People-care Communities – One Community Weekly Progress Update #577

One Community is dedicated to creating people-care communities that embody sustainable approaches to food, energy, housing, education, economics, and social architecture. Our all-volunteer team is driven by the vision of doing this for “The Highest Good of All.” By open sourcing and free sharing the complete process, we’re paving the way for evolving sustainability and regenerating our planet. Our model, which becomes self-replicating, will be used to create a global collaboration of teacher/demonstration hubs, ultimately creating a world that works for everyone.

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

OUR MAIN OPEN SOURCE HUBS

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

One Community’s physical location will forward this movement as the first of many self-replicating teacher/demonstration communities, villages, and cities to be built around the world. This is the April 8th, 2024 edition (#577) of our weekly progress update detailing our team’s development and accomplishments:

 

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HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING PROGRESS

One Community is dedicated to creating people-care communities through Highest Good housing that is artistic and beautiful, more affordable, more space efficient, lasts longer, DIY buildable, and constructed with healthy and sustainable materials:

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

This week, Loza Ayehutsega (Civil Engineer/Assistant Civil Engineer) completed another week working on the Earth Dam risk assessment and dam break hazard assessment. She worked on the emergency action plan (EAP) for dam safety according to the USA regulation. Preparing an effective emergency action plan (EAP is crucial for ensuring the safety and well-being of individuals in the event of emergencies. Ensuring dam safety measures and preparedness are a foundation of One Community’s open source people-care communities model. This work supports One Community’s mission of fostering people-care communities and reinforces our commitment to improving living quality for everyone. See the pictures below for examples related to this work.

 

DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER PROGRESS

One Community is dedicated to creating people-care communities through a Duplicable and Sustainable City Center that is LEED Platinum certified/Sustainable, can feed 200 people at a time, provide laundry for over 300 people, is beautiful, spacious, and saves resources, money, and space:

• • • Learn about this building and its function: Duplicable City Center Open Source Hub

This week, Amiti Singh (Volunteer Architectural Designer) focused on finalizing all the files for the rooms she designed in Duplicable City Center, as she is wrapping up her work with One Community. She finalized all the files prepared for the rooms designed in the Duplicable City, including detailed plans, changing visualization inaccuracies in renders, and submitting any remaining documents necessary to support the room designs and moodboard. Comprehensive design solutions for the Duplicable City Center project are a foundation of One Community’s open source people-care communities model. This work supports One Community’s mission of fostering people-care communities and reinforces our commitment to improving living quality for everyone. Below are some demonstration images of this work.

Nika Gavran (Industrial Designer) continued her work on the Duplicable City Center dormer window installation plans. She finalized research on the dormer windows and established a schedule to draft instructions for building a dormer window on the first floor, spanning a three-week timeframe. Her primary focus was on developing a materials and component list, while also creating four draft renders at varying fidelities for consideration in the final draft. The Duplicable City Center is a foundational part of One Community’s open source people-care communities model. This work supports One Community’s mission of fostering people-care communities and reinforces our commitment to improving living quality for everyone. See below for some of the pictures related to this work.

 

HIGHEST GOOD FOOD PROGRESS

One Community is dedicated to creating people-care communities through Highest Good food that is more diverse, more nutritious, locally grown and sustainable, and part of our open source botanical garden model to support and share bio-diversity:

• • • Learn about the structures: Hoop House Hub | Aquapini & Walipini Open Source Hub
    • See what we’ll be growing: Gardens & Hoop Houses | Large-scale Structures | Food Forest | TA

This week, the core team continued updating and expanding the Highest Good Food tools, equipment, and materials details focusing on tool descriptions. They also expanded the selection of utility dump trailers by adding two heavy-duty options suitable for medium-sized tractors, and also provided clarification on 12/2 and 12/3 wire concerns regarding the Murphy Bed Furniture document. Highest Good food is an important part in forwarding people-care communities with One Community’s open source plans. This work supports One Community’s mission of fostering people-care communities and reinforces our commitment to improving living quality for everyone. See their work in the collage below.

