One Community welcomes Xiaolai Li to the Administration Team as our newest Volunteer/Consultant!

Xiaolai has over 3 years of financial and risk analysis experience across vast project types. As a recent graduate of New York University’s Tandon School of Engineering, he possesses extensive experience with financial engineering and business analysis. With quantitative and analytical expertise and strong collaboration and communication skills, he has demonstrated success working in fast-paced environments and on complex projects requiring efficient and effective solutions to challenging problems. As a member of the One Community team, Xiaolai is assisting in developing the complete business plan, tracking and managing software teams’ weekly development work, and analyzing and improving the financial forecast for Highest Good Society developments.

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One Community welcomes Shuhua Liu to the Software Development Team as our newest Volunteer/Consultant!

Shuhua is a dedicated and innovative Full-Stack Developer with a passion for creating user-friendly websites. With a background in Mathematics and experience in Education, she developed a genuine interest in software engineering and providing solutions that solve real-life problems. Shuhua advanced her career by participating in the Hack Reactor immersive coding program. She excels in creative problem-solving and cross-functional collaborations, utilizing tools such as HTML, CSS, JavaScript, TypeScript, Next.js, React.js, and Node.js. As a member of the One Community team, Shuhua actively contributes to the development of the open-source Highest Good Network software by addressing bugs and implementing new features.

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Creating self-replicating patterns of positive change, One Community is dedicated to transforming the world through open sourcing and free-sharing sustainable approaches to food, energy, housing, education, for-profit and non-profit economic design, social architecture, fulfilled living, global stewardship practices, and more. Committed to “The Highest Good of All,” our all-volunteer team is pioneering a model that becomes a self-replicating global collaboration of teacher/demonstration hubs, regenerating our planet and creating a world that works for everyone.

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

OUR MAIN OPEN SOURCE HUBS

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

One Community’s physical location will forward this movement of self-replicating patterns of positive change as the first of many self-replicating teacher/demonstration communities, villages, and cities to be built around the world. This is the February 12th, 2024 edition (#569) of our weekly progress update detailing our team’s development and accomplishments:

Creating Self-replicating Patterns of Positive Change
One Community Progress Update #569

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HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING PROGRESS

One Community is creating self-replicating patterns of positive change 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 self-replicating patterns of positive change with Our Upcoming Crowdfunding Campaign
    • Learn about the different village models: 7 Sustainable Village Models as foundations of self-replicating patterns of positive change
    • Visit the open source self-replicating patterns of positive change portals for the first two: Earthbag Village OS Hub | Straw Bale Village OS Hub

This week, Abhishek Kadian (Architect) cleared out the check list by doing the Earthbag Village (Pod 1) 4 Dome Structure Roof layout in Rhino, and illustration work showing beams and column. Below are some demonstration images of his work.

DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER PROGRESS

One Community is creating self-replicating patterns of positive change through a Duplicable and Sustainable City Center that is LEED Platinum certified/Sustainable, can feed 200 people at a time, provide laundry for over 300 people, is beautiful, spacious, and saves resources, money, and space:

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

This week, Amiti Singh (Architectural Designer) advanced in the mood-boarding and cost analysis process for Room 7 in Duplicable City Center, focusing on integrating art deco furniture with colorful lighting to create a vibrant color palette. She gathered products in alignment with the design and measurements of the visualization. Moreover, Amiti visualized the renders for the older rooms based on feedback received during a team review. The collage below shows her work for the week.

Clarice Gaw Gonzalo (Architect) revised the feedback from last week, which involved swapping out some people and adding objects to the renders of the Duplicable City Center. Clarice focused on the pool area, where she created a green wall and gave it a 3-dimensional appearance by adding various plants with different colors. Additionally, she captured several angles of renders of the pool area and worked on the salad section of the kitchen area. You can see her renderings in the images below.

Julio Marín Bustillos (Mechanical Engineer) finalized the intricate task of designing City Center Hub Connector for all rows of the project. He ensured that each connector met the specifications and requirements of the overall structure. His work on the hub connectors is shown in the collage below.

Justin Varghese (Mechanical Engineer) worked on the structural FEA of the City Center Hub Connector, creating the meshing of the model. He ensured the proper mesh size and adjusted the size of the structural finite element analysis (FEA) mesh (finer mesh) until an acceptable level of accuracy was achieved within computational constraints. This will further be used to perform FEA simulation for the Hub Connector and help us determine which hub connector to choose for the final design. The Duplicable City Center is a foundation of how we’ll be creating self-replicating patterns of positive change. The collage below shows his work for the week.

