One CommunitySustainable Systems Management – One Community Weekly Progress Update #572
As an all-volunteer organization, One Community is dedicated to developing sustainable systems management, including sustainable approaches to food, energy, housing, education, social architecture, and economics. For “The Highest Good of All,” we are creating open source and free-shared solutions that foster fulfilled living while revitalizing our planet. Our model, created by an all-volunteer team, will serve as a blueprint for global collaboration, enabling the creation of teacher/demonstration hubs worldwide.
- Here’s our project overview
- Here’s our world-change methodology
- Here’s how this becomes self-replicating
- Here’s how we are open source and free-sharing all the do-it-yourself designs
OUR MAIN OPEN SOURCE HUBS
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One Community’s physical location will forward this movement as the first of many self-replicating teacher/demonstration communities, villages, and cities to be built around the world to teach and expand sustainable systems management. This is the March 4th, 2024 edition (#572) of our weekly progress update detailing our team’s development and accomplishments:
Sustainable Systems Management
One Community Progress Update #572
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HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING PROGRESS
One Community is developing sustainable systems management 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:
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- Learn about: Our Upcoming Crowdfunding Campaign
- Learn about sustainable systems management and the different village models: 7 Sustainable Village Models
- Visit the open source portals for the details of sustainable systems management for the first two: Earthbag Village OS Hub | Straw Bale Village OS Hub
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This week, Vidhi Bansal (3D Visualization Artist) completed another week of assisting with the visualization and 4-dome cluster variation renders for the Earthbag Village. She focused on checking and properly scaling the people and vehicle. See below for some of the pictures.
Loza Ayehutsega (Civil Engineer/Assistant Civil Engineer), completed another week working on the Earth Dam risk assessment and dam break hazard assessment. She edited the report document and reviewed the part that was not completed, and the post-event recovery part is now added to the report document. Post-event recovery is a critical phase in disaster risk mitigation to restore affected communities, infrastructure, and ecosystems to pre-disaster conditions or better. Some of the examples are Assessment and Evaluation, Emergency Relief, Restoration of Basic Services, Reconstruction and Rehabilitation, Livelihood Recovery, Environmental Restoration, Policy and Institutional Reforms. Sustainable systems management of earthworks dams is a part of One Community’s open source creation process. See below for some of the pictures.
DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER PROGRESS
One Community is developing sustainable systems management 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:
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- Learn about this building and its function as a component of our sustainable systems management for food, laundry, recreation and more: Duplicable City Center Open Source Hub
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This week, Amiti Singh (Volunteer Architectural Designer) focused on finalizing all the files for the rooms she designed in Duplicable City Center. She reviewed material rates, product specifications, and updated product cataloging for the cost-analysis of all the rooms. She also updated Google Slides and DWG drawings for Room 7 and finalized changes in renders for the specified rooms. The Duplicable City Center will be a significant contributor to sustainable systems management for food, laundry, recreation and more. The collage below shows her work for the week.
Clarice Gaw Gonzalo (Architect) continued her work developing renders and the video walkthrough for the Duplicable City Center. She concentrated on refining lighting arrangements, incorporating people, and introducing clutter to enhance realism. She also adorned beds with clothing and populated spaces with diverse groups of interacting individuals. During the rendering process, Clarice experimented with various sun settings to optimize the entrance of light into each space. She then started the task of revising previous renders, identifying discrepancies within the original SketchUp models that necessitate further revision and time investment. The Duplicable City Center will be a significant contributor to sustainable systems management for food, laundry, recreation and more. Below are some demonstration images of her work.
Julio Marín Bustillos (Mechanical Engineer) focused on Finite Element Analysis (FEA) on the dome with the hub connector. However, due to the extensive size and complexity of the analysis, it demanded considerable effort. Consequently, he has begun researching alternative methods to streamline the analysis process and reduce the computational resources required. Replicable recreation, education, dining, and gathering spaces such as the Duplicable City Center are a big part of One Community’s sustainable systems management model. See the collage below for his work.
