Being a Beneficial Environmental Element – One Community Weekly Progress Update #532

Posted on June 4, 2023 by One Community Hs

Being a beneficial environmental element is at the core of One Community’s mission. As an all-volunteer organization, we are committed to sustainable approaches encompassing food, energy, housing, education, for-profit and non-profit economic design, social architecture, fulfilled living, global stewardship practices, and more. Our model, designed to become self-replicating, will be the foundation of creating a global collaboration of teacher/demonstration hubs. We wholeheartedly believe in doing this for “The Highest Good of All” by creating everything as open source and free-shared. Our vision is to evolve sustainability, regenerate our planet, and actively contribute to creating a world that works for 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 June 4th, 2023 edition (#532) of our weekly progress update detailing our team’s development and accomplishments:

Being a Beneficial Environmental Element
One Community Progress Update #532

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HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING PROGRESS

One Community is being a beneficial environmental element 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, Stacey Maillet (Graphic Designer) completed her 91st week working on the final edits and revisions to the Murphy bed instructions. This week, Stacey reviewed all pages of the Murphy Bed instruction manual, addressing and resolving the majority of the comments received. However, the cover page and the new PDF concept for components still require attention. Stacey made the Amazon links clickable, and it is essential to verify their functionality and generate PDF versions, and the supplemental graphic branding pages have been successfully completed. Screenshots below relate to this work.

This week, Julia Meaney (Researcher and Assistant to Executive Director) completed her 32nd week with the team. This week, Julia undertook various tasks, including reviewing and editing Amal’s final additions to the Eco-laundry research. Additionally, she managed the progress on the “Light Bulb Webpage Updated Content” Google Doc, carefully reviewing and editing all of Amal’s new content while providing feedback and posing questions through comments. Julia also dedicated time to the corresponding Google Spreadsheet, resolving comments where her previous feedback had been incorporated and creating a new sheet for the emerging light bulb product comparison. Furthermore, she worked on the “Net-zero Bathroom and Earthbag Village Water Collection and Septic Design Edited Content for Web” Google Doc and Spreadsheet, diligently going through the content, addressing resolved comments, and offering further feedback during the editing process. Julia also contributed to the “DIY Earth Dam Design & Construction Disaster Mitigation Content” Google Doc, reviewing and editing the newly added content. Lastly, she completed the task of updating links and making final formatting adjustments to the “Sustainable Roadways, Walkways, and Landscaping” Webpage, ensuring its readiness for the final review. See images below that show some of this work.

Amal Lazar (MS Mechanical Engineering) completed her 9th week helping now with the research for the Most Sustainable Lightbulbs and Light Bulb Companies: Research, Energy Savings, and More tutorial. This week, Amal received feedback from her supervisor on a significant portion of her work for the lightbulb project. In response, she addressed the comments and made the necessary adjustments to her narratives. Additionally, Amal dedicated time to researching alternative options for lightbulbs in the City Center. She also enhanced her understanding of lighting technology, focusing on concepts such as light intensity parameters and light temperature. To gain further insights into the market and the goals of relevant companies, Amal watched interviews and content from a specific company. Below, you’ll find some images of this work.

Vidhi Bansal (3D Visualization Artist) completed her 9th week helping with video and AutoCAD renders for a 4-dome cluster Earthbag Village housing design. This week, Vidhi focused on gathering assets for the 4 dome flyover project. She successfully acquired assets for a Tesla, a charging station, and a solar panel for the project. Vidhi began working on the layout of the solar panel farm and initiated the process of cleaning up the model she found in Maya. Additionally, she made adjustments to the lighting setup to improve the quality of the renders. The solar panel farm will also be located on the site as part of the ongoing project progress. Check out the pictures below as examples of this work.

DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER PROGRESS

One Community is being a beneficial environmental element 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, Charles Gooley (Web Designer) completed his 32nd week helping with web design, now focused on the Duplicable City Center Engineering tutorial. This week, Charles made progress in the Duplicable City Center Engineering tutorial by incorporating Jae’s comments on formatting. He adjusted the lists of codes and regulations, as well as the lists of definitions, by placing the definitions after each term with a colon. Additionally, Charles justified all paragraphs, added non-breaking spaces before headings, and proofread the content. He also implemented a table of contents at the top of the tutorial. Charles considers the tutorial ready for Julia’s review and awaits her comments. The pictures below offer a visual representation of this work.

Ranran Zhang (Architectural Designer) completed her 24th week working on the updated video for the Duplicable City Center internal and external walkthrough. This week, Ranran focused on modifying video and model details based on feedback received. Her primary objective was to address the issue where walking people in the video did not appear to be moving. To resolve this, Ranran made adjustments to the Lumion settings, enabling the walking figures to be properly animated and movable. Additionally, she worked on aligning the trees in the Lumion model with the map drawing, ensuring a consistent and accurate representation. Take a look at the images below to see some of the progress made in this work.

Julio Marín Bustillos (Mechanical Engineer) completed his 16th week helping with the City Center Dome Hub Connector Engineering. This week, Julio completed the design of the hub connectors for the geodesic dome structure. His next step involves incorporating the required strains into the design to conduct a simulation and assess the connectors’ strength to withstand the loads generated by the beam’s weight. Additionally, Julio will initiate the design process for crucial elements of the structure, including the shingles and OSB. The pictures below provide a glimpse of this work.

Yiwei He (Mechanical Engineer) completed her 12th week helping with the City Center Dome Hub Connector Engineering. This week, Yiwei dedicated her efforts to calculating the remaining materials required for future orders and restructuring the ordering links for the Aircrete team. Currently, she is awaiting confirmation of her data. Additionally, Yiwei conducted multiple simulations involving various conditions to evaluate their impact on domes. She promptly reported her findings to Greg of the Duplicated City Center group and is now awaiting the latest version of the design from Julio. See some of this work in the pictures below.

Zhide Wang (Mechanical Engineer) completed his 7th week, now focused on the Duplicable City Center designs. This week, Zhide drafted an outline and compiled essential keywords for the construction instructions pertaining to the creation of a dormer. Currently, he finds himself halfway through the completion of these instructions. Throughout the process, Zhide encountered challenges in determining the optimal final design, realizing that further adjustments and potential redesigns may be necessary. A significant portion of his efforts was dedicated to acquiring knowledge on crafting distinct layers within the wall, as well as mastering the art of constructing rafters for the dormer’s roof and front wall. Get a closer look at this work through the pictures below.

HIGHEST GOOD FOOD PROGRESS

One Community is being a beneficial environmental element 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 to work on the Transition Food Self-sufficiency Plan. We set up an interview with a new potential volunteer, Maranda, but was requested to reschedule due to illness. We completed importing the information for FWB onto the Master Recipe Template, and also verified almost all of the remaining recipes on the Master Recipe Doc with the only exception being those recipes with unanswered comments. We created a filter on the Shopping List to eliminate unnecessary ingredients and compress the list to only the ingredients and their measurements that are needed, and also reordered the measurement columns according to the most commonly used measurements. We added a final column to the Shopping List for other measurements like bunches of herbs and individual items such as 2 onions instead of 16 oz of onions. See below for pictures related to this.

The core team also reviewed the open source Chicken coop designs. We reviewed and edited pages 165-196 of the Chicken Doc, which covers nesting boxes and fan and window installation. We worked together to ensure that the information was accurate and up-to-date. We then resumed editing and correcting pages 1-51, which cover the chicken coop foundation, entry door west wall construction, pre-assembly of north wall frame, placement of hardware cloth on north wall frame, and construction of east wall with chicken door. The pictures below give some examples of this work.

Another member of the core team worked on the “Chicken Coop Step-by-Step” document too. She collaborated on issues related to font size in the images and the color of dimension numbers, and reviewed and edited pages 165-196, which covers nesting boxes and fan and window installation. She then proceeded to update the images for pages 1-24, increasing the font size and changing the color to black for the “Foundation,” “Floor,” and “West wall” sections and replying to additional comments as they were made. See some examples of this work in the pictures below.

HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION PROGRESS

One Community is being a beneficial environmental element throughh 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, open source education, progressive education, One Community education, forward-thinking education, learning skills

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

HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY PROGRESS

One Community is being a beneficial environmental element 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 40 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. Pictures below show some of this work.

Yiyun Tan (Management Dashboard Team Leader) completed her 56th week helping with the Highest Good Network software. This week, Yiyun dedicated a significant portion of her time to developing a pre-selecting skill set questionnaire, which she successfully completed and transformed into a Google survey. Additionally, she actively contributed to her team on Slack, providing assistance in problem-solving, bug reporting, and maintaining tutorials as part of her regular responsibilities. Below, you’ll find pictures highlighting the development of this work.