HIGHEST GOOD FOOD PROGRESS

One Community is creating self-replicating patterns of positive change 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 food structures for self-replicating patterns of positive change: Hoop House Hub | Aquapini & Walipini Open Source Hub
    • See what we’ll be growing as examples of self-replicating patterns of positive change in food production: Gardens & Hoop Houses | Large-scale Structures | Food Forest | TA

This week, a core team member made progress on the Highest Good Food Tools and Equipment document by consolidating and condensing information on tools and equipment, including their names and photos, into a centralized location. He also sought feedback by emailing Hayley with comments and assigning her with the task of proofreading the complete food document.

Charles Gooley (Web Designer) focused on the development of the Vegan Rice Recipes page, creating recipes such as Fluffy Vegan Pancakes, Tomato Pasta Salad with Balsamic Vinaigrette and Sardines, Baked Potatoes and Green Peas, Spinach Salad with Butternut Squash, Roasted Potatoes and Cayenne Spiced Pecans, Braised Vegetables with Baked Salmon, Oven Baked Sweet Potato and Sauteed Vegetables, Three-Ingredient Pancakes, Chicken Bacon Pasta, Cabbage with Bacon and Onions, and Brown Rice Tofu and Cabbage Soup. Placeholder images were utilized for the PDF and completed recipe, awaiting final images. Comments on the Open Source DIY Earth Dam Design & Construction for Water Retention, Pond & Lake Creation were addressed, with corrections made, primarily focusing on adding “DIY Earth Dam” to the headings in the tables of contents. View the images for the food parts of this below.

Hayley Rosario (Sustainability Research Assistant) reviewed the Highest Good Food Tools and Equipment document, addressing formatting inconsistencies in the tools list by adding names. She supplemented the EDITs document with additional resources that were previously absent. Throughout this process, Hayley raised several inquiries and flagged specific items for further attention, leaving detailed comments and highlights for clarification. See her work in the collage below.

HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION PROGRESS

One Community is creating self-replicating patterns of positive change 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:

• Self-replicating patterns of positive change education program pverview: Education Open Source Hub
• How the self-replicating patterns of positive change education components work together: How to use the Education for Life Program
  
• Self-replicating patterns of positive change: Lesson Plans for Life – Lesson Plans How-to
• Self-replicating patterns of positive change: Foundations of Outstanding Leaders, Teachers, and Communicators
• Self-replicating patterns of positive change: Curriculum for Life
• Self-replicating patterns of positive change: Teaching Strategies for Life
• Self-replicating patterns of positive change: Learning Tools and Toys for Life
• Self-replicating patterns of positive change: 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 creating self-replicating patterns of positive change 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 self-replicating patterns of positive change overview: Highest Good Society
    • Learn about the model for self-replicating patterns of positive change covering fulfilled living and sharing: A Day in the Life
    • Learn about the self-replicating patterns of positive change 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 37 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 creating self-replicating patterns of positive change and how creating self-replicating patterns of positive change is a foundation of the bigger picture of everything One Community is doing. The pictures below show some of this work.

Another core team member worked on Highest Good Network PRs testing, confirming fixes for several PRs including Update Projects Page sorting PR#1812 & PR#693, Fix “Suggestions” Icon in Dashboard icons section (PR998), Add timelog icon/access to Task tab PR#1870, and Fix permission for edit tasks PR# 1742. However, issues persisted with PR#878 regarding missing shadows for OK and Cancel when viewing others’ Dashboards and PR#1471 for adding blue square scheduler list scheduled time off and their reasons, with formatting date issues. While Update Projects Page sorting was addressed (PR#1812 & PR#693), the option ‘g. 3RD PR: Add a sort button to the Members and Inventory heading’ remained unimplemented. She also addressed the New Max Personal Record award (PR#619) and resolved a query regarding badge display. She then set up the ‘Tanya-test Test1’ account for testing this PR as a core team member with a required time of 1 hour for further assessment. See the collage below to see their work for the week.

Aaron Wang (Fundraising Assistant) continued to help One Community with working on fundraising. Creating self-replicating patterns of positive change requires we get fully funded. Aaron researched organizations funded by Gordon Betty Moore and Michael R. Bloomberg. He documented the specifics of each donation, including the timing, the amount donated, and the identities of individuals involved from both the funding and receiving ends. 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 implemented necessary adjustments and supplemented the content with additional videos and images, particularly emphasizing aspects related to food and education. These videos will showcase the open-source components of One Community as the prototype for creating self-replicating patterns of positive change. You can view this work in the collage below.

Ray Lee (Digital Creator) helped this week by creating new images for the Highest Good Network app function that will be replacing how we send out our weekly newsletters sharing our progress creating self-replicating patterns of positive change. See the images below to view this work.

