Selfish Philanthropy by Giving People What They Want – One Community Weekly Progress Update #639

At One Community, we are supporting selfish philanthropy by giving people what they want—while simultaneously creating sustainable solutions for food, energy, housing, education, and economics. Our all-volunteer team is developing a self-replicating model that promotes fulfilled living and global stewardship practices. Through open sourcing and free sharing every aspect of our work, we aim to establish a global network of teacher/demonstration hubs focused on regenerating our planet and evolving sustainability for “The Highest Good of All“.

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

OUR MAIN OPEN SOURCE HUBS

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 June 16th, 2025 edition (#639) of our weekly progress update detailing our team’s development and accomplishments:

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HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING PROGRESS

One Community is supporting selfish philanthropy by giving people what they want 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, Adil Zulfiquar (Engineer) worked on refining and incorporating feedback for the Vermiculture Toilet website content by clearly marking sections of the old content for removal from the main site and creating a separate document to store the version 1 system design. A new section was added to the main website summarizing the version 1 design and introducing the latest version. Additionally, source documents were provided for all the tables included on the main website. One Community’s open source launch of selfish philanthropy by giving people what they want begins with Earthbag Village, the first of seven planned villages providing housing. See below for some of the pictures related to this work.

Derrell Brown (Plumbing Designer) continued working on the Earthbag Village 4-dome home plumbing and mechanical details. Derrell coordinated with Michaela to address follow-up items related to finalizing the mechanical and plumbing plans. After finalizing the PDF document for the report, he reviewed the final report template and copied it into a new document to begin compiling information. He then began gathering content from 13 weeks of the Earthbag Design to populate the new report. One Community’s open source launch of selfish philanthropy by giving people what they want begins with Earthbag Village, the first of seven planned villages providing housing. See below for some of the pictures related to this work.

Karthik Pillai (Mechanical Engineer) focused on the development of the waste dumping mechanism for the Vermiculture Toilet facility, which has become the primary area of work. Several concepts were explored and outlined based on functional requirements and design constraints, with plans to review and discuss the proposed ideas with Adil over the weekend to align on the next steps. In parallel, the Unistrut design for the vermiculture toilet has been completed, and attention has shifted to documenting the design process and technical considerations in the report. For the four-dome cluster roof structure, work is continuing on the detailed design report, incorporating structural analysis and finite element analysis (FEA) where required to validate design choices and ensure structural stability. The work involved evaluating material performance, load distribution, and behavior under expected environmental conditions. As the first of seven planned villages, the Earthbag Village provides the initial housing within One Community’s open source designs for selfish philanthropy by giving people what they want. See the work in the collage below.

Ketsia Kayembe (Civil Engineer) began working on bringing the Earthbag Village files to construction-ready level. She started by reading materials related to the design, construction, and other relevant information about the Earthbag Village. She also reviewed some of the previously completed files for the three domes as well as the template file. She contacted Rumi to request clarification, task details and support until a clearer tutorial becomes available. Additionally, Ketsia continued reading and researching information necessary to complete the task. One Community’s open source framework of selfish philanthropy by giving people what they want begins with Earthbag Village, the first of seven planned villages providing housing. See below for some of the pictures related to this work. See below for some of the pictures related to this work.

Rumi Shah (Civil Engineer) continued working on the Earthbag Village upgrades to bring our designs closer to construction-ready plans. Six dome drawings were revised in response to the feedback received, with all suggested changes incorporated. In addition, work was done on three other dome designs, aligning them with the specified template and structural guidelines for earthbag construction. All updates were made to meet the required design standards and project expectations. One Community’s open source resources for selfish philanthropy by giving people what they want begins with the Earthbag Village, the first of seven planned villages providing housing. See below for some of the pictures related to this work.

DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER PROGRESS

One Community is supporting selfish philanthropy by giving people what they want 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 it’s function: Duplicable City Center Open Source Hub

This week, Andrew Chen (Industrial Designer) continued working on the Dormer second-floor window for the Duplicable City Center. He completed the draft assembly instructions, which included re-rendering model images, designing the slide layout, adding annotations, and indicating screw placements on model parts. He also prepared a set of slides to explain the 3D model in detail for review. Material drawings and draft assembly instructions were finalized, and a Google Slides presentation was created to support feedback on the design. One Community’s Duplicable City Center stands for selfish philanthropy by giving people what they want through open-source innovation. Browse the photos below to explore this work.

Ariana Virginia Gutierrez Doria Medina (Industrial Designer) continued the analysis and cost estimation of the windows for the Duplicable City Center. Changes were made based on the recommendations, including converting all displayed measurements from absolute values to fractional format. The cutting plans were updated to improve wood usage efficiency and reduce the number of cuts needed. Through open-source innovation, One Community’s Duplicable City Center contributes to selfish philanthropy by giving people what they want. Check out the photos below.

Jason Bao (Architectural Designer) continued working on producing renders for the external components of the Duplicable City Center. Support was provided to Yan on garden-related tasks, and production effect testing progressed through exterior scene rendering. Test renders of final outputs were initiated, though extended processing times of 8-12 hours per 30-second sequence limited daily progress. A technical issue with automated time-logging functionality was noted for investigation. One Community’s Duplicable City Center is a powerful example of open-source work focused on selfish philanthropy by giving people what they want. Browse the images below.

Nupur Shah (Engineer) helped with the manufacturing and assembly details for the City Center Dome Hub Connector Engineering. She worked on the hub connector design in Inventor and encountered an issue while measuring the angles between the arms. From the top view, the expectation was that the angles around the hub would sum to 360°, but discrepancies appeared when expanding the geometry or adjusting configurations. There was uncertainty around whether both internal and external angles were being measured or if overlapping geometry was being counted. Additionally, the angle between the spokes was not displaying clearly, making it difficult to record accurate values. Work resumed on the CAD for Row 2 to better understand the angles, and contact was made with one of the suppliers regarding the LVL beam as part of the design process. With open-source innovation at its core, the Duplicable City Center by One Community drives efforts toward selfish philanthropy by giving people what they want. Check out the images below.

Shu-Tsun Huang (Engineer) continued working on the City Center Dome Hub Connector Engineering details and made progress on the snow load analysis by conducting a detailed simulation using actual project data to validate and support her updated model. Additionally, she compared snow loads on different roof types, specifically evaluating differences between flat and dome structures. Shu-Tsun also met with Dipak this week and plans to revise her model based on his feedback and recommendations. One Community’s open-source Duplicable City Center reflects a commitment to selfish philanthropy by giving people what they want. Explore this in the images below.

Srujan Pandya (Mechanical Engineer) continued helping with the City Center Dome Hub Connector Engineering FEA analysis focusing on advancing the analysis for the updated dome structure and translating the findings into updated web content. He focused on refining structural and weight calculations for the updated dome by compiling material data, correcting anomalies in density assumptions, and including hardware mass in total weight estimates. The previous tables were appended for more data, however, the frames for the previous designs related into unrealistic masses due to different density from the latest versions. This was noted, along with masses of nuts and bolts that might accumulate into the total weight of the dome. Through open-source development, the Duplicable City Center advances One Community’s mission of selfish philanthropy by giving people what they want. View the photos below.

