One Community welcomes Anirudh Ghildiyal to the Software Development Team as our newest Volunteer/Consultant!

Anirudh is a passionate technology enthusiast. With a background in Machine Learning, his roles involved the construction of intricate machine-learning models and extensive analysis of sizable datasets, providing him with a profound understanding of the technology industry. Throughout his master’s program, Anirudh focused on the application of machine learning in various sectors, where he worked on different projects related to the same. These experiences not only sharpened his technical abilities but also nurtured effective teamwork and collaboration. Anirudh prides himself in a strong work ethic, passion for technology, eagerness to tackle new challenges, and dedication and expertise in open-source software development. As a member of the One Community team, Anirudh is helping develop the open source Highest Good Network software.

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One Community welcomes Yuri Clemente Andrade Sokolovicz to the Software Development Team as our newest Volunteer/Consultant!

Yuri holds a Ph.D. in Science from the University of Strasbourg, France, which he earned in 2019. Following his Ph.D. Yuri was awarded a two-year postdoctoral research program in Italy from 2020 to 2022. Yuri has earned a reputation as a dedicated and committed professional with a strong technical background and 1 year of experience in MERN FullStack Web development. As a member of the One Community team, Yuri has played a pivotal role in the development phases of the Highest Good Network software, contributing to both phase 1 and phase 2. His work there has included creating new functionalities, addressing bugs, and demonstrating leadership and management skills by overseeing the activities of the Expressers Team, conducting individual assessments, and providing weekly progress reports.

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One Community’s mission is forwarding sustainable world building by pioneering sustainable solutions covering food, energy, housing, education, for-profit and non-profit economic design, social architecture, fulfilled living, global stewardship practices, and more. We are developing a model that can be replicated globally, forming a network of teacher/demonstration hubs open sourcing and freely sharing the entire process. This is our path to supporting the evolution of sustainability and the realization of a world that benefits everyone.

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

OUR MAIN OPEN SOURCE HUBS

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

One Community’s physical location will forward this movement as the first of many self-replicating teacher/demonstration communities, villages, and cities to be built around the world. This is the October 16th, 2023 edition (#552) of our weekly progress update detailing our team’s development and accomplishments:

Forwarding Sustainable World Building
One Community Progress Update #552

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HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING PROGRESS

One Community is forwarding sustainable world building 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, Loza Ayehutsega (Civil Engineer/Assistant Civil Engineer) helped with assisting with Earth Dam Design and construction for the Water Retention, Pond, and Lake Creation tutorial. Loza reviewed the reference materials pertaining to Dam inspection guidelines and inspection methodologies. In the process, comments from the report were examined, with particular attention to areas that remain under review. An illustrative instance of this ongoing review pertains to the visual inspection of dams, as well as the adherence to requisite safety guidelines and inspection procedures, a critical endeavor aimed at safeguarding the integrity and stability of dams. Take a look at the pictures below to get a glimpse of this work.

Shengguang Jin (Mechanical Engineer) continued helping with the Vermiculture Toilet designs for the Earthbag Village. Shengguang assembled a flashlight comprising individual components, which included the lens, lens cap, battery, battery cap, housing, and a switch. The comprehensive review encompassed an evaluation of features such as circular patterns, splines, mold tools, silhouette edges, mirror entities, and menus. Additionally, he conducted a brief search to identify the most suitable device for layer-wise separation of the aforementioned components within the empty chamber. See the images below for some of his work.

DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER PROGRESS

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

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

This week, Amiti Singh (Architectural Designer) continued her work by helping with the interior design details for the rental rooms within the Duplicable City Center. Amiti made significant progress in developing the Japanese tea room-themed visitor room. She completed the 3D visual representation for the second room option, drawing inspiration from the serene ambiance of a traditional Japanese tea room. Her contributions were highlighted in material selection, furniture design, color coordination, and paint palette curation for this room. Additionally, Amiti initiated the initial cost analysis for the new option. See below for the collage of images related to this.

