Making eco-living mainstream accessible is our commitment to evolving sustainability through open source solutions created by an all-volunteer team. At One Community, we are developing sustainable approaches to food, energy, housing, education, economics, and social architecture as a self-replicating model designed to regenerate our planet. We open source and free share the complete process to support a global collaboration of teacher/demonstration hubs, all working together for “The Highest Good of All” and creating a world that works for everyone through fulfilled living and global stewardship practices.

• 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

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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 March 16, 2026 edition (#678) of our weekly progress update detailing our team’s development and accomplishments:

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HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING PROGRESS

One Community is making eco-living mainstream accessible through Highest Good housing that is artistic and beautiful, more affordable, more space efficient, lasts longer, DIY buildable, and constructed with healthy and sustainable materials:

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

This week, Derrell Brown (Plumbing Designer) continued working on the Earthbag Village home final MEP report and applied required revisions to align the final draft with submitted comments and expectations. He advanced work on the MEP Final Report by addressing formatting issues in the previous draft related to plumbing images, introductory text for calculations and figures, and terminology used in the plumbing section. He updated the document to improve consistency in how methods and plumbing references were presented and revised sections so the descriptions of calculations and supporting images aligned with the rest of the document. He also continued researching the use of incandescent lighting as a potential replacement load for existing LED lighting and evaluated how this change could affect the electrical load assumptions used in the report. This work contributes to making eco-living mainstream accessible by strengthening the clarity and usability of sustainable building system documentation. See below for some of the pictures related to this work.

Fangting Xu (Interior Design Intern) continued working with ADA codes related to building connections for the ADA 3-dome cluster of the Earthbag Village. She reviewed the ADA restroom and cluster checklists and documented code requirements on sheet A001. Fangting addressed Jae’s feedback to revise wall profiles and clean up the sheet layouts. She revised wall profiles, adjusted connected path labeling, compared drawing scales with Mikayla’s original drawings, and removed irrelevant detail boxes. She also reviewed Baraka’s work and planned the ADA shower room construction documents. Her efforts support making eco-living mainstream accessible by ensuring accessibility standards are integrated into sustainable housing design. Review the latest updates in the images below.

Rishi Chakrapani (Mechanical Engineer) continued working on the Vermiculture Toilet. He completed and proofread the vermiculture calculations report to ensure the analysis and explanations were clearly presented. He also continued work on the sensor selection report by updating the content and supporting information. Rishi reformatted both reports to align with the required documentation standards and maintain consistency across the project materials. These updates support making eco-living mainstream accessible by improving the clarity and reliability of technical documentation for sustainable infrastructure systems. Review the latest updates in the images below.

Vaishnav Sanjay Chavan (Intern Volunteer Architectural Project Manager) worked on the Earthbag Village by completing several drawing tasks related to the tropical atrium, including layout drawings, sections, and elevations. He developed multiple layout drawings for the tropical atrium, including the ground floor plan, mezzanine floor plan, and roof plan. He updated and coordinated these drawings to maintain consistency across the overall drawing set and align them with the project design. Vaishnav also organized and prepared the first draft of the floor plans as part of the construction drawing set. His work focused on establishing base dimensions, spatial layout, and the overall organization of the plans. The drawings were compiled to represent the current layout of the tropical atrium and support coordination across the different plans within the project, contributing to making eco-living mainstream accessible through clear and replicable sustainable design documentation. Below, you’ll find some images of this work.

DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER PROGRESS

One Community is making eco-living mainstream accessible 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 and making eco-living mainstream accessible: Duplicable City Center Open Source Hub

This week, Akhil Shesham (Mechanical Engineer) continued working on the Duplicable City Center design. He focused on elevator subcomponents by adding product URLs and updating the cost analysis sheet. He reviewed existing entries, identified missing or outdated subcomponent details, and researched current prices across multiple sources to ensure the sheet reflected accurate and up-to-date cost information. Akhil systematically added new subcomponents, verified product specifications, and organized the data to maintain consistency throughout the sheet. Discover One Community’s open source Duplicable City Center, which is making eco-living mainstream accessible. See the visuals below for a closer look.

Bevan Chiu (Mechanical Engineer) continued his work finishing the City Center Eco-spa Designs. He focused on developing the content for the final report and edited the plumbing access panel section while adding relevant diagrams. He also embedded the thermal study and structural FEA content into the report and adjusted the wording so it would be suitable for multiple audiences. Bevan began researching methods to insulate the plumbing access panels, including the use of rigid boards placed beneath the decking material. This open source Duplicable City Center project is making eco-living mainstream accessible. For more details, refer to the image below.

Shivarama Krishna Revanuru (Mechanical Engineer) continued working on the Duplicable City Center design. He focused on cost analysis and the bill of materials (BOM), selecting suitable materials and attaching reference images for the components. He also analyzed the thermal losses of the spa cover and evaluated the insulation capacity to understand how effectively the design retains heat. Shivarama spent additional time learning how to structure and write the technical report for the project. He also examined the stability of the spa cover to ensure the design maintains proper support and balance during use and made modifications to the design and documentation based on the given requirements. This open source Duplicable City Center project is currently making eco-living mainstream accessible. The images below illustrate aspects of this work.

HIGHEST GOOD FOOD PROGRESS

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

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

This week, the core team continued working on the Master Tools, Equipment, and Materials/Supplies List for the Large-scale Garden, Botanical Garden, and other Highest Good Food components. They added the stud finder to the Master Tools, Equipment, and Materials/Supplies List and included it in the Goat, Chicken, Rabbit, and Earthbag Village documents as part of ongoing updates to the Highest Good Food documentation. They also removed the soil thermometer from the Goat and Chicken documents and continued reviewing the Master Tools, Equipment, and Materials/Supplies document. This work contributes to making eco-living mainstream accessible by improving the organization and accuracy of open-source tools and equipment documentation, as shown in the images below.

Chelsea Mariah Stellmach (Project Manager) continued working on the Transition Food Self-sufficiency food and inventory tracking software plans. She reviewed the Google document titled “HGN Phase 6: Food-Ingredient Inventory Procurement and Management Software” to monitor comments and requests from the software developers. She assigned these items to related tasks, including “Create Trimming Schedule and Harvest Calendar section,” so development work could continue expanding the system. Chelsea also worked with one developer to draft new task descriptions so the project could continue after his departure. She confirmed his plans to merge the pull requests and ensured the transition process was clearly documented. This work supports making eco-living mainstream accessible by helping maintain progress and coordination within the software development process, as shown in the images below.

Jay Nair (BIM Designer) continued working on the Aquapini and Walipini Planting and Harvesting documents. He prepared documentation for the creation of a lighting energy calculator and outlined the project requirements. He organized calculation procedures, defined the required input data, and described the expected outputs for the calculator. Jay also structured the documentation so it could guide software developers in implementing the tool and ensure it aligns with the needs of the greenhouse lighting energy analysis. This work supports making eco-living mainstream accessible by helping organize and clarify documentation needed for implementing energy analysis tools, as shown in the images below.

Shivangi Varma (Architectural Designer and Planner) continued working on the redesign of the Highest Good Food overall presentation. She developed the Differences diagram based on feedback, including edits to the two iterations and updates to the axonometric version. She added 3D details from the shared model, incorporated revisions from the updated definitions discussed during feedback, and refined the axonometric Differences diagram to reflect these changes. Shivangi also ensured that the visual updates clearly communicate the project information. This work supports making eco-living mainstream accessible by improving the clarity and structure of visual documentation used for project communication and planning, as shown in the images below.

HIGHEST GOOD ENERGY PROGRESS

One Community is making eco-living mainstream accessible through Highest Good energy that is more sustainable, resilient, supports self-sufficiency and includes solar, wind, hydro and more:

• • • Learn about the open source sustainable-energy foundations and making eco-living mainstream accessible: Solar, Hydro, and Wind
    • Explore our research into the most sustainable products and companies for saving water and energy: Insulation, Eco-laundry, Lightbulbs and Light Bulb Companies, Doors and Door Companies, Windows and Window Companies, Toilets, Faucets and Faucet Accessories, Urinals, and more.

This week, the core team continued contributing to the Highest Good Energy initiative. They reviewed a stakeholder’s feedback video and incorporated the suggestions into the cost summary for the food rollout phases. They also analyzed the cost for the climate battery used in the walipinis and aquapinis and made minor adjustments to improve clarity. The team reviewed the energy needs analysis along with Vaishnav’s ongoing review documentation. This work supports making eco-living mainstream accessible by improving the clarity and organization of cost and energy planning documentation, as shown in the images below.

HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION PROGRESS

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

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

• Program Overview: Education Open Source Hub
• How the components work together in designing human orchestrated eco-abundance: 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

Highest Good Education: All Subjects | All Learning Levels | Any Age – Click image for the open source hub

HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY PROGRESS

One Community is making eco-living mainstream accessible 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 and making eco-living mainstream accessible: A Day in the Life
    • Learn about the 4 economic models: RBE | For-profit | Non-profit | Entrepreneurship
    • Learn about our open source community collaboration and management software: The Highest Good Network

This week, the core team completed over 38 hours managing volunteer work reviews, handling emails, overseeing social media accounts, supporting web development, and integrating bug fixes for the Highest Good Network.. They also interviewed and onboarded new volunteer team members. Additionally, they produced and integrated the video above, which demonstrates how making eco-living mainstream accessible serves as a foundational element of One Community’s broader mission. The following images showcase highlights of this work.

Pooja Kulkarni (UI/UX Designer) continued advancing governance platform designs through structured interaction flows and collaborative engagement features that support transparent participation and informed decision-making on the Highest Good Networkk. She designed multiple governance interfaces, including the Decision Logic interface, which visualizes the multi-step consensus pipeline: proposal submission, open discussion, signal check, consensus testing, and final resolution. This interface helps users understand the decision-making flow. Pooja also created a Consensus Simulation interface that allows users to practice governance participation by casting signals such as agree, neutral, standby, or block while viewing real-time group signal distribution. She designed the Governance Analytics dashboard to help moderators and community leaders monitor consensus trends, participant engagement, and signal distribution across discussions. Pooja developed the Proposals management interface, enabling users to track community proposals, view consensus progress, and manage decision workflows. This work supports One Community’s efforts toward making eco-living mainstream accessible; the images below highlight key aspects of her work.

Prudhvi Marpina (Data Analyst) continued contributing to the Highest Good Network software development, marketing, and administrative initiatives in support of making eco-living mainstream accessible. He supported Phase 5 governance work by writing detailed action items for Deliverable 3 and updating frontend tasks for Deliverable 2. Prudhvi reviewed the related Figma designs to maintain alignment between documentation and interface planning. He coordinated with the Figma developer to review and align the required design components for these deliverables. Prudhvi also scheduled the week’s BlueSky posts, monitored analytics, and updated performance data in the Social Media Master Dashboard and BlueSky tracking sheets. He supported OC administration by updating the weekly blog and providing feedback on the administration team’s work for the reporting week. This reinforces making eco-living mainstream accessible through collaboration and ongoing refinement. The following images showcase highlights of this work.

Yagna Reddy Badvel (Data Analyst and Team Administrator) continued supporting administrative and tracking operations on the Highest Good Network. He reviewed Sai Sree Dongari’s Admin-in-Training progress across all four steps, verifying completeness, formatting, and alignment with current admin guidelines while providing structured feedback for improvement. Yagna also supported ongoing administrative processes by reviewing documentation, updating tracking records, and ensuring tasks remained consistent with project standards. He maintained Phase 2 tracking sheets to support accurate task organization, updated task statuses where needed, and maintained workflow visibility across the system. Yagna reinforced One Community’s efforts toward making eco-living mainstream accessible. The images below show some of his work.

ADMINISTRATION TEAM

The Administration Team’s summary, which covers their work on the Highest Good Network, was managed by Prudhvi Marpina (Data Analyst) and includes Anusha Gali (Software Engineer), Ashutosh Mishra (Software Engineer), Keerthana Chitturi (System Administrator), Divanshu Bakshi (Team Admin), Hemanth Sai Venkata Srinivasa Kumar Nidamanuru (Administrative Assistant), Leo Lishin Shiu (Software Engineer), Manish Kanuri (Data Scientist), Mridul Bhushan (Volunteer Project Strategy Analyst and Team Administrator), Olawunmi “Ola” Ijisesan (Administrative and Management Support), Priyanshi Sharma (Data Analyst and Team Administrator), Rachna Malav (Data Analyst), Rajeshwari Bhirud (Administrator), Rishitha Adepu (Administrator), Sai Keerthi Domakonda (System Administrator), Sai Sree Dongari (Data Analyst), Sayantan Paul (Frontend Tester and Software Team Administrator), Shameera Musthafa (Data Analyst), Shreya Shetty (Data Analyst), and Sudarshan Raju Chintalapati Venkata (Data Analyst). The Administration Team supports the Highest Good Network, a tool designed to track and measure progress while developing systems that contribute to making eco-living mainstream accessible. Through administrative support, documentation, testing, training, recruiting, analytics, and content management, the team helps advance this mission, aligning with One Community’s vision of building a replicable and sustainable future model.

This week, Anusha reviewed and tested more than fifty pull requests across frontend and backend components while coordinating with developers to resolve defects and verify fixes. Ashutosh advanced development of the AI chatbot by integrating the frontend and backend with the vector database, refining embedding workflows, and beginning work on a document ingestion pipeline. Divanshu maintained Mastodon communications, automated engagement metric extraction using Python scripts, and updated analytics dashboards while documenting feature issues and supporting backlog coordination. Hemanth performed local pull request testing, reproduced reported issues, and documented validation results through GitHub comments. Keerthana reviewed administrative submissions for compliance, provided structured feedback to team members, and addressed dark mode interface issues affecting system components. Together, these efforts strengthen development, testing, and administrative workflows in support of making eco-living mainstream accessible.

Leo compiled and formatted team summaries for the blog, verified analytics data uploads, and tested Meta API functionality running through AWS systems. Manish reviewed multiple pull requests, followed up on previously reported issues, and maintained documentation for testing updates and unresolved items. Mridul managed LinkedIn and X/Twitter publishing schedules while updating analytics dashboards and supporting WordPress blog preparation. Ola organized shared folders, trained a new PR review manager, refreshed social media dashboards, and updated Pinterest analytics using exported CSV data. Priyanshi conducted detailed testing across project management dashboards, validating chart functionality, filters, export features, and usability across light and dark modes while documenting improvement suggestions. These coordinated activities strengthen collaboration, accountability, and system reliability in support of making eco-living mainstream accessible.

Rachna reviewed communications, revisited pending tasks, and analyzed SEO pages while preparing for upcoming coordination activities. Rajeshwari supported blog administration, tested PR dashboard endpoints, and began implementing a hotfix within the user management workflow while documenting administrative feedback. Rishitha coordinated weekly blog compilation, SEO optimization, Threads engagement, and dashboard updates using Excel and Python scripts. Sai Keerthi reviewed administrative submissions and Admin-in-Training work to ensure guideline compliance and workflow clarity. Sai Sree coordinated PR review activities, reviewed blog submissions for guideline alignment, and communicated with developers regarding bugs and feature improvements. This progress strengthens organized workflows and operational clarity that support making eco-living mainstream accessible.

Sayantan tested frontend and backend pull requests, documented system issues, assigned development tasks across multiple modules, and validated dashboard functionality improvements. Shameera coordinated PR review processes, curated visual documentation, and supported hiring interviews. Shreya refined Aircrete data visualizations and optimized Google Ads campaign performance while contributing to blog updates and collages. Sudarshan managed blog SEO updates, tested dashboard pull requests, documented system issues, and created tasks addressing usability improvements and bug fixes. To learn more about how this work supports making eco-living mainstream accessible, visit the Highest Good Society and Highest Good Network pages. Highlights of the team’s contributions are shown in the collage below.

HIGHEST GOOD NETWORK PROGRESS

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

• Learn about our open source community collaboration and management software and making eco-living mainstream accessible: The Highest Good Network

This week, the core team tested Highest Good Network pull requests and confirmed eight as fixed, highlighting One Community’s commitment to reinventing the sustainability industry. pull requests and confirmed eight as fixed, highlighting One Community’s commitment to reinventing the sustainability industry. The team found that several issues were not fixed, including FAQ unanswered question popup behavior and error messaging, the unsaved changes prompt after template save, hiring analytics chart rendering and layout styling, the refresh button for a disconnected timer, and the Job Posting Page Analytics donut chart showing applicants by experience. In addition, they reported that the cost prediction line chart PR could not be tested due to the absence of data on the Main branch. The team also identified twelve pages that still contain light and dark mode issues, created a new task related to removing or deleting a reviewer on the PR Review Team Analytics Dashboard weekly PR grading page, and recorded a new bug for tracking how many times a task has been extended. Additional bugs were reported related to the header image, menu, text display on smaller screens, and the Job Posting Page Analytics donut chart showing applicants by experience. This work supports One Community’s mission of making eco-living mainstream accessible. See the Highest Good Society and the Highest Good Network pages, and the collage below, for an overview of the team’s contributions.

ALPHA SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT TEAM

The Alpha Software Team, working on the Highest Good Network software, was managed by Lin Khant Htel (Frontend Software Developer). The team includes Linh Huynh (Software Engineer), Maithili Kalkar (Software Engineer), Som Ramnani (Software Engineer), and Casstiel Pi (Software Engineer). The Highest Good Network software is a key part of creating measurable global transformation. The software supports social architecture, construction, production, and maintenance processes that contribute to the open source project and resilient ecosystems. Designed to be portable and scalable, the Highest Good Network is ideal for off-grid and sustainable living communities, reflecting One Community’s open source commitment to making eco-living mainstream accessible.

This week, Lin reviewed PR #1764 by examining the code, running tests on a local machine, and confirming that all tests passed. He also checked the Alpha team members’ weekly summaries, photos, and videos, and handled Alpha team management tasks. These activities contributed to progress toward making eco-living mainstream accessible. And Linh implemented backend work for student evaluation results by adding new models for evaluations and evaluation tasks, extending the notification schema to support evaluation result notifications, and adding a student profile field to track when results were last viewed. He built service logic to publish evaluation data, calculate overall scores and submission status metrics, map performance levels to display colors, return student evaluation summaries, and update notification read state when results were opened. Linh also added student endpoints for fetching evaluation results and checking for new result notifications, along with an educator endpoint for publishing evaluation results for a student. This outcome supports making eco-living mainstream accessible through documented and DIY-ready progress.

As part of backend verification, the team registered the new routes in the backend startup configuration, created unit tests for the student evaluation controller, educator controller, and evaluation service, and verified backend behavior with focused Jest test runs. Manual verification was supported by creating a Postman collection, a local environment template, negative test cases for validation and permission errors, a README with testing steps, and a seed script that generates sample educator and student data, publishes evaluation results, and prints tokens and IDs for local testing. This effort supported making eco-living mainstream accessible.

Maithili resolved repository access issues by requesting and obtaining git push permissions for HGNRest and fixed ESLint errors triggered during the Husky pre-commit process so commits passed the required checks. She reviewed the requirements documentation and confirmed that the issues previously reported in PR #1618 had already been addressed in PR #1808, after which PR #1618 was closed by the project lead. Following direction from the project lead, she tested the bookings payment workflow and identified a logic issue where the create-payment-intent endpoint allowed payment for a date range that overlapped with an existing booking. Maithili worked on resolving this inconsistency between payment intent creation and booking validation logic, contributing to making eco-living mainstream accessible.

Work also continued on the frontend, where Som implemented pagination for the ResourceManagement component by adding centralized pagination state for currentPage and itemsPerPage, updating table logic so that only the correct portion of filtered data is displayed for the active page, and synchronizing pagination behavior with the search functionality. He enhanced the interface with dynamic page number controls, previous and next navigation buttons, an items-per-page selector, and a record count indicator showing ranges such as “Showing X–Y of Z.” After implementing and testing these updates, he created a pull request with photos, videos, and written descriptions demonstrating the pagination behavior. Casstiel continued work on adding a supplier filter and an “All Suppliers” option for the Supplier Performance by On-Time Delivery % chart, implementing client-side filtering so selecting a supplier updates the chart without triggering additional API requests. See the Highest Good Society and Highest Good Network pages for more on how we are contributing to making eco-living mainstream accessible. See the collage below to view the team’s work.

BINARY BRIGADE SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT TEAM

The Binary Brigade Team, which presented their work on the Highest Good Network software, was managed by Amalesh Arivanan (Software Engineer) and included Roshini Seelamsetty (Software Engineer), Sourabh Bagde (Software Developer), Ramsundar (Ram) Konety Govindarajan (Software Engineer), and Harsha Rudhraraju (Software Engineer). The Highest Good Network software is our tool for managing and objectively measuring progress, ensuring that all contributions are tracked and aligned with our mission of making eco-living mainstream accessible. It supports social architecture, construction, production, and maintenance processes that contribute to open-source projects and resilient, sustainable ecosystems.

This week, Roshini updated the Total Active Teams metric in the Volunteer Activities dashboard under owner login. She changed the logic so a team is counted as active only when at least one member logged volunteer hours during the selected reporting period, instead of counting all teams marked active, and created a pull request for that change. Roshini also began work on the Hours Completed / Tasks report after identifying that previous data inflated total hours beyond realistic volunteer capacity. She checked the report across multiple past weeks to verify aggregation and calculation logic and added a label below the Hours Completed bar chart to show the percentage split between tasks and projects, including project counts. Both backend and frontend updates are in progress. These efforts accelerate making eco-living mainstream accessible through continuous improvement and transparency.

Harshavarma addressed the issue reported in PR 4325 by tracing the root cause of graph-related problems, correcting the y-axis role label truncation, and continuing duplicate job role consolidation so each role appears only once. He analyzed both frontend rendering and backend processing, implemented a backend change to combine duplicate roles before data reaches the frontend, verified the graph shows a single entry per role, added a formula display for the conversion rate between Applications and Hits, and updated tooltip styling for dark mode readability. Ram worked on a PR Grading Dashboard duplication bug where the same reviewer appeared multiple times. He changed the workflow so records are grouped by reviewer name, merged graded PRs from different dates into one deduplicated list, and updated save behavior so only newly added PRs are sent while previously loaded PRs are excluded. These improvements reinforce making eco-living mainstream accessible through collaboration and ongoing refinement.

Work also continued with Sourabh, who implemented a Plurk-only image insertion feature in the Announcements composer by adding an image URL field and an Insert Image button that inserts the URL at the cursor position while preserving cursor stability. He added and wired the scheduling model and routes, registered scheduling endpoints under the API, updated middleware to allow schedule-related testing, configured a cron scheduler to publish posts at the correct time, and set successful Plurk posts to automatically remove their scheduled records. Sourabh also aligned the Plurk scheduling UI with the existing Slashdot scheduled post flow for consistent behavior across platforms. This work demonstrates making eco-living mainstream accessible in practical and measurable ways.

Amalesh resolved merge conflicts and updated Node versions for multiple pull requests, including PR 4975 and PR 2120, spent 42 minutes in the weekly team meeting, and addressed reviewer comments across other PRs. These tasks ensure smooth integration and version consistency for the project. By managing these updates and coordinating contributions across the team, he supports making eco-living mainstream accessible. See the Highest Good Society and Highest Good Network pages for more on how this supports making eco-living mainstream accessible. The collage below shows images of the team’s work.

CODE CRAFTERS SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT TEAM

The Code Crafters Team’s summary, covering their work on the Highest Good Network software, was managed by Sphurthy Satish (Software Engineer). The team includes contributions from Akshith Kumar Reddy Balappagari Gnaneswara (Full-Stack Developer), Shreya Padaganur (Software Engineer) and Yu Yan (Software Engineer). Their work contributes to One Community’s mission of making eco-living mainstream accessible through collaborative software development and continuous system improvements.

This week, Akshith worked on Phase 6 Kitchen Inventory Management by creating backend API endpoints to add and store recipes and their instructions. He defined the recipe model with required fields, implemented the controller with GET, POST, and DELETE methods, and created the router to connect the endpoints to the controller for full recipe functionality. Akshith has pushed the code and is preparing to test the endpoints to verify behavior before raising a pull request. These contributions advance making eco-living mainstream accessible by supporting structured and replicable backend development.

Shreya focused on finishing an abandoned pull request for the Educator Task Submissions UI Implementation. She updated the backend endpoint by enforcing finished-task filtering, refining query handling, and standardizing status mapping for accurate UI data. Shreya adjusted logic to return only completed and graded tasks, improved response formatting, consolidated filtering behavior, and ensured consistent status representation across API responses. She also performed local API testing for authentication, query parameters, and edge cases, and updated the written summary intended for publication on the website. These actions strengthen the goal of making eco-living mainstream accessible through clear and reliable software functionality.

Sphurthy investigated a UI issue on the Community Portal All Events page where opening dropdown menus in the Search Filters section prevented scrolling while the dropdown remained active. He documented the behavior, describing how scroll lock interferes with navigation, particularly on smaller screens or when multiple event cards are displayed. Sphurthy outlined the expected behavior so scrolling remains enabled while interacting with dropdowns, categorized the problem as a UI and usability concern, and clarified its impact on accessibility. This work supports making eco-living mainstream accessible by maintaining inclusive design and open standards for software interfaces.

Yu implemented dark mode support and refined layout for the Total Construction Summary dashboard. He updated styling for labor hours distribution, project risk profiles, and cost comparison components to ensure visibility in dark theme. Yu adjusted the weekly project summary by changing the financial section to a dual-chart display, set the loss tracking card to full width, corrected map container dimensions, and integrated CSS variables for consistent theming. He verified component contrast and layout alignment across themes to ensure a clear and inclusive interface. These updates contribute to making eco-living mainstream accessible. Below is a collage highlighting the team’s work for the week.

DEV DYNASTY SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT TEAM

The Dev Dynasty Team’s summary, covering their work on the Highest Good Network software, was managed by Deekshith Kumar Singirikonda (Developer) and includes Adithya Cherukuri (Volunteer Software Engineer), Aditya Gambhir (Software Engineer), Neeraj Kondaveeti (Software Engineer), Sai Shravan Neelamsetty (Software Engineer), Sriamsh Reddy Enugu (Software Engineer), and Vikas Meneni (Software Engineer). The Highest Good Network software helps manage and objectively measure processes for open sourcing a better world through social architecture, construction, production, and maintenance processes. This progress supports One Community in making eco-living mainstream accessible.

