At One Community, we are pioneering the global-sustainability systems movement as an all-volunteer team dedicated to creating a world that works for everyone. We are developing sustainable approaches to food, energy, housing, education, economics, social architecture, and global stewardship, and we are open sourcing and freely sharing the complete process along the way. Our goal is a model that replicates itself, forming a worldwide network of teacher/demonstration hubs. Every step we take is guided by “The Highest Good of All” as we work to regenerate our planet.

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

OUR MAIN OPEN SOURCE HUBS

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

One Community’s physical location will forward this movement as the first of many self-replicating teacher/demonstration communities, villages, and cities to be built around the world. This is the October 26, 2026 edition (#710) of our weekly progress update detailing our team’s development and accomplishments:

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HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING PROGRESS

One Community is pioneering the global-sustainability systems movement 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 pioneering the global-sustainability systems movement: 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 properties in northeastern Oregon within the Wallowa-Whitman area of the Blue Mountains and identified a substantial property near La Grande with abundant available water. The images below highlight this property research supporting One Community’s pioneering the global-sustainability systems movement.

Sahithi Reddy Chitkula (Data Analyst) continued working on Highest Good Housing revenue projections by refining the Phase 4 and 5 financial scenarios and developing gradual population growth projections. She compared the revised estimates with Udayan’s original model and analyzed their effects on quarterly expenses, net cash flow, and cumulative cash flow. Sahithi also extended the break-even and sensitivity analysis to calculate the additional revenue needed to offset negative quarterly cash flow under different population scenarios and reviewed how food and health insurance costs affect operating expenses and profitability. She consolidated the revised scenarios, checked formula consistency across the financial model, and documented key assumptions, financial risks, and remaining issues for team review. She also supported administration by conducting Data Analyst and Software Engineer interviews, reviewing Nikhil’s four-step Admin training process, and completing weekly blog review work. The collage below highlights her financial analysis and administrative work supporting One Community’s pioneering the global-sustainability systems movement.

Shameera Musthafa (Data Analyst) supported the Administration Team and the PR Review Team by coordinating review workflows, reviewing team deliverables, organizing project images, creating visual collages, and finalizing blog content. She also reviewed the Highest Good Housing rental revenue projections and Master Financial Sheets, identifying inconsistencies in Year and Phase labels and reviewing how planned population increases could affect cash flow. The financial review covered population growth scenarios, cash flow, break-even analysis, rental rates, food costs, and insurance assumptions. Shameera also contributed to Highest Good Food report pages and visualizations and managed One Community’s Bluesky social media content. The images below showcase her review, visualization, and administrative work contributing to One Community’s pioneering the global-sustainability systems movement.

Srikanth Mangali (Financial Analyst) worked on the Highest Good Housing revenue projections review for the One Community Master Financial Sheet, focusing on rental rates, food costs, and insurance assumptions across development phases. He created an assumptions review tracker documenting current values and their locations within the financial model. Srikanth compared existing rental rates for the Duplicable City Center, seven eco-villages, and camping accommodations with comparable eco-cottages, cabins, treehouses, hotels, and campgrounds in Oregon, Washington, and California. He calculated low, average, and high nightly rates for each accommodation type and proposed updated rates based on average market pricing. He also researched 2026 health, vehicle, and liability insurance costs and USDA food cost data, documented proposed values, and added supporting sources, calculations, and reasoning to the tracker. The images below highlight his assumptions and market research supporting One Community’s pioneering the global-sustainability systems movement.

DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER PROGRESS

One Community is pioneering the global-sustainability systems movement 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 pioneering the global-sustainability systems movement: Duplicable City Center Open Source Hub

This week, Nidish Reddy Koppula (Mechanical Engineer) continued working on the Duplicable City Center design. He submitted the final version of the hydraulic elevator project report after completing the remaining updates and checks. He also customized the existing project logos and adjusted their formatting for use within the documentation and related materials. In addition, Nidish worked on the finite element analysis setup, including solver configuration, meshing, and related model settings, and made adjustments to support the next stage of analysis work. This open source Duplicable City Center project contributes towards pioneering the global-sustainability systems movement. The collage below shows his work for this week.

Manav Rajubhai Oza (Industrial Designer) continued working on the Duplicable City Center design by reviewing and editing the article content in the 1041 Dormer Final Report based on feedback and previously published One Community articles. He focused on improving the writing structure, maintaining consistent terminology and sentence style, removing repetitive information, and aligning the content with the organization’s writing format. Manav also worked on the 3D rendering task by reviewing the available models, setting up materials, lighting, and camera angles in KeyShot, and producing high-quality renders from different perspectives. Additionally, he prepared SolidWorks views with dimensions for technical documentation. This open source Duplicable City Center project helps in pioneering the global-sustainability systems movement. The following images showcase his work.

 

HIGHEST GOOD FOOD PROGRESS

One Community is pioneering the global-sustainability systems movement 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 pioneering the global-sustainability systems movement: Hoop House Hub | Aquapini & Walipini Open Source Hub
    • See what we’ll be growing: Gardens & Hoop Houses | Large-scale Structures | Food Forest | Tropical Atrium

This week, Navya Eeshani Boyapati (Web Designer) worked on Task 1031: SEO Optimize All Page Images by reviewing webpage images and updating them with descriptive, SEO-friendly alternative text and relevant keywords to improve accessibility and search visibility. She also began Task 965: Land Purchasing and Transportation Infrastructure Due Diligence Guide by reviewing the provided content and organizing and formatting the webpage according to project requirements. The images below showcase her webpage and SEO work supporting One Community’s pioneering the global-sustainability systems movement.

Zoey Zou (Landscape Architect) continued developing the Large Aquapini model, renderings, walkthrough video, and project write-up based on feedback from Jae, contributing to One Community’s work in pioneering the global-sustainability systems movement. She revised planting beds, seating, beams, and wood surfaces to improve material accuracy and create a more aged, natural appearance. Zoey checked for clipping, floating objects, duplicated people, and placement errors, making adjustments where needed. She also tested methods for depicting the aquaponics dripping water system and refined the effect to represent continuous dripping. In D5, Zoey adjusted lighting, camera views, plant movement, and rendering settings, produced updated high-resolution images, and rendered a 1080p walkthrough video.

Additionally, Zoey revised the video’s length and camera movement to match the selected music’s timing and pacing. She also updated the project write-up to describe circulation, resting and harvesting areas, layered polyculture planting, keyhole gardens, aquaponics ponds, water features, aquaculture, single-pump water circulation, media-bed irrigation and filtration, and community gathering and learning spaces, furthering One Community’s mission of pioneering the global-sustainability systems movement. See the collage below for views of her updated Large Aquapini design.

 

HIGHEST GOOD ENERGY PROGRESS

One Community is pioneering the global-sustainability systems movement 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 pioneering the global-sustainability systems movement: 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 finished reviewing the DIY Earthen Dam Design and Construction webpage and added feedback as comments to the related Google document. They also reviewed the Elevator Design FEA Report and made edits and suggestions for the Highest Good Energy initiative, part of One Community’s work. In addition, they read through The Ultimate Classroom book and provided suggestions on the corresponding document. See the image below for highlights of their work contributing to One Community’s mission of pioneering the global-sustainability systems movement.

Rohan Pariakar (Operations and Supply Chain Analyst) continued updating the Highest Good Energy infrastructure report and supporting spreadsheets for One Community, focusing on revised solar estimates, phase-specific equipment costs, and report descriptions. He updated the solar tables for Steps 2, 3, and 4 to reflect revised energy requirements, panel quantities, installed and cumulative capacity, expected daily generation, and costs. For Step 3, he added 961 additional 450 W panels (432.45 kW), bringing cumulative capacity to about 775.8 kW and expected daily generation to about 2,595 kWh. For Step 4, he added 2,689 panels (1,210.05 kW), bringing cumulative capacity to about 1,985.85 kW and daily generation to about 6,643 kWh, contributing to One Community’s mission of pioneering the global-sustainability systems movement.