Charles Gooley (Web Designer) completed another week of assisting with web design. This week, Charles focused on in-depth research and content development related to Water Harvesting, Catchment, and Water Conservation. His work encompassed various areas, including roof washers, pumps & pressure tanks, gutter sizing, supplying make-up water, connecting multiple tanks, material suppliers, and products, which were enriched with relevant product images and prices. Furthermore, Charles compiled data on the demand and supply of rooftop rainwater harvesting systems, explored filtration and disinfection systems along with corresponding product images and prices, and delved into potable water treatment systems, disinfection methods, potable water reuse, wastewater treatment processes, and large water storage capacity solutions. He also added approximately sixty new resources to the resources section. The pictures below offer a visual representation of this work.

ENGINEERING TEAM 

This week, the engineering summary was managed by Arvindh Xavier (Civil Engineer), combining the contributions of team members Julio Marín Bustillos (Mechanical Engineer), Justin Varghese (Mechanical Engineer), and Yiwei He (Mechanical Engineer). The team made significant progress on various aspects of the project. Arvindh focused on creating a job advertisement to fill positions for an Architect and MEP drafter, with a primary responsibility to contribute to the development and organization of Architectural and MEP drawing sets. Concurrently, Justin worked on designing and assembling connector hubs for the 9th, 8th, and 7th rows, closely following guidance from the Senior Engineer and incorporating recommendations to ensure the hub designs featured a U-V shape and avoided sharp bends, primarily focusing on assessing the structural performance of these connector hubs in terms of maximum displacements under varying loading conditions. In parallel, Julio’s attention was on designing and placing hub connectors for the second row, notable for its symmetry, allowing a consistent hub connector design for the entire row, and reducing time investment. Meanwhile, Yiwei conducted research on light bulbs, generating rankings for each metric, followed by a meeting with Jae to facilitate the task’s transition to the next researcher. Subsequently, Yiwei joined the new mechanical design group, dedicating time to reviewing prior materials and management directives. See the pictures below.

HIGHEST GOOD FOOD PROGRESS

One Community is creating cooperatives of people making a difference 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

No updates this week in Food

HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION PROGRESS

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

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

This week, Brian Muigai Mwaniki (Structural Engineer) completed work helping with The Ultimate Classroom. Brian completed the finalization of details for the Ultimate Classroom and efficiently shared the corresponding files through Dropbox. This initiative was taken in anticipation of the forthcoming collaboration with an intern team, tasked with verifying that all aspects align with the required US standards. See below for pictures related to this work.

HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY PROGRESS

One Community is forwarding sustainable world building 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 57 hours managing One Community volunteer-work review not included above, emails, social media accounts, web development, new bug identification and bug-fix integration for the Highest Good Network software, and interviewing and getting set up new volunteer team members. The pictures below show some of this work.

Another core team member helped conduct HGN PRs testing, focusing on several key areas. This week, we re-checked the scenario in which a user does not belong to any team, confirming that users with the Administrator or Assistant Manager role are unable to view their own tasks in this context. Then, she re-evaluated permissions for different Admin accounts, with an emphasis on WBS-related permissions, finding that despite having permissions for “See Project Management Tab (Add team members, upload new WBSs only)” and “Add WBS,” there was no ability to add WBS. After, we tested PR, which pertains to the capacity of Admin and Owner roles to update the total number of valid Weekly Summaries. However, she noted that part d. of this PR has not been implemented due to a lack of permission for this function on the Permission Management page. Next, we reported her inability to test PR#1081 because the “Schedule Blue Square Reason” button was disabled for Owner/Admin accounts. Lastly, she raised issues with PR#1123, highlighting incorrect dates of modification for multiple badges. Additionally, we confirmed the successful resolution of the two PRs. See the image below to view this work.

And another core team member performed edits and reviews of the Food Infrastructure Rollout doc regarding the 3, 20, and 50-person property arrivals. He also began a new assignment of reviewing four hours of Paul Wheaton podcasts and nine hours of Eckhart Tolle podcasts. View this work in the collage below.

Harsha Kulkarni (Data Analyst) continued working on One Community’s Google AdWords campaigns and Analytics details. This week, Harsha worked on enhancing the effectiveness of various ad campaigns. Her focus was on optimizing the ads by incorporating more relevant headlines and descriptions, aligning them closely with the respective ad content, and implementing other recommended adjustments within the account. Additionally, she managed the campaigns by removing unapproved ads and strategically reducing the budget for specific ads to ensure efficient resource allocation and campaign performance. The image below shows some of this work.

