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

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

OUR MAIN OPEN SOURCE HUBS

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

One Community’s physical location will forward this movement as the first of many self-replicating teacher/demonstration communities, villages, and cities to be built around the world. This is the May 21st, 2023 edition (#530) of our weekly progress update detailing our team’s development and accomplishments:

Sustainable Progress Management
One Community Progress Update #530

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HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING PROGRESS

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

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

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

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

DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER PROGRESS

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

HIGHEST GOOD FOOD PROGRESS

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

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

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

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

HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION PROGRESS

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

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 demonstrating sustainable progress management through a Highest Good society approach to living that is founded on fulfilled living, the study of meeting human needs, Community, and making a difference in the world:

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

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

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

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

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

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

OUR MAIN OPEN SOURCE HUBS

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

One Community’s physical location will forward this movement as the first of many self-replicating teacher/demonstration communities, villages, and cities to be built around the world. This is the May 14th, 2023 edition (#529) of our weekly progress update detailing our team’s development and accomplishments:

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

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HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING PROGRESS

One Community is leading the global-sustainability systems movement through Highest Good housing that is artistic and beautiful, more affordable, more space efficient, lasts longer, DIY buildable, and constructed with healthy and sustainable materials:

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

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

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

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

DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER PROGRESS

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

HIGHEST GOOD FOOD PROGRESS

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

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

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

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

HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION PROGRESS

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

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 leading the global-sustainability systems movement through a Highest Good society approach to living that is founded on fulfilled living, the study of meeting human needs, Community, and making a difference in the world:

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

Ray Lee (Digital Creator) also helped create custom header graphics for Mother’s Day. See below for pictures related to this.

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One Community welcomes Lucas Emanuel Souza Silva to the Software Development Team as our newest Volunteer/Consultant!

Lucas is a driven and ambitious software developer with a passion for technology and mathematics. He has been studying these subjects since his teenage years, gaining experience in various programming languages and tools. Constantly seeking new challenges and opportunities to learn and grow, Lucas specializes in React and Next, with a strong understanding of React’s component-based architecture and Next’s ability to build server-side rendered applications. He is also proficient in Python, Node.js, MongoDB, and MySQL, and has developed complex applications, including REST APIs and intricate business logic implementations. Lucas is familiar with Agile and Scrum methodologies and thrives in collaborative environments. Throughout his career, he consistently delivers high-quality code, meeting the needs of clients and users, while remaining passionate about learning, staying up-to-date with the latest developments in the field, and always eager to embrace new challenges. As a member of the One Community team, he is helping develop the open source Highest Good Network software.

WELCOME TO THE TEAM LUCAS!

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One Community welcomes Yiwei He to the Engineering Team as our newest Volunteer/Consultant!

Yiwei graduated from the University of California – Berkeley with a graduate degree in Mechanical Engineering. After 6 years of study and research experience, she became an innovative and proficient engineer. As a member of the One Community team, Yiwei helped with editing the solar hardware content and foundational calculation portion for the Solar Microgrid page, inventorying and preparing content for the 3rd Aircrete team, and is helping generate the 3D solid model and complete structural analysis for dome structures of the Duplicable City Center.

WELCOME TO THE TEAM YIWEI!

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At One Community, we are committed to integrating ecosystem management into our sustainable approach to designing systems that sustain themselves. As an all-volunteer organization, we have created a model that becomes self-replicating and will be used to create a global collaboration of teacher/demonstration hubs. Our goal is to create everything so it is open source and free-shared, open sourcing and free sharing the complete process of evolving sustainability. We believe in doing this for The Highest Good of All, creating a world that works for everyone while 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 May 7th, 2023 edition (#528) of our weekly progress update detailing our team’s development and accomplishments:

Ecosystem Management
One Community Progress Update #528

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HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING PROGRESS

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

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

This week Julia Meaney (Researcher and Assistant to Executive Director) completed her 29th week with the team. Julia reviewed the integration of her feedback on the Eco-laundry research Google Doc and worked to finalize the organization and format for site integration. She made final edits to the Doc content as well as the corresponding Spreadsheet, ensuring all tables are uniform and screenshots are up-to-date. She then left instructions for site integration and built out the site TOCs according to the new content additions. Julia also worked to format the new resources and to back up all of them to the Dropbox folder. Also this week, Julia reviewed work on the “UPDATED City Center Project Specification and Design Basis” Google Doc. She checked that all of the new table screenshots were correct and uploaded new ones when minor edits were still needed. Finally, Julia continued to fix various format issues on the “Sustainable Roadways, Walkways, and Landscaping” webpage. See pictures below.