Justin Varghese (Mechanical Engineer) concluded his tasks by organizing all files related to City Center Hub Connector into categories such as CAD, FEA, and RSA, and uploading all relevant documents to Dropbox. He also included notes, links, and pictures to facilitate easy identification of the files. Additionally, Justin prepared a work breakdown structure (WBS) outlining pending tasks within the project. The Duplicable City Center will be a significant contributor to sustainable systems management for food, laundry, recreation and more. The collage below shows his work for the week.
HIGHEST GOOD FOOD PROGRESS
One Community is developing sustainable systems management 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:
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- Learn about the sustainable systems management for these structures: Hoop House Hub | Aquapini & Walipini Open Source Hub
- See what we’ll be growing: Gardens & Hoop Houses | Large-scale Structures | Food Forest | TA
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This week, a core team member made progress on the Highest Good Food Tools and Equipment document by incorporating and expanding the list by adding new power equipment entries, created detailed descriptions for each item, and ensured alphabetical order for easy reference. They reorganized the list by grouping similar tools and equipment together, further enhancing its user-friendliness. They also collaborated with team to discuss the alphabetization process for various tools, equipment, and materials lists. Sustainable systems management of food is a significant part of One Community’s open source plans. See their work in the collage below.
Charles Gooley (Web Designer) focused on the development of the Vegan Rice Recipes page, constructing several recipes including Healthy Braised Lentils with Kale, Yukon Gold Mashed Potatoes and Roasted Shallots with Beef Goulash, Brown Rice and Beef Curry, Vegan Lentil Chili, Potatoes Dauphinoise and Poached Asparagus, Leeks and Peas, Tempeh & Sweet Potato Buddha Bowl, Breakfast Wrap, Baked Brown Rice and Minced Beef with Sweet Potato Stew, Orzo Pasta and Black Bean Salad with Roasted Cauliflower, Chard and Herbs, Curried Tempeh Quinoa Breakfast Hash, Pesto Pasta with Grilled Chicken, Cherry Tomatoes and Arugula, Omelet Wraps, Adzuki Rice and Bean Bowls, and Sweet Potato & Peanut Curry. Placeholder images were utilized and are to be replaced with final images upon availability. Diverse food menus are a significant part of how One Community is designed for sustainable systems management of what we eat. See his work in the collage below.
Hayley Rosario (Sustainability Research Assistant) organized tools, equipment, and materials for the Highest Good Food project. During a collaborative session with a core team member, it was noted that a substantial portion of the items required grouping within the list. Responding to this insight, she revised the original list in the Highest Good Food Tools & Equipment document. Hayley initiated corresponding adjustments to the images and descriptions list. A need for a clear distinction between accessories and non-accessories prompted her to recreate the list in a separate document. Sustainable systems management of food is a significant part of One Community’s open source plans. See below for pictures related to her work.
HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION PROGRESS
One Community is developing sustainable systems management 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:
- Sustainable systems management education overview: Education Open Source Hub
- Sustainable systems management: How to use the Education for Life Program
- Sustainable systems management: Lesson Plans for Life – Lesson Plans How-to
- Foundations of Outstanding Leaders, Teachers, and Communicators
- Curriculum for Life
- Teaching Strategies for Life
- Learning Tools and Toys for Life
- Evaluation and Evolution
Highest Good Education: All Subjects | All Learning Levels | Any Age – Click image for the open source hub
HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY PROGRESS
One Community is developing sustainable systems management through a Highest Good society approach to living that is founded on fulfilled living, the study of meeting human needs, Community, and making a difference in the world:
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- Read the Highest Good society sustainable systems management overview: Highest Good Society
- Learn about the model for fulfilled living and sharing: A Day in the Life
- Learn about sustainable systems management with the 4 economic models: RBE | For-profit | Non-profit | Entrepreneurship
- Learn about our open source community sustainable systems management and collaboration software: The Highest Good Network
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This week, the core team completed 57 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. We also shot and incorporated the video above that talks about sustainable systems management and how sustainable systems management is a foundation of the bigger picture of everything One Community is doing. The pictures below show some of this work. See below for pictures related to this.
