and process non-recyclable waste. This week Pallavi This week Pallavi began researching Pyrolysis and Gasification options for community processing of non-recyclable waste products. You can see pictures of some of this initial research below on how it relates to building open source sustainable communities and we’d say this brings this tutorial to about 4% complete.

Pyrolysis and Gasification Options for Community Processing of Non-recyclable Waste Products

DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER PROGRESS

One Community is building open source sustainable 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 on how this relates to building open source sustainable communities: Duplicable City Center Open Source Hub

This week the core team began a detailed review of the Duplicable City Center energy analysis needed for LEED Platinum certification and completion of the City Center open source HVAC design tutorial. This week we updated the SketchUp files to the latest so the OpenStudio Plugins can be correctly extended, updated the proposed wall construction to R-37 (previously R-36), and updated the glazing materials and construction sets with more easy-to-follow names. You can see below some of this work-in-progress on how it relates to building open source sustainable communities.

Began a Detailed Review of the Duplicable City Center Energy Analysis – Click for Page

And the core team began working on the Duplicable City Center structural engineering details. This week we reviewed the current models of the structure in the AutoCAD drawings, worked on importing the CAD files to SAP2000 with adjusted scale and selected structural members, and reviewed the load design in ASCE 7-16 and calculated the required snow load with the guidance of the code specifications. You can see some of this work below on how it relates to building open source sustainable communities.

Began Working on the Duplicable City Center Structural Engineering Details – Click for Page

Ziqian Zheng (Architectural Designer and Drafter) also continued working on the Duplicable City Center 3D walkthrough and completed his 32nd week as a volunteer designer with our team. This week’s focus was adding in the central area and cupola sections of the structure, fixing textures, and adding a diversity of additional people and objects throughout all areas. You can see some of this work below on how it relates to building open source sustainable communities and we’d say creation of this walkthrough video is now 25% complete.

Continued Working on the Duplicable City Center 3D Walkthrough ” Click for Page

And Ian Coletti (Environmental Studies Major Researcher) completed his 3rd week researching for the Most Sustainable Windows and Doors open source guide. This week Ian finished initial examination of products from all listed companies. He also performed supplemental research on weatherstripping and began plotting company sustainability rankings. You can see some of this work-in-progress below on how it relates to building open source sustainable communities.

Finished Initial Examination of Products From All Listed Companies – Click for Page

HIGHEST GOOD FOOD PROGRESS

One Community is building open source sustainable 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 on building open source sustainable communities: 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 finished phase 1 of developing the open source permaculture design content by wrapping up the Case Study section with the final rollout details for each component. Next step for this is independent review and revisions by an experience permaculture designer joining our team next week.

Wrapped Up the Case Study Section With the Final Rollout Details for Each Component – Click for Page

The core team also continued researching rabbits. This week’s focus was taking info from 21 different rabbit articles and adding the best of what we learned to the developing research Google Doc. You can see some of this below on how it relates to building open source sustainable communities.

Continued Researching Rabbits – Click for Page

And the core team also continued working on the open source chicken coop step-by-step building instructions on our behind-the-scenes google doc. This week’s focus was resizing images, checking/correcting spelling of the whole document, updating pages 58 and 59, adding pages 61-66, and adding missing Step 10 on pages 32-34. You can see some of this work-in-progress below on how it relates to building open source sustainable communities.

Open Source Chicken Coop Step-by-step Building Instructions – Click for Page

Ali Ghahremannezhad (Mechanical Engineer) additionally continued with his 22nd week as a member of the team and working on the climate batteries for the Aquapini/Walipini structures. This week Ali worked on multiple new exhaust and intake layouts for the climate battery. These were needed to address conflicts with the internal layouts of the structures. You can see some of the proposed designs being discussed below and on how it relates to building open source sustainable communities.

Worked on Multiple New Exhaust and Intake Layouts for the Climate Battery – Click for Page

And Jessica Wienke (Food & Nutrition Project Consultant and CEO & Co-Owner of The Artisan Wheelhouse & The Roots of Medicine) and Aly Shannon (Food & Nutrition Project Consultant and Creative Director & Co-Owner of The Roots of Medicine) continued with their 2nd week working on the Transition Food Self-sufficiency Plan. This week they created and tested recipes for Greek Root Veggies, Veggie Scrap Vegetable Stock, and French-Style Onion Soup for the vegan recipe pages. You can see some of this work below on how it relates to building open source sustainable communities.

Created and Tested Recipes for Greek Root Veggies, Veggie Scrap Vegetable Stock – Click to Visit

HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION PROGRESS

One Community is building open source sustainable 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.

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 and on how it relates to building open source sustainable communities: 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

This week Zebao Chen (Structural Designer) completed her 10th week working on the Ultimate Classroom structural engineering details. This week Zebao analyzed the structure with new dimensions and spacings. The columns, lateral beams and girders were designed with PSL rectangular shapes in minimum required sizes. Straw bales were designed as thermal insulation layers attached to the wood structure. The details of straw bales attached to the wood columns and wood frame walls were designed to match the architectural design and construction. You can see some of this work below on how it relates to building open source sustainable communities and we’d say this brings the engineering of this building to 45% complete.

Ultimate Classroom Structural Engineering Details: Analyzed Structure – Click for Page

Xiaolu Song (Landscape Designer) also joined the team and completed her 1st week working on the playground and other external details of the Ultimate Classroom. This week Xiaolu started the first step of the ultimate classroom outdoor landscape architecture design by completing a basic site condition plan, bubble diagram, and iconic reference image analysis. You can see some of this work below on how it relates to building open source sustainable communities.