Rohan also reviewed costs for inverters, batteries, mounting, wiring, labor, and monitoring, with current phase-expansion estimates of $133,927.78 for Step 2, $180,001 for Step 3, and $485,460 for Step 4. He checked the Step 5 estimates against the modeled daily requirement of 11,733.2 kWh/day and identified inconsistencies in panel quantity, cumulative capacity, and expected generation that need correction. In parallel, he revised the cost table descriptions to distinguish incremental phase costs from cumulative capacity and generation, and reviewed the Step 2 energy cost analysis, including two 100 kW diesel generators, fuel storage, and monthly fuel costs at $5.20 per gallon. He added battery storage safety considerations and refined the report’s formatting, headings, and terminology for consistency with the underlying calculations. The collage below shows some of his work pioneering the global-sustainability systems movement.

 

HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION PROGRESS

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

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

• Program Overview: Education Open Source Hub
• How the components work together in designing human orchestrated eco-abundance and pioneering the global-sustainability systems movement: 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 pioneering the global-sustainability systems movement 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 pioneering the global-sustainability systems movement: 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 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 pioneering the global-sustainability systems movement. The video also explores how pioneering the global-sustainability systems movement 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 and performance data, adding traffic and measurement columns. She published Reddit discussion posts and participated in relevant conversations through the PostByPurpose and One Community accounts. Adhya also explored Google Search Console and Google Analytics 4 Free Form Exploration to understand search performance, user behavior, and custom data analysis. She completed content updates for the Donate, Contribute, Join, and Ways to Help pages, added relevant information and a bottom Donate button, and investigated an issue affecting its functionality furthering One Community’s mission of pioneering the global-sustainability systems movement.

In addition, Adhya identified pending URL changes required to improve Rank Math SEO scores. To develop her digital marketing skills, she watched educational videos on analytics, digital marketing, and Google Ads campaign management. Further, Adhya reviewed recent Google Ads activity and performance and continued developing the Excel tracking workbook by adding Monthly Tracker and Campaign Settings worksheets. She also prepared project documentation outlining the tracking process, objectives, methodology, expected outcomes, applications, and a checklist of tasks for implementation. See the collage below for highlights of her work towards pioneering the global-sustainability systems movement 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 worked on creating the One Community AI Usage Policy for HG Society, reviewed the policy, tested it against realistic scenarios, and revised it to close the gaps found. Anagha also built the Tool Register and the supporting forms, and prepared rollout materials for volunteers and a cover summary for leadership. She added guidance tailored to specific uses for construction and engineering, guest operations, volunteer coordination, finance and donors, and technical work, along with an escalation path for incidents involving the AI Policy Lead and a method for detecting unsanctioned AI use contributing to One Community’s mission of pioneering the global-sustainability systems movement.

Anagha also checked the policy against current state AI employment laws and tested it through a tabletop exercise. The policy, forms, Tool Register, and supporting materials were then assembled into a single package with a handoff note. See the collage below for her week’s work, furthering One Community’s mission of pioneering the global-sustainability systems movement for the Highest Good Network.

Ayush Meshram (Admin) prepared and published three Medium articles covering reuse, clean-water access, and harmony in education, added approved images and accessibility text, and recorded publication details in the content sheet. He tested AI profile-image and announcement-banner prompts, documented output quality and formatting issues, and submitted results and clarification comments. Ayush also created an Administrator testing account for Highest Good Network Phase Two and checked material and tool forms, lesson creation, member time logging, inventory-type editing, and tool check-in/check-out screens. He recorded validation results, calculation checks, navigation discrepancies, and blocked workflows in a draft manual and test log. Further, Ayush created the Phase Two Administrator section in the shared HGN User Manual, added introductory content and key terms, documented access and project-dashboard navigation, and included a screenshot with a caption. The collage below shows some of his work towards pioneering the global-sustainability systems movement.

Devarsh Wali (Program Manager) continued supporting the weekly blog review process, Admin Team procedures, and Highest Good Network software development. He also continued advancing the AI optimization report by running and documenting tests across multiple AI platforms, including Groq AI, Claude, Perplexity and ChatGPT. Devarsh compared SEO keyword variations across platforms, evaluated differences in how the models responded and documented the results to strengthen the report’s findings. Further, he supported PR testing alongside the AI optimization work, and worked on AI Image Creation Prompt Testing by running experiments across three AI platforms. He then documented the results for further evaluation. The images below provide examples of his week’s work towards pioneering the global-sustainability systems movement.

Sethuraman Karunanithi (Industrial Engineer) continued working on the Volunteer section of the Highest Good Network. He replaced the Volunteer tab in the HGN User Manual Google Doc with the updated Volunteer section, which includes the changes from Jae’s feedback and the new pictures. Sethuraman also checked the pasted version for pictures, tables, and the One Community Policy box that moved during the paste. He added comments for Jae where the clock icons and the warning tracker circles have no hover text. He then went through the document and fixed or accepted the underlined words flagged by Google Docs. Sethuraman sent Jae the link to the Volunteer tab for review, and listed the items still needed for the Volunteer section: a Leaderboard picture of a Volunteer on a team, a picture of the Badges tab with badges earned, and a picture of the email generated by a bug report. See the collage below for his work toward pioneering the global-sustainability systems movement.

Jinglin Zhang (Graphic Designer) completed the website bios and volunteer announcement graphics for Anagha and Prathik. She also researched TikTok and Instagram content formats and image dimensions to learn the requirements for creating content for both platforms. Jinglin then experimented with AI tools to add motion to several existing images and tested ways to combine text with animated visuals for social media content. See the collage below for her work towards pioneering the global-sustainability systems movement for the Highest Good Network.

Jin Hua (Website, AdWords, and Analytics Administrator) fixed site issues, helping with a server disk cleanup that cleared over 250 GB of unneeded files and logs across all our sites. Our website is the foundation for sharing all our open source plans for pioneering the global-sustainability systems movement. See below for images and the Highest Good Network page related to this website restoration work.

ADMINISTRATION TEAM

The Administration Team’s summary, which covers their work on the Highest Good Network, was managed by Srikanth Mangali (Data Analyst) and includes Fnu Rukmangada “Ruku” (Administrative Assistant), Gargi Vipat (AI Engineer), Pandithya Reddy Dasari (Business Analyst), Prathik Raju (Data 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 in pioneering the global-sustainability systems movement. The team handles administrative support, documentation, testing, training, analytics, and content management.

This week, Ruku rewrote her document in the correct format based on feedback from the core team and checked tasks for all members on the HGN dashboard each day as Deadline Administrator. She also reviewed Nikhil’s admin training work and completed all four steps of the weekly admin process. Gargi reviewed administrators’ corrections as Corrections Administrator and analyzed results from four testers of the AI Image Generation tutorial. She also expanded the Assistant Manager section of the HGN User Manual with sections on the Weekly Summaries Report, the Reports page, and Timer and Time Classification Oversight. This open source Highest Good Network work contributes towards pioneering the global-sustainability systems movement.

Pandithya worked on the Administration Team blog and reviewed comments made by six administrators on their team members’ documents as Senior Administrator. She also reviewed Nikhil’s training work and tested PR #5544, PR #5628, and PR #5502, checking job application links and job title connections. Prathik reviewed volunteer time logs and tested the Total Construction Summary dashboard, logging three bugs related to project names, labels, filter options, trend colors, and a duplicate card. He also completed weekly Facebook and Instagram analytics, scheduled social media posts, and completed the Team Binary Brigade blog work. Their testing and administration on the Highest Good Network contribute towards pioneering the global-sustainability systems movement.

Sai Sree organized review images, created collages, and finalized blog content for the PR Admin Team. She also tested multiple PRs in the Highest Good Network development environment, covering analytics dashboards, donut charts, job role graphs, timer functions, FAQ features, and volunteer status metrics. Shreyas completed the Alpha Team blog work for week #709 and compared AI image generation quality across Gemini, Grok, and ChatGPT. He also tested several pull requests, assigned tasks to volunteers who requested hours, and created an AI training manual for the Total Organization Summary dashboard. This open source Highest Good Network work contributes towards pioneering the global-sustainability systems movement.