This week, Adithya focused on the HGN Software Development project by implementing inventory health indicators and summary cards for materials. He added a filter checkbox to display low-stock items, used Flexbox for toolbar layout rows, and moved calculation logic into the ItemsTable component to ensure summary cards update correctly. He also applied decimal formatting to waste calculations to resolve floating-point errors. These efforts support making eco-living mainstream accessible by providing clear and accurate inventory tracking. Aditya completed the backend and frontend infrastructure for equipment image uploads, adding imageUrl fields to the buildingEquipment schema, creating middleware for 5MB PNG and JPEG limits, and refactoring the bmEquipmentController for Azure Blob Storage. He wrote 650 lines of tests covering 28 scenarios and updated the frontend to support FormData and notifications for specific error codes. These contributions advance making eco-living mainstream accessible through well-tested and maintainable code.

Deekshith managed code quality using Vite, Vitest, and Husky configurations while developing the EquipmentUpdateForm React component with controlled inputs and conditional rendering for tool and equipment selection. Neeraj implemented skill score summary cards on the user profile page and created placeholder cards for the PR Team Analysis Dashboard to maintain layout consistency. Shravan developed the View Recipe detail functionality, creating a slide-in panel that displays recipe metadata, ingredient availability status badges, and step-by-step instructions with dark mode support and responsive design.

Sriamsh addressed Phase 2 tasks by resolving merge conflicts and UI misalignments in the Daily Equipment Log and Project Risk Profile sections, and ensured backend code accessibility for pull request reviews. Vikas assisted with coordinating testing and providing feedback on pull request integrations. Together, their work supports making eco-living mainstream accessible through improved collaboration, documentation, and interface reliability. See the Highest Good Society and Highest Good Network pages for more on how this relates to our mission of making eco-living mainstream accessible. Explore some of the team’s work in the collage below.

LUCKY STAR SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT TEAM

The Lucky Star Team’s summary, covering their work on the Highest Good Network, was managed by Hemanth Sai Venkata Srinivasa Kumar Nidamanuru (Administrative Assistant) and Sohail Uddin Syed (Software Engineer). The team includes contributions from Abhinav Tharamel Baiju (Software Engineer), Chirag Bellara (Software Engineer), Veda Bellam (Software Engineer), Venkataramanan Venkateswaran (Software Engineer), and Vinay Krishna (Software Engineer). Their work supports One Community’s mission of making eco-living mainstream accessible through cross-functional software development and ongoing system improvements.

This week, Abhinav worked on Phase 6 of the Kitchen Inventory Management project by building database models and backend API endpoints for orchard and animal management events as part of a high-priority task assigned to Bhanu Anish. He created models to record planting, trimming, and culling activities with fields for ID, name, related_to, count, date, and location, allowing consistent task tracking across modules. He also implemented backend endpoints to post and retrieve events and added documentation outlining request formats, authentication, and error handling, supporting the mission of making eco-living mainstream accessible through ongoing system improvements.

Chirag fixed the event registration screen by updating the backend and adding a new API to retrieve event details by ID. He linked the correct data to the UI components and created draft pull requests for combined backend and frontend testing. Meanwhile, Sohail worked on the Personal Max badge logic in HGNRest, resolving a race condition in checkPersonalMax, updating badge behavior to allow only one Personal Max badge per user, and adding unit tests covering 12 edge cases. These efforts contribute to making eco-living mainstream accessible through improved system reliability.

Veda resolved backend and frontend issues for job posting analytics, including merge conflicts, the Country of Application Map Chart feature, dark mode fixes, and the donut chart in the Job Posting Page Analytics module. Venkataramanan updated UI and functionality in HighestGoodNetworkApp and HGNRest, including formatting fixes in the Countdown component, Weekly Summaries Report, Assign Team and Projects modal, and Team Member Tasks time display. Their work strengthens platform functionality while supporting the mission of making eco-living mainstream accessible.

Vinay worked on enabling persistent admin actions in the Team Analytics Dashboard Promotion Eligibility section for PR 3851. He implemented backend updates to save promotion selections, ensured only authorized roles can modify selections, maintained the state after page reloads, and provided feedback messages for success or errors. These updates, along with testing in light and dark modes, align with ongoing platform improvements focused on making eco-living mainstream accessible. See the Highest Good Society and Highest Good Network Pages to learn more about how this work supports making eco-living mainstream accessible. See the collage below highlighting the team’s work for the week.

MOONFALL SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT TEAM

The Moonfall Team’s summary, which covers their work on the Highest Good Network, was managed by Uha Kruthi (Software Engineer) and includes Aayush Shetty (Software Engineer), Alisha Walunj (Software Engineer), Mani Shashank Marneni (Software Engineer), Sai Teja Kaasoju (Software Engineer), Sudheesh Thuralkalmakki Dharmappa Gowda (Full Stack Developer), and Vishnupriya Swaminathan (Software Engineer). Their efforts support One Community by making eco-living mainstream accessible through open-source collaboration, ecologically responsible innovation, and holistic global progress.

This week, Uha improved the usability of the Purchase Request Form in the BM Dashboard Tools section by implementing dynamic filtering of the Tool dropdown based on the selected Project. She also added functionality to display tool metadata such as availability status, last requested date, and common use cases when a tool is selected, helping reduce selection errors and duplicate requests. Vishnupriya worked on the Job Application Listing Page related to PRs 4307 and 1872 by setting up the project locally and reviewing how the JobApplicationForm component loads and renders application questions. She resolved a form submission issue, verified updates to personal information fields, confirmed removal of the “What is your degree major?” question, updated the submit button label to “Submit Now,” and analyzed logic for technology selection questions involving years of experience. These updates strengthen the reliability and reuse of shared infrastructure supporting the mission of making eco-living mainstream accessible.

Sudheesh addressed HGN Software Development Phase 1 bugs related to PR 2850 by identifying backend issues that caused system failures and implementing fixes. He also updated the frontend Teams component to ensure team data displays correctly and resolved problems in the Add Member functionality by verifying API interactions and aligning the interface with backend logic. Aayush worked on dark mode improvements for the Activity Attendance and Activities List pages by reviewing requirements, updating UI components that were not visible in dark mode, testing fixes locally, and creating a pull request for review. These refinements improve accessibility and system usability while supporting the mission of making eco-living mainstream accessible.

Mani resolved search filter dropdown misalignment on the dashboard by reviewing the parent container positioning context and updating relative attributes so dropdown coordinates align with the correct trigger element. He added dynamic alignment logic, collision detection, and coordinate overrides to prevent menus from being cut off on smaller screens, validating the results through cross-browser testing in Chrome, Safari, and Firefox. Sai Teja continued work on PR3876 to implement a loss tracking line graph by reviewing existing code, identifying merge conflicts in several project files, and analyzing issues in the material filter logic that currently filters by year instead of material type.

Additional improvements identified by Sai Teja include adjusting text contrast in light and dark modes, adding a Reset Filters button to the Planned vs Actual Cost section, removing unused interface components, and validating that start dates precede end dates. Alisha worked on the Job Analytics Page by resolving issues with the device selection dropdown used for desktop, mobile, and tablet engagement metrics and updating the compare-with dropdown used for user trend comparisons. She prepared a pull request for the updates and will rebase the branch addressing the Source of Applicants 403 error before submitting the changes for review.  Visit the Highest Good Society and Highest Good Network pages for more on how this work supports making eco-living mainstream accessible through open-source development and globally accessible resources. The collage portrayed below displays the team’s efforts and accomplishments for the week.

REACTONAUTS SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT TEAM

The Reactonauts team summary, which covers their work on the Highest Good Network, was managed by Diya Wadhwani (Software Developer) and Divanshu Bakshi (Product Manager) and it includes Aseem Deshmukh (Software Developer), Namitha Vijaykumar Pawar (Software Engineer), Sayali Sable (Software Engineer), Sri Satya Venkatasai Siri Sudheeksha Vavila (Software Engineer), and Suparshwa Patil (Software Engineer). This work is part of One Community’s broader mission of making eco-living mainstream accessible.

This week, Aseem worked on PR #4546 by creating a new branch from scratch to move task-related code and avoid further merge conflicts. She transferred the relevant code to the new branch and continued development there to maintain a cleaner git history. Aseem also modified the HoursPledgedChart.module.css file to resolve dark mode styling issues so components display correctly when dark mode is enabled. These improvements contribute to the continued development of the HGN platform supporting the mission of making eco-living mainstream accessible.

Diya worked across several areas of the HGN platform, including UI alignment, email safety, and reporting workflows. Updates included numeric alignment fixes across the dashboard, improved leaderboard responsiveness, and alignment of status and time icons near usernames, resulting in PR #4979. She also added production-only guards to EmailSender and weekly cron jobs so Blue Square assignments, weekly summaries, and organization emails run only in production, submitted as PR #2095. Additional improvements included fixing UI alignment on the single task page, correcting People Report calculations so project and task hours reconcile accurately, and improving the weekly summary email recipient workflow with search, add, and remove functionality in the popup interface. These updates support making eco-living mainstream accessible.

Namitha updated the dashboard search filters date picker component in PR #4986 after identifying redundant icons in the date input field. She removed the dropdown arrow so the field displays only the calendar icon while ensuring the calendar function remains intact. Sayali completed several frontend improvements, including making email and Slack icons actionable on the team member skill and contact page with accessible hover tooltips and keyboard support. She also resolved radar chart resizing issues on the skills profile page, corrected dark mode color styling, fixed service worker registration issues, and addressed report calculation and filtering bugs while resolving multiple code quality and accessibility concerns.

Sudheeksha logged 20 hours implementing dark mode styles for the HGN skills and member list pages, applying pull request feedback, fixing quality gate issues, and enabling redirection to the skills page when the form is already completed. Suparshwa worked on authentication and access control for the chatbot system by reviewing integration documentation, testing authentication within the application, and developing an initial access restriction structure limiting chatbot access to admin accounts while broader role-based access logic is developed. These improvements strengthen the infrastructure supporting the mission of making eco-living mainstream accessible. The collage below highlights the Reactonauts team’s work for the week.

SKYE SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT TEAM

The Skye Team’s summary, covering their work on the Highest Good Network, was managed by Sayantan Paul (Frontend Tester and Software Team Administrator) and Anthony Weathers (Software Engineer). The team includes Swathi Angadi (Software Engineer). The Highest Good Network software is dedicated to making eco-living mainstream accessible by objectively tracking and managing progress across social architecture, construction, production, and maintenance processes, utilizing transparent, scalable systems that strengthen accountability, coordination, and resilient ecosystems.

This week, Swathi implemented a compact dropdown toggle to switch between Existing Members and New Members views. She checked the feature for responsiveness across different screen sizes and added dark mode support for the dropdown component. She tested the functionality to confirm that the view switching and styling worked as expected in both themes. After completing the implementation and testing, she raised a pull request and attached the required screenshots and videos to demonstrate the changes. This progress reflects continued momentum in making eco-living mainstream accessible through open, collaborative development. Anthony reviewed the styling issues he identified while continuing work on PR #3600, organized his findings, and shared them with a stakeholder as action items to be reassigned to another contributor.

For the follow-up work related to PR #3917, he created a new branch from the development branch to ensure it included the latest updates, then reapplied the code originally introduced in PR #3917 along with subsequent improvements, establishing a cleaner baseline. During this process, he noted a potential new issue and conducted a brief investigation before setting it aside to maintain focus on the primary task. He also created PR #4963 as a hotfix for PR #3978—initially uncommenting a line as a temporary measure until the stakeholder clarified the intended behavior—after which he reworked the code, pushed the updated fix, and revised the PR description to accurately reflect the final implementation. By addressing these challenges, the Skye Team’s work plays a significant role in making eco-living mainstream accessible by strengthening scalable, transparent systems within the broader Highest Good Network infrastructure. See the Highest Good Society and Highest Good Network pages to learn more about how making eco-living mainstream accessible is central to One Community’s goals, demonstrated through transparent, collaborative innovation within the Highest Good Network open source hub. See the collage below for the team’s work.

SOFTWARE PR REVIEW TEAM A-N

The PR Review Team’s summary for members with names starting with A–N was managed by Sai Sree Dongari (Data Analyst). The Highest Good Network is a foundation for measuring our results in making eco-living mainstream accessible. This week’s active members of this team were Abdelmounaim Lallouache (Software Developer), Carl Bebli (Software Developer), Manoj Puttaswamy (Software Engineer), Nathan Hoffman (Software Engineer), and Naznin Sultana (Software Engineer). They reviewed all Highest Good Network PRs shared in this week’s update. Learn more about how the Highest Good Network open source hub measures progress toward making eco-living mainstream accessible. The collage below shows a compilation of this team’s work.

SOFTWARE PR REVIEW TEAM O-Z

The PR Review Team’s summary for members with names starting with O–Z was managed by Shameera Musthafa (Data Analyst). The Highest Good Network is a foundation for measuring our results in making eco-living mainstream accessible. This week’s active members of this team were Rohan Rastogi (Software Engineer), Sundar Machani (Software Engineer), Sharadha Kasiviswanathan (Software Engineer), and Yiyun Tan (Software Engineer). They reviewed all the Highest Good Network PRs shared in this week’s update. Learn more about how the Highest Good Network open source hub measures progress toward our goal of making eco-living mainstream accessible. The collage below shows a compilation of this team’s work.

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One Community welcomes Bhanu Anish Akkineni to the Software Team as our newest Volunteer/Consultant!

Bhanu is a Software Engineer with a strong interest in building scalable full-stack applications and AI/ML-driven solutions. He holds a Master of Science in Computer Science from the University of Texas at San Antonio, where he developed a solid foundation in computer science fundamentals along with hands-on experience in Machine Learning and Deep Learning models. As a member of the Software Development team at One Community, Bhanu played a key role in architecting the Kitchen and Inventory Management system at a low-level design stage and delivering well-defined technical artifacts. He went on to build a responsive and interactive frontend using React.js and developed robust RESTful APIs for the backend, powering the Inventory module of the portal. This component serves as a critical part of the system, enabling seamless addition, tracking, and management of inventory items.

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One Community welcomes Sriamsh Reddy Enugu to the Software Team as our newest Volunteer/Consultant!

Sriamsh is a graduate student in Computer Science at the University of Cincinnati with experience building secure backend systems, full-stack applications, and data-driven platforms. He specializes in backend architecture, authentication workflows, and cross-system integration, with prior work in full-stack platforms, cloud-based systems, and machine learning–driven data analysis. As a member of the One Community team, Sriamsh strengthened core platform architecture and system reliability. He led the implementation of Production Identity Validation for Dev Account Creation, designing backend enforcement logic that restricts development accounts to verified production users. He also contributed to analytics tracking, risk visualization, equipment log enhancements, and dashboard improvements that improved data accuracy and system visibility.

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One Community welcomes Swathi Angadi to the Software Team as our newest Volunteer/Consultant!

Swathi is a Front-End Engineer with 5+ years of experience building scalable, high-performance web applications using React, Next.js, and modern JavaScript. She specializes in front-end architecture, component-driven development, state management including Redux Toolkit, React Query, performance optimization, and accessibility. As part of the One Community team, she has enhanced dashboards for the Highest Good Network including the PR Review Team Analytics, BM Dashboard (Materials and Consumables), and LB Messaging UI, developing and improving key features, refining user interactions, resolving UI and routing issues, and strengthening backend support for inventory history tracking, delivering stable, maintainable, and user-focused applications.

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One Community welcomes Vinay Krishna Murthy to the Software Team as our newest Volunteer/Consultant!

Vinay pursued a Master of Science in Information Systems at Northeastern University and has over 2 years of professional experience building scalable backend systems and data-driven platforms. As a member of the One Community Software Team, he has contributed to the Highest Good Network and HGNRest repositories by enhancing dashboard components, refining data tables and UI layouts, and improving responsiveness across administrative and user-facing views. His work includes implementing dark mode fixes, improving data presentation logic, resolving UI inconsistencies, and supporting pull request reviews to strengthen code quality and maintainability. Through these contributions, Vinay has helped improve the stability, clarity, and overall user experience of One Community’s open-source software infrastructure.

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One Community welcomes Priyanshi Sharma to the Management Team as our newest Volunteer/Consultant!

Priyanshi is a Business Analytics graduate with experience in quality assurance testing, documentation review, and team coordination within open-source and nonprofit environments. She applies a structured and detail-oriented approach to validating frontend functionality, ensuring consistency between design intent and implemented code, and supporting transparent project workflows. Her background includes testing merged pull requests through systematic frontend validation, where she has identified and documented issues such as broken or misaligned UI components, inconsistent spacing and formatting across screen sizes, missing or incorrect content updates after merges, nonresponsive elements, and deviations from expected user flows. In parallel, Priyanshi supports the Highest Good Housing team by reviewing weekly volunteer submissions for completeness, formatting accuracy, and alignment with project standards, helping maintain clarity, accountability, and steady progress across housing-related documentation and development efforts. As a member of the One Community team, she also contributes to improving the Highest Good Network’s quality, usability, and administrative consistency in support of open source and free-shared solutions for the For The Highest Good of All.

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At One Community, we are creating measurable global transformation by openly demonstrating how sustainability can be designed, shared, and replicated worldwide. We develop integrated, sustainable approaches to food, energy, housing, education, economics, and social architecture that support fulfilled living and global stewardship practices. Created by an all-volunteer team, everything we build is open source and free-shared, including the complete process, so the model can become self-replicating and grow into a global network of teacher/demonstration hubs serving “The Highest Good of All” while regenerating our planet. 

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

OUR MAIN OPEN SOURCE HUBS

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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 March 9, 2026 edition (#677) of our weekly progress update detailing our team’s development and accomplishments:

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HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING PROGRESS

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

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

This week, Derrell Brown (Plumbing Designer) continued working on the Earthbag Village 4-dome home final MEP report and applied required revisions to align the final draft with the submitted comments and expectations. He advanced work on the MEP Final Report by addressing formatting issues in the previous draft related to line spacing, calculation nomenclature, and terminology used in the electrical section of the report. He updated the document to improve consistency in how calculations and electrical references were presented throughout the report. Derrell also performed a load analysis for the general lighting system to determine whether the existing electrical service would be sufficient to support incandescent lighting in the event that LED fixtures were replaced, supporting efforts focused on creating measurable global transformation through clear and reliable documentation of sustainable building infrastructure. See below for some of the images related to this work.

Fangting Xu (Interior Design Intern) continued working with ADA codes related to building connections for the ADA 3-dome cluster of the Earthbag Village. She focused on developing the construction documents for the ADA restroom and the connected path between the buildings. Fangting reviewed the layout and accessibility requirements to ensure compliance with ADA standards. The drawings were updated accordingly, and the documents were finalized and exported as PDFs for submission and coordination, contributing to creating measurable global transformation by ensuring accessibility and inclusive design within sustainable community infrastructure. Review the latest updates in the images below.

Rishi Chakrapani (Mechanical Engineer) continued working on the Vermiculture Toilet. His work progressed on the reports for the main Unistrut chamber structure and the dumping mechanism, including adjustments to the CAD models and updates to ensure the information presented is clear and accurate. Rishi also reviewed feedback from Jae on two additional reports and made updates to address the noted action items and improve alignment between the documentation and the associated designs. These efforts support creating measurable global transformation through accurate engineering documentation and open-source design validation. Review the latest updates in the images below.

Sai Bhuvanesh Nandipati (Mechanical Engineer) continued working on the Earthbag Village by completing the development and organization of the Large Water Storage Solutions webpage content. His work progressed with adjustments to the CAD models and updates to ensure the information presented in the reports is clear and accurate. Sai also reviewed feedback from Jae on two additional reports and made updates to address the noted action items and improve alignment between the documentation and the associated designs. These efforts support creating measurable global transformation through accurate engineering documentation and open-source design validation. Review the latest updates in the images below.

DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER PROGRESS

One Community is creating measurable global transformation 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 and creating measurable global transformation: Duplicable City Center Open Source Hub

This week, Akhil Shesham (Mechanical Engineer) continued working on the Duplicable City Center design. He focused on assembly instructions and cost analysis for the open-source elevator project. During the first part of the week, he focused on developing assembly instructions for the elevator system by organizing the main assemblies and outlining the step-by-step construction process. This included reviewing the structural components and identifying the order in which parts should be assembled to support clear documentation of the build process. Later in the week, his focus shifted to expanding the cost analysis sheet with additional detailed information. These efforts strengthen work focused on creating measurable global transformation by improving clarity, quality, and repeatability.

He broke down several main assemblies into smaller subassemblies and identified the individual components required for each section. He researched product suppliers and added item-level references while reassessing the estimated prices for many components to improve the accuracy of the cost sheet. He also updated the cost analysis to reflect the relationships between assemblies, subassemblies, and their individual components while incorporating revised cost estimates. Discover One Community’s open source Duplicable City Center, which is creating measurable global transformation. See the visuals below for a closer look.

Bevan Chiu (Mechanical Engineer) continued his work finishing the City Center Eco-spa Designs. He worked on the content related to the rectangular spa tub for the final report. He created revised layout drawings of the foundation assembly and a diagram for the plumbing system. Bevan updated the water and air head loss calculations and the start-up calculations based on the current rectangular tub specifications. He added a new section describing the plumbing access panels, including an introduction and the associated materials. Bevan also updated the bill of materials to include the plumbing components and Unistrut framing. In addition, he revised the DIY assembly instructions for the Unistrut frame and updated the corresponding images. This open source Duplicable City Center project is creating measurable global transformation. For more details, refer to the images below.

HIGHEST GOOD FOOD PROGRESS

One Community is creating measurable global transformation 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 and creating measurable global transformation: Gardens & Hoop Houses | Large-scale Structures | Food Forest | TA

This week, the core team continued working on the Master Tools, Equipment, and Materials and Supplies List for the Large-scale Garden, Botanical Garden, and other Highest Good Food components. They reviewed the portable stump vise and chainsaw sharpening guide, retaining both items, added a chainsaw filing guide video featuring maintenance techniques from an industry professional with forty years of experience, and removed duplicate entries for the plumb bob and hand saw. They also added photos and supporting narratives for the combination square, framing square, miter square, speed/rafter square, try square, and T-square. This work contributes to creating measurable global transformation by improving the clarity and accessibility of open-source tool documentation, as shown in the images below.

Chelsea Mariah Stellmach (Project Manager) continued working on the Transition Food Self-sufficiency and inventory tracking software plans. She communicated with a stakeholder and the developers regarding ongoing work on the tools. One developer returned to the project but indicated he may leave soon, so she worked with him to transfer materials and outline next steps for the developers continuing the work. She also assigned tasks in the Highest Good Network software and maintained communication with developers through email, Google Docs, and WhatsApp, contributing to creating measurable global transformation, as shown in the images below.

Jay Nair (BIM Designer) developed the Aquapini and Walipini Planting and Harvesting documents. He prepared the documentation and instructions needed to develop a lighting energy calculator for greenhouse projects, outlining calculation logic, defining required input parameters such as fixture specifications and zone data, and describing expected outputs for energy consumption estimates. He organized the information so software developers can implement the calculator in a structured and consistent manner for future greenhouse lighting analysis, contributing to creating measurable global transformation, as shown in the images below.

Nitin Parate (Architect) continued working on the Aquapini and Walipini renders and layout graphics. He reviewed the drawings to determine which elements should be retained and which could be removed, focusing on reducing unnecessary information and avoiding visual clutter by refining details, graphics, and annotations. He also spent time understanding the different system components to represent their functioning accurately. The goal was to ensure the drawings clearly explain how parts function and connect, contributing to creating measurable global transformation, as shown in the images below.

Shivangi Varma (Architectural Designer and Planner) continued the redesign of the Highest Good Food overall presentation. She submitted progress for feedback and began revising the graphics based on the Loom video. She refined the Differences diagram, started finalizing the first template, and began updating diagrams for the Highest Good Food project based on requested revisions, contributing to creating measurable global transformation. Below are the images showcasing this work.

HIGHEST GOOD ENERGY PROGRESS

One Community is creating measurable global transformation through Highest Good energy that is more sustainable, resilient, supports self-sufficiency and includes solar, wind, hydro and more:

• • • Learn about the open source sustainable-energy foundations and creating measurable global transformation: Solar, Hydro, and Wind
    • Explore our research into the most sustainable products and companies for saving water and energy: Insulation, Eco-laundry, Lightbulbs and Light Bulb Companies, Doors and Door Companies, Windows and Window Companies, Toilets, Faucets and Faucet Accessories, Urinals, and more.

This week, the core team continued contributing to the Highest Good Energy initiative. They received updated feedback on the work, researched statistics related to sustainable insulation, paints, windows, lighting, and urinal images, and provided feedback on the associated visuals. They also continued working on the cost analysis for the food rollout phases and incorporated the returned feedback into the analysis, contributing to creating measurable global transformation, as shown in the images below.

HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION PROGRESS

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

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

• Program Overview: Education Open Source Hub
• How the components work together in designing human orchestrated eco-abundance: 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

Highest Good Education: All Subjects | All Learning Levels | Any Age – Click image for the open source hub

HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY PROGRESS

One Community is creating measurable global transformation 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 creating measurable global transformation: Highest Good Society
    • Learn about the model for fulfilled living and sharing: A Day in the Life
    • Learn about the 4 economic models: RBE | For-profit | Non-profit | Entrepreneurship
    • Learn about our open source community collaboration and management software: The Highest Good Network

This week, the core team completed over 30 hours managing volunteer work reviews, handling emails, overseeing social media accounts, supporting web development, and identifying and integrating bug fixes for the Highest Good Network. The team also interviewed and onboarded new volunteer members. Additionally, they produced and integrated the video above, which highlights how contributing to creating measurable global transformation serves as a foundational element of One Community’s broader mission. The following images showcase highlights of this work.

Pooja Kulkarni (UI/UX Designer) continued her work by advancing governance platform designs through structured interaction flows and collaborative engagement features that support transparent participation and informed decision-making on the Highest Good Network. She developed multiple mid-fidelity wireframes illustrating the end-to-end governance experience, including login and onboarding, governance education modules, proposal dashboards, and structured proposal workflows guiding users through each stage of participation. Pooja also created four interactive prototype flows demonstrating how users move through the platform while reviewing proposals, participating in discussions, submitting questions, and proposing formal amendments. Her work contributes to creating measurable global transformation through clearly documented and open processes.

In addition, Pooja designed collaboration interfaces enabling community members to engage through discussion threads, clarification questions, and amendment proposals, maintaining transparency and clarity throughout the decision-making process. She also prepared a detailed presentation explaining the governance platform design, outlining the problem definition, research insights, user journey, governance workflows, analytics dashboards, and overall product impact. This work supports One Community’s efforts toward contributing to creating measurable global transformation; the images below highlight key aspects of her work.

Prudhvi Marpina (Data Analyst) contributed to Highest Good Network software development, marketing, and administrative initiatives in support of creating measurable global transformation. He worked on Phase 5 governance by updating Deliverable 3 in the HGN document, preparing the action items table, refining action item descriptions, and reviewing the related Figma designs to ensure alignment between documentation and interface planning. Prudhvi coordinated with the Figma developer to update the corresponding deliverables and provided feedback on design elements associated with this phase.