Charles Gooley (Web Designer) continued to work on the Vegan Rice Recipes page. This week, he added a variety of new recipes including Vegan Muffins with Tofu Scramble, Mexican Rice and Chili Roasted Chicken, French Toast, Brown Rice with Garlic Herb Chicken, Vegan Apple Muffin with Tofu Scramble, Vegan Pasta Bake and Tempeh, Brown Rice with Chickpea Curry, Vegan Breakfast Hash with Baked Beans, Pasta with Quinoa and Corn, Spicy Pies Sweet Potato Mash with Beef, Baked Sweet Potato Pudding with Sausages, Sweet Potato Croquettes with Baked Tempeh, and Brown Rice and Tempeh Curry. Placeholder images were utilized temporarily, to be replaced with final images upon availability. Highest Good food is an important part in forwarding people-care communities with One Community’s open source plans. This work supports One Community’s mission of fostering people-care communities and reinforces our commitment to improving living quality for everyone. See his work in the collage below.

Hayley Rosario (Sustainability Research Assistant) continued helping finalize the Highest Good Food rollout plan. This week, she was instructed to expand on the integration program section on the EDITs doc, formatting and creating subsections which quickly describe the what, why, and how of integrating the Highest Good Food plan into small- scale organizations. Highest Good food is an important part in forwarding people-care communities with One Community’s open source plans. This work supports One Community’s mission of fostering people-care communities and reinforces our commitment to improving living quality for everyone. See her work in the collage below.

 

HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION PROGRESS

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

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

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

 

HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY PROGRESS

One Community is dedicated to creating people-care communities through a Highest Good society approach to living that is founded on fulfilled living, the study of meeting human needs, Community, and making a difference in the world:

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

This week, the core team completed around 65 hours managing One Community volunteer-work review not included above, emails, social media accounts, web development, new bug identification and bug-fix integration for the Highest Good Network software, and interviewing and getting set up new volunteer team members. They also shot and incorporated the video above that talks about forwarding people-care communities and how people-care communities is a foundation of the bigger picture of everything One Community is doing. This work supports One Community’s mission of fostering people-care communities and reinforces our commitment to improving living quality for everyone. This work supports One Community’s mission of fostering people-care communities and reinforces our commitment to improving living quality for everyone. The pictures below show some of this work.

A core team member worked on the Highest Good Network PRs testing, confirming fixed PRs which include addressing the Delete Time Log Entry Refresh Bug (PRs 1508 + 602), adding an indicator for “Members” to the Projects report (PR 815), fixing issues with Converted Time Log Hours not Updating Task Hours (PR 486), ensuring the addition of a person to an existing team during setup reflects on the Team’s page (PR 1328), introducing two filter options to the Weekly Summaries Reports page (PR 1929), resolving a bug with the Weekly Summary submission form’s minimum word count (PR 1333), addressing the removal of a user from an existing team within the user profile page (PRs 1350 + 550), enabling the ability to sort searched accounts by the Active/Inactive column (PR 2003), relocating the “Back to Top” button on the People Reports page (PR 1662), enforcing email input when logging in (PR 506), and implementing conditional formatting for multi-word names on the Projects page (PR 1970). Unresolved PRs include creating the ability for admin/owner users to approve and apply “suggested” changes on a task (PR 949) and addressing issues related to the deletion of users and teams (PR 1765). Additionally, they reported misalignment of columns in the project-related report (PR 815) and issues with a new spreadsheet on the User Roles page, as well as reported on an issue where a deleted team remains on the teams list. This work supports One Community’s mission of fostering people-care communities and reinforces our commitment to improving living quality for everyone. See the collage below for their work.

Aaron Wang (Fundraising Assistant) continued helping to research possible funding sources for One Community. This week, Aaron continued his research into connections with Leonardo DiCaprio by identifying emails, LinkedIn profiles, and the backgrounds of individuals potentially linked to DiCaprio. This research is aimed at enhancing our ability to connect with funders by establishing relationships with pertinent individuals involved in those donations. Establishing win-win relationships like this are a big component to One Community’s vision for people-care communities. This work supports One Community’s mission of fostering people-care communities and reinforces our commitment to improving living quality for everyone. Images below show their progress for the week.

Arun Chandar Ganesan (Volunteer Data Analyst and SEO And Social Media Assistant) optimized three more web pages for SEO, bringing the total number of pages worked on to 23. He also updated the scores in the designated sheet. Simultaneously, he completed the next month’s social media schedule and created a tutorial for posting to the social media page. Following that, Arun is working on Facebook analytics and developing a guide for understanding the metrics. Search engine optimization and an ongoing outreach program are important parts of One Community’s model for developing people-care communities. This work supports One Community’s mission of fostering people-care communities and reinforces our commitment to improving living quality for everyone. The following images highlight his work.

