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Helping People Create a Better Life – One Community Weekly Progress Update #549

Helping people create a better life is one of the goals of One Community. We are building systems to empower people on their journey toward a more fulfilling existence. Our approach encompasses sustainable and open source approaches to food, energy, housing, education, economics, social architecture, and global stewardship.

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One Community’s physical location will forward this movement as the first of many self-replicating teacher/demonstration communities, villages, and cities to be built around the world. This is the September 25th, 2023 edition (#549) of our weekly progress update detailing our team’s development and accomplishments:

 

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HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING PROGRESS

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This week, Julia Meaney (Research and Web design) completed another week of assisting with research and web design. Julia diligently focused on editing the Net-zero Bathroom and Earthbag Village Water Collection and Septic Design EDITED CONTENT FOR WEB” Google Doc, meticulously correcting grammar and spelling errors to ensure seamless integration onto the website. She also provided clear formatting guidance through comments and meticulously organized available resources. Julia dedicated substantial effort to addressing outstanding comments and delivering comprehensive instructions for future updates. Furthermore, she reviewed Chuck’s content integration from pages 1-70, conducting thorough checks on the Water Recycling Net-zero Bathroom and Rainwater Harvesting, Water Catchment, and Swale Building Open Source Hub and Portal” pages, promptly rectifying format and code issues directly on the site. She extended her efforts to the DIY on Earth Dam Design & Construction Disaster Mitigation Content Google Doc, meticulously reviewing Loza’s incorporation of her feedback, resolving any remaining comments, and offering final content integration guidance. Julia also enhanced the content and structure of the “Light Bulb Webpage Updated Content” Google Doc, providing clear instructions and guidelines for researchers tasked with completing the project and for seamless site integration. In conclusion, Julia diligently attended to all remaining tasks, ensuring transparent communication of requirements. See the pictures below.

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Loza Ayehutsega (Civil Engineer/Assistant Civil Engineer) completed another week of assisting with Earth Dam Design and construction for Water Retention, Pond, and lake Creation. Loza primarily focused on reviewing comments provided by Julia, dedicating considerable effort to this task. The activities predominantly revolved around content review and the collection of reference materials from webinars and reference books. Additionally, Loza plans to augment the content further, particularly in the areas of visual inspection and risk assessment methodologies. Specifically, the focus will be on dam risk assessment, a critical process essential for evaluating potential risks associated with dam operation and stability. Take a look at the pictures below to get a glimpse of this work.

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Vidhi Bansal (3D Visualization Artist) completed another week of assisting with Earthbag Village. Vidhi focused on the 4dome flythrough project, specifically addressing lighting errors in the renders and fine-tuning texture colors. During the rendering process, she identified lighting issues that were causing glitches throughout the scene, a common problem in Unreal Engine. Vidhi conducted research to troubleshoot and pinpoint the issue, successfully making the necessary lighting adjustments. In addition to resolving these technical challenges, she also dedicated time to modifying the dome’s texture and color elements while simultaneously advancing character animations. See below for some of the pictures.

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DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER PROGRESS

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This week, Amiti Singh (Architectural Designer) completed the design and modeling of a visitor room for the Duplicable City Center. Amiti completed the design of Room 9, the Zen-Garden visitor room, within Duplicable City. Drawing inspiration from the serene and meditative qualities of the ancient “Zen” concept, she crafted an ambiance reminiscent of a Japanese tea room. The selection of furniture, materials, and color palette was thoughtfully curated to harmonize with the Japanese design theme. Additionally, Amiti conducted a thorough review of the initial cost analysis associated with this room, ensuring a comprehensive understanding of the financial aspects of the project. See below for the picture.

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Charles Gooley (Web Designer) completed another week of assisting with web design. Charles embarked on the creation of the Most Sustainable Windows & Window Companies page, which encompasses various sections, including Most Sustainable Windows, Window Types, Glass Coatings, Performance Metrics, and a comprehensive list of Best & Most Sustainable Window Companies. The featured window options range from Anderson 100 Series Awning Windows to Milgard Thermally Improved Aluminum A250 Windows. While this project remains ongoing, Charles also diligently addressed comments on the Net-zero Bathroom Design Details and Water Conservation pages, with a focus on image replacement. Additionally, work commenced on the Earthbag Village Plumbing Design and Setup page, covering topics such as Wastewater Flow and Septic Tank Capacity. The pictures below offer a visual representation of this work.

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Ranran Zhang (Architectural Design) completed another week working on the updated video for the Duplicable City Center internal and external walkthrough. Ranran dedicated her efforts to refining the final view within the second video, ensuring an accurate representation of the entire building. In addition to these adjustments, she diligently produced two new videos to comprehensively showcase the modifications made to the model. Throughout the week, Ranran actively engaged in effective communication with her team members, addressing various matters pertaining to the source file. Take a look at the images below to see some of the progress made in this work.

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HIGHEST GOOD FOOD PROGRESS

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This week, the core team continued our review of the open-source Highest Good Food designs. We diligently continued the work on the Food Infrastructure Rollout document, focusing on refining its content. We contributed edits, expanded upon resource-building plans within the sections dedicated to chicken and rabbit housing, and removed videos that were no longer available. Additionally, we consolidated tasks from the previous initial three arrival plans into a more comprehensive and updated version that now encompasses preparations for the arrival of 20 people. Our efforts aimed to enhance the document’s comprehensiveness and utility for future reference. See below for the images.

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Gregory Quach (Data Enterer for Chef/Culinary) continued working on the Transition Kitchen, He conducted a comprehensive analysis of the Transition Kitchen Recipe Build Out project, with specific attention to improving the 15-day shopping lists. Gregory successfully implemented the necessary adjustments to ensure accuracy and transparency in the data, while also providing succinct summary analyses for each shopping list. See the images below for some of his work. 

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Shengguang Jin (Mechanical Engineer) completed the work of assisting with Highest Good Food. Shengguang devoted significant effort to exploring the design origins, weekly updates, and enhancements associated with various components of the Earthbag Village Project, specifically focusing on plumbing, showers, and bathroom setups. Spanning a substantial period from Spring 2017 to Winter 2017, this comprehensive documentation, totaling approximately 300 pages, provided a valuable overarching comprehension of the project’s elements. However, Shengguang recognized the importance of revisiting finer details for the purpose of design optimization, emphasizing a meticulous understanding at the elemental level. As a means of a CAD warm-up and skill refresher, Shengguang engaged in the design of a guided rod connected to a plate assembly, which encompassed multiple parts and employed advanced design features such as boss extrusion, slot cuts, and the mirror feature. See the images below for some of his 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 75 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. The pictures below show some of this work. 

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Another core team member conducted HGN PRs testing, addressing unresolved issues, including the “Users need to be on a Team to see its own tasks” problem and the default tab adjustment for VOLUNTEERS lacking tasks. She also actively participated by commenting on a PR concerning password update issues, confirming the inability of the ‘devadmin’ user to update their password, although the second part could not be tested due to the unavailability of another account on the development site. Furthermore, she reported instances of doubled permissions, specifically related to “Add Task” and “Delete Task.” In parallel, she worked on the City Center model, downloading the CC file from Dropbox as provided by Jae. A meticulous comparison was performed to validate the alignment of the outside area with a volunteer-provided image of the garden/Dining Dome, with discrepancies identified solely in the basement drive-in entrance. Additionally, she contributed an image of the spa pool, showcasing the sitting area and steps, along with a request for a volunteer to utilize the provided spa model. See the image below to view this work.

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Jin Hua (Web and Graphic Designer) continued problem-solving our website loading and speed issues, including reaching out to a new possible solution. The collage below shows some of this work. 

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ADMINISTRATION TEAM

This week, the Administration Team’s summary, covering their work administrating and managing most of One Community, was managed by Jamie Cruz (Administrative Assistant and Team Manager) and includes Olawunmi “Ola” Ijisesan (Administrative and Management Support) and Smit Bhoir (Data and Business Analyst). Jamie focused on responsive communication, efficiently managing messages, and meeting deadlines. She also edited collages from Megan Morelli’s previous two weeks’ work and prepared pages for the current week’s tasks. Jamie effectively oversaw the administration team, core team members, and individual contributors, contributing to the management of the Expressers and Blue Steel teams. Meanwhile, Ola fulfilled various responsibilities, including evaluating the administrative team’s progress and providing constructive feedback on their weekly tasks. Ola also reviewed the PR team’s work, assessing a new trainee’s performance and offering feedback on assignments. Throughout the week, Ola actively engaged in reviewing activities and tutorial videos to enhance their knowledge while diligently reminding all teams about impending work submissions. Simultaneously, Smit initiated orientation and setup within one community, with the aim of completing the process for PR Review Training. He practiced five test cases, learned the four-step review process, and selected five individuals for practice. Smit progressed through his training, completing steps 2 and 3, creating collage images, and adding them to the media library on WordPress. He incorporated SEO keywords such as Alt Titles on WordPress, conducted a successful dry run, and commenced the Managing PR Review team tutorial. Smit dedicated 20 hours of work for the week, concluding with the Managing a PR review team practice tutorial on the final day. The collage below shows some of this weeks work.

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BLUE STEEL SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT TEAM

This week, the Blue Steel Team’s summary, covering their work on the Highest Good Network software, was managed by Nathan and includes Xiao Wang (Software Engineer), Kurtis Ivey (Full Stack Developer), Lucile Tronczyk (Full Stack Software Developer), Nathan Hoffman (Software Engineer and Team Manager), Oleksandr Riazantsev (Project Management Advisor), Lawrence Chua (Full Stack Software), Yubo Sun (Full Stack Software Developer), Eduardo Varjao (Frontend Developer), Yubo Sun (Full Stack Software Developer) and Yongjian Pan (React.js/MongoDB Full Stack Software Developer). The team accomplished a range of tasks. Xiao focused on resolving issues, including four hotfixes and front-end pull requests #1320, 1322, and 1335, as well as a back-end pull request #541. These efforts addressed problems with the WeeklySummariesReport page not displaying correctly for volunteer users and fixed issues with corrupted PNG files and a bio announcement switch. Lawrence delved into backend environment variables and Azure deployments while also exploring Express application hosting on Bluehost. Yongjian concentrated on refining the user interface, ensuring consistency in the alignment of green dots on the project report page. Oleksandr successfully added buttons and modals, implemented data retrieval functionality, adjusted styling, and incorporated input validation, enhancing the location input process. Eduardo created unit tests for TeamsOverview.jsx and TeamTableSearchPanel.jsx, initiating pull requests to address failures in previous tests. Kurtis delved into WebSocket development within the new timer, reviewed various pull requests, and addressed issues related to CSS, code quality, and alignment. Lucile focused on unit tests for Info Points, extending her efforts to unit tests for the entire project. Yubo performed management duties, identified potential bugs, and worked on code testing and formatting. Nathan contributed to enhancing the system by adding preset functionality, including delete, apply, edit, and save options, while also compiling combined summaries and team pictures and offering valuable feedback to the team. See the image below to view this work.

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EXPRESSERS SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT TEAM

Expressers Team’s summary this week, covering their work on the Highest Good Network software, was managed by Yuri Andrade (Software Engineer and Team Manager) and includes Tim Kent (Full Stack Software Engineer), Olga Yudkin (Software Engineer), Aaron Persaud (Software Developer), Gary Balogh (Software Engineer), Harshida Dalal (Software Engineer), Veronica Cheng (Software Engineer), and Joyce Liu (Software Engineer). Tim conducted final testing for the Building Management Dashboard entry point URL and login form, creating detailed pull requests for both frontend and backend components. Tim also displayed initiative and project management skills by updating the work breakdown structure (WBS) spreadsheet for the entire Building Management Dashboard project and revising project documentation. Yuri focused on designing and building the navigation bar for Phase 2 of HGN Software. Yuri assessed the application’s structure, introduced constants for navbar links, and leveraged the reactstrap library for construction. The links “Add MET,” “Log MET,” “Log Time,” “Log Issue,” and “Add Member” were successfully implemented. Additionally, Yuri temporarily assumed the role of Manager for the Expressers Team, overseeing seven developers’ work. Olga completed responsive design work for the project details page in Phase II of the HGN app, initiating a pull request and addressing feedback from team members. She plans to conduct an accessibility standards review before finalizing her commits. Olga also performed final reviews of PR#1293 and PR#1325, approving them for deployment. Aaron collaborated with Yiyun to resolve eslint warnings causing deployment failures on the production branch. He assisted Jae with administrative tasks and updating bug documentation. Aaron resolved merge conflicts and conducted a comprehensive PR test for Papia’s open pull request (PR1061). He also worked on linting issues within the PermissionsManagement component and Timelog component. Gary initiated the development of the Add Materials Page in the HGN application, focusing on a user-friendly form for adding materials to projects. He utilized React Strap for form construction, implemented routing capabilities, and addressed styling conflicts. Gary explored Redux and React hooks for state management. He also conducted PR reviews for PR#1287, PR#534, PR#1312, and PR#539. Harshida, in her sixth week with the team, addressed button alignment within the timer component and raised PR#1317. She also conducted PR reviews for PR#1297, PR#1266, PR#1218, PR#1331, and PR#1332. Veronica continued addressing permissions management issues, checked for function existence, and planned a final review of permission descriptions and the ‘i’ button on the front end. She also engaged in several Pull Request Reviews. Joyce focused on enhancing unit tests for the HGN app and conducting QA testing in the development environment. She checked phase-2 projects for tasks requiring attention and reviewed phase-2 documentation. The collage below shows some of this work.