Another core team member worked on the Highest Good Network, confirming and fixing PRs. The Highest Good Network software is how we’ll be managing and objectively measuring our process for sustainable systems management through our social architecture, construction, production, and maintenance processes. This week’s work included resolving the issue of moving time entries to another task (#486) and fixing the button placement problem in PR1775. However, several PRs remained unresolved, such as fixing minor formatting issues on the Dashboard and Profile Pages (PR1958), where the “Click for user class information” mouseover text still persists. Issues were discovered with an updated pop-up window for time off requests, including problems with changing dates and the inability to request time off for weeks before the current date. Other unresolved PRs involved updating People Reports and fixing the New Max Personal Record award. Alongside PR testing, They reported new issues, including references to deleted accounts within the application and incorrect working week dates. They checked the status of tested PRs and resolved all remaining issues in the “Murphy Bed Instructions” PDF file. See below for pictures related to their work.
Aaron Wang (Fundraising Assistant) continued to help One Community with working on fundraising. Demonstrating our systems of sustainable systems management requires we get fully funded. Aaron focused on refining his research regarding the connections and narratives behind each fund associated with Leonardo DiCaprio. He identified email contacts of individuals likely to have insights into Leonardo’s philanthropic endeavors, aiming to enhance the process of connecting with funders. You can view this work in the collage below.
Cody Media Productions (Video Editing Company) focused on refining the intro video for the weekly progress update YouTube videos and incorporating feedback from the previous rough cut. They continued their efforts on the intro video. Cody Media Productions reviewed the feedback from the previous rough cut and made the necessary adjustments. Additionally, they focused on incorporating titles and transitions into the video to enhance its visual appeal and coherence. Their agenda includes submitting a third rough edit video, marking significant progress toward the project’s completion. These videos will showcase the open-source components of One Community as the prototype for sustainable systems management. You can view this work in the collage below.
Jayson Conty (Video Editor) continued to help with working on video editing. He updated the weekly update video by incorporating a call to action to follow One Community on their social media platforms. Additionally, he replaced all low-resolution images with their higher-quality counterparts, introduced a housing overview segment at the outset of the video, and rectified minor spelling errors. These videos showcase the details of the components of our complete model for sustainable systems management. See the collage image below.
Ray Lee (Graphic Designer, Video Editor) helped this week by creating first-draft images for updating our website header to celebrate and acknowledge Women’s History Month and National Volunteer Week at One Community. See the images below to view this work-in-progress. See the collage image below.