Working on the Playground and Other External Details of the Ultimate Classroom – Click for Page

HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY PROGRESS

One Community is building open source sustainable 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 and on how it relates to building open source sustainable communities: 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

Henry Nguyen (React Developer) also completed his 21st week with the team and working on the Highest Good Network software. This week Henry developed a function to import One Community Work Breakdown Structures from Excel. This is a challenging task because the structure of the Excel file is different. The display for the start and end day was also fixed, so now you can add an empty day. You can see some of this work below on how it relates to building open source sustainable communities.

Function to Import One Community Work Breakdown Structures From Excel – Click for Page

Alvaro Hernández (Open Source Tech Consultant, Developer) completed his 14th week as a member of the Highest Good Network software team. This week Alvaro reviewed Tengxiao’s pull request and added comments to his code. He also started to document the questions he got during the reviewing process so other reviewers have a guide for making reviewing easier in the future, especially if they are new to the process. You can see some screenshots of Alvaro’s behind-the-scenes work below on how it relates to building open source sustainable communities. 

Continued Working on the Highest Good Network Software ” Click for Page

Wen Zhang (Software Engineer) completed her 10th week as a volunteer working on the Highest Good Network software too. This week Wen researched on the implementation of a cron job and learned how the cron job for the blue squares is built. She has been creating and testing a new cron job for badges – a script running automatically at a specified time we set to check the criteria and assign badges. Some screenshots of Wen’s work-in-progress are below on how it relates to building open source sustainable communities.

Cron Job and Learned How the Cron Job for the Blue Squares is Built – Click for Page

Ross Edwards (Chief Imagination Officer, G3) completed his 10th week helping promote One Community. Ross is someone who found our project, loved what we are doing, and offered to just help contact people he (and we) thought might be interested in what we’re doing. This week he continued to promote our project and the One Community helping page to educators, engineers and various supporters of The Venus Project. You can see below this last week’s list of who he contacted and some screenshots of the overview he shares and on how this relates to building open source sustainable communities.

Continued to Promote Our Project and the One Community Helping Page – Click for Page

Andon Ignatov (Senior Web Developer) completed his 8th week working on the Highest Good Network software. This week Andon came very close to completing the work for the WBS #1.6.7. He created a way for an Admin to run a weekly report of all the users’ summaries for the current week, last week or the week before last.

He made the “Weekly Summaries Report” page and menu only available to admins. On that page an admin can now also generate PDF versions of the report so they can be downloaded for offline viewing. Andon also did review and testing for a WBS # 4.2.4 pull request in HGNApp (Pause or resume option in user management) and had it merged with the “development” branch. You can see screenshots of some of this work below on how this relates to building open source sustainable communities.

Continued Working on the Highest Good Network Software ” Click for Page

TEKtalent Inc. (a custom programming solutions company) also continued with their 4th week helping with the Highest Good Network software. This week Nithesh and the TEK talent team completed the additional changes for Pause functionality by implementing a popup to choose the reactivation date upon pause. They also completed the delete-user functionality so now, upon clicking the delete button on the user grid, a new popup will be shown so the Administrator can choose the delete options (Delete forever, Archive or Inactive) from the popup.

Along with these, a generic protected route React component has been created with generic role-based restrictions and the same is merged to the development branch so that everyone can use this. You can see some of this work below on how this relates to building open source sustainable communities.

Continued Working on the Highest Good Network Software ” Click for Page

And Adam Capdeville (Software Engineer) completed his 3rd week working on the Highest Good Network software. Adam completed module subsection 1.4.3, allowing users to create a professional job title for themselves on their profile. In order for Adam to complete the 1.4.3 he needed to familiarize himself with Node.js as he developed his module. With helpful guidance by Andon, Adam was able to update the database schema to contain user job titles, which allowed the front end to push and pull said data appropriately.

Adam also added a reminder overlay on the user profile, any time the user made a change to their profile a message would appear reminding them to save their profile. Adam wrapped up his week with comprehension of the Node.js DB and looking over issue 1.4.6, nearing completion. You can see some of Adam’s behind-the-scenes work below on how this relates to building open source sustainable communities.

Completed Module Subsection 1.4.3, Allowing Users to Create a Professional Job Title – Click for Page

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One Community welcomes Zebao Chen to the Design Team as our newest Volunteer/Consultant!

Zebao is a structural designer who graduated with double majors in architecture and civil engineering in structural engineering. She had two years experience as a teaching assistant in structural courses during graduate school, and has worked on offices, schools, residentials and renovations projects in architecture firms. She is familiar with building anatomy, construction details and structural planning. As a member of the One Community team, Zebao is helping develop the roof structure of the Ultimate Classroom.

WELCOME TO THE TEAM ZEBAO!

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One Community welcomes Andon Ignatov to the Highest Good Network Software Development Team as our newest Volunteer/Consultant!

A graduate from Carleton University with B.Sc. in Computer Mathematics, Andon has acquired over 12 years of experience working with various web technologies. He has worked as a consultant for the Canadian Government as well as numerous private sector projects. He also built a business creating and offering WordPress themes, with one of his most successful premium WordPress themes purchased and used by over 50,000 websites worldwide. As a member of the One Community team, Andon is helping develop the React.js version of the Highest Good Network Software.

WELCOME TO THE TEAM ANDON!