ADMINISTRATION TEAM

The Administration Team’s summary, covering their work administrating and managing most of One Community, was managed by Catherine Liu (Administrative and Analytics Assistant, Team Manager) and includes Camilla Okello (Administrative Assistant), Meenakshi Velayutham (Sustainability Associate), Olawunmi “Ola” Ijisesan (Administrative and Management Support), Ruiqi Liu (Administrative Assistant) and Xiaolai Li (Administrative Assistant). This week, Camilla emulated another administrator’s work, making necessary corrections and soliciting feedback. Catherine reviewed Admin, Blue Steel, Alpha teams, and individuals, organizing images and summaries in WordPress Editors, finalizing edits, and increasing SEO scores. Meenakshi checked the weekly summary page, reviewed cost analysis details for Earthbag Village development structures, and supported the integration of review feedback. She also reviewed web design formatting and began researching sustainable food. Ola focused on training, assessing delegated tasks, streamlining Admin responsibilities, and updating organizational documents. She also emphasized precision in tracking progress reports and ensured the submission of task images. Ruiqi completed review processes for multiple teams, provided feedback, created collage images, generated SEO keywords, and revised various tables based on feedback and requirements. Xiaolai revised summaries, organized images, and completed weekly reports. Additionally, he updated webpages, reviewed team member training processes, and created pivot tables for financial visualization, while also updating tables and charts for wind energy research. These are the managers helping us manage the current process of creating One Community as the prototype for creating self-replicating patterns of positive change. 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 Yongjian Pan (Software Engineer) and includes Shamim Rahman (Software Engineer) and Chengyan Wang (Software Engineer). The Highest Good Network software is how we’ll be managing and objectively measuring our process for creating self-replicating patterns of positive change through our social architecture, construction, production, and maintenance processes. This week, Shamim reviewed nine different pull requests with the following identifiers: PR#419, PR#1763, PR#935, PR#627, PR#1603, PR#731, PR#1905, PR#670, PR#1752. He tested the functionality associated with the PRs, providing comments along with screenshots and videos. PR#935, PR#1763, PR#1905, and PR#1603 were identified as not functioning as intended, and relevant screenshots were included in Dropbox for documentation purposes. Chengyan’s focus was on initiating and advancing the development of the “Reusables” feature, aimed at listing reusable items within the system. He also worked on resolving auto-refresh issues in the UpdateConsumablesBulkTable component, implementing a submit button disable feature to enhance user experience, and refining code in the UpdateConsumablesBulkTable component for increased efficiency. Yongjian worked on resolving compilation errors resulting from merge conflicts in his PR #826, which aimed to establish a new maximum personal award record badge. He focused on identifying and debugging errors caused by misplaced syntax and code from resolving merged conflicts from different developers in his team. See the Highest Good Society and Highest Good Network pages for more on how this relates to creating self-replicating patterns of positive change. View some of this work in the collage below.

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 Shiqing Pan (Full-Stack Software Developer) and Xiao Wang (Software Engineer). The Highest Good Network software is how we’ll be managing and objectively measuring our process for creating self-replicating patterns of positive change through our social architecture, construction, production, and maintenance processes. Nathan had a review for the team, aiming to delegate this responsibility to Shiqing in the future. He assigned tasks to team members Hector and Shiqing within the HGN framework. Additionally, Nathan examined several PRs submitted by Jae and provided constructive feedback. To address a specific concern, Nathan investigated the “See Project Management Tab” permission for Jae, as conflicting information posed a challenge in locating this permission. Simultaneously, Xiao concentrated on resolving a bug (#1932) in the task tab, which caused a content overflow and the appearance of a horizontal scrollbar when the time entry filter was activated. Within the same pull request, he addressed an issue with the inconsistent width of the color bar. Xiao also spent some time troubleshooting a separate issue preventing password changes. Shiqing addressed a significant bug affecting users’ ability to view tasks, particularly those without team affiliations. Her analysis of the current system, with a specific focus on the usersWithTasks state, led to modifications in both backend and frontend components. See the Highest Good Society and Highest Good Network pages for more on how this relates to creating self-replicating patterns of positive change. The collage below shows some of this work.

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One Community welcomes KaiKane Lacno to the Software Development Team as our newest Volunteer/Consultant!

KaiKane “Kai” has embraced a journey in coding that spans over a year. His evolution from a novice in coding to a teaching assistant and now a valuable contributor to One Community showcases his passion for problem-solving and continuous learning within the industry. During his contributions, Kai has played a role in the pull review team, reviewing fellow developers’ code. He has also developed and created the Lesson form, both on the front end and back end and helped others when needed. Currently, as a Highest Good Network software Team Manager, Kai leads a small team responsible for creating the front-end pages and backend components of the new Building Management Dashboard. Kai is enthusiastic about the upcoming challenges and collaborative projects, looking forward to making meaningful contributions and nurturing growth within the One Community development team.

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One Community welcomes Shengwei Peng to the Software Development Team as our newest Volunteer/Consultant!

