At One Community, we are open sourcing the golden age of sustainable living by freely sharing complete systems for food, energy, housing, education, economics, and social architecture. Built by an all-volunteer team, our work focuses on transparency, replicability, and collaboration to support a model that is self-replicating and scalable worldwide. By developing solutions for fulfilled living and regenerating our planet, we aim to help create 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 January 19, 2026 edition (#670) of our weekly progress update detailing our team’s development and accomplishments:
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One Community is open sourcing the golden age 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 finalized Bill of Materials for the Earthbag Village project and completed the vermiculture duct ventilation design. Structural analysis included finishing Finite Element Analysis for two material cases, specifically comparing aluminum and stainless steel components to evaluate weight and structural integrity. Calculations for the factor of safety were performed for both materials to verify that performance requirements were met. The technical report was updated to include the aluminum section, reorganized for consistency, and finalized with all required photos and visual documentation for the vermicomposting ventilation system, supporting open sourcing the golden age through transparent and replicable engineering work. Below, you’ll find some images of this work.
Baraka Minja (Civil and Environmental Engineer Pr. Eng.) continued working on the Communal Eco-shower and Vermiculture Toilet drawings. He worked on the vermiculture CAD drawings, updating them to align with the standard connection details used in the communal earthbag drawings. These updates ensured consistency across the design portfolio. In addition, he adjusted the setting out drawing and incorporated changes into the layouts to reflect the updates, contributing to open sourcing the golden age by improving coordination and design consistency. See below for some of the pictures.
Derrell Brown (Plumbing Designer) continued working on the Earthbag Village 4-dome home final MEP report by addressing feedback from the initial draft and applying revisions across the mechanical and electrical sections to improve calculation logic, clarity, and alignment with overall project intent. He advanced work on the MEP final report by finalizing the MEP cost analysis spreadsheet. He updated the spreadsheet to clearly separate mechanical, electrical, and plumbing scopes, ensuring each discipline was organized consistently. The spreadsheet was structured with individual rows for each fixture, component, and system element associated with each discipline. Columns were arranged to document unit pricing, total cost, quantity expressed as counts or linear footage, and a corresponding image for reference. These updates improved clarity, traceability, and consistency between the cost analysis and the supporting design documentation, reinforcing open sourcing the golden age. See below for some of the pictures related to this work.
Fangting Xu (Interior Design Intern) continued working with ADA codes related to building connections for the ADA 3-dome cluster of the Earthbag Village. She produced construction documents for the 3-Dome Cluster ADA project and reviewed and commented on Baraka’s work using the checklist as a reference. In addition, Fangting hosted the weekly meeting with Baraka and followed up on Baraka’s tasks and priorities for the week, further supporting open sourcing the golden age through inclusive and well-coordinated documentation. She also asked Jae some questions to clarify the review comments on Baraka’s work. See below for some of the pictures related to this work.
Iteesha Vishalakshi Aswath (Technical Program Manager) completed initial onboarding and training activities related to becoming a One Community administrator and spent the remainder of the time reviewing technical source material required to begin cost and needs analysis. Building on this foundational context, the work this week focused on translating reviewed energy documentation into structured cost analysis and planning tools. She worked on building a cost analysis template for the Open Source Climate Battery Design by completing a full review of the webpage content and associated technical sections. She finished and provided feedback on topics including heating design, validation methods, 2D and 3D modeling, boundary conditions, simulation inputs, thermal simulation cases, references and results. This work reflects One Community’s goal of open sourcing the golden age.
In parallel, she created a basic cost analysis template in Google Sheets designed to be readable and replicable, with a summary page and populated sections covering documented assumptions, tubing and material unit costs and quantities, excavation and backfill, insulation, fans and airflow, controls and sensors, installation labor, operating energy costs, and maintenance and lifecycle considerations. She also developed a reusable set of cost estimate and construction planning and tracking templates, formatting and color coding sections for clarity while collaborating with a general contractor to align layout and usability. Iteesha also completed administrative work for the Reactonauts software development team, supporting open sourcing the golden age through scalable tools and organized knowledge sharing. See below for some of the pictures related to this work.
Kaustubh Kadam (Construction Engineering and Management Professional) worked on cleaning and improving the formulas in the cost estimation template and started building the planning and tracking template to support Highest Good Housing projects by adding more tabs to the planning sheet and making updates based on the items discussed with Iteesha. He improved all the sheets by applying both minor and major changes recommended by his teammate. He fixed issues in the formulas used in the estimating sheets and updated them to improve accuracy and reduce manual work. He also added additional estimation sheets to make the template easier to use and better organized. He continued working on a Gantt chart to improve clarity and readability of the planning timeline. He also applied recommendations shared by Jae and made related updates across the templates, advancing open sourcing the golden age through improved construction planning tools. 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 updated the BOM for dumping and cross-checked the data with teammates to ensure all items were accounted for. During the weekly mechanical team meeting, the status of report writing was discussed, and he revised his previously added content during the call. He also assisted Ajay with Finite Element Analysis (FEA) of alternative materials for the project and wrote portions of the report concerning material selection. Following the FEA testing of Al 6061, he updated the cost of materials based on the revised analysis, contributing to open sourcing the golden age through data-driven decision-making. Review the latest updates in the images below.
