Highest Good Future – One Community Weekly Progress Update #563

Julio Marín Bustillos (Mechanical Engineer) focused on the completion of City Center Hub Connector’s placements for the third row, ensuring coverage and functionality. He then worked on finalizing the design of the hub connector for the fourth row, situating it throughout the entire row. Julio also worked on transitioning to the hub connectors for the fifth row. However, this specific section of the dome introduces added complexity, necessitating the creation of multiple variations for hub connectors due to potential differences in the angles between beams at various nodes. The collage below shows his work on the connector design process.

FOOD PROGRESS FOR A HIGHEST GOOD FUTURE

One Community is designing a Highest Good future 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 with Hayley on the Highest Good food component. We focused on the Food Edits document, addressing concerns and responding to queries within the comment section. We analyzed different sections of the document, ensuring its coherence with the expected increase in Pioneers arriving at the One Community property. Adjustments to food quantities were discussed and strategically planned to accommodate the larger population. The One Community food infrastructure is an open source foundation of our designs for a Highest Good future. You can see the images in the collage below.

Hayley Rosario (Sustainability Research Assistant) continued her review of the open-source Highest Good Food rollout plan. Hayley reviewed implementation details for a project involving up to 20 individuals, updating information from the initial document’s conclusion. To improve document clarity, she removed redundant content from the EDITs document, eliminating all information below page 72 that duplicated the original. Progress tracking involved transferring relevant content to another document. Additionally, Hayley corrected and formatted links with identified issues within the EDITs document and posed inquiries and comments. The One Community food and housing infrastructure will provide the space and time freedom for the Highest Good future we envision. See below for some of her work.

EDUCATION PROGRESS FOR A HIGHEST GOOD FUTURE

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

With over 8 years of work invested in this Highest Good future 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

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

SOCIETY PROGRESS FOR A HIGHEST GOOD FUTURE

One Community is designing a Highest Good future 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 Highest Good future model for fulfilled living and sharing: A Day in the Life
    • Learn about the 4 Highest Good future economic models: RBE | For-profit | Non-profit | Entrepreneurship
    • Learn about our open source Highest Good future community collaboration and management software: The Highest Good Network

This week, the core team completed 42 hours managing One Community volunteer-work review not included above, emails, social media accounts, web development, new bug identification and bug-fix integration for the Highest Good Network software, and interviewing and getting set up new volunteer team members. We also shot and incorporated the video above that talks about how a Highest Good future is a foundation of the bigger picture of everything One Community is doing. The pictures below show some of this work.

The core team also tested the Highest Good Network PRs for One Community, concentrating on HGN PR testing, resolving several issues, including PR#755, PR#1264, PR#1300, and PR#1163. We also encountered issues with PR#1098, PR#1104, PR#1280, PR#1123 and PR#1319. In addition, we communicated with a volunteer to provide more details about the problem with multiple dates of assigned badges, and documented the issue in the Badge section for review. The Highest Good Network software is how we’ll be measuring progress towards a Highest Good future through our social architecture, construction, production, and maintenance processes. See the Highest Good Society and Highest Good Network pages for more on how this relates to a Highest Good future. See the collage of pictures below that are related to this week’s work.

Vishvesh Sheora (Artificial Intelligence Specialist) focused on elevating the SEO performance of blog posts featured on the One Community website. These focus on key SEO terms like “Highest Good Future.” Vishvesh improved the SEO across critical pages on the live main site of One Community. He raised the SEO scores of various pages above 80 using the RankMath plugin, adhering to best practices for optimal SEO. Additionally, Vishvesh worked on plugin exploration, particularly focusing on tools facilitating Table of Contents (TOC) for WordPress websites. See the work in the image below.