Tanmay managed bio records, weekly blog compilation, and social media, revising bios and consolidating content from team blogs into the weekly blog. He also shared posts on Threads, updated the Social Media Master Dashboard, and tested merged PRs. His open source content work contributes towards pioneering the global-sustainability systems movement. The collage below shows this team’s work.

 

HIGHEST GOOD NETWORK PROGRESS

One Community is pioneering the global-sustainability systems movement 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 pioneering the global-sustainability systems movement: 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 the global-sustainability systems movement, and confirmed 17 PRs as fixed. The following issues were not fixed: #5464, Fix Primary Two Buttons on the Announcements Email Dashboard; #5542, Job Posting Page Analytics, Set the Date and Role Filters to Their Default Values of “All”; #5543, Application/Job Posting Page – Application Form Template, Warn Users Before Page Refresh or Navigation; #5541, Job Form Builder, Renumber Questions After Reordering; and #5544, Suggested Jobs, Keep the Job-Title Mismatch Warning Visible. The team was unable to test three additional PRs because no data were available on the main branch. See the collage below to view their week’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), Maithili Kalkar (Software Engineer), Priyanka Ajit Mutha (Software Engineer), Som Ramnani (Junior Software Engineer) and Sai Sandeep (Software Engineer). Their work supported One Community’s mission of cross-functional software development and system improvements, helping advance pioneering the global-sustainability systems movement.

This week, Lin managed and reviewed the team summary, reviewed PR #4734 by examining the code and running tests locally, checked Alpha Team members’ weekly summaries, photos, and videos, and shared pending pull requests for review. Deepigha fixed the LB Dashboard “Comparing Villages” pie chart, which had allowed auction-only metrics to be shown for Listing, by connecting the pie chart’s Listing/Bidding filter to the dashboard’s top filter and disabling incompatible selections. She also reviewed eight pull requests, approving PRs #2306, #5448, #5510, and #5514 after local testing and requesting changes on PRs #3468, #5437, #5459, and #5530 for issues involving calendar date contrast, dark mode, mobile responsiveness, and unresolved merge conflicts furthering One Community’s mission of pioneering the global-sustainability systems movement.

Maithili updated the archive and unarchive button labels, corrected the project table headers, fixed responsive layout issues across screen sizes, and fixed the active status styling in dark mode, with some failing tests still under investigation. Priyanka resolved merge conflicts in the PR grading persistence PR and verified that duplicate PR numbers were rejected and saved entries remained after refresh. As part of the team’s work toward pioneering the global-sustainability systems movement, she addressed review feedback on the Weekly PR grading CSV export, including dark mode readability, investigated a failing CI test, and reviewed PRs #5678, #5669, #5659, and #5661, identifying an Inventory Types editing regression and missing backend endpoints for the Kitchen Reports exports. Sai fixed a missing x-axis label and a duplicate year display in tooltips in PR #5672, implemented a calendar component for loss tracking in the BM dashboard in PR #5606, and addressed reviewer feedback on PR #5476.

Som resolved frontend merge conflicts in PR #5603 while keeping inventory sorting, search, filtering, accessibility behavior, and Archive permissions. In the same PR, he reduced duplicated backend logic flagged by SonarCloud, added NoSQL injection protections by validating type IDs before database queries, fixed a CI failure in the ActivityList sorting test, and resolved five SonarCloud findings in Projects.jsx, with all 62 focused tests, ESLint, and whitespace checks passing. In PR #5578, he removed 16 !important declarations and an unused style rule from the Participation page, updated dark mode and print selectors, and resolved conflicting event-card styles while keeping multipage PDF printing. Stylelint, ESLint, and all eight Participation tests passed, while browser and PDF validation remained pending because the local page redirected to a blank login screen, and the changes were not yet committed or pushed, furthering One Community’s mission of pioneering the global-sustainability systems movement. See the collage below to look at some of this 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 Aarya Amit Shah (Software Engineer), Aditya Krishnamurthi (Software Engineer), Aditya Varun Dhayapulay (Software Engineer), Alekya Jogini (Software Engineer), Amaan Syed (Software Engineer), Dhruv Topiwala (Full Stack Software Engineer), Mahika Kakkad (Software Engineer), Mahitha Pasupuleti (Software Engineer), Niket Pathak (Software Engineer), Prajwal Gangadhar Melinamane (Software Engineer), Richa Sapre (Software Engineer), Shreya Shailesh Bandodkar (Software Engineer), Shubham Jakhete (Software Engineer), and Snehita Kandula (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 the global-sustainability systems movement.

This week, Aarya reviewed all 94 rows on the Permissions Management page, fixed the bug that kept the Manage User Permissions dialog from opening, and updated permission names and descriptions. Aditya K. resumed frontend PR #5489 and backend PR #2328 for the Total Org Summary dashboard, updating the Task Completed chart, adding four unit tests, and fixing Prettier errors. Aditya D. resolved a CSS merge conflict on the job application Terms and Conditions PR, fixed a delayed-loading issue that cleared task resources, and reviewed pull requests, requesting changes where issues were reproduced. Alekya prepared an end-to-end testing report for the Total Construction Summary dashboard, documenting 44 bugs and 17 questions, and approved PRs #5689 and #5681, work that supports pioneering the global-sustainability systems movement.

Amaan added dark mode to three Support Portal pages, addressed reviewer feedback on the Total Construction Summary, and added hour tracking and authorization checks to Education Portal Student Tasks. Dhruv investigated why missed-summary reminders reached users with scheduled time off, synced badge records with user profiles, and replaced the “Good Morning” greeting in infringement emails with “Dear.” Mahika fixed HGN timer bugs involving premature completion popups, logging time after a refresh, and the Reset button, adding regression tests for each. Mahitha updated the Orchard Management container styling to use the application’s theme variables for dark mode, work that supports pioneering the global-sustainability systems movement.

Niket completed four frontend tasks, adding searchable member selection to the Create New Team form (PR #5683), expanding the Project Status dashboard (PR #5690), improving its layout (PR #5696), and fixing Financial Dashboard filter persistence (PR #5701), in support of pioneering the global-sustainability systems movement. Prajwal resolved merge conflicts on the job application resume PR, fixed the Summary Submitted On date in the Weekly Summaries Report (PR #5707), and completed the Update Tool modal on the BM Dashboard Tools page (PR #5714). Richa added job application email notifications with 30-day retention, duplicate-question detection, and a rehireability history feature, and prepared pull requests for all three. Roshini investigated the Financials Tracking issue on the Total Construction Summary dashboard, including duplicate charts, inconsistent values, a variance above 9,700%, overlapping labels, and missing months, work that supports pioneering the global-sustainability systems movement.

Shreya reviewed pull requests on Help Request access, feedback forms, and service worker registration, reported a merge conflict on PR #5565 to Jae, and investigated a Skills Overview pagination issue showing “Page NaN of 6”. Shubham completed Task #65 by removing three obsolete test entries from the public FAQ section of the Collaboration job board, and approved PRs #5651 and #5654. Snehita moved to the Development Team and fixed Injury Severity chart styling and dark-mode issues, added year comparisons and grouped and stacked views to the Issues Chart, and improved the Create New Team workflow, work that supports pioneering the global-sustainability systems movement. 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 Aakash Vidiyala (Software Engineer), 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), Sai Manojna Velagala (Software Engineer), 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, Aakash completed six pull request re-reviews, approving four and requesting changes on two, and built six Jobs Component security and quality improvements, including escaping applicant input in confirmation emails, server-side upload limits, bot protection, rate limiting, a cap on confirmation emails, and trimmed public form responses. Akshay added readiness reporting to the material stock-out risk backend, labeling projects as Ready, Partial, or Not Configured while keeping valid chart results for incomplete projects, with repeatable test fixtures and 30 focused backend tests passing. Amaresh resolved merge conflicts and reviewer feedback across PRs #4734, #2347, #5526, #5415, and #5330, fixing a badge dark mode class mismatch, rebuilding the promotion eligibility query batching, correcting a PDF export that paired charts with the wrong sections, and keeping the map’s zoom position when filters change, contributing to pioneering the global-sustainability systems movement.

