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

Xiao is a dedicated fullstack software engineer aiming to build projects with efficiency and performance using mainly HTML, CSS, JavaScript, TypeScript, React.js and Node.js. Prior to his software engineering career, Xiao graduated from Texas A&M University with a Ph.D in Biological & Agricultural Engineering, where he applied critical thinking and problem-solving skills in experimental design and data analysis. While pursuing his Ph.D, he came across his genuine interest in software development and self-learned fundamentals in computer science. Upon completing his doctoral studies, he furthered his career prospects by participating in the immersive Codesmith program. He joined OSLabs, a non-profit tech accelerator, and gained valuable experience through working on multiple open-source projects. As a member of One Community, Xiao is helping with the development of the open source Highest Good Network software, emphasizing on optimizing the system and user-friendly interface.

WELCOME TO THE TEAM XIAO!

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One Community welcomes Nathan Hoffman to the Software Development Team as our newest Volunteer/Consultant!

Nathan has over a year of experience as a Software Engineer. He has a background in Computer Science and Engineering with a Bachelor of Science from University of California, Davis. Nathan is a skilled full-stack developer with experience creating responsive websites for projects using JavaScript (React and Node.js). He has experience with AWS and Python for machine learning and data science, including classification using Bayesian analysis and neural networks. Nathan is a member of the One Community team helping develop the open source Highest Good Network application.

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One Community welcomes Olusola Akinbode to the Software Development Team as our newest Volunteer/Consultant!

Olusola “Sola” is a software engineering graduate with over 8 years’ experience in mechanical engineering and project management in the energy industry. He is proficient in multiple programming languages and frameworks such as Java, Python, JavaScript, node.js, Spring Boot, React.js, Angular, MySQL and MongoDB and a full-Stack enthusiast with strong analytical, coding and communication skills. He’s also a Certified Project Management Professional (PMP). Based in Calgary Alberta, Sola loves to code, play the bass guitar and connect with people. As a member of the One Community team, Olusola is helping create the open source Highest Good Network Software.

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One Community welcomes Xiaoyu Chen to the Software Development Team as our newest Volunteer/Consultant!

A former Chemical Engineering student, Xiaoyu embarked on a career in Data Science after discovering her passion for the field. She is pursuing a Master’s degree from Rice University and has developed proficiency in Python and high performance computing. Concurrently, she’s nurtured a keen interest in front-end web design and development, attending a specialized bootcamp to hone her skills in this area. As a member of the One Community team, Xiaoyu is helping software development for open source Highest Good Network project and time tracking software for everything One Community is doing.

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One Community welcomes Lawrence Chua to the Software Development Team as our newest Volunteer/Consultant!

A recent Computer Science degree Graduate from California State Polytechnic University, Pomona and Software Engineer, Lawrence joined the team with over 9 months of software engineering experience across numerous project types. He is specializing in the Node.js web technology stack while having other skills in website development and mobile application development such as native Java, Kotlin Android development, cross-platform mobile development such as React Native, and the Ruby on Rails web technology stack. He believes in creating valuable software solutions that are practical, user-friendly, and impactful. As a member of the One Community team, Lawrence is contributing by developing and reviewing the open source Highest Good Network software.

WELCOME TO THE TEAM LAWRENCE!

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One Community is committed to facilitating sustainable growth, reproduction, and maintenance through innovative initiatives. Our all-volunteer organization is dedicated to creating a model that becomes self-replicating, paving the way for a global collaboration of teacher/demonstration hubs. Embracing the principles of “The Highest Good of All,” we strive to make sustainable approaches to food, energy, housing, education, economics, social architecture, and fulfilled living accessible to everyone. By open sourcing and freely sharing our complete process, we are empowering individuals and communities to actively participate in evolving sustainability and 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. Each will demonstrate sustainable growth, reproduction, and maintenance. This is the July 23rd, 2023 edition (#539) of our weekly progress update detailing our team’s development and accomplishments:

Sustainable Growth, Reproduction, and Maintenance
One Community Progress Update #539

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HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING PROGRESS

One Community is facilitating sustainable growth, reproduction, and maintenance 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, Zhide Wang (Mechanical Engineer) completed another week of assisting with the Net-zero Bathroom designs. He finished the revision and finalization of the Aircrete and stabilized earth materials’ work breakdown structure (WBS) based on Jae’s suggestions. Zhide also made significant improvements to enhance the clarity and simplicity of the design contents. While the Aircrete WBS is deemed satisfactory, he identified some crucial components missing in the stabilized earth WBS. Consequently, Zhide prepared a preliminary WBS for stabilized earth, outlining several potential approaches. Currently, the WBS is prepared for review. Net-zero bathrooms will help us demonstrate sustainable growth, reproduction, and maintenance of a sustainable water-collecting bathroom. Get a closer look at this work through the pictures below.

DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER PROGRESS

One Community is facilitating sustainable growth, reproduction, and maintenance 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 (Volunteer Architectural Designer) focused on advancing her work on the design and modeling of a visitor room within the Duplicable City Center, with a particular focus on creating an atmosphere of tranquility. She reviewed the design already created using SketchUp and incorporated several additional elements to enhance the visual theme of tranquility in the room. These included the introduction of wooden screens for tea-light holders, the incorporation of spa-like flooring adorned with pebbles in the bathroom, and an updated furniture model. Additionally, Amiti commenced the task of generating AutoCAD drawings and conducting a comprehensive cost analysis for the project. See below the pictures.

Charles Gooley (Web Designer) completed another week of assisting with web design. He focused on addressing feedback for the Solar Energy Microgrid Setup and Maintenance and Duplicable City Center Engineering tutorial. On the Solar Energy page, he made necessary corrections by fixing the links of various tables to their respective tabs in the spreadsheets. Furthermore, he ensured that the tables were properly linked to specific cell rows and columns rather than just the tabs. Additionally, Charles implemented updates to the Tables of Contents as per the feedback received. For the Duplicable City Center tutorial, he addressed comments related to image captions, ensuring they were not italicized, and adjusted the capitalization of the phrase “Click to open the spreadsheet.” Another significant task involved capitalizing all headings and removing italics where needed. Charles also added non-breaking spaces to certain headings and corrected title texts in the Table of Contents. The pictures below offer a visual representation of this work.

Julio Marín Bustillos (Mechanical Engineer) completed another week of assisting with the City Center Dome Hub Connector Engineering. Julio finished the assembly of all hub connectors for the second row. Recognizing the need to expedite the designing process, he held a meeting with Yiwei to explore alternative approaches. It was agreed that Yiwei would assist in completing the assembly using the remaining hub connectors. The pictures below provide a glimpse of this work.