Kaixiang “Kevin” Gu (Fullstack Software Developer) completed his 28th week helping with the Highest Good Network software. This week, Kaixiang made changes to the color bar PR as requested by reviewers. He stored color variables as constant values in a separate file and raised a new PR, which was successfully merged into the DEV branch. Additionally, he began working on the submit for review button task and completed the front-end side of the button. Kaixiang plans to continue working on this task in the upcoming week. Pictures below show some of this work-in-progress.

Jianjun Luo (Software Engineer) completed her 27th week helping with the Highest Good Network software. This week, Jianjun successfully resolved a bug discovered in the previously merged performance improvement branch. She made a minor adjustment to the props in the permission checking function, ensuring its accuracy and effectiveness. Then she implemented a modification to the recently added bio announcement status feature, restricting editing privileges to users with appropriate permissions and providing warnings for other roles attempting to make changes. Lastly, she conducted a thorough review of a pull request related to the ability of certain roles to submit summaries on behalf of other users. Pictures below are related to this work.

Raul Effting (Jr. Front-End Web Developer) completed his 21st week helping with the Highest Good Network software. This week, Raul conducted comprehensive testing on the newly developed timer, subjecting it to rigorous evaluation. Through this process, numerous conflicts were identified and subsequently resolved, ensuring enhanced functionality and performance. However, it is worth noting that some final steps in the implementation process, specifically pertaining to Harlley, remain pending. In addition to resolving conflicts, Raul also incorporated new features into the timer and addressed any newly surfaced bugs, further improving its overall reliability and user experience. Below are some images related to this work.

Aishwarya Kalkundrikar (Full Stack Software Developer) completed her 20th week helping with the Highest Good Network software. This week, Aishwarya conducted an investigation into the code pertaining to multiple notifications sent for assigning a manual blue square. During her analysis, she discovered that certain modifications had been made to the frontend code for the manual blue square assignment, although she has not yet pinpointed the precise code responsible for the issue. Aishwarya suspects that a duplication of the record saving is occurring, resulting in the email being sent twice. She diligently examined all relevant code and loops where the email function is invoked. Aishwarya continues to actively work on identifying the root cause of the problem. Additionally, she conducted a thorough review of Jianjun’s performance optimization pull request, labeled PR #762, from the front end. Pictures below show some of this work.

Lucas Emanuel Souza Silva (Software Developer) completed his 15th week helping with the Highest Good Network software. This week, Lucas focused on Task 122, titled “Make resolving a task only refresh that person.” He successfully completed the task and submitted a PR that effectively addressed the requested changes. Lucas’s modifications successfully eliminated the triggering of a component refresh when resolving a task, resulting in a more streamlined process. Notably, his improvements significantly reduced the number of initial requests by half. Pictures of some of this work are below.

Jinchao Feng (Software Engineer) completed his 14th week helping with the Highest Good Network software. This week, Jinchao concentrated on the development task of adding icons to invisible users on the leaderboard, aiming to provide admin users with visibility into who is currently marked as invisible. He successfully developed two demos for Jae to review and completed the development phase by submitting two pull requests. In addition, Jinchao performed a final review of two pull requests, ensuring code quality and adherence to standards. Please refer to the pictures below.

Sav Costabile (Web Developer) completed their 15th week helping with the Highest Good Network software. This week, Sav successfully resolved a critical bug that was impeding the assignment of badges to all users at the end of each week. Collaborative efforts were made with Yiyun to gain proficiency in utilizing Mongo Atlas and Compass in order to rectify the issues within the aggregation pipeline. Subsequently, assistance from Jae proved essential in updating the pipeline effectively. Notably, no new issues have been discovered thus far, instilling confidence that users will receive their new badges as scheduled this Sunday. In anticipation of potential bugs arising from the pipeline changes, Sav pushed two separate PRs to ensure smooth testing for the respective individual issues. The pictures below relate to this work.

Highest Good Network software, Being a Beneficial Environmental Element, One Community Weekly Progress Update #532

Yongjian Pan (React.js/MongoDB Full Stack Software Developer) completed his 10th week helping with the Highest Good Network software. This week, Yongjian focused on addressing the feedback and suggestions provided by his team developers for PR#842. He implemented several changes to improve the user interface and functionality of the project. Specifically, he optimized the placement of the toggle button for better user convenience. Yongjian also worked on enhancing the visual appeal of a modal’s background to improve transparency and enhance the overall user experience. Moreover, he dedicated time to ensuring that dark mode persisted on specific pages even after refreshing, providing a consistent user interface throughout the application. Lastly, Yongjian fine-tuned the dark mode colors for dark texts, ensuring optimal readability and visual coherence. See the images below for a look at this work.

Abdelmounaim “Abdel” Lallouache (Software Developer) completed his 8th week helping with the Highest Good Network software. This week, Abdel implemented a checkbox element designed for tracking follow-ups. The checkbox includes a mouseover text that provides a clear explanation of its purpose. Additionally, comprehensive styles were developed to cover all visual appearances of the checkbox. Furthermore, an “i” icon was introduced to provide information and describe the functionality of the checkbox. Lastly, Abdel made the checkbox visible and accessible to all classes, except for Volunteers. The pictures below are related to this work.

Natália Favaro Cavicchioli (Full-stack Developer) completed her 7th week with the Highest Good Network software. This week, Natália made significant improvements to enhance the responsiveness of the reports page. Recognizing that the people’s table contained an excessive number of columns and was not optimized for mobile viewing, she consolidated three columns into a dropdown feature. As a result, users can now access individual person’s information by simply clicking on the dropdown. Additionally, Natália dedicated her efforts to refining the user profile page for mobile devices, ensuring that it maintains its integrity without any display issues. However, the graphical elements on this page were not initially designed for mobile compatibility. Natália tackled this challenge by reducing their size to fit the screen appropriately, preventing any information from becoming distorted or lost. Moreover, she implemented an overflow feature to handle any potential excess data, thereby ensuring the complete visibility of all necessary information. See the images below that show her progress and contribution.

Lucile Tronczyk (Full Stack Software Developer) completed her 6th week helping with the Highest Good Network software. This week, Lucile focused on enhancing the work confirmation process and implementing improvements to the people report. A significant modification involved removing the “Hours Logged This Week” section for users classified as INACTIVE, indicating individuals who have reached their end date. The aim was to ensure that the aforementioned section does not appear for inactive users, thereby streamlining the report’s layout. Additionally, efforts were made to center the remaining sections for improved visual presentation. Lucile also incorporated the user’s title beneath their name, providing clearer identification of their role within the organization. Furthermore, a new feature, labeled “Rehireable,” was introduced under each user’s name. This section allowed for a simple click-based selection between “Yes” or “No” to indicate whether the user is rehireable. Notably, a significant challenge encountered during the implementation phase was the issue of the EndDate being inadvertently deleted when the “Rehireable” option was clicked. Lucile conducted extensive problem-solving and troubleshooting to identify a suitable solution to address this critical issue and ensure data integrity within the system. The pictures below relate to this.

Vishvesh Sheoran (Artificial Intelligence Specialist) completed his 6th week helping with the Highest Good Network software. This week, Vishvesh accomplished the task of researching, recommending, and ranking AI tools for integration into a WordPress website. Vishvesh conducted extensive research and evaluated multiple options to provide a comprehensive list of recommended tools. Each tool was summarized with its features, benefits, drawbacks, and estimated implementation time, enabling informed decision-making. See pictures below showing his efforts.

Alexander G Huerta (Software Engineer) complete his 5th week helping with the Highest Good Network software. This week, Alexander worked on a new feature for the weekly summary component. The tasks involved changing the current text placeholder to accommodate a pre-written prompt, as well as making it easily editable by any owner. To address this issue, Alexander delved into understanding how the app utilizes redux for state management. Additionally, a checkbox will be added to prompt users if they proofread the summary before editing. Furthermore, a new integration with Chat GPT was developed to automatically generate a user’s weekly summary by extracting information from their tangible time logs throughout the week. Alexander dedicated time to breaking down this larger feature into smaller tasks for efficient implementation. The images below show this progress.

Xiao Tan (Software Engineer) completed her 5th week helping with the Highest Good Network software. This week, Xiao addressed “Improve new-user Team and Project setup efficiency” and raised PR#850. She changed the “Project” and “Team” tabs into “Assign Project’ and “Assign Team” buttons, eliminating the need for clicking the tabs and moving the information in those tabs so it is immediately visible with minimal scrolling. She also reviewed the following PRs: 849, 838, 853, and 855 and provided feedback. See images supporting this below.