Ansh tested PR #5595 for Student Profile dark mode, PR #5678 for Inventory Types edit and delete, PR #5613 for the weekly PR grading CSV export, and PR #5663 for the Create Listing page. Bosu completed Phase 1 of the Duplicate Time Log Confirmation feature in frontend PR #5688 and backend PR #2423, finalizing the Cancel, Edit, and Proceed workflows while preserving form and timer state, and strengthened the backend duplicate check against NoSQL injection, with 2,688 frontend tests and 108 backend controller tests passing. Gayatri fixed the Project Risk Profile filter and tooltips in PR #5681, replaced simulated values with real risk data in PR #5682 and backend PR #2421, added a Customize Cards control to the Total Construction Summary in PR #5684, finished dark mode for the Lessons Learnt chart, and fixed a CI-wide ActivityList test failure, work that supports pioneering the global-sustainability systems movement.

Hemanth found that the design for the new Kitchen Phase 6 task was not yet available, so he updated his routing pull request to keep the existing event routes and restore all promotion eligibility arguments. The event pages now return correct responses again, supporting pioneering the global-sustainability systems movement. Isha built rental cost over time and owned versus rented tool cost charts for the BM Dashboard in frontend PR #5704 and backend PR #2429, with 14 new backend tests, and resolved merge conflicts on PR #5597 while keeping both the team code suggestions and the requested week off details. Linlin implemented YouTube upload permission checks in backend PR #2426, improved the Imgur auto-poster in PRs #2408 and #5664, merged PRs #5504 and #5524, and reviewed PR #5549, advancing pioneering the global-sustainability systems movement.

Mahalakshmi updated the PR Review Team dashboard tracker, confirming which listed PRs had already merged, recording conflicts between open PRs, adding eight new tasks totaling 40 hours, and testing the PR Dashboard pages on the dev site, where she found the Promotion Eligibility table takes about 36 seconds to load. Sai Manojna added bulk lesson tag management in frontend PR #5711 and backend PR #2431, with previews, history, undo, permission checks, and transaction-safe saves covered by 116 tests, and improved the Paid Labor Cost chart’s readability in PR #5710. Shreevaths built the Forecast Accuracy report page for the kitchen inventory system in PR #5697, with planned versus actual ingredient quantities, accuracy badges, CSV and PDF exports, dark mode, and 41 passing tests. These improvements contribute to pioneering the global-sustainability systems movement.

Shreyas worked on team code capitalization and validation in the Quick Setup modal in frontend PR #5694 and backend PR #2425, and fixed the Weekly Update Composer’s dark mode drop zones and header image upload, adding keyboard access to the upload area. Sireesha added a reusable questionnaire link with access restrictions in PR #5702 and backend PR #2428, and addressed review feedback on the bid overview page in PR #4272, resetting stale data, handling fetch errors, and improving mobile layouts and KPI tile labels. Yuxuan submitted frontend and backend fixes for the View NEW AI Prompt notification task and fixed a date-dependent test that was failing CI checks. Their work supports pioneering the global-sustainability systems movement. The following images showcase their work.

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 pioneering the global-sustainability systems movement.

This week, Anthony continued addressing reviewer feedback for PR #3600 and PR #1447 related to permission management and change logging. He refined how role and permission changes are logged, updated the frontend process to prevent logs from being created when user updates fail, investigated Reset to Default issues and updated related tests. He also removed unrelated yarn.lock changes, merged recent updates and pushed changes to both pull requests. Ken worked on PR #2307 for the HGN Questionnaire Dashboard Promotional Eligibility Table, resolving merge conflicts, preserving questionnaire completion filtering and validating promotion related functionality. He also continued testing the Facebook Auto Poster Live API, verified database and Facebook history behavior and investigated API limitations around filters. Ken additionally reviewed PR #4785 and documented remaining wishlist page issues and integration questions, supporting pioneering the global-sustainability systems movement.

Jaden continued Phase 6 of the Kitchen Report and Analytics work by building the Reports and Analytics interface with four tabs, date filtering and PDF and CSV export controls. He separated export logic into a reusable hook, added dark mode support, registered placeholder API endpoints and verified the implementation through linting and a production build before opening PR #5669. He also addressed dark mode feedback for the HGN Feedback Modal in PR #5549. Purav continued Job Applications testing and launch preparation across several frontend and backend PRs, validating catalog parity, upload restrictions, bot protection, rate limiting, confirmation email sanitization and duplicate application handling. He also maintained a consolidated Jobs Component status document covering active tickets, testing results, remaining bugs and next actions, furthering pioneering the global-sustainability systems movement.

Swathi worked on improving the Inventory Types page in the Building Management Dashboard by refining Edit and Delete workflows, confirmation modals and success and error messaging. She also added loading states, disabled action buttons during requests, improved role based visibility for controls and worked on keeping inventory data refreshed after successful updates. These efforts continued advancing pioneering the global-sustainability systems movement. 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 pioneering the global-sustainability systems movement. This week’s active members of this team were Aadit Trivedi (Software Quality Assurance & Team Coordinator), Anushka Dwivedi (Software Engineer), Carl Bebli (Software Developer), 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 toward pioneering the global-sustainability systems movement. 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 pioneering the global-sustainability systems movement. This week’s active members of this team were Rahul Rubugunday (Software Engineer), Revathi Srinivasan (Software Engineer), Rohit Srikanth (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 towards our goal of pioneering the global-sustainability systems movement. The collage below shows a compilation of the work from this team.

 

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Prathik has over three years of experience in data analysis and business intelligence reporting, working with SQL, Python, R, Tableau, and Power BI to turn complex data into clear, actionable insights. He holds an M.S. in Business Analytics and AI (Data Science Track) from the University of Texas at Dallas. His experience spans statistical modeling and hypothesis testing to uncover trends and validate business decisions, as well as building ETL pipelines that clean, transform, and integrate data from multiple sources into reliable, analysis-ready datasets. Prathik has a track record of presenting findings to cross-functional teams and senior leadership. He enjoys framing ambiguous problems as measurable questions and believes well-organized, accurate data is the foundation of good decisions. As a member of the One Community Administration Team, Prathik has tested Highest Good Network dashboards, documenting chart display issues and tracing a map regression between the Dev and Production environments to its source pull request. He also tested the Application/Job Posting page, identifying function and design issues that the team then addressed. In addition, Prathik has helped onboard new Administration Team members and managed One Community’s Mastodon account. He now handles the Facebook and Instagram accounts, including weekly analytics for both.

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One Community welcomes Anagha Bharadwaj to the Legal Team as our newest Volunteer/Consultant!

Anagha has over two years of experience in privacy, data protection, and technology law advising multinational enterprises on global privacy compliance, technology contracts, and regulatory risk. She has led enterprise-wide privacy programs across the GDPR, CCPA/CPRA, and Middle Eastern and Indian data protection laws, and she holds an LL.M. in Technology Law from UC Berkeley School of Law. Anagha believes in turning complex legal requirements into clear, practical frameworks that real teams can follow. As a member of the One Community team, Anagha has researched and drafted the legal structure and full set of legal agreements for the perpetual preservation of One Community’s Property and Home Shares model, and is now developing One Community’s internal AI usage policy.

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One Community welcomes Bosu Babu Bade to the Software Team as our newest Volunteer/Consultant!