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GRAPHIC DESIGN TEAM

Graphic Design’s summary was managed by Alyx Parr (Senior Support Specialist and Manager) and includes Ashlesha Navale (Graphic Designer), Rihab Baklouti (Freelance Generalist), Yeasin Arafat (Civil Engineer, Graphic Designer). This week, Ashlesha was responsible for several tasks. She created two Volunteer Announcements, along with bio images and announcement images for them. In addition, Ashlesha generated web content for both announcements and curated a collection of nature-based and theme-based images for future Social Media and YouTube Preview/Intro Images. She also designed the Social Media and YouTube Preview/Intro Images for blog #747, 748, and 749. Rihab’s focus was on YouTube preview and update image designs. She successfully completed 18 designs, which were reviewed, confirmed, and submitted for approval. One more design, the 19th, is currently awaiting approval. These designs spanned across her task list, including designs 640-649, 651, 658, 680, 683, 686, 688, 692, and 695, and were not in chronological order. Yeasin also had a productive week, successfully completing various tasks that required leveraging graphic design expertise across diverse initiatives. His responsibilities encompassed using both manual and digital methods to create images for use in both print and digital media, demonstrating his versatile graphic design skills. The pictures below exemplify 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 Xiao Tan (Volunteer and Team Manager) and includes Abdelmounaim “Abdel” Lallouache (Software Developer), Cheng-Yun Chuang (Software Engineer), Jiadong Zhang (Volunteer Software Engineer), Navneeth Krishna (Software Engineer), Tzu Ning “Leo” Chueh (Software Engineer), Xiao Fei (Software Engineer), Yihan Liu (Software Engineer), Zijie “Cyril” Yu (Volunteer Software Engineer), and Zubing Guo (Software Engineer). This week, Abdelmounaim made significant updates to the time-off request system and leaderboard interface. In the time-off request module, he restricted leave date selection to Sundays only and prevented users from updating leave dates. On the leaderboard, he introduced a new indicator feature for users on time off or scheduled for it, along with a toggle button for visibility. Cheng-Yun devoted time to meticulously review 16 pull requests across backend and frontend repositories, with a focus on PRs numbered 1279, 1280, 1283, 1288, 1291, 1293, 1287, 1297, 1298, 1299, 1218, 1300, and 1306. Backend PRs 531, 534, and 532 were also given attention. Jiadong conducted reviews of PRs 1299, 1298, and 1297, addressing issues related to the time log section’s complexity and lack of comments. Navneeth worked on adding permissions for project and team management tasks, meticulously testing and validating changes in the Manage User Permissions modal and User Roles tab. He also actively participated in numerous pull request reviews. Tzu-Ning encountered link visibility issues in PR #1297 and PR #1298, attempting various solutions, including DNS refreshing. However, the problem persisted during code testing. Xiao F focused on the ‘differentiate personal max badge’ task, merging supplementary text with existing content and addressing issues with the ‘hrs’ label. He reviewed multiple pull requests, paying attention to linting, unit testing, and UI and functional components. Yihan concentrated on creating a manual method for adding lost volunteer hours from past years, extending properties within the timeEntry model and resolving conflicts in previous PRs. She also conducted reviews of PRs #1218, #532, and #1283. Zijie worked on making the “Submit for Review > Mark Task Complete” process more efficient and documented his efforts for future developers. He conducted reviews for six pull requests, seeking potential solutions for the efficiency task. Zubing diligently integrated the “Write it for me” button into the summary page, restructuring backend code for the ChatGPT router, controller, and config files, overcoming challenges to achieve successful outcomes. 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 Eduardo Horta (Software Engineer and Team Manager) and includes Anirudh Ghildiyal (Software Engineer), Carl Bebli (Software Developer), Eduardo Horta (Software Engineer and Team Manager), Jiyuan Xia (Software Engineer), Ramya Ramasamy (Full Stack Developer), Shantanu Kumar (Full Stack Software Developer), Shihao Xiong (Software Engineer), Shrey Jain (Software Engineer), Shivansh Sharma (Software Developer), Vansh Patel (Software Engineer), Vikram Badhan (Software Engineer), and Zuhang Xu (Software Engineer). This week, Eduardo dedicated his efforts to HGN Software Development, spending time on various tasks. On Friday, he devoted 3 hours and 9 minutes to help Anirudh with adding an edit button to each summary on the Weekly Summaries tab, although encountering difficulties and planning to continue this work. Thursday saw him invest 3 hours and 51 minutes in testing PR#1287 (FE) and PR#534 (BE) while also assisting team members from Reactonauts with their feature implementations. Wednesday, he spent 4 hours and 29 minutes reviewing and approving Carl-fix-suggestion-icon-modal and hosting the Weekly Meeting for Reactonauts. On Tuesday, Eduardo raised PR#1314 for Eduardo Lint fix for Dashboard Component and continued testing BE – PR#485. Finally, on Monday, he dedicated 4 hours and 6 minutes to reviewing PR#485 and providing feedback to his team members from Reactonauts on their tasks. Jiyuan demonstrated exceptional dedication, successfully completing ten PR reviews, including #1331, #1330, #1326, #1325, #1324, #1318, #1317, #1218, #1332, and #1266, showcasing his commitment to code quality and project progress. Carl’s fix for the “Suggestion Icon Bug” was successfully merged, with ongoing efforts to resolve any issues. He actively engaged in peer review, evaluating and providing feedback on numerous pull requests. Shihao addressed layout issues with PR#1316 and contributed to code review by examining PR#1318, PR#1326, and PR#1297. Shihao is currently working on merging PR#1202 and PR#1203. Shrey focused on resolving issues related to the add team functionality and a limited view problem for HighestGoodNetwork. He is actively debugging and working on publishing a pull request for the same. Masasa diligently addressed concerns raised regarding their pull request (PR) by augmenting the PR with a robust backend code implementation. This comprehensive approach enhances the functionality and security of the system. Backend is PR #504, and Frontend is #1287. Vansh performed a comprehensive linting procedure on User Management component files and components, rectifying various errors and testing features for regression. He also reviewed PR#1333 and expressed concerns about reproducibility. 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 Yiyun Tan (Management Dashboard Team Leader), and includes Bailey Mejia (Software Engineer), Jerry Ren (Full Stack Developer), Luis Arevalo (Front End Developer), Mounica Dingari (Software Developer), Roberto Contreras (Software Developer), Yao Wang (Software Engineer), and YuFu Liao (Software Engineer). This week, Yufu primarily focused on the task titled “Make columns editable by Owner on User Management Page.” He engaged in a detailed conversation with Jae to understand the specifics and the best approach to implement this functionality. Yufu inquired about the editability of the end date, email, and role in the No.1 user management component. Proposing a solution, he suggested the creation of a popup similar to the “set final day” feature. By incorporating this popup with editable user information, the desired function could be efficiently addressed. Mounica’s focus was on implementing the report recipients button within the system. The primary tasks included creating functionality for users to select, edit, and delete recipients for the weekly summary reports. Additionally, backend development work was undertaken to ensure the secure storage of recipient details in the database. Password protection was also integrated into the report recipients button, and the previous recipient, “sangam,” was removed from the email distribution list. Hector conducted various tasks related to app development. These tasks included the selection of a specific task involving the construction of a modal for the application. Additionally, time was spent reviewing the application’s codebase, with a focus on identifying and addressing a geolocation bug. Efforts were also directed towards locating the necessary Geolocation API key, which is essential for local testing. In order to adequately prepare for the assigned task of modal development, an in-depth examination of the application’s codebase was conducted to enhance understanding. Furthermore, research was undertaken to identify the source of the API key required for local feature testing. The week also involved ongoing app testing; however, challenges were encountered when attempting to fetch location data from the API on the development branch, which impeded progress on the assigned modal development ticket. Jerry successfully published PRs 1312 and 539. Additionally, he integrated a table displaying permission change logs into the Permission Management Page. This table retrieves data directly from the database and features columns for date and time (in Pacific Time), editor email, role, permissions, permissions added, and permissions removed. In parallel, Jerry initiated work on the “Create Dev Admin account email verification system” task, formulating two distinct approaches to address the task. He intends to dedicate further efforts towards this task in the upcoming week. Bailey focused on further testing of the badges component. He revisited the accounts he had previously tested to verify if they received any new badges or encountered any fresh bugs. To investigate the functionality of the ’60 hours in 1 week’ badge, Bailey added 60 hours to his volunteer account and also looked for the bug that might award him badges for other weeks. During his assessment, he noticed an irregularity when his admin account unexpectedly received the ‘new personal maximum’ badge. Moreover, these badges were duplicated, and the count was erroneously maxed out at 50. Bailey attempted to delete a badge from his testing account to validate the functionality of the ‘5x minimum hours’ badge with no logged time. However, he encountered an issue where the owner permissions, particularly for badge deletion, were not effectively granted. Throughout the week, he communicated with his team to share findings and gather updates on their badge testing, though many were preoccupied with different assignments. Roberto, focused on addressing a specific issue related to user-team integration. The problem entailed the inability to add a user to teams correctly during user creation, as the existing code failed to update the database. Consequently, while users seemed to be associated with a team in the website’s frontend, this change was not reflected in the actual database, resulting in the user not appearing in the team’s member list from the teams link. To resolve this issue, Roberto modified the code to first create the user, thereby obtaining a unique userId. With this userId, the addTeamMember function was then employed to trigger the backend route, successfully updating the database and rectifying the problem of users not appearing in the Team’s member list. Additionally, Roberto applied the same solution to the TeamTab.jsx file to address a similar issue when attempting to add an existing user to a team. Luis concentrated on addressing the weekly submission bug, specifically related to users submitting summaries containing fewer than 50 words. Upon investigation, he identified the root cause as the regex incorrectly counting spaces instead of words. After thorough testing, he successfully integrated a word count feature provided by the editor, ensuring that weekly summaries must meet the 50-word minimum requirement before submission. The updated code was pushed to a dedicated GitHub branch and a merge request into the main branch was initiated. In addition to bug-fixing, Luis also allocated time to work on several pull requests, fulfilling his weekly commitment of 10 hours. See the collage below for their work.

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The PR Review Team’s summary covering their work on the Highest Good Network software, was managed by Shaurya Sareen (Administrative Assistant). This week’s active members of this team (completing a minimum of 10 volunteer hours each) were: Anish Pandita (Software Engineer), Anny Wang (Software Engineer), Haoji Bian (Software Engineer)Jeffrey Li (Software Engineer), Obeda Velonjatovo (Software Engineer), Shiwani Rajagopalan (Software Engineer), Shree Birajdar (Software Engineer), Shubhankar Mishra (Software Engineer), Tianyuan Nan (Software Engineer), Wanting Xu (Sofware Engineer), and Yixiao Jiang (Software Engineer). They reviewed all the Highest Good Network PRs (Pull Requests) shared in this week’s update. The collage below shows a compilation of the work from this team.

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One Way to Make Permanent Positive Change – One Community Weekly Progress Update #548

One Community is one way to make permanent positive change. We accomplish this by embracing open source and sustainable solutions across various domains, including food, energy, housing, education, for-profit and non-profit economic design, social architecture, fulfilled living, and global stewardship practices. Guided by the philosophy of living and creating for “The Highest Good of All.” Our innovative model is designed for self-replication, thus laying the foundation for a worldwide network of teacher/demonstration hubs. Every creation of ours is open source and freely shared, contributing to the advancement oft sustainability and the regeneration of a planet for the benefit of all people and life that share it.

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One Community’s physical location will forward this movement as the first of many self-replicating teacher/demonstration communities, villages, and cities to be built around the world. This is the September 18th, 2023 edition (#548) of our weekly progress update detailing our team’s development and accomplishments:

 

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HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING PROGRESS

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This week, Julia Meaney (Research and Web design) completed another week of assisting with research and web design. Julia focused on a range of tasks, displaying a high level of productivity and attention to detail. She dedicated her efforts to reviewing and enhancing the City Center Interior Design Cost Analysis spreadsheet, particularly scrutinizing the incorporation of feedback into the “Room 4 – Retro Vogue” and “Room 5 – Tranquility Room” tabs. She skillfully addressed comments and implemented necessary revisions. Subsequently, she turned their attention to the DIY on Earth Dam Design & Construction Disaster Mitigation Content Google Doc, methodically refining content for grammatical accuracy, spelling, and overall coherence. She also provided constructive feedback and sought clarifications where needed. Additionally, she undertook preparations for seamless site integration, including the creation of tables of contents and the incorporation of guidelines for headings and site formatting. Finally, she continued their diligent editing work on the Net-zero Bathroom and Earthbag Village Water Collection and Septic Design EDITED CONTENT FOR WEB” Google Docs, ensuring content precision and optimal format for final integration. Throughout these tasks, she adeptly formatted resources, reinstated images, and executed other essential adjustments. See the pictures below.