Yan ‘Jenni’ Zu (Architectural Designer) continued her work on the farm animal area of the Duplicable City Center and updated the material textures of the facilities in the animal area to improve the visual quality and realism of the scene. She carefully selected and applied new materials to surfaces such as fences, shelters, and walkways to better match the natural environment and overall design intent. After adjusting the materials, she carried out a series of renderings from different perspectives to showcase the updated look of the area. These renderings highlight the interaction between the structures, landscape elements, and animals, helping to convey a more cohesive and refined design. The updated material choices and rendering results provide a clearer representation of the spatial layout and atmosphere of the animal zone. Through open-source development, the Duplicable City Center advances One Community’s mission of selfish philanthropy by giving people what they want. View the photos below.

HIGHEST GOOD FOOD PROGRESS

One Community is supporting selfish philanthropy by giving people what they want 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 completed adding photos to the Master Tools, Equipment, and Materials/Supplies document. They continued working on the ORCH document, cross-referencing it with the ORCH listing entries. They also modified short acronyms for numerous project categories to longer abbreviations, including changing A to APY, AQWA to AQAP and WALP, E to ENRG, F to FD, G to LG, O to ORCH, SA to SLAM, and TA to TRPA. This change was implemented to improve the efficiency of using the Command F function when identifying tools for all individual TEMS entities on the Master Tools, Equipment, Materials /Supply list, a process that otherwise requires repetitive scrolling to avoid omissions. These previous website abbreviations were noted and commented on to facilitate the website change. This process was identified as repetitive and laborious, with a recommendation that time could be saved in the future by delaying the inclusion of such information on the website. The Highest Good Food initiative is a key component of One Community’s open source plans, focused on selfish philanthropy by giving people what they want, and exemplifies the organization’s commitment through innovative design and implementation. Below are some of the images showcasing this work.

Chelsea Mariah Stellmach (Project Manager) continued her work on the Transition Food Self-sufficiency Plan menus and customization spreadsheets. She copied over the current Food Procurement and Storage Plan page and created a second version that integrates Tanmay’s latest updates, including the Maricopa case study and her revised section on the nutritional needs of adults. She began color-coding and organizing the layout to clarify for the web designer which elements should be updated or retained. The purpose of this work is to ensure the page reflects the current HG food initiatives. As an essential aspect of One Community’s open source goals, the Highest Good Food initiative supports selfish philanthropy by giving people what they want as a foundation for sustainable living. Below are some of the images showcasing this work.

Dirgh Patel (Volunteer Mechanical Engineer) continued assisting with the Climate Battery design evolutions. He worked on revising the report according to the provided guidelines by adding detailed explanations to improve clarity and better align with format. Explanations were added specifically for images and videos to improve the reader’s understanding. Stress-strain simulation and photo sections were updated to clarify the results, describe material behavior, and explain structural response under loading. Some images were removed to reduce clutter and focus on the most relevant visuals that support the explanations. Additional detail was added to the thermal simulation and conductivity calculation sections, including how different soil types vary in water content and thermal conductivity, and how these factors affect heat transfer behavior in simulations. One Community’s open source mission is powerfully reflected in the Highest Good Food initiative, which is focused on advancing and selfish philanthropy by giving people what they want for global benefit. The following visuals highlight key outcomes of this initiative.

Jay Nair (BIM Designer) continued working on Aquapini and Walipini Planting and Harvesting lighting and HVAC design. He continued working on the lighting energy calculations for Greenhouse Walipini 1 using the updated fixtures. The work involved adjusting input values and formulas to reflect the specifications of the new lighting models. Jay also reviewed how these changes affect energy use across different zones, ensuring consistency with project standards. The Highest Good Food initiative plays a leading role in One Community’s open source platform, promoting and selfish philanthropy by giving people what they want through sustainable and participatory development. Below are some of the images showcasing this work.

Keerthi Reddy Gavinolla (Software Developer) continued enhancing the Highest Good Food page by adding content focused on small-business and urban community solutions. She also updated the Expressers and Lucky Star Team Blog #638 and implemented edits to the Highest Good Food Infrastructure website based on Jae’s feedback. These updates included reformatting the layout, justifying text, correcting spacing, and adding introductory context before bullet points. After completing the revisions, she submitted the improved version to Jae for review. Built on One Community’s open source foundation, the Highest Good Food initiative is dedicated to creating selfish philanthropy by giving people what they want, empowering communities through self-sustaining systems. Her contributions are showcased in the collage below.

Pallavi Deshmukh (Software Engineer) continued working on adding the new Zenapini 2 content to the Aquapini and Walipini Planting and Harvesting page. She completed seven interviews and submitted all required details. Her work on the webpage included editing images and refining text to meet the specified requirements. Pallavi also contributed to the design of the permaculture page by integrating Chris’s GIS content using the web design tutorial, and she addressed all of Jae’s review comments. In addition, she reviewed contributions from other team members to ensure content accuracy and completeness. Pallavi also created Blog #638. In alignment with One Community’s open source objectives, the Highest Good Food project integrates selfish philanthropy by giving people what they want into a larger vision of regenerative living. Her contributions are highlighted in the collage below.

HIGHEST GOOD ENERGY PROGRESS

One Community is supporting selfish philanthropy by giving people what they want through Highest Good energy that is more sustainable, resilient, supports self-sufficiency and includes solar, wind, hydro and more:

• • • Learn about the open source sustainable-energy foundations: Solar, Hydro, and Wind
    • Explore our research into the most sustainable products and companies for saving water and energy: Insulation, Eco-laundry, Lightbulbs and Light Bulb Companies, Doors and Door Companies, Windows and Window Companies, Toilets, Faucets and Faucet Accessories, Urinals, and more.

This week, Dishita Jain (Data Analyst) continued supporting the Highest Good Energy research and cost analysis, contributing to the initiative’s commitment to selfish philanthropy by giving people what they want. She completed the Excel sheet by adding resource links for each phase and began formatting the tables to improve visual clarity. She also added charts to the webpage and reviewed strategies for effective visual integration. Additional time was spent enhancing the appearance of the charts and ensuring all resource links were included before uploading the final version to the site. The completed document was then shared for review. As part of the OC Administration project, Dishita also reviewed the training team’s work, created a collage, and provided detailed comments on individual documents. One Community’s open source mission is strongly reflected in the Highest Good Energy initiative, which advances selfish philanthropy by giving people what they want as a model for global benefit. Below are some of the images showcasing this work.

