One Community welcomes Hannah Copeman to the Engineering Team as our newest Volunteer/Consultant!

Hannah earned her Bachelor of Applied Science in Civil Engineering and Master of Engineering degree in Civil Engineering, emphasizing on Structural Engineering, both from the University of Toronto. She has experience working as a structural engineer and a restoration engineer for architecture and engineering firms in New York City, as well as in Long Island, New York. Her interest in working in the built environment stems from her desire to positively contribute to society by designing tangible structures that are beneficial on a local and global scale. With a persistent passion in sustainable infrastructure, Hannah has also obtained certification as a LEED Green Associate and is continuing her path in triple bottom line focused design by working with One Community. She is contributing to One Community’s vision by helping develop the structure of the Earth Dome, finish the Earthbag engineering, loft Engineering, and complete walk-through tutorials for foundations and exterior / interior finishing of the Earthbag Village domes.

WELCOME TO THE TEAM HANNAH!

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What does a blueprint for widespread and lasting sustainability look like? One Community’s vision is a global collaborative of self-replicating eco-communities working together for the “Highest Good” of all people and life on this planet. We’re creating the necessary open source plans to launch this.

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

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One Community’s physical location will forward this movement as the first of many self-replicating teacher/demonstration communities, villages, and cities to be built around the world. This is the October 4th, 2020 edition (#393) of our weekly progress update detailing our team’s development and accomplishments:

Widespread and Lasting Sustainability
One Community Progress Update #393

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HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING PROGRESS

One Community is facilitating widespread and lasting sustainability through Highest Good housing that is artistic and beautiful, more affordable, more space efficient, lasts longer, DIY buildable, and constructed with healthy and sustainable materials:

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

This week Alvaro Hernández (Open Source Tech Consultant, Developer) completed his 26th week as a member of the team and continuing to work on the Hydro Energy Setup and Maintenance tutorial. This week Alvaro almost finished working on this article by changing and reviewing anchor links, editing some tables to make them clearer and more appealing, including the shared spreadsheet with the table data and calculator formulas, and preparing them as images to be inserted. You can see some images related to this work below.

Continued Working On the Hydro Energy Setup and Maintenance Tutorial – Click for Page

Jose Luis Flores (Mechanical Engineer) completed his 10th week helping finish the Net-zero Bathroom component of the Earthbag Village. This week Jose Luis researched the installation process of corrugated steel roofs. He applied the information to illustrate the assembly and construction process of the Net-Zero Bathroom roof plan. He made detailed diagrams in AutoCAD illustrating how the panels will be cut and installed. The diagrams for the cutting of the panels also showed how to use the leftover panels to cut out other panels in order to minimize material usage. He made diagrams for the exterior roof and interior roof installation, illustrating where the panels overlap and the separation distance of the fasteners. Double sided butyl tape on the edge of the overlapping areas was shown in the diagrams, their purpose is sealing. The cut roof panels were fastened to their respective roof frames in the illustrations too. Pictures are below for this work.

Researched the Installation Process of Corrugated Steel Roofs – Click for Net-zero Bathroom Page

Stacey Maillet (Graphic Designer) also completed her 9th week working on the final edits and revisions to the Murphy bed instructions. This week’s focus was getting about ½ way through the Wall section group. The sketch of the wall is now consistent and the wood piece layout is updated and all pieces to scale. Stacey adjusted the key layout so that all pieces in first header are used in pages 3-12. There are some areas that again may require a screw longer than 3” but overall only a few questions remain on the first part of the wall and frame design. This brings us to the point we can start doing a preliminary sheet layout between the groups, which is needed because there are many points in the wall design that there could be more information on the components and electrical which will be done simultaneously in some areas. Pictures of some of this work are below.

Continued Working on the Final Edits and Revisions to the Murphy Bed Instructions – Click for Furniture Page

Hannah Copeman (Structural Engineer) also completed her 7th week helping complete all the Earthbag Village tutorials. This week Hannah continued the development of the Earthdome and Aircrete loft designs by testing out various design options to be able to maximize overhead space in the loft, while ensuring a versatile column-free dome interior. She began detailed analyses of the different options and started to update the AutoCAD drawings to reflect updated dimensions.  You can see some screenshots of this work below.

Continued the Development of the Earthdome and Aircrete Loft Designs – Click for Earthbag Village

Jingwei Jiang (Landscape Designer) also completed her 2nd week working on the landscaping specifics of the Earthbag Village. This week Jingwei went through the whole planting list and SketchUp library and developed a planting concept adjacent to the building footprint. Plant selection was based on their light conditions, drainage requirements, soil requirements, and drought tolerant conditions. Landscape design adjacent to the building clusters was created with the intent to embrace the building forms and transform to follow the building footprints. In other words, the landscapes and buildings can share the same pattern and be cohesive in this pattern. With this in mind, Jingwei came up with the circular form of landscape around building clusters shown below. These patterns seem duplicatable, but they all have different choices of plants according to previous zoning of the gardens. The radius of circles used include 15-ft, 25-ft and 35-ft. They extend from the center of circular buildings all the way to the edge of the paved areas. Ideally, the outer band will be planted with plants that can define edge condition; the middle band should be deciduous trees and fruit trees; and the inner band should be plants like cactus to avoid safety issues. Nitrogen fixers need to be specified in the list, because they are the pioneer of woodland communities. All plants should be native plants in this condition, because the site is located in a national park area and invasive species are not first choices.

Continued Working on the Landscaping Specifics of the Earthbag Village – Click to Visit

DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER PROGRESS

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

• • • Learn about this building and it’s function: Duplicable City Center Open Source Hub

This week Angela Mao (Sustainability Researcher) completed her 18th week as a member of the team and working on content for the Most Sustainable Lightbulbs and Light Bulb Companies and the Best Small and Large-scale Community Options for Sustainable Processing & Reuse of Non-recyclables tutorial. This week, focused on by finding the best sustainable methods to get rid of waste. She found that composting, advanced thermal treatment, and mechanical heat treatment were among some of the most sustainable methods and did thorough research into those processes. Additionally, she refined her list of lightbulb products and thinks she has one more round of review before handing it over for final feedback. You can see some of this work in the pictures below.

Focused on by Finding the Best Sustainable Methods to Get Rid of Waste – Click to Visit Lightbulb Page

Ashish Hirani (Fire Protection Engineer) also completed his 12th week working on the City Center Sprinkler and Emergency Lighting Design. This week Ashish focused on preparing title blocks and setting up layout formats for the emergency and exit drawings for the basement, first and second floors. You can see some of the results of this work below.

Continued Working on the City Center Sprinkler and Emergency Lighting Design – Click for Page

Ksenia Akimov (Plumbing Engineer) also completed her 4th week working on the Duplicable City Center plumbing designs. This week she focused on creating the sewer system underground layout and learning the related codes. Pictures of some of this are below.

Focused on Creating the Sewer System Underground Layout and Learning the Related Codes – Click for City Center

Mario Strachan (Aerospace Engineer) completed his 3nd week working on the ground-based components of the City Center Water Catchment Design. This week he mainly focused on calculating various sizes of our pond at a constant depth to meet the volume requirements. He calculated the size of the pond based on a constant depth of 11ft. From his research an average pond has a depth between 8-12 ft so he decided on 11ft. If we were to go with a circular pond with a depth of 11 ft., the radius of the pond would have to be 22 ft. If a rectangular shaped pond were to be considered, at a depth of 11 ft he would choose a width of 45 ft and length of about 45 ft. From his research the average person uses about 85 gallons of water a day. By multiplying that by the maximum number of people the City Center can hold, we get the total greywater usage of 3409.09 cubic ft. He then added that to the total rainwater to get the total volume needed for the pond. Pictures from the related spreadsheets are below. 

Worked on the Ground-based Components of the City Center Water Catchment Design – Click for Page

Diego Guardiola (Mechanical Engineer) also completed his 3rd week helping with research for the Best Small and Large-scale Community Options for Sustainable Processing & Reuse of Non-recyclables tutorial. This week he completely reorganized all the information from previous research and his own research on this subject. Next he further explored the different types of non-recyclables and methods of dealing with them. All of his information from this week is a draft of sorts which he will continue to refine (sources, grammar, specifics, etc.) next week. Pictures related to this work are below.

Helping With Research for the Best Small and Large-scale Community Options for Sustainable Processing & Reuse of Non-recyclables Tutorial – Click for Page

Qiuheng Xu (Landscape Designer) also joined the team and completed her 1st week helping with the Duplicable City Center landscaping design and updated video walkthrough. This week she mainly focused on getting onboard and familiar with the Duplicable City Center project and making corrections to the walk through based on the suggestions list. You can see this list and some of the corrected areas below.

