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.

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

OUR MAIN OPEN SOURCE HUBS

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

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

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

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ONE COMMUNITY WEEKLY UPDATE DETAILS

HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING PROGRESS

One Community is helping people create a better life through Highest Good housing that is artistic and beautiful, more affordable, more space efficient, lasts longer, DIY buildable, and constructed with healthy and sustainable materials:

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

This week, 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.

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.

DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER PROGRESS

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

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

This week, 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.

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.

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.

HIGHEST GOOD FOOD PROGRESS

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

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

This week, the core team continued our 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.

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. 

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.

HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION PROGRESS

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

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

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

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

HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY PROGRESS

One Community is helping people create a better life through a Highest Good society approach to living that is founded on fulfilled living, the study of meeting human needs, Community, and making a difference in the world:

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

This week, the core team 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. 

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.

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. 

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.

BLUE STEEL 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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INVESTOR PAGES

OVERVIEW       ●       LOCATION       ●       FUNDING

GET INVOLVED

DONATE    ●     WAYS ANYONE CAN HELP     ●     MEMBERSHIP

CLICK HERE FOR ALL PAST UPDATES

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.

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

OUR MAIN OPEN SOURCE HUBS

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

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

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

DONATE  |  COLLABORATE  |  HELP WITH LARGE-SCALE FUNDING

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

YOU CAN ALSO JOIN US THROUGH SOCIAL MEDIA

 

ONE COMMUNITY WEEKLY UPDATE DETAILS

HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING PROGRESS

One Community is one way to make permanent positive change through Highest Good housing that is artistic and beautiful, more affordable, more space efficient, lasts longer, DIY buildable, and constructed with healthy and sustainable materials:

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

This week, 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.

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.

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.

DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER PROGRESS

One Community is one way to make permanent positive change through a Duplicable and Sustainable City Center that is LEED Platinum certified/Sustainable, can feed 200 people at a time, provide laundry for over 300 people, is beautiful, spacious, and saves resources, money, and space:

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

This week, 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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

HIGHEST GOOD FOOD PROGRESS

One Community is one way to make permanent positive change through Highest Good food that is more diverse, more nutritious, locally grown and sustainable, and part of our open source botanical garden model to support and share bio-diversity:

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

This week, the core team continued our 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.

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. 

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.

HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION PROGRESS

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

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

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

This week, 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.

HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY PROGRESS

One Community is one way to make permanent positive change through a Highest Good society approach to living that is founded on fulfilled living, the study of meeting human needs, Community, and making a difference in the world:

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

This week, the core team 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.  

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.

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.

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.

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.

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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INVESTOR PAGES

OVERVIEW       ●       LOCATION       ●       FUNDING

GET INVOLVED

DONATE    ●     WAYS ANYONE CAN HELP     ●     MEMBERSHIP

CLICK HERE FOR ALL PAST UPDATES

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

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!

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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One Community welcomes Ramya Ramasamy to the Software Development Team as our newest Volunteer/Consultant!

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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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.

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

OUR MAIN OPEN SOURCE HUBS

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

One Community’s physical location will forward this movement as the first of many self-replicating teacher/demonstration communities, villages, and cities to be built around the world. This is the September 11th, 2023 edition (#547) of our weekly progress update detailing our team’s development and accomplishments:

Leveraging the Abundance of Earth
One Community Progress Update #547

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HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING PROGRESS

One Community is leveraging the abundance of earth through Highest Good housing that is artistic and beautiful, more affordable, more space efficient, lasts longer, DIY buildable, and constructed with healthy and sustainable materials:

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

This week, 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.

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.

DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER PROGRESS

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

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

This week, 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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

HIGHEST GOOD FOOD PROGRESS

One Community is leveraging the abundance of earth through Highest Good food that is more diverse, more nutritious, locally grown and sustainable, and part of our open source botanical garden model to support and share bio-diversity:

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

This week, the core team continued our 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.

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.  

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.

HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION PROGRESS

One Community is leveraging the abundance of earth through Highest Good education that is for all ages, applicable in any environment, adaptable to individual needs, far exceeds traditional education standards, and more fun for both the teachers and the students. This component of One Community is about 95% complete with only the Open Source School Licensing and Ultimate Classroom construction and assembly details remaining to be finished. With over 8 years of work invested in the process, the sections below are all complete until we move onto the property and continue the development and open sourcing process with teachers and students – a development process that is built directly into the structure of the education program and everything else we’re creating too:

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

This week, 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. 

HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY PROGRESS

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

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

This week, the core team 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.

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. 

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.

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.

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.

BLUE STEEL 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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One Community welcomes Jiangwei Shi to the Software Development Team as our newest Volunteer/Consultant!

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 as our newest Volunteer/Consultant!

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 as our newest Volunteer/Consultant!

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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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.

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

OUR MAIN OPEN SOURCE HUBS

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

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

Soil Creation Systems
One Community Progress Update #546

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HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING PROGRESS

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

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

This week, 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.

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.

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.

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.

DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER PROGRESS

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

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

This week, 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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

HIGHEST GOOD FOOD PROGRESS

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

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

This week, the core team continued our 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.

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. 

HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION PROGRESS

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

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

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

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

HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY PROGRESS

One Community is building soil creation systems through a Highest Good society approach to living that is founded on fulfilled living, the study of meeting human needs, Community, and making a difference in the world:

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

This week, the core team 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. 

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.

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.

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.

BLUE STEEL 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.

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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