Ranran Zhang (Architectural Designer) completed another week working on the updated video for the Duplicable City Center internal and external walkthrough. She addressed various tasks to enhance the library’s ambiance and overall presentation and resolved the issue of mismatched wall textures by matching them with the source file. To augment the atmosphere and provide visitors with a more engaging experience, Ranran filled the shelves with an assortment of books and games. Additionally, she added more trees to the site, effectively mitigating the previously perceived emptiness. Furthermore, Ranran dedicated time to recording the second half of the video intended for review purposes. Take a look at the images below to see some of the progress made in this work.

HIGHEST GOOD FOOD PROGRESS

One Community is facilitating sustainable growth, reproduction, and maintenance 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 reviewed the open-source Highest Good Food designs. We resumed work on the Food Infrastructure Rollout doc, providing suggestions, and edits, and answering questions. The primary focus was on the first four groupings of people to arrive on the property, along with meeting topics, tasks and materials, equipment lists, animals, and fencing for food protection in gardens and the food forest. See the pictures below that are related to this.

The core team also continued to work on the Transition Kitchen. We worked on the Source Recipe PDF Folder, addressing issues related to incorrect or missing titles. A team member was brought on board and assigned to handle the necessary adjustments. Additionally, we created the FWA shopping list and responded to comments, ensuring clear communication with the team member. See below for pictures related to this. 

And, Gregory Quach (Data Enterer for Chef/Culinary) focused on assisting in the Transition Kitchen. This week, Gregory dedicated time to the initial setup process of Transition Kitchen and familiarized himself with the tasks required to complete the recipes. However, his focus shifted when he was assigned to review the Source Recipe PDFs. Gregory also worked on the PDFs, performing tasks such as creating, deleting, editing, and organizing them in their respective folders to ensure they aligned with the intended specifications. See below for pictures related to this.

HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION PROGRESS

One Community is facilitating sustainable growth, reproduction, and maintenance 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 facilitating sustainable growth, reproduction, and maintenance through a Highest Good society approach to living that is founded on fulfilled living, the study of meeting human needs, Community, and making a difference in the world:

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

This week, the core team completed 71 hours managing One Community volunteer-work review not included above, emails, social media accounts, web development, new bug identification and bug-fix integration for the Highest Good Network software, and interviewing and getting set up new volunteer team members. The pictures below show some of this work.

Another core team member began verification of all the modifications made to the working Highest Good Network software. She focused on conducting HGN PRs testing. She also reviewed multiple PRs and identified the following as fixed: 801, 920, 956, 958, and 975. However, there were several PRs that remained unresolved, including 722, 737, 908, 890, 928, 916, 941, 939, and 993. She addressed inquiries about PR 916, clarifying that the “Edit Timelog Information” permission cannot be removed. The Highest Good Network software is how we will objectively manage and open source share the results of our sustainable growth, reproduction, and maintenance process at One Community. See the images below for examples of this work in progress.

Abdelmounaim “Abdel” Lallouache (Software Developer) continued his work helping with the Highest Good Network software. This week, Abdelmounaim focused on several updates and improvements to the system. He made significant changes to the ‘setupNewUser’ controller, enabling the saving of new user data with default values. Additionally, he enhanced the email body sent to users during the initial setup of their profiles, ensuring clear and concise information. Privacy settings were introduced, and necessary modifications were made to the welcome message displayed on the ‘setupProfileUserEntry’ page. Form validation for the ‘setupProfileUserEntry’ form was successfully implemented, guaranteeing data accuracy and integrity. As part of his achievements, Abdelmounaim also added new functionality that allows the creation of a new user through the system. These updates collectively contribute to the overall efficiency and user-friendliness of the platform. The Highest Good Network software is how we will objectively manage and open source share the results of our sustainable growth, reproduction, and maintenance process at One Community. The pictures below are related to this work.

Alyx Parr (Senior Support Specialist) completed another week of assisting with the management, coordination, and overall support of One Community. Alyx showcased her various tasks. She collected summaries and pictures of volunteers for the blog, copying all the summaries onto the platform for future reference. Additionally, she demonstrated her editing skills by revising the PR Team’s task summaries, ensuring accuracy and clarity. During the process of editing pictures and creating collages, she detected an empty image submission, handling the matter with attention to detail. Alyx completed the editing and collaging process for the blog and promptly uploaded the content. In pursuit of finding the most suitable online photo editor, Alyx dedicated time to research and experimentation, evaluating Canva and Fotor’s ease of use and specific qualifications. The Highest Good Network software is how we will objectively manage and open source share the results of our sustainable growth, reproduction, and maintenance process at One Community. The pictures below are examples of this work.

Carl Bebli (Software Developer) continued helping with the Highest Good Network software. This week, Carl was promoted to the Dev team, where his primary task involved working on features and bugs, while assisting with PR reviews as a secondary responsibility. He focused on addressing the green checkmark and weekly summary bug, which posed a significant challenge due to its complexity in replication. Despite his efforts, he was unable to reproduce the bug and aims to continue troubleshooting in the following week. In addition, Carl diligently conducted thorough reviews of multiple PRs, including issue numbers #982, #987, #988, #999, #994, and #1003. All issues performed as expected, except for issue #1003, which presented difficulties in comprehending the PR description. The Highest Good Network software is how we will objectively manage and open source share the results of our sustainable growth, reproduction, and maintenance process at One Community. Please see below for pictures of this work.

Eduardo Horta (Software Engineer) provided more of his ongoing assistance with the Highest Good Network software too. This week, Eduardo focused on various tasks to improve the functionality and design of different pages. He made further adjustments to the team report table and chart, ensuring they met the desired requirements. Additionally, he investigated an issue with the Reports Page Project that caused it to freeze the browser and not render properly. After removing a specific component from the project report, the page started loading, but he continued to investigate for a permanent solution, which is essential to complete the feature of making the Reports page and all reports look good on phones. He also reviewed and approved Jonathan’s addition of Edit Weekly Summary Options to Permissions. As he continued developing the “Reports Page to look good on phone” feature, progress depended on fixing the bug in the Project Report Page. Therefore, he raised a bug fix Pull Request for the project report page freezing issue and made adjustments to the Wbs table on the Project Report, aiming to enhance the page’s appearance on mobile devices. Throughout the week, Eduardo addressed comments related to Pull Request #999 and continued working on making the Reports Page look good on phones, responding to further comments on Pull Request #999. The Highest Good Network software is how we will objectively manage and open source share the results of our sustainable growth, reproduction, and maintenance process at One Community. The images presented below exemplify his work.

