One Community, an all-volunteer team, is creating better sustainability by rethinking how we approach food, energy, housing, education, economics, and social architecture. Rather than keeping our discoveries to ourselves, we’re open sourcing and freely sharing the complete process so it can be replicated anywhere on the planet. This self-replicating model is the foundation for a growing global collaboration of teacher/demonstration hubs, each one built for “The Highest Good of All.” Our goal isn’t just a better way of living for some. It’s regenerating our planet and creating a world that genuinely works for everyone.

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

OUR MAIN OPEN SOURCE HUBS

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

One Community’s physical location will forward this movement as the first of many self-replicating teacher/demonstration communities, villages, and cities to be built around the world. This is the September 28, 2026 edition (#706) of our weekly progress update detailing our team’s development and accomplishments:

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HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING PROGRESS

One Community is creating better sustainability 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 better sustainability: 7 Sustainable Village Models
    • Visit the open source portals for the first two: Earthbag Village OS Hub | Straw Bale Village OS Hub

This week, the core team continued working on the Highest Good Housing component of property research. They continued research based on website criteria regarding potential property locations for the establishment of One Community, focusing primarily on central and southern Oregon as well as the Rogue River Valley. They also researched water rights and added related information to the site location document. See below for some of the pictures related to this work toward creating better sustainability. The collage below portrays the team’s efforts and achievements for the week.

Devendranath Chowdary Maganti (Data Analyst) began working on the Highest Good Housing Implementation Timeline Data Analysis Dashboard and Visualizations by reviewing the Highest Good Housing web page to understand the project information and create a timeline tracker. He also worked on the Administration Team weekly blog, reviewed fellow teammates’ blogs, and made changes based on the feedback they provided on his work. See the collage below for weekly highlights of his work for creating better sustainability.

Rushikesh Tubaji (Volunteer Industrial Engineer) continued contributing to Highest Good Housing by reviewing Jae’s feedback and updating the labor-analysis workbook to make the single-dome model easier to understand, review, and hand off. He added a START HERE tab and expanded the Dome Labor Dashboard with labor categories, readiness tracking, crew-size and duration scenarios, and learning-curve charts. He refined source-backed quantities for foundation, flooring, loft, and related dome activities, expanded the Productivity Library with additional published benchmarks and clearly labeled planning assumptions, and began populating activity-level labor rates, crew sizes, labor-hours, and durations for quantity-ready work. Rushikesh also updated the README Table of Contents, strengthened source traceability and summary views, and expanded the companion Methodology & Handoff Guide to document the estimating logic, current assumptions, and unresolved items. See the collage below for highlights of his work for creating better sustainability.

DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER PROGRESS

One Community is creating better sustainability 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, its function, and creating better sustainability: Duplicable City Center Open Source Hub

This week, Nidish Reddy Koppula (Mechanical Engineer) continued working on the Duplicable City Center design by working on the hydraulic elevator project report and related deliverable files. He addressed several files that had issues and made the necessary corrections to improve their usability and organization. He also verified the packaged project files by opening and checking them after packaging to confirm that the files loaded properly and that the included assemblies, documents, and supporting materials could be accessed without issues. This open source Duplicable City Center project contributes towards creating better sustainability. See the collage below for a snapshot of his work this week.

Mayank Thakur (Industrial designer) started working on the Duplicable City Center design. He went through all the project files to understand the scope of the work. He spent most of his time setting up the files and confirming he had what he needed to standardize the first and second floor dormer windows. Through this process, he found that the construction of the first and second floor dormer windows differs significantly rather than being similar as expected. Mayank is now working to identify which elements from the first floor dormer window can be applied to the second floor dormer window. This open source Duplicable City Center project contributes in creating better sustainability. See the collage below for a snapshot of his work this week.

HIGHEST GOOD FOOD PROGRESS

One Community is creating better sustainability 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 creating better sustainability: 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, Navya Eeshani Boyapati (Web Designer) continued working on the Highest Good Food initiative through Task 962: Publishing the Sensor Selection for Chamber Gas Regulation and Vermiculture Storage Chamber Load and Handle Stress Evaluation Sections. She reviewed the provided technical content, organized and formatted the sections for publication, updated the webpage content and HTML formatting, checked links and layout, corrected formatting issues, and prepared the sections for publication according to project requirements. See below for some of the pictures related to this work toward creating better sustainability.

Jay Nair (BIM Designer) continued working on the Aquapini and Walipini Planting and Harvesting documents. He contacted Signify to request additional technical information related to the selected lighting fixture for Walipini 1. He updated the lighting energy documentation by marking the fixture counts, PPFD estimates, and energy totals as preliminary values, noting that the final uniformity target requires a canopy PAR lighting plan for validation. Jay also corrected the product sheet date and linked the official Signify product documentation to ensure the project references the latest available fixture information. These efforts improve the stability and adaptability of shared systems, supporting the broader goal of creating better sustainability. See the collage below portraying the work done this week.

Shameera Musthafa (Data Analyst) continued supporting OC Administration and the PR Review Team by coordinating PR review workflows, reviewing work from the Admin and PR teams, and providing feedback for accuracy, clarity, and consistency. She organized and categorized project images, created visual collages, and finalized blog-related content as part of PR review coordination. Shameera also contributed to Highest Good Food report pages and related visualizations, managed the One Community Bluesky social media account by creating and publishing project updates, and supported the hiring process through interviews and candidate evaluations. See below for some of the pictures related to this work toward creating better sustainability.

Zoey Zou (Volunteer Landscape Architect) continued developing the Walipini #3 and Large-scale Aquapini projects. For Walipini 3, she revised the circulation and people-space design by adding smaller stone pathways through the central food forest, adjusting the tree canopy and surrounding planting, and distinguishing larger gathering areas along the primary circulation route from smaller seating nooks within the rear planting areas. She updated the written report to reflect the revised circulation, harvesting access, canopy, and seating strategy, and revised the AutoCAD plan by adding seating areas, rocks, tree-stump seating, and smaller pedestrian paths. She completed final renders for previously prepared placeholder views, produced and revised walkthrough videos based on feedback, and replaced placeholder images in the Google Docs report with final renders. She also tested a rendered top view for the planting plan and continued refining the AutoCAD drawing when the first top-view result was not clear enough. For the Large-scale Aquapini, Zoey continued developing the planting and people-space design by revising seating and circulation areas, replacing ornamental planting with productive species, adjusting plant combinations, heights, and textures, and refining log seating, rock seating, stepping stones, and smaller resting areas. This work plays a key role in creating better sustainability. See below for images showcasing her work.

HIGHEST GOOD ENERGY PROGRESS

One Community is creating better sustainability 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 better sustainability: 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 reviewing the Tools and Equipment for Open Source Construction page contributing to the Highest Good Energy initiative, part of One Community’s work on creating better sustainability. They searched for and identified duplicate entries and commented on them for correction. They also identified and commented on incorrect images, spelling errors, and errors in tool descriptions and locations. They completed the Tools section and began reviewing the Equipment section. See the image below for a glimpse of their work contributing to One Community’s mission of creating better sustainability.

Rohan Pariakar (Operations and Supply Chain Analyst) continued reviewing the Highest Good Energy analysis report and its supporting spreadsheets for consistency, updating the phase energy-analysis tables, equipment-level calculations, totals, labels, and related visuals. He reviewed the Step 2, Step 3, and Step 4 energy-demand breakdowns and rechecked the category-level calculations for heating, computers, appliances, lighting, and machines against the corresponding phase totals, reconciling the reported daily energy requirements of 1,147.75 kWh/day for Step 2, 2,594.075 kWh/day for Step 3, and 6,642.45 kWh/day for Step 4 with the supporting equipment and category calculations. Rohan double-checked the solar calculations against the 4.46 peak sun hours, 75% system performance assumption, and 450 W panel rating, and confirmed the solar equipment cost tables matched panel quantities, installed capacity, and expected generation. He also reviewed the Step 5 energy inputs for major facilities, including DCC Kitchen, Manufacturing and Workshop, Advanced Infrastructure, Ultimate Classroom, and Straw Bale Village, to flag values needing further validation before final solar sizing, and checked report graphics and spreadsheet-linked visuals for formatting and loading issues. The images below provide examples of his work this week contributing to creating better sustainability.

HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION PROGRESS

One Community is creating better sustainability through Highest Good education that is for all ages, applicable in any environment, adaptable to individual needs, far exceeds traditional education standards, and more fun for both the teachers and the students. This component of One Community is about 95% complete with only the Open Source School Licensing and Ultimate Classroom construction and assembly details remaining to be finished.

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

• Program Overview and creating better sustainability: 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

This week, Isaiah “Isa” Hernandez (Graphic Designer) focused on reusing previous renders for The Ultimate Classroom details spread, masking images and arranging them in a dynamic way. He also began redesigning the cost analysis section to improve readability and legibility within the book while maintaining the original graphics. Lastly, Isa refined the second-to-last page. See the collage below for highlights of his work towards creating better sustainability.

HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY PROGRESS

One Community is creating better sustainability 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 better sustainability: 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 48 hours of work managing volunteer work reviews, handling emails, overseeing social media accounts, supporting web development, and identifying 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 about creating better sustainability. The video also explores how creating better sustainability serves as a foundational element of One Community’s broader mission. The following images showcase their work.

Adhya Rastogi (Business Analyst) continued updating the Google Ads Campaign Tracking Spreadsheet with current campaign, ad, and performance information and added traffic and measurement columns for ongoing monitoring. She completed SEO and AEO optimization for the Highest Good Economics webpage by refining content, keyword targeting, headings, metadata, internal linking, and search intent while incorporating relevant feedback and comparing donation pages for SEO and AEO alignment. Adhya also optimized existing Google Ads for the Grid-Tie Remote Energy Infrastructure, Solar Energy Microgrid, and Wind Energy pages by refining ad elements, keywords, messaging, and alignment with the corresponding landing pages and search intent. She continued Reddit activity through the PostByPurpose and One Community accounts by creating posts, participating in discussions, commenting, and responding to recent engagement. Adhya reviewed activity on both accounts to maintain consistent participation in relevant communities. She also prepared and submitted the weekly summary, documenting the week’s activities and progress for reporting. See the collage below for highlights of her work towards creating better sustainability.

Anagha Sunil Bharadwaj (Legal Research and AI Policy Specialist) continued her research on perpetual purpose trusts across US jurisdictions and their practical implications. She began work on One Community AI Usage Policy project. Anagha researched Anthropic’s, Google’s, and OpenAI’s usage policies to compare how each structures rules for AI users, finding a common layered approach with universal prohibitions and added restrictions for higher-risk uses. She also began researching published AI policy templates for reference. Anagha studied state laws overlapping with workplace AI use, including Colorado, Illinois, California, and New York City requirements around employment-related AI decisions, discrimination protections, and bias audits. See the collage below for her week’s work, furthering One Community’s mission of creating better sustainability.

Devarsh Wali (Program Manager) continued supporting the weekly blog review process and Admin Team procedures. He continued developing the AEO and GEO optimization strategy by testing different approaches for improving blog visibility across multiple LLM search engines and tracking the results of those experiments. Devarsh added performance metrics and experiment findings to the report, compared different optimization methods and updated the document based on the observed results. He also worked on completing the AEO Optimization report draft and shared it with Jae for review and feedback. In addition, Devarsh supported One Community administration by reviewing work submitted by other Admin Team members and preparing the weekly blog draft for his assigned team. The images below provide examples of this week’s work towards creating better sustainability.

Valentina Collini (Designer) continued working on creating social media images to support One Community’s outreach efforts, designing graphics that align with the organization’s visual standards and effectively communicate its mission. She also reviewed and refined volunteer biographies, making corrections to improve accuracy, consistency, and overall presentation. In addition, Valentina carefully checked content for errors and implemented necessary updates, helping maintain the quality of both the website and promotional materials. Her work contributed to strengthening One Community’s online presence while ensuring that volunteer profiles and related content remained clear, professional, and up to date. She also worked on bios for new volunteers. Please see the collage below for her work this week towards creating better sustainability.

ADMINISTRATION TEAM

The Administration Team’s summary, which covers their work on the Highest Good Network, was managed by Devendranath Chowdary Maganti (Data Analyst) and includes Ashmita Pal (Data Analyst), Gargi Vipat (AI Engineer), Mrudhula Reddy Thummala (Administrative Assistant), Olawunmi “Ola” Ijisesan (Administrative and Management Support), Prathik Raju (Data Analyst), Sachit Varma (Business Operations & Cost Analyst), Sai Sree Dongari (Data Analyst), Shreyas Harish (Data Engineer), and Tanmay Nihal Harwani (Data Scientist). The Administration Team supports the Highest Good Network, a tool designed to track and measure progress while creating systems that support creating better sustainability. Through administrative support, documentation, testing, training, recruitment, 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, Ashmita tested multiple PRs on the Dev environment using the Basic Software Component testing process, verified reported changes and functionality, and reviewed related tasks, comments, and documentation for follow-up. She coordinated with team members regarding testing questions and task creation, reviewed available and unassigned tasks, assigned requested tasks and hours, reviewed Training Team work, provided feedback, and reviewed Tumblr documentation. Gargi participated in hiring interviews, continued reviewing correction submissions as a Correction Administrator, and provided feedback to admins in training. She also completed the AI bio and announcement image-generation tutorial, submitted it to Jae, incorporated feedback into quality-control guidance, prompts, team resources, and image requirements, and prepared the next testing phase across additional AI platforms. These testing, training, and workflow activities supported creating better sustainability.

Mrudhula completed Level 1 Software Product Testing for the Highest Good Network by testing PRs #5349 and #4479 on the development site, focusing on construction management features and recording results in the testing document. She also tested other open PRs to check existing workflows and documented her findings while reviewing administrative work submitted by other admins and providing feedback. Ola organized digital workspaces for the Administration and PR Review Teams by creating documentation folders, removing obsolete files, updating the project summary report, and uploading associated images. These software testing, documentation, and workspace organization activities furthered the goal of creating better sustainability.

Prathik completed Facebook and Instagram analytics, updated spreadsheets and audience metrics, reviewed volunteer time logs, provided feedback, and scheduled posts for the following week. He also tested the Job Form Builder, documented an issue with the default question set, reviewed Pandithya’s weekly blog training work, and completed weekly blog work for Team Binary Brigade with feedback to team members. Sachit reorganized the funding matrix into separate tabs for individual donors and foundations, restructured funder briefs to consolidate application information, reviewed scoring for foundation prospects, and validated ratings against funding requirements and accessibility. He also supported the onboarding of two new volunteers by reviewing their onboarding feedback and confirming their readiness to begin. These analytics, testing, funding research, and onboarding activities contributed to creating better sustainability.

