One Community welcomes Sri Vidya Sai Thumu to the Engineering Team as our newest Volunteer/Consultant!

Sri is a Mechanical Design Engineer with experience in aerospace engineering, mechanical design, CAD, structural analysis, GD&T, DFMA, and engineering documentation. She has experience working with 3D CAD modeling, FEA studies, tolerance analysis, BOM development, and PLM systems including Teamcenter and ENOVIA. While a member of the One Community Engineering Team, Sri contributed to the City Center Hot Tub project by supporting the development and evaluation of sustainable flooring, structural, insulation, plumbing, pump, and blower solutions. Sri developed and updated CAD concepts for the aluminum and cinderblock flooring systems, including joists, support structures, brackets, running-bond cinderblock configurations, rockwool insulation, and drain clearance. She also contributed to pump, blower, and plumbing trade studies by comparing factors such as energy efficiency, durability, maintenance, cost, and system compatibility.

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One Community is focused on creating a world that will last, which means building sustainable approaches to food, energy, housing, education, economics, and social architecture that people can actually live well within. As an all-volunteer team, we’re developing a self-replicating model that will grow into a global collaboration of teacher/demonstration hubs, each built for “The Highest Good of All.” To make this kind of lasting change possible everywhere, we’re open sourcing and freely sharing our complete process, so communities anywhere can regenerate their environment and help create a world that 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

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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 October 12, 2026 edition (#708) of our weekly progress update detailing our team’s development and accomplishments:

Creating a World that Will Last
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HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING PROGRESS

One Community is creating a world that will last 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 a world that will last: 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 reviewed potential properties in central Oregon and Washington and added flooding potential to the location criteria because of the increased frequency of flooding associated with climate change. They also evaluated properties affected by snow, shorter growing seasons, and high-desert conditions while considering how changing precipitation patterns and water availability influence long-term site suitability. The images below highlight this property research supporting One Community’s work toward creating a world that will last.

Devendranath Chowdary Maganti (Data Analyst) continued working on the Highest Good Housing Implementation Timeline Data Analysis Dashboard and Visualizations, creating the first dashboard draft for management feedback. He also worked on the Highest Good Education Construction and Rollout Timeline Data Analysis Dashboard and Visualizations by revising the initial timeline tracker and integrating timeline details into the Highest Good Education webpage. As part of his Administration Team work, Devendranath reviewed Pandithya’s blog, provided feedback, and followed up on requested updates. The collage below provides examples of his dashboard and administrative work, contributing to creating a world that will last.

DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER PROGRESS

One Community is creating a world that will last 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 a world that will last: Duplicable City Center Open Source Hub

This week, Nidish Reddy Koppula (Mechanical Engineer) continued working on the Duplicable City Center design by completing the final version of the hydraulic elevator project report. He resolved and simplified core calculations, audited the consistency of engineering parameters across sections, and revised corresponding data tables and supporting documentation. In addition, Nidish updated document styling, verified the placement of technical figures, refined elevator assembly steps, and cataloged the final deliverables for formal submission. This open source Duplicable City Center project contributes towards creating a world that will last. The collage below shows his work for this week.

HIGHEST GOOD FOOD PROGRESS

One Community is creating a world that will last 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 a world that will last: 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 assisting with the Highest Good Food initiatives and Aquapini and Walipini Planting and Harvesting systems. Examining the scaled Walipini 1 zone plan and section drawings, he evaluated the clearances between overhead lighting fixtures and the plant canopy to inform fixture placement and lighting calculations. These spatial parameters supported ongoing refinements to the greenhouse lighting energy model. In parallel, Jay researched crop-specific far-red lighting treatment requirements to evaluate application protocols across different plant groups and guide forthcoming lighting strategy decisions. This open source Highest Good Food project contributes towards creating a world that will last. See the collage below for a snapshot of his work for the week.

Navya Eeshani Boyapati (Web Designer) continued working on Task 285: Aquapini and Walipini Lighting, Shading, and Thermal Mass Research and Design Page Creation. She reviewed and organized the provided research and design content, created and formatted the webpage structure, added relevant information and images, corrected HTML formatting and spacing, optimized images for SEO using descriptive alt text, and checked the page layout and content for consistency with One Community’s website standards. The images below showcase her webpage development work toward creating a world that will last.

Shameera Musthafa (Data Analyst) continued working on the Highest Good Food report pages and related visualizations. She also managed the One Community Bluesky account, creating and publishing project updates, and supported the hiring process by interviewing and evaluating candidates. As part of coordinating PR review workflows, Shameera reviewed Admin and PR Team work and gave feedback on accuracy, clarity, and consistency. She also organized and categorized project images, created visual collages, and finalized blog content. The images below highlight this work in support of One Community’s efforts toward creating a world that will last.

Zoey Zou (Landscape Architect) continued development on the Walipini #3 and Large-scale Aquapini models within the Highest Good Food hub. Focusing on the Large-scale Aquapini, she adjusted the planting layout to introduce a distinct low-, medium-, and tall-plant height hierarchy, shifting taller species backward to maintain winter solar access while increasing overall bed density. She also transitioned plant groupings toward a natural food-forest layout rather than linear rows, upgraded harvesting pathways, modified media-bed plantings, and substituted selected plant models. Shifting to Walipini 3, Zoey calibrated rendering exposure and lighting, updated human figures, generated revised walkthrough videos, and completed the concluding perspective views. Her updates included revising the written documentation to highlight distinct tropical species, incorporate educational functions, refine descriptions of gathering spaces, and shorten figure captions. This open source Highest Good Food project contributes towards creating a world that will last. See the image below for her work.

HIGHEST GOOD ENERGY PROGRESS

One Community is creating a world that will last 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 a world that will last: 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. They identified items that would be better placed in different sections and added comments indicating the necessary changes. They also identified incorrect images, spelling errors, and inaccuracies in tool descriptions and commented on areas that needed correction. They completed the Materials section and continued reviewing the Tools section to identify items that would be better categorized under Equipment or Materials. They then began reviewing the DIY Dam Design & Construction page and added comments identifying areas that needed correction. See the image below for highlights of their work, supporting One Community’s mission of creating a world that will last.

Rohan Pariakar (Operations and Supply Chain Analyst) continued revising the One Community Global Highest Good Energy analysis report and its supporting spreadsheets, focusing on phase-specific energy requirements, equipment summaries, linked tables, and visualizations for Steps 2 through 5. He added the Step 5 Energy Requirements and Equipment Breakdown section for the 100-200 person phase, including introductory text explaining the equipment-level modeling approach and the classification of equipment into Heating, Computers, Appliances, Lighting, and Machines, contributing to One Community’s mission of creating a world that will last. Rohan also incorporated the Step 5 summary table listing equipment and infrastructure requirements in kWh/day, updated the energy-demand breakdown chart, and added the hours-of-usage chart with explanatory text. This section explains how the charts support the review of energy consumption, installed power demand, and operating time across categories, while keeping the Step 5 findings subject to further validation before final generation and solar capacity requirements are established. For Step 4, Rohan reviewed the 50-100 person equipment-level breakdown table and energy-demand waterfall chart alongside the category-level graphics, refined the introductory text, and improved the placement and formatting of the summary table and linked chart. For Steps 2, 3, and 4, he linked the summary information to the report to keep it connected to the supporting spreadsheet data, and Rohan continued adjusting table headings, category labels, cell colors, spacing, and paragraph placement for linked tables and charts. The collage below shows some of his work towards creating a world that will last.

HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION PROGRESS

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

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

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

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

HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY PROGRESS

One Community is creating a world that will last 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, sharing, and creating a world that will last: 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 45 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 a world that will last. The video also explores how creating a world that will last 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, adding traffic and measurement columns for ongoing monitoring. She worked on SEO optimization, Google Ads performance tracking, and analytics for the Ways to Help, Search One Community, and donation pages. For Ways to Help, she updated the page title and meta description, refined keyword targeting, and improved grammar and readability while preserving the original content; final corrections and checks are still pending. She also developed a structured process for collecting, importing, and tracking Google Ads data and identified the relevant performance metrics, furthering One Community’s mission of creating a world that will last. Additionally, Adhya completed SEO optimization for the Search One Community page, covering keywords, headings, metadata, and content structure. She tested both Donate buttons, found errors redirecting visitors to an error page, corrected line spacing, and reviewed the donation page layout. After watching the feedback video, she worked on the suggested revisions, identified the required outbound links for both pages, and communicated the outstanding issues to Jae. She also submitted the weekly summary and pictures. See the collage below for highlights of her work towards creating a world that will last for the Highest Good Network.

Anagha Sunil Bharadwaj (Legal Research and AI Policy Specialist) continued her research on perpetual purpose trusts across US jurisdictions and their practical implications. She researched how organizations document and learn from real AI errors, writing up three incidents from the property preservation project as internal case studies: an incorrect sequence of events, weak and mislabeled sources, and eight structural gaps in the first draft of the legal agreements. Anagha paired these with outside cases, including Mata v. Avianca, to show why independent human review is needed for technical work. She also researched how organizations approve AI tools and handle shadow AI, including tool registers and fast approval paths, as well as incident reporting for AI misuse, including first hour response steps and blameless reviews tied to the NIST AI Risk Management Framework, contributing to One Community’s goal of creating a world that will last. Anagha also researched rollout and training for small nonprofits, covering signed acknowledgements, onboarding, annual refreshers, review cadence, and policy ownership. She closed the week by consolidating two weeks of research into a master outline for the policy. See the collage below for her week’s work, furthering One Community’s mission of creating a world that will last for the Highest Good Network.

Devarsh Wali (Program Manager) continued supporting the weekly blog review process and Admin Team procedures. He also continued supporting Highest Good Network software development through PR testing and further work on the AI optimization report. Devarsh completed more than 100 checks across five AI platforms, tested five additional blogs and compared how the platforms responded to different keyword and attribution updates. He fine-tuned selected keywords and attributions, reran tests to evaluate the impact of those changes, and documented the results and comparisons in the report. The images below provide examples of his week’s work towards creating a world that will last.

Sethuraman Karunanithi (Industrial Engineer) continued working on the Volunteer section of the Highest Good Network. He moved the section into its own tab in the main Google Doc and applied Jae’s feedback throughout, including a black title, darker headings, alphabetized Key Terms, live web links, and section references that jump to their sections. He added timer details noting that the timer keeps running when it looks disconnected, stops when the computer closes or the internet drops, and works best in Chrome, furthering One Community’s mission of creating a world that will last. Additionally, Sethuraman wrote a new section on using the timer properly, with a One Community Policy box stating that time should be logged daily and never exceed 10 hours in one day. He added a Quick Answers entry about a disconnected timer and took new screenshots with the Demo Volunteer account, including the Light Mode and Dark Mode dashboards, the Bug Report and User Suggestion forms, and the Timelog page. He also corrected the Timelog and Team Locations descriptions to match the site and renumbered the section from 1 to 8 so it reads as its own document. See the collage below for this work toward creating a world that will last.

Jinglin Zhang (Graphic Designer) familiarized herself with One Community’s graphic design workflow and task requirements. She created announcement and bio images for two volunteers, Nidish Koppula and Sri Vidya Sai Thumu, and revised the images based on Jae’s feedback. Jinglin also completed the WordPress bios for both volunteers and notified Sara through their respective Google Docs. She created six social media content banners and revised the remaining social media images based on the provided feedback and requirements. See the collage below for her work towards creating a world that will last for the Highest Good Network.

Valentina Collini (Graphic Designer) focused 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 spent time reviewing and refining volunteer biographies, making corrections to improve accuracy, consistency, and overall presentation, contributing to One Community’s mission of creating a world that will last. In addition, Valentina 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, towards the organization’s mission of creating a world that will last. See the images below for her week’s work towards the Highest Good Network.

ADMINISTRATION TEAM

The Administration Team’s summary, which covers their work on the Highest Good Network, was managed by Pandithya Reddy Dasari (Business Analyst) and includes Ashmita Pal (Data Analyst), Fnu (Ruku) Rukmangada (Administrative Assistant), 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), 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 a world that will last. 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 team members’ weekly summaries and blogs, providing feedback on formatting and writing as part of the Training Team. She assigned new tasks, updated requested hours, and tested PRs related to the Collaboration page, Job Form Builder, and Profile page. She also retested older PRs and reviewed pending ones. Ruku tested Job Application and Job Posting features, identifying and documenting eight bugs related to validation, resume uploads, and filters. She worked on the HGN User’s Manual, coordinated team assignments, and reviewed volunteer training submissions. Ruku also managed Team 20RuFOD administrative tasks, including time logs, media submissions, and WordPress content, furthering the goal of creating a world that will last.

Gargi updated the AI Image Generation tutorial based on Jae’s feedback, including revised flowcharts, tester instructions, color-coded prompts, and team-specific banner backgrounds. She continued working on the HGN User’s Manual, verified changes requested by Tatyana, and identified tooltip issues on smaller screens. She also tested user permissions for Add Task and Add Badge across different accounts. Ola organized weekly summary workspaces for the Administration and Pull Request Teams. She reviewed assigned PR tasks and introduced structured folders to improve task organization. These updates supported team coordination and tracking of assigned responsibilities, contributing to creating a world that will last.

Pandithya worked on the Administration Team blog and tested PRs #5542, #5533, #5487, #2321, and #5486 from the Job Posting and HGN Phase I Bugs documents. She verified date filters, interface behavior in light and dark modes, page titles, descriptions, and filter functionality. She also reviewed Data Analysis Dashboard documentation and evaluated training submissions from Srikanth and Ayush. Prathik completed Facebook and Instagram analytics, updated charts, and scheduled social media posts. He tested construction management dashboards and documented bugs related to financial charts and labor cost displays. He also reviewed volunteer time logs, provided training feedback, and completed weekly blog work, furthering the goal of creating a world that will last.

Sachit developed ten foundation funding profiles containing leadership details, grant amounts, contact information, and application procedures. He reviewed funding matrix scores, corrected governance assessment criteria, and proposed two weighted criteria based on funding history and alignment with One Community’s mission. He also reviewed administrator training submissions and provided feedback. Sai Sree prepared PR Admin Team blog content and image collages, updated social media records, and worked on PR documentation. She reviewed training submissions and tested permissions, community profiles, collaboration searches, tooltips, and sharing features. She also verified dark mode styling, chart readability, page loading, and interface consistency, furthering the goal of creating a world that will last.

