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.

SOFTWARE PR REVIEW TEAM

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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
One Community Progress Update #567

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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.

SOFTWARE PR REVIEW TEAM

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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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One Community welcomes Yixiao Jiang to the Software Team as our newest Volunteer/Consultant!

Yixiao has many experience with web development, with a particular emphasis on front-end projects. Her portfolio showcases a range of diverse and innovative web applications, reflecting her deep understanding of user interface design and user experience principles. Yixiao’s work not only reflects her technical aspect skills but also her belief in creating user-centric and intuitive interfaces. This approach underlines her contributions to the field, as she consistently seeks to blend aesthetic appeal with practical performance in her web applications. As a member of the One Community Software team, Yixiao has helped develop, maintain and test the Highest Good Network software.

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One Community welcomes Changhao Li to the Software Development Team as our newest Volunteer/Consultant!

Changhao is a recent graduate from Tufts University, majoring in Computer Science. He has experience in full-stack web development and machine learning, specifically in graph theory. Changhao is skilled in React, JavaScript, Node.js, HTML, CSS, MongoDB, and SQL. He believes that the combination of technology and humanity could bring a beneficial impact to the world. As a member of the One Community team, Changhao is contributing to the development of the Highest Good Network software by addressing bugs and implementing unit tests.

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One Community is demonstrating sustainability as a path to a more luxurious life; spearheading sustainable approaches across 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 model evolves sustainability, regenerates our planet, and champions fulfilled living. Every aspect of our work, from global stewardship practices to open sourcing and free-sharing, is geared towards creating a world that works for everyone. As we continue to pioneer this journey, our goal is a global collaboration of teacher/demonstration hubs, working together to create the thriving and sustainable future we know is possible.

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

OUR MAIN OPEN SOURCE HUBS

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

One Community’s physical location will forward this movement as the first of many self-replicating teacher/demonstration communities, villages, and cities to be built around the world. This is the January 22nd, 2024 edition (#566) of our weekly progress update detailing our team’s development and accomplishments:

Sustainability as a Path to a More Luxurious Life
One Community Progress Update #566

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HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING PROGRESS

One Community is demonstrating sustainability as a path to a more luxurious life 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 sustainability as a path to a more luxurious life through: Our Upcoming Crowdfunding Campaign
    • Learn about sustainability as a path to a more luxurious life through 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) completed the Revit model, along with the nearly finished roof section details for individual blocks, including the Dome structure of Earthbag Village (Pod 1) and the Flat roof surface for the gathering space composed of wooden joists. The section cut has already been executed; it just requires the addition of a few more details. Check out the collage below to see his models.

Charles Gooley (Web Designer) focused on the Resources section and Tables of Contents in the Open Source DIY Earth Dam and construction for the Water Retention, Pond, and Lake Creation, etc. page. The page has been finalized and is now ready for review. Following this completion, attention shifted to addressing comments on the Most Sustainable Doors and Door Companies page, primarily addressing typographical errors in the mouseover title text. Subsequently, efforts continued on reviewing comments related to the Water Recycling Net-Zero Bathroom page. The majority of these comments were related to grammatical and typographical errors. Two comments required clarification, involving the correction of headings. Adjustments were made, including converting some h3 headings to h2, changing h6 to h3, and transforming certain paragraph underlined headings to h3 (capitalized and not underlined). We see readily available water and recreational water features as a big part of sustainability as a path to a more luxurious life. See the images below for an idea of his work completing these web pages.

DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER PROGRESS

One Community is demonstrating sustainability as a path to a more luxurious life 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 supporting sustainability as a path to a more luxurious life: Duplicable City Center Open Source Hub

This week, Amiti Singh (Architectural Designer) progressed in the design process for Room 7 in Duplicable City Center. She continued with the finalized theme, emphasizing a futuristic art deco style by integrating art deco furniture with futuristic lighting to create a vibrant color palette. She detailed the 3D model, establishing the initial material, color, texture, and lighting palette. Additionally, Amiti worked on the bathroom design for Room 7. The Duplicable City Center is a foundation of how we’ll demonstrate sustainability as a path to a more luxurious life. Check out her renderings of Room 7 in the collage below.