Rishi Chakrapani (Mechanical Engineer) continued working on the Vermiculture Toilet. This week, final updates were made to the dumping mechanism CAD model, including the addition of bolts, nuts, and other required fixtures to complete the assembly. An exploded view of the full assembly was also created and added to the master report to clearly show part relationships and assembly order. The Bill of Materials was updated to reflect the finalized design, with all components reviewed to confirm accuracy and completeness, reinforcing open sourcing the golden age through clear and shareable documentation. See below for some of the pictures related to this work.
Sai Bhuvanesh Nandipati (Mechanical Engineer) focused on understanding the scope of the assigned work and clarifying the technical expectations associated with the project. He reviewed and interpreted the LEED strategies applied to the Earthbag Village model to understand their intent and relevance to the analysis. This background supported the applied flow modeling and simulation setup completed during the week. He identified and documented the key factors affecting sheet flow and incorporated them into the modeling approach. He set up a sheet flow simulation in ANSYS Fluent using an assumed travel time of 12.6 minutes as the initial condition for evaluation. The simulation was initiated and was running at the time of this update, with model settings and assumptions established to support evaluation and comparison of results, contributing to open sourcing the golden age. See below for some of the pictures related to this work.
One Community is open sourcing the golden age 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:
Bevan Chiu (Mechanical Engineer Volunteer) continued his work finishing the City Center Eco-spa Designs. He worked on the plumbing access panels, focusing on both design development and documentation updates. This included creating CAD models for larger HDPE panel options and defining panel layouts that accommodate the spa cover equipment. He incorporated a locking solution using a recessed ring handle to address access and security requirements. In parallel, he updated the DIY assembly instructions by adding step-by-step images and diagrams to clarify the cinderblock layouts. Bevan also documented the manufacturing process steps for the cinderblock assembly. This open source Duplicable City Center project is dedicated to open sourcing the golden age. For more details, refer to the image below.
Sandesh Kumawat (Mechanical Engineer) continued developing the City Center Eco-spa Designs. He focused on Spa Project by completing high-fidelity structural simulations of the upper shell assembly and validating its performance under combined loading. He finalized a quarter-symmetry finite element model to balance accuracy and computational efficiency and evaluated two simultaneous load cases: bolt pretension to represent assembly clamping forces and hydrostatic pressure corresponding to a base water pressure of approximately 0.00747 MPa. The results show that the structure remains well within allowable limits, with von Mises stresses largely in the low-stress range (approximately 20–62 MPa) and localized peaks occurring at expected fastener locations, consistent with bolted Unistrut behavior. These efforts reinforce focus on open sourcing the golden age.
Displacement results indicate a maximum deflection of about 3.13 mm at the center of the largest unsupported panels, which is minimal for a structure of this scale (approximately 130 in × 105 in) and confirms adequate stiffness of the hybrid cork–steel shell. No yielding or excessive deformation was observed that would threaten the cement waterproofing layer or overall structural integrity. With the upper shell validated, Sandesh has begun transitioning to analysis of the lower foundation assembly, including modeling the rebar-reinforced cinder block base to assess compressive capacity under the full system water load of approximately 14,787 lb, while also preparing to integrate upper and lower results and extract a Bill of Materials based on the validated component dimensions. Discover One Community’s open source Duplicable City Center, which is dedicated to open sourcing the golden age. See the visuals below for a closer look.
Shivarama Krishna Revanuru (Mechanical Engineer) continued working on the Duplicable City Center design. He focused on understanding assigned responsibilities related to finite element analysis of the pulley holder and hook, along with associated cost analysis tasks. Time was spent clarifying the scope of FEA requirements and how cost considerations integrate with the overall design and analysis process. Discussions were held with a teammate to align on approaches for finite element analysis and cost evaluation, ensuring consistency in assumptions and methodology. Research was carried out on material selection to support both structural performance and cost objectives, with attention given to suitability for the intended loading conditions. Initial work was started on finite element modeling and structural load analysis for the pulley system, including identifying load cases and boundary conditions relevant to the pulley operation. This open source Duplicable City Center project is pioneering the concept of open sourcing the golden age. 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 many hours on the Duplicable City Center project, focusing on finite element analysis setup and verification for the dome assembly under multiple load conditions, the required files were received from Srujan and the analysis environment was set up in Inventor. The dome assembly model was checked for different load cases, and work continued on evaluating all relevant loads while creating a proper assembly. This involved addressing issues with multiple part files that were not correctly linked in the model. Finite element analysis checks on the dome assembly were continued across the various load conditions to validate the structural behavior of the model. This open source Duplicable City Center project exemplifies open sourcing the golden age. For more details, refer to the image below. 
One Community is open sourcing the golden age 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. They incorporated a mechanic’s creeper for the Auto Shop (ASHP) and bench dogs, rolled workbenches, and fixed workbenches across the ASHP, General Shop & Inventory (GSI), Metal Shop (MSHP), and Wood Shop (WSHP) documents. Furthermore, additional items were integrated into all fencing projects, including a fence post sealer for the above-ground portion of the seven-inch diameter douglas fir posts, a four-inch brush for sealer application, and a come-a-long for post alignment. Air compressors were also added for the four shop areas. This progress continues building toward open sourcing the golden age.