Shreyas assigned tasks to volunteers, tested Total Org Summary dashboard features, and reviewed multiple PRs for functionality. He prepared AI training documentation covering volunteer status and global distribution sections. He also reviewed Alpha Team submissions, compiled the week 707 blog summary, and created an image collage, contributing to One Community’s mission of creating a world that will last.

Tanmay updated volunteer biographies, coordinated weekly submissions, and compiled blog content with SEO updates. He prepared and published Threads posts, updated the Social Media Master Dashboard, and maintained volunteer tracking records. He also reviewed new administrator submissions, tested merged PRs, and documented issues requiring further review, supporting creating a world that will last. See the collage below for a visual summary of this week’s work and progress.

HIGHEST GOOD NETWORK PROGRESS

One Community is creating a world that will last 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 a world that will last: 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 a world that will last, and confirmed 16 PRs as fixed. They reported two new issues, confirmed fixes for Dark Mode issues on 5 pages, and identified unresolved Dark Mode issues on 6 pages. The team also assigned a new task, “Phase 1: Fix Incorrect Display of the ‘Unarchive’ Button on the Project Page,” to a volunteer. 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 Deepigha Japamony (Software Engineer), 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 creating a world that will last, helping advance open source permaculture communities.

This week, Lin managed and reviewed the team summary, reviewed PR #5238 by examining the code and running tests locally, and checked Alpha Team members’ weekly summaries, photos, and videos while sharing pending pull requests for review. Deepigha developed PR #5638 to separate the Back and Logout actions on the Listing and Bidding dashboard, updating navigation history, adding logout confirmation behavior, and applying light and dark mode styling, and she reviewed 10 pull requests on the Highest Good Network platform, approving 7 and requesting changes on 3 based on validation, functionality, and dark mode issues. Devang worked on frontend PR #4602 and backend PR #1968 for Event Participation Analytics, improving event retrieval, filtering, pagination, sorting, validation, Redux integration, and the calendar and card/list views, and he added backend tests, restricted unnecessary attendee profile information, and added a Demo Data indicator and reusable tooltip for simulated analytics, supporting the goal of creating a world that will last.

Maithili improved the Instagram autoposter token refresh by limiting refreshes to tokens nearing expiry, adding timeouts and response validation, aligning the Graph API version, and preventing sensitive information from appearing in logs, and she updated the scheduled job and Jest tests and prepared setup documentation covering Meta configuration, token management, Cloudinary, environment variables, local testing, and troubleshooting. Priyanka created pull requests to prevent duplicate entries and preserve added records on the PR Grading screen and to add distinct section colors to the Total Org Summary in light mode, dark mode, and PDF output, and she added tests for all-time and active country counts beside the Global Volunteer Network map while awaiting clarification on differences from the existing Team Locations count. Sai refined PR #5476 by aligning column headers with their content, implemented a calendar component for loss tracking in PR #5606, and updated PR #5583 to prevent keyword bubbles from overlapping, contributing to One Community’s mission of creating a world that will last.

Som resolved development branch conflicts in PR #4585 while preserving comment sorting, voting, and Helpful feedback functionality, expanded tests for sorting, vote behavior, and selection persistence, added accessible selected states, limited each comment to one active vote per session, and memoized comment sorting. Yingshu improved the Volunteer Time workflow by preventing delayed requests from updating unmounted components, restarting scroll animations, and clearing outdated scroll data after users leave the page. She added regression tests for delayed responses, with 22 related tests, ESLint checks, Git diff checks, and the production build passing, furthering One Community’s mission of creating a world that will last. 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 (Software Engineer), Dhruv Topiwala (Full Stack Software Engineer), Mahitha Pasupuleti (Software Engineer), Shreya Shailesh Bandodkar (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 a world that will last.

This week, Aditya resolved a merge conflict on a backend pull request branch by merging development into the branch, preserving the appropriate conflicting code in overviewReportHelper.js, and pushing the changes. He also investigated incorrect pie chart totals in the Volunteer Status section of the Total Org Summary dashboard, identified duplicate counting of new members, and proposed a fix for team lead confirmation, in support of creating a world that will last. Amaan worked on frontend development, backend integration, and follow-up fixes across multiple HGN tasks. He updated Student Groups functionality with API-backed persistence, implemented group creation, editing, deletion, and membership management, and integrated Student Group selection into Assign Atoms, Task Submissions grading, and Announcements. He also improved announcement targeting and authorization, addressed date and time-zone calculation issues in the Total Construction Summary, fixed responsive layout and chart resizing issues in the Material Summary, and verified functionality across light and dark modes, work that supports creating a world that will last.

Dhruv worked on developing the Tumblr auto-poster for the team’s social media posting tools and addressed review comments for the weekly auto-reply email functionality in backend PR #2346. He implemented the Tumblr composer, OAuth2 authentication flow, encrypted token storage, post publishing, scheduled posting, and retry functionality. He also improved the email function by introducing atomic database updates, preventing duplicate processing, handling email failures, and adding unit and integration tests, in support of creating a world that will last. Mahitha worked on the Garden Management and Orchard Management pages in the Highest Good Network application. She replaced browser-based alert and confirmation popups with in-page UI components, investigated issues with the Mark as Received and Cancel Order actions, and improved orchard inventory, order management, planting schedules, and order status transitions. She also developed and updated unit tests for page elements and interactions, work that supports creating a world that will last.

Roshini worked on resolving merge conflicts and addressing reviewer feedback across multiple pull requests, including PRs #5567, #2181, #5199, and #5477, in support of creating a world that will last. Shreya worked on testing and improving the HGN Questionnaire Dashboard and HGN Help flow by validating help request submissions, community member search and filtering, skill scores, profile navigation, API responses, and pagination behavior. She reviewed PR #5631 for community member pagination, reviewed the profile-name fix in PR #2386, and implemented the profile skill tabs fix in PR #5637, adding regression tests and verifying the changes, work that supports creating a world that will last. Shubham worked on frontend PR #5593 and backend PR #2373 for post scheduling, addressing reviewer feedback and improving posting reliability. He implemented delivery states, atomic post claiming, idempotency keys, upload timeouts, and safeguards against duplicate posting. He also improved frontend error handling for failed scheduled posts, updated editing behavior, added regression tests, and revised both pull request descriptions with required permissions and testing instructions, in support of creating a world that will last. 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 (Software Engineer and Software Team Administrator) with a team consisting of Akshay Viswanath (Software Engineer), Ansh Shah (Software Engineer), Bosu Babu Bade (Software Developer), Gayatri Sawant (Software Engineer), Hemanth Varupula (Software Developer), Isha Pawar (Software Engineer), Linlin Fan (Software Engineer), Mahalakshmi Mahadevan (Software Engineer), Mahathi Ganimisetti (Data Analyst), Shreevaths Karawal Satish Rao (Software Engineer), Shreyas Battula (Software Engineer), and Yuxuan Wang (Software Engineer), supporting One Community’s mission of cross-functional software development and system improvements.

This week, Akshay’s backend fix for the Task Completed chart date filter was merged, and he addressed reviewer feedback on the Total Org Summary chart pull request, keeping the donut center text inside the ring at all screen widths, fixing small slices showing 0%, and showing N/A instead of NaN when there is no earlier data. Akshay also fixed several dark mode issues on the pull request he took over, restored the strict skills filter match on the backend Skills Overview pull request, and opened pull requests to restore the Reset Password button for authorized users and to show who added, edited, or deleted a volunteer’s time logs. Ansh tested PR #5623 for the Volunteer Hours Distribution, PR #5622 for the attendance page, PR #5614 for the Issue Log submission flow, and PR #5476 for Team Member Tasks, where he identified task names compressing and wrapping vertically, contributing to creating a world that will last.