Muhammad Sarmad Tariq (Electrical Engineer) continued contributing to the Highest Good Energy component by assisting with off-grid and grid-tied solar microgrid. He submitted a summary on integrating a net-zero PV system into the report, along with a Loom video demonstrating the use of a calculator for estimating profit and net savings for both system types. Jae reviewed the submission and provided feedback. Muhammad then continued refining calculations for net savings, payback period, and total investment related to a net-zero PV system. Guided by its open source philosophy, One Community developed the Highest Good Energy initiative to pioneer sustainable solutions by advancing selfish philanthropy by giving people what they want. His contributions are shown in the collage below.

HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION PROGRESS

One Community is supporting selfish philanthropy by giving people what they want through Highest Good education that is for all ages, applicable in any environment, adaptable to individual needs, far exceeds traditional education standards, and more fun for both the teachers and the students. This component of One Community is about 95% complete with only the Open Source School Licensing and Ultimate Classroom construction and assembly details remaining to be finished. We’ll report on the final two elements to be finished as we develop them. With over 8 years of work invested in the process, the sections below are all complete until we move onto the property and continue the development and open sourcing process with teachers and students – a development process that is built directly into the structure of the education program and everything else we’re creating too:

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

This week, Harshitha Rayapati (Program Manager) continued work on detailing deliverables for the Highest Good education software platform, outlining various components, developing Figma designs, and expanding the visual layout of the student dashboard. She compiled the weekly blog update and reviewed the progress reports submitted by the Graphic Design and Housing Teams. She made edits to the blog page, created a collage for visual enhancement, and assembled the weekly progress summaries for both the Housing Team and the Duplicable City Center. Additionally, Harshitha reviewed Mahendra’s admin training work and provided comments to highlight and clarify specific errors. The One Community model of selfish philanthropy by giving people what they want, exemplified by sustainably built classrooms like this, represents sustainable change for the whole planet. See the collage below for her work.

Mai Mohamed (Electrical Engineer) continued working on drawing the building and its rooms, determining the story heights, and establishing the scale and X-Y coordinates to add spaces identified as classrooms. She selected the required LED luminaires for the project and integrated them into the design using the auto arrangement feature in DIALux evo to ensure appropriate placement within the space. Mai then proceeded to run the necessary calculations and obtained the uniformity value (Uo) based on the lighting layout. Sustainably built classrooms like this exemplify the One Community model of selfish philanthropy by giving people what they want and driving global sustainable change. See the collage below for her work.

HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY PROGRESS

One Community is supporting selfish philanthropy by giving people what they want 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 over 54 hours managing One Community’s 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 selfish philanthropy by giving people what they want is a foundation of the bigger picture of everything One Community is doing. The image below shows some of this work.

Govind Sajithkumar (Project Manager) continued focusing on analytics and content management for Facebook and Instagram on Meta platforms. He managed the weekly content rotation for Meta platforms by preparing, scheduling, and uploading new posts to Facebook and Instagram. He updated the Open Source spreadsheet with content information, such as descriptions and publishing times, and entered post details into the documentation system to maintain tracking records. Govind also updated the social media analytics spreadsheet with the latest performance metrics, audience demographics, and engagement statistics. Additionally, he performed PR Review Team Management by providing feedback on team members’ documents, modifying a WordPress site to add the weekly team summary and collage, and updating the PR Review Team Table and the HGN PR spreadsheet. He also submitted an admin feedback table. This effort supports One Community’s broader mission of selfish philanthropy by giving people what they want. The images below showcase some of this work.

Jaiwanth Reddy Adavalli (Project Manager) continued developing the Job Applicants page along with components of the Highest Good Network Phase 2 and Phase 4 dashboards, including the PR Team analytics section. He worked on the development of the PR Review Team Analytics Software and Dashboard. He discussed possible features and the overall design of the software with Neeharika, created wireframes, and wrote action items to guide further development. As part of the PR review team, he reviewed the pull requests of the volunteer team assigned to him. This project plays an important role in One Community’s commitment to selfish philanthropy by giving people what they want. The following images show his work for the week.

ADMINISTRATION TEAM

The Administration Team summary, covering their work administrating and managing most of One Community’s ongoing processes for selfish philanthropy by giving people what they want, was managed by Bhakti Tigdi (Project Manager) and includes Anuneet Kaur (Administrator), Himanshu Mandloi (Engineering Project Manager), Khushie Zaveri (Communication Strategist), Neeharika Kamireddy (Data Analyst), Olawunmi “Ola” Ijisesan (Administrative and Management Support), Olimpia Borgohain (Data Analyst and Team Administrator) and Rachna Malav (Data Analyst). The Highest Good Network software is how we manage and objectively measure our progress toward selfish philanthropy by giving people what they want through our social architecture, construction, production, and maintenance efforts.

This week, the Administration Team engaged in a wide array of activities supporting sustainability initiatives, content development, hiring coordination, and administrative accuracy. Anuneet dedicated her efforts to researching sustainable adhesive solutions, updating Highest Good pages with SEO-optimized content, and supporting the live blog task by identifying gaps in member participation. She also prepared and reviewed volunteer bio announcements, provided feedback to ensure accuracy, and helped train new team members. Additionally, she began drafting content and selecting visuals for the Licensing and Accreditation page under the Highest Good Education Program. Himanshu maintained oversight of the daily timelog review process, followed up on missing or inconsistent entries, and supported task management by reporting issues to leadership and creating new assignments to ensure team alignment. He also contributed to blog creation and provided administrative feedback throughout the week. This work supports One Community’s commitment to selfish philanthropy by giving people what they want.

Khushie led the development of a 7-week social media calendar for the metric system campaign, focusing on Instagram and LinkedIn engagement strategies. She tailored captions and visual themes to platform-specific audiences, collaborated with the graphics team, and supported Moonfall team admin duties, including editing and publishing weekly blogs. Neeharika advanced the PR data dashboard through multiple iterations based on team feedback and prepared it for final approval, while also supporting new trainees and completing weekly admin reviews. Ola provided support during the onboarding of new members, guided team managers, and organized a new folder system to streamline administrative workspaces. Olimpia offered constructive feedback to a new volunteer, completed regular admin responsibilities, and analyzed LinkedIn analytics to guide future engagement strategies. Rachna conducted interviews for new volunteer roles, documented the process in the hiring spreadsheet, and made progress on her SEO content while maintaining active communication with the team. This collective work reinforces One Community’s mission of selfish philanthropy by giving people what they want. See below to view images of their work.

GRAPHIC DESIGN TEAM

The Graphic Design Team’s summary includes Aurora Juang (Graphic Designer), Junyuan Liu (Graphic Designer, UI/UX Designer), and Rutal Deshmukh (Graphic Designer) covering their work on graphic designs for selfish philanthropy by giving people what they want. This week, Aurora updated volunteer bios for formatting consistency, fixed typographical issues, ensured correct sequences, and kept Jae informed. Junyuan created social media content by collecting images, exploring design options, adjusting layouts, and editing web page content; he also wrote volunteer bios.