Sai Sree organized review images, created collages, finalized PR Admin Team blog content, and completed frontend testing across page rendering, navigation, filtering, pagination, dark mode, charts, forms, announcements, financial tracking, reviewer selection, question flows, and project management. She also checked responsive behavior, styling consistency, data accuracy, and error handling, worked on advanced documentation, and updated the Social Media Master Dashboard. Shreyas continued developing the AI training manual for the Total Organization Summary, covering volunteer and global distribution sections, tested dashboard sections, assigned development and improvement tasks to volunteers, reviewed a new volunteer’s training progress, and prepared the Alpha Team weekly summary. These quality assurance, training, documentation, and dashboard activities aligned with creating better sustainability.

Tanmay updated existing bios, followed up on missing summaries and photographs, tracked outstanding information, prepared the weekly blog from multiple team blogs, and completed SEO updates before publication. He also posted on Threads, updated the Social Media Master Dashboard, maintained tracking sheets and volunteer records, reviewed a new admin’s initial work, provided feedback, checked PR titles and descriptions for inconsistencies, and completed final testing of merged PRs. These content management, social media, administrative, and software testing activities supported creating better sustainability. See the collage below for highlights of this week’s work.

HIGHEST GOOD NETWORK PROGRESS

One Community is creating better sustainability 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, management software, and creating better sustainability: The Highest Good Network

This week, the core team continued HGN PR testing on the Main branch for the Highest Good Network, a platform creating better sustainability, and confirmed 6 PRs as fixed. The following issues were not fixed: HGNForm layout issues (#3640); Phase 1 follow-up fixes for PRs #5305, including Dark Mode implementation for the Map tool (PR5438); the filter not finding users due to inner spaces (#4464); Global Distribution map UI issues involving date pickers, Dark Mode, zoom, and text wrapping (#5421 + #2272); and the Team Stats chart mixing up hours and volunteer counts on the Teams and Blue Squares Dashboard (#5441). They were also unable to fully test 10 PRs because there was no data available on the Main branch. See the collage below to view the team’s work.

ALPHA SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT TEAM

The Alpha Team’s summary, covering their work on the Highest Good Network, was managed by Lin Khant Htel (Frontend Software Developer) with a team consisting of Devang Saraogi (Software Engineer), Maithili Kalkar (Software Engineer), Priyanka Ajit Mutha (Software Engineer), Som Ramnani (Junior Software Engineer), Sai Sandeep (Software Engineer), and Yingshu Wang (Software Engineer). Their work supported One Community’s mission of cross-functional software development and system improvements, helping advance open source permaculture communities.

This week, Devang worked on multiple HGN software development tasks, including bug fixes, investigation, testing, and pull request reviews, fixing an issue where deactivated volunteer counts were not reflected correctly by the time filter and opening backend PR #2361, and addressing a UserProfile memory leak by adding async request cancellation and unmount cleanup before opening frontend PR #5575. He also investigated a Job Application duplicate-check issue that was no longer reproducible, and re-reviewed PRs #2312 and #5493 across desktop, mobile, and dark mode. Lin managed and reviewed the team summary covering Devang, Handika, Maithili, Sai Sandeep, Priyanka, Rithika, Som Ramnani, and Yingshu Wang, reviewed PR #2363, and checked Alpha team members’ weekly summaries, photos, and videos while sharing pending pull requests for team review, supporting the goal of creating better sustainability.

Maithili tested the Instagram autoposter code after fixing SonarCloud issues, finding that scheduled posts were not saving media along with the caption, removing unneeded alt text and location fields from the composer, identifying that media is not displayed in the post history view, and noting that uploaded files need to move from local storage to cloud storage; she also documented how to run the project locally. Priyanka worked on the Weekly Summaries Report team-code warning feature, updating the warning indicator, adding click-to-filter functionality, and revising mismatch detection, creating frontend PR #5586 and backend PR #2368, and addressed backend SonarCloud findings by validating user IDs before database queries and adding tests for invalid inputs, permissions, and inactive users; a task on six-month and yearly anniversaries remains pending clarification contributing to One Community’s mission of creating better sustainability.

Sai addressed UI alignment and data visualization issues, resolving x-axis label and tick spacing problems in PR #5451, aligning task board header labels in PR #5476, fixing container and height bugs on the Volunteer Status doughnut charts in PR #5553, and updating the Most Frequent Keywords diagram layout in PR #5583 to prevent overlapping bubbles in support of creating better sustainability.

Som restored the Save as PDF button on the Participation page in PR #5578, updating the print flow to include all matching events, adding loading feedback and duplicate-click prevention, improving print styling and accessibility, and fixing an issue that had cut off the PDF export after one page so that all 10 pages displayed correctly. Yingshu reviewed the Volunteer Time save workflow and button state management, disabling the Save button during requests and adding a synchronous lock to prevent duplicate submissions, with the implementation passing all 21 related tests, ESLint validation, Git diff checks, and the production build furthering One Community’s mission of creating better sustainability. See the collage below for highlights of this week’s work.

BINARY BRIGADE SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT TEAM

The Team Binary Brigade’s summary, covering their work on the Highest Good Network, was managed by Prathik Raju (Data Analyst) with a team consisting of Aditya Krishnamurthi (Software Engineer), Amaan Syed (Volunteer Software Engineer), Dhruv Topiwala (Full Stack Software Engineer), Mahitha Pasupuleti (Software Engineer), Ruthwik Hosadurga Madhusudhana (Software Engineer), and Shubham Jakhete (Software Engineer) supporting One Community’s mission of cross-functional software development and system improvements. This work advances the team’s objectives, ensuring that all completed tasks directly contribute to creating better sustainability.

This week, Aditya investigated Issue #37 on the PR Review Team Analytics Dashboard, tracing the Weekly PR Grading page’s duplicate reviewer entries to a missing date filter on the fetch call. He added a helper to normalize save and fetch requests to the current week, wired up the Review Week dropdown to re-fetch data with read-only rows for past weeks, and added a Remove Reviewer feature, with a backend delete endpoint remaining as the last step before the PR is raised, in support of creating better sustainability. Amaan continued work on the Total Construction Summary Project Status implementation, removing a duplicate card, adding proper handling for unavailable historical data, correcting a date-range off-by-one error, and resolving SonarCloud findings, then completed follow-up work on the Material Summary PR and addressed a Teams page responsiveness issue affecting table sizing, wrapping, and control layout across screen sizes, verifying all changes across themes and viewports, contributing to creating better sustainability.

Dhruv updated the blue square warning system so that the third occurrence triggers a yellow warning and subsequent occurrences trigger red, refactoring the warning controller into helper functions and adding logging and unit tests for the new behavior, and resolved SonarQube cognitive-complexity findings in the BadgeStatistics component with added test coverage, work that supports creating better sustainability. Mahitha implemented the Orchard Management feature for Phase 6 Kitchen Inventory Management, adding an Orders section with status tracking from ordered to shipped to delivered, a dynamic pending order count, and a Planting Schedule section for upcoming planting tasks, along with light and dark mode styling for the new sections, work that furthers creating better sustainability.

Ruthwik fixed undefined function calls causing crashes during timer operations, restricted date picker ranges when the year filter is active, resolved reviewer-reported access issues on two pull requests, tested five additional pull requests covering user search, dark mode formatting, and volunteer analytics charts, and corrected dark mode display inconsistencies across the rental tracking dashboard, advancing creating better sustainability. Shubham reviewed four pull requests across the frontend and backend, approving two and requesting changes on two after identifying implementation issues, then moved to the Development Team, where he fixed three logic issues affecting deactivated team members’ final week on the Weekly Summaries Report and restored the deployment refresh notice by adding version tracking and a new notice with dark-mode support, in support of creating better sustainability. The collage below offers a visual representation of 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, was managed by Aadit Trivedi (Volunteer Software Engineer and Software Team Administrator) with a team consisting of Akshay Viswanath (Software Engineer), Amaresh Chaudhary Nara (Software Engineer), Ansh Shah (Software Engineer), Bosu Babu Bade (Software Developer), Gayatri Sawant (Software Engineer), Hemanth Varupula (Software Developer), Linlin Fan (Software Engineer), Mahalakshmi Mahadevan (Volunteer Software Engineer), Mahathi Ganimisetti (Data Analyst), Shreevaths Karawal Satish Rao (Software Engineer), Shreyas Battula (Software Engineer), and Sireesha Kunchala (Software Engineer), supporting One Community’s mission of cross-functional software development and system improvements. This week, Akshay worked across five frontend and backend pull requests. On frontend PR #5440 he fixed overlapping radar chart labels in the Skills Overview, added three regression tests, and merged the latest development branch to resolve a Netlify preview failure. He opened backend PR #2370 so the Top Skills calculation prioritizes skills matching the selected filter, confirmed on PR #2321 that a reported Total Org Summary crash came from badge dates stored as date values, and replaced a mocked aggregation test on PR #2335 with an in-memory MongoDB test that detects the original hours calculation issue. Amaresh completed final review passes on three abandoned pull requests for the Weekly Project Summary and Global Distribution map features, contributing to creating better sustainability. On PR #5415 he fixed an Issue Tracking crash that also broke the Expand All and Share PDF actions, along with a Collapse All button, dark mode contrast, and duplicate charts in Financials Tracking. On PR #5330 he replaced a discontinued basemap provider with an Esri basemap plus a label layer, and on PR #5256 he fixed overlapping value labels on the cost prediction chart.

Ansh tested PR #5493 for the PR Grading Dashboard’s inline reviewer summary, covering grade updates, paired and single PR styling, new PR entries, and dark mode behavior. He also began a development site header configuration feature requested by Jae, designed to limit editing of the shared header to Owner-level users and to track previous changes to its content. Bosu resolved stale HGN Questionnaire eligibility data on PR #5449 by refetching eligibility when the Help modal reopens or the page becomes visible again, added focused tests that pass 10 of 10, and cleared a SonarCloud duplication failure by extracting shared test helpers. He also addressed reviewer feedback on the Phase 4 Student Daily Log, improving dark mode readability and responsive status badges and resolving conflicts in the routes and dependency files. Gayatri completed three tickets in support of creating better sustainability. For the Phase 4 Collaborative Lesson Plan workflow she built a new LessonPlanDraft backend with three endpoints and 15 passing unit tests, a four-step student wizard, and an educator review and approval view, and tested the full flow with student and educator accounts before opening backend PR #2366. She also fixed the doubled Years of Experience display on the HGN Questionnaire Dashboard with a regression test, and made the name and email fields on the HGN Form non-editable by correcting a faulty disabled condition.

Hemanth reviewed PR #5525 for the bio announcement toggle and status filter and worked on PR #4437, a bar graph of the most wasted materials, where he corrected the routing path causing a page-not-found error and fixed dark mode styling. Linlin advanced four frontend pull requests that all passed the SonarQube Quality Gate: PR #5517 restored the header’s user info row on narrow screens, PR #5525 improved the bio status filter’s tooltip, contrast, and alignment, PR #5524 added expand and collapse controls to the People Report card legends, and PR #5493 kept the missing image option in sync for inline grading summaries. Mahalakshmi reviewed Phase 4 PR #4432, identifying 404 errors on the timer’s play and reset buttons, and approved PR #4225 for the Student Daily Log and PR #4655 for the Daily Equipment Log preview panel after verifying their behavior, work that supports creating better sustainability.

Mahathi improved the Building Management Dashboard analytics by validating Supplier Performance results against backend responses, displaying project names instead of database identifiers, and adding backend validation for invalid project IDs. She also resolved filtering, date range, empty state, and chart stability issues in the Tools by Availability and Tools Stoppage analytics, testing in both light and dark modes. Shreevaths updated the Kitchen and Inventory supplier APIs on PR #2047 so a supplier can no longer be renamed to an existing supplier’s name, and restricted all five supplier endpoints to Owner and Administrator users without affecting the kitchen order routes. These backend and analytics improvements advance creating better sustainability.

Shreyas worked on Profile page team code validation, including active-code checks and case-insensitive matching, updated the title tile colors for active and changed team codes, and built the User Profile team creation workflow. He also replaced deprecated Axios CancelToken usage with AbortController and addressed accessibility findings in the team autocomplete. Sireesha fixed job listings where multiple Software Developer ads opened the same application form by passing a unique job ID through the routing and API layers, and stopped bid submission errors on the bidding page from crashing the screen by showing them inline. Their work contributes to creating better sustainability. The collage below offers a visual representation of the 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 Anthony Weathers (Software Engineer), with a team consisting of Jaden Wong (Software Engineer), Purav Patel (Software Engineer), and Swathi Angadi (Software Engineer), supporting One Community’s mission of cross-functional software development and system improvements. This work advances the team’s objectives, ensuring that completed tasks directly contribute to the work on creating better sustainability.

This week, Anthony continued work on the warning tracker hotfix by fixing order values for newly created trackers, adding tracker-specific descriptions to EditableInfoModal.jsx and verifying that descriptions could be edited, saved and displayed correctly. He also investigated the blue square issuing issue, created frontend PR #5588 and backend PR #2369 and resolved merge conflicts and reviewer feedback for PRs #3600 and #1447. Jaden opened PR #5563 to address dark mode issues on the Top Community Members page by removing conflicting CSS rules, standardizing table styling and moving inline styles into CSS Module classes. He also added error handling for failed data requests and verified the changes through ESLint, Stylelint, SonarQube and pre-commit checks, furthering One Community’s mission of creating better sustainability.

Purav continued Job Applications E2E testing and launch preparation across several frontend PRs, including testing, rebasing and updating PRs #5473, #5544, #5537, #5538, #5541 and #5536. His work included resolving deployment and merge issues, improving dark mode and contrast behavior, validating tooltips and file uploads, running related unit and production tests and approving completed PRs with QA notes. Swathi worked on SonarQube and Yarn-related issues, corrected CSS and CSS Module problems, resolved merge conflicts for the Edit to Reorder task, restored code lost during merging and fixed related build failures. These activities supported the work on creating better sustainability. Check the image collage below for a visual overview of the Skye Team’s work for the week.

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 creating better sustainability. This week’s active members of this team were Aadit Trivedi (Software Quality Assurance & Team Coordinator), Carl Bebli (Software Developer), Deepigha Japamony (Software Engineer), Isha Pawar (Software Engineer), Mahika Kakkad (Software Engineer), Mallikharjuna Abhiram Mulpuri (Software Engineer), Manav Kheni (Software Developer), and Nathan Hoffman(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 creating better sustainability. 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 Software is a foundation for measuring our results in creating better sustainability. This week’s active members of this team were Rahul Rubugunday (Software Engineer), Shreya Shailesh Bandodkar (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 creating better sustainability. The collage below shows a compilation of the work from this team.