ADMINISTRATION TEAM

The Administration Team’s summary, covering their work administrating and managing most of One Community, was managed by Catherine Liu (Administrative and Analytics Assistant, Team Manager) and includes Alyx Parr (Senior Support Specialist), Olawunmi “Ola” Ijisesan (Administrative and Management Support), Ruiqi Liu (Administrative Assistant), Shaurya Sareen (Administrative Assistant), and Xiaolai Li (Administrative Assistant). Alyx managed blog content, ensuring optimal performance without the need for adjustments on Ola’s blog page while addressing and correcting a few issues on Catherine’s page. She produced a video for Richelle’s blog during the review process. Alyx also enhanced positive words in RankMath up to the “F” level. Catherine reviewed Admin, Blue Steel, Alpha teams, and individuals, organizing images and summaries in WordPress Editors for final edits. She compared her work with the final webpage, edited three previous blog pages, and elevated the SEO score of one page from 87 to 90. Catherine expanded her knowledge of Google Ads and Google Analytics with her additional time. Ola focused on optimizing the Admin Teams’ workspace, offering constructive feedback to PR Review teams, transferring live blog content, and reviewing admin teams’ work to enhance their performance. Ruiqi completed a review process for Code Crafters Git-R-Done, Graphic Design, and Expresser Team, providing feedback, creating collage images, incorporating SEO keywords in WordPress, and contributing to the Food Infrastructure Comprehensive Cost Analysis Spreadsheet for the business plan project. Shaurya reviewed pull requests, addressed issues, updated tracking sheets, and compiled a concise team summary with a collage for the Highest Good Network team. Xiaolai edited summaries, organized documents, completed webpage development, and submitted it for review, while also utilizing the NREL Solar Market Research & Analysis tool for cash flow simulations in the Business Plan. See the Highest Good Society for more on how all this relates to the Highest Good future. You can see the work for the team in the image below.

ALPHA TEAM

The Alpha Team’s summary, covering their work on the Highest Good Network software, was managed by Carl Bebli (Software Engineer, Team Manager) and includes Yongjian Pan (Software Engineer) and  Zichan Yang (Software Engineer). The Highest Good Network software is how we’ll be measuring progress towards a Highest Good future through our social architecture, construction, production, and maintenance processes. Yongjian tackled the resolution of npm test errors about his pull request, PR #842, implementing a dark mode for the entire application. Recognizing the intricacies of the encountered issues, he sought assistance from relevant developers. During the debugging process, he grappled with numerous warnings generated by the tests, introducing an extra layer of complexity to pinpoint specific failures. Simultaneously, Zichan modified the “usermanagement.css” file to align the button appearance with the specifications outlined in the “BlueSquare.css” file. The adjustments incorporated a linear gradient background color directed towards the bottom right, a refinement specifically applied to the project and team pages accessible to the admin user. Furthermore, these updates were integrated into PR 1746 to ensure uniformity and optimal functionality across the entire platform. See the Highest Good Society and Highest Good Network pages for more on how this relates to highest good future. View some of this work in the collage below.

BLUE STEEL SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT TEAM

The Blue Steel Team’s summary, covering their work on the Highest Good Network software, was managed by Nathan Hoffman (Software Engineer, Team Manager) and includes Haohui Lin (Software Engineer), Keyun Huang (Software Engineer), Shubhankar Valimbe (Lead Full Stack Software Developer), Xiao Wang (Software Engineer), Xuying He (Software Engineer) and Yubo Sun (Full Stack Software Developer). The Highest Good Network software is how we’ll be measuring progress towards a Highest Good future through our social architecture, construction, production, and maintenance processes. Haohui focused on implementing a “Delete Blue Squares” button in the Permission popup window for the task “Handle and Delete Blue Squares Permissions.” This feature is aimed at allowing users with appropriate permissions to view, update, and delete blue squares. He also reviewed pull requests, including PR1739, PR1737, and PR1759, submitted by team members. Keyun addressed critical bugs by adjusting the CSS logic in PR #1751, improving the hover box position in the blue square section of the profile page, and enhancing visibility and user experience. In PR #1760, she updated the process of adding team members, ensuring an instant display of a member’s status after addition. Nathan responded to Slack messages, learned about volunteer management systems, and reviewed weekly summary requirements. He created a hotfix for permission labels, reviewed tasks marked as ready for review, and addressed ambiguity in permission descriptions. Nathan also provided feedback on team summaries and videos, initiating the creation of a unit test utility for permissions. Shubhankar focused on team management, reviewing and providing feedback on team members’ summaries, pictures, and videos. Additionally, he resolved issues related to the “assign blue squares only” permission, ensuring correct functionality for non-owner accounts. Xiao completed two pull requests, addressing concerns such as timer button overlap and formatting misalignment on smaller screens. He also improved testing process descriptions in prior PRs based on feedback. Xuying continued working on the “Finish ‘My Team’ filter for the Tasks Tab and Leaderboard,” facing challenges in displaying only selected team members correctly. Yubo completed the backend task of creating the Core Team blue squares email format, initiated PR #673, and addressed feedback on PR #1745. Yubo participated in the code review process, providing feedback on Backend PR #627 and approving frontend PR #1742. See the Highest Good Society and Highest Good Network pages for more on how this relates to the highest good future. The collage below shows some of this work.

