At One Community, we are demonstrating open source DIY highest good living by designing and sharing sustainable solutions for food, energy, housing, education, economics, social architecture, and more. Created entirely by an all-volunteer team, our work is open source and free-shared to support a model that becomes self-replicating and grows into a global collaboration of teacher/demonstration hubs. By evolving sustainability and applying global stewardship practices, we create approaches that promote fulfilled living and regenerate our planet, all while building a world that works for everyone—always doing this for The Highest Good of All.

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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 December 29, 2025 edition (#667) of our weekly progress update detailing our team’s development and accomplishments:
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One Community is demonstrating open source DIY highest good living through Highest Good housing that is artistic and beautiful, more affordable, more space efficient, lasts longer, DIY buildable, and constructed with healthy and sustainable materials:
This week, Ajay Adithiya Kumar Elancheliyan Tamilalagi (Mechanical Engineer) continued working on the ventilation system design for the Vermiculture Toilet component of the Earthbag Village. He worked on several aspects of the work, beginning with a meeting where he outlined a new issue he had identified and explained the steps he had already taken to review it, research potential solutions, and advance the design. He then spent time refining the ventilation system report for the vermicomposting eco‑toilet space by improving the wording, structure, and clarity across the document. Work continued with the development of an alternative hanger concept based on a simple real‑world example, during which he created the initial design, explored different approaches, and completed theoretical calculations to determine appropriate materials and thicknesses. He documented the design rationale, prepared the CAD model for simulation, and began defining boundary conditions and load cases for the structural analysis. Toward the end of the week, he focused on refining the rod‑and‑wire hanger concept for the HVAC support system by finalizing the basic geometry, checking clearances, comparing real‑world wire suspension products, simplifying the CAD components, identifying load paths, and outlining the boundary conditions needed for the next stage of simulation. His work supports open source diy highest good living by advancing practical, replicable mechanical solutions. Below, you’ll find some images of this work.
Derrell Brown (Plumbing Designer) continued working on the Earthbag Village 4-dome home final MEP report by reviewing feedback from the initial draft and applying updates across multiple sections to improve clarity and alignment with project intent. He revisited the plumbing content that had been previously incorporated into the report and expanded this material by researching applicable provisions from the International Plumbing Code and Uniform Plumbing Code. These updates focused on clearly defining fixture flow rates, connection sizing criteria, acceptable piping materials, and fixture unit values used for system sizing. His documentation efforts contribute to open source diy highest good living by strengthening clarity and accessibility in plumbing system design. See below for some of the pictures related to this work.
Malhar Solanki (Mechanical Engineer) continued working on the Vermiculture Toilet component of the Earthbag Village. He advanced progress on project documentation progress on project documentation, coordination, and material preparation. The Bill of Materials for all subsystems was completed, refined with collected images and embedded reference materials for backup, and prepared for submission to Jae for review. Work on the project report was resumed, including reading sections written by other team members and providing feedback on content and structure. A scheduled weekly team meeting was held to discuss current holdups, review individual progress, and share updates across the group to maintain alignment on ongoing tasks. His coordination and documentation efforts reinforce open source diy highest good living through transparent and well-organized project reporting. Review the latest updates in the images below.
Rishi Chakrapani (Mechanical Engineer) continued working on the Vermiculture Toilet. His work focused on completing the reports that received feedback from Jae, with revisions made to address the noted comments and requirements. He also focused on developing and updating the animation used in the handle stress evaluation report to improve clarity of the analysis. Several CAD files associated with multiple reports were also updated to reflect the latest design changes and uploaded to the shared storage location for team access. In addition, he made progress was made on the waste dumping assembly report, including adding updated images to better document the configuration and support the written explanations. His contributions support open source diy highest good living by improving technical clarity and shared design resources. See below for some of the pictures related to this work.
One Community is developing open source diy highest good living through a Duplicable and Sustainable City Center that is LEED Platinum certified/Sustainable, can feed 200 people at a time, provide laundry for over 300 people, is beautiful, spacious, and saves resources, money, and space:
This week, Ayushman Dutta (Mechanical Engineer) continued working on the City Center Dome Hub Connector Engineering and DIY manufacturing. He worked on addressing feedback for the assembly process document, making necessary changes and reviewing the feedback video. He focused on writing a report to explain the overall work completed on the project and carefully reviewed all feedback to make appropriate corrections to the assembly process document. He spent time recorrecting the assembly process documentation to ensure it met all requirements and addressed the concerns raised during the review process. This open source Duplicable City Center project demonstrates how to develop open source DIY highest good living environments. Review the connector analysis visuals below for more details.
Sandesh Kumawat (Mechanical Engineer) continued developing the City Center Eco-spa Designs. He focused on upgrading the structural validation workflow by transitioning the simulation environment to HyperMesh and Abaqus to enable higher-fidelity analysis and improved solver control. To optimize computational efficiency, he developed a quarter-symmetry structural model, allowing the use of a dense, high-quality mesh in critical regions while significantly reducing solver time. A key technical focus was the implementation of bolt pretension in primary structural joints to accurately represent clamping forces required to resist large hydrostatic loads and ensure realistic load transfer across the assembly. The pretension definitions were integrated with contact conditions to reflect real-world joint behavior under service loads. Post-processing is currently in progress, with stress distribution and deformation trends being evaluated across major load-bearing members. Final conclusions—including safety factor verification and structural margin assessment were completed once the remaining result interpretation and documentation are finalized. Discover One Community’s open source Duplicable City Center, which demonstrates the process of creating open source DIY highest good living environments. See the visuals below for a closer look.
Shivarama Krishna Revanuru (Mechanical Engineer) continued working on the Duplicable City Center design. He became familiar with assigned responsibilities related to finite element analysis and cost analysis, including understanding the scope of work and expected deliverables for each area. Time was spent developing an initial understanding of the cost analysis process, identifying required inputs, assumptions, and data needed to support the analysis. Progress was made by beginning work on cost estimation tasks and outlining key cost components relevant to the project. Discussions were held with a teammate to align on the approach for both finite element analysis and cost analysis, clarify roles, and ensure consistency in methods, assumptions, and expectations across the team. This open source Duplicable City Center project exemplifies, which demonstrates the process of creating open source DIY highest good living environments. The images below illustrate aspects of this work.