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Sustainable global change is possible if enough people want it. One Community sees the path to accomplishing this as making such change easy enough, affordable enough, and attractive enough to spread on its own. We’re designing and will build the first DIY-replicable teacher/demonstration hub to start the process. Over 400 volunteers have contributed to the open source and free-shared plans we’re developing. These plans cover sustainable and “Highest Good” approaches to 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 June 21st, 2020 edition (#378) of our weekly progress update detailing our team’s development and accomplishments:

Sustainable Global Change
One Community Progress Update #378

DONATE | COLLABORATE | HELP WITH LARGE-SCALE FUNDING

CLICK HERE IF YOU’D LIKE TO RECEIVE AN EMAIL EACH WEEK WHEN WE RELEASE A NEW UPDATE

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HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING PROGRESS

One Community is addressing sustainable global change 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 how this relates to sustainable global change: 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 continued work on the Sustainable Site Selection, Planning, and Preparation content. This week’s focus was a 2nd-person review and edits to identify final changes and additions needed to finish the tutorial. You can see some of this work below on how this relates to sustainable global change and this brings us to 98% complete with the behind-the-scenes editing of this tutorial.

Continued Work on the Sustainable Site Selection, Planning, and Preparation Content ” Click for Page

Alvaro Hernández (Open Source Tech Consultant, Developer) also finished the second draft of editing and preparing the Open Source Sustainable Parking Lot guide for web publication. You can see some screenshots of the feedback before integration and what the edited page looked like after. We’d say this page is now 70% complete. See below for pictures on how this relates to sustainable global change

“Open Source Sustainable Parking Lot Guide” for Web Publication – Click for Page

Ashwini Ramesh (Civil Engineer and Project Manager) returned to the team after almost 3 years off and continued with her 7th week helping with the Earthbag Village cost analysis and open source tutorials. This week Ashwini continued research and updates to the spreadsheet for all the materials, tools and equipment required for the construction of Earthbag Village and Tropical Atrium. This included updating all the costs and links to purchase the items. You can see some of this sustainable global change work-in-progress below.

Continued Helping with the Earthbag Village Cost Analysis and Open Source Tutorials ” Click for Page

Pallavi Samaiya (Business Technology Analyst) joined the team and completed her 1st week researching on sustainable global change and how to sustainably manage and process non-recyclable waste. This week Pallavi began writing the introduction for this tutorial and completed research on 3 different models which were using sustainable options for non-recyclables and were using recycled materials in construction. You can see some of the results of this research below and we’d say this brings this tutorial to 2% complete.

How to Sustainably Manage and Process Non-recyclable Waste – Click for Page

DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER PROGRESS

One Community is addressing sustainable global change 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 related to sustainable global change: Duplicable City Center Open Source Hub

This week the core team continued updating the Duplicable City Center 3D model to match the updated floor plans and interior design details. This week we fixed the Dining Dome window frames, missing second floor railing, and inside dome color, Living Dome window frames, and inside color of the dome, the Central Area window frames in all domes, added the waterfall shown below and rearranged the furniture, and updated the Social Dome window frames, removed parts sticking out from the walls, and updated the inside color of the dome. You can see some of these updates on how this relates to sustainable global change below.

City Center 3D Model to Match the Updated Floor Plans and Interior Design Details ” Click for Page

Radhieka Nagpal (Volunteer Researcher) also completed her 15th week researching the Most Sustainable Building Materials: Carpet, Flooring, Wood, Etc. This week Radhieka finished all the research and integration of all feedback to produce the final draft of this tutorial, submitting it for final review and preparation for addition to the website. The pages shown below were reviewed and approved for publication and we’d say this brings this tutorial to 90% complete.

Most Sustainable Building Materials: Carpet, Flooring, Wood, Etc. ” Click for Page

Ziqian Zheng (Architectural Designer and Drafter) also continued working on the Duplicable City Center 3D walkthrough and completed his 31st week as a volunteer designer with our team. This week’s focus was fixing textures and adding a diversity of people to all the structures. You can see some of this work below on how this relates to sustainable global change and we’d say creation of this walkthrough video is now 10% complete.

Continued Working on the Duplicable City Center 3D Walkthrough ” Click for Page

Ian Coletti (Environmental Studies Major Researcher) also completed his 2nd week researching for the Most Sustainable Windows and Doors open source guide. This week Ian continued to look into the product lines of the top window and door production companies. So far he has completed notes for 2 of them. He paid special attention to the merits of fiberglass vs steel and aluminum as component materials. You can see some of this work-in-progress below on how this relates to sustainable global change.

Continued Research for the Most Sustainable Windows and Doors Open Source Guide – Click for Page

HIGHEST GOOD FOOD PROGRESS

One Community is addressing sustainable global change 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 sustainable global change 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 developing the open source permaculture design content realted to sustainable global change. This week we completed subsection Observation And Research By Component within Step 2 of the Permaculture Design Case Study Section, which included mind maps, phased roll out details, conscious application of and thought to permaculture ethics and principles now and always, a list of observational focuses once on the property, and a summarized sector analysis and zones.

Continued Developing the Open Source Permaculture Design Content ” Click for Page

Mohammad Almuzaial (Civil and Construction Engineer) continued with his 30th week helping with the Aquapini/Walipini engineering details. This week Mohammad helped with the climate battery designs including: Finalizing annotations for the floor plans and site, exporting 2D drawings, reviewed the climate battery design to detect clashes between the climate battery design and architectural, structural, and plumbing models. He also prepared the outline for the design criteria report. You can see some of this work work-in-progress below on how this relates to sustainable global change and we’d say we’re now about 96% complete with the structural details.