Edwin Estuardo Lau Mack (Software Engineer) completed his 4th week, helping with the Highest Good Network software. This week, Edwin focused on reviewing pull requests (PRs) and continuing the development of the HGN application as a member of the Dev Team, with a specific emphasis on Frontend functionality. Edwin reviewed various PRs and implemented a feature that prevents admins from resetting passwords for owners in the user management tab. This feature involved hiding columns and buttons related to password resets when the “Owner” filter was selected, and hiding buttons when viewing all accounts with different user classes and no “Owner” filter. Additionally, Edwin completed the final edits for stars for additional hours, allowing all classes except “Volunteer” to see stars, green and red dots in the leaderboard, while volunteers only saw green and red dots. Furthermore, Edwin made minor modifications to the Weekly Summary Reports tab, specifically adjusting the logic for displaying stars next to each user’s name. Throughout the week, Edwin reviewed a total of 6 PRs: #838, #846, #850, #851, #853, and #858. Images showing this progress are below.

Sneha M Madle (Software Engineer) completed their 4th week helping with the Highest Good Network software. This week, Sneha commenced her work by finalizing the functionality of the Work Breakdown Structure (WBS) through necessary touch-ups. A significant portion of her time was dedicated to conducting an in-depth analysis of the WBS code, aiming to deepen her understanding of its intricacies. She successfully identified the root cause of a specific bug that was affecting the WBS. To address one of the two issues at hand, Sneha performed a deep dive into the Edit Modal for Task code. This involved a comprehensive exploration of both the frontend, particularly the EditTaskModal components, and the backend taskController. She was able to determine the required modifications to rectify the bug. She also tested the implemented changes to ensure their effectiveness. To document and share her work with the relevant stakeholders, she finalized the week by submitting a PR. However, for the second issue, despite conducting multiple thorough debugging sessions to identify the underlying problem, Sneha was unable to resolve it within this week. The pictures below show this work.

Bada Kim (Full Stack Software Developer) completed his 3rd week helping with the Highest Good Network software. This week, Bada focused primarily on detailed review and meticulous debugging. A multitude of PRs were assessed, specifically, PRs #355, #722, #815, #827, #830, #831, #833, and #837. Bada offered commentary on PRs #722, #815, and #837. Further intervention was required with PR #830, as it necessitated a formal request for modifications to align better with the project’s objectives. Approval was granted for PRs #355, #815, #827, #831, and #833. PR #819 had to be reverted via PR #832 due to its inability to rectify the persistent Work Breakdown Structure (WBS) task items bug. However, progress was made when the subsequent PR #835 effectively resolved the lingering issue. See the images below for this work.

The Highest Good Network software PR Review team also worked to test all of the above PRs and find any bugs they could within those PRs and the software as a whole. This week’s active members of this team and how many weeks they’ve been with us are as follows: Anish Pandita (Software Engineer) completed his 15th week, Eduardo Horta (Software Engineer) completed his 3rd week, Lawrence Chua (Full Stack Software Developer) completed his 2nd week, Nathan Hoffman (Software Engineer) completed his 3rd week, Nida Zaki (Software Engineer) completed her 2nd week, Olusola Akinbode (Full Stack Software Developer) completed his 2nd week, Papia Sharmin (Full Stack Developer) completed her 4th week, Steve Paalz (Software Developer) completed his 2nd week, Xiao Wang (Software Engineer) completed his 4th week, Xiaoyu Chen (Software Engineer) completed her 2nd week, Yu-Wei Hsu (Software Engineer) completed his 5th week, Yubo Sun (Full Stack Software Developer) completed his 5th week, and Yufei Zhang (Software Engineer) completed her 1st week. The collage below shows a compilation of the work from this team.

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A Path to a More Luxurious Life – One Community Weekly Progress Update #531

Posted on May 28, 2023 by One Community Hs

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One Community is creating a path to a more luxurious life through sustainable approaches to food, energy, housing, education, for-profit and non-profit economic design, social architecture, fulfilled living, global stewardship practices, and more. Our model, designed to become self-replicating, will pave the way for a global collaboration of teacher/demonstration hubs. With the ultimate goal of serving “The Highest Good of All“, we ensure everything we create is open source and freely shared. By open sourcing and free sharing the complete process, we contribute to evolving sustainability and work towards creating a world that works for 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 May 28th, 2023 edition (#531) of our weekly progress update detailing our team’s development and accomplishments:

A Path to a More Luxurious Life
One Community Progress Update #531

DONATE | COLLABORATE | HELP WITH LARGE-SCALE FUNDING

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

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ONE COMMUNITY WEEKLY UPDATE DETAILS

HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING PROGRESS

One Community is creating a path to a more luxurious 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

Amal Lazar (MS Mechanical Engineering) completed her 8th week helping, now with the research for the Most Sustainable Lightbulbs and Light Bulb Companies: Research, Energy Savings, and More tutorial. This week, Amal started the process of looking for alternative lightbulb options for the City Center. The first step involved taking the time to understand the function, performance, and key features that ensure optimal performance. Relying on sustainability benchmarking results, Amal identified the companies to focus on during the research phase, providing clear explanations for their chosen approach. She began searching for more sustainable technology based on the existing data from the city center project. Amal ensured concise development of their narrative and highlighted other key features and product descriptions to effectively communicate the most important information about the products under consideration. Below, you’ll find some images of this work.

DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER PROGRESS

One Community is creating a path to a more luxurious 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, the core team continued reviewing and fixing the latest Duplicable City Center SketchUp file. The updates included: (1) Adding a CAD-1 FLOOR layer to the SketchUp model; (2) Correcting the position of the shower and bench to match the updated shape of the pool; (3) Correcting the steps inside the pool to connect with the dome wall; (4) Correcting the position of the waterfall and flowers next to it; (5) Correcting the floor area around the pool to accommodate the latest updates to the pool and additional shower area; (6) Adding details with images about the latest updates to the City Center SketchUp file to the Google Doc; and (7) Compressing the updated City Center SketchUp file and uploading it to Google Drive for sharing with the team. See images below for examples of this work in progress.

Ranran Zhang (Architectural Designer) completed her 23rd week working on the updated video for the Duplicable City Center internal and external walkthrough. This week, Ranran’s primary focus was on implementing modifications based on feedback received last week. Specifically, she addressed errors where trees appeared through the floor and where slabs emerged through the wall. Ranran successfully rectified these issues. In terms of the video, she made adjustments to the video path, redirecting it to go around the staircase on the left side before ascending. Moreover, she deleted certain clips to ensure an unobstructed view from the second floor-straight down to the first-floor door. Take a look at the images below to see some of the progress made in this work.

Julio Marín Bustillos (Mechanical Engineer) completed his 15th week helping with the City Center Dome Hub Connector Engineering. This week, Julio focused on his design responsibilities by extensively working on the hub connectors for a comprehensive range of 45 nodes within the traditional geodesic dome project. His primary objective involved the creation of sub-assemblies, encompassing vital elements such as bolts, nuts, and washers, to seamlessly integrate them into the overall assembly. Additionally, Julio assigned appropriate materials to each component of the assembly, aiming to optimize the structural integrity and performance of the hub connectors. The pictures below provide a glimpse of this work.

Yiwei He (Mechanical Engineer) completed her 11th week helping with the City Center Dome Hub Connector Engineering. This week, Yiwei dedicated her efforts to resolving a simulation problem involving frames and connectors. Furthermore, she reviewed previous research to gather insights and ideas that could potentially contribute to the solution. She met with a core team member to revise the overall usage of cylinders, discussing strategies and refining approaches. Additionally, Yiwei began the process of creating spreadsheets to streamline and organize the relevant data. See some of this work in the pictures below.

Zhide Wang (Mechanical Engineer) completed his 6th week, now focused on the Duplicable City Center designs. This week, Zhide dedicated his efforts to crafting a final report of dormer designs. He employed SketchUp 2017 to look at the latest designs and meticulously scrutinize the dimensions of each intricate part. Zhide extracted the desired dimensions. While doing this, he discovered that certain designs may not meet the requirements at hand. Get a closer look at this work through the pictures below.

HIGHEST GOOD FOOD PROGRESS

One Community is creating a path to a more luxurious 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 to work on the Transition Food Self-sufficiency Plan. We focused on importing the recipe information from the Master Recipe Doc to the Master Recipe Template. While doing so, we noticed that the servings per recipe did not match between the two documents. We corrected this information on the MasterRecipeFWA tab and what had been completed on the MasterRecipeFWB tab, and resumed importing the recipe information for MasterRecipeFWB concluding with Lunch#2. Pictures below are related to this work.