ADMINISTRATION TEAM
The Administration Team’s summary, covering their work administrating and managing most of One Community’s ongoing sustainable systems management process was managed by Vriddhi Misra (Admin and Marketing Assistant) and includes Alyx Parr (Senior Support Specialist), Camilla Okello (Administrative Assistant), Catherine Liu (Administrative and Analytics Assistant, Team Manager), Meenakshi Velayutham (Sustainability Associate), Olawunmi “Ola” Ijisesan (Administrative and Management Support), Olivia Trojnar (Administrative Assistant), Purva Nantarajesh (Marketing Analyst), Ruiqi Liu (Administrative Assistant), and Xiaolai Li (Administrative Assistant). This week, Alyx streamlined the process of managing One Community MP3 files downloaded from YouTube, ensuring organization and clarity by renaming the files appropriately for easy identification. She also reset ‘Step 4′ for other team members. Camilla focused on optimizing her assigned blogs, addressing challenges with Jae’s assistance, particularly the double-posting issue, and resolving challenges on sites with previously used focus keywords. Catherine reviewed various teams and individual team members, organizing images and summaries and finalizing edits on texts and blog posts while researching keywords for a Google Ads campaign. Meenakshi continued administrative tasks, including checking the weekly summary page, tracking and creating bio announcements, reviewing cost analysis details, and proofreading social media web images. Ola focused on reviewing the PR Team’s work, optimizing SEO scores, managing weekly tasks, and creating folders for administrative team members. Olivia completed training for her Administrative Assistant role and initiated research on sustainable lighting options. Purva spent time creating collages, proofreading summaries, reviewing other administrators’ work, and optimizing previous blog posts for SEO. Ruiqi completed the four-step review process for multiple teams, created collage images, integrated SEO keywords into WordPress, refined and organized data, and adjusted quantities in various tables. Vriddhi focused on administration tasks related to the Duplicate City Center project, finalizing reports and weekly summaries, suggesting team changes, addressing reviewer feedback, and actively engaging in tutorials and feedback sessions to optimize SEO on blogs and improve page visibility. Xiaolai undertook tasks such as editing summaries, arranging documents and images, completing the 571 weekly reports, updating the report’s webpage, creating an administrator tutorial, and ensuring the financial sheet was updated and submitted for final review. You can see the work for the team in the image below.
ALPHA SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT TEAM
The Alpha Team’s summary, covering their work on the Highest Good Network software, was managed by Sucheta Mukherjee (Software Developer) and includes Chengyan Wang (Software Engineer) and Yongjian Pan (Software Engineer). The Highest Good Network software is how we’ll be managing and objectively measuring our process for sustainable systems management through our social architecture, construction, production, and maintenance processes. This week, Sucheta focused on creating a revised pull request (PR2006+775) for the task ‘Create Summary Report Recipient Button.’ This involved creating a new branch from the development branch, copying code from the previous PR, and testing frontend functionality. However, there were issues sending emails from the backend server, leading to an examination of Google API credentials and attempts to create new access codes. The PR is submitted but awaiting review from an experienced member. PRs 1931 and 1985 were also reviewed during this time. Additionally, Chengyan saw advancements in the HGN Software Development project. A reusable React component, ListView, was developed to create list views with specific keywords and Redux actions. Challenges included a recursive Redux action that disrupted sorting logic, which was resolved to enhance component reusability. The week included final PR reviews, integration of a reusable list UI component, front-end improvements for ‘Add Reusable (Type),’ and collaboration with the backend team for unit parsing filtering. Testing and feedback gathering refined the Redux workflow and front-end improvements. PR #1956 issues were addressed, including a blank screen fix and sorting/filtering functionalities. Backend and branch updates were implemented to maintain project momentum and feature integration. Yongjian worked on a filter for a task, allowing administrators and owners to filter their teams’ specific data, including names, tangible time, progress, and total time for the current week’s progress work. See the Highest Good Society and Highest Good Network pages for more on how this relates to sustainable systems management. View some of the team’s work in the collage below.
BADGES BUGS SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT TEAM
The Badges Bugs Team’s summary, covering their work on the Highest Good Network software, was managed by Shaofeng Li (Software Engineer) and includes Renan Luiz Santiago Martins César (Full-stack developer) and Xiao Zhang (Software Engineer). The Highest Good Network software is how we’ll be managing and objectively measuring our process for sustainable systems management through our social architecture, construction, production, and maintenance processes. This week, Shaofeng addressed a critical issue in the HGN Software Development project concerning the ’90 hours in one-week’ badge not being awarded correctly. He began by setting up a testing and debugging environment, including creating a video tutorial on using Postman for authorization and working closely with a colleague to obtain JWT tokens for testing. Shaofeng also assisted in onboarding teammates for badge testing, participated in a team meeting to discuss goals and task approaches, and made debugging efforts. By the week’s end, after another productive meeting to address code and git issues, he debugged the function and implemented a new method for awarding badges, significantly contributing to the project’s advancement. Xiao concentrated on enhancing the project’s efficiency and clarity by developing a function to manage the assignment of X hours within a single week, aiming to improve the codebase’s organization and readability. Meanwhile, Renan spent the week on professional development and project tasks, including watching a video on back-end testing techniques, learning new bug testing methods, and resolving issues causing a white screen in the HGN app. He verified logs in Azure, continued implementing disaster recovery measures within the Azure framework, made progress on bug fixes, and tackled task-related problems to smooth the coding process, making strides in adding new features to their project branch. See the Highest Good Society and Highest Good Network pages for more on how this relates to sustainable systems management. Look below for pictures of the team’s work.