Smit Bhoir (Data and Business Analyst) helped with administrative tasks and One Community’s Google AdWords campaigns and Analytics details. This week, Smit reviewed Shaurya’s PR teamwork and provided feedback. He also updated the WordPress blog post for blog #551. Smit spent time studying the AdWords dashboard and attended a weekly meeting with Harsha to discuss the Google Analytics work timeline. He improved the strength of certain ads in the volunteer’s ad campaign, moving them from poor to excellent. This effort to boost ad strength continued, and Smit also researched methods for improving ads. He collaborated with Harsha on creating a timeline and offering suggestions for enhancing Google AdWords. The week wrapped up with Smit completing a final review of the Google Ads timeline to ensure tasks were on track and efficient. You can view the collage below to see this work.

Vishvesh Sheora (Artificial Intelligence Specialist) focused on elevating the SEO performance of a multitude of blog posts featured on the One Community website. This week, Vishvesh further enhanced the SEO performance of articles. He pursued the goal of elevating their SEO scores by applying the criteria set forth by RankMath, a prominent SEO plugin. Additionally, Vishvesh enriched the tutorial draft, providing comprehensive guidance on leveraging RankMath for optimal SEO. He curated content, integrated RankMath’s tools, and deepened his understanding of the plugin to solidify his expertise in this domain. See the work in the image below.

ADMINISTRATION TEAM

This week, the Administration Team’s summary, covering their work administrating and managing most of One Community, was managed by Jamie Cruz (Administrative Assistant, Social Media Manager, and Team Manager) and includes Alyx Parr (Senior Support Specialist), Olawunmi “Ola” Ijisesan (Administrative and Management Support), Ruiqi Liu (Administrative Assistant), Shaurya Sareen (Administrative Assistant), and Xiaolai Li (Administrative Assistant). Alyx summarized and provided comments on Google Docs for the blog, contributing to its content by downloading images and duplicating summaries. She took responsibility for preparing summaries and downloading media for the blog, collaborating with relevant individuals to ensure seamless progress. Furthermore, Alyx addressed issues with summaries on the blog. Jamie, in her new role as a social media manager, established her presence on Facebook and Twitter. She also re-recorded a tutorial video on completing questionnaires for the administrative team and efficiently managed both her team and the administration team. Ola completed a tutorial for a new review process, rectified errors, and smoothly transferred the live blog for accurate adjustments. She provided guidance and feedback to trainees to improve their work quality. Ruiqi conducted a thorough review of multiple teams, offering valuable feedback to team members and managing media content. She optimized SEO by generating Alt Titles from weekly summaries and reviewed progress updates and webpage content, ensuring accuracy. Shaurya did a comprehensive reviews of pull requests (PRs), addressing issues with team members’ work and ensuring essential elements were included. He managed tracking sheets, and onboarding of new team members, and created team summaries and collages. Xiaolai worked on training processes, including creating team summaries and image collages for each team member, optimizing webpage elements, and addressing errors. He incorporated SEO keywords from weekly summaries as Alt Titles on WordPress and efficiently organized content for various teams, ensuring timely delivery and organization. The collage below shows some of this work.