Loza Ayehutsega (Civil Engineer/Assistant Civil Engineer) completed her 18th week helping, now focused on Earth Dam Design & Construction for Water Retention, Pond & Lake Creation. This week Loza added an additional topic to the report: Early Warning System for the Population with appropriate steps. As part of this, an evacuation plan from another reference document specific to dam disaster hazards was applied to our case. Further, additional approaches were added to the report. See below for some pictures related to this.

Amal Lazar (MS Mechanical Engineering) completed her 6th week helping, now with the research for the Most Sustainable Lightbulbs and Light Bulb Companies: Research, Energy Savings, and More tutorial. This week Amal researched light bulb companies and light bulb options that are available on the market, first by reading and understanding the research objectives and desired outcome. She then designed a framework to use during her research and performed sustainability benchmarking by reading sustainability reports and tracking important achievements and future goals. Amal also worked on the City Center Eco-laundry dryer research, specifically on the laundry bag section and responding to comments. The pictures below share some of this developing work. 

DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER PROGRESS

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

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

This week, the core team continued reviewing the latest Duplicable City Center SketchUp file for accuracy. We finished updating the City Center Sketchup file. She made changes to the placement of the sinks and urinals in the Social Dome first floor men’s bathroom, checked if the wheelchair accessible stall was ADA compliant, and created a compressed City Center Sketchup file with the list of the latest updates and provided it to the next volunteers for further work. The same team member then returned to their work with updates in the Chicken Coop Step-by-Step building instructions document. We started the “Building of Chicken coop ramp” section with explanations about ramp angle, heights above ground and cleats number. See below.

The core team also continued working with a new member of the team on what’s needed for the complete Duplicable City Center cabinetry and stairs. This week the new team member familiarized himself with the design and focused on the stair handrail components. A new master sketch was drafted to correctly size all components so they fit together appropriately. He also designed the Hullions, balusters and handrail cap, and drafted 2D drawings. See pics below.

Charles Gooley (Web Designer) also completed his 29th week helping with web design, now focused on the Duplicable City Center Engineering tutorial. His focus this week was tables and information was requested for figures missing names, adding equations, and completing migrating the content from the Google Doc. Pictures below are related to this work.

Ranran Zhang (Architectural Designer) completed her 20th week working on the updated video for the Duplicable City Center internal and external walkthrough. This week Ranran continued working on the video. She modified the SketchUp model and re-imported the model into Lumion. After modifying the model, she selected video views for the eco-spa and sunrise patio and added figures to the Lumion model according to the previous video. See below for some pictures of this work.

Julio Marín Bustillos (Mechanical Engineer) completed his 12th week helping with the City Center Dome Hub Connector Engineering. This week Julio worked on adding a second component to the hub connector design since it is believed that it will be needed for strength. This conclusion comes not only from the team’s internal discussion but the fact that this plate seems to always exist in commercially available designs. He also re-started work generating a load analysis model in Inventor since the team is having difficulty generating one successfully in Solidworks. Pictures of some of this work are below.

Yiwei He (Mechanical Engineer) completed her 8th week helping with the City Center Dome Hub Connector Engineering. This week Yiwei troubleshooted the large displacement problem for analyzing geodesic dome structure in Solidworks. She tried to lower the loads and increase the diameter of sphere connectors. After that, she started to find papers about dome FEA to generate new ideas of design and testing, which she discussed with her team members. Pictures of some of this work are below.

Zhide Wang (Mechanical Engineer) completed his 3rd week, now working on the Net-zero Bathroom designs. This week Zhide continued to review Diwei’s designs and contents, and made comments on the paper and did some minor edits on the figure names and sentences, and modified some sentences to make them better. He also gave thought to the presentation of the design and content, as well as the order and organization of the paper. See below for some pictures related to this.

HIGHEST GOOD FOOD PROGRESS

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

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

This week the core team continued to work on the Transition Food Self-sufficiency Plan. We completed the recipe conversion in the Transition Kitchen Recipe Build Out spreadsheet, now all conversions are included and calculated correctly in the spreadsheet. Please refer to the pictures below. 

Matt Choy (Volunteer Researcher) completed his 2nd week helping with the Transition Food Self-sufficiency Plan. Matt did data entry, recipe review, and proofreading of instructions provided within recipes. He also had a call with a colleague to get further guidance. Pictures below are related to Matt’s work.

HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION PROGRESS

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

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 integrating ecosystem management through a Highest Good society approach to living that is founded on fulfilled living, the study of meeting human needs, Community, and making a difference in the world:

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

This week the core team completed 34 hours managing One Community volunteer-work review not included above, emails, social media accounts, web development, new bug identification and bug-fix integration for the Highest Good Network software, and interviewing and getting set up new volunteer team members. Pictures below show some of this.

Yiyun Tan (Management Dashboard Team Leader) completed her 53rd week helping with the Highest Good Network software. This week Yiyun completed the final review on PRs and discussion of the “myTeam” functionality updates. She also solved a couple of backend merge conflicts PRs, and she continued to help the team on Slack with problem solving, bug reporting, and maintaining the tutorials. Pictures of some of this work are below.

Kaixiang “Kevin” Gu (Fullstack Software Developer) completed his 25th week helping with the Highest Good Network software. This week Kaixiang focused on the 24/48/72 buttons task. He restructured the code so the whole team list component was not isolated in a single function and the user was unable to manipulate the data and render the component from the outside component. He extracted reusable components and rewrote code. Pictures below show some of this work.

Jianjun Luo (Software Engineer) completed her 23rd week helping with the Highest Good Network software. This week Jianjun worked on a new feature related to the member component on the report page. She added a filter to the list shown with the radio buttons and changed the style of the buttons. She also checked the previous PR and started to work on another new feature related to the bio on the report page. Pictures below show some of this work.

Raul Effting (Jr. Front-End Web Developer) completed his 17th week helping with the Highest Good Network software. This week Raul continued to develop the new timer and fixed several bugs, for example: (1) Timer went off and I hit “log intangible time” instead and it froze on me there; (2) The timer was going off… and clicking intangible brought up the screen and I couldn’t X out of it to log my time correctly; (3) Errors with the minus button; (4) Negative button should go to min # of 15 in all cases it can’t go lower; and (5) Hitting “play” on the main screen when the timer went off added 5 minutes but didn’t stop the chime. Then hitting “stop” produced an error.” Raul also fixed conflicts on PR 694, which relates to ‘when creating a new task, remove the need to click the dropdown to see the list of people.’ Check out the pictures below as examples of this work.

Aishwarya Kalkundrikar (Full Stack Software Developer) completed her 16th week helping with the Highest Good Network software. This week Aishwarya reviewed the code changes made to the PR TeamMemberTasks.jsx file, and went through multiple files to understand the logic behind sending emails in real-time. After some test editing, Aishwarya started developing the code required for this feature, and has written the function for the body of the email. Pictures below show some of this work.

Filipe Santos de Oliveira (Full Stack Developer) completed his 14th week helping with the Highest Good Network software. This week Filipe continued to look for a viable solution to the problem with header titles and improve the flexibility of the previously created skeleton. He tried various fixes, such as addressing the issue by replacing fixed pixel measurements with relative units such as VW and percentage, among other solutions. See below pictures as examples of this work.

Jinchao Feng (Software Engineer) completed his 11th week helping with the Highest Good Network software. This week Jinchao finished adding a notice at the top of the leaderboard to invisible users and raised PR #796. He also investigated the bug caused by the ‘myTeam’ definition that prevents users without a team from logging their time. He finished the Doc ‘Update myTeam’ to conclude his research and solutions for the bug. Jinchao also reviewed ‘Tech Docs for applying ESLint and Prettier check to Continuous Integration’ and finished the Doc ‘Plan for Adding Prettier/ESLint checking to CI deployment’. Pictures of some of this work are below.

Sav Costabile (Web Developer) completed their 11th week helping with the Highest Good Network software. This week Sav continued their work on the bug that prevents every user from being assigned their badges at the end of the week. They isolated the problem to be in a badge function called ‘lead a team of x users’. They fixed function inconsistencies when backend data are fetched, as well as typos that return undefined or null values. While the latter of those two have been fixed the former is a bit trickier and Sav continues to explore the solution. See below for related pictures.