In marketing and promotion, he reviewed and updated BlueSky posts scheduled through Buffer, monitored post reach, and maintained weekly analytics by updating tracking information in the Social Media Dashboard and the BlueSky data sheet. He also supported OC administration by updating the weekly blog and providing feedback on the administration team’s work for the reporting week. The following images showcase highlights of this work. This work contributes to creating measurable global transformation by making systems easier to replicate.

Yagna Reddy Badvel (Data Analyst and Team Administrator) continued to support structured administrative and tracking operations on The Highest Good Network by performing detailed reviews and system updates to maintain accuracy and workflow clarity. He reviewed the Phase 2 tracking sheets, including the “Materials, Equipment, Tools, and Project Tracking System” tab, verifying task categorization, addressing incomplete entries, correcting dropdown inconsistencies, updating statuses to reflect current progress, and ensuring alignment across tracking records. Yagna also corrected formatting and structural issues, updated links, standardized naming conventions, adjusted filters, and improved the overall organization of the sheets to support clearer tracking and reporting.

In addition, he reviewed Sai Sree Dongari’s weekend deliverables, checked them for accuracy and consistency, and provided feedback to align the work with project standards and expectations. This work supports One Community’s efforts toward creating measurable global transformation. The images below show some of his work.

Yulin Li (Graphic Designer) continued her work by contributing 20 hours of volunteer service focused on visual communication and coordination for The Highest Good Network software team. She created volunteer announcements according to project requirements to improve clarity, visual consistency, and alignment with communication guidelines. Yulin also prepared and published a team collaboration announcement to support transparent communication across teams. In addition, she maintained organized asset management through Dropbox and participated in weekly review discussions to support timely task completion. This work supports One Community’s efforts toward creating measurable global transformation; see the Highest Good Society and the collage below for examples of her work.

ADMINISTRATION TEAM

The Administration Team’s summary, which covers their work on the Highest Good Network, was managed by Prudhvi Marpina (Data Analyst) and includes Ashutosh Mishra (Software Engineer), Keerthana Chitturi (System Administrator), Divanshu Bakshi (Team Admin), Hemanth Sai Venkata Srinivasa Kumar Nidamanuru (Administrative Assistant), Leo Lishin Shiu (Software Engineer), Manish Kanuri (Data Scientist), Mridul Bhushan (Volunteer Project Strategy Analyst and Team Administrator), Olawunmi “Ola” Ijisesan (Administrative and Management Support), Priyanshi Sharma (Data Analyst and Team Administrator), Rachna Malav (Data Analyst), Rajeshwari Bhirud (Administrator), Rishitha Adepu (Administrator), Sai Keerthi Domakonda (System Administrator), Sayantan Paul (Frontend Tester and Software Team Administrator), Shameera Musthafa (Data Analyst), Shreya Shetty (Data Analyst), and Sudarshan Raju Chintalapati Venkata (Data Analyst). The Administration Team supports the Highest Good Network, a tool designed to track and measure progress while developing systems that contribute to creating measurable global transformation. Through administrative support, documentation, testing, training, recruiting, analytics, and content management, the team helps advance this mission, aligning with One Community’s vision of building a replicable and sustainable future model.

This week, Ashutosh advanced multimodal AI capabilities by implementing parallel inferencing chains using CLIP and CLAP models, refining embedding workflows, integrating MongoDB storage for reranked document results, and evaluating Hugging Face micro models using metrics such as MRR and nDCG to improve retrieval performance. Divanshu maintained Mastodon communications, automated engagement metric extraction using Python scripts, updated analytics dashboards, documented feature issues, and supported product backlog coordination with the development team. Keerthana reviewed administrative submissions for compliance, initiated CSS refactoring cleanup, and transitioned into the Corrections Administrator role to strengthen documentation standards. Together, these efforts support creating measurable global transformation.

Leo compiled and formatted team summaries for the blog, verified analytics data extraction, and tested API functionality connected to AWS systems, while Manish tested and verified multiple pull requests and supported coordination through documentation updates and workflow tracking. Mridul managed WordPress publication for Blog #676, ensured formatting and reporting compliance, and maintained analytics reporting continuity across X and LinkedIn platforms. Hemanth conducted pull request testing across multiple updates, validated UI behavior in light and dark modes, and supported administrative review processes for new team members. These coordinated activities strengthen collaboration, accountability, and system reliability in support of creating measurable global transformation.

Ola improved administrative accessibility by organizing Google Workspace structures, creating task management folders, and updating Pinterest analytics reporting using extracted CSV data. Priyanshi conducted detailed dashboard testing for the Financials Tracking section, validating chart rendering, filter behavior, and layout consistency across light and dark modes while documenting usability observations and data visualization issues. Rachna reviewed communications, prepared for scheduled interviews, and followed up on internal coordination tasks to maintain continuity in team operations. This progress reinforces creating measurable global transformation by keeping solutions organized, transparent, and actionable.

Rajeshwari advanced administrative blog responsibilities, tested PR dashboard endpoints, and began implementing a hotfix within the user management workflow. Rishitha coordinated weekly blog compilation, SEO optimization, Threads engagement, and dashboard updates using Excel and Python scripts. Sai Keerthi reviewed Admin-in-Training work and administrative submissions to ensure guideline compliance and workflow clarity. Sayantan tested numerous pull requests, documented system issues, assigned development tasks across several modules, and validated dashboard features and reporting improvements. This momentum accelerates creating measurable global transformation through continuous improvement and transparency.

Shameera coordinated PR review activities, curated visual documentation, and supported hiring interviews, while Shreya refined Aircrete data visualizations and optimized Google Ads performance. Sudarshan managed blog SEO updates, tested dashboard pull requests, documented system issues, and created enhancement tasks across multiple components. To learn more about how this work supports creating measurable global transformation, visit the Highest Good Society and Highest Good Network pages. Highlights of the team’s contributions are shown in the collage below.

HIGHEST GOOD NETWORK PROGRESS

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

• Learn about our open source community collaboration and management software and creating measurable global transformation: The Highest Good Network

This week, the core team tested Highest Good Network pull requests and confirmed 10 as fixed. This effort highlights One Community’s commitment to reinventing the sustainability industry.

The following issues were not fixed: the addition of bulk actions for managers, improvements to unreadable question text in dark mode on the Unanswered FAQs page, and fixes for edit and save functionality in the Weekly Summary Email for Admins. In addition, nine PRs could not be fully tested due to the absence of data on the Main branch, preventing validation of related frontend and backend updates. A new bug was also reported related to an issue generating the Total Contributors Report. This work strengthens One Community’s mission of creating measurable global transformation. See the Highest Good Society and The Highest Good Network pages, and the collage below, for an overview of the team’s contributions.

ALPHA SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT TEAM

The Alpha Software Team, working on the Highest Good Network software, was managed by Lin Khant Htel (Frontend Software Developer). The team includes Linh Huynh (Software Engineer), Maithili Kalkar (Software Engineer), Som Ramnani (Software Engineer), and Casstiel Pi (Software Engineer). The Highest Good Network software is a key part of creating measurable global transformation. The software supports social architecture, construction, production, and maintenance processes that contribute to the open source project and resilient ecosystems. Designed to be portable and scalable, the Highest Good Network is ideal for off-grid and sustainable living communities, reflecting One Community’s open source commitment to creating measurable global transformation.

This week, Lin reviewed PR #1804, ran tests, and confirmed all results passed. He also checked the team’s weekly summaries, photos, and videos, managing coordination and verification of submitted materials. These activities contributed to progress toward creating measurable global transformation. Linh fixed the Weekly Company Summary Email recipient edit and save issue across frontend and backend. She updated frontend logic, handled multiple backend response formats, adjusted the popup save flow, and revised backend endpoints to accept valid email edits while preserving conflict handling. Linh also added unit tests, addressed SonarQube feedback, and completed branch updates. These efforts supported creating measurable global transformation.

Maithili worked on PR #1618, reviewing documentation, configuring PayPal sandbox credentials, addressing SDK issues, and implementing validations based on PR review feedback. Some functionality remained unclear, so she waited for clarification from the project lead. Her contributions aligned with creating measurable global transformation. Som improved the ResourceManagement component by implementing pagination and updating the interface. He centralized pagination state, synchronized it with search functionality, handled edge cases, and added dynamic page number buttons, next/previous controls, an items per page selector, and a record count display. This contributed to creating measurable global transformation.

Casstiel added a supplier filter and an All Suppliers option. He identified a missing backend route, created it to match API patterns, and resolved a dark mode issue affecting frontend components. Changes were tested locally and pushed to the repository. These updates support creating measurable global transformation. See the Highest Good Society and Highest Good Network pages for more on how we are contributing to creating measurable global transformation. See the collage below to view the team’s work.

BINARY BRIGADE SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT TEAM

The Binary Brigade Team, which presented their work on the Highest Good Network software, was managed by Amalesh Arivanan (Software Engineer) and included Roshini Seelamsetty (Software Engineer), Ramsundar (Ram) Konety Govindarajan (Software Engineer), and Harsha Rudhraraju (Software Engineer). The Highest Good Network software is our tool for managing and objectively measuring progress, ensuring that all contributions are tracked and aligned with our mission of creating measurable global transformation. It supports social architecture, construction, production, and maintenance processes that contribute to open-source projects and resilient, sustainable ecosystems.

This week, Roshini worked on the Total Active Teams metric and the high-priority Yagna Hours Completed / Tasks Report by creating a new branch, examining the backend implementation, identifying major bugs affecting report functionality and metric calculations, starting backend code changes to address data storage and return errors, and extending the task timeline to allow additional work and testing. Her contributions support creating measurable global transformation by strengthening data-informed planning and collaboration.Harsha worked on the same metrics, analyzing the backend code to understand the current implementation, identifying bugs affecting report behavior and calculations, implementing fixes for data errors, and continuing testing to verify that the updates produce accurate results without impacting other system components. These efforts also support creating measurable global transformation.

Ram focused on the Remove/Delete Reviewer feature for the PR Grading Dashboard. He examined how reviewer records are stored in the update payload, evaluated approaches such as soft-deleting reviewers or removing them while preserving PR history, and identified a data-flow issue causing the same reviewer to appear multiple times due to historical records being displayed alongside current updates. Ram raised the issue with the task manager for clarification before continuing implementation. His work demonstrates creating measurable global transformation in practical, measurable ways. Amalesh updated the Weekly Team Summaries page and team pictures while continuing development on the Phase 2 Summary Dashboard for weekly progress. He reviewed pull request feedback, applied requested changes, made UI improvements to the Summary Dashboard based on reviewer comments, and implemented a hotfix for the summary check functionality. See the Highest Good Society and Highest Good Network pages for more on how this supports creating measurable global transformation. The collage below shows images of the team’s work.

CODE CRAFTERS SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT TEAM

The Code Crafters Team’s summary, covering their work on the Highest Good Network software, was managed by Sphurthy Satish (Software Engineer). The team includes contributions from Akshith Kumar Reddy Balappagari Gnaneswara (Full-Stack Developer), Bhanu Anish Akkineni (Software Engineer), Shreya Padaganur (Software Engineer) and Yu Yan (Software Engineer). Their work contributes to One Community’s mission of creating measurable global transformation through collaborative software development and continuous system improvements.

This week, Akshith worked on Phase 3 tasks, adding a validation message when a past date is selected in the Activities List, fixing a Max Attendees validation issue in the Create Event form, and implementing pagination for the Drop-off and No-show Rate table in the Reports section. He also began the Kitchen Inventory Management task, creating backend API endpoints for storing recipes and instructions. These efforts focused on creating measurable global transformation. Bhanu implemented tabs in the Kitchen and Inventory portal to display inventory items grouped by category. He organized item data, configured UI components for correct rendering, and created new action items to support further development and feature implementation, contributing to creating measurable global transformation.

Shreya advanced the Educator Task Submissions task by refining backend query logic and response formatting, ensuring consistent API outputs. She adjusted filtering to return only relevant finished tasks, validated workflow with local integration testing, and confirmed correct frontend tab navigation, filtering, grouping, late submission indicators, and data consistency. Shreya also noted additional backend work will be required. These improvements support creating measurable global transformation. Sphurthy addressed a UI and usability issue on the All Events page of the Community Portal. He analyzed the Search Filters dropdown behavior, which locked page scrolling when open, reducing accessibility and navigation efficiency. His work focused on ensuring users can continue scrolling while interacting with filter menus, improving usability and accessibility, and contributing to creating measurable global transformation.

Yu resolved merge conflicts for PR 4031 and created a new pull request ready for merging. He then worked on PR 4928 to fix responsive display errors and layout inconsistencies on the construction summary webpage, ensuring the interface displays correctly across screen sizes. This work contributes to creating measurable global transformation. The collage below showcases the team’s accomplishments for the week.

DEV DYNASTY SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT TEAM

The Dev Dynasty Team’s summary, covering their work on the Highest Good Network software, was managed by Deekshith Kumar Singirikonda (Developer) and includes Adithya Cherukuri (Volunteer Software Engineer), Aditya Gambhir (Software Engineer), Neeraj Kondaveeti (Software Engineer), Sai Shravan Neelamsetty (Software Engineer), Sriamsh Reddy Enugu (Software Engineer), and Vikas Meneni (Software Engineer). The Highest Good Network software is how we’ll manage and objectively measure our processes for open sourcing a better world for us all through our social architecture, construction, production, and maintenance processes. This progress supports One Community in creating measurable global transformation.

LUCKY STAR SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT TEAM

The Lucky Star Team’s summary, covering their work on the Highest Good Network, was managed by Hemanth Sai Venkata Srinivasa Kumar Nidamanuru (Administrative Assistant) and Sohail Uddin Syed (Software Engineer). The team includes contributions from Abhinav Tharamel Baiju (Software Engineer), Aryan Rachala (Software Engineer), Chirag Bellara (Software Engineer), Shravya Kudlu (Software Development Engineer), Veda Bellam (Software Engineer), and Venkataramanan Venkateswaran (Software Engineer). Their work supports One Community’s mission of creating measurable global transformation through cross-functional software development and ongoing system improvements.

This week, Abhinav developed Kitchen Inventory Management backend APIs for transplanting and harvesting events, defining the required data structures and enabling the platform to record and retrieve these activities, supporting creating measurable global transformation. Aryan improved the BM Dashboard Lesson List and form validation, testing field indicators, validation messages, and backend tag filtering to ensure correct lesson counts per tag, contributing to creating measurable global transformation. Chirag addressed a registration issue for past events by disabling outdated registrations, updating the Activities grid, and creating a new API to fetch event details by ID, helping advance creating measurable global transformation.

Shravya fixed the Education Portal sidebar issue by consolidating menus behind authentication, added logout functionality, and completed styling updates for the educator report dashboard to support dark mode, covering over 42 files, supporting creating measurable global transformation. Sohail resolved display and data issues in the Experience Donut Chart component, updated the API endpoint, improved tooltip contrast, and corrected data structures for chart functionality, contributing to creating measurable global transformation. Veda handled configuration issues with Vite and Babel, resolved rendering problems for the Sentiment Breakdown and Cancellation Impact charts, addressed merge conflicts, and converted CSS to modules for the PR Admin Dashboard, reflecting ongoing work toward creating measurable global transformation.

Venkataramanan focused on UI and formatting improvements in the HighestGoodNetworkApp, fixing alignment issues in the Team Member Tasks, Timelog, and Timer components, adjusting icons, progress bar colors, shadows, and countdown text for better visibility. These coordinated efforts ensure accurate functionality and user-friendly interfaces while supporting creating measurable global transformation. See the Highest Good Society and Highest Good Network pages to learn more about how this work supports creating measurable global transformation. See the collage below highlighting the team’s work for the week.

MOONFALL SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT TEAM

The Moonfall Team’s summary, which covers their work on the Highest Good Network, was managed by Uha Kruthi (Software Engineer) and includes Aayush Shetty (Software Engineer), Alisha Walunj (Software Engineer), Mani Shashank Marneni (Software Engineer), Sai Teja Kaasoju (Software Engineer), and Sudheesh Thuralkalmakki Dharmappa Gowda (Full Stack Developer). Their efforts support One Community by advancing the mission of creating measurable global transformation through open-source collaboration, ecologically responsible innovation, and holistic global progress.

This week, Uha worked on debugging and resolving issues identified in PR 4493 related to the Materials Add page. She investigated two bugs, including a critical issue where an error message appeared immediately when users began typing in the Phone Number field. Uha analyzed the input validation logic, identified the premature validation trigger, and implemented a fix so validation occurs only under appropriate input conditions, improving form behavior. Sudheesh worked on Phase 2 tasks for the Daily Equipment Log page by implementing column-specific tooltips to provide clearer guidance for users, preparing changes for merge after approvals and conflict resolution, and addressing a chart visibility issue in dark mode by adjusting styles to ensure readability. He also focused on Phase 1 bugs related to PR 2850 by debugging backend logic, tracing the flow within the relevant controller, analyzing changes in behavior, and continuing updates while documenting observations. These efforts contribute to creating measurable global transformation by strengthening the reliability, maintainability, and reuse of shared open-source infrastructure.

Aayush worked on multiple tasks within the HGN Software Development project by reviewing requirements, analyzing related code, and implementing dark mode on the Activities List page. He updated the Participation page card filter to modify color display for the cooking workshop item, tested changes locally, investigated why summary records were not being created in the database during logging, and completed the implementation of the Event Details popup feature on the Activity List page, testing and pushing the changes. Mani resolved a UI bug in the dashboard search input involving icon and button crowding by adjusting absolute positioning and transform properties, increasing horizontal gaps and internal padding, standardizing input padding, and verifying alignment and spacing with the design system. These refinements improve reuse and accessibility, supporting creating measurable global transformation.

Alisha resolved the OB Analytics Page Source of Applicants 403 Forbidden error by integrating the existing backend flow into the frontend through configuration of constants, reducers, and routes. She also analyzed the JOB Analytics Page task for adding device-specific engagement metrics by debugging relevant frontend and backend flows, configured a dropdown to select device type, explored related database fields for backend response integration, and resolved merge conflicts and SonarQube test failures while implementing the job-level analytics filter and breakdown feature. This adds to the growing body of work enabling creating measurable global transformation.

Sai Teja implemented permission-based logic for the Pause User functionality, updating the frontend so only users with the appropriate roles can access the feature. He integrated the changes with the existing permission-checking structure, verified functionality across roles in the local development environment, and adjusted the implementation to align with the current component and permission flow before preparing it for final repository submission. This work contributes to creating measurable global transformation. Visit the Highest Good Society and Highest Good Network pages for more on how this work supports creating measurable global transformation through open-source development and globally accessible resources. The collage portrayed below depicts the team’s efforts and achievements for the week:

REACTONAUTS SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT TEAM

The Reactonauts team summary, which covers their work on the Highest Good Network, was managed by Diya Wadhwani (Software Developer) and Divanshu Bakshi (Product Manager), and it includes Aseem Deshmukh (Software Developer), Namitha Vijaykumar Pawar (Software Engineer), Sayali Sable (Software Engineer), Sri Satya Venkatasai Siri Sudheeksha Vavila (Software Engineer), and Suparshwa Patil (Software Engineer).

This week, Aseem worked on several pull requests and related issues, including checking map visibility after merging updates and completing code review for PR #4659, fixing dark mode display of tags in PR #4579, and addressing errors when pushing a branch synced with the development branch in PR #4880, where remote references required pulling first. She discussed the issue with Jae to understand the cause and review possible steps to resolve it. These development and troubleshooting efforts within the One Community HGN environment supported the platform’s broader objective of creating measurable global transformation by improving system stability and usability.

Diya continued work on the weekly company summary email for admins by reviewing and re-testing legacy pull requests, confirming the email send and recipient flow, and identifying that the org summary attachment was rendering a crash state instead of the expected report output. She fixed the attachment capture issue by updating the Puppeteer flow to stop auto-clicking accordion triggers and adjusted the capture step to wait for charts and data to render. Diya closed PRs #3316 and #1291, opened new PRs #4953 and #2090 with the updated implementation, and also addressed dashboard UI inconsistencies by aligning review button font sizes, correcting copy icon scaling, centering numeric fields in the task member row, and fixing the leaderboard table cutoff. These updates contribute to improved reporting functionality and platform consistency aligned with the project’s goal of creating measurable global transformation.

Namitha tested the updated layout of the “All Events” page across different screen resolutions to verify vertical alignment and spacing between search filters and events sections. She compared the layout with the approved Figma reference to confirm alignment and spacing consistency with UI/UX standards and finalized PR #4923 titled “Fix alignment of search filters and events sections.” Her work helps ensure the interface follows defined design standards and supports accessibility and usability improvements aligned with the project’s aim of creating measurable global transformation.

Sayali worked on multiple tasks for the One Community HGN project, including task #33 where she built backend support for PR grading test configurations in HGNrest by creating a Mongoose model, a controller with GET, POST, and DELETE endpoints, and a router registered in routes.js. She updated the frontend PRgradingtest.jsx to integrate API calls for fetching, creating, and deleting configurations with full backend persistence while fixing dark mode styling, adding PropTypes, and updating url.js. Frontend changes were submitted as PR #4935, backend changes as PR #2088. She also implemented duplicate PR number validation and style fixes (PR #4944), fixed a dark mode issue where reviewer names appeared as black squares (PR #4951), removed an unused catch parameter in helpmodal.jsx (PR #4844), and resolved backend security issues (PR #2074). These backend, frontend, and security improvements support the system infrastructure and contribute toward creating measurable global transformation.

Sudheeksha worked on HGN software development tasks, addressing quality gate issues in the pull request for the display user skill radar chart feature in the HGN Questionnaire Dashboard backend, resolving SonarQube issues to prepare the PR for merge, and implementing dark mode styles for the member list page while addressing remaining SonarQube quality gate issues. Her work focused on improving code quality and interface consistency within the platform in alignment with the broader initiative of creating measurable global transformation. Suparshwa resolved basic errors in the codebase and began transferring the corrected code into the main project repository by identifying and fixing functionality issues and preparing the implementation for integration into the main project structure. He aligned the code with the existing project environment to support continued development. This stabilization and migration effort supports the long-term scalability of the platform and contributes to the shared mission of creating measurable global transformation. Below is the collage showcasing the Reactonauts team’s work for the week.

SKYE SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT TEAM

The Skye Team’s summary, covering their work on the Highest Good Network, was managed by Sayantan Paul (Frontend Tester and Software Team Administrator) and Anthony Weathers (Software Engineer). The team includes Swathi Angadi (Software Engineer). The Highest Good Network software is committed to creating measurable global transformation by objectively tracking and managing progress across social architecture, construction, production, and maintenance processes, utilizing transparent, scalable systems that strengthen accountability, coordination, and resilient ecosystems.

This week, Anthony fixed several styling issues related to dark mode and resolved problems flagged by SonarCloud and Stylelint through additional commits to PR #3600, preparing it for re-review. He also reviewed the list of recorded changes shown by GitHub for the PR and double-checked files to remove any modifications that were no longer necessary due to recent merges. This progress reflects continued momentum in creating measurable global transformation through open, collaborative development.

Swathi resolved merge conflicts and addressed SonarCloud security issues in both front-end and back-end code while fixing reliability problems. She added tooltip information for actions on the PR review insights page, ensured tooltip responsiveness by creating separate media queries for mobile, and implemented the dark theme for the tooltip, then raised a pull request for these changes. By addressing these challenges, the Skye team’s work plays a significant role in creating measurable global transformation by strengthening scalable, transparent systems within the broader Highest Good Network infrastructure. See the Highest Good Society and Highest Good Network pages to learn more about how creating measurable global transformation is central to One Community’s goals, demonstrated through transparent, collaborative innovation within the Highest Good Network open source hub. See the collage below for the team’s work.

SOFTWARE PR REVIEW TEAM A-Z

The PR Review Team’s summary for members with names starting with A–Z was managed by Shameera Musthafa (Data Analyst). The Highest Good Network is a foundation for measuring our results in creating measurable global transformation. This week’s active members of this team were Abdelmounaim Lallouache (Software Developer), Carl Bebli (Software Developer), Nathan Hoffman (Software Engineer), Rohan Rastogi (Software Engineer), Sundar Machani (Software Engineer), Sharadha Kasiviswanathan (Software Engineer), Vishnupriya Swaminathan (Software Engineer), and Yiyun Tan (Software Engineer). They reviewed all the Highest Good Network PRs (Pull Requests) shared in this week’s update. Learn more about how the Highest Good Network opensource hub measures progress toward creating measurable global transformation. The collage below shows a compilation of this team’s work.

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HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING PROGRESS

One Community is designing people-care eco-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:

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This week, Derrell Brown (Plumbing Designer) continued working on the Earthbag Village 4-dome home final MEP report and applied required revisions to align the final draft with the submitted comments and expectations. He advanced work on the electrical plans for the 4-Dome Home by revisiting the load analysis for the existing panel. With the addition of a 50-amp EV charger, Derrell identified that the initial electrical demand increased to above 200 amps. Based on this updated demand, he determined that the panel size would need to increase from a 200A panel to a 400A panel, which would result in a higher overall project cost. Derrell then researched relevant NEC articles to verify applicable demand factors and evaluate whether the calculated amperage could be reduced to minimize the total cost while maintaining code compliance. This work supports the infrastructure planning needed for people-care eco-communities by strengthening reliable and future-ready energy system design. See below for some of the pictures related to this work.

Fangting Xu (Interior Design Intern) continued working with ADA codes related to building connections for the ADA 3-dome cluster of the Earthbag Village. She focused on the ADA restroom and ADA shower room projects. Fangting discussed floor plan options for the ADA restroom with Jae and received prompt feedback. She then updated the ADA restroom floor plan and developed the construction documents. Additionally, she updated the ADA shower room floor plan based on Jae’s suggestions and feedback. This work supports the infrastructure planning needed for people-care eco-communities by strengthening inclusive and accessible architectural design. Review the latest updates in the images below.

Sai Bhuvanesh Nandipati (Mechanical Engineer) continued working on the Earthbag Village by completing the development and organization of the Large Water Storage Solutions webpage content. He structured the Groundwater Supply and Recharge Systems section for pond integration, incorporating technical descriptions for solar-powered borewell systems, horizontal collector wells, managed aquifer recharge systems, subsurface French drains, and aquifer storage and recovery systems. Sai also finalized the Greywater Treatment and Reuse Systems section, detailing constructed wetlands, membrane bioreactors, sequencing batch reactors, hybrid biofiltration systems, and integrated smart greywater recycling plants for safe reuse and pond replenishment. The content was organized with figure references and formatted for direct webpage integration, ensuring consistency, technical clarity, and alignment with the overall water management framework, supporting the knowledge base needed to build resilient people-care eco-communities. See below for some of the pictures related to this work.