Rutal designed and submitted multiple campaigns and social media graphics, updated a bio for Sara using tutorials, and aligned her work with selfish philanthropy by giving people what they want. See the Highest Good Society pages for more on how this contributes to selfish philanthropy by giving people what they want. See the collage below to view some of their work.

HIGHEST GOOD NETWORK PROGRESS

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

• Learn about our open source community collaboration and management software: The Highest Good Network

This week, the core team continued their work on the Highest Good Network pull requests and confirmed the following fixes: sub-sub task spacing (PR #2709), confirmation modal and functionality for scheduling time off in the following week (PR #3022), dropdown options visibility in the Weekly Summaries report (PR #3358), and improved link requirements for timelog submission (PR #3392). One item, the revision of the navbar with new requirements for Phase III (PR #3391), was not fixed. Additional activities included providing detailed feedback—including a video—after testing the fix for timelog times not totaling correctly on the Dashboard > Tasks tab (PR #1287); sending a follow-up message on Slack regarding the “Add active/inactive numbers by teams on team page” PR (PR #2850); and communicating about issues with the “Phase 2 create new team member” PR (PR #3035). The team also assigned tasks to three volunteers, reported a new bug related to the left alignment of the Task Number (#) column on the WBS page (including an image), and created a bug record for “Fix PEOPLE REPORT PAGE UI issues for 375px and up.” These efforts represent incremental progress in advancing selfish philanthropy by giving people what they want. See the Highest Good Society and Highest Good Network pages for more on how this aligns with One Community’s commitment to selfish philanthropy by giving people what they want. The collage below shows some of this work.

ALPHA SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT TEAM

This week, the Alpha Software Team, covering their progress on the Highest Good Network software, was managed by Lin Khant Htel (Frontend Software Developer), and the team includes Nikita Kolla (Full Stack Developer) and Varun Reddy Mogili (Software Engineer). This software is an internal management and communication platform with the goal of selfish philanthropy by giving people what they want. This week, Lin approved PR #3467 after local testing and confirming all test cases passed, completed Alpha Team management tasks, reviewed weekly submissions. Nikita created pull requests for the Phase 2 Summary Dashboard’s P5 horizontal bar graph, identified and fixed a dark mode text visibility bug, and aligned the work with selfish philanthropy by giving people what they want.

Varun collaborated with Humera on the HGN Software Development project, testing badge-related pull requests, identifying logic protection needs, and validating PRs #1394, #1395, and the Personal Max Badge while documenting results and aligning the work with selfish philanthropy by giving people what they want. See the Highest Good Society and Highest Good Network pages to learn more on how this relates to selfish philanthropy by giving people what they want. See some of the team’s work in the collage below.

BINARY BRIGADE SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT TEAM

The Binary Brigade Team’s summary, overseeing advancements in the Highest Good Network software was managed by Aureliano Hubert Maximus (Volunteer Software Engineer) and includes Amalesh Arivanan (Software Engineer), Anirudh Sampath Kumar (Software Developer), Geeta Matkar (Software Engineer), Jitesh Parapoil (Software Engineer), Jaissica Hora (Software Engineer), Nikhil Routh (Software Engineer), Ramsundar Konety Govindarajan (Software Engineer), Sabitha Nazareth (Software Engineer), and Samman Baidya (Software Engineer). The Highest Good Network software is how we’ll be managing and objectively measuring our progress in selfish philanthropy by giving people what they want through our social architecture, construction, production, and maintenance processes.

This week, Aureliano worked on building an auto-poster feature for Facebook and Facebook Groups. He updated the image uploader component, integrated Instagram posting, tested posting through a Facebook-connected Instagram account, investigated issues with connecting to Threads, and successfully connected a Threads account using their API. This effort supports One Community’s mission of selfish philanthropy by giving people what they want. Amalesh wrote unit tests for bmEquipmentController.js, bmExternalTeamController.js, and bmTimeLoggerController.js, debugging failed scenarios and uploading test documentation to the shared Dropbox folder while tracking time with the HGN timer. Ram resolved a merge issue in a pull request related to task addition in WBS, tested bug fixes, and worked on PRs #1394 and #1395 to reward users based on weekly goals. He used Postman and MongoDB Compass to test badge features, escalated persistent 404 errors to Humera, and ultimately confirmed the personal max badge functionality was working as expected. Jitesh investigated a bug that caused a white screen on the initial page load by reviewing routing structure and logic flow but was unable to locate a key button component at runtime, leaving the task incomplete. This effort supports One Community’s mission of selfish philanthropy by giving people what they want.

Nikhil continued migrating legacy CSS to CSS Modules by updating import paths and class references in related JSX files. He submitted multiple pull requests and resolved merge conflicts, including updates to various dashboards and the Community Portal. This action demonstrates One Community’s commitment to selfish philanthropy by giving people what they want. Jaissica fixed Node version issues to restore her local development setup and reviewed several frontend components while preparing the HGN Phase II Bug Sheet, identifying UI and functionality problems for future triage. Samman worked on the ActivityLog task by implementing a dropdown menu for project selection, handling edge cases with error states, setting up a dynamic table with variable column configurations, and beginning API integration—all while navigating several unresolved bugs. This task supports One Community’s focus on selfish philanthropy by giving people what they want. Anirudh completed pending work on PR #1798 (frontend) and PR #692 (backend), checked in the required code, and marked them ready for review and merge. He also revisited an older task involving PR #3046, addressed newly reported bugs that could not be replicated, and resolved merge conflicts to bring the branch current. This action demonstrates One Community’s commitment to selfish philanthropy by giving people what they want.

Geeta continued work on the people report but encountered errors in userProfileController.js after pulling the latest development branch for the backend. She reached out to Anirudh for support and, based on his suggestion, attempted to resolve the issue by cloning the repository again. While troubleshooting this, she also began a new task to calculate the number of people who logged more than 10 hours. This work helps advance One Community’s belief in selfish philanthropy by giving people what they want. Sabitha built an OAuth authorization URL, exchanged the authorization code for an access token and stored it in the system, and implemented functionality to retrieve the user’s first group GUID. She developed URL-shortening capabilities and added features to generate and fetch QR codes for Bitlinks. On the frontend, she configured React routes to interface with the backend, established state management using useState, and created a basic form structure to accept and process URL input. See the Highest Good Society and Highest Good Network pages to learn more about how this work relates to selfish philanthropy by giving people what they want. 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 Sheetal Mangate (Software Engineer) and includes Humemah Khalid (Software Engineer/Backend Developer), Linh Huynh (Software Engineer), Ramakrishna Aruva (Software Engineer), and Sai Girish Pabbathi (Software Engineer). The Highest Good Network software is how we’ll be managing and objectively measuring our process for selfish philanthropy by giving people what they want.