Shreyas Nagaraj (Design Engineer) made more updates to the City Center Dome Hub Connector Engineering and beams for the Duplicable City Center. He spent approximately 20 hours on the Duplicable City Center project, with work centered on knowledge transfer activities, file handover, discussions related to finite element analysis, and updates to the piping scope. All applicable project files were transferred to Srujan, and a knowledge transfer meeting was held with Shiva to walk through the spa cover project scope, current progress, and key design and analysis considerations. Additional time was spent meeting with Tianxiang to discuss the finite element analysis approach for the spa cover and to provide input during evaluation of the analysis setup and associated results. She also reviewed updated information that impacted the piping layout, prepared and shared guidance with Bevan regarding potential piping modifications based on the revised information, and participated in a meeting focused on addressing remaining questions related to the finite element analysis of the spa cover model. This open source Duplicable City Center project exemplifies developing open source DIY highest good living. For more details, refer to the image below.
Srujan Pandya (Mechanical Engineer) continued his work on developing the dynamic simulation setup for earthquake analysis updates for the City Center Dome Hub Connector Engineering. He worked on consolidating and organizing the overall project deliverables by defining clear action items for upcoming work, including specifying software requirements for different analyses and file types. He set up a sheet for FEA reviews and improved file organization to ensure consistency across models and supporting documents. Removed-parts files were shared with Ayushman and Jae to support coordinated cleanup and tracking. Srujan completed the full writeup for the main report and prepared an additional report summarizing all work completed to date. He also documented action items for re-testing FEA files and re-running analyses to support the next phase of validation. The Duplicable City Center demonstrates developing open source DIY highest good living through accessible open source solutions designed to guide people. The images below illustrate aspects of this work.
Tianxiang Huang (Mechanical Engineer) continued working on the Duplicable City Center design. He continued working on the thermal analysis documentation while addressing limitations related to the computational capability of his laptop, which caused ANSYS simulations to run slowly. He therefore focused on advancing the written documentation, expanding descriptions of the modeling approach, assumptions, boundary conditions, and intermediate results, and organizing the existing analyses to ensure the work can be clearly understood and followed based on the results currently available. This open source Duplicable City Center project contributes to developing open source DIY highest good living environments. For more details, refer to the image below.
One Community is demonstrating open source DIY highest good living through Highest Good food that is more diverse, more nutritious, locally grown and sustainable, and part of our open source botanical garden model to support and share bio-diversity:
This week, the core team continued working on the Master Tools, Equipment, and Materials and Supplies List for the Large-scale Garden, Botanical Garden, and other Highest Good Food components. The team focused specifically on the Tool, Equipment, Materials/Supplies List for the wood and metal shops. The effort included research into specialized equipment, such as sharpening guides, the jointer-planer combination, the wide-belt sander, and spirit levels. Furthermore, the alphabetization of specific tools listed in combination purchases was completed, alongside continued general updates during the comprehensive review of the Master Tools, Equipment, Materials/Supplies document. The Highest Good Food initiative is a key component of One Community’s open source plans, focused on open source DIY Highest Good living and exemplifying the organization’s commitment through innovative design and implementation. Below are some images showcasing this work.
Anuneet Kaur (Administrator) continued her focus on the design of the Transition Food Self-sufficiency Plan components of the Highest Good food initiative. Anuneet continued working on the Food Procurement and Storage webpage. She ensured the webpage followed updated formatting guidelines, corrected inconsistencies, and optimized every link for SEO across the recipe sections. Anuneet also reviewed titles, spacing, and layout alignment to maintain consistency throughout the Food Web Project. Additionally, she ensured all team members were included in the live blog task and identified any missing participants. She reviewed Yulin’s infographic on sustainable research and provided detailed, constructive feedback. Anuneet also fulfilled administrative responsibilities by editing summaries and collages for the Highest Good Society, Highest Good Education, and Core Teams, and reviewed fellow admin submissions to ensure completeness and accuracy. Her work contributes to open source DIY Highest Good living. Below are some images showcasing her work.
Chelsea Mariah Stellmach (Project Manager) continued working on the Transition Food Self-sufficiency food and inventory tracking software plans. Chelsea was alerted by the engineer, Bhanu, about the disappearance of the Figma files and investigated the issue by coordinating with the UX designer, Ravikumar, to understand the status and recovery options. Although the original Figma file and its version history appear to be permanently lost, she identified and retrieved available screenshots and downloaded assets representing specific screens. These materials were consolidated, labeled, and organized in Dropbox to support continued design and engineering work. Chelsea also clarified how food bars should be categorized and handled within the kitchen inventory software and communicated the agreed approach to the engineer to align implementation with inventory tracking needs. As an essential aspect of One Community’s open source goals, the Highest Good Food initiative supports open source DIY Highest Good living. The following images provide a view of her contributions.
Japneet Kour (Volunteer Architect) continued contributing to the Highest Good Food initiative. Japneet added plants, shrubs, and trees to the Walipini 3 tropical house, following the details outlined in the report and aligning the selections with the requirements of a tropical environment. The work focused on placing vegetation appropriate for warm, humid conditions to support the intended growing setting of the structure. Plant choices and placement reflected environmental factors described in the report, including suitability for indoor tropical conditions and spatial arrangement within the house. The activity centered on establishing a range of plant types to support the overall function of the tropical house while maintaining consistency with documented environmental guidelines and expectations for plant growth within that space. The Highest Good Food initiative is a key part of One Community’s open source platform, focused on sustainable and participatory development while supporting open source DIY Highest Good living. Visual examples from her work are presented below.
