One Community welcomes TEKtalent Inc. to the software design team as our newest Volunteer/Consultant!

TEKtalent Inc. is one of the leading staffing and consulting companies in Silicon Valley, California, providing quality staffing and custom programming solutions. TEKtalent has proved to be reliable in the provision of employment to those who are actively looking for work. With years of experience in the staffing industry, TEKtalent provides career opportunities and new ventures, permanent and temporary, so that the job seeker could find the job that is right for him or her. In order to meet the specific needs of employers and job seekers, they build a customized and creative staffing strategy. As a member of the One Community team, TEKtalent is helping develop the Highest Good Network software.

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Ethical cooperative replication is about open sourcing and free-sharing everything needed to build a global collaborative of teacher/demonstration hubs working together for The Highest Good of All. One Community will be the first of these hubs and will include open source plans and demonstrations of sustainable food, energy, housing, education, for-profit and non-profit economic design, social architecture, fulfilled living, global stewardship practices, and more.

• 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 August 2nd, 2020 edition (#384) of our weekly progress update detailing our team’s development and accomplishments:

Ethical Cooperative Replication
One Community Progress Update #384

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HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING PROGRESS

One Community is forwarding ethical cooperative replication 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 our detail review of work and research completed to date on hydropower for the open source Hydro Energy Setup and Maintenance page. This week we added functionality to the hydropower potential calculator in Google Sheets to include springs and earth dams without streams feeding into them, a pipe diameter component, as well as head loss. In the end, we found an excel sheet online that does exactly what was being created. We also continued to refine the hydropower writeup by sorting out turbine selection criteria. Pictures of some of this work are below and we’d say this research and the behind-the-scenes tutorial is now about 80% complete.

Continued Detailed Review of Work and Research Completed to Date on Hydropower – Click for Page

Dean Scholz (Architectural Designer) continued helping with the Earthbag Village (Pod 1) 4-dome cluster designs. This week was week #194 of Dean’s work and the focus this week was the addition of more trees and plants and working with the related textures to make them look more realistic.

Added More Trees and Plants and Made the Textures Look More Realistic – Click for Earthbag Village

Ashwini Ramesh (Civil Engineer and Project Manager) continued with her 12th week helping with the Earthbag Village cost analysis and open source tutorials. This week Ashwini continued to research Utility Excavation and Geotextile Fabrics, updating the status and Google Docs and sheets on the material pages with related details. 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

Angela Mao (Sustainability Researcher) also completed her 11th week as a member of the team. This week, Angela finished compiling a list of lightbulb products for the Most Sustainable Lightbulbs and Light Bulb Companies tutorial and is preparing to organize the information in a spreadsheet next week. She also worked on editing the written section of her light bulb tutorial. In addition to this, she finished another round or edits and requested additions for her plastic recycling tutorial. The pictures below show some of this work.

Finished Compiling a List of Lightbulb Products for the Most Sustainable Lightbulbs and Light Bulb Companies Tutorial – Click for Page

Pallavi Samaiya (Business Technology Analyst) also continued with her 7th week conducing research for the Best Small and Large-scale Community Options for Sustainable Processing & Reuse of Non-recyclables tutorial. This week Pallavi filled in some gaps in research and completed the FAQs and Why Open Source content. She has added a DIY for recycling disposable diapers. Below are some pictures and we’d say this brings this tutorial to about 70% complete.

Continued Research for the Best Options for Sustainable Processing & Reuse of Non-recyclables Tutorial – Click for Page

And Jose Luis Flores (Mechanical Engineer) completed his 2nd week helping finish the Net-zero Bathroom component of the Earthbag Village. This week Jose Luis converted the list of materials for the Net-Zero Bathroom into the Dome 1 format. While formatting the collected data he also researched prices and available dimensions of the needed materials. He gathered and recorded the dimensions and positions of the bathroom furnishing such as the toilet, sink, and urinal from the Solidworks model. After collecting the needed measurements he added the furnishing to the AutoCAD floor plan. You can see pictures of some of this work below.

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

DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER PROGRESS

One Community is forwarding ethical cooperative replication 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 continued our detailed review of the Duplicable City Center energy analysis needed for LEED Platinum certification and completion of the City Center open source HVAC design tutorial. This week we created the initial basement wall and door strategy, adjusted sizing of radiant floors, applied the electrical equipment loads in the kitchen, and did another overview and integration of all the schedules. You can see some of this work-in-progress below.

Continued Detailed Review of the Duplicable City Center Energy Analysis – Click for Page

The core team also continued working on the Duplicable City Center structural engineering details. This week the core team adjusted the number of columns connecting the fourth level to the second and third level. We also continued performing load combination analysis to the updated integrated model. The addition of columns reduces some of the stress and deflection of the overall structure, but the core team discovered that the third level exhibits unusual deflection in the load combo of snow, dead and live loads. Further investigation is required to fix this deflection issue and other overloaded columns between the fourth and third floor, and to test larger columns as a substitute for more columns. You can see some of this work below.

Continued Working on the Duplicable City Center Structural Engineering Details – Click for Page

Ian Coletti (Environmental Studies Major Researcher) completed his 8th week researching for the Most Sustainable Windows and Doors open source guide. This week Ian completed an initial draft of all spreadsheets and an initial draft of the company sustainability rankings. He also began work on describing and ranking products. 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

And Ashish Hirani (Fire Protection Engineer) completed his 3rd week working on the City Center Sprinkler and Emergency Lighting Design. This week Ashish adapted more drawings to the title block. You can see some 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 forwarding ethical cooperative replication 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 our research on rabbits by completing a final round of review and edits and team Q&A sessions covering the specifics of how we’ll be presenting our research on the website. This behind-the-scenes work is now complete and ready for publication.

Completed a Final Round of Review and Edits of the Rabbit Doc – Click for Rabbits Page

The core team also 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 steps for shutter installation to cover all the ventilation openings, updated all the images that showed the old ventilation shutters, and started the instructions for the manure collection trays. You can see some of this work-in-progress below.

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

Jessica Wienke (Food & Nutrition Project Consultant and CEO & Co-Owner of The Artisan Wheelhouse & The Roots of Medicine) and Aly Shannon (Food & Nutrition Project Consultant and Creative Director & Co-Owner of Roots of Medicine) continued with their 7th week working on the Transition Food Self-sufficiency Plan. This week they made recipes for Apple Cinnamon Muffins, Curry Lentil Soup, Carrot Cake Muffins, Almond Milk, and Blueberry Lemon Muffins, as you see here and all for the vegan recipe pages.

Continued Creating Vegan Recipes for the Transition Food Self-sufficiency Plan – Click for Page

HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION PROGRESS

One Community is forwarding ethical cooperative replication 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 Dan Alleck (Designer and Illustrator) completed his 84th week helping with render additions and finishing work for the rooms in the Ultimate Classroom. This week he finished work on both the renders for the central area that will be used for theater and other events. Final additions included more people, cords and other additions to the lighting guy on the right, boxes at the top of the pull-down security walls, and shadows. This picture is now on the Ultimate Classroom page also.

Finished Work on Render for the Central Area for Theater and Other Events – Click for Ultimate Classroom

Xiaolu Song (Landscape Designer) also completed her 6th week working on the playground and other external details of the Ultimate Classroom. This week Xiaolu finished two detailed plans, the basketball court and vernal. She also researched paving materials and companies. You can see some of this work below.

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

Shuwei Liu (Landscape Designer) also completed her 5th week working on the playground and other external details of the Ultimate Classroom. This week Shuwei drew two sections, the micro-topo area and amphitheater area. She also researched playground equipment. You can see some of this work-in-progress below.

Drew the Micro-topo and Amphitheater Area, and Researched Playground Equipment – Click for The Ultimate Classroom

HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY PROGRESS

One Community is forwarding ethical cooperative replication 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 Jin Hua (Web Marketer and Graphic Designer) created responsive ad text for the Water Saving Faucets Campaign and launched it, added account-wide structured snippet to the ads, reviewed & implemented multiple suggestions to expand responsive ads (97.3% optimization score), and created responsive ads for our wind energy page. He also compared last week’s automated bidding vs without. If you look at the totals, clicks have increased by 25%, a very good sign! This marketing is part of a grant our nonprofit has received.

Created Responsive Ad Text for the Water Saving Faucets Campaign and Launched It – Click for Home Page

Henry Nguyen (React Developer) completed his 26th week with the team and working on the Highest Good Network software. This week Henry fixed the total hours bug with a function to test all the logics and fix all of them every time the user presses the refresh button or F5. He also added a reset button for the task entry popup and made it so clicking names will open a person’s profile. And he updated the function to assign users for the tasks, so now we can add, remove and search for the users faster than before. You can see some of this work below.