The core team also reviewed the open source Chicken coop designs. This week, we reviewed pages 148-196 of the Chicken Doc, which cover the roosting bar assembly and their attachment to the chicken coop. We made revisions to the content and added photos to improve the clarity and accuracy of the information and also made sure that the information is consistent with the latest research on chicken care. The pictures below give some examples of this work.

Another member of the core team worked on the “Chicken Coop Step-by-Step” document by: (1) Replying to the comments; (2) Updating the images and text for the nesting box section and window in the installation section; and (3) Increasing the size of the dimensions labels for better readability. See some examples of this work in the pictures below.

HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION PROGRESS

One Community is creating a path to a more luxurious 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.

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 creating a path to a more luxurious 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 37 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. Pictures below show some of this work.

Yan Xu (Software Development Engineer) completed her 41st week helping with the Highest Good Network software. This week, Yan organized the codebase and pushed PR #838 and #358 for review and integration. PR #838 has to do with group summaries and PR #358 has to do with team leaders receiving their team members’ weekly summaries. She found that the implementation of a summary receiver role seems feasible. The pictures below provide a snapshot of this work.

Jianjun Luo (Software Engineer) completed her 26th week helping with the Highest Good Network software. This week, Jianjun diligently addressed the feedback received during the final review and updated a previous PR, resulting in improved code quality. Additionally, she successfully completed the performance optimization task, effectively resolving conflicts that emerged due to recent changes in the development branch. Furthermore, Jianjun rectified a bug related to the default tab behavior for users with varying roles and task assignments. Pictures below are related to this work.

Raul Effting (Jr. Front-End Web Developer) completed his 20th week helping with the Highest Good Network software. This week, Raul made progress in various aspects of his work. He actively participated in the review process, dedicating his expertise to the assessment of PRs 841 and 330. Additionally, he provided valuable insights and comments on PR 837. Raul assisted his colleagues, extending his support to Natália, Lucile, and Filipe. Moreover, he played a pivotal role in resolving numerous bugs. Raul also played a vital role in the testing of the new timer. Below are some images related to this work.

Aishwarya Kalkundrikar (Full Stack Software Developer) completed her 19th week helping with the Highest Good Network software. This week, Aishwarya conducted a thorough investigation of the code related to multiple notifications being sent when assigning a manual blue square. She carefully examined all relevant code snippets and loops where the email-sending function is invoked. Aishwarya also reviewed the function responsible for the manual blue square assignment and inspected recently merged pull requests for any potential impact on functionality. However, no significant changes affecting the issue were identified. Despite ongoing efforts, Aishwarya has not yet discovered the root cause and continues to investigate the matter. Pictures below show some of this work.

Lucas Emanuel Souza Silva (Software Developer) completed his 14th week helping with the Highest Good Network software. This week, Lucas primarily focused on Task 84, which involved fixing the red bell icon – ensuring that the red bell disappears after the user has reviewed the associated changes. In addition to completing the core functionality of the task, Lucas dedicated time to optimizing the red bell notification icon. Specifically, he aimed to implement a solution where dismissing a notification would not trigger a full page reload, thereby improving overall performance. In addition to his main task, Lucas also provided assistance to fellow team members by resolving linter problems and helping with the testing of his own PR. Pictures of some of this work are below.

Sav Costabile (Web Developer) completed their 14th week helping with the Highest Good Network software. This week, Sav focused on the ongoing task of debugging a critical issue that has been preventing the assignment of badges. Various troubleshooting methods were employed, such as running code segments through Chat GPT and seeking assistance from other developers, but these attempts yielded no positive outcomes. However, a breakthrough occurred yesterday when Sav identified the specific code responsible for the undesired behavior. Surprisingly, the root of the problem was not located in the backend but rather within the database itself. With this crucial discovery in hand, Sav proceeded to develop a modified version of the file, which is anticipated to offer improved functionality. The pictures below relate to this work.

Highest Good Network software, A Path to a More Luxurious Life, One Community Weekly Progress Update #531

Angelina Truong (Full Stack Software Developer) completed her 11th week helping with the Highest Good Network software. This week, Angelina focused her efforts on PR #722, which involved implementing the functionality for users in manager roles and above to submit weekly summaries on behalf of other users. She dedicated her time to conducting a final review of the pull request, meticulously addressing any conflicts that arose during the branch merge process. In addition, Angelina diligently resolved the errors her colleagues encountered while working with this branch. Notably, she tackled issues such as the inability of users logged into the owner’s user role to click on the dot beside each user profile displayed below the leadership board. Furthermore, she successfully addressed a problem where selecting permissions management and attempting to make changes to the browser resulted in a blank page. Angelina skillfully resolved these challenges by importing the useEffect and getUserProfile functions back into the UserRoleTab component. Looking ahead, she proactively identified two new tasks pertaining to the permissions management component, which she plans to undertake in the upcoming week. See the pictures below to get an idea of this work.

Harlley Bastos (Full Stack Developer) completed his 11th week helping with the Highest Good Network software. This week, Harlley successfully completed the remaining tasks related to the timer project. He diligently resolved the final issues and made necessary adjustments, ensuring its optimal functionality. Now, Harlley is eagerly awaiting the upcoming week when the timer will undergo extensive testing by the team. The pictures below show some of this work.

Yihan Liu (Software Engineer) completed her 9th week helping with the Highest Good Network software. This week, Yihan focused on addressing the issue related to the submission date for the weekly summaries. In order to achieve this, she made several modifications in both the backend and frontend components. Beginning with the backend, Yihan implemented a crucial change by incorporating the ‘uploadDate’ attribute to the ‘weeklySummaries’ object in the ‘userProfile.js’ file. Consequently, she ensured that the report formatting utilized the ‘uploadDate’ instead of the previous ‘dueDate’. On the frontend side, Yihan made adjustments to the default value of the ‘uploadDate’ field, which was originally set as ‘today’. She revised it to align with the end of the week, effectively matching the ‘dueDate’. See the pictures below related to this work.

Yongjian Pan (React.js/MongoDB Full Stack Software Developer) completed his 9th week helping with the Highest Good Network software. This week, Yongjian focused on the development of a new maximum personal record badge and implementing a dark mode feature for the entire application. He raised PRs for both tasks. Yongjian continues to be engaged in reviewing and addressing the feedback, suggestions, and comments provided by his team members to enhance the functionality. See the images below for a look at this work.

Abdelmounaim “Abdel” Lallouache (Software Developer) completed his 7th week helping with the Highest Good Network software. This week, Abdel dedicated time to reviewing multiple pull requests from the HighestGoodNetworkApp repository. The reviewed pull requests include #829, #830, #835, #841, and #842. In addition to the pull requests, Abdel implemented functionality to enhance the visibility of the report page buttons. This was achieved by adding styles that highlighted the selected button among “Projects,” “People,” and “Teams”. The pictures below are related to this work.

Natália Favaro Cavicchioli (Full-stack Developer) completed her 6th week with the Highest Good Network software. This week, Natália focused on various tasks related to PR #722, which involved enabling users with manager roles and above to submit weekly summaries on behalf of other users. She meticulously reviewed the PR and addressed any conflicts that arose during the branch merge process. Additionally, Natália dedicated her efforts to enhancing the Reports page, specifically ensuring its optimal display on phones and tablets. She resolved an issue where the Reports page displayed a white screen for the admin/owner login. Natália also worked on improving the responsiveness of buttons and tackled the challenge of optimizing the person’s table for smaller screens. To achieve this, she implemented a dropdown feature that condensed the table by displaying key information such as start date and end date. By reducing the number of columns, the table now fits better on smaller screens. See the images below that show her progress and contribution.

Lucile Tronczyk (Full Stack Software Developer) completed her 5th week helping with the Highest Good Network software. This week, Lucile reviewed the BackEnd to explore methods of connecting it with the FrontEnd. While the FrontEnd was completed, challenges were encountered in modifying the “Rehireable” checkbox and implementing changes in the user profile. A successful attempt was made to create a new user with the “Rehireable” attribute in the User Profile object, requiring further investigation on how to select and establish connectivity with the FrontEnd. In addition, PRs were submitted for both the backend and frontend on GitHub, and assistance was sought on Slack to address the encountered issues. The pictures below relate to this.

Vishvesh Sheoran (Artificial Intelligence Specialist) completed his 5th week helping with the Highest Good Network software. This week, Vishvesh compiled a list of AI tools (DeepCode, CodeSonar, Tabnine, CodeClimate, Codota, Natural Docs, Prettier) in a Google Doc, recommending their integration into HGN’s workflow for improved code quality, bug detection, code completion, code review, documentation generation, and code formatting. He also compiled a list of AI tools for task allocation, labor tracking, code analysis, test automation, and code quality. See pictures below showing his efforts.