Jay Nair (BIM Designer) continued developing the Aquapini and Walipini Planting and Harvesting documents. Jay worked on the standardization of the Lighting Energy document to ensure consistency in structure, formatting, and terminology across all sections. This included aligning calculation tables, clarifying headings, and organizing content to match established documentation standards. At the same time, he explored initial concepts for a lighting electrical usage calculator, focusing on identifying required inputs, calculation logic, and how the tool could support future lighting energy assessments for greenhouse projects. The Highest Good Food initiative is a key part of One Community’s open source platform, focused on sustainable and participatory development while supporting open source DIY Highest Good living. See below for pictures related to this work.
Nitin Parate (Architect) continued contributing to the Aquapini and Walipini renders and layout graphics. The work started on developing rendered sectional views based on discussions with Jae, with a focus on aligning the sections to the agreed design approach and representation requirements. The work continued through iterative reworking of the sections, including adjusting compositions, revising details, and removing elements that did not fit the intended design intent. Several portions were reworked or scrapped to improve clarity, consistency, and alignment with the discussed representation strategy, and the sectional views remain in progress as refinements continue. The Highest Good Food initiative is a key part of One Community’s open source platform, promoting regenerative and participatory development while supporting open source DIY Highest Good living. Images below showcase his contributions.
Pallavi Deshmukh (Software Engineer) continued working on the Aquapini and Walipini Planting and Harvesting web details. Pallavi created new content for Blog 666 and worked with teammates by incorporating their suggestions to maintain clarity and consistency in the final version. She completed two interviews and submitted the required information. She continued integrating Walipini 1 and Zenapini 1 material from Gayatri’s work into the Aquapini and Walipini Planting and Harvesting page. Pallavi edited images to meet the stated requirements for inclusion, checked the full page using Jae’s feedback, and submitted the page for review. In alignment with One Community’s open source objectives, the Highest Good Food project integrates open source DIY Highest Good living into a larger vision of regenerative living. Her contributions are highlighted in the collage below.
One Community is demonstrating open source DIY highest good living through Highest Good energy that is more sustainable, resilient, supports self-sufficiency and includes solar, wind, hydro and more:
This week, the core team continued contributing to the Highest Good Energy initiative. They worked for five hours reviewing and editing the City Center Dome and Hub Connector Collaboration page and the Vermiculture Ecotoilet page, focusing on improving clarity and organization across both documents. Their tasks included adding and adjusting entries in the table of contents to better reflect current sections, removing duplicate or overlapping information, and updating formatting to ensure consistency in headings, spacing, and layout. The team also checked an additional document for relevance and accuracy, determining that its content had already been integrated into the City Center Dome page, which required no further changes. The Highest Good Energy initiative plays a leading role in One Community’s open source platform by promoting sustainable and participatory development, focused on open source DIY Highest Good living. Below are images related to this project.
One Community is demonstrating open source DIY highest good living through Highest Good education that is for all ages, applicable in any environment, adaptable to individual needs, far exceeds traditional education standards, and more fun for both the teachers and the students. This component of One Community is about 95% complete with only the Open Source School Licensing and Ultimate Classroom construction and assembly details remaining to be finished.
With over 8 years of work invested in the process, the sections below are all complete until we move onto the property and continue the development and open sourcing process with teachers and students – a development process that is built directly into the structure of the education program and everything else we’re creating too:
This week, Prudhvi Marpina (Data Analyst) continued developing the Highest Good Education software platform, concentrating on Phase 4: marketing, promotion, and administrative activities. He contributed to Highest Good Network software development by updating Phase 5 governance documentation, defining Deliverable 1 action items, expanding task-level details, and coordinating with the development administrator Rajeshwari to align tables, action items, and supporting content before updating the main document. He supported Phase 4 software management by reviewing Deliverable 2 action items, tracking pull request status, identifying required merges and Git labels, and communicating follow-up actions to developers. His marketing and promotion work included preparing and scheduling BlueSky content through Buffer and updating the social media analytics dashboard with current performance data. The outcomes of this work reinforce our path toward demonstrating open source DIY highest good living.
Prudhvi also completed administrative tasks by updating the weekly blog and reviewing administration team submissions, providing feedback for the current reporting cycle. Through these activities, he supported One Community’s commitment demonstrating open source DIY highest good living. The images below highlight his contributions.
One Community is demonstrating open source DIY highest good living through a Highest Good society approach to living that is founded on fulfilled living, the study of meeting human needs, Community, and making a difference in the world:
This week, the core team completed over 28 hours managing volunteer work reviews, handling emails, overseeing social media accounts, supporting web development, and identifying and integrating bug fixes for the Highest Good Network. The team also interviewed and onboarded new volunteer team members. Additionally, they produced and integrated the video above, which highlights how demonstrating open source DIY highest good living serves as the foundation of One Community’s broader mission. The following images showcase highlights of this work.
Jaiwanth Reddy Adavalli (Project Manager) continued developing the Job Applicants page and key components of the Highest Good Network. He tested multiple pull requests of components in various parts of the HGN Software. He created new action items to develop new components in Phases 1 and 2. He tracked updates in software team management documents to support task management. As a member of the pull request review team, Jaiwanth reviewed submissions from the volunteer team assigned to him. This work supports One Community’s commitment demonstrating open source DIY highest good living. The images below highlight his contributions.
Rajrajeshwari Gangadhar Sangolli (Data Analyst) continued working on Google Ads management and strategy evolution of the Highest Good Network. She created multiple charts with concise explanations and developed corresponding visualizations to support project documentation. She coordinated with Prudhvi to identify next steps to be added to the document and reviewed Phase 4 and Phase 5 materials to clarify scope and context. She worked on the identified next steps while completing the weekly Google Ads analysis, performance review, and recommendations. Older campaigns and ad sets were reviewed to assess structure and performance. Rajrajeshwari then added Deliverable 1 for Phase 5, including five required tasks and structured tables aligned with prior phase formats. She also checked multiple campaigns for accuracy across links, keywords, and ad strength, and recorded observations and details in a tracking spreadsheet. This project supports One Community’s commitment demonstrating open source DIY highest good living. The images below highlight key aspects of her work.