Fixed the Total Hours Bug With a Function to Test All the Logics – Click for Highest Good Network

Ross Edwards (Chief Imagination Officer, G3) completed his 15th 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 he continued to promote our project and the One Community helping page to media outlets and philanthropists. You can see below this last week’s list of who he contacted and the press release he is sharing.

Continued to Promote Our Project and the One Community Helping Page to Media Outlets and Philanthropists – Click for Helping Page

Andon Ignatov (Full-stack Developer) completed his 12th week working on the Highest Good Network software. This week Andon did some refactoring and code improvements in the WeeklySummaries component, added things like prop-types validation for the WeeklySummary, WeeklySummariesReport and related components and a new tooltip for the weekly summaries tabs explaining what “Last Week” and “Week Before Last” mean in terms of calendar week vs last time a summary was submitted. He also did the testing suites for the WeeklySummary component and redux related functions. You can see screenshots of some of this work below.

Did Some Refactoring and Code Improvements in the WeeklySummaries Component – Click for Highest Good Network

TEKtalent Inc. (a custom programming solutions company) also continued with their 9th week helping with the Highest Good Network software. This week Nithesh and the TEKtalent team completed the changes suggested for the reset password validations and messages. They also started the cleaning up activities of the react code base by correcting the lint errors. The lint configuration has been completed and the existing error corrections are in progress. The completed lint corrections so far are all js files and started the same for jsx files. You can see some of this work below.

Completed the Changes Suggested for the Reset Password Validations and Messages – Click for Highest Good Network

Adam Capdeville (Software Engineer) completed his 8th week working on the Highest Good Network software. This week Adam focused on researching methods of implementing user projects, teams and total worked hours. After Adam had a video conference call with Nithesh, he pivoted from working on the users projects, teams and hours to further developing the users profile responsive design. Adam’s pivot was due to a few variables that are currently relying on Nithesh’s module. You can see some of Adam’s behind-the-scenes work below.

Researched Methods of Implementing User Projects, Teams and Total Worked Hours – Click for Highest Good Network

And Yiqi Feng (Software Engineer) continued with her 4th week as a member of the Highest Good Network software team. This week Yiqi refactored the timer component. She added modals for the not-enough-words notification popup and designed the popup page. She completed the function in 1.5.9 under both Add and Edit mode. She also began work on the attach-link notification popup. You can see some of this work below.

Refactored the Timer Component of the Highest Good Network Software – Click for Page

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One Community is making sustainability more accessible through open source and free-shared sustainable solutions covering food, energy, housing, education, for-profit and non-profit economic design, social architecture, fulfilled living, global stewardship practices, and more. These resources are being designed to construction replicable teacher/demonstration hubs that will produce even more sustainable tools, tutorials, and resources.

• 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 July 26th, 2020 edition (#383) of our weekly progress update detailing our team’s development and accomplishments:

Making Sustainability More Accessible
One Community Progress Update #383

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 making sustainability more accessible 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 our detail review of work and research completed to date on hydropower for the open source Hydro Energy Setup and Maintenance page. This week we watched a 3-part series on the potential of generating power using rainwater collected on a roof, continued to integrate our notes into the hydropower section, and gained a better understanding of potential, kinetic, mechanical, and electrical energies, as well as kW versus kWh. You can see some pictures of this research below.

Continued Detailed Review of Work and Research Completed to Date on Hydropower – Click for Page

Angela Mao (Sustainability Researcher) also completed her 10th week as a member of the team. This week Angela continued work on the Most Sustainable Lightbulbs and Light Bulb Companies by completing collection of her information on each of the 6 companies she selected. She has been researching specific light bulbs from each of the companies to see which are the best. She also completed another round or edits and requested additions for her plastic recycling tutorial. You can see some of this behind-the-scenes work below.

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

Pallavi Samaiya (Business Technology Analyst) also continued with her 6th week researching how to sustainably manage and process non-recyclable waste. This week Pallavi compared different recycling options and estimated them to arrive at her initial conclusion. Below are some pictures and we’d say this brings this tutorial to about 60% complete.

Continued Researching How to Sustainably Manage and Process Non-recyclable Waste

And Jose Luis Flores (Mechanical Engineer) joined the team and completed his 1st week helping finish the Net-zero Bathroom component of the Earthbag Village. This week Jose Luis began and completed the list of materials needed for the Net-Zero Bathroom. His research involved thoroughly studying the Net-Zero Bathroom final design and interior interface to determine what to record on the list. He also reviewed the material listed for the water barrel support beams and concurred the best material was structural wood. He dissected the Solidworks final design to gather the dimensions and the quantity of material used to build the structure, roof, water storage system, and plumbing. After finishing the list, he began converting the floor plan for the Net-Zero Bathroom structure from Solidworks to AutoCAD. You can see pictures of some of this work below.

Joined the Team and Began Helping Finish the Net-zero Bathroom Component of the Earthbag Village – Click for Page

DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER PROGRESS

One Community is making sustainability more accessible 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 continued our detailed review of the Duplicable City Center energy analysis needed for LEED Platinum certification and completion of the City Center open source HVAC design tutorial. This week we updated the dome wall construction values, updated and fixed windows to be triple panels, adjusted the indoor pool temperature based on our operation plans (58°F in winter, 78°F in summer, 75°F for the rest of year), adjusted the hot tub schedule and temperature based on our operation plans, and conducted research on the best basement door for drive-up access. You can see some of this work-in-progress below.

Continued Detailed Review of the Duplicable City Center Energy Analysis – Click for Page

And the core team continued working on the Duplicable City Center structural engineering details. This week we assigned area loads to the integrated SAP model and conducted analysis for the entire model, including different load combinations. The analysis results show very high axial loads for the tentative locations of the fourth level columns. Therefore there is need to increase the number of columns connecting the second and fourth level. Further analysis can be done after the update of column locations and the integrated seismic analysis can be performed as well. You can see some of this work below.

Continued Working on the Duplicable City Center Structural Engineering Details – Click for Page

Ian Coletti (Environmental Studies Major Researcher) completed his 7th week researching for the Most Sustainable Windows and Doors open source guide. This week Ian completed most of the corporation sustainability spreadsheet and began the process of adding minor final details to all three data sheets. 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

And Ashish Hirani (Fire Protection Engineer) completed his 2nd week working on the City Center Sprinkler and Emergency Lighting Design. This week Ashish focused on detailing the sprinkler system and adapting it to the One Community title block. You can see some of this work below.

Focused on Detailing the Sprinkler System and Adapting It to the One Community Title Block – Click for Page

HIGHEST GOOD FOOD PROGRESS

One Community is making sustainability more accessible 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 under-roof siding and fan installation instructions for the East and West wall and started the installation instructions for the shutters over the ventilation openings. You can see some of this work-in-progress below.

Finished the Under-roof Siding and Fan Installation Instructions for the East and West Wall of Chicken Coop – Click for Chickens Page

Ali Ghahremannezhad (Mechanical Engineer) additionally continued with his 23rd week as a member of the team and working on the climate batteries for the Aquapini/Walipini structures. This week Ali completed the info and drawings of the newest design. In this design, a North/South mixed intake/outtake is implemented to improve efficiency. Layers 1 and 3 are used for cooling with the intakes at the north of the structure closer to the ceiling. Layer 2 is used for heating with the intake at the south of the structure closer to the floor.

Completed the Info and Drawings of the Newest Design – Click for Aquapini:Walipini Page

Jessica Wienke (Food & Nutrition Project Consultant and CEO & Co-Owner of The Artisan Wheelhouse & The Roots of Medicine) and Aly Shannon (Food & Nutrition Project Consultant and Creative Director & Co-Owner of The Roots of Medicine) continued with their 6th week working on the Transition Food Self-sufficiency Plan. This week they cooked and took pictures of Lentil Veggie Soup, Herbed Potatoes, Mac n Cheese, Bean Chili, Chili-Cheese Nacho Potatoes, Caramelized Onions, Chili Ketchup, Peanut Sauce, Chili Ginger Burger Lettuce Wraps, Black Bean Brownies, and Vanilla Banana Ice ‘Cream’.  You can see these below and they are all for the vegan recipe pages.

Continued Creating Vegan Recipes for the Transition Food Self-sufficiency Plan – Click for Page

And Moti Scotti (Permaculturalist) completed her 2nd week on the team and her help reviewing the Permaculture Doc the core team has been developing for the past year. She finished her review and general edits and additions to the core 80 pages, in addition to comments and questions towards overall presentation and design for better understanding. The image below shows a  couple of the areas where she made significant edits.