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HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING PROGRESS

One Community is demonstrating open source permaculture communities through Highest Good housing that is artistic and beautiful, more affordable, more space efficient, lasts longer, DIY buildable, and constructed with healthy and sustainable materials:

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

This week, the core team continued working on the Highest Good Housing component of property research. The team reviewed the pet policy and continued research based on website criteria regarding potential property locations for the establishment of One Community. Their primary focus was assimilating additional data onto the site locations document, noting that the major challenge in locating a suitable property continues to be satisfying as many website requirements as possible related to elevation, sunny days, precipitation levels, and seasonal tourist potential. The team’s work contributes towards demonstrating open source permaculture communities. The collage below portrays the team’s efforts and achievements for the week.

Rushikesh Tubaji (Volunteer Industrial Engineer) continued contributing to Highest Good Housing by developing the single-dome labor-analysis pilot, refining quantity bases and calculation methods for foundation, flooring, openings, loft construction, wall finishes, and related construction activities. He documented when One Community reference quantities could be used directly and when 15-foot tutorial examples required recalculation for the approximately 200-square-foot dome. He added planning quantities and calculation rules where sufficient information was available and documented unresolved design-dependent quantities rather than assigning unsupported values. Rushikesh also prepared the workbook for manager review by checking activity IDs, source traceability, validation fields, formulas, and potential duplicate work. The README, Productivity Library, Sources, Dome Pilot Estimate, and Housing Labor Summary tabs were updated to distinguish the methodology and quantity work that is ready for review from productivity rates, crew assumptions, and labor-hour calculations that will be developed after the estimating structure is approved. See the collage below for a snapshot of this week’s work towards demonstrating open source permaculture communities.

DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER PROGRESS

One Community is demonstrating open source permaculture 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, its function, and open source permaculture communities: Duplicable City Center Open Source Hub

This week, Nidish Reddy Koppula (Mechanical Engineer) continued working on the Duplicable City Center design. He completed the suggested changes to the hydraulic elevator project documentation and updated the report with additional images to improve the presentation of the design and supporting information. Nidish also added comments for the full-size images and placed more relevant images throughout the report where needed. He finished working on the assembly steps and updated the related instructions and supporting materials. He also packaged, organized, and arranged the final deliverable files so that the report, CAD files, images, and other project materials were structured for submission and future reference. This open source Duplicable City Center project contributes to demonstrating open source permaculture communities. See the collage below for a snapshot of his work this week.

Sai Pranav Avva (Mechanical Engineer) continued developing the City Center Eco-spa Designs. He compiled the results of several mesh-dependence analyses to verify the FEA results generated in COMSOL and SolidWorks. Sai Pranav also assumed interview manager responsibilities, including leading the weekly meeting and coordinating the handover of duties between teammates. He reviewed a team member’s work to help complete the handoff and researched thermal blanket mechanisms for cooling the tank. This open source Duplicable City Center project contributes towards demonstrating open source permaculture communities. See the collage below for images of the work this week.

HIGHEST GOOD FOOD PROGRESS

One Community is demonstrating open source permaculture 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 open source permaculture 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, Jay Nair (BIM Designer) continued working on the Aquapini and Walipini Planting and Harvesting documents. He compared the specifications of multiple lighting fixtures to determine the most suitable option for specific zones within Walipini 1. The evaluation focused on optimizing plant growth requirements while reducing lighting energy consumption by reviewing fixture performance, light distribution, and compatibility with the environmental needs of each zone. The findings were used to refine the greenhouse lighting energy calculator and support future fixture selection decisions. These efforts improve the stability and adaptability of shared systems, supporting the broader goal of demonstrating open source permaculture communities. See the collage below portraying the work done this week.

Shameera Musthafa (Data Analyst) continued working on the Highest Good Food initiative. She supported OC Administration and the PR Review Team by coordinating PR review workflows, reviewing the work of both the Admin and PR teams, and providing feedback to ensure accuracy, clarity, and consistency across all deliverables. She organized and categorized project images, created visual collages, and finalized blog-related content as part of PR review coordination, ensuring that both visual and written materials were properly curated and documented. Additionally, Shameera contributed to the Highest Good Food report pages and related visualizations. She also managed the One Community Bluesky social media account, creating and publishing posts to help share project updates and increase outreach and engagement. In addition, Shameera supported the hiring process by conducting interviews and evaluating candidates. This work plays a key role in demonstrating open source permaculture communities. See below for images showcasing her work.

Navya Eeshani Boyapati (Web Designer) continued working on the Highest Good Food page. She updated Task 281: Highest Good Food Page Rebuild and Task 873: Update the Tools and Equipment for Open Source Construction Page based on supervisor feedback, making the requested content, formatting, spacing, and layout corrections and reviewing the pages for additional errors and inconsistencies. She also started Task 284: Goats Page Updates by reviewing the existing page content and beginning the required updates and formatting revisions. See the collage below for a snapshot of this week’s work towards demonstrating open source permaculture communities.

Zoey Zou (Volunteer Landscape Architect) continued developing the Walipini #3 and Large-scale Aquapini projects. For Walipini #3, she revised the design based on feedback by updating materials, removing unnecessary leaf elements, refining planting and people-space details, adjusting the entrance area, shortening hanging vines to improve sunlight access, and replacing components that interfered with seating. She updated the report by refining captions and adding explanatory text between consecutive images, prepared revised renders, and created multiple draft walkthrough videos for review before final production. Zoey also revised circulation and harvesting access by adjusting the doorway area, adding a small pathway, and modifying nearby seating, rocks, planting, and circulation to improve practical movement through the greenhouse. For the Large-scale Aquapini, she researched planting strategies, plant size, growing conditions, and planting layers, reviewed and organized the SketchUp model, replaced or adjusted plant models for more realistic scale and placement, updated materials, and continued developing productive planting and people-space areas including seating, paths, keyhole garden areas, water-edge planting, herb garden areas, and quieter gathering spaces. This work plays a key role in demonstrating open source permaculture communities. See below for images showcasing her work.

HIGHEST GOOD ENERGY PROGRESS

One Community is demonstrating open source permaculture 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 open source permaculture 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, part of One Community’s work on open source permaculture communities. They continued reviewing the Tools: Earthbag Village and Home Tools and Equipment webpage. The team identified a number of inconsistencies on the page, including duplicate entries, typos, incorrect images, incomplete corrections, and other issues. And they added comments to each identified inconsistency so they can be addressed later. The team also began a brief review of the DIY Dam Design webpage. See the collage below for highlights of their work, contributing to One Community’s mission for open source permaculture communities.

Rohan Pariakar (Operations and Supply Chain Analyst) completed formatting adjustments to the Highest Good Energy analysis materials based on coordinator feedback and continued reviewing the report and supporting spreadsheets for consistency. He adjusted spreadsheet formatting across the phase energy analysis, including tables, category sections, totals, labels, and spacing. Rohan rechecked the phase energy calculations by comparing equipment-level requirements, category totals, daily energy totals, and equivalent full-load hours, cross-checking the Step 2, Step 3, and Step 4 totals (1,147.75, 2,594.075, and 6,642.45 kWh/day) against their category breakdowns. He reviewed the major energy-consuming categories affecting the phase totals, including heating, water heating, kitchen systems, manufacturing, the Ultimate Classroom, and Straw Bale Village, contributing to One Community’s mission of open source permaculture communities. Rohan also reconciled the solar sizing calculations by checking daily energy requirements against peak sun hours, the 75% system performance assumption, installed capacity, panel quantities, and expected daily generation. In addition, he compared the phase energy analysis with the Master Solar infrastructure model to identify outdated values and continued investigating the larger energy increase in the 100–200 person phase before finalizing its solar requirements. Finally, he reviewed report formatting and images that were not loading correctly. See the collage below for a glimpse of his work this week on open source permaculture communities.

HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION PROGRESS

One Community is demonstrating open source permaculture communities through Highest Good education that is for all ages, applicable in any environment, adaptable to individual needs, far exceeds traditional education standards, and more fun for both the teachers and the students. This component of One Community is about 95% complete with only the Open Source School Licensing and Ultimate Classroom construction and assembly details remaining to be finished.

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

• Program Overview: Education Open Source Hub
• How the components work together in designing human orchestrated eco-abundance and open source permaculture communities: 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, Isaiah “Isa” Hernandez (Graphic Designer) created content for the bio announcement and primarily worked on revisions to The Ultimate Classroom book. This included experimenting with point sizes for the table of contents, enhancing image quality for the cover, reorganizing pages, and determining edits for sections such as cost analysis details and site plans, all contributing to the development of open source permaculture communities. The images below provide examples of this week’s work.

HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY PROGRESS

One Community is demonstrating open source permaculture communities through a Highest Good society approach to living that is founded on fulfilled living, the study of meeting human needs, Community, and making a difference in the world:

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

This week, the core team completed over 37 hours of work managing volunteer work reviews, handling emails, overseeing social media accounts, supporting web development, and identifying 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 about demonstrating open source permaculture communities. The video also explores how demonstrating open source permaculture communities serves as a foundational element of One Community’s broader mission. The following images showcase their work.

Adhya Rastogi (Business Analyst) continued updating the Google Ads Campaign Tracking Spreadsheet with current campaign, ad, and performance information and added traffic and measurement columns for ongoing monitoring. She reviewed campaign and ad-level performance, automated recommendations, and bundled actions to identify relevant changes before applying them. Adhya also researched Google Search Console and Google Tag Manager setup requirements, shared findings with Jae, and awaited access and setup. She researched ChatGPT and AI-related advertising opportunities for future marketing planning. In addition, she completed SEO and AEO optimization for the Contribute, Join & Partner webpage by refining content, headings, keyword targeting, metadata, internal linking, question-based content, and search relevance while maintaining the original messaging and calls to action. She continued Reddit engagement through the PostByPurpose and One Community accounts by creating posts, commenting, and responding to recent engagement. Adhya also completed and submitted the weekly summary and pictures through Dropbox for reporting. See the collage below for highlights of her work towards demonstrating open source permaculture communities.

Anagha Sunil Bharadwaj (Legal Research and AI Policy Specialist) continued her research on perpetual purpose trusts across US jurisdictions and their practical implications. Following an evaluation of how to best structure these agreements for comprehensive coverage, she drafted the Ground Lease Agreement and the standalone Home Shares Ground Lease Agreement. Anagha then researched typical frameworks for revenue sharing agreements alongside further applications of perpetual purpose trusts—specifically focusing on the protection of intellectual property and brand assets. Using these insights, she completed the Revenue Sharing Agreement and drafted a specialized Perpetual Purpose Trust Agreement. Finally, she formatted and reviewed the comprehensive report to ensure analytical cohesion before submission. See the collage below for her week’s work, furthering One Community’s mission of demonstrating open source permaculture communities.

Devarsh Wali (Program Manager) continued supporting the weekly blog review process and Admin Team procedures. He worked on One Community’s AI Optimization and AEO Strategy, testing different blog content structures and keyword approaches to evaluate how they could support Answer Engine Optimization, search visibility and AI discoverability. He updated the strategy with implementation recommendations covering SEO, AEO, GEO, content structure, AI visibility testing, measurement and pilot planning. Devarsh also supported the weekly team review process, interviewed candidates for the Software Team and began setting up the software frontend testing environment to support future HGN testing work. The images below provide examples of this week’s work towards demonstrating open source permaculture communities.

Devendranath Chowdary Maganti (Data Analyst) continued developing the Highest Good Economics (HGE) Rollout Timeline Data Analysis Dashboard and Visualizations by integrating new content into the HGE web page and timeline tracker based on the available project documentation. He worked on the Highest Good Education Construction and Rollout Timeline Data Analysis Dashboard and Visualizations by reviewing the HGE webpage to understand the project content and create a timeline tracker. Devendranath also continued integrating new content into the Highest Good Economics webpage based on the project documentation. In addition, he worked on the Administration Team weekly blog, reviewed fellow teammates’ blogs, and made changes based on the feedback they provided on his work. See the collage below for weekly highlights of his work, demonstrating open source permaculture communities.

ADMINISTRATION TEAM

The Administration Team’s summary, which covers their work on the Highest Good Network, was managed by Devendranath Chowdary Maganti (Data Analyst), with a team consisting of Ashmita Pal (Data Analyst), Gargi Vipat (AI Engineer), Mrudhula Reddy Thummala (Administrative Assistant), Olawunmi “Ola” Ijisesan (Administrative and Management Support), Prathik Raju (Data Analyst), Sachit Varma (Business Operations & Cost Analyst), Sai Sree Dongari (Data Analyst), Shreyas Harish (Data Engineer), and Tanmay Nihal Harwani (Data Scientist). The Administration Team supports the Highest Good Network, a tool designed to track and measure progress while creating systems that support demonstrating open source permaculture communities. Through administrative support, documentation, testing, training, recruitment, 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, Ashmita reviewed Basic Software Component testing documentation, tested completed PRs and reported fixes in the Dev environment, and verified dashboard, UI, responsive, and functionality changes. She also reviewed comments and Google Docs for new tasks and follow-ups, coordinated with team members on PR testing, permissions, and admin access, and reviewed One Community social media documentation, Tumblr posting instructions, moderator setup, and account requirements, supporting One Community’s mission of open source permaculture communities.

Gargi continued as a Correction Administrator and Training Team member by reviewing submissions and providing feedback to admins in training. She also sent her AI announcement and bio work to Jae, incorporated his feedback into a testing tutorial, and documented AI image-generation processes with step-by-step instructions and quality control checklists. These testing, training, and documentation activities supported demonstrating open source permaculture communities.

Mrudhula tested the Hydro page against its source document, checked content, headings, and layout, and documented differences for correction. She also tested the HGN Phase III Social Architecture PR #4135 and PR #5386 on the Dev site, verified affected pages and features, and checked for additional issues before beginning work on the Earthbag Village page. Ola created a folder for administrative and PR team members, organized and cleared the workspace, prepared a summary report with associated images, and updated related documentation. These page testing, documentation, and workspace organization activities furthered the goal of demonstrating open source permaculture communities.

Prathik completed daily One Community volunteer time log reviews, updated Facebook and Instagram analytics, tested collaboration job listings and the Show Summaries view, and documented issues involving job links, missing listing information, and incorrect image assignments. He also scheduled Facebook and Instagram posts, reviewed weekly blog work for Sahithi and Prakrithi, completed Team Binary Brigade blog work, and provided feedback to team members. Sachit reorganized the funding matrix into separate lists for individuals and foundations, verified and updated names, titles, and organizational details, corrected outdated information, added missing contacts, resolved several open questions, and searched for contact emails. These analytics, testing, research, and administrative activities aligned with demonstrating open source permaculture communities.