Vitor Adriel (Software Engineer) completed his 11th week helping with the Highest Good Network software. This week Vitor reviewed 6 and improved 3 PRs and found bugs while doing the task of checking every permission on the Manager User Permission Component. He reported the bugs encountered in the Bugs Doc, for example: (1) Fix the “Modify Badge Amount” permission from the Manage User Permissions Component on Permission Management Page. Even after adding the permission, the user it’s not able to modify the amount of badges assigned to an user; (2) Fix the “Edit Timelog Information” permission from the Manage User Permissions Component on Permission Management Page. Even after adding the permission, the user it’s not able to modify the information of the time entry from another user. (3) Fix the “Delete Time Entry (Others)” permission from the Manage User Permissions Component on Permission Management Page. Even after adding the permission, the user it’s not able to delete the time entry of another user. See some examples of this work in the pictures below.

Lucas Emanuel Souza Silva (Software Developer) completed his 11th week helping with the Highest Good Network software. This week Lucas worked on the Red Bell notification icon and has a simple task remaining to finish this task. The pictures below share some of this developing work.

Harlley Bastos (Full Stack Developer) completed his 9th week helping with the Highest Good Network software. This week Harlley continued to fix the problems found on the timer, as well as provide a better timer that fixes current issues. The pictures below share some of this developing work. 

Angelina Truong (Full Stack Software Developer) completed her 9th week helping with the Highest Good Network software. This week Angelina resolved the merge conflict for PR #722 and addressed all feedback, as well as ran numerous tests on the application to assure everything ran adequately. She continued to help with PR #786 and #329 by addressing peer concerns to move the team closer to allowing users to click on the Google Doc icon that is next to each user’s name in the weekly summaries report. She continued to investigate peer concerns by running numerous tests to try to reproduce the same issues, and she started on a new task and created a branch for that task. See pics below.

Ayush Tripathi (Full Stack Developer) completed his 9th week helping with the Highest Good Network software. This week Ayush identified a security issue in the code where the password was visible, and he rectified it by updating the env file with the password and making necessary changes. Ayush then created a pull request and pushed the updated code to the repository for review. He also continued working on the following: “Make the star by people’s names show if they’ve done significant additional hours.” He continues to work on the Reports Page to only have stars displayed if someone had exceeded their minimum hours by 25/50/75%, with no red stars appearing. See pics below that are related to this.

Nicolle Coelho (Software Engineer) completed her 7th week helping with the Highest Good Network software. This week Nicolle opened PR 791 to fix a problem with the Team member task layout. She also reviewed and approved PR 786 and reported a new bug at HGN Phase I Bugs and Needed Functionalities Doc. Her main task was working on our strategy to re-enable ESLint and Prettier in the application. The pictures below relate to this work.

Yihan Liu (Software Engineer) completed her 6th week helping with the Highest Good Network software. This week Yihan fixed the ‘save popup happening after confirmed save’. By testing the functionality, Yihan found that this issue happens when users modify blue squares and badges. For the blue square part, she targeted UserProfile.jsx and fixed the problem by inserting several setOriginalUserProfile() in modifyBlueSquares function. Yihan also did some research on useState. Yihan also updated PR 782, and she added code to clear all mock data after each test case and removed duplicate test cases. Additionally, Yihan re-reviewed PR 787, which appears successful. The pictures below relate to this work.

Yongjian Pan (React.js/MongoDB Full Stack Software Developer) completed his 6th week helping with the Highest Good Network software. This week Yongjian raised PR 792 that fixed the duplicating “Save Change” button in other tabs under the user profile page as commented by other reviewers in PR 785. The toggling visibility function has remained intact. In addition, he also worked on other tasks in his team member tasks list. See below for related pictures of this work.

Tooba Jamal (Software Developer) completed her 5th week helping with the Highest Good Network software. This week Tooba worked on the issue “Make time log icon command(mac)/control(PC) clickable.” Tooba researched for the best possible solutions, implemented the solution and completed this task. She also raised a new PR, and re-reviewed PR 719, which she ultimately approved. The images below show some of this work.

Lucile Tronczyk (Full Stack Software Developer) completed her 4th week helping with the Highest Good Network software. This week Lucile approved PR 719 to ‘keep on tab when saving changes,’ as well as PR 782 to ‘add missing tab to the Weekly Summaries Reports.’ She continues to get familiar with the HGN Volunteer Documentation, and completed some testing for the following bug: ‘when trying to remove a blue square it changes the person to inactive.’ She also reviewed and asked for approval for PR 783 to ‘redesign permissions page and user permission component,’ and redesigned the “Manage User Permissions” component on the permissions management page. Lucile began adding confirmation improvements to the People Report. And finally, she finished the front end work for this but had issues with the back end. The pictures below relate to this.