Finished Detailed Review of the Permaculture Doc – Click for Permaculture Page

HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION PROGRESS

One Community is making sustainability more accessible 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 Zebao Chen (Structural Designer) completed her 14th week working on the Ultimate Classroom structural engineering details. This week Zebao made final adjustments to the schematic drawings, structural elements design, and construction details. Pictures of this work are below and we’d say this brings the engineering of this building to 95% complete.

Made Final Adjustments to Schematic Drawings, Structural Elements Design, and Construction Details – Click for Ultimate Classroom

Dan Alleck (Designer and Illustrator) completed his 83rd week helping with render additions and finishing work for the rooms in the Ultimate Classroom. This week he continued work on the 2nd render for the central area that will be used for theater and other events. Development this week included updating the lighting, adding people, stage lights, a table and lighting guy on the right, and minor changes to the background.

Continued Work on Render for the Central Area for Theater and Other Events – Click for Ultimate Classroom

Xiaolu Song (Landscape Designer) also completed her 5th week working on the playground and other external details of the Ultimate Classroom. This week Xiaolu used AutoCAD and Photoshop to make a colored plan and detailed plans including the amphitheater and micro topos. You can see some of this work below.

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

Shuwei Liu (Landscape Designer) also completed her 4th week working on the playground and other external details of the Ultimate Classroom. This week Shuwei continued to update the SketchUp model for the building and drew two sections for two detailed plans. You can see some of this work-in-progress below.

Continued Updating SketchUp Model for the Building and Drew Two Sections for Two Detailed Plans – Click for Ultimate Classroom

HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY PROGRESS

One Community is making sustainability more accessible 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 edited the content from several of our other videos and provided it so Moneyless Society could include it in the video they produced and can be seen below.

Jin Hua (Web Marketer and Graphic Designer) also reviewed & implemented appropriate Google Ad recommendations, updated all campaigns to automated bidding strategies to maximize clicks, reviewed and created (from Recommendations) Responsive Ads for 3 Ad Groups, added responsive ads for the “Paper Recycling” ad group and launched it, reviewed the performance of our most recent bidding strategy change and found a strong increase, started the Water-Saving Faucet Ad Campaign, and added 16,038 keywords. Jin has been a member of our team for almost 10 years and you can see some of this work from him below. This marketing is part of a grant our nonprofit has received.

Continued Working on our Marketing Team by Implementing Appropriate Google Ad Recommendations, etc. – Click to Visit Home Page

This week Henry Nguyen (React Developer) completed his 25th week with the team and working on the Highest Good Network software. This week Henry fixed more bugs in the import and table totaling functionalities. He also remade the colors for tasks so when you collapse them you can see tasks easier. He’s also identified another bug where importing large files causes the calculation not to work in some cases. If he can’t fix it next week, he will add a ‘fix’ button to refresh the calculations when a user sees they are incorrect. You can see some of this work below.

Fixed More Bugs in the Import and Table Totaling Functionalities – Click for Highest Good Network

Wen Zhang (Software Engineer) completed her 14th week as a volunteer working on the Highest Good Network software too. Wen is now using React Overlay to display the badge description on hover. With this, the description box covers the badge itself when the mouse hovers over the badge. If we would like to see both the image of the badge and its description at the same time, then the description might cover other badges, assuming the description box shows on the right of the image on hover. Mockups are coming to help us decide. 

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

Ross Edwards (Chief Imagination Officer, G3) completed his 14th 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 he continued to promote our project and the One Community helping page to media outlets and philanthropists. You can see below this last week’s list of who he contacted and the press release he is sharing.

Continued to Promote Our Project and the One Community Helping Page to Media Outlets and Philanthropists – Click for Helping Page

Andon Ignatov (Full-stack Developer) completed his 11th week working on the Highest Good Network software. This week Andon updated the implementation and some of the behavior of the Weekly Summary component to incorporate some changes like allowing the user to edit all three weeks’ summaries (current, last and before last) rather than how it was originally designed to just be able to edit the current week’s summary. He also updated and improved the component’s state management. Additionally this week Andon helped with code review, testing and approval of PRs. 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 8th week helping with the Highest Good Network software. This week Nithesh and the TEK talent team completed the suggested review changes in reset password option and started the infringement (blue square) related functionalities. The blue squares have been displayed in a user profile and added the option for the administrator to add a new infringement, edit the already added one and delete an existing infringement. You can see some of this work below.

Completed the Suggested Review Changes in Reset Password Option and Started the Infringement Related Functionalities – Click for Highest Good Network

Adam Capdeville (Software Engineer) completed his 7th week working on the Highest Good Network software. Links are now grouped in one edit window, where the user/admin can add, edit & delete as they chose. Adam then began reworking the layout of the user’s profile to be more streamlined. He separated edit functionality into a secondary view of the user profile. This way the default view of the user profile is no longer cluttered with edit fields, and instead info is presented in a more concise way. Next week Adam will add in Projects & Team view and edit components. You can see some of Adam’s behind-the-scenes work below.

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

And Yiqi Feng (Software Engineer) continued with her 3rd week as a member of the Highest Good Network software team. This week Yiqi ran backend and frontend code successfully and fixed the bug about yarn install error. Also, she found a solution for finding the yarn path. In addition to this, she modified the MongoDB connection condition code under HGNRest file. She used post_file post actions in Postman to create a login account. You can see some of this work below.

Ran Backend and Frontend Code Successfully and Fixed the Bug About Yarn Install Error – Click for Highest Good Network

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

FOLLOW ONE COMMUNITY’S PROGRESS (click icons for our pages)

 

INVESTOR PAGES

OVERVIEW       ●       LOCATION       ●       FUNDING

GET INVOLVED

DONATE    ●     WAYS ANYONE CAN HELP     ●     MEMBERSHIP

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Creating a more sustainable world is easier with open source sustainability infrastructure. One Community is supporting this by creating open source plans, tools, and tutorials covering sustainable food, energy, housing, education, for-profit and non-profit economic design, social architecture, fulfilled living, global stewardship practices, and more.

• 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 July 19th, 2020 edition (#382) of our weekly progress update detailing our team’s development and accomplishments:

Creating a More Sustainable World
One Community Progress Update #382

DONATE  |  COLLABORATE  |  HELP WITH LARGE-SCALE FUNDING

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ONE COMMUNITY WEEKLY UPDATE DETAILS

HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING PROGRESS

One Community is creating a more sustainable world 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 our detail review of work and research completed to date on hydropower for the open source Hydro Energy Setup and Maintenance page. This week we created an excel sheet to calculate power, began consolidating our notes for our introduction to hydropower, and researched resources for hydropower engineering design and equipment. You can see some pictures of this research below.

Continued Detailed Review of Work and Research Completed to Date on Hydropower – Click for Page

Angela Mao (Sustainability Researcher) also completed her 9th week as a member of the team. This week, Angela finished editing her plastic recycling tutorial and submitted it for review. She also compiled a list of the best products from each of the lighting brands and continued to research deeper into each of the brand’s sustainability practices. She also looked for the best lighting practices to conserve energy. You can see some of this behind-the-scenes work below.

Finished Editing Plastic Recycling Tutorial and Submitted It for Review – Click for Page

Ashwini Ramesh (Civil Engineer and Project Manager) continued with her 11th week helping with the Earthbag Village cost analysis and open source tutorials. This week Ashwini focused on researching compass installation, rubble trench footer formworks, rainwater harvesting, and french drains and gutters. 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

Pallavi Samaiya (Business Technology Analyst) also continued with her 5th week researching how to sustainably manage and process non-recyclable waste. This week Pallavi researched cities and organizations already using waste to energy systems. She looked in to some differences in the types of these systems and into the economics and incentives for setting up such businesses. You can see some of the pictures of the research below and we’d say this brings this tutorial to about 30% complete.

Researched Cities and Organizations Already Using Waste to Energy Systems

Michael Hagler (Senior Graphic Designer and Artist) also helped create all the new Highest Good Housing icons you see below.

Helped Create All the New Highest Good Housing Icons – Click for Page

DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER PROGRESS

One Community is creating a more sustainable world 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 continued our detailed review of the Duplicable City Center energy analysis needed for LEED Platinum certification and completion of the City Center open source HVAC design tutorial. This week we adjusted the thermal efficiency for the boilers and remodeled the HVAC system based on the Mini Split designs and added clear labels. You can see some of this work-in-progress below.

Continued Detailed Review of the Duplicable City Center Energy Analysis – Click for Page

And the core team continued working on the Duplicable City Center structural engineering details. This week the core team continued implementing an approach to accommodate all floors of the structures into one integrated model and brought this process to 90% complete. The final provision will be extending the supporting columns and specify the material and section details for the individual members. In addition to this, the core team also inserted the seismic analysis function and load cases into the analysis. Once the model is ready for analysis after all the setup, hopefully by next week, the seismic analysis can be conducted to determine the displacement and reactions in the structure. You can see some of this work below.