BLUE STEEL SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT TEAM
The Blue Steel Team’s summary, covering their work on the Highest Good Network software, was managed by Nathan Hoffman (Software Engineer, Team Manager) and includes Jingyi Jia (Software Engineer), Tzu Ning “Leo” Chueh (Software Engineer), Swathy Jayaseelan (Software Engineer), and Xiao Wang (Software Engineer). The Highest Good Network software is how we’ll be managing and objectively measuring our process for sustainable systems management through our social architecture, construction, production, and maintenance processes. This week, Nathan completed a review of the permissions spreadsheet, addressing identified issues and enhancing accuracy. He provided valuable support to Jay in resolving build errors, ensuring seamless development progress. Additionally, Nathan validated permission functionality based on the spreadsheet, implementing essential changes. Through revisiting Jay’s pull requests, he requested necessary modifications and added a task to the bugs document regarding permission checks for User Management buttons. In parallel, he investigated Trello pricing, suggesting its consideration for efficient organization of the Bugs Doc due to its free tier offering unlimited users and tasks. Furthermore, he spent time to reviewing the team’s summaries and providing constructive feedback on pull requests. Jingyi made progress on the “Add Rehireable/Not Rehireable box to Profile page” task, focusing on both frontend and backend components. On the front end, Jingyi introduced a checkbox adjacent to the “active” icon to toggle the rehireable status, with a confirmation popup ensuring user intent. In the backend, modifications were made to the model schema to default the “isRehireable” status to true, with new endpoints and a controller function seamlessly integrating this feature. Swathy focused on understanding the project and worked on unit testing for the People Table Component within the Reports section, ensuring the correct display and functionality of key features. Swathy focused on understanding the project and testing the People Table Component, creating comprehensive test cases to verify various functionalities. Tzu Ning examined network requests, enhanced error handling, and scrutinized authentication roles and rendering logic for a seamless user experience. Lastly, Xiao Wang significantly contributed through pull requests, enhancing the application’s reliability and user experience with features like heartbeat support (PR #1995) and a stable web socket connection (PR #768). He addressed text format issues, visibility toggles, and privacy improvements in subsequent PRs, demonstrating a commitment to both functionality and security. See the Highest Good Society and Highest Good Network pages for more on how this relates to sustainable systems management. The collage below shows some of this 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 Anirudh Dutt (Software Developer), Nahiyan Ahmed (Full Stack Software Developer), Ramya Ramasamy (Software Engineer), Shantanu Kumar (Software Developer) and Tapan Pathak (Software Engineer). The Highest Good Network software is how we’ll be managing and objectively measuring our process for sustainable systems management through our social architecture, construction, production, and maintenance processes. Anirudh D completed the implementation of displaying the count of the final days on the leaderboard, receiving approval comments on his PRs. Additionally, he created a utility function for his previous PR to get the initials. Nahiyan addressed optimization needs for the project report page by documenting a new issue and proposed a solution to reduce backend requests during initialization, publishing Pull Request 2013, and resolving issues on previous Pull Requests, numbered 1987 and 1931. Tapan completed task 667, addressing the issue of “Fix Badge Assignment not assigning badges correctly,” and began rectifying the problem of “Creating a new role without required roleName and permissions not handled gracefully in UI.” Shantanu resolved a merge conflict related to his previous efforts in optimizing the submit button’s efficiency, providing support for Masasa in handling the scroll issue_II. Ramya focused on addressing bug 1905, wrapping up the unit test case of BioFunction, reviewing and managing the final reviews for 6 pull requests and 2 additional regular reviews, as well as updating a unit test case of another author who has left the team. Anirudh G reviewed tasks sent for review by teammates Shantanu, Sophie, Ramya, and Nahiyan, providing positive feedback on the work done and updating teammates about the task review process. He ensured all test cases passed for a particular component and prepared to raise a PR, finalized a set of unit test cases for another component, and continued writing final edge cases for yet another component. Additionally, he worked on writing unit test cases for the UserTeamProjectContainer component and participated in the weekly standup meeting, facilitating follow-ups with teammates on their weekly work progress. See the Highest Good Society and Highest Good Network pages for more on how this relates to sustainable systems management. The collage below shows some of this work.