Julio Marín Bustillos (Mechanical Engineer) completed all City Center hub connector for the fifth row, encompassing the finalization of the third and fourth variations. This design work ensures the structural integrity and functionality of the connectors for this particular section. Julio wrapped up the design of the first variation of hub connectors for the sixth row. He also began the design process for the second variation of hub connectors for the sixth row. The Duplicable City Center is a foundation of how we’ll demonstrate sustainability as a path to a more luxurious life. The images below show Julio’s renderings of the 5th row hub connectors.

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 sustainability as a path to a more luxurious life. The collage below shows his work on hub connectors for the week.

HIGHEST GOOD FOOD PROGRESS

One Community is demonstrating sustainability as a path to a more luxurious life 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 sustainability as a path to a more luxurious life through the structures: Hoop House Hub | Aquapini & Walipini Open Source Hub
    • See what we’ll be growing and how it relates to sustainability as a path to a more luxurious life through: Gardens & Hoop Houses | Large-scale Structures | Food Forest | TA

This week, a core team member continued working through the Highest Good Food Edits doc and reviewed comments of all sections of Pioneer arrivals. One Community’s idea of sustainability as a path to a more luxurious life includes healthier, more delicious and more diverse food. Please see the images below for a view of what they worked on this week.

Hayley Rosario (Sustainability Research Assistant) completed the rough draft for the three-person garden tools list and organized the EDITs document and original Highest Good Food document into folders. The garden tools list involved the addition of images, text, and formatting information to the specified document. One Community’s idea of sustainability as a path to a more luxurious life includes healthier, more delicious and more diverse food. Check out the images below for an idea of her work on this Highest Good Food component.

HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION PROGRESS

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

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

• Program Overview: Education Open Source Hub
• How sustainability as a path to a more luxurious life integrates education: How to use the Education for Life Program
  
• How sustainability as a path to a more luxurious life includes lessons: Lesson Plans for Life – Lesson Plans How-to
• How sustainability as a path to a more luxurious life leadership: 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 demonstrating sustainability as a path to a more luxurious life 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, and social sustainability as a path to a more luxurious life: Highest Good Society
    • Learn about sustainability as a path to a more luxurious life through fulfilled living and sharing: A Day in the Life
    • Learn about sustainability as a path to a more luxurious life through 4 sustainable 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 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 sustainability as a path to a more luxurious life and how sustainability as a path to a more luxurious life 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 engaged in Highest Good Network PR testing, confirming several fixed PRs, including #1827 and #1819+700. However, PR #545+1336, aimed at custom permissions in the project management tab, remained unresolved as the volunteer account could not access the “Other Links” button and the associated Projects options despite being granted permissions by the owner. Additionally, they provided an additional image for a previously reported bug concerning incorrect dates in the working week for Time log entries. The core team member further investigated the ability of a Volunteer account to update the Timelog of an Owner user, recording a video to document the findings. The Highest Good Network software is how we’ll be measuring progress toward sustainability as a path to a more luxurious life through our social architecture, construction, production, and maintenance processes. They also reviewed the Murphy Bed Assemble Instructions pdf document, resolving 13 fixed issues and enhancing two comments regarding the secure attachment of parts to the wall. See the collage below for an idea of this work.

Aaron Wang (Fundraising Assistant) continued to help One Community with working on fundraising. Demonstrating sustainability as a path to a more luxurious life requires we get fully funded. Aaron refined his research on organizations Leonardo DiCaprio funded, delving into each donation’s specifics. He gathered details including the timing, amount of each donation, and the identities of individuals involved from the organizations receiving funding. This investigation is aimed at facilitating a connection with Leonardo DiCaprio by looking into his relationship to the relevant people linked to these donations. You can view this work in the collage below.

Cody Media Productions (Video Editing Company) started collaboration with One Community. They acknowledged and utilized the General Onboarding Checklist provided for a smooth start. Then they reviewed the checklist to ensure all necessary preparations were in place. Cody Media Productions also reviewed the supplied videos and began the process of organizing selected ones for incorporation into the introductory video. Lastly, they used Adobe Premiere to incorporate videos in preparation for the editing stage. These video will showcase the open source components we’re creating to demonstrate sustainability as a path to a more luxurious life. You can view this work in the collage below.