Continued Working on the Duplicable City Center Structural Engineering Details – Click for Page

This week Radhieka Nagpal (Volunteer Researcher) completed her 19th and final week researching the Most Sustainable Building Materials: Carpet, Flooring, Wood, Etc. This week Radhieka finished editing the ‘types of flooring descriptions’ by restructuring the features and pros/cons sections into Features/Pros and Cons sections to make the benefits more clearly separated from the negatives. This brings the behind-the-scenes design of this tutorial to 100% complete.

Continued Researching the Most Sustainable Building Materials – Click for Page

Ian Coletti (Environmental Studies Major Researcher) completed his 6th week researching for the Most Sustainable Windows and Doors open source guide. This week Ian completed what should be a majority of the window and door spreadsheets and began working on the company ranking spreadsheet. 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

And Ashish Hirani (Fire Protection Engineer) joined the team and completed his 1st week working on the City Center Sprinkler and Emergency Lighting Design. This week Ashish developed the Basis of Design document for emergency & exit lighting systems. He also prepared an A1 drawing template layout, that could be adapted for all A1 sized AutoCAD drawings.

Joined the Team and Began Working on the City Center Sprinkler and Emergency Lighting Design – Click for Page

HIGHEST GOOD FOOD PROGRESS

One Community is creating a more sustainable world 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 our research on rabbits and added edits and updates to pages 1-28, incorporating various paragraphs into more appropriate sections, reading through the pages and deleting and adding various info, and adding more sources to the resources section. You can see some of this work-in-progress below and we’d say we’re now about 95% complete with this research.

Continued Our Research on Rabbits and Added Edits and Updates to our Google Doc. – Click to Visit Rabbits Page

The core team also continued working on the open source chicken coop step-by-step building instructions on our behind-the-scenes google doc. This week’s focus was finishing the south wall (nesting boxes wall) siding and windows installation and updating all the related instructions on pages 79-87. You can see some of this work-in-progress below.

Continued Working on the Open Source Chicken Coop Step-by-Step Building Instructions – Click for Chicken Page

Mohammad Almuzaial (Civil and Construction Engineer) continued with his 31st week helping with the Aquapini/Walipini engineering details. This week Mohammad finished the introduction of the design criteria report. You can see some of this work work-in-progress below and we’d say we’re now about 96% complete with the structural details.

Finished the Introduction of the Design Criteria Report – Click for Aquapini/Walipini Page

Jessica Wienke (Food & Nutrition Project Consultant and CEO & Co-Owner of The Artisan Wheelhouse & The Roots of Medicine) and Aly Shannon (Food & Nutrition Project Consultant and Creative Director & Co-Owner of The Roots of Medicine) continued with their 5th week working on the Transition Food Self-sufficiency Plan. This week they completed recipes for Pumpkin Muffins, Garden Veggie Red Sauce Pasta, Vegan Oatie Brownies, Red Curry, and Curry Burgers, all for the vegan recipe pages, as you see here.

Continued Creating Vegan Recipes for the Transition Food Self-sufficiency Plan – Click for Page

And Moti Scotti (Permaculturalist) joined the team and began a detailed review of the Permaculture Doc the core team has been developing for the past year. She corrected errors, rewrote some sections, and deleted parts that would be confusing to the reader. You can see some screenshot of some of her changes below.

Joined the Team and Began a Detailed Review of the Permaculture Doc – Click for Permaculture Page

HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION PROGRESS

One Community is creating a more sustainable world 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 Zebao Chen (Structural Designer)  completed her 13th week working on the Ultimate Classroom structural engineering details. This week, Zebao updated the section design and construction details to match the new material selection, light cement insulation. In addition, she researched the structure at the openings, windows and doors. Her new perspectives show additional wood frame to support the straw bales above the openings. She also created the 3D models showing the construction detail and process. The 3D view and the elevation now show the element relationships in the structural system. You can see some of this work below and we’d say this brings the engineering of this building to 75% complete.

Updated the Section Design and Construction Details to Match the New Material Selection – Click for Ultimate Classroom

Xiaolu Song (Landscape Designer) also completed her 4th week working on the playground and other external details of the Ultimate Classroom. This week Xiaolu used AutoCAD and Photoshop to create a colored plan, two detailed plans include outdoor learning space and a small town for younger kids. You can see some of this work below.

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

Shuwei Liu (Landscape Designer) also completed her 3rd week working on the playground and other external details of the Ultimate Classroom. This week Shuwei continued to update the planting selection board and SketchUp model and drew a cross section for the North side of the site.

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

HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY PROGRESS

One Community is creating a more sustainable world 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 24th week with the team and working on the Highest Good Network software. This week Henry fixed bugs from last week, fixing a problem with the sum of hours not adding properly from the excel file. Now the app will automatically recalculate tasks and other information after you import them from excel. He also found another problem on the hour format with numbers including decimals not calculating accurately. If you put 52.5, it will keep 52 only. You can see some of this work below.

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

Alvaro Hernández (Open Source Tech Consultant, Developer) completed his 17th week as a member of the Highest Good Network software and web design teams. This week Alvaro improved the webpage review checklist so it now includes all reviewed aspects of the “Sustainable Parking Lot Construction Guide” and has a better format. He also started to edit the “Best Small and Large-scale Community Clothing Recycling, Reuse, and Repurposing Options” tutorial, began to discuss the use of linting and code formatting tools and created a “Requirement Management Procedure For AirB&B Code Style conventions” doc to detect if this improvement is worth the effort or not. You can see some screenshots of Alvaro’s behind-the-scenes work below.

Continued Working on the Highest Good Network Software and Web Design Teams – Click for HGN Page

Wen Zhang (Software Engineer) completed her 13th week as a volunteer working on the Highest Good Network software too. This week Wen worked on the MongoDB database, read part of the reactstrap documentation and learned some new tricks, and created the different views for badge display and badge descriptions shown below.

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

Ross Edwards (Chief Imagination Officer, G3) completed his 13th 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 he continued to promote our project and the One Community helping page to media outlets and philanthropists. You can see below this last week’s list of who he contacted and the press release he is sharing.

Continued to Promote Our Project and the One Community Helping Page to Media Outlets and Philanthropists – Click for Helping Page

Andon Ignatov (Full-stack Developer) completed his 10th week working on the Highest Good Network software. This week Andon wrote full tests for the Weekly Summaries Report page and related components. That work included doing research on whether React functional components with hooks can be tested using Jest and Enzyme. He wrote the tests for the “WeeklySummariesReport” component with React Testing Library including the redux store related code (actions, reducers) utilizing the Mock Service Worker (MSW) library. Andon also included snapshot testing for the components used to generate the reports data for the web page and the PDF report files. You can see screenshots of some of this work below.

Wrote Full Tests for the Weekly Summaries Report Page and Related Components – Click for Highest Good Network

TEKtalent Inc. (a custom programming solutions company) also continued with their 7th week helping with the Highest Good Network software. This week Nithesh and the TEKtalent team completed the reset password functionality and introduced hyperlinking in the user management grid item to open the user profile. Upon clicking the first name or last name the user profile page shall open with details. The reset password button has been introduced in both the grid and user profile page, upon clicking this button a popup will be shown to enter and confirm the password. Once the administrator enters the new password and clicks, the reset password button will trigger the password reset. You can see some of this work below.

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

Adam Capdeville (Software Engineer) completed his 6th week working on the Highest Good Network software. Adam began his week fixing issues with the displaying of blue squares. Admins will now be the only one who can edit blue squares. The Blue Squares edit screen has been fixed so Admins can edit single fields if they choose to do so. Display of user links and admin links are now grouped together too. Adam optimized the links by displaying the buttons with the link name, instead of displaying link name and link URL next to each other. The link URL, often too long and incoherent, was extra information that didn’t need to be displayed. Adam refined the links to be clean and more straight to the point. Users will be able to add and edit personal links, while admins will be able to add permanent work links that are listed first. Next week Adam will wrap up links and finish refactoring module 1.4. You can see some of Adam’s behind-the-scenes work below.

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

And Yiqi Feng (Software Engineer) continued with her 2nd week as a member of the Highest Good Network software team. This week Yiqi continued learning how the timer and time log component works and worked on getting her local machine to run the backend code and React App. You can see some of this work below.

Continued Learning How the Timer and Time Log Component Works – Click for Highest Good Network

Jin Hua (Web Marketer and Graphic Designer) also got the keywords created for a new adwords campaign we’ll be running, 728 keywords were researched. He also ran reports to identify what words have been performing best in our existing campaigns. You can see some of this work below and this marketing is part of a grant our nonprofit has received.