Bosu is a software developer with over three years of professional software engineering experience and a background in full-stack application development using Java, Spring Boot, React, JavaScript, TypeScript, Node.js, REST APIs, SQL, and MongoDB. He has experience developing scalable web applications, integrating frontend and backend systems, improving application performance, and working within collaborative Agile development environments. Bosu is interested in building reliable and maintainable software systems while continuing to expand his experience in full-stack engineering, cloud technologies, system design, and modern software development practices. He also contributes to code quality through testing, pull-request reviews, debugging, CI/CD verification, and collaboration with other developers. As a member of the One Community Software Team, Bosu has contributed to the Highest Good Network application across both frontend and backend development, including improvements to questionnaire functionality, event rescheduling, PR Review Team analytics, and education analytics functionality. He has implemented and tested REST API behavior, analytics dashboards and filters, data-validation improvements, automated tests, responsive and dark-mode UI improvements, and fixes identified through code review and regression testing. Bosu has also taken on a team management role, helping coordinate development work, review weekly team progress, and support other contributors while continuing to develop the Highest Good Network platform.

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One Community welcomes Akshay Viswanath to the Software Team as our newest Volunteer/Consultant!

Akshay holds a Master of Science in Computer Science from Indiana University Bloomington and has over two years of experience building full-stack and backend systems at Accenture and as an independent consultant. He has successfully delivered production web applications with React, Node.js, and PostgreSQL, and has recently built AI systems for secure tool authorization and evidence-grounded retrieval. Akshay believes in building reliable, well-tested software that people can trust, and in using technology to support sustainable, community-driven solutions. As a member of the One Community software team, Akshay has contributed to the Highest Good Network software by fixing dark-mode visibility issues across more than a dozen components and fixing overlapping labels on the analytics dashboard charts. He also aligned the total organization hours with the leaderboard and made the Top Skills and Skills Overview data follow the active filters. Akshay added tests against real data to keep these numbers accurate.

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One Community welcomes Navya Eeshani Boyapati to the Web Development Team as our newest Volunteer/Consultant!

Navya has a background in computer and information science and experience in web development, software development, and creating user-friendly digital experiences. She has worked with HTML, CSS, JavaScript, React, Python, Django, and MySQL to develop and improve web-based projects. She enjoys combining technical development with thoughtful design to create clear, organized, and accessible websites and digital content. As a member of the One Community Web Development Team, Navya has helped create, update, and improve website pages and content. Her work includes implementing design changes, correcting page issues, improving image and content presentation, and incorporating feedback. Her completed projects include the 4-Dome Home MEP Engineering page, the Aquapini/Walipinis page, including its image SEO updates, the DIY Earth Dam page, Tools and Equipment for Open Source Construction page updates, the Highest Good Food page rebuild, and Goats page updates.

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Our all-volunteer team at One Community is open sourcing global transformational change infrastructure so that anyone, anywhere, can help build a world that works for everyone. We are developing sustainable approaches to food, energy, housing, education, economics, social architecture, and fulfilled living, then freely sharing the complete process so it stays open source and accessible to all. Our model is designed to become self-replicating, seeding a global collaboration of teacher/demonstration hubs that carry these practices into new communities. Together, we are regenerating our planet and evolving sustainability, all for “The Highest Good of All.“

• 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 October 19, 2026 edition (#709) of our weekly progress update detailing our team’s development and accomplishments:

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HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING PROGRESS

One Community is open sourcing global transformational change infrastructure through Highest Good housing that is artistic and beautiful, more affordable, more space efficient, lasts longer, DIY buildable, and constructed with healthy and sustainable materials:

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

Navya Eeshani Boyapati (Web Designer) continued working on the Tools and Equipment for Open Source Construction page by updating webpage content, HTML formatting, spacing, and layout to improve consistency and complete the required revisions. She also began the Walipini #3 updates to the Planting page by reviewing the existing content and starting the necessary page updates and formatting improvements, and continued with the Highest Good Food page rebuild. The images below highlight her webpage work supporting One Community’s open sourcing global transformational change infrastructure.

DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER PROGRESS

One Community is open sourcing global transformational change infrastructure 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 sourcing global transformational change infrastructure: Duplicable City Center Open Source Hub

This week, Nidish Reddy Koppula (Mechanical Engineer) continued working on the Duplicable City Center design. He updated the project spreadsheet and revised the related tables in the Google document to reflect the latest information. He also updated and verified the resources folder to make sure the supporting files were organized and accessible. Nidish revised the table of contents to match the completed report structure and reviewed the remaining project items to determine what work should be addressed next. He officially handed off the hydraulic elevator project report after completing the remaining formatting, documentation, file organization, and content adjustments required for the final version. This open source Duplicable City Center project contributes towards open sourcing global transformational change infrastructure. The collage below shows his work for this week.

Manav Rajubhai Oza (Industrial Designer) worked on the Duplicable City Center design by addressing feedback and began gathering, organizing, and drafting content for the 1041 Dormer Final Report. He referred to existing project files and documentation to understand the design details and assembly process. Manav also reviewed previously published website content to understand the organization’s writing format, structure, and style. Based on these references, he continued writing content for the project introduction, design considerations, and assembly instructions for the first- and second-floor dormer windows. This open source Duplicable City Center project helps in open sourcing global transformational change infrastructure. The collage below shows his work for this week.

HIGHEST GOOD FOOD PROGRESS

One Community is open sourcing global transformational change infrastructure 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 sourcing global transformational change infrastructure: Hoop House Hub | Aquapini & Walipini Open Source Hub
    • See what we’ll be growing: Gardens & Hoop Houses | Large-scale Structures | Food Forest | Tropical Atrium

This week, Jay Nair (BIM Designer) continued assisting with the Highest Good Food initiatives and Aquapini and Walipini Planting and Harvesting systems. Advancing the Walipini 1 lighting analysis, he documented growing-surface elevations and intended canopy maintenance heights across each zone, incorporating zones with trellised plants. In addition, Jay worked on establishing crop production targets, projected pruning levels, and seasonal environmental variables. He also evaluated whether far-red lighting treatments across specific crops fulfill a documented horticultural objective to support accurate fixture-to-canopy spacing calculations and zone-specific lighting strategies. This open source Highest Good Food project contributes towards open sourcing global transformational change infrastructure. See the collage below for a snapshot of his work.

Zoey Zou (Landscape Architect) continued development on the Walipini #3 and Large-scale Aquapini models within the Highest Good Food hub. Refining the 3D geometry, she updated surface textures to enhance realism, incorporated vines, human figures, and groundcover vegetation, and reorganized the planting layout into a mixed polyculture system rather than segregated blocks. She also adjusted planting spacing, density, and structural distribution to establish a layered, food-forest environment aligned with production goals. In D5 Render, Zoey calibrated atmospheric parameters including lighting, exposure, and humidity, evaluated varied camera angles and framing compositions, and generated multiple perspective renders to assess the botanical garden setting and visitor pathways. This open source Highest Good Food project contributes towards open sourcing global transformational change infrastructure. The collage below shows her work for the week.

HIGHEST GOOD ENERGY PROGRESS

One Community is open sourcing global transformational change infrastructure 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 sourcing global transformational change infrastructure: 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 completed the review of the Tools and Equipment for Open Source Construction webpage contributing to the Highest Good Energy initiative, part of One Community’s work, and created a feedback video suggesting final adjustments to the page. They then reviewed the page again after the edits were completed. They spent the remainder of the week reviewing the DIY Dam Design and Construction webpage and adding feedback and suggestions as comments to the corresponding document. See the image below for highlights of their work contributing to One Community’s mission of open sourcing global transformational change infrastructure.