This week, Humemah began working on the “Interact with Set Final Day Button” permission under PR #3245. This task included adding the permission to relevant files such as PermissionsConst.js. The permission controls visibility and access to the “Set Final Day” button on user profiles and is enabled by default for Admin and Owner roles. This contribution strengthens One Community’s model of selfish philanthropy by giving people what they want. Sai began developing the frontend for the high-priority analytics page. This page is accessible only to Owners and Admins, who have permissions to make changes. The design includes features for comparing different time periods, identifying trends, and calculating percentage changes in user interaction and behavior. Users can select custom date ranges to view analytics, and multiple chart types are used to visualize the data with accompanying percentage comparisons. Admins can compare weekly, monthly, or yearly data using the date range selectors. This work supports One Community’s mission of selfish philanthropy by giving people what they want. Linh completed implementation of the Bluesky auto-poster feature across both frontend and backend. On the backend, he built a session-based API using the Bluesky @atproto/api library, including routes to connect and disconnect from Bluesky, check session status, post content with optional image attachments, retrieve recent posts, and delete content. The backend also supports session persistence with express-session, token auto-refresh, and blob upload handling for image files, with partial support for GIF previews. On the frontend, Linh created a new UI component in the Announcements dashboard that lets users log in with their Bluesky handle and app password, submit posts with image previews, and manage previous content. Drag-and-drop image upload and file size validation were also added. This contribution strengthens One Community’s model of selfish philanthropy by giving people what they want.

Ramakrishna focused on improving the storage and tracking of weekly summary data in the UserProfileController. He implemented an algorithm that uses epoch time to standardize each week’s summary entry, helping prevent duplication and improving retrieval efficiency. This action demonstrates One Community’s commitment to selfish philanthropy by giving people what they want. He also updated the putUserProfile API to append the current epoch time to the summarySubmissionDates array whenever weeklySummaries are modified. These updates were integrated with permission checks, caching, and audit logging, then tested locally and pushed to the feature branch for review. Sheetal worked on integrating post submission functionality using the Reddit API. Currently, the API call returns false and the post is not being published. She is analyzing the Reddit API responses for errors or unexpected statuses and reviewing the validity and scope of the access token. The issue remains unresolved and troubleshooting is ongoing. See the Highest Good Society and Highest Good Network pages to learn more about how their work contributes to selfish philanthropy by giving people what they want. See below to view images of their work.

CODE CRAFTERS SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT TEAM 

The Code Crafters Team, covering their work on the Highest Good Network software, was managed by Sundar Machani (Software Engineer) and includes Ashrita Cherlapally (Software Engineer), Dhrumil Dhimantkumar Shah (Software Engineer), Greeshma Palanki (Software Engineer), Humera Naaz (MERN developer), Pratyush Prasanna Sahu (Software Engineer), and Sai Moola (Software Engineer). The Highest Good Network software is how we’ll manage and objectively measure our process for selfish philanthropy by giving people what they want through our social architecture, construction, production, and maintenance processes. This effort is rooted in One Community’s principle of selfish philanthropy by giving people what they want.

This week, Sundar worked on the HGN Software Development project, focusing on testing badge functionality and updating Node.js test coverage. On June 8, he fixed 40 failing unit test cases, with 40 remaining to ensure all tests pass before merging into the development branch. On June 10, he resolved 38 additional test cases, with two critical files left, and noted that one test case required removal due to unclear component behavior and missing mock data. On June 13, he tested PRs #1394, #1395, and #1193, confirmed that the category hours badge worked as expected, and identified issues with the minimum hours badge. He discussed these with a collaborator and completed testing for the New Personal Max Badge, updating observations and approving the PR. On June 14, he retested PR #1394, confirmed a previous issue was resolved, and reported new unexpected behavior to the developer. This activity drives One Community’s commitment to selfish philanthropy by giving people what they want. Sai worked on the “Phase 2 Summary Dashboard: Create a bar graph for issues breakdown by type” task. He tested backend endpoints using mock data to create and delete projects, built the frontend graph based on Figma designs, rendered it with mock data, and made adjustments to default legends and dropdown menus using the react-select library. Additional updates are needed to fully align the graph with the design. This contribution plays a role in One Community’s promotion of selfish philanthropy by giving people what they want. Pratyush developed the Material Usage Dashboard to visualize construction material data through an interactive donut chart and detailed breakdowns. The dashboard includes filters for project selection, material type, and a toggle for displaying increased usage. The primary visualization uses Chart.js with color-coded segments for Available, Used, and Wasted materials, and a breakdown list shows exact quantities with matching indicators. Trend indicators show percentage changes from the previous week. He organized mock data in a separate file, built the UI with Tailwind CSS, then moved to inline styles, used React hooks for state and data updates, and implemented responsive design and interactive features like tooltips and transitions. This work advances One Community’s dedication toward selfish philanthropy by giving people what they want.

Dhurmil completed changes for PR #3612, addressed a hotfix requested by Jae, confirmed it worked as expected, reviewed related code, made progress on a graph task, and is currently investigating a node-related error in PR #1371. Humera collaborated with five others to test multiple badge-related pull requests. She identified an issue in PR #1394 where badges were being replaced incorrectly when a lower streak followed a higher streak, resolved it by updating the code, and is now facing a new issue where badges are being added repeatedly instead of multiplying. This effort is rooted in One Community’s principle of selfish philanthropy by giving people what they want. Ashrita worked on building a job analytics dashboard that visualizes role-based application data using a horizontal bar chart. She implemented API integration with filters for date range, roles, and time granularity, and resolved 404 and environment variable issues during debugging. She also adjusted the chart height dynamically based on data length and manually positioned a vertical Y-axis label to avoid label overlap and improve layout clarity. This work supports the foundation of One Community’s approach to selfish philanthropy by giving people what they want. Greeshma focused on strengthening role-based access control by adding consistent permission checks to the Dashboard and Timelog sections to prevent users from viewing or editing data for higher-level roles, with unauthorized access showing a toast message and redirecting to the user’s own profile. She also looked for additional bugs to address, recorded related notes under the general section, and pushed changes to the assigned feature branch. An issue with the unsupported [email protected] engine error reappeared and was resolved again, and this was logged under the general category due to ongoing webpage rendering issues in the development environment. This work supports the foundation of One Community’s approach to selfish philanthropy by giving people what they want. See the Highest Good Society and Highest Good Network pages for more on how this relates to selfish philanthropy by giving people what they want. View some of the team’s work in the collage below.

DEV DYNASTY SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT TEAM

The Dev Dynasty Team’s summary, covering their work on the Highest Good Network software, was managed by Zhifan Jia (Software Engineer) and includes Dharmik Patel (Software Engineer), Manvitha Yeeli (Software Engineer), Mohan Satya Ram Sara (Software Engineer), Shraddha Shahari (Software Engineer), Vamsi Krishna Rolla (Software Engineer), and Vaibhav Koladiya (Software Engineer). The Highest Good Network software is how we’ll manage and objectively measure our process for selfish philanthropy by giving people what they want through our social architecture, construction, production, and maintenance processes. This effort supports One Community’s mission of selfish philanthropy by giving people what they want.