BLUE STEEL SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT TEAM

This week, the Blue Steel Team’s summary, covering their work on the Highest Good Network software, was managed by Nathan Hoffman (Software Engineer) and includes Haohui Lin (Software Engineer), Kurtis Ivey (Full Stack Developer), Lucile Tronczyk (Full Stack Software Developer), Shree Birajdar (Software Developer), Xiao Wang (Software Engineer), Yongjian Pan (React.js/MongoDB Full Stack Software Developer), and Yubo Sun (Full Stack Software Developer and Team Manager). Xiao made progress in implementing a new timer component, focusing on core features such as adding time, removing time, setting time, starting, pausing, and stopping the timer. He refactored the backend to synchronize with the frontend and integrated minor UI enhancements into the timer component. Shree made the Blue Square reason scheduler accessible to all users and also incorporating extra features like sending emails when updating the reason. Kurtis conducted a comprehensive review of various PRs, addressing issues, providing feedback, and ensuring standards were met. The individual proactively addressed NPM test errors in PR #1331 and PR #842, communicating effectively to ensure the smooth progression of projects. Lucile dedicated time to unit testing, focusing on Reports and People Reports using Jest. Yubo resolved issues in PR #1416, addressing the missing popup warning in the EditLinkModal component, and planned to review backend PR #572 and complete unit testing. Yongjian addressed several npm test errors associated with two pull requests, namely PR #1331 and PR #842. Haohui focused on familiarizing himself with the app’s features and conducting thorough reviews of pull requests, particularly Frontend PR#1000, 1183, 1396, 1389, and 1185, submitted by team members. Nathan reviewed pull requests, addressing merge conflicts, and contributing to organizing and simplifying the permissions structure. They also assisted in troubleshooting, collaborated on permissions setup, and provided valuable suggestions for improving the system. The collage below shows some of this work.

FUNDING TEAM

This week, the Funding Team’s summary, covering their work for One Community Funding, was managed by Aaron Wang (Fundraising Assistant). Aaron engaged in follow-up communication with multiple prospective funders who had received emails in recent weeks. Additionally, research was conducted on six potential funders, encompassing an assessment of their backgrounds, philosophy, funding track records, potential to secure funds, and contact information. These activities actively support the continuous pursuit of funding opportunities for the organization. The collage below shows some of his work.

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One Community welcomes Cheng-Yun Chuang to the Software Development Team as our newest Volunteer/Consultant!

Cheng-Yun is a recent graduate with a master’s degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the University of California San Diego. With a solid six-year academic background, Cheng-Yun demonstrates a strong ability for quick learning, adaptability, and effective teamwork. Additionally, he brings one year of experience as a full-stack developer and an internship in IT Engineering, showcasing exceptional skills in web development, software engineering, and documentation creation. As a valued member of the One Community team, Cheng-Yun actively contributes to improving and refining the software for the open-source Highest Good Network software project.

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One Community welcomes Jamie Cruz to the Administration Team as our newest Volunteer/Consultant!

Jamie has started her Project Management journey with One Community on our Administrative Team. She has demonstrated success working in fast-paced environments and on complex projects requiring efficient and effective solutions to challenging problems. She believes in efficiency with regard to the use of resources, doing more with less, and contributing to sustainability with resources and infrastructure as a path to having a positive impact on the environment and the economy. As a member of the One Community team, she has contributed to the weekly updates posts on The One Community Updates Blog, provided ongoing feedback and support to the volunteer team, and helped manage and maintain the complete One Community development process through her administrative efforts.

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One Community welcomes Shrey Jain to the Software Development Team as our newest Volunteer/Consultant!

Shrey received his B.Tech. in Computer Science and Engineering from PES University, India, and an M.S. in Computer Engineering from New York University. Passionate about full-stack development, he thrives on being involved in the entire software development lifecycle. In his leisure time, Shrey enjoys playing squash and tennis, exploring new destinations, and attending concerts. Prior to joining One Community, he garnered valuable experience as a software development engineer intern at Audible. As a member of the One Community team, Shrey is actively contributing to the development of the  Open Source Software – Highest Good Network.

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One Community welcomes Megan Morelli to the Fundraising Team as our newest Volunteer/Consultant!

Megan has over 10 years of business development experience. She has consistently exceeded her sales and outreach targets at every company she has worked with. Her approach involves thoroughly understanding the goals, missions, and challenges of potential prospects/funders, enabling her to create tailored solutions for how One Community can support its objectives. Megan is deeply passionate about fostering a sustainable and community-focused world for humanity. As a member of One Community, Megan has developed grant proposal templates, found several individuals and organizations that align with One Community’s vision, cultivated relationships with potential funders, and started building a fundraising team to help her with this mission.