Sai Sree organized review images, created collages, finalized PR Admin Team blog content, and completed frontend testing across dashboards and related pages, checking filters, charts, tooltips, styling, layouts, form interactions, and accessibility elements. She also worked on advanced documentation, reviewed training work, updated the Social Media Master Dashboard, supported Admin Team members with frontend testing and dashboard workflows, assisted with task creation, and interviewed two applicants before submitting feedback to Jae. Shreyas tested HGN Software Development dashboards (including data analysis dashboards) against reference documentation and the development environment, assigned tasks to team members requesting additional working hours, completed basic software product testing and administrative task assignment, and prepared the weekly summary report and blog write-ups for all three teams. These testing, training, and administrative activities contributed to demonstrating open source permaculture communities.

Tanmay updated existing bios, followed up on missing summaries and photographs, compiled material from different team blogs, and applied required SEO changes for the weekly blog. He also published Threads posts, updated the Social Media Master Dashboard, maintained tracking sheets and volunteer records, reviewed initial work from two new admins, provided feedback, checked titles and descriptions for inconsistencies, assigned tasks to developers, and performed final testing of merged PRs. These content management, social media, administrative, and software testing activities aligned with demonstrating open source permaculture communities. See the collage below for highlights of this week’s work.

HIGHEST GOOD NETWORK PROGRESS

One Community is demonstrating open source permaculture 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, management software, and open source permaculture communities: The Highest Good Network

This week, the core team continued HGN PR testing on the Main branch for the Highest Good Network, a platform demonstrating open source permaculture communities, and confirmed five PRs as fixed: HGN Questionnaire Dashboard: Frontend: Implement Dynamic Scoring & Ranking Logic; HGN Questionnaire Dashboard: Implement Additional Notes and Work Experience Section; Missing User Details when the skill filter is applied; HGN Questionnaire Dashboard: Add Search Functionality to Page; and HGN Questionnaire Dashboard: Team Member’s Skill Overview Page – Fix Dark Mode Styling Issues. Eight PRs were not fixed. The team also reported a new bug for the HGN Questionnaire Dashboard User Profile Page related to the Years of Experience display and created a new task to fix the Volunteer Hours Distribution Pie Chart data categorization issue. See the collage below to view the team’s work.

ALPHA SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT TEAM

The Alpha Team’s summary, covering their work on the Highest Good Network, was managed by Lin Khant Htel (Frontend Software Developer) with a team consisting of Devang Saraogi (Software Engineer), Maithili Kalkar (Software Engineer), Priyanka Ajit Mutha (Software Engineer), Rithika Pai (Software Engineer), Som Ramnani (Junior Software Engineer), Sai Sandeep (Software Engineer), and Yingshu Wang (Software Engineer). Their work supported One Community’s mission of cross-functional software development and system improvements, helping advance open source permaculture communities.

This week, Lin managed the team summary and reviewed PR #5238 by examining the code and running tests locally, while checking Alpha team members’ weekly summaries, photos, and videos and sharing pending pull requests for team review. Devang moved into Development Team work, fixed the Total Org Summary default date-filter issue, verified Current Week, Previous Week, and custom date ranges, and submitted frontend PR #5557 with testing evidence. He also started the deactivated-volunteers time-filter bug, created the Devang_fix_deactivated_volunteers_time_filter branch, configured the frontend against the local backend, and requested Owner access after Admin and Volunteer accounts failed to reproduce the historical mismatch, with plans to move to other assigned work if access is delayed. He completed a re-review of backend PR #2312, running all 15 relevant tests, checking Team Stats behavior against the PR base, and leaving a Request Changes comment on logic outside the stated scope.

Maithili wrote test suites for the Instagram post scheduler, token refresh service, and Graph API services, fixed a NoSQL injection issue with a validated ObjectId helper, addressed a log injection issue with a sanitization helper, resolved code style flags, debugged test failures tied to mocking and fixture errors, refactored shared logic across the Instagram, Reddit, and Slashdot post composers, renamed a component to remove a naming conflict, and split Instagram list rendering into smaller components. Priyanka fixed User Management table issues covering role editing, save behavior, and unneeded API requests, added regression tests, ran focused tests and lint checks, and confirmed saved values across User Management, Profile, and the People Report, contributing to One Community’s mission of open source permaculture communities.

Rithika continued the Event Popularity Analytics work, extracted shared backend helpers to remove duplicated code and clear the SonarQube Quality Gate, resolved a frontend lockfile conflict while keeping Node 20 compatibility, verified 332 test files and 2,262 tests, and flagged remaining CSS duplication along with two out-of-scope frontend issues furthering One Community’s mission of open source permaculture communities.

Sai improved PR #5548 by adjusting Volunteer Trends chart labels, spacing, increments, margins, and date-picker styling for light and dark modes, and opened PR #5553 to fix doughnut chart positioning and styling. Som addressed review feedback on PR #5545 by improving reducer tests and mocked failure handling, and worked on PR #4215 by resolving merge conflicts, keeping featured-badge functionality intact, aligning permissions across desktop and mobile, adding validation and sorting, guarding against overlapping actions, and adding regression tests for saving, retries, permissions, exports, and concurrent actions contributing to One Community’s mission of open source permaculture communities.

Yingshu updated the Volunteer Time confirmation modal so it stays locked during saving and cannot be closed through buttons, the Escape key, or backdrop clicks, preventing early scroll-state clearing. The modal structure was also simplified and regression coverage was added, with 19 related tests, ESLint checks, Git diff checks, and the production build all passing. These efforts support open source permaculture communities by enhancing clarity and accessibility. See the collage below for highlights of this week’s work.

BINARY BRIGADE SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT TEAM

The Team Binary Brigade’s summary, covering their work on the Highest Good Network, was managed by Roshini Seelamsetty (Software Engineer) and Prathik Raju (Data Analyst), with a team consisting of Aditya Krishnamurthi (Software Engineer), Amaan Syed (Volunteer Software Engineer), Dhruv Topiwala (Full Stack Software Engineer), Mahitha Pasupuleti (Software Engineer), and Ruthwik Hosadurga Madhusudhana (Software Engineer) supporting One Community’s mission of cross-functional software development and system improvements. This work advances the team’s objectives, ensuring that all completed tasks directly contribute to demonstrating open source permaculture communities.

This week, Aditya investigated and fixed an issue where Blue Square email CC recipients were not displayed in the user interface despite being stored in the database, identifying a missing field in a MongoDB aggregation projection, updating the backend response, validating the fix, and raising PR #2353, in support of demonstrating open source permaculture communities. Amaan worked on multiple frontend and backend pull requests by resolving merge conflicts, updating dark mode styling, validating dashboard functionality, integrating backend data, improving responsive chart behavior, and verifying application behavior across light and dark modes. His work included updates to Material Daily Activities, Resource Management Dashboard, Weekly Project Summary Project Status cards, Daily Equipment Log, Issue Chart responsiveness, and Material Summary Usage Trend layouts, contributing to demonstrating open source permaculture communities.

Dhruv worked on Badge Statistics tasks by updating frontend and backend branches, moving the Badge Statistics chart to the Badge Assignment tab, addressing dark mode compatibility, updating chart and legend visibility, fixing dropdown hover behavior, and addressing SonarQube and code coverage issues related to Blue Square triggers and template updates, work that supports demonstrating open source permaculture communities. Mahitha worked on the Kitchen Inventory dashboard by updating layouts, operational indicators, inventory metric cards, sustainability sections, stock health displays, upcoming harvest sections, responsive styling, dark mode compatibility, and dashboard data consistency, contributing to demonstrating open source permaculture communities.

Roshini completed backend and frontend work related to the Total Org Summary dashboard by addressing issues that prevented Task Completed data from populating in dashboard summary cards and graphs, reviewing data retrieval and aggregation behavior, and raising frontend and backend pull requests for the fix. She also continued work on formatting updates for the Weekly Summaries submission page by reviewing layout spacing and alignment issues and implementing related updates, in support of demonstrating open source permaculture communities. Ruthwik worked on PR #5511, addressing timer functionality issues, and updated PR #5354 by resolving merge conflicts and improving dark mode behavior for rental tracking charts, date pickers, legends, and related components. This work advances the demonstration of open source permaculture communities. The collage below offers a visual representation of the team’s work for the week.

DEV DYNASTY SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT TEAM

This week, Team Dev Dynasty’s summary, covering their work on the Highest Good Network software, was managed by Mrudhula Reddy Thummala (Administrative Assistant) and Aditya Dubey (Software Engineer), with a team consisting of Amaresh Chaudhary Nara (Software Engineer), Ansh Shah (Software Engineer), Bosu Babu Bade (Software Developer), Linlin Fan (Software Engineer), Gayatri Sawant (Software Engineer), Mahalakshmi Mahadevan (Product Engineer), Mahathi Ganimisetti (Data Analyst), Shreevaths Karawal Satish Rao (Software Engineer), Shreyas Battula (Software Engineer), Sireesha Kunchala (Software Engineer), and Yuxuan Wang (Software Engineer). The Highest Good Network software helps teams coordinate resources, track project progress, manage operations, and improve efficiency across construction, maintenance, production, and community systems, supporting long-term sustainability goals while developing open source permaculture communities.

Mrudhula tested the Hydro page document by reading through the source document and comparing it against the web page section by section, checking text, headings, and layout, and noting each difference so it could be corrected. She also tested the “HGN Phase III: Social Architecture” pull request (PR #4135) and PR #5386 on the dev site, going through the affected pages and features to confirm they worked as each pull request described and checking for other side effects, including console errors. After finishing the testing, she began the Earthbag Village page by reviewing its material and setting up the work to continue in the coming week, in support of open source permaculture communities.

Amaresh addressed reviewer feedback on the Promotion Eligibility endpoint (PR #2347) by wrapping the team-membership update in an awaited bulkWrite and adding a reviewerId index to close a race condition, built the “Review for This Week” and “Process Promotions” frontend (PR #5569) with a weekly grading modal, an inline-editable Required PRs field, and a placement-preview confirmation modal, and resolved 13 SonarCloud issues, steady progress towards open source permaculture communities.

Ansh tested badge assignment and upgrade functionality, fixed the 10,000-hour Stewardship badge with a corrected ranking and image URL, added an information tooltip to the Reports Page Notification checkbox (PR #5573), and tested the job-title mismatch warning (PR #5544) and Promotion Eligibility table styling (PR #5546). Bosu restored the Education Portal TaskTimer to the actual student dashboard (PR #4432), paired it with backend PR #1916 to confirm the timer requests returned HTTP 200, and completed his manager responsibilities reviewing the team’s weekly summaries and time logs, in service of open source permaculture communities.

Aditya continued the Application and Job Posting work by answering review feedback on PRs #5538 and #5544, adding accessible tooltips (PRs #5537 and #5536), extending question numbering to follow list position (PR #5541), fixing the job description sanitizer (PR #2344), and resolving the FAQ placement conflict (PR #5473), with PRs #5464 and #5484 merged. Gayatri advanced Task 1857 by replacing task-comment user impersonation with JWT-verified requestor data, adding role validation and an ownership-checked delete endpoint, writing 15 passing controller tests, live-testing the APIs with student and educator accounts, and connecting the TaskDetails page to the real comment endpoints. Linlin addressed PRs #5493, #5517, #5524, and #5525 by fixing review-screen state synchronization and mobile responsiveness, conditional header rendering, People Report task and project limits, bio qualification criteria, and filter behavior, all in support of open source permaculture communities.

Mahalakshmi resolved four frontend defects across PRs #5558, #5560, #5564, and #5565, fixing the service worker path and dark-mode email icon, adding dark mode to the bulk actions modal, restoring the Help Request Feedback Modal, and letting Core Team members submit help requests with refreshed team membership data. Mahathi investigated the Total Construction Summary blank-screen issue, added focused regression tests, improved the Distribution of Labor Hours chart layout, labels, tooltips, and dark mode, and separated a pre-existing Paid Labor Cost issue for independent follow-up. Shreevaths worked on PR #1834 by resolving backend merge conflicts, combining overlapping student-task features, fixing a router naming collision, adding role-based access control, correcting timestamp and status validation, and improving invalid-ID and duplicate-assignment handling, in service of open source permaculture communities.

Shreyas improved User Profile team creation so new teams appear and can be assigned immediately, restricted Quick Setup team assignment to active teams with validation, improved dark-mode readability, and raised a new PR. Sireesha fixed bid submission errors on the bidOverview page (PRs #4073, #4272, #4109, and backend PR #1853) by correcting the API URL, separating fetch and submission error state, adding inline error styling and submit-button disabling, updating tests, resolving merge conflicts, and repairing build errors. Yuxuan completed the “Post Now” missing-environment-variable fix and opened a pull request, then finished the “Hours by Team Member” visualization fixes on the Projects Reports page, resolving merge conflicts while keeping the newer Tasks table implementation, in support of open source permaculture communities. See below for pictures of Team Dev Dynasty’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 Anthony Weathers (Software Engineer), with a team consisting of Jaden Wong (Software Engineer), Ken Zou (Software Engineer), Purav Patel (Software Engineer), and Swathi Angadi (Software Engineer), supporting One Community’s mission of cross-functional software development and system improvements. This work advances the team’s objectives, ensuring that completed tasks directly contribute to open source permaculture communities.

This week, Anthony continued work on PR #3600 by resolving merge conflicts, restoring previously affected functionality, updating related merges and requesting additional reviews. He also investigated warning tracker and Blue Square issues, reviewed possible permission-related causes and updated HGNForm layouts to reduce excess whitespace while seeking clarification on smaller-screen radio button behavior. Jaden completed PR #5514 for the HGN Questionnaire Dashboard community members list by replacing a hard-coded endpoint, moving filtering and sorting to the client, improving error handling, removing unavailable score functionality and validating the changes with ESLint and a full Vite build, furthering One Community’s mission of open source permaculture communities.

Ken completed Bluesky auto-poster fixes in PR #5513, including routing, icon path and component regression updates. He also created PR #5518 to add independent loading spinners to the Projects, People and Teams cards on the Reports page, updated related tests and investigated User Management search behavior. Purav worked on Dependabot cleanup across HighestGoodNetworkApp and HGNRest, creating frontend dependency update PRs and preparing 12 backend Dependabot PRs for merge. He also addressed Netlify and lockfile issues, reviewed more than 22 backend dependency PRs and over 100 security alerts, and verified the prepared backend updates with all 158 Jest suites passing supporting open source permaculture communities.

Swathi tested application functionality and fixed missing dark mode updates in the Manage Edit Range modals. She also created database test data through the frontend after the initial approach did not provide suitable data, reviewed database setup documentation and continued preparing the data needed for further validation, advancing One Community’s mission of open source permaculture communities. Check the image collage below that provides a visual overview of the Skye Team’s work for the week.