Bosu completed the Phase 1 task adding an optional reason when an account is changed from Rehireable to Not Rehireable, storing it on the profile, showing it on hover with an orange indicator, and clearing it when the user is changed back, with frontend tests passing 20 of 20 and backend tests 11 of 11, and opened frontend PR #5633 with its backend pull request. Gayatri fixed several Total Org Summary issues ahead of launch: she added the missing Weekly Committed Hours data in backend PR #2388 and corrected the hour ranges in PR #5623, replaced a hard-coded Mentors count with a shared live calculation in PR #5452, kept deactivated and paused volunteers’ hours in the organization totals in backend PR #2389, and aligned the Active Teams card and Team Stats on one definition in PR #5634, work that supports creating a world that will last.

Hemanth worked on the vertical spacing dropdown pull request, adding the backend paths, fixing a 404 error, and reducing the dropdown spacing, and tested it in light and dark modes. Isha confirmed that PRs #4227 and #4162 were already included in development, completed attendance and no-show tracking in PR #5622 and backend PR #1911, replaced mock data with live APIs in the Event Popularity Analytics PRs #4514 and #1941, addressed reviewer feedback on PR #5597, and resolved merge conflicts and duplicate routes in the PR Grading PRs #5414 and #2286. Linlin worked on PRs #5477, #5491, #5493, #5504, and #5517, adding inline grading summaries with mobile scrolling, standardizing the project table header, stabilizing the header layout, and improving the mobile menu position, advancing the mission of creating a world that will last.

Mahalakshmi improved the Total Construction Summary dashboard, fixing the Rental Tracking filters, percentages, project names, and dark mode in PR #5599, and rebuilding the page’s formatting work from the current development branch in PR #5636, where she removed duplicate Financials charts and fixed the Global Distribution map and Loss Tracking display in dark mode. Mahathi resolved Supplier Performance project lookup issues, improved the Planned vs Actual Cost and Cost Variance Trend charts, and wrote 27 Jest tests reaching full coverage of the related backend controllers. Shreevaths fixed several notification bell issues in PR #3932, so alerts stay dismissed, show only the logged-in user’s own hours, goals, and tasks, avoid false alerts while data loads, and count only tangible time toward committed hours. These fixes contribute to creating a world that will last.

Shreyas fixed a team regression, trailing white space in team search, and Quality Gate issues, and audited the HGN Email Announcement backend, identifying a possible race condition where emails are queued before the database transaction commits. Yuxuan completed follow-up fixes to the Hours by Team Member visualization on the Projects Reports page with all related tests passing, and began the Phase 1 task to fix the View NEW AI Prompt notification. Their work supports creating a world that will last. 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 Ken Zou (Software Engineer), 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 and supports One Community’s work toward creating a world that will last.

This week, Anthony continued addressing review feedback for PR #5588 and PR #2369 related to the warning tracker hotfix. He resolved issues affecting tracker editing and deletion when no information modal existed, connected information modal deletion to tracker deletion to prevent leftover records, corrected dark mode styling for the warning tracker list and dashboard user section and added frontend and backend validation based on review feedback. He also updated related tests to restore passing results and met with Ken to discuss task handovers and how to follow up when pull requests require reviews or re-reviews. Ken worked on fixing the Volunteer Hours Distribution pie chart by updating the frontend to display volunteer counts by hour range while retaining total hours in the chart center. He corrected the Actual Hours Worked legend labels and tooltips, updated the backend categorization logic to return all six required hour ranges and revised the percentage calculation to represent volunteers with logged hours relative to the active volunteer population. Their work further supported creating a world that will last.

Jaden fixed a Collaboration jobs page issue where the Show Summaries view could direct users to a placeholder jobs.example.com link. He added validation that falls back to the internal job application page when an external link is missing, malformed, or uses a placeholder host, replaced an array lookup with a Set to resolve a SonarQube maintainability finding and verified the changes through ESLint and all 18 Collaboration tests. He also improved the pull request documentation and corrected the testing route instructions, furthering One Community’s mission of creating a world that will last.

Purav took over the Job Application Listing Page and collaboration ads creation work from frontend PR #4307 and backend PR #1872 by rebuilding the features on the latest development branches. After encountering Husky and lint-staged memory failures during the older branch merge, he created clean branches, selectively ported the required changes and opened backend PR #2385 and frontend PR #5629. He also fixed category filtering, Dropbox image rendering, listing overflow, navigation and protected route access, refined dark mode and TinyMCE styling, addressed Sonar reliability findings and approximately 77 additional code smell issues, corrected CI Prettier failures and aligned backend upload MIME handling with the frontend implementation. These efforts continued to advance the goal of creating a world that will last.

Swathi continued fixing the Edit to Reorder button by rewriting the outdated Collaboration page implementation to align with the current codebase. She made the required changes, tested the functionality and documented the results with screenshots and videos while waiting for confirmation on whether package.json and yarn.lock should be included in the next push. She also continued resolving SonarQube issues identified in the PR Team Analytics Dark Mode pull request. This work contributed to creating a world that will last. 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 a world that will last. This week’s active members of this team were Aadit Trivedi (Software Quality Assurance & Team Coordinator), Aakash Vidiyala (Software Engineer), Aarya Amit Shah (Software Engineer), Aditya Varun Dhayapulay (Software Engineer), Alekya Jogini (Software Engineer), Carl Bebli (Software Developer), Mallikharjuna Abhiram Mulpuri (Software Engineer), Manav Kheni (Software Developer), Nathan Hoffman (Software Engineer), and Niket Pathak (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 a world that will last. 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 a world that will last. This week’s active members of this team were Prajwal Gangadhar Melinamane (Software Engineer), Rahul Rubugunday (Software Engineer), Richa Sapre (Software Engineer), Sai Manojna Velagala (Software Engineer), Snehita Kandula (Software Engineer), and Sundar Machani (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 toward our goal of creating a world that will last. The collage below shows a compilation of the work from this team.

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One Community welcomes Nidish Koppula to the Engineering Team as our newest Volunteer/Consultant!

Nidish has experience in mechanical design, CAD, finite element analysis, thermal-fluid analysis, prototyping, and engineering documentation. His professional background includes simulation-driven design, structural analysis, mechanical component development, and the evaluation of engineering designs for manufacturability and performance. Nidish is interested in applying practical engineering methods to develop efficient, reliable, and sustainable solutions while balancing structural performance, material use, manufacturability, and ease of implementation. As a member of the One Community Engineering Team, Nidish contributed to the development and refinement of the open-source hydraulic elevator project, including the mechanical CAD assembly, structural shaft and cabin components, guide rail system, hydraulic system representation, and finite element analysis of critical components. He completed supporting engineering calculations and load evaluations, developed renderings and design documentation, and prepared the final engineering report documenting the elevator design, structural analysis, component evaluations, and completed project work.