Vaishnav Sanjay Chavan (Architectural Project Manager) worked on the Earthbag Village by working on a range of drawing tasks related to the tropical atrium, including layout drawings, sections, and elevations. The site plan, ground floor plan, mezzanine floor plan, and roof plan were developed to support coordination across the overall drawing set. In addition, sections and elevations of the tropical atrium were created to represent vertical relationships, spatial organization, and key architectural elements. These drawings were prepared to maintain consistency across plans and align with the overall design intent of the project, contributing to the architectural planning of sustainable people-care eco-communities. Below, you’ll find some images of this work.

DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER PROGRESS

One Community is designing people-care eco-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 and people-care eco-communities: Duplicable City Center Open Source Hub

This week, Akhil Shesham (Mechanical Engineer) continued working on the Duplicable City Center design. He focused on final recommendations and implemented changes to the elevator cost analysis sheets. He cleaned and organized the sheets to improve clarity and ensure all cost entries were accurate and properly aligned with the project data. Final edits were made to correct inconsistencies and update calculations where required. Akhil verified all product URLs again to confirm they were accurate and active. Separate PDF documents were generated for each component to ensure proper documentation and ease of reference. In addition, assembly instruction notes were added to support clearer understanding of component integration and installation steps, ensuring that all supporting documentation was complete and structured for review. Discover One Community’s open source Duplicable City Center, which is designing people-care eco-communities. See the visuals below for a closer look.

Bevan Chiu (Mechanical Engineer) continued his work finishing the City Center Eco-spa Designs. He worked on the CAD model to incorporate the composite decking on top of the joists. He revised the Bill of Materials to align with the updated model, including adjusting the part count for the unistrut frame and creating the corresponding drawings to match the revised quantities and components. In preparation for the final report, he created detailed drawings showing the foundation assembly dimensions to support documentation. Bevan also created an initial draft of DIY assembly instructions outlining the unistrut assembly process. This open source Duplicable City Center project is designing people-care eco-communities. For more details, refer to the image below.

Shivarama Krishna Revanuru (Mechanical Engineer) continued working on the Duplicable City Center design. He focused on cost analysis and preparation of the bill of materials (BOM), evaluating and selecting materials based on performance and cost. He analyzed thermal losses and the insulation capacity of the spa cover to assess heat retention and overall efficiency, comparing material options to determine their impact on insulation and manufacturing expenses. Shivarama also met with a teammate to review the report structure, refine technical content, and identify necessary revisions to ensure alignment with project objectives and data accuracy. This open source Duplicable City Center project is designing people-care eco-communities. The images below illustrate aspects of this work.

HIGHEST GOOD FOOD PROGRESS

One Community is designing people-care eco-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 and People-care Eco-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 continued working on the Master Tools, Equipment, and Materials/Supplies List for the Large-scale Garden, Botanical Garden, and other Highest Good Food components. They began reviewing and attaching the General Storage & Inventory (GSI) acronym to the necessary items in the document, applying the designation to numerous power tools, all chainsaw accessories, and related chainsaw items. Duplicate entries for a shop vacuum and a headlamp were also deleted from the list. The Highest Good Food initiative is a key component of One Community’s open source plans, focused on designing people-care eco-communities. Below are some images showcasing this work.

Chelsea Mariah Stellmach (Project Manager) focused working on the Transition Food Self-sufficiency food and inventory tracking software plans. She regularly monitored the document “HGN Phase 6: Food-Ingredient Inventory Procurement and Management Software” for developer communications. She assigned tasks, adjusted estimated hours where necessary, and tracked progress updates to ensure alignment with project timelines. Chelsea communicated her availability to developers to address questions and remove blockers as they arose, supporting ongoing workflow and task completion. This work contributes to designing people-care eco-communities, as shown in the images below.

Japneet Kour (Volunteer Architect) contributed to the Highest Good Food initiative. She made updates to the SketchUp file of Aquapini by adjusting plant elements, adding textures based on feedback, and updating the Lumion renders to reflect the required changes. These updates ensured that the visual materials aligned with the latest project direction and incorporated the revisions requested by the supervisor. This work contributes to designing people-care eco-communities, as shown in the images below.

Jay Nair (BIM Designer) continued developing the Aquapini and Walipini Planting and Harvesting documents. He wrote detailed instructions for software developers to support the creation of a calculator for greenhouse lighting energy calculations. The documentation outlined the required inputs, calculation logic, and expected outputs, including how to handle zone-based data, fixture specifications, and seasonal adjustments. Jay also organized the instructions to align with the project’s standardized format so the calculator can be applied consistently across future greenhouse lighting scenarios. This work contributes to designing people-care eco-communities, as shown in the images below.

Nitin Parate (Architect) contributed to the Aquapini and Walipini renders and layout graphics. He worked on reviewing the drawings to identify which elements are relevant and which can be removed to keep the representation clear and focused. He refined details, graphics, and annotations to reduce unnecessary information and avoid visual clutter. Nitin also studied the types of components involved in the system to represent their functioning more accurately. These efforts ensured the drawings clearly explain how different parts function and connect while maintaining clarity and alignment with the overall design intent. This work contributes to designing people-care eco-communities, as shown in the images below.

Shivangi Varma (Architectural Designer and Planner) continued the redesign of the Highest Good Food overall presentation. She worked on detailing the axonometric for the Differences diagram for the Open Source Hub and added landscape elements. She began incorporating additional pending Open Source Hub graphics and continued developing outstanding items, including structural and layout updates to the Differences diagram and revisions to the second iteration of the Differences diagram. This work contributes to designing people-care eco-communities, as shown in the images below.

HIGHEST GOOD ENERGY PROGRESS

One Community is designing people-care eco-communities through Highest Good energy that is more sustainable, resilient, supports self-sufficiency and includes solar, wind, hydro and more:

• • • Learn about the open source sustainable-energy foundations and People-care Eco-communities: Solar, Hydro, and Wind
    • Explore our research into the most sustainable products and companies for saving water and energy: Insulation, Eco-laundry, Lightbulbs and Light Bulb Companies, Doors and Door Companies, Windows and Window Companies, Toilets, Faucets and Faucet Accessories, Urinals, and more.

This week, the core team continued contributing to the Highest Good Energy initiative. They reviewed and forwarded feedback on the images for sustainable insulation, windows, lighting, paints, and urinals. They researched relevant statistics to incorporate into the images and sent several data suggestions for consideration. They also continued working on the cost summary for the food rollout phases, updating figures and organizing information to support planning and budgeting efforts. This work contributes to designing people-care eco-communities, as shown in the images below.

HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION PROGRESS

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

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

• Program Overview: Education Open Source Hub
• How the components work together in designing human orchestrated eco-abundance: 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

Highest Good Education: All Subjects | All Learning Levels | Any Age – Click image for the open source hub

HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY PROGRESS

One Community is designing people-care eco-communities through a Highest Good society approach to living that is founded on fulfilled living, the study of meeting human needs, Community, and making a difference in the world:

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

This week, the core team completed over 42 hours managing volunteer work reviews, handling emails, overseeing social media accounts, supporting web development, and identifying and integrating bug fixes for the Highest Good Network. The team also interviewed and onboarded new volunteer team members. Additionally, they produced and integrated the video above, which highlights how designing people-care eco-communities serves as a foundational element of One Community’s broader mission. The following images showcase highlights of this work.

Jin Hua (Website, AdWords, and Analytics Administrator) continued to diagnose and restore our other 4 websites after they went down this past week. The issue was a captcha conflict with another of our security plugins. Our website is the foundation for sharing all our open source plans for designing people-care eco-communities. See below for images and The Highest Good Network page related to this website restoration work.

Pooja Kulkarni (UI/UX Designer) continued her work by advancing governance platform designs through enhanced proposal interaction flows and structured engagement experiences that improve clarity, participation, and transparency across collaborative decision-making processes on The Highest Good Network. She refined the Community Event proposal interface by strengthening the Discussion, Questions, and Amendments flows within the right-side engagement panel, clearly separating conversational comments, factual clarification questions, and formal text amendments with distinct visual states, badges, and status indicators such as “Awaiting Answer” and “Proposed” to clarify intent and action types. These efforts strengthen people-care eco-communities by improving system reliability and coordination.

Pooja also improved the proposal draft layout by establishing a clean two-column structure with version control indicators, last edited timestamps, and clearly defined primary actions including PDF download and “Propose Amendment,” making it easier for members to navigate between reviewing, engaging, and formally modifying proposals. In addition, she designed a Notification Preferences modal allowing users to subscribe to proposal updates through in-app or email notifications, outlining default triggers such as phase transitions, review decisions, voting windows, and final outcomes to reinforce accountability and informed participation. Across all updates, Pooja emphasized structured interaction states, visual consistency, and user control to support scalable governance participation. This work supports One Community’s efforts toward designing people-care eco-communities. See the images below that highlight key aspects of her work.

Prudhvi Marpina (Data Analyst) contributed to Highest Good Network software development and administrative initiatives in support of designing people-care eco-communities. He worked on Phase 5 governance by updating Deliverable 3 action item tables, refining deliverable item descriptions, and expanding action item details within the Phase 5 documentation to align with established formatting standards. He coordinated with the Figma developer to plan the next meeting and ensure consistency between documentation updates and interface planning. He also supported Phase 4 software management by reviewing all action items and pending GitHub pull requests, following up with developers on required updates, and revising review statuses to reflect current progress.

In marketing and promotion, Prudhvi managed BlueSky posting for the week, scheduled content for the upcoming week, and updated tracking tables within the Social Media Dashboard to maintain accurate reporting. Additionally, he supported OC administration by updating the weekly blog and providing feedback on the administration team’s work from the previous week. The following images showcase highlights of this work. This work supports the continued development of people-care eco-communities through open, collaborative progress.

Yagna Reddy Badvel (Data Analyst and Team Administrator) continued to support structured administrative and tracking operations on The Highest Good Network by performing detailed reviews and system refinements to maintain accuracy and workflow clarity. He reviewed the Phase 2 tracking sheets, including the “Materials, Equipment, Tools, and Project Tracking System” tab, validating task categorization, correcting incomplete entries, resolving dropdown inconsistencies, updating outdated statuses, and aligning task priorities with current progress. He standardized formatting and naming conventions, fixed structural and sorting issues, repaired broken or duplicate links, refined filtering logic, and improved overall layout for clearer tracking and reporting. In addition, Yagna reviewed Sai Keerthi’s weekend deliverables, assessed accuracy and consistency against project standards, and provided structured, actionable feedback to ensure alignment with established expectations. This work supports One Community’s efforts toward designing people-care eco-communities. The images below show some of his work.

Yulin Li (Graphic Designer) continued her work by contributing 20 hours of volunteer service focused on visual communication and coordination for The Highest Good Network software team. She revised infographics based on feedback to improve clarity, visual consistency, and alignment with One Community’s sustainability objectives. She also prepared and published a team collaboration announcement to support transparent communication across teams. In addition, Yulin maintained organized asset management through Dropbox and participated in weekly review discussions to support timely task completion. This work supports One Community’s efforts toward designing people-care eco-communities; see the Highest Good Society and the collage below for examples of their work.

ADMINISTRATION TEAM

The Administration Team’s summary, which covers their work on the Highest Good Network, was managed by Prudhvi Marpina (Data Analyst) and includes Anusha Gali (Software Engineer), Ashutosh Mishra (Software Engineer), Keerthana Chitturi (System Administrator), Divanshu Bakshi (Team Admin), Hemanth Sai Venkata Srinivasa Kumar Nidamanuru (Administrative Assistant), Leo Lishin Shiu (Software Engineer), Manish Kanuri (Data Scientist), Mridul Bhushan (Volunteer Project Strategy Analyst and Team Administrator), Neeharika Kamireddy (Data Analyst), Olawunmi “Ola” Ijisesan (Administrative and Management Support), Priyanshi Sharma (Data Analyst and Team Administrator), Rachna Malav (Data Analyst), Rajeshwari Bhirud (Administrator), Rishitha Adepu (Administrator), Sai Keerthi Domakonda (System Administrator), Sayantan Paul (Frontend Tester and Software Team Administrator), Shameera Musthafa (Data Analyst), Shreya Shetty (Data Analyst), and Sudarshan Raju Chintalapati Venkata (Data Analyst). The Administration Team supports the Highest Good Network, a tool designed to track and measure progress while developing systems that contribute to people-care eco-communities. Through administrative support, documentation, testing, training, recruiting, analytics, and content management, the team helps advance this mission, aligning with One Community’s vision of building a replicable and sustainable future model.

This week, Anusha reviewed and tested frontend and backend pull requests for the Highest Good Network software, approving or requesting changes based on UI defects, functionality gaps, setup issues, and re-review findings while supporting cross-team communication and developer coordination. Ashutosh validated multiple API endpoints, optimized caching and interface behavior, refined document embedding workflows, and resolved merge conflicts to improve chatbot reliability and grounding accuracy. Divanshu published Mastodon updates, extracted engagement metrics using Python automation, updated dashboards, documented feature issues, and supported backlog and product coordination efforts. Keerthana reviewed administrative submissions for compliance, initiated CSS refactoring cleanup, and transitioned into the Corrections Administrator role to strengthen documentation standards. Together, these efforts support designing people-care eco-communities.

Leo compiled and formatted team summaries for the blog, created collages, validated Meta analytics extraction, and tested API functionality, while Manish tested and verified multiple frontend pull requests and supported coordination through documentation and workflow updates. Mridul managed WordPress publication for Blog #675, ensured SEO and formatting compliance, and maintained content continuity across X and LinkedIn analytics reporting. Hemanth conducted detailed frontend and backend pull request testing, documented filtering and UI issues, and supported administrative coordination and blog preparation. These coordinated activities strengthen collaboration, accountability, and system reliability in support of people-care eco-communities.

Neeharika assigned and tracked development tasks, tested pull requests, verified administrative documents, and reviewed team work to maintain progress alignment. Ola organized administrative workflows, prepared team folders, verified Pinterest scheduling, and closed feedback loops in the review process. Priyanshi conducted detailed dashboard and map testing, validated UI alignment and filter behavior, and documented rendering, dark mode, and data update issues for resolution. Rachna reviewed tasks, followed up on communications, assessed SEO pages, and coordinated a volunteer interview. This progress reinforces designing people-care eco-communities by keeping solutions organized, transparent, and actionable.

Rajeshwari advanced administrative blog responsibilities, tested endpoints, and implemented a hotfix within the user management workflow. Rishitha managed weekly blog compilation, SEO optimization, Threads engagement, and dashboard data updates using Python and Excel workflows. Sai Keerthi reviewed administrative submissions, tested and implemented a hotfix for the Assign Team feature, and created a related pull request. Sayantan tested scoring and ranking logic, reviewed multiple dashboards and pull requests, logged system improvement tasks, and validated reporting accuracy. Shameera coordinated PR review management, curated report visuals, and supported hiring interviews. Shreya refined Aircrete visualizations and optimized Google Ads performance. Sudarshan managed blog SEO updates, tested dashboards, documented issues, and created system enhancement tasks. To learn more about how this work supports designing people-care eco-communities, visit the Highest Good Society and Highest Good Network pages. Highlights of the team’s contributions are shown in the collage below.

HIGHEST GOOD NETWORK PROGRESS

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

• Learn about our open source community collaboration and management software and People-care Eco-communities: The Highest Good Network

This week, the core team tested Highest Good Network pull requests and confirmed 11 as fixed. This effort highlights One Community’s commitment to reinventing the sustainability industry. The outcome supports people-care eco-communities through documented and shareable innovation.

The following were not fixed: issues with hover text on the PR Review Team Analytics Dashboard PR Insights frontend, functionality to add, edit, and delete inventory types, gaps in the process for adding materials, and undefined search parameters in the Feedback page search function. In addition, 15 PRs could not be tested due to the absence of data on the Main branch, preventing validation of related frontend and backend updates. This work strengthens One Community’s mission of designing people-care eco-communities. Visit the Highest Good Society and the Highest Good Network pages, and view the collage below, to explore an overview of the team’s contributions and impact.

ALPHA SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT TEAM

The Alpha Software Team, working on the Highest Good Network software, was managed by Lin Khant Htel (Frontend Software Developer). The team includes Linh Huynh (Software Engineer), Maithili Kalkar (Software Engineer), Som Ramnani (Software Engineer), and Casstiel Pi (Software Engineer). The Highest Good Network software is a key part of sustainable and free-shared eco-solutions. We are helping track and measure progress toward designing people-care eco-communities. The software supports social architecture, construction, production, and maintenance processes that contribute to the open source project and resilient ecosystems. Designed to be portable and scalable, the Highest Good Network software is well suited for off-grid and sustainable living communities. This project reflects One Community’s open source commitment to designing people-care eco-communities.

This week, Lin reviewed PR #1804 by examining the code and running tests on a local machine, confirming that all tests passed. He also checked Alpha team members’ weekly summaries, photos, and videos and handled team management responsibilities, including verifying submitted materials and supporting coordination activities related to ongoing development work. These activities contributed to progress toward designing people-care eco-communities.

Linh worked on the Weekly Company Summary Email recipient edit issue and identified backend validation rejecting edits when emails were not found in the userProfile collection along with frontend state not updating correctly after responses. The backend controller was updated to accept valid email formats, update assignedTo only when matching users existed, preserve existing assignments otherwise, and return a consistent assignment payload with duplicate conflicts handled as 409 responses. Frontend actions were updated to support multiple response shapes, reducers were modified to merge returned assignment data, and the popup save flow was adjusted to wait for updates before exiting edit mode. Unit tests were added for backend and frontend update paths, and manual verification confirmed add, delete, and update operations functioned correctly and reflected immediately in the interface and database. This effort supported designing people-care eco-communities.

Maithili opened backend pull request #2064 to address issues identified in pull request #1342 and submitted fixes for review, and worked on the related frontend pull request. She observed that some updates, including map changes on the Total Construction Summary page, were already present in the development branch while interactive dots were missing. She identified that the InteractiveMap component was not loading, investigated the root cause, and updated her forked repository branch to align frontend changes with backend fixes and resolve the rendering issue affecting the interactive map. These contributions aligned with designing people-care eco-communities.

Som revisited PR #4585 to resolve merge conflicts in ActivityComments.jsx caused by recent development branch updates, focusing on feedback filtering and sorting logic. The search functionality was updated to support case-insensitive partial matching against reviewer names and feedback text with normalized and trimmed search terms. Rating filters were integrated alongside search without conflicts, and sorting options such as “Oldest” and “Highest Rated” were maintained using the getTime helper to parse createdAt values safely. The data flow was verified to apply search, then filter, then sort consistently across scenarios. He also addressed dark mode text visibility issues by prioritizing upvote and downvote buttons and implementing conditional styling using Redux darkMode state, with testing completed in both light and dark modes to confirm readability and functionality. This investigation contributed to designing people-care eco-communities.

Casstiel worked on adding a supplier filter and an “All Suppliers” option but redirected focus based on a project lead’s request to resolve a dark mode issue affecting another developer’s work. The problem was traced to overly broad wildcard CSS rules overriding intended styles and creating display inconsistencies. CSS selectors were adjusted to limit their scope to the appropriate components, and after applying the changes, the application was tested on a local server where rendering behaved as expected without dark mode conflicts. See the Highest Good Society and Highest Good Network pages for more on how we are contributing to designing people-care eco-communities. See the collage below to view the team’s work.

BINARY BRIGADE SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT TEAM

The Binary Brigade Team, which presented their work on the Highest Good Network software, was managed by Amalesh Arivanan (Software Engineer) and included Sourabh Bagde (Software Developer), Roshini Seelamsetty (Software Engineer), Ramsundar (Ram) Konety Govindarajan (Software Engineer), and Harsha Rudhraraju (Software Engineer). The Highest Good Network software is our tool for managing and objectively measuring progress, ensuring that all contributions are tracked and aligned with our mission of designing people-care eco-communities. It supports social architecture, construction, production, and maintenance processes that contribute to open-source projects and resilient, sustainable ecosystems.

This week, Amalesh investigated a browser-specific issue where the refresh button functioned correctly in Firefox but triggered a development-only error in Chrome, documented the findings with supporting images, reviewed feedback on pull request 4459 to determine that the reported blocker was caused by the reviewer’s inability to block the “timer-service” request in Chrome, added Firefox-based instructions while exploring a browser-agnostic method for blocking the request, resolved merge conflicts that had broken the feature, updated pull request 4459 so it is ready for re-review and merge, and confirmed that merge conflicts affecting pull request 4679 were also resolved and ready for re-review. Roshini continued work on the Deactivated Volunteers Count Not Getting Reflected with Time Filter issue, raised pull request 2067 for review, began analysis of a high-priority defect in the Volunteer Hours Distribution Chart under the Yagna module, where totals and visualization were incorrect, and progressed work on pull request 4913 by identifying and working through merge conflicts that were blocking integration.

Sourabh implemented a Plurk-only image insertion feature in the Announcements composer by adding a dedicated image URL field and an Insert Image button that preserves cursor position and prevents unintended form submissions, wired scheduling models and routes under the /api namespace, configured middleware to allow schedule testing, set up a cron-based scheduler running every minute to parse scheduled date and time formats and execute posts at the correct time while removing successful Plurk schedules, and added Mastodon scheduling APIs with HTML parsing helpers to extract text and image sources, including base64 handling, along with GET, POST, and DELETE endpoints that support filtering, validation, and structured error handling. Harsha resolved merge conflicts with the development branch in pull request 4784, aligned the feature branch with the latest codebase, analyzed and fixed test failures introduced during the merge, corrected a yarn dependency issue affecting installation and builds, resumed work on filter-related defects to improve consistency and edge case handling, and began debugging a chart rendering problem affecting the six-month filter option by validating date range calculations, verifying backend responses, and inspecting data transformation logic before chart rendering to stabilize output across all filter selections.

Ram fixed duplicate PR number entry issues in the PR Review Team Analytics Dashboard by updating the Add PR modal to load each reviewer’s existing graded PRs, normalize PR numbers by removing whitespace, block duplicate submissions with clear error messaging, and handle missing data safely with consistent error styling across light and dark themes, implemented backend validation to normalize and reject duplicate PR numbers per reviewer instead of overwriting records, and added duplicate checks to the PR Grading Screen to prevent duplicate state entries, display and clear error messages correctly on input change, and ensure error visibility in dark mode. See the Highest Good Society and Highest Good Network pages for more information on how this works and on designing people-care eco-communities. The collage below shows images of their work.

CODE CRAFTERS SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT TEAM

The Code Crafters Team’s summary, covering their work on the Highest Good Network software, was managed by Sphurthy Satish (Software Engineer). The team includes contributions from Akshith Kumar Reddy Balappagari Gnaneswara (Full-Stack Developer) and Shreya Padaganur (Software Engineer). Their work supports One Community’s mission of building people-care eco-communities, supporting cross-functional software development and continuous system enhancements.

This week, Akshith continued working on Phase 6 Kitchen Inventory Management by completing the backend API endpoints to add and store seeds, trees, bushes, and animals for the farm task. He developed the required controllers and routers to ensure the endpoints are accessible and tested all endpoints before raising a pull request. He also worked on Phase 3 Participation tasks, including fixing issues where the Create Event form allowed past dates and where the form displayed a previously entered event name. He resolved the related bugs and raised pull requests for these fixes, supporting the development of people-care eco-communities.

Shreya took over a new task and started implementation. She investigated a 404 error on the Educator Task Submissions page and identified that the frontend was pointing to the staging API instead of the local backend. She updated the environment configuration to use the local API endpoint and restarted the development server to route requests correctly for local integration testing. She verified full backend and frontend integration locally, tested JWT authentication, validated filtering by status, and confirmed proper response formatting. She implemented finished-task filtering in the educator task submissions API to return only completed and graded tasks, refactored status mapping, and adjusted late submission handling. She enhanced the backend endpoint by tightening response logic, improving query handling, and ensuring only relevant task states were exposed to the UI. She validated filtering behavior, grouping by class and task, and status display consistency through end-to-end local testing to ensure accurate and consistent rendering on the submissions overview page, in support of building people-care eco-communities.

Sphurthy worked on addressing a UI inconsistency on the “All Events” page related to typography within the event card details. She identified that the font sizes, weights, spacing, and visual hierarchy for the event title, date, time, and location text did not align with the approved Figma design specifications and varied across different cards. She updated the implementation to ensure that the typography strictly follows the defined font family, font size, font weight, and spacing standards outlined in Figma, ensuring uniform presentation across all event cards. This update improves visual consistency, maintains proper hierarchy, and aligns the page with the established design system without affecting existing functionality, supporting people-care eco-communities. Below is a collage highlighting the team’s work for the week.

DEV DYNASTY SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT TEAM

The Dev Dynasty Team’s summary, covering their work on the Highest Good Network software, was managed by Deekshith Kumar Singirikonda (Developer) and includes Adithya Cherukuri (Volunteer Software Engineer), Aditya Gambhir (Software Engineer), Neeraj Kondaveeti (Software Engineer), Sai Shravan Neelamsetty (Software Engineer), Sriamsh Reddy (Software Engineer), and Vikas Meneni (Software Engineer). The Highest Good Network software is how we’ll manage and objectively measure our processes for open sourcing a better world for us all through our social architecture, construction, production, and maintenance processes. This progress supports One Community in designing people-care eco-communities.

LUCKY STAR SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT TEAM

The Lucky Star Team’s summary, covering their work on the Highest Good Network, was managed by Hemanth Sai Venkata Srinivasa Kumar Nidamanuru (Administrative Assistant) and Sohail Uddin Syed (Software Engineer). The team includes contributions from Abhinav Tharamel Baiju (Software Engineer), Aryan Rachala (Software Engineer), Chirag Bellara (Software Engineer), Shravya Kudlu (Software Development Engineer), Veda Bellam (Software Engineer), Venkataramanan Venkateswaran (Software Engineer), and Vinay Krishna Murthy (Software Engineer). Their work supports One Community’s mission of building people-care eco-communities through cross-functional software development and ongoing system improvements.

This week, Abhinav worked on Phase 6 of the Kitchen Inventory Management project by developing backend API endpoints to support the calendar feature. He created an endpoint that retrieves events across the Garden, Orchard, Animals, and Kitchen modules based on selected month and year parameters, with a default option that returns current month data when no module filter is applied. He also implemented a module-specific filtering endpoint to return events within the given timeframe. The endpoints retrieve relevant activity types for each module, including planting, harvesting, culling, and processing events, enhancing cross-module visibility and strengthening coordinated system operations that support people-care eco-communities.