Rohan Pariakar (Operations and Supply Chain Analyst) continued revising the One Community Highest Good Energy analysis report and its supporting spreadsheets, focusing on component-level energy demand breakdowns, linked data tables, charts, and formatting consistency across Steps 2 through 5. He added introductory descriptions explaining how individual equipment and infrastructure components contribute to each phase’s total daily energy requirement, and incorporated summary tables showing equipment names, percentage contributions, and daily energy requirements in kWh/day to support the waterfall charts. Rohan also updated the Step 2 breakdown for the 0-20 person configuration (1,147.75 kWh/day), the Step 3 breakdown for 20-50 people (2,594.075 kWh/day), the Step 4 breakdown for 50-100 people (6,642.45 kWh/day), and the Step 5 breakdown for 100-200 people, which currently shows 11,733.2 kWh/day pending validation of the underlying equipment and facility inputs, contributing to One Community’s mission of open sourcing global transformational change infrastructure. In addition, Rohan reviewed the energy, power, and hours-of-usage distribution charts and their descriptions, continued linking the phase summary tables and spreadsheet resources to the report, and adjusted table headings, column labels, spacing, and category presentation for consistency. He kept the distinction between energy requirements, installed capacity, and supporting infrastructure clear in the solar setup and cost tables. The collage below shows some of his work towards open sourcing global transformational change infrastructure.

HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION PROGRESS

One Community is open sourcing global transformational change infrastructure 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 sourcing global transformational change infrastructure: 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) updated an assigned bio and their personal bio while completing near-final revisions to The Ultimate Classroom book. Sections covering cost analysis and site planning received design improvements and refined typesetting. Small inconsistencies, like pagination flickering were fixed. Isa also recreated the circles used in the details spread after the original assets were lost. The collage below shows some of his work towards open sourcing global transformational change infrastructure.

HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY PROGRESS

One Community is open sourcing global transformational change infrastructure 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 sourcing global transformational change infrastructure: 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 open sourcing global transformational change infrastructure. The video also explores how open sourcing global transformational change infrastructure 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 and performance data, adding traffic and measurement columns. She managed Reddit outreach through the PostByPurpose and One Community accounts and investigated Google Ads disapprovals, identifying a website HTTP 502 error and a certification policy issue as likely causes, then updated Jae on the findings. Adhya also finalized SEO updates for the Ways to Help and Contribute pages, including donation button testing, internal and external links, metadata, and page spacing, furthering One Community’s mission of open sourcing global transformational change infrastructure. She recorded analytics baseline data and reported a WordPress 502 error. Adhya also gave Devarsh Google Search Console access, reviewed his SEO strategy document, and began identifying action items. See the collage below for highlights of her work towards open sourcing global transformational change infrastructure 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 formatted the master document on the legal structure for perpetual property preservation in line with the round 1 feedback, and added an FAQ, a Summary, and a Resources section on the final day. Anagha also drafted the first half of the first version of the One Community AI Usage Policy, covering purpose and principles, scope, definitions, data classification with One Community specific examples, approved tools and the approval process, and the permitted, restricted, and prohibited use categories. She then drafted the second half of this first version, covering human oversight with a verification checklist, high-risk functions including construction, engineering, and safety content, incident reporting, training and acknowledgment, roles and enforcement, and the review cycle. See the collage below for her week’s work, furthering One Community’s mission of open sourcing global transformational change infrastructure for the Highest Good Network.

Ayush Meshram (Admin) reviewed AI-generated song lyrics and organized selected tracks into One Community’s eight Highest Good categories, including options for the urgent walkthrough video. He reviewed the Medium posting instructions, drafted and published an article about smartphone sustainability, added an image, alt text and source attribution, and recorded the publication details. Ayush also tested the profile image crop-only prompt using Anagha’s photo on Gemini, ChatGPT and Grok, evaluated the outputs, resized images to 127 × 127 pixels, and documented results and feedback in the testing results document. The collage below shows some of his work towards open sourcing global transformational change infrastructure.

Devarsh Wali (Program Manager) continued supporting the weekly blog review process and Admin Team procedures. He also continued supporting Highest Good Network software development, and advancing the AI optimization strategy by initiating and expanding Phase 3 of the report. Devarsh tested additional blogs and ran several new experiments across multiple LLM providers to validate hypotheses developed in earlier phases. He also completed another round of testing, documented the results and refined recommendations for One Community’s AI optimization approach based on the findings. Finally, Devarsh began setting up the software needed to create the related video tutorial and training materials. The images below provide examples of his week’s work towards open sourcing global transformational change infrastructure.

Sethuraman Karunanithi (Industrial Engineer) continued working on the Volunteer section of the Highest Good Network. He replaced the Volunteer tab in the HGN User Manual Google Doc with the updated Volunteer section, which includes the changes from Jae’s feedback and the new pictures. Sethuraman checked the pasted version for pictures, tables, and the One Community Policy box that moved during the paste. He also added comments for Jae where the clock icons and the warning tracker circles have no hover text. Further, Sethuraman went through the document and fixed or accepted the underlined words flagged by Google Docs. He sent Jae the link to the Volunteer tab for review and listed the items still needed for the Volunteer section: a Leaderboard picture of a Volunteer on a team, a picture of the Badges tab with badges earned, and a picture of the email generated by a bug report. See the collage below for his work toward open sourcing global transformational change infrastructure.

Jinglin Zhang (Graphic Designer) created six social media content images for One Community, following the organization’s design requirements and approved content guidelines. She worked on the visual layouts and image compositions for the social media graphics. Jinglin also completed her weekly summary and submitted the required work documentation and screenshots. See the collage below for her work towards open sourcing global transformational change infrastructure for the Highest Good Network.

Jin Hua (Website, AdWords, and Analytics Administrator) fixed another critical site issue that took our site down for about 14 hours. The host restarted servers and our site was missing a restart file. He validated a server restart and the site came back within a minute. Our website is the foundation for sharing all our open source plans for open sourcing global transformational change infrastructure. See below for images and Highest Good Network page related to this website restoration work.

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 “Ruku” (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 contributing to open sourcing global transformational change infrastructure. 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 task requests from team members, assigned tasks with the requested hours, and added new tasks to the Google Doc after checking that the estimates matched the task scope. She also tested several PRs on Dev, including the Contributors Report comparison feature and Rehireable status changes on the Profile page. During testing, she identified layout issues in the Contributors Report comparison view and found that the Rehireable reason did not remain after refreshing the page. Ruku completed administrative tasks and technical documentation for the Highest Good Network. As Corrections Administrator for Blog 708, she reviewed weekly summaries, work documents, and media, while as Deadline Administrator she audited dashboard tasks, identified 52 members with red status indicators, followed up through Google Doc comments and screenshots, and updated work hours when confirmed. Ruku also created technical user manual chapters for the Job Application page, Job Analytics dashboard, and Job Form Builder. Together, their work contributed to One Community’s mission of open sourcing global transformational change infrastructure.

Gargi completed a second round of changes to the AI Image Generation tutorial based on Jae’s feedback. She added a reviewer section, created a separate Testing Results document, changed the tutorial to comment-only access, transferred ownership to the One Community account, and followed up about beginning admin testing. She also coordinated with Sethuraman on the HGN User’s Manual and began documenting the Assistant Manager permission tier using the Volunteer permission documentation as a reference. Ola reviewed and reorganized documentation for the administrative and PR review teams. She created structured folders, cleared outdated organization issues, and categorized project records and team resources to improve accessibility and file management. Their efforts contributed to One Community’s work in open sourcing global transformational change infrastructure.

Pandithya worked on the Administration Team blog and tested PRs in the development environment from the Application/Job Posting Page/Function and Design document and HGN Phase I Bugs document, including PR #5585, PR #5002, and PR #5536. She also worked on the Data Analysis Dashboard Stress Testing, Evolution and AI Training Manual Creation task. As part of that work, she reviewed her assigned dashboard and created training manual content for the PR Review Team Admin and Analytics Dashboard based on its features, controls, and functionality. Prathik completed Facebook and Instagram analytics, updated tracking sheets, scheduled weekly posts, and reviewed volunteer time logs. He tested image creation prompts across Gemini, ChatGPT, and Grok and tested the Project Risk Profile Overview chart across time ranges, project filters, and light and dark modes. He logged two bugs related to cost overrun values, issue counts, filter behavior, tooltip formatting, and chart labels, and also completed Team Binary Brigade blog work and reviewed Sai Sree’s work. Their contributions furthered One Community’s mission of open sourcing global transformational change infrastructure.