Created Keywords for A New Adwords Campaign We’ll Be Running – Click for Our Home 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 has developed an open source sustainability model capable of creating global sustainability within our lifetime. When the designs are complete, we’ll use them to launch a global network of teacher/demonstration hubs designed to help people replicate sustainable environments integrating ecological 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. Doing this so they are modular and easy enough, affordable enough, and attractive enough to spread on their own is how we will accomplish our global sustainability goal.

• 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 July 12th, 2020 edition (#381) of our weekly progress update detailing our team’s development and accomplishments:

An Open Source Sustainability Model
One Community Progress Update #381

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 developing an open source sustainability 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 our detail review of work and research completed to date on hydropower for the open source Hydro Energy Setup and Maintenance page. The focus this week was reviewing several documents in support of the hydropower topic. You can see some pictures of this research below.

Continued Detailed Review of Work and Research Completed to Date on Hydropower – Click for Page

The core team also began final formatting, editing, and development of the Open Source Sustainable Parking Lot guide. This week we fixed HTML code issues accidentally transferred from the Google Doc into the entire page and then finalized the content and imagery for the introduction, table of contents, What, Why, and first section of the Details. We’d say this page is now 90% complete. 

Began Final Formatting, Editing, and Development of the Open Source Sustainable Parking Lot Guide – Click to Visit

Dean Scholz (Architectural Designer) continued helping with the Earthbag Village (Pod 1) 4-dome cluster designs. This week was week #193 of Dean’s work and the focus this week was adjusting textures for trees and plants and adding a fire pit and sitting area. You can see some of this work below.

Adjusted Textures for Trees and Plants and Adding a Fire Pit and Sitting Area – Click for Earthbag Village

Angela Mao (Sustainability Researcher) also completed her 8th week as a member of the team. This week, Angela finished her plastic recycling business tutorial and is now awaiting Core Team review of her work. Angela also narrowed down the best lightbulb brands down to 6 and is now researching their sustainability practices. She also started to compile a list of the most sustainable products from each of these brands. You can see some of this behind-the-scenes work below.

Finished Plastic Recycling Business Tutorial and Narrowed Down the Best Lightbulb Brands

Ashwini Ramesh (Civil Engineer and Project Manager) continued with her 10th week helping with the Earthbag Village cost analysis and open source tutorials. This week Ashwini continued to work on the Construction of Footer Foundation and Floor page for 3-dome and 6-dome clusters by conducting research on excavation and trenching and safety aspects as per OSHA and The Associated General Contractors of America. You can see some of this work-in-progress below.

Continued to Work on the Construction of Footer Foundation and Floor Page – Click for Earthbag Village

Pallavi Samaiya (Business Technology Analyst) also continued with her 4th week researching how to sustainably manage and process non-recyclable waste. This week Pallavi researched on Plasma Gasification process, Plasco WTE system, Precious Plastic machines for shredding and recycling, and Dendro Liquid Energy. You can see some of the pictures of the research below and we’d say this brings this tutorial to about 20% complete.

Researched on Plasma Gasification Process, Plasco WTE System, Precious Plastic Machines, and Dendro Liquid Energy

DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER PROGRESS

One Community is developing an open source sustainability 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 the core team continued our detailed review of the Duplicable City Center energy analysis needed for LEED Platinum certification and completion of the City Center open source HVAC design tutorial. This week we applied construction sets and schedule sets to the various spaces, added an economizer to the HVAC system, adjusted the coefficient of performance (COP) for the DX Coil Heating based on data in the document, adjusted thermal efficiency for the electric boiler based on data in the document, and adjusted the layout of Mini Split A and B, with corresponding COP. You can see some of this work-in-progress below.

Continued Detailed Review of the Duplicable City Center Energy Analysis – Click for Page

And the core team continued working on the Duplicable City Center structural engineering details. This week we continued working on the SAP model to incorporate all the three levels in a single SAP file to create an integrated structural model for analysis. The combining process is currently at ⅔ of the overall, where the fourth level isn’t combined with the other two yet. Another task started was the code (ASCE7-16) guidance of the seismic analysis. We researched the parameters needed for preliminary analysis and plan to calculate related values next week. You can see some of this work below.

Continued Working on the Duplicable City Center Structural Engineering Detail – Click for Page

This week Radhieka Nagpal (Volunteer Researcher) completed her 18th week researching the Most Sustainable Building Materials: Carpet, Flooring, Wood, Etc. This week Radhieka edited the structure of the ‘types of flooring descriptions’ by converting the paragraph form into description, key features, and pros/cons. We’d say this brings this tutorial to 98% complete.

Continued Researching the Most Sustainable Building Materials – Click for Page

And Ian Coletti (Environmental Studies Major Researcher) completed his 5th week researching for the Most Sustainable Windows and Doors open source guide. This week Ian continued to fill out the window information chart. His primary focus was on glazing options and energy star ratings. 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

HIGHEST GOOD FOOD PROGRESS

One Community is developing an open source sustainability 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 also continued researching rabbits. This week’s focus was more work on final formatting and additions covering info on harvesting and lack of inspections. You can see some of this work-in-progress below and we’d say we’re now about 95% complete with this research.

Continued Researching Rabbits on our Behind-the-Scenes Google Doc – Click for Rabbit page

The core team also continued working on the open source chicken coop step-by-step building instructions on our behind-the-scenes google doc. This week’s focus was finishing the steps for the siding of chicken door side wall (East), framing the chicken door and getting details for sliding door installation, and starting the siding instructions for the Nesting Box wall (South). You can see some of this work-in-progress below.

Continued Working on the Open Source Chicken Coop Step-by-Step Building Instructions – Click for Chicken Page

Continued Creating More Vegan Recipes for the Transition Food Self-sufficiency Plan – Click for Page

HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION PROGRESS

One Community is developing an open source sustainability 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 Zebao Chen (Structural Designer)  completed her 12th week working on the Ultimate Classroom structural engineering details. This week Zebao searched on the fire resisting construction of the straw bale walls and the wood structure. Per the 1-hour fire rating requirement, Zebao updated the structure plan by increasing the exposed wood elements dimensions. According to the building code and ASTM E119, the flat straw bale stack without metal mesh will provide enough fire resistance of 1 hour. In addition, Zebao added more construction details indicating the section details of ceiling, roof, and overhead construction. With the continuous thermal insulation surrounding the whole building, the building will have better energy performance and will save on maintenance costs in the long term. You can see some of this work below and we’d say this brings the engineering of this building to 70% complete.

Continued Working on the Ultimate Classroom Structural Engineering Details – Click for Page

Xiaolu Song (Landscape Designer) also completed her 3rd week working on the playground and other external details of the Ultimate Classroom. This week Xiaolu used AutoCAD and Photoshop to create the updated and further developed colored plans and diagrams shown below.

Used AutoCAD and Photoshop to Create the Updated and Further Developed Colored Plans and Diagrams – Click for Ultimate Classroom

Shuwei Liu (Landscape Designer) also completed her 2nd week working on the playground and other external details of the Ultimate Classroom. This week Shuwei updated the plant selection research based on the project location, discussed the concept plan and programs location with Xiaolu, and updated the SketchUp model.

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

HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY PROGRESS

One Community is developing an open source sustainability 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 23rd week with the team and working on the Highest Good Network software. This week Henry fixed problems from last week. Now the commas will be back after we changed them in CVS files, the orders and task’s ID are working properly, a popup will display for users to see how to import tasks from the CVS, a bug was fixed to remove double quotation marks when adding tasks, he made the software default to Status “Not Started”, removed the need to input a date when adding new tasks, and other minor bug fixes. There are problems with update functions and performance that still need to be fixed next week. You can see some of this work below.

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

Alvaro Hernández (Open Source Tech Consultant, Developer) completed his 16th week as a member of the Highest Good Network software team. This week Alvaro worked on “Using Prettier and ESLint to produce better code” documentation for the HGN development team, mainly understanding the difference between prettier and ESlint, if they should work together, and how to configure them. He also started talking with Yiqi to coordinate her work in continuing Tengxiao;s work on the timer features. You can see some screenshots of Alvaro’s behind-the-scenes work below. 

Worked on “Using Prettier and ESLint to Produce Better Code” Documentation for the HGN Development Team – Click for Page

Wen Zhang (Software Engineer) completed her 12th week as a volunteer working on the Highest Good Network software too. This week Wen’s major progress is that the front end talks to the back end – a milestone. Front end fetches data from the badge collection in the database. “Real” badges can be displayed. Some bugs at the back end were also fixed. You can see some screenshots of Wen’s work-in-progress below.