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One Community is pioneering a sustainability implementation blueprint that reimagines how we approach food, energy, housing, education, economics, and social architecture, all working together toward fulfilled living. Built entirely by volunteers, this model is designed to be self-replicating, laying the groundwork for a global network of teacher/demonstration hubs that operate for “The Highest Good of All.” We believe real change happens when knowledge is shared, not guarded, which is why we’re open sourcing and freely sharing every part of the process. The result: a practical path toward regenerating our planet and creating a world that 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

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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 October 5, 2026 edition (#707) of our weekly progress update detailing our team’s development and accomplishments:

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HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING PROGRESS

One Community is pioneering a sustainability implementation blueprint 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 sustainability implementation blueprint: 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 researched potential property locations based on One Community’s established website criteria, focusing on the Okanogan area of north-central Washington near Oroville and several ranches in Colorado, noting that the Colorado properties often have higher elevations that may limit agricultural potential. See below for some of the pictures related to this work toward pioneering sustainability implementation blueprint.

Devendranath Chowdary Maganti (Data Analyst) continued working on the Highest Good Housing Implementation Timeline Data Analysis Dashboard and Visualizations by reviewing the Highest Good Housing webpage, creating a timeline tracker, and developing the first draft of the dashboard for feedback. He also supported One Community administration by working on the weekly blog, reviewing teammates’ blogs, incorporating feedback, and reviewing training work for other Admin Team members. See below for some of the pictures related to this work toward pioneering sustainability implementation blueprint.

Navya Eeshani Boyapati (Web Designer) worked on Task 963: Past Aircrete Compression Testing Research: July 2021 to December 2021 Formatting Fixes by reviewing existing content, correcting formatting and spacing issues, and improving consistency and presentation. She also addressed Task 873: Update the Tools and Equipment for Open Source Construction Page by implementing requested corrections based on supervisor feedback and updating the page content and formatting. See below for some of the pictures related to this work toward pioneering sustainability implementation blueprint.

Rushikesh Tubaji (Industrial Engineer) completed the final handoff preparation for the Highest Good Housing single-dome labor-analysis template. He reviewed the workbook for formula integrity, overlapping scope, unresolved design inputs, validation statuses, and source traceability, and corrected formula gaps identified during quality review. He updated unresolved activity notes, strengthened the Sources register, clarified the distinction between One Community information, external productivity benchmarks, and internal planning assumptions, and reorganized the workbook tabs into a clearer workflow. He also expanded the START HERE and README sections with instructions for labor-planning inputs, formula-driven columns, actual labor recording, and use of the Productivity Library and Sources tabs. Rushikesh finalized the Methodology & Handoff Guide with the current model status, known design dependencies, source-registration requirements, and guidance for extending the methodology to additional Highest Good Housing components. See below for some of the pictures related to this work toward pioneering sustainability implementation blueprint.

DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER PROGRESS

One Community is pioneering a sustainability implementation blueprint 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 sustainability implementation blueprint: Duplicable City Center Open Source Hub

This week, Nidish Reddy Koppula (Mechanical Engineer) continued working on the Duplicable City Center design by refining the hydraulic elevator project report and supporting materials. He worked on page justification and document formatting to improve consistency across the report. He simplified several calculations to make the engineering content easier to follow and added additional images and graphics where needed. Nidish also updated the assembly steps to better reflect the final design and worked on project logos and other visual elements used within the documentation. This open source Duplicable City Center project contributes towards pioneering sustainability implementation blueprint. See the collage below for a snapshot of his work this week.

Mayank Thakur (Industrial Designer) continued working on the Duplicable City Center design. He corrected elements and assembled them in the Fusion assembly model. He cross-referenced dimensions in the cost estimation report to correct components to the right dimensions. Mayank also obtained the first-floor dormer window model and is using it to cross-reference which elements of the second floor dormer window are correct. He also moved information from the first-floor dormer window cost estimation into the Beautiful Tables template. This work involves transferring the data from one document to the other so the second floor dormer window records match the corrected model. The assembly model and the cost estimation report are being checked against each other as part of this process. This open source Duplicable City Center project contributes to pioneering sustainability implementation blueprint. See below for some of the pictures related to this work.

HIGHEST GOOD FOOD PROGRESS

One Community is pioneering a sustainability implementation blueprint 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 sustainability implementation blueprint: 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 helping with the Highest Good Food initiatives by enhancing the greenhouse lighting energy calculator by adding separate fields for verified PAR photon flux, controller increment, exact fixture configuration, photon distribution, and power curve data. He linked the verified PAR inputs directly to the calculation workflow and updated the calculator to perform independent energy calculations for all four seasons for each zone group, replacing the previous annual residual approach. He also strengthened validation checks to identify missing evidence, draft crop limits, invalid inputs, and insufficient supplemental DLI. In addition, Jay reviewed the Sustainability Compliance section of the documentation to prepare it for publication. This open source Highest Good Food project contributes towards pioneering sustainability implementation blueprint. See the collage below portraying the work he completed.

Shameera Musthafa (Data Analyst) continued working on the 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 evaluating candidates. She also 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. See below for some of the pictures related to this work of pioneering sustainability implementation blueprint.

Zoey Zou (Landscape Architect) continued working on the Highest Good Food Walipini #3 and Large-scale Aquapini projects. For Walipini #3, she revised the model based on feedback, adjusted people components and surrounding planting, updated materials, and produced additional walkthrough videos and still renders. She added a legend to the AutoCAD planting map, created a high-quality top-view planting map render, and updated the written documentation with the revised AutoCAD plan and final render images, replacing earlier images so the documentation matched the latest model and visualization. For the Large-scale Aquapini, Zoey revised the layout and pathway widths, incorporating wider routes for wheelbarrow access and narrower secondary paths for harvesting and maintenance. She also continued redesigning the planting layout to create a denser botanical-garden experience while maintaining the productive planting plan, adjusted plant heights and locations to reduce shading conflicts, refined seating areas, and developed the circulation relationships throughout the model. This open source Highest Good Food project contributes towards pioneering sustainability implementation blueprint. See the collage below for a snapshot of her work.

HIGHEST GOOD ENERGY PROGRESS

One Community is pioneering a sustainability implementation blueprint 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 sustainability implementation blueprint: 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 One Community’s Highest Good Energy initiative. They searched for and identified items that would be better represented in different sections and added comments for correction. They also identified incorrect images, spelling errors, and errors in tool descriptions and added comments where changes were needed. The core team also completed the Equipment section and continued reviewing the Tools section to identify items that would be better placed under Equipment or Materials. See the image below for a glimpse of their work contributing to One Community’s mission of creating sustainability implementation blueprint.

Rohan Pariakar (Operations and Supply Chain Analyst) continued updating the Highest Good Energy analysis report and supporting spreadsheets for the phased community energy model. He reviewed and formatted the Step 2 energy calculation table, including equipment categories, energy values, power values, operating hours, and category totals, and incorporated the corresponding energy, power, and usage distribution charts. Rohan also reviewed the Step 2 cost analysis table covering generators, fuel storage, battery storage, equipment costs, and monthly fuel costs. For Steps 3 and 4, he updated the report presentation of the equipment-level energy calculations and category distributions, including the energy, power, and hours-of-use charts and the associated explanatory text. He linked the Step 2, Step 3, and Step 4 summary information to the report and reviewed the linked tables to ensure that the spreadsheet data was represented correctly in the document. He also continued checking the formatting of the linked tables, including category colors and the presentation of the Heating, Computers, Appliances, Lighting, and Machines classifications. See the collage below for highlights of his work towards creating sustainability implementation blueprint.

HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION PROGRESS

One Community is pioneering a sustainability implementation blueprint 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 sustainability implementation blueprint: 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 fine-tuning final details on the spreads for The Ultimate Classroom book, including the use of their rainbow graphic in later spreads. He also recreated the graph section of the cost analysis, as the original lacked clear focal points. The recreation focused on making the information more accessible while maintaining the existing content. Lastly, Isa reformatted the table of contents. The collage below shows some of his work towards building a sustainability implementation blueprint.

HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY PROGRESS

One Community is pioneering a sustainability implementation blueprint 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 sustainability implementation blueprint: 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 41 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 pioneering sustainability implementation blueprint. The video also explores how pioneering sustainability implementation blueprint 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 worked on improving the main donation page by comparing existing donation pages, developing a proposed page structure, adding donation buttons, reviewing social media options, and proposing preset donation amounts. Adhya also reviewed GA4 data and identified relevant metrics for establishing a monthly performance baseline and measuring visitor engagement. She completed the Google Search Console setup for One Community and linked it with GA4 to support organic search analysis. Adhya also used GA4 comparison filters to examine traffic sources, investigated differences between GSC and GA4 data, and established paid and organic search baselines for future analysis. She continued Reddit activity through the PostByPurpose and One Community accounts by creating posts, commenting, and reviewing engagement. Adhya also prepared the weekly summary and organized and submitted the required reporting materials and pictures. See the collage below for highlights of her work towards pioneering sustainability implementation blueprint.

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 researching team-specific AI tools used across One Community, starting with GitHub, and reviewed data retention and training terms across major AI tools at the free versus paid tiers to ground the policy’s Approved Tools section in actual terms rather than assumptions. Anagha then read the NIST AI Risk Management Framework to determine whether a single AI usage policy would be sufficient or whether department-specific terms were needed, and began related research into department-wise AI guidelines published by companies and framework organizations. She continued this research into guidance specific to structural, engineering, and safety-related content, given its relevance to One Community’s construction activities. Anagha then researched human oversight requirements for internal AI use, and identified high-risk categories requiring stricter review along with a practical verification checklist. This included research into the broader oversight mechanism needed for the policy and the process for establishing a system of checks and balances around AI use. She closed the week by collating all findings into the working document and preparing the weekly report. See the collage below for her week’s work, furthering One Community’s mission of pioneering sustainability implementation blueprint.

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 report by reviewing feedback, implementing updates and requesting a new blog for additional testing. Devarsh tested five more blogs, documented the results in the report and continued identifying videos that could be used to create training material to share with Jae. He also supported HGN software development by testing PRs and documenting findings. In addition, Devarsh completed his team’s weekly blog summary and created the team collage for publication. The images below provide examples of this week’s work towards pioneering sustainability implementation blueprint.

Jin Hua (Website, AdWords, and Analytics Administrator) fixed a critical site issue. He checked sitemap and robots file after reports they looked “broken.” The sitemap itself was valid for search engines; Chrome was warning about an old way of prettifying XML in the browser, which was fixed on the server. The bigger issue was Cloudflare serving a stripped-down robots.txt that omitted the sitemap link and standard crawl rules, while WordPress looked correct in the admin. He corrected the Cloudflare setting and cleared cache, so the live robots.txt pointed to the sitemap again. The website is the foundation for sharing all open source plans for pioneering sustainability implementation blueprint. See below for images and Highest Good Network page related to this website restoration work.

Sethuraman Karunanithi (Industrial Engineer) worked on the Volunteer section of the Highest Good Network (HGN) User Manual. He used the Demo Volunteer account to go through every page, button and icon a Volunteer can reach, and took screenshots for the manual. He wrote eight chapters: Logging In, Dashboard, Timer, Profile Page, Weekly Summaries, Tasks and Timelogs, Leaderboard, and Team Locations. Each chapter covers what the page is for, how to reach it, its parts, step-by-step actions, and common problems. In addition, Sethuraman matched the layout, colors, and fonts of the existing manual. He added separate explanations for the five status bar badges and the three clock icons in Team Member Tasks. He corrected on-screen labels, a timer message, and a page address. Also, Sethuraman renumbered the section from 1 to 8 so it reads as its own document. See the collage below for this work toward pioneering sustainability implementation blueprint.

ADMINISTRATION TEAM

The Administration Team’s summary, which covers their work on the Highest Good Network, was managed by Pandithya Reddy Dasari (Business Analyst) and includes Ashmita Pal (Data Analyst), Fnu Rukmangada (Administrative Assistant), Gargi Vipat (AI Engineer), 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 the sustainability implementation blueprint. 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 several PRs on Dev and left comments in the Google Doc, covering the Reports page, PM Resource Dashboard, Issue Chart, and the new All Inventory Types page in the BM Dashboard. She found that the Projects page search does not return valid project names and that the Utilization Chart date filters do not display properly in dark mode. Ashmita also went through older pending PRs and reviewed work submitted as part of the Training Team. Fnu completed the administrative training process and obtained official administrator access to the Highest Good Network application. She created a personal testing profile in the development environment and compared the Deadline Administrator dashboard with the tutorial documentation, reporting the interface discrepancies she found to management. Their work contributes to One Community’s pioneering sustainability implementation blueprint.

Gargi updated the AI announcement and bio image tutorial based on Jae’s review feedback. She continued as a Correction Administrator by checking other admins’ corrected PDFs against the versions provided by Sara and flagging any that did not match, and she started the HGN user manual task by creating a testing account and reviewing role permissions. Pandithya completed the initial training process and began setting up frontend testing for the Highest Good Network product team. She tested HGN Phase I bugs and worked on PR #5541, PR #5538, PR #5467, and PR #5500 in the development testing environment, and created an admin account for features that require administrator-level access. Together, they supported the development of the pioneering sustainability implementation blueprint.

Prathik completed daily time log reviews for volunteers, finished the weekly Facebook and Instagram analytics, and scheduled posts for both accounts. He tested the Job Form Builder, live Application Form, and collaboration page title search, submitting three bugs, and completed the weekly blog work for Team Binary Brigade. Sachit rebuilt the funder profiles in the funding matrix using the Walton Family Foundation brief as the template. He checked current application processes, grant sizes, and contact details, updating profiles for the Hewlett Foundation, Rockefeller Brothers Fund, MacArthur Foundation, Sloan Foundation, Ford Foundation, Heising-Simons Foundation, Bezos Earth Fund, and Moore Foundation. This work supports One Community’s pioneering sustainability implementation blueprint.

Sai Sree organized review images, created collages, finalized blog content for the PR Admin Team, and updated the Social Media Master Dashboard. Her frontend testing covered chart updates, dark mode functionality, page layouts, and responsive behavior, and she identified issues with chart filtering, legend display, and data restoration. Shreyas supported the Training Team under OC Administration by reviewing the Google document for Alpha Team members and writing the team summary for the weekly blog. He also assigned tasks to volunteers who requested hours, tested sections of the Total Organization Summary dashboard, created an AI training manual, and left feedback for a developer on a PR that did not work as expected. Tanmay continued bio management, blog preparation, and social media tasks. He updated existing bios, followed up with team members on missing summaries and photographs, organized content from multiple team blogs into the weekly blog, and completed required SEO updates. He also published Threads posts and completed final testing of merged PRs, contributing to One Community’s pioneering sustainability implementation blueprint. See the collage below for highlights and a visual overview of this week’s work.