Yagna Reddy Badvel (Data Analyst and Team Administrator) continued working on the Summary Dashboards and Weekly Report page on the Highest Good Network. He reviewed and refined Phase 2 of the HGN Bugs and Features tracking system by validating task ownership, priorities, statuses, formatting, and bookmark links within the Materials, Equipment, Tools, and Project Tracking System tab to ensure alignment with active development priorities. In parallel, he completed Admin-in-Training review tasks by providing feedback on onboarding steps and training materials. Yagna also handled weekly administration work by reviewing team submissions, verifying summaries and media, updating tracking tables, and supporting blog readiness. This work supports One Community’s commitment demonstrating open source DIY highest good living. The images below highlight his contributions.
The Administration Team’s summary, which covers their work on the Highest Good Network, was managed by Prudhvi Marpina (Data Analyst) and includes Anusha Gali (Software Engineer), Ashutosh Mishra (Software Engineer), Divanshu Bakshi (Team Admin), Indra Anuraag Gade (Software Engineer and Team Administrator), Keerthana Chitturi (System Administrator), Leo Lishin Shiu (Software Engineer), Neeharika Kamireddy (Data Analyst), Olawunmi “Ola” Ijisesan (Administrative and Management Support), Olimpia Borgohain (Data Analyst and Team Administrator), Rachna Malav (Data Analyst), Rajeshwari Bhirud (Administrator), Rishitha Adepu (Administrator), Sai Suraj Matta Veera Venkata (Business Data Analyst), Sayantan Paul (Volunteer Frontend Tester and Software Team Administrator), and Sudarshan Raju Chintalapati Venkata (Data Analyst). The Administration Team supports the Highest Good Network, a tool designed to track and measure progress while developing systems that contribute to demonstrating open source DIY highest good living. Through administrative support, documentation, testing, training, recruiting, analytics, and content management, the team helps advance this mission, aligning with One Community’s vision of building a replicable and sustainable future model.
This week, Anusha focused on Level 2 frontend and backend software testing and QA by reviewing and testing a high volume of pull requests, approving those that met functional and UI requirements and requesting changes where issues such as dark mode inconsistencies, configuration problems, inaccessible URLs, incomplete data loading, or unmet requirements were identified. She documented testing outcomes, blockers, and status updates, communicated findings directly to leadership, and completed re-reviews where updates were applied. This accomplishment plays an important role in advancing open source DIY highest good living.
Ashutosh contributed to Dev Dynasty development by evaluating alternative hosting approaches for Hugging Face models, creating and testing custom document embeddings, improving asynchronous request handling, and implementing automated RAG ingestion workflows while reducing overall system runtime. Divanshu managed Mastodon operations by publishing and monitoring daily posts, documenting feature issues and enhancements with full reproduction details, processing analytics data using Python, transforming raw exports into structured datasets, and validating dashboard accuracy through schema and metric checks. Together, these efforts support systems demonstrating open source DIY highest good living.
Indra supported analytics and content operations by maintaining X/Twitter dashboards, posting and logging content, updating datasets used for ML models, rerunning pipelines, and integrating automation through the Google Sheets API while beginning advanced NLP exploration for deeper insights. He also tested merged pull requests, approved updates related to job form and analytics components, created action items tied to completed Figma designs, and supported admin training while contributing to the weekly blog update. Keerthana handled administrative coordination by reviewing team summaries for accuracy and formatting, updating Step 2 and Step 4 tracking documents, compiling and validating the weekly blog, and assigning Phase 3 action items to developers. These coordinated efforts strengthen reporting accuracy and operational flow while demonstrating open source DIY highest good living.
Leo completed onboarding and training activities by preparing individual and team summaries, resizing images to meet documentation standards, aligning materials with existing formats, and reviewing team summaries to track progress and ensure alignment with objectives. Neeharika supported software team operations by reviewing management documents and action items, following up on task ownership, testing pull requests, validating admin-submitted PDFs, reviewing other admins’ work, and conducting interviews shared with leadership. Ola managed Pinterest analytics and content scheduling while organizing administrative folders and improving workspace structure to support team workflows. These administrative and operational contributions improve coordination and transparency in support of demonstrating open source DIY highest good living.
Olimpia managed LinkedIn analytics and senior administrative responsibilities by updating KPI metrics, reviewing volunteer documentation, resolving prior admin comments, identifying warning and blue-square cases, and scheduling upcoming posts with appropriate images, hashtags, and links. Rachna focused on reviewing ongoing tasks, communications, webpages, and SEO content while monitoring updates across platforms. Rajeshwari supported OC Administration by reviewing team summaries, providing structured feedback, editing and maintaining WordPress blog content with SEO alignment, publishing team updates with collages, completing questionnaires, and conducting functional testing on the BM Dashboard. Together, these actions further the journey toward demonstrating open source DIY highest good living.
Rishitha served as weekly content administrator by consolidating blogs, optimizing SEO, managing bios, following up on missing information, uploading Threads content, updating dashboards and raw data, and maintaining volunteer tracking. Sai Suraj handled Meta analytics operations by exporting and processing Facebook and Instagram data, refreshing dashboards, scheduling content, compiling summaries, organizing image assets, and completing publication workflows. This progress highlights how collaboration and innovation support demonstrating open source DIY highest good living.
Sayantan supported administrative and testing efforts by guiding admin training, validating bug fixes during live week closure, testing analytics components, reporting UI issues, assigning development tasks, and completing Team Skye’s weekly summary. Sudarshan managed the Alpha Software Team blog through content review, SEO updates, collage creation, pull request testing, task creation, and multi-page bug tracking across Phase 3 components. To learn more about how this work supports demonstrating open source DIY highest good living, visit the Highest Good Society and Highest Good Network pages. Highlights of the team’s contributions are shown in the collage below.
The Graphic Design Team’s summary includes Qinyi Liu (Graphic Designer) and Yulin Li (Graphic Designer), who focused this week on creating graphic designs that support open source diy highest good living.