Alexander G Huerta (Software Engineer) complete his 4th week helping with the Highest Good Network software. This week, Alexander focused on several key tasks aimed at improving workflow and collaboration. He dedicated his efforts to creating a copy button for tasks and successfully completed the copy email button in the team management tab. Responding to valuable feedback from colleagues, Alexander also implemented an on-screen success notification. Additionally, he made significant contributions to the organization by assisting in the cleanup of HGN phase 1 bugs list. His responsibilities included verifying the completion of tasks marked as done and subsequently removing them from the sheet. Another notable achievement was the integration of GitHub with Slack. Alexander effectively enabled a bot to provide notifications to the pull-request-code-review Slack channel whenever new pull requests were submitted to either of the main repositories. To enhance efficiency further, he created pull request templates for each of the main repositories, conveniently stored in their respective .github folders. As a result, team members can now effortlessly submit pull requests by utilizing these templates. The images below show this progress.

Sneha M Madle (Software Engineer) completed their 3rd week helping with the Highest Good Network software. This week, Sneha began by familiarizing themselves with the functionality of the Work Breakdown Structure (WBS). They dedicated time to conducting an in-depth analysis of the WBS code, aiming to enhance their understanding of its intricacies. Through this process, they successfully identified the root cause of a particular bug affecting the WBS. To address this issue, they divided the bug fix into two distinct parts: ensuring the correct category is displayed and defaulting to “Housing” when no category is assigned. For both the frontend, specifically the AddTaskModal and EditTaskModal components, as well as the backend taskController, they engaged in a comprehensive exploration. As a result, they determined the necessary modifications to rectify the bug. Following this, they meticulously tested the implemented changes to ensure their effectiveness. Finally, they submitted a pull request (PR) to document and share their work. The pictures below show this work.

Bada Kim (Full Stack Software Developer) completed his 2nd week helping with the Highest Good Network software. This week, Bada focused primarily on detailed review and meticulous debugging. A multitude of PRs were assessed, specifically, PRs #355, #722, #815, #827, #830, #831, #833, and #837. Bada offered commentary on PRs #722, #815, and #837. Further intervention was required with PR #830, as it necessitated a formal request for modifications to align better with the project’s objectives. Approval was granted for PRs #355, #815, #827, #831, and #833. PR #819 had to be reverted via PR #832 due to its inability to rectify the persistent Work Breakdown Structure (WBS) task items bug. However, progress was made when the subsequent PR #835 effectively resolved the lingering issue. See the images below for this work.

The Highest Good Network software PR Review team also worked to test all of the above PRs and find any bugs they could within those PRs and the software as a whole. This week’s active members of this team and how many weeks they’ve been with us are as follows: Anish Pandita (Software Engineer) completed his 14th week, Drew Long (Software Engineer) completed his 2nd week, Eduardo Horta (Software Engineer) completed his 2nd week, Edwin Estuardo Lau Mack (Software Engineer) completed his 3rd week, Lawrence Chua (Full Stack Software Developer) completed his 1st week, Nathan Hoffman (Software Engineer) completed his 2nd week, Nida Zaki (Software Engineer) completed her 1st week, Olusola Akinbode (Full Stack Software Developer) completed his 1st week, Papia Sharmin (Full Stack Developer) completed her 3rdd week, Steve Paalz (Software Developer) completed his 1st week, Xiao Wang (Software Engineer) completed his 3rd week, Xiaoyu Chen (Software Engineer) completed her 1st week, Yu-Wei Hsu (Software Engineer) completed his 4th week, Yubo Sun (Full Stack Software Developer) completed his 4th week, and Yufei Zhang (Software Engineer) completed her 1st week. The collage below shows a compilation of the work from this team.

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Sustainable Progress Management – One Community Weekly Progress Update #530

Posted on May 21, 2023 by One Community Hs

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At One Community, we are proud to be demonstrating sustainable progress management through our holistic approach to community building. Our all-volunteer team is dedicated to creating a model that becomes self-replicating and will be used to create a global collaboration of teacher/demonstration hubs. We are doing this for “The Highest Good of All” by creating sustainable approaches to food, energy, housing, education, for-profit and non-profit economic design, social architecture, fulfilled living, global stewardship practices, and more. Our goal is to create everything so it is open source and free-shared, open sourcing and free sharing the complete process of evolving sustainability and regenerating our planet.

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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 May 21st, 2023 edition (#530) of our weekly progress update detailing our team’s development and accomplishments:

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HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING PROGRESS

One Community is demonstrating sustainable progress management 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 (Researcher and Assistant to Executive Director) completed her 31st week with the team. Julia worked on the “Door and Window Research” Google Doc, resolving comments where feedback had been integrated and adding comments for finalizing the content. She also made format edits to the “Best Doors” section to prepare it for the site. Next, Julia finished finalizing the format of the “Sustainable Roadways, Walkways, and Landscaping” webpage. She fixed broken links and added Title text to linked sources. She also made final edits to the tables of content and spacing throughout the page. Finally, Julia continued to work on the “Net-zero Bathroom and Earthbag Village Water Collection and Septic Design Edited Content for Web” Google Doc. She resolved comments where her feedback had been addressed while integrating responses to her own questions and concerns about the content. She then continued to make her way through the Doc, working to edit the content for grammar and spelling as well as formatting it for the site. She also edited the corresponding Google Spreadsheet and made sure to update screenshots and links on the Doc accordingly. Furthermore, Julia formatted and backed up various sources from the “Resources” sections on the Doc to her Dropbox folder. See images below that show some of this work.

Amal Lazar (MS Mechanical Engineering) completed her 8th week helping, now with the research for the Most Sustainable Lightbulbs and Light Bulb Companies: Research, Energy Savings, and More tutorial. This week, Amal made corrective actions on the sustainability benchmarking spreadsheet and responded to related questions. She also conducted research on sustainability reports to improve the City Center section and looked for better options. She continued developing narratives on sustainability benchmarking, including descriptions, key features, pros, and cons. Amal also started the most important energy-saving practices section. Below, you’ll find some images of this work.

DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER PROGRESS

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

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

This week, the core team continued reviewing and fixing the latest Duplicable City Center SketchUp file. This week the focus was on the Social Dome, more specifically the core team completed patch work on the Social Dome wall to accommodate an updated location of the door, and redesigned the 18″ deep sitting area around a column close to the pool, as well as a sitting circle connected to the pool. We also designed a curved bench that is connected to the column, with a sitting area around it situated between two Social Dome doors. To complement these updates, the core team designed bench cushions for the wall bench and around the column sitting bench, as well as a curved bench back support. We also reshaped the floor around the inside pool, and removed one of the pool waterfall features next to the right door. See images below for examples of this work in progress.

Charles Gooley (Web Designer) completed his 31st week helping with web design, now focused on the Duplicable City Center Engineering tutorial. He focused on improving the visual layout of the tutorial by removing all padding indentation and aligning all content to the left. Additionally, he revised the headings to ensure proper structure, such that sections with the format X and X.X are designated as h2, X.X.X as h3, and X.X.X.X as h6. The pictures below offer a visual representation of this work.

Ranran Zhang (Architectural Designer) completed her 22nd week working on the updated video for the Duplicable City Center internal and external walkthrough. This week Ranran focused on the second half of the video project. She devoted her efforts to the outdoor portion of the building, selecting angles that captured the wading pool with fish and showcased the area’s appearance. She also augmented it with the addition of trees and other plants to heighten the area’s realism. Ranran worked collaboratively with the team, ensuring that her contributions aligned with the project’s overall goals and objectives. Take a look at the images below to see some of the progress made in this work.

Julio Marín Bustillos (Mechanical Engineer) completed his 14th week helping with the City Center Dome Hub Connector Engineering. This week Julio focused on re-designing the initial concept for the hub connector. Taking advantage of the dome’s symmetry, he devised a single design that could be applied to all nodes, with each design replicated five times throughout the geodesic dome. This approach significantly reduces the time required to populate the entire dome with hub connectors compared to the previous design. Additionally, Julio conducted FEA simulations and identified stress concentrations primarily occurring at the curvature of the brackets. As a result, he concluded that increasing the thickness of this specific section could potentially prevent bracket failure during simulations. The thickness was increased by using a one-inch filet on both sides. The pictures below provide a glimpse of this work.

Yiwei He (Mechanical Engineer) completed her 10th week helping with the City Center Dome Hub Connector Engineering. This week Yiwei successfully used SketchUp software and calculated the outside and inside surface areas of three dome structures, determining their overall weights. In addition to these tasks, Yiwei simulated the new dome structure using a new connector design. See some of this work in the pictures below.