 

Cody Media Productions (Video Editing Company) continued working on finalizing the intro video for the weekly progress update YouTube videos. They focused on completing the fourth rough cut of the intro video, addressing specific modifications as requested after a full review. These videos will showcase the open-source components of One Community promoting people-care communities. This work supports One Community’s mission of fostering people-care communities and reinforces our commitment to improving living quality for everyone. The following images highlight their work.

The Administration Team’s summary, covering their work administrating and managing most of One Community’s ongoing process for people-care communities was managed by Vriddhi Misra (Admin and Marketing Assistant) and includes Camilla Okello (Administrative Assistant), Durgeshwari Naikwade (Data Analyst), Jessica Fairbanks (Administrative Assistant), Jiaxin Zheng (Data Analyst), Meenakshi Velayutham (Sustainability Associate), Olawunmi “Ola” Ijisesan (Administrative and Management Support), Ram Shrivatsav (Data Analyst and Admin assistant), Ratna Meena Shivakumar (Data Analyst and Admin), Ruiqi Liu (Administrative Assistant), Sinddhuzaa Poduri (Data Analyst and Admin assistant), Sneka Vetriappan (Data Analyst), T R Samarth Urs (Data Analyst), Vibhav Chimatapu (Data Analyst/Admin Assistant), Xiaolai Li (Administrative Assistant), and Zuqi Li (Administrative Assistant and Economic Analyst). This week, Camilla started by handling her Sunday administrative responsibilities, helping review other administrators’ work, and making necessary changes to her own work. Additionally, she completed her weekly SEO tasks while assessing trial work done by new administrators to help them get started. Durgeshwari began working on a visualization project to create volunteer statistics visuals using Tableau software, alongside finishing administrative training and updating her website based on feedback. Jessica wrote job advertisements for various positions at HG Foods, made revisions based on feedback, and did her regular administrative tasks. Jiaxin focused on reviewing processes, updating team summaries and collages on the webpage, checking SEO keyword optimization, and helping new team members get trained. Ola checked the work of the Admins’ teams, made sure documentation was accurate, and supported new Admin team members’ training. Meenakshi continued with admin tasks and started creating a tutorial for the bio announcement and tracking process, while also finalizing updates on the DIY earth dam page. Ram focused on HGN software testing steps and PR Management review team tasks, adjusting his work based on feedback and reviewing new team members’ work. Ratna reviewed progress updates, took virtual interviews, and edited blogs to improve SEO scores. Ruiqi completed reviews for various teams, created SEO keywords, and helped new admins with training. Sinddhuzaa edited summaries and images for the webpage and managed tasks related to audio files. Sneka worked on HGN Software Development, reviewed comments, and helped with OC Administration tasks. Samarth supervised the PR review team, applied SEO techniques to improve blog posts, and received constructive feedback. Vibhav continued with on-web page SEO optimization and administrative duties, including reviewing the team’s work and optimizing webpage content. Vriddhi contributed to OC Administration and SEO tasks, edited blog posts, and reviewed the team’s work. Xiaolai submitted a blog page, assessed admin team tasks, and improved the admin tutorial. Zuqi reviewed administrators’ webpages thoroughly, joined the admin team, followed SEO instructions, and improved previous blog posts. This work supports One Community’s mission of fostering people-care communities and reinforces our commitment to improving living quality for everyone. One Community’s model for people-care communities includes developing and maintaining a huge administration team like this. You can see the work for the team in the image below.

GRAPHIC DESIGN TEAM

The Graphic Design Team’s summary was managed by Zuqi Li (Administrative Assistant and Economic Analyst) and included Ashlesha Navale (Graphic Designer), Britney Robles (Graphic Designer), Nancy Mónchez (Graphic Designer), P D Tharanga Pathirana (Graphic Designer) and Zixi Zhang (Graphic Designer), covering their work on graphic designs for people-care communities construction. Ashlesha concentrated on generating one volunteer announcement, creating bio and announcement images, and updating web content pertinent to the announcement. Her process involved the creation of three social media images and the curation of a collection of nature-based and theme-specific background images for social media content, alongside the development of five recipe images for site-related tasks. Britney navigated through her initial steps of announcement and bio imagery creation, guided by instructional videos. She produced multiple versions of social media graphics, using tools such as Photoshop and Illustrator to elevate her proficiency. Nancy focused on producing a singular, engaging social media post, incorporating a newly selected font. Her work also included the near completion of an Excel list detailing the text locations for social media design. Tharanga updated five images from a previous week to align with current project standards and created a new image to infuse fresh visual elements into his portfolio. His work extended to refining his professional bio and familiarizing himself with website updates. Zixi’s created three Facebook social media images, each accompanied by captions that resonate with themes of regenerative community, potential realization, and environmental transformation. Furthermore, she managed the creation of two volunteer announcements, involving both bio imagery production in Photoshop and web content generation on WordPress. This work supports One Community’s mission of fostering people-care communities and reinforces our commitment to improving living quality for everyone. See the Highest Good Society pages for more on how this relates to forwarding people-care communities construction. See the collage below to view some of their work.