Edwin Estuardo Lau Mack (Software Engineer) continued developing the Highest Good Network software. This week, Edwin dedicated his efforts to advancing the development of the HGN application as a member of the Dev Team, primarily focusing on Frontend Functionality. He collaborated with Jae to investigate a bug causing tasks not to update when the estimated hours for a specific task were changed. Additionally, they explored other issues, including the green checkmark reappearing when a member logged in time. Despite reviewing the code for TimeEntryForm.jsx, dashboardHelper.jsx, and weeklySummaries.jsx components, Edwin was unable to determine the cause of this behavior. Alongside bug analysis, Edwin addressed feedback provided in PR #973 and made necessary changes, including adding new styling to arrows and fixing code to ensure proper visibility of Input tags in specific tabs. He also worked on adding permissions for the edit function in the management page, allowing Owners and Administrators to edit the “Total Valid Weekly Summaries” field. Lastly, Edwin successfully integrated functionality to update the database whenever a user clicked on the tangible/intangible checkbox, reflecting changes on the progress bar for a task’s hoursLogged property. The Highest Good Network software is how we will objectively manage and open source share the results of our sustainable growth, reproduction, and maintenance process at One Community. Images showing this progress are below.

Jianjun Luo (Software Engineer) continued developing the Highest Good Network software. This week, Jianjun successfully completed the implementation of the total team report feature. Significant improvements were made to the loading process to enhance efficiency and reduce response time, eliminating unnecessary data reloading. She introduced a functionality that allows the user to display or hide the list of members by clicking on the team name within the detail table. Additionally, a data tip of months has been incorporated into the yearly bar graph for both people and team reports, preventing any potential misinterpretation. She also conducted a thorough final review of another PR. The Highest Good Network software is how we will objectively manage and open source share the results of our sustainable growth, reproduction, and maintenance process at One Community. Pictures below are related to this work.

Jonathan Carpena (Full Stack Developer) gave his continued support to the Highest Good Network software. This week, Jonathan commenced by providing clarifications on his pull request features to a team member who requested changes. Once confirmed that the pull request remained functional, he proceeded to address styling adjustments recommended by Jae, specifically related to the color yellow. Subsequently, he took on a new bug-fixing task. Despite numerous attempts to replicate the bug across various browsers and accounts, he still encountered challenges in identifying the root cause. Nevertheless, during his investigation, he identified a potential code issue that could be related to the bug. The Highest Good Network software is how we will objectively manage and open source share the results of our sustainable growth, reproduction, and maintenance process at One Community.Check out the following pictures for his work.

Kaixiang “Kevin” Gu (Fullstack Software Developer) focused on the Highest Good Network software. This week, Kaixiang worked on the backend of the bio announcement feature. He made efforts to optimize the loading speed and API calls, conducting multiple tests to ensure proper functionality. Subsequently, he created a new pull request for the changes. During the review process, some reviewers pointed out that the yellow bar appeared even when the user’s total tangible hours didn’t match the criteria. Kaixiang investigated this issue and identified a discrepancy between the total tangible hours in the database and the frontend. It was revealed that the volunteering times component, which had been completed a few months ago, the total tangible hours was re-calculated by the sum of all the category hours from that point. The Highest Good Network software is how we will objectively manage and open source share the results of our sustainable growth, reproduction, and maintenance process at One Community. Pictures below show some of this work-in-progress.

Kurtis Ivey (Full Stack Developer) further advanced the Highest Good Network software. This week, Kurtis focused on resolving merge conflicts resulting from the implementation of a new timer. To address the version disparities between the original Timer V2 and the updated development branch, he opted for a manual integration into the most recent dev branch. However, due to these version differences, numerous errors were encountered during the process. Moreover, he faced challenges in locating specific files due to unfamiliarity with the codebase, which further slowed progress. To overcome this, he conducted an in-depth analysis to gain a better understanding of the codebase. Once the new timer was successfully integrated, a new issue arose concerning the react web socket. An undefined error originating from the address hindered the functioning of the new timer, rendering it unable to start or stop. Consequently, the immediate next step involves addressing the web socket issue to resolve the errors. Additionally, he provided assistance to Jae in identifying the cause of the recent frontend mass merge failure. It was discovered that a failing test during GitHub Actions CI/CD was preventing the deployment of the latest version to Azure. In response, the admin performed a revert to rectify the situation caused by the failing test, which halted the build process. The Highest Good Network software is how we will objectively manage and open source share the results of our sustainable growth, reproduction, and maintenance process at One Community. The pictures below are examples of this work.

Lawrence Chua (Full Stack Software Developer) further assisted with the Highest Good Network software. This week, Lawrence focused on a crucial task aimed at enhancing security by concealing sensitive data, such as hardcoded credentials, within both the frontend and backend codebases. During this process, he investigated a previous pull request (#799) that caused disruptions in non-local deployments of the application. Through thorough analysis, he identified the root cause of the issue, which was the absence of properly configured .env or config files for the deployments. This discrepancy resulted in the code functioning correctly in the previous developer’s local environment but causing crashes in non-local environments. To address this, he implemented new environment variables and diligently concealed any hardcoded credentials discovered in both the frontend and backend components. By taking these measures, he bolstered the security and ensured the integrity of the application. The Highest Good Network software is how we will objectively manage and open source share the results of our sustainable growth, reproduction, and maintenance process at One Community. See the images below to get a look at some of this work.

Leon Zhuang (Software Engineer) continued helping with the Highest Good Network software. This week, Leon focused on the development of the interactive map. Despite the initial challenge of having location data that wasn’t in the required latitude/longitude format, he successfully resolved this issue by employing a geocoding API to convert the locations to the necessary format. Consequently, the map now accurately displays markers representing each user in their respective locations. Furthermore, Leon integrated caching functionality, resulting in a significant reduction in network requests and a considerable improvement in page load time. The Highest Good Network software is how we will objectively manage and open source share the results of our sustainable growth, reproduction, and maintenance process at One Community. Some of his work is shown below.

Lucas Emanuel Souza Silva (Software Developer) further assisted with the Highest Good Network software. This week, Lucas completed the submission of a PR and is currently awaiting further review by other users. Additionally, he addressed GitHub CLI errors caused by test files, specifically focusing on resolving forbidden CORS issues. Lucas conducted reviews on several PRs that required final evaluation, and subsequently finished fixing the testing errors, reopening the PR for additional review. In terms of development, he dedicated time to in-depth study on the creation, storage, and distribution of blue squares to users, and commenced the implementation of the user interface based on self-designed strategies. Furthermore, he reviewed Sav’s PR within the final review leadership team, which proved to be highly successful. The Highest Good Network software is how we will objectively manage and open source share the results of our sustainable growth, reproduction, and maintenance process at One Community. Pictures of some of this work are below.