Joined the Team and Began City Center Landscaping Design and Updated Video Walkthrough – Click for Page

Lindy Bray (Sustainability Analyst) also joined the team and completed her 1st week helping confirm and expand the research on the Most Sustainable Building Materials: Carpet, Flooring, Wood, Etc.. This week, Lindy checked previous research done on the flooring tutorial, modified the flooring types rankings and the flooring companies ranking. Additionally, she found three new companies to add to the flooring rankings, and did respective research on them/added them to the flooring ranking. Lindy also corrected some grammar/typos and began typing up the sections for the three new companies (which should be completed next week). Pictures below show some of this work-in-progress.

Joined the Team and Began Confirming and Expanding Research on the Most Sustainable Building Materials – Click for Page

HIGHEST GOOD FOOD PROGRESS

One Community is facilitating widespread and lasting sustainability through Highest Good food that is more diverse, more nutritious, locally grown and sustainable, and part of our open source botanical garden model to support and share bio-diversity:

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

This week the core team finished the open source chicken coop step-by-step building instructions on our behind-the-scenes google doc. We then started working on the materials list.

Finished the Open Source Chicken Coop Building Instructions and Started Working on the Materials List – Click for Page

Sam’an Herman-Griffiths (Assistant Kitchen Manager) also completed his 2nd week working on the Transition Food Self-sufficiency Plan. This week Sam’an finished the first draft of a complete menu outline for 1 cycle of alternating vegan and omnivore meals based off of core food items of pasta, potatoes, sweet potatoes, and yams. You can see this first draft below.

Continued Working on the Transition Food Self-sufficiency Plan – Click for Page

Jiayu Liang (Landscape Designer) also joined the team and completed her 1st week helping with the Aquapini & Walipini internal and external landscaping details. This week Jiayu reviewed and studied all materials/information/research resources/details about Aquapini and Walipini project thus far. Then, she used the sketch method to further outline and understand the project and created her initial proposal and clarifying question sets for both the internal and external landscape parts of the project. You can see some pictures of this initial work below.

Joined the Team and Began Helping With the Aquapini & Walipini Internal and External Landscaping Details – Click for Page

Henry Vennard (Mechanical Engineer) also joined the team and began helping continue the development of the climate batteries for the Aquapini/Walipini structures. This week Henry worked on getting up to speed by reading information about the aquapini and walipini designs, existing climate batteries, thermal lag and One Community in general. He also researched how to validate previous thermal models of the walipini and how to construct a new one. You can see some pictures related to this work below.

Joined the Team and Began Continuing Development of the Climate Batteries for the Aquapini/walipini Structures

HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION PROGRESS

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

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

This week Xiaolu Song (Landscape Designer) completed her 15th week working on the playground and other external details of the Ultimate Classroom. This week she modified the Lumion model and added the move effect into the model, adjusting all the people to move properly and then adjusting them again based on feedback. Pictures below show some of the scenes.

Continued Working on the Playground and Other External Details of the Ultimate Classroom – Click for Page

Shuwei Liu (Landscape Designer) also completed her 14th week working on the playground and other external details of the Ultimate Classroom. Shuwei also modified the Lumion model and added the move effect into the model, adjusting all the people to move properly and then adjusting them again based on feedback. Pictures below show some of her scenes.

Modified the Lumion Model and Added the Move Effect Into the Model – Click for Ultimate Classroom

HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY PROGRESS

One Community is facilitating widespread and lasting sustainability through a Highest Good society approach to living that is founded on fulfilled living, the study of meeting human needs, Community, and making a difference in the world:

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

This week the core team began the review and updating of all pages connected to our Member Invitation pages. We completed a detailed review and updating of about 1/3 of those pages, some of which you can see below.

Began the Review and Updating of All Pages Connected to Our Member Invitation Pages – Click to Visit

And Henry Nguyen (React Developer) completed his 34th week with the team and working on the Highest Good Network software. This week he improved the importing-data successfully, the import function is fast and accurate now. It works well with a large number of rows and needs around 5 seconds to calculate, create the tasks’ relationships, and save them in the database. He then started working with the display function to make it display the data faster. Some related imagery can be seen below.

Improved the Importing-data Successfully – Click for Highest Good Network

Ross Edwards (Chief Imagination Officer, G3) completed his 24th week helping promote One Community. Ross is someone who found our project, loved what we are doing, and offered to just help contact people he (and we) thought might be interested in what we’re doing. This week’s focus was promoting our project and the One Community helping page to newspapers. You can see below this last week’s list of who he contacted and a version of the press release he is sharing.

Promoted Our Project and the One Community Helping Page to Newspapers – Click for Helping Page

TEKtalent Inc. (a custom programming solutions company) also continued with their 17th week helping with the Highest Good Network software. This week Nithesh and the TEK talent team were working on the Azure migration work around and identifying the gap in user profile functionality. The edit option in team PR was raised and is waiting for approval and merging. Team and Project assignment inside the user profile were also worked on. This will allow the administrator to add a new team and project assignment to a user from their Profile Page. Also the list of existing team and projects of that user will be displayed there. Upon clicking “Add Team / Project”, a new popup shall display and the admin can search for a team or project and then assign that to a user. The task was completed this week up to the popup and saving and assigning is now in progress.

Focused on Azure Migration Work Around and Identifying the Gap in User Profile Functionality – Click for Highest Good Network

Wen Zhang (Software Engineer) completed her 19th week as a volunteer working on the Highest Good Network software. This week Wen’s work was composed of two parts: 1. making some changes to the badge display based on feedback – mainly added scrolling functions, and 2. researching on the storage of images. We have 3 options regarding where we store all the images. None of the options would involve storing images in the database. Dropbox would take the pressure off our server but we’re not sure about speed and reliability. The same is true if we use our website as a host. The 3rd option would be to keep them on Azur, which is straightforward because we use Azur for production, but this may increase the bill from Azur. Some pictures of this work are below.

Continued Working on the Highest Good Network Software – Click for Page

Yiqi Feng (Software Engineer) continued with her 13th week as a member of the Highest Good Network software team. This week Yiqi formatted the text in the “i” popup so it includes proper formatting with bullets in the text. She added an “i” icon under the “Add Time Entry” button and implemented the mouseover functionality for both icons. She also added and tested a 10-hour alert functionality for the timer. You can see some of this work below.

Continued Working on the Highest Good Network Software – Click for Page

Jerry Zhang (Software Engineer) completed his 8th week working on the Highest Good Network software. This week, Jerry discovered the source of a bug with one of the API routes. Additionally, the design for how to implement individual notifications on change of why, intent, and endstate infos was decided on. Work for this feature has started on the backend first. By next week, Jerry hopes to have all of the TaskNotification routes working. Pictures are below showing some of this work.

Discovered the Source of a Bug With One of the API Routes – Click for Highest Good Network

Noor Qureshi (Insurance Researcher) completed her 8th week helping research One Community’s insurance options. This week Noor worked on refining the Blue Cross Blue Shield Health insurance plans by only keeping plans that were relevant for the goals of this project and deleting the rest. She then looked for a more thorough summary of the benefits and coverage and organized the costs that way. She organized it in a way that would make it easy to compare the Molina Healthcare plans as well as allowing for a more streamlined and standardized way to compare them. You can see some of this work below.

Continued Helping Research One Community’s Insurance Options – Click for Page

Jun Hao (Software Engineer) also completed his 6th week working on the Highest Good Network software. This week Jun started to work on the design and the look of the UserProfile component. He changed the previous single column design to double column for better layout on mobile devices. He also changed the UserProfile Edit page into the same style with UserProfile for better consistency. The form validation functionality was also added to the UserProfileEdit component. You can see some of this work below.

Began Working on the Design and the Look of the UserProfile Component – Click for Highest Good Network

Jaime Arango (Graphic Designer) also completed his 3rd week helping create the YouTube and social media graphics for these update blogs. This week he created images for weekly progress updates #399, #402, #403, #404 and #405. You can see these newly created images below.

Continued Creating the Youtube and Social Media Graphics for These Update Blogs – Click for Page

Jin Hua (Web Marketer and Graphic Designer) also helped update our SSL successfully on www.onecommunityranch.org, installed Cloudflare on onecommunityglobal.org, and performed several rounds of functionality auditing & testing. You can see pictures of some of this work and process below.

Helped Update Our SSL Successfully on www.onecommunityranch.org – Click for Page

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One Community welcomes Noor Qureshi to the Research Team as our newest Volunteer/Consultant!

Noor Qureshi is currently an undergrad at Cornell University studying Biological sciences with a minor in business on a pre-med track. As a member of the One Community team, Noor is a researcher helping research and compare the best health insurance options. She believes in understanding the roots of health insurance in order to provide an efficient and sustainable insurance plan. Her research will help provide the best solution for One Community and other medium-sized organizations seeking  collaborative health insurance implementation for uninsured groups of people and families willing to cooperatively work together and/or pool their resources and buying power to save money.

WELCOME TO THE TEAM NOOR!

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One Community welcomes Jerry Zhang to the Software Team as our newest Volunteer/Consultant!

