Improving Life for Everyone – One Community Weekly Progress Update #570

One Community is dedicated to improving life for everyone through sustainable approaches to food, energy, housing, education, economics, and social architecture. Our all-volunteer team is committed to creating a model that becomes self-replicating, creating global collaboration through teacher/demonstration hubs. Guided by the principle of “The Highest Good of All,” we open source and free-share our complete process, evolving sustainability and regenerating our planet.

Improving Life for Everyone – One Community Weekly Progress Update #570

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One Community’s physical location will forward this movement of improving life for everyone as the first of many self-replicating teacher/demonstration communities, villages, and cities to be built around the world. This is the February 19th, 2024 edition (#570) of our weekly progress update detailing our team’s development and accomplishments:

 

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ONE COMMUNITY WEEKLY UPDATE DETAILS

 

HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING PROGRESS

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This week, the core team continued work on the Earthbag Village (Pod 1) compression testing. We updated the “What is it” section of the “Aircrete Engineering and Research: Compression Testing, Mix Ratios, R-value, and More” page and worked with California Baptist University to produce marketing materials to recruit a new compression testing team. Aircrete is a sustainable material that has the potential for improving life for everyone choosing it for their DIY construction processes. See the pictures below for examples related to this work.

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Stacey Maillet (Graphic Designer) continued working on the final edits and revisions to the Earthbag Village (Pod 1) assembly instructions for the Murphy bed. Stacey also reviewed and integrated feedback covering links and minor additions to the assembly process. DIY plans like this are part of our open source foundation for improving life for everyone. Screenshots below relate to this work.

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DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER PROGRESS

duplicable city center, open source city hub, laundry, dining, swimming pool, hot tub, kitchen, library, game roomOne Community is improving life for everyone 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:

This week, Amiti Singh (Volunteer Architectural Designer) made progress with the mood-boarding and cost-analysis process for Room 7 Duplicable City Center, focusing on integrating art deco furniture with colorful lighting to create a vibrant color palette. She gathered products based on design specifications and measurements for visualization, subsequently developing a mood board presentation for both renders and real-life product/texture attributes to be incorporated. The City Center is a big part of improving life for everyone who will living in the One Community teacher/demonstration hubs. The collage below shows her work for the week.

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Clarice Gaw Gonzalo (Architect) focused on the bedrooms within the building for the Duplicable City Center, concentrating on adding objects to create a lived-in atmosphere. She also populated the main area, incorporating people overlooking the space. In addition, she did research to find free models of specific types of people to enhance the render. Currently, Clarice is revising a few missing elements in the SketchUp master file, including issues with shelving. The City Center is a big part of improving life for everyone who will living in the One Community teacher/demonstration hubs. You can see her renderings in the images below.

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Justin Varghese (Mechanical Engineer) focused on the structural finite element analysis (FEA) of the City Center Hub Connector. He assigned contacts and materials to the components and is currently awaiting the software to compute/solve the FEA model. Upon completion, the results will be utilized for comparing different designs of the Hub Connector, aiding in the determination of the optimal hub connector for the final design. The City Center is a big part of improving life for everyone who will living in the One Community teacher/demonstration hubs. The collage below shows his work for the week.

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HIGHEST GOOD FOOD PROGRESS

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This week, a core team member made progress on the Highest Good Food Tools and Equipment document, reviewing and enhancing individual tool descriptions, ensuring clarity. Additionally, they incorporated relevant photos and coordinated details with another volunteer’s document for consistency. Furthermore, they addressed feedback received on the Highest Good Food document, ensuring its continued alignment with project goals. Food improvements are a significant part of how One Community is designed for improving life for everyone. See their work in the collage below.

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Charles Gooley (Web Designer) continued on the development of the Vegan Rice Recipes page, focusing on recipe construction. The following recipes were developed: Potato with Avocado and Veggie Sandwich, Gratin Potatoes, Stir-Fried Pasta and Chicken Thighs, Avocado Spread on Sweet Potato Toast, Garlic Pasta with Beef and Broccoli, Herb Rice with Roasted Vegetables and Chickpeas, Chickpea Scramble Breakfast Bowl, Brown Rice and Baked Tempeh Bowls, Spaghetti and Buffalo Chicken, Quinoa Pancakes, Chicken Thighs with Brown Rice and Wilted Greens, and Vegan Mushroom Pasta with Spinach. Placeholder images were utilized until final images are available for replacement. Diverse food menus are a significant part of how One Community is designed for improving life for everyone. See his work in the collage below. 