Aryan worked on Phase 2 of improving form guidance and validation messaging for the HGN Software Development project. He standardized visual indicators for required fields, including consistent asterisk placement and accessible color contrast. He implemented inline helper text within the Equipment Update form and refined front-end validation logic to display clear error messages when required fields are incomplete or when users attempt to navigate away without valid input. He adjusted styling, spacing, and alignment to maintain layout consistency and verified accessibility compliance and cross-browser functionality. These improvements strengthen user interaction standards and reinforce structured system practices that advance people-care eco-communities.

Chirag reviewed recent updates and opened a pull request to address the event card navigation issue. After discussing next steps with Jae, he created a new task to resolve the static registration screen bug. He implemented layout adjustments to correct event card alignment and refine the Activities grid interface. He also began adding logic to restrict registration for past events on the Calendar page and continues refining that functionality. These updates improve event workflow structure and platform coordination that contribute to people-care eco-communities.

Shravya worked on merging PR 4049 and PR 3926. For PR 4049, she addressed review feedback, fixed reported issues, and aligned the updates with the development branch. For PR 3926, she resolved merge conflicts across multiple files because the branch was created during a large CSS migration. To support the integration, she transferred her changes to a new branch and then applied the updated work back onto the current branch to stabilize it. She also worked on bugfix branch 4335 by reviewing 22 files and replacing mock data in a related file as part of a refactor that improves platform reliability and code consistency within people-care eco-communities, with some styling updates still pending.

Sohail resolved an issue where the Role Distribution chart displayed incomplete role data even though multiple roles existed in the system. He identified that the getRoleDistributionStats function in overviewReportHelper.js was filtering users by createdDate, which limited counts to users created within a selected time range and excluded roles without recent entries. He updated the buildMatch helper logic to remove the createdDate condition so the function now returns all active users while retaining date parameters for backward compatibility. He also added inline documentation to clarify the revised behavior, improving reporting accuracy and ensuring role distribution reflects organizational data across people-care eco-communities.

Veda worked on updates within the HGN Software Development project across the Listing and Bidding Dashboard and the PR Admin Dashboard. She created a donut chart titled Sentiment Breakdown and resolved Vite configuration issues by fixing errors and pushing updated changes for review. She synced with the latest development branch multiple times to remain aligned with ongoing updates and resolved merge conflicts related to earlier work. She continued development of the line chart titled Cancellation Impact on Vacancy by addressing integration issues after branch updates. She also converted CSS files to module-based CSS within the jobanalytics directory and resolved related configuration conflicts while preparing the pull request for review, improving dashboard consistency and data visibility in support of people-care eco-communities.

Venkataramanan handled several frontend corrections, interface adjustments, and reliability improvements across the HighestGoodNetworkApp and HGNRest repositories. He updated the dashboard summary background styling, removed a duplicate copy-to-clipboard icon, and corrected alignment issues for the “Show All,” “Ready for Review,” and “Submit for Review” buttons. He fixed the red checkbox interaction issue in Tasks and Timelogs, adjusted summary text alignment, refined timelog icon formatting, and corrected task name placement along with “Add Intangible Time” formatting. He also resolved leaderboard info icon text persistence through coordinated frontend and backend changes and addressed SonarQube reliability findings that were preventing merges, improving overall platform consistency across people-care eco-communities.

Vinay worked on resolving merge conflicts and failing tests for PRs #4526, #4475, #4399, #4543, #4545, and #4392 in the HighestGoodNetworkApp repository. The PRs were approved and pending merge, and he focused on pulling the latest code from the main branch, rebasing each branch, and addressing conflicts caused by recent updates. He fixed test failures to ensure continuous integration checks passed and validated that updated dependencies, shared components, and recent layout changes did not introduce regressions. He re-ran local and pipeline tests for each branch and notified maintainers after confirming that the PRs were ready for merge, reinforcing code reliability and coordinated development practices that strengthen people-care eco-communities. See the Highest Good Society and Highest Good Network pages to learn more about how this work supports people-care eco-communities. See the collage below highlighting the team’s work for the week.

MOONFALL SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT TEAM

The Moonfall Team’s summary, which covers their work on the Highest Good Network, was managed by Uha Kruthi (Software Engineer) and includes Aayush Shetty (Software Engineer), Alisha Walunj (Software Engineer), Mani Shashank Marneni (Software Engineer), Sai Teja Kaasoju (Software Engineer), and Sudheesh Thuralkalmakki Dharmappa Gowda (Full Stack Developer). Their efforts support One Community by advancing the mission of people-care eco-communities through open-source collaboration, ecologically responsible innovation, and holistic global progress.

This week, Uha enhanced the interpretability and usability of the Most Susceptible Tools Chart in the BM Dashboard by implementing high-contrast hover tooltips for exact percentage visibility, adding quick-sort and Top N filters, introducing contextual info tooltips, applying adaptive font scaling, and ensuring accessibility consistency across light and dark themes. Sudheesh improved hover tooltip visibility on the Project Risk Graph in dark mode, resolved a Student Profile View visibility issue by correcting version control commits, fixed dark mode styling on the Supplier Performance Chart while addressing merge conflicts, reopened a structured pull request for clearer review of the risk graph enhancement, and integrated column-specific tooltips on the Daily Equipment Log page to strengthen user guidance. This work contributes to people-care eco-communities by strengthening the reliability, maintainability, and reuse of shared open-source infrastructure.

Alisha resolved the “Source of Applicants – 403 Forbidden Error” by identifying missing backend integration, updating the roles dropdown behavior, modifying the useEffect hook for proper data retrieval, configuring backend routes, and implementing reducers and constants for accurate state management. Aayush restored summary logging functionality by identifying backend submission failures across environments and implementing fixes, and continued Phase 3 development by building an Event Details popup on the Activity List page for detailed item interaction. These refinements improve reuse and accessibility, supporting people-care eco-communities.

Mani implemented a dashboard UI enhancement by constraining event titles to a single line with ellipsis, integrating hover tooltips for full title visibility, standardizing card dimensions within the grid layout, and validating behavior across browsers. Sai implemented the interactWithPauseUserButton permission across frontend and backend systems, updated conditional rendering and unit tests, resolved backend runtime errors caused by missing lifecycle email helper functions, rebuilt the backend to reflect updates, validated pause and resume workflows end-to-end, and prepared the changes for pull request submission to the development branch. Visit the Highest Good Society and Highest Good Network pages for more on how this work supports people-care eco-communities through open-source development and globally accessible resources. The collage below demonstrates the team’s work and achievements for the week.

REACTONAUTS SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT TEAM

The Reactonauts team summary was managed by Diya Wadhwani (Software Developer) and Divanshu Bakshi (Product Manager), and it includes Aseem Deshmukh (Software Developer), Namitha Vijaykumar Pawar (Software Engineer), Sayali Sable (Software Engineer), Sri Satya Venkatasai Siri Sudheeksha Vavila (Software Engineer), and Suparshwa Patil (Software Engineer). This week, Aseem worked on updates related to PR 4354 and PR 4546, adding a missing chart component after a merge from the development branch for PR 4354 and creating a new branch associated with PR 4880 for PR 4546 that contained reverted changes from development and incorporated code from the original pull request. While pushing updates to github, he encountered duplicate key warnings related to the “unassign team members from tasks” element and made code adjustments to address the non-unique child component keys, though the warning persisted. He ensured the updates aligned with people-care eco-communities standards by maintaining system reliability for users and supporting stable feature enhancements.

Diya updated infringement sorting logic so the oldest infringement appears first and the latest appears last and raised PR #2053. She investigated a slack invite failure from the user profile page caused by a missing token error by tracing it to an incorrect controller mapping, coordinated to obtain required configuration details, rerouted the API to the slack controller, added the required workspace url configuration, verified the fix locally, and raised PR #2071. She also completed Reactonauts team management tasks by reviewing weekly summaries and related artifacts, compiling selected team images, moderating the team meeting, and posting a recap and follow-ups in slack, contributing to people-care eco-communities through improved collaboration workflows and structured communication.

Namitha addressed a UI/UX discrepancy on the “all events” page involving misalignment between the search filters and events cards sections by comparing the implementation against figma designs, analyzing layout structure, margin, padding, and flex and grid properties, identifying spacing and container constraint differences, and updating CSS classes and layout properties to remove excess vertical gaps and align both sections according to specifications. These improvements enhanced usability in alignment with people-care eco-communities expectations.

Sayali worked on eight tasks and pull requests for the HGN platform, including implementing bulk actions for managers with checkbox selection, a bulk action bar, confirmation modal, and redux dark mode support in PR #4887. She fixed permission, display, dark mode, and UX issues in the user state indicator task and resolved sonarcloud issues in frontend PR #4899 and backend PR #2074. She addressed quality gate failures in PRs #4907 and #4908 to unblock PR #4906, resolved a failing unit test and yarn.lock merge conflict in PR #4909, corrected a broken suggestion link in PR #4835, implemented task start date autofill in PR #4910, and resolved sonarcloud blockers in PR #4911. These updates strengthened platform stability and security in alignment with people-care eco-communities standards.

Sudheeksha logged 20 hours working on HGN software development tasks, focusing on the HGN questionnaire dashboard backend display user skill radar chart feature, resolving pull request conflicts, and addressing API-related errors in the phase 4 hours logging system, including POST request issues with the student tasks URL endpoint. Suparshwa resolved frontend code errors, improved user interface stability, fixed component functionality issues, configured CORS for cross-domain resource control, and integrated zod for schema validation to reduce security vulnerabilities. These enhancements contributed to a secure platform environment aligned with people-care eco-communities principles. Below is the collage showcasing the Reactonauts team’s work for the week.

SKYE SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT TEAM

The Skye Team’s summary, covering their work on the Highest Good Network, was managed by Sayantan Paul (Frontend Tester and Software Team Administrator) and Anthony Weathers (Software Engineer). The team includes Marcus Yi (Software Engineer) and Swathi Angadi (Software Engineer). The Highest Good Network software is committed to designing people-care eco-communities by objectively tracking and managing progress across social architecture, construction, production, and maintenance processes, utilizing transparent, scalable systems that enhance accountability, coordination, and resilient ecosystems.

This week, Marcus finalized the OAuth implementation for X, completing the authorization flow and ensuring secure handling of access and refresh tokens. He refactored the posting service to improve modularity by separating provider-specific logic from the core posting workflow, enabling easier extension to additional platforms. He added unit tests for token exchange and posting logic, along with integration tests covering the end-to-end authentication and post execution flow. He also improved error handling across the service, addressing scenarios such as expired tokens, invalid authorization responses, and API rate limits, and implemented token refresh logic to maintain session continuity. This progress reflects continued momentum in shaping people-care eco-communities through open, collaborative development.

Swathi worked on implementing Dark Mode for the PR Team Analytics Dashboard and improved the page responsiveness to ensure consistent behavior across different screen sizes. She incorporated CSS Module styling within JSX to improve code organization and maintainability, remedied a bug that prevented navigation to the summary section when a reviewer’s name was clicked a second time and initiated a pull request for these changes. Swathi continued working on resolving merge conflicts and improving code coverage to address SonarQube issues related to the Materials and Consumable Page pull request. This effort acts as a catalyst in cultivating people-care eco-communities through consistent, actionable development practices.

Anthony confirmed that the backend PR originally created for PR#3917 was no longer necessary, as the confirmation modal functionality had already been implemented, rendering the backend changes redundant. On the frontend, he added conditional text to indicate whether the selected role matched the user’s current role or to display the role from which the user would be changed. He also implemented an info modal with explanatory text and planned to refine its placement and styling to ensure consistency across different screen sizes. Further, he responded to a review comment on PR#3600, addressed one of the raised points, and noted that certain issues were reproducible on the development testing site. For a separate dark mode concern, Anthony identified a partial workaround and proceeded with evaluating alternative methods to achieve a more complete resolution. By addressing these challenges, the Skye team’s work plays a significant role in designing people-care eco-communities by strengthening scalable, transparent systems within the broader Highest Good Network (HGN) infrastructure. See the Highest Good Society and Highest Good Network pages to learn more about how designing people-care eco-communities is central to One Community’s goals, demonstrated through transparent, collaborative innovation within the Highest Good Network open source hub. See the collage below for the team’s work.

SOFTWARE PR REVIEW TEAM A-N

The PR Review Team’s summary for members with names starting A–N, managed by Neeharika Kamireddy (Data Analyst), highlights their contributions to the Highest Good Network software. This platform forms the foundation for measuring our results in designing people-care eco-communities. Active team members included Abdelmounaim Lallouache (Software Developer), Carl Bebli (Software Developer), Julia Ha (Software Engineer), and Nathan Hoffman (Software Engineer). They supported the project by reviewing all pull requests shared this week. Learn more about how the Highest Good Network tracks progress toward designing people-care eco-communities in the Highest Good Network open source hub. The collage below showcases a compilation of this team’s work.

SOFTWARE PR REVIEW TEAM O-Z

The PR Review Team’s summary for members with names starting with O–Z was managed by Shameera Musthafa (Data Analyst). The Highest Good Network is a foundation for measuring our results in designing people-care eco-communities. This week’s active members of this team were Rohan Rastogi (Software Engineer), Sundar Machani (Software Engineer), Sharadha Kasiviswanathan (Software Engineer), Vishnupriya Swaminathan (Software Engineer) and Yiyun Tan (Software Engineer). They reviewed all the Highest Good Network PRs (Pull Requests) shared in this week’s update. Learn more about how the Highest Good Network open-source hub measures progress towards our goal of designing people-care eco-communities. The collage below shows a compilation of the work from this team.

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At One Community, we are stewarding our shared planet by developing and demonstrating an open, replicable approach to sustainability designed to benefit everyone. We integrate sustainable solutions for food, energy, housing, education, economics, and social architecture to support fulfilled living and global stewardship practices. Created by an all-volunteer team, everything we build is open source and free-shared, including the complete process, so the model can become self-replicating and grow into a global network of teacher/demonstration hubs serving “The Highest Good of All” while regenerating our planet.

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HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING PROGRESS

One Community is stewarding our shared planet through Highest Good housing that is artistic and beautiful, more affordable, more space efficient, lasts longer, DIY buildable, and constructed with healthy and sustainable materials:

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

This week, Derrell Brown (Plumbing Designer) continued working on the Earthbag Village 4-dome home final MEP report and applied required revisions to align the final draft with the submitted comments and expectations. He updated electrical items included in the final floor plans and report. He revised the one-line diagram in AutoCAD to better represent the initial sketch and improve clarity of the electrical distribution layout. Derrell also began updating calculations used to determine the available fault current at the panel for short-circuit conditions, applying system configuration details and equipment ratings to support the analysis. In addition, he worked on voltage drop calculations to verify system performance and ensure coordination with the updated electrical design elements, contributing to stewarding our shared planet through reliable and resilient electrical system documentation. See below for some of the pictures related to this work.

Fangting Xu (Interior Design Intern) continued working with ADA codes related to building connections for the ADA 3-dome cluster of the Earthbag Village. She focused on the ADA restroom project and updated the shower room floor plan. Fangting identified several issues in the ADA restroom layout, including the door swing direction, and noted that the current plan did not comply with ADA requirements. She then developed two alternative floor plan options for the ADA restroom and prepared the corresponding construction documents. Her work supports stewarding our shared planet through inclusive and accessible architectural planning. Review the latest updates in the images below.

Kaustubh Kadam (Construction Engineering and Management Professional) continued working on the Highest Good Housing project at One Community. He worked on estimating tasks focused on exterior windows by identifying and organizing window quantities and entering them into the estimating template for unit pricing. He analyzed the plan set to better understand the scope and how plan information translates into estimate line items and continued learning estimating fundamentals related to interpreting drawings and scope documentation. Kaustubh also made small updates to the template structure to improve clarity and usability while tracking takeoff information, supporting stewarding our shared planet through improved cost planning transparency. See below for some of the pictures related to this work.

Rishi Chakrapani (Mechanical Engineer) continued working on the Vermiculture Toilet. His work focused on reports for the dumping mechanism and the main Unistrut structure, including proofreading the content and verifying that all details were accurately documented. All related CAD diagrams and FEA results were checked to ensure they were correctly represented and aligned with the written analysis. Additional effort was directed toward the sensor selection report and the vermiculture drawer, separator pulling, and handle calculations report, with both documents reviewed and edited to completion for accuracy and consistency. His work contributes to stewarding our shared planet by strengthening engineering validation and documentation quality in sustainable systems. Review the latest updates in the images below.

Sai Bhuvanesh Nandipati (Mechanical Engineer) continued working on the Earthbag Village by completing the development and organization of the Large Water Storage Solutions webpage content. He incorporated expanded technical descriptions for advanced storage systems, including smart tanks, stormwater detention modules, elevated storage towers, underground cisterns, reinforced concrete reservoirs, and modular bolted steel tanks. He structured the material to align with figure references and ensured that each system description clearly explained its function, components, and application in water management infrastructure. The content was formatted for direct website integration, with attention to technical accuracy and consistency across all sections, supporting stewarding our shared planet through knowledge sharing on sustainable water infrastructure. See below for some of the pictures related to this work.

Vaishnav Sanjay Chavan (Intern Volunteer Architectural Project Manager) worked on the Earthbag Village by developing multiple layout drawings for the tropical atrium, including the site plan, ground floor plan, mezzanine floor plan, and roof plan. Time was spent updating and coordinating these layouts to maintain consistency across drawings and alignment with the overall design intent. The site plan was developed to reflect the relationship between the atrium and surrounding site elements, while the ground floor and mezzanine plans focused on spatial organization and circulation. The roof plan was refined to ensure alignment with the rest of the layout set. In addition, Dome 4 drawings were reviewed to inform layout decisions and support coordination across the atrium plans, contributing to stewarding our shared planet through thoughtful and replicable sustainable design development. Below, you’ll find some images of this work.

DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER PROGRESS

One Community is stewarding our shared planet 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 and Stewarding Our Shared Planet: Duplicable City Center Open Source Hub

This week, Akhil Shesham (Mechanical Engineer) continued working on the Duplicable City Center design. He focused on creating a PDF document containing the URLs for purchasing each item and cross-verified all links to ensure they were correct and active. He added detailed remarks for each component based on its dimensions and specifications, confirming that all information matched the project requirements. He also cross-checked the material details for each item to verify accuracy and consistency with the design criteria. In addition, Akhil organized the data systematically within the PDF to make it easy to reference and review, ensuring that all component details, including quantities, dimensions, and material information, were clearly documented and properly annotated for future use. Discover One Community’s open source Duplicable City Center, which is stewarding our shared planet. See the visuals below for a closer look.

Bevan Chiu (Mechanical Engineer) continued his work finishing the City Center Eco-spa Designs. He worked on the structural FEA model of the long panel, consisting of the rHDPE sheet on the top and an aluminum sheet on the bottom. He incorporated screws, nuts, and washers into the model to represent how the panel sheets are fastened together. He selected aluminum flathead screws for corrosion resistance and to reduce the potential for a tripping hazard due to their flush profile. Bevan updated the DIY instructions to reflect this assembly method, including steps for cutting the rHDPE into smaller panels, attaching fasteners and hinges, and securing the assembled panel to the aluminum joists. He also updated the Bill of Materials to reflect the revised components and included the initial cost estimate for the panels. This open source Duplicable City Center project is stewarding our shared planet. For more details, refer to the image below.

Shivarama Krishna Revanuru (Mechanical Engineer) continued working on the Duplicable City Center design. He focused on the FEA of the hinge for Spa Cover Plate 2 and made multiple design modifications based on the analysis results. He updated the model to address stress distribution and structural performance concerns identified during the simulations. He also performed cost analysis and prepared the bill of materials, including material selection based on mechanical requirements, availability, and cost considerations. Shivarama discussed the FEA results, design changes, and cost analysis details with a teammate to align on technical decisions and next steps. In addition, he implemented major design changes to the spa cover to meet specified spa requirements, ensuring the updated configuration aligns with functional and performance expectations. This open source Duplicable City Center project is stewarding our shared planet. The images below illustrate aspects of this work.

HIGHEST GOOD FOOD PROGRESS

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

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

This week, the core team continued working on the Master Tools, Equipment, and Materials/Supplies List for the Large-scale Garden, Botanical Garden, and other Highest Good Food components. They began reviewing and attaching the General Storage & Inventory (GSI) acronym to the necessary items in the document, applying the designation to numerous power tools, all chainsaw accessories, and related chainsaw items. Duplicate entries for a shop vacuum and a headlamp were also deleted from the list. The Highest Good Food initiative is a key component of One Community’s open source plans, focused on stewarding our shared planet. Below are some images showcasing this work.

Japneet Kour (Volunteer Architect) continued contributing to the Highest Good Food initiative. This week, she produced the renders for Aquapini, updated the existing render set to address visual and material adjustments, and created a new Lumion file to organize the model and support project needs. She maintained a clear and coordinated render workflow and aligned all outputs with the ongoing design requirements for the team, contributing to stewarding our shared planet. Below are the images showing her work.

Jay Nair (BIM Designer) continued developing the Aquapini and Walipini Planting and Harvesting documents. This week, he continued working on the lighting energy calculations for the Walipini 1 greenhouse by refining zone data and updating values to ensure accuracy based on current fixture specifications and seasonal lighting conditions. In parallel, he defined automation requirements for a calculator to support future lighting energy calculations, outlining the necessary inputs, calculation steps, and expected outputs to improve efficiency and consistency for similar greenhouse projects in support of stewarding our shared planet, as shown in the images below.

Shivangi Varma (Architectural Designer and Planner) continued the redesign of the Highest Good Food overall presentation. She detailed the Differences diagram for the Open Source Hub page, revised the Aquapini, Walipini, and Zenipini feature details within the Open Source Hub graphics set, and further developed the related axonometric views. She also advanced the final production work for the Open Source Hub graphics, contributing to stewarding our shared planet, as shown in the images below.

HIGHEST GOOD ENERGY PROGRESS

One Community is stewarding our shared planet through Highest Good energy that is more sustainable, resilient, supports self-sufficiency and includes solar, wind, hydro and more:

• • • Learn about the open source sustainable-energy foundations: Solar, Hydro, and Wind
    • Explore our research into the most sustainable products and companies for saving water and energy and Stewarding Our Shared Planet: Insulation, Eco-laundry, Lightbulbs and Light Bulb Companies, Doors and Door Companies, Windows and Window Companies, Toilets, Faucets and Faucet Accessories, Urinals, and more.

This week, the core team continued contributing to the Highest Good Energy initiative. They reviewed images describing the benefits of sustainable paints, windows, lighting, insulation, and urinals, determined they were acceptable, and forwarded them to Jae. They also reviewed Baraka’s construction documents for the communal showers and vermiculture toilets and created a feedback video that was shared with Vaishnav and Jae. In addition, the team continued developing the Highest Good Food cost summary for the rollout phases and investigated an issue preventing Vaishnav from receiving messages in the Construction Docs Leadership WhatsApp group. Although they were unable to determine the cause, their efforts reflect ongoing support of work that contributes to stewarding our shared planet, as shown in the images below.

HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION PROGRESS

One Community is stewarding our shared planet 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 in designing human orchestrated eco-abundance and Stewarding Our Shared Planet: 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, Prudhvi Marpina (Data Analyst) contributed to the Highest Good Network software development and marketing initiatives in support of stewarding our shared planet. He worked on Phase 5 governance by developing detailed action items aligned with the required documentation pattern, updating the Deliverable 2 action item list, and reviewing corresponding Figma designs to ensure alignment between documentation and interface planning. He also supported Phase 4 software management by communicating with developers regarding pending action items and updating GitHub pull requests that required review or follow-up. In marketing and promotion, he prepared upcoming BlueSky posts, updated weekly tracking data, and maintained analytics across the BlueSky data sheet and Social Media Master Dashboard to ensure accurate reporting and performance tracking. The following images showcase highlights of this work.

HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY PROGRESS

One Community is stewarding our shared planet 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 and Stewarding Our Shared Planet: A Day in the Life
    • Learn about the 4 economic models: RBE | For-profit | Non-profit | Entrepreneurship
    • Learn about our open source community collaboration and management software: The Highest Good Network

This week, the core team completed over 33 hours managing volunteer work reviews, handling emails, overseeing social media accounts, supporting web development, and identifying and integrating bug fixes for the Highest Good Network. The team also interviewed and onboarded new volunteer team members. Additionally, they produced and integrated the video above, which highlights how stewarding our shared planet serves as a foundational element of One Community’s broader mission. The following images showcase highlights of this work.

Jin Hua (Website, AdWords, and Analytics Administrator) continued to diagnose and restore our website after it went down this past week. The issue was a captcha conflict with another of our security plugins. Our website is the foundation for sharing all our open source plans for stewarding our shared planet. See below for images and The Highest Good Network page related to this website restoration work.

Pooja Kulkarni (UI/UX Designer) continued her work by advancing governance platform designs through expanded onboarding and governance education user flows and mid-fidelity wireframes that clarify member readiness, participation eligibility, and structured learning progression across the governance lifecycle on the Highest Good Network. She strengthened the post-login onboarding experience by designing a multi-module learning journey covering Core Values Alignment, Consensus Training, Governance Structure, and Legal & Compliance before full participation. She refined the Governance Guidelines and Consensus Framework experience by introducing structured lessons such as “Blocking vs. Standing Aside,” incorporating explanatory content, visual comparison components, embedded instructional videos including the 5 Hand Signals, and interactive knowledge checks to reinforce understanding. This work contributes to stewarding our shared planet by improving transparency and shared learning.

She further developed the Governance Structure module with video-based instruction, structured navigation between lessons, defined roles and accountability sections, and clear content hierarchy to improve readability and compliance visibility. In addition, she designed the Legal & Compliance module with organized sections for Community Guidelines, conflict resolution principles, agreement review, and formal acknowledgment to ensure members understand expectations prior to governance engagement. Across all modules, she standardized journey sidebars with progress tracking, lock states, estimated time indicators, mentor support integration, and consistent layout patterns to support scalability and clarity. This work supports One Community’s efforts toward stewarding our shared planet; the images below highlight key aspects of her work.

Yagna Reddy Badvel (Data Analyst and Team Administrator) continued to complete routine administrative and tracking tasks to support ongoing project workflows on Highest Good Network. He reviewed Sai Keerthi Domakonda’s Admin-in-Training progress across all four steps, verifying completeness, formatting accuracy, and alignment with current admin guidelines while providing structured feedback to support readiness. He also reviewed and updated entries in the HGN Bugs & Features tracking sheet to ensure accurate categorization, clear task descriptions, and current status tracking. In addition, he reviewed team submissions for accuracy and consistency, verified documentation and media requirements, updated tracking records, organized project materials, and supported coordination efforts to maintain structured workflows and reporting accuracy. This work supports One Community’s efforts toward stewarding our shared planet. The images below show some of his work.