HIGHEST GOOD NETWORK PROGRESS

One Community is pioneering a sustainability implementation blueprint 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 sustainability implementation blueprint: The Highest Good Network

This week, the core team continued HGN PR testing on the Main branch for the Highest Good Network, a platform pioneering sustainability implementation blueprint, and confirmed 10 PRs as fixed. The following issues were not fixed: three bugs on the Projects page (PR #3929); E2E testing and launch of the Blog Publishing and Mailing Component (PR #5464); dark mode implementation for the Utilization Chart (PR #5485); and displaying the Community Members List for an event with details on the Engagement page (PR #4699). They were also unable to test 5 PRs because there was no data available on the Main branch and confirmed fixes for dark mode issues on 2 pages. 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 Deepigha Japamony (Software Engineer), 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, Lin managed and reviewed the team summary covering Deepigha, Devang, Maithili, Priyanka, Sai Sandeep, Som Ramnani, and Yingshu Wang, reviewed PR #4734 by examining the code and running tests locally, and checked Alpha team members’ weekly summaries, photos, and videos while sharing pending pull requests for team review. Deepigha developed PR #5607 to fix Wishlist page navigation by adding the correct availability route, component, styling, and Redux state lookup, and reviewed 10 pull requests, approving 6 and requesting changes on 4 over functional, styling, filtering, and dark mode issues. Devang improved the Total Org Summary PDF export in PR #5557 by fixing chart sizing, pagination, borders, and the map and anniversary sections, investigated remaining dark mode display issues, and fixed the BMDashboard Issue Log submission bug by correcting a missing project ID, adding a regression test, and opening PR #5614, supporting the goal of pioneering sustainability implementation blueprint.

Maithili continued work on the Instagram autoposter by fixing scheduled post media loading, correcting frontend and backend field mismatches, strengthening user authentication validation, retaining existing media during edits, and moving media storage to Cloudinary, along with adding tests and resolving SonarCloud issues and dependency conflicts. Priyanka implemented CSV export for the Weekly PR grading screen, added tests for CSV generation and the Export button, verified that downloaded rows reflect search and role filters, and continued investigating PR count and duplicate entry issues. Sai worked on PR #5476 to align column headers with their content, added a calendar component for loss tracking in PR #5606, and resolved merge conflicts in PR #5553, contributing to One Community’s mission of pioneering sustainability implementation blueprint.

Som resolved merge conflicts and SonarCloud warnings in PR #5435, fixed combined category and status filtering in PR #5603 with regression tests, and updated PR #4603 with an inventory sorting dropdown offering Edited and Default order options, keyboard support, and dark mode styling. Yingshu improved the Volunteer Time save modal by hiding the upper close button during saves, disabling the remaining close control, and adding accessible save-status announcements, with 21 related tests, ESLint checks, Git diff checks, and the production build passing, furthering One Community’s mission of pioneering sustainability implementation blueprint. 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 (Software Engineer), Dhruv Topiwala (Full Stack Software Engineer), Mahika Kakkad (Software Engineer), Mahitha Pasupuleti (Software Engineer), Shreya Shailesh Bandodkar (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 pioneering sustainability implementation blueprint.

This week, Aditya worked on the PR Grading Dashboard by implementing reviewer removal functionality, adding backend and frontend support for deleting weekly grading records, updating week-based filtering, adding validation for reviewer and team inputs, and verifying database updates. He also investigated Volunteer Status and Mentors chart issues in the Total Org Summary dashboard, in support of the sustainability implementation blueprint. Amaan worked on frontend development, follow-up fixes, and testing across multiple HGN tasks by addressing reviewer feedback, resolving merge conflicts, updating responsive behavior, adding test coverage, validating frontend and backend integrations, and verifying functionality across light and dark modes, contributing to the sustainability implementation blueprint. Dhruv worked on blue square generation issues related to time-off requests, researched social media auto-posting options, implemented Tumblr auto-poster functionality, and addressed reviewer comments on sorting, queries, warning ID lookups, and monitor contact details, work that supports the sustainability implementation blueprint.

Mahika tested the Total Org Summary dashboard on the dev site ahead of its launch by creating test accounts and a test team, logging test hours, issuing a blue square, and deactivating a user. She found 11 bugs, checked 10 related pull requests, and wrote a report of her findings, work that advances the sustainability implementation blueprint. Mahitha worked on the Kitchen and Inventory module by updating the Garden Management page, replacing browser popups with in-page user interface components, addressing supplier validation and order issues, and developing the Orchard Management page with order tracking, planting schedules, order actions, and light and dark mode support, contributing to the sustainability implementation blueprint. Roshini completed PR #5591 by updating the Weekly Summaries submission page layout, addressing spacing and formatting issues, and aligning page elements according to requirements. She also resolved merge conflicts for PR #2181 and made updates for PR #5477, in support of the sustainability implementation blueprint.

Shreya tested the HGN Software Team Questionnaire Dashboard by validating help requests, skills overview functionality, community member search and filtering, API responses, user profile navigation, and permission configurations, and documented blockers and dependencies, work that supports the sustainability implementation blueprint. Shubham worked on Mastodon post scheduling by updating backend route registration, authentication, scheduling validation, frontend integration, dark mode behavior, and date and time handling, tested posting workflows, and raised frontend and backend pull requests, contributing to the sustainability implementation blueprint. 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 (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), Isha Pawar (Software Engineer), Linlin Fan (Software Engineer), Mahalakshmi Mahadevan (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), supporting One Community’s mission of cross-functional software development and system improvements. This week, Akshay confirmed the backend fix for the Task Completed chart date filter against the development database, had two frontend pull requests merged for the Volunteer Status donut chart and HGN Help modal dark mode, and opened a pull request moving three Total Org Summary charts onto one shared donut component. He traced green buttons appearing in every pop-up window to a stylesheet from a recently merged pull request, and took over a large dark mode pull request, updating it with 785 newer commits, resolving 20 merge conflicts, and fixing the remaining reviewer-reported issues. Amaresh worked on five pull requests, fixing chart overflow on PR #5470, dark mode icons and a detaching dropdown on PR #5379, and layout crashes, filter dropdowns, and the Share PDF export on PR #5415, and opened backend PR #2381 to connect unused tool availability logic to its routes with full test coverage, contributing to the sustainability implementation blueprint.

Ansh tested PR #5576 for Team Page responsiveness, PR #5600 for the Weekly Summaries Report week-off notification, and PR #5607 for the Wishlist Availability route, and continued the Dev Header Edit Lock and History Tracking feature, designed to limit header editing to Owner-level users. Bosu added an optional reason when an account is changed from Rehireable to Not Rehireable on the Profile Page, storing it in the backend profile model, showing it on hover, and adding regression tests that pass 20 of 20 on the frontend and 11 of 11 on the backend, and he identified a remaining issue where the indicator resets after a page reload. Gayatri added a Requested Week Off notification to the Weekly Summaries Report in PR #5600, moving it beside the team code after review, and fixed the Equipment list update button in PR #5605 with backend PR #2379 so equipment status fields save and display correctly, work that supports the sustainability implementation blueprint.