This week, Qinyi worked on marketing and promotion tasks focused on social media image creation using a game character visual style aligned with open source diy highest good living, generating and editing character designs with ChatGPT, and adapting existing characters for poster-style social media use. Yulin focused on visual communication and coordination aligned with open source diy highest good living, creating four social media images, publishing a team collaboration announcement, managing shared assets, and participating in weekly review discussions. Their efforts highlight open source diy highest good living. See the Highest Good Society pages and the collage below for examples of their work.
One Community is demonstrating open source DIY highest good living 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.
This week, the core team tested Highest Good Network pull requests and confirmed 6 as fixed. This effort highlights One Community’s commitment demonstrating open source DIY highest good living.
The following PRs were not fixed: the listing and bidding dashboard demand chart, the teacher-created student groups frontend, the Supplier Performance bar graph on the Phase 2 Summary Dashboard, the volunteer hours distribution pie chart data categorization, registration by event type and location, the PR Insights frontend toggle for data view in the PR Quality Distribution chart, Dark mode issues in application analytics, applicant volunteer ratio CSS changes, improvements to the Tools by Availability chart, and the missing visual representation of assigned versus completed tasks in the Total Organization Summary dashboard. They also addressed issues found in the volunteer status donut chart update PR. They were not able to test several PRs due to the absence of data on the Main branch, including fixes for hover text in the PR Insights frontend, text visibility in Dark mode for the grouped bar graph showing number of issues by type, Dark mode support for the BM Dashboard page, and functionality for the materials dropdown menu. This work strengthens One Community’s mission of demonstrating open source DIY highest good living. See the Highest Good Society and The Highest Good Network pages, and the collage below, for an overview of the team’s contributions.
The Alpha Software Team, working on the Highest Good Network software, was managed by Lin Khant Htel (Frontend Software Developer). The team includes Lin. The Highest Good Network software is a key part of sustainable and free-shared eco-solutions, helping track and measure progress toward demonstrating open source DIY highest good living. The software supports social architecture, construction, production, and maintenance processes that contribute to the open source project and resilient ecosystems. Designed to be portable and scalable, the Highest Good Network software is well suited for off-grid and sustainable living communities. This project reflects One Community’s open source commitment to demonstrating open source DIY highest good living.
This week, Lin reviewed PR #1927, examined the code, tested the endpoints using Postman, and confirmed that the returned data matched expectations, then reviewed and checked the weekly summaries, photos, and videos submitted by Alpha team members and carried out management duties for the Alpha Team. See the Highest Good Society and Highest Good Network pages for more on how this contributed to demonstrating open source DIY highest good living. See the collage below to view the team’s work.
The Binary Brigade Team, presenting their work on the Highest Good Network software, was managed by Nikhil Routh (Software Engineer) and included Apoorva Jain Ramapura Prashanth (Software Engineer), Taariq Mansurie (Full-Stack Developer), Ramsundar Konety Govindarajan (Software Engineer), Aswin “Tony” Kanikairaj (Software Engineer), Sourabh Bagde (Software Developer), Harsha Rudhraraju (Software Engineer), and Amalesh Arivanan (Software Engineer). The Highest Good Network software is our tool for managing and objectively measuring progress, ensuring that all contributions are tracked and aligned with our mission, modeling, and demonstrating open source DIY Highest Good living. It supports social architecture, construction, production, and maintenance processes that contribute to open-source projects and resilient, sustainable ecosystems.
This week, Apoorva finalized the full-stack development of the LiveJournal Auto-Poster by completing the backend XML-RPC integration and the frontend dark mode user interface, pushed the related code to the repositories, and continued work on the Mailchimp application by fixing the media classification issue where video URLs were incorrectly treated as images while addressing remaining tasks involving draft persistence, network status toast behavior, and preview layout adjustments. These contributions strengthen the foundation needed for demonstrating open source DIY highest good living.
Aswin worked on improving usability in the Total Construction Summary dashboard by implementing an interactive empty-state experience for the Injury Severity by Category of Worker Injured chart, adding placeholder guidance, accessibility support, and ensuring consistent behavior across light and dark modes while resolving linting and styling issues and preparing the changes for review. Amalesh worked on fixing pull requests 704 and 1831 by addressing issues and merge conflicts within both branches, validating the changes, and documenting the work with screenshots and videos while tracking time and completing required onboarding steps. This continued progress helps us further our mission of demonstrating open source DIY highest good living.
Ram focused on issues in the BM Dashboard Consumables page, investigating why the Edit Name / Measurement button and other actions were unresponsive, identifying missing or unclear connections to backend APIs, uncovering dropdown population and filtering problems, and reaching out for clarification on expected behavior due to the scope and uncertainty of the issues.Nikhil worked on the Weekly Report Summary and Weekly Summaries modules by updating imports and correcting class mappings as part of the CSS Modules effort, reviewed pull requests 4594 and 4604, updated pull requests 3770 and 3662 based on review feedback, and collaborated with teammates on Phase III discussions related to database workflows and backend requirements. The results of this work support our long-term commitment to demonstrating open source DIY highest good living.
Sourabh built backend support for MySpace scheduled posts by adding a Mongoose schema, controller, and REST endpoints, addressed code clarity and formatting feedback, began improving identifier generation logic to reduce collisions, and prepared related changes for the Slashdot module. Taariq continued development and stabilization work across multiple HGN tasks, focusing on filters-on-refresh functionality, frontend issues on the weekly summaries page, discrepancies in active user counts affecting emails, and ongoing debugging of auto-scroll, auto-refresh, and BioStatusToggle behavior while coordinating fixes across frontend and backend branches. This work plays an important role in advancing our goal of demonstrating open source DIY highest good living.
Harshavarma added and refined event filters for Today, This Week, and This Month, completed backend logic for calendar data loading across month ranges, raised and addressed feedback on pull requests related to the More options feature, and continued improving dark mode consistency, filtering reliability, and integration between frontend state management and backend endpoints. See the Highest Good Society and Highest Good Network pages for more information on how this works in demonstrating open source DIY Highest Good living. The collage below shows images of their work.