Shengwei is a Full Stack Software Engineer with over 4 years of experience in modern web application development, specializing in creating cloud-native software systems. He firmly believes in tackling challenging problems and venturing beyond one’s comfort zone as integral to personal and professional growth. Shengwei takes great pleasure in contributing innovative ideas to enhance both user experience and technical performance in the products he works on. As a valued member of the One Community team, Shengwei has played a pivotal role in developing new features and optimizing performance for the Highest Good Network software.

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One Community is facilitating eco-cooperatives making a difference through collaborative action. Our all-volunteer team is dedicated to creating a sustainable blueprint that transcends borders. By fostering global collaboration, we’re not just envisioning change; we’re actively making it happen. The heart of our mission lies in “The Highest Good of All“, driving us to pioneer and create tools, tutorials, and DIY instructions for sustainable approaches to food, energy, housing, education, for-profit and non-profit economic design, social architecture, fulfilled living, global stewardship practices, and more. Through open sourcing and free-sharing all of these, our model is designed as a catalyst for eco-cooperatives, forming a global network of teacher/demonstration hubs working towards a world that works for everyone.

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

OUR MAIN OPEN SOURCE HUBS

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

One Community’s physical location will forward this movement of eco-cooperatives making a difference as the first of many self-replicating teacher/demonstration communities, villages, and cities to be built around the world. This is the February 5th, 2024 edition (#568) of our weekly progress update detailing our team’s development and accomplishments:

Eco-cooperatives Making a Difference
One Community Progress Update #568

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HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING PROGRESS

One Community is facilitating eco-cooperatives making a difference 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 eco-cooperatives making a difference with 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, Abhishek Kadian (Architect) worked on the research for the Earthbag Village (Pod 1) 4 Dome Structure Roof, searching for relevant data on the One Community website related to the project. Abhishek made some changes to the Revit file based on the feedback received in the last work submission and modified the Rhino Earthbag laying work for the structure. See an idea of his work in the collage below.

DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER PROGRESS

One Community is creating self-replicating patterns of positive change through a Duplicable and Sustainable City Center that is LEED Platinum certified/Sustainable, can feed 200 people at a time, provide laundry for over 300 people, is beautiful, spacious, and saves resources, money, and space:

• • • Learn about this building and its function as part of eco-cooperatives making a difference: Duplicable City Center Open Source Hub

This week, Amiti Singh (Architectural Designer) reviewed the 3D renders she generated for Room 7 in the Duplicable City Center, initially centered around a Neo-futuristic aesthetic. The renders integrated art deco-style furniture and futuristic lighting, with strategic adjustments to the color palette. Amiti evaluated the furniture and material palettes, applying a cost analysis approach to guide decision-making. Subsequently, she used this analysis to create an initial mood board for the room, presented through slides. The collage below shows her work for the week.

Clarice Gaw Gonzalo (Architect) responded to feedback from the previous week by revising existing renders of the Duplicable City Center. In particular, she focused on transforming the kitchen area into a buffet-style space, enhancing the overall ambiance. She worked on updating pool textures and adjusting pool opacity to unveil stairs beneath. Additionally, Clarice ensured clothing consistency across individuals in certain scenes, aligning their attire with a specific season. She continued her work on another room, populating it with a diverse range of people to enhance realism and inclusivity. You can see her renderings in the images below.

Julio Marín Bustillos (Mechanical Engineer) completed all City Center hub connectors for the sixth row. With this task concluded, he transitioned to begin work on the hub connectors for the 7th row. His work on the hub connectors is shown in the collage below.

Justin Varghese (Mechanical Engineer) worked on creating constraints and manual contacts (bonded, separation, etc.) for the structural finite element analysis (FEA) of the City Center Hub Connector. The focus was on ensuring the proper degree of freedom for each solid/component. These defined parameters will be used for the upcoming FEA simulation of the Hub Connector, assisting in the selection of the final hub connector design. The Duplicable City Center is a foundation of how we’ll demonstrate eco-cooperatives making a difference. The collage below shows his work on hub connectors for the week.

HIGHEST GOOD FOOD PROGRESS

One Community is facilitating eco-cooperatives making a difference 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 eco-cooperatives making a difference food structures: Hoop House Hub | Aquapini & Walipini Open Source Hub
    • See what our eco-cooperatives making a difference will be growing: Gardens & Hoop Houses | Large-scale Structures | Food Forest | TA

This week, a core team member made progress on the Highest Good Food Tools and Equipment project, collaborating with Hayley via two phone calls. Their focus was adapting the Earthbag Village format to the specific needs of Highest Good Food. The Food Infrastructure Comprehensive Cost Analysis Spreadsheet served as a valuable resource, aiding in the organization and segmentation of the tool lists. See the collage below for an idea of this work.