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 software is a foundation for measuring our results in open source permaculture communities. This week’s active members of this team were Carl Bebli (Software Developer), Deepigha Japamony (Software Engineer), Hemanth Varupula (Software Developer), Isha Pawar (Software Engineer), Mahika Kakkad (Software Engineer), and Mallikharjuna Abhiram Mulpuri (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 towards demonstrating open source permaculture communities. 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 software is a foundation for measuring our results in open source permaculture communities. This week’s active members of this team were Shreya Shailesh Bandodkar (Software Engineer), Shubham Jakhete (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 source permaculture communities. The collage below shows a compilation of the work from this team.

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One Community welcomes Rithika Pai to the Software Team as our newest Volunteer/Consultant!

Rithika is a Software Developer who volunteers her time contributing to One Community’s open-source codebase, working across both the frontend and backend of the Highest Good Network Application. She began on the PR Review Team before being promoted to the Development Team, where she now holds a Manager-in-Training designation. She believes in the power of open, collaborative software to support sustainable, replicable systems, and enjoys the technical challenge of untangling complex codebases to keep projects moving forward. Rithika specializes in reviving abandoned or in-progress pull requests, rebasing them onto the latest codebase, resolving merge conflicts, and fixing CI, SonarQube, and stylelint issues so the work can be reviewed and merged. As a member of the One Community team, she has contributed extensively to the Building Management Dashboard, delivering features spanning event participation analytics, charting, tools tracking, and cost breakdown tools.

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One Community welcomes Sireesha Kunchala to the Software Team as our newest Volunteer/Consultant!

Sireesha is a dedicated software engineer with extensive full-stack experience in fast-paced collaborative environments. She holds a Master’s degree in Computer Science from Purdue University Fort Wayne and leverages technologies such as React, Node.js, Express, and MongoDB to build robust applications. Sireesha is passionate about writing high-quality code, maintaining UI/UX consistency, and resolving complex technical and architectural challenges. As a member of the One Community team, Sireesha has worked on the Highest Good Network Software Development project, where she resolved critical merge conflicts, SonarQube quality gate issues, and CSS/ESLint errors to ensure codebase stability. In addition, she implemented comprehensive dark-mode UI styling and fixed layout bugs across the User Management page, Reports page, and Projects page. Sireesha also optimized PDF/CSV data export layouts and refined the Post-Event Feedback Follow-Up Email template for clarity.

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One Community welcomes Amaresh Chaudhary Nara to the Software Team as our newest Volunteer/Consultant!

Amaresh is a Software Engineer with 1.5 years of experience and a Master of Science in Computer Science from the University of California, Riverside. As a member of the Software team, he has developed backend features for the Highest Good Network platform, including the Listing Overview module, Student Evaluation Results, Educator Task Submissions, and Learner Knowledge Evolution functionality. Amaresh has fixed a wide range of dark-mode and accessibility issues across the platform, including the Community Portal’s Participation Analytics page, the Leaderboard Dashboard registration flow, and the Team Member Tasks time-off dropdown. He identified and resolved a repository-wide CSS scoping bug that had been silently overriding text styling across more than 100 files, and separately root-caused a major performance issue in which a user-data API endpoint was returning an unfiltered multi-megabyte payload. He also implemented debouncing across several search and filter features, including team search, user management search, and reports search, to reduce unnecessary recomputation and improve responsiveness for users managing large datasets.

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One Community is developing eco-regenerative lifestyle construction as a model for sustainable living, covering food, energy, housing, education, economics, social architecture, and fulfilled living. Created by an all-volunteer team, our work is designed to be self-replicating, evolving into a global network of teacher/demonstration hubs that show what’s possible when we build for “The Highest Good of All.” Everything we create is open source and freely shared, so anyone, anywhere can use our process to regenerate their local environment. Our mission is simple: help create a world that works for everyone, one replicable model at a time.

• 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 September 14, 2026 edition (#704) of our weekly progress update detailing our team’s development and accomplishments:

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HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING PROGRESS

One Community is developing eco-regenerative lifestyle construction 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 eco-regenerative lifestyle construction: 7 Sustainable Village Models
    • Visit the open source portals for the first two: Earthbag Village OS Hub | Straw Bale Village OS Hub

This week, the core team continued working on the Highest Good Housing component of property research. As their primary focus this week, they continued research based on website criteria regarding potential property locations for the establishment of One Community, supporting the goal of developing eco-regenerative lifestyle construction. Focus was placed on updating material and criteria within the Site Location document, with specific attention directed toward elevation and sunny days in central and southern Oregon. The OC Site Location document contains pertinent information regarding specific properties and numerous references and highlights that would add value to any future selected property. The collage below portrays the team’s efforts and achievements for the week.

Rushikesh Tubaji (Volunteer Industrial Engineer) joined the team and reviewed the initial HG Housing labor-analysis materials, including the assigned action item, manager guidance, rollout information, Earthbag Village resources, and example estimating references. He defined the single-dome labor analysis as the first development area and began building the Google Sheets framework. He added information to the README and Assumptions section, Component Register, and Labor Productivity Library, including terminology, estimating-method fields, component categories, and source-tracking structure, supporting the goal of developing eco-regenerative lifestyle construction. He then developed the initial Dome Pilot Estimate activity breakdown, organizing work across site preparation, excavation, footer and foundation activities, earthbag construction, openings, utilities, wall finishes, flooring, inspection, and cleanup. He also defined activity descriptions, notes, and source-reference fields so the work can be traced to the supporting construction guidance and prepared for later quantity and productivity analysis. See below for some of the pictures related to this work.

DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER PROGRESS

One Community is developing eco-regenerative lifestyle construction 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, its function, and eco-regenerative lifestyle construction: Duplicable City Center Open Source Hub

This week, Nidish Reddy Koppula (Mechanical Engineer) continued working on the Duplicable City Center design. He worked on organizing project files and folders to improve the structure of the final deliverables, supporting the goal of developing eco-regenerative lifestyle construction. He also completed final touchups to the hydraulic elevator project report, including formatting adjustments, document organization, and updates to supporting content based on prior feedback. Additional work included checking referenced files, assemblies, tables, and other project materials to make sure the report and related deliverables were arranged consistently and were ready for final submission and future reference. This open source Duplicable City Center project contributes to developing eco-regenerative lifestyle construction. See the collage below for a snapshot of his work this week.

Sai Pranav Avva (Mechanical Engineer) continued developing the City Center Eco-spa Designs. This week, he developed a consolidated engineering guide for passive thermal isolation covers for pools and spas, supporting the goal of developing eco-regenerative lifestyle construction. The work merged duplicate narrative, tables, equations, and reference lists while retaining fifteen embedded figures from the original files. The guide defines separate thermal and deployment considerations; addresses evaporation, convection, radiation, and conduction losses; and describes recommended pool and spa cover configurations. It includes material options, verification tests, a steady-state conduction sizing model, energy comparison methods, mechanism concepts, load cases, controls, safeguards, safety and compliance requirements, prototype testing procedures, and concept selection criteria. A source-traceability table and consolidated reference list containing forty-four sources were compiled to support the technical claims in the guide. This open source Duplicable City Center project contributes towards facilitating eco-regenerative lifestyle construction. See the collage below for images of the work this week.

HIGHEST GOOD FOOD PROGRESS

One Community is developing eco-regenerative lifestyle construction 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 eco-regenerative lifestyle construction: 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, Jay Nair (BIM Designer) continued working on the Aquapini and Walipini Planting and Harvesting documents. He explored fixture and hardware options for selected Walipini 1 zones, with a focus on comparing RWLB fixtures and far-red lighting requirements, supporting the goal of developing eco-regenerative lifestyle construction. Jay also continued optimizing the greenhouse lighting energy calculator by reviewing how fixture selections, zone settings, and lighting assumptions affect the calculation outputs. These updates supported ongoing refinement of the calculator and helped clarify future lighting hardware decisions for specific zones. These efforts improve the stability and adaptability of shared systems, supporting the broader goal of facilitating eco-regenerative lifestyle construction. See the collage below portraying the work done this week.

Shameera Musthafa (Data Analyst) continued working on the Highest Good Food initiative.  She supported OC Administration and the PR Review Team by coordinating PR review workflows, reviewing the work of both the Admin and PR teams, and providing feedback to ensure accuracy, clarity, and consistency across all deliverables, supporting the goal of developing eco-regenerative lifestyle construction. She organized and categorized project images, created visual collages, and finalized blog-related content as part of PR review coordination, ensuring that both visual and written materials were properly curated and documented. Additionally, Shameera contributed to the Highest Good Food report pages and related visualizations. She also managed the One Community Bluesky social media account, creating and publishing posts to help share project updates and increase outreach and engagement. In addition, she supported the hiring process by conducting interviews and evaluating candidates. This work plays a key role in facilitating eco-regenerative lifestyle construction. See below for images showcasing her work.

Navya Eeshani Boyapati (Web Designer) continued working on the Highest Good Food page. She worked on Task 281: Highest Good Food Page Rebuild by reviewing and rebuilding the webpage content, organizing the page structure, correcting HTML formatting and spacing issues, supporting the goal of developing eco-regenerative lifestyle construction, updating images and their placement, checking for content and formatting errors, and making the necessary revisions to ensure the page was consistent with the required website standards. See the collage below for a snapshot of this week’s work towards facilitating eco-regenerative lifestyle construction.

Zoey Zou (Volunteer Landscape Architect) joined the team and further developed the Walipini #3 model, refining planting details, people spaces, seating, interaction areas, harvesting areas, observation spaces, and perspective views, supporting the goal of developing eco-regenerative lifestyle construction. She adjusted the design based on feedback, updated materials and entrance details to better match existing project renders, and revised the earthbag wall appearance and surrounding environmental details. Zoey prepared and uploaded progress screenshots for additional feedback before final rendering and walkthrough production. While waiting for feedback on Walipini #3, she also reviewed and organized the Large-scale Production Tropical Aquapini model, studied its planting, climate, humidity, production, and people-space requirements, and prepared the model for further design development. See below for images showcasing her work.

HIGHEST GOOD ENERGY PROGRESS

One Community is developing eco-regenerative lifestyle construction 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 eco-regenerative lifestyle construction: 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, part of One Community’s work on developing eco-regenerative lifestyle construction. They finished reviewing the Ultimate Classroom Footers, Foundation, and Flooring webpage and left several suggestions in the corresponding Google document. They then began reviewing the Tools and Equipment webpage and added comments with suggested corrections to the Master Tools, Equipment, Materials/Supplies document. The core team also identified several inconsistencies on the Tools and Equipment webpage and will continue working on these items next week supporting One Community’s work toward developing eco-regenerative lifestyle construction. Take a look at the picture below to get a glimpse of this work.

Rohan Pariakar (Operations and Supply Chain Analyst) continued writing and updating the report to document the Highest Good Energy and power-needs analysis developed in the project. He updated the energy analysis report with revised phase-specific energy requirements and solar sizing calculations. He added the Step 4 power-needs analysis for the 50-100 person configuration, including the updated daily energy requirement of 6,642.45 kWh/day and discussion of population-dependent loads and newly introduced infrastructure. Rohan also updated the Step 4 solar section to document the requirement-based sizing approach using 4.46 peak sun hours, 75% system efficiency, 450 W panels, cumulative installed capacity, and incremental panel additions. He added the Step 5 power-needs analysis for the 100-200 person configuration while leaving the final solar sizing pending validation of the current energy-demand inputs. Existing report material was reviewed and marked using the established formatting conventions, including revised, retained, relocated, and struck-through content. He double-checked the updated calculations and cross-referenced the energy requirements, installed solar capacity, panel quantities, and expected solar generation between the phase analysis and Master Solar infrastructure models to identify inconsistencies before finalizing the report. Rohan also reviewed the report layout and existing figures to identify images and spreadsheet-based visuals that were not loading correctly and to determine which visuals may need to be restored or reinserted. See the collage below for highlights of his work, contributing to One Community’s mission developing eco-regenerative lifestyle construction.

HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION PROGRESS

One Community is developing eco-regenerative lifestyle construction 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 eco-regenerative lifestyle construction: 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, Isaiah “Isa” Hernandez (Graphic Designer) continued working on the spreads for The Ultimate Classroom book. He went back and forth with Jae regarding revisions to The Ultimate Classroom book. Discussions included ensuring links in the final PDF render remain interactive, design decisions for the table of contents, and final requests from Jae. Isa also spent time creating rough drafts for the recently assigned header project. See the image below for a glimpse of his work this week on developing eco-regenerative lifestyle construction.

HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY PROGRESS

One Community is developing eco-regenerative lifestyle construction 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 eco-regenerative lifestyle construction: 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 39 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. They also interviewed and onboarded new volunteer team members. Additionally, they produced and integrated the video above about developing eco-regenerative lifestyle construction. The video also explores how developing eco-regenerative lifestyle construction serves as a foundational element of One Community’s broader mission. The following images showcase their work.

Anagha Sunil Bharadwaj (Legal Research and AI Policy Specialist) continued research on perpetual purpose trusts across US jurisdictions and their practical implications. She began drafting the framework for the Community Land Trust’s formation documents and bylaws, including the tripartite board structure and the trust enforcer’s veto powers over sale, transfer, and mission amendment, and incorporated the building envelope and graduated revenue linkage provisions from the cohesion analysis into the draft language. Anagha researched model bylaws and governance provisions for community land trusts, including trustee removal procedures, term limits, and dispute resolution mechanisms between a trust enforcer and the board, and researched standard operating agreement provisions for nonprofit owned LLC subsidiaries to ensure the LLC layer is structured as a passive title holding entity with no independent authority. Using this research, she completed first drafts of the Articles of Incorporation, the Bylaws, the LLC Operating Agreement, and the Deed of Conservation Easement for the proposed legal structure. See the collage below to see her week’s work, furthering One Community’s mission of developing eco-regenerative lifestyle construction.

Devarsh Wali (Program Manager) continued supporting the weekly blog review process and Admin Team procedures. He supported One Community’s administration, hiring, software testing, training and AI optimization work towards developing eco-regenerative lifestyle construction. Devarsh interviewed new candidates, supported interview preparation, and refined hiring questions and feedback materials. He also scheduled interviews and reviewed work submitted by Admin Team members, including supporting Prakriti with the training and weekly review process. Devarsh reviewed HGN pull requests and supported frontend software testing as part of the Level 1 Software Product Testing and Task Adding Admin work. In addition, he developed the One Community AI Optimization and AEO Strategy draft, outlining approaches for SEO, AEO and GEO, content structure, AI visibility testing, measurement and a phased implementation plan for improving blog and website discoverability. The images below provide examples of this week’s work.