Continued Helping With the Aquapini/walipini Engineering Details – Click for Page

And Jessica Wienke (Food & Nutrition Project Consultant and CEO & Co-Owner of The Artisan Wheelhouse & The Roots of Medicine) and Aly Shannon (Food & Nutrition Project Consultant and Creative Director & Co-Owner of The Roots of Medicine) joined the team and completed their first week working on the Transition Food Self-sufficiency Plan. This week they created behind-the-scenes recipes for Channa Saag Rice and Garden Veggie Stir Fry recipes for the Vegan Rice Recipes page, and Bolognese-Style Pasta for the Vegan Pasta Recipes page. You can see some of this work below on how this relates to sustainable global change.

Transition Food Self-sufficiency Plan – Click for Page

HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION PROGRESS

One Community is addressing sustainable global change through Highest Good education that is for all ages, applicable in any environment, adaptable to individual needs, far exceeds traditional education standards, and more fun for both the teachers and the students. This component of One Community is about 95% complete with only the Open Source School Licensing and Ultimate Classroom construction and assembly details remaining to be finished. With over 8 years of work invested in the process, the sections below are all complete until we move onto the property and continue the development and open sourcing process with teachers and students – a development process that is built directly into the structure of the education program and everything else we’re creating too:

• Program Overview on how this relates to sustainable global change: 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

This week Dan Alleck (Designer and Illustrator) completed his 81st week helping with render additions and finishing work for the rooms in the Ultimate Classroom. This week he helped with selection and addition of new room security for when this structure is used for after-hours events related to and not related to the school. You can see these additions covering the rooms here in view #2 of the central area showing this space being set up for a theater presentation.

Render Additions and Finishing Work for the Rooms in the Ultimate Classroom – Click for Page

Zebao Chen (Structural Designer) also completed her 9th week working on the Ultimate Classroom structural engineering details. This week, Zebao Chen finished the schematic drawings including the floor plan, ceiling plan, roof plan, section, and elevations. The updated plans reflected the new structure layout, room layout, and furniture layout. Zebao also worked on the elevations. You can see some of this work below on how this relates to sustainable global change and we’d say this brings the engineering of this building to 35% complete.

Floor Plan, Ceiling Plan, Roof Plan, Section, and Elevations – Click for Page

HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY PROGRESS

One Community is addressing sustainable global change 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 on how it relates to sustainable global change: 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

Henry Nguyen (React Developer) also completed his 20th week with the team and working on the Highest Good Network software. This week Henry added an edit function that lets users edit the task after they create them. The edit function will update the task with new information and also update their parent tasks. The challenge for this task is to work on both front-end and back-end (API).

There are some bugs that need to be fixed to remove members from task. It is also still missing the loading bar that lets the user know all information is updating. Additionally, we still have a problem with the re-order functions that make drag and drop inconsistent. You can see some of this work below on how it relates to sustainable global change.

Added an Edit Function That Lets Users Edit the Task After They Create Them – Click for Page

Alvaro Hernández (Open Source Tech Consultant, Developer) completed his 13th week as a member of the Highest Good Network software team. This week Alvaro started to review some code pull requests, one related to a version bump in a software tool we are using inside the webapp and another one from a peer volunteer developer. During these reviews he also added additional content in the Workflow and Github documentation to improve related internal processes. You can see some screenshots of this behind-the-scenes work below on how this relates to sustainable global change. 

Code Pull Requests and Added Content in the Workflow and Github Documentation – Click for Page

Ross Edwards (Chief Imagination Officer, G3) completed his 9th week helping promote One Community. Ross is someone who found our project, loved what we are doing, and offered to just help contact people he (and we) thought might be interested in what we’re doing. This week he continued to promote our project and the One Community helping page to educators, engineers, and various supporters of The Venus Project. You can see below this last week’s list of who he contacted and some screenshots of the overview he shares and how this relates to sustainable global change.

Continued to Promote Our Project and the One Community Helping Page – Click for Helping Page

Andon Ignatov (Senior Web Developer) completed his 7th week working on the Highest Good Network software. This week Andon implemented a new API endpoint in the HGNRest API that can be used to request reports and emails for weekly summaries. He also did some file and variable renaming so things are more semantic and easier to understand. Andon also refactored and improved the function that generates the emails of all users weekly summaries, included in the weekly summaries auto-email how many valid summaries have been submitted by each individual up to that point, and helped out with the review and testing of WBS #: 4.2.1 (new pull request).

He then finished off the week by working in the HGNApp (frontend) to add a new page “Weekly Summaries Report” which will be used by administrators to generate summaries’ reports for the past three weeks of all users. You can see screenshots of some of this work below on how this relates to sustainable global change.

Implemented a New API Endpoint in the HGNRest API – Click for Page

TEKtalent Inc. (a custom programming solutions company) also continued with their 3rd week helping with the Highest Good Network software. This week Nithesh and the TEKtalent team completed the code review comments implementation and unit testing of the user management component. The pull request has been completed and merged to the development branch. They also completed version 1 of the WBS item 4.2.4 pause or resume (deactivate/activate a user) functionality so that the admin can pause or resume a user by clicking the Pause or Resume button in the user management table. You can see some of this work below on how this relates to sustainable global change.

Code Review Comments Implementation and Unit Testing – Click for Page

And Adam Capdeville (Software Engineer) completed his 2nd week working on the Highest Good Network software. Adam continued to work towards fixing and moving towards completion of WBS 1.4. Starting with profile pictures, the user (when uploading a photo) will either successfully upload a photo, meeting HGN max file size, or encounter a photo upload error. The photo error is a custom modal that prompts the user with why the error occurred, and options to resolve the issue. Adam finished the week by completing WBS uploading user photos (1.4.1) & altering username (1.4.2). You can see some of Adam’s behind-the-scenes work below on how this relates to sustainable global change.