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Justin Varghese (Mechanical Engineer) completed another week assisting with the City Center Dome Hub Connector Engineering. Justin dedicated his efforts to the precise alignment of beams and meticulous adjustments to drawings, with a primary focus on correcting angles between them. His goal was to proactively prevent beam and connector collisions, achieve geometric symmetry, and ensure a consistent connector design throughout the project. In addition to these tasks, Justin successfully created and assembled connectors with a standardized thickness of 0.2 inches for rows 1, 2, 3, and 4. See some of the images below.

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Loza Ayehutsega (Civil Engineer/Assistant Civil Engineer) completed another week of assisting with Earth Dam Design and construction for Water Retention, Pond, and lake Creation. Loza attended a workshop focused on safer tailing dams, organized by NGI. During the workshop, valuable interactions took place with representatives from ICOLD and experienced dam safety engineers. These discussions revolved around various ongoing projects, fostering meaningful connections and exchanges of insights. Currently, Loza is diligently reviewing comments received on a report as part of their ongoing work. Take a look at the pictures below to get a glimpse of this work.

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DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER PROGRESS

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This week, Amiti Singh (Architectural Designer) completed the design and modeling of a visitor room for the Duplicable City Center. Amiti achieved significant progress in the development of Duplicable City’s Zen-Garden visitor room, Room 9. Inspired by the serene essence of “Zen,” the room design aimed to evoke the tranquility of a Japanese tea room. Amiti efficiently completed the selection process for materials, furniture, planting, and lighting, harmonizing them to create the desired ambiance. Concurrently, she conducted a meticulous review of the cost analysis pertaining to both Room 4 and Room 5 within Duplicable City, ensuring the utmost precision and reliability in the financial assessments. See below for the picture.

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Charles Gooley (Web Designer) completed another week of assisting with web design. Charles dedicated his efforts to enhancing the Water Recycling Net-zero Bathroom Design and Water Conservation tutorials. Under precise guidance from the source Google Doc, he meticulously updated the main tables of contents and sub-tables of contents for both pages. Charles seamlessly integrated new content, covering topics like Net-Zero Bathroom Rainwater Harvesting Design Details, Estimation of Catchment Area of the Rooftop Rainwater Harvesting System, Rainfall Supply, Water Demand, Catchment Area, and Storage Capacity into the Water Recycling Net Zero Bathroom Design. These strategic additions found their place within the Water Conservation tutorial, situated between the Earthbag Village Stormwater Harvesting Design and above the Stormwater Management Plan sections. Both tutorials have now reached completion and are ready for the review process. The pictures below offer a visual representation of this work.

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Julio Marín Bustillos (Mechanical Engineer) completed another week of assisting with the City Center Dome Hub Connector Engineering. Julio concentrated on designing additional hub connectors and seamlessly integrating them into the comprehensive assembly. The expansion of the assembly was undertaken to facilitate updates to the overarching model, with the primary beneficiaries being Justin, Yiwei, and the newly onboarded team member, Dipak. Dipak, leveraging his background in Finite Element Analysis (FEA), assumes a pivotal role in evaluating the safety and optimization of the design. The team maintains its unwavering commitment to this collaborative endeavor. The pictures below provide a glimpse of the images.

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Ranran Zhang (Architectural Design) completed another week working on the updated video for the Duplicable City Center internal and external walkthrough. Ranran diligently addressed feedback by making necessary improvements to both the Lumion and SketchUp models. Specifically, she focused on achieving a closer match of the wall material in the kitchen area to the source model and introduced a new waterfall feature in the central area of the first floor. In addition, Ranran carried out essential adjustments to the related model near the waterfall to enhance overall accuracy and cohesion. Take a look at the images below to see some of the progress made in this work.

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ENGINEERING TEAM MANAGER IN TRAINING

This week, the engineering summary was managed by Arvindh Xavier (Civil Engineer), amalgamating the contributions of team members Anushka Shinghal, Ashlesha Navale, Gregory Quach, Julio Bustillo, and Rihab Baklouti. Notably, Anushka collaborated with a teammate to strategize, focusing on audience development within Google Analytics and the generation of weekly reports for Jae. Addressing challenges with settings, Anushka intends to resolve them while exploring methods to create additional audiences. Ashlesha dedicated her efforts to crafting a Volunteer Announcement, curating web content, and designing nature-based background images and theme-based visuals for social media and YouTube. Gregory focuses on Google Sheets tasks and successfully streamlining column addition through aggregate array formula integration. He also contributed by authoring his profile information for the organization’s website. Rihab efficiently managed tasks, creating non-chronological YouTube updates and Volunteer Announcements, with all drafts approved by the One Community Crew. Julio concentrated on designing hub connectors to enhance the comprehensive assembly, benefiting team members Justin, Yiwei, and Dipak, who specialize in Finite Element Analysis (FEA) for design assessment. See below for some of the images of this work.

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HIGHEST GOOD FOOD PROGRESS

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This week, the core team continued our review of the open-source Highest Good Food designs. We undertook the task of editing the Food Rollout Infrastructure document, focusing on enhancing its readability and clarity. In this endeavor, we skillfully applied formatting by bolding the segments that require purchased items and further emphasized those needing construction by bolding and italicizing them. These key segments encompassed materials lists, the initial 3, 20 people, and various aspects of soil preparation, composting, vermiculture, soil amendments, and hoop house entities. See the pictures below that are related to this.

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Gregory Quach (Data Enterer for Chef/Culinary) continued working on the Transition Kitchen, He conducted a thorough analysis of the Transition Kitchen Recipe Build Out project, placing specific emphasis on implementing the aggregate array formula function to optimize column addition, particularly for shopping lists. Gregory accomplished the task of generating all 15-day shopping lists successfully. Furthermore, he authored his profile information for the organization’s website. See the images below for some of his work. 

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Shengguang Jin (Mechanical Engineer) completed the work of assisting with Highest Good Food. Shengguang conducted a thorough review of the analytical model’s accuracy, comparing it to the CAD files from Solidworks. During this evaluation, a minor error related to the proper boundary conditions of structural supporting component A was identified. In response, he diligently received a set of equations from scratch, ensuring their alignment with the original model. Additionally, Shengguang calculated the moment of inertia for the member’s hollow square, taking into account both the actual parameters and the proposed material properties. Furthermore, an assessment of the empty chamber’s load-bearing capacity under full weight was carried out, and the results were compared with Solid Works simulation data for validation. See the images below for some of his 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:

This week, Brian Muigai Mwaniki (Structural Engineer) completed work helping with The Ultimate Classroom. Brian performed a comprehensive analysis of modified timber trusses and the structural framework, utilizing Staad Pro V8 to simulate various load scenarios on individual members. He successfully derived load reactions from this analysis, leading to a revision of existing foundation drawings, a task efficiently accomplished using AutoCAD software. Following the revision, Brian ensured the accessibility of all relevant files by uploading them to the designated shared Dropbox location. See below for pictures related to this work.

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HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY PROGRESS

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This week, the core team completed 67 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. The pictures below show some of this work.  

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Another core team member worked extensively with the City Center SketchUp file, performing various tasks. She extracted the central area of the first floor from the latest City Center SketchUp file, which included components like the mechanical room, chairs, side tables, the spa’s latest CAD image, the laundry room wall, the dining dome shell, and the swimming pool. She utilized the waterfall model from a prior design of the central area on the first floor of the City Center. She combined these two models to implement updates, such as relocating the spa pool to create space for a waterfall, removing two chairs and a side table adjacent to the mechanical room, and repositioning a chair and side table near the entry door. Additionally, she reshaped the waterfall model to accommodate the spa pool and made necessary updates to the court’s floor and the first floor of the living dome by eliminating any obstructing elements from the spa area. She then compressed the SketchUp file containing the central area with the combined waterfall and shared it with volunteers on Google Drive. She also combined the updated central area components with the latest City Center model, compressed the final file, and uploaded it to Google Drive for volunteer access. See the image below to view this work.

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Jin Hua (Web and Graphic Designer) continued working with NitroPack trying to fix video errors identified by Google Analytics. He also objectively confirmed the improvements this plugin has provided our website. The pictures below show some of this work.

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Ray Lee (Digital Creator) helped this week by creating the header images shown below for all the forms we use internally. See the image below to view this work.

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Megan Morelli (Funding Research and Acquisition) hired and trained a new team member named Aaron Wang for the fundraising team. They created a plan for Aaron’s onboarding and his role in fundraising activities. Megan also set up a Zoom call between Jae and the Eckhart Tolle Foundation to discuss potential partnerships and funding opportunities. After the call, she sent a follow-up email to explore future collaboration possibilities with the Foundation. Additionally, Megan spent time researching other organizations for outreach and identified important contacts and groups to connect with in the next week. See below for pictures related to this work.

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ADMINISTRATION TEAM

This week, the Administration Team’s summary, covering their work administrating and managing most of One Community, was managed by Jamie and includes Alyx Parr (Senior Support Specialist and Team Manager), Jamie Cruz (Administrative Assistant and Team Manager), and Olawunmi “Ola” Ijisesan (Administrative and Management Support). Alyx focused on multiple tasks, including reviewing Jamie’s blog content, copying additional summaries, and sourcing images for their side project. She engaged in collaborative work on Google Docs, created collages, and completed graphic design elements for her own blog page. Alyx also proactively managed the team, assessing performance, and strategizing for support, following up with team members who missed their media and summaries. She reconnected with individuals from the previous week and established summaries and content for page 548. Jamie revisited her previous week’s blog, improved tutorials for new volunteers, organized images and summaries for an upcoming blog, and managed administrative responsibilities within her team. Ola completed her assigned tasks, provided feedback on team members’ work, corrected errors, and expanded her role in the PR team by reviewing instructional videos. She also received feedback from Jae on her reviewed work. The collage below shows some of this work.

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ANALYTICS TEAM

Analytic’s summary was managed by Alyx Parr (Senior Support Specialist) and includes Anushka Signhal (Machine Learning Engineer) and Tanaya Joshi (Machine Learning Engineer). This week, Anushka concentrated on the development of a measurement plan geared towards enhancing volunteer recruitment and increasing donations and funding. Her responsibilities encompassed the utilization of Google Analytics to optimize volunteer engagement and a comprehensive analysis of conversion rates across all website links. Anushka also encountered some ambiguity regarding the distinction between the donation and funding sections of the website. Meanwhile, Tanaya’s focus this week was on comprehending the existing state of the Google Ads account. She diligently revised the measurement plan and explored methods for tracking social media data, thoroughly documenting the processes involved. Additionally, Tanaya collated insights regarding the current state of the ads account and subsequently engaged in a productive discussion with her teammate, augmenting the measurement plan with valuable input. Her documentation efforts extended to email tracking, social media platform monitoring, hashtag tracking, and the creation of UTM links for marketing campaigns. See the collage below for evidence of this work.

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BLUE STEEL SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT TEAM

This week, the Blue Steel Team’s summary, covering their work on the Highest Good Network software, was managed by Nathan and includes Haohui Lin (Software Engineer), Kurtis Ivey (Full Stack Developer), Lucile Tronczyk (Full Stack Software Developer), Nathan Hoffman (Software Engineer and Team Manager), Oleksandr Riazantsev (Project Management Advisor), Lawrence Chua (Full Stack Software), Yubo Sun (Full Stack Software Developer), Eduardo Varjao (Frontend Developer), and Yongjian Pan (React.js/MongoDB Full Stack Software Developer). Eduardo developed unit tests for three components, including TeamMembersPopup.jsx, TeamStatusPopup.jsx, and TeamTableHeader.jsx, confirming their proper functionality and subsequently initiating three pull requests for these tests. Haohui concentrated on implementing “Add New User Permissions Role” in PR1307, conducting testing, and handling edge cases for “Gives the user permission to manage individual user permissions” in PR1218 and Backend PR532. Kurtis conducted extensive testing on the updated backend and worked on resolving bug issues related to the new timer. Lawrence delved into the existing YAML file within the frontend codebase, seeking to understand its functionality and interactions with HGN deployments. Oleksandr addressed misspellings causing map component bugs, established a new user profile schema, and configured functionality for retrieving user-profiles and filtering by location data. Yongjian implemented a practical enhancement by enabling clickable Work Breakdown Structure (WBS) names, enhancing user accessibility. Lucile focused on software development tasks, adding explanatory “i” symbols to elements in the app, engaging in PR testing, and contributing to the improvement of information points. Yubo completed various tasks, including merging PRs and resolving issues with failed tests, while also actively working on addressing the ‘Fix profile page Assign Team button’ issue. Nathan addressed Git-related challenges and made progress on the “Restore to Default” task while also managing team hours and conducting reviews. See the image below to view this work.