The Blue Steel Software Team, working on the Highest Good Network software, was managed by Divanshu Bakshi (Product Manager), and includes Linh Huynh (Software Engineer), Som Ramnani (Software Engineer), and Sheetal Mangate (Software Engineer). This week Som worked on PR #4585 to address engagement and comments functionality, including correcting feedback sorting when switching between Newest and Oldest views by updating the logic to use a single raw timestamp instead of formatted display values, which resolved invalid date parsing while maintaining existing search, filter, and rating-based sorting behavior. This work supported the stability and usability goals of the open source DIY highest good living platform. He also updated the feedback thumbs interaction so likes toggle correctly rather than incrementing continuously by adding logic to track whether the current user has already liked a feedback item, allowing likes to be added and removed as expected.
Linh focused on initiating and advancing frontend work for the Materials page under the /bmdashboard/materials route by reviewing task requirements, confirming frontend-only scope, and tracing application routing to identify the relevant page and table components responsible for rendering materials data. He created and pushed tracking branches to support visibility and progress tracking, implemented initial UI groundwork to improve Materials table usability by adding a search input layout and preparing sortable table headers, and verified that the updates rendered correctly with existing Redux-managed data. He also prepared technical documentation and step-by-step implementation plans for the Material Usage Insights and Visual Indicators task, defining calculation logic, thresholds, edge case handling, and UI design considerations such as stock health indicators, usage percentage visuals, tooltips, and summary metrics. These updates reinforce our focus on demonstrating open source DIY highest good living.
Sheetal worked on integrating the Bitwarden Password Manager CLI into the backend application by reviewing CLI documentation related to authentication, unlock flow, and vault access, addressing issues with the bw unlock command and password handling, validating correct usage of the passwordenv option and session key retrieval, and implementing logic to fetch vault items and parse them into JSON objects in support of the open source DIY highest good living initiative. The collage below shows images of their work.
The Code Crafters Team, covering their work on the Highest Good Network software, was managed by Vivek Chandra (Software Engineer) and includes Ajay Naidu (Software Engineer), Chaitanya Swaroop Kumar Allu (Software Engineer), Juhitha Reddy Penumalli (Software Engineer), Sphurthy Satish (Software Engineer). The Highest Good Network software is how we manage and objectively measure progress in building open source DIY Highest Good Living systems by coordinating social architecture, construction, production, and maintenance efforts, while supporting widespread, scalable, and lasting access to regenerative lifestyles worldwide.
This week, Ajay resolved merge conflicts across multiple files and prepared the branch for publishing by refining background colors, text, and shadows to improve dark mode readability, ensuring numeric and percentage indicators remained visible and properly color-coded, validating WCAG AA contrast, testing hover and focus states in light and dark modes, checking desktop and tablet responsiveness, confirming there was no layout shift when toggling themes, refining alignment and interaction behavior, and documenting changes while coordinating with the branch workflow. Chaitanya developed the Material Stock-Out Risk Indicator for the BM Dashboard Weekly Project Summary by implementing a horizontal bar chart using Recharts with a vertical layout, responsive behavior, custom tooltips, a red-to-green risk gradient based on remaining inventory days, a multi-select project filter with a default “All” option, a Y-axis displaying both material and project names, dark mode support, a risk legend, and error handling for invalid placeholder data, integrating the indicator as a collapsible section within the WeeklyProjectSummary. This contribution helps maintain our direction toward demonstrating open source DIY highest good living.
Juhitha completed Phase 1 UI fixes for the People Report page for screen widths of 375px and above by resolving column alignment and grid width issues, adjusting title and header spacing to preserve timelines, correcting inconsistencies across light and dark themes, performing repeated local testing to validate layout behavior, addressing remaining UI issues, resolving tooling blockers such as Husky git commit problems, and preparing a clear, well-documented pull request. Their progress aligns with One Community’s broader approach to developing open source DIY Highest Good Living systems.
Sphurthy enhanced the Community Portal participation reports by adding mid-range time filters to the no-show rate insights component, updating the dropdown with Last 3, 6, and 12 Months options, modifying the filterByDate logic to calculate inclusive rolling date windows backward from the current date, and ensuring the bar chart correctly aggregates and displays no-show rate percentages across Event Type, Time, and Location tabs while keeping existing filters fully functional. Vivek reviewed a teammate’s pull request and requested targeted changes, worked on connecting the backend API to the frontend while investigating why API calls were not reaching the backend, guided a teammate through environment setup and pull request review practices during a working session, walked through relevant code, continued debugging the integration issue, and reviewed all submitted weekly summaries. These contributions strengthen One Community’s mission and commitment in building open source DIY Highest Good Living systems. The collage below shows an overview of this team’s work.
The Dev Dynasty Team’s summary, covering their work on the Highest Good Network software, was managed by Vamsidhar Panithi (Software Engineer) and includes Adithya Cherukuri (Volunteer Software Engineer), Aditya Gambhir (Software Engineer), Debadyuti Mukherjee (Software Engineer), Deekshith Kumar Singirikonda (Developer), Neeraj Kondaveeti (Software Engineer) and Sriamsh Reddy (Software Engineer). The Highest Good Network software is how we’ll manage and objectively measure our processes for open sourcing a better world for us all through our social architecture, construction, production, and maintenance processes. This progress supports One Community in demonstrating open source DIY highest good living.
The Expressers Team’s summary, which covers work on the Highest Good Network, includes Casstiel Pi (Software Engineer). This effort supports One Community’s goal of open source DIY Highest Good Living.
This week, Casstiel continued work on enhancing the multi-select filter solution. A first draft of the implementation was completed and tested locally, with work ongoing to finalize the pull request. Updates included allowing the dropdown to open when the input is empty to improve discoverability, restricting selections to existing tags by disabling free-text input, and adding optional keyboard navigation support. See the Highest Good Society and Highest Good Network pages for more on how this work contributes to creating a open source DIY Highest Good Living. See the collage below to view the team’s work.