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Hayley Rosario (Sustainability Research Assistant) organized tools, equipment, and materials for the Highest Good Food project, arranging them in an initial list and subsequently alphabetizing both the list and corresponding images/descriptions. Additionally, she completed the task of incorporating resources not previously included in the EDITs document. In conclusion, Hayley identified and included relevant websites highlighting the benefits of school gardens at the end of the EDITs document. Food improvements are a significant part of how One Community is designed for improving life for everyone. See below for pictures related to her work.

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HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION PROGRESS

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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:

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HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY PROGRESS

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This week, the core team completed 57 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 improving life for everyone and how improving life for everyone is a foundation of the bigger picture of everything One Community is doing. The pictures below show some of this work.

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Another core team member worked on Highest Good Network PRs testing, confirming fixed PRs such as making it clear when a new AI Prompt is available, fixing the blue square hover box on phones, addressing custom permissions in the project management tab, and ensuring that login emails are not case-sensitive. However, the PR aiming to make Jae’s accounts only editable by each other was not resolved. On the Main environment, they were able to update secured Jae Sabol’s accounts, including requesting time off and assigning badges. Additionally, the blue square scheduler functionality fix is pending deployment. Other tasks included setting up test accounts for further PR testing and recording a new request regarding missing box shadow style. See below for pictures related to their work. 

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Aaron Wang (Fundraising Assistant) continued to help One Community with working on fundraising. Improving life for everyone requires we get fully funded. Aaron researched organizations funded by Gordon and Betty Moore, Tom Secunda, and Arnold Schwarzenegger. He uncovered the details of each donation, focusing on the timing, the amount of the donation, and the involvement of key individuals, including those from the recipient organizations. You can view this work in the collage below.

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Cody Media Productions (Video Editing Company) focused on refining the intro video for the weekly progress update YouTube videos, and incorporating feedback from the previous rough cut. They continued editing the intro video, focusing on incorporating additional elements, transitions, and effects. They worked on enhancing the overall quality and coherence of the video, striving to meet the project’s requirements and objectives. Additionally, Cody Media Productions delivered the second rough cut of the video. These videos will showcase the open-source components of One Community as the prototype for improving life for everyone. You can view this work in the collage below.

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ADMINISTRATION TEAM

The Administration Team’s summary, covering their work administrating and managing most of One Community, was managed by Catherine Liu (Administrative and Analytics Assistant, Team Manager) and includes Alyx Parr (Senior Support Specialist), Meenakshi Velayutham (Sustainability Associate)Olawunmi “Ola” Ijisesan (Administrative and Management Support), Purva Nantarajesh (Marketing Analyst), Ruiqi Liu (Administrative Assistant) and Xiaolai Li (Administrative Assistant). This week, Alyx executed Rank Math strategies, and evaluated Vriddhi, Camilla and Purva’s work, giving them constructive feedback. Catherine reviewed Admin, Blue Steel, and Alpha teams, along with individual team members, as part of the weekly review process. She organized images and summaries, consolidating them in the WordPress Editors to finalize edits while cross-referencing her work with the final webpage to identify and rectify errors. Additionally, Catherine edited assigned blog posts and provided feedback to new joiners. Meenakshi focused on administrative tasks, including verifying the weekly summary page for contributor inclusion, ensuring members’ summaries aligned with their work due to a bug, and tracking bio announcements. She also worked on cost analysis details for Earthbag Village development structures, resolving feedback and integrating review feedback. Ola reviewed new volunteer trainees, organizing Google Docs for administrative tasks, responding to feedback, updating PR review tables, creating collages, and ensuring the final reviewed work was archived. Purva initiated her involvement by familiarizing herself with administrative tasks, reviewing others’ work, and compiling collages for integration into WordPress with optimized SEO terms. Ruiqi completed reviews for Code Crafters Git-R-Done, Graphic Design, and Expresser teams, providing feedback and creating collage images for each team. Additionally, she incorporated SEO keywords into WordPress, managed spreadsheet comments, researched goat and sheep supplements, and recalculated monthly expenses for improved transparency. Xiaolai revised the weekly report, refreshed the website, contributed to training, updated wind energy-related tables and charts, and evaluated progress summaries and images for development. These are the managers helping us manage the current process of creating One Community as the prototype for our model improving life for everyone. You can see the work for the team in the image below.