EXPRESSERS SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT TEAM
The Expressers Team’s summary, covering their work on the Highest Good Network software, was managed by Demi Zayas (Full Stack Software Engineer) and includes Aishwarya Kalkundrikar (Full Stack Software Developer), Christy Guo (Software Engineer), Ilya Flaks (Software Engineer), Kevin Hinh (Software Engineer), Mohammad Abbas (Software Engineer), and Tareq Mia (Software Engineer). The Highest Good Network software is how we’ll be managing and objectively measuring our process for sustainable systems management through our social architecture, construction, production, and maintenance processes. Kevin focused on refining the BMdashboard timelog component, resolving a critical issue related to its functionality where the timer would cease to count when users minimized their browser or switched tabs. He identified the use of WebSockets in the existing timelog component, refactored his code, and established communication with the backend. Tareq helped with this sustainable systems management software as he reviewed and enhanced the map feature, documenting potential improvements, and reviewing a related pull request. He progressed to implementing the Reusables Single Update feature, completing frontend tasks, and transitioning to backend development. Christy focused on researching the integration of a D3 bar chart into the project’s reporting page and working on the frontend purchase form and backend routing components for the “Purchase Equipment” feature. Ilya finalized the “Consumables: Update Single” task, ensuring seamless integration with the existing system and addressing code quality with ESLint. He addressed a bug in another developer’s pull request. Aishwarya resolved an issue related to the failure to update existing records after submitting the purchase consumable form, attributing it to misconfigured mongoose/database settings. Mohammad helped with this sustainable systems management software as he focused on addressing a specific bug related to middle name querying functionality in the project’s member search bar, aiming to enable owners to search for a user using only their middle name. Demi focused on the 4.1.1 Tools List Default view, investing a significant amount of time in addressing a persistent bug affecting her progress. Demi also reviewed her teammates’ videos and code towards the end of the week, staying responsive to their requests throughout the workweek. See the Highest Good Society and Highest Good Network pages for more on how this relates to sustainable systems management. The collage below shows some of this work.
GIT-R-DONE SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT TEAM
The Git-R-Done Team’s summary, covering their work on the Highest Good Network software, was managed by Sai Deepak Dogiparthi (Software Developer) and includes Chris Chen (Software Engineer Intern), Miguelcloid Reniva (Software Developer), Nidhi Galgali (Software Developer), Rhea Wu (Software Engineer) and Shuhua Liu (Full-Stack Developer). The Highest Good Network software is how we’ll be managing and objectively measuring our process for sustainable systems management through our social architecture, construction, production, and maintenance processes. Deepak focused on reviewing comments posted on the pull requests raised last week, with particular attention given to PRs 1976 and 1986. Following this, he developed a new functionality for the equipment details page in the frontend. Miguel focused on the implementation of the dropdown menu box, encountering challenges regarding sizing across different screen sizes. He found a more effective approach to ensure consistency. Additionally, he resolved styling discrepancies between columns and adjusted spacing between the cancel and submit buttons to enhance user experience. Rhea helped with this sustainable systems management software as she advanced the latest pull request related to the tasks: Phase 2 – 7.2.1 Issue Schema and 7.1.2 New Issue Routing. Shuhua focused on addressing the issue of processing Core Team members’ additional hours, particularly when more than five infringements were assigned. Nidhi gained proficiency in utilizing mock data for unit tests and addressed an error encountered in the test cases. She resolved the issue with the test cases, which included verifying the presence of the header in the BMDashboard, ensuring the proper functionality of the Dropdown component, validating the display of an error message for the ‘Go to Project Dashboard’ button when no project is selected, and confirming the accurate presentation of the designated number of project summaries on the BMDashboard. See the Highest Good Society and Highest Good Network pages for more on how this relates to sustainable systems management. The collage below shows some of this work.