Continued Working on the Highest Good Network Software – Click for Page

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One Community is open sourcing renewable eco-collaboratives. We are doing this to build the first of a global network of teacher/demonstration hubs designed to help people replicate sustainable environments integrating ecological and “Highest Good” approaches to food, energy, housing, education, for-profit and non-profit economic design, social architecture, fulfilled living, global stewardship practices, and more. We see doing this so they are easy enough, affordable enough, and attractive enough to spread on their own as a path to global sustainability within our lifetime.

• 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 June 14th, 2020 edition (#377) of our weekly progress update detailing our team’s development and accomplishments:

Renewable Eco-collaboratives
One Community Progress Update #377

DONATE | COLLABORATE | HELP WITH LARGE-SCALE FUNDING

CLICK HERE IF YOU’D LIKE TO RECEIVE AN EMAIL EACH WEEK WHEN WE RELEASE A NEW UPDATE

YOU CAN ALSO JOIN US THROUGH SOCIAL MEDIA

 

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HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING PROGRESS

One Community is helping establish renewable eco-collaboratives 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 renewable eco-collaboratives: 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 continued work on the Sustainable Site Selection, Planning, and Preparation content for our renewable eco-collaboratives. This week’s focus was adding in all the needed video notations for the videos we’ll be adding during construction, final formatting and organization, final content additions, and then submitting it for final review and feedback by another member of our team. You can see some of this work below and this brings us to 95% complete with the behind-the-scenes editing of this tutorial.

Continued Work on the Sustainable Site Selection, Planning, and Preparation Content – Click for Page

Ashwini Ramesh (Civil Engineer and Project Manager) returned to the team after almost 3 years off and continued with her 6th week helping with the Earthbag Village cost analysis and open source tutorials for our renewable eco-collaboratives. This week Ashwini completed the calculation of quantities for the domes and continued to integrate all the Items in Master Table, cross checking everything on the material list. You can see some of this work-in-progress below.

Continued Helping with the Earthbag Village Cost Analysis and Open Source Tutorials ” Click for Page

Angela Mao (Sustainability Researcher) also completed her 6th week as a member of the team and researching Clothing Recycling/Repurposing Options. This week Angela officially wrapped up her clothing recycling tutorial by putting all the resources into Dropbox. After working on it and researching the whole week, she is almost also now complete with her additions to the plastic recycling business tutorial and her paper recycling business tutorial. You can see some of this behind-the-scenes work for our renewable eco-collaboratives below.

Clothing Recycling/Repurposing Options; Wrapping up Tutorial ” Click for Page

DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER PROGRESS

One Community is helping establish renewable eco-collaboratives 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 for our renewable eco-collaboratives: Duplicable City Center Open Source Hub

This week the core team continued updating the Duplicable City Center 3D model to match the updated floor plans and interior design details, for our renewable eco-collaboratives. This week’s focus was the cupola and central area. We added missing dirt catchers and water fountains, reversed the opening direction for the laundry door from the court, placed lounge chairs and tables in the court area, replaced sliding door to folding door between Dining Dome and central area, placed washers and dryers in the laundry room.

We also reversed direction of the laundry room door to the Dining Dome, placed tables and chairs on the 2nd floor next to the Dining Dome and Social Dome, placed tables with lounge chairs outside the cupola activity room, and updated all the furniture inside the cupola activity room. You can see some of these updates below.

City Center 3D Model to Match the Updated Floor Plans and Interior Design Details ” Click for Page

Radhieka Nagpal (Volunteer Researcher) also completed her 13th week researching the Most Sustainable Building Materials: Carpet, Flooring, Wood, Etc. This week, Radhieka modified the ranking and hence the content based on a new ranking methodology focused more on products. The score was also modified in the benchmarking sheet, adding and reducing points based on sustainability of product offerings.

Finally two rankings were created – one with focus on products (the main one) and the other with the uniform benchmarking (given in the FAQs). She also modified the FAQ as well to explain this modified process of ranking. Furthermore, she has added a glossary for all certifications mentioned in the doc along with some key terms used as part of FAQ. You can see some of this work-in-progress for our renewable eco-collaboratives below, and we’d say this brings this tutorial to 83% complete.

Most Sustainable Building Materials: Carpet, Flooring, Wood, Etc. ” Click for Page

And Ziqian Zheng (Architectural Designer and Drafter) began working on the Duplicable City Center 3D walkthrough in our renewable eco-collaboratives, and completed his 30th week as a volunteer designer with our team. This week’s focus was combining the 3 domes, adding plants and other outdoor details, updating textures, and running the initial test renders shown below.

Began Working on the Duplicable City Center 3D Walkthrough – Click for Page

Ian Coletti (Environmental Studies Major Researcher) also joined the team and started research for the Most Sustainable Windows and Doors open source guide to establish renewable eco-collaboratives. He selected 9 companies and took notes on how well they met sustainability criteria. Ian also started looking into the sustainable options in the inventories of each company. You can see some of this work-in-progress below.