Hemanth updated PR #5592 for the Most Wasted Materials bar graph in response to reviewer suggestions, adding dark mode support, and traced the cause of the issue in PR #5064 to a missing backend API endpoint. Isha completed Material Consumption Graph enhancements in PRs #4587 and #1957, the expired team code fix in PR #5597, equipment upload status and network failure handling in PRs #4999 and #2103, and Resolved and Closed Task Tracking in PRs #4797 and #2031, each verified with its test suites. Linlin fixed badge management text contrast in dark mode on PR #5529, added a Suspense boundary for team locations on PR #5601, scoped scrollbars to dark mode on PR #5503, and aligned the People Report sidebar cards with expandable legends on PR #5524, advancing the sustainability implementation blueprint.

Mahalakshmi raised PR #5599 to add a Rental Tracking option to the Total Construction Dashboard and began end-to-end testing of the PR Review Team Admin and Analytics Dashboard, creating a tracker of merged tasks to verify. Mahathi traced Supplier Performance, Tools by Availability, and Tools Stoppage filters through the API, controllers, and MongoDB data, restored project-name mapping and missing visualizations, and connected placeholder backend routes to their controllers. Shreevaths fixed the Insights Widget on PR #5618, sorting and recoloring the life strategy bars, correcting dark mode colors and decimal values on the summary cards, adding accessibility labels, and adding 17 test cases. These analytics and dashboard improvements contribute to the sustainability implementation blueprint.

Shreyas improved the User Profile team creation workflow so new teams are saved and immediately assignable without duplicates, matched team codes case-insensitively against current codes, preserved team assignments for inactive teams when editing titles, and improved autocomplete accessibility. Sireesha mapped administrative and management job titles to their correct application forms, added KPI tile tooltips and a mobile layout, and fixed the bulk Mark as Hold action in PR #4680 with a backend ObjectId fix. Yuxuan completed her onboarding announcement and bio and continued fixing the Hours by Team Member visualization on the Projects Reports page after reviewer feedback. Their work supports the sustainability implementation blueprint. 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 Ken Zou (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 and supports One Community’s work in pioneering sustainability implementation blueprint.

This week, Ken resolved the permissions management follow-up ticket by confirming that permission changes automatically refresh the log table and use the frontend permission name while confirming that the reported blank log records could not be reproduced. He also reviewed PRs #4272 and #1843 for the Issues Created vs. Resolved graph, identifying backend date range and weekly bucket issues, missing KPI tooltips, mobile layout problems and dark mode styling issues. Ken reviewed PRs #4714 and #2005 for the Facebook autoposter workflow, confirming the main connection, posting, scheduling and history functionality while documenting questions around timezone handling, Page switching, logout behavior, connectedBy values and Meta configuration. He also reviewed PRs #3906 and #1357 for the Cost Breakdown by Type of Expenditure line graph, further supporting pioneering sustainability implementation blueprint.

Jaden traced and fixed missing posted dates on multiple Collaboration page job listings by identifying a backend updateJob controller issue that allowed falsy datePosted values to overwrite valid dates. He updated the controller, added a mechanism to restore missing dates, created a script to repair legacy records and expanded tests for the update logic and backfill process. Jaden also improved category to image matching, resolved eight asynchronous reliability findings, handled a merge conflict involving a deprecated feature and verified the final changes through linting, testing and manual inspection, furthering One Community’s mission of pioneering sustainability implementation blueprint.

Purav continued closing out the Job Applications launch work across the remaining frontend and backend PRs. He updated PR #5536 with the latest development branch, preserved the use of both filters tooltip behavior and re-ran the related tests. Purav addressed reviewer feedback on PR #5544 by updating the job title mismatch warning, removing the duplicate ToastContainer, fixing Sonar reliability findings and cleaning the commit history. He also verified that PRs #5538 and #5541 remained compatible with the latest development code and completed backend closeout work for PR #2344 by tracing submitted application data through the job form response endpoint and confirming how applications and analytics are currently accessed contributing to One Community’s mission of pioneering sustainability implementation blueprint.

Swathi investigated the disappearing Edit to Reorder button, identified permissions as the root cause and created a video explaining the issue for reviewers. She also updated Promotion button functionality based on reviewer feedback, resolved new SonarQube issues and began Dark Mode changes for the PR Team Analytics Dashboard. These activities continued advancing the team’s work in pioneering sustainability implementation blueprint. 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 and advancing the sustainability implementation blueprint. This week’s active members of this team were Aadit Trivedi (Software Quality Assurance & Team Coordinator), Aakash Vidiyala (Software Engineer), Aarya Amit Shah (Software Engineer), Aditya Varun Dhayapulay (Software Engineer), Carl Bebli (Software Developer), 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 pioneering sustainability implementation blueprint. 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 sustainability implementation blueprint. This week’s active members of this team were 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 sustainability implementation blueprint. The collage below shows a compilation of the work from this team.

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One Community welcomes Purav Jignesh Patel to the Software Team as our newest Volunteer/Consultant!

Purav is a software engineer with experience in full-stack development, cloud computing, and software modernization. He specializes in building scalable web applications using React.js, Redux, TypeScript, Node.js, Express.js, MongoDB, C#, ASP.NET Core, and SQL/NoSQL databases. Purav recently completed his Master’s degree in Computer Science from the University of Houston and has experience developing REST APIs, reusable user interface components, dashboards, authentication systems, and workflow applications. He is passionate about creating maintainable, user-focused software that solves real-world problems and supports meaningful social impact. As a member of the One Community Software Team, Purav has contributed to the Highest Good Network software by developing and testing full-stack features, improving code quality, resolving frontend and backend issues, and supporting work on dashboards, educator review workflows, meeting scheduling, notification systems, and related components.

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One Community welcomes Amaan Syed to the Software Team as our newest Volunteer/Consultant!

Amaan is a software engineer with experience building and improving full-stack web applications, with a focus on creating reliable, user-friendly software. He enjoys solving technical problems, learning new technologies, and working with teams to turn ideas into practical solutions. Outside of software development, Amaan enjoys staying active through daily workouts, soccer, pickleball, and other sports, as well as playing RPGs and other video games. He values continuous learning and looks for opportunities to strengthen his technical skills while contributing useful solutions to the projects he works on. As a member of One Community’s Software Team and Binary Brigade, Amaan has contributed to the Highest Good Network application by developing and improving frontend features, resolving UI and functionality issues, improving light and dark mode support, addressing code quality and reviewer feedback, and testing functionality across the Building Materials, Reports, and Project Management areas of the application.

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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

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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 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 (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 working on the 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. She also 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. See below for some of the pictures related to this work toward creating better sustainability.

Zoey Zou (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 One Community’s Highest Good Energy initiative. 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 (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 (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 (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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One Community is demonstrating open source permaculture communities designed to show what’s possible when sustainability touches every part of daily life, from food and energy to housing, education, economics, and social architecture. As an all-volunteer team, we’re developing a self-replicating model meant to grow into a worldwide network of teacher/demonstration hubs, each one operating for “The Highest Good of All.” Nothing we create is kept behind closed doors. Every process, design, and lesson learned is open source and freely shared, so communities everywhere can regenerate their land and build a world that truly works for everyone.

• Here’s our project overview
• Here’s our world-change methodology
  
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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 21, 2026 edition (#705) of our weekly progress update detailing our team’s development and accomplishments:

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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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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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