This week, Zhifan worked on resolving issues related to past pull requests, including investigating a failed test for the “Create way to see 6 months & yearly anniversaries” task, which was caused by an unrelated params issue, and resolving merge conflicts by merging the development branch. For the task “Fix email notification for setting last day saying the next day is their last day,” merge conflicts were addressed and additional logging was added to investigate an issue where the End Date on the Basic Information tab displayed a day earlier than expected. They also worked on an issue related to the “Improve loading speed of Weekly Summaries Report via tab data fix” task assigned by Jae and found that the email generation logic did not align with the frontend’s tab-based array index structure, leading to inconsistencies. This work contributes to One Community’s commitment to selfish philanthropy by giving people what they want. Manvitha worked on the LinkedIn auto-poster feature, enabling users to schedule posts, post on demand, and edit or delete scheduled posts using the LinkedIn APIs, and submitted related changes through PR1454 and PR3647. She also began updating the Reports page layout by aligning the top statistics boxes into a single row using a custom flex wrapper, adjusting the user profile panel height, and applying vertical spacing; these layout changes are still in progress and not fully responsive. This effort supports One Community’s mission of selfish philanthropy by giving people what they want. Shraddha worked on the issue of editing the email on the Profile Page, found that it could not be reproduced on the development branch, and will continue monitoring before closing the task. She also investigated a problem with the Equipment list update button, identified that the related API was not present in the codebase, and communicated her findings with Chitra while awaiting clarification.

Vamsi continued backend development for stacked horizontal bar charts displaying tool stoppage reasons by defining the data structure, identifying database fields, and setting up an endpoint with project and date range filtering. He implemented logic to classify data into categories such as used for lifetime, damaged, and lost, created a new collection named toolStoppageReason, inserted test data, and verified API functionality using Postman. This contribution furthers One Community’s dedication to selfish philanthropy by giving people what they want. Vaibhav reviewed multiple pull requests focused on UI behavior, layout consistency, and feature validation, covering PR-3636, PR-3613, PR-3650, PR-3651, PR-3656, PR-3646, PR-3655, PR-3654, and PR-1457, and provided feedback on backend issues and responsive design testing. Mohan addressed a bug in the HGN Software Development project that caused crashes when editing task dates by identifying z-index and CSS positioning issues, applying scoped styling fixes, using media queries for screen-specific adjustments, and validating dropdown behavior across components. Related work was documented in a GitHub branch, and the fix was submitted in PR Mohan-fix-popup-i-icon-weekly-summaries. This action demonstrates One Community’s commitment to selfish philanthropy by giving people what they want. Dharmik worked on completing and refining the team code filter set functionality associated with PR1274. He addressed UI issues and ensured the interface was functioning as intended, then shifted focus to improving the user experience by implementing tag-based filters and moving update and delete actions directly into the tags for a more intuitive interaction. He also verified the add, update, and delete operations, ensured smoother workflow, and prepared a video summary and written report to document the changes made throughout the week. See the Highest Good Society and Highest Good Network pages for more on how this relates to selfish philanthropy by giving people what they want. View some of the team’s work in the collage below.

EXPRESSERS SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT TEAM

The Expressers Team’s summary, covering their work on the Highest Good Network software, was managed by Strallia Chao (Software Engineer), and includes Casstiel Pi (Software Engineer), Meenashi Jeyanthinatha (Full Stack Developer), Rahul Trivedi (Software Engineer), and Reina Takahara (Software Developer). The Highest Good Network software helps us manage and objectively measure our progress toward selfish philanthropy by giving people what they want through innovative software development, testing, and collaboration. This week, Casstiel worked on researching and resolving issues related to PR #3614, which included identifying multiple ESLint and Prettier errors. While applying fixes, additional errors were discovered in the modified file, and it remains unclear whether these were pre-existing. The current errors are blocking the pull request from being merged or reviewed. Casstiel also gained familiarity with ESLint standard practices and learned how to use Prettier to maintain consistent code formatting. This work helps move forward One Community’s belief in selfish philanthropy by giving people what they want. Meenashi added a new route endpoint to retrieve PayPal order details and ensured that status updates for CheckoutNow, Authorize, and Capture processes are reflected in the Payments collection. The checkoutNow procedure was modified to request buyer approval, and the Authorization API was updated to include the paypalAuthorizationId and createTime. Webhooks for “CHECKOUT.ORDER.APPROVED” and “PAYMENT.CAPTURE.COMPLETED” were updated to ensure changes are recorded in the Payments collection. A new endpoint, getPayments, was added to retrieve payment data. The updateOrder procedure was revised to fetch bidDetails where the isActive flag is true. Note: A Cloudflare outage occurred this week, disrupting work for several hours. This effort is rooted in One Community’s principle of selfish philanthropy by giving people what they want.

Rahul worked on making updates to the style.css file to reflect the required UI changes to the Tasks table, including shifting columns to the left for improved layout. The Tasks table UI was optimized by adjusting column widths based on provided recommendations. Additional changes included refining the alignment of the “User Status” column by centering and vertically aligning its contents. These modifications were finalized and submitted through pull request #3653. This activity drives One Community’s commitment to selfish philanthropy by giving people what they want. Reina reviewed and updated her previous pull requests based on feedback. For the pull request related to creating a new team member, she addressed error handling issues by removing error messages when users corrected their input. She also worked on the “create tracking” button for the advanced management task, fixing routing and permission-related issues. In addition, she began looking for a new task and started work on improving the hours-by-team-member visualization on the projects report page. This work advances One Community’s dedication toward selfish philanthropy by giving people what they want. Strallia resolved bugs identified by Tatyana and listed on the Bugs doc for previous pull requests to the Total Org Summary page. She reviewed PR #3408 and PR #1330, which added date filter dropdowns to the Total Org Summary page, and made commits to address an undefined error and resolve merge conflicts. She investigated discrepancies with the New Volunteer and Inactive Volunteer statistics on the same page, focusing on possible issues related to using UTC versus Pacific time. See the Highest Good Society and Highest Good Network pages for more on how this contributed to selfish philanthropy by giving people what they want. See the collage below to view the team’s work.

LUCKY STAR SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT TEAM

The Lucky Star Team’s summary, covering their work on the Highest Good Network software, was managed by Koushica Bosadi Ulaganathan (Software Engineer), and includes contributions from Dipti Yadav (Software Engineer) and Ganesh Karnati (Software Engineer). Their work continued to support our goal of selfish philanthropy by giving people what they want through collaborative and cross-functional software development. This week, Dipti worked on fixing the placement of the Tracking and +/- buttons on the Tasks tab for small screens. She began by reviewing the relevant code and identified that the files involved were Warning.jsx and Warning.css. Since the task primarily involved styling and layout adjustments for responsiveness, she made necessary changes in the Warning.css file to improve how the buttons appear on smaller screen sizes. After implementing the changes, she tested the layout to ensure the updates worked as intended across different screen resolutions. Once confirmed, she created pull request #3651 for the changes on GitHub. This contribution plays a role in One Community’s promotion of selfish philanthropy by giving people what they want.