Sachit reworked the funder prospect matrix based on feedback that funders should be evaluated on prior support for work similar to One Community’s. He added two new criteria, established capacity and fit gates, updated the weighted scoring structure, and rebuilt the Cumulative Score and Gate Result formulas. He then scored 29 foundations and 70 individuals, added a one-sentence rationale for each score, and corrected entries placed on the wrong rows. Sai Sree organized review images, created collages, finalized PR Admin Team blog content, updated the social media master dashboard, worked on advanced PR documentation, and reviewed training work. She also tested pagination, navigation, search behavior, filters, sorting, mobile responsiveness, inventory functions, job browsing and applications, profile navigation, reporting charts, grading updates, PR management, dark mode, and task permissions in the Dev environment. The functionality she tested worked as expected. Together, they advanced One Community’s mission of open sourcing global transformational change infrastructure.

Shreyas worked on HGN Software Development and OC Administration tasks. He tested multiple pull requests, provided feedback on one issue, tested selected sections of the Total Organization Summary dashboard, and created an AI training manual covering the Volunteer and Global Distribution sections. He also supported the Week #708 blog by reviewing Alpha Team documents and images, preparing a team summary, creating a collage, and updating the related documents. Tanmay continued managing bio records, weekly blog preparation, social media activities, and administrative tasks. He updated bios, followed up on missing summaries and photographs, combined content from multiple team blogs, and completed SEO adjustments. He also published Threads posts, updated the Social Media Master Dashboard and related records, checked titles and descriptions for inconsistencies, and completed final testing of merged PRs. Their work supported One Community’s mission of open sourcing global transformational change infrastructure. See the collage below for a visual overview of this week’s work and progress.

HIGHEST GOOD NETWORK PROGRESS

One Community is open sourcing global transformational change infrastructure 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 sourcing global transformational change infrastructure: The Highest Good Network

This week, the core team continued HGN PR testing on the main branch for the Highest Good Network, a platform open sourcing global transformational change infrastructure, and confirmed 8 PRs as fixed. The following issues were not fixed: the Leaderboard displaying total work hours that differ from the Total Org Summary page (PR2335); incorrect text colors in exported PDFs in Dark Mode on the Total Org Summary Dashboard; a scrollbar or clipping artifact on Project Status cards in the Total Construction Summary Report (PR5516); inconsistent X-axis tick spacing and a missing axis label in the Volunteer Trends by Time chart (PR5548); and issues related to the Previous Logs Preview panel for the selected date and project on the Daily Equipment Log page (PR4655). They were unable to test five PRs because there was no data available on the Main branch. These included fixes for Dark Mode tooltip styling in the Application Volunteer Ratio chart (PR5486), the PR document link and Dark Mode filter issues on the Job Posting Analytics page (PR5533), a 403 Forbidden error on the Job Analytics page under Source of Applicants (PR5002), improvements to the Application and Job Posting pages (PR4014 and PR4158), and a nonfunctional “Edit to Reorder” button on the Job Posting page (PR5436). 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), Maithili Kalkar (Software Engineer), Priyanka Ajit Mutha (Software Engineer), Som Ramnani (Junior Software Engineer), and Sai Sandeep (Software Engineer). Their work supported One Community’s mission of cross-functional software development and system improvements, helping advance open sourcing global transformational change infrastructure.

This week, Lin managed and reviewed the team summary, reviewed PR #5319 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 submitted PR #5663 to fix route and image preview errors on the Listing and Bidding dashboard form and updated the logout button styling in PR #5638. She completed five pull request reviews, approving one and requesting changes on four, with issues identified in skill filtering, date selection, tooltips, chart readability, dark mode styling, and responsive layouts. She also worked on a separate pie chart fix, resolving the rendering issue and implementing metric dropdown behavior based on filter selection furthering One Community’s mission of open sourcing global transformational change infrastructure.

Maithili worked on the frontend unarchive button and two additional HighestGoodNetwork tasks, and an issue involving the use of !important remains unresolved. Priyanka created frontend PR #5643 and backend PR #2398 to add country counts to Total Org Summary and Team Locations, reviewed and tested YouTube autoposter PRs #5446 and #2300, updated PR #5630 to preserve grade changes after refresh, and updated PR #5613 to include grades in the Weekly PR Grading CSV export and improve dark mode readability. Sai addressed column alignment feedback in PR #5476, implemented the loss tracking calendar in PR #5606, and refined keyword bubble layouts in PR #5583 to prevent overlapping contributing to One Community’s mission of open sourcing global transformational change infrastructure.

Som updated the Reset Time confirmation dialog in PR #5488 to use standard navy modal styling in dark mode, added tests for dialog and timer behavior, and resolved deployment check issues by syncing branches with development. He also addressed deployment checks for PR #5578 and refactored sorting logic in PR #5603 to reduce cognitive complexity while preserving inventory ordering, with 61 component tests, ESLint checks, and whitespace checks passing. Som also updated backend inventory handling to record project inventory changes, prevent timestamps from moving backward, preserve item ownership and history, include timestamps in archived-project responses, and prevent ordinary project updates from overwriting newer timestamps furthering One Community’s mission of open sourcing global transformational change infrastructure. 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 Aarya Amit Shah (Software Engineer), Aditya Krishnamurthi (Software Engineer), Aditya Varun Dhayapulay (Software Engineer), Amaan Syed (Software Engineer), Dhruv Topiwala (Full Stack Software Engineer), Mahika Kakkad (Software Engineer), Mahitha Pasupuleti (Software Engineer), Prajwal Gangadhar Melinamane (Software Engineer), Richa Sapre (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 open sourcing global transformational change infrastructure.

This week, Aarya transitioned from the PR Review Team to the Development Team and worked on the Application Page FAQ tool and the Total Org Summary anniversary report. He improved FAQ search behavior, fixed dark-mode readability and divider visibility, added 19 automated tests, and opened replacement PR #5661. He also corrected anniversary calculations to respect the selected reporting period and added 14 automated tests, which helps move open sourcing global transformational change infrastructure forward. Aditya completed the Remove Reviewer feature for the PR Grading Dashboard through frontend PR #5596 and backend PR #2375, adding reviewer removal, confirmation dialogs, review-week selection, permission checks, and backend endpoints. He fixed timezone-related duplicate records and added tests for SonarCloud coverage, then addressed task count, subtitle, and date-range issues on the Total Org Summary page. Aditya reviewed and rechecked HGN frontend and backend pull requests, then began development work on the Jobs Component. He added a required terms and conditions checkbox to the application form in PR #5651 and fixed a profile-hours scrolling issue in PR #5654, adding regression tests and verifying both changes with browser checks, builds, and lint checks as part of open sourcing global transformational change infrastructure.

Amaan worked on reviewer feedback, frontend and backend fixes, dark-mode styling, and testing across several HGN tasks. He improved Student Profile subject cards, Student Groups validation and management, Task Submissions filtering, and announcement pagination, and addressed race conditions and historical reporting calculations in the Total Construction Summary, helping the broader goal of open sourcing global transformational change infrastructure. Dhruv worked on the Tumblr auto-poster feature, fixing connection issues related to user identification and authentication messages and verifying successful Tumblr publishing. He updated scheduled posting to rely on Tumblr’s scheduling, improved scheduled post visibility and cancellation, replaced status banners with popup notifications, and added frontend and backend tests. Mahika worked on the Total Org Summary launch, resolving merge conflicts on the backend Total Active Teams card PR and the frontend Volunteer Hours Distribution chart PR. She sorted the Time Zone dropdown alphabetically, changed the Team Stats chart axis label to show volunteers, reviewed the leaderboard mobile responsiveness PR, and updated the Phase I bug document, all of which is part of open sourcing global transformational change infrastructure.