CODECRAFTERS SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT TEAM

The Code Crafters Team’s summary, covering their work on the Highest Good Network software, was managed by Anirudh Ghildiyal (Software Engineer) and includes Ramya Ramasamy (Software Engineer), and Sucheta Mukherjee (Software Developer). The Highest Good Network software is how we’ll be measuring progress towards a Highest Good future through our social architecture, construction, production, and maintenance processes. Shantanu created a pull request review for the setup final day pop-up and debugging test cases in UsersProfile/AssignBadgePopup. He also finished the test across various cases, including DeleteUserPopup.jsx #1697, unit tests for TangibleInfoModal #1737, and unit tests for AboutModal, ensuring a careful and systematic approach to maintain the functionality and integrity of the codebase. Ramya completed unit test cases for two components, AssignBadgePopUp, and TeamChartsGroup. In addition to this, she reviewed seven PRs related to phase 2 functionalities. Ramya also discussed with Tan the prospect of enforcing the use of ESLint and Prettier upfront, an initiative aimed at streamlining development practices and ensuring code quality from the outset. Anirudh focused on the unit test case for WBS/SingleTask, addressing all possible scenarios to ensure coverage in the test cases. In addition, Anirudh took updates from all teammates, offering assistance in resolving any issues or challenges faced by the team members. See the Highest Good Society and Highest Good Network pages for more on how this relates to the highest good future. The collage below shows some of this work.

EXPRESSERS SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT TEAM

The Expressers Team’s summary, covering their work on the Highest Good Network software, was managed by Tim Kent (Full Stack Software Engineer) and includes Aishwarya Kalkundrikar (Full Stack Software Developer), Sahil Patel (Frontend Developer), and Vishala Ramasamy (Software Developer). The Highest Good Network software is how we’ll be measuring progress towards a Highest Good future through our social architecture, construction, production, and maintenance processes. Tim worked on overhauling the Phase 2 documentation, restructuring the document, removing unnecessary sections, writing a detailed “Getting Started” section for developers joining the project, and writing new descriptions of project components. He continued the development of the Add Equipment API by refactoring the frontend components as a webpage rather than a modal and updating the buildingInventoryType model to include a creatorId field. Aishwarya generated a PR for the Tool Purchase Request form. She re-wrote the code, ensuring the seamless functionality of the form. Additionally, Aishwarya reviewed the frontend PR #1585: Ruike message after task submission, ultimately approving the submission. Vishala focused on the Consumables Page View project, contributing to both frontend and backend development. On the backend, she established an API to retrieve consumables data and gained insights into discriminators. On the frontend, Vishala addressed various components, implementing features such as list view for Consumables, sorting functionality by columns, filtering by selected values, and incorporating a modal window to display update and purchase history for consumables. Sahil addressed Pull Requests 1750, 1737, 1736, 1733, and 1704, making enhancements and bug fixes. As Sahil worked on combining these codes, he also concentrated on testing the toggle switch and Teams tab to make sure they work well and are reliable. See the Highest Good Society and Highest Good Network pages for more on how this relates to the highest good future. The collage below shows some of this work.

GIT-R-DONE SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT TEAM

The Git-R-Done Team’s summary, covering their work on the Highest Good Network software, was managed by Kaikane Lacno (Learning Assistant) and includes, Miguelcloid Reniva (Software Developer), Olena Danykh (Software Engineer), and Rhea Wu (Software Engineer). The Highest Good Network software is how we’ll be measuring progress towards a Highest Good future through our social architecture, construction, production, and maintenance processes. Olena worked on extracting Author and Project names from the backend and displaying them on cards. She also developed a reducer and action specifically for fetching a single BM project, named getBMProjectById, culminating in code cleanup and the submission of changes for review. Miguel enhanced the functionality of a sortable list, implementing logic to detect the position of a dragged element relative to listed values. This facilitated movement within the sorted list and included the addition of an “Edit” option to interact with the sortable table logic. Miguel also addressed various edge cases in the dragging and dropping functionality within the sortable list. Rhea worked on Phase 2 WBS 6.3.2 New Lesson routing and controller. She built and tested the GET functions. Kai’s focus was on bolstering the security features of the system by implementing authentication for the routes associated with the Lesson List page. He integrated a consumable page form into the project and structured the layout based on specifications outlined in the Figma design. Additionally, Kai incorporated calendar functionality into the application, enhancing its overall functionality and user experience. See the Highest Good Society and Highest Good Network pages for more on how this relates to the highest good future. The collage below shows some of this work.