GRAPHIC DESIGN TEAM
The Graphic Design Team’s summary was managed by Ruiqi Liu (Administrative Assistant) and includes Ashlesha Navale (Graphic Designer) and Nancy Mónchez (Graphic Designer). Ashlesha created a Volunteer Announcement, developing the bio image and announcement image, while also updating web content for two volunteer announcements. Additionally, she produced five impactful Social Media Images and curated a collection of nature-based and theme-based background images for further content creation. Nancy contributed to the redesign of social network images to enhance visual appeal. She exhibited data organization skills while managing an Excel list and produced two high-quality biographies for the website. She also reviewed and implemented edits and corrections on images from weeks 16 and 17. See the Highest Good Society pages for more on how this relates to sustainable systems management. The collage below shows some of this work.
MOONFALL’S SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT TEAM
Moonfall Team’s summary, covering their work on the Highest Good Network software, was managed by Lu Wang (Software Engineer) and includes Abdelmounaim “Abdel” Lallouache (Software Developer), Cheng-Yun Chuang (Software Engineer), Haoji Bian (Software Engineer), Jiadong Zhang (Software Engineer) and Zubing Guo (Software Engineer). The Highest Good Network software is how we’ll be managing and objectively measuring our process for sustainable systems management through our social architecture, construction, production, and maintenance processes. Abdelmounaim completed the development of the new blue square scheduler, updated various dashboard modals, and resolved related issues while testing the changes. Cheng-Yun focused on implementing sorting buttons for recent edit projects, investigating code structure and sorting functionality across front-end and back-end repositories. Haoji made changes to the communication workflow within our platform. The email notification system was refined by removing certain reminders and introducing a prominent banner notification, urging users to select a profile picture from multiple options found on the website. Jiadong helped with this sustainable systems management software as he worked on updating the dashboard by replacing badges, enhancing backend functionality, and ensuring the accurate increment of badge counts for users, significantly improving the dashboard’s reliability. Lu focused on debugging and enhancing test coverage for critical components within the application, addressing various issues and developing test cases. Zubing wrapped up her work for ChatGPT integration, writing and recording to explain the issue encountered. See the Highest Good Society and Highest Good Network pages for more on how this relates to sustainable systems management. Look below for a collage of their work.
REACTONAUTS’ SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT TEAM
Reactonauts’ Team’s summary, covering their work on the Highest Good Network software, was managed by Masasa Thapelo (Software Engineer) and includes Changhao Li (Software Engineer), Peterson Rodrigues (Full-Stack MERN Stack Developer), Shengwei Peng (Software Engineer), Shiwani Rajagopalan (Software Engineer) and Vikram Badhan (Software Engineer). The Highest Good Network software is how we’ll be managing and objectively measuring our process for sustainable systems management through our social architecture, construction, production, and maintenance processes. Changhao worked on unit test development for the TimeEntryForm, addressing async issues and network errors, and attended the weekly team meeting. Peterson identified and resolved a bug in the ‘HGN Phase I Bugs and Needed Functionalities’ document, specifically addressing issues with the ‘Tasks and Timelogs’ card on the Dashboard. Shengwei helped with this sustainable systems management software as he completed development tasks, creating pull requests for ‘Jae’s account only editable by Jae’s related account – enhancement’ and ‘Finish NEW USER function, stop blue square from being added.’ He also enhanced features with detailed messages for invalid tokens. Shiwani focused on two tasks, continuing the UserPermissionsPopup unit test and creating five test cases for the RolePermissions component. Vikram focused on unit testing for WeeklySummaryOptions.jsx and ToggleSwitchContainer.jsx files, collaborating with the team to enhance overall performance and stability while discussing strategies for improving test coverage and testing procedures. See the Highest Good Society and Highest Good Network pages for more on how this relates to sustainable systems management. Look below for pictures of this work.