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EXPRESSERS SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT TEAM

Expressers Team’s summary this week, covering their work on the Highest Good Network software, was managed by Tim Kent (Full Stack Software Engineer and Team Manager) and includes Gary Balogh (Software Engineer), Yuri Andrade (Software Engineer), Olga Yudkin (Software Engineer), Aaron Persaud (Software Developer), and Veronica Cheng (Software Engineer). Gary conducted extensive code reviews (1183, 1185, 1218+532, 1264, 1270, 1277+530, 1278, 1279+531, 1280, 1281, 1283, 1287+534, 1288, 1291, 1293, 1297, 1298, 1300) for the development team, focusing on unit tests, accessibility improvements, and permissions management functions. Notably, he examined the addition of a Start Date column in the User Management Table and enforced guidelines for links in Google Docs and Dropbox. Yuri addressed the “admin” role issue related to adding a new WBS, identifying it as a code bug, and initiating a solution. Olga conducted a final review of PR#1262, updated PR notes for Task 255, and worked on the Phase II project details page’s design. Aaron resolved alignment and deployment issues in PR1289 and PR1294, respectively, while also enhancing linting scripts (PR1306) and verifying badge component fixes. Veronica focused on permission management issues, refining her testing methodology and revising permission labels, with plans to continue this work and document her findings in the Permissions Management Fixes Excel file. The collage below shows some of this work.

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GRAPHIC DESIGN TEAM

Graphic Design’s summary was managed by Alyx Parr (Senior Support Specialist and Manager) and includes Ashlesha Navale (Graphic Designer), Rihab Baklouti (Freelance Generalist), Yeasin Arafat (Civil Engineer, Graphic Designer). This week, Ashlesha took on several responsibilities, including the creation of a Volunteer Announcement, complete with a bio image and announcement image. She also crafted web content for this announcement and dedicated time to researching and curating a collection of nature-based and theme-based background images for potential future use in Social Media and YouTube Preview/Intro Images. In addition, Ashlesha designed the Social Media and YouTube Preview/Intro Images for a series of blog posts, namely #734, 735, 736, 737, 738, and 739. On the other hand, Rihab focused on two distinct tasks during this week’s activities. For the task involving YouTube previews and update images, she meticulously designed 13 updates in a non-chronological order, providing multiple drafts for each, all of which received final approval from the One Community Crew. Furthermore, Rihab worked on Volunteer Announcements, where she was tasked with creating announcements and bio icons for three individuals: Ramya Ramasamy, Amiti Singh, and Eng. Brian Muigai Mwaniki. Her work in this regard was also successfully finalized and approved for integration into the webpage. Lastly, Yeasin accomplished several projects this week, demonstrating proficiency in graphic design across various assignments. His role encompassed the creation of visual content for both print and digital media, employing a mix of manual and digital techniques to generate fresh and innovative concepts. The pictures below exemplify 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 Xiao Tan (Volunteer and Team Manager) and includes Abdelmounaim “Abdel” Lallouache (Software Developer), Cheng-Yun Chuang (Software Engineer), Edwin Estuardo Lau Mack (Software Engineer), Jianjun Luo (Software Engineer), Navneeth Krishna (Software Engineer), Shihao Xiong (Software Engineer), Tzu Ning “Leo” Chueh (Software Engineer), Xiao Fei (Software Engineer), Yihan Liu (Software Engineer), Zijie “Cyril” Yu (Volunteer Software Engineer), and Zubing Guo (Software Engineer). This week, Abdelmounaim made several key updates to the time-off request system and the leaderboard interface. In the time-off request module, he modified the date selector to restrict the selection of leave dates to Sundays only and prevented users from updating the date of leave in the edit modal. On the leaderboard, Abdelmounaim introduced a new indicator feature that displays relevant text and a button, visible when a user is currently on time off or scheduled for time off in the upcoming week. Cheng-Yun dedicated substantial time to reviewing 16 pull requests across backend and frontend repositories, with a particular emphasis on frontend PRs. Edwin reviewed three PRs and contributed to the development of the HGN application, introducing a versatile helper function for permissions management. Jiadong reviewed PRs and addressed complexities in the time log bug, considering future refactoring. Jianjun closed the profile picture task and shared progress on the selection process and front-end components. Navneeth focused on permissions management tasks, reviewed multiple PRs, and conducted thorough testing. Tzu Ning encountered link visibility issues in PRs and attempted to resolve them. Xiao F worked on the ‘differentiate personal max badge’ task, addressing issues and fine-tuning code, and reviewed seven PRs. Yihan worked on creating a manual method for adding lost hours and resolved conflicts in previously submitted PRs, also conducting PR reviews. Zijie dedicated time to improving the efficiency of the “Mark Task Complete” functionality and reviewed six PRs. Zubing focused on integrating the “Write it for me” button into the summary page and restructured backend code for the ChatGPT router, controller, and config files, despite encountering challenges. 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 Eduardo Horta (Software Engineer and Team Manager) and includes Anirudh Ghildiyal (Software Engineer), Carl Bebli (Software Developer), Eduardo Horta (Software Engineer and Team Manager), Induja Kanchisamudram (Developer), Jacky Li (Software Engineer), Jiangwei Shi (Full Stack Engineer), Jiyuan Xia (Software Engineer), Ramya Ramasamy (Full Stack Developer), Masasa Thapelo (Software Engineer)Shantanu Kumar (Full Stack Software Developer), Shihao Xiong (Software Engineer), Shrey Jain (Software Engineer), and Zuhang Xu (Software Engineer). This week, Eduardo actively contributed to HGN Software Development by conducting comprehensive reviews of the Reactonauts’ team’s work, providing feedback, and addressing bugs and features. He completed the development of a batch email feature, raised PR#1293, and reviewed and approved PR#1211. Additionally, Eduardo initiated work on a lint fix for the Dashboard component and hosted the Weekly Meeting while reviewing team member PR#1183. Shantanu successfully completed a bug, encountering pull request creation errors during the process. Carl addressed the “Suggestion Icon not working issue,” included error handling, and participated in PR reviews. Shrey resolved a project delete button issue, tackled a linting problem, and investigated Sentry errors, while also conducting PR reviews for PR1291 and PR1306. Jiyuan performed ten PR reviews, demonstrated a commitment to code quality, and investigated PR #1288. Shihao created the “Load Badge” button, updated features in PR#1264, and resolved conflicts in PR#1202 and PR#1203. Masasa developed the ‘CreateBadgeOnly’ permission feature, initiated PR#1287, and implemented it successfully. 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 Yiyun Tan and includes Jerry Ren (Full Stack Developer) and YuFu Liao (Software Engineer). This week, Yufu worked on resolving a bug specified by Jae, which involved making columns editable. Alongside this, Yufu addressed a few interface issues: he adjusted the height of the Role dropdown field to match other search fields and centered the Hrs search field over its respective hours. Moreover, Yufu completed two pull request reviews. In a related development, EduardoV opened a task (#1298), aiming to create unit tests for the TeamStatusPopup component. This task has since received feedback, as evidenced by the 14 comments suggesting changes. Yufu also checked the creation of unit tests for the TeamMembersPopup component. And Jerry focused on addressing code change requests on FE PR 1199. His approach involved the creation of a backend feature branch designed to handle 403 errors for CRUD operations on the ‘/api/userprofiles’ route. While browsing open PRs, Jerry noted that PR 1199 shared common files and lines with Edwin’s FE PR 1281. To preempt merge conflicts when these branches get merged into the development branch, Jerry initiated the creation of a feature branch to consolidate the code changes from both PRs. Additionally, he revisited FE PR 1277 and BE PR 530, initiating work on the implementation of a table for permission change logs on the Permission Management Page. See the collage below for their work.

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The PR Review Team’s summary covering their work on the Highest Good Network software, was managed by Shaurya Sareen (Administrative Assistant). This week’s active members of this team (completing a minimum of 10 volunteer hours each) were: Anish Pandita (Software Engineer), Chris Harries (Software Engineer), Gabriel Lima (Software Engineer), Gary Balogh (Software Engineer), Haoji Bian (Software Engineer)Jielin Wang (Software Engineer), Obeda Velonjatovo (Software Engineer), Roberto Contreras (Software Engineer)Shiwani Rajagopalan (Software Engineer), Shree Birajdar (Software Engineer), Shubhankar Mishra (Software Engineer), Tianyuan Nan (Software Engineer)Tuan Dinh (Software Engineer), Vikram Badha (Software Engineer), and Wanting Xu (Sofware Engineer). They reviewed all the Highest Good Network PRs (Pull Requests) shared in this week’s update. The collage below shows a compilation of the work from this team.

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One Community welcomes Amiti Singh to the Architectural Design Team!

One Community welcomes Amiti Singh to the Architectural Design Team as our newest Volunteer/Consultant!

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Amiti boasts more than nine years of experience in the field of architecture, complemented by a recent post-professional graduate degree. She holds the belief that spatial practices naturally cultivate dialogues encompassing nostalgia, ritual, care, risk, and societal protest. Her professional journey includes roles as an intern and an employee, collaborating with four notable Indian architects on substantial government, commercial, and residential projects, where she has played a pivotal role in project conception, implementation, and execution. As a member of the One Community team, Amiti remains committed to challenging societal dialogues across various scales and seeks to advance her evolving skills to promote a more ethical approach to designing spaces as she is helping with the interior design details of the Duplicable City Center.

 

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One Community welcomes Eng. Brian Muigai Mwaniki to the Engineering Team as our newest Volunteer/Consultant!

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Eng. Brian is currently pursuing his masters in MSc Engineering from the University of Bath. He previously obtained a Bachelor’s degree in Civil Engineering from Jomo Kenyatta University of Agriculture and Technology. Brian has over 10 years of civil/structural engineering experience across vast project types. He has demonstrated success working in fast-paced environments and on complex projects requiring efficient and effective solutions to challenging problems. He believes in efficiency with regards to use of resources, doing more with less, and contributing to sustainability with resources and infrastructure as a path to having both a positive impact on the environment and the economy. As a member of the One Community team, Brian is helping complete the structural engineering details for The Ultimate Classroom. He is also helping lead a team of structural engineers to complete other tasks assigned.

 

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Ramya is a passionate individual aiming to become a skilled full-stack developer, with prior experience in Test Automation. Beginning her career as a quality assurance engineer, Ramya gradually transitioned into Test Automation due to her ability to identify areas for improvement in established practices and her keen interest in programming. Working as an automation engineer helped Ramya discover her love for problem-solving and creating things. Taking a break from the industry, she pursued and graduated recently from the Computer Science graduate program at IU Bloomington, specializing in Algorithms, Software Development, and Distributed Computing. She thrives in dynamic environments that constantly evolve and push her boundaries. Her goal is to work with modern web development frameworks, databases, and contribute to a team that tackles the various challenges associated with them. As a member of the One Community team, Ramya is helping with debugging and the development of the open source Highest Good Network software.

 

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Leveraging the Abundance of Earth – One Community Weekly Progress Update #547

At One Community, we’re dedicated to leveraging the abundance of Earth through sustainable approaches to food, energy, housing, education, for-profit and non-profit economic design, social architecture, fulfilled living, global stewardship practices, and more. As an all-volunteer organization, we’re committed to doing this for “The Highest Good of All.” Our model is designed to become self-replicating paving the way for a global collaboration of teacher/demonstration hubs.

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HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING PROGRESS

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This week, Julia Meaney (Research and Web design) completed another week of assisting with research and web design. Julia focused on the City Center Interior Design Cost Analysis Spreadsheet, conducting thorough reviews of the “Room 4 – Retro Vogue” and “Room 5: Tranquility Room” tabs, utilizing comments for feedback, making necessary adjustments, and addressing grammar and format issues. She also cross-verified listed dimensions with linked product pages. Subsequently, Julia shifted her attention to the review of the “Room 5 – Tranquility” PowerPoint, generating a feedback PDF and proposing various enhancements through comments. In addition, she dedicated time to the Murphy bed Instructions PDF, resolving integrated feedback comments and meticulously examining all document and site links within the PDF while supplementing final feedback comments. Conclusively, Julia contributed to the DIY on Earth Dam Design & Construction Disaster Mitigation Content Google Doc by editing newly acquired research material for precision and clarity, using comments to provide feedback and seek clarification, and following up on prior unaddressed comments for comprehensive document refinement. See the pictures below.