Zhide Wang (Mechanical Engineer) completed his 5th week, now focused on the Duplicable City Center designs. This week, Zhide finished reviewing the Net-zero Bathroom designs and contents and finalized the formats of the report, and added all the missing introductions to headings. In addition, Zhide began working on the Duplicable City Dormer Window Designs. Zhide confirmed that the designs meet the International Building Code and all units are in US units. Zhide then started rewriting the entire report. Get a closer look at this work through the pictures below.

HIGHEST GOOD FOOD PROGRESS

One Community is demonstrating sustainable progress management 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 to work on the Transition Food Self-sufficiency Plan. We worked on the Master Recipes and 3-Day Manu Blocks Doc verifying recipes that will then be imported to the Master Recipe Template and Shopping List. The same team member verified recipes up to page 307 with Dinner SSWJ2. Pictures below are related to this work.

The core team also reviewed the open source Chicken coop designs. We focused on reviewing and editing the Chicken Doc, specifically pages 178-188. The work centered on the topic of chicken nesting boxes and perches. During the review process, we identified measurement inaccuracies in the nesting box roof measurements and provided additional comments for further discussion. Additionally, we questioned the purpose of another photo that appeared unnecessary. The pictures below give some examples of this work.

HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION PROGRESS

One Community is demonstrating sustainable progress management 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.

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 demonstrating sustainable progress management 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 39 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. Pictures below show some of this work.

Yiyun Tan (Management Dashboard Team Leader) completed her 55th week helping with the Highest Good Network software. This week, Yiyun spent most of her time on PR final reviewing and discussion of the bug that doesn’t allow login on beta/create new accounts on Dev. She also helped on Slack, problem solving, bug reporting, and maintaining the tutorials. Below, you’ll find pictures highlighting the development of this work.

Yan Xu (Software Development Engineer) completed her 40th week helping with the Highest Good Network software. This week, Yan focused on enhancing the backend of the summary management page. Yan enabled the summary receivers to conveniently receive their team members’ weekly summaries via email. Now the system supports multiple summary receivers, allowing several individuals to receive the same weekly summary email from their respective team members. In addition to this, Yan has successfully implemented a feature that enables all users to receive a standardized weekly summary email every Sunday at 12:01. The pictures below provide a glimpse of this work.

Kaixiang “Kevin” Gu (Fullstack Software Developer) completed his 27th week helping with the Highest Good Network software. This week, Kaixiang made some refinements to the 24/48/72 hours button, simplifying the user interface by removing the eye and trash bin icons. This change improves the user experience by creating a cleaner and more streamlined design. Additionally, he implemented a new color bar feature for time logs, which displays different colors on the left side of the logs based on the submission time. This feature enhances the visual display of data and provides a more intuitive way to understand the timing of each log. Pictures below show some of this work-in-progress.

Jianjun Luo (Software Engineer) completed her 25th week helping with the Highest Good Network software. This week, Jianjun addressed a critical issue by updating a previous pull request related to the addition of member count on the project report page. The update successfully resolved a crash resulting from conflicts between the latest branch. Additionally, Jianjun identified and implemented a new feature for the bio announcement status on the weekly summary report page, necessitating a minor adjustment to the people report page. Alongside these tasks, she worked on merging the latest development branch with the performance task branch. Pictures below are related to this work.

Raul Effting (Jr. Front-End Web Developer) completed his 19th week helping with the Highest Good Network software. This week, Raul conducted review of PR 704, tested the timer functionality and documented identified bugs. In addition, Raul reviewed PRs 799 and 337 to assist in resolving a bug. Moreover, Raul supported the implementation of new features and a popup for the timer. He also gave final approval for a PR after completing comprehensive testing. Below are some images related to this work.

Aishwarya Kalkundrikar (Full Stack Software Developer) completed her 18th week helping with the Highest Good Network software. This week, Aishwarya conducted a comprehensive review of PR #810 for logical accuracy and approved this PR. She also addressed the feedback on PR #344 and implemented the suggested changes. Aishwarya selected a new bug from the documented list and began working on it. To gain a comprehensive understanding of the underlying logic, she analyzed multiple front-end files. Pictures below show some of this work.

Filipe Santos de Oliveira (Full Stack Developer) completed his 16th week helping with the Highest Good Network software. This week, Filipe addressed the problem of inflexibility in the header of the team member tasks box and the list of users in skeleton, which contained titles like ‘Team Member, Clock, Tasks…’. Furthermore, he attempted to replace fixed pixel measurements with relative units like VW and percentage, among other approaches to improve the flexibility of the skeleton, but he encountered several challenges. Unfortunately, none of these solutions were effective in resolving the header title issue or the list of users in skeleton. Despite his attempts, Filipe has been unable to find a viable solution to the problem and has decided to seek help from other developers. See below for some pictures related to this.

Jinchao Feng (Software Engineer) completed his 13th week helping with the Highest Good Network software. This week, Jinchao focused on fixing the visibility logic for the Team Member Tasks component. To achieve this, he analyzed the taskController file in HGNRest and the TeamMemberTasks file in HGNApp. For the backend, Jinchao created the taskHelper file, which simplified the taskController by allowing it to focus only on the req and res and move supportive functions and business logics to taskHelper. Additionally, he found some redundant code in TeamMemberTasks. Please refer to the pictures below.

Lucas Emanuel Souza Silva (Software Developer) completed his 13th week helping with the Highest Good Network software. This week, Lucas made progress on task 84 and task 122 to enhance the system’s functionality and improve the user experience. In relation to task 84, Lucas resolved conflicts with the development branch, identified and resolved cache errors that prevented the display of tasks until the cache was cleaned, and ensured the red bell icon disappears after changes are viewed. Concerning task 122, Lucas implemented a feature that streamlines the task resolution process by removing the spinning icon when a task is marked as done. This modification will minimize confusion and allow users to quickly identify completed tasks. Pictures of some of this work are below.

Sav Costabile (Web Developer) completed their 13th week helping with the Highest Good Network software. This week, Sav continued their work to resolve a bug that was preventing badge assignments. By utilizing Mongo Compass, they were able to access the database and fix the backend permissions for the roles, resolving one of the main issues with the “lead a team of x” badge. Additionally, they gained a deeper understanding of the data structure of the teams and are currently investigating the process of assigning users to Admin, Core Team, and Owner roles. The pictures below relate to this work.

Highest Good Network software, sustainable Progress Management, One Community Weekly Progress Update #530

Harlley Bastos (Full Stack Developer) completed his 10th week helping with the Highest Good Network software. This week, Harlley focused on developing new test cases for the timer feature to ensure its functionality and reliability. In addition, Harlley dedicated a substantial amount of time and energy to troubleshoot issues. The pictures below show some of this work.

Yihan Liu (Software Engineer) completed her 8th week helping with the Highest Good Network software. This week, Yihan focused on resolving a bug related to the weekly summary submission date. She identified the target file named WeeklySummary.jsx, and after analyzing the code, proposed adding an uploadDate to the weeklySummaries object to solve the issue. Yihan modified the file, tested the changes, and found that the weeklySummaries object wrote to the server as expected. However, the object read from the server still did not include uploadDate. To address this, Yihan determined that the backend needed to be modified. In addition, Yihan conducted code reviews for PR#823 and PR#352, and found that the toggle on the weekly summary report page was still set to “requested” even after changing it to “posted” and refreshing the page. See the pictures below related to this work.

Yongjian Pan (React.js/MongoDB Full Stack Software Developer) completed his 8th week helping with the Highest Good Network software. This week, Yongjian completed two tasks for the project. The first task involved creating a new badge to recognize personal records achieved by users. He successfully finished the task and submitted a pull request for his team members to review. The second task was to implement a dark mode feature for the entire application. See the images below for a glimpse of this work.

Abdelmounaim “Abdel” Lallouache (Software Developer) completed his 6th week helping with the Highest Good Network software. This week, Abdel reviewed several PRs. Specifically, he (1) reviewed PR #352, which added the bio status to the weekly report, (2) PR #353, which addressed visibility issues in Team Member Tasks, (3) PR #815, which introduced the active and total member count to the project report page, (4) PR #823, which included the bio status in the weekly report, and (5) PR #826, which resolved the new max personal record award badge issue. Additionally, Abdel enhanced the task management system by removing the ability for anyone except Owners and Administrators to resolve tasks. The pictures below are related to this work.