The General Purpose Storage (GPS) acronym was updated to General Storage Inventory (GSI) across 74 entries, and new photos were included for all recent modifications. The Highest Good Food initiative is a key component of One Community’s open source plans, focused on open sourcing the golden age and exemplifying the organization’s commitment through innovative design and implementation. Below are some images showcasing this work.
Chelsea Mariah Stellmach (Project Manager) continued working on the Transition Food Self-sufficiency food and inventory tracking software plans. Chelsea worked with Bhanu to coordinate and advance the inventory management software development, focusing on alignment of priorities and next steps. She also met with Bhanu and Jae to discuss her perspective on onboarding additional developers to the project to increase delivery capacity and accelerate progress. The development team tested several completed pages of the application, and those pages met approval criteria. Ongoing work emphasized maintaining continuity across features, supporting steady progress on the existing codebase, and ensuring that recently approved components can be extended as development continues. As an essential aspect of One Community’s open source goals, the Highest Good Food initiative supports open sourcing the golden age. The following images provide a view of her contributions.
Japneet Kour (Volunteer Architect) continued contributing to the Highest Good Food initiative. Japneet completed the design portion of the Walipini 3 tropical house, focusing on functional requirements, incorporating moss on selected walls to suit a humid climate, adding seating areas to improve usability, adding the vines on the walls and creating scenes in SketchUp to support the next phase of rendering and design visualization tasks. The Highest Good Food initiative is a key part of One Community’s open source platform, focused on sustainable and participatory development while open sourcing the golden age. Visual examples from her work are presented below.
Jay Nair (BIM Designer) continued developing the Aquapini and Walipini Planting and Harvesting documents. He reviewed the lighting energy calculation document for Greenhouse Walipini 1 to identify and address missing information required for accurate calculations. This included checking incomplete data entries, verifying assumptions and fixture details, and updating the documentation to ensure the calculation sections are complete, consistent, and aligned with project standards. The Highest Good Food initiative is a key part of One Community’s open source platform, focused on sustainable and participatory development while open sourcing the golden age. See below for pictures related to this work.
Nitin Parate (Architect) continued contributing to the Aquapini and Walipini renders and layout graphics. The work focused on developing the axonometric drawing of the Zen Aquapini. Updates were made to improve clarity, alignment, and overall layout while keeping the design intent the same. Special attention was given to details such as roof members, glazing, and structural elements, and this information was added into the axonometric view. Further work will include refining the visuals, adding explanatory text, and preparing supporting sectional drawings. The Highest Good Food initiative is a key part of One Community’s open source platform, promoting regenerative and participatory development while open sourcing the golden age. Images below showcase his contributions.
Pallavi Deshmukh (Software Engineer) continued working on the Aquapini and Walipini Planting and Harvesting web details. She developed new content for blog 669 and worked with teammates to incorporate their suggestions and feedback to ensure clarity and consistency in the final version. Pallavi continued adding Walipini 1 content based on Gayatri’s work and made updates in response to feedback from Jae, including editing text and incorporating revised images. She also added a table of contents to the Zenapini section to improve structure and navigation. This contribution supports the vision of open sourcing the golden age.
Additionally, Jae assigned her a new web page focused on integrating all related content for the Aquahaven Southwest Area web design, and she began organizing and preparing the required materials for this effort. Pallavi also completed five interviews for the software and admin teams and submitted the related details as required. The Highest Good Food project integrates open sourcing the golden age into a larger vision of regenerative living. Her contributions are highlighted in the collage below.
Shivangi Varma (Architectural Designer and Planner) continued the redesign of the Highest Good Food overall presentation, currently focused on the Aquapini and Walipini masterplan render. She finalized the shrubs and planters across the full landscaped site and finalized the layout for Walipini 3, began detailing the landscape for the Aquapini structure, continued developing landscape details for Zenipini layout, and added updates to the three structure typologies across the HGF project based on feedback received. The Highest Good Food initiative plays a leading role in One Community’s open source platform by promoting sustainable and participatory development, focused on open sourcing the golden age. Below are visuals highlighting this work.
One Community is open sourcing the golden age 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 monitored feedback on Ayushman’s work related to hub connector future task descriptions and provided comments that reinforced prior guidance. The team also spent time reading earthbag village construction documentation and materials related to the One Community Business Plan to build familiarity with the content and context in preparation for future work associated with those materials. 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 sourcing the golden age. Below are images related to this project.
One Community is open sourcing the golden age 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:
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One Community is open sourcing the golden age 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:
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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), Keerthana Chitturi (System Administrator), Leo Lishin Shiu (Software Engineer), Mridul Bhushan (Volunteer Project Strategy Analyst and Team Administrator), Neeharika Kamireddy (Data Analyst), Olawunmi “Ola” Ijisesan (Administrative and Management Support), Olimpia Borgohain (Data Analyst and Team Administrator), Priyanshi Sharma (Data Analyst and Team Administrator), Rachna Malav (Data Analyst), Rajeshwari Bhirud (Administrator), Rishitha Adepu (Administrator), 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 open sourcing the golden age. 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 completed extensive Level 2 frontend and backend software testing and quality assurance by reviewing and validating a high volume of pull requests, updating shared tracking documents, and documenting issues related to regressions, environment setup gaps, UI alignment, dark mode behavior, and backend dependencies. Ashutosh advanced AI and frontend development by updating wireframes for video clip workflows, building interfaces to manage multimedia assets, implementing video slicing for embedding models, and beginning work on an automated ingestion pipeline, while also refining layout structure and usability. Divanshu managed end-to-end Mastodon operations by preparing, publishing, and monitoring daily posts, documenting feature issues and enhancement ideas, processing analytics data through Python-based transformations, and validating dashboard accuracy through structured testing. Together, these efforts support Open Sourcing the Golden Age.