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Loza Ayehutsega (Civil Engineer/Assistant Civil Engineer) completed another week of assisting with Earth Dam Design and construction for Water Retention, Pond, and lake Creation. Loza diligently incorporated inspection guideline points sourced from reference documents into the project. The focus of the effort centered on the critical inspection of the upstream slope of an embankment, a pivotal aspect in ensuring its overall stability and safety. Loza’s work encompassed the compilation of comprehensive inspection guidelines specifically tailored for evaluating the integrity of the upstream slope. These guidelines included essential information on the potential causes of failure, various failure modes, and corresponding mitigation actions, all of which were systematically presented in a structured table for easy reference and implementation. Take a look at the pictures below to get a glimpse of this work.

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DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER PROGRESS

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This week, Amiti Singh (Architectural Designer) completed the design and modeling of a visitor room for the Duplicable City Center. Amiti made significant progress in the development of the Zen-Garden visitor room within Duplicable City. Drawing inspiration from the meditative tranquility inherent in the ancient concept of “Zen,” She focused on creating a spatial experience reminiscent of a Japanese tea room. Her contributions encompassed material selection, furniture design, color coordination, and the curation of a suitable paint palette. Additionally, Amiti generated initial renders for the room, demonstrating her comprehensive involvement in the project. See below for the picture.

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Arvindh Xavier (Civil Engineer) prepared and helped develop the Duplicable City Center. Arvindh diligently fulfilled the “Learn the Team Management” action item as part of the One Community Global Manager Training. He completed his manager training. See below for the pictures.

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Charles Gooley (Web Designer) completed another week of assisting with web design. Charles focused on the ongoing development of the Water Recycling Net-zero Bathroom Design tutorial. Notable updates included revisions to the Barrels Water Storage System Theory and Analysis section, as well as augmentations to the Net-Zero Bathroom Stormwater Storage Design, encompassing various stormwater storage tank types, submersible pumps, and the calculation of drainage section dimensions and geometry, predominantly presented in HTML-coded equations. Charles also expanded the resources section and refined the top-level Table of Contents. The upcoming week will see further attention dedicated to refining the Tables of Contents, followed by continued work on enhancing the Water Recycling Stormwater Recycling segment. The pictures below offer a visual representation of this work.

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Julio Marín Bustillos (Mechanical Engineer) completed another week of assisting with the City Center Dome Hub Connector Engineering. Julio dedicated his efforts to advancing the design work for hub connectors in the fourth row. Additionally, he organized meetings with both Yiwei and Justin, a newly appointed team member. Justin’s role will primarily involve contributing to design enhancements and providing support to Yiwei during the analysis phase. Looking forward, Julio remains committed to further progressing the development of the hub connector designs. The pictures below provide a glimpse of the images.

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Justin Varghese (Mechanical Engineer) completed another week assisting with the City Center Dome Hub Connector Engineering. Justin concentrated on the creation of a custom 12×2 LVL (Laminated Veneer Lumber) beam and the assignment of its material properties for the structural analysis of a dome featuring generated frames, excluding connectors and bolts. The primary focus was on determining the maximum displacement and stresses within the structure to facilitate a comparative assessment with a conventional dome structure. Additionally, Justin initiated work on evaluating the wind load impacting the dome. See some of the images below.

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Ranran Zhang (Architectural Design) completed another week working on the updated video for the Duplicable City Center internal and external walkthrough. Ranran diligently addressed feedback by resolving various issues in both the Lumion and SketchUp models. She successfully rectified the floor texture on the mezzanine and made necessary adjustments to the structural material applied to the columns. Additionally, she introduced a shower adjacent to the swimming pool area to enhance the model’s realism. Moreover, Ranran dedicated time to refining the green and path areas, ensuring seamless and realistic texture transitions between them for an improved overall representation.  Take a look at the images below to see some of the progress made in this work.

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Yiwei He (Mechanical Engineer) completed another week of assisting with Aircrete Engineering. Yiwei organized the group meeting for the Mechanical Engineer team, introducing the new member, Justin. The team gained a comprehensive understanding of the project plan and established an effective schedule for the upcoming weeks. Additionally, Yiwei dedicated time to assisting Julio in designing hub connector assemblies to enhance project progress. See some of this work in the pictures below.

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HIGHEST GOOD FOOD PROGRESS

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This week, the core team continued our review of the open-source designs. We diligently undertook the task of editing and reviewing the Food Rollout Infrastructure document pertaining to the One Community website updates. The specific sections addressed encompassed Frequently Asked Questions, Summary, as well as Garden Establishment and No-till. To enhance clarity and facilitate collaborative feedback, comments were thoughtfully incorporated into the document, and notable changes were distinctly highlighted. See the pictures below that are related to this.

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Gregory Quach (Data Enterer for Chef/Culinary) continued working on the Transition Kitchen, focusing his efforts on Google Sheets tasks. His primary focus centered on the comprehensive analysis of the Transition Kitchen Recipe Build Out project. An essential aspect of this endeavor was the meticulous integration of the aggregate array formula function, a critical tool for optimizing column addition, particularly in the context of creating efficient shopping lists. Although faced with initial challenges, Gregory demonstrated his problem-solving skills by resolving issues and successfully implementing this function within Google Sheets. Currently, he continues to work on the task of generating 15-day shopping lists as part of his ongoing contributions to the project  See the images below for some of his work.  

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Shengguang Jin (Mechanical Engineer) completed the work of assisting with Highest Good Food. Shengguang focused on the primary structural components, specifically the supporting column members of the vermiculture device. The objective was to assess their safety performance in practical applications, given the inherent vulnerability of slender beam members to buckling failure under significant compressive loads. Critical load values for these members were derived through mathematical analysis. While a realistic evaluation of safety factors, incorporating actual physical parameters such as the stiffness ratio of the supporting material and the weight of collected waste, is nearing completion, it remains a work in progress. Any potential suboptimal design aspects will be addressed through calculated solutions once identified. In parallel, the installation of Solidworks encountered technical difficulties, as evidenced by an accompanying image from Dropbox. Substantial time was allocated to troubleshooting, including self-debugging efforts and communication with Solidworks’ customer support service, though these endeavors yielded no resolution. If the issue persists, consideration may be given to investing in a new PC as a potential solution to resolve the installation challenges. See the images below for some of his work.

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HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION PROGRESS

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This week, Anitta George Kunnappilly (Research and Management Volunteer) completed work helping with The Ultimate Classroom. Anitta effectively conducted reviews for PR 546 and PR 547, with her primary focus dedicated to ensuring compliance with the newly established PR protocol. Her meticulous examination determined whether the PRs adhered to the updated protocol, and she provided thorough reviews to fellow team members. Furthermore, Anitta contributed to the enhancement of the HGN spreadsheet by incorporating the relevant PR numbers and introducing new volunteers. Demonstrating exceptional dedication, Anitta has already commenced preparations for her upcoming week’s tasks, aiming to deliver the best possible reviews for the team. See below for pictures related to this work

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HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY PROGRESS

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This week, the core team completed 71 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. The pictures below show some of this work.

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Another core team member conducted Highest Good Network PRs testing. She reported a bug related to unspecified text in the “i” popup on Profile, Permission Manager, and Weekly Summary Reports pages (issue 1025, linked to 1141). Furthermore, she reported a new bug related to the resetting of existing passwords, raising the question of whether users should have the option to view their entered password. She also recorded a video highlighting a bug where users who initially type more than 50 words but then delete some of them can still save summaries that contain less than 50 words.. See the image below to view this work. 

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Jin Hua (Web and Graphic Designer) helped analyze video errors identified by Google and related web core vital LCP metrics. The pictures below show some of this work.

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Megan Morelli (Funding Research and Acquisition) focused on finalizing a grant proposal by adding necessary components like a title page, cover letter, and supplementary document templates. She actively pursued a competitive grant opportunity and conducted research on potential partner organizations and funding sources, primarily through interactions with the Regeneration Foundation. Megan also continued her efforts to establish connections with other foundations for potential partnerships and funding opportunities. See below for pictures related to this work.

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ADMINISTRATION TEAM

This week, the Administration Team’s summary, covering their work administrating and managing most of One Community, was managed by Jamie and includes Alyx Parr (Senior Support Specialist and Team Manager), Anitta George Kunnappilly (Research and Management Volunteer), Jamie Cruz (Administrative Assistant and Team Manager), and Olawunmi “Ola” Ijisesan (Administrative and Management Support). Alyx worked on collages for blog numbers 543, 544, and 545, involving tasks such as unzipping folders, copying summaries, and creating collages. Subsequently, preparations for blog 546 were made, and early work for the upcoming week was initiated. Anitta’s focus was on reviewing PR 546 and PR 547, adhering to the new PR protocol, and providing comprehensive reviews to team members, alongside updating the HGN spreadsheet with PR numbers and new volunteers. Anitta also began preparations for the following week’s tasks. Jamie’s week was marked by submitting summaries to the group’s shared Google document, transferring them to her webpage, and crafting engaging collages highlighting key team members. She efficiently managed the administration team’s activities for organizational cohesion. Ola dedicated her week to thorough reviews of Anitta’s work, familiarizing herself with PR Review team tutorials, and aiding in folder organization. She also contributed by reviewing and offering feedback on weekly summary reports for the NON-HGN team, in addition to creating collages for the weekly blogs, adding a visual dimension to reports, and enhancing overall quality. The collage below shows some of this work.

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BLUE STEEL SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT TEAM

This week, the Blue Steel Team’s summary, covering their work on the Highest Good Network software, was managed by Nathan and includes Haohui Lin (Software Engineer), Kurtis Ivey(Full Stack Developer), Lucile Tronczyk (Full Stack Software Developer), Nathan Hoffman (Software Engineer and Team Manager), Oleksandr Riazantsev (Project Management Advisor), Xiao Wang (Software Engineer), Lawrence Chua (Full Stack Software, Eduardo Varjao (Frontend Developer), and Yubo Sun (Full Stack Software Developer). Nathan initiated work on implementing the “Restore To Default” functionality for both the front and back ends of the project. They efficiently completed pending reviews from the previous week, inadvertently missed by Bada. Nathan also provided valuable assistance to Yonjian in resolving a permissions issue and addressing git merge/rebase challenges. Additionally, they reinstated the Owner role for Shrey@owner.com on the development environment. In response to the need to rectify a reverted PR, Nathan initiated PR 526 to restore the changes. Furthermore, they created PR 1240 to incorporate headers and subheaders into the user permissions popup, enhancing its clarity and usability. Eduardo was busy authoring unit tests for three components: CreateNewTeamPopup.jsx, DeleteTeamPopup.jsx, and MembersAutoComplete.jsx. Through rigorous testing, he confirmed that these components operated as intended. Subsequently, Eduardo initiated three pull requests within the HighestGoodNetworkApp repository. Additionally, he collaborated with Jae to address potential vulnerabilities related to user permissions in DeleteTeamPopup.jsx. Kurtis played a pivotal role in resolving merge conflicts on PR1204, facilitating its integration into the dev branch. He also tackled the backend configuration of a new timer, enabling mouseoverText functionality for the timer team. Kurtis identified the source of dashboard crashes for owner and admin accounts and pinpointed the issue to excessive API calls, collaborating with other developers on the new timer project. Additionally, he manually integrated the new timer into the dev branch header to prevent future merge conflicts. However, Kurtis faced challenges with owner account navigation, which consistently redirected to the dashboard. Xiao contributed significantly by initiating PR #1243 to resolve the auto-clear resources input issue and reviewing PR #1264 to identify and address issues. He also worked on improving the user experience by addressing the single task page’s loading problem when accessed from the dashboard. Xiao prioritized the implementation of a new timer feature, making progress in addressing related challenges. Oleksandr focused on various tasks, including reviewing and addressing comments related to the PR team hierarchy and testing a bug with the suggestion button. He documented a newly discovered bug and conducted research related to map integration. Oleksandr ensured synchronization between the development branch and the interactive map branch, maintaining code consistency. Haohui concentrated on a coding task related to user permissions and addressed concerns in Frontend PR#1218 and Backend PR#532. His methodical approach and consistent focus contributed to project progress. Lawrence was engaged in transitioning app deployments from Azure to Bluehost, conducting extensive research to understand Bluehost’s functionality and the requirements for a successful migration. Lucile enhanced user engagement and functionality by implementing “info points” and integrating solutions from team members. Her efforts aimed to improve the user experience. Yubo’s primary objectives for the week included maintaining existing pull requests, resolving conflicts, and catching up on bug resolutions. See the image below to view this work.