The Lucky Star Team’s summary, covering their work on the Highest Good Network, was managed by Keerthana Chitturi (System Administrator) and Aryan Rachala (Software Engineer). The team includes contributions from Chirag Bellara (Software Engineer), Shashank Madan (Software Engineer), Shravya Kudlu (Software Development Engineer), Veda Bellam (Software Engineer), Venkataramanan Venkateswaran (Software Engineer) and Vinay Krishna (Software Engineer). Their work supports One Community’s goal of open source DIY highest good living through cross-functional software development and ongoing system improvements.
This week, Aryan worked on implementing and finalizing search bar functionality and status-based filters for the Attendance Tracking Admin Dashboard. He tested interactions between search queries and filters across multiple scenarios, resolved minor UI inconsistencies, and refined the code to improve readability and maintainability while preserving existing layout and styling. These frontend improvements contribute to open source DIY highest good living. Chirag fixed dark mode and console issues in PR 4535, committed the updates, and requested a re-review. He also created PR 4582 to address a Resource Usage screen bug, added dark mode support to that screen, included Resource Usage and Resource Management links in the Other Links tab, and added permission checks to restrict access to logged-in users. These updates support open source DIY highest good living. Shashank added dark mode styling updates to module CSS files for intermediate tasks and student profile tasks, then continued work on an older reports dashboard pull request by resolving merge conflicts and linting errors. He ran previously broken branches locally to reproduce reported issues and updated backend controller logic to ensure required data was fetched and returned correctly. This backend and frontend progress contributes to open source DIY highest good living.
Shravya addressed multiple defects by submitting PR 4591 for no-show rate report issues and PR 4547 for a missing AttendanceStats route, resolving related merge conflicts. She also continued investigating a log time bug by analyzing system behavior and identifying delayed server responses that increased diagnosis complexity, documenting findings to support continued review. These backend updates support open source DIY highest good living. Veda worked on the Job Application Listing Page for the Users View, implementing user-facing functionality, adding requirement evaluation logic, resolving merge conflicts, fixing UI, CSS, accessibility, and dark mode issues, and validating the user flow from job listing to application form. These updates support open source DIY highest good living. Venkataramanan completed multiple frontend and backend fixes, resolving UI alignment issues across tasks, timelogs, WBS, and Teams pages, improving user profile performance, adding validation to prevent negative committed hours, and updating backend logic for blue square cleanup and leaderboard accuracy. These changes contribute to open source DIY highest good living. Vinay worked on Indra’s Application/Job Posting Page—Application Form Template by adding a “Clear Template” action to reset the builder workspace through a confirmation modal. He ensured accessibility through tooltips and focus handling and aligned the behavior with existing confirmation patterns, improving workflow clarity. This refinement supports open source DIY highest good living. See the Highest Good Society and Highest Good Network pages to learn more about how this work supports open source DIY highest good living. See the collage below highlighting the team’s work for the week.
The Moonfall Team’s summary, which covers their work on the Highest Good Network, was managed by Uha Kruthi (Software Engineer) and includes Aayush Shetty (Software Engineer), Alisha Walunj (Software Engineer), Mani Shashank Marneni (Software Engineer), Sai Krishna (Software Engineer), and Sudheesh Thuralkalmakki Dharmappa Gowda (Full Stack Developer). Their efforts support One Community by advancing the mission of open source DIY highest good living through open-source collaboration, ecologically responsible innovation, and holistic global progress.
This week Alisha advanced multiple frontend and analytics features by implementing a village dropdown filter, resolving merge conflicts, migrating styles to module.css, and correcting parent component paths to ensure village detail pages rendered correctly, while also adding a pie chart for applicant volunteering reasons on the Job Posting Page Analytics task, fixing date validation issues with null checks, testing related endpoints, developing a grouped bar graph comparing issues created versus resolved, resolving routing and URL conflicts through rebasing, and contributing to the Listing and Bidding platform by implementing user wish lists, fixing header icon styling, organizing CSS structure, correcting amenities display indentation, and configuring frontend actions, reducers, and constants for backend integration. Aayush completed a Phase 2 feature by building the Global Distribution of Projects pie chart, implementing frontend components with filters, updating backend response formats, testing the feature locally, and submitting frontend and backend pull requests, while also documenting task understanding and progress for upload.
Mani worked on a priority high task by building a responsive horizontal bar chart titled Winning Bid vs Average Bid, configuring bid amount and listing identifier axes, defining comparative datasets with legend support, integrating a date range picker for bid history filtering, adding a Top-N dropdown filter, and ensuring consistent sizing and responsiveness across dashboard views. Sai focused on refining dark mode optimization for the Inventory Types page by applying planned CSS updates, resolving conflicts between global and module-level styles, testing across components and screen states, and adjusting contrast and readability to improve visual consistency, with work continuing through iterative testing. Sudheesh completed several UI and feature tasks including implementing and testing column-specific tooltips on the Daily Equipment Log page, improving hover tooltip visibility on the Project Risk Graph in dark mode through frontend and CSS updates, reviewing requirements for Supplier Performance Chart dark mode alignment, and fixing remaining issues in the Phase 4 Student Profile View educational progress feature before pushing corrected changes. Visit the Highest Good Society and Highest Good Network pages for more on how this work supports creating the open source DIY highest good living through open-source development and globally accessible resources. The collage below depicts the team’s efforts for the week.
The Reactonauts Team’s summary, covering their work on the Highest Good Network, was managed by Sai Suraj Matta Veera Venkata (Business Data Analyst) and Akshay Jayaram (Software Engineer). The team includes Aseem Deshmukh (Software Developer), Diya Wadhwani (Software Developer), Guna Pranith Reddy Cheelam (Software Developer), Kristin Dingchuan Hu (Software Engineer), Namitha Vijaykumar Pawar (Software Engineer), Peterson Rodrigues dos Santos (Full Stack Developer), Siva Putti (Software Engineer), Sri Satya Venkatasai Siri Sudheeksha Vavila (Software Engineer), and Suparshwa Patil (Software Engineer). The Highest Good Network software helps manage and objectively measure progress by focusing on demonstrating open source DIY highest good living. It supports social architecture, construction, production, and maintenance processes to build sustainable and thriving ecosystems, further supporting demonstrating open source DIY highest good living.