Yulin Li (Graphic Designer) continued her work by contributing 20 hours of volunteer service focused on visual communication and coordination for the Highest Good Network software team. She revised infographics based on feedback to improve clarity, visual consistency, and alignment with One Community’s sustainability goals. She also prepared and published a team collaboration announcement to support transparent communication across teams. In addition, she maintained organized asset management through Dropbox and participated in weekly review discussions to support timely task completion. This work supports One Community’s efforts toward stewarding our shared planet; see the Highest Good Society and the collage below for examples of their work.

ADMINISTRATION TEAM

The Administration Team’s summary, which covers their work on the Highest Good Network, was managed by Prudhvi Marpina (Data Analyst) and includes Anusha Gali (Software Engineer), Ashutosh Mishra (Software Engineer), Keerthana Chitturi (System Administrator), Divanshu Bakshi (Team Admin), Hemanth Sai Venkata Srinivasa Kumar Nidamanuru (Administrative Assistant), Leo Lishin Shiu (Software Engineer), Manish Kanuri (Data Scientist), Mridul Bhushan (Volunteer Project Strategy Analyst and Team Administrator), Neeharika Kamireddy (Data Analyst), Olawunmi “Ola” Ijisesan (Administrative and Management Support), Priyanshi Sharma (Data Analyst and Team Administrator), Rachna Malav (Data Analyst), Rajeshwari Bhirud (Administrator), Rishitha Adepu (Administrator), Sayantan Paul (Frontend Tester and Software Team Administrator), Shameera Musthafa (Data Analyst), Shreya Shetty (Data Analyst), and Sudarshan Raju Chintalapati Venkata (Data Analyst). The Administration Team supports the Highest Good Network, a tool designed to track and measure progress while developing systems that contribute to stewarding our shared planet. Through administrative support, documentation, testing, training, recruiting, analytics, and content management, the team helps advance this mission, aligning with One Community’s vision of building a replicable and sustainable future model.

This week, Anusha reviewed and tested frontend and backend pull requests across the Highest Good Network App and HGNRest, approving or requesting changes where UI defects, setup issues, or functionality gaps were identified while supporting collaboration across development channels. Ashutosh improved model performance by enhancing retrieval accuracy through MRR and MMR optimization, validating similarity search workflows using FAISS and nDCG metrics, and strengthening backend integration and reporting processes. Divanshu published Mastodon updates, extracted engagement metrics using Python automation, updated dashboards, documented bugs and feature tasks, and supported product coordination efforts. Keerthana reviewed team submissions for formatting and completeness, updated tracking documents, validated the weekly blog, and assigned follow-up action items. Together, these efforts support stewarding our shared planet.

Leo compiled and formatted team summaries into the blog and validated analytics extraction workflows, while Manish tested and verified multiple frontend pull requests and supported documentation coordination. Mridul managed X platform publishing continuity, updated reporting dashboards, validated blog content for structural compliance, and supported LinkedIn moderation responsibilities. Hemanth completed onboarding, supported new admin reviews, and conducted detailed frontend and backend pull request testing while identifying and documenting UI issues for correction. These coordinated activities strengthen collaboration, accountability, and system reliability in support of stewarding our shared planet.

Neeharika assigned and tracked development tasks, tested pull requests, verified administrative documents, and conducted interviews to support team growth. Ola managed Pinterest scheduling, updated dashboards with engagement metrics, and maintained KPI reporting workflows. Priyanshi conducted detailed dashboard testing on the Issues page, identifying routing, dropdown, layout, and dark mode usability concerns for resolution. Rachna reviewed tasks and SEO updates while monitoring hiring coordination. This progress reinforces stewarding our shared planet by keeping solutions open, practical, and repeatable.

Rajeshwari advanced administrative blog responsibilities, configured local repositories, and investigated system hotfixes. Rishitha managed weekly blog compilation, SEO optimization, Threads engagement, and dashboard data updates using Python and Excel workflows. Sayantan tested dashboards and modules, identified UI and analytics issues, logged tasks, and supported backend validation efforts. Shameera coordinated PR review management and report content validation. Shreya created Aircrete data visualizations and supported Google Ads planning. Sudarshan managed blog SEO updates, tested dashboards, documented bugs, and created system improvement tasks. These combined efforts contribute to stewarding our shared planet. To learn more about how this work supports stewarding our shared planet, visit the Highest Good Society and Highest Good Network pages. Highlights of the team’s contributions are shown in the collage below.

HIGHEST GOOD NETWORK PROGRESS

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

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

This week, the core team tested Highest Good Network pull requests and confirmed 11 as fixed. This effort highlights One Community’s commitment to reinventing the sustainability industry.

The following were not fixed: issues with percentage calculation and display logic on the Activity Attendance page, missing filter and share icons in the No-Show Rate Insights section, incomplete implementation of the Engagement Strategies No-Show Follow-Up Email frontend, dark mode compatibility and date range issues for the Aseem listing and bidding feature, events not displaying for selected dates, dark mode styling issues for the HGN Help modal request pop-up window, and filter fixes needed for the PR Review Team Analytics Dashboard PR Insights frontend and backend. This progress advances stewarding our shared planet through stronger documentation and reliable implementation.

In addition, multiple PRs could not be tested due to the absence of data on the Main branch, including auto-refresh after adding a new equipment type, time log summary component and timer display fixes, Phase 2 Project Details page updates, lesson list button sorting and filtering features, Issues page functionality improvements and dark mode optimization, CSS module changes in the PR Admin Dashboard reviewers stacked bar chart component, and dynamic scoring and ranking logic implementation on the HGN Questionnaire Dashboard frontend. This work strengthens One Community’s mission of stewarding our shared planet. See the Highest Good Society and The Highest Good Network pages, and the collage below, for an overview of the team’s contributions.

ALPHA SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT TEAM

The Alpha Software Team, working on the Highest Good Network software, was managed by Lin Khant Htel (Frontend Software Developer). The team includes Linh Huynh (Software Engineer), Maithili Kalkar (Software Engineer), Sheetal Mangate (Software Engineer), and Casstiel Pi (Software Engineer). The Highest Good Network software is a key part of stewarding our shared planet. The software supports social architecture, construction, production, and maintenance processes that contribute to the open source project and resilient ecosystems. Designed to be portable and scalable, the Highest Good Network software is well suited for off-grid and sustainable living communities. This project reflects One Community’s open source commitment to stewarding our shared planet.

This week, Lin reviewed PR #1873 by examining the code and running the tests on a local machine and confirmed that all tests passed, and Lin also checked the Alpha team members’ weekly summaries, photos, and videos and handled Alpha team management tasks. This work contributed to stewarding our shared planet.

Linh worked on resolving reviewer feedback for the FAQ Tool Unanswered FAQs page, where question text had low visibility in dark mode. The issue was reproduced locally and traced to hardcoded light-theme colors that did not adapt to dark backgrounds. The UnansweredFaqs component was updated to use theme-aware styling based on the Redux darkMode state, adjusting the question title, timestamp text, headings, loading and empty states, and card background and border colors to maintain readable contrast in both themes. The fix was verified locally and pushed to a new branch for reviewer testing, and the pull request description and response were updated to guide testing and confirm the UI issue was addressed. This effort supported stewarding our shared planet.

Maithili reviewed PR4837 and confirmed that while all test cases passed and the feature worked in light mode, it did not function correctly in dark mode and the UI was not fully responsive, with the right side of the screen being cut off. PR4835 and PR2045 were also reviewed. In PR4835, multiple issues were identified: the window state returned undefined in test case 1, the same person could be selected multiple times, feedback could be submitted without a star rating, and after selecting the close permanently option the modal closed but the form reappeared on refresh. Dark mode issues were noted where the star ratings were not visible after selection and the name field lacked clarity. This adds to the growing body of work enabling stewarding our shared planet.

For PR2045, a 404 error in Postman was encountered initially, then resolved, and the endpoints were verified to function as expected. Work on PR1810 included running the corresponding frontend and backend branches and addressing dependency issues; however, one feature did not work as expected and remained unfixed. Since the PR originated from a forked repository and permission to push changes directly was unavailable, the repository was forked and a new PR was created after confirmation and work on the task continued. These contributions aligned with stewarding our shared planet.

Sheetal focused on addressing the issue raised regarding the inability to create a developer app on Reddit. Previously, the Reddit API allowed for app creation without issues, but the system stopped permitting it. The investigation centered on understanding the cause of the problem and identifying the prerequisites required to create a developer account on Reddit. Efforts were directed at determining any changes to the process or additional requirements that impacted app creation and identifying ways to resolve the issue. This investigation contributed to stewarding our shared planet.

Casstiel worked on the task to add a supplier filter and an “All Suppliers” option to the relevant graph. Work began with analyzing the existing frontend and backend code to understand how current filtering and data fetching logic were structured. During implementation, a 404 error was encountered when attempting to retrieve supplier-specific data, which required tracing route definitions, query parameters, and controller mappings to identify potential mismatches between frontend requests and backend endpoints. Two approaches were drafted: implementing client-side rendering to filter supplier data from an already retrieved dataset, or creating a new API endpoint to support server-side filtering for improved scalability and clearer separation of concerns. Considerations included dataset size, performance impact, and long-term maintainability. In addition to this task, he assisted fellow developer Shravan with resolving a frontend dark mode issue by reviewing styling conflicts and component rendering behavior. See the Highest Good Society and Highest Good Network pages for more on how we are contributing to stewarding our shared planet. See the collage below to view the team’s work.

BINARY BRIGADE SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT TEAM

The Binary Brigade Team, which presented their work on the Highest Good Network software, was managed by Amalesh Arivanan (Software Engineer) and included Sourabh Bagde (Software Developer), Roshini Seelamsetty (Software Engineer), Ramsundar (Ram) Konety Govindarajan (Software Engineer), and Harsha Rudhraraju (Software Engineer). The Highest Good Network software is our tool for managing and objectively measuring progress, ensuring that all contributions are tracked and aligned with our mission, and stewarding our shared planet. It supports social architecture, construction, production, and maintenance processes that contribute to open-source projects and resilient, sustainable ecosystems.

This week, Sourabh completed the Plurk backend integration and updated the scheduling pipeline while keeping existing scheduling behavior compatible by routing Plurk submissions through a dedicated backend endpoint that uses server-side OAuth environment credentials for request signing, mounting Plurk routes under /api for immediate posting, authentication diagnostics, scheduling, and deletion, expanding the scheduled post schema platform validation to include plurk without changing existing fields or scheduling logic, and updating scheduler cleanup behavior so it checks whether a scheduled post was actually sent before removing or processing it, which prevents failed or unsupported posts from being handled as completed. This work helps demonstrate stewarding our shared planet in real, measurable ways.

Roshini worked on two Total Org Summary report defects by analyzing and starting implementation for the date filter default issue where the report opens with Current Week in the Owner Login Reports flow instead of Previous Week, progressing the logic change to align with weekly reporting expectations and creating a pull request, and investigating the Deactivated Volunteers count issue where the metric ignored the selected time filter and aggregated historical data, identifying the calculation mismatch and beginning implementation so the count reflects the selected period, while capturing videos and screenshots tied to the tasks and pull request context. These steps help scale stewarding our shared planet for communities worldwide.

Ram worked on duplicate PR number prevention in the PR Review Team Analytics area by verifying that the PR Grading Dashboard uses a backend API with real data and currently allows the same PR number to be entered multiple times for the same reviewer in the same week, defining duplicate PR numbers per reviewer per week as an error condition to be enforced in both UI and API validation for that dashboard flow, and confirming that the PR Grading Screen currently has no backend API and does not persist entries after refresh, which means duplicate prevention there cannot protect stored data yet; he also raised questions to Sudarsan Raju to confirm expected behavior, backend ownership, and whether duplicate validation should be limited to the existing backend flow or added after backend support is created for the PR Grading Screen.

Amalesh worked on the Weekly Summaries Report mismatched team codes feature for Owner/Admin users by changing mismatch detection logic from flagging any unique team code to comparing the last three digits of team codes so it can identify reactivated users with outdated codes or users whose profile quick setup codes were not updated, adding an “i” icon filter action to show only users with mismatched codes, updating the mouseover text to show the mismatch count and filter purpose, and working on access changes so users with Toggle Request Bio permission can access and use the Bio switch on the Weekly Summaries Report page. This effort advances stewarding our shared planet by aligning technical work with sustainable outcomes.

Harshavarma implemented Redux wiring for backend integration by setting up store, reducers, and actions for backend data fetching, debugging data fetch issues across state updates, dispatch flow, and API responses, fixing backend MongoDB connection and startup configuration problems so services could run and APIs could return data, validating frontend data retrieval after backend recovery, refactoring filter logic from replace-based handling to map-based transformations for clearer scaling, introducing a rangeMap state to manage date ranges, and connecting that state into the React Query fetch flow so selected ranges drive API requests with less coupling between filter logic and API calls, while continuing testing for filter combinations, edge cases, and loading/error handling. See the Highest Good Society and Highest Good Network pages for more information on how this works, stewarding our shared planet. The collage below shows images of their work.

CODE CRAFTERS SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT TEAM

The Code Crafters Team’s summary, covering their work on the Highest Good Network software, was managed by Sphurthy Satish (Software Engineer). The team includes contributions from Akshith Kumar Reddy Balappagari Gnaneswara (Full-Stack Developer) and Shreya Padaganur (Software Engineer). Their work supports One Community’s mission by improving collaborative software development and continuous system enhancements, contributing to stewarding our shared planet.

This week, Akshith worked on Phase 6 Kitchen Inventory Management by creating backend API endpoints to add and store seeds, trees, bushes, and animals for the farm task. He defined and implemented the required database models with the relevant fields to support these entities. He also began developing the controllers needed to expose these models through API endpoints. He is continuing work on completing the remaining controllers, implementing the associated routers, and preparing to test the endpoints before raising a pull request, contributing to stewarding our shared planet.

Shreya investigated the ongoing Git push failure by reviewing the relevant Slack thread, verifying GitHub push permissions, and exploring potential branch synchronization issues. She stashed local changes, pulled the latest updates from the remote branch, reapplied her changes, and attempted to push again, but the issue persisted. She continued debugging the branch sync and pre-push hook failure, testing different merge and rebase approaches to resolve the error. As the Git issue remained unresolved, she informed Jae and was assigned a new task to center the WBS Edit button, which was previously aligned to the left. She implemented the required UI fix by updating Task.jsx and the corresponding CSS module to ensure proper flex alignment without impacting existing functionality. She verified linting and tests locally, created a new branch, and submitted a pull request for review. She also prepared detailed handoff notes for the previous task, documenting the errors encountered, steps taken, and setup challenges to support reassignment and faster resolution by another contributor. Additionally, she completed her weekly summary and began reviewing available tasks to claim and continue supporting One Community’s mission of stewarding our shared planet.

Sphurthy refined the All Events search filter layout in the Community Portal by reducing the vertical spacing between labels and dropdowns for Branches, Themes, and Categories, ensuring the UI aligns with the intended design. The update was made in CPDashboard.jsx and CPDashboard.module.css using a scoped class to limit changes to these three filter rows and prevent side effects on other controls. This adjustment focused solely on visual spacing and layout consistency, with no impact on filter functionality or data flow, and the updated files passed lint checks, contributing to stewarding our shared planet. See the collage below showcasing the team’s work for the week.

DEV DYNASTY SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT TEAM

The Dev Dynasty Team’s summary, covering their work on the Highest Good Network software, was managed by Deekshith Kumar Singirikonda (Developer) and includes Adithya Cherukuri (Volunteer Software Engineer), Aditya Gambhir (Software Engineer), Neeraj Kondaveeti (Software Engineer), Sai Shravan Neelamsetty (Software Engineer), Sriamsh Reddy (Software Engineer), and Vikas Meneni (Software Engineer). The Highest Good Network software is how we’ll manage and objectively measure our processes for open sourcing a better world for us all through our social architecture, construction, production, and maintenance processes. This progress supports One Community by stewarding our shared planet.

LUCKY STAR SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT TEAM

The Lucky Star Team’s summary, covering their work on the Highest Good Network, was managed by Hemanth Sai Venkata Srinivasa Kumar Nidamanuru (Administrative Assistant), and Sohail Uddin Syed (Software Engineer). The team includes contributions from Abhinav Tharamel Baiju (Software Engineer), Aryan Rachala (Software Engineer), Chirag Bellara (Software Engineer), Shravya Kudlu (Software Development Engineer), Veda Bellam (Software Engineer), Venkataramanan Venkateswaran (Software Engineer), and Vinay Krishna (Software Engineer). Their work supports One Community’s mission of stewarding our shared planet through cross-functional software development and ongoing system improvements.

This week, Abhinav completed Phase 6 of the Kitchen Inventory Management project by building the canning, dehydration, freeze drying, and cellar storage sections on the Processing page as part of PR 4883. These sections allow users to schedule and track processing queues by category, displaying project details such as item name, quantity, priority, scheduled date, and required supplies. Each section supports scheduling new projects and uses clear visual indicators for easy identification. The page was developed to be responsive across devices, compatible with light and dark modes, and aligned with platform styling standards through CSS module integration. By improving structured food processing workflows and sustainable resource coordination, this work directly advances stewarding our shared planet through practical, systems-based sustainability support.

Aryan reviewed the Equipment Update form in the BM Dashboard to evaluate its field structure, required and optional inputs, validation behavior, and overall user interaction flow, and to document existing patterns and identify opportunities to improve clarity through better helper text and stronger required-field indicators. He refactored the EquipmentUpdate and EquipmentUpdateForm components by migrating from standard CSS to CSS Modules, removing legacy stylesheets, updating JSX class bindings, and converting validation and error styling to module-based classes for improved encapsulation and maintainability. He also enhanced dark mode compatibility and layout responsiveness to ensure consistency across devices. This work supports stewarding our shared planet by strengthening platform usability, maintainability, and long-term system sustainability.

Chirag completed the navigation fix for the Events screen on the community portal, checked in the changes, and created PR 4882. While implementing the update, he discovered that the event registration screen relied on static data, which was contributing to the routing issue. He documented the behavior, evaluated its impact on navigation flow, and communicated his findings to Jae to confirm the correct implementation direction. By strengthening routing accuracy and platform stability, this contribution advances stewarding our shared planet through more dependable and scalable system functionality.

Shravya progressed the Activities Feedback updates by addressing review comments, refactoring related components, fixing minor bugs, and raising PR 4888, which is now complete. She also finalized the Activity Page modules under PR 4756, ensuring alignment with project requirements and existing architecture. In addition, she initiated the implementation of a new feature by setting up its foundational logic and structure and resolved merge conflicts across related branches to maintain code stability and consistency. Through continuous refinement and structured feature development, her work contributes to stewarding our shared planet by strengthening collaborative platform growth and long-term system sustainability.

Sohail resolved a data mismatch where the Total Hours Worked value in the Reports Total Org Summary did not match the Leaderboard totals. He identified that the Leaderboard applied filters excluding inactive records and specific entry types, while the Total Org Summary did not, leading to inconsistent aggregation. After tracing both backend and frontend calculations, he updated the getTotalHoursWorked function in overviewReportHelper.js to apply the same isActive and entryType filters across single-range and comparison queries, ensuring consistent reporting logic. He also released a hotfix (#2051) for PR 1788 to fix an issue where follow-up emails were not being triggered by the 4 am cron job. By strengthening reporting accuracy and system reliability, his contributions support stewarding our shared planet through dependable and transparent platform operations.

Veda contributed to the Highest Good Network software development project by advancing the Listing and Bidding Dashboard feature, implementing the line chart titled “Cancellation Impact on Vacancy.” She pulled the latest development updates, resolved merge conflicts, and fixed configuration issues affecting her local setup. She refined graph padding to better align with existing CSS styles and improve dashboard layout consistency. In addition, she updated the PR Review Team Analytics Dashboard by adjusting the frontend color scheme of PR numbers displayed inside circular elements and resolving related branch conflicts to maintain stability. Her efforts strengthen dashboard clarity and system consistency, further supporting stewarding our shared planet through data-driven platform improvements.

Venkataramanan completed several UI and formatting updates across the Highest Good Network App to improve consistency and usability. He updated the dashboard summary background, fixed the Ready for Review modal behavior, and refined time formatting in the timelog component. Venkataramanan also resolved styling issues in the User Management and User Profile pages, improved spacing in the Send Setup Link popup, implemented the Filter by Bio Status toggle, and corrected formatting inconsistencies in the Permissions Management page. These improvements strengthen platform stability and support stewarding our shared planet through maintainable and reliable system enhancements.

Vinay resolved a priority-medium issue in the Team Analytics Dashboard where the team order was shuffled after resetting the “All Time” filter, impacting pull requests 3839, 1624, and 4394. He analyzed the misalignment between team labels and chart data, standardized the sorting logic to maintain consistent team positions across filters, and ensured that both charts follow the same ordering behavior. He confirmed that label alignment and related data remain synchronized without affecting other dashboard functionality. This improvement contributes to stewarding our shared planet by supporting clear and dependable analytics across the platform. See the Highest Good Society and Highest Good Network pages to learn more about how this work supports stewarding our shared planet. See the collage below highlighting the team’s work for the week.

MOONFALL SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT TEAM

The Moonfall Team’s summary, which covers their work on the Highest Good Network, was managed by Uha Kruthi (Software Engineer) and includes Aayush Shetty (Software Engineer), Alisha Walunj (Software Engineer), Mani Shashank Marneni (Software Engineer), Sai Krishna (Software Engineer), Sai Teja Kaasoju (Software Engineer), and Sudheesh Thuralkalmakki Dharmappa Gowda (Full Stack Developer). Their efforts support One Community by advancing the mission of stewarding our shared planet through open-source collaboration, ecologically responsible innovation, and holistic global progress.

This week, Aayush worked on the Phase 3 feature to add an Event Details popup on the Activity List page within the HGN Software Development project. He reviewed requirements, examined the relevant codebase, and created a local development branch. He resolved merge conflicts after syncing with the development branch, enhanced the activity list with additional data fields and user interface improvements, and documented progress through screenshots and video recordings. Alisha implemented a job-level analytics filter on the Job Analytics page by adding a roles dropdown in the header and passing the selected role through the analytics hook. She updated mock data logic to reflect role-based filtering across charts and metrics, fixed issues where visualizations were not updating with filter changes, aligned summary metric tiles with role and date filters, and modified the refresh button to reset filters to default values. She then raised a pull request. Mani resolved unequal event card heights on the dashboard by auditing existing CSS Grid and Flexbox behavior, applying a flex column structure with vertical growth properties to standardize height distribution, validating layout consistency across browsers and screen breakpoints, and refining internal spacing to ensure action buttons and footers align properly. This work contributes to stewarding our shared planet by strengthening the reliability, maintainability, and reuse of shared open-source infrastructure.

Sai Krishna added editable equipment fields including Project, Class, Ownership, Usage, and Condition, with Save and Cancel actions and PUT API integration. He corrected the Class dropdown to source values from both equipmentClass and itemType.category, updated the equipment list Name column to consistently display a clickable link with a fallback label, resolved double chevron issues in dropdown menus, and aligned dark mode styling with the body.bm-dashboard-dark class. Sai Teja worked on implementing the ‘Interact with Pause User Button’ permission feature within the User Management module. He updated permission configurations, integrated permission checks into the PauseAndResumeButton component, reviewed role-based access patterns, and performed debugging and staging tests while continuing validation prior to submission. These refinements improve reuse and accessibility, supporting stewarding our shared planet.

Sudheesh improved dark mode and student profile functionality by fixing tooltip visibility on the project risk graph after merge-related overrides. He resolved a ghost chart rendering issue through authenticated routing adjustments and corrected an issue that prevented testers from seeing updated educational progress changes. Uha enhanced the ‘Most Susceptible Tools’ chart in the BM Dashboard Reports section by adding high-contrast hover tooltips for percentage values, implementing quick-sort and Top N filtering options, incorporating contextual information tooltips, applying adaptive font scaling for dark mode, and strengthening accessibility support across light and dark themes. Visit the Highest Good Society and Highest Good Network pages for more on how this work supports stewarding our shared planet through open-source development and globally accessible resources. The collage below depicts the team’s work and achievements for the week:

REACTONAUTS SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT TEAM

The Reactonauts team summary was managed by Diya Wadhwani (Software Developer) and Divanshu Bakshi (Product Manager), and it includes Aseem Deshmukh (Software Developer), Namitha Vijaykumar Pawar (Software Engineer), Sayali Sable (Software Engineer), Guna Pranith Reddy Cheelam (Software Developer), Peterson Rodrigues dos Santos (Full-Stack Developer), Siva Putti (Software Engineer), Sri Satya Venkatasai Siri Sudheeksha Vavila (Software Engineer), and Suparshwa Patil (Software Engineer). This week, Aseem worked on resolving merge and push issues across pull requests 4310 and 4546 by merging the development branch into her branch, fixing merge conflicts, managing a large volume of staged files that caused load-related push errors, addressing a “can’t push refs to remote” error that blocked updates, resolving the same error for a second pull request, and reporting that updated code had not been included when the pull request was merged into development, with the situation documented and escalated to Jae for guidance on conflict resolution and alignment with the current development state in support of stewarding our shared planet through reliable and maintainable platform development.

Aseem worked on resolving merge and push issues across pull requests 4310 and 4546. She merged the development branch into her branch, fixed merge conflicts, and managed a large volume of staged files that caused load-related push errors. Aseem addressed a “can’t push refs to remote” error that blocked updates, resolved the same error for a second pull request, and reported that updated code had not been included when the pull request was merged into development. This work supports stewarding our shared planet through reliable and maintainable platform development. Guna worked on the listings home page frontend by addressing review feedback for PR 3999. He refined fixes for image GET request issues and verified corrected tab heading behavior. He also investigated a “page not found” error in the dev environment for the community portal activity attendance URL to identify the root cause and restore page accessibility for follow-up and rescheduling functionality. This contributes to stewarding our shared planet by improving the reliability of user engagement workflows.

Namitha addressed a UI issue on the all events page by aligning radio button size and spacing in the search filters dates section with Figma specifications. She updated component styling and CSS, validated the changes across screen resolutions and zoom levels, and submitted PR 4877 for review. This work supports stewarding our shared planet by improving accessibility and usability for community participants. Suparshwa built the frontend UI for a document upload feature. She created interface components for file selection and submission, added input validation and basic error handling, and integrated the feature into the existing frontend workflow. This ensures alignment with current application architecture and user interaction patterns, supporting stewarding our shared planet by enabling efficient documentation and knowledge sharing across the community platform.