Charles Gooley (Web Designer) focused on the development of the Vegan Rice Recipes page. He created a variety of recipes, including Crispy Spanish Potatoes, Fried Radishes and Turnips with Bacon, Eggs and Black Beans, Quinoa Shakshuka, Sweet Potatoes and Collard Greens with BBQ Meatloaf, Roasted Sweet Potato, Wilted Garlic Kale, Poached Egg and Almonds, Brown Rice with Stir-Fried Chicken and Broccoli, Vegetable Quinoa Muffins, Garlic Brussels Sprouts Potatoes and Baked Tofu, One Pan Potato and Portuguese Chicken, Farfalle/Bowtie Herb Pasta and Broccoli with Chicken Thighs, Black Bean, Tofu and Avocado Rice Bowl, and Scallion Hummus Pasta with Chicken Thighs. To enhance the visual appeal of the page, placeholder images were temporarily utilized for the PDF and completed recipe, with plans to replace them with final images once they become available. Food is a significant part of how One Community will demonstrate eco-cooperatives making a difference. Check out the collage below to see some of the recipes he created.

HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION PROGRESS

One Community is facilitating eco-cooperatives making a difference 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:

• Eco-cooperatives making a difference education overview: Education Open Source Hub
• How the eco-cooperatives making a difference education components work together: How to use the Education for Life Program
  
• Eco-cooperatives making a difference: Lesson Plans for Life – Lesson Plans How-to
• Eco-cooperatives making a difference: Foundations of Outstanding Leaders, Teachers, and Communicators
• Eco-cooperatives making a difference: Education Curriculum for Life
• Eco-cooperatives making a difference: Education Teaching Strategies for Life
• Eco-cooperatives making a difference: Education Learning Tools and Toys for Life
• Eco-cooperatives making a difference: Education 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 facilitating eco-cooperatives making a difference 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 eco-cooperatives making a difference model for fulfilled living and sharing: A Day in the Life
    • Learn about the eco-cooperatives making a difference 4 economic models: RBE | For-profit | Non-profit | Entrepreneurship
    • Learn about our open source eco-cooperatives making a difference collaboration and management software: The Highest Good Network

This week, the core team completed 53 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 eco-cooperatives making a difference and how eco-cooperatives making a difference is a foundation of the bigger picture of everything One Community is doing. The pictures below show some of this work.

Another core team member worked on Highest Good Network PRs testing, confirming the resolution of several items, including making non-editable fields obvious when viewing tasks for classes that lack editing permissions (PR#1745), implementing a floating and dismissible team notification modal (PR#1575), differentiating Personal Max Badge in the New Badges Earned section (PR#1894), correcting dates for the working week, validating the Weekly Committed Hours during user setup (PR#1906), ensuring the User Profile Page functions properly when resized under 1025px wide (PR#1906), and improving the efficiency of the Team Management page while fixing the active/inactive dot (related to PR#1760). They addressed a bug related to multiple entries in reports for a badge entered only once, responded to a volunteer regarding the inability to test PR#545 due to missing permissions, and organized a reported bug into the correct section with appropriate formatting, specifically related to sorting searched users by the Active/Inactive column. See the collage below to see their work for the week.

Cody Media Productions (Video Editing Company) continued creating a new version of the background video for the weekly progress update YouTube videos. They focused on the production of a rough cut for the introductory video. The team incorporated video and images specifically the housing, to integrate with the accompanying music. These videos will showcase the open-source components of One Community as the prototype for eco-cooperatives making a difference. You can view this work in the collage below.

ADMINISTRATION TEAM

The Administration Team’s summary, covering their work administrating and managing most of One Community, was managed by Catherine Liu (Administrative and Analytics Assistant, Team Manager) and includes Camilla Okello (Administrative Assistant), Meenakshi Velayutham (Sustainability Associate), Olawunmi “Ola” Ijisesan (Administrative and Management Support), Ruiqi Liu (Administrative Assistant) and Xiaolai Li (Administrative Assistant). This week, Camilla finalized her training and refined collages by using GIMP to resize them for web integration. Catherine reviewed multiple teams and individual members, organizing materials in WordPress Editors, finalizing edits, and increasing SEO scores for specific pages. Meenakshi continued administrative tasks, reviewing webpage content, managing announcements, and analyzing cost spreadsheets for integration requests. Ola completed tasks guiding a trainee, familiarizing herself with video tutorials, updating team tables, and addressing PR team feedback. Ruiqi completed reviews for multiple teams, created collages, integrated SEO keywords, and updated cost analysis spreadsheets, expanding the analysis scope. Xiaolai edited and submitted weekly reports, integrated feedback into financial spreadsheets, and improved business plan presentations with updated tables and charts. These are the managers helping us manage the current process of creating One Community as the prototype for eco-cooperatives making a difference. You can see the work for the team in the image below.