Lucile Tronczyk (Full Stack Software Developer) continued developing the Highest Good Network software. This week, Lucile worked on implementing information points in various ways on several pages of the app. She successfully integrated the “i” points mentioned in the Google Doc, adapting them to align with the coding structure of the pages. Additionally, she made necessary modifications to the information points, conducted a code review, and provided relevant screenshots for others to add their own “i” points. However, she faced challenges in implementing additional information points, realizing the need for further research to identify the appropriate approach. Lucile’s diligent efforts resulted in the successful inclusion of informative elements throughout the app, contributing to an improved user experience. The Highest Good Network software is how we will objectively manage and open source share the results of our sustainable growth, reproduction, and maintenance process at One Community. The pictures below relate to this.

Madhavan Anandan (Administrative Assistant) completed another week of assisting as a volunteer graphic designer helping with graphic design projects for One Community. This week, Madhavan demonstrated productivity by completing collages for Dev Volunteers A – L. He exhibited strong organizational skills as he updated and maintained the WordPress page, ensuring it remained current. Taking the initiative, Madhavan proactively followed up with Alyx and Jae, engaging in the process and displaying a keen interest in learning and familiarizing himself with WordPress. See below for some of the pictures.

Nathan Hoffman (Software Engineer) continued improving the Highest Good Network software. This week, Nathan dedicated time to expanding his knowledge on Redux thunks and middleware for implementing permissions within the application. He successfully connected all the components that utilize hasPermission() to Redux, ensuring a more streamlined and centralized approach to managing permissions. Furthermore, Nathan commenced the modification of related tests, integrating context providers and Redux stores to facilitate comprehensive testing of the permission functionality. The Highest Good Network software is how we will objectively manage and open source share the results of our sustainable growth, reproduction, and maintenance process at One Community. The pictures below show some of his work.

Nida Zaki (Software Engineer) further assisted with the Highest Good Network software. This week, Nida successfully researched and implemented a solution to grant editing permissions to Jae across three accounts. Additionally, she addressed and fixed the test cases related to the recent changes made in accordance with project requirements. Moreover, the self-edit permissions for the Volunteer account were rectified to enable the editing of the BasicInformationTab while restricting edits to other tabs by volunteers. Lastly, she implemented a safeguard preventing devadmin from self-updating the password via the header. The Highest Good Network software is how we will objectively manage and open source share the results of our sustainable growth, reproduction, and maintenance process at One Community. Her pictures are below.

Olawunmi Ijisesan (Administrative and Management Support) completed another week of assisting with management, coordination, and overall support of One Community. Ola focused on various tasks, starting with the creation of a Photo collage from the designated folder. She organized her work and created a new folder to store the completed collages. Additionally, Ola exhibited great attention to detail as she proofread, edited, and corrected errors in the collages while transferring them from Fotojet to the website blog. In parallel, she handled data entry responsibilities and worked on the Transition Kitchen Built Out from the Master Recipe and the 3-Day Menu Block Doc. Pictures of some of this work are below.

Olga Yudkin (Software Engineer) continued to help with the Highest Good Network software. This week, Olga focused on her first task, which involved enhancing the clarity of the error message on the login screen. Specifically, she worked on ensuring that when the username is not found in the system, the error message displayed would be “Username not found.” Additionally, she addressed the issue where an incorrect password would trigger the same error message. As a solution, Olga implemented a new error message, “Invalid password,” which would accurately reflect the password-related error scenario. Olga successfully completed the task by updating the logincontroller.js file and subsequently created a pull request (PR). Moreover, she reviewed two PRs from her team, namely #991 and #998. In her review of PR #991, Olga identified that a volunteer user had the ability to submit summaries for other users, which was an unintended functionality. To rectify this, she left a comment on the PR, ensuring the issue was duly addressed. The Highest Good Network software is how we will objectively manage and open source share the results of our sustainable growth, reproduction, and maintenance process at One Community. Look below for a collage of her work.

Papia Sharmin (Full Stack Developer) continued working on the Highest Good Network software. This week, Papia accomplished several tasks. She successfully added a suggestion icon along with creating the suggestion body and implementing the email sending function. Additionally, she dedicated time to refactor the existing codebase. Papia raised two pull requests: PR #998 on the frontend and PR #440 on the backend. During her work, Papia identified the cause of the issue where the user team array was not updating correctly after adding or removing team members. She investigated and resolved this problem. Furthermore, Papia started working on the summary submission task. She made necessary fixes and added functionality to ensure that when a summary is submitted, it gets checked and turns green to indicate its completion. The Highest Good Network software is how we will objectively manage and open source share the results of our sustainable growth, reproduction, and maintenance process at One Community. Below are some images related to this work.

Sav Costabile (Web Developer) continued helping with the Highest Good Network software. This week, Sav focused on addressing a bug related to the delayed display of badge data, even after refreshing the page. Initially, they planned to resolve it by implementing a changeStream websocket using Mongodb. However, they decided to pursue a simpler approach instead. Sav shifted their focus towards adding a backend call directly to the badge component, ensuring that the badge data remains up-to-date whenever the component is utilized. Currently, they are in the testing phase across all areas of the application, and early results indicate promising outcomes. This solution primarily targets the delay issue encountered in the dashboard and profile components. The Highest Good Network software is how we will objectively manage and open source share the results of our sustainable growth, reproduction, and maintenance process at One Community. The pictures below relate to this work.

“Sola” Olusola Akinbode (Full Stack Software Developer) continued forwarding with the Highest Good Network software. This week, Sola made significant progress on PR 838 by implementing modifications to the Summary Team Tab located under the “profile” section, rendering it a read-only feature. As a result, all users, regardless of their role, can now access and view the summary team they are affiliated with. Additionally, he successfully integrated a new functionality that enables administrators and summary receivers to conveniently review the reports of individuals within their respective summary teams directly from the summary management page. For further details and a visual demonstration of this feature, please refer to the video accessible on Dropbox. Moving forward, Sola has identified three tasks that remain to do. These tasks involve the verification and development of an email function responsible for delivering reports to summary viewers, the implementation of permissions management to regulate report viewing within the browser, and conducting comprehensive testing and code cleanup to ensure optimal performance. The Highest Good Network software is how we will objectively manage and open source share the results of our sustainable growth, reproduction, and maintenance process at One Community. Look below for pictures of this work.

Tanaya Joshi (Machine Learning Engineer) focused on assisting in Google Analytics for One Community. Tanaya completed her orientation and conducted research to gather references for Google Analytics. She focused on learning the fundamentals of Google Analytics and successfully finished all the required setup tasks. Tanaya utilized the Analytics Academy, completing both beginner and advanced GA tutorials to gain a comprehensive understanding of the platform. Furthermore, she conducted extensive research to compile valuable resources for her team members, supporting their learning journey. Pictures of some of this work are below.