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

Ross Edwards (Chief Imagination Officer, G3) completed his 12th 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 he continued to promote our project and the One Community helping page to educators, engineers and various supporters of The Venus Project. He finished his promotion to educators and began promotion to media outlets. You can see below this last week’s list of who he contacted and screenshots of the overview and press release he is sharing.

Finished Promoting to Educators and Began Promotion to Media Outlets – Click for Helping Page

TEKtalent Inc. (a custom programming solutions company) also continued with their 6th week helping with the Highest Good Network software. This week Nithesh and the TEK talent team completed the remaining changes and actions in the “User Management” list page. The paused filter has been added in the search filter so that the admin can filter the paused users only. The corresponding changes have been done in the REST Api as well. An action was also been given to the status column so that clicking on the status icon will ask for a confirmation and change the status of the user. You can see some of this work below.

Completed the Remaining Changes and Actions in the “user Management” List Page – Click for Highest Good Network

Adam Capdeville (Software Engineer) completed his 5th week working on the Highest Good Network software. Adam started week five by continuing to work on bugs and web app aesthetics dealing with module 1.4, the user profile. Adam fixed the privacy settings feature for email, phone number and blue squares. Adam also disabled the ability for users to add resource links, and only allowed social media links to be added and deleted. Admins currently have the ability to add and delete resource & social media links. Adam created a custom modal that allows admins to file blue squares manually (blue squares are infringements done by users). The modal contains two fields, one for the date the infringement was made, and the second, a summary of the infringement. Currently access to add blue squares are allowed by all roles, next week, Adam will work to make blue squares limited to admins, and other users will only be able to see blue squares. You can see some of Adam’s behind-the-scenes work below.

Continued to Work on Bugs and Web App Aesthetics Dealing With Module 1.4, the User Profile – Click for Highest Good Network

And Yiqi Feng (Software Engineer) joined the Highest Good Network software team and completed her 1st week. This week Yiqi read the project instruction and got familiar with HGN tools. She also set up her local development environment (Node.js, ESLint, Prettier, etc) and discussed with Tengxiao and Alvaro how to take over development of the timer functionality.

Joined the Highest Good Network Software Team, Read the Project Instruction, and Got Familiar with HGN Tools – 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 creating an open source blueprint for ecological living. It includes open source and sustainable approaches for food, energy, housing, education, for-profit and non-profit economic design, social architecture, fulfilled living, global stewardship practices, and more. When the plans are complete, we’ll use them to build the first teacher/demonstration hub to check our work, add video and other media elements, and begin the global replication process.

• 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 July 5th, 2020 edition (#380) of our weekly progress update detailing our team’s development and accomplishments:

A Blueprint for Ecological Living
One Community Progress Update #380

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

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ONE COMMUNITY WEEKLY UPDATE DETAILS

HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING PROGRESS

One Community is designing and sharing blueprint for ecological 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 finished the Earthbag Village (Pod 1) video walkthrough edits and additions to produce the video below.

The core team also began a detailed review of work and research completed to date on hydropower and began adding more details to finish this tutorial so it is ready for publication on the open source Hydro Energy Setup and Maintenance page.

Began Detailed Review of Work and Research Completed to Date on Hydropower – Click for Page

Dean Scholz (Architectural Designer) continued helping with the Earthbag Village (Pod 1) 4-dome cluster designs. This week was week #192 of Dean’s work and the focus this week was adding and working to perfect the grass and bush additions shown in front of the window here. This seems like a small thing but the grass alone took over 6 hours of work to get right.

Working to Perfect the Grass and Bush Additions in Front of the Windows – Click for Earthbag Village

Alvaro Hernández (Open Source Tech Consultant, Developer) also finished the 3rd draft of editing and preparing the Open Source Sustainable Parking Lot guide for web publication. You can see some screenshots of the feedback before integration and some of what the newly edited page looked like after. We’d say this page is now 85% complete. 

Finished the 3rd Draft of Editing and Preparing the Open Source Sustainable Parking Lot Guide – Click for Page

Angela Mao (Sustainability Researcher) also completed her 7th week as a member of the team. This week Angela finished the final research needed for the Best Small and Large-scale Community Paper Recycling, Reuse, and Repurposing Options page by researching paper businesses and various paper products that a small business could produce. She also began research for sustainable lightbulb company ranking. So far, she has identified several brands and is browsing their websites for information about how sustainable they are. In addition to this, she added to her plastic recycling tutorial by looking at how plastic can be converted into oil and exploring options for creating plastic bottle schools and other buildings.  You can see some of this behind-the-scenes work below.

Finished Final Research Needed for the Best Small and Large-scale Community Paper Recycling Page – Click to Visit

Ashwini Ramesh (Civil Engineer and Project Manager) continued with her 9th week helping with the Earthbag Village cost analysis and open source tutorials. This week Ashwini continued to work on the Excavation for Footer and Foundation page and writing the content for 3-dome and 6-dome Clusters. You can see some of this work-in-progress below.

Continued Helping With the Earthbag Village Cost Analysis and Open Source Tutorials – Click to Visit

Pallavi Samaiya (Business Technology Analyst) also continued with her 3rd week researching how to sustainably manage and process non-recyclable waste. This week Pallavi researched on landfills, incinerators and plasma gasification options for community processing of non recyclable products. She was able to find some implementations of these processes as well. You can see some pictures below of this research and we’d say this brings this tutorial to about 10% complete.

Researched Landfills, Incinerators and Plasma Gasification Options for Community Processing of Non Recyclable Products

DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER PROGRESS

One Community is designing and sharing blueprint for ecological 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 the core team continued our detailed review of the Duplicable City Center energy analysis needed for LEED Platinum certification and completion of the City Center open source HVAC design tutorial. This week we updated the design days by updating the ddy file from the EnergyPlus website, updated the Occupancy under People Definition based on the measurements listed in that file, updated and verified the lighting definitions, with units converted, updated the freezer’s rate in Electrical Equipment Definitions, and updated the construction sets to the corresponding space types. You can see some of this work-in-progress below.

Continued Detailed Review of the Duplicable City Center Energy Analysis – Click for Page

And the core team continued working on the Duplicable City Center structural engineering details. This week we used access to the previous SAP model of the structure to review the current model with assigned material, section details and the end release conditions. With last week’s calculated snow load, different load combinations were performed to visualize the stress in the supporting columns. The current challenge of the SAP model is to integrate the four floors in the same model in order to calculate the seismic reactions of the structure as a whole. Therefore, next week’s emphasis is on finding out the approach for this integrated SAP model. You can see some of this work below.

Continued Working on the Duplicable City Center Structural Engineering Detail – Click for Page

This week Radhieka Nagpal (Volunteer Researcher) completed her 17th week researching the Most Sustainable Building Materials: Carpet, Flooring, Wood, Etc. This week Radhieka updated the pictures to royalty free ones and edited the 2 benchmarking spreadsheets from a rough version to a formal one, for linking in the main document. We’d say this brings this tutorial to 94% complete.

Continued Researching the Most Sustainable Building Materials – Click for Page

Ziqian Zheng (Architectural Designer and Drafter) also continued working on the Duplicable City Center 3D walkthrough and completed his 33rd week as a volunteer designer with our team. This week’s focus was completion of draft one of the walkthrough by adding the remaining people needed, adjusting the walkthrough path, and fixing textures. You can see some of this work below and we’d say creation of this walkthrough video is now 80% complete.

Continued Working on the Duplicable City Center 3D Walkthrough – Click for Page

And Ian Coletti (Environmental Studies Major Researcher) completed his 4th week researching for the Most Sustainable Windows and Doors open source guide. This week This week Ian finished an initial determination of sustainability rankings for companies and began filling out an information spreadsheet for window products. 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

HIGHEST GOOD FOOD PROGRESS

One Community is designing and sharing blueprint for ecological 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 also continued researching rabbits. This week’s focus was working on final formatting and additions and restoring some lost content.  You can see some of this work-in-progress below and we’d say we’re now about 90% complete with this research.

Continued Researching Rabbits – Click for Page

The core team also continued working on the open source chicken coop step-by-step building instructions on our behind-the-scenes google doc. This week’s focus was updating all the images on pages 35-72 after updating the screening. You can see some of this work-in-progress below.

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

Continued Working on the Transition Food Self-sufficiency Plan; Created new Vegan Meals – Click for Page

HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION PROGRESS

One Community is designing and sharing blueprint for ecological 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 Dan Alleck (Designer and Illustrator) completed his 82nd week helping with render additions and finishing work for the rooms in the Ultimate Classroom. This week he continued work on the 2nd render for the central area that will be used for plays and other events. He redid the security coverings for the classrooms and curtains and backdrop, darkened the room, updated the lighted area, and added the first people to the scene.