Vishvesh Sheoran (Artificial Intelligence Specialist) completed his 4th week helping with the Highest Good Network software. This week, Vishvesh carried out his assigned responsibilities of reviewing frontend pull requests. He reviewed and provided constructive feedback for PRs 323, 815, 301, and 271. Furthermore, he set up his local environment on his Windows laptop in preparation for his upcoming transition to the development team. See pictures below showing his efforts.

Bada Kim (Full Stack Software Developer) completed his 1st week helping with the Highest Good Network software. This week, Bada explored and addressed a series of technical issues, with a focus on improving the development process and resolving bugs. An undocumented error pertaining to node-sass was discovered early in the week, which was subsequently communicated to the team via the Slack platform to aid in future troubleshooting. Additionally, a comment was made on the setup documentation, indicating an ambiguity concerning the non-usage of ESLint for the front-end repository. Bada also delved into a bug reported by a colleague that was causing sporadic page crashes when a task item was clicked. It was confirmed that the crash was due to certain task items lacking the “num” property. An enhancement was proposed for the local setup documentation, inspired by the earlier node-sass error. In tandem with these investigations, approval was granted to PR #809 after successful video confirmations. Bada also initiated PR #817, which was opened to address the node-sass error that non-intel Mac machines were experiencing during the local setup. This issue was scrutinized further to determine why the initial quick fix was unsuccessful. Further investigation into the task item bug resulted in the opening of PR #819, which proposed the addition of the “num” property to task items that were missing it. See the images below for this work.

Sneha M Madle (Software Engineer) completed her 2nd week helping with the Highest Good Network software. This week, Sneha reviewed the bug list and selected a specific bug to investigate. She dedicated time to understand the code related to badges. Despite her efforts to reproduce the bug, she was unable to do so. She was then directed to investigate a PR that had been raised. After examining the changes in the PR, Sneha gained a better understanding of the badge code. She made a final attempt to reproduce the bug but was unsuccessful. However, during this process, she identified another issue with the MostHrsInWeek Badge and raised a PR for it. Recognizing the inability to reproduce the original bug, Sneha moved on to the next bug and commenced investigation. The pictures below show her work.

The Highest Good Network software PR Review team also worked to test all of the above PRs and find any bugs they could within those PRs and the software as a whole. This week’s active members of this team and how many weeks they’ve been with us are as follows: Alexander G Huerta (Software Engineer) complete his 3rd week, Anish Pandita (Software Engineer) completed his 13th week, Edwin Estuardo Lau Mack (Software Engineer) completed his 2nd week, Nathan Hoffman (Software Engineer) completed his 1st week, Papia Sharmin (Full Stack Developer) completed her 1st week, Xiao Tan (Software Engineer) completed her 4th week, Xiao Wang (Software Engineer) completed his 2nd week, Yu-Wei Hsu (Software Engineer) completed his 3rd week, and Yubo Sun (Full Stack Software Developer) completed his 3rd week. The collage below shows a compilation of the work from this team.

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One Community Welcomes Nicolle Coelho to the Software Development Team!

Posted on May 18, 2023 by One Community

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One Community welcomes Nicolle Coelho to the Software Development Team as our newest Volunteer/Consultant!

Nicolle is a frontend engineer with experience building customer-facing web applications using React, JavaScript ES6, TypeScript, HTML5, and CSS3. She is dedicated to delivering the best user experience and committed to solving people-centered problems using technology. As a member of the One Community team, Nicolle is applying her skills and passions to developing the open-source Highest Good Network project and time tracking software.

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Leading the Global-Sustainability Systems Movement – One Community Weekly Progress Update #529

Posted on May 14, 2023 by One Community Hs

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At One Community, we are proud to be leading the global-sustainability systems movement. Our all-volunteer team is dedicated to creating a world that works for everyone by integrating sustainable approaches to food, energy, housing, education, for-profit and non-profit economic design, social architecture, fulfilled living, global stewardship practices, and more. Our model becomes self-replicating and will be used to create a global collaboration of teacher/demonstration hubs, all while doing this for “The Highest Good of All“. We believe in open sourcing and free sharing the complete process to evolve sustainability and regenerate our planet.

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

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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 May 14th, 2023 edition (#529) of our weekly progress update detailing our team’s development and accomplishments:

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HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING PROGRESS

One Community is leading the global-sustainability systems movement 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 (Researcher and Assistant to Executive Director) completed her 30th week with the team. Julia checked the Eco-laundry research and addressed and integrated feedback and added final comments. She also checked on additions to the “Light Bulb Webpage Updated Content” Google Doc, editing her work and using the comments to offer her feedback and to ask clarifying questions. Julia then edited and provided feedback on the new work on the “DIY Earth Dam Design & Construction Disaster Mitigation Content” Google Doc. Julia additionally edited the “Door and Window Research” Google Doc based on most additions. She made minor edits to the corresponding Google Spreadsheet to make the format uniform throughout. Finally, Julia made final format and coding edits to the “Sustainable Roadways, Walkways, and Landscaping” webpage. She edited all of the lists on the page to ensure consistent formats throughout as well as fixing broken links and adding Title texts. See images below that show some of this work.

Loza Ayehutsega (Civil Engineer/Assistant Civil Engineer) completed her 19th week helping, now focused on Earth Dam Design & Construction for Water Retention, Pond & Lake Creation. This week Loza added an additional topic to the report, namely an early warning system to the population with appropriate steps listed in the report. Loza also added an evacuation plan from another reference document to the dam disaster hazards. Take a look at the pictures below to get a glimpse of this work.

Amal Lazar (MS Mechanical Engineering) completed her 7th week helping, now with the research for the Most Sustainable Lightbulbs and Light Bulb Companies: Research, Energy Savings, and More tutorial. This week Amal worked on a new lightbulb research project by outlining and developing a framework for the study. The first section of the project focused on developing a sustainability benchmarking of top companies. Amal also updated a spreadsheet and wrote narratives on each company, which included sections that addressed how to read a lightbulb label and what makes a lightbulb sustainable. Amal additionally collaborated with their supervisor, kept up with comments and ensured mutual understanding. Below, you’ll find some images of this work.

DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER PROGRESS

One Community is leading the global-sustainability systems movement through a Duplicable and Sustainable City Center that is LEED Platinum certified/Sustainable, can feed 200 people at a time, provide laundry for over 300 people, is beautiful, spacious, and saves resources, money, and space:

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

This week, the core team continued reviewing the latest Duplicable City Center SketchUp file. We made significant progress on several key features of the project, including moving columns in the Social Dome to their correct locations based on the AutoCAD image. In addition, the core team redesigned the inside/outside pool to match the pool boundaries in AutoCAD and updated the kids’ pool area, making the column a part of the pool wall and setting each level to a different color, we also moved the entry door from the central court into the correct location near the pool, in accordance with the AutoCAD image. See images below for examples of this work in progress.

Charles Gooley (Web Designer) also completed his 30th week helping with web design, now focused on the Duplicable City Center Engineering tutorial. He replaced tables 1 – 35 with new ones provided by the author. Some of the large tables were split up and were labeled, for example, Table 30A, Table 30B, and so on. The pictures below offer a visual representation of this work.

Ranran Zhang (Architectural Designer) completed her 21st week working on the updated video for the Duplicable City Center internal and external walkthrough. This week Ranran continued working on the video of the outdoor part of the building and chose the appropriate angle to show the details of the Living Dome. She added the laundry facility and the building as a whole to the video. She also added trees to the outdoor area to make it more realistic, and she rendered a low-res video to show the progress of the video. Take a look at the images below to see some of the progress made in this work.

Julio Marín Bustillos (Mechanical Engineer) completed his 13th week helping with the City Center Dome Hub Connector Engineering. This week Julio performed finite element simulations on a traditional geodesic dome. To ensure the forces were distributed throughout the structure, Julio welded every connection and simulated hub connectors since the dome lacks joints at every node. Two types of analysis were performed: one with forces applied at the nodes and one with just gravity. Due to the dome’s material properties, which are similar to wood, the analysis with just gravity and fixed boundary conditions at the base is deemed more accurate than the one with forces applied to the nodes. The pictures below provide a glimpse of this work.

Yiwei He (Mechanical Engineer) completed her 9th week helping with the City Center Dome Hub Connector Engineering. This week Yiwei successfully simulated the new version of the model using SolidWorks and analyzed the changes from the original model, specifically after applying sphere connectors. See some of this work in the pictures below.

Zhide Wang (Mechanical Engineer) completed his 4th week, now working on the Net-zero Bathroom designs. This week Zhide reviewed designs and contents, and helped organize and format by fixing headings, alignments, and rebuilt some tables. Get a closer look at this work through the pictures below.