The Highest Good Network software PR Review team also worked to test all of the above PRs and find any bugs they could within those PRs and the software as a whole. This week’s active members of this team and how many weeks they’ve been with us are as follows: Abdelmounaim “Abdel” Lallouache (Software Developer) completed his 4th week, Alexander G Huerta (Software Engineer) complete his 1st week,  Anish Pandita (Software Engineer) completed his 11th week, Vishvesh Sheoran (Artificial Intelligence Specialist) completed his 2nd week, Xiao Tan (Software Engineer) completed her 2nd week, Yu-Wei Hsu (Software Engineer) completed his 1st week, and Yubo Sun (Full Stack Software Developer) completed his 1st week. The collage below shows a compilation of the work from this team.

Jin Hua (Web Marketer and Graphic Designer) also helped us fix some website file structure issues and made updates for our Google Analytics to GA4. The pictures below show some of this work.

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One Community welcomes Vitor Adriel to the Software Development Team as our newest Volunteer/Consultant!

Vitor is a passionate self-taught software engineer who has loved technology since he was 5 years old. He started developing at a very young age and, in 2022, realized his love for the profession and chose programming as his career path. Since then, he has worked diligently, completing projects and becoming better with each one. He is now a full-stack developer (at the age of 17) with One Community, where he is helping to develop the Highest Good Network. Here, he has proved himself to be not only an excellent developer and team member but also earned himself a position with the management team.

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At One Community, we are committed to designing systems that sustain themselves. We are an all-volunteer organization that is dedicated to creating a sustainable future through our work on sustainable approaches to food, energy, housing, education, for-profit and non-profit economic design, social architecture, fulfilled living, global stewardship practices, and more. Our goal is to develop a model that becomes self-replicating and can be used to create a global collaboration of teacher/demonstration hubs. We believe that everything we create should be open source and free-shared, and we are creating DIY-replicable plans for all aspects of sustainable living.

• 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 April 30th, 2023 edition (#527) of our weekly progress update detailing our team’s development and accomplishments:

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HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING PROGRESS

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

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

This week Julia Meaney (Researcher and Assistant to Executive Director) completed her 28th week with the team. This week Julia extensively reviewed Amal’s Eco-laundry dryer research, and she edited and formatted the written content on her development Google Doc to prepare it for the site, merged content to avoid repetitions and made necessary additions to introductions and various sections for its seamless integration with the already existing Eco-Laundry content. She also edited tables and graphs on the corresponding Google Spreadsheet to make them uniform and ready for the site. Also this week, Julia worked on the “DIY Earth Dam Design & Construction Disaster Mitigation Content” Google Doc and added her feedback and edits to the recently developed work. Finally, she worked on finalizing format and coding edits to the “Sustainable Roadways, Walkways, and Landscaping” webpage, made edits to the page indents, images, and TOC anchor links. See pictures below.

Loza Ayehutsega (Civil Engineer/Assistant Civil Engineer) completed her 17th week helping, now focused on Earth Dam Design & Construction for Water Retention, Pond & Lake Creation. This week Loza added additional topics to the Dam Disaster Risk Mitigation report. Now the discussion made in the report considers the references, visual inspection, data collection, site discussion, notification and decision making, and warning the population. These approaches are discussed with the support of pictures that were found in the resources and more details will be discussed considering the comments from reviewers. See below for some pictures related to this.

DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER PROGRESS

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

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

This week, the core team continued reviewing the latest Duplicable City Center SketchUp file for accuracy. We updated the layout of bathrooms in the City Center Social Dome and placed walls to create privacy in both bathrooms. We also moved stalls, sinks and urinals to accommodate ADA compliance and provided two more layout options for the men’s bathroom floor plan. See below. 

Huiya Yang (Volunteer Architectural Designer) completed her 51st week working on the Duplicable City Center architectural design details. This week she finished the redesign of the men’s and women’s bathrooms to solve issues with lines of site existing into the bathrooms. Pictures of some of this work are below.

Charles Gooley (Web Designer) also completed his 28th week helping with web design, now focused on the Duplicable City Center Engineering tutorial. The specifications contained a number of tables, which were initially added as screenshots and some figures were also added as names were requested. He added a number of equations, most of which were images and a few of them were too large to fit in one line, so they were split into separate lines. Pictures below are related to this work.