Vishvesh Sheoran (Artificial Intelligence Specialist) focused on elevating the SEO performance of blog posts featured on the One Community website. The focus was on key SEO terms like “sustainability as a path to a more luxurious life”. Vishvesh implemented targeted SEO enhancements across nearly seven posts on the live main site of One Community, surpassing the 80 benchmark and achieving great scores, some exceeding 90. He also tested Table of Content plugins for WordPress websites, to optimize the platform’s navigational features. In addition, Vishvesh increased the SEO scores of other posts by refining and optimizing their content to fortify the overall SEO landscape on the live site. See the Highest Good Society page for more on how all this relates to sustainability as a path to a more luxurious life. See the work in the image below.

Yavor Veselinov (Video Editor) helped with social media videos. Yavor continued working on the background video for One Community’s weekly bulletin, incorporating feedback from Jae and completing two revisions, while also finding and integrating royalty-free music, addressing repetitions of animated footage, and enhancing the overall rhythm and timing with the music. See the Highest Good Society page for more on how all this relates to sustainability as a path to a more luxurious life. 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 Alyx Parr (Senior Support Specialist), Camilla Okello (Administrative Assistant), Meenakshi Velayutham (Sustainability Associate), Melina Chen (Administrative Assistant), Olawunmi “Ola” Ijisesan (Administrative and Management Support), Ruiqi Liu (Administrative Assistant) and Xiaolai Li (Administrative Assistant). This week, Alyx took on various responsibilities, including reviewing the PR Team blog page for content-related issues, editing Rank Math Sentiment N through R words for blogs, and refining positive words for the Rank Math blog. She reached out to Memory and Camilla for support in their tasks. She also contributed to Document 269 by editing a section and expanding the Rank Math word list with relevant terms. Camilla used her time training, creating and understanding collages, and editing her webpage as per the provided instructions. She sought assistance in navigating image unzipping, incorporated team suggestions for quality improvement, and engaged team members for reviews and feedback. Meanwhile, Meenakshi focused on admin tasks, including the weekly summary webpage review, managing bio announcements, renaming image files for Photoshop use, and reviewing City Center Interior Design Cost Analysis data. Melina concentrated on web design, providing comments for the Duplicable City Center Hub Connector Engineering page, and doing weekly reviews of volunteer work. Ola directed her attention towards reviewing the Admin team’s work, correcting errors in live blog media content, uploading images for weekly media content, and optimizing blog posts for SEO. Ruiqi did her part of the four-step review process for the Code Crafters Git-R-Done, Graphic Design, and Expresser Team, creating collages, generating SEO keywords, and modifying web pages based on feedback. Lastly, Xiaolai completed the weekly report 565, worked on financial analysis for food infrastructure, calculated operation income and expenditures for the transition kitchen, reviewed spreadsheets, and prepared reference data and explanations for financial forecasts. These are the managers helping us manage the current process of creating One Community, one purpose of which is sustainability as a path to a more luxurious life. See the Highest Good Society page for more on how all this relates to sustainability as a path to a more luxurious life. 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 measuring sustainability as a path to a more luxurious life through our social architecture, construction, production, and maintenance processes. This week, Carl focused on the evaluation of numerous pull requests, specifically #530, #1277, #1675, #1816, #1822, #1837, #1839, #1840, and #1843. He provided constructive feedback to enhance the codebase. Additionally, Carl led the weekly summary meeting with Team Alpha, participating in discussions centered around Phase Two challenges and  communicating details related to the onboarding process for new team members. Simultaneously, worked on improving the content of the blueSquare email, collaborating with Jae and volunteers to ensure optimal information delivery. Meanwhile, helping with this tool for measuring and guiding sustainability as a path to a more luxurious life, Yongjian sought assistance from team members on Slack to address console log errors associated with undefined functions in his application. He also engaged in debugging activities to resolve type errors stemming from the inability to read properties of undefined, a complication arising post-merged conflict resolution. See the Highest Good Society and Highest Good Network pages for more on how this relates to sustainability as a path to a more luxurious life. 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 Keyun Huang (Software Engineer) and Xiao Wang (Software Engineer). The Highest Good Network software is how we’ll be measuring progress toward sustainability as a path to a more luxurious life through our social architecture, construction, production, and maintenance processes. Keyun reviewed multiple pull requests, including PR #1801, where she focused on updates to the records modal and cases with no records, and PR #1810, where she aligned checkboxes, toggled badges functionality, and confirmed associated messages. Keyun also ensured that only active badges are displayed in the Weekly Summaries Report under the Reports section. In PRs #1798 and #692, she tested the ‘Edit Header Message’ permission feature, while in PR #1822, she verified the functionality of the Blue Square Record on the profile page, ensuring that changing the date does not affect the entered reason and that the save button works correctly. Keyun’s review of PR #1808 covered the addition of the reset password permission to user roles, testing its visibility and functionality on user profile pages. In PR #1816, Keyun focused on the ‘People’ reports, checking the ‘Show Infringements Graph’ button and its modal, as well as the page’s responsiveness on mobile devices. She also reviewed PR #1745, ensuring proper indication of fields not editable by users without the necessary permissions. Keyun’s evaluation of PRs #1831 and #704 involved confirming the functionality of the ‘Toggle Request Bio’ permission in the ‘Reports’ section, ensuring users could access the ‘Toggle’ feature after the permission was granted. Nathan evaluated pull requests such as #530, #1277, #1675, #1816, #1822, #1837, #1839, #1840, and #1843. His contributions included providing constructive feedback to enhance the codebase and leading the weekly summary meeting with Team Alpha. Nathan participated in discussions related to Phase Two challenges and effectively communicated details about the onboarding process for new team members. He also collaborated with Jae and volunteers to improve the content of the blueSquare email, ensuring optimal information delivery. Xiao contributed to the development team by creating four pull requests (PRs). PR 1841 addressed a critical hotfix for the Timelog page, resolving issues with intangible time entries. PR 1844 implemented concatenateReducers to combine and flatten reducers for local storage and session storage, addressing the problem of states in local storage not being updated by redux. PR 706 served as a hotfix to allow volunteer users to save their weekly summaries, and PR 1858 fixed a tangible checkbox accessibility issue for volunteer users, including optimizations and addressing project/task information not appearing on the weekly tab. See the Highest Good Society and Highest Good Network pages for more on how this relates to sustainability as a path to a more luxurious life. The collage below shows some of this work.