Devendranath Chowdary Maganti (Data Analyst) continued developing the Highest Good Economics (HGE) Rollout Timeline Data Analysis Dashboard and Visualizations by integrating new content into the HGEc web page and timeline tracker based on the available project documentation. He also worked on the Administration Team weekly blog, reviewed fellow teammates’ blogs, and made changes based on their feedback. As part of the Training Team, he reviewed Ashmita’s and Prakriti’s training blogs, left comments suggesting changes, and followed up with them on the requested updates. See the collage below for weekly highlights of his work, contributing to developing eco-regenerative lifestyle construction.

ADMINISTRATION TEAM

The Administration Team’s summary, which covers their work on the Highest Good Network, was managed by Devendranath Chowdary Maganti (Data Analyst) and includes Gargi Vipat (AI Engineer), Mrudhula Reddy Thummala (Administrative Assistant), Olawunmi “Ola” Ijisesan (Administrative and Management Support), Prathik Raju (Data Analyst), Sachit Varma (Business Operations & Cost Analyst), Sai Sree Dongari (Data Analyst), and Tanmay Nihal Harwani (Data Scientist). The Administration Team supports the Highest Good Network, a tool designed to track and measure progress while creating systems that support developing eco-regenerative lifestyle construction. Through administrative support, documentation, testing, training, recruitment, 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, Gargi worked as a Correction Administrator, reviewed corrected PDFs submitted by volunteers and admins in training, checked edits against expected standards, and provided specific feedback when corrections were incomplete or unclear. She also guided admins in training to review work, provide feedback, and identify appropriate solutions independently while refining the AI announcement and bio image-generation prompt system using real volunteer data to improve consistency and reproducibility. Mrudhula worked on the same correction administration and AI prompt refinement activities described in the submitted summary, including reviewing corrected PDFs, guiding admins in training, and testing the announcement and bio image-generation process. These correction, training, and AI workflow activities supported developing eco-regenerative lifestyle construction.

Ola organized Pinterest content scheduling, updated and resized images before publication, and created new Dropbox content folders for the administrative and pull request review teams. Prathik completed daily One Community time log reviews, checked action item assignments, and provided feedback where needed. He also tested the Application Page Analytics feature, identified issues with collaboration listings and job title-to-form matching, submitted bug reports, completed Facebook and Instagram analytics using Meta Business Suite data, updated the dashboard, scheduled posts, reviewed training blog work for Ashmita and Prakriti, and completed weekly blog reporting for his managed team. These content management, analytics, and administrative activities furthered the goal of developing eco-regenerative lifestyle construction.

Sachit expanded funding matrix profiles for six major prospects with program structure, leadership, access pathways, funder relationships, organizational details, and governance information. He verified and corrected outdated leadership information, researched connections among funders, searched for direct contact information, documented unavailable public email addresses, and identified unresolved profile items requiring follow-up before outreach contributing to One Community’s mission of developing eco-regenerative lifestyle construction.

Sai Sree organized review images, created collages, finalized PR Admin Team blog content, and completed frontend testing across event details, status and rating updates, navigation, filtering, dark mode, tables, charts, inventory features, application workflows, badge assignments, and URL handling for logged-in and logged-out states. She also worked on advanced documentation, reviewed training work, provided feedback, and updated the Social Media Master Dashboard. These funding research, software testing, and documentation activities contributed to developing eco-regenerative lifestyle construction.

Tanmay updated existing bios, contacted team members for missing summaries and photographs, followed up on pending information, consolidated content from multiple team blogs, and completed required SEO changes before publication. He also published posts on Threads, updated the Social Media Master Dashboard, maintained tracking sheets and volunteer records, reviewed initial work from two new admins, provided feedback, checked titles and descriptions for inconsistencies, and completed final testing of merged PRs to identify remaining issues. These bio administration, content management, social media, and software testing activities aligned with developing eco-regenerative lifestyle construction. See the collage below for highlights of this week’s work.

HIGHEST GOOD NETWORK PROGRESS

One Community is developing eco-regenerative lifestyle construction 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, management software, and eco-regenerative lifestyle construction: The Highest Good Network

This week, the core team continued testing HGN PR testing on the Main branch for the Highest Good Network, a platform developing eco-regenerative lifestyle construction, and confirmed nine PRs as fixed. Four PRs were not fixed: HGN Questionnaire Dashboard: Team Member’s Skill & Contact Page – Add Bulk Actions for Managers; HGN Questionnaire Dashboard: Frontend: Help Request Modal – Fix the ability to submit the help request form; HGN Skills Overview Page: Service Worker Registration; and HGN Questionnaire Dashboard: Frontend: Create the Initial Help Request Modal. They also created tasks to fix the Volunteer Hours Distribution Pie Chart data categorization issue, update the Volunteer Status donut chart section, and implement the Help Request Feedback Modal for the HGN Questionnaire Dashboard. Additional details were provided for the assigned task “Fix HGNForm layout issues.” See the collage below to view the team’s work.

ALPHA SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT TEAM

The Alpha Team’s summary, covering their work on the Highest Good Network, was managed by Lin Khant Htel (Frontend Software Developer) and Prakriti Shakya (Software Team Administrator) with a team consisting of Handika Harianto Ew Jong (Full Stack Developer), Maithili Kalkar (Software Engineer), Som Ramnani (Junior Software Engineer), Sai Sandeep (Software Engineer), and Yingshu Wang (Software Engineer). Their work supported One Community’s mission of cross-functional software development and system improvements, helping advance developing eco-regenerative lifestyle construction.

This week, Lin managed and reviewed the team’s weekly summary, examined PR #5319 by reviewing the code and running tests locally, checked Alpha Team members’ weekly summaries, photos, and videos, and shared pending pull requests for team review. Handika worked on PRs #4826 and #2043, fixing an issue that kept the editing form open after an update, resolving conflicts with the development branch, and addressing SonarQube-reported security findings. He also improved PR #4158 with updated job-ad columns and styling, category filters, search controls, pagination, placeholder images, and empty states. In PR #5533, he refined the filter layout, limited displayed selected roles, improved Job Analytics dark-mode styling, highlighted selected roles, and added clear buttons to the date pickers. These improvements support developing eco-regenerative lifestyle construction.

Maithili continued improving Instagram posting functionality by strengthening request authentication, access-token handling, and controller tests. Her work covered missing or invalid requestors, missing captions or media, expired or missing tokens, malformed media data, missing configuration, publishing errors, and successful post creation. She also corrected the test setup so requests without a requestor ID could be tested accurately furthering One Community’s mission of developing eco-regenerative lifestyle construction.

Sai advanced PR #5451 by improving Volunteer Trends chart labels, spacing, increment formatting, and margins for weekly and monthly views, while adding complete light- and dark-mode styling for the date picker. He also began PR #5476 to address layout and styling issues in progress and status bars. Som resolved the route conflict in PR #4712 while retaining Community Portal links and restoring event-management routing. He also improved pagination and accessibility in PR #4987 through responsive layouts, larger touch targets, accessible page labels, focus states, record-count announcements, empty states, search-reset behavior, and regression tests. Additionally, he fixed the Projects page Members-navigation issue in PR #4444 by preventing an active-member count request from overwriting shared Redux state and added tests for navigation and error scenarios. Yingshu refined the Volunteer Time save workflow by restoring scroll position after the confirmation modal closed, clearing stored scroll data afterward, simplifying modal test setup, and removing unneeded dependencies and outdated properties. Her updates passed 18 related tests, ESLint validation, Git diff checks, and the production build. Together, this work furthered developing eco-regenerative lifestyle construction. The collage below provides a visual overview of the ALPHA Team’s work for the week.

BINARY BRIGADE SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT TEAM

The Team Binary Brigade’s summary, covering their work on the Highest Good Network, was managed by Roshini Seelamsetty (Software Engineer), and Prathik Raju (Data Analyst) with a team consisting of Aditya Krishnamurthi (Software Engineer), Amaan Syed (Volunteer Software Engineer), Dhruv Topiwala (Full Stack Software Engineer), Mahitha Pasupuleti (Software Engineer), Ruthwik Hosadurga Madhusudhana (Software Engineer), and Sita Ram Prasad Martha (Software Engineer), supporting One Community’s mission of cross-functional software development and system improvements. This work advances the team’s objectives, ensuring that all completed tasks directly contribute to developing eco-regenerative lifestyle construction.

This week, Aditya investigated two issues from the HGN Phase I Bugs and Needed Functionalities document. The first concerned a Deactivated Volunteer Count discrepancy between the Total Org Summary dashboard and the Reports page, which could not be reproduced since the underlying record no longer existed in the dev database. The second concerned the Community Portal Activities page, where he traced a routing issue to a component copied directly from the BM Dashboard’s Tool Detail Page, and confirmed the correctly mapped page loads without errors, supporting the goal of developing eco-regenerative lifestyle construction. Amaan continued Phase 2 follow-up work on the Material Summary dashboard, correcting badge alignment, dark-mode contrast, and donut segment labeling. He restored People Report route access, preserved tab state on the Resource Requests and Certifications tabs, fixed a Materials Used tooltip’s sizing and mobile positioning, and improved Total Material Cost Per Project chart labels. He also resolved Project Status card clipping across device widths and added Comparison Period options, including week-over-week, month-over-month, and year-over-year, testing all changes across both themes before requesting re-review, contributing to developing eco-regenerative lifestyle construction.

Dhruv worked on the HGNRest app, fixing the close-enough-hours trigger to remove assigned blue squares, preventing blue square assignments for late joiners, and adding a Full Name field across email templates. He added unit tests covering these changes and updated a test script for manual triggering instead of waiting on cron jobs, furthering developing eco-regenerative lifestyle construction. Mahitha worked on the Kitchen and Inventory Dashboard for Phase 6, updating the header, subtitle, Priority Ingredients indicator, alert banners, and metric cards for Total Ingredients, Onsite Grown, Upcoming Meals, and Pending Orders. She added Low Stock, Upcoming Harvest, and Seasonal Recommendation alerts, updated styling for both themes and responsive layouts, fixed Stylelint specificity errors, and addressed PR feedback before testing and pushing for review, supporting developing eco-regenerative lifestyle construction.

Ruthwik focused on code quality and bug validation for the HGN App ecosystem, resolving SonarQube failing conditions and linter errors for the PM Educator Training Dashboard to achieve a stable build, along with related backend fixes. He validated data rendering for the Applicant Experience donut chart and verified filtering on the Total Contributors Report, confirming stable functionality across UI themes, advancing developing eco-regenerative lifestyle construction. Sita Ram opened the pull request for the paused-users fix built the previous week, correcting two compliance issues and confirming pause and resume behavior worked correctly through local testing. He picked up a new item on Lead Team Badge auto-assignment, traced the likely cause to an unprotected scheduled job, and built two test-first fixes: isolating each scheduled job from the others, and preventing a badge record with a zero threshold from being awarded. The Promotion Eligibility pull request also received two further approvals, bringing it to four, in support of developing eco-regenerative lifestyle construction. See the collage below for highlights of this week’s work.

DEV DYNASTY SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT TEAM

The Team Dev Dynasty’s summary, covering their work on the Highest Good Network software, was managed by Mrudhula Reddy (Administrative Assistant) and Aditya Dubey (Software Engineer), with a team consisting of Akshay Viswanath (Software Engineer), Amaresh Chaudhary Nara (Software Engineer), Ansh Shah (Software Engineer), Bosu Babu Bade (Software Developer), Linlin Fan (Software Engineer), Gayatri Sawant (Software Engineer), Mahathi Ganimisetti (Data Analyst), Shreevaths Karawal Satish Rao (Software Engineer), Shreyas Battula (Software Engineer), Sireesha Kunchala (Software Engineer), and Yuxuan Wang (Software Engineer). The Highest Good Network software supports helping teams coordinate resources, track project progress, manage operations, and improve efficiency across construction, maintenance, production, and community systems while supporting long-term sustainability goals, while developing eco-regenerative lifestyle construction.

SKYE SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT TEAM

The Skye Team’s summary, covering their work on the Highest Good Network, was managed by Anthony Weathers (Software Engineer), with a team consisting of Jaden Wong (Software Engineer), Ken Zou (Software Engineer), Purav Patel (Software Engineer), and Swathi Angadi (Software Engineer), supporting One Community’s mission of cross-functional software development and system improvements. This work advances the team’s objectives, ensuring that completed tasks directly contribute to developing eco-regenerative lifestyle construction.

This week, Anthony continued work on PR #3600 by investigating a new UserProfile.jsx merge conflict, identifying reverted or removed features, updating the branch and requesting additional reviews. He also pushed another merge for PR #1447, investigated a warning tracker issue involving blue squares and failure toast behavior, worked on HGNForm layout improvements and supported Ken with a time logging concern, contributing to developing eco-regenerative lifestyle construction.

Jaden resolved outstanding issues with the HGN Questionnaire Dashboard community members list by creating a clean branch from development, reviewing frontend and backend context and tracing reviewer feedback to its root causes. He replaced a hard-coded localhost endpoint with an environment-based endpoint constant, updated the member list to load the full dataset and perform filtering, searching and sorting on the client, added an explicit error state, guarded against non-array responses, removed the non-functional Score sorting option and hid unavailable score details. Jaden also verified the work with ESLint and a full Vite build, then opened PR #5514. Ken completed fixes for the Bluesky auto-poster by resolving routing problems, correcting social media icon paths after page refreshes and fixing a component regression, creating PR #5513. He also created PR #5518 to add independent loading spinners for the Projects, People and Teams cards on the Reports page, updated the loading component and related tests and verified that the full test suite passed, supporting the work on developing eco-regenerative lifestyle construction.

Purav worked on urgent Dependabot cleanup across HighestGoodNetworkApp and HGNRest. On the frontend, he reviewed stale Dependabot PRs and created replacement PRs #5519 and #5522 for Vite, Babel and UUID updates while resolving Netlify deployment issues related to yarn.lock handling. On the backend, he triaged more than 22 open Dependabot PRs and over 100 security alerts, defined a repeatable update and testing workflow and prepared 12 backend Dependabot PRs for merge, with local testing passing across 158 of 158 Jest suites. Swathi tested feature functionality, identified and fixed missing Dark Mode updates in the Manage Edit Range option modals, created test data through the frontend, consulted Jae on database setup documents and continued working on the database changes needed for further validation, furthering developing eco-regenerative lifestyle construction. The collage below provides a visual overview of the SKYE Team’s work for the week.