HIGHEST GOOD FOOD PROGRESS

One Community is leading the global-sustainability systems movement 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 to work on the Transition Food Self-sufficiency Plan. We worked on the Master Recipe and 3-Day Menus Document and completed pages 192 – 218. We also worked on the Shopping List, changed colors, created conditions to eliminate zero values, worked with the FWA test copy, and continued to research ways to make the list compress and be more user friendly. Pictures below are related to this work.

The core team also returned to reviewing the open source Chicken coop designs. We added comments for items that need further discussion including: application and securing of vinyl to poop trays, wood shaving and pine needle litters pros and cons, weather proofing around nesting box doors, caulking exterior seams of the chicken coop, and securing the coop to prevent damage during high wind conditions. The pictures below give some examples of this work.

HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION PROGRESS

One Community is leading the global-sustainability systems movement 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.

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 leading the global-sustainability systems movement 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 28 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. Pictures below show some of this work.

This week, the team also implemented a new requirement for editing weekly progress blogs. From now on, team members will use ChatGPT to edit their weekly summaries before submitting them. This new requirement has been introduced to streamline the process and ensure that progress blogs are published on time, especially as the team continues to grow to over 200 members. This new requirement will help to maintain the quality and consistency of these progress blogs while making the process more efficient.

Yiyun Tan (Management Dashboard Team Leader) completed her 54th week helping with the Highest Good Network software. This week Yiyun reset ESLint and she made a spreadsheet on the distribution of the whole work. She also helped the team on Slack, problem solving, bug reporting, and maintaining the tutorials. Below, you’ll find pictures highlighting the development of this work.

Yan Xu (Software Development Engineer) completed her 39th week helping with the Highest Good Network software. This week Yan enhanced the functionality of the summary management page by implementing features for the team member button and summary receiver button. Yan successfully enabled the selection and deletion of team members for each summary group, as well as the selection and deletion of summary receivers for each summary group. All frontend tasks related to the summary management page have been completed at this stage. The pictures below provide a glimpse of this work.

Kaixiang “Kevin” Gu (Fullstack Software Developer) completed his 26th week helping with the Highest Good Network software. This week Kaixiang made significant progress on the 24/48/72 hours button for the team member tasks component. He added new functionalities to display time logs beneath each user’s profile when the button is clicked, as well as providing a way to view or hide these logs. Additionally, he optimized the data fetching algorithm to execute only once during the first rendering of the component, eliminating the need to fetch data each time a user clicks the button. Pictures below show some of this work-in-progress.

Jianjun Luo (Software Engineer) completed her 24th week helping with the Highest Good Network software. This week Jianjun added a new feature to the Reports page, specifically the “Bio Posted/Requested” selection feature. To achieve this, she added a new attribute to the user profile on the backend. On the frontend, she implemented a feature that shows whether a person’s bio announcement is currently being created on the person’s report page. She made this status editable for the Owner/Admin role by including a toggle switch. In addition to this, Jianjun updated two previous branches to ensure the feature worked seamlessly with existing code. Pictures below are related to this work.

Raul Effting (Jr. Front-End Web Developer) completed his 18th week helping with the Highest Good Network software. This week Raul accomplished various tasks related to improving the team’s performance. Raul fixed the “add resources to tasks” component and provided assistance with the new timer. In addition, Raul updated the new timer and kept the server running for multiple days. Furthermore, Raul performed thorough testing of the new timer to ensure it functions correctly. Below are some images related to this work.

Aishwarya Kalkundrikar (Full Stack Software Developer) completed her 17th week helping with the Highest Good Network software. This week Aishwarya finished the new feature to make Admin/Owner receive an email when time is logged for a task that is over the deadline. She also created a function ‘checkTaskOvertime’ in the backend where the time entry is handled. She added a condition that checks if the logged-in time exceeds estimated time and an email notification is sent to the Task Owner as well as One Community inbox every time this condition is satisfied. Additionally, she added a feature so the Task Owner can make new time entries, as well as edit old time entries. She also raised PR#344 for this task and informed the Slack group for review. Pictures below show some of this work.

Filipe Santos de Oliveira (Full Stack Developer) completed his 15th week helping with the Highest Good Network software. This week Filipe addressed the problem of inflexibility in the header of the team member tasks box and the list of users in skeleton, which contained titles like ‘team member, clock, tasks…’ He looked for solutions using bootstrap, react strap and just css. He experimented with several approaches, including replacing fixed pixel measurements with relative units such as VW and percentage, but none of these solutions were effective in resolving the header title issue or the list of users in skeleton. See below for some pictures related to this.

Jinchao Feng (Software Engineer) completed his 12th week helping with the Highest Good Network software. This week Jinchao investigated and resolved bugs in the leaderboard data that prevented non-team users from logging their time. He fixed the problem by examining all relevant commitment histories. The pictures below share some of this developing work. Please refer to the pictures below.

Lucas Emanuel Souza Silva (Software Developer) completed his 12th week helping with the Highest Good Network software. This week Lucas worked on two tasks related to user notification and leaderboard functionality. First, he worked on a task that allowed users not on a team to see themselves on the leaderboard. Additionally, he ensured that the weekly hours bar was working correctly. Following this task, he completed his work on the red bell task, which dealt with task notification. Lucas made significant changes to the red bell task’s functionality so the notification only goes away for the user who marked it as read, not for the other users who also received the notification. Furthermore, Lucas made sure that Owner/Administrator users cannot dismiss notifications that do not belong to them. He also ensured that users viewing another user’s dashboard cannot dismiss other users’ notifications. Pictures of some of this work are below.

Vitor Adriel (Software Engineer) completed his 12th week helping with the Highest Good Network software. This week Vitor finished the tasks assigned to him, reviewed PRs (#793, #791, #784, #796), and checked the permissions management and found more bugs. He also made a spreadsheet describing all the permissions, and made recordings with scribe for better representation of the functionality. See below for some pictures of this work.

Highest Good Network software, Leading the Global-Sustainability Systems Movement, One Community Weekly Progress Update #529

Sav Costabile (Web Developer) completed their 12th week helping with the Highest Good Network software. This week Sav addressed a critical issue that is currently preventing the assignment of all badges for all users due to a lead a team of x badge bug. To resolve the problem, Sav reached out to other developers for assistance and has discovered that the data structures for teams vary depending on the user’s role. Additionally, Sav identified corrupted null values within the permissions of the backend that were causing the function to break. Sav used dummy data to test the function’s other aspects while they work on finding the root causes of the two main problems. The pictures below relate to this work.

Angelina Truong (Full Stack Software Developer) completed her 10th week helping with the Highest Good Network software. This week Angelina studied and made changes to specific components and drafted various approaches to complete the task of making the summary form disappear once a summary is added. She implementing the codes to test each approach and selecting the simplest and most straightforward one. To complete this feature, Angelina passed down the state function to WeeklySummary.jsx and set the state function in the submit handler to close the weekly summary form after submission. See the pictures below to get an idea of this work.

Ayush Tripathi (Full Stack Developer) completed his 10th week helping with the Highest Good Network software. This week Ayush created and submitted 3 pull requests. In the first and second pull requests, Ayush made changes to the env file and tested its functionality for both Admin and Dev accounts. The third pull request submitted by Ayush included code updates to show a dot or star by a person’s name which indicates significant additional hours worked. Some highlights of this work are captured in the pictures below.

Nicolle Coelho (Software Engineer) completed her 8th week helping with the Highest Good Network software. This week Nicolle improved the quality of code and successfully implemented new rules and devised a plan to re-enable both tools. Additionally, Nicolle spent time studying the use of Husky and lint-staged, which can further enhance the quality of commits. Nicolle also reviewed PR#801 and provided valuable feedback to improve the “Back to top button” feature. The pictures below demonstrate some of this work.

Yihan Liu (Software Engineer) completed her 7th week helping with the Highest Good Network software. This week Yihan focused on resolving an issue with the reminder to save popup appearing even after confirming a save. To solve this problem for the badge, Yihan added setOriginalUserProfile() to the saveChanges function of the BadgeReport component. After thorough testing, Yihan created PR#805. In addition to her work on this issue, Yihan also spent time reviewing PR#783 and PR#804, both of which performed as expected. See the pictures below related to this work.

Yongjian Pan (React.js/MongoDB Full Stack Software Developer) completed his 7th week helping with the Highest Good Network software. This week Yongjian made significant progress on improving the user experience of a web page by creating two new PRs: PR 338 and PR 801. PR 338 focused on enabling the input of an end date for the volunteers’ times tab, which will enhance the accuracy and efficiency of volunteer time tracking. PR 801 involved the creation of a ‘back to top’ button that will appear when users start scrolling down the page. See the images below for a glimpse of this work.