SOFTWARE PR REVIEW TEAM

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Bringing together people who want to make a difference, One Community is a pioneering all-volunteer organization committed to evolving sustainability for every aspect of the human experience. From sustainable approaches to food, energy, housing, and education, to innovative economic models and social architectures, we are dedicated to fulfilled living and global stewardship practices. Our model, developed by an all-volunteer team, aims to be self-replicating, creating a worldwide collaboration of teacher/demonstration hubs working together for The Highest Good of All.” Join us in creating a world that works for everyone.

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

OUR MAIN OPEN SOURCE HUBS

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

One Community’s physical location will forward this movement as the first of many self-replicating teacher/demonstration communities, villages, and cities to be built around the world. This is the January 15th, 2024 edition (#565) of our weekly progress update detailing our team’s development and accomplishments:

Bringing Together People Who Want to Make a Difference
One Community Progress Update #565

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HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING PROGRESS

One Community is bringing together people who want to make 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 bringing together people who want to make a difference with: Our Upcoming Crowdfunding Campaign
    • Learn about bringing together people who want to make 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 Revit file of the 4 Dome Structure for the Earthbag Village (Pod 1). Additionally, he started preparing the file for the perspective section cut details in Rhino and later more details in Indesign to showcase the roof detailing. Abhishek also researched Revit ‘Model in Place’ tutorial videos. As we’re bringing together people who want to make a difference, the Earthbag Village will be the first village we construct. See the collage below for an idea of his work on the 4 Dome Structure.

Charles Gooley (Web Designer) focused on augmenting the Open Source DIY Earth Dam and construction for the Water Retention, Pond, and Lake Creation page’s Earth Dam Disaster Risk Mitigation section. The tasks undertaken encompassed exploring the ramifications of dam failure, adherence to dam safety guidelines, and implementing inspection procedures. The examination of dam issues, causes, consequences, and recommended actions was presented in a structured format, including a table with resized images illustrating various problems, corresponding causes, potential consequences, and suggested actions. Additional enhancements extended to sections covering dam break risk assessment, risk evaluation, and overall dam risk assessment. Substantial updates were made to the Resources section and the two Tables of Contents. As we’re bringing together people who want to make a difference, earthworks like this will be a big part of the sustainability infrastructure we open source. The images below show some of his work on the DIY Earth Dam.

DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER PROGRESS

One Community is bringing together people who want to make a difference 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 for bringing together people who want to make a difference: Duplicable City Center Open Source Hub

This week, Amiti Singh (Architectural Designer) advanced the design process for Room 7 in Duplicable City Center. She began creating a 3D model for the room, with a specific focus on a futuristic art deco theme, blending art deco furniture with futuristic lighting to construct a vibrant color palette. Beginning the design process with visual inspirations, she established the initial material, color, texture, and lighting palette for the room. Concurrently, Amiti revisited file finalization for prior room design projects within Duplicable City Center, implementing suggested modifications. As we’re bringing together people who want to make a difference, the Duplicable City Center will be the first community structure we construct. The college below shows her renderings for Room 7.

Julio Marín Bustillos (Mechanical Engineer) completed the design work for the first and second variations of City Center hub connector for the fifth row, subsequently integrating them along the entirety of the row for complete coverage. Two variations remain pending for the fifth row, prompting Julio to initiate the design process for the third variation. This approach aligns with the project’s commitment to precision and adherence to design specifications for optimal structural integrity. As we’re bringing together people who want to make a difference, the Duplicable City Center will be the first community structure we construct. Check out the collage below for an idea of Julio’s work on the hub connectors.

Justin Varghese (Mechanical Engineer) focused on assembling bolts and nuts for both the (wooden beam+plate) and (plate+ring) components of the City Center Hub Connector. Particular attention was given to ensuring the absence of interference between the threads and corners during assembly. The assembled configuration will be used in the finite element analysis (FEA) simulation, where the connector’s performance will be evaluated to facilitate the selection of the final hub connector design. As we’re bringing together people who want to make a difference, the Duplicable City Center will be the first community structure we construct. The collage below shows his work on the hub connectors.

Yiwei He (Mechanical Engineer) began work on her teammates’ new Duplicable City Center design to generate the simulation model in preparation for tomorrow’s group meeting. In addition, she had follow-up discussions with Chris to ensure readiness for the Vermiculture Toilet system’s calculation. Simultaneously, Yiwei worked on hiring a new contributor for the project, overseeing the necessary steps in facilitating the onboarding process. As we’re bringing together people who want to make a difference, the Duplicable City Center will be the first community structure we construct. Yiwei’s work on the Duplicable City Center is shown in the collage below.

HIGHEST GOOD FOOD PROGRESS

One Community is bringing together people who want to make 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 structures and how they are engines for bringing together people who want to make a difference: Hoop House Hub | Aquapini & Walipini Open Source Hub
    • See what we’ll be growing as we’re bringing together people who want to make a difference: Gardens & Hoop Houses | Large-scale Structures | Food Forest | TA

This week, a core team member focused on the Hayley’s Highest Good food Edits document, reviewing its contents and compiling a list of plant materials suitable for planting in the swales. He engaged in ongoing clarification efforts, both within the document itself and through a productive phone conversation with Hayley. The call served to highlight areas requiring further explanation and additional details, ensuring a complete understanding of the document’s specifications. As we’re bringing together people who want to make a difference, Highest Good food will be the foundation for feeding everyone. See their work on the food edit document in the collage below.

Hayley Rosario (Sustainability Research Assistant) worked on formatting the plant list. She made adjustments in text size, font, color, and the addition and correction of links. She fixed the placement of the “before buying property” paragraph and addressed issues with cheese and goat milk links on the EDITs document. Subsequently, Hayley began a garden tools master list for the 3 person equipment, involving the deletion of extraneous information and finalization of general item names. She then progressed to editing images and descriptions within this list. Concluding her week, she made specific adjustments to the content related to “Implementing Highest Good Food into Schools.” As we’re bringing together people who want to make a difference, Highest Good food will be the foundation for feeding everyone too. See the collage below for an idea of her work for Highest Good Food.

Stacey Maillet (Graphic Designer) continued working on the final edits and revisions to the Murphy bed assembly instructions. This week, Stacey reviewed all the feedback and integrated team feedback as updates into the diversity of pages. Screenshots below relate to this work.

HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION PROGRESS

One Community is bringing together people who want to make 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:

• Program Overview: Education Open Source Hub
• How the components work together as we’re bringing together people who want to make a difference in education: How to use the Education for Life Program
  
• Lesson Plans for Life – Lesson Plans How-to
• Foundations of Outstanding Leaders, Teachers, and Communicators
• Curriculum for Life
• Teaching Strategies for Life
• Learning Tools and Toys for Life
• Evaluation and Evolution

Highest Good Education: All Subjects | All Learning Levels | Any Age – Click image for the open source hub

HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY PROGRESS

One Community is bringing together people who want to make 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, this is a foundation of how we’re bringing together people who want to make a difference: Highest Good Society
    • Learn about the model for fulfilled living and sharing: A Day in the Life
    • Learn about the 4 economic models: RBE | For-profit | Non-profit | Entrepreneurship
    • Learn about our open source community collaboration and management software: The Highest Good Network

This week, the core team completed 55 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 bringing together people who want to make a difference and how bringing together people who want to make 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 engaged in Highest Good Network PRs testing, confirming several fixed PRs, including 1162, 1796, PR#1656, PR#1438, PR#1352, 1340, and 1346. However, they encountered challenges with PRs that were not fixed, such as 1218+532 and 1336+545. Additionally, they reported a new bug related to incorrect dates for the working week in Time log. Check out the collage below for an idea of this work.

Aaron Wang (Fundraising Assistant) continued to help One Community with working on fundraising. Bringing together people who want to make a difference requires we get fully funded. Aaron completed sourcing potential funders and finalized the ranking of their priority for connection. Additionally, he addressed the comments provided by Jae and crafted a sample strategic proposal for connecting with Leonardo DiCaprio. In this proposal, Aaron analyzed the priority of connecting with organizations supported by DiCaprio and identified methods for engaging with two key members. You can view this work in the collage below.

Vishvesh Sheoran (Artificial Intelligence Specialist) focused on elevating the SEO performance of blog posts featured on the One Community website. These focus on key SEO terms like “bringing together people who want to make a difference”. Vishvesh boosted the SEO of approximately seven posts on the live main site of One Community, surpassing the “80” threshold, with some achieving scores above 90. Concurrently, he tested Table of Content plugins for WordPress websites, enhancing the platform’s user experience. Furthermore, Vishvesh improved the SEO scores of additional posts by refining and optimizing their content, elevating the overall SEO performance on the live site. See the Highest Good Society page for more on how all this relates to bringing together people who want to make a difference. See the work in the image below.