Ranran Zhang (Architectural Designer) completed her 19th week working on the updated video for the Duplicable City Center internal and external walkthrough. This week Ranran received a revised model from the core team, communicated with them about the changes by email and updated the parts that had been modified. She then re-imported the model into Lumion and focused on the production of the video and finished the video clips of the whole social dome. During this process, Ranran also added figures to the Lumion model according to the previous video. See below for some pictures of this work.

Julio Marín Bustillos (Mechanical Engineer) completed his 11th week helping with the City Center Dome Hub Connector Engineering. This week Julio continued to research existing hub connector designs. He also modified the hub connector design that will be the first to be incorporated into the solid model for performing load analysis, and he began work on a model of a second hub connector. Pictures of some of this work are below.

Yiwei He (Mechanical Engineer) completed her 7th week helping with the City Center Dome Hub Connector Engineering. This week Yiwei finished editing the procedure instructions and additional notes parts for the aircrete user manual, and she got the data record from the current aircrete team. For the Duplicate City Center part, Yiwei started making a simulation for the new dome model and also tested the new connectors based on the previous model to make comparisons. Pictures of some of this work are below.

Amal Lazar (MS Mechanical Engineering) completed her 5th week helping with the City Center Eco-laundry research. This week Amal researched paired washer/dryer options and compared them with individual options. Amal also looked for laundry bag options that are both durable and eco-friendly, and collaborated with her supervisor, answering questions and making changes to the dryer research content. Additionally, Amal checked a number of tables to confirm the information matched the source information, so the web developer can proceed with building the website content. The pictures below share some of this developing work. 

Zhide Wang (Mechanical Engineer) completed his 2nd week, still helping with the Duplicable City Center Engineering tutorial. This week Zhide finished the tables for the City Center project and made all of them available in the Google Doc, so all the tables can be found in corresponding links, and are ready to be reviewed by other teammates. Wang also started to review Diwei’s Net-zero Bathroom designs and added comments. See below for some pictures related to this.

HIGHEST GOOD FOOD PROGRESS

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

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

This week the core team continued to work on the Transition Food Self-sufficiency Plan. We worked on the Shopping List on the Transition Kitchen Recipe Build Out sheet by creating columns for Imperial measurements, creating the conversion table, and began including the measurement conversion equations in the new columns. The same team member also corresponded with Matthew to clarify the work he should be completing, as well as simplifying his summaries. See below for pictures related to this.

HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION PROGRESS

One Community is designing systems that sustain themselves 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 designing systems that sustain themselves 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 31 hours managing One Community volunteer-work review not included above, emails, social media accounts, web development, new bug identification and bug-fix integration for the Highest Good Network software, and interviewing and getting set up new volunteer team members. Pictures below show some of this.

Yiyun Tan (Management Dashboard Team Leader) completed her 52nd week helping with the Highest Good Network software. This week Yiyun completed multiple PR final reviews. She also solved a couple of backend merge conflicts PRs, and she helped the team on Slack, problem solving, bug reporting, and maintaining the tutorials. Pictures of some of this work are below.

Yan Xu (Software Development Engineer) completed her 38th week helping with the Highest Good Network software. This week Yan worked on the delete button for the summary management page – now after going to the summary management page, and then clicking the team member button, it is possible to show the team member for each summary group, and also it is possible to add the team member group. Also now when the Admin does not want a team member in this list, he/she is able to remove the team member from their summary group. See pictures below for some of this work.

Kaixiang “Kevin” Gu (Fullstack Software Developer) completed his 24th week helping with the Highest Good Network software. This week Kaixiang finished repositioning the refresh button and changing it to a different style. Kaixiang also reviewed two PRs, followed up with Ayush’s task, and closed a previous PR having to do with the 24/48/72 hrs button. Pictures below show some of this work.

Jianjun Luo (Software Engineer) completed her 22nd week helping with the Highest Good Network software. This week Jianjun fixed the bug in the leaderboard component. After the changes, clicking the dot next to the person’s name in the Leaderboard correctly shows that person’s dashboard, and the Task tab of the timelog component shows the team member tasks of the person being viewed instead of the one who is viewing. She also made a few PR reviews. Pictures below show some of this work.

Johny dos Santos Anastacio (Software Engineer) completed his 20th week helping with the Highest Good Network software. This week Johny reviewed some PRs and raised a PR for his new task “WBS categories are not saving correctly”. He also continues to work on fixing the frontend for this task, as well as making some changes that were requested by reviewers in his other PR for the task “Create a Details Button to see when a specific badge was earned’. Pictures below show some of this work.