Started Research for the Most Sustainable Windows and Doors Open Source Guide – Click for Page

HIGHEST GOOD FOOD PROGRESS

One Community is helping establish renewable eco-collaboratives 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 on renewable eco-collaboratives: 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 developing the open source permaculture design content to establish renewable eco-collaboratives. This week we completed the first draft of the Observation and Research by Component subsections within Step 2 of the Permaculture Design Case Study Section, which included mind maps, phased roll out details, conscious application of and thought to permaculture ethics and principles now and always, and a list of observational focuses once on the property. The observational focuses part was the newest and most time consuming and is shown below.

Continued Developing the Open Source Permaculture Design Content ” Click for Page

Mohammad Almuzaial (Civil and Construction Engineer) continued with his 29th week helping with the Aquapini/Walipini engineering details for our renewable eco-collaboratives. This week he continued preparing the 2D construction drawings by further remodeling the structures’ side walls, modifying the topography, side walls, and site concrete floor according to the new design, updated the site drawing annotations, and started the design criteria report. You can see some of this work work-in-progress below and we’d say we’re now about 95% complete with the structural details.

Continued Helping With the Aquapini/Walipini Civil Engineering Details ” Click for Page

HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION PROGRESS

One Community is helping establish renewable eco-collaboratives through Highest Good education that is for all ages, applicable in any environment, adaptable to individual needs, far exceeds traditional education standards, and more fun for both the teachers and the students. This component of One Community is about 95% complete with only the Open Source School Licensing and Ultimate Classroom construction and assembly details remaining to be finished. With over 8 years of work invested in the process, the sections below are all complete until we move onto the property and continue the development and open sourcing process with teachers and students – a development process that is built directly into the structure of the education program and everything else we’re creating too:

• Program Overview on Renewable Eco-collaboratives: 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

This week Dan Alleck (Designer and Illustrator) completed his 80th week helping with render additions and finishing work for the rooms in the Ultimate Classroom. This week he began work on view #2 of the central area showing this space being set up for a theater presentation. This week’s work included removing the items that won’t be present during a presentation like this and adding in the test curtain and lighting shown below.

Began Work on View #2 of the Central Area of the Ultimate Classroom – Click to Visit

Zebao Chen (Structural Designer) also completed her 8th week working on the Ultimate Classroom structural engineering details to establish renewable eco-collaboratives. This week Zebao updated the structural elements layout to match the roof shape. In order to remove the central columns in the opening space, she also changed the design to three bays of columns instead of two. To match the rafters layout, the roof shape was further adjusted.

Theses changes increased the storage space in the attic and now the ventilation ducts, which are located in the ceiling, can exhaust through the openings on two sides of the attic. Rafter design and analysis was then done again and showed the triangular shape of rafter with two columns supporting can resist the combined load applied on the roof (and the ceiling storage load if needed to attach to the roof). You can see some of this work below and we’d say this brings the engineering of this building to 25% complete.

Updated the Structural Elements Layout to Match the Roof Shape – Click for Ultimate Classroom

HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY PROGRESS

One Community is helping establish renewable eco-collaboratives 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 on our renewable eco-collaboratives: 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 Tengxiao Wang (Software Engineer) completed his 19th week working on the Highest Good Network software. This week Tengxiao added pop-up alerts in order to remind users of time logging before they log out or leave the page. A bug in the TimeEntryForm was fixed. He also added a 2-day buffer for the token expiration to avoid failure (especially timer related operations) when the user is working. The token lifetime on the backend side is 10 days. But the frontend will force the user to re-login to acquire a new token. You can see some of this work-in-progress to establish renewable eco-collaboratives below.

Added Pop-up Alerts in Order to Remind Users of Time Logging ” Click for Highest Good Network

Henry Nguyen (React Developer) also completed his 19th week with the team and working on the Highest Good Network software. This week Henry added an automatically refresh function to update the interface after we have a new task or delete a task. He also implemented a big change for the resources so that the parent resources are now updated by the children tasks, and all members of the children will display on their parents. You can see some of this work to establish renewable eco-collaboratives below.

Continued Working on the Highest Good Network Software – Click for Page

Alvaro Hernández (Open Source Tech Consultant, Developer) completed his 12th week as a member of the Highest Good Network software team and web design team. This week Alvaro researched redux principles for react file structuring and finished the first draft of editing and preparing “the Open Source Sustainable Parking Lot guide” for web publication. You can see some screenshots of this behind-the-scenes work to establish renewable eco-collaboratives below. 

Continued Working on Web Design and the Highest Good Network Software ” Click for Page

Ross Edwards (Chief Imagination Officer, G3) completed his 8th week helping promote One Community. Ross is someone who found our project, loved what we are doing, and offered to just help contact people he (and we) thought might be interested in what we’re doing. This week he continued to promote our project and the One Community helping page to educators, engineers, and various supporters of The Venus Project. You can see this last week’s list of who he contacted and some screenshots of the overview to establish renewable eco-collaboratives below.

Continued to Promote Our Project and the One Community Helping Page – Click to Visit

And Andon Ignatov (Senior Web Developer) completed his 6th week working on the Highest Good Network software. This week Andon started the week fixing some bugs and formatting the blue square notification emails and messages. Then he implemented a weekly summary auto-report email function that can be used to send out email to admins with the weekly summaries for a particular week for all active users.

He also added a cron job that runs the weekly summary auto-email once the week ends. Andon finished the week by doing some code review for the WBS #: 4.2.1 pull request. He also added a rule to fill in the blank field before submitting a new task. You can see screenshots of some of this work to establish renewable eco-collaboratives below.