Keerthana coordinated administrative workflows 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. Leo compiled team summaries, created visual collages, verified cross-platform analytics consistency, and scheduled Meta posts to maintain the publishing calendar. Mridul reviewed and consolidated blog content, refined collage alt text, resized images to meet publishing standards, completed Twitter/X moderator training, scheduled posts, and logged engagement metrics across dashboards. This coordinated administrative and publishing work advances Open Sourcing the Golden Age.
Neeharika supported task management and testing by reviewing software team documents, following up on assigned tasks, testing pull requests, and verifying updated PDFs. Ola monitored KPI dashboards, scheduled Pinterest content, created weekly admin folders, and organized Google Workspace to improve workflows for the PR and admin teams. Olimpia updated LinkedIn analytics KPIs, completed senior admin reviews, resolved prior comments, identified cases requiring warnings or blue squares, and scheduled upcoming posts. Priyanshi continued Phase 2 project management testing by validating financial tracking dashboards, identifying chart loading and filter interaction issues, and documenting contrast and visibility problems for follow-up. This work helps advance open sourcing the golden age.
Rachna focused on routine administrative and SEO-related tasks, while Rajeshwari conducted extensive endpoint testing, documented UI, CSS, and data inconsistencies, managed blog administration, and maintained SEO keywords. Rishitha consolidated blogs, optimized SEO, maintained bios, supported Threads engagement, and updated dashboards and trackers, while Sayantan tested merged pull requests, logged usability improvements, assigned tasks from the bugs and features tracker, and reported UI behavior issues. Sudarshan managed the Alpha Software Team blog, reviewed pull requests, and created tasks to address bugs and system improvements. To learn more about how this work supports open sourcing the golden age, 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 a open sourcing the golden age.
This week, Qinyi worked on marketing and promotion tasks, creating social media and announcement visuals and web designs using a game-character style aligned with open sourcing the golden age. She generated and reused character assets, created bio images and announcements, and revised posters based on feedback to meet project requirements. Yulin focused on visual communication and coordination, creating infographics based on feedback, preparing a team collaboration announcement, and managing assets in Dropbox aligned with open sourcing the golden age. She also participated in weekly discussions to ensure tasks were completed on time. Their efforts highlight a open sourcing the golden age. See the Highest Good Society pages and the collage below for examples of their work.
One Community is open sourcing the golden age 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.
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The Alpha Software Team, working on the Highest Good Network software, was managed by Lin Khant Htel (Frontend Software Developer). The team includes Casstiel Pi (Software Engineer). The Highest Good Network software is a key part of sustainable and free-shared eco-solutions, helping track and measure progress toward open sourcing the golden age. The software supports social architecture, construction, production, and maintenance processes that contribute to the open source project and resilient ecosystems. Designed to be portable and scalable, the Highest Good Network software is well suited for off-grid and sustainable living communities. This project reflects One Community’s open source commitment to open sourcing the golden age.
This week, Lin reviewed PR #1991 by checking the code, testing it in a local environment, and confirming that all tests passed, then reviewed the weekly summaries, photos, and videos submitted by Alpha team members and handled Alpha Team management responsibilities. Casstiel continued work on enhancing the multi-select filter solution, completing the backend logic implementation, which still needs to pass checks in the local environment. The clicking error on the filter box remains unresolved because the related fix has not yet been merged into the main branch. He also began a new task to add a new card for the issue chart related to material consumption and is analyzing the existing code base while reviewing similar logic to maintain consistency across the implementation. See the Highest Good Society and Highest Good Network pages for more on how this contributed toopen sourcing the golden age. 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 Amalesh Arivanan (Software Engineer) and included Sourabh Bagde (Software Developer), Taariq Mansurie (Full-Stack Developer), Aswin “Tony” Kanikairaj (Software Engineer), Ramsundar Konety Govindarajan (Software Engineer), Sumedh Kumar (Full-Stack Developer), Harsha Rudhraraju (Software Engineer), and Nikhil Routh (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 while modeling and pioneering open sourcing the golden age. It supports social architecture, construction, production, and maintenance processes that contribute to open-source projects and resilient, sustainable ecosystems.
This week, Aswin enhanced the BM Dashboard Issues Chart by adding Select All and Clear All actions for the Issue Type and Year filters, showing selected counts for better visibility, ensuring keyboard accessibility, refining hover tooltips to clearly display Issue Type, Year, and Count, adjusting the x-axis labels’ rotation and spacing to reduce overlap, confirming that legend interactions support toggling year-based series, and adding Export CSV and Export PNG options with disabled states when no data is available, along with a “No data for selected filters’ message, all while maintaining consistency across light and dark modes. This development contributes to open sourcing the golden age.