Jerry earned a Bachelor of Mathematics from the University of Waterloo and later a Bachelor of Computer Science from the University of Windsor. He is passionate about creating software that does good in the world and hopes to one day create his own software startup. Secondary interests include microeconomics, finance, recurve archery, and video games. As a member of the One Community team, Jerry is helping develop the Management Dashboard functionality of One Community’s open source Highest Good Network software.

WELCOME TO THE TEAM JERRY!

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One Community has spent the last 10 years creating an open source global conservation model. It covers all aspects of a sustainable civilization for the 21st century. Sustainable approaches to food, energy, housing, education, for-profit and non-profit economic design, social architecture, fulfilled living, and global stewardship practices are all integrated and designed for DIY viral replication.

• 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 September 27th, 2020 edition (#392) of our weekly progress update detailing our team’s development and accomplishments:

Global Conservation Model
One Community Progress Update #392

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HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING PROGRESS

One Community is creating a global conservation model through Highest Good housing that is artistic and beautiful, more affordable, more space efficient, lasts longer, DIY buildable, and constructed with healthy and sustainable materials:

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

This week the core team continued review and development of our behind-the-scenes Earthbag Village construction tutorials, continuing working on tools and equipment selection, pictures, and descriptions. This content will be for a page of the website that will be referenced by all construction pages, so we can just put linked lists on the pages for the construction of various components, rather than pictures and descriptions on each of those pages.

Continued Working on Tools and Equipment Selection, Pictures, and Descriptions – Click for Earthbag Village

Alvaro Hernández (Open Source Tech Consultant, Developer) completed his 25th week as a member of the team and continuing to work on the Hydro Energy Setup and Maintenance tutorial. This week’s focus was changing the format of certain parts of the text, editing some tables to make them clearer and more appealing, and preparing the images with SEO metadata. You can see some images related to this work below.

Continued Working On the Hydro Energy Setup and Maintenance Tutorial – Click for Page

Jose Luis Flores (Mechanical Engineer) completed his 9th week helping finish the Net-zero Bathroom component of the Earthbag Village. This week Jose Luis added joinery diagrams to the Net-Zero Bathroom roof plan on AutoCAD. The diagrams displayed how the wooden beams would interconnect to form the inner roof frame and the roof access. He labeled the beams in order to clarify the orientation of the diagrams. He created a view of the inner roof frame being attached to a support underneath it. He also created a top and bottom view of the inner roof frame and funnel connected. The views show how the corrugated steel panels and the inner roof frame will attach. Pictures are below for this work.

Added Joinery Diagrams to the Net-zero Bathroom Roof Plan on AutoCAD – Click for Net-zero Bathroom

Stacey Maillet (Graphic Designer) also completed her 8th week working on the final edits and revisions to the Murphy bed instructions. This week’s focus was getting some answers on the number of floor bolts and the number of vertical beams used to create the bed frame. Since there were so many different views, the drawing was not staying consistent too, so she started moving wood prep steps to the beginning of the instructions to show that the pieces that need to be drilled and marked should be prepped before the pieces are used. She also labeled the pieces of wood in the complex instructions and will note when a step is being applied to A-front or B-back side of the frame. Further labeling may be needed for R-right or L-left side since pieces are often assembled laying down and then flipped over when they are attached to the wall. Pictures of some of this work are below.

Continued Working on the Final Edits and Revisions to the Murphy Bed Instructions – Click for Furniture Page

Hannah Copeman (Structural Engineer) also completed her 6th week helping complete all the Earthbag Village tutorials. This week Hannah continued the development of the remaining tutorials by finishing the rough outlines of the steps required in earthbag dome construction, based on the Bioveda courses and videos. She also began to work on the updated loft design for the domes in the 3-dome cluster. You can see some screenshots of this work below.

Continued Helping Complete All the Earthbag Village Tutorials – Click for Page

Jingwei Jiang (Landscape Designer) also joined the team and completed her 1st week working on the landscaping specifics of the Earthbag Village. This week Jingwei created the initial landscape plan analysis, vegetation analysis, and began deciding on the best areas for plantings according to the current design layout and plan. You can see some pictures of this initial work below.

Joined the Team and Began Working on the Landscaping Specifics of the Earthbag Village – Click to Visit

DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER PROGRESS

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

• • • Learn about this building and it’s function: Duplicable City Center Open Source Hub

This week Angela Mao (Sustainability Researcher) completed her 17th week as a member of the team and working on content for the Most Sustainable Lightbulbs and Light Bulb Companies tutorial. This week, Angela researched more specific lightbulb products again to make sure that they were the best ones from the company identified as the best. Additionally, she began implementing edits and writing a new section about the affects of different types of lighting on the nervous system. She also began helping with the Best Small and Large-scale Community Options for Sustainable Processing & Reuse of Non-recyclables tutorial by researching what is recyclable and what is non-recyclable and looked into various processes that are better than landfills or traditional incineration. You can see some of this work in the pictures below.

Continued Researching Specific Lightbulb Products – Click to Visit Page

Ashish Hirani (Fire Protection Engineer) also completed his 11th week working on the City Center Sprinkler and Emergency Lighting Design. This week Ashish continued working on updating the drawings related to sprinkler systems. Layer formatting, external references to architectural drawings and properties of text related to fire protection systems properties were adjusted. Also, location for exit lights were identified for the third and fourth floors. You can see some of the results of this work below.

Continued Working on Updating the Drawings Related to Sprinkler Systems – Click for Page

Ksenia Akimov (Plumbing Engineer) also completed her 3rd week working on the Duplicable City Center plumbing designs. This week she focused on learning the details of the project kitchen, external systems, and water diagrams. Also learning the related codes. Pictures of some of this are below. 

Continued Working on the Duplicable City Center Plumbing Designs – Click for Page

Mario Strachan (Aerospace Engineer) completed his 2nd week working on the ground-based components of the City Center Water Catchment Design. This week he started research on possible ground drainage systems for the ground component. He assumed the pond would need to be large enough to accumulate 93,712 gallons of water yearly. Dividing this by 7.481 we get approximately 12,525.67 cubic ft of water. He assumed the drainage pipe leading to the pond to be 4’’ PVC based on the previous calculations from other members. The pipe would extend about 60ft northeast to the potential pond in zone 3. He also hand sketched one possible option for a drainage system. This would be three underground drainage pipes leading from the ground gutters to one main pipe that would be connected to the reservoir pond. Pictures of AutoCAD sketch and hand sketches are shown below.

Started Research on Possible Ground Drainage Systems for the Ground Component – Click for Water Catchment Page

Diego Guardiola (Mechanical Engineer) also completed his 2nd week helping with research for the Best Small and Large-scale Community Options for Sustainable Processing & Reuse of Non-recyclables tutorial. This week he began a list of small-scale solutions to non-recycling methods and related useful videos. The challenge is that most methods require extremely large-scale equipment, good if the communities we build grow to larger populations, but not appropriate for the initial community stages. Sorting at an individual level, then addressing sorted waste based on type seems the best approach so far and will greatly simplify the recycling process. Pictures of some of this work are below.

Began a List of Small-scale Solutions to Non-recycling Methods and Related Useful Videos – Click for Page

HIGHEST GOOD FOOD PROGRESS

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

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

This week the core team continued working on the open source chicken coop step-by-step building instructions on our behind-the-scenes google doc. This week we added missing images with parts dimensions and detailed descriptions for images throughout pages 114-131. You can see some of this work below.

Continued Working on the Chicken Coop Step-by-step Building Instructions – Click for Chickens Page

Sam’an Herman-Griffiths (Assistant Kitchen Manager) joined the team and completed his first week working on the Transition Food Self-sufficiency Plan. This week Sam’an started development of the complete weekly food menu overview by compiling 4.5 weeks of menu items. These included full vegan and omnivore versions of brown rice and russet potato recipes and half a week of omnivore pasta-focused recipes. He also researched 5 vegan options for both daily sauce & snack choices. You can see some pictures of this work below.

Joined the Team and Completed Began Working on the Transition Food Self-sufficiency Plan – Click for Page

HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION PROGRESS

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

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

This week Xiaolu Song (Landscape Designer) completed her 14th week working on the playground and other external details of the Ultimate Classroom. This week Xiaolu finished the third draft of all of the external playground details and began a new render of the walkthrough in Lumion. The picture below is of the video 7 hours into the render process and still with 160 hours to go. The total length of this video she is rendering is only 2.5 minutes. The list on the left are the requested changes from the core team that were integrated into this latest render.

Finished Third Draft of the External Playground Details and Began New Render of the Walkthrough in Lumion

Shuwei Liu (Landscape Designer) also completed her 13th week working on the playground and other external details of the Ultimate Classroom. This week Shuwei modified the SketchUp and Lumion model based on the suggestions of the core team shown at the bottom of the picture below. She then started to re-render the walkthrough video. As you can see, it is 8 hours into the process with 32 hours to go.