Tzu-Ning “Leo” Chueh (Software Engineer) continued working with Highest Good Network software. This week, Leo worked on various tasks related to team validation and creation. He removed the unnecessary function “onNewTeamValidation(true)” and replaced the alert message “Hey, You need to pick a team first!” with “Team not found, please create a new team.” Additionally, Leo implemented toast alerts for team assignment and creation, as well as worked on preventing users from creating duplicate teams. He also reviewed requested changes and completed them, including dividing the form into separate sections with “Add To Team” and “Create New Team” headers. Leo ensured that the creation of a new team is confirmed through a manual alert clearance by the user. Furthermore, he enabled the “create new team” button to successfully create a new team and immediately add it to the teams list. A pull request was created for this feature. He also worked on updating the teams data using useState after team creation and resolving the issue where the newly created team was not shown in the dropdown list for adding a new team. Lastly, Leo solved the issue of a white screen appearing on the Teams page when adding a new team using the newly created button. The Highest Good Network software is how we will objectively manage and open source share the results of our sustainable growth, reproduction, and maintenance process at One Community. Please see the collage below for this work.

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INVESTOR PAGES

OVERVIEW       ●       LOCATION       ●       FUNDING

GET INVOLVED

DONATE    ●     WAYS ANYONE CAN HELP     ●     MEMBERSHIP

CLICK HERE FOR ALL PAST UPDATES

• 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 July 16th, 2023 edition (#538) of our weekly progress update detailing our team’s development and accomplishments:

Re-establishing Global Equilibrium
One Community Progress Update #538

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HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING PROGRESS

One Community is re-establishing global equilibrium 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, Amal Lazar (MS Mechanical Engineering) completed another week of assisting with the research for the Most Sustainable Lightbulbs and Light Bulb Companies: Research, Energy Savings, and More tutorial. Amal successfully completed the lightbulb task by finalizing the remaining activities. She focused on the consumer site segment, specifically addressing the incandescent and LED components, and sought out alternative options from benchmarking companies for the City Center project. Her efforts were aimed at identifying suitable alternatives that align with the project’s requirements and specifications. Below, you’ll find some images of this work.

Julia Meaney (Researcher and Assistant to Executive Director) completed another week of assisting with the team. This week, Julia worked on multiple projects. She focused on the “Net-zero Bathroom and Earthbag Village Water Collection and Septic Design” EDITED CONTENT FOR WEB” Google Doc, editing the remaining content to ensure proper grammar, spelling, and format suitable for the website. She also took the initiative to update links and images related to various products and sources. In addition, Julia dedicated time to the “DIY Earth Dam Design & Construction Disaster Mitigation Content” Google Doc, reviewing and editing the newly added content while addressing and resolving comments. Another task involved her thorough review of the “Hot Tub Sanitizer Alternatives” Google Doc, where she provided clarity on the placement of its content on the website and the appropriate formatting for integration. Julia also worked on the corresponding spreadsheet, updating colors and formatting to align with the master Hot Tub design spreadsheet. Moreover, she focused on the “Traditional Dome vs. City Center Dome Structural Engineering Loading Comparison Report” Google Doc, ensuring the content adhered to proper grammar conventions. Utilizing comments, she raised questions and offered valuable feedback when necessary. Furthermore, Julia undertook the responsibility of reviewing updates made to the “Murphy Bed Instructions” PDF, resolving comments where her feedback had been incorporated. Lastly, she dedicated her attention to Chuck’s work on the “Duplicable City Center Engineering” webpage, examining the integration of her comments from the corresponding Feedback PDF. Whenever required, she provided additional comments and feedback. To enhance clarity and logical formatting, Julia rectified spelling mistakes in the Table of Content title texts and made various edits throughout the webpage. See the images below that show​ ​some of this work.

DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER PROGRESS

One Community is re-establishing global equilibrium 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 another week of assisting with web design. Charles focused on addressing feedback for the Solar Energy Microgrid Setup and Maintenance as well as the Duplicable City Center Engineering tutorial. For the Solar Energy page, he primarily dealt with correcting links to images and tables, ensuring that all relevant figures were linked to their respective spreadsheets. However, due to insufficient clarity in the source document for the Solar Microgrid Setup and Maintenance page, the intended links for many tables and figures remained unclear. Once these issues are resolved, the spreadsheet links will be implemented accordingly. Additionally, Charles worked on comments regarding the Duplicable City Center Engineering” page, where he removed italicization from the captions and replaced several equation images with text. The addressed comments require further review, with potential additional corrections to be made as necessary. The pictures below offer a visual representation of this work.

Julio Marín Bustillos (Mechanical Engineer) completed another week of assisting with the City Center Dome Hub Connector Engineering. This week, Julio proceeded with the design process for the remaining variations of hub connectors required for the second row. Recognizing the importance of conducting stress analysis to ensure the connectors can withstand the anticipated loads, Julio sought assistance from Yiwei. By the end of the week, Julio successfully completed several variations and aims to conclude work on the second row in the upcoming week. The pictures below provide a glimpse of this work.

Ranran Zhang (Architectural Designer) completed another week of assisting with the updated video for the Duplicable City Center internal and external walkthrough. This week, Ranran addressed the errors in the Lumion model, rectifying them promptly. In addition, she dedicated her efforts to incorporating video clips, meticulously selecting the most relevant views to show the library. Notably, Ranran strategically opted for an overhead angle, capturing the entirety of the entrance to the site and showcasing it in its entirety. To enhance realism, she further enhanced these views by incorporating figures, thereby augmenting the overall visual experience. Take a look at the images below to see some of the progress made in this work.

Amiti Singh (Architectural Designer) focused on the design and modeling of a visitor room within the Duplicable City Center, specifically emphasizing a theme centered on tranquility. The objective was to create a space that exudes a sense of meditative calmness through the utilization of “softness.” This concept was achieved by incorporating soft edges, a subdued color palette, and simple furniture, along with cloth canopies, a spa-like bathroom, and floor seating arrangements. Amiti took charge of the SketchUp modeling process of the room, diligently gathering references and selecting appropriate colors and materials to bring the envisioned design to life.

YiweiHe (MechanicalEngineer) completed another week of assisting City Center Dome Hub Connector Engineering. This week, Yiwei completed a report comparing the traditional geodesic dome model with the city center dome model. The report focused on analyzing vertical loads, wind loads, snow loads, and earthquake situations through simulations. The findings indicated that the load capacity of the city center dome exceeded that of the traditional dome. See some of this work in the pictures below.

HIGHEST GOOD FOOD PROGRESS

One Community is re-establishing global equilibrium 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 further reviewed the open-source designs. We re-familiarized and reviewed portions of the Food Infrastructure Rollout Doc. We added a veterinarian position to the ongoing list of Pioneers for the third round of Pioneers who will take up residency on our property. Additionally, we recommended food-grade HDPE #2 buckets for long-term food storage of bulk items. See the pictures below that are related to this.