Sourabh improved the MySpace auto-poster by completing the tabbed interface with validation, preview, copy helpers, local scheduling, edit support, localStorage persistence, and badge updates, wiring backend support through router, controller, and model layers, and implementing shared badge logic via a reusable component that updates reactively with capped display values. He shifted schedule persistence to localStorage with UI messaging indicating that schedules are stored per browser session, enhanced the edit workflow to restore fields, clamp date and time values to prevent past scheduling, reset validation and preview state, and guide users into the Schedule tab with feedback. Additionally, he updated the save logic to prevent duplicates, validate required data, normalize payloads, update local state on success, and handle failures by storing local copies and resetting the form for retries. This work reflects One Community’s goal of open sourcing the golden age.
Sumedh added dark mode support to PR4302, resolved new merge conflicts, and tested for alignment with existing behavior and design. He fixed merge conflicts in PR4462, implemented custom calendar styling for consistent dark mode behavior, and updated the daily activity log page to prevent selecting past dates for check-in and check-out based on review feedback, while confirming integration with existing logic. He continued working on PR4656 by resolving merge conflicts and addressing review comments. Ram prepared a pull request for the dashboard change related to the task “X” button, but encountered a 500 “Permission update failed” error affecting owner and admin flows, blocking progress due to the Add button not being available. He compared behavior against prior results and permission logs, coordinated with Anusha to isolate the cause, and began investigating the “Fix Search Error in Member Group Check-In” task by checking backend endpoint request parameters and response structure for project-based filtering, with work still ongoing. These efforts reinforce focus on open sourcing the golden age.
Taariq worked on both frontend and backend tasks by finalizing remaining code changes, submitting updated implementations, investigating a local loading issue in Microsoft Edge, and continuing debugging on auto-scroll, BioStatusToggle, and auto-refresh with repeated local testing and cache investigations before preparing a handoff due to persistent issues. He refined the weekly summary email logic to include only active users, resolved merge conflicts, and aligned with the development baseline for team testing. He cleaned up and validated the archived projects feature locally and completed the filter refresh feature with final fixes prepared for submission after confirming expected behavior. This progress continues building toward open sourcing the golden age.
Amalesh worked on “Phase 1 Bugs: Fix PR4548” by implementing frontend fixes, submitting a new pull request, documenting testing with screenshots and videos using required naming conventions, tracking time with the HGN timer, and completing onboarding steps to maintain access to tools and documentation. Nikhil resolved conflicts in previously open pull requests and submitted them for review, raised PR4690 for modularizing src/Common components, and prepared it for merging. He also documented the CSS-to-module-CSS tasks while mapping components to their respective pull requests. This work helps advance open sourcing the golden age.
Harshavarma improved filter logic to keep data consistent across card and list views, added dark mode support to the calendar UI, integrated updates with the Events flow’s Landing Page, improved responsiveness, and addressed small-device layout issues. He continued resolving filter synchronization issues between views, began implementing ‘Load More Events’ with frontend and backend changes for incremental loading, added backend APIs for landing page sections to support events, filtering, and pagination, and validated initial data retrieval and UI rendering across light and dark modes. See the Highest Good Society and Highest Good Network pages for more information on how this works in pioneering open sourcing the golden age. 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) includes Linh Huynh (Software Engineer), Som Ramnani (Software Engineer), and Sheetal Mangate (Software Engineer). This week, Som revisited PR #4428 related to the “Ending After” date filter Figma UI mismatch, resolving extensive merge conflicts caused by the branch falling behind the development branch by resetting it to the latest development state and reapplying only the intended changes aligned with the current codebase, while confirming that no unrelated files were modified and that updates remained limited to relevant Community Portal components. He also addressed incorrect routing for Other Links that were directing to the root instead of Community Portal paths by updating several dashboard routes under /communityportal. Open sourcing the golden age informed continued alignment with shared standards and maintainable structures as he resolved merge conflicts in CPDashboard.jsx introduced by recent development updates, ensured the hours logging dashboard loads correctly from profile routes, and created a new pull request reflecting the cleaned set of changes along with updated demo videos showing current dashboard behavior.
Linh reviewed and updated task documentation for the Materials dashboard enhancement focused on usage insights and visual indicators, clarifying functional requirements, calculation logic, and UI expectations. This work included analyzing existing Materials table fields such as Bought, Used, Available, Wasted, and Hold to determine their role in supporting stock health indicators and usage calculations. Relevant backend APIs were tested to confirm data availability and accuracy. Based on these findings, Linh mapped required indicators to existing data structures, identified areas where UI components need extension, aligned proposed visuals with existing dashboard patterns, and began initial development by preparing the Materials table structure to support additional columns, visual indicators, and tooltips while maintaining compatibility with responsive layouts and light and dark modes. These updates support the mission of open sourcing the golden age.
Sheetal worked on fetching secret values from Bitwarden in cases where existing code returned only secret identifiers, tested Secrets Manager and Password Manager using a restricted endpoint to validate retrieval behavior, verified correct secret access, and committed the implementation to the appropriate branch. In addition, She explored Okta integration for OAuth-based authentication and role-based access control by reviewing documentation, identifying suitable services and configurations, and evaluating how the integration would fit within the current system architecture, open sourcing the golden age. Supporting images of the related work are provided below.