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One Community is working to transform the world through cooperatives of people making a difference. Our all-volunteer team is doing this through open source and sustainable approaches to food, energy, housing, education, for-profit and non-profit economic design, social architecture, fulfilled living, global stewardship practices, and more. We believe in a model that becomes self-replicating, one that will be used to create a global collaboration of teacher/demonstration hubs. What sets us apart is our dedication to open sourcing and free sharing the complete process, ensuring that our work contributes to evolving sustainability and creating a world that works for everyone. Join us in regenerating 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

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 October 9th, 2023 edition (#551) of our weekly progress update detailing our team’s development and accomplishments:

Cooperatives of People Making a Difference
One Community Progress Update #551

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HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING PROGRESS

One Community is creating cooperatives of people making a difference 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, Anitta George Kunnappilly (Research and Management Volunteer) helped with completing the Most Sustainable Lightbulbs and Light Bulb Companies: Research, Energy Savings, and More and Open Source DIY Dam Design for Water Retention, Pond and Lake Creation, etc. tutorials. Anitta engaged in sustainable bulbs and Earth dam projects, both of which were new to her and demanded extensive research and reading. She actively sought clarification on various aspects of these projects and provided suggestions for improved clarity. The week was characterized by ongoing dialogues and proved to be insightful and thought-provoking. See below for pictures related to this work.

Shengguang Jin (Mechanical Engineer) continued helping with the vermiculture toilet designs for the Earthbag Village. This week, Shengguang reviewed various essential features in CAD modeling, such as extruded thin cuts, hole wizard, loft, revolved thin cuts, sweeps, and more. Shengguang also created detailed models and documentation for assemblies involving batteries, plates, lenses, bulbs, and lens caps. Furthermore, he assessed key milestones from previous designs, and the information and files were organized. See the images below for some of his work.

DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER PROGRESS

One Community is creating cooperatives of people making a difference 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) continued the work of assisting with web design. Charles concentrated on Water Harvesting, Catchment, and Water Conservation, with a particular focus on key sections such as Gutter Sizing, Supplying Make-Up Water, Connecting Multiple Tanks, and Material Suppliers and Products. The latter part involved a review of various suppliers and their specifications. In addition, Charles analyzed Demand and Supply data for Rooftop Rainwater Harvesting Systems, conducting a comprehensive evaluation to determine the potential amount of rainwater that can be collected from rooftops and its potential applications. The pictures below offer a visual representation of this work.

ENGINEERING TEAM

This week, the engineering summary was managed by Arvindh Xavier (Civil Engineer), combining the contributions of team members Julio Marín Bustillos (Mechanical Engineer), Justin Varghese (Mechanical Engineer), and Yiwei He (Mechanical Engineer). The team made significant progress on various aspects of the project. Arvindh conducted extensive research and successfully finalized the Work Breakdown Structure (WBS) for both the Architectural and MEP drawing sets. Additionally, Arvindh created a tailored WBS for interior design cost analysis. Justin performed frame analysis and simulations to assess the dome’s response to seismic and snow loading, focusing on identifying maximum displacement and potential weak points using Autodesk Robot Structural Analysis software. Julio worked on redesigning the modified dome to establish symmetry, streamlining the dome hub connector design process for future duplication. Yiwei did research for the Lightbulbs and Light Bulb Companies page, confirming and preparing necessary information for future content research, and organized a productive Duplicable City Center group meeting, reporting substantial progress to the senior engineer, with potential updates pending their approval. See the pictures below.

 

HIGHEST GOOD FOOD PROGRESS

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

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

This week, the core team continued our review of the open-source Highest Good Food designs. We worked on the Food Infrastructure Rollout document, focusing on the refinement of materials and task lists for both three and twenty-person teams. We consolidated and enhanced these lists by merging information from separate sources into a single, comprehensive list. Additionally, we proposed updates to pricing data for aquaculture species that had remained unchanged for a decade, contributed to the expansion of tools and equipment details within the food forest rollout section, and furnished essential information regarding fence post lengths. See below for the images.

 

HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION PROGRESS

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

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

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

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

 

HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY PROGRESS

One Community is creating cooperatives of people making a difference 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 65 hours managing One Community volunteer-work review not included above, emails, social media accounts, web development, new bug identification and bug-fix integration for the Highest Good Network software, and interviewing and getting set up new volunteer team members. The pictures below show some of this work.