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ALPHA SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT TEAM

The Alpha Team’s summary, covering their work on the Highest Good Network software, was managed by Sucheta Mukherjee (Software Developer) and includes Chengyan Wang (Software Engineer) and Yongjian Pan (Software Engineer). The Highest Good Network software is how we’ll be managing and objectively measuring our process for improving life for everyone through our social architecture, construction, production, and maintenance processes. This week, Sucheta focused on understanding the structure of a class component and state management within it, creating a new branch to prevent merge conflicts, and copying over existing code from a related PR. She tested email timing and tried to understand cronjob functionality for manual runs. In a team meeting, Sucheta discussed PR challenges and encouraged seeking help from experienced volunteers. Chengyan aided Cheng-Yun by resolving a bug in unit test PR#1750 and refactored the Chengyan-Phase2-Reusables-List backend for efficiency. Addressing feedback, he fixed an Elasticsearch link issue in PR#1925. UI development for reusable item management started, with a focus on Redux integration, completing the input section UI, and progressing on the table section UI. Chengyan tested and contributed to API development, creating endpoints for retrieving/deleting reusable items and optimizing database seeding. His week included participation in a team meeting and frontend development initiation for the reusables list, setting the stage for backend integration and user interaction enhancements. Yongjian debugged compilation errors in PR #826, experimenting with code commenting to isolate issues. See the Highest Good Society and Highest Good Network pages for more on how this relates to improving life for everyone. View some of this work in the collage below.

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BADGES BUGS SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT TEAM

The Badges Bugs Team’s summary, covering their work on the Highest Good Network software, was managed by Shaofeng Li (Software Engineer) and includes Renan Luiz Santiago Martins César (Full-stack developer) and Xiao Zhang (Software Engineer). The Highest Good Network software is how we’ll be managing and objectively measuring our process for improving life for everyone through our social architecture, construction, production, and maintenance processes. This week, Renan enhanced the personal dashboard’s access restrictions for team members within the HGNAPP project, introducing logic to limit access to managers, creating and committing to a new branch, and improving the user experience with toast notifications and clearer error messages. Additionally, he explored disaster recovery in Azure, creating deployment slots and building Azure repositories to resolve final integration issues. Shaofeng reviewed Pull Requests to improve software functionality, documented and managed software bugs, and facilitated team meetings to discuss project advancement. He encompassed code refinement, enhanced modularity, and clarity, and fostered teamwork and project collaboration. Xiao was immersed in a new team environment, establishing a meeting schedule and reviewing pull requests, while also understanding and debugging the badge component’s codebase. See the Highest Good Society and Highest Good Network pages for more on how this relates to improving life for everyone. Look below for pictures of this work.

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BLUE STEEL SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT TEAM

The Blue Steel Team’s summary, covering their work on the Highest Good Network software, was managed by Nathan Hoffman (Software Engineer, Team Manager) and includes Shiqing Pan (Full-Stack Software Developer) and Xiao Wang (Software Engineer). The Highest Good Network software is how we’ll be managing and objectively measuring our process for improving life for everyone through our social architecture, construction, production, and maintenance processes. This week, Nathan navigated several challenges through a series of pull requests: PR 1994 served as a hotfix, restricting “postWbs” access to the projects page; PR 1947 aligned route permissions with the permissions spreadsheet; addressing an initial fix and subsequent reversion, a new PR (1950) provided additional fixes and clarified instructions. Beyond pull requests, he participated in the review process, incorporating requested changes and seeking clarification. He handled Slack messages, checked and responded to PRs, and collected essential weekly data through screenshots and videos. Additionally, Nathan addressed inquiries on Slack regarding the relocation of PermissionsConst.js helper functions and the potential introduction of assistant managers. Shiqing addressed a bug preventing users, particularly volunteers, from viewing tasks without a team affiliation. After consulting a senior colleague, she investigated the issue and resolved the bug, submitting a pull request for further review. Additionally, Shiqing performed unit testing for Teams.js within the Teams component, focusing on functionalities such as displaying teams, operating the TeamMembersPopup, and implementing filters and sorting options. Xiao tackled a critical issue stemming from a previous merge that disrupted weekly summary updates for users. Diagnosing the problem as a halted cron job, Xiao implemented a direct database solution, eliminating the need for external processes. In addition to this fix, he contributed three pull requests (PRs): PR 1952 introduced a hotfix adding a save button to the volunteering time tab on the user profile page; PR 748 reformatted code in userhelper.js on the backend for improved readability and maintainability; and PR 1957 fixed a UI issue by addressing the tangibility checkbox in the TimeEntry form accessed from the TimeLog page. Xiao also supported the peer review process, aiding colleague Jae in identifying potential issues in another PR and contributing to ongoing codebase improvement. See the Highest Good Society and Highest Good Network pages for more on how this relates to improving life for everyone. The collage below shows some of this work.