The core team also undertook several tasks in relation to the work at hand Transition Food Self-sufficiency Plan. First, an extensive review was conducted on the PDF Source Recipes that had been submitted up until SWG Lunch#2. Subsequently, an interview was scheduled and carried out with Gregory, resulting in the decision to bring him on board to contribute to the HG Food project. Additionally, feedback was provided to Alyx, who expressed a desire to include her personal recipes in HG Food. See below for pictures related to this.

HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION PROGRESS

One Community is re-establishing global equilibrium 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 re-establishing global equilibrium through a Highest Good society approach to living that is founded on fulfilled living, the study of meeting human needs, Community, and making a difference in the world:

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

This week the core team completed 75 hours managing One Community volunteer-work review not included above, emails, social media accounts, web development, new bug identification and bug-fix integration for the Highest Good Network software, and interviewing and getting set up new volunteer team members. The pictures below show some of this work.

Another core team member began verification of all the modifications made to the working Highest Good Network software. They conducted HGN PRs testing; checked several PRs and marked them as fixed, including 757 (second part confirmed), 927, 960, and 925. However, PR 878 was not fixed, and they provided a list of missing areas with supporting images on pages 63-67. Additionally, they identified two PRs to be tested next week: PR359, which was reviewed again and found suitable for last week’s reporting date, and a case was set up to check PR757, which is related to making up the required hours missed the previous week. They also commented on all previously checked PRs in the “HGN Phase| Bugs and Needed Functionalities” Google Doc. See the images below for examples of this work in progress.

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INVESTOR PAGES

OVERVIEW       ●       LOCATION       ●       FUNDING

GET INVOLVED

DONATE    ●     WAYS ANYONE CAN HELP     ●     MEMBERSHIP

CLICK HERE FOR ALL PAST UPDATES

One Community is dedicated to forwarding positive change through sustainable approaches to food, energy, housing, education, economics, social architecture, and more. As an all-volunteer organization, we are proud to introduce a self-replicating model for forming a global collaboration of teacher/demonstration hubs. Together, we are evolving sustainability, regenerating our planet, and striving to create 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 July 9th 2023 edition (#537) of our weekly progress update detailing our team’s development and accomplishments:

Forwarding Positive Change
One Community Progress Update #537

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HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING PROGRESS

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

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

Amal Lazar (MS Mechanical Engineering) completed another week of assisting with the research for the Most Sustainable Lightbulbs and Light Bulb Companies: Research, Energy Savings, and More tutorial. This week, Amal finished gathering data on the three metrics for each company and completed building the table as well. She updated the ranking based on the information collected and made changes to the order of the narratives and sustainability benchmarking. Amal also worked on the consumer site section, searching for alternatives for the City Center Project. Below, you’ll find some images of this work.

This week, Julia Meaney (Researcher and Assistant to Executive Director) completed another week of assisting with the team. This week, Julia oversaw and assessed Amal’s progress on her Light Bulb research, providing editorial revisions and offering feedback through comments when necessary. Following that, she dedicated her efforts to the”Solar Microgrid Setup Maintenance” webpage, making necessary edits and addressing comments received on the source Google Doc. Additionally, she reconstructed outdated tables for this page and updated corresponding screenshots and links on the source Google Doc. Julia then focused on resolving spacing issues on the “Eco-laundry” webpage, successfully resolving them and ensuring the page’s completion. Julia devoted considerable time to working on the “Net-zero Bathroom and Earthbag Village Water Collection and Septic Design” EDITED CONTENT FOR WEB” Google Doc, refining its content by editing grammar, spelling, and format, while utilizing comments to pose clarifying questions. She backed up various sources to her Dropbox, updating screenshots, source links, image captions, and Resources sections on the Doc accordingly. Furthermore, she replaced broken links and sourced new images and products as needed. Lastly, Julia integrated relevant content from older sections into already-edited segments and removed any obsolete information. See the images below that show​ ​some of this work.

DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER PROGRESS

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

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

This week, Charles Gooley (Web Designer) completed another week of assisting with web design. Charles worked on feedback for the Solar Microgrid Setup Maintenance tutorial. The comments involved correcting links to images and tables, and ensuring that all other figures had links to spreadsheets where applicable. Then he worked on comments for the Duplicable City Center Engineering page. Some comments were to add bullets to some of the lists, make a number of corrections and add missing images, convert equations from image to html text, and make additions to some of the Tables of Contents. The pictures below offer a visual representation of this work.

Julio Marín Bustillos (Mechanical Engineer) completed another week of assisting with the City Center Dome Hub Connector Engineering. This week, Julio made progress in the installation of hub connectors along the nodes for the City Center Dome. Julio successfully completed the placement of 9 hub connectors on the right side of the node for the second row. The only discernible distinction between these hub connectors is a minute difference in angle. Although this discrepancy is not expected to impact the overall design, it is essential to incorporate these slight variations in the 3D model to ensure precise fitting during the final assembly. To differentiate between brackets with different opening angles, distinct colors were assigned. These brackets will play a crucial role in the completion of the hub connector assembly for all the nodes in the second row. The pictures below provide a glimpse of this work.

Yiwei He (Mechanical Engineer) completed another week of assisting with the City Center Dome Hub Connector Engineering. This week, Yiwei completed a report comparing the Traditional Geodesic Dome Model with the City Center Dome Model. The simulation worked on vertical loads, wind loads, snow loads, and earthquake situations. The findings of the report revealed that the load capacity of the City Center Dome surpassed that of the traditional dome. See some of this work in the pictures below.

Ranran Zhang (Architectural Designer) completed another week of assisting with the updated video for the Duplicable City Center internal and external walkthrough. This week, Ranran addressed some errors present in the Lumion Model, ensuring its accuracy and functionality. Additionally, she dedicated her efforts to incorporating video clips into the project. By carefully selecting specific views that showcased the herb garden and root cellar, Ranran enhanced the overall visual experience. To further augment realism, she integrated figures and plants into these chosen views. Take a look at the images below to see some of the progress made in this work.

HIGHEST GOOD FOOD PROGRESS

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

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

This week the core team further reviewed the open-source Chicken Coop designs. We completed updates, reviews, and edits for the Chicken Doc pages 166-199, which cover the topics of nesting boxes and window and fan installations. We also reviewed the FAQs and completed some of the unanswered questions. See the pictures below that are related to this.