Modified the SketchUp and Lumion Model Based on the Core Team Suggestions – Click for The Ultimate Classroom

HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY PROGRESS

One Community is creating a global conservation model through a Highest Good society approach to living that is founded on fulfilled living, the study of meeting human needs, Community, and making a difference in the world:

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

This week Henry Nguyen (React Developer) completed his 33rd week with the team and working on the Highest Good Network software. This week he found a potential problem when the number of tasks in the excel files is large, requiring a rebuild of the way the database functions to address the large number of tasks for the Work Breakdown Structures we’ll be importing. This causes the calculation and relationship of tasks to break after we input the files. Henry began this rebuilding process and estimates 1-2 more weeks to complete it. Some related imagery can be seen below.

Continued Working on the Highest Good Network Software – Click for Page

Ross Edwards (Chief Imagination Officer, G3) completed his 23nd week helping promote One Community. Ross is someone who found our project, loved what we are doing, and offered to just help contact people he (and we) thought might be interested in what we’re doing. This week’s focus was promoting our project and the One Community helping page to newspapers. You can see below this last week’s list of who he contacted and a version of the press release he is sharing.

Promoted Our Project and the One Community Helping Page to Newspapers – Click for Helping Page

Wen Zhang (Software Engineer) completed her 18th week as a volunteer working on the Highest Good Network software. This week Wen worked on the badge view. The size and the arrangement of the badges were adjusted and a scroll bar was added to the section of “Badges Earned Before Last Week”. It’s only visible when scrolling on that section. A button for the expand-window option was also added. The pop-up full view of the badge history is now a work-in-process. Wen would like to do a modal pop-up, but got a “click child component to render parent component” error. In order to make it work, she re-organized all the badges-related React components. Wen still needs to do more research though to solve this. Some pictures of this work are below.

Worked on the Badge View – Click for Highest Good Network

Yiqi Feng (Software Engineer) continued with her 12th week as a member of the Highest Good Network software team. This week Yiqi updated edit-time reminders and implemented a “Clear” button near the timer. When people start the timer by mistake, they can now click this “Clear” button to reset the timer. She also updated the edit-time reminders and completed the initial “i” icon functionality for people to click to get more information. Yiqi additionally fixed a bug where a timer at “00:00” having “stop” clicked results in a time entry form popup. You can see some of this work below.

Updated Edit-time Reminders and Implemented a “Clear” Button Near the Timer – Click for Highest Good Network

Jerry Zhang (Software Engineer) completed his 7th week working on the Highest Good Network software. This week Jerry added necessary fields to the Task model to support showing Why, Intent, and Endstate info. The frontend was also appropriately changed to support displaying and editing Why, Intent, and Endstate info. Tasks in each user’s task list now link to their appropriate WBS details page. Jerry also researched possible ways to implement individual notifications on change of Why, Intent, and Endstate info. Pictures are below showing some of this work.

Added Necessary Fields to the Task Model to Support Showing Why, Intent, and Endstate Info – Click for Highest Good Network

Noor Qureshi (Insurance Researcher) also completed her 7th week helping research One Community’s insurance options. This week Noor worked on the benefits and costs of the BCBS HMO plans. She went through the website to figure out what each type of plan offered and their associated costs based on what she could find on the website. You can see some of this work below.

Worked on the Benefits and Costs of the BCBS HMO Plans – Click for Insurance Page

Chris Weilacker (Software Engineer) completed his 6th week working on the Highest Good Network software. This Week Chris completed a good portion of the Project Membership tests. He also spent some time fixing a bug due to a conflict with a new installed package that was causing several of his previous Login/Logout tests to fail, requiring looking through a large amount of previous code and commits. Chris also commented out several components that are no longer in use in the project as they have been replaced to see the changes on code coverage. You can see some screenshots of the behind-the-scenes code below.

Completed a Good Portion of the Project Membership Tests – Click for Highest Good Network

Jun Hao (Software Engineer) also completed his 5th week working on the Highest Good Network software. This week Jun started to work on the unit-testing on the UserProfile component. He finished 3 subcomponents, including the BlueSquares, UserLinks, and UserProfileEdit. He then started to develop the UserProfile component. Jun spent some time reading the code that this component already has, and then finished the functionality for administrators to add or remove teams from certain user’s profiles. You can see some of this work below.

Started to Work on the Unit-testing on the UserProfile Component – Click for Highest Good Network

Jaime Arango (Graphic Designer) also completed his 2nd week helping create the YouTube and social media graphics for these update blogs. This week he created images for weekly progress updates #397 #398 #400 and #401. You can see these images below.

Continued Creating the Youtube and Social Media Graphics for These Update Blogs – Click for Page

Michael Hagler (Senior Graphic Designer and Artist) also helped create four Highest Good Network icons and the icon for One Community’s insurance page and the earthdome loft construction tutorial.

Created Icons for Highest Good Network and Other Pages – Click for Highest Good Network

Jin Hua (Web Marketer and Graphic Designer) also helped analyze and fix a web traffic dropping problem. He completed a traffic performance analysis, identified our traffic seems to have gone back to normal on its own, researched intermittent “Error establishing a database connection” on wordpress, and implemented troubleshooting & testing of cloudflare on our old site www.onecommunityranch.org. You can see pictures of some of this work and process below.

Helped Analyze and Fix a Web Traffic Dropping Problem – Click for One Community Ranch Site

AND WE PRODUCED THIS WEEKLY UPDATES BLOG – CLICK HERE TO SUBSCRIBE

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INVESTOR PAGES

OVERVIEW       ●       LOCATION       ●       FUNDING

GET INVOLVED

DONATE    ●     WAYS ANYONE CAN HELP     ●     MEMBERSHIP

CLICK HERE FOR ALL PAST UPDATES

One Community welcomes Stacey Maillet to the Design Team as our newest Volunteer/Consultant!

Stacey is a creative graphic design artist with over 15 years experience in technical product design. She has the ability to see complex problems clearly and communicate ideas using images and graphic language. Stacey holds a degree in fashion design and is a certified color specialist. As a member of the One Community team, Stacey is helping develop the Earthbag Village dome-home DIY Murphy bed assembly/constructions using Adobe InDesign.

WELCOME TO THE TEAM STACEY!

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CONSULTANTS ● WAYS ANYONE CAN HELP ● MEMBERSHIP

Adaptable solutions for eco-living are needed if we are to reach the necessary level of involvement to achieve global change. One Community is supporting this through open sourcing and free sharing all the eco-living components needed to build eco-village teacher/demonstration hubs that will develop even more adaptable solutions. We call this living and creating for “The Highest Good of All” and it has the potential to create a sustainable world within our lifetime.

• 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 September 20th, 2020 edition (#391) of our weekly progress update detailing our team’s development and accomplishments:

Adaptable Solutions for Eco-living
One Community Progress Update #391

DONATE  |  COLLABORATE  |  HELP WITH LARGE-SCALE FUNDING

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HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING PROGRESS

One Community is developing adaptable solutions for eco-living through Highest Good housing that is artistic and beautiful, more affordable, more space efficient, lasts longer, DIY buildable, and constructed with healthy and sustainable materials:

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

This week the core team continued review and development of our behind-the-scenes Earthbag Village construction tutorials. This week’s focus was on tools and equipment selection, pictures, and descriptions. This content will be for a page of the website that will be referenced by all construction pages, so we can just put linked lists on the pages for the construction of various components, rather than pictures and descriptions on each of those pages.

Focused on Tools and Equipment Selection, Pictures, and Descriptions – Click for Earthbag Village

Alvaro Hernández (Open Source Tech Consultant, Developer) completed his 24th week as a member of the team and continuing to work on the Hydro Energy Setup and Maintenance tutorial. This week his focus was on updating the formatting, editing tables to make them clearer and more appealing, and testing some of the previous replace rules and coding some new ones. Here are some images related to this work.

Continued Working On the Hydro Energy Setup and Maintenance Tutorial – Click for Page

Jose Luis Flores (Mechanical Engineer) completed his 8th week helping finish the Net-zero Bathroom component of the Earthbag Village. This week Jose Luis compared the web page of the Net-Zero Bathroom with the information in its corresponding spreadsheet, looking for and marking any differences in their respective results. He researched and found a pump to generate sufficient pressure in the sink water plumbing system and added the pump to the cost analysis spreadsheet. He also began constructing the roof plan in AutoCAD where he completed the top view of the roof’s 4 layers, completed the elevation view of the interior roof frame, and began making diagrams for the wooden beam connections in the interior roof frame. Pictures are below for this work.

Continued Helping Finish the Net-zero Bathroom Component of the Earthbag Village – Click for Page

Stacey Maillet (Graphic Designer) also completed her 7th week working on the final edits and revisions to the Murphy bed instructions. The wall and bed frame section has been the most complicated to figure out so far. Stacey’s work this week focused on finding and fixing issues with how the instructions were drawn and visual representations that were incorrect. There were many size changes in the boards and placement. She also was able to reduce the number of pages needed for this section. Pictures of some of this work are below.