Yavor Veselinov (Video Editor) helped with social media videos. Yavor enhanced the weekly bulletin backdrop video for One Community, collaborating with Jae and discussing various options and corrections, engaging in discussions about integrating motion graphics designed by another volunteer, and now awaits feedback to finalize the video with the potential incorporation of additional visual elements. See the Highest Good Society page for more on how all this relates to bringing together people who want to make 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 Alyx Parr (Senior Support Specialist), Camilla Okello (Administrative Assistant), Meenakshi Velayutham (Sustainability Associate), Melina Chen (Administrative Assistant), Olawunmi “Ola” Ijisesan (Administrative and Management Support), and Xiaolai Li (Administrative Assistant). This week, Alyx evaluated blog entries by Ola and Ruiqi, providing feedback. The focus of Alyx’s work extended to the revision of RankMath, involving the incorporation of additional words and refinement of the final review and wrap-up page, alongside efforts to edit and enhance individual pages related to past blogs. Simultaneously, Camilla focused on onboarding, completing the orientation checklist, signing the volunteer agreement, registering on the HGN app, and familiarizing herself with basic requirements. Progressing through the specific onboarding checklist, she established organizational connectivity by configuring her Dropbox and completed the training process. Catherine, during the week, reviewed Admin, Blue Steel, and Alpha teams and individual team members as part of the weekly review process. She organized images and summaries, consolidating them in WordPress Editors to finalize edits, and scrutinizing her work by comparing it with the final webpage to identify and understand errors. Catherine also learned to create Google Ads, creating three ads and continued her education on Google Ads while waiting for review. Meanwhile, Meenakshi ensured team members’ work was recognized in One Community’s weekly summary page. She continued her role in bio announcement status tracking, identified initial announcements of new members, and completed tasks, including file name fixes on image files for proper categorization. Meenakshi also reviewed comments and integrated them into a webpage, resolving feedback on two other web pages by web designer Charles. Ola reviewed PR tasks, organized the Admin team’s workspace, and received a new assignment involving the creation of supplementary tables for reporting within the PR teams. She participated in ongoing training sessions for new members of the Admin teams. Finally, Xiaolai reviewed the dev process and edited summaries for week 564, finishing the webpage and rating process, which was submitted for final review. He also worked on the financial sheet for the transition kitchen, reviewed the cost of food infrastructure, and engaged in the operation income forecast. Xiaolai further reviewed the phases of residency and estimated the profit from rent and tourism. These are the managers helping us manage the current process of creating One Community, one purpose of which is bringing together people who want to make a difference. See the Highest Good Society page for more on how all this relates to bringing together people who want to make a difference. 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 measuring progress toward bringing together people who want to make a difference through our social architecture, construction, production, and maintenance processes. This week, Carl worked on reviewing and providing constructive feedback on multiple pull requests, specifically #1615, #1696, #1705, #1750, #1778, #1779, #1792, #1817, and #1820. He evaluated the proposed changes and ensured the quality of the code contributed by team members. In addition to his code review responsibilities, Carl facilitated the weekly summary meeting for Team Alpha. During this meeting, he participated in discussions related to challenges anticipated in Phase Two of the project and conveyed important information regarding the departure of certain team members. Simultaneously, Yongjian, helping our efforts for bringing together people who want to make a difference, addressed compilation time errors within the Timelog component of his pull request, PR #842. The primary objective of this pull request was to implement a dark mode for the entire application. In the course of his work, Yongjian identified instances where functions added after the last merge conflict were not defined but were being utilized, leading him to delve into determining the most appropriate approach to handle these errors. See the Highest Good Society and Highest Good Network pages for more on how this relates to bringing together people who want to make a difference. 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), Keyun Huang (Software Engineer), Shubhankar Valimbe (Lead Full Stack Software Developer), and Xiao Wang (Software Engineer). The Highest Good Network software is how we’ll be measuring progress toward bringing together people who want to make a difference through our social architecture, construction, production, and maintenance processes. Haohui’s primary responsibility centered around the implementation of the “Delete Blue Squares” and “Edit Blue Squares” buttons within the Permission popup window. This involved ensuring that users with the requisite permissions could access update and delete functionalities in the task named “Handle and Delete Blue Squares Permissions.” Keyun, helping our efforts for bringing together people who want to make a difference, on the other hand, reviewed pull requests (#693 and #1812), with a focus on testing the functionality of filters within the project section. This encompassed evaluating the sorting mechanisms for name, status, and categories. Amidst these activities, Keyun encountered a challenge with PR 1760 due to a git rebase complication, leading to an unfortunate loss of code. However, undeterred, she is engaged in rewriting the pull request to address and resolve the merge issues. Nathan’s contributions for the week were centered around responsiveness to Slack messages and assisting team members with debugging tasks. He relocated the reminder feature from the dashboard to the header, eliminating fixed positioning. Furthermore, he communicated to clarify that the static header was not a mandatory requirement, leading to the reopening of PR#1575. Shubhankar, also helping our efforts for bringing together people who want to make a difference, took on the responsibilities of team management and bug resolution during the week. His tasks included reviewing summaries, pictures, and videos submitted by team members and providing constructive feedback. Additionally, Shubhankar worked on enhancing the Weekly Summary Reports page by adding an ‘i’ tooltip next to each user and making the popup editable. Xiao, in his role, focused on significant technical tasks, particularly the restructuring of the redux store and the refactoring of the time entry display on the task tab. In the redux store restructuring, Xiao identified and addressed issues arising from storing all reducers in LocalStorage, leading to abnormal behavior when users checked another user’s page on a new tab. He implemented a fix by utilizing SessionStorage for a portion of the reducers, ensuring data consistency. Simultaneously, Xiao replaced the old FilteredTimeEntry component with a more general TimeEntry component on the tasks tab. See the Highest Good Society and Highest Good Network pages for more on how this relates to bringing together people who want to make a difference. The collage below shows some of this work.

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One Community welcomes Anvita Kumari Pandey to the Design Team as our newest Volunteer/Consultant!

Anvita received her Bachelors in Civil Engineering from the University of Pune in India. After graduation she worked for 2+ years as a Cost Analysis and Estimation Engineer for a variety of commercial and residential projects through a construction firm in Pune called B&M Infra Private Limited. Looking to expand her domain expertise, she then worked at Meta Arch Private Limited and took on more responsibility with a customer-based role. After that, Anvita moved to the US to join her husband who works full-time here and brought her expertise to the One Community team helping with cost analysis for the Duplicable City Center.

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