Zhide Wang (Mechanical Engineer) completed another week of assisting primarily focused on data entry tasks for the Transition Food Self-sufficiency Plan, completing three of them and partially filling out the fourth. Due to the absence of specific numbers and factors for certain ingredients, he invested additional time to determine accurate values. He also helped with the Aircrete and earthbag compression testing but encountered challenges with the Aircrete WBSs due to misunderstandings, resulting in a prolonged effort to address them. Although he dedicated considerable time to this task, he was unable to complete it and aims to exert his utmost effort to finalize it in the upcoming week. Get a closer look at this work through the pictures below.

HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION PROGRESS

One Community is forwarding positive change through Highest Good education that is for all ages, applicable in any environment, adaptable to individual needs, far exceeds traditional education standards, and more fun for both the teachers and the students. This component of One Community is about 95% complete with only the Open Source School Licensing and Ultimate Classroom construction and assembly details remaining to be finished. 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 made significant progress in completing the structural details, with 98% of the work now finished. The remaining 2% involves editing a few text elements, which will be addressed once the structural design is finalized. Additionally, the ongoing Structural Analysis, utilizing STAAD Pro, is currently in progress. See below for pictures related to this work.

HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY PROGRESS

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

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

This week the core team completed 68 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 began verification of all the modifications made to the working Highest Good Network software. She conducted testing on HGN PRs (Pull Requests). After a thorough evaluation, she marked the following PRs as fixed: 727, 412, 886, 930, 926, and 948. However, several PRs were identified as not fixed, including 908, 916 (working only for Owner accounts), 920 (working only for Owner accounts), 928 (requiring changes in seven different locations), 941 (missing “WEEKLY SUMMARIES LINK” field in the user’s profile), and 840 (not fixed for certain accounts). Additionally, a new bug was discovered. The committed hour’s changes were not reflected on the Core Team Dashboard, but it was resolved during this week as well. Tatyana also prepared the account data setup for retesting PR757. See the images below for examples of this work in progress.

Abdelmounaim “Abdel” Lallouache (Software Developer) continued his work helping with the Highest Good Network software. This week, Abdelmounaim focused primarily on frontend development. One of the key accomplishments was the addition of the “setUpNewUserPopup” modal file, which facilitates the process of sending a setup profile link to a provided email address. Additionally, the “tokenProtectedRoute” component was implemented, enabling the validation of token-based links and subsequent redirection to the setup page. On the backend side, Abdelmounaim introduced the “sendLinkMessage” function, which generates the email body for sending the setup link. Notably, the “getSetupToken” function was also updated to include the functionality of sending emails to new users, providing them with a link to set up their accounts. The pictures below are related to this work.

Alyx Parr (Senior Support Specialist) completed another week of assisting with management, coordination, and overall support of the One Community project. This week, Alyx transferred the summaries of the volunteers onto a Google Doc. prepared for the One Community Website Blog. In addition, she acquired the knowledge, through a process of experimentation and refinement, necessary to prepare the blog for Sara’s inclusion of the accompanying visual content. Furthermore, Alyx provided assistance to the volunteers by offering guidance on measurements and ingredients relevant to the Transition Food Self-sufficiency Plan. The pictures below are examples of this work.

Aishwarya Kalkundrikar (Full Stack Software Developer) continued helping with the Highest Good Network software. This week, Aishwarya successfully resolved a bug related to double notification emails for a blue square that was manually assigned. Aishwarya identified and removed a duplicate ‘useEffect’ hook in the code responsible for the blue square, specifically within the handleSubmit function, which handles user profile saving logic. The presence of the duplicated ‘useEffect’ caused the handleSubmit function to trigger twice, resulting in the user profile being saved twice and two email notifications being sent instead of the intended one. Additionally, Aishwarya conducted thorough testing of the functionality, including its corner cases. In addition, she reviewed and approved frontend PR#925, and began working on another assigned bug related to a change in the total remaining hours for users. Further understanding of this change is required to address the bug as the functionality to mark a task as complete is now changed. Aishwarya also went through some files to find issues related to no blue square getting assigned even when the weekly summary was not provided. She found that many changes were done in the file WeeklySummary.jsx and suspects that the issue lies in it. The pictures below show some of her work.

Eduardo Horta (Software Engineer) provided more of his ongoing assistance with the Highest Good Network software too. This week, Eduardo took the initiative in improving the user experience by implementing Skeleton Loading components throughout the application. He created a SkeletonLoading folder in the common directory, replacing the outdated <Loading /> component. The new SkeletonLoading component was designed to dynamically switch between different cases based on the props it receives. Eduardo successfully added Skeleton Loading to the WeeklySummary and WeeklySummariesReport pages, enhancing the loading experience for users. Furthermore, he implemented Skeleton Loading for the UserProfile and UserManagement pages, ensuring a seamless loading transition. Eduardo also dedicated time to cleaning up the SkeletonLoading component for the UserManagement page and updating it for the UserProfile page. In order to consolidate the changes, he raised PR #962, titled “Eduardo add skeleton loading feature to all components,” and skillfully resolved any conflicts that arose during the pull request process. The images presented below exemplify his work.

Edwin Estuardo Lau Mack (Software Engineer) dedicated his efforts to advancing the development of the Highest Good Network software. This week, Edwin completed the task “Change location and function of red X” by aligning the deadline notification icon in the progress bar, preventing it from occupying extra space in the team member task rows and instead placing it on top of the progress bar component. Additionally, Edwin submitted a pull request (PR) that made the “Total Time” in the leaderboard appear blue when it differed from the “Tangible Time.” Furthermore, Edwin worked on enabling Owner/Admin to edit the “Total Valid Weekly Summaries” number. To achieve this, he created a new ArrowCounter component that allowed users to increase or decrease the number displayed on the screen. Upon clicking the up or down arrow, a request was sent to the backend to update the corresponding property, ensuring that the new count would be displayed upon refreshing the page. Images showing this progress are below.

Jianjun Luo (Software Engineer) continued developing the Highest Good Network software. This week, Jianjun successfully implemented a new feature on the report page. The feature enables admin to conveniently view or hide the number of members who have contributed over ten hours, along with their total tangible hours, for any selected time period. Additionally, a bar graph is dynamically generated to depict the monthly or yearly distribution of the data, depending on the duration of the selected period. To facilitate further exploration, users can effortlessly access a detailed list of the contributing members and directly navigate to their individual profiles with a single click. The pictures below are related to this work.

Jinchao Feng (Software Engineer) continued improving the Highest Good Network software. This week, Jinchao focused on cleaning up commits on the main branch and updating it to the same version as the development branch to resolve merge conflicts in the latest pull requests. He also addressed issues related to the timer not functioning correctly and investigated and resolved a bug that prevented the editing of time entries. Additionally, Jinchao began the process of formatting the code according to the latest ESLint and Prettier rules. Please refer to the pictures below.