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EXPRESSERS SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT TEAM

Expressers Team’s summary this week, covering their work on the Highest Good Network software, was managed by Tim Kent (Full Stack Software Engineer and Team Manager) and includes Gary Balogh (Software Engineer), Joyce Liu (Software Engineer)Yuri Andrade (Software Engineer), Veronica Cheng (Software Engineer), Aaron Persaud (Software Developer), and Olga Yudkin (Software Engineer). The team accomplished several key tasks. Gary conducted comprehensive reviews of multiple pull requests, each introducing various new features and improvements, addressing issues, and enhancing performance. Yuri focused on enabling the Administrator account to add new Work Breakdown Structure (WBS) items, involving in-depth investigations and code modifications to grant Administrator-level permissions. Veronica played a pivotal role in addressing permission management issues by testing and verifying functionality, completing testing for numerous permissions, and working on adding permission descriptions. Aaron tackled the recurring issue of last week’s summaries not moving, resolving it through code fixes and addressing linting errors. Olga undertook a comprehensive review of HGN phase 2 documents and initiated the design process for the Project Details page, establishing the structure for its components. Joyce spent the week improving unit tests and conducting QA testing for the HGN app. She also checked phase-2 projects for any tasks requiring her attention and reviewed phase-2 documentation. Lastly, Tim, handling managerial responsibilities, initiated PR1262 for implementing improvements and bug fixes in the Badge Summary modals and began work on an entry point route and login page for the new Building Management Dashboard, a project his team is leading. The collage below shows some of this work.

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GRAPHIC DESIGN TEAM

Graphic Design’s summary was managed by Alyx Parr (Senior Support Specialist and Manager) and includes Ashlesha Navale (Graphic Designer), Rihab Baklouti (Freelance Generalist), Yeasin Arafat (Civil Engineer, Graphic Designer). This week, Ashlesha was responsible for creating a Volunteer Announcement, which included the development of a bio image, an announcement image, and web content. She also undertook the task of researching and curating nature-based and theme-based background images for potential use in Social Media and YouTube Preview/Intro Images. Furthermore, Ashlesha designed the Social Media and YouTube Preview/Intro Images for blog posts #734 through #739. Meanwhile, Rihab dedicated her efforts to two key assignments: crafting YouTube previews and update images as well as volunteer announcements. Her work involved producing multiple designs for updates 676 to 682, with some pending approval and others in progress. Additionally, Rihab took on the responsibility of creating the bio page for volunteer Aaron Persaud, which entailed designing his icon, announcement layout, and website page, currently awaiting approval. Lastly, Yeasin effectively executed a diverse range of graphic design tasks throughout the week, involving the creation of various graphics using both manual and digital methods. These visuals were intended for utilization in both print and digital media, showcasing his expertise and innovative thinking across multiple projects. The pictures below exemplify this work.

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MARKETING TEAM

Marketing’s summary was managed by Alyx Parr (Senior Support Specialist and Team Manager), and includes Anushka Signhal (Machine Learning Engineer) and Tanaya Joshi (Machine Learning Engineer). This week, Anushka concentrated on developing a measurement plan geared towards enhancing volunteer recruitment and increasing donations and funding. Her efforts included utilizing Google Analytics to optimize volunteer engagement and conducting a comprehensive analysis of conversion rates across all website links. Anushka also encountered some uncertainty regarding the differentiation between the donation and funding sections of the website. Meanwhile, Tanaya’s focus was on assessing the existing Google Ads account, revising the measurement plan, and identifying methods to track social media data, all of which she meticulously documented. She also discussed her findings with her teammate and incorporated additional elements into the measurement plan, which encompassed tracking emails, social media platforms, hashtags, and creating UTM links for marketing campaigns. See the collage below for evidence 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 Xiao Tan (Volunteer and Team Manager) and includes Cheng-Yun Chuang (Software Engineer), Jiadong Zhang (Volunteer Software Engineer), Jianjun Luo (Software Engineer), Navneeth Krishna (Software Engineer), Nouman Abidi (Software Engineer), Sanjana Rao (Software Engineer), Shihao Xiong (Software Engineer), Tzu Ning “Leo” Chueh (Software Engineer), Xiao Fei (Software Engineer), Yihan Liu (Software Engineer), Zijie “Cyril” Yu (Volunteer Software Engineer), and Zubing Guo (Software Engineer). This week, several team members contributed to various tasks and projects. Cheng-Yun dedicated substantial time to reviewing 13 pull requests across HGNRest backend and HighestGoodNetworkApp frontend repositories, focusing on frontend PRs and backend PRs #505, #485, and #530. He also delved into unit testing and expressed interest in joining the unit test team. Edwin concentrated on reviewing four PRs (#1274, #530, #1277, #1278) and addressing issues related to the new timer, collaborating with Xiao and Kurtis to identify and resolve bugs. He conducted an in-depth analysis of the NewTimer.jsx component. Jiandong’s main focus was relocating the badge section to the time log area, introducing a “Badges” tab but encountering issues in the process. He also identified readability improvements for components within the time log section. Jianjun worked on advancing the profile image task and refining the front-end selection component. She reviewed a quick fix task related to code enhancements on the report page and provided recommendations. Navneeth focused on permissions management, reviewing frontend code components and implementing changes as per the Permissions Management Fixes documentation. He also engaged in peer reviews and addressed a potential merge conflict in one of his PRs. Nouman integrated backend controllers, routes, and permissions for the Weekly Update Editor Mailchimp replacement component. He configured CKEditor for email drafting in the frontend and conducted testing. Sanjana transitioned from the PR review team to the development team, reviewing four PRs and receiving approval for two development tasks. She primarily focused on understanding the “Permission management” task and reviewing related PRs. Tzu-Ning worked on merging a modified file into the development branch, addressing formatting issues and conflicts, and conducting testing. He also reviewed PR #997 and implemented code changes as requested. Xiao F. completed two subtasks related to a Google Docs bug list feature and reviewed five pull requests to deepen his understanding of the badge system. Yihan focused on creating an editable 3-letter ‘Team Code’ option on Weekly Summaries, relocating the team code input field, implementing auto-saving functionality, and resolving alignment issues. He initiated two pull requests and performed reviews on others. Zijie successfully completed the task to fix team page formatting and conducted reviews on five PRs. He also contemplated ways to enhance another task and fulfilled his responsibilities as the Assist manager. Zubing diligently integrated the “Write it for me” button into the summary page and restructured the backend code for the ChatGPT router and controller, setting up the OpenAI account for the ChatGPT API. Each team member contributed their expertise and efforts to advance various aspects of the project during the week. Look below for a collage of their work.

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REACTONAUT’S SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT TEAM

Reactonaut Team’s summary, covering their work on the Highest Good Network software, was managed by Eduardo Horta (Software Engineer and Team Manager) and includes Anirudh Ghildiyal (Software Engineer), Carl Bebli (Software Developer), Eduardo Horta (Software Engineer and Team Manager), Induja Kanchisamudram (Developer), Jacky Li (Software Engineer), Jiangwei Shi (Full Stack Engineer), Jiyuan Xia (Software Engineer), Masasa Thapelo (Software Engineer), Ramya Ramasamy (Full Stack Developer), Shantanu Kumar (Full Stack Software Developer), Shihao Xiong (Software Engineer), Shrey Jain (Software Engineer), Vansh Patel (Software Engineer), and Zuhang Xu (Software Engineer). This week, Anirudh assessed four pull requests (PR#: 1216, 1226, 1236, and 1274) following established guidelines. He conducted thorough testing on each PR, implementing additional checks to identify potential code flaws and ensure error-free coding processes. Anirudh also initiated work on adding an edit button to all weekly summaries, reviewing the current code base and addressing errors to ensure smooth functionality. Carl addressed the “Suggestion Icon not working issue,” conducting tests to pinpoint discrepancies between local and main environment performance. While the root cause remains elusive, ongoing investigations persist. Carl also fulfilled managerial duties by co-hosting the weekly meeting with Reactonauts’ team members and actively participated in PR reviews, providing meticulous evaluations and feedback on issues numbered #464, #988, #1073, #1166, #1167, and #1177. Induja’s focus this week was on resolving link validation issues, particularly concerning Google Docs and media files. Due to complexities, modifications were requested. Instead of specific validation for media files like Dropbox, a basic URL validation check was introduced to accommodate various media file sources. Notably, the regular expression for Google Docs validation remained unchanged. Jacky transitioned from a 20-hour team to a 10-hour team this week due to availability adjustments. His primary task involved enabling users to delete tasks from the Management Dashboard for all team members on the Highest Good Network App. He also dedicated substantial efforts to designing the click flow for this functionality and gaining familiarity with the permission system. Jiangwei successfully resolved errors in a prior Pull Request (PR) and engaged in discussions with Eduardo about legacy issues. He initiated a task aimed at fixing the issue of committed hours not displaying correctly on the Weekly Summaries page, proposing a temporary solution for affected users. Additionally, Jiangwei identified a new bug where the weekly report displayed a blank screen upon opening and documented it for future bug reporting. Jiyuan made his debut on the development team this week, focusing on testing and verifying the functionality of Permissions Management Fixes. He meticulously delved into the system intricacies, systematically identifying operational functions and documenting details. Masasa concentrated on developing the ‘CreateBadgeOnly’ permission feature, successfully implementing it using the ‘hasPermission’ function. He initiated pull request number #1287 to contribute to the project’s ongoing development. Ramya extensively addressed linting issues this week, with her initial lint fix PR receiving approval from Shihao and Tan. She also dealt with a JavaScript heap out-of-memory problem, resolving it by including the build folder in the .eslintignore and .prettierignore files. Currently, Ramya is actively working on lint fixes for the SummaryBar and TaskEditSuggestion components. Shantanu focused on addressing an issue involving badge display and implemented a dedicated component to showcase badge icons for capturing high-quality page images. Shihao addressed eslint errors within the weekly summaries report page and reported a non-functional button bug to Jianjun for resolution. He also took responsibility for approving PR#1215. Shrey’s primary focus was on addressing specific pull requests, resolving castErrors and undefined taskId issues, while conducting extensive testing to ensure consistent functionality across user roles. He initiated a peer review process by submitting a pull request for evaluation. Vansh proactively engaged in the linting process, selecting the User Management Component for thorough testing and modification to align with coding standards (PR#1285). He also reviewed PR#1280, recommending interface improvements. Zuhang dedicated their time to diligently following up on feedback and suggestions from previous PR reviews, demonstrating a commitment to enhancing codebase and project quality. 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 Yiyun Tan and includes, Bailey Mejia (Software Engineer), Jerry Ren (Full Stack Developer), Luis Arevalo (Front End Developer), Mounica Dingari (Software Developer), Yao Wang (Software Engineer), Yiyun Tan (Management Dashboard Team Leader). and YuFu Liao (Software Engineer). Bailey diligently focused on addressing and rectifying bugs within the Badges component of the project. He worked assiduously to resolve known issues and identify any new bugs that surfaced in the process. Specifically, Bailey undertook the responsibility of testing nine critical tasks linked to the Badges component, encompassing tasks numbered from two to nine, which involved addressing various bugs and ensuring the appropriate assignment and functionality of the badges at different milestones. During the testing phase, he encountered multiple challenges, including duplication errors and premature badge awards. Jerry, a member of the development team, concentrated on implementing a tracking system for role permission changes within the Permissions Management Page. Initially, he had designed a mechanism to log permission alterations to a file in the backend code. However, he concluded that saving the logs directly to the database would offer improved accessibility and the capability to establish read-only collections within the mongodb database. As a result of Jerry’s efforts, he created two pull requests (1277 and 530). Luis primarily focused on PR tasks, conducting a thorough review of a total of 10 PRs. The majority of the developers completed their assigned tasks satisfactorily. Notably, PR 1283, aimed at addressing an issue related to user password reset using autofill, did not manifest any observable errors during testing, prompting further review. In contrast, PR 1262 by Tim garnered praise for its meticulous attention to detail, successfully implementing message additions for badge deletion within various user profile components. Mounica’s week was dedicated to two key tasks. Firstly, she contributed to PR#1274 by developing a function designed to enhance team visibility by highlighting managers, mentors, and assistant managers based on permissions. Secondly, she worked on PR#1278, which involved the integration of a start date column into the User Management Page. Additionally, she addressed ESLint issues within various JavaScript files associated with the Badge component. Yao embarked on addressing a bug but required additional time for familiarizing with the overall codebase and architecture due to being the first bug-fixing endeavor since joining the development team. Yao managed to roughly pinpoint the area of the code where the issue originated but requires more time for bug replication and precise identification of the error location. Moreover, the inability to add WBS in the project tab hindered successful bug replication, relying solely on leads provided by team members. Yufu addressed bug No.1 in the user management component, which occurred when selecting the “Reset Password” button for a user from the members list, leading to a page devoid of any members. The root cause of this bug was the browser’s auto-fill feature. To rectify this, Yufu Liao modified the structure, consolidating two <FormGroup> elements into a single <Form>, effectively preventing the recurrence of this issue. See the collage below for 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 Raul Effting (Jr. Front-End Web Developer and Manager) and Alyx Parr (Senior Support Specialist and Team Manager). This week’s active members of this team (completing a minimum of 10 volunteer hours each) were: Anish Pandita (Software Engineer), Haoji Bian (Software Engineer), Harshida Dalal (Software Engineer), Jiyuan Xia (Software Engineer), Roberto Contreras (Software Engineer), Tianyuan Nan (Software Engineer), Vikram Badha (Software Engineer), Vinay Kumar Hanumanthappa (Software Developer), and Vishvesh Sheoran (Artificial Intelligence Specialist). They reviewed all the Highest Good Network PRs (Pull Requests) shared in this week’s update. The collage below shows a compilation of the work from this team.