Peterson updated the user profile page link modal to display an error message when duplicate links are entered. He implemented the interface behavior for existing validation logic under PR 4862, ensuring that duplicate entries are clearly identified during the link addition process. This supports stewarding our shared planet by maintaining clean, accurate user data and reducing friction in profile management. Satya logged 20 hours on HGN software development by addressing API errors in the Phase 4 hours logging system related to the student tasks URL endpoint. He tested hour logging API functionality, implemented dark mode styles for the member list page, and resolved merge conflicts and quality gate failures in the related pull request. This contributes to stewarding our shared planet by ensuring accurate tracking and inclusive user experiences across the platform.

Sayali completed multiple updates across the HGN questionnaire dashboard and related systems. She addressed review feedback on the feedback modal with duplicate member validation, comment length limits with a live counter, close permanently logic, active and inactive member filtering, and dark mode support. She fixed CI test failures in backend tests with updated mocks and test cases, applied alignment fixes and reviewer clarifications for real-time profile filtering, replaced simulated delays with an API call and validation for help request feedback, updated chart displays and data flow for member counts, integrated a search bar with client-side filtering for the community members page in light and dark mode, added editable years of experience with backend support and token-based user identification for instant UI updates, and implemented bulk actions for managers with selection, confirmation, disabled states, and dark mode support. All of this strengthens the systems that support coordinated community action, contributing to stewarding our shared planet.

Siva resolved merge conflicts and SonarQube issues while implementing fixes for member and project filters, including added member counts under PR 3499. He corrected failing tests caused by undefined parameters under PR 4662, addressed review feedback and merge conflicts related to organizer name display in event cards under PR 4523, applied review feedback for engagement dark mode under PR 4467, and resolved merge conflicts in the past date search fix under PR 4338. These efforts support stewarding our shared planet by improving data quality, code stability, and system reliability. Below is the collage showcasing the Reactonauts team’s work for the week.

SKYE SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT TEAM

The Skye Team’s summary, covering their work on the Highest Good Network, was managed by Sayantan Paul (Frontend Tester and Software Team Administrator) and Anthony Weathers (Software Engineer). The team includes Marcus Yi (Software Engineer) and Swathi Angadi (Software Engineer). The Highest Good Network software is committed to stewarding our shared planet by objectively tracking and managing progress across social architecture, construction, production, and maintenance processes, leveraging transparent, scalable systems that strengthen accountability, coordination, and resilient ecosystems.

This week, Marcus worked on addressing edge cases in the current implementation of X posting functionality, focusing on improving reliability across different posting scenarios. He also continued development of the OAuth integration for X to allow users to connect their accounts without hardcoding API keys into the local development environment. This included updating authentication flows and aligning the implementation with existing platform standards in the codebase. This progress reflects continued momentum in stewarding our shared planet through open, collaborative development.

Swathi worked on resolving the “failed to load reviewers” error that was preventing the table from rendering in the PR Team Analytics Dashboard. She investigated the root cause of the issue, made the necessary code changes to restore the data flow, and verified that the table displayed as expected after the fix. In addition, she addressed an issue where CSS was not being applied to the page and began implementing updates using CSS modules to ensure styles were properly scoped and rendered. This effort acts as a catalyst in stewarding our shared planet through consistent, actionable development practices.

Anthony worked on the pull request for addressing permission changes to members with special roles. He removed access to the full permission list in the original implementation and replaced it with a view that displays only the permissions added or removed relative to a selected role, along with checkboxes to allow users to choose which permissions to retain during role changes. He fixed an edge case where selecting a permission tied to one role and then switching roles would incorrectly retain that permission; this behavior was updated so selections are cleared when the viewed role changes. He also cleaned up commented code and reviewed other related sections for consistency. Additionally, Anthony collaborated with another team manager, reviewed the follow-up PR related to the merged email automation work, left comments with suggestions, and noted potential issues for consideration. By addressing these challenges, the Skye team’s work plays a big part in stewarding our shared planet by strengthening scalable, transparent systems within the broader Highest Good Network (HGN) infrastructure. See the Highest Good Society and Highest Good Network pages to learn more about how stewarding our shared planet is central to One Community’s goals, demonstrated through transparent, collaborative innovation within the Highest Good Network open source hub. See the collage below for the team’s work.

SOFTWARE PR REVIEW TEAM A-N

The PR Review Team’s summary for members with names starting A–N, managed by Neeharika Kamireddy (Data Analyst), highlights their contributions to the Highest Good Network software. This platform forms the foundation for measuring our results in stewarding our shared planet. Active team members included Abdelmounaim Lallouache (Software Developer), Carl Bebli (Software Developer), Julia Ha (Software Engineer), and Nathan Hoffman (Software Engineer). They supported the project by reviewing all pull requests shared this week. Learn more about how the Highest Good Network tracks progress toward stewarding our shared planet in the Highest Good Network open source hub. The collage below showcases a compilation of this team’s work.

SOFTWARE PR REVIEW TEAM O-Z

The PR Review Team’s summary for members with names starting with O–Z was managed by Shameera Musthafa (Data Analyst). The Highest Good Network is a foundation for measuring our results in stewarding our shared planet. Active members of this team were Rohan Rastogi (Software Engineer), Sundar Machani (Software Engineer), Sakshi Mohan Tapkir (Software Engineer) and Yiyun Tan (Software Engineer). They reviewed all pull requests (PRs) for the Highest Good Network shared in this week’s update. Learn more about how the Highest Good Network open-source hub measures progress towards our goal of stewarding our shared planet. The collage below shows a compilation of the work from this team.

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At One Community, we are open sourcing a highest good society model to transparently demonstrate how sustainability can evolve to benefit everyone. We develop integrated, sustainable approaches to food, energy, housing, education, economics, and social architecture that support fulfilled living and global stewardship. Created by an all-volunteer team, everything we build is open source and free-shared, including the complete process, so it can become self-replicating. Our goal is a global collaboration of teacher/demonstration hubs designed for “The Highest Good of All“, regenerating our planet and creating a world that works for everyone.

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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 February 16, 2026 edition (#674) of our weekly progress update detailing our team’s development and accomplishments:

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HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING PROGRESS

One Community is open sourcing a highest good society 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 and Open Sourcing a Highest Good Society Model : 7 Sustainable Village Models
    • Visit the open source portals for the first two: Earthbag Village OS Hub | Straw Bale Village OS Hub

This week, Ajay Adithiya Kumar Elancheliyan Tamilalagi (Mechanical Engineer) continued working on the ventilation system design for the Vermiculture Toilet component of the Earthbag Village. He finalized the ventilation system design for the Earthbag Village vermicomposting toilet by extracting spatial data and clearance measurements from the CAD model. These dimensions were used to create a report section on spatial integration and maintenance access requirements. Technical contributions were integrated into the primary website content, and documentation was completed regarding dimensional constraints for the ventilation modules. Administrative tasks included migrating project documents to a new account, establishing file linking, and reorganizing project folders. The most recent Unistrut files were updated and uploaded to the project Dropbox to maintain data synchronization. Following the completion of these items, work began on the structural layout portion of the report, specifically focusing on the vermiculture unit layout and the associated Unistrut assembly analysis. His work supports open sourcing a highest good society model by improving open-source documentation for sustainable sanitation infrastructure. This work contributes to open sourcing a highest good society model by making systems easier to replicate. Below, you’ll find some images of this work.

Derrell Brown (Plumbing Designer) continued working on the Earthbag Village 4-dome home final MEP report provided for One Community Global and applied the required revisions to align the final draft with the submitted comments and expectations. He reviewed prior electrical calculations, panel schedules, and equipment selections to prepare an updated load summary for the current electrical provisions. He incorporated a one-line diagram into the documentation to illustrate the flow of electricity from the utility source to the main distribution panel and associated loads. Derrell also began developing calculations to determine the available fault current at the panel in the event of a short circuit, using the system configuration and equipment ratings to support this analysis. His work contributes to open sourcing a highest good society model by strengthening the safety and reliability of sustainable energy system documentation. The outcome supports open sourcing a highest good society model through clearly documented, open-source processes. See below for some of the pictures related to this work.

Fangting Xu (Interior Design Intern) continued working with ADA codes related to building connections for the ADA 3-dome cluster of the Earthbag Village. She prepared three floor plan options for the ADA shower room and updated the ADA Dome PDF plans based on Jae’s feedback. Fangting also calculated and drew connected path lengths to meet ADA requirements. Additionally, she revised door sizes and completed the preliminary elevation drawings for the ADA restroom, supporting open sourcing a highest good society model through inclusive and accessible design planning. This is part of our broader mission of open sourcing a highest good society model for global benefit. Review the latest updates in the images below.

Iteesha Vishalakshi Aswath (Technical Program Manager) finalized the cost analysis document for the Open Source Climate Battery Design, building on the previous version by refining cost categories, restructuring line items for clarity, and aligning all sheets with the updated project scope. Compared to the earlier document, she standardized unit definitions, revised quantity calculations, updated assumptions, and reorganized summary tables to improve traceability between detailed inputs and overall totals. She researched current price points across the United States for materials, equipment, and construction activities and included supporting references within the spreadsheet and in an offline Dropbox folder to justify selected cost values.

She incorporated all of Jae’s feedback into the final version, adjusting formatting, improving calculation logic, and refining the organization of system-level breakdowns. Iteesha also built automation across worksheets so that changes to quantities, unit costs, or assumptions automatically update linked sheets and roll up into summary sections, reducing manual updates and improving consistency. Her work supports open sourcing a highest good society model by making sustainable energy infrastructure planning more transparent and replicable. At the start of the week, she completed administrative tasks for the Reactonauts software development team, including creating team summaries and collages, preparing SEO keywords, organizing folders, adding comments, and checking for errors. This supports open sourcing a highest good society model by strengthening data-informed planning and collaboration. See below for some of the pictures related to this work.

Rishi Chakrapani (Mechanical Engineer) continued working on the Vermiculture Toilet. His work focused on developing the Unistrut report, including detailing the design procedure and structural analysis for the main chamber assembly. Rishi proofread the remainder of the report to correct formatting and content issues and updated the exploded view CAD animation to reflect the finalized assembly. All screenshots were reviewed and repositioned as needed to ensure alignment with the corresponding sections of the report. His work supports open sourcing a highest good society model by strengthening technical accuracy and documentation quality for sustainable system development. This week’s progress moves us closer to open sourcing a highest good society model. Review the latest updates in the images below.

Sai Bhuvanesh Nandipati (Mechanical Engineer) continued working on the Earthbag Village by developing content related to wastewater treatment processes for integration into the project webpage, ensuring that the technical information aligns with the intended structure and scope of the site. He also reviewed the large water storage capacity solutions section of the webpage, focusing on the technical concepts, system configurations, and design considerations associated with high-volume water storage applications. His contributions support open sourcing a highest good society model by strengthening educational content related to sustainable water infrastructure. Together, these updates advance open sourcing a highest good society model with practical and shareable solutions. See below for some of the pictures related to this work.

Vaishnav Sanjay Chavan (Intern Volunteer Architectural Project Manager) worked on the Earthbag Village by developing multiple components of the tropical atrium design, including the site plan, ground floor plan, mezzanine floor plan, and roof plan, with attention to layout coordination and consistency across drawings. Work was also carried out on the 3D model of the tropical atrium in SketchUp to represent overall form and spatial relationships. Reference drawings from Dome 4 were reviewed and used to inform design decisions and maintain alignment across plans and models. These tasks supported coordination between two-dimensional layouts and the three-dimensional representation of the project, contributing to open sourcing a highest good society model through replicable and sustainability-focused architectural planning. This work supports open sourcing a highest good society model through transparent and collaborative development. Below, you’ll find some images of this work.

DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER PROGRESS

One Community is open sourcing a highest good society 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 and Open Sourcing a Highest Good Society Model : Duplicable City Center Open Source Hub

This week, Ariana Virginia Gutierrez Doria Medina (Industrial Designer) continued working on the Duplicable City Center window and door framing. She focused on updating and clarifying the assembly instructions to reflect the changes that have been made, especially regarding the insulation. She made adjustments to several components to better align with the requirements of the cutting process. However, the overall appearance of the window remains consistent with the original design specifications and has not been altered. This open source Duplicable City Center project is dedicated to open sourcing a highest good society model. Please see the illustration below for more specific information.

Akhil Shesham (Mechanical Engineer) continued working on the Duplicable City Center design. He focused on identifying and listing all primary and secondary components required for the elevator system, beginning with a breakdown of major assemblies and then separating them into individual parts to better understand their functional relationships and integration requirements. After establishing the component list, attention shifted to gathering reference information from relevant sources to verify specifications, dimensions, and typical configurations for each part. The collected information was then organized to support further evaluation and comparison. Following the component identification and reference consolidation, progress moved toward developing the cost analysis framework. This included structuring the cost sheet, categorizing items by subsystem, and separating material costs from labor costs to allow clearer financial tracking. Estimated material rates were aligned with each component, and labor costs were outlined based on installation, fabrication, and assembly requirements. The analysis also considered quantity requirements and unit-level costing to support total cost estimation and comparison against the budget. Discover One Community’s open source Duplicable City Center, which is open sourcing a highest good society model. See the visuals below for a closer look.

Bevan Chiu (Mechanical Engineer) continued his work finishing the City Center Eco-spa Designs. He worked on the CAD model of the grate system intended to drain excess water after users step out of the pool. He developed a structural FEA model of the 12-inch by 12-inch plumbing access panel to evaluate performance under a 250-pound load. He also performed a cost analysis comparing different panel sizes and integrated the updated panel configurations into the CAD assembly. In addition, he researched EVA foam as a potential alternative material for the panels. This open source Duplicable City Center project is open sourcing a highest good society model. For more details, refer to the image below.

Shivarama Krishna Revanuru (Mechanical Engineer) continued working on the Duplicable City Center design. He focused on the finite element analysis of the hinge for the spa cover plate 2 and completed cost analysis and bill of materials preparation, including material selection for the assembly. He discussed the FEA results, hinge performance, spa cover plate 2 design, and cost considerations with his teammate to align on analysis assumptions and design updates. He evaluated different material options based on structural requirements, manufacturing feasibility, and cost impact. He also made minor design changes to the spa cover to meet specified requirements and ensure compatibility with the hinge and overall assembly. This open source Duplicable City Center project is open sourcing a highest good society model. The images below illustrate aspects of this work.

HIGHEST GOOD FOOD PROGRESS

One Community is open sourcing a highest good society 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 and Open Sourcing a Highest Good Society Model : Gardens & Hoop Houses | Large-scale Structures | Food Forest | TA

This week, the core team continued working on the Master Tools, Equipment, and Materials/Supplies List for the Large-scale Garden, Botanical Garden, and other Highest Good Food components. They created written narratives for the table saw, drill press, portable and fixed workbenches, and the combination belt/disc sander, and replaced the existing photo for the combination belt/disc sander. Research on pocket hole jigs was added to the documentation, and a video link was included for the Japanese pull saw. New narratives were also written for the PVC scraps, pocket hole jig, and Japanese pull saw entries. The miscellaneous tool list was cross-referenced with the Master Tools, Equipment, Materials/Supplies document, which led to the addition of supplementary items to the miscellaneous TEMS list. The Highest Good Food initiative is a key component of One Community’s open source plans, focused on open sourcing a highest good society model. Below are some images showcasing this work.

Chelsea Mariah Stellmach (Project Manager) continued working on the Transition Food Self-sufficiency food and inventory tracking software plans. She reassigned team members to new tasks based on project needs and current progress, created purpose statements to define objectives and expectations, and communicated intangible work request needs to stakeholders to support task alignment. She followed up with team members to check on progress, identify blockers, and maintain shared understanding of scope and priorities. Communication focused on improving collaboration, aligning team processes, and supporting development work contributing to open sourcing a highest good society model. The following images provide a view of her contributions.

Japneet Kour (Volunteer Architect) continued contributing to the Highest Good Food initiative. This week, she added all the plants in the planter zone for the Aquapini and adjusted the frames for renders in Lumion to ensure each area reflected the intended layout. She reviewed plant placement, refined visual angles, coordinated planter spacing, and aligned the render views with the project’s design requirements, supporting work contributing to open sourcing a highest good society model. Below are the images.

Jay Nair (BIM Designer) continued developing the Aquapini and Walipini Planting and Harvesting documents. This week, he calculated the total lighting energy use for all zones in Walipini 1 with the Solawrap roof configuration by consolidating zone-specific energy calculations, verifying fixture specifications, and confirming that seasonal DLI adjustments were accurately reflected in the combined total. He reviewed data inputs for consistency, aligned the results with the standardized documentation format, and integrated the finalized total energy values into the overall lighting energy report, supporting work contributing to open sourcing a highest good society model, as shown in the images below.

Nitin Parate (Architect) continued contributing to the Aquapini and Walipini renders and layout graphics. This week, work focused on developing the axonometric drawing of the Zen Aquapini with updates to improve clarity, alignment, and overall layout while maintaining the design intent. Roof members, glazing, and structural elements were detailed and incorporated into the axonometric view. The plantation axonometric view continued to be developed to represent plant types, layers, spacing, and height variations to show the overall planting structure and layout. Different visual methods were tested to assess effectiveness, and selected approaches were applied to refine the drawings. Annotations, labels, and infographics were added to provide clear information and improve readability and understanding of the design and its components, supporting work contributing to open sourcing a highest good society model, with supporting images included below.

Shivangi Varma (Architectural Designer and Planner) continued the redesign of the Highest Good Food overall presentation. She continued adding planting and axonometric details to the Differences diagram to advance the pending graphic for the Open Source Hub page. She refined the content and visual distinctions within the diagram and tested multiple graphic and layout options to present the three structures and their features more clearly. This work supports development tasks contributing to open sourcing a highest good society model, as shown in the images below.

HIGHEST GOOD ENERGY PROGRESS

One Community is open sourcing a highest good society model through Highest Good energy that is more sustainable, resilient, supports self-sufficiency and includes solar, wind, hydro and more:

• • • Learn about the open source sustainable-energy foundations: Solar, Hydro, and Wind
    • Explore our research into the most sustainable products and companies for saving water and energy and Open Sourcing a Highest Good Society Model : Insulation, Eco-laundry, Lightbulbs and Light Bulb Companies, Doors and Door Companies, Windows and Window Companies, Toilets, Faucets and Faucet Accessories, Urinals, and more.

This week, the core team continued contributing to the Highest Good Energy initiative. They reviewed documents related to the phases of the Highest Good Food rollout and began preparing summaries of the projected costs for each phase. They continued reviewing Earthbag Village construction documents in preparation for evaluating related work and examined the business plan financial documents to assess current figures and assumptions, supporting work contributing to open sourcing a highest good society model. Supporting images are included below.

HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION PROGRESS

One Community is open sourcing a highest good society 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. We’ll report on the final two elements to be finished as we develop them.

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

• Program Overview: Education Open Source Hub
• How the components work together in designing human orchestrated eco-abundance and Open Sourcing a Highest Good Society Model: How to use the Education for Life Program
  
• Lesson Plans for Life – Lesson Plans How-to
• Foundations of Outstanding Leaders, Teachers, and Communicators
• Curriculum for Life
• Teaching Strategies for Life
• Learning Tools and Toys for Life
• Evaluation and Evolution

Highest Good Education: All Subjects | All Learning Levels | Any Age – Click image for the open source hub

HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY PROGRESS

One Community is open sourcing a highest good society 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 and Open Sourcing a Highest Good Society Model : A Day in the Life
    • Learn about the 4 economic models: RBE | For-profit | Non-profit | Entrepreneurship
    • Learn about our open source community collaboration and management software: The Highest Good Network

This week, the core team completed over 40 hours managing volunteer work reviews, handling emails, overseeing social media accounts, supporting web development, and identifying and integrating bug fixes for the Highest Good Network. The team also interviewed and onboarded new volunteer team members. Additionally, they produced and integrated the video above, which highlights how open sourcing a highest good society model serves as a foundational element of One Community’s broader mission. The following images showcase highlights of this work.

Pooja Kulkarni (UI/UX Designer) continued her work by advancing governance platform designs through refined proposal-related user flows and mid-fidelity wireframes that clarify participation, review, and decision states across the proposal lifecycle on Highest Good Network. She focused on strengthening the Governance Guidelines and Consensus Framework page by improving content hierarchy, readability, and compliance visibility, organizing lifecycle phases, core philosophy, and conflict resolution pathways into structured, scannable sections. She further refined the Quarterly Community Review experience with a structured agenda layout, time indicators, registration flow, performance snapshot metrics, and preparation materials to improve clarity and progressive disclosure. This reinforces open sourcing a highest good society model through teamwork and ongoing improvement.

In addition, she enhanced the Governance Framework Amendment proposal flow by designing a multi-phase status indicator (Discussion → Vetting → Decision), structured review states for Legal, Core Strategy, and Community Ops and clear approval, pending, and changes-requested indicators to improve transparency. She also expanded the proposal voting experience by introducing a clearly defined consensus scale, visual differentiation between vote types, progress indicators, and contextual feedback areas. Throughout all screens, she standardized layout patterns, spacing, component usage, status badges, and color logic to ensure scalability and consistency across the governance ecosystem. This work supports One Community’s efforts toward open sourcing a highest good society model; the images below highlight key aspects of her work.

Yulin Li (Graphic Designer) continued her work by contributing 20 hours of volunteer service focused on visual communication and coordination for the Highest Good Network software team. She revised infographics based on feedback to improve clarity, visual consistency, and alignment with One Community’s sustainability goals. She also prepared and published a team collaboration announcement to support transparent communication across teams. In addition, she maintained organized asset management through Dropbox and participated in weekly review discussions to support timely task completion. This work supports One Community’s efforts toward open sourcing a highest good society model; the images below highlight key aspects of her work. See the Highest Good Society page and the collage below for examples of their work.

ADMINISTRATION TEAM

The Administration Team’s summary, which covers their work on the Highest Good Network, was managed by Prudhvi Marpina (Data Analyst) and includes Anusha Gali (Software Engineer), Ashutosh Mishra (Software Engineer), Keerthana Chitturi (System Administrator), Divanshu Bakshi (Team Admin), Hemanth Sai Venkata Srinivasa Kumar Nidamanuru (Administrative Assistant), Leo Lishin Shiu (Software Engineer), Manish Kanuri (Data Scientist), Mridul Bhushan (Volunteer Project Strategy Analyst and Team Administrator), Neeharika Kamireddy (Data Analyst), Olawunmi “Ola” Ijisesan (Administrative and Management Support), Priyanshi Sharma (Data Analyst and Team Administrator), Rachna Malav (Data Analyst), Rajeshwari Bhirud (Administrator), Rishitha Adepu (Administrator), Sayantan Paul (Frontend Tester and Software Team Administrator), Shameera Musthafa (Data Analyst), Shreya Shetty (Data Analyst), and Sudarshan Raju Chintalapati Venkata (Data Analyst). The Administration Team supports the Highest Good Network, a tool designed to track and measure progress while developing systems that contribute to open sourcing a highest good society model. Through administrative support, documentation, testing, training, recruiting, analytics, and content management, the team helps advance this mission, aligning with One Community’s vision of building a replicable and sustainable future model.

This week, Anusha reviewed and tested frontend and backend pull requests across HighestGoodNetworkApp and HGNRest, approving or requesting changes where UI defects, setup issues, or functionality gaps were identified, while also supporting administrative workflows by reviewing submissions, creating image collages, editing summaries, updating tracking documents, and providing blog feedback. Ashutosh completed Dev Dynasty team reporting, conducted UI testing, prepared Pinecone ingestion documentation, tested updated endpoints, integrated backend updates, and improved similarity search validation using FAISS-based proof-of-concept testing. Divanshu published Mastodon updates, extracted engagement metrics using Python automation, updated dashboards, documented bugs and feature action items, and supported product ownership coordination. Keerthana reviewed summaries for formatting and accuracy, updated Step 2 and Step 4 tracking, compiled and validated the weekly blog, and assigned action items for follow-up. Together, these efforts support open sourcing a highest good society model.

Leo compiled and formatted team summaries and validated analytics data alignment for extraction workflows, while Manish completed frontend pull request testing, reviewed blog reporting accuracy, identified inactive pull requests requiring follow-up, and coordinated team task progress. Mridul managed X platform posting continuity, completed reporting updates, validated team summaries for publication readiness, and supported onboarding evaluation processes. This supports open sourcing a highest good society model by strengthening data-informed planning and collaboration.

Neeharika assigned and tracked development tasks, tested pull requests, verified corrected PDFs, reviewed administrative work, and conducted interviews to support team growth. Ola analyzed Pinterest engagement metrics to optimize posting schedules and organized documentation storage structures for administration teams. Priyanshi conducted detailed dashboard testing across financial and equipment tracking components, identifying chart rendering, visibility, and dark mode usability issues and documenting them for resolution. Rachna reviewed ongoing tasks, emails, and SEO content while monitoring hiring coordination availability. Rajeshwari continued administrative blog responsibilities while testing dashboards and analytics routes, documenting errors, and tracking system behavior. These efforts contribute to open sourcing a highest good society model.

Rishitha managed weekly blog compilation, SEO optimization, bio updates, Threads engagement, and dashboard data updates using Python scripts and Excel workflows. Sayantan prepared Team Skye summaries, tested and validated multiple dashboards and application modules, identified UI and analytics issues, documented tasks, and improved backend testing workflows using Postman while supporting administrator training. Shameera supported PR review management, administrative content checks, and analytical review of the Highest Good Energy report to strengthen understanding of reporting insights. These steps help scale open sourcing a highest good society model for communities worldwide.

Shreya created Aircrete dataset visualizations, analyzed Google Ads performance declines, reviewed onboarding materials, and supported documentation workflows. Sudarshan managed Alpha Software Team blog content, applied SEO updates, tested analytics and questionnaire dashboards, documented bugs, created improvement tasks, and supported feature updates across the system. To learn more about how this work supports open sourcing a highest good society model, visit the Highest Good Society and Highest Good Network pages. Highlights of the team’s contributions are shown in the collage below.

HIGHEST GOOD NETWORK PROGRESS

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

• Learn about our open source community collaboration and management software and Open Sourcing a Highest Good Society Model : The Highest Good Network

This week, the core team tested Highest Good Network pull requests and confirmed 11 as fixed. This effort highlights One Community’s commitment to reinventing the sustainability industry.