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 Xiao Wang (Software Engineer). The Highest Good Network software is a foundation of what we’ll be using to measure eco-cooperatives making a difference. Nathan worked on updating the permissions spreadsheet and responding to Slack messages regarding reviewed PRs. He investigated the continuous downtime of the site following the surge outage, eliminating Azure as the root cause and seeking a solution for the surge outage problem. Nathan also addressed a bug associated with the weekly summary not submitting. In parallel, Xiao submitted three pull requests: PR#1902 introduced a one-day filter for displaying time entries within the same day, PR#730 addressed a backend inconsistency in profile picture size validation to align with the front, and PR#1911 provided a crucial hotfix to ensure consistency between logged time entries and the actual timer time. Xiao also extended support to teammates Shereen and Mohammad in setting up their development environments and collaborated with Jae to identify and address issues related to PR#1909. See the Highest Good Society and Highest Good Network pages for more on how this relates to eco-cooperatives making a difference. The collage below shows some of this work. The collage below shows some of this work.

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One Community welcomes Sucheta Mukherjee to the Software Development Team as our newest Volunteer/Consultant!

With a diverse background and looking for her first break in the industry, Sucheta started as a self-taught front-end developer and later graduated from Southern Methodist University’s Full Stack Coding Bootcamp. With expertise in a wide range of technologies, including HTML, CSS, JavaScript, and React on the front-end, and Node, Express, MySQL, MongoDB, GraphQL, Apollo Server, and Apollo Client on the back-end, Sucheta is committed to continuous learning and development. She undertakes challenging projects, actively contributes to innovative solutions, and believes that success in web development requires a combination of technical skills, a curious mind, and adaptability. Sucheta is enthusiastic about tackling new challenges and exploring uncharted territories, and she welcomes opportunities for connection and collaboration. As a member of the One Community team, Sucheta has helped with debugging and new functionality for the Highest Good Network software.

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In today’s interconnected world, solutioneering utopia is not just a distant dream but a tangible possibility, thanks to the power of global collaboration. One Community, driven by an all-volunteer team, is at the forefront of this transformative movement. By harnessing the collective wisdom and diverse skill sets from around the globe, we are breaking down traditional barriers in the pursuit of sustainable solutions. Our model, created for “The Highest Good of All“, is designed to be open source and free-shared, inviting collaboration on a scale never seen before. Through this united effort, we’re not just imagining utopia; we’re actively building open source and adaptable versions of it, demonstrating that a world that works for everyone is within our grasp through shared innovation and global stewardship practices.

• 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 for solutioneering utopia as the first of many self-replicating teacher/demonstration communities, villages, and cities to be built around the world. This is the January 29th, 2024 edition (#567) of our weekly progress update detailing our team’s development and accomplishments:

Solutioneering Utopia
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HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING PROGRESS

One Community is solutioneering utopia 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 solutioneering utopia with 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, Abhishek Kadian (Architect) focused on fixing the Revit file of the Earthbag Village (Pod 1) 4 Dome Structure based on the latest comments. Additionally, he worked on the single-room structure within the 4 Dome setup, emphasizing Earthbag’s layout and composition in the showcase. He created some illustrations of a single structure of 4 domes, which are shown in the collage below.

DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER PROGRESS

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

• • • Learn about this building and its relation to solutioneering utopia here: Duplicable City Center Open Source Hub

This week, Amiti Singh (Architectural Designer) advanced the visualization process for Room 7 in the Duplicable City Center, focusing on finalizing the lighting to emphasize a futuristic art deco style. This involved integrating art deco furniture with vibrant lighting to construct a lively color palette. She carried out post-processing on the design, solidifying the initial material, color, texture, and lighting palette. In addition to her work on Room 7, Amiti also undertook the visualization of the bathroom design for the same room. Her beautiful renderings of Room 7 are shown below.

Clarice Gaw Gonzalo focused on enhancing the render of the Duplicable City Center by introducing realistic elements and addressing various aspects. In the pool area, she added people engaging in activities like swimming and lounging while addressing texture issues. Clarice also spent time populating the garden area with families participating in outdoor activities such as biking and skating. Within the kitchen, she improved textures, incorporated pots, pans, and kitchen equipment for a more authentic look, and installed shelving in the dry storage space to enhance organization and functionality. Her rendering work for the week is shown in the collage below.

HIGHEST GOOD FOOD PROGRESS

One Community is solutioneering utopia 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 solutioneering utopia food 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, a core team member collaborated with Hayley on finalizing tool lists for Highest Good Food through a phone call, then transitioned to discussions with Jae on formatting these lists based on the Earthbag Village Tools and Materials inventory. Separately, they researched comparing the nutritional qualities of sheep milk to cow and goat milk, emphasizing its advantages. To further explore its potential, they documented a step-by-step recipe for cheese production using both sheep and goat milk. See the collage below for a glance of their work.