The Code Crafters Team, covering their work on the Highest Good Network software, was managed by Vivek Chandra Bengaluru Suresh (software engineer) and includes Akshith Kumar Reddy Balappagari Gnaneswara (Software Engineer – Full Stack), Bhanu Anish Akkineni (Software Engineer), Chaitanya Swaroop Kumar Allu (Software Engineer), Shreya Padaganur (Software Engineer) and Sphurthy Satish (Software Engineer). The Highest Good Network software manages and objectively measures our progress in open sourcing the Golden Age by coordinating social architecture, construction, production, and maintenance efforts that pioneer a prototype solution engine for global challenges and support scalable, lasting access to regenerative lifestyles worldwide.
This week, Akshith completed several Phase 3 UI fixes, including resolving the overlap of the “No events available” message with the search filters, adding missing Apply and Clear buttons, implementing pagination for the activity list, and correcting missing year information in event dates. These updates were completed through targeted styling improvements and added filter functionality to meet UI requirements. Anish completed the inventory page for the Kitchen and Inventory portal by implementing required UI components, adding dark mode support, and ensuring responsiveness across screen sizes. He raised a pull request to merge the frontend work into the development branch and then began backend development for inventory management, creating API endpoints, routes, controller logic, and schemas to support adding, updating, and deleting inventory items. This work supports open sourcing the golden age.
Chaitanya advanced Phase 2 dashboard features and stabilized the MailChimp Replacement workflow. He implemented the Workforce Skill-Gap bar chart with multi-select filters, integrated it into the Weekly Project Summary dashboard with Redux-based data handling, and resolved build and linting issues. He also finalized the Material Stock-Out Risk Indicator by fixing backend logic, improving frontend scalability, and submitting related pull requests. In parallel, he reviewed and improved the MailChimp Replacement email workflow by resolving logic issues, standardizing error handling, and improving test compatibility. Shreya Padaganur reviewed the codebase and internal documentation to take ownership of PR4157 and PR1772, analyzed feature requirements, and began frontend development. Her work focuses on building a configurable user state indicator for the Dashboard Tasks and Weekly Summaries pages, including emoji-supported states, date tracking, real-time updates, and permission-based controls. Relevant Week 4 screenshots were uploaded for documentation. These updates support the mission of open sourcing the golden age.
Meanwhile, Vivek Chandra continued work on resolving issues related to displaying resolved tasks, investigating a long-standing underlying issue, and supporting Shreya by clarifying task requirements. The collage below highlights this team’s progress. These efforts collectively reinforce One Community’s mission and long-term commitment to open sourcing the golden age.
The Dev Dynasty Team’s summary, covering their work on the Highest Good Network software, was managed by Ashutosh Mishra (Software Engineer) and includes Adithya Cherukuri (Volunteer 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 open sourcing the golden age.
This week Adithya worked on the HGN Software Development project by completing the Back button fix on the Lessons page and progressing the non-functional Edit Tool feature, resolving remaining linting issues, verifying backward navigation, pushing updated code with documented changes, and implementing a Redux-based asynchronous update action along with a new UpdateToolModal component using Reactstrap with pre-filled data and validation, while also preparing weekly documentation and reviewing uploaded images. Deekshith developed a React-based issue or dashboard header component integrated with Redux to consume global state such as theme, user, and project data, managed local UI state for tabs and search behavior, triggered project data fetching on component mount, and implemented a CSS module to style a centered, card-like container with responsive support for light and dark themes. These efforts align with One Community’s vision of open sourcing the golden age.
Neeraj focused on frontend enhancements to improve data usability by adding client-side export functionality in CSV and Excel formats to multiple pages, ensuring exported data reflected visible columns and current views, handling row selection, excluding action elements, adding loading and disabled states to prevent repeated actions, making minor UI spacing adjustments, updating dependencies, resolving linting issues enforced by pre-commit hooks, and preparing detailed pull request descriptions with testing instructions. Sriamsh completed validation and submission of user experience improvements for the Equipment Daily Activity Log by verifying project-based filtering, submission handling, empty-state messaging, layout behavior, and related network activity before raising a pull request, and also investigated the Project Risk Profile task by identifying a routing issue where the intended path redirected to the main dashboard, locating an existing ProjectRiskProfileOverview component within another view, and communicating findings to clarify whether a new route or restoration of prior behavior was required. See the Highest Good Society and Highest Good Network pages for more on how this relates to our mission of open sourcing the golden age. Explore some of the team’s work in the collage below.
The Lucky Star Team’s summary, covering their work on the Highest Good Network, was managed by Keerthana Chitturi (System Administrator) and Sohail Uddin Syed (Software Engineer). The team includes contributions from Aryan Rachala (Software Engineer), 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 sourcing the golden age through cross-functional software development and ongoing system improvements.
This week, Aryan worked on Phase 3 fixes for the Activity Attendance page by correcting percentage calculation and display logic to resolve rounding and floating-point precision issues. He updated the donut chart to ensure all segments summed to 100 percent, improved label spacing and tooltip clarity, and implemented dynamic re-rendering so chart data updated automatically when attendance values changed. Multiple scenarios were tested to confirm correct calculations and visual accuracy. These frontend updates contribute to open sourcing the golden age. Chirag worked on adding the Attendance Confirmation message on the Database Design screen.