Continued Working on the Highest Good Network Software – Click for Page

TEKtalent Inc. (a custom programming solutions company) also continued with their 2nd week helping with the Highest Good Network software. This week Nithesh & the TEKtalent team completed the user management list page and related filter and search options. All users will be listed in this page and administrators can apply filters by Name, role, email and weekly committed hours. Also it is now possible to filter the list based on active or inactive users. Additionally, there is now a wildcard search option which can be used to search any value in the list. You can see some of this work to establish renewable eco-collaboratives below.

User Management List Page and Related Filter and Search Options – Click for Highest Good Network

And Adam Capdeville (Software Engineer) joined the team and completed his 1st week working on the Highest Good Network software. This week Adam completed the on-boarding process, got the app running locally, and began reviewing the React code base. Adam discussed the design pattern of the React App with the team and brought up shifting the project into a Ducks design pattern. Further discussion is required with the team in order for a design pattern to be established after the initial phase. Phase 1 of the React App project will focus on functions and getting the application working.

Phase 2 will be refactoring the code base for future development, phase 2 still needs further discussion. Once Adam was done understanding the components code base, he continued to develop and test the user profile. Currently Adam is working uploading pictures for a profile picture. Images that are too large cause an error after confirming that the size is too large. You can see some of Adam’s behind-the-scenes work to establish renewable eco-collaboratives below.

Got the App Running Locally, and Began Reviewing the React Code Base – Click for Page

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Open source eco-village design has the potential to launch a new paradigm of individual and large-scale DIY-sustainable living. One Community is focused on building the first large-scale open source, 100% replicable, teacher/demonstration hub dedicated to this. Our 100% volunteer team is developing the plans necessary for 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 June 7th, 2020 edition (#376) of our weekly progress update detailing our team’s development and accomplishments:

Open Source Eco-village Design
One Community Progress Update #376

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HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING PROGRESS

One Community is facilitating open source eco-village 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 the open source eco-village design: 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 continued work on the Sustainable Site Selection, Planning, and Preparation content. This week’s focus was editing the Factors Affecting Site Selection, surveying, leveling, supplying power details, etc. You can see some of this work below and we’d say we’re about 90% complete with the behind-the-scenes editing of this tutorial for the open source eco-village design.

Continued Work on the Sustainable Site Selection, Planning, and Preparation Content – Click for Page

Dean Scholz (Architectural Designer) continued helping with the Earthbag Village (Pod 1) 4-dome cluster designs. This week was week #190 of Dean’s work and the focus this week was filling in and texturing the area around the hot tub for the open source eco-village design.

Focused on Filling in and Texturing the Area Around the Hot Tub – Click for Earthbag Village

Ziqian Zheng (Architectural Designer and Drafter) continued working on the Earthbag Village walkthrough for the open source eco-village design, and completed his 29th week as a volunteer designer with our team. This week’s focus was adding more racial diversity to the complete village walkthrough and then re-rendering it. You can see below some examples of the diversity the video now contains.

Earthbag Village Walkthrough; Adding More Racial Diversity ” Click for Page

Ashwini Ramesh (Civil Engineer and Project Manager) returned to the team after almost 3 years off and continued with her 5th week helping with the Earthbag Village cost analysis and open source tutorials. Ashwini has been working extensively on the specifics of the earth domes to calculate the quantities and generate a detailed Bill of Quantities that is linked to a master table for materials and equipment. She also worked on figuring out the coefficients for labor and material for Unit quantities, so that the Unit price could be re-used for similar projects/activities. You can see some of this work-in-progress for the open source eco-village design below.

Continued Helping with the Earthbag Village Cost Analysis and Open Source Tutorials ” Click for Page

Angela Mao (Sustainability Researcher) also completed her 5th week as a member of the team and researching Clothing Recycling/Repurposing Options. This week Angela finished editing her clothing recycling tutorial and reformatted it. She then began writing her business section for paper recycling and looking through Etsy for product ideas. She also did a lot of reading on paper recycling processes and began looking into plastic recycling ideas. You can see some of this behind-the-scenes work for the open source eco-village design below.

Clothing Recycling/Repurposing Options; Completing 1st Draft of Tutorial ” Click for Page

DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER PROGRESS

One Community is facilitating open source eco-village 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 for our open source eco-village design: Duplicable City Center Open Source Hub

This week the core team continued updating the Duplicable City Center 3D model to match the updated floor plans and interior design details. This week for the Living Dome we designed the stone table, table and 2 chairs and sun-chair for the sundeck and updated the dome exterior color. For the Social Dome we updated the dome exterior color and added the one missing dirt catcher. For the Dining Dome we added dirt catchers, made changes to the dome exterior color, and remodeled the kitchen food preparation tables around new window location. You can see some of these updates below on our open source eco-village design.

City Center 3D Model to Match the Updated Floor Plans and Interior Design Details ” Click for Page

Radhieka Nagpal (Volunteer Researcher) also completed her 12th week researching the This week Radhieka worked on resolving concerns about accurately ranking sustainability-focused companies that produce unsustainable products. She also continued formatting the final company left in the list and reordering and editing content. After this, she worked on further proof-reading all the 8 kinds of flooring and added a short reasoning for each ranking. You can see some of this work-in-progress below for our open source eco-village design, and we’d say this brings this tutorial to 80% complete.

Most Sustainable Building Materials: Carpet, Flooring, Wood, Etc. ” Click for Page

HIGHEST GOOD FOOD PROGRESS

One Community is facilitating open source eco-village 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 in our open source eco-village design: Gardens & Hoop Houses | Large-scale Structures | Food Forest | TA

This week the core team continued developing the open source permaculture design content for the open source eco-village design. The mind maps were edited further for content and formatting consistency. All the permaculture ethics and principles tables were updated for consistency and the food and energy infrastructure content was further improved. You can see some of this behind-the-scenes work below.