Continued Working on the Final Edits and Revisions to the Murphy Bed Instructions – Click for Furniture Page

Hannah Copeman (Structural Engineer) also completed her 5th week helping complete all the Earthbag Village tutorials. This week Hannah continued the development of the remaining tutorials by completing the note taking process on the relevant Bioveda Course videos for earthbag and aircrete dome construction. She wrapped up the course by learning about sculpting the upper levels of the dome, installing skylights, windows and doors, finishing the dome with plaster, waterproofing and flooring. Hannah also began to create rough outlines for the main topics in earthbag dome construction. You can see some screenshots of this work below.

Completed the Note Taking Process on the Relevant Bioveda Course Videos for Earthbag and Aircrete Dome Construction – Click for Earthbag Village

DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER PROGRESS

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

• • • Learn about this building and it’s function: Duplicable City Center Open Source Hub

This week Angela Mao (Sustainability Researcher) completed her 16th week as a member of the team and working on content for the Most Sustainable Lightbulbs and Light Bulb Companies tutorial. This week Angela finished editing her tutorial and submitted it for review, editing her writing and picked the most useful information to keep. She also finished her Resources and FAQ sections. Final remaining steps are review and updates to her spreadsheet to add more details to each individual brand and their products. You can see some of this work in the pictures below.

Finished Editing Light Bulbs Tutorial and Submitted It for Review – Click for Page

Ashish Hirani (Fire Protection Engineer) also completed his 10th week working on the City Center Sprinkler and Emergency Lighting Design. This week Ashish started working on re-designing the sprinkler system for the basement, first and second floor levels. The sprinklers needed to be relocated as per the new architectural layouts. Layer formatting, rerouting of piping, and relocation of sprinkler heads were worked on. Ashish also identified the possibility of distractions that can be caused by improper placement of emergency and exit lighting. He listed out certain basic guidelines that need to be followed to avoid disability glare for occupants in an emergency scenario. You can see some of the results of this work below.

Started Working on Re-designing the Sprinkler System for the Basement – Click for Page

Ksenia Akimov (Plumbing Engineer) also completed her 2nd week working on the Duplicable City Center plumbing designs. This week she designed draft 1 of the sanitary sewer systems. You can see some screenshots of this behind-the-scenes work below.

Designed Draft 1 of the Sanitary Sewer Systems – Click for Duplicable City Center

Mario Strachan (Aerospace Engineer) joined the team and completed his 1st week working on the ground-based components of the City Center Water Catchment Design. His focus for this first week was familiarizing himself with the City Center, researching natural greywater processing, and drawing up rough sketches of the collection system and pond where the greywater/rainwater will accumulate. The height and width of the pond and distance away from the main center made for sizing purposes. A few of his sketches are shown below.

Researched Natural Greywater Processing, and Drew Up Rough Sketches of the Collection System – Click for Water Catchment Page

Diego Guardiola (Mechanical Engineer) also joined the team and completed his 1st week helping finish research for the Best Small and Large-scale Community Options for Sustainable Processing & Reuse of Non-recyclables tutorial. This week he completed his onboarding process and reviewed the previous notes taken. Most of the methods previously researched are too large and not capable of being implemented at the desired initial small scale, so Diego began researching into methods more suitable for One Community’s requirements of small-scale implementation beginning with applications that do not require industrial equipment or intensive maintenance. You can see some of Diego’s initial notes in the picture below.

Joined the Team and Began Helping Finish Research for the Best Small and Large-scale Community Options for Sustainable Processing & Reuse of Non-recyclables Tutorial – Click for Page

HIGHEST GOOD FOOD PROGRESS

One Community is developing adaptable solutions for eco-living through Highest Good food that is more diverse, more nutritious, locally grown and sustainable, and part of our open source botanical garden model to support and share bio-diversity:

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

This week the core team continued working on the open source chicken coop step-by-step building instructions on our behind-the-scenes google doc. This week we worked on instructions for installations of the nesting box doors, hinges and latches (pages 124-128).

Worked on Instructions for Installations of the Nesting Box Doors, Hinges and Latches – Click for Chickens Page

HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION PROGRESS

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

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

This week Xiaolu Song (Landscape Designer) completed her 13th week working on the playground and other external details of the Ultimate Classroom. This week Xiaolu finished the second draft of all of the external playground details and began a new render of the walkthrough in Lumion. The picture below is of the video 71 hours into the render process and still with 9 hours to go. The total length of this video she is rendering is only 2.5 minutes.

Finished the Second Draft of All of the External Playground Details and Began a New Render – Click for Ultimate Classroom

Shuwei Liu (Landscape Designer) also completed her 12th week working on the playground and other external details of the Ultimate Classroom. This week Shuwei updated the master CAD file and SketchUp model and rendered an indoor walkthrough video for review of these updates and other requested changes. You can see some screenshots of this work-in-progress below.

Updated the Master CAD File and SketchUp Model and Rendered an Indoor Walkthrough Video – Click for Ultimate Classroom

HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY PROGRESS

One Community is developing adaptable solutions for eco-living through a Highest Good society approach to living that is founded on fulfilled living, the study of meeting human needs, Community, and making a difference in the world:

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

This week Henry Nguyen (React Developer) completed his 32nd week with the team and working on the Highest Good Network software. This week Henry found a library that supports reading Excel files, a library that was released just one month ago. This fixes problems we were having with importing .CSV files. He then modified the import feature to use this library but found that it works. However, there are some challenges: The Excel file on Google Docs and Excel file on Microsoft Excel display differently, and it appears we can’t add multiple lines into 1 cell on Microsoft Excel – which is one of the .CSV problems we’re trying to fix. The reading function also only reads one sheet (tab) of the excel file, so we have to delete sheets which are not necessary. The WBS works slowly too, when we have multiple tasks open at the same time. Pictures below show some of this behind-the-scenes work.

Found a Library That Supports Reading Excel Files, Which Fixes Problems With Importing .CVS Files – Click for Highest Good Network

Ross Edwards (Chief Imagination Officer, G3) completed his 22nd week helping promote One Community. Ross is someone who found our project, loved what we are doing, and offered to just help contact people he (and we) thought might be interested in what we’re doing. This week’s focus was promoting our project and the One Community helping page to newspapers. You can see below this last week’s list of who he contacted and a version of the press release he is sharing.

Promoted Our Project and the One Community Helping Page to Newspapers – Click for Helping Page

Wen Zhang (Software Engineer) completed her 17th week as a volunteer working on the Highest Good Network software. This week Wen solved the badge description box overlay coverage issue. She also spent some time debugging bugs on the back end controller part. Some adjustments were made to the Redux badge store so that the data is more clean, and so it will be easier to make changes later as more badge functions are added. Some pictures of this work are below. 

Solved the Badge Description Box Overlay Coverage Issue – Click for Highest Good Network

Adam Capdevill (Software Engineer) completed his 13th week working on the Highest Good Network software. This week Adam focused on wrapping up his PR for his UserProfile Module 1.4, working on bug reports and other merge conflicts. After talking with Chris and getting some feedback, Adam was able to wrap up all bugs related to his current module PR. Adam wrapped up the week developing prototypes for components Teams, Projects and Time (hours committed). You can see pictures of some of this behind-the-scenes work below.

Focused on Wrapping Up His PR for His UserProfile Module 1.4 – Click for Highest Good Network

TEKtalent Inc. (a custom programming solutions company) also continued with their 16th week helping with the Highest Good Network software. This week Nithesh and the TEK talent team completed the team name edit functionality and resolved conflicts and merged the PR for teams functionality. A new edit button was introduced in teams list and upon clicking a popup will be shown with team name in edit mode, upon clicking ‘ok’ it updates the team name. You can see some of this work below.

Completed the Team Name Edit Functionality, Resolved Conflicts and Merged the PR for Teams Functionality – Click for Highest Good Network

Yiqi Feng (Software Engineer) continued with her 11th week as a member of the Highest Good Network software team. This week Yiqi changed the “Close” button and updated ”Project/Task” in time entry. She also made updates to the odd numbered reminders and even numbered reminders. She removed the blue box in time entry form and added an “i” icon for additional information about how the page works. You can see some of this work below.

Changed the “Close” Button and Updated ”Project/Task” in Time Entry – Click for Highest Good Network

Jerry Zhang (Software Engineer) completed his 6th week working on the Highest Good Network software. This week Jerry completed a basic working version of TeamMemberTasks component. The missing functionality is the progress bar of each task. Next week, Jerry will work off of Henry’s working branch and attempt to make a PR to add ‘Why, Intent, and End state’ functionality to tasks. This will probably consist of 2 PRs: one for API and small update to the tasks form in frontend as well. Pictures of some of this are below.