Ganesh worked on the Loss Tracking Line Chart component using Recharts and standard HTML elements. He implemented filters for material, year, and a precise date range using basic dropdowns and month input fields. The chart logic was updated to combine and display year-based data on a single timeline, using distinct colors to represent each year. He modified the X-axis to show only month names to emphasize cross-year comparison, integrated conditional logic to filter data based on selected inputs, and ensured the chart updated accordingly. Responsive CSS styling was applied to maintain layout consistency across different screen sizes. This work advances One Community’s dedication toward selfish philanthropy by giving people what they want. Koushica pushed updated changes to the payment page of the listing and bidding feature. She also implemented several hotfixes, including fixing layout issues in the Team Member Tasks Table on the dashboard, restoring alignment for the blue “i” icon on the profile page, adjusting task-related icons and text alignment for clarity, fixing the Time Off icon color for visibility, and resolving a login issue for a specific account. She completed code refactoring, performed testing, and raised a pull request for the Resource Adding page. This effort supports One Community’s mission of selfish philanthropy by giving people what they want. See the Highest Good Society and Highest Good Network pages for more on how this relates to selfish philanthropy by giving people what they want. See the collage below to view the team’s work.

MOONFALL SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT TEAM

The Moonfall Team’s summary, covering their work on the Highest Good Network software, was managed by Newell Newell (Manager), and includes Akanksha Singh (software engineer), Angad Anil Gosain (Volunteer Software Engineer), Bhavpreet Singh (Software Engineer), and Shashank Kumar (Software Engineer). The Highest Good Network software is how we’ll manage and objectively measure our progress toward selfish philanthropy by giving people what they want through innovative software development, testing, and collaboration. This week, Akanksha focused on building the backend APIs for the Medium AutoPoster tool. This feature is designed to automate content publishing on Medium and streamline workflows for users. The backend integrates with RapidAPI to manage external service interactions, including content analysis and metadata enrichment. The API architecture was developed for modularity and scalability, with endpoints implemented for authentication, post creation, and scheduling using RESTful design principles. Initial integration with RapidAPI was tested to ensure it supports the tool’s core functionality. This work supports the foundation of One Community’s approach to selfish philanthropy by giving people what they want. Angad made significant backend and frontend improvements across multiple areas. He resolved 404 errors caused by misconfigured API routes and corrected the registration of routers for GitHub, Dropbox, Sentry, and Slack. He implemented five new GET endpoints under /api/skills/profile/:userId/ using a dedicated controller and router, returning skill category breakdowns for dashboard, frontend, backend, DevOps, and software practices. These were tested and validated using Postman. This work supports the foundation of One Community’s approach to selfish philanthropy by giving people what they want. On the frontend, he added logic in UserProfile.jsx to simulate access removal and restoration, implemented toggle buttons with modals, and resolved related state management issues. He also fixed ESLint errors in Announcements/index.jsx related to TinyMCE integration and dark mode. On the backend, he reviewed updates to timeEntryController.js, verified logging accuracy for new tasks, and proposed a script to reconcile logged hours with actual time entries. He also worked on resolving failing unit tests and documented all completed work in a written summary. This task is aligned with One Community’s efforts in selfish philanthropy by giving people what they want.

Bhavpreet worked on two features. First, he refactored and separated APIs from the listing home to support bidding functionality. Second, he tested and adjusted the availability-related API, which he connected to the frontend. During this process, he implemented a new availability calendar component to replace a missing one. This activity drives One Community’s commitment to selfish philanthropy by giving people what they want. Shashank completed the frontend layout for the resource page and added components for the budget dashboard. He included both chart and grid views for different screen sizes and used placeholder data to verify the structure. He also implemented logic to render empty state components when no resource or budget data is present and initiated API testing for budget-related metrics to ensure future integration. This effort is rooted in One Community’s principle of selfish philanthropy by giving people what they want. Newell worked on resolving issues related to the upgrade from Node.js 14 to version 20, including the switch from npm to yarn. He implemented multiple API endpoints and schemas in the NestJS backend and refined endpoint coverage. He upgraded the CI pipeline to support Node.js 20 and yarn, performed integration testing with PostgreSQL data sources, and fixed minor bugs. He also coordinated the Node upgrade with the existing backend codebase. See the Highest Good Society and Highest Good Network pages for more information on how this contributed to selfish philanthropy by giving people what they want. See the collage below to view the team’s work.

REACTONAUTS SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT TEAM

The Reactronauts Team’s summary, covering their work on the Highest Good Network was managed by Olimpia Borgohain (Data Analyst and Team Admin). The team includes Ghazi Rahman Shaik (Software Engineer Intern), Gmon Kuzhiyanikkal (Software Engineer), Guirong Wu (Software Engineer), Kristin Dingchuan Hu (Software Engineer), Mrinalini Raghavendran (Software Developer), Pallavi Thorat (Software Engineer), Peterson Rodrigues dos Santos ( Software Engineer), Rishwa Patel ( Software Engineer), and Siva Putti ( Software Engineer). The Highest Good Network software helps manage and objectively continue to support by focusing on selfish philanthropy by giving people what they want, social architecture, construction, production, and maintenance processes to build sustainable and thriving ecosystems. This solution is portable, scalable, and ideal for off-grid or sustainable living communities. The Highest Good Network software helps manage and objectively measure progress by focusing on selfish philanthropy—giving people what they want—as well as supporting social architecture, construction, production, and maintenance processes to build sustainable and thriving ecosystems. This solution is portable, scalable, and ideal for off-grid or sustainable living communities.

This week, Ghazi worked on improving task assignment in the HGN Software Development project with a focus on selfish philanthropy by giving people what they want. He refactored the TagsSearch and AddTaskModal components to utilize the preloaded allMembers dataset, replacing live search. He also resolved data structure inconsistencies (e.g., _id vs. userID, firstName vs. first) to ensure component compatibility. This contribution supports One Community’s promotion of selfish philanthropy by giving people what they want. Gmon sought help from a team for an error and spent time understanding the project’s architecture and existing features. Guirong focused on two main tasks: the YouTube auto-poster feature and the Mailchimp email template. For the first task, she created a dedicated page, migrated content from the announcements section, and implemented a tracking history button to monitor uploaded videos, along with a scheduling button for future posts. For the second task, she integrated the weekly report template into the external editor on the reporting page and continued template formatting and cloud-based image linking. This contribution strengthens One Community’s model of selfish philanthropy by giving people what they want. Kristin tested backend code supporting the Badge feature, which suggested safeguards to protect the codebase. She also wrote reviews for PR1394 and PR1395, contributing to One Community’s mission of selfish philanthropy by giving people what they want. The test process included deploying the site, updating MongoDB user profile data, and sending requests with Thunder Client. She coordinated with the author of the pull requests, Humera, to troubleshoot APIs returning 404 errors. Kristin tested multiple badge‑related functions, verified that badges were assigned and displayed correctly, and documented the results in a shared spreadsheet for reference. Mrinalini fixed an existing issue by submitting a pull request that introduced a new function and a new useEffect, and updated an existing function to call the new one. She adjusted the filter logic to show only active team codes and began working on the correct ordering of codes in the user profile, including locating where the unshift function was used in the codebase. She also updated the backend to ensure that new codes are appended to the end of the list and confirmed that appending to the end of the team codes list in QST was functioning as expected. This task supports One Community’s focus on selfish philanthropy by giving people what they want.