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Jiangwei is a seasoned Full Stack Engineer with extensive internship experience and proficient in cutting-edge technologies such as React, Node.js, and MongoDB. He has an ability to rapidly grasp new information and seamlessly integrate it into his work, thrives on tackling fresh challenges, and enjoys mastering new concepts. As a member of the One Community team working on the open source Highest Good Network software, Jiangwei first applied his skills to apply the Tasks Tab time log format to the individual timelogs. Now he’s working on crafting new features.

 

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One Community Welcomes Aaron Persaud to the Software Development Team!

One Community welcomes Aaron Persaud to the Software Development Team as our newest Volunteer/Consultant!

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Aaron attended the University of Waterloo and graduated with a Bachelor of Mathematics, minoring in Computer Science. He has over 2 years of software development experience and believes in using his software development skills to make a positive change in the world. He has worked on a variety of projects such as automating online forms, data analytics for car manufacturing and overage tracking using technologies in Front End (jQuery, AngularJS, React), Back End (Python, Java, C#) and Database (MySQL, MongoDB, Postgres). As a member of the One Community team, Aaron is helping with the development of the Highest Good Network software by addressing bugs and implementing new features.

 

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One Community Welcomes Yao Wang to the Software Development Team!

One Community welcomes Yao Wang to the Software Development Team as our newest Volunteer/Consultant!

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Yao is a highly skilled software engineer with a Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science from The University of Tulsa. With expertise in programming languages like Flask, Bootstrap, GitHub REST API, and more, Yao has conducted research on GitHub data analysis and presented his findings at the HCI International conference. He has also developed impactful projects, including a Flask-based web application for converting angles and a full-stack website for the Chinese Students and Scholars Association (CSSA) with interactive features and real-time updates. Yao’s strong academic background, technical skills, and contributions to research and project development make him a valuable asset to the Highest Good Network software team.

 

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Soil Creation Systems – One Community Weekly Progress Update #546

At One Community, we are dedicated to cultivating a world that operates harmoniously on sustainable approaches to food, energy, housing, education, for-profit and non-profit economic design, social architecture, fulfilled living, global stewardship practices, and more. Soil creation systems are integral to this endeavor, playing a vital role in the overall health of our planet. We are pioneering systems like these and more as part of evolving sustainability into a self-replicating model. Our vision extends beyond individual projects; we are establishing a global collaboration of teacher/demonstration hubs that work together to regenerate our planet and create a world that benefits everyone.

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One Community’s physical location will forward this movement as the first of many self-replicating teacher/demonstration communities, villages, and cities to be built around the world. This is the September 4th, 2023 edition (#546) of our weekly progress update detailing our team’s development and accomplishments:

 

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HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING PROGRESS

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This week, Chris Cullen (Mechanical Engineer) began learning what he needed to help manage development of the Vermiculture Bathroom Designs. Chris successfully conducted a comprehensive review of the web page, focusing on its clarification of vermiculture toilet system functionality and provision of construction details, including mechanical concepts, structural analysis results, and a material cost summary. See below for the pictures.

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Julia Meaney (Research and Web design) completed another week of assisting with research and web design. Julia successfully completed her tasks related to the “Door and Window Research” project. She conducted a comprehensive review of the “Murphy Bed Instructions” PDF, checking the integration of her feedback and addressing comments. Following this, she dedicated her efforts to the “Door and Window Research” Google Doc and its corresponding Spreadsheets, thoroughly scrutinizing Philip’s incorporation of her final feedback. She executed essential final formatting adjustments and content refinements while enhancing the document’s clarity for seamless site integration. Julia then focused on finalizing updates to the “Duplicable City Center Engineering” webpage, conducting a meticulous examination of equations, and cross-referencing with the source Google Doc to ensure precision. Subsequently, she made requisite format and content enhancements, along with the replacement of equation images with updated screenshots for improved clarity and legibility. Additionally, Julia expended substantial effort on the “Net-zero Bathroom and Earthbag Village Water Collection and Septic Design EDITED CONTENT FOR WEB” Google Doc, aiming to prepare it for seamless site integration. She utilized comments to provide guidance on headings, tables of content, and other elements to enhance web clarity. She diligently addressed unfinished sections, effecting grammar, format, and organizational improvements to enhance overall content structure and flow, with ongoing follow-ups on clarifying questions as needed. See the pictures below.

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Loza Ayehutsega (Civil Engineer/Assistant Civil Engineer) completed another week of assisting with Earth Dam Design and construction for Water Retention, Pond, and lake Creation. She provided essential insights by delivering basic inspection guidelines pertaining to embankment dam safety. These guidelines encompass a detailed breakdown of potential failure mechanisms and their corresponding consequences, offering crucial information for the assessment of embankment upstream slopes. This meticulous examination is of paramount importance in ensuring the structural stability and safety of various water retention systems, including dams and levees. Loza’s report also includes recommended actions, contributing to the proactive management and maintenance of these critical structures. Take a look at the pictures below to get a glimpse of this work.

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Yiwei He (Mechanical Engineer) completed a week of assisting with Aircrete Engineering. Yiwei dedicated her efforts to reviewing the new Aircrete team’s onboarding materials, meticulously ensuring the provision of accurate and comprehensive information crucial for their upcoming experiments. In addition to this, she actively participated in an interview with a prospective team member, offering an informative overview of project details. See some of this work in the pictures below.

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DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER PROGRESS

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This week, Amiti Singh (Architectural Designer) completed the design and modeling of a visitor room for the Duplicable City Center. Amiti advanced in the development of Room 4, also referred to as Retro Vogue, within the Duplicable City Center. Her design concept was inspired by the retro vogue of the Renaissance era, and she successfully crafted a comprehensive slide presentation encompassing furniture selection, renders, a carefully curated color palette, and a texture palette, ultimately culminating in the creation of an interior mood board. Additionally, Amiti diligently wrapped up a detailed cost analysis for the execution of both the room and bathroom components of Room 4, contributing valuable insights to the project. See below for the picture.

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Arvindh Xavier (Civil Engineer) prepared himself for managing and helping develop the Duplicable City Center. Arvindh successfully completed the One Community Orientation and Initial Setup, which encompassed the onboarding checklist, tutorials, and instructional videos crucial to the team management process. He diligently fulfilled the “Learn the Team Management” action item as part of the One Community Global Manager Training. See below for the pictures.

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Charles Gooley (Web Designer) completed another week of assisting with web design. Charles dedicated his efforts to a specific section of the Water Conservation page, originally designated for the Water Recycling Net-zero Bathroom page but subsequently relocated in alignment with clarified project requirements. His tasks involved in-depth discussions encompassing various facets, including the Earthbag Stormwater Harvesting Design, rainfall supply analysis, water demand assessment, catchment area delineation, storage capacity assessments, and sizing considerations for both inlet peak flow discharges and pipe sizing. Furthermore, Charles made significant contributions to the design of the Net-Zero Bathroom Stormwater Storage, emphasizing an environmentally sustainable approach aimed at the collection, storage, and reuse of stormwater within residential or commercial bathroom settings. This section also provided a comprehensive overview of different types of stormwater storage tanks. The pictures below offer a visual representation of this work.

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Julio Marín Bustillos (Mechanical Engineer) completed another week of assisting with the City Center Dome Hub Connector Engineering. Julio continued advancing the intricate process of designing hub connectors for the fourth row, resulting in notable progress with the successful realization of several additional designs. Looking ahead, the upcoming week promises to be another phase of continued design work, with Julio maintaining his steadfast focus in this endeavor. Furthermore, the commitment to design excellence extends beyond individual efforts, as Julio prepares to update these designs for scrutiny by both Yiwei and Justin. Justin, the newest addition to the team, is poised to play a pivotal role by providing invaluable feedback and conducting crucial simulations. The pictures below provide a glimpse of the images.

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Ranran Zhang (Architectural Design) completed another week working on the updated video for the Duplicable City Center internal and external walkthrough. Ranran diligently addressed feedback from the previous week by making essential adjustments to the Lumion and SketchUp models. Her focus was on resolving issues, including the floating compass situated in front of the front door and rectifying overlapping ceiling elements within the kitchen area. Additionally, Ranran ensured the proper adjustment of the area where a person walks through a closed door on the second floor, successfully achieving texture matching between the doors and the wall texture. Take a look at the images below to see some of the progress made in this work.

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This week, the core team continued our review of the open-source Highest Good Food designs. We focused on the ongoing edits and reviews of the Food Rollout Infrastructure Doc. The primary aim of these edits was to refine the entries previously posted on the One Community website, particularly those related to the tasks and details of the initial group of three and the Up to 20 people segments. To enhance clarity and precision, we made necessary adjustments by replacing the previous range factor titles with “UP TO” designations for each group. See the pictures below that are related to this.

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And, Shengguang Jin (Mechanical Engineer) completed the work of assisting with Highest Good Food, focusing on thoroughly reading through the relevant information available in shared Google Docs, which comprehensively covers all aspects of the project at both microscopic and macroscopic levels. See the images below for some of his 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 73 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. The pictures below show some of this work. 

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Another core team member conducted HGN PRs testing, meticulously reviewing and assessing several pull requests. Those that were marked as fixed include PRs addressing the issue of an incorrect number of new badges assigned in the upper right corner icon of the Dashboard and another seven PRs. However, certain issues remain unresolved, including the bug where users can save summaries with fewer than 50 words after initially typing more (noted as “Tested Bug”), as well as PR 1040, which could not be fully tested due to new bugs. Additionally, she facilitated communication with a volunteer regarding PR#1084, which produced console warnings during login, reported a new bug pertaining to difficulties in adding a new WBS for admin users (as owners can do), and flagged another issue concerning password resets for accounts from the list without utilizing the Search engine. See the image below to view this work.

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Ray Lee (Digital Creator) also helped create a custom badge that will be awarded to the best debugging people on the Highest Good Network. He also created a header image for the Highest Good Network Phase 2 survey we have new hires complete. The pictures below show these new creations.

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ADMINISTRATION TEAM

This week, the Administration Team’s summary, covering their work administrating and managing most of One Community, was managed by Jamie and includes Alyx Parr (Senior Support Specialist and Manager), Anitta George Kunnappilly (Research and Management Volunteer), Jamie Cruz (Administrative Assistant and Team Manager), and Olawunmi “Ola” Ijisesan (Administrative and Management Support). Alyx worked on creating collages that were originally missed for blog posts numbered 543, 544, and 545, unzipping numerous folders, transferring summaries, and crafting visually engaging collages, while also preparing the groundwork for blog post 546. Simultaneously, Anitta completed the PR review for both blog posts 545 and 546, ensuring the team was informed about updated PR protocols and expanding the HGN PR tracking spreadsheet with new members and current information updates. Jamie exhibited exceptional efficiency in concluding her blog project, addressing last-minute details such as refining link titles and actively contributing to the team’s success by providing valuable feedback to fellow team members. Notably, Jamie took on the responsibility of creating an instructional video to aid Nazia in mastering collage creation, file management, and Dropbox image integration. Throughout the week, Ola demonstrated an unwavering commitment to a wide range of responsibilities within the team, including reviewing the weekly report for Highest Good Network summaries, organizing image uploads into designated folders, crafting visually appealing image collages, editing content, publishing collages on the blog, assessing team member contributions, and providing valuable insights and feedback. The collage below shows some of this work.

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BLUE STEEL SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT TEAM

This week, the Blue Steel Team’s summary, covering their work on the Highest Good Network software, was managed by Nathan Hoffman and includes Haohui Lin (Software Engineer), Kurtis Ivey (Full Stack Developer), Lucile Tronczyk (Full Stack Software Developer), Nathan Hoffman (Software Engineer and Team Manager), Oleksandr Riazantsev (Project Management Advisor), and Yubo Sun (Full Stack Software Developer). The team members were actively engaged in various aspects of the project. Nathan worked diligently on resolving issues and implementing improvements, creating PRs 493 and 1201 to address an account reverting bug and dismissing an old review on PR 358. They also tackled inconsistencies in the main bug fix and performed tasks like removing extra roles in the database, debugging the Permissions Management Page reset, and updating permissions. Kurtis focused on backend fixes and PR reviews, although some of his fixes became obsolete due to frontend adjustments. Haohui conducted thorough PR reviews, emphasizing Frontend PR#1045 and Backend PR#482. Oleksandr established a backend hierarchy with specific access permissions and assisted in testing permissions changes for owners. Xiao Wang addressed critical issues with the weekly summaries page not loading correctly for volunteer users and began investigating the new timer feature. Lucile worked on adding explanatory “i” icons to project elements and improving documentation. Yubo diligently maintained PR #1182 and #1147, performed end-of-week reviews, and planned to evaluate PR #1167 while also considering the implementation of a warning popup for modifying admin links. Each team member contributed significantly to the project’s progress during the week. See the image below to view this work.