 

HIGHEST GOOD NETWORK PROGRESS

One Community is dedicated to creating people-care communities through open source Highest Good Network^® software that is a web-based application for collaboration, time tracking, and objective data collection. The purpose of the Highest Good Network is to provide software for internal operations and external cooperation. It is being designed for global use in support of the different countries and communities replicating the One Community sustainable village models and related components.

ALPHA SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT TEAM

This week, the Alpha Team’s summary, covering their work on the Highest Good Network software was managed by Sucheta Mukherjee (Software Developer) and includes Pratima Singh (Software Developer), and Shamim Rahman (Software Engineer). The Highest Good Network software is how we’ll be managing and objectively measuring our process for forwarding people-care communities through our social architecture, construction, production, and maintenance processes. This week, Sucheta focused on reviewing PR1925 and requested changes due to errors. The majority of the week was spent to implementing a feature for authorized users to view the weekly summary recipients table and to have the ability to see and hide their information on the modal itself, accomplished through PR2124 and backend PR81. Pratima worked on in several development tasks, including adding state management functionality for switching tabs on the Overview Report page, modifying the code for the DonutChart in D3.js to enhance its generality, inputting all text into VolunteerStats.jsx, and incorporating CSS styling for VolunteerStats.jsx. Additionally, Pratima developed the VolunteerRoleStats page, integrating a Donut Chart into it, and ensuring responsiveness across various pages. She also worked on the yi-overview-report-tabs branch, updating PR 2067 to address requested changes and progressing it to the final review stage. Shamim reviewed 8 different pull requests (PRs), specifically PR#2105, PR#2096, PR#2078, PR#2030, PR#2031, PR#2005, PR#2038, and PR#2013. Following the reviews, Shamim tested the functionality of each PR and provided detailed feedback by commenting on them with accompanying screenshots and videos. PR#2005 and PR#2013 were identified as not functioning as intended, prompting Shamim to include corresponding screenshots and videos for these issues, which were shared via Dropbox. This work supports One Community’s mission of fostering people-care communities and reinforces our commitment to improving living quality for everyone. See the Highest Good Society and Highest Good Network pages for more on how this relates to forwarding people-care communities. View some of the team’s work in the collage below.

BADGES BUGS SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT TEAM

This week, the Badges Bugs Team’s summary overseeing advancements in the Highest Good Network software was managed by Shaofeng Li (Software Engineer) and includes Renan Luiz Santiago Martins César (Full-stack developer), Summit Kaushal (Backend Software Developer), Xiao Zhang (Software Engineer), and Xiaohan Meng (Software Engineer). The Highest Good Network software is how we’ll be managing and objectively measuring our process for people-care communities through our social architecture, construction, production, and maintenance processes. This week, Renan Luiz concentrated on enhancing the ‘checkXHoursInXWeeks’ feature to address badge streak issues, involving debugging and testing of new values in MongoDB. He resolved the problem related to the ‘fix x hours in x week’ streak. Additionally, he actively reviewed pull requests and committed to implementing solutions for the streak badge. Xiao managed feedback for pull request #802, to improve the project by discussion with the manager, which included devising a series of unit tests to ensure the reliability of the system’s badge features. Shaofeng worked on a variety of tasks within HGN Software Development, such as attending meetings, and one-on-one sessions, following up on pull requests, and engaging in badge component discussions. Xiaohan focused on refining the ‘Assign Badge on profile’ feature by addressing feedback and testing to ensure its readiness for final review. She also reviewed a teammate’s pull request and prepared for badge inspection by organizing badge details and setting up the backend support. Summit resolved a debugging issue by switching frontend branches and completed PR #802, examining data discrepancies in ‘personalbestmaxhrs’ and ‘totaltangiblehrs’. His work included understanding data access and storage within the codebase. This work supports One Community’s mission of fostering people-care communities and reinforces our commitment to improving living quality for everyone. See the Highest Good Society and Highest Good Network pages for more on how this relates to people-care communities. View some of the team’s work in the collage below.