Mahitha developed the Medium Auto-Poster frontend for the Highest Good Network application, creating the component and CSS module, adding a dedicated Medium tab to Announcements, and designing the interface for composing articles, managing tags and drafts, scheduling posts, and viewing article statuses. She also documented the distinction between frontend article preparation and actual publication, a step toward open sourcing global transformational change infrastructure. Prajwal fixed three bugs in the Jobs component involving mandatory resume uploads, job board category filtering, and Apply Now deep links. He corrected resume question detection, fixed category matching for names containing commas, prevented retired or test forms from loading through shared links, and re-reviewed PR #5588, documenting new blocking issues with screenshots. Richa reviewed seven pull requests across the HGNRest and HighestGoodNetworkApp repositories, recommending approval for three and requesting changes on four. She also worked on Issues #48, #49, and #58, improving the public job application form, investigating collaboration search behavior, and implementing job application email notifications and retention functionality, furthering open sourcing global transformational change infrastructure.

Roshini investigated the high-priority Financials Tracking issue on the Total Construction Summary dashboard. She identified duplicate “Actual vs Planned Costs” and “Planned Vs Actual costs tracking” charts showing different values under the same filters, a reported variance above 9,700%, overlapping chart labels, and missing months on the horizontal axis, findings that help keep the data behind open sourcing global transformational change infrastructure accurate. Shreya completed pagination and profile skill tab fixes for the HGN Software Team Questionnaire Dashboard through PRs #5631 and #5637, both merged on October 12. She tested the Help Request modal and questionnaire redirects, reviewed skills dashboard permissions, investigated Community Members filtering and PR #5555, and completed end-to-end validation of the questionnaire-to-dashboard workflow. Shubham completed frontend PR #5645 for the Add Week Off Details to Weekly Team Summaries Page task, updating the information icon to show time-off reasons on click and improving keyboard accessibility. He refined week-matching logic, added tests, fixed timezone-related test failures, addressed SonarCloud feedback, and improved dark-mode styling and popup positioning, which contributes to open sourcing global transformational change infrastructure. See the collage below for a visual overview of the team’s work this 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 Aakash Vidiyala (Software Engineer), Akshay Viswanath (Software Engineer), Ansh Shah (Software Engineer), Bosu Babu Bade (Software Developer), Hemanth Varupula (Software Developer), Isha Pawar (Software Engineer), Linlin Fan (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, Aakash completed 11 pull request reviews, approving 4 and requesting changes on 7, opened the Jobs Component email validation and applicant experience donut chart pull requests, and fixed two urgent production hotfixes. Akshay’s Total Org Summary chart consistency pull request was merged after he resolved its merge conflicts and the latest review feedback, and his Skills Overview and Top Skills fixes were merged on the frontend and backend. He also resolved conflicts and reviewer reports on the dark mode pull request he took over, fixed the Reset Password button color in dark mode, and opened a hotfix that restores the Team Locations map on production, contributing to open sourcing global transformational change infrastructure.

Ansh tested PR #5639 for the Reset Password option, PR #5653 and PR #5667 for job application forms and links, PR #5655 for the Weekly Update Composer, PR #5660 for the resume requirement, and PR #5659 for Most Wasted Materials date validation. Bosu worked on Phase 1 of the Duplicate Time Log Confirmation feature, adding backend validation that returns a conflict response for identical descriptions logged within seven days, a confirmation modal with Cancel, Edit, and Proceed options, and tests with 85 related backend tests and 340 related frontend tests passing, work that supports open sourcing global transformational change infrastructure.

Hemanth worked on the vertical spacing pull request and on routing problems that sent card clicks to a page-not-found error, and reviewed the Phase 6 kitchen work. Isha fixed timezone and week-range issues on the PR Grading Screen in PRs #5414 and #2286, fixed a crash and dark mode readability on Resolved Task Tracking in PRs #4797 and #2031 with 66 task controller tests passing, and added date-range constraints to Most Wasted Materials. Linlin improved the Reddit auto-poster’s flair suggestions and dark mode in PR #5662, and built the Imgur auto-poster frontend in PR #5664 and its backend in PR #2408, advancing open sourcing global transformational change infrastructure.

Mahathi refined the Planned vs. Actual Cost charts, variance indicators, and dark mode readability, and improved the Distribution of Labor Hours filters, labels, and layout. Shreevaths built the Preservation Efficiency report page for the kitchen inventory system in PR #5668, with summary cards, preserved item tags, achievement and impact panels, and a responsive layout. Shreyas resolved a SonarCloud issue in the Weekly Update Composer and traced its dark mode white patches to hard-coded light colors in the drag-and-drop areas. These improvements contribute to open sourcing global transformational change infrastructure.

Sireesha updated the job application form matching to use whole words so management roles map to the correct forms, resolved conflicts on PR #5584, and fixed bulk action, CSV export, and permission issues related to PR #4680. Yuxuan fixed keyboard accessibility and border styling in the Weekly Summary panel and investigated editor theme and loading issues, with all 39 related tests passing. Their work supports open sourcing global transformational change infrastructure. The following images showcase their work.

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 and supports One Community’s work toward open sourcing global transformational change infrastructure.

This week, Anthony continued addressing review feedback for PR #5588 and PR #2369 related to the warning tracker hotfix. He added a new value to the currentWarnings schema and updated warning tracker creation to handle simultaneous requests by automatically retrying failed requests. On the frontend, Anthony added a value to the info collections reducer and used existing actions to prevent duplicate collection requests, tested an approach using the reducer’s loaded state and updated getWarningDescriptions and postNewWarningDescription so tracker data could be returned without exposing the new schema value. He also verified information actions in the tracker modal, increased test coverage, corrected dark mode styling in EditableInfoModal and merged and pushed the latest updates contributing to One Community’s mission of open sourcing global transformational change infrastructure.

Jaden completed Phase 6 of the Kitchen Report & Analytics task by building a new four tab frontend page with date range filtering and Export PDF and Export CSV controls connected to placeholder endpoints, including loading, disabled and error states. He opened PR #5669 and addressed review feedback related to DOM cleanup and error handling. Jaden also completed follow up work for PR #2045 and PR #5549 around the HGN Feedback Modal and corrected Application and Job Posting links that pointed to a placeholder domain by coordinating frontend and backend changes, adding a dashboard route, controller method and MongoDB helper query and verifying the functionality locally across both services. Their work further supported open sourcing global transformational change infrastructure.

Purav continued the Job Applications launch and catalog cleanup work through frontend PR #5646 while validating PR #5649. He audited Collaboration and job application flows against active forms, documented gaps involving listing titles, questionnaires, retired ATS forms, category behavior and Apply Now routing and implemented category first Collaboration browsing. He synchronized approximately 35 active job listing titles with the application form catalog, excluded retired and invalid ATS forms, added unit tests, resolved SonarQube and Prettier findings and updated local HGNRest data by creating or renaming forms and replacing placeholder questions with role specific questionnaires. Purav also added category images and navigation improvements, deferred job loading until category or search selection and validated PR #5649 for email TLD and typo checking with 70 tests passing supporting One Community’s mission of open sourcing global transformational change infrastructure.

Swathi focused on reviewer feedback and regression testing by adding a new test file, fixing lint issues and resolving SonarQube duplication findings through a shared utility file. She also renamed PR Grading Modal classes to use custom CSS classes and updated the related CSS Module and JSX files to prevent global modal styling conflicts. In addition, she continued investigating build failures related to dark mode updates for the PR Team Analytics page. These activities continued advancing open sourcing global transformational change infrastructure. 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 open sourcing global transformational change infrastructure. This week’s active members of this team were Aadit Trivedi (Software Quality Assurance & Team Coordinator), Alekya Jogini (Software Engineer), Mallikharjuna Abhiram Mulpuri (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 open sourcing global transformational change infrastructure. 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 sourcing global transformational change infrastructure. This week’s active members of this team were Rahul Rubugunday (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 towards our goal of open sourcing global transformational change infrastructure. The collage below shows a compilation of the work from this team.

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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

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 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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