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EXPRESSERS SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT TEAM

Expressers Team’s summary this week, covering their work on the Highest Good Network software, was managed by Tim Kent (Full Stack Software Engineer and Team Manager) and includes Veronica Cheng (Software Engineer), Yuri Andrade (Software Engineer), Joyce Liu (Software Engineer), and Aaron Persaud (Software Developer). Veronica conducted pull request reviews for tasks #1177, #1210, and #1203, with plans to continue pull request reviews and explore bug-fixing opportunities from the phase I bugs document. Yuri actively engaged in multiple code reviews for various pull requests (PR1185, PR1183, PR1189, PR1200, PR1999, PR1024, PR1216) in the HGN Software, addressing issues ranging from team alerts and time log formats to dashboard links and app crashes due to duplicate permissions. Joyce focused on enhancing unit tests for the HGN app, conducting QA testing in the development environment, and monitoring the #urgent-bugs-needs-all-help channel for potential tasks, alongside reviewing phase 2 documentation. Aaron addressed a “Reports” dropdown issue, resolved linting problems, and investigated and temporarily resolved a critical bug causing summaries to display inaccurately. Lastly, Tim researched the status of PR358 and PR1033, identified stale reviews blocking progress, and requested fresh testing by reviewers with open change requests. Tim also finalized work on updating the Badge Summary modals to prevent crashes and display alternate screen text when the user has no badges in their collection. The collage below shows some of this work.

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GRAPHIC DESIGN TEAM

Graphic Design’s summary was managed by Alyx Parr (Senior Support Specialist) and includes Ashlesha Navale (Graphic Designer), Rihab Baklouti (Freelance Generalist), Yeasin Arafat (Civil Engineer, Graphic Designer). This week, Ashlesha focused on various design and content creation tasks. She started by crafting a Volunteer Announcement, which involved creating a bio image and an announcement image. Additionally, she developed web content related to the volunteer announcement. In preparation for future needs, she researched and curated a selection of nature-based background images and theme-based images. Ashlesha’s design skills were also put to use in developing Social Media and YouTube Preview/Intro Images for blog posts #727 through #733. Rihab’s contributions involved two key responsibilities. First, she dedicated her efforts to producing weekly progress update images, specifically for updates #660 to #664. Rihab meticulously worked on multiple drafts for each update, ensuring they met the required standards. Once the designs were finalized, she promptly published them on her Dropbox. Her second task was centered around volunteer announcements. She edited the bio pictures and announcement designs for fellow volunteers Olawunmi Ijisesan and Zijie Yu. After thorough review, these designs were incorporated into the webpage. The entire process was overseen and confirmed by the One Community team. Meanwhile, Yeasin accomplished the assigned task with proficiency and creativity. He successfully generated seven distinct designs that showcased his graphic design skills across various projects. These tasks encompassed both print and digital media, requiring expertise in both manual techniques and computer software to craft the designs. Yeasin’s ability to adapt to diverse design challenges was evident in the high-quality output he consistently delivered. The pictures below exemplify this work.

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MARKETING TEAM

Marketing’s summary was managed by Alyx Parr (Senior Support Specialist) and includes Anushka Signhal (Machine Learning Engineer) and Tanaya Joshi (Machine Learning Engineer). This week, Anushka dedicated her efforts to becoming proficient in Google Analytics, particularly focusing on GA4. She diligently reviewed existing analytics data, deepening her understanding of its functionality and terminology. Anushka actively contributed to the development of a measurement plan aimed at enhancing user engagement and successfully completed the task of transferring information within the GA4 framework. Meanwhile, her week revolved around comprehending the current state of the Google Analytics account. She revised the measurement plan and identified metrics to be added to the account, meticulously documenting her findings. Tanaya engaged in discussions with her teammate to refine the measurement plan further. Additionally, she delved into obtaining data related to Gmail and YouTube advertising and began documenting her insights. See the collage below for evidence 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 Xiao Tan (Software Engineer and Team Manager) and includes Abdelmounaim “Abdel” Lallouache (Software Developer), Cheng-Yun Chuang (Software Engineer), Edwin Estuardo Lau Mack (Software Engineer), Jiadong Zhang (Software Engineer), Jianjun Luo (Software Engineer), Navneeth Krishna (Software Engineer), Nouman Abidi (Software Engineer), Tzu Ning “Leo” Chueh (Software Engineer), Xiao Tan (Software Engineer and Team Manager), Yihan Liu (Software Engineer), and Zijie “Cyril” Yu (Software Engineer), Zubing Guo (Software Engineer). This week, Zijie concentrated on GitHub contributions to the OneCommunityGlobal’s HighestGoodNetworkApp project, submitting 10 pull requests and retesting and approving pull request #1167. As an assistant manager, he successfully executed his managerial tasks. Tzu-Ning encountered errors while testing PR 1216 and faced accessibility challenges with various PRs, hindering comprehensive testing. Jianjun focused on addressing scenarios with multiple image matches in the cronjob task and initiated functionality for administrator image selection. Cheng-Yun meticulously reviewed 13 pull requests, engaged in complex bug discussions, and planned to address new bugs in the upcoming week. Edwin reviewed 7 PRs, worked on user management permissions, and collaborated on fixing a timer issue. Abdelmounaim focused on frontend tasks and completed the update and delete functionalities for time-off requests, while also enhancing backend descriptions for time-off requests. Navneeth addressed a bug in PR #490, initiated two new tasks, and participated in PR reviews. Xiao conducted PR reviews, advanced management document tasks, and worked on fixing end dates in the User Management Page. Jiadong started as a developer and worked on relocating the badges section on the dashboard, introducing a new tab titled “Badges.” Zubing integrated the “Write it for me” button into the summary page, restructuring frontend and executing backend coding for successful implementation. See below for a collage of their work.

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REACTONAUT’S SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT TEAM

Reactonaut Team’s summary, covering their work on the Highest Good Network software, was managed by Eduardo Horta (Software Engineer and Team Manager) and includes Eduardo Horta (Software Engineer and Team Manager), Jacky Li (Software Engineer), Jiangwei Shi (Full Stack Engineer), Masasa Thapelo (Software Engineer), Nida Zaki (Software Engineer), Ramya Ramasamy (Full Stack Developer), Shantanu Kumar (Full Stack Software Developer), Shihao Xiong (Software Engineer), Shivansh Sharma (Software Developer), Shrey Jain (Software Engineer), and Zuhang Xu (Software Engineer). This week, Eduardo merged PR#1022 to address a bug caused by PR#911 and raised PR#1191 to rectify a floating badge number issue. He conducted a review of the Reactonauts team’s work, provided feedback, and addressed logic related to the Max Personal Hours Logged badge discrepancies. He completed the development of the reports page appearance (PR#1022), approved PR#1167 for link validation, hosted the Team Weekly Meeting for Reactonauts, and resolved a bug related to blue squares not being assigned. Furthermore, Eduardo reviewed and approved the hotfix for “cannot assign bluesquare” (PR#495). Jacky focused on finalizing pull request reviews, including PR#490, #494, #505, and #506 for the HGN Rest, and PR#1189, #1199, #1203, #1208, #1212, #1216, and #1226 for the Highest Good Network App, preparing for phase 2 transition. Jiangwei reported and resolved a bug concerning the “task tab time log format” and initiated a corresponding pull request. Masasa worked on both front and back parts of the app, testing it extensively, and reviewed multiple pull requests. Ramya conducted UI testing and code reviews, completing seven pull request reviews and a lint fix for the Admin component. Shantanu focused on reviewing urgent bugs and identifying unusual patterns in team member names positioning. Shihao addressed lint issues in various components and initiated pull requests for code changes. Shivansh addressed a bug related to custom emails, resolved user permissions issues for an Admin role user, and identified issues for resolution. Shrey addressed a bug related to formatting in the HighestGoodNetworkApp, standardized icons’ appearance, and conducted comprehensive testing, followed by peer reviews. Zuhang followed up on previous PR reviews, granting approvals for resolved issues and requesting changes for identified bugs in PRs. 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 Yiyun Tan (Software Engineer and Team Manager) and includes, Bailey Mejia (Software Engineer), Jerry Ren (Full Stack Developer), Luis Arevalo (Front End Developer), Mounica Dingari (Software Developer), Yao Wang (Software Engineer). This week’s summary was managed by Yiyun. Luis focused on enhancing the permission management tool’s functionality by implementing measures to prevent the creation of duplicate roles. To achieve this, he introduced a case-insensitive check to ensure that no duplicate roles, whether in lowercase or uppercase, could be submitted. Additionally, he integrated an error message system to notify users when attempting to create duplicate roles, accompanied by a toast notification for clear feedback. Subsequently, Luis submitted his code via a pull request (PR) for review, awaiting integration into the development branch. In parallel, he contributed to the team’s efficiency by diligently reviewing multiple PRs on the front-end branch, specifically PRs 1216, 1212, 1210, 1204, 1203, 1202, 1189, 1185, and 1183. His reviews encompassed comprehensive feedback, and most developers successfully addressed their tasks. Notably, PR 1183 required attention due to a 400-error code, which Luis promptly identified and requested correction. Moreover, PR 1210 resolved the issue of floating numbers in badge totals, while PR 1204 standardized the date format to MM DD YYYY across the entire application. Bailey focused on several tasks, key among them being rectifying badge bugs and addressing a badge duplication issue. The most crucial task assigned to him, however, was modifying the system to enable the ‘owner’ role to create other ‘owner’ roles. A significant problem had arisen because the ‘Admin’ role had the capacity to create ‘owner’ roles, thereby allowing users to make multiple permission changes. To resolve this, Bailey devised a condition that examines the user’s role; if the user is an ‘owner,’ they are permitted to create additional ‘owner’ roles, whereas ‘Admin’ users are now restricted from creating ‘owner’ roles. Subsequently, he rectified the date picker input, standardizing its size to match other inputs in the form. Mounica focused on PR#1181, aimed at restoring the functionality to make individuals active or inactive using a dot by their name. Mounica also conducted testing on PR#1224, which involved enhancing user management to display a full table with the addition of a scroll bar. Additionally, Mounica addressed ESLint issues in five files within the Badge component, specifically AssignBadge, AssignBadgePopup, Badge, BadgeDevelopment, and AssignTableRow. Jerry, a member of the Development Team, brainstormed ideas to address the recent issue of users maliciously altering user permissions on the HGN app. His proposed solutions received approval from Jae, prompting him to proceed with implementation. Jerry focused on developing a logging middleware within the backend code to record timestamps and user account details associated with alterations of permissions on the Permissions Management Page. He plans to continue working on this next week. Yao conducted testing on seven pull requests and addressed an issue related to missing screenshots with comments and PR numbers in Dropbox. Yao added screenshots to all the PRs tested and supplemented some of the PRs from the previous week with new screenshots. The PRs tested include numbers 1162, 1200, 1202, 1203, 1204, 1183, and 506. Notably, a critical problem was identified in PR 1183, where a 400 error occurred under the “Time Options” tab below the task section, leading to an “unexpected error” when clicking the “72+” tab in PR 1183. Yiyun’s focus centered on addressing the hotfix of the “bluesquare cannot be automatically issued” problem. She identified the root cause and raised a PR to fix it. Additionally, she assisted the team with lint-fix tasks and provided general support to the team’s ongoing efforts. See the collage below for their work.

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The PR Review Team’s summary covering their work on the Highest Good Network software, was managed by Raul Effting (Jr. Front-End Web Developer and Manager) and Alyx Parr (Senior Support Specialist and Team Manager). This week’s active members of this team (completing a minimum of 10 volunteer hours each) were: Anirudh Ghildiyal (Software Engineer), Anish Pandita (Software Engineer), Eduardo Varjão (Frontend Developer), Haohui Lin (Software Engineer), Haoji Bian (Software Engineer), Harshida Dalal (Software Engineer), Jacky Li (Software Engineer)Jiadong Zhang (Software Engineer), Jiyuan Xia (Software Engineer), Navneeth Krishna (Software Engineer)Roberto Contreras (Software Engineer), Sanjana Rao (Software Engineer), Shantanu Kumar (Full Stack Software Developer), Vinay Kumar Hanumanthappa (Software Developer), Vishvesh Sheoran (Artificial Intelligence Specialist), Xiao Fei (Software Engineer), Yao Wang (Software Engineer). YuFu Liao (Software Engineer), and Yuri Andrade (Software Engineer). They reviewed all the Highest Good Network PRs (Pull Requests) shared in this week’s update. The collage below shows a compilation of the work from this team.

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