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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 Anirudh Dutt (Software Developer)Nahiyan Ahmed (Full Stack Software Developer)Ramya Ramasamy (Software Engineer), and Sucheta Mukherjee (Software Developer). The Highest Good Network software is how we’ll be managing and objectively measuring our process for improving life for everyone through our social architecture, construction, production, and maintenance processes. Nahiyan focused on enhancing the projects tab on the user profile page, implementing various functionality improvements, including automatic cursor focus, disabling buttons during project deletion, and refining visibility and styling aspects. Ramya worked on phase 1 tasks and phase 2 documentation, reviewing and addressing bugs on the WBS page and front-end reported during reviews. Shantanu resolved a dependency conflict, reviewed pull requests for unit tests, addressed icon formatting issues, and worked on resolving merge conflicts related to task completion buttons, contributing to overall project progress. Anirudh D implemented initials formatting and advanced color logic to differentiate between individuals with identical initials. He collaborated with Navneeth to address the issue of colors remaining the same for certain individuals. Anirudh G followed up with Anirudh D on his tasks and continued the final code review of unit test cases for various components, iterating through edge cases for thorough testing. He compiled his work for the week, submitting the weekly summary and uploading pictures to Dropbox, reviewing peers’ feedback on pull requests, and making necessary updates. Additionally, Anirudh G also reworked unit test cases for the AddTeamsAutoComplete component and provided support to new team members, helping them resolve issues and briefing them on workflow. See the Highest Good Society and Highest Good Network pages for more on how this relates to improving life for everyone. The collage below shows some of this work.

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EXPRESSERS SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT TEAM

The Expressers Team’s summary, covering their work on the Highest Good Network software, was managed by Demi Zayas (Full Stack Software Engineer) and includes Aishwarya Kalkundrikar (Full Stack Software Developer), Ilya Flaks (Software Engineer), Kavya Alla (Software Engineer)Kevin Hinh (Software Engineer), and Shereen Punnassery (Full Stack Software Engineer). The Highest Good Network software is how we’ll be managing and objectively measuring our process for improving life for everyone through our social architecture, construction, production, and maintenance processes. Ilya addressed issues related to submitting forms with inputs consisting only of spaces by implementing additional validation checks on the front end. He also identified and fixed a bug within his branch that was causing the /consumables; page to render incorrectly, committing the necessary corrections. Demi focused on back-end functionality, building a significant portion of the required code and routing. She paid special attention to developing API calls, ensuring coverage of all necessary routing aspects. Shereen completed unit testing for the PauseAndResume Button on the user management page and initiated testing for the SaveButton in the UserProfile component. Aishwarya addressed an Equipment List View issue after submitting a PR, rectifying a missing file, and progressing with the Purchase Request Form for consumables despite challenges with GET and POST methods. Kavya refined the UpdateTool’s CSS file, improving presentation, functionality, and UpdateTool.jsx file, contributing to the project’s interactivity and operational efficiency. Kevin advanced the BMdashboard timelog component, integrating UI for start and pause buttons. See the Highest Good Society and Highest Good Network pages for more on how this relates to improving life for everyone. The collage below shows some of this work.

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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 Rhea Wu (Software Engineer) and includes Miguelcloid Reniva (Software Developer), Sai Deepak Dogiparthi (Software Developer) and Shuhua Liu (Full-Stack Developer). The Highest Good Network software is how we’ll be managing and objectively measuring our process for improving life for everyone through our social architecture, construction, production, and maintenance processes. Rhea advanced the latest pull request related to the tasks: Phase 2 – 7.2.1 Issue Schema and 7.1.2 New Issue Routing. She made adjustments based on PR comments and submitted the latest PR #755 with updated files, aiming to resolve conflicts. Miguel focused on enhancing the CSS styling to achieve a more structured column layout, ensuring consistency and improved visual appeal. He also addressed the positioning of submit and cancel buttons for optimal user experience and incorporated dummy data for frontend functionality testing. Additionally, Miguel implemented a dropdown menu for the Tool/Equipment number column to enhance user accessibility and interaction. Shuhua made progress on integrating Google Doc icons and links for team members within the Tasks Tab, implementing user permissions to ensure only authorized users can view the icons. She refactored both the Weekly Summaries Reports page and the Team Member Tasks page by developing and employing a reusable component for the Google Doc icon, addressing an existing warning related to the input value for overall system stability. Deepak transitioned into the development team and worked with PR reviewing. He started working on a feature within the Phase 2 WBS, adding a character countdown to the description input field in the dashboard/equipment/add form. See the Highest Good Society and Highest Good Network pages for more on how this relates to improving life for everyone. The collage below shows some of this work.