Raul Effting (Jr. Front-End Web Developer) completed his 16th week helping with the Highest Good Network software. This week Raul developed the new timer with Harlley and solved 11 requests, including adding more space below the numbers; restarting/reseting with whatever the person’s last time input was so they can keep working; a popup confirmation with user: “Wait! Are you sure you want to do that? Refreshing your time will reset it to XX:XX. Log your time first if you don’t want to lose the XX:XX currently on the timer;” the same padding on the right as it does on the left; chime continues until time is logged and dismissed; clicking on the time opens the big clock modal too; and in addition to the chime continuing until it is manually turned off, the timer resets to zero if the timer isn’t turned off within 60 seconds and a popup says: “Your time was reset because your timer went off for more than 60 seconds without you logging time. You should be at your computer when the timer is tracking your volunteer time.”Note that the chime should stop chiming (and that 60 second countdown leading to a reset should stop too) as soon as a person clicks any part of the time logging process… in case it takes them longer than 60 seconds to log their time.” Check out the pictures below as examples of this work.

Aishwarya Kalkundrikar (Full Stack Software Developer) completed her 15th week helping with the Highest Good Network software. This Week Aishwarya went through the video to set up OAuth2 for her test Gmail ID, and made the required changes in the .env file, as well as successfully sending emails for that feature. She also went through the code logic for notification emails sent when a Blue Square is manually assigned so the email is sent in real time. Aishwarya finds it difficult to find and fully understand the logic. For this effort she has gone through more videos from the internet to make the feature work in real time. Aishwarya also reviewed the PR raised by Alan and added a comment that she didn’t find any code changes made in it apart from what she had done. Pictures below show some of this work.

Filipe Santos de Oliveira (Full Stack Developer) completed his 13th week helping with the Highest Good Network software. This week Filipe worked on resolving the issue of flexibility in the header of the team member tasks box, where the titles ‘team member, clock, tasks…’ are found. Among his attempts to fix the issue were the use of the conditional expression for the creation of the skeleton elements directly in the JSX file, instead of using a separate JS file, in an attempt to recognize it as the real list and keep the titles in their proper position. See below pictures as examples of this work.

Jinchao Feng (Software Engineer) completed his 10th week helping with the Highest Good Network software. This week Jinchao finished the development of ‘Add WeeklySummaryOptions to new user creation’ and raised PR787, which concludes all functional requirements for ‘Update WeeklySummaryNotReq to WeeklySummaryOptions’. Jinchao also fixed several bugs including role edition in userProfile (PR788), making users show up immediately after new user creation (PR331), fixing “Current Week” hours at the top of the Dashboard Page (PR327). Pictures of some of this work are below.

Sav Costabile (Web Developer) completed their 10th week helping with the Highest Good Network software. This week Sav worked on the “led a team of x” badge bugs and discovered the problem with the backend that was stopping the function from being run. Sav also focused on the block badge bug that was preventing anyone from being awarded badges – it was discovered that it takes a very long time to run (somewhere between 5 and 15 min). This bug will be added with sufficient details in the bug report doc. See below for related pictures.

Vitor Adriel (Software Engineer) completed his 10th week helping with the Highest Good Network software. This week Vitor noticed that the Manage User Permissions Component UI was a bit out of the place, so he tried to make it look better, and as he was changing the User Permissions Component he ended making some changes to the Permissions Management page as well, changing from the <a>(Anchor) element to using a button and the useHistory hook increased the performance when accessing the details of a role. Vitor also reviewed PRs #755, #311(BE), #762, #764, #775, #766; improved PRs #719, #737; and raised PR #783. See some examples of this work in the pictures below.

Lucas Emanuel Souza Silva (Software Developer) completed his 10th week helping with the Highest Good Network software. This week Lucas finished Task 71 and started Task 84. For Task 84, some code has already been implemented. Task 71 was needed to develop Task 84, so while waiting for Task 71 to be merged, he started Tasks 84 development by pulling and merging the necessary code from the development branch. The pictures below share some of this developing work.

Harlley Bastos (Full Stack Developer) completed his 8th week helping with the Highest Good Network software. This week Harlley fixed the issues reported by Jae and helped out Raul to start the test server on his machine to allow Jae to test all the fixes. Once he tests it, Harlley will continue to fix and improve the timer system to assure that this will work in the best way possible.The pictures below share some of this developing work. 