Completed a Basic Working Version of of TeamMemberTasks Component – Click for Highest Good Network

Noor Qureshi (Insurance Researcher) also completed her 6th week helping research One Community’s insurance options. This week Noor worked on organizing the costs portion of the Molina Healthcare plans. She analyzed what each plan offered and their corresponding price. She went through each of the plan’s summary of benefits and coverages to find the prices. You can see some of this work below.

Worked on Organizing the Costs Portion of the Molina Healthcare Plans – Click for Insurance Page

Chris Weilacker (Software Engineer) completed his 5th week working on the Highest Good Network software. This Week Chris worked on four pull requests, discussed with Jun about the PR Changes, set the default branch of HGN Rest, and started to work on the Project Membership tests. You can see some screenshots of the behind-the-scenes code below.

Continued Working on the Highest Good Network Software – Click for Page

Jun Hao (Software Engineer) also completed his 4th week working on the Highest Good Network software. This week Jun fixed the tests of Timelog and UserManagement that were failing due to new changes of the component. He also added more test cases to the tests of these two components so achieve a higher coverage rate. Jun then finished the tests of the Timer component, which is a newly added component. All of the code was then pushed and merged into the development branch. You can see some of this work below.

Fixed the Tests of Timelog and UserManagement That Were Failing Due to New Changes of the Component – Click for Highest Good Network

Jaime Arango (Graphic Designer) also joined the team and began helping create the YouTube and social media graphics for these update blogs. This week he created images for weekly progress updates #392, #393, #394, 395 and #396. You can see these images below.

Joined the Team and Began Helping Create the Youtube and Social Media Graphics for These Update Blogs – Click for Page

AND WE PRODUCED THIS WEEKLY UPDATES BLOG – CLICK HERE TO SUBSCRIBE

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INVESTOR PAGES

OVERVIEW       ●       LOCATION       ●       FUNDING

GET INVOLVED

DONATE    ●     WAYS ANYONE CAN HELP     ●     MEMBERSHIP

CLICK HERE FOR ALL PAST UPDATES

One Community is about building DIY sustainable eco-villages that provide a better, healthier, and more enriching living experience. Our open source and free-shared designs include sustainable and “Highest Good” approaches to food, energy, housing, education, for-profit and non-profit economic design, social architecture, fulfilled living, global stewardship practices, and more. Our goal is to demonstrate these villages as teacher/demonstration hubs that are easy enough, affordable enough, and enjoyable enough to live in so that they spread on their own.

• 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 September 13th, 2020 edition (#390) of our weekly progress update detailing our team’s development and accomplishments:

Building DIY Sustainable Eco-villages
One Community Progress Update #390

DONATE  |  COLLABORATE  |  HELP WITH LARGE-SCALE FUNDING

CLICK HERE IF YOU’D LIKE TO RECEIVE AN EMAIL EACH WEEK WHEN WE RELEASE A NEW UPDATE

YOU CAN ALSO JOIN US THROUGH SOCIAL MEDIA

 

ONE COMMUNITY WEEKLY UPDATE DETAILS

HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING PROGRESS

One Community is building DIY sustainable eco-villages through Highest Good housing that is artistic and beautiful, more affordable, more space efficient, lasts longer, DIY buildable, and constructed with healthy and sustainable materials:

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

This week the core team continued review and development of our behind-the-scenes Sustainable Site Selection, Planning, and Preparation content. We focused on working through page 30 on our materials doc with upgrades, research and edits and researching and sourcing electrical meters and bases to include a meter that has immediate visual reference to determine if meter is working with a combination of digital and dial readouts.

Continued Review and Development of Sustainable Site Selection, Planning, and Preparation Content – Click for Page

Dean Scholz (Architectural Designer) continued helping with the Earthbag Village (Pod 1) 4-dome cluster designs. This week was week #199 of Dean’s work and the focus was color corrections, learning a new way to put in a background, and testing the perspectives we’ll use for the final external renders.

Continued Helping With the Earthbag Village 4-dome Cluster Designs – Click for Page

Alvaro Hernández (Open Source Tech Consultant, Developer) completed his 23rd week as a member of the team. This week Alvaro finished developing the “Best Small and Large-scale Community Clothing Recycling, Reuse, and Repurposing Options” tutorial and submitted it for final review. He also began working on the Hydro Energy Setup and Maintenance tutorial by changing the format of certain parts of the text and testing out some of the previews replace rules and coding some new ones. Here are some images related to this work.

Began Working on the Hydro Energy Setup and Maintenance Tutorial – Click for Page

Jose Luis Flores (Mechanical Engineer) completed his 7th week helping finish the Net-zero Bathroom component of the Earthbag Village. This week Jose Luis analyzed and modified the roof of the Net-Zero Bathroom focusing on the funnel support frame and the roof access support frame. He calculated the deflection ratio of the support beams used in the frames to be certain they would withstand the weight of the funnel, interior roof panels and roof access frame. He also began reorganizing and adding more information to the Net-Zero Bathroom Cost Analysis and Material spreadsheet. Pictures are below for this work.

Continued Helping Finish the Net-zero Bathroom Component of the Earthbag Village – Click for Page

Stacey Maillet (Graphic Designer) also completed her 6th week working on the final edits and revisions to the Murphy bed instructions. This week Stacey focused on the Wall section and construction, finalizing all of the wood prep boards and how they are cut. She also added measurements to the floor layout and placement of pieces. Pictures of some of this work are below.

Focused on the Wall Section and Construction, Finalizing All of the Wood Prep Boards – Click for Murphy bed Instructions

Hannah Copeman (Structural Engineer) also completed her 4th week helping complete all the Earthbag Village tutorials. This week Hannah continued the development of the remaining tutorials for publication by taking notes on more Bioveda course videos for earthbag and aircrete dome construction. She focused on several topics such as the construction of the walls, sculpting walls around doors and windows, interweaving the tensile structure for outer force and sculpting the upper levels of the dome. You can see some screenshots of this work below.

Continued Helping Complete All the Earthbag Village Tutorials – Click for Page

DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER PROGRESS

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

• • • Learn about this building and it’s function: Duplicable City Center Open Source Hub

This week Angela Mao (Sustainability Researcher) completed her 15th week as a member of the team and working on content for the Most Sustainable Lightbulbs and Light Bulb Companies tutorial. This week Angela found several helpful videos that informed the reader about sustainable light bulbs. Additionally, she reordered her sustainable lightbulb company ranking after further research into each company. Finally, she made overall edits to her tutorial and now needs to complete just her FAQ and Resources Section. You can see some of this work in the pictures below.

Continued Working on the Most Sustainable Lightbulbs and Light Bulb Companies Tutorial – Click for Page

Ashish Hirani (Fire Protection Engineer) also completed his 9th week working on the City Center Sprinkler and Emergency Lighting Design. This week Ashish described in detail the components for the mains converted emergency lighting system. He described the conversion kit in detail and also defined the working of its components. He formatted the existing general lighting layout plan drawings to include the exit and emergency lighting layer and identified locations for the exit lights for different zones on the first floor. You can see some of the results of this work below.

Continued Working on the City Center Sprinkler and Emergency Lighting Design – Click for Page

HIGHEST GOOD FOOD PROGRESS

One Community is building DIY sustainable eco-villages through Highest Good food that is more diverse, more nutritious, locally grown and sustainable, and part of our open source botanical garden model to support and share bio-diversity:

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

Finished the Instructions for the Nesting Boxes Instructions – Click for Chickens Page

HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION PROGRESS

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

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

This week Xiaolu Song (Landscape Designer) completed her 12th week working on the playground and other external details of the Ultimate Classroom. This week Xiaolu finished the first draft of all of the external playground details and began to render the walkthrough in Lumion. The picture below is of the video 120 hours into the render process and still with 10 hours to go. The total length of this video she is rendering is 2 min and 22 seconds.

Finished First Draft of All External Playground Details and Began to Render the Walkthrough in Lumion – Click for Ultimate Classroom

Shuwei Liu (Landscape Designer) also completed her 11th week working on the playground and other external details of the Ultimate Classroom. This week Shuwei focused on the indoor Lumion details and rendered the first complete walkthrough of this area. You can see some screenshots of this work-in-progress below.

Focused on the Indoor Lumion Details and Rendered the First Complete Walkthrough of This Area – Click for The Ultimate Classroom

HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY PROGRESS

One Community is building DIY sustainable eco-villages through a Highest Good society approach to living that is founded on fulfilled living, the study of meeting human needs, Community, and making a difference in the world:

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

This week the core team continued behind-the-scenes updating of the Consensus and Groups of 200+. This week we worked out additional details of applying consensus at a large scale, and finalized a table summarizing the functions and sizes of the groups that make up the consensus structure. We also began reviewing and doing additional research for how we’ll handle non-recyclable waste on the property. Pictures of some of this work can be seen below.