Jonathan Carpena (Full Stack Developer) gave his continued support to the Highest Good Network software. This week, Jonathan undertook a review of two pull requests, namely 925 which addressed badges and text, and 944 which focused on fixing linting errors and nesting element errors. Subsequently, Jonathan dedicated his efforts to the implementation of a new feature in the application. This feature empowered admin users with additional options for their Weekly Summaries, including the ability to choose “Not Required” or select a specific team. Following the successful completion of the initial pull request, Jonathan proceeded to debug website issues that had been reported in the coding-problems channel on Slack.

Kaixiang “Kevin” Gu (Fullstack Software Developer) focused on the Highest Good Network software. This week, Kaixiang dedicated time to conducting final reviews for three pull requests, namely PR905, PR906, and PR908. In addition, he addressed an issue where the weekly committed hours couldn’t be updated in the user profile. Kaixiang successfully resolved this problem by implementing a hotfix, submitting a new pull request, and obtaining approval. He also allocated time to setting up the application environment on a Mac, and reinstalling all necessary components from scratch, resulting in the successful running of the application. Pictures below show some of this work-in-progress.

Lawrence Chua (Full Stack Software Developer) further assisted with the Highest Good Network software. This week, Lawrence focused on two tasks to enhance the functionality of the system. The first task involved improving the visibility of time entries that were not associated with specific tasks. To achieve this, Lawrence implemented a solution that highlighted the text of such time entries by making it bold and introduced a white bar within the colored bar on the left side of the task to indicate it as a non-task entry. With the completion of this task, Lawrence proceeded to open his first pull request. The second task entailed resolving a bug related to name changes for assigned resources when adding a task. Lawrence successfully identified a solution to this issue, which involved ensuring that the task displayed the updated name of the user even after their name was changed. See the images below to get a look at some of this work.

Leon Zhuang (Software Engineer) continued helping with the Highest Good Network software. This week, Leon addressed a bug related to the display of user profiles. Specifically, he rectified an issue where, when viewing a user’s profile, the text indicating the number of badges earned by that user incorrectly implied that it reflected the viewer’s own accomplishments rather than the user whose profile was being viewed. To resolve this, Leon implemented logic to verify whether the user was viewing their own profile, and subsequently modified the text accordingly. Additionally, he contributed to the bugs and new features document by generating a descriptive summary for a newly developed interactive map feature. His work by him is shown below.

Lucas Emanuel Souza Silva (Software Developer) further assisted with the Highest Good Network software. This week, Lucas diligently focused on implementing code for a specific task, utilizing the slice with userProfile to establish the appropriate state when users access another user’s dashboard. Additionally, Lucas extended the codebase to enforce limitations on user interactions within the dashboard, while preserving distinct interactions for owner and administrator users. Throughout the week, Lucas devoted time to reviewing pull requests (PRs) that required final review before submission and commenced the implementation of code to retrieve tasks associated with the viewed user. Furthermore, Lucas resolved challenges encountered during the merging of the development branch with the task 171 branch and contributed to the final review process by assessing a PR. Pictures of some of this work are below.

Lucile Tronczyk (Full Stack Software Developer) continued developing the Highest Good Network software. This week, Lucile conducted a thorough investigation into the bug that arises when attempting to edit blue squares while users are set as inactive or active. Despite the modal no longer appearing, an error persisted in the console. Lucile dedicated efforts to further examine and address the issue, particularly focusing on resolving the steps involved in making a user inactive and subsequently editing their corresponding blue square. Additionally, Lucile initiated the creation of a Google document intended to serve as an informational resource for the app, aiming to include relevant information points. Moreover, Lucile engaged in a search to identify the specific location of an existing information point within the app, with the intention of drawing inspiration for the creation of other information points. The pictures below relate to this.

Nathan Hoffman (Software Engineer) continued improving the Highest Good Network software. This week, Nathan actively engaged in the code review process and carried out various tasks related to permissions. He reviewed PR 401 and generated a bug report. Additionally, he re-reviewed PRs 867 and 842, providing additional suggested changes. Nathan reviewed the implemented changes in PR 881, ensuring their effectiveness, and subsequently approved the PR. Upon request, he re-reviewed PR 842. Furthermore, Nathan verified the existence of all necessary permissions in permissionsBackEnd and immersed himself in permissions documentation. He completed a form for proposing changes and worked on merging back-end and front-end permissions. During the process, he encountered an instance without back-end permissions and proceeded to replace front-end permissions that had corresponding back-end equivalents. Nathan’s efforts included attempting to set up a test database for alternate permissions, but instead, he created an alternate role collection in the main database. Despite this, he successfully achieved the functionality of alternate permissions. The pictures below show some of this work.

Nida Zaki (Software Engineer) further assisted with the Highest Good Network software. This week, Nida researched React hooks and successfully implemented the functionality to set the latest project value and latest team value within their respective functions called in the useEffect hook. Furthermore, the cause behind the issue of the front-end failing to send requests for updated changes to the server was identified for the task when saving the edited changes in the time entry form. To address this, appropriate measures were taken to rectify the problem. Additionally, improvements were made to the system’s functionality by implementing sorting capabilities for the list of names in the resources field. This enhancement allows for sorting by either first name or last name when adding or editing a WBS task. The pictures below are examples of this work.

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One Community welcomes Papia Sharmin to the Software Development Team as our newest Volunteer/Consultant!

Papia is a Full Stack Developer with a strong focus on building optimized and scalable projects using React.js and Next.js. With a natural aptitude for learning, Papia easily adapts to emerging technologies and stays up to date with the latest industry trends. She approaches every task with determination, strives for perfection while delivering projects on time, and excels in problem-solving and debugging, tackling challenges with a methodical approach to find effective solutions. With a comprehensive skill set encompassing HTML, CSS, JavaScript, TypeScript, React.js, Next.js, and Testing, Papia possesses a solid foundation in Full Stack Development and joined the One Community team as a developer working on the open source Highest Good Network.

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One Community welcomes Edwin Estuardo Lau Mack to the Software Development Team as our newest Volunteer/Consultant!

Edwin is an international student from Guatemala, recently graduated, with a B.S in Computer Science from the University of California San Diego. He is an enthusiastic, professional and hard-working person who is always seeking new opportunities to learn and expand his circle of skills. His interests are in software development and he loves to create products that will bring satisfaction and a smile to users and customers. One of Edwin’s key accomplishments during his academic career is that he was able to successfully deliver a full-stack project during his internship at Amazon. This project was the first front end application that managed the booking of warehouse transportation of Amazon merchandise. Edwin joined the One Community team to help with our open source Highest Good Network software and, through demonstrating both professional excellence and outstanding software development skills, was promoted to the management team in less than 2 months.

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