Continued Developing the Open Source Permaculture Design Content ” Click for Page

Mohammad Almuzaial (Civil and Construction Engineer) continued with his 28th week helping with the Aquapini/Walipini engineering details for the open source eco-village design. This week he continued preparing the 2D construction drawings by remodeling the structure entryways. He then modified the topography, side walls, and site concrete floor according to the new design. He also updated the related site-drawing annotations. You can see some of this work work-in-progress below and we’d say we’re now about 95% complete with the structural details for our open source eco-village design.

Continued Helping With the Aquapini/Walipini Civil Engineering Details ” Click for Page

Ali Ghahremannezhad (Mechanical Engineer) additionally continued with his 21st week as a member of the team and working on the climate batteries for the Aquapini/Walipini structures. This week Ali updated his preliminary climate battery design and pipe layers and layout specifics to match the updated structure designs. You can see some of these updated designs for our open source eco-village design below.

Continued Working on the Climate Batteries for the Aquapini/walipini Structures – Click for Page

HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION PROGRESS

One Community is facilitating open source eco-village 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. 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 of our open source eco-village design: 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

This week Zebao Chen (Structural Designer) also completed her 7th week working on the Ultimate Classroom structural engineering details for the open source eco-village design. This week Zebao updated the structure system to reduce the beam span of failing members. She also tried to keep the central space as open as possible for community events. Zebao used shorter beams for the central span and added columns at the perimeter to help reduce the load concentration to the interior columns and beams. She ran the structural analysis and figured out the dimensions of each element.

The most critical beams are the middle rafters that span across the central space. Zebao also further checked these elements and added a tension bracing to help the rafter stability. The results show that the analysis of wood members of 3 2×6 beams would work under the dead load, snow load, live load, wind speed of 100 mph, etc. You can see some of this work below and we’d say this brings the engineering of this building to 20% complete.

Updated the Structure System to Reduce the Beam Span of Failing Members ” Click for Page

HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY PROGRESS

One Community is facilitating open source eco-village 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 for the open source eco-village design: 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 Tengxiao Wang (Software Engineer) completed his 18th week working on the Highest Good Network software. This week Tengxiao integrated the Timer component with the TimeEntryForm. When a user stops the timer, a time entry form modal will now open. The date and time fields will also be auto-filled and disabled.

If the user successfully submits the time entry, the timer will be reset to 0 and the app will redirect to the timelog page to show the new time entry. If the user decides to log the time later and close the modal, the timer will be paused instead of resetting to 0. The TinyMCE editor was also changed from self-hosted to cloud deployment and all the self-hosted library files were removed from our code base. You can see some of this work-in-progress for our open source eco-village design below.

Integrated the Timer Component With the Timeentryform ” Click for Highest Good Network

Henry Nguyen (React Developer) also completed his 18th week with the team and working on the Highest Good Network software. This week Henry added rules to create a task and also added suggestions to help the user create a task faster. He additionally developed automatic functions that update the parent tasks after any changing of subtasks. They are Priority, Start and End dates, and Assigned. The real time will be updated but it is currently a lower priority because we can manually refresh the page. You can see some of this work for our open source eco-village design below .

Added Suggestions to Help the User Create a Task Faster – Click for Page

Alvaro Hernández (Open Source Tech Consultant, Developer) completed his 11th week as a member of the Highest Good Network software team and web design team for the open source eco-village design. This week Alvaro started to review Andon’s code related to submission of the weekly HGN summary. He read through most of it and made some suggestions for improvements in the design of the webapp and this functionality. He also further improved the documentation. Separately, he worked on data gathering on the complete web page design process and submitted a report covering possible automation opportunities. You can see some screenshots of this behind-the-scenes work below. 

Code Related to Submission of the Weekly Highest Good Network Summary – Click for Page

Ross Edwards (Chief Imagination Officer, G3) completed his 7th week helping promote One Community, and the open source eco-village design. Ross is someone who found our project, loved what we are doing, and offered to just help contact people he (and we) thought might be interested in what we’re doing. This week he promoted our project and the One Community helping page to educators, engineers, and various supporters of The Venus Project. You can see this last week’s list of who he contacted and some screenshots of the overview below.

Continued Helping Promote Our Project and the One Community Helping Page ” Click to Visit

And Andon Ignatov (Senior Web Developer) completed his 5th week working on the Highest Good Network software. This week Andon worked on assigning blue squares for weekly summary infringements. This had to be implemented within the existing code that assigns blue squares for time not met. He updated the proper cron job functions that run weekly at the end of each week to now run checks for the weekly summary submitted for that week.

Andon also updated infringement messages that are stored in the database as well as included in emails so they are now representative of whether weekly summary or time not met or both caused the assignment of blue square for that week. He also added one extra piece of information to the notification emails to now include the total number of blue squares that a user has been assigned. You can see screenshots of some of this work for our open source eco-village design below.

Worked on Assigning Blue Squares for Weekly Summary Infringements ” Click for Page

TEKtalent Inc. (a custom programming solutions company) also joined the team and completed their 1st week helping with the Highest Good Network software. This week the TEKtalent team, led by their senior programmer Nithesh, completed the orientation, document checklist and the local dev setup of the react app. They also started the development of the user management page, the link was added and the basic grid for listing the users has been built. You can see some of this work for our open source eco-village design below.

Orientation, Document Checklist and the Local Dev Setup of the React App – Click for Page

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