Continued Helping With Render Additions and Finishing Work for the Rooms in the Ultimate Classroom – Click for Page

Zebao Chen (Structural Designer)  completed her 11th week working on the Ultimate Classroom structural engineering details. This week Zebao continued to analyze the structure system to support the attic storage area and roof. With the design dimensions, Zebao also double-checked the critical beam design with a large load applied to it. The result shows the dimension is enough for strength design. With the final design result and code requirements in IBC, Zebao updated the structural layout plans for the ceiling plan, roof plan, and the section. You can see some of this work below and we’d say this brings the engineering of this building to 60% complete.

Continued Working on the Ultimate Classroom Structural Engineering Details – Click for Page

Xiaolu Song (Landscape Designer) also completed her 2nd week working on the playground and other external details of the Ultimate Classroom. This week Xiaolu used photoshop to make new colored plans and diagrams, completed a view analysis, and then converted these plans into digital plans in AutoCAD. You can see some of this work below.

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

Shuwei Liu (Landscape Designer) also joined the team and completed her 1st week working on the playground and other external details of the Ultimate Classroom. This week Shuwei did research about the plant selection suitable for the general children play area, found precedent projects related to sustainable landscape design, analyzed design strategies for stormwater management, and created the summaries and presentations shown below.

Joined the Team and Began Working on the Playground and Other External Details of the Ultimate Classroom – Click for Page

HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY PROGRESS

One Community is designing and sharing blueprint for ecological 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

Henry Nguyen (React Developer) also completed his 22nd week with the team and working on the Highest Good Network software. This week Henry fixed major bugs after we imported the WBS from CVS. There are still some minor bugs for right now but they will be easy to fix. He also added a function in the backend to find the users in the resources and link them to the user page. The task of this week was especially challenging for Henry because he needed to re-designed some structure of the wbs and change algorithms to make the import data work with our database. You can see some of this work below.

Fixed Major Bugs After We Imported the WBS From CVS – Click for Highest Good Network

Alvaro Hernández (Open Source Tech Consultant, Developer) completed his 15th week as a member of the Highest Good Network software team. This week Alvaro continued the code review of Tengxiao’s timer component and researched how to make sure installation of plugins happened during the local environment set up. This is so Tengxiao could verify the airbnb code style conventions compliance of his pull request. This would also clean up the formatting noise of future pull requests for a faster code review in the Highest Good Network development team. This has been a complex topic for Alvaro since he had to learn how different development tools work behind the scenes to start understanding what was going on and how others in the team could make sure Linting tools are working in their development environments. You can see some screenshots of Alvaro’s behind-the-scenes work below. 

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

Wen Zhang (Software Engineer) completed her 11th week as a volunteer working on the Highest Good Network software too. This week Wen helped with code review, cleared some google doc comments/questions, and continued with her focus on the badge functionality, testing code on her local machine. You can see some screenshots of Wen’s work-in-progress below.

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

Ross Edwards (Chief Imagination Officer, G3) completed his 11th 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 he continued to promote our project and the One Community helping page to educators, engineers and various supporters of The Venus Project. You can see below this last week’s list of who he contacted and some screenshots of the overview he shares.

Continued to Promote Our Project and the Helping Page to Educators, Engineers and Various Supporters of the Venus Project – Click for Helping Page

Andon Ignatov (Full-stack Developer) completed his 9th week working on the Highest Good Network software. This week Andon’s work mainly involved helping out with pull request reviews for others. That involved review and testing as well as related discussions on Slack, approval and merge of WBS4.2.6/Delete_User pull request. He also implemented a new feature and submitted a pull request WBS# 4.2.4 for the HGNRest (backend), this feature will automatically reactivate a user based on the scheduled date. Towards the end of the week Andon started working on designing the unit testing for the Weekly Summaries Report component. You can see screenshots of some of this work below.

Worked on Helping Out With Pull Request Reviews for Others – Click for Highest Good Network

TEKtalent Inc. (a custom programming solutions company) also continued with their 5th week helping with the Highest Good Network software. This week Nithesh and the TEK talent team completed the Delete functionality changes. This will allow the administrator to delete a user with three options 1) Delete forever 2) Make them inactive 3) Delete user and archive data. Upon clicking the delete button in the user management grid a popup will display with these three options. They have also added a new column in the user management grid which displays the resume date for the paused users. The team also introduced a default sort for the user management grid in the descending order of the created date so that the latest users will be listed on top. You can see some of this work below.

Completed the Delete Functionality Changes – Click for Highest Good Network software

And Adam Capdeville (Software Engineer) completed his 4th week working on the Highest Good Network software. This week Adam completed half of 1.4.8, profile blue squares visibility and added the ability for users to delete their own links. Viewability privacy for phone, email, blue squares is still in the works. Adam also worked on creating a more minimal profile design and layout. Next week Adam will be working towards completing the privacy layer of user profiles as well as the overall overhaul of the look and feel of the profile. You can see some of Adam’s behind-the-scenes work below.

Completed Half of 1.4.8, Profile Blue Squares Visibility and Added the Ability for Users to Delete Their Own Links – Click for Highest Good Network

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 Angela Mao to the Research Team as our newest Volunteer/Consultant!

A high school student from Long Island, New York, Angela has always had an interest in sustainability and the environment. She has been a member of her school’s speech and debate team and DECA team for 3 years. She is also an active member of the Sierra Club and enjoys volunteering at beach cleanups and the Alley Pond Environmental Center. Passionate about researching a sustainable lifestyle for herself and for others, and wanting to have a positive impact on the planet, Angela believes that a balance can be struck between the environment, businesses, and our lifestyles. As a member of the One Community team, Angela helped write the complete clothing/textile tutorial, edit and finish the paper and plastic recycling tutorials, and is now researching the most sustainable bulbs, bulb companies, and other related sustainability topics.

WELCOME TO THE TEAM ANGELA!

FOLLOW ONE COMMUNITY’S PROGRESS (click icons for our pages)

INVESTOR PAGES

OVERVIEW       ●       LOCATION       ●       FUNDING

GET INVOLVED

CONSULTANTS     ●     WAYS ANYONE CAN HELP     ●     MEMBERSHIP

Building open source sustainable communities is possible just like building anything else open source. One Community is doing this for “The Highest Good of All.” Step one is finishing the open source designs for food, energy, housing, education, for-profit and non-profit economic design, social architecture, fulfilled living, and global stewardship practices. Step two is confirm everything is correct as we use them to build the initial teacher/demonstration community. Step three is hosting visitors and supporting others for global replication as we continue to build the additional open source village models.

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

OUR MAIN OPEN SOURCE HUBS

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

One Community’s physical location will forward this movement as the first of many self-replicating teacher/demonstration communities, villages, and cities to be built around the world. This is the June 28th, 2020 edition (#379) of our weekly progress update detailing our team’s development and accomplishments:

Building Open Source Sustainable Communities
One Community Progress Update #379

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 open source sustainable communities 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 created version 1 of the Earthbag Village (Pod 1) video walkthrough. This included recording and editing the audio, minor video edits, and adding the first round of transition elements, labels, and effect. You can see some of this work in progress below.

Created Version 1 of the Earthbag Village Video Walkthrough – Click for Page

Dean Scholz (Architectural Designer) continued helping with the Earthbag Village (Pod 1) 4-dome cluster designs. This week was week #191 of Dean’s work and the focus this week was developing the ground texture and variability around the domes.

Developed the Ground Texture and Variability Around the Domes – Click for Earthbag Village

Ashwini Ramesh (Civil Engineer and Project Manager) continued with her 8th week helping with the Earthbag Village cost analysis and open source tutorials. this week Ashwini began working on the excavation, footers and foundation research and content updates. 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

Pallavi Samaiya (Business Technology Analyst) also continued with her 2nd week researching how to sustainably manage and process non-recyclable waste. This week Pallavi This week Pallavi began researching Pyrolysis and Gasification options for community processing of non-recyclable waste products. You can see pictures of some of this initial research below and we’d say this brings this tutorial to about 4% complete.

Began Researching Pyrolysis and Gasification Options for Community Processing of Non-recyclable Waste Products

DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER PROGRESS

One Community is building open source sustainable communities 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 began a detailed review of the Duplicable City Center energy analysis needed for LEED Platinum certification and completion of the City Center open source HVAC design tutorial. This week we updated the SketchUp files to the latest so the OpenStudio Plugins can be correctly extended, updated the proposed wall construction to R-37 (previously R-36), and updated the glazing materials and construction sets with more easy-to-follow names. You can see below some of this work-in-progress.

Began a Detailed Review of the Duplicable City Center Energy Analysis – Click for Page

And the core team began working on the Duplicable City Center structural engineering details. This week we reviewed the current models of the structure in the AutoCAD drawings, worked on importing the CAD files to SAP2000 with adjusted scale and selected structural members, and reviewed the load design in ASCE 7-16 and calculated the required snow load with the guidance of the code specifications. You can see some of this work below.