Charles Gooley (Web Designer) began the Vegan Rice Recipes page, focusing on the creation of four distinct recipes: Scrambled Eggs with Spinach and Mozzarella, Spicy Spaghetti Squash and Lemon Chicken Thighs, Classic Spaghetti and Vegan Meatballs, and Crispy Spanish Potatoes, Fried Radishes and Turnips with Bacon, Eggs, and Black Beans. Utilizing placeholder images that will be substituted with final versions upon availability, he sourced ingredient lists from the Master Recipe and 3 Day Menu Blocks document, while the instructions were extracted from the Transition Kitchen Recipe Build Out spreadsheet. Each recipe incorporates a hyperlink directing to the corresponding tab within the spreadsheet. See the recipes he created in the images below.

Hayley Rosario (Sustainability Research Assistant) focused on the conversion of the previous Earthbag Village document into the Highest Good Food page. Her primary tasks involved copying and pasting links that were on the EDITs doc onto a separate document for review to determine their relevance for inclusion in the resources section. Additionally, she addressed minor font and link issues, ensuring consistent formatting throughout the EDITs document. Hayley also refined the paragraph concerning schools. See her work in the collage below.

HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION PROGRESS

One Community is solutioneering utopia 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:

• Solutioneering utopia education program overview: Education Open Source Hub
• How the components work together: How to use the Education for Life Program
  
• Solutioneering utopia education: Lesson Plans for Life – Lesson Plans How-to
• Solutioneering utopia education: Foundations of Outstanding Leaders, Teachers, and Communicators
• Solutioneering utopia education: Curriculum for Life
• Solutioneering utopia education: Teaching Strategies for Life
• Solutioneering utopia education: Learning Tools and Toys for Life
• Solutioneering utopia education: 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 solutioneering utopia 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 solutioneering utopia overview: Highest Good Society
    • Learn about the model for fulfilled living and sharing as we’re solutioneering utopia: A Day in the Life
    • Learn about the 4 solutioneering utopia economic models: RBE | For-profit | Non-profit | Entrepreneurship
    • Learn about our open source solutioneering utopia community collaboration and management software: The Highest Good Network

This week, the core team completed 54 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 solutioneering utopia and how solutioneering utopia is a foundation of the bigger picture of everything One Community is doing. The pictures below show some of this work.

Another core team member worked on HGN PRs testing, confirming the fixed PRs: PR1806 and PR1845. However, the non-fixed PRs include PR#1745 and the issue of new active people entered into the system by the manager not being shown on the map. They also checked on PR#1575. Furthermore, the core team reported two new bugs: one related to the search functionality not displaying users based on the selected option from the ‘Show’ dropdown list, and the other highlighting the need for validation of the Weekly Committed Hours field during the user setup process, preventing a value lower than 0 hours. This same team member also reviewed the latest Murphy Bed Assembly Instructions pdf document, enhancing it by adding more detailed information for two comments related to images for screws used in the assembly pictures. The images below show this member’s work for the week.

Cody Media Productions (Video Editing Company) collaborated with One Community. They focused on advancing the intro video project by initiating the editing process. The worked on refining the initial seconds of the video. Background music suitable for the intro was identified and incorporated. Additionally, the team organized video content into categorized folders within Adobe Premiere. These videos will showcase the open-source components we’re solutioneering utopia with. You can view this work in the collage below.

Jin Hua (Website, AdWords, and Analytics Administrator) worked on helping with analyzing our web traffic, looking into SEO solutions, and helping us come up with an improved in-house SEO plan. See below for images related to this.

Vishvesh Sheoran (Artificial Intelligence Specialist) elevated the SEO performance of blog posts featured on the One Community website. The focus was on key SEO terms like “solutioneering utopia”. Vishvesh implemented targeted SEO improvements, surpassing the 80 mark for around seven posts on the live main site of One Community. He achieved results by elevating the SEO scores of select posts to surpass 90. In tandem, Vishvesh tested Table of Content plugins for WordPress websites, enhancing the platform’s navigational features. Additionally, he increased the SEO scores of other posts by refining and optimizing their content, to enhance the live site’s overall SEO landscape. See the Highest Good Society page for more on how all this relates to solutioneering utopia. See the work in the image below.