Pallavi focused on developing analytics dashboard components for the job posting platform. She began with an application time chart that compares average completion times by role, using horizontal bars and filters for date and role selection. She adjusted the chart’s visual design to improve alignment, spacing, and responsiveness, including correcting label placement for the Administrative Assistant role. Pallavi resolved merge conflicts during code integration, fixed failing checks in previous pull requests, and maintained code stability. This contribution furthers One Community’s dedication to selfish philanthropy by giving people what they want. Peterson improved the Badge Management page by enhancing the input field where users can type the name of an existing user. He also implemented a message display in place of the table when no matching user is found. This effort supports One Community’s mission of selfish philanthropy by giving people what they want. Rishwa worked on the HGN Questionnaire Dashboard project, focusing on the implementation of the user skill radar chart on the Skills Overview page. The task involved fetching survey response data from the backend and displaying the user’s skill distribution visually using a radar chart component. He ensured proper integration of the backend data with the frontend chart display, verifying that the chart labels, representing 26 different skills, matched the survey schema. The chart was made responsive to adapt to various screen sizes and configured to show hover-based tooltips for each skill, displaying the corresponding score. He also confirmed that the data reflected only authorized user responses and aligned with the expected frontend format. This work contributes to One Community’s commitment to selfish philanthropy by giving people what they want. Siva completed the team creation functionality under Other Links > Team Management > Create New Team, resolving the issue that previously prevented users from creating a team through this path. He updated the behavior and user experience to match the existing flow under Profile > Teams > Assign Team > Create New Team and submitted the changes in pull request #3658. He also worked on updating the Dashboard Tasks interface to hide the Delete Task option for users who do not have the “Unassign Team Members from Tasks” permission. See below for the work done on selfish philanthropy by giving people what they want.

SKYE SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT TEAM

Skye Team’s summary, covering their work on the Highest Good Network was managed by Olimpia Borgohain (Data Analyst and Team Admin) and Luis Arevalo (Software Engineer). The team includes Anthony Weathers (Software Engineer), Gopikalakshmi Asok Kumar (Software Developer), Julia Ha (Software Engineer) and Prit Patel (Software Engineer). The Highest Good Network software helps manage and objectively continue to support by focusing on selfish philanthropy by giving people what they want, social architecture, construction, production, and maintenance processes to build sustainable and thriving ecosystems. This solution is portable, scalable, and ideal for off-grid or sustainable living communities.

This week, Anthony updated his previous permission changes pull request to align with a new backend change that ensures the Permission Change Logs table reflects updates from both default and added permissions. He worked on selfish philanthropy by giving people what they want and addressed a user profile page issue where the Save Changes button would not reactivate after using quick setup buttons, identifying and commenting out a variable introduced in a prior hotfix to resolve the issue. He verified the fix across desktop and tablet views and plans to submit a pull request after cleaning up commented code. He also investigated a bug with the badge’s earned icon on the profile page. This contribution strengthens One Community’s model of selfish philanthropy by giving people what they want. Gopika worked on fixing a report access issue for volunteer users who had the “See Analytics Report” permission but could not view reports due to the backend returning zero total people. She traced the issue to a mismatch in permission checks, where volunteers lacked the “getUserProfiles” permission required by the existing logic. She updated the getUserProfileBasicInfo function to conditionally check for the “getReport” permission when the request originated from a report, limiting the scope of changes to avoid unintended effects on other application areas. She committed the changes in separate backend and frontend branches and prepared for a pull request after further testing. This task is aligned with One Community’s efforts in selfish philanthropy by giving people what they want.

Julia focused on the bar chart for Total Material Cost Per Project by adding a loading spinner during data fetches, implementing an error toast for failed API calls, and updating the chart to support dark mode. She wrote six tests to validate the chart’s functionality, reviewed the code, and opened pull request 3646 to merge the changes into the development branch. This work helps move forward One Community’s belief in selfish philanthropy by giving people what they want. Prit worked on implementing permission visibility for different user roles by creating a new backend branch to support assigning permissions directly to roles such as Owner, Administrator, and Core Team, and updated the backend logic to ensure that new permissions are automatically accessible to these roles. He also made corresponding frontend updates in a separate branch and pushed both branches to the remote repository. See below for the work done on selfish philanthropy by giving people what they want.

SOFTWARE PR REVIEW TEAM A-F

This week, the PR Review Team’s summary for team members’ names starting with A–F and covering their work on the Highest Good Network software was managed by Neeharika Kamireddy (Data Analyst). The Highest Good Network software is a foundation of what we’ll be using to measure our results of supporting selfish philanthropy by giving people what they want. This week’s active members of this team were: Abdelmounaim Lallouache (Software Developer), Alisha Walunj (Software Engineer), Carlos Gomez (Full-Stack Software Developer) and Fatima Villena (Software Engineer). They assisted with the research, by reviewing all the Highest Good Network PRs (Pull Requests) shared in this week’s update. Learn more about how the Highest Good Network measures supporting selfish philanthropy by giving people what they want by exploring the Highest Good Network open-source hub. The collage below shows a compilation of the work from this team.

SOFTWARE PR REVIEW TEAM G-N

This week, the PR Review Team’s summary for team members’ names starting with G–N and covering their work on the Highest Good Network software was managed by Govind Sajithkumar (Software Project Manager). The Highest Good Network software is a foundation for measuring our results of supporting selfish philanthropy by giving people what they want. This week’s active members of this team were: Haocheng Xu (Developer), Kurtis Ivey (Full Stack Developer), Nahiyan Ahmed (Full Stack Software Developer) and Nathan Hoffman (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 measures supporting selfish philanthropy by giving people what they want by exploring the Highest Good Network open-source hub. The collage below shows a compilation of the work from this team.

SOFTWARE PR REVIEW TEAM O-Z

This week, the PR Review Team’s summary for team members’ names starting with O–Z and 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 of supporting selfish philanthropy by giving people what they want. This week’s active members of this team were: Rahul Bagul (Software Engineer), Shreyas Bedekar (Software Engineer), and Taariq Mansurie (Full-Stack Developer). They reviewed all the Highest Good Network PRs (Pull Requests) shared in this week’s update. Learn more about how the Highest Good Network measures supporting selfish philanthropy by giving people what they want by exploring the Highest Good Network open-source hub. The collage below shows a compilation of the work from this team.

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