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 developing eco-regenerative lifestyle construction. This week’s active members of this team were Carl Bebli (Software Developer), Deepigha Japamony (Software Engineer), Devang Saraogi (Software Engineer), Hemanth Varupula (Software Developer), Mahalakshmi Mahadevan (Product Engineer), Mallikharjuna Abhiram Mulpuri (Software Engineer), and Nathan Hoffman (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 developing eco-regenerative lifestyle construction. 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 Software is a foundation for measuring our results in eco-regenerative lifestyle construction. This week’s active members of this team were Priyanka Ajit Mutha (Software Engineer), Shubham Jakhete (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 eco-regenerative lifestyle construction. The collage below shows a compilation of the work from this team.

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One Community welcomes Mahitha Pasupuleti to the Software Team as our newest Volunteer/Consultant!

Mahitha is a software engineer with experience building scalable web applications, distributed systems, and cloud-native solutions using React, Java, Spring Boot, Node.js, and AWS. She earned a Master’s degree in Computer Science from California State University, Fullerton, and has professional experience working on enterprise financial systems while mentoring engineers and contributing to high-impact software projects. She is passionate about creating reliable, efficient, and user-focused applications that support sustainable and meaningful solutions through technology. As a member of the One Community team, Mahitha has contributed to the Highest Good Network by reviewing and improving application features, implementing server-date validation, optimizing frontend functionality, fixing UI issues, and helping deliver multiple completed pull requests that improve the platform’s reliability and user experience.

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One Community welcomes Handika Harianto Ew Jong to the Software Team as our newest Volunteer/Consultant!

Handika is a Software Engineer with extensive full-stack development experience across a variety of complex web platforms, along with a strong record of open-source contributions. He has demonstrated success working in fast-paced environments, developing innovative solutions like chatbot-based automation systems, real-time donation platforms, and robust data synchronization tools. Currently pursuing a Master of Engineering in Software Engineering at Concordia University in Montréal, Canada, he continually refines his skills in advanced software architecture, scalable APIs, and system design. Handika believes in leveraging efficient, user-centered design and cutting-edge frameworks like React, Node.js, Express.js, and MongoDB to deliver high-performing, impactful applications. As a member of the Software Team at One Community, he has helped develop the open-source Highest Good Network application, implemented an auto poster for publishing YouTube videos, and developed a comprehensive job application analytics feature to optimize performance tracking.

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One Community welcomes Adhya Rastogi to the Administration Team as our newest Volunteer/Consultant!

Adhya recently completed an MBA in Business Analytics from the Illinois Institute of Technology in Chicago. She has experience in business analytics, digital marketing, and operational analysis, and has demonstrated strong analytical and problem-solving abilities through work involving campaign optimization, business strategy, KPI analysis, and process improvement using tools such as SQL, Tableau, Excel, and Google Analytics. As a member of One Community, Adhya contributes through Reddit growth strategy optimization, Google Ads and analytics support, dashboard testing, end-to-end quality assurance, administrative coordination, and performance reporting across digital and operational initiatives on the Business Analytics and Software teams. Her work has included growing a Reddit account from 2 to more than 600 karma through organic community engagement, optimizing Google Ads campaigns that contributed to significant increases in impressions, clicks, and conversions, conducting QA testing for organizational dashboards, and identifying and documenting software issues.

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At One Community, facilitating positive global transformation is what drives our all-volunteer team every day. We’re developing self-replicating solutions in food, energy, housing, education, economics, and social architecture, the foundation for a global collaboration of teacher/demonstration hubs. Every part of this work, done for “The Highest Good of All,” is open source and freely shared so others can build on it anywhere. This is how we’re regenerating our planet and creating a world that works for everyone, one replicable model at a time.

• 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 September 7, 2026 edition (#703) of our weekly progress update detailing our team’s development and accomplishments:

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HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING PROGRESS

One Community is facilitating positive 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 facilitating positive 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 weeek, Sagar Chavan (Transportation Engineer) continued working on the Sustainable Roadways and Sustainable Parking Lot Designs project and related AutoCAD plans. He worked with Chanikya on updating the sustainable roadway and parking lot report materials. He reviewed the existing design information and supporting documents to identify areas that require additional detail or clarification. His work included examining roadway plans, profiles, and cross-sections, as well as related elements such as drainage, grading, pavement information, signage, and accessibility considerations. Sagar also worked on organizing the available design files and report content so that the information can be presented in a clear and consistent format. He reviewed the cost-analysis information and considered how the existing roadway and parking lot designs can be adjusted for different site conditions. Sagar also worked on report content addressing the use of rainwater management strategies within the roadway and parking lot designs and how these considerations can be incorporated into the design process. His work supports facilitating positive global transformation by strengthening practical, open source guidance for sustainable transportation and integrated water management systems. See below for some of the pictures related to this work.

DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER PROGRESS

One Community is facilitating positive 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, its function, and facilitating positive global transformation: Duplicable City Center Open Source Hub

This weeek, Nidish Reddy Koppula (Mechanical Engineer) continued working on the Duplicable City Center design. He worked on organizing project files, CAD assemblies, and related documentation to improve the structure and accessibility of the final project materials. He received suggestions for modifications to the documentation and incorporated the recommended changes where applicable. Nidish also updated Excel spreadsheets used for detailed tables, calculations, and supporting project data to improve organization and readability. Additional work included checking file organization, assembly references, and supporting materials to ensure the final project deliverables were arranged clearly and consistently. This open source Duplicable City Center project contributes in developing and facilitating positive global transformation. See the collage below for a snapshot of his work this week.

Harshada Memane (Mechanical Engineer) continued developing the City Center Eco-spa Designs, reviewed the Water Head Loss, Bill of Materials, Structural FEA Tables, Access Panel FEA Tables, and Thermal FEA Tables tabs, finding a bulk-price mislabeling issue and duplicate bolt pretension results, each flagged with a comment. Reviewed a part of Assembly Instructions. She also revisited prior calculations, comments, and FEA results to confirm accuracy. This open source Duplicable City Center project contributed in facilitating positive global transformation. The collage below offers a closer look at this work.

Sai Pranav Avva (Mechanical Engineer) continued developing the City Center Eco-spa Designs, reviewed the natural spa habitat document, became familiar with its contents, and identified inconsistencies to flag. Time was also spent repairing simulation files, several of which had broken subsidiary files that prevented them from opening. After the repairs were complete, work began on redoing the simulations and testing them to determine the underlying issues and assess whether additional work is required. This open source Duplicable City Center project contributed towards facilitating positive global transformation. See the collage below for images of the work this week.

HIGHEST GOOD FOOD PROGRESS

One Community is facilitating positive 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: Gardens & Hoop Houses | Large-scale Structures | Food Forest | TA

This week, the core team continued working on the Highest Good Housing component of property research. As their primary focus this week, they also completed a detailed review of the goats page, which outlines the project strategies for utilizing goats for milk production, noxious weed elimination, manure for fertilizer, and potential future meat production. The team also continued research, based upon website criteria, regarding potential property locations for the establishment of One Community. Their efforts contribute to One Community’s mission of facilitating positive global transformation through open-source collaboration, ecologically responsible innovation, and a focus on long-term global development. The collage below portrays the team’s efforts and achievements for the week.

Jay Nair (BIM Designer) continued working on the Aquapini and Walipini Planting and Harvesting documents. He worked on reviewing and refining specific operating settings within the Walipini 1 lighting energy calculator. The work included reconciling Zone 22’s notes with its operating settings, checking total daily light periods with added attention to Zones 25–26, and validating the revised crop limits for Carob’s increased PPFD ceiling and Ciruela’s extended photoperiod. These updates focused on improving consistency between plant requirements, zone assumptions, and calculator outputs. These efforts improve the stability and adaptability of shared systems, supporting the broader goal of facilitating positive global transformation. See the collage below portraying the work done this week.

Shameera Musthafa (Data Analyst) continued working on the Highest Good Food initiative, supported OC Administration and the PR Review Team by coordinating PR review workflows, reviewing the work of both the Admin and PR teams, and providing feedback to ensure accuracy, clarity, and consistency across all deliverables. She organized and categorized project images, created visual collages, and finalized blog-related content as part of PR review coordination, ensuring that both visual and written materials were properly curated and documented. Additionally, Shameera contributed to the Highest Good Food report pages and related visualizations. She also managed the One Community Bluesky social media account, creating and publishing posts to help share project updates and increase outreach and engagement. In addition, she supported the hiring process by conducting interviews and evaluating candidates. This work plays a key role in facilitating positive global transformation. See below for images showcasing her work.

Navya Eeshani Boyapati (Web Designer) continued working on the Highest Good Food page publishing, Task 281: Highest Good Food Page Rebuild by reviewing the existing webpage content and rebuilding the page structure, updating and organizing the content, correcting HTML formatting and spacing issues, improving the layout and presentation, and ensuring the page was consistent with the required website formatting and design standards. See the collage below for a snapshot of this week’s work towards facilitating positive global transformation.

HIGHEST GOOD ENERGY PROGRESS

One Community is facilitating positive 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 facilitating positive 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, part of One Community’s work facilitating positive global transformation. They reviewed the Highest Good Society page and GANTT chart to identify potential costs that could be added to a cost analysis. The only potential item identified was the Ultimate Classroom, which may be needed to launch the Highest Good Education program but may be more appropriately included under Highest Good Education or Highest Good Housing. The team also reviewed the published Ultimate Classroom Footer, Foundation, and Flooring Design page and provided several comments as feedback. See the collage below for a snapshot of their work this week.

Rohan Pariakar (Operations and Supply Chain Analyst) continued writing and updating the report to document the Highest Good Energy and power-needs analysis developed in the project. This week he revised methodology and phase-specific energy requirements. He added and revised content explaining the equipment-level approach used to calculate power demand, operating schedules, hourly energy requirements, and daily energy consumption. Rohan updated the Step 2 and Step 3 energy-needs sections with current equipment quantities, power requirements, and daily energy values, including the corresponding summary tables. He also updated the Step 3 hourly energy analysis and incorporated the revised discussion of how energy demand changes as infrastructure and population increase. For Step 4, he updated the energy-needs summary to reflect the current 50-100 person requirements, added discussion of the additional infrastructure and energy-intensive systems introduced at this phase, and documented the revised solar expansion approach based on cumulative installed capacity, peak sun hours, and system efficiency. Existing report content was reviewed and marked using the established revision formatting to distinguish retained, modified, relocated, and newly added material. The Step 5 section was left pending while the current energy-demand anomalies and final solar sizing requirements are being validated. See the collage below for highlights of his work, contributing to One Community’s mission of facilitating positive global transformation.

HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION PROGRESS

One Community is facilitating positive global transformation 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 facilitating positive global transformation: 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, Isaiah “Isa” Hernandez (Graphic Designer) continued working on the spreads for The Ultimate Classroom book. He explored cover design options while considering project constraints, updated the book’s layouts, revised the pagination once more, and fixed and updated all hyperlinks that are referenced The Ultimate Classroom webpage. Isa also checked the links to ensure he directed readers to the appropriate webpage and worked as intended. See the collage below for his work this week, facilitating positive global transformation.

HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY PROGRESS

One Community is facilitating positive 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 facilitating positive 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 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. They also interviewed and onboarded new volunteer team members. Additionally, they produced and integrated the video above about facilitating positive global transformation and how facilitating positive global transformation serves as a foundational element of One Community’s broader mission. The following images showcase their work.

Adhya Rastogi (Business Analyst) continued updating the Google Ads Campaign Tracking Spreadsheet. She completed SEO optimization for the Duplicable City Center webpage by refining keyword targeting, headings, content structure, metadata, readability, and internal linking while maintaining the original messaging and purpose. She also completed SEO optimization for the Highest Good Society webpage, improving keyword targeting, content structure, headings, metadata, readability, and internal linking based on Rank Math recommendations. Adhya worked on SEO optimization for the Highest Good Housing webpage by refining keyword placement, headings, content structure, metadata, readability, and internal linking, and updated the SEO tracking records with optimization progress and baseline analytics. She continued Reddit engagement using the One Community and PostByPurpose accounts by creating relevant comments and posts, participating in ongoing discussions, and reviewing responses and engagement from recent activity. Adhya also prepared and submitted the weekly summary and pictures, organizing the week’s work and supporting documentation for reporting purposes. See the collage below for highlights of her work towards facilitating positive global transformation.

Anagha Sunil Bharadwaj (Legal Research and AI Policy Specialist) continued research on perpetual purpose trusts across US jurisdictions and their practical implications. She completed the cohesion analysis for the proposed legal structure by identifying and resolving two key conflict areas: the conservation easement’s potential restriction on planned construction, addressed through a building envelope carve-out, and the revenue-linkage layer’s potential impact on early-phase construction funding, addressed through a graduated revenue schedule. She screened the remaining structural layers, including CLT governance, ground leases, PPT and IP licensing, and the LLC subsidiary, against One Community’s short-term and long-term goals and found no significant issues, and consolidated all findings into the working document. She then began and completed work on the milestone-based funding sequencing decision, evaluating whether the property should transfer into the CLT and LLC structure only after investor milestones are met or in parallel with a subordinated reversion right, and arrived at a preliminary recommendation to transfer the property into the preservation structure only after milestones are met. See the collage below to see her week’s work, furthering One Community’s mission of facilitating positive global transformation.

Devarsh Wali (Program Manager) reviewed weekly team summaries, PR review submissions and supporting materials as part of the weekly review process and incorporated received feedback into his Google Document. He also reviewed training documents for Shreyas Harish, Shreyas Patil and Atta ur Rehman as part of the Training Team. In addition, he began researching Answer Engine Optimization (AEO) strategies for One Community blog content, focusing on how content structure, search visibility and AI discoverability could support increased webpage traffic. Devarsh also met with Jae to discuss potential approaches for improving webpage traffic generation, strengthening blog discoverability and applying AEO principles across website content towards facilitating positive global transformation. See the collage below to view his work for the week.

Devendranath Chowdary Maganti (Data Analyst) continued developing the Highest Good Economics (HGE) Rollout Timeline Data Analysis Dashboard and Visualizations by integrating new content into the Google Doc based on the information in the Google Sheet. He also reviewed the Highest Good Education web page to understand the project content and requirements for creating the construction and rollout timeline tracker. In addition, he worked on the Administration Team weekly blog, reviewed fellow teammates’ blogs, and made changes based on feedback received on his own work. See the collage below for weekly highlights of his work, contributing to facilitating positive global transformation.