ADMINISTRATION TEAM

The Administration Team’s summary, covering their work administrating and managing most of One Community, was managed by Catherine Liu (Administrative and Analytics Assistant, Team Manager) and includes Alyx Parr (Senior Support Specialist), Meenakshi Velayutham (Sustainability Associate), Olawunmi “Ola” Ijisesan (Administrative and Management Support), Ruiqi Liu (Administrative Assistant) and Xiaolai Li (Administrative Assistant). This week, Alyx focused on refining blog content, organizing sentiment words, and enhancing SEO for a specific page. She also contributed to sections B and C for power words within Rank Math, besides reviewing a website for completion. Meenakshi continued administrative tasks by reviewing weekly summaries, maintaining bio announcements tracking, reviewing cost analysis data for City Centre Interior Rooms, and editing the DIY dam webpage for content clarity and formatting fixes. Ola oversaw PR Review teams, reviewed other team member’s work, expanded the PR Feedback table, integrated new members into tracking spreadsheets, and organized her workspace. Ruiqi completed review processes for various teams, created collage images, incorporated SEO keywords into WordPress, updated web pages, and modified spreadsheets based on feedback. Xiaolai finalized weekly reports and ratings, edited solar energy project cost analysis, organized cost analysis tables, and reviewed recipes and ingredient costs for a transition kitchen. These are the managers helping us manage the current process of creating One Community, one purpose of which is solutioneering utopia. See the Highest Good Society page for more on how all this relates to solutioneering utopia. 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 Carl Bebli (Software Engineer, Team Manager) and includes Yongjian Pan (Software Engineer). The Highest Good Network software is how we’ll be solutioneering utopia through our social architecture, construction, production, and maintenance processes. This week, Carl took charge of incorporating administrative details into email notifications sent to Jae and volunteers following the issuance of a blueSquare. During testing of the assignBlueSquareWhenTimeNotMet function and its variables, he identified a discrepancy in the description field of received data and informed Jae. Investigation revealed a pending pull request important for task completion awaiting merging. Carl also facilitated a weekly team meeting, welcoming new members and assessing multiple pull requests, offering constructive feedback on items numbered #1851, #1875, and #1876. Meanwhile, helping with this tool for solutioneering utopia, Yongjian investigated type errors, failed-to-load resource errors, and reference errors in the console log associated with his pull request, PR #842. These issues hindered the application’s functionality, with preliminary analysis suggesting a connection to the useState functions. Throughout the week, Yongjian diagnosed these errors, aiming for an understanding of underlying issues within the codebase. See the Highest Good Society and Highest Good Network pages for more on how this relates to solutioneering utopia. View some of this work in the collage below.

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 Haohui Lin (Software Engineer), and Xiao Wang (Software Engineer). The Highest Good Network software is how we’ll be measuring progress toward solutioneering utopia through our social architecture, construction, production, and maintenance processes. Nathan began by investigating an issue concerning time not updating, which resulted in notification display problems due to JavaScript caching the date, hindering the use of more recent dates and times when manually changed. He reviewed multiple PRs focusing on permissions, engaged in further permissions PR reviews, and held a clarifying call with Jay. Nathan initiated PR 1889, introduced a unit testing utility, and examined beta logs posted by Jae on Slack, identifying them as HTTP request logs. Haohui familiarized himself with the app’s features and reviewed pull requests, specifically PR#1883, 1828, 1829, 1832, 1876, 1875, and 1843. Meanwhile, Xiao submitted three PRs addressing identified bugs, with PR 1882 and PR 722 resolving an issue related to the incorrect display of logged hours on the single task page when accessed from the TeamMemberTasks tab, while PR 1884 tackled a bug where volunteers were unable to modify time when adding intangible time. See the Highest Good Society and Highest Good Network pages for more on how this relates to solutioneering utopia. The collage below shows some of this work.

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One Community welcomes Shiwani Rajagopalan to the Software Team as our newest Volunteer / Consultant!

Shiwani is a recent graduate from Indiana University Bloomington. Passionate about full-stack development, she brings hands-on experience with technologies such as Node.js, React, MongoDB, Express.js, Redux, Flask. She has demonstrated success working in fast-paced environments and on complex projects requiring efficient and effective solutions to challenging problems. As a member of the One Community team, Shiwani has helped the Highest Good Network software team by introducing new features, identifying and addressing critical bugs, enhancing overall code quality, and actively participating in code reviews.

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One Community welcomes Catherine Liu to the Administration and Analytics Team as our newest Volunteer/Consultant!

Catherine has almost 3 years of work experience in finance and market research firms with functions as trading operations and customer success. With a bachelor’s degree in finance and a master’s degree in applied analytics, she demonstrated her strong abilities in problem-solving and data analysis. She enjoyed working in a fast-paced environment, solving complex client inquiries, and helping create efficiency in workflow. She would like to contribute more to sustainability and is always interested in impact investment. As a member of the One Community team, Catherine helped with weekly updates of the Weekly Updates Blog and management of the ads campaign.

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