BLUE STEEL SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT TEAM

The Blue Steel Team’s summary, presenting their work on the Highest Good Network software, was managed by Nathan Hoffman (Software Engineer, Team Manager) and includes Alex Brandt (Full Stack Developer), Bhuvan Dama (Full stack Developer), Jingyi Jia (Software Engineer), Sanket Kaware (Full-Stack Developer), Sarthak Jaiswal (Full-Stack Developer), Shiqing Pan (Full-Stack Software Developer), Swathy Jayaseelan (Software Engineer), Tzu Ning “Leo” Chueh (Software Engineer), and Yaohong Xiang (Software Engineer). This week, Nathan focused on optimizing code efficiency by creating hotfix PRs to restore role permission preset functionality and separating the time entry permissions on the backend. They took over Jay’s PRs, reviewed team members’ weekly summaries, and provided feedback for them. Additionally, Nathan created PRs #2216 and #839 for adding the seeUsersInDashboard permission, which replaces the role-based logic overriding team requirements for seeing every user in the leaderboard and team-member task. He also responded to messages on Slack and removed a task from Shiqing. Alex concentrated on developing the “weekly summary email for admins” dashboard, focusing on the backend API to aggregate team information for automated weekly email distribution to administrators, while also reviewing frontend pull request #2105. Bhuvan worked on unit tests, facing challenges with file coverage and store mocks, ultimately creating their first pull request for unit test files related to Reports. Jingyi streamlined the permissions system within the project and addressed challenges in removing users from projects, as well as planned backend logic adjustments. Sanket initiated work on visualizing anniversaries within a project, addressing issues identified in both frontend and backend pull requests. Sarthak began their new managerial trainee role within the development team, submitting their first pull request. Shiqing addressed formatting issues on the reports page and resolved a bug related to the new user creation, in addition to conducting multiple PR reviews and enhancing the weekly summary page’s formatting. Swathy focused on unit testing components within the User Profile feature, completed unit tests for the User Teams Table, and shifted focus to developing unit tests for the User Projects Table component. Tzu Ning focused on ensuring correct processing of user IDs from URLs and accurate state updates, utilizing console logs for debugging and enhancing the application’s user interface functionality. Xiao continued refining the time entry handler function, integrating frontend logic into the backend for the post time entry handler, and tackling the complexities of adjusting the edit time entry handler. Yaohong focused on enhancing the use interface by implementing layout improvements and functional enhancements. This work supports One Community’s mission of fostering people-care communities and reinforces our commitment to improving living quality for everyone. See below to view some of their work. 

CODECRAFTERS SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT TEAM

The Code Crafters Team’s summary, covering their work on the Highest Good Network software, was managed by Anirudh Ghildiyal (Software Engineer) and includes Meet Padhiar (Software Engineer), Ramya Ramasamy (Software Engineer), Nahiyan Ahmed (Full Stack Software Developer), Shantanu Kumar (Software Developer), Shengjie Mao (Software Engineer), Weiyao Li (Software Engineer) and Xiaoyu Chen (Software Engineer). The Highest Good Network software is how we’ll be managing and objectively measuring our process for creating people-care communities throughout our social architecture, construction, production, and maintenance processes. This week, Anirudh G ensured team coordination through reviews and led the weekly standup, addressing unit test errors in the UserTeamProjectContainer. Diego provided support in unit testing, working with Xiaoyu on the informationController and assisting Abi with a test issue. He reviewed Christy’s PR and initiated PR 835 for README updates, catering to Linux and MacOS users. He also addressed a Windows-specific ‘npm install’ issue with another PR and aided Abi with unit test challenges, verifying high standards in testing practices across the team. Meet verified front-end functionality post-merge and introduced a new feature for task button colors. Nahiyan advanced the implementation of dark mode, particularly focusing on the reports page. Ramya resolved an npm issue and tackled a merging problem with Diego’s assistance, also revisiting pull request tests. Shantanu refined the “Make Submit for Review” button, contending with merge conflicts and dependency issues, and reviewed a pull request for input handling. Shengjie enhanced unit tests for the ForgotPassword component, focusing on input handling and button functionalities. Weiyao explored advanced React/Redux concepts for a new user feature, ensuring its performance with Jae. Xiaoyu addressed a caching error in unit tests and rectified a frontend issue related to table alignment and spacing. This work supports One Community’s mission of fostering people-care communities and reinforces our commitment to improving living quality for everyone. See the Highest Good Society and Highest Good Network pages for more on how this relates to people-care communities. The collage below shows some of this work.