Angelina Truong (Full Stack Software Developer) completed her 8th week helping with the Highest Good Network software. This week Angelina continued her work on the task Add GDoc Link to Weekly Summaries Reports”. She created a branch for the backend and analyzed the HGNRest application to the location where the Google doc link was being stored. She saw that the adminLink was not being returned in the frontend so she added it. Angelina was able to successfully apply the Google doc link that is unique to each individual user. Once the Google doc icon was selected a new window would open with that Google doc link. She also added the Toast feature that pops up if the user profile does not have a Google doc link, in this case, a message appears to alert the user. Angelina also created 2 PR branches (first for the frontend and second for the backend) and submitted them for peer-review. See pics below.

Anant Sharma (Software Engineer) completed his 5th and final week helping with the Highest Good Network software. This week Anant followed up on clean-up changes made in the frontend. He made changes in 30+ files to improve the code quality and efficiency, and raised PR #777. Along with these cleanup changes, he tested the website to confirm it was working properly. Pictures below show some of this work.

Yihan Liu (Software Engineer) completed her 5th week helping with the Highest Good Network software. This week Yihan worked on adding the missing “Three Weeks Ago” tab to the Weekly Summaries Reports Page. She also took a dive deep into the code to find target files which are WeeklySummariesReport.jsx and WeeklySummariesReport.test.jsx. Then she did some research on Navs, tabpane and React testing libraries. Finally, Yihan added the tab and tab panel to the WeeklySummariesReport.jsx and updated the unit test of WeeklySummariesReport. She then created PR#782 after finishing the change. Yihan also did some PR reviews. She reviewed PR#746, PR#788, PR#787 and PR#331. The default value of weekly summary options is still “Required” though the new user is in “Not Required” or “Team”. The pictures below relate to this work.

Yongjian Pan (React.js/MongoDB Full Stack Software Developer) completed his 5th week helping with the Highest Good Network software. This week Yongjian raised and created two pull requests – PR 784 and PR 785. PR 784 deals with removing horizontal scrollbar and reducing overflow of user modal on dev and main. PR 785 deals with creating a save changes function to save the visibility toggles for the manager role under the teams tab under a user profile. See below for related pictures of this work.

Tooba Jamal (Software Developer) completed her 4th week helping with the Highest Good Network software. This week Tooba completed the task “Make cancel button visible on small screens” in PR #779. Tooba then encountered an issue with the dashboard, timer, and local app and continues to troubleshoot it. None of the tips thus far from fellow developers have worked, and deleting and cloning the repo might be the only solution now. Tooba also researched about the issue “WBS Categories Not Saving Correctly” to get an idea of what might be the issue and continues to work on it. The images below show some of this work.

The Highest Good Network software PR Review team also worked to test all of the above PRs and find any bugs they could within those PRs and the software as a whole. This week’s active members of this team and how many weeks they’ve been with us are as follows: Abdelmounaim “Abdel” Lallouache (Software Developer) completed his 3rd week, Anish Pandita (Software Engineer) completed his 10th week, Lucile Tronczyk (Full Stack Software Developer) completed her 3rd week,   Natália Favaro Cavicchioli (Full-stack Developer) completed her 5th week, Vishvesh Sheoran (Artificial Intelligence Specialist) completed his 1st week, and Yongjian Pan (React.js/MongoDB Full Stack Software Developer) completed his 4th week, and Xiao Tan (Software Developer) completed her 1st week.  The collage below shows a compilation of the work from this team.

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One Community welcomes Angelina Truong to the Software Development Team as our newest Volunteer/Consultant!

Angelina is a driven and upcoming developer using key technologies and frameworks in Javascript and React. She has one year of experience in developing applications using React.js and Express Backend, and has also gained a working knowledge of Next.js, Typescript, and Express through her research and personal projects. She is experienced in joining and contributing to existing projects as well as starting a project and working it from beginning to end. As a member of the One Community team, Angelina is helping develop the Highest Good Network software.

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Harlley has 3+ years of experience in React.js, JavaScript, TypeScript, Node.js, and Tailwind CSS. He’s passionate about building web applications that are user-friendly, interactive, and efficient, and always looking to stay ahead of the curve when it comes to emerging web technologies. Skilled in developing robust, scalable, and secure applications with a focus on performance optimization, he’s experienced in problem-solving, debugging, and testing. Harlley is a self-starter with excellent communication skills and the ability to work independently and collaboratively. He joined the One Community team of innovators to support the development of our cutting-edge and open-source Highest Good Network software.

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