Another core team member helped conduct HGN PRs testing, focusing on several key areas. Firstly, we addressed the ability for Admin roles and above to submit weekly summaries for other users and resolved the comments section, noting that the admin account encountered difficulties when attempting to submit a Weekly Summary for the Owner account, resulting in a ‘The data could not be saved’ pop-up message. Secondly, we verified that the Task Tab remains the default tab for all account roles. Thirdly, we investigated a scenario where a user does not belong to any team and discovered that users with roles of Administrator, Manager, Mentor, or Assistant Manager cannot see their own tasks in this context. Fourthly, we tested, confirmed, and resolved a PR related to updating the text in the Dashboard Badges section to display “You have earned x badges and a personal best of x hours in a week!” when this badge is earned. Lastly, we checked permissions for a specific Admin account, which had WBS-related permissions (“See Project Management Tab (Add team members, upload new WBSs only)” and “Add WBS”), but despite having these permissions, there was still no ability to add WBS. Additionally, we confirmed the successful resolution of the other four PRs. See the image below to view this work.

Harsha Kulkarni (Data Analyst) continued working on One Community’s Google AdWords campaigns and Analytics details. This week, Harsha concentrated on enhancing the optimization score of multiple ongoing campaigns within the Google Ads account. Her focus was on implementing target keywords, eliminating redundant keywords, and incorporating other recommended adjustments. As a result of these optimizations, the overall optimization score saw a significant increase of 24%. Additionally, she worked on refining individual ads within each campaign, enhancing their effectiveness by strategically adding new lines, keywords, and descriptions. The image below shows some of this work.

Smit Bhoir (Data and Business Analyst) helped with administrative tasks and One Community’s Google AdWords campaigns and Analytics details. This week, Smit reviewed the Software PR team’s work, provided feedback comments to PR review team members, and finalized the weekly blog post for review. He also attended weekly meetings with Harsha to implement AdWords recommendations on Google Ads, investigated key metrics to improve conversions, and concluded the week by planning next week’s actions, scheduling tasks for Sunday, and addressing assigned comments for a productive end to the week. You can view the collage below to see this work.

Vishvesh Sheora (Artificial Intelligence Specialist) focused on elevating the SEO performance of a multitude of blog posts featured on the One Community website. This week, Vishvesh worked on enhancing the SEO scores of the blog posts. In addition, Vishvesh created comprehensive tutorials that provided in-depth guidance on utilizing RankMath specifically for select blogs within the One Community platform. In his tutorial he also offered step-by-step instructions on effectively utilizing RankMath for specific blog entries within the One Community platform. You can see this work in the image below.

ADMINISTRATION TEAM

This week, the Administration Team’s summary, covering their work administrating and managing most of One Community, was managed by Jamie Cruz (Administrative Assistant and Team Manager) and includes Olawunmi “Ola” Ijisesan (Administrative and Management Support), and Ruiqi Liu (Administrative Assistant). Jamie focused on refining her contributions to blog #550 and provided constructive feedback to her colleague Ruiqi. She created instructional videos to facilitate team transitions and shared insights with various teams, including funding, administration, blue steel, and expresser teams. Jamie also contributed to peer project reviews, fostering collaboration and growth. Ola’s week involved editing summaries, creating image collages, and organizing them in the designated folder. She reminded team members to submit images and summaries for weekly progress reports. Lastly, Ola updated her work based on feedback. Ruiqi began her orientation and setup process within one community, practiced the four-step review process, and selected practice team members. She created collage images, stored them in Dropbox, and added them to the WordPress media library. Ruiqi also incorporated SEO keywords from weekly summaries as Alt Titles on WordPress. The collage below shows some of this week’s work.