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GRAPHIC DESIGN TEAM

The Graphic Design Team’s summary was managed by Ruiqi Liu (Administrative Assistant) and includes Ashlesha Navale (Graphic Designer) and Nancy Mónchez (Graphic Designer). Ashlesha worked on creating two Volunteer Announcements. She created announcement images for both of them. She also created and updated web content for both the volunteer announcements. Besides, she created five Social Media Images and researched and curated a collection of nature-based background images and different theme-based images for creating Social Media Images. Nancy undertook the task of redesigning social networks, adhering to the established styles from the previous week, and maintaining the neutrality of the predominant color scheme. Additionally, she introduced a new font in the latest publication to initiate the batch with a fresh typographic approach. She also keeps consistent in design elements and user experience, ensuring seamless integration of the new features and enhancements. See the Highest Good Society pages for more on how this relates to improving life for everyone. The collage below shows some of this work.

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MOONFALL’S SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT TEAM

Moonfall Team’s summary, covering their work on the Highest Good Network software, was managed by Navneeth Krishna (Software Engineer) and includes Abdelmounaim “Abdel” Lallouache (Software Developer), Cheng-Yun Chuang (Software Engineer), Haoji Bian (Software Engineer)Jiadong Zhang (Software Engineer)Lu Wang (Software Engineer), Tzu Ning “Leo” Chueh (Software Engineer) and Zubing Guo (Software Engineer). The Highest Good Network software is how we’ll be managing and objectively measuring our process for improving life for everyone through our social architecture, construction, production, and maintenance processes. Abdelmounaim focused on several key tasks related to the blue square scheduler. He replaced the existing blue square scheduler with a new one, integrating a field for the period of leave. Additionally, Abdelmounaim implemented a validation function within the scheduler modal and incorporated a list of scheduled reasons. Cheng-Yun implemented sorting buttons for inventory and member sections in recent edit projects. Focused on understanding both front-end and back-end repositories, Cheng-Yun delved into code structures and sorting functionalities. Haoji focused on user interface enhancements and branch management. He updated the UI to provide a more intuitive and visually appealing experience for email subscription confirmation processes. Alongside these frontend improvements, Haoji resolved conflicts within our branches, ensuring that our development and main branches are synchronized. Jiadong remained on developing API functionalities for dashboard badge management. After implementing the reset badge count API and the post badge API, he improved the functionality and usability of the badge management system. Lu focused on debugging the add more corner test cases for the test files ImportTask and EditBadgePopup. Navneeth added new bugs from deprecated functionality and reviewed pull requests 1588, 1901, 1915, and 1920. These reviews included a detailed examination of unit tests within the thunk implementations for the TaskEditSuggestions component. Navneeth participated in developing the “Create Weekly Summary Email for Admins” task, ensuring strict adherence to designated design criteria outlined in the HGN Phase I Bugs and Needed Functionalities document. Tzu Ning tackled dropdown component issues on the Projects Reports page. Tzu Ning identified areas requiring modification, implemented specific link validation for Google Docs links, and refined the regular expression for the Media Folder to allow a broader range of permissible URLs. Zubing focused on figuring out the problem of PR build failing when running npm tests. She tried to test for the WeeklySummary component, wrapping the component with a Provider from redux and creating mock stores. See the Highest Good Society and Highest Good Network pages for more on how this relates to improving life for everyone. Look below for a collage of their work.