Began Working on the Duplicable City Center Structural Engineering Details – Click for Page

Ziqian Zheng (Architectural Designer and Drafter) also continued working on the Duplicable City Center 3D walkthrough and completed his 32nd week as a volunteer designer with our team. This week’s focus was adding in the central area and cupola sections of the structure, fixing textures, and adding a diversity of additional people and objects throughout all areas. You can see some of this work below and we’d say creation of this walkthrough video is now 25% complete.

Continued Working on the Duplicable City Center 3D Walkthrough – Click for Page

And Ian Coletti (Environmental Studies Major Researcher) completed his 3rd week researching for the Most Sustainable Windows and Doors open source guide. This week Ian finished initial examination of products from all listed companies. He also performed supplemental research on weatherstripping and began plotting company sustainability rankings. You can see some of this work-in-progress below.

Finished Initial Examination of Products From All Listed Companies – Click for Most Sustainable Windows and Doors Page

HIGHEST GOOD FOOD PROGRESS

One Community is building open source sustainable communities 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 phase 1 of developing the open source permaculture design content by wrapping up the Case Study section with the final rollout details for each component. Next step for this is independent review and revisions by an experience permaculture designer joining our team next week.

Wrapped Up the Case Study Section With the Final Rollout Details for Each Component – Click for Permaculture Page

The core team also continued researching rabbits. This week’s focus was taking info from 21 different rabbit articles and adding the best of what we learned to the developing research Google Doc. You can see some of this below.

Continued Researching Rabbits – Click for Page

And the core team also continued working on the open source chicken coop step-by-step building instructions on our behind-the-scenes google doc. This week’s focus was resizing images, checking/correcting spelling of the whole document, updating pages 58 and 59, adding pages 61-66, and adding missing Step 10 on pages 32-34. You can see some of this work-in-progress below.

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

Ali Ghahremannezhad (Mechanical Engineer) additionally continued with his 22nd week as a member of the team and working on the climate batteries for the Aquapini/Walipini structures. This week Ali worked on multiple new exhaust and intake layouts for the climate battery. These were needed to address conflicts with the internal layouts of the structures. You can see some of the proposed designs being discussed below.

Worked on Multiple New Exhaust and Intake Layouts for the Climate Battery – Click for Aquapini/Walipini Page

And Jessica Wienke (Food & Nutrition Project Consultant and CEO & Co-Owner of The Artisan Wheelhouse & The Roots of Medicine) and Aly Shannon (Food & Nutrition Project Consultant and Creative Director & Co-Owner of The Roots of Medicine) continued with their 2nd week working on the Transition Food Self-sufficiency Plan. This week they created and tested recipes for Greek Root Veggies, Veggie Scrap Vegetable Stock, and French-Style Onion Soup for the vegan recipe pages. You can see some of this work below.

Created and Tested Recipes for Greek Root Veggies, Veggie Scrap Vegetable Stock, and French-style Onion Soup for the Vegan Recipe Page – Click to Visit

HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION PROGRESS

One Community is building open source sustainable communities 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 Zebao Chen (Structural Designer) completed her 10th week working on the Ultimate Classroom structural engineering details. This week Zebao analyzed the structure with new dimensions and spacings. The columns, lateral beams and girders were designed with PSL rectangular shapes in minimum required sizes. Straw bales were designed as thermal insulation layers attached to the wood structure. The details of straw bales attached to the wood columns and wood frame walls were designed to match the architectural design and construction. You can see some of this work below and we’d say this brings the engineering of this building to 45% complete.

Continued Working on the Ultimate Classroom Structural Engineering Details: Analyzed Structure With New Dimensions and Spacings – Click for Page

Xiaolu Song (Landscape Designer) also joined the team and completed her 1st week working on the playground and other external details of the Ultimate Classroom. This week Xiaolu started the first step of the ultimate classroom outdoor landscape architecture design by completing a basic site condition plan, bubble diagram, and iconic reference image analysis. You can see some of this work below.

Joined the Team and Began Working on the Playground and Other External Details of the Ultimate Classroom – Click for Page

HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY PROGRESS

One Community is building open source sustainable communities 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

Henry Nguyen (React Developer) also completed his 21st week with the team and working on the Highest Good Network software. This week Henry developed a function to import One Community Work Breakdown Structures from Excel. This is a challenging task because the structure of the Excel file is different. The display for the start and end day was also fixed, so now you can add an empty day. You can see some of this work below.

Developed a Function to Import One Community Work Breakdown Structures From Excel – Click for Page

Alvaro Hernández (Open Source Tech Consultant, Developer) completed his 14th week as a member of the Highest Good Network software team. This week Alvaro reviewed Tengxiao’s pull request and added comments to his code. He also started to document the questions he got during the reviewing process so other reviewers have a guide for making reviewing easier in the future, especially if they are new to the process. You can see some screenshots of Alvaro’s behind-the-scenes work below. 

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

Wen Zhang (Software Engineer) completed her 10th week as a volunteer working on the Highest Good Network software too. This week Wen researched on the implementation of a cron job and learned how the cron job for the blue squares is built. She has been creating and testing a new cron job for badges – a script running automatically at a specified time we set to check the criteria and assign badges. Some screenshots of Wen’s work-in-progress are below.

Researched the Implementation of a Cron Job and Learned How the Cron Job for the Blue Squares is Built – Click for Highest Good Network Software

Ross Edwards (Chief Imagination Officer, G3) completed his 10th 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 he continued to promote our project and the One Community helping page to educators, engineers and various supporters of The Venus Project. You can see below this last week’s list of who he contacted and some screenshots of the overview he shares.

Continued to Promote Our Project and the One Community Helping Page to Educators, Engineers and Various Supporters of the Venus Project – Click for Helping Page

Andon Ignatov (Senior Web Developer) completed his 8th week working on the Highest Good Network software. This week Andon came very close to completing the work for the WBS #1.6.7. He created a way for an Admin to run a weekly report of all the users’ summaries for the current week, last week or the week before last. He made the “Weekly Summaries Report” page and menu only available to admins. On that page an admin can now also generate PDF versions of the report so they can be downloaded for offline viewing. Andon also did review and testing for a WBS # 4.2.4 pull request in HGNApp (Pause or resume option in user management) and had it merged with the “development” branch. 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 4th week helping with the Highest Good Network software. This week Nithesh and the TEK talent team completed the additional changes for Pause functionality by implementing a popup to choose the reactivation date upon pause. They also completed the delete-user functionality so now, upon clicking the delete button on the user grid, a new popup will be shown so the Administrator can choose the delete options (Delete forever, Archive or Inactive) from the popup. Along with these, a generic protected route React component has been created with generic role-based restrictions and the same is merged to the development branch so that everyone can use this. You can see some of this work below.

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

And Adam Capdeville (Software Engineer) completed his 3rd week working on the Highest Good Network software. Adam completed module subsection 1.4.3, allowing users to create a professional job title for themselves on their profile. In order for Adam to complete the 1.4.3 he needed to familiarize himself with Node.js as he developed his module. With helpful guidance by Andon, Adam was able to update the database schema to contain user job titles, which allowed the front end to push and pull said data appropriately. Adam also added a reminder overlay on the user profile, any time the user made a change to their profile a message would appear reminding them to save their profile. Adam wrapped up his week with comprehension of the Node.js DB and looking over issue 1.4.6, nearing completion. You can see some of Adam’s behind-the-scenes work below.

Completed Module Subsection 1.4.3, Allowing Users to Create a Professional Job Title for Themselves on Their Profile – Click for Highest Good Network

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One Community welcomes Zebao Chen to the Design Team as our newest Volunteer/Consultant!

Zebao is a structural designer who graduated with double majors in architecture and civil engineering in structural engineering. She had two years experience as a teaching assistant in structural courses during graduate school, and has worked on offices, schools, residentials and renovations projects in architecture firms. She is familiar with building anatomy, construction details and structural planning. As a member of the One Community team, Zebao is helping develop the roof structure of the Ultimate Classroom.

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One Community welcomes Andon Ignatov to the Highest Good Network Software Development Team as our newest Volunteer/Consultant!

A graduate from Carleton University with B.Sc. in Computer Mathematics, Andon has acquired over 12 years of experience working with various web technologies. He has worked as a consultant for the Canadian Government as well as numerous private sector projects. He also built a business creating and offering WordPress themes, with one of his most successful premium WordPress themes purchased and used by over 50,000 websites worldwide. As a member of the One Community team, Andon is helping develop the React.js version of the Highest Good Network Software.

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