He implemented a toast notification that displays a confirmation message when the button is clicked and disables the button to prevent multiple registrations. After confirming with Jae that the page should redirect to the registration screen, he worked on fixing the related route and applied a temporary solution to support end-to-end testing of the confirmation message functionality. This work contributes to open sourcing the golden age. Shashank reviewed the current implementation and reproduced a filtering issue locally, identifying incorrect use of .includes() instead of .startswith(). He refactored the code by extracting mock data into a separate file, added placeholder API logic with fallback handling, corrected autocomplete behavior, and updated event display logic to ensure only properly filtered events were shown. These refinements contribute to open sourcing the golden age.
Shravya resolved merge conflicts in pull request 3926 and addressed bugs identified through review comments. She continued investigating issue 3824 related to lost time discrepancies by identifying missing team name capture during submission and delayed data reflection, applying fixes for identified issues and documenting remaining findings. These backend updates contribute to open sourcing the golden age. Sohail refactored the badge assignment system to correct logic errors affecting badge counts and replacement behavior. He converted callback-based badge utilities to promise-based asynchronous functions, implemented sequential processing to ensure correct badge replacement, and updated streak and personal record logic to prevent race conditions during database updates. These improvements contribute to open sourcing the golden age.
Veda worked on the Listing and Bidding Dashboard by creating a donut chart titled Sentiment Breakdown within the Reviews section. She integrated the chart structure with test data, fixed rendering issues, refined dark mode compatibility, adjusted layout and spacing for mobile responsiveness, and ensured visual consistency with existing dashboard components. These updates contribute to open sourcing the golden age.
Venkataramanan worked on frontend and backend fixes to improve usability and system behavior, including correcting header logo alignment, fixing blue square ordering and display logic, updating leaderboard styling, improving WBS navigation behavior, prioritizing email delivery logic, and ensuring only active members appeared in resource dropdowns. These fixes contribute to open sourcing the golden age. Vinay worked on improving chart visibility in the Total Construction Summary dashboard by addressing a hover-triggered rendering issue. He introduced a visible placeholder state when filters were not applied, ensured charts rendered immediately after filters changed, limited hover behavior to tooltips, and reviewed accessibility and contrast behavior. This refinement contributes to open sourcing the golden age. See the Highest Good Society and Highest Good Network pages to learn more about how this work supports open sourcing the golden age. 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), Sai Krishna (Software Engineer), Mani Shashank Marneni (Software Engineer), and Sudheesh Thuralkalmakki Dharmappa Gowda (Full Stack Developer). Their efforts support One Community by advancing the mission of open sourcing the golden age through open-source collaboration, ecologically responsible innovation, and holistic global progress.
This week, Uha addressed multiple UI visibility issues in the Distribution of Labour Hours chart by resolving low-contrast text problems in both light and dark modes, improving percentage label readability using theme-aware styling without changing placement, fixing invisible Submit button text in light mode, and correcting text visibility across chart labels, legends, and tooltips to ensure consistent readability. This contribution supports the long-term goal of open sourcing the golden age. Sai focused on backend performance, security, and code quality improvements for the labor hours functionality by implementing caching with a five-minute time-to-live to reduce repeated database queries, integrating JWT authentication, applying role-based access control to restrict access to authorized users, and refactoring an oversized controller by extracting helper functions for aggregation, validation, and formatting logic to meet linting requirements.
Sudheesh worked on resolving dark mode chart styling and visibility issues by updating frontend components for the Supplier Performance Chart, improving readability and visual consistency, resolving remaining UI issues, merging changes into version control, documenting a testing strategy, and aligning updates with existing coding standards. These efforts strengthen the path toward open sourcing the golden age.
Aayush worked across multiple Phase 2 tasks by fixing an issue where the Create New Team page was not displaying through requirement review and local bug resolution, documenting progress with screenshots, attempting to set up BM Dashboard work related to the Equipment Update form and Tool Detail data binding while requesting clarification due to routing uncertainty, and addressing a CI workflow issue associated with an existing backend pull request. Mani worked on a high-priority task to build a Sankey Diagram conversion funnel by configuring the testing environment with URL createObjectURL and revokeObjectURL mocks in Vitest to prevent Plotly-related test failures in jsdom, implementing the mocks across both Node and window contexts for broader test coverage, and developing the Sankey-based conversion funnel component with interactive filters, Plotly rendering, and a mock data generation system. Visit the Highest Good Society and Highest Good Network pages for more on how this work supports open sourcing the golden age through open-source development and globally accessible resources. The collage portrayed below depicts the team’s efforts for the week.
The Reactonauts team summary was managed by Akshay Jayaram (Software Engineer) and Iteesha Vishalakshi Aswath (Technical Program Manager), and it includes Aseem Deshmukh (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 open sourcing the Golden Age. It supports social architecture, construction, production, and maintenance processes to build sustainable and thriving ecosystems in order to work towards open sourcing the Golden Age.