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REACTONAUTS’ SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT TEAM

Reactonauts’ Team’s summary, covering their work on the Highest Good Network software, was managed by Masasa Thapelo (Software Engineer) and includes Changhao Li (Software Engineer), Shengwei Peng (Software Engineer), Shivansh Sharma (Software Developer), Shiwani Rajagopalan (Software Engineer)Vikram Badhan (Software Engineer) and Yixiao Jiang (Software Engineer). The Highest Good Network software is how we’ll be managing and objectively measuring our process for improving life for everyone through our social architecture, construction, production, and maintenance processes. Changhao focused on developing unit tests for the TimeEntryForm, addressing bugs in previous tests and merging two testing files, requesting additional time for bug fixes. Masasa worked on managing and optimizing team hours, ensuring that necessary adjustments were made to teammates’ schedules. Additionally, he spent time enhancing the sorting algorithm for user management. Shengwei resolved issues in a pull request related to account editability, troubleshooted a blank page problem on the dev server, and addressed tasks related to dashboard formatting and setup links. Shivansh focused on resolving complexities related to badge assignments, specifically targeting streaks within the dashboard interface. Shiwani focused on unit testing for WBSItem and ProjectReports components, creating 10 test cases for the ProjectsReport component. Her tests covered various aspects, such as rendering, project name display, getProjectDetail functionality, error messages validation, and scrutiny of fetchAllMembers and fetchAllWBS functionalities. Vikram concentrated on configuring local frontend and backend environments, reviewing five pull requests, and addressing a bug related to the “90-hour in one week” badge. Yixiao completed unit tests for the TaskEditSuggestion service, addressing conflicts in the form pull request. See the Highest Good Society and Highest Good Network pages for more on how this relates to improving life for everyone. Look below for pictures of this work.

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SKYE’S SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT TEAM

Skye’s summary, covering their work on the Highest Good Network software, was managed by Luis Arevalo (Front End Developer) and includes John Mumbi (Developer), Yao Wang (Software Engineer) and Zuhang Xu (Software Engineer). The Highest Good Network software is how we’ll be managing and objectively measuring our process for improving life for everyone through our social architecture, construction, production, and maintenance processes. John participated in two significant pull requests (PRs). In PR 1910, he focused on developing functionality to display users with zero committed hours, implementing features and refining the user interface for effective presentation of this information. In PR 1908, John worked on enhancing the project by integrating a pie chart that offers detailed insights into a specific team’s commitment, particularly highlighting the number of hours committed. Yao undertook a new task centered on displaying different font colors for varying weekly work completion rates. Initiating a new branch, Yao made progress by enabling the display of different colors corresponding to different completion rates. Luis focused on completing the add/delete warnings component. He worked on connecting the frontend and backend, facilitating the deletion, addition, and retrieval of data. Additionally, he integrated a toggle button to activate or deactivate warnings. Zuhang resolved the issues outlined in PR 1896. Key improvements included ensuring that the right portion of the page contracts during browser window resizing, rather than the left. See the Highest Good Society and Highest Good Network pages for more on how this relates to improving life for everyone. See the collage below for some of their work.

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SOFTWARE PR REVIEW TEAM

The PR Review Team’s summary covering their work on the Highest Good Network software was managed by Olawunmi Ijisesan (Administrative and Management Support). The Highest Good Network software is a foundation of what we’ll be using to measure our results of improving life for everyone. This week’s active members of this team were: Aaron Persaud (Software Developer), Alex Brandt (Full Stack Developer), Carl Bebli (Software Developer)Clemar Nunes (Web Developer), Cooper Bjorkelund (Frontend developer), Dhairya Mehta (Software Engineer), Diego Salas (Software Engineer), Jingyi Jia (Software Engineer), KaiKane Lacno (Software Developer and Team Manager), Kurtis Ivey (Software Engineer), Lixing Chris Chen (Software Engineer Intern), Meet Padhiar (Software Engineer), Mohammad Abbas (Software Engineer), Nnamdi Ikenna-Obi (Software Engineer), Olga Yudkin (Software Engineer), Peterson Rodrigues (Full-Stack MERN Stack Developer), Shengjie Mao (Software Engineer), Summit Kaushal (Backend Software Developer), Swathy Jayaseelan (Software Engineer), Tapan Pathak (Software Engineer), Tareq Mia (Software Engineer), Tim Kent (Full Stack Software Engineer), Wei-Hou Huang (Software Engineer), Xiaohan Meng (Software Engineer) and Zijie “Cyril” Yu (Software Engineer). They reviewed all the Highest Good Network PRs (Pull Requests) shared in this week’s update. Learn more about how the Highest Good Network will measure and assist in improving life for everyone in the Highest Good Network open source hub. The collage below shows a compilation of the work from this team.

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