The following were not fixed: issues related to the Global Distribution Map, incorrect or inconsistent project count display, dark mode visibility problems, incomplete LiveJournal integration, missing implementation of the Truth Social auto-poster frontend component, incomplete Mastodon auto-poster functionality, and errors in the assignment of Atoms earned by students. In addition, multiple PRs could not be tested due to the absence of data on the Main branch, including fixes for crashes when typing on the Member Group Check-In page for Timelogger, visibility and log update errors in the Phase 2 Tool and Equipment Daily Activity Log, dark mode styling issues on the Update Tool or Equipment Status page, ascending and descending date sorting functionality on the Events Database Design page, and added filters and navigation improvements on the Tools page. This work strengthens One Community’s mission of demonstrating open sourcing a highest good society model. See the Highest Good Society and The Highest Good Network pages, and the collage below, for an overview of the team’s contributions.

ALPHA SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT TEAM

The Alpha Software Team, working on the Highest Good Network software, was managed by Lin Khant Htel (Frontend Software Developer). The team includes Linh Huynh (Software Engineer), Som Ramnani (Software Engineer), Sheetal Mangate (Software Engineer) and Casstiel Pi (Software Engineer). The Highest Good Network software is a key part of sustainable and free-shared eco-solutions. We are helping track and measure progress toward open sourcing a highest good society model. The software supports social architecture, construction, production, and maintenance processes that contribute to the open source project and resilient ecosystems. Designed to be portable and scalable, the Highest Good Network software is well suited for off-grid and sustainable living communities. This project reflects One Community’s open source commitment to open sourcing a highest good society model.

Lin reviewed PR #1804, examined the code, tested the endpoints using Postman, and confirmed that the returned data matched expectations, then reviewed weekly summaries, photos, and videos submitted by Alpha team members and carried out management duties for the Alpha Team, supporting efforts related to open sourcing a highest good society model. Linh completed the Material Usage Insights and Visual Indicators feature for the BM Dashboard across both frontend and backend repositories. He implemented the Stock Health indicator column with threshold-based color logic, added the usage percentage progress bar with tooltip explanations, and integrated a summary panel displaying total materials, low stock percentage, over-usage percentage, and items on hold. Linh also verified correct rendering in light and dark mode, ensured responsive layout behavior, and confirmed edge cases such as zero purchases and decimal formatting were handled correctly. He implemented reusable calculation utilities for usage percentage, stock ratio, stock health classification, and summary metrics, created multiple API endpoints for material insights, integrated the router into the existing BM Dashboard routing structure, ensured consistent response formatting, wrote Jest unit tests, corrected a threshold-related test expectation, resolved a pre-commit hook issue related to commit message format, and confirmed all tests passed locally with the feature functioning end-to-end, contributing to open sourcing a highest good society model.

Som revisited PR #4215 to update styling changes related to badge components. He deleted the badge.module.css file that had been created in the global styles folder and removed its import from BadgeReport.css, after which the revised styles were not applied to the BadgeImage component and required investigation. He refactored the BadgeSpan component to support CSS Modules when using conditional suffixes, separated the base badge class from the modifier suffix class, normalized the suffix, and applied the modifier class only when it existed in Badge.module.css to prevent invalid class names and ensure styles applied correctly, in alignment with open sourcing a highest good society model. Sheetal focused on addressing the issue raised by Anushi regarding the inability to create a developer app on Reddit. She investigated the change from the previously working process, examined possible causes, identified prerequisites required to create a developer account, analyzed potential updates or additional requirements affecting app creation, and worked toward determining a resolution, supporting open sourcing a highest good society model.

Casstiel created a handoff note for the task of adding the new multi-select filter feature, outlining implementation status, completed frontend work, partial backend logic, identified issues, pending fixes, architectural decisions, and known blockers related to branch dependencies. He described attempted solutions, design considerations, and areas requiring further development or testing, and claimed a new task to add a supplier filter and an “All Suppliers” option to the On-Time Delivery graph, created a local branch, and analyzed the existing codebase. See the Highest Good Society and Highest Good Network pages for more on how we are contributing to open sourcing a highest good society model. See the collage below to view the team’s work.

BINARY BRIGADE SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT TEAM

The Binary Brigade Team, presenting their work on the Highest Good Network software, was managed by Amalesh Arivanan (Software Engineer) and included Sourabh Bagde (Software Developer), Sumedh Kumar (Full-Stack Developer), Roshini Seelamsetty (Software Engineer), Ramsundar (Ram) Konety Govindarajan (Software Engineer),  Harsha Rudhraraju (Software Engineer), and Taariq Mansurie (Full-Stack Developer). The Highest Good Network software is our tool for managing and objectively measuring progress, ensuring that all contributions are tracked and aligned with our mission, and for modeling open sourcing a highest good society model. It supports social architecture, construction, production, and maintenance processes that contribute to open-source projects and resilient, sustainable ecosystems.

This week, Sumedh worked on PR-4306 by resolving merge conflicts, attempting improvements to the existing chart module, documenting that API constraints blocked the intended customization, and replacing the “Most Frequent Keywords” network diagram with a D3-based implementation to gain control over the layout and interactions, improve clarity of keyword relationships, and ensure the visualization behaves responsively across screen sizes. Sourabh completed Plurk backend support for immediate posting and diagnostics by adding a direct Plurk posting endpoint that bypasses scheduling, adding a diagnostics endpoint to verify OAuth authentication and return connected account details, troubleshooting an “Invalid token” issue by identifying mismatched OAuth credentials, regenerating the correct access token and secret for the same Plurk application, updating environment variables, restarting the backend, and validating successful authentication and posting via Postman. This work helps demonstrate open sourcing a highest good society model in measurable and practical ways.

Ram fixed a LessonsLearntChart crash caused by the frontend calling incorrect endpoints and expecting a different response structure by updating the API endpoint usage to match the backend, aligning field names and response handling to the backend format, adding defensive checks to avoid operating on undefined data, adding user-facing error messaging when requests fail, and submitting the changes as PR 4845,  he also resolved an urgent Teams dropdown filtering issue where teams with PR review data were excluded because the dropdown sourced teams only from UserProfile and not from PR Review Insights, spending about two hours resolving merge conflicts and pushing the fix with approval to log the hours this week. Together, these updates advance open sourcing a highest good society model with practical and shareable solutions.

Roshni reviewed PR 2037 and PR 1991 by testing PR 2037 locally with both services running and observing the graph page load with filters but remain stuck on “Getting data…,” testing PR 1991 by running npm test ownerMessageController with all tests passing, and started the Total Org Reports date filter change by creating the feature branch to default the date filter to Previous Week, analyzing WeeklySummariesReport.jsx and ViewReportByDate.jsx to identify the active-tab logic and sessionStorage default behavior, and reviewing the related documentation while awaiting a response to a clarification sent to Jae. These refinements improve usability and accessibility, supporting open sourcing a highest good society model.

Harshavarma identified that the chart is still using mock data due to incomplete backend fetching, validated that the backend-to-frontend data pipeline is not connected by inspecting reducers, actions, and endpoint configuration in a local branch, refined dark mode styling for filters and improved page responsiveness, and updated filter handling for last 4 months, 6 months, and full year selections by validating date calculations, confirming the required aggregation behavior, and ensuring the chart updates immediately when filter options change, with remaining work focused on integrating real API responses, removing mock data, adding loading and error states, and testing empty or partial dataset cases. Amalesh addressed multiple Phase 1 UI and mobile issues by working on PR4548 bug items, fixing Badge Management landing page dark mode text visibility issues tied to PR3940 and PR1676, correcting Total Org Summary mobile layout problems tied to PR4138 where graph text was clipped and labels overlapped, and fixing the Leaderboard mobile usability issue tied to PR4268 by restoring horizontal scrolling so the full table remains accessible on small screens. See the Highest Good Society and Highest Good Network pages for more information on how this works, open sourcing a highest good society model. The collage below shows images of their work.

CODE CRAFTERS SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT TEAM

The Code Crafters Team, covering their work on the Highest Good Network software, was managed by Vivek Chandra Bengaluru Suresh (Software Engineer) and includes Akshith Kumar Reddy Balappagari Gnaneswara (Full-Stack Developer), Bhanu Anish Akkineni (Software Engineer), Chaitanya Swaroop Kumar Allu (Software Engineer), Shreya Padaganur (Software Engineer), and Sphurthy Satish (Software Engineer). The Highest Good Network software coordinates social, economic, and infrastructure systems to objectively measure progress toward open sourcing a Highest Good Society model.

Akshith worked on Phase 6 Kitchen Inventory Management by creating backend API endpoints to add and retrieve orders and suppliers. He implemented all required endpoints for the Supplier and Order models, including get all suppliers, get supplier by ID, create supplier, update supplier, and delete supplier. For the get supplier by ID endpoint, he added statistics that display the total number of orders and the average delivery days for completed orders. He also implemented endpoints to get all orders, get order by ID, create a new order using a supplier ID, update an order, and delete an order. The update order endpoint recalculates the total amount when changes are made to quantity or price per item. He raised a pull request for this task. This supports open sourcing a Highest Good Society model by fostering transparent, collaborative, and data-driven approaches to global well-being.

Bhanu completed the implementation of the Ingredients tab and its associated item cards on the Inventory page, adding dynamic functionality to the metric cards so that their values are automatically calculated and updated based on the current inventory data. After finalizing these changes, he raised a pull request to merge the feature branch into the development branch. He then proceeded to implement the remaining tabs of the Inventory page using sample data, ensuring the page is fully functional and that each tab correctly displays items according to its respective category and dataset. These efforts support One Community’s mission of open sourcing a Highest Good Society model through collaborative and scalable solutions.

Chaitanya focused on completing and stabilizing the Email Announcement System for the MailChimp replacement project within the Highest Good Network application. He expanded backend quality by adding unit tests across emailService, emailSendingService, emailProcessor, emailBatchService, and emailTemplateService, added 26 comprehensive tests for emailTemplateController covering all major handlers including authentication and error scenarios, and rewrote emailController.spec.js with 49 tests validating send, resend, retry, subscription, and recovery flows, all of which pass and meet linting standards. He resolved a production-only “Ready for Review” dropdown issue by identifying a conflict between position: fixed elements and overflow: hidden containers and implementing a Reactstrap Portal solution to fix z-index and clipping behavior, while also correcting transparency and click-through issues and maintaining Dark Mode compatibility across screen sizes. This ongoing work supports open sourcing a highest good society model by improving transparency across systems and processes.

Shreya worked on implementing the required functionality for the User State Indicator system and made measurable progress on the related GitHub issue, reaching out to colleagues for clarification where needed. She identified and resolved a blocking runtime error in the Weekly Summary module, restoring core functionality, and continued cleanup while validating User State rendering and permission handling across edge cases. She verified GitHub push permissions, confirmed access was not the issue, pulled the latest remote changes by stashing local updates and rebasing, and resolved merge conflicts while attempting to synchronize branches. These efforts support One Community’s mission of open sourcing a Highest Good Society model through transparent, collaborative, and replicable solutions.

Sphurthy worked on a UI/UX task addressing excess vertical spacing between filter labels and their corresponding dropdown fields in the Search Filters section on the All Events page of the development community portal. The issue involved larger-than-intended spacing between the labels Branches, Themes, and Categories and their respective dropdown components, resulting in a layout that appeared stretched and less compact compared to the Figma design specifications. The objective was to align the spacing with the tighter values defined in the design to ensure visual consistency and improved layout balance. This task focused solely on front-end styling and layout adjustments, with no impact on functionality, and aimed to improve overall visual alignment and readability within the filter panel. This initiative advances our mission of open sourcing a Highest Good society model through collaborative, transparent, and global systems innovation.

Vivek communicated the transition of management responsibilities to Sphurty, informing the team that she will assume the manager role starting next week. He transferred all relevant responsibilities and provided the necessary context to support continuity. He addressed and resolved several comments on GitHub and responded to related queries. As this was his final week, he did not take on any new tasks or assignments. These efforts help move One Community closer to open sourcing a Highest Good Society model, with visual examples of this work presented below.

DEV DYNASTY SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT TEAM

The Dev Dynasty Team’s summary, covering their work on the Highest Good Network software, was managed by Deekshith Kumar Singirikonda (Developer) and includes Adithya Cherukuri (Volunteer Software Engineer), Aditya Gambhir (Software Engineer), Neeraj Kondaveeti (Software Engineer), Sai Shravan Neelamsetty (Software Engineer), Sriamsh Reddy (Software Engineer) and Vikas Meneni (Software Engineer). The Highest Good Network software is how we’ll manage and objectively measure our processes for open sourcing a better world for us all through our social architecture, construction, production, and maintenance processes. This progress supports One Community in open sourcing a highest good society model.

LUCKY STAR SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT TEAM

The Lucky Star Team’s summary, covering their work on the Highest Good Network, was managed by Hemanth Sai Venkata Srinivasa Kumar Nidamanuru (Administrative Assistant) and Sohail Uddin Syed (Software Engineer), who coordinated the weekly development reporting and ensured all technical updates were properly documented. The team includes contributions from Aryan Rachala (Software Engineer), Chirag Bellara (Software Engineer), Shravya Kudlu (Software Development Engineer), Veda Bellam (Software Engineer), Venkataramanan Venkateswaran (Software Engineer), and Vinay Krishna (Software Engineer). Their work supports One Community’s goal of open sourcing a highest good society model through cross-functional software development and ongoing system improvements.

This week, Aryan worked on HGN Software Development, focusing on Phase 3, which involved standardizing the format of the Time and Duration columns on the used resources page. He implemented consistent formatting across table and list views, as well as responsive and mobile layouts. He tested display behavior across multiple browsers, screen sizes, and breakpoints, including pagination, sorting, and filtering scenarios. He added fallback handling for empty or ambiguous time values and ensured that exported and dynamically refreshed data maintained the correct format. He verified accessibility for tooltips and semantic markup and made minor adjustments to prevent layout shifts when duration values varied. This work supports open Sourcing a highest good society model by ensuring consistent data presentation and reliable user experience across the platform.

Chirag completed the addition of time zone support to the events calendar in the community portal. He updated the code to detect the user’s time zone and adjust the event dates and times accordingly, checked in all related changes, and created pull request 4839. He also worked on fixing the “All Events” button functionality on the Events page and is continuing to finalize that update before checking in the remaining changes. These feature enhancements contribute to open sourcing a highest good society model by improving event accuracy and overall platform usability.

Shravya worked on resolving merge conflicts across her active branches and addressed review comments on multiple pull requests by updating code changes and aligning them with requested revisions. She refined UI and functional updates based on feedback to ensure consistency with existing components and project standards. She also reviewed the requirements for an upcoming feature and began analyzing the modifications needed to support additional functionality related to PR 4335, including identifying impacted components and planning the necessary updates to integrate the changes properly. These development updates support open sourcing a highest good society model by strengthening system stability and feature consistency across the platform.

Sohail addressed a data mismatch where the Mentor count in the Reports Total Org Summary displayed 82 while the dashboard’s 0 hrs Total Members showed 41. He investigated the discrepancy and identified that the dashboard logic counted users whose weeklyCommittedHours were strictly equal to zero in the frontend code, while the Reports query counted users with the role set to Mentor and filtered by createdDate. He traced the frontend implementation to confirm that the 41-member count represented active users with exactly zero committed hours regardless of role. To align the logic, he updated the mentor aggregation pipeline in overviewReportHelper.js by replacing the role-based match condition with a filter for weeklyCommittedHours equal to zero and removing the createdDate constraint. He also added comments clarifying that the mentors field name remains for backward compatibility but now reflects users with zero committed hours and documented the connection to the frontend logic to support future maintenance. This backend correction supports Open Sourcing a Highest Good Society Model by ensuring accurate reporting and consistent data interpretation across the platform.

Veda worked on multiple updates within the HGN Software Development project across analytics and dashboard features. She modified the PR Review Team Analytics Dashboard by updating the color scheme for PR numbers inside the circles in the Confirming Promotions frontend and resolved merge conflicts related to Promotion Eligibility by correcting color coding issues in the Promotion Eligibility table. In addition, she contributed to the Listing and Bidding Dashboard by creating a donut chart titled Sentiment Breakdown and enhanced the Job Posting Page Analytics by building a donut chart that displays the breakdown of applicant sources. She pulled the latest development changes, resolved merge conflicts, addressed errors affecting functionality, pushed revised updates to the respective branches, and prepared the related pull requests for review and merge. These analytics and dashboard enhancements align with open sourcing a highest good society model by improving visibility, usability, and reporting consistency across the platform.

Venkataramanan worked on resolving multiple frontend and backend issues across the HighestGoodNetworkApp and HGNRest repositories. He fixed user activation and deactivation issues by updating the relevant helper logic, removed duplicate code in the CP login test file, and resolved a problem where the Weekly Summaries Report page was not loading by updating the report and toggle components. He also implemented fixes for the weekly summaries replace functionality in the backend, corrected the formatted report bar color in the reports page, and addressed styling issues in User Management and Team Member Tasks, along with adding log statements to investigate email-related errors. These system improvements contribute to open sourcing a highest good society model by enhancing platform reliability and maintainability.

MOONFALL SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT TEAM

The Moonfall Team’s summary, which covers their work on the Highest Good Network, was managed by Uha Kruthi (Software Engineer) and includes Aayush Shetty (Software Engineer), Alisha Walunj (Software Engineer), Sai Krishna (Software Engineer), Sai Teja Kaasoju (Software Engineer), Sudheesh Thuralkalmakki Dharmappa Gowda (Full Stack Developer), and Mani Shashank Marneni (Software Engineer). Their efforts support One Community by advancing the mission of open sourcing a highest good society model through open-source collaboration, ecologically responsible innovation, and holistic global progress.

This week, Alisha refactored the delete action and configured edit routing for Inventory Types by implementing update-by-ID and type-based logic, and enhanced the Purchase Request form with inline validation, mandatory field enforcement, contextual helper guidance, and controlled submit behavior before raising pull requests for both updates. Mani advanced the PR Team Analytics Dashboard by verifying data consistency for the Top 20 Most Popular PRs, integrating an Insights Panel with filter-aware state binding so metrics recalculate dynamically across time ranges, optimizing layout responsiveness, and implementing null-state handling to prevent dashboard instability. These achievements further demonstrate the value of open sourcing a highest good society model through collaborative effort.

Sai Krishna implemented the Update History modal within the Consumables page, enabling display of updated user details, old and new values, and timestamps with refresh, close, and scroll functionality, completed frontend and backend updates with testing, and initiated requirement analysis and code updates for selectable and editable Equipment fields. This work contributes to open sourcing a highest good society model by strengthening the reliability, maintainability, and reuse of shared open-source infrastructure. Sai Teja improved PR Analytics route-level error handling by enhancing the NotFoundPage component to detect dashboard-specific failures and present a contextual message with a fallback link to the Reports Dashboard, followed by scenario-based validation to ensure stable routing behavior.

Sudheesh resolved dark mode chart visibility issues by eliminating ghost rendering when datasets are empty, implemented authenticated routing to secure the tools page, refined page-level access control logic, and addressed pull request test issues within the Student Profile Educational Progress view to stabilize validation readiness. Aayush worked on Phase 3 tasks, addressing page scrolling behavior when dropdown menus are active, reviewed requirements, and examined the relevant code for the Participation and Calendar pages, analyzed the affected user interface components, tested the interaction locally to validate the issue, and prepared the groundwork for implementing a consistent fix across pages. Visit the Highest Good Society and Highest Good Network pages for more on how this work supports open sourcing a highest good society model through open-source development and globally accessible resources. The collage below demonstrates the team’s work and accomplishments for the week:

REACTONAUTS SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT TEAM

The Reactonauts team summary was managed by Diya Wadhwani (Software Developer) and Divanshu Bakshi (Product Manager), and it includes Aseem Deshmukh (Software Developer), Namitha Vijaykumar Pawar (Software Engineer), Sayali Sable (Software Engineer), Guna Pranith Reddy Cheelam (Software Developer), Peterson Rodrigues dos Santos (Full-Stack Developer), Siva Putti (Software Engineer), Sri Satya Venkatasai Siri Sudheeksha Vavila (Software Engineer), and Suparshwa Patil (Software Engineer). This week, Diya managed the weekly summary process and team coordination in support of open sourcing a highest good society model by tracking task progress and deadlines, following up with members who were overdue or near limits, reviewing daily logs for clarity and proper time logging, confirming summary and image submissions for the end-of-week report, posting status updates and individual follow-ups in slack, drafting the combined summary, improving the blue squares history list to sort assignments with the latest first and fixing time date formatting issues for both manual and cron-based weekly assignments in PR 2030, and resolving a production user-creation blocker by gating a development-only name check to run only in development in PR 4799.

Aseem worked across multiple pull requests and branches to address chart visibility and merge-related issues in support of open sourcing a highest good society model by resolving conflicts in PR 4354, identifying a planned versus actual costs chart issue that appeared after merging the development branch into her feature branch, raising the issue in the coding-problems channel, debugging PR 4659 after testers reported missing charts in the development environment, confirming local visibility on her branch, and tracing the issue to changes introduced in weeklyprojectsummary.jsx from another merged branch while documenting findings with screenshots. Namitha tested light and dark theme updates across HGN dashboards to verify visibility, consistency, and regressions aligned with open sourcing a highest good society model, reviewed text, icons, and layout behavior during theme switching, updated styling based on QA feedback to address accessibility and edge cases, and contributed fixes to theme colors and responsive layout behavior for the HGN skills dashboard in PR 4796.

Guna continued refining the listings home page frontend by working through additional review comments for PR 3999 in the HighestGoodNetwork app, focusing on improving fixes for image GET request errors and ensuring the updated tab headings function as expected. Alongside this, progress continued on the Phase 3 re-engagement Strategies task aligned with open sourcing a highest good society model, with ongoing investigation into the “Page not Found” issue occurring in the Dev environment for the community portal activity log attendance route. The work remains focused on identifying what is preventing the page from loading and applying the required fixes so the page becomes accessible and can support the intended follow-up and rescheduling functionality. Satya worked on dark mode styles for the HGN skills page and attempted to resolve issues in the related pull request, then addressed missing user details when applying skill filters on the HGN questionnaire dashboard by reviewing related files and pull requests and continuing investigation while encountering errors.

Suparshwa completed pending tasks for review that support open sourcing a highest good society model, including implementing an authentication system for access control, developing video ingestion for media uploads and processing, and creating database structures to support storage and retrieval, with tasks validated for basic functionality and submitted through the review workflow. Peterson improved the total org summary page by updating dropdown menu styling in dark theme, using a consistent black background with white hover text in PR 4089 to address readability and visual consistency.

Sayali worked on code reviews and testing across frontend and backend pull requests aligned with open sourcing a highest good society model, approving multiple items including fixes for dark mode charts, API endpoints, data models, event sorting, UI tooltips, filters, exports, and resource usage views, requesting changes where UI elements, filters, permission handling, dark mode styling, and backend API errors were identified, and noting technical blockers related to missing backend branches and Node version incompatibilities that prevented testing of certain items.

Siva resolved issues in team management, permissions, and event time display in support of open sourcing a highest good society model by fixing defects in the create new team workflow in PR 3658, conditionally hiding the delete task option based on permissions in PR 3685, and aligning event time display with user timezones while resolving merge conflicts in PR 4633. Below is the picture collage of the work done by the reactonauts team.

SKYE SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT TEAM

The Skye Team’s summary, covering their work on the Highest Good Network, was managed by Sayantan Paul (Frontend Tester and Software Team Administrator) and Anthony Weathers (Software Engineer). The team includes Marcus Yi (Software Engineer) and Swathi Angadi (Software Engineer). The Highest Good Network software enables open sourcing a highest good society model by objectively tracking and managing progress across social architecture, construction, production, and maintenance processes, leveraging transparent, scalable systems designed to cultivate shared learning and resilient ecosystems.

This week Marcus worked on the X auto poster while the Facebook implementation was under review. He followed the same structural pattern used for the Mastodon and Truth Social posting features that had already been merged into the development branch, maintaining consistency across platforms and supporting future scalability. Marcus completed the work that made direct posting and scheduled posting from the user interface functional for X, with OAuth integration still pending to enable direct, authenticated user account connections. This progress reflects continued momentum in advancing open sourcing a highest good society model through open, collaborative development.

Anthony collaborated with another manager to troubleshoot automated emails that were not triggering, identifying misaligned production testing conditions and an undefined variable introduced by recent changes, and applied a fix. He then resumed the Blue Square warning tracker task, confirmed missing production values with the team, and restored the required data to resolve the issue preventing removal buttons from appearing. Anthony also enhanced permission change logs by enabling logging through User Management role changes and corrected dark mode CSS issues affecting logs and star icons. In addition, he requested a PR re-review, responded to another PR, and refined PR#3917 by preserving key functionality while removing scope overreach. This effort drives open sourcing a highest good society model through consistent, actionable development practices.

Swathi implemented the required changes to enable users to navigate directly to the summary section of a selected reviewer. She updated the interface so that the Save button is accessible from the bottom corner of the page without requiring users to scroll to the end of the page. She also improved the page layout to ensure it is responsive across different screen sizes and raised a pull request for these updates. By addressing these challenges, the Skye team’s work reinforces long-term stability in stewardship tracking features and promotes open sourcing a highest good society model by strengthening scalable, transparent systems within the broader Highest Good Network (HGN) infrastructure. See the Highest Good Society and Highest Good Network pages for more on how this contribution furthers the open sourcing a highest good society model as part of One Community’s goals by cultivating transparent, collaborative innovation within the Highest Good Network open source hub. See the collage below for the team’s work.

SOFTWARE PR REVIEW TEAM A-N

The PR Review Team’s summary for members with names starting A–N, managed by Neeharika Kamireddy (Data Analyst), highlights their contributions to the Highest Good Network software. This platform forms the foundation for measuring our results in open sourcing a highest good society model. Active team members included Abdelmounaim Lallouache (Software Developer), Carl Bebli (Software Developer), Julia Ha (Software Engineer), Maithili Kalkar (Software Engineer), and Nathan Hoffman (Software Engineer). They supported the project by reviewing all pull requests shared this week. Learn more about how the Highest Good Network tracks progress toward open sourcing a highest good society model in the Highest Good Network open source hub. The collage below showcases a compilation of this team’s work.

SOFTWARE PR REVIEW TEAM O-Z

The PR Review Team’s summary for members with names starting with O–Z was managed by Shameera Musthafa (Data Analyst). The Highest Good Network is a foundation for measuring our results in open sourcing a highest good society model. This week’s active members of this team were Rohan Rastogi (Software Engineer), Sundar Machani (Software Engineer), and Yiyun Tan (Software Engineer). They reviewed all the Highest Good Network PRs (Pull Requests) shared in this week’s update. Learn more about how the Highest Good Network open-source hub measures progress towards our goal of open sourcing a highest good society model. The collage below shows a compilation of the work from this team.

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