SKYE’S SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT TEAM
Skye’s summary, covering their work on the Highest Good Network software, was managed by Luis Arevalo (Front End Developer) and includes Jerry Ren (Full Stack Developer), John Mumbi (Developer), Roberto Contreras (Software Developer), Yao Wang (Software Engineer) and Zuhang Xu (Software Engineer). The Highest Good Network software is how we’ll be managing and objectively measuring our process for sustainable systems management through our social architecture, construction, production, and maintenance processes. Jerry engaged in various tasks including studying Redux component testing philosophy, identifying a bug in the NewRolePopUp component, and responding to comments on BE PR 665. He closed irrelevant FE PRs and continued working on the X-hours in X-weeks streak fix task. John enhanced the efficiency of the weekly reports page by completing tests to evaluate newly implemented functions, performing code cleanup, and establishing a tracking table for transparency. He also completed a follow-up on pull request 1908, enabling tracking of individuals with zero weekly hours for reporting purposes. Luis focused on implementing the drag and drop function for warning descriptions, demonstrating an example on a separate codebase before realizing it should be on a separate branch in the HGN codebase. Roberto addressed an open pull request concerning duplicate badge functionality, identified issues with frontend modifications causing discrepancies in badge counts, and collaborated with Luis on enhancing the warnings component. Yao focused on reviewing comments on PR 1895, testing bugs, and exploring new tasks. He also contributed to designing a new logic for detecting color status changes and worked on test PRs. Zuhang submitted PRs 1896 and 1940 for review, both of which were checked and merged with the latest development branch. See the Highest Good Society and Highest Good Network pages for more on how this relates to sustainable systems management. See the collage below for some of their work.
SOFTWARE PR REVIEW TEAM
The PR Review Team’s summary covering their work on the Highest Good Network software was managed by Olawunmi Ijisesan (Administrative and Management Support). The Highest Good Network software is a foundation of what we’ll be using to measure our results of sustainable systems management. This week’s active members of this team were: Aaron Persaud (Software Developer), Alex Brandt (Full Stack Developer), Bhuvan Dama (Full stack Developer), Carl Bebli (Software Developer), Clemar Nunes (Web Developer), Dhairya Mehta (Software Engineer), Diego Salas (Software Engineer), Gabriele Canova (Frontend Developer), KaiKane Lacno (Software Developer and Team Manager‹), Kurtis Ivey (Software Engineer), Malav Patel (Software developer), Meet Padhiar (Software Engineer), Navya Madiraju (Full Stack Developer), Nnamdi Ikenna-Obi (Software Engineer), Olga Yudkin (Software Engineer), Pratima Singh (Software Developer), Priyanka Sharma (Software Engineer), Raj Nada (Software Developer), Sarthak Jaiswal (Full stack Developer), Shengjie Mao (Software Engineer), Summit Kaushal (Backend Software Developer), Tim Kent (Full Stack Software Engineer), Wei-Hou Huang (Software Engineer), Xiaohan Meng (Software Engineer), Yaohong Xiang (Software Engineer), Yi Feng (Full-Stack Software Engineer), and Zijie “Cyril” Yu (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 will measure and assist in sustainable systems management in the Highest Good Network open source hub. The collage below shows a compilation of the work from this team.
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