BLUE STEEL SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT TEAM

This week, the Blue Steel Team’s summary, covering their work on the Highest Good Network software, was managed by Nathan Hoffman (Software Engineer) and includes Haohui Lin (Software Engineer), Kurtis Ivey (Full Stack Developer), Lucile Tronczyk (Full Stack Software Developer), Oleksandr Riazantsev (Project Management Advisor), Shree Birajdar (Software Developer), Xiao Wang (Software Engineer), Yongjian Pan (React.js/MongoDB Full Stack Software Developer), and Yubo Sun (Full Stack Software Developer and Team Manager). The team accomplished significant milestones. Bhagyashree reviewed 10 pull requests (#1368, #1358, #1353, #1328, #1278, #1185, #552, #550, #547, and #546) and created a Blue Square reason scheduler, enhancing accessibility for all users. Haohui focused on app feature familiarization and conducted thorough reviews of pull requests, including Frontend PR#1374, 1384, 1266, and Backend PR#559, 529. Kurtis conducted thorough reviews and implemented functional adjustments, notably integrating start date functionality into pr1369. Xiao addressed a critical issue by submitting PR #1392, a hotfix for the weekly summaries page infinite loading bug. Yongjian demonstrated commitment by addressing requested changes in the project report pull request, ensuring proper alignment and testing across screen sizes. Oleksandr made notable contributions by rewriting the location controller, adding error boundaries, and setting up basic delete functionality. Lucile focused on improving testing capabilities through unit testing, contributing to the app’s robustness. Yubo conducted reviews, addressed issues in PR #1236, and delved into Jest mock functions for unit testing insights. Nathan showcased proactive communication, resolving merge conflicts, fixing rendering issues, and actively engaging in discussions on permissions and ongoing challenges, emphasizing collaboration and support across the team. The collage below shows some of this work.

FUNDING TEAM

This week, the Funding Team’s summary, covering their work for One Community Funding, was managed by Ruiqi (Administrative Assistant) and includes Aaron Wang (Fundraising Assitant) and Megan Morelli (Funding Research and Acquisition). Megan reviewed Jae’s contact list, with a specific focus on foundations, donations, and contact details, strategically reassessing the priority of individuals and organizations for outreach within these areas. She proactively initiated communication with several key contacts through initial outreach emails and followed up with those she had engaged with during the previous week. Megan also identified additional potential foundations that provide grant opportunities by effectively utilizing the Candid database. In parallel, Aaron conducted comprehensive research on seven candidates, examining their backgrounds and roles in the field of sustainability. He acquired their contact information and proceeded to compose and dispatch six tailored emails to these candidates, emphasizing the potential for collaboration and delving into discussions regarding prospective funding opportunities. The collage below shows some of this week’s work.

SOFTWARE PR REVIEW TEAM

The PR Review Team’s summary covering their work on the Highest Good Network software, was managed by Shaurya Sareen (Administrative Assistant). This week’s active members of this team were: Anish Pandita (Software Engineer), Fan Yang (Software Engineer), Jahanzaib Malik (Software Engineer), Jeffrey Li (Full Stack Developer), Mike – Munkh Erdene Erdenebulgan (Full Stack Developer), Olena Danykh (Software Engineer), Rhea Wu (Software Engineer), Shubhankar Mishra (Software Engineer), Tuan Dinh (Software Engineer), Vishala Ramasamy (Software Engineer), Wanting Xu (Software Engineer), Yi Lin (Software Engineer), Yixiao Jiang (Software Engineer), Ziming Song (Software Engineer). They reviewed all the Highest Good Network PRs (Pull Requests) shared in this week’s update. The collage below shows a compilation of the work from this team.

One Community welcomes Wai Lam (Veronica) Cheng to the Software Development Team as our newest Volunteer/Consultant!

Veronica is a passionate software developer who loves crafting elegant solutions to complex problems. With a background in web development, she thrives in the dynamic world of coding, always eager to learn and adapt to new technologies. She is proficient in various programming languages and frameworks including Python, Java, PHP, React.js, Express.js, Next.js, etc. As a member of One Community team, Veronica is helping develop the open source Highest Good Network Project.

WELCOME TO THE TEAM WAI LAM (VERONICA)!

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One Community welcomes Ashlesha Navale to the Graphic Design Team as our newest Volunteer/Consultant!

Ashlesha is a highly skilled graphic designer with a solid foundation in Graphic, Fashion, and Textile Design. She recently completed her Professional Program in Graphic Design from U.C.Berkeley Extension. Currently, she serves as a Graphic Designer at One Community Global, where her creative expertise shines. Ashlesha is responsible for crafting captivating visual content, including striking social media images, Bio Images, and informative Bio Announcements tailored to volunteers. Her work not only reflects her passion for design but also her dedication to making a positive impact through her creative contributions.

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