This week, Akshay implemented a clear filters button in the Community Portal Activities view, including state reset logic across multiple filters, UI enablement rules, CSS alignment with form inputs, hover behavior, and dark mode compatibility, opened PR 4630, prepared and submitted the weekly team review, tracked contributor progress, and facilitated the weekly team call to align on open items and implementation details. Aseem tested PRs 2928 and 1167, resolved MongoDB-related local runtime issues to restore the application and job posting pages, and began Phase 2 work by clarifying requirements, documenting an approach, and reviewing code for required changes, contributing to demonstrating open source DIY highest good living. Diya handled production hotfixes and PR reviews by troubleshooting a Weekly Summaries filter issue, resolving a Netlify build and configuration failure affecting tests on PR 4578, merging PRs 4578 and 1961, fixing a weekly email job title defect with tests in PR 1974, resolving MongoDB connection issues during local testing for PRs 3316 and 1291, configuring a GCP project to validate a cron job, and identifying an Org Summary page crash pending guidance.
Guna addressed review feedback on PR 3999 for the listings home page frontend, investigated image request errors and tab heading corrections, and continued Phase 3 re-engagement work by analyzing a Dev environment routing error impacting attendance logging and follow-up features, supporting demonstrating open source DIY highest good living. Kristin improved Community Portal UI by updating calendar styling for light and dark modes and enhancing the Activity Attendance page with information icons, definitions, and hover styling through a new frontend PR, contributing to demonstrating open source DIY highest good living. Namitha analyzed requirements and implemented an initial Rating Distribution bar chart with defined axes, styling aligned to design references, and a date range filter to dynamically update chart data. Peterson fixed a Teams page modal title overflow issue in PR 4618 so long titles wrap and display an ellipsis.
Siva advanced timezone standardization by researching APIs, drafting an implementation plan, creating timezone utilities, implementing user timezone detection with Intl.DateTimeFormat, evaluating moment-timezone and date-fns-tz across browsers, and addressing validation and error handling in PR 4633. Sudheeksha completed Phase 2 work on adding separate inputs for tools and equipment after resolving errors across multiple work sessions. Suparshwa refined chatbot prompts to constrain responses to source documents and began building an orchestration layer for conversational memory. See the Highest Good Network and Highest Good Society pages to learn more about how this work supports the modeling and pioneering of demonstrating open source DIY highest good living. See below for the work done on demonstrating open source DIY highest good living.
The Skye Team’s summary, covering their work on the Highest Good Network, was managed by Sayantan Paul (Frontend Tester and Software Team Administrator) and Anthony Weathers (Software Engineer). The team includes Marcus Yi (Software Engineer) and Swathi Angadi (Software Engineer). The Highest Good Network software objectively tracks and manages progress, with a focus on supporting social architecture, construction, production, and maintenance processes that foster sustainable and thriving ecosystems, playing a major role in demonstrating open source DIY highest good living.
This week, Marcus focused on stabilizing the Facebook posting workflow by working on routing and integration logic. He investigated inconsistencies in how requests were passed between the frontend and backend and made updates to improve reliability across the posting flow. He reviewed permission handling to ensure required access scopes were applied during API calls and tested multiple posting scenarios to identify remaining points of failure and validate recent changes. Swathi worked on bug fixes across multiple areas of the application. She provided a fix for the “Page not found” error in the PR Review Team Analytics Dashboard and raised a pull request for the changes. She addressed routing and visibility issues in the BM Dashboard for the “Percent of Tools Returned Late” chart by resolving dark mode display problems, correcting date range filtering, fixing error message display and submitted a pull request for these updates. She also began working on frontend styling to fix the blank messaging user interface issue that occurred after the refactor from CSS to module CSS. Their work supports long-term stability across stewardship tracking features and contributes to advancing open source DIY highest good living practices within the broader Highest Good Network (HGN) infrastructure.
Anthony continued working on PR#3600 and PR#1447. He added a reason column to the permission change logs based on review feedback. He also modified the change log creation logic, so entries were generated only for role changes. This aligned the data more closely with the underlying reasons for permission updates caused by role transitions. Anthony also worked on the modal used to view and modify warning trackers, verifying that the existing drag-and-reorder functionality continued to operate as expected and then began adding the necessary routing and code to connect the modal to the related backend function required to complete the remaining portion of the task. See the Highest Good Network and Highest Good Society pages for more on how this contribution advances One Community’s goals by demonstrating open source DIY highest good living within the Highest Good Network open source hub.
The PR Review Team’s summary for members with names starting A–N, managed by Neeharika Kamireddy (Data Analyst), highlights their contributions to the Highest Good Network software. This platform forms the foundation for measuring our results in demonstrating open source DIY highest good living. Active team members included Abdelmounaim Lallouache (Software Developer), Carl Bebli (Software Developer), Julia Ha (Software Engineer), and Nathan Hoffman (Software Engineer). They supported the project by reviewing all pull requests shared this week. Learn more about how the Highest Good Network tracks progress toward demonstrating open source DIY highest good living in the Highest Good Network open source hub. The collage below showcases a compilation of this team’s work.
The PR Review Team’s summary for team members with names starting from O–Z, covering their work on the Highest Good Network software, was managed by Jaiwanth Reddy Adavalli (Software Project Manager). The Highest Good Network software is a foundation for measuring our results in demonstrating open source DIY Highest good living. This week’s active members of this team were: Rohan Rastogi (Software Engineer), and Shreya Padaganur (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 demonstrating open source DIY highest good living. The collage below shows a compilation of the work from this team.
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