ADMINISTRATION TEAM

The Administration Team’s summary, which covers their work on the Highest Good Network, was managed by Devendranath Chowdary Maganti (Data Analyst) and includes Gargi Vipat (AI Engineer), Olawunmi “Ola” Ijisesan (Administrative and Management Support), Prathik Raju (Data Analyst), Sachit Varma (Business Operations & Cost Analyst), Sai Sree Dongari (Data Analyst), Tanmay Nihal Harwani (Data Scientist), and Yeshwanth Nanjegowda (Full-Stack Software Engineer). The Administration Team supports the Highest Good Network, a tool designed to track and measure progress while creating systems that support facilitating positive global transformation. Through administrative support, documentation, testing, training, recruitment, 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, Gargi reviewed corrected PDFs submitted by volunteers and admins in training, checked edits against expected standards, and provided feedback when corrections were incomplete or unclear. She also guided admins in training to identify and resolve issues independently and continued refining the AI announcement and bio image-generation prompt system using real volunteer data. Ola completed Dropbox folder audits, reviewed administrative team task submissions, updated social media analytics tracking sheets, refined operational documentation, organized Google Workspace files, and updated the summary report and images. These correction, documentation, and administrative activities supported facilitating positive global transformation.

Prathik reviewed the training blog work of Shreyas H and Shreyas P, completed daily team time log reviews, provided feedback on incorrectly logged work, and issued warnings where necessary. He also tested the Job Application form and Job Analytics pages, confirmed unresolved bugs, logged a new issue involving an unexpected application question, reviewed Figma wireframes, scheduled Facebook and Instagram posts, completed blog writing for Team Alpha and Team Binary Brigade, and reviewed Sai Sree’s work. Sachit expanded and refined the funding matrix by adding decision-maker complexity analysis, recommended approach strategies, and predictable agreement process sections to additional top prospect profiles. He also corrected factual information, verified leadership details and contacts, identified funding exclusions and geographic mismatches, updated composite fit ratings, and documented unavailable contact information. These testing, research, and evaluation activities furthered the goal of facilitating positive global transformation.

Sai Sree organized review images, created collages, finalized PR Admin Team blog content, and completed frontend testing across multiple areas, including dropdowns, reports, dashboard notifications, search and filters, color displays, tooltips, empty states, and layout behavior. She also reviewed applications, completed interviews and submitted feedback, reviewed training work, provided feedback, and worked on the Social Media Master Dashboard. Tanmay updated existing bios, followed up on missing summaries and photographs, combined content from multiple team blogs, and completed SEO updates. He also posted on Threads, updated the Social Media Master Dashboard, maintained tracking sheets and volunteer records, reviewed initial tasks from two new admins, checked title and description discrepancies, and tested merged PRs to identify remaining issues. These quality assurance, content management, and administrative activities contributed to facilitating positive global transformation.

Yeshwanth created and assigned new development tasks based on Phase 1 and Phase 2 requirements, including fixes for environment variable errors, project filtering issues, and responsive layout problems on the People Report page. He updated task tracking information, assigned work to developers, created Weekly Blog #702 for Team Dev Dynasty and Team Skye, organized team images, reviewed administrative work, provided feedback, coordinated with team members regarding weekly summaries, and handed over development files. These documentation, project coordination, and software development activities aligned with facilitating positive global transformation. See the collage below for highlights of this week’s work.

HIGHEST GOOD NETWORK PROGRESS

One Community is facilitating positive 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, management software, and facilitating positive global transformation: The Highest Good Network

This week, the core team continued testing HGN PR testing on the Main branch for the Highest Good Network, a platform facilitating positive global transformation, and confirmed eight PRs as fixed. The following PRs were not fixed: Phase 6 Kitchen Inventory Management fixes for non-functional inventory action buttons, enforcement of Production Identity validation for Dev account creation, validation of user input fields on the Specific Application Page Template form, and improvements to the style of input fields and filter text on the Badge Management page. They also created new tasks to fix HGNForm layout issues and implement a spinner in the three cards on the Reports page. The team was not able to test several PRs because there was no data available on the Main branch, including improvements to chart label readability and alignment in Dark mode, inventory navigation icons and cross-page links with the BM Dashboard dropdown under Other Links, the Tools Most Susceptible to Breakdown chart, and the Job Posting Analytics Dashboard fix for graphs not rendering for selected date ranges. See the collage below to view the team’s work.

ALPHA SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT TEAM

The Alpha Team’s summary, covering their work on the Highest Good Network, was managed by Lin Khant Htel (Frontend Software Developer) and Prathik Raju (Data Analyst) with a team consisting of Handika Harianto Ew Jong (Full Stack Developer), Maithili Kalkar (Software Engineer), Som Ramnani (Junior Software Engineer), and Yingshu Wang (Software Engineer), supporting One Community’s mission of cross-functional software development and system improvements. This work advances the team’s objectives, ensuring that all completed tasks directly contribute to facilitating positive global transformation.

This week, Lin managed the team summary, reviewed PR #5319 by examining the code and running tests locally, and checked Alpha team members’ weekly summaries, photos, and videos as part of team management duties, supporting the goal of facilitating positive global transformation. Handika worked on PR #5486 by adding dark mode support, loading feedback, and selection limits to the data interface, and on PR #5487 by improving the job form builder title, description, navigation, input sizing, and mobile and tablet layouts. He also updated PR #5446 and PR #2300 for the YouTube auto-poster by adding character limits, category selection, upload error handling, channel disconnect functionality, improved video result styling, social media icon fixes, and frontend and backend tests, contributing to facilitating positive global transformation.

Maithili built backend components for the Instagram auto-posting feature, corrected authentication and access control issues, secured outbound API requests, moved Instagram tokens to environment variables, and resolved configuration and MongoDB connection issues related to token seeding, furthering facilitating positive global transformation. Som updated PR #5456 to improve the Contact button’s dark mode styling while preserving clipboard and notification behavior, resolved a merge conflict in PR #5435 while retaining the React-managed back-to-top component and its tests, and updated PR #5488 to fix the Reset Time confirmation dialog’s dark mode layout and verify its behavior in both themes, supporting facilitating positive global transformation.

Yingshu refined the Volunteer Time scroll-restoration logic by cancelling outdated animation callbacks and cleaning up pending callbacks when the component unmounted, removed unused modal dependencies and properties, added regression coverage for animation cleanup, and confirmed that 19 related tests, ESLint checks, Git diff checks, and the production build passed, advancing facilitating positive global transformation. The collage below offers a visual representation of the team’s work for the week.

BINARY BRIGADE SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT TEAM

The Team Binary Brigade’s summary, covering their work on the Highest Good Network, was managed by Prathik Raju (Data Analyst) with a team consisting of Aditya Krishnamurthi (Software Engineer), Amaan Syed (Volunteer Software Engineer), Mahitha Pasupuleti (Software Engineer), Ruthwik Hosadurga Madhusudhana (Software Engineer), and Sita Ram Prasad Martha (Software Engineer), supporting One Community’s mission of cross-functional software development and system improvements. This work advances the team’s objectives, ensuring that all completed tasks directly contribute to facilitating positive global transformation.

This week, Aditya raised a pull request for Issue #1 and continued work on Issue #2 across HGNRest and HighestGoodNetworkApp. After Compass couldn’t resolve the core problem, he consulted the manager and Jae and set up Studio 3T to correct the data entry causing the Volunteer Trends spike. Verifying the fix surfaced a separate 500 error, which he traced to a MongoDB aggregation pipeline expecting string input where two documents stored a Date object instead; he applied a normalization fix, confirmed the endpoint returned correctly, and flagged the underlying issue to the team lead, supporting the goal of facilitating positive global transformation.

Amaan completed work across six pull requests, including preventing invalid numeric input and improving dark-mode contrast on the Material Daily Activities form, updating dashboard styling and permission-denied routing on the Resource Management Dashboard, separating historical and submission dates on the Daily Equipment Log page, fixing a chart overlay on the Material Consumption page, improving layout and dark-mode styling on the Material Summary page, and correcting container styling and filter alignment on the Lesson List page, verifying responsive behavior and both themes throughout, contributing to facilitating positive global transformation. Mahitha built the Phase 6 Kitchen & Inventory Management frontend, creating a dashboard with metric cards for ingredients, onsite-grown items, upcoming meals, and pending orders, along with low-stock alerts and harvest information. She added a dashboard header, priority ingredients indicator, responsive styling across screen sizes, dark-mode support, the new dashboard route, and fixed related Stylelint issues, furthering facilitating positive global transformation.

Ruthwik reviewed pull requests addressing PM dashboard resource management, the volunteer donut chart, and rounding inconsistencies in the blue square chart. Following his promotion to the development team, he resolved a task navigation bug caused by an undefined function, tested the fix, and merged it into the main branch. Ruthwik also began investigating a Firefox bug affecting the timer’s start and pause functions, advancing facilitating positive global transformation. Sita Ram resolved all four defects in the Phase 1 pause reactivation bug report, tracing the core issue to a one-character naming mismatch that had prevented paused users from being reactivated for roughly seven months, and fixed three related defects from duplicate pause and resume implementations writing inconsistent data. He also corrected a timezone defect affecting reactivation dates, verified the fixes with over 1,700 tests, and added a bulk read endpoint for the Promotion Eligibility Dashboard, replacing per-row queries with a single paginated query, supporting facilitating positive global transformation. See the collage below for highlights of this week’s work.

DEV DYNASTY SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT TEAM

This week, the Team Dev Dynasty’s summary, covering their work on the Highest Good Network software, was managed by Mrudhula Reddy (Administrative Assistant) and Aditya Dubey (Software Engineer), Akshay Viswanath (Software Engineer), Amaresh Chaudhary Nara (Software Engineer), Ansh Shah (Software Engineer), Bosu Babu Bade (Software Developer), Linlin Fan (Software Engineer), Gayatri Sawant (Software Engineer), Mahathi Ganimisetti (Data Analyst), Shreevaths Karawal Satish Rao (Software Engineer), Shreyas Battula (Software Engineer), Sireesha Kunchala (Software Engineer), and Yuxuan Wang (Software Engineer). The Highest Good Network software supports facilitating positive global transformation by helping teams coordinate resources, track project progress, manage operations, and improve efficiency across construction, maintenance, production, and community systems while supporting long-term sustainability goals.

Bosu integrated the Analytics Dashboard on frontend PR #4482 and backend PR #1917, added a refresh endpoint and improved malformed-data handling, and fixed PR Quality Distribution tooltip labels and team member counts on the PR Insights page. He also completed his manager responsibilities, reviewing team members’ weekly summaries, pictures and time logs for completeness and accuracy. Gayatri continued resolving Total Org Summary data mismatches across several tasks, fixed an Hours Completed chart bug, shipped an urgent Quick Setup Title team-code validation hotfix, began new backend work adding device-specific engagement metrics to the Job Analytics dashboard, and resolved several CI/CD blockers, raising test coverage on one controller from 31% to over 90%, furthering facilitating positive global transformation.

Linlin worked on UI and component improvements across PRs #5491, #5493, #5500, #5503, #5504 and #5507, including reviewer layout changes, an inline summary subcomponent with in-place grading checkboxes, dark mode fixes in the user profile and responsive updates to the People Report table. Mahathi created and enhanced the Labor and Time Tracking dashboard, developing a Distribution of Labor Hours pie chart with filters for date range, project and member, and refining dropdown behavior and light/dark-mode styling, contributing to facilitating positive global transformation.

Shreevaths continued work on PR #3906, removing duplicate PDF-export code, adding a max date limit to the Expenditure filter, fixing dark mode styling and reducing cognitive complexity in ExpenditureLineGraph from 16 to 8, and added backend test coverage on PR #1357. Shreyas brought PR #5474 and PR #5230 up to date with development, resolved merge conflicts, fixed dark mode calendar and date-selector issues, corrected Refresh Report button alignment, and completed end-to-end and Postman API testing, supporting facilitating positive global transformation.

Sireesha resolved merge conflicts and SonarQube code smells for the Reports page spinner, renamed duplicate test descriptions on the User Management and Projects pages, and fixed Bootstrap table overflow and responsiveness issues. Yuxuan investigated missing environment variables affecting the LinkedIn posting functionality by tracing the request flow from frontend to backend, and continued reviewing the prior week’s final pull request, furthering facilitating positive global transformation. See below for pictures of Team Dev Dynasty’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 Devarsh Wali (Program Manager) and Anthony Weathers (Software Engineer), with a team consisting of Jaden Wong (Software Engineer), Ken Zou (Software Engineer), Purav Patel (Software Engineer), and Swathi Angadi (Software Engineer), supporting One Community’s mission of cross-functional software development and system improvements. This work advances the team’s objectives, ensuring that all completed tasks directly contribute to facilitating positive global transformation.

This week, Devarsh reviewed weekly team summaries, PR review submissions and supporting materials, incorporated feedback into weekly review documentation and reviewed training materials for Shreyas Harish, Shreyas Patil and Atta ur Rehman. He also researched Answer Engine Optimization strategies for One Community blog content and met with Jae to discuss approaches for improving webpage traffic, search visibility and AI discoverability. Anthony continued work on PR #3600 and PR #1447 by verifying permission retention during role changes, updating permission indicators and reset-to-default information and expanding automated test coverage to meet Sonar requirements. He also discussed package-file management and team responsibilities with Ken, contributing to facilitating positive global transformation.

This week, Jaden updated the Create New Event workflow by correcting Max Attendees validation, restoring event-list refresh behavior, adding form reset functionality and ensuring newly created events display immediately. He also resolved WCAG 2.1 AA contrast issues in the TopCommunityMembers Skill Score column and validated the changes through ESLint, Stylelint and the Husky pre-commit pipeline. Ken completed Project Report Page updates for the WBS, Members and Tasks tables, standardized their styling, reduced SonarCloud code complexity and created PR #5508. He also restored Bluesky auto-poster routing and reviewed PRs involving Cost Breakdown, Event Management and Wishlist functionality, supporting facilitating positive global transformation.

This week, Purav worked on frontend PR #5502 and backend PR #2333 for Job Application Page updates and PR #5499 for the PR promotion confirmation modal. His work included job-detail handling, duplicate-submission protection, multipart uploads, UI fixes, reviewer selection behavior, dark mode improvements, automated tests and localStorage persistence. Swathi continued work on the Promote button functionality, fixed PR rating visibility and color behavior after page refresh, prepared test data for Promote button validation and worked on dark mode support for the Review button, furthering facilitating positive global transformation. The collage below provides a visual overview of team’s work for the week.

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 facilitating positive global transformation. This week’s active members of this team were Carl Bebli (Software Developer), Deepigha Japamony (Software Engineer), Devang Saraogi (Software Engineer), Dhruv Topiwala (Full Stack Software Engineer), Mahalakshmi Mahadevan (Product Engineer), Mallikharjuna Abhiram Mulpuri (Software Engineer), and Nathan Hoffman (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 facilitating positive global transformation. 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 facilitating positive global transformation. This week’s active members of this team were Priyanka Ajit Mutha (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 facilitating positive global transformation. The collage below shows a compilation of the work from this team.

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