This week, Akshay added a sorting option to the community portal database design feature by extending state management to support sortable fields, implementing client-side sorting logic for multiple data types, integrating the control into the existing user interface, and opening PR47250. He also prepared the weekly team review, tracking contributor progress, and hosting the weekly team call. Aseem updated PR4354 to improve bar chart responsiveness across screen sizes by aligning the implementation with review feedback and began Phase 2 work on improving the Financials Dashboard by defining color-based indicators to highlight cost overruns and underspends. Guna Pranith continued refining the listings home page frontend by addressing review feedback on PR3999, focusing on image GET request error fixes and corrected tab heading behavior, and advanced the Phase 3 Re-Engagement Strategies task by investigating a Page Not Found error affecting the log attendance route in the development environment. The progress made this week contributes to our long-term goal of open sourcing the Golden Age.
Kristin completed the calendar view dropdown implementation on the community calendar, added dark mode support for the weekly view grid, refactored related frontend code, tested the changes, opened PR4717, and reviewed approximately a dozen existing pull requests by applying updates, resolving merge conflicts, and ensuring automated checks passed. Namitha implemented comprehensive filter functionality for the Listing and Bidding Dashboard by adding date range selectors, comparison type selection between Villages and Properties, a Listing and Bidding toggle with validation, grouped metric selection across Demand, Revenue, and Vacancy categories, and conditional disabling of auction-only metrics, delivering the work in PR4718. Peterson improved the responsiveness of the User Permission Management page in PR4711 by ensuring action buttons maintain consistent sizing and reposition below the role list on smaller screens while remaining aligned beside it on larger screens. This work supports collaborative progress in open sourcing the golden age.
Siva resolved merge conflicts and added a minimum date constraint to prevent past date selection in PR4338, addressed code quality issues by removing unused imports and fixing routing conflicts in PR4553, and refactored ActivityAgenda.jsx to reduce cognitive complexity, apply safer data access, and replace legacy checks in PR4434. This work plays a role in open sourcing the Golden Age through coordinated, real-world implementation.
Sudheeksha worked 20 hours across three days on Phase 2 tasks to add separate inputs for tools and equipment, troubleshooting pull request issues and ultimately completing and submitting the finalized pull request. Suparshwa Patil refined the chatbot prompt to restrict responses strictly to provided documentation, began developing an orchestration layer for managing persistent conversational memory, and modified application-layer endpoints to support these changes. See the Highest Good Network and Highest Good Society pages to learn more about how this work supports open sourcing the Golden Age. See below for the picture collage of the work done by the Reactonauts team towards open sourcing the Golden Age.
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, supporting social architecture, construction, production, and maintenance processes that foster sustainable and thriving ecosystems and plays a major role in open sourcing the golden age.
This week, Marcus worked on the frontend and backend branches for the Facebook auto poster feature. He implemented dark mode changes, resolved merge conflicts, addressed failing tests across both codebases, and submitted the frontend and backend pull requests. While the Facebook posting workflow awaited external approval, he shifted focus to developing posting functionality for X and continued progress on that integration during the wait. This progress reflects continued momentum in advancing open sourcing the golden age through open, collaborative development.
Swathi implemented the edit functionality for the “Edit name/measurement” button in the materials page in bmdashboard, added form validations and handled error scenarios on both the frontend and backend. She provided user feedback through toast notifications for error messages, resolved the filtering issue on the materials page, updated the filters to allow users to filter by project and material and began work on the view update history feature for the selected material. This work contributes to advancing open sourcing the golden age through practical, repeatable development.
Anthony worked on the pull requests for changes to default permissions applied to users. He provided feedback on PR#3600 and PR#1447 by updating the permission change logs to vary text styling and column emphasis based on the reason for each change. He pushed these updates and coordinated with a colleague regarding a recent code change that introduced an issue when saving user updates. He also continued work on PR#3917 and PR#1668, reviewing and testing the code to better understand the flow, made incremental changes to ensure role permissions were displayed in the modal during initial viewing, and added star icons carried over from PR#3600 to visually indicate differences between role permissions and the permissions a user would have after a role change. By addressing these challenges, the Skye team’s work reinforces long-term stability in stewardship tracking features and helps realize open sourcing the golden age by strengthening scalable, transparent systems within the broader Highest Good Network (HGN) infrastructure.
See the Highest Good Society and Highest Good Network pages for more on how this contribution aligns with One Community’s goals by enabling and accelerating open sourcing the golden age within the Highest Good Network open source hub. See the collage below for the team’s work.
The PR Review Team’s summary for members with names starting A–N, managed by Neeharika Kamireddy (Data Analyst), highlights their contributions to the Highest Good Network software. This platform forms the foundation for measuring our results in open sourcing the golden age. Active team members included Abdelmounaim Lallouache (Software Developer), Abhinav Tharamel Baiju (Software Engineer), Carl Bebli (Software Developer), Ganesh Gadicherla (Software Engineer), 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 open sourcing the golden age 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 open sourcing the golden age. This week’s active members of this team were: Rohan Rastogi (Software Engineer), Sai Shravan Neelamsetty (Software Engineer), Sundar Machani (Software Engineer), Vikas Meneni (Software Engineer), and Yiyun Tan (Software Engineer). They reviewed all the Highest Good Network PRs (Pull Requests) shared in this week’s update. Learn more about how the Highest Good Network open source hub measures progress towards our goal of open sourcing the golden age. The collage below shows a compilation of the work from this team.
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