Continued Behind-the-scenes Updating of the Consensus and Groups of 200+ Content – Click for Page

Henry Nguyen (React Developer) completed his 31st week with the team and working on the Highest Good Network software. This week he spent his time solving conflicts, fixing bugs to get ready for the live launch and testing. There were many conflicts and problems because we haven’t merged the codes to the development branch for a long time. There were more conflicts than he expected. However, all conflicts were solved and it is now ready for us to test all the features. Pictures below show some of this behind-the-scenes work.

Solved Conflicts, Fixing Bugs to Get Ready for the Live Launch and Testing – Click for Highest Good Network

Ross Edwards (Chief Imagination Officer, G3) completed his 21st week helping promote One Community. Ross is someone who found our project, loved what we are doing, and offered to just help contact people he (and we) thought might be interested in what we’re doing. This week’s focus was promoting our project and the One Community helping page to newspapers. You can see below this last week’s list of who he contacted and a version of the press release he is sharing.

Promoted Our Project and the One Community Helping Page to Newspapers – Click for Helping Page

Andon Ignatov (Full-stack Developer) completed his 17th week working on the Highest Good Network software. This week Andon worked on fixing the countdown timer digits display for Mac OS based browsers. He also designed a mockup of the Notification/Activity bar for the dashboard. Another major thing he did this week is converted the Weekly Summary section to be viewed in a popup. With that, he moved the countdown-timer to the dashboard area so it’s visible all the time and serves as a link/button to open/edit the Weekly Summary. You can see screenshots of some of this work below.

Worked on Fixing the Countdown Timer Digits Display for Mac Os Based Browsers – Click for Highest Good Network

Wen Zhang (Software Engineer) completed her 16th week as a volunteer working on the Highest Good Network software. This week Wen merged updates on her local machine and solved a few conflicts and then focused on CSS tuning. This is making it so, when hovering on the badge images, a description box of the badge pops up. Some pictures of this work are below. 

Merged Updates on Local Machine, Solved a Few Conflicts and Focused on CSS Tuning – Click for Highest Good Network

Adam Capdevill (Software Engineer) completed his 12th week working on the Highest Good Network software. Adam fixed merge conflicts and submitted his PR. By the end of the week Adam was able to wrap up his PR for his module with the help of Chris Weilacker’s review and comments. Once Adam was finished, he resumed studying Unit Testing in React. You can see pictures of some of this behind-the-scenes work below.

Fixed Merge Conflicts, Submitted His PR and Resumed Studying Unit Testing in React – Click for Highest Good Network

TEKtalent Inc. (a custom programming solutions company) also continued with their 15th week helping with the Highest Good Network software. This week Nithesh and the TEK talent team were working on the suggestions, corrections and validations of the team functionality. The PR has been raised and merged with the changes in user profile and all the conflicts have been resolved. Along with that they resumed the Azure migration task for the React app and successfully deployed it in Azure. You can see some of this work below.

Worked on the Suggestions, Corrections and Validations of the Team Functionality – Click for Highest Good Network

Yiqi Feng (Software Engineer) continued with her 10th week as a member of the Highest Good Network software team. This week Yiqi added the exact number in the reminder when editing time more than 5 times. She also implemented and tested the email sending and infringement function. She fixed a bug and changed the initial status of the number of words and variable has_link to avoid mistakes. She checked the code, solved the conflicts and made a pull request. You can see some of this work below.

Added the Exact Number in the Reminder When Editing Time More Than 5 Times – Click for Highest Good Network

Jerry Zhang (Software Engineer) also completed his 5th week working on the Highest Good Network software. This week Jerry added an additional route to API for tasks. This will allow querying of all tasks each member is assigned to. With this in place, Jerry will work to deliver a basic version of WBS 2.1 and 2.2 by the end of this week. Pictures of some of this are below.

Added an Additional Route to Api for Tasks – Click for Highest Good Network

Noor Qureshi (Insurance Researcher) completed her 5th week helping research One Community’s insurance options. This week Noor refined the insurance research spreadsheet to present the information in a more concise and clear way. She also started creating a cost-benefit analysis of Molina Healthcare and the best option for that healthcare plan. She used the information from the spreadsheet to compare the different options from Molina Healthcare and created a table to help layout those differences. You can see some of this work below.

Refined the Insurance Research Spreadsheet and Began Creating a Cost-benefit Analysis of Molina Healthcare – Click for Health Insurance Page

Chris Weilacker (Software Engineer) completed his 4th week working on the Highest Good Network software. This Week Chris managed 4 or 5 large pull requests coming in at the same time. He has approved 3 pull requests and is waiting on changes for another two pull requests. You can see some of the code for Chris’ work below.

Managed 4 or 5 Large Pull Requests Coming in at the Same Time – Click for Highest Good Network

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One Community welcomes Jose Luis Flores to the Engineering Team as our newest Volunteer/Consultant!

Jose Luis holds a BS in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Texas Rio Grande Valley. His undergraduate work involves participating in the NASA Human Exploration Rover Challenge and developing an Integrated Scissor Jack System for Motor Vehicles. He has 7 years tutoring engineering fundamentals at South Texas College where he offers one-on-one tutoring and develops student workshops. His goal is to contribute to the development of eco-friendly technologies and infrastructures so that future generations can experience and admire the wonder and beauty of our Planet. As a member of the One Community team, Jose Luis is helping finish development of the Net-zero Bathroom component of the Earthbag Village.

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We think humanity is on the brink of creating an age of cooperation and collaboration that will transform our society into a sustainable one. One Community is supporting this with DIY and open source and free-shared plans and tutorials for teacher/demonstration hubs that will work together in a global cooperative for “The Highest Good of All.”

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

OUR MAIN OPEN SOURCE HUBS

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

One Community’s physical location will forward this movement as the first of many self-replicating teacher/demonstration communities, villages, and cities to be built around the world. This is the September 6th, 2020 edition (#389) of our weekly progress update detailing our team’s development and accomplishments:

Creating an Age of Cooperation
One Community Progress Update #389

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HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING PROGRESS

One Community is creating an age of cooperation through Highest Good housing that is artistic and beautiful, more affordable, more space efficient, lasts longer, DIY buildable, and constructed with healthy and sustainable materials:

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

This week the core team continued review and development of our behind-the-scenes Sustainable Site Selection, Planning, and Preparation content. We completed polished concrete research to confirm any construction detail differences with common concrete floor details and focused on tools doc research to ensure appropriate tools are designated for the proper purpose. This involved angle grinders, 3 categories of grinding wheels, cordless drivers, impact drivers, and hammer drills, plus pintle and combination ball hitches – determining the most effective use for our purposes and necessity of each tool. You can see some of the added and edited content below.

Continued Review and Development of Sustainable Site Selection, Planning, and Preparation Content – Click for Page

The core team also continued with what we hope will be the 2nd-to-final review of the Murphy bed instructions. This week we addressed more comments and questions with Stacey and designed and integrated a Spring Lock for securing the table/benches legs shown below.

Continued With the 2nd-to-final Review of the Murphy Bed Instructions – Click to Visit Furniture Page

Dean Scholz (Architectural Designer) continued helping with the Earthbag Village (Pod 1) 4-dome cluster designs. This week was week #198 of Dean’s work and the focus was continued modeling, addition and texture correcting on trees and other plants.

Continued Modeling, Addition and Texture Correcting on Trees and Other Plants – Click for Earthbag Village

Alvaro Hernández (Open Source Tech Consultant, Developer) completed his 22st week as a member of the team. This week Alvaro continued developing the “Best Small and Large-scale Community Clothing Recycling, Reuse, and Repurposing Options” tutorial. This week he focused on adding the titles to the hyperlinks that had none and coding more replacement rules to make this process faster and easier in the future, for examples adding these titles to the hyperlinks that reference a section in the webpage can be done all at once by running a replace rule. Now he only needs to click in the highlighted rule to do that (using Visual Studio Code). Here are some related images of this work.

Continued Developing the “Best Small and Large-scale Community Clothing Recycling, Reuse, and Repurposing Options” Tutorial – Click for Page

Ashwini Ramesh (Civil Engineer and Project Manager) continued with her 15th week helping with the Earthbag Village cost analysis and open source tutorials. This week Ashwini continued working on the Material Specifications, Descriptions, and format for final integration from the Google Docs to the Google Sheets. You can see some of this work-in-progress below.

Continued Helping With the Earthbag Village Cost Analysis and Open Source Tutorials – Click for Page

Jose Luis Flores (Mechanical Engineer) completed his 6th week helping finish the Net-zero Bathroom component of the Earthbag Village. This week Jose Luis completed the detailed drawings of the Door and Windows, displaying the placement and orientation of both fixtures. He also made and properly scaled the floor plan drawing into the Title Block Template and created a reference document for the upcoming plumbing and electrical plans. He started doing research into the upcoming plans for the plumbing, roof, and electrical systems and made a rough drawing of the roof plan. Pictures are below for this work.

Continued Helping Finish the Net-zero Bathroom Component of the Earthbag Village – Click for Page

Stacey Maillet (Graphic Designer) also completed her 5th week working on the final edits and revisions to the Murphy bed instructions. This week Stacey and the core team were working on the Wall section instructions. There were many adjustments needed to the sizes of wood required. All of the pieces of wood in the key were not to scale anymore so she had to resize all the pieces so that they were all in scale relative to all the other pieces. We also had to recheck and question many of the size updates because there were several pieces that ended up being the same size. So going forward, if possible, we can combine these same size wood pieces with different numbers into the same number. Pictures of some of this work are below.

Worked on the Wall section of the Murphy bed Instructions – Click for Page

Hannah Copeman (Structural Engineer) also completed her 3rd week helping complete all the Earthbag Village tutorials. This week Hannah continued the development of the remaining tutorials for publication by watching videos and taking notes on earthbag and aircrete construction. She specifically focused on videos about the construction of foundations, doors and windows, making arch/opening forms, and how to create aircrete bricks. You can see some screenshots of this work below.

Continued Helping Complete All the Earthbag Village Tutorials – Click for Page

DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER PROGRESS

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

• • • Learn about this building and it’s function: Duplicable City Center Open Source Hub

This week the core team completed updating the City Center Water Catchment Design open source hub with all the rainwater collection specifics for the building itself. This is in preparation for our newest member of the engineering team who has joined to finish the related ground-based gutter system and water storage specifics.

Completed Updating the City Center Water Catchment Design Open Source Hub – Click for Page

Angela Mao (Sustainability Researcher) completed her 14th week as a member of the team and working on content for the Most Sustainable Lightbulbs and Light Bulb Companies tutorial. This week she further benchmarked the lightbulb companies using a Google spreadsheet and researched more into lighting accessories and strategies. You can see some of this work in the pictures below.

Continued Working on the Most Sustainable Lightbulbs and Light Bulb Companies Tutorial – Click for Page

Ian Coletti (Environmental Studies Major, Researcher) completed his 13th and final week helping with research for the Most Sustainable Windows and Doors open source guide. This week Ian completed most of the section for understanding windows and doors. You can see some of this work-in-progress below.

Continued Research for the Most Sustainable Windows and Doors Open Source Guide – Click for Page

Ashish Hirani (Fire Protection Engineer) also completed his 8th week working on the City Center Sprinkler and Emergency Lighting Design. This week Ashish researched ideas on how mains lighting could be converted into emergency lighting in a given scenario. Locations of exit signs for zone E, zone F1 and zone D1 on the first floor were also identified. You can see some of the results of this research below.

Researched Ideas on How Mains Lighting Could Be Converted Into Emergency Lighting in a Given Scenario – Click for Page

And Ksenia Akimov (Plumbing Engineer) joined the team and completed her 1st week working on the Duplicable City Center plumbing designs. This week she focused on familiarization with the project, collection of initial data for design (architectural plans, regulatory documentation, etc.), and design of the necessary templates. You can see some screenshots of this behind-the-scenes work below.

Joined the Team and Began Working on the Duplicable City Center Plumbing Designs – Click for Page

HIGHEST GOOD FOOD PROGRESS

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

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

This week the core team continued working on the open source chicken coop step-by-step building instructions on our behind-the-scenes google doc. This week we finished the instructions for the roosting ladder and started working on the steps to build the nesting boxes. You can see some of this work-in-progress below.

Finished the Roosting Ladder Instructions and Started Working on the Steps to Build the Nesting Boxes – Click for Chickens Page

HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION PROGRESS

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

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

This week Xiaolu Song (Landscape Designer) completed her 11th week working on the playground and other external details of the Ultimate Classroom. This week Xiaolu added tree and people elements in Lumion and test rendered various locations in preparation for the final walkthrough video render. You can see some of this work below.

Added Tree and People Elements in Lumion and Test Rendered Various Locations – Click for the Ultimate Classroom

Shuwei Liu (Landscape Designer) also completed her 10th week working on the playground and other external details of the Ultimate Classroom. This week Shuwei also added people and other details to the indoor and outdoor aspects of the SketchUp model and completed test renders in Lumion as part of preparing for the final walkthrough. You can see below some screenshots related to this work.

Continued Working on the Playground and Other External Details of the Ultimate Classroom – Click for Page

HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY PROGRESS

One Community is creating an age of cooperation through a Highest Good society approach to living that is founded on fulfilled living, the study of meeting human needs, Community, and making a difference in the world:

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

This week the core team continued behind-the-scenes updating of the Consensus and Groups of 200+. This week we updated the structure to have 5 as the minimum number of members per group, adjusted the emergency process to an 80% majority instead of 90% to reflect the original intent that it would take 3 people in a 10-or-more group to stop a decision the rest of the group felt strongly about, added a diversity of new FAQs, updated the ideas mind map to integrate dotted lines to show the path of an idea vs solid lines for related comments, and we created a new graphic to clarify the group structures. Pictures of some of this work can be seen below.

Continued Behind-the-scenes Updating of the Consensus and Groups of 200+ Content – Click for Page

Ross Edwards (Chief Imagination Officer, G3) completed his 20th week helping promote One Community. Ross is someone who found our project, loved what we are doing, and offered to just help contact people he (and we) thought might be interested in what we’re doing. This week’s focus was promoting our project and the One Community helping page to newspapers. You can see below this last week’s list of who he contacted and a version of the press release he is sharing.

Focused on Promoting Our Project and the One Community Helping Page to Newspapers – Click for Helping Page

Andon Ignatov (Full-stack Developer) completed his 16th week working on the Highest Good Network software. This week Andon spent some time helping out Adam and Jerry over a voice chat regarding questions they had. He then worked on the Heroku server (dev environment) addressing the server’s idling issue which was affecting cronjobs as well as investigating why email isn’t working on that server. On the WeeklySummary component, he did updates to the form submission notifications and added a minimum of 50 word count requirement to the summary text. He then did some code refactoring and small bugs fixing for the WeeklySummary and submitted a pull request for review and merge. You can see screenshots of some of this work below.

Continued Working on the Highest Good Network Software – Click for Page

TEKtalent Inc. (a custom programming solutions company) also continued with their 14th week helping with the Highest Good Network software. This week Nithesh and the TEK talent team completed the functionality to add and delete members of a team. Administrators can search for all available users and assign one user to a specific team by clicking the teams icon on the list page. They also corrected the confirmation message on deleting a team. An autocomplete text input box has been introduced in the team members list popup which allows the admin to search and select a user and then add that user as a member to the team. You can see some of this work below.

Completed the Functionality to Add and Delete Members of a Team – Click for Highest Good Network

Yiqi Feng (Software Engineer) continued with her 9th week as a member of the Highest Good Network software team. This week Yiqi changed the position and the function of the “cancel” button. After people edit time, an edit-time notification pops up. If people click “cancel”, the edited time will be reset to the original one. Also, she resolved all conflicts between “feature/Timer” and “development” and completed the function so that an email will be sent if they get a blue square and popup reminders will inform them how close they are to a blue square when time is edited 5, 7, 9, 11, 13, etc. times. You can see some of this work below.

Changed the Position and the Function of the “Cancel” Button – Click for Highest Good Network

Noor Qureshi (Insurance Researcher) completed her 4th week helping research One Community’s insurance options. This week Noor determined what could be potential drivers for increases in premiums. She reviewed several papers and webinars to understand the components of a premium and all of the factors that are taken into account when creating a premium. She also consolidated the information she has gathered thus far to only include the information that is most relevant to finding the best insurance plan for our organization. Some of the materials researched included a webinar on the drivers of health insurance premiums as well as articles that provided in-depth explanations of health insurance premiums. You can see some of this work below.

Determined What Could Be Potential Drivers for Increases in Premiums – Click for Health Insurance Page

Chris Weilacker (Software Engineer) completed his 3rd week working on the Highest Good Network software. This week Chris completed testing of the Header and Monthly Effort Components. He looked through some of the other components that were assigned to Jaspal and realized that they were not connected to the App so skipped them at this time as he was not sure if they were functional. Chris started on Unit Testing the Project Component and has completed a good portion of that component. At the current moment Chris has gotten test coverage of 50%, which once Jun Hao’s tests are pulled in the testing coverage should reach in the 60-80% range, as there are several unconnected components that haven’t been used and tested. These will have to be taken into account from a code coverage perspective. You can see some of the code for Chris’ work below.

Completed Testing of the Header and Monthly Effort Components – Click for Highest Good Network

Jun Hao (Software Engineer) also completed his 3rd week working on the Highest Good Network software. This week Jun finished the unit tests for the UpdatePassword component from last week. He tried different approaches, such as mocking the action creator for just testing the component and mocking the server for testing the whole component-action-reducer process. Finally he utilized MSW to mock the server for achieving better test coverage. He then started working on the UserManagement component. He created separate test files for each sub-component for better code layout and better readability. He finished almost all the components expect for the integrated UserManagement component. You can see some of this work below.

Finished the Unit Tests for the